by <unknown>
Li Yao, who was sitting in a corner, had a lifeless look hanging over his face:
"How could it fail? It should be perfectly connected, why was the spiritual energy blocked?"
Jiang Wenbo was tremendously surprised:
"Big Sis, you have an incredible disciple. He had actually assembled the entire furnace. However, since he had used the wrong blueprints, he had naturally failed!"
Yuan Manqiu was also very excited. She knew she had picked up a treasure.
So what he failed? If it was anyone else, they would have far worse practical ability than him and might not even have the qualifications to fail, as they could not even assemble the equipment from the start!
"Li Yao, did you just assemble the furnace and then use Shock Wave Oscilloscope to check it?"
Yuan Manqiu asked in a shaky voice.
Li Yao desolately replied, "Yes, teacher. I thought I had assembled it perfectly and had analyzed every connection completely, and every detail was simply perfect, but in the end, I still failed!"
Li Yao heaved a deep sigh as he dispiritedly said, "The world of magical equipment is truly mysterious—too abstruse, too wonderful. I still have many things to learn. I should not have overestimated myself!"
"It's alright, it's completely alright!"
Yuan Manqiu was wild with joy: "The 1st Gen Tai'e furnace was created over a century ago, and there are several difficulties in its assembling processes. They are out your ability, so it is very normal for you to fail. Don't be disappointed. In my opinion, you are already very strong!"
She sat down next to Li Yao and patted her disciple's shoulder: "Come, tell me about your assembling process from start to finish. Old Jiang and I will check them a bit. Right, this is Professor Jiang Wenbo. He is a veteran refiner with rich experience."
"Good afternoon, Professor Jiang!" Mustering up his spirit, Li Yao gave a bow at the holographic screen.
"It's alright, there is no need to be overly courteous. When Big Sis told me you were a genius, I didn't believe it, but now, seeing that you can even assemble the 1st Gen Tai'e furnace, even I’m inclined to believe. Come, young man, tell me how you really assemble it!"
Jiang Wenbo was also excited.
"Alright!"
A frown appeared on Li Yao's glabella as he recalled and honestly started narrating, "At the beginning, everything was going without a hitch. After I had assembled the eight units in four hours..."
"What!?"
Jiang Wenbo could not help but interrupt him: "You only spent four hours to assemble the eight units? Oh! Keep on going!"
Li Yao was surprised for a moment when he noticed the complexion of the two, which was a little weird, seemingly as if he had done something extraordinary, but after sorting out his thoughts: "When I was assembling the core components, I found that the core components were inconsistent with the blueprints, so I threw the blueprints on one side and drew the blueprints according to the actual structure. Afterward, I deduced the assembling procedures..."
"What!?"
This time, it was Yuan Manqiu who shouted. "You drew the blueprints according to these components and also deduced the assembling processes? Quickly, quickly show me the blueprints you have drawn!"
Li Yao suspiciously swept a glance at the two as he muttered in his heart: 'These two are veteran refiners, so how can they be shocked at everything and interrupt me at every sentence?'
From the crystal processor, he launched the blueprints that he had drawn as well as the assembling processes that he had deduced and presented them to the two veteran refiners.
The two swept a glance and drew in a lump of cold air at the same time.
On the way, the two had already studied the blueprints of 1st Gen Tai'e furnace for a long time and had thoroughly etched the most crucial parts into their mind. At first glance, they knew that the blueprints drawn by Li Yao were completely correct, and the assembling processes were also roughly identical!
"T-this is simply..."
Jiang Wenbo was a little muddle-headed. His lips shook for a long time, but he could not speak another word.
A freshman who had just entered university, who was still a high-school student a couple months back, much to his surprise, had drawn the blueprints from scratch just by relying on some scattered components, and he had even deduced the assembling processes!
'Did this brat start learning to assemble magical equipment from the womb?'
