That night, Zhu Changyang entered the workshop and called up the live broadcast control panel. He was immediately shocked by the two prompts on it.
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Zhu Changyang: !!
He guessed that today's live broadcast would be good, but he didn't expect it to be so good.
According to his original intention, he just wanted to bring the audience to see the grand event of the famous families in the world of cultivation, to join in the fun, and that way the viewership rate would probably be good, but it would never be this high.
It goes without saying that it was the farce at the wedding that greatly stimulated the audience's enthusiasm for watching the show.
As expected, melodrama is the eternal king of ratings.
Zhu Changyang was feeling somewhat guilty because the Yuxu Sect had put him on the blacklist, but when he saw these two reminders, he immediately became courageous and felt that he was ready again.
The worst that can happen is that you’ll be hunted down. That’s not a big deal.
How could the Yuxu Sect's thoughts be more important than the views of the live broadcast audience! He even wanted to interview Zijiuwen online again.
Zhu Changyang fantasized about it in his mind, then clicked the redemption button and began to practice.
The energy injected into his body this time was extremely strong, like a huge wave surging in, and his meridians had almost no time to digest it, causing it to stagnate for a moment.
He was caught off guard for a moment, and suddenly felt his temple throbbing, and the blood rushed to his throat and almost burst out.
"Cough cough." Zhu Changyang coughed twice and managed to suppress his breath.
Fortunately, he had been studying hard these days, and breathing had become his instinct. He immediately concentrated his mind and exhaled, and managed to break through the stagnation and guide the breath to start flowing.
This cycle repeats itself until dawn, when all the energy is absorbed into the spirit platform.
Zhu Changyang opened his eyes and slowly exhaled.
That night, he broke through three small realms in succession, and his cultivation level leaped from the middle stage of Qi Refining to the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
This speed of progress is astonishing even when compared to the entire Piaomiao Continent.
The time it takes to cultivate Taoism often lasts for several years, decades or even hundreds of years, and there are many people who need to practice for several years before they can build a foundation.
People with mediocre talents, like Chang Fengchi, may only make small breakthroughs when they reach the age of twenty.
It has only been a little over a month since Zhu Changyang traveled through time, but he is unaware of this at the moment and is only focused on his own cultivation.
He spread his palms out upwards, without even using any silent mantras. With just a thought, a light golden flame rose into the air.
It was no longer the weak flame from before, but a bright and dazzling spiritual fire that could actually be used for refining weapons.
The firelight reflected in his eyes, coating his pupils in gold.
There seemed to be a fire burning in Zhu Changyang's heart. He tried to use his consciousness to explore the surrounding environment, and then he made an even more surprising discovery.
First of all, the scope of consciousness exploration has expanded, and now it is able to sense movements within a radius of several feet.
More importantly, his consciousness became more concrete, like another "self" that had been separated out.
When he used this wisp of consciousness to explore the surrounding environment, it was no longer the vague "perception" before, but more concrete, as if he was there himself.
Not only that, he discovered that he could also use this wisp of consciousness to explore "himself". His spiritual platform was clear and vast. This is what the cultivation world calls the "sea of consciousness".
His workshop is a different dimension where light and electricity interweave, and everything exists here in the form of data... Wait, why is he in the workshop
Zhu Changyang suddenly came back to his senses and found that he had actually used his consciousness to open and enter the workshop.
This place can actually be entered with consciousness
Zhu Changyang:?!
He had an idea and tried to use his consciousness to call up the control panel, then operated on the panel, called up an operating table, drew a blueprint, took out materials from the warehouse, and processed them... Everything was the same as when he usually worked in the workshop.
This means that in the future he can enter the workshop without his body and complete various operations with only his consciousness.
Zhu Changyang was immediately excited. Based on what he had learned in recent days, in the world of cultivation, this was usually something that cultivators above the Spirit Severing stage could do, but he was only in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.
He couldn't help but feel a little strange, but no matter what, he would no longer have to avoid the crowd when he needed to use the workshop in the future.
