I became a god by treasure hunting after arriving 500 years early

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"My youth was so quiet that before I could react, I plunged into Hell."

Lu Yuan shook his head vigorously.

The Crash Artist suddenly felt a profound inspiration at this moment, and the passive ability "Craftsmanship" erupted mysteriously with flow after years of dormancy.

"Did I just have a breakdown?" Lu Yuan took a deep breath, feeling a bit thrilled.

Every burst of inspiration is crucial, a testament to growth and experience.

A craftsman may only have a few flashes of inspiration in a lifetime.

This mysterious sensation was like streams of warmth pouring in from the void, melding into the back of his head, igniting his thoughts.

"I've just learned a bit about Engraving," he wondered, "but haven't integrated the knowledge yet. What should I do?"

He had many materials on hand now.

The broken Leo Rik mask, the damaged Far-sighted Cornea, the horn of the Knocking Beast, the core of the Ice Qilin, and that mound of Precious metals, including Black Iron, Oliha Steel, Mithril, and Refined Gold, weighing just over a ton in total.

Additionally, he had over fifty kilograms of Resin and all sorts of miscellaneous trash collected along the way.

These pieces of trash hadn't been purified yet and contained many impurities.

"There's plenty of material... but I must focus on what's most needed right now."

The large tree rustled.

Everything in view was slightly shaking.

The continuous stream of inspiration from his mind was like a clear brook, endlessly cleansing his cerebral cortex.

What is the ultimate truth of the world? What is the meaning of my existence?

Where should I go?

Question after question surged forth like a spring.

At this moment, lots of knowledge was methodically stripped to its core, turning into the purest geometric images.

Craftsmanship and the Insightful Rune Talent formed a subtle synergy at this moment, creating a complex effect greater than the sum of their parts!

This is actually Sudden Enlightenment, the state that every craftsman, researcher, artist, and dreamer aspires to achieve.

Lu Yuan had a sudden idea: "What if I don't create equipment with this inspiration?"

"I could focus entirely on researching Engravings!"

"My existing knowledge is already sufficient. If I can understand part of the principle behind Engravings, I can accomplish a lot even without inspiration."

Lu Yuan made an unprecedented attempt. Your adventure continues at empire

This situation was truly rare!

Craftsmanship is an ability not too extraordinary for most civilizations and most craftsmen get only a few inspirations in their lifetimes.

After all, they can't have as many life experiences as Lu Yuan, who traveled far and wide.

They're well protected by their civilizations.

So each time they receive inspiration, they eagerly choose to make equipment.

Having both Engraving talent and Craftsmanship, combined with "Complete Spiritification" and as high as 16 Divine Attributes, this series of conditions, stacked together, is extremely rare!

A normal civilization couldn't possibly put all these abilities into one person.

It's only someone as greedy as Lu Yuan who at this moment has achieved an effect far exceeding the sum of its parts.

Immersed in inspiration, Lu Yuan held the Turtle Shell, remembering, calculating.

Under the gaze of inspiration, he surprisingly saw a pattern similar to the Eight Trigrams.

One begets two, two beget three, three beget infinity!

The Myriad Phenomena Furnace is an Anomaly level Ability, incredibly complex, still dizzying even in Sudden Enlightenment view.

But this deep contemplation was precious. At the very least, it allowed him to find the right breakthrough point.

Lu Yuan wasn't greedy; he just took a tiny essence of it.

He was like a ranger in the forest, surrounded by countless trees, seeking just one flower of his own.

And in the state of Sudden Enlightenment, even the elusive clues became traceable.

He entered one dead end after another, his soul heating up, his body temperature soaring, the horrific burden was even higher than a 100-meter sprint.

The Healing ability of the Tree of Life forcibly sustained the consumption, keeping him from exiting the state of Sudden Enlightenment.

This experience was indeed unprecedented.

Lu Yuan's knowledge of Engraving progressed by leaps and bounds, solving many of his confusions one by one!