Yuan Manqiu, even more so, was excited to the point that she was trembling. Every strand of her facial muscles was moving up and down. Raising her eyebrows, she screamed, "What's going on!? Since you have drawn the blueprints and even deduced the assembling processes, how can you fail? Quick, quick, quick, tell me what did you next, do not miss any details!"
"Next I..."
Li Yao cleared his throat: "I analyzed the blueprints a bit and discovered that the subsequently assembled furnace will have poor performance, so I thought of modifying it."
"I had a thermostat chip from a 7th Gen Redglow crafting furnace, a spirit suppressor from a 5th Gen Profound Truth crafting furnace, as well as a quite intact anti-gravity unit from a Sapphirinus crafting furnace, also..."
He reported tongue-twister-like names of over hundred kinds of components, then he brought up a couple dozen blueprints on the hologram.
"Using these components, I developed five sets of modifying plans, all of which are here. Professors, please take a look."
"In fact, if I assembled it using the most secure plan, I might have succeeded. Everything is my fault. I was too impatient, too proud. I thought light of magical equipment and chose the most radical plan."
"I think that the difficulty of the radical plan mainly lies in engraving the stabilizing array glyphs."
"I am unable to engrave powerful, high-level stabilizing array glyphs with my current strength, so in the end, I thought of a way, a secret method which I had inadvertently found in ancient records. Using this method, I superimposed several low-level stabilizing array glyphs. Professors, please take a look. The spiritual energy operating principle of the superimposed array glyphs is like this..."
"Afterward, by using two crystal bypass switches created using elite faction ideology, you can change its spiritual energy intertwining mode to simulate the effect of high-level stabilizing array glyphs."
"In accordance with this idea, the final completed blueprint is this and spiritual energy flow chart is this... professors, please take a look. Here, here and here, these are the most important parts which I had reinforced. In theory, I should not have failed!"
"I have wracked my brain but still could not understand. Professors, please give me pointers, tell me where the problem actually lies."
For a whole ten minutes, Li Yao explained. Only after he finished did he eagerly stare at the two veteran refiners.
Yuan Manqiu and Jiang Wenbo were both dumbstruck. They directly stared at the couple dozen ever-dancing blueprints and spiritual energy flow charts in the air.
Fierce-looking diagrams of all shapes and sizes repeatedly exploded in the depths of the two's brain. The two veteran refiners' brains were completely fried!
Chapter 149: Young Man, I Have High Hopes For You! |
Dizziness!
Suprise!
Unimaginable!
The two felt as though tens of thousands of iron scaled horses were galloping in their minds. Boom Boom Boom Boom! A thunderstorm was surging in the depths of their mind—they had completely lost the ability to think!
Both were experts who had been in the refiners' circle for a couple of decades. Yuan Manqiu, even more so, used to be a student of the Deep Sea University's Refining Department and had received the most rigorous and orthodox academic training, so what kind of strange things had they not seen? What kind of monstrous geniuses had they not encountered?
However, when it came to a freak like Li Yao, let alone seeing one, the two have never even heard of one!
Even more so, his lightning fa
st assembling speed, as well as the fact that he had drawn a complete blueprint from scratch just by relying on disassembled components while simultaneously deducing the assembling procedures and developing a few modifying plans...
In the opinion of these two veteran refiners, just the "safest" modifying plan was already radical to the extreme.
And the so called "radical" set, in their opinion, was simply... ‘perverse’!
The 1st Gen Tai'e furnace was an antique equipment from a century ago, while the crafting furnaces at the Grand Desolation War Institution's Refining Department were rather advanced and new, thus the performance of their various components was extremely good.
Using such resilient components to modify the 1st Gen Tai'e furnace was like asking a couple dozen Nascent Soul Stage old devils to control a magical equipment which was specially designed for arming a Refinement Stage cultivator. How difficult it was to implement such ideas was just one of the thing; the main point was—the concept.
Besides an extremely insane madman, no one would even think of doing such a thing!
And not only had Li Yao thought about it, he had even done it. Furthermore, everything was nice and authentic, and looking at those modified blueprints and spiritual energy flow charts drawn by him, at least 95% of the structure had no problems and could work flawlessly!
