As time was running out, Zhu Changyang and his group left Qili City that day.
Before leaving, Zhu Changyang responded to the strong invitation of the city residents and took the opportunity to dig several pressurized wells in several residential areas in the city, making a small profit.
In fact, after the magic circle that suppressed the giant octopus's scales was broken, the original seven deep wells could be used normally. However, after seeing the more convenient and safer water pressure wells, the residents of the city turned their attention to other wells.
Unfortunately, Zhu Changyang didn't have much time, so before leaving, he drilled a few more wells for them and asked the craftsmen in the city to install them themselves.
The structure of a water pressure well is simple and any craftsman with a little cleverness can copy it at a glance.
Furthermore, after the scales of the giant crocodile are taken away, the power of the giant crocodile under the Qili City will disappear, and the surging water that was originally absorbed and gathered under the Qili City will be released.
Before they left, groundwater could be seen seeping out from the depression outside the city.
Perhaps in the near future, Qili City will be like other cities, with abundant rivers, lakes and lakes, and will no longer have to rely on the wells in the city, and residents will be able to develop outwards.
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After leaving the teleportation array and transferring to a flying magic weapon, Zhu Changyang and his party finally arrived at Shili Mountain on the morning of the second day.
The Ji Jin Sect had already received the message through the Jade Edict, and a large group of people were waiting outside the mountain gate early.
As soon as the group landed, the disciples immediately surrounded them, their faces filled with indescribable excitement.
"Ahhh, you guys are finally back!"
"Big Brother, have you really found the scales of the giant crocodile?!"
"I still can't believe it! I thought there were no more giant crocodile scales in the world."
"Me too."
"Of course it's true." Qi Tongchen smiled with relief, "This time it's all thanks to Brother Zhu and Brother Jun."
Hai Qingshan couldn't wait to add loudly: "Let me tell you, Brother Zhu is really amazing. After this experience with him, I was completely impressed by him..."
Zhu Changyang: “…”
Brother Qingshan, you didn't say that before. Also, can you please stop bragging to him and get down to business first
At this time, someone shouted: "The master is coming!"
Upon hearing this, everyone fell silent and retreated to the sides with a solemn look, making way for the middle passage.
Zhu Changyang looked up and saw a man in a robe with cloud sleeves walking out of the gate.
The man was very tall and a little thin, with a touch of elegance in his handsomeness. His appearance made people want to get close to him, but his expression was serious and solemn, with his lips tightly drawn, revealing the majesty of a sect leader.
This person is none other than Si Kou Luo, the current leader of Ji Jin Sect, whom Zhu Changyang had long admired but had never been able to see in person.
Behind Si Kou Luo was Nan Rongbo, who had not been seen for several days.
Nan Rongbo came out waving a folding fan and smiled at Zhu Changyang and Jun Shu: "Brother Zhu, Brother Jun, you are finally back. I have missed you so much these days."
Zhu Changyang thought, forget it, so many disciples of Ji Jin Sect came out to pick people up but you didn’t show up, but you followed Sect Master Si Kou very closely.
Si Kou Luo's face was full of haggardness, and it was obvious that he had not slept for many days. He walked forward, bowed deeply to Zhu Changyang and Jun Shu, and said solemnly: "This time, I am grateful for the help of the two young masters. I thank you very much."
Zhu Changyang quickly returned the greeting: "Master, you are too polite."
Si Kou Luo was concerned about the situation of Fairy Xia Jue, so he said no more and turned to look at Qi Tongchen.
Qi Tongchen took out a storage magic tool from the mustard seed bag and handed it to his master with both hands.
Si Kou Luo took the magic weapon, his breathing condensed almost imperceptibly, and he slowly opened the lid under the gaze of everyone, took out the huge black armor plate from it, pinched his fingertips, and lightly brushed over the armor plate. After a moment, he finally let out a long breath: "It is undoubtedly the scale armor of the giant octopus."
After hearing his words, the people around him felt relieved and laughed in unison. Many of them couldn't help but shed tears.
Nan Rongbo also secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said with a pleased smile: "The fairy lady is very blessed. It is a great fortune that my long-cherished wish has come true. What are you waiting for, Sect Master? Hurry up and give the things to the fairy lady."
Si Kou Luo glanced at him, still looking serious, and just nodded slightly: "Yeah."
He immediately instructed Qi Tongchen to take over the subsequent matters and entertain the distinguished guests well, and he himself hurried back to the place where Fairy Xia Jue was in seclusion, carrying the giant turtle scale armor.
Nan Rongbo looked at Si Kouluo's departing figure and said with emotion: "I hope that the Sect Master can have a good rest next time."
Qi Tongchen looked at him speechlessly, with a look of resentment on his face: "Why haven't you left yet?"
Nan Rongbo said as usual: "I won't leave."
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Back in the room, Zhu Changyang entered the workshop and turned on the control panel.
The trip was quite fruitful. Not only did we obtain strategic materials such as oil, but the live broadcast room also accumulated a large amount of popularity and nutrient solution.