If he could work directly with his consciousness, he would definitely be the best on the assembly line if it were still in modern society!
Wait, is this the legendary... working people, working soul
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After running for another cycle, Zhu Changyang withdrew his consciousness, stood up and went out.
The door of the next room opened at the same time, and Jun suddenly poked his head in: "Are we leaving?"
"It's not time yet." Zhu Changyang was not like the locals who could tell the time by the time. He could only roughly estimate it. He came out early because he was afraid of wasting time. He said, "Let's go later. Let's go eat something first."
"Oh." Jun Shu nodded, and his gaze fell on Zhu Changyang again. There was something strange in his eyes, but in the end he said nothing. He just walked out of the door leisurely and went downstairs side by side with Zhu Changyang.
As soon as the two arrived at the lobby and hadn't sat down yet, the waiter brought someone over and said, "Gentlemen, this guest is looking for you."
The man's eyebrows relaxed and he said happily: "Brothers, Brother Jun, we meet again."
Zhu Changyang turned around and saw Chang Fengchi. He couldn't help but ask in surprise: "Why are you here?"
"I came here specially to find you." Chang Fengchi said with a smile. He had always maintained correspondence with Zhu Changyang through imperial edicts, so he knew where they were staying.
Zhu Changyang quickly asked him to sit down and asked, "Is there anything urgent?"
"Yes, it's very important." Chang Fengchi seemed to be even more impatient than him. Before he even sat down, he approached him with a gossipy look on his face and asked, "Brothers, you must have heard a lot about Zijiuwen's wedding here. Tell me quickly, what exactly happened?"
After he received Tianjizi's daily newsletter yesterday, he was closely attracted by this scandal that had shaken the entire cultivation world. It was so thrilling and his heart was pounding that he could not calm down for a long time.
As soon as I entered Cangbo City today, people were talking about this matter everywhere. Moreover, compared with Tianjizi's report, the local version was much richer and the amount of information was extremely astonishing.
Some people have even compiled it into a storybook and performed it in teahouses.
Chang Fengchi was so excited listening to what was going on that he couldn't stop, so when he saw Zhu Changyang, he immediately started asking.
Zhu Changyang has been in Cangbo City these days, so he must know more details.
Zhu Changyang: “…”
God is so fucking important, is there a single serious person in your world of cultivation
He tried to change the subject with a frown, "It's not a big deal..."
"This is not a big deal!" Chang Fengchi disagreed. "Now the whole continent knows that the sanctimonious Zi Jiuwen is actually a lecherous and unrighteous scoundrel. He married a wife while flirting with male cultivators. And when I left the teleportation array just now, I heard people next to me say..."
At this point, he deliberately moved closer, with an indignant look on his face, "So after Zi Jiuwen was abandoned, she still wanted to forcefully marry that beautiful male cultivator..."
Here we go again! Zhu Changyang used his eyes to hint frantically: "Stop talking..."
"No, I must say this." Chang Fengchi thought he was afraid of the Yuxu Sect, and immediately slapped his thigh with a sense of justice, "This is really outrageous. Poor male cultivator, I don't know if he escaped later. If he is caught by Zi Jiuwen again, the consequences will be disastrous... Hey, Zhu brothers, what are you doing? Brother Jun doesn't look well, and he is not feeling well?"
Zhu Changyang suddenly moved to Jun Shu's side and pinched Jun Shu's arm. Jun Shu's face was gloomy and he looked unhappy.
Zhu Changyang wiped his face and said weakly, "Don't listen to what people say outside. That male cultivator is fine, and he has nothing to do with Zi Jiuwen."
Chang Fengchi: "How do you know?"
Zhu Changyang carefully pointed at someone with his finger, his face solemn: "Because that male cultivator is right in front of you now."
The male cultivator in question: “Humph!”
Chang Fengchi:
After a moment, he picked up the tea and took two big gulps, laughing awkwardly: "Haha, the customs of the people in Cangbo City are really peculiar... Oh, let's not talk about this, let's talk about business. I came here this time on my mother's orders to discuss a few things with you brothers."