"Is this kid really a freshman that’s not even 20 years old?"
Yuan Manqiu and Jiang Wenbo glanced at each other and found that both their eyes were madly flickering like frightening billows and terrifying waves.
Yuan Manqiu took a long, long, long, long, deep breath and was doing her utmost to control her ugly and grim-looking face as she said while pointing at the spiritual energy flow chart:
"Your idea is very creative; however, according to this flow chart, your heater and cooler are too close. The water type spiritual energy and fire type spiritual energy surging out from the respective units will be amplified via the same spiritual energy amplifier, due to which the alternating hot and cold will lead to thermal expansion and contraction. Will it not lead to structural deformation!?"
"Probably not."
Li Yao was completely oblivious to the astonishing changes that had taken place on the two professors' visage, as his mind was completely preoccupied with the modification of the crafting furnace as he said whatever came to mind: "The thermal expansion and contraction has been a big problem for many refiners throughout the ages. Many magical equipment, in the process of starting up, have to go through sudden heating and cooling. Once the thermal expansion and contraction sets in, the deformation of components is a matter of time and may lead to dissipation of spiritual energy, resulting in unnecessary waste, or in the worst case, leading to a spiritual energy tide, which would eventually lead to an explosion."
"Specialized magical equipment like the main body of crafting furnace, which had been crafted using special material and undergone tempering again and again, remain unaffected by extremely varying temperature."
"However, as early as the ancient cultivation world of forty millenniums ago, the head of Blue Dawn Clan's Western Mountain Hall, Elder Xihua, proposed a Fire and Water Sub-Source Array Glyph which could perfectly resolve the problem of thermal expansion and contraction."
"But at that time, as the various spiritual energy models and algorithms were extremely backward, the Fire and Water Sub-Source only remained at the theoretical stage."
"It was only during the modern cultivation world when various spiritual energy models and algorithms emerged in an endless stream was it possible to construct a Fire and Water Sub-Source Array Glyph using the Micro-Particle Algorithm proposed by the 7th generation leader of the Sky Stone Valley, Senior Daoist Xuanzhen, in his work [An Analytical Introduction of Heavenly Particle Algorithm] from 322 years ago."
"Of course, I am just a beginner freshman, so how can I thoroughly understand a high-level algorithm like the Micro-Particle Algorithm, which requires a tremendous amount of computational ability?"
"I had no choice but to use the Mustard Seed Algorithm proposed by Daoist Miaomiao in his thesis [Rediscovering Array Glyphs From Mustard Seed Level] 155 years ago as well as the Solar Corona Nine Algorithms proposed by Reverend Yufeng in his paper [From Spiritual Energy to Sunspot Eruption] 22 years ago to make up for the parts of Micro-Particle Algorithm which I could not understand. Doing such, I was barely able to construct the Fire and Water Sub-Source Array Glyphs."
"Could the three algorithms be incompatible, leading to instability in the array glyphs constructed by me? Yes, this must be the problem!"
While Li Yao kept on talking, his eyes immediately flickered with an intelligent gleam as he heavily slapped his forehead and launched the telepathic thoughts calculator of the crystal processor. With the move of his thoughts at a lightning fast speed, a series of dazzling formulas appeared on the hologram, which rapidly expanded at an alarming rate.
Yuan Manqiu and Jiang Wenbo took a glance at each other before Jiang Wenbo spoke in a hushed tone, "Big Sis, let's go!"
Yuan Manqiu nodded and left the warehouse on her tiptoes.
Jiang Wenbo heaved a long sigh of relief. He was stunned for a long while before a bitter smile appeared on his lips as he said:
"Big Sis, what in the bloody hell is [From Spiritual Energy to Sunspot Eruption]? How come I have never heard of it?"
Jiang Wenbo, a refiner who had to do various tasks in the sect, paid more emphasis on actual practice. It was simply impossible for him to thoroughly understand all the theories in the cultivation world.