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From now on, even if the state of sudden enlightenment were to vanish, thanks to this breakthrough, he would still be able to study the "Myriad Phenomena Furnace," instead of flailing about aimlessly like before.

For an entire month, Lu Yuan didn't budge at all, as if he were an old monk in deep meditation, just thinking.

And his numerous companions also tactfully refrained from disturbing him.

"All the warrior up front needs to do is focus on sudden enlightenment, while those in the back have a lot more to think about, like, for example, water,"

"This guy actually starts his sudden enlightenment without even giving us water," Old Cat said helplessly.

"What is sudden enlightenment?"

"It's a state of mind flow, rare and sought after in my civilization, yet he encounters it often. He truly is God's own son."

"My brother has the Innate Destiny Holy Body, it couldn't be more normal," the Undying Giant Turtle said proudly, then the next second started wailing softly, "Water... I need water!"

The turtle shook its basin incessantly.

It took a good while before a droplet too tiny to be tinier fell along the rim of the basin.

It fixed its gaze on the tiny droplet, opening its mouth to catch it at the moment of its fall.

In that instant, its short tongue exceeded its Racial Value, stretching out like a toad's!

The turtle managed to catch the droplet and swayed its bottom in utmost pride.

Old Wolf, imitating, frantically shook his own water bag.

A droplet smaller than dew rolled out.

Just as it stuck out its tongue to lick, the droplet evaporated.

"Awoo!" Old Wolf looked very aggrieved.

Old Cat sighed, having to look after Lu Yuan's Palus without drinking water himself.

It found a canister of cooking oil on the tricycle and then lit it with a lighter.

Luckily, it was now fitted with a nuclear power battery, so its strength had undergone a qualitative change. It also managed to scrounge a little bit of urine from a pit in the ground.

Both above and below, the pit was covered with a thin plastic film, and now they were reliant on dew to get by.

"What are you doing?"

"Distilling. Without distillation, just relying on dew, you'd die of thirst,"

"Damn, boiling urine is just too stinky!!" the turtle yelled out loud.

"I'm not the one drinking it anyway. If you don't want to drink, just hold out," Old Cat said nonchalantly.

The turtle was envious.

As a sentimental creature, it envied Old Cat for not needing to drink water and also envied the wolf for being unwise enough to drink urine.

So it found itself in a conflicted state of dilemma, and a tear of bitterness streamed down its turtle face.

It then noticed something off and stretched out its long tongue, trying to lick away the tear.

But its tongue was too short, never reaching the tears above its eyes.

"Turtle, I'll tell you this, every second your mouth is open, you lose about a hundred quintillion water molecules,"

"How much is a hundred quintillion?" The turtle felt even sadder, sensing that the number was vast.

The devil-may-care wolf twisted its way over with a sway of its hips, stuck out its tongue, and licked away the turtle's tears, then relieved itself in the urine pit.

The turtle lost two droplets of water and felt a hollow inside; unable to help itself, it shed two more.

Old Wolf was ecstatic—it was a turtle fountain, wasn't it?

Once again, it extended its tongue and licked away the turtle's tears.

After losing water a second time, the turtle felt even worse and bit down on the lowly wolf, "I'll teach you to bully a turtle!"

"Owowow!!" Old Wolf howled as if it had gone mad.

In terms of fighting ability, it was no match for the Anomaly.

"Stop your actions, don't disturb your brother," Old Cat bellowed reluctantly. This kind of scene had occurred many times over a week.

Now it finally understood, the master on the journey to the West was Lu Yuan.

Without the master, they would have disbanded long ago.

"The master turns out not to be me, Old Cat, but a human," it said, a bit annoyed, as it scratched the ground with its claws.

Could I be Wukong? It's not out of the question...

Just then, the Tree of Life finally let out a earth-shattering shout, "I've made it!"

"I've found that path, a thousand years ahead of humanity!"