At this point, he suddenly exclaimed, looked Zhu Changyang up and down, and said in surprise: "Brother Zhu... seems to have some cultivation?"
Although he could not see Zhu Changyang's realm, he could feel that Zhu Changyang had the aura of a cultivator, and it was obvious that he was drawing energy into his body.
Jun Shu also glanced over when he heard this, but his expression was indifferent and he was not surprised.
"Yes." Zhu Changyang did not hide it and said with a smile, "I just built my foundation yesterday."
"Foundation building?!" Chang Fengchi's eyes widened. He himself had just entered this realm last year and knew best how difficult it was. He was immediately surprised, "Could it be that you brothers have really found an opportunity?"
It is not convenient to say this explicitly. Zhu Changyang smiled slightly and said vaguely: "You can say that."
Seeing this, Chang Fengchi stopped asking questions.
In fact, chance is often related to personal luck, and it is normal that most people are very secretive about it.
"I've said it before, you are a rare talent, and you deserve this opportunity." Chang Fengchi's filter for Zhu Changyang thickened by two inches, and he praised him wildly, then changed the subject and said happily, "This is really great, this way, you may also be able to refine spiritual power batteries."
Zhu Changyang was stunned: "What spiritual power battery?"
"This is one of the reasons why I came to see you this time." Chang Fengchi lowered his voice and showed some seriousness, "Brothers, can you please have a word with me for a moment?"
"Then go to my room." Zhu Changyang stood up and looked at Jun Shu again, "Xiaojun, wait here for a moment, I'll be back soon."
It's not that he didn't want to bring the accident, but after all, it involved matters within the Baigong Sect, and it was not convenient for him to make the decision.
Jun Shu had no objection to this. Hearing this, he lazily lay down on the table and said, "Whatever."
It's clear from the look on his face that he has no interest in other people's affairs.
Zhu Changyang burst out laughing.
"No way." Zhu Changyang waved his hands quickly, "I should be thanking you."
He took the mustard seed bag, opened it and was slightly surprised: "So many!"
The space in this bag is actually not that big, but it is filled with a bag of waste rock, which is estimated to be about a few tons.
When he lived in Baigongmen before, he paid attention to the daily consumption of spirit stones in the sect. It shouldn't be that much.
"Mother asked the disciples to collect some from other sects." Chang Fengchi explained with a smile, "It's a pity that outsiders are not allowed to approach those famous sects, otherwise the waste stones they used would really pile up like a mountain... But who would have thought that these waste stones that have been drained of spiritual power could actually have such a wonderful use."
As he spoke, his face showed joy again, "Speaking of which, I have made some small progress recently."
Chang Fengchi was inspired by Zhu Changyang and felt that refining equipment did not necessarily rely entirely on cultivation and high-grade materials. If one could, like Zhu Changyang, deeply understand and give full play to the properties of materials and use ordinary materials to produce magical effects, it would also be a way to create things.
After opening his mind, Chang Fengchi was no longer obsessed with his own cultivation, but instead devoted more energy to material research, including the further refining of those waste stones.
Not to mention, he actually discovered some substances that he had never noticed before, and it turned out that many materials, under certain circumstances, do not require spiritual power to be refined, and can interact with each other to generate new things.
In addition, in addition to the common gold, silver, copper, iron, and the "tungsten" that Zhu Changyang taught him to identify, there were also some other things suspected to be "minerals" separated from the waste rocks.
Although it is still unclear whether those "mines" have the same magical uses as tungsten ore, and how to use them specifically, for Chang Fengchi, it is already a new understanding.
What surprised him even more was that after he stopped being obsessed with cultivation, his state of mind actually improved significantly.
The new material research methods and ideas for refining equipment have enabled him to achieve unprecedented progress.
Just before he set out for Cangbo City, he finally broke through the state that had been stagnant for a long time, and entered the middle stage of foundation building from the early stage of foundation building. And according to the current situation, he might be able to enter the peak of foundation building in the near future, and it is unknown whether he can form a golden elixir in the future.