Yuan Manqiu was still in a bit of trance:
"[From Spiritual Energy to Sunspot Eruption] is a conjecture proposed by Reverend Yufeng. He believed that the sunspots eruption is a kind of particularly intense spiritual energy tide explosion that can be analyzed using the spiritual tide explosion model. Using the powerful spiritual energy that erupted from the sunspot eruption, he believed it was possible to use it to cultivate."
"Solar Corona Nine Algorithms are the nine algorithms which he used to analyze the sunspot eruptions."
"However, the theory was not widely acknowledged in the world of cultivation and remained only as a ‘hypothesis’. It's a very unconventional theory, but even I have only taken a cursory glance or two and had not done any in-depth study at all."
Jiang Wenbo drew in a lump of cold air: "If it’s an unconventional hypothesis, then how come that brat has seen it?"
"It’s more than that!"
Yuan Manqiu desolately said, "I do know a little of the few modern algorithms he talked about, but I have never heard of the Blue Dawn Clan's Elder Xihua from forty millenniums ago. Not to mention coming in contact with his theories, I have never even heard of any Fire and Water Sub-Source Array Glyph!"
Jiang Wenbo was dumbfounded: "Even you don't know?"
Yuan Manqiu thoughtfully nodded her head: "Yes, although the modifying plans proposed by him were inadequate in many places, rash, ingenuous, and based on assumptions at many steps, a typical example of ignorance is bliss, but..."
"What's important is the approach!"
"God knows where that little devil saw so many theoretical classics, ancient, modern, grassroots, elites, and what not—some of which even I am not aware of."
"I only know that his refining ideas are absolutely broad, so broad that it could be called perverse!"
"This is one monstrous genius. If he is not trained well and if we let him take his own course, it is very likely that all he would do would be submerging himself in the fantastic peaks of his ideas, turning into nothing but a rhetoric theorist."
"However, as long as he assiduously dives into studies and thoroughly comprehends the quintessence of refining, if these perverse ideas could be turned into a reality..."
Yuan Manqiu did not continue and just gazed far away into the depths of the rubble.
At the center of the ruins, the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit stood like an undead god of war, concealing its talons and fangs, re
tracting its wings, waiting for the day when it would soar into the sky and give rise to wind and thunder that would sweep the entire cultivation world!
‘Old Mo, can you see? This is the freshman of our Grand Desolate War Institution's Refining Department! With such a student, the Grand Desolate War Institution's Refining Department will definitely rise!’
Yuan Manqiu secretly said in her mind.
"Now, what should we do..." asked Jiang Wenbo.
Yuan Manqiu smiled: "Of course, we should quickly study the theory proposed by Elder Xihua, and there is also [From Spiritual Energy Tide to Sunspot Eruption]. Otherwise, we will not be able to answer any questions, and if a teacher is not as good as his student, wouldn't that be embarrassing?"
"Right, right, let's quickly study!"
After an hour, when the two returned to the warehouse in high spirits, Li Yao had already jam-packed more than 20 holograms with ant-like characters.
"Professors!"
When he noticed the two's arrival, Li Yao was excited to the extreme. He sprang up on his feet and said with heartfelt admiration, "Teacher, you are really awesome! I have painstakingly pondered for such a long time but never found the problem; however, with just one sentence, teacher had actually pointed it out."
"Oh?"
Yuan Manqiu and Jiang Wenbo stared at each other.
Li Yao said in an excited tone, "After you have left, I once again verified the three algorithms and found that the Mustard Seed Algorithm has limited applications. For sure, the Mustard Seed Algorithm can be applied at the micro level without a hitch, but if applied on the macro level, it is necessary to add very complex correctional parameters. Otherwise, it would lead to an extremely small error. Although this error in itself wouldn’t pose any problems, but after it is amplified by the Micro-Particle Algorithm, it would have serious repercussions!"
"I have repeatedly deduced several times but could not find the best solution, so I had to give up on the idea of using the Fire and Water Sub-Source and could only place the heater and cooler farther apart!"