Click to extract the nutrient solution, and inject the breath into the body. The tiredness from days of running around is swept away, and the golden elixir that was originally as loose as sand becomes more solid, and the cultivation becomes more powerful.
However, after reaching the Jindan stage, the amount of nutrient solution required for each realm has doubled compared to the foundation-building stage, and it is not so easy to make progress.
Zhu Changyang circulated his energy for two cycles, returning his cultivation to the spiritual platform, and then he opened his eyes.
Then we checked the inventory and found that many new materials had been added to the warehouse, mainly crude oil and a series of products refined from petroleum.
In contrast, there is a shortage of metals and other types of mineral raw materials.
Large machines consume too much materials. When building an internal combustion engine or a drilling rig, some materials that were already scarce will immediately become scarce.
Thanks to Gu Peng, there is still some iron available, but for many products, iron is not actually the best material.
For example, in the internal combustion engine, aluminum-based and magnesium-based composite materials are superior in wear resistance and high temperature resistance, but the stock of these two types of metals is far from enough for him to use in large quantities. Gold and silver are even more scarce.
Zhu Changyang deeply felt that the output of minerals extracted solely from waste rock was too limited. It was fine for making some small things, but it was difficult to make larger machines, let alone mass production.
After counting the inventory, he took out several major metals such as iron, aluminum, and copper, as well as some zinc, tin, nickel, etc. for casting alloys, followed by glass fibers, polymer materials refined from petroleum, etc. for making paint films, adhesives, etc., as well as bearings, graphite brushes, etc.
Prepare materials, draw drawings, and click upload...
After confirming that the drawings had been approved and the workshop had started production, Zhu Changyang slowly exhaled and was about to exit when he saw a prompt suddenly pop up on the control panel.
[Congratulations! Your accumulated live streaming popularity has reached the interactive standard and you have officially unlocked the barrage kinetic energy. From now on, you will have one chance to check the barrage every day, and each time is valid for 5 minutes. ]
Looking at the [Bullet Screen] button on the panel again, it has indeed been activated and is no longer in the locked gray state as before.
Zhu Changyang:!!!
He has been in a stand-alone state since he traveled through time. Although he knows that his actions are still being watched by netizens in modern society through the changes in his [popularity value] and [nutrient solution], there is still a lack of reality.
As he spent more time in the world of cultivation and got used to the life here, even after he had refined the golden elixir, he would occasionally feel dazed and doubt whether his experiences over the past years had really existed or whether they were just illusions, as the world of cultivation said.
Now that the barrage function is activated, he can finally see what netizens are saying!
Although it was only five minutes a day, it was enough for him to reconnect with the modern society he was familiar with.
Zhu Changyang couldn't wait to click the [bullet screen] button, and dense bullet screens immediately floated across the panel:
[I am a new fan after watching "Contractor". Is this not a live broadcast? Where is the anchor? Why is the picture still? ]
[Oh, he's in the workshop again. Chang Yang is really something, he's always so secretive when making things. I've been following his live broadcast for almost a year, what is there that I can't watch?! ]
[In the end, it’s all because of Pujiang’s outrageous blocking system. I’m here to beat up @管三]
[Fortunately, this poor review did not affect Chang Yang's wonderful operation. From "Orange" to "Picking Up Trash" to "Contractor", every episode is full of twists and turns, making people unable to stop! ]
[Having said that, I still hope Chang Yang can occasionally show us the process of refining equipment live, instead of making us guess every time! ]
Five minutes passed in the blink of an eye. Before Zhu Changyang could understand what was going on, the comments had already disappeared. A row of question marks floated across his forehead:
What is "Ju Le"? What is "Junk Picking"? What is "Contractor"
Are these really comments from his livestream? Why can't he understand them at all
However, he didn't dwell on it for too long. After all, he had been live streaming for such a long time, it was normal that he didn't understand some of the jokes.
Fortunately, he understood the rest of the comments. Thinking about it carefully, he had indeed rarely refined weapons in front of the camera.
The main reason is that he has never refined any proper magical instruments, and almost everything he makes is made with machines.
With this in mind, Zhu Changyang left the workshop, took out the spiritual materials he had saved with great difficulty from his pocket, and prepared to perform a spiritual fire refining show for the audience in the live broadcast room.
Just consider it as a gratitude return from the Jindan period!
Zhu Changyang was selecting materials while recalling the knowledge of refining equipment that he had learned during this period.
Most of these materials were collected during his travels. Since he was reluctant to spend money, he either collected them himself or bought cheap goods sold at material stores. The better ones, such as Fiery Grass Dew, Tiled Teeth, and Non-ash Wood, were bought from the Ji Jin Sect with the help of Si Kou Luo's elementary school homework books.
The rarest of them was the bottle of mermaid tears that the little mermaid prince had given him. Although Ying Shuangze joked that the mermaid had obtained them by beating a child, it was not easy to buy on the market. Speaking of which, Elder Cen had mentioned this thing before when he was taking the Blazing Grass Dew class.