This was unprecedented progress in Chang Fengchi's nearly twenty years of cultivation, so he was very excited when he mentioned this matter and was full of gratitude to Zhu Changyang.
Zhu Changyang was also a little surprised when he heard this, but he immediately had a guess.
Cultivation is actually about finding the way. Chang Fengchi does not have good talent, and naturally he cannot compare with those who are born with superior spiritual roots if he practices according to traditional methods.
But now he has turned to researching materials, and is actually taking a "scientific" approach based on mathematics, physics and chemistry, thus reducing his reliance on spiritual roots and spiritual power.
In addition, as your state of mind improves, you will naturally become "enlightened".
Isn’t this another kind of “Tao”
In any case, Zhu Changyang was very happy for Chang Fengchi and congratulated him immediately.
Chang Fengchi then took out a battery from the mustard seed bag and said, "This is a spiritual power battery that my mother developed based on the dry cell battery you taught me. She asked me to bring it to you to see."
Zhu Changyang took it and looked at it, and couldn't help being surprised.
The appearance of this battery is no different from that of an ordinary dry cell battery, the difference being that this battery is covered with a faint halo that is unique to spiritual power.
It turns out that Chang Fengchi was not the only one who had made progress in his cultivation during this period.
After Chang Changchunwu and his son Chang Fengchi learned how to make flashlights from Zhu Changyang, they started to make them on their own.
But soon, they discovered the problem that Zhu Changyang had previously reminded them of—the dry cell batteries had limited power and would have to be replaced after a short period of use.
This greatly reduces the effectiveness of its use.
Therefore, Chang Chunwu decided to improve the battery.
She combined the production principles of dry cell batteries with traditional methods of refining equipment. After countless attempts and failures, she unexpectedly discovered that spiritual power and the "electric current" generated by the battery can be converted into each other.
Just as cultivators can draw spiritual power from spiritual stones for cultivation, this spiritual power can also be drawn and used by flashlights in the form of "batteries."
The reason why Baigongmen has been able to survive in the dusty land under the oppression of Yongzhutian for so many years is precisely because it has some unique ways of extracting and using spiritual energy.
Therefore, Chang Chunwu incorporated the method of extracting spiritual power into battery production, and finally refined a new spiritual power battery.
The materials used in spiritual power batteries are roughly the same as those of dry batteries, mainly zinc tubes, manganese dioxide, graphite powder and carbon rods.
However, these materials are not extracted from waste rocks, but are directly refined while they are still in the state of spirit stones.
In addition, some other materials rich in spiritual energy are mixed into the electrolyte.
This new battery is powered by a combination of electricity and spiritual power, and is more durable and stable. Two batteries made from low-grade spiritual stones can allow a flashlight to be used continuously for several years, if the flashlight is not broken.
Chang Chunwu's own cultivation also improved significantly during this process. After successfully refining the spiritual power battery, her realm reached the perfection of the middle stage of the distraction stage. She is currently in retreat, and if nothing unexpected happens, she will soon break through and enter the peak of the distraction stage.
That was why she did not contact Zhu Changyang in person, but instead delegated Chang Fengchi to make the trip.
Zhu Changyang was deeply moved after listening to the whole process.
At this time, it was only a month since he taught Chang Chunwu how to make dry cell batteries. Chang Chunwu not only thought of improving the battery, but had already completed the improvement.
The people in this world of cultivation are not only ambitious, but their ability to take action and their ability to comprehend are also not to be underestimated!
So strong and so curly!
"Mother said that without the foundation of dry batteries, she would not be able to refine this spiritual power battery, so the method of refining this spiritual power battery should also be told to you." Chang Fengchi said as he handed over a few folded papers. "Originally, mother was very sorry that you didn't have spiritual roots and might not be able to refine this spiritual power battery. I didn't expect that you would encounter an opportunity and build a foundation in just a few days. It shows that there is a will of heaven in the dark."
Zhu Changyang took the papers and unfolded them. One of them was an ordinary piece of letter paper with patterns of various sizes drawn on it. There were also detailed explanations in small print next to each pattern, which were the methods of refining spiritual power batteries.
The other two were silver notes with the bank's seal, and the total amount on them was five hundred medium-grade spirit stones.
Zhu Changyang was puzzled: "What is this?"
"We sold two flashlights a few days ago, and this is your share," Chang Fengchi explained.
Just after Chang Chunwu refined the spiritual power battery, a wealthy businessman from the mortal realm happened to come to Buchendi to purchase goods. After seeing the flashlight that could be turned on and off at any time and would not burn anything, he was amazed and ended up buying two at a high price.
Zhu Changyang was very touched by the return of favors from the Baigong Sect, but he was too embarrassed to ask for more banknotes, so he said, "No need for money..."
"Listen to me first, brothers," Chang Fengchi quickly held him down and said, "To be honest, I have another deal to discuss with you this time. If you agree, I will give you more shares in the future."
Zhu Changyang was puzzled: "What business?"
Chang Fengchi's expression straightened up and he said, "Mother wants to mass-produce flashlights and sell them to the mortal realm."
It turns out that Chang Chunwu thinks that such a good thing as a flashlight should not be limited to the hands of a few rich people, but should be promoted to the entire mortal world.
Since the materials used to make this thing are not rare and do not require any skills, any mortal craftsman can make it. If it can be mass-produced and the cost can be reduced, it can be made affordable for ordinary people.
Therefore, Chang Chunwu wanted to build a workshop and recruit a group of trustworthy craftsmen to specialize in the production of flashlights and sell them to the mortal world so that people in the mortal world could have convenient and safe lighting.
Of course, these can only be flashlights that use ordinary dry cell batteries. Spiritual power batteries need to be refined through cultivation, and currently cannot be mass-produced, and are still sold at high prices.
Chang Fengchi made this special trip mainly to discuss this matter with Zhu Changyang.
What Chang Chunwu meant was that the method of making flashlights was taught by Zhu Changyang, and if one wanted to build a workshop for mass production or even sell them, one should first get his consent, and the subsequent income should also be shared with him.
After hearing Chang Chunwu's plan, Zhu Changyang was surprised and moved.
Flashlights are nothing in the world of cultivation, but they are real rare items in the mortal world. If Baigongmen is interested, they can completely control the production, sell them at high prices, and make huge profits.
But Chang Chunwu did not do so. The first thing she thought of was how to reduce the cost so that more people could afford it.
This kind of vision is more valuable than the technology itself.
"No problem, just do as the Sect Master says." Zhu Changyang agreed on the spot.
In this way, Baigongmen’s flashlight workshop plan was officially finalized.
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Studio:
[? ? ? ? ? This wave of Baigongmen is a bit unexpected, the situation has been opened up!]
[This plot suddenly turned into a business flow? ]
[Ah, Chang Yang has suddenly become a shareholder? My Yang is awesome! ]
[No, didn’t you guys notice that Chang Yang had built his foundation? Didn’t he have no spiritual roots? How did he build his foundation? ]
[Yes, yes, this is too sudden. How did he get this chance? We watch him every day, but we don’t see him having any adventures! ! ]
[That can’t be said. His wedding was really weird…]
[Who cares? As long as he can practice, I look forward to his next performance! ]
[Uh, am I the only one who is not looking forward to it? He did so many tricks before because he couldn't practice. Now that he can practice, maybe we won't see him doing anything in the future. ]
[1. I was attracted by his cool moves, and I didn’t want to see him go the path of cultivation, otherwise I would have gone to the next door to watch.]
[Host Qiuqiu, please don’t go astray and cultivate seriously from now on! ]
[Fuck, this is the first time I’ve seen so many people begging the host not to practice Taoism in a cultivation channel! ]
[I never expected that this would be...]
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Chang Yang: ??? You didn’t say that before!
(End of this chapter)