Zhu Changyang was thinking about what to refine when Nan Rongbo suddenly came to visit.
"Brothers, I'm here to say goodbye to you and Brother Jun." Nan Rongbo said.
"So suddenly?" Zhu Changyang was a little surprised. He thought Nan Rongbo would stay here until Qi Tongchen collapsed, so he asked, "Aren't you going to wait until you have repaired your relationship with Sikou Sect Leader before leaving?"
"Then maybe I won't have to go back to Huihuan Palace in this lifetime." Nan Rongbo had a very clear understanding of the relationship between himself and Si Kou Luo. He smiled and said, "I heard that Fairy Xia Jue is doing very well and Sect Master Si Kou has come out of retreat. There should be nothing wrong."
It turned out that Xia Jue obtained the giant octopus scale armor, and the magic weapon that he had been practicing for many years without success finally made progress. At the same time, his cultivation that had been stagnant for a long time had a small breakthrough, and he actually curbed the signs of exhaustion.
Now that Xia Jue continued to refine the weapon, Si Kou Luo no longer had to use his own skills to keep her alive, and everyone in the Ji Jin Sect breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thanks to my brothers, the fairy lady and the Sikou Sect Master are safe this time, so I feel relieved." Nan Rongbo looked much more relaxed than before, and said, "It just so happens that a beautiful and smart junior sister has recently arrived in Hehuan Palace. My mother has sent me messages more than ten times, asking me to go back as soon as possible to see if I can get a crush on the junior sister, so that we can practice dual cultivation together in the future, instead of practicing alone all the time."
"Huh?" Zhu Changyang was surprised, "Brother Nanrong, don't you have a partner for dual cultivation yet?"
He saw that the people in Hehuan Palace were unrestrained and that Nan Rongbo was either looking at beauties or on the way to look at beauties every day. He thought that he should have several fellow Taoists like his mother.
"I just haven't found someone who shares my feelings with me." Nan Rongbo said with a bit of sadness, "If it weren't for this, I would have broken through long ago."
Nan Rongbo, as the only son of the Lord of Hehuan Palace, not only has top-grade spiritual roots, but also has inherited the true martial arts from Nan Rong Yanbo. According to the normal progress of his cultivation, he should have reached the middle stage of the Golden Core by now, or even the peak stage.
Unfortunately, he has never found a suitable partner for dual cultivation. There are actually quite a few beautiful junior brothers and sisters in the Hehuan Palace, and many of them are interested in him, but he just isn't attracted to any of them and has been solo for nearly thirty years. Fortunately, he has excellent talent and strong comprehension, otherwise he might still be in the foundation-building stage.
Zhu Changyang had always thought that Nan Rongbo was a playboy, but he didn't expect that he was actually a bachelor. What's the difference between him and those viewers who only know how to fly their pants on the Internet? !
Just as he was shocked, another person came to the door, it was Si Kou Luo.
Si Kou Luo had just come out from Fairy Xia Jue's retreat, changed into a black cloud robe, and came over specially to thank Zhu Changyang.
When Nan Rongbo saw Si Kouluo, he raised his eyebrows and said with a smile: "Sect Master, you came at the right time. I was just about to look for you later."
Si Kou Luo was confused: "What's the matter?"
"Nothing, just saying goodbye to you." Nan Rongbo repeated what he had just said to Zhu Changyang.
When Si Kou Luo heard Nan Rongbo say that Nan Rong Yanbo wanted him to go back for a blind date, his face instantly turned cold.
But he was usually very serious, and Nan Rongbo didn't notice this slight difference, and continued to talk nonstop, "My mother assured me again and again that the little sister who was admitted this time was the most beautiful woman in the entire Yanyu City. It has only been a few days since she entered the sect, and the brothers who applied for dual cultivation with her are lining up down the mountain. Several sisters almost couldn't control themselves, and asked me to go back quickly..."
Zhu Changyang: “…”
I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but I always feel like the air pressure in the room seems to have suddenly dropped.
Didn't Si Kou Luo come to thank him? Why did his face become more and more sour
"Got it." Si Kouluo interrupted coldly, "You don't need to report this to me."
Nan Rongbo then stopped awkwardly, and seeing his surprised face, he sighed secretly in his heart.
Sect Leader Sikou has a really bad temper. After all these years, his temper has not subsided at all. Why is it that it has become even worse
Nan Rongbo grumbled in his heart, but he still had to go through the necessary procedures, so he skillfully showed a sincere expression: "Master, you see, it's been so many years, it's time to let go of the knot between us. What I said to you back then was really unintentional, and I absolutely don't have any improper thoughts about you..."
Si Kou Luo interrupted: "Enough, I don't want to hear this."
After saying that, he flicked his sleeves and left on the spot.
The room was silent for a moment, and then Nan Rongbo became angry and complained: "Brothers, please be reasonable. Isn't Sect Master Sikou being a little unreasonable?"
Zhu Changyang: “…”
Wait, what is Sikou Luo doing here
The author has something to say:
Jobs: I don’t like to hear that.
(End of this chapter)