Chapter 124: Engraving Array Patterns on Semi-Magic Artifacts

"Tier 1 Optical Array Engraver."

Engineer Zhou Xiuyun pointed to the machine, which was almost the size of a room, and said: "One of the milestones in the Immortal Sect's Immortal Dao industry, capable of engraving Tier 1 arrays at the silk-meter level (one-ten-thousandth of a meter) with a mortal body."

"The machine is divided into four parts: energy storage module, conversion module, engraving module, and gold pool module."

"The energy storage module can absorb and store a large amount of internal qi from different Internal Qi Realm warriors. The conversion module mixes light energy and electrical energy to form a brand-new, gentle energy. The engraving module engraves the corresponding array on the Law-Breaking Steel base material. The gold pool module adds a small amount of spiritual metal and a large amount of special alloy to form a high-temperature fused metal liquid, which can be regarded as the talisman ink for talismans."

She handed each of the three an array diagram.

"The 89-style semi-magic artifact heavy machine gun barrel is engraved with the special array for the year-style Tier 1 heavy machine gun barrel, which was announced and finalized by the Immortal Sect's military industry department in the year."

"It can be regarded as a variant special array of the Tier 1 Gale Array. It can comb and concentrate the airflow thrust of gunpowder gas to form a wind-attribute force field to accelerate the bullet, increase the bullet's spin speed and stability, and enhance the bullet's resistance to spiritual sense."

"And it only needs to spontaneously absorb trace amounts of heaven and earth spiritual energy in the air to operate spontaneously, with simple maintenance and stable reliability."

"I'll give you ten minutes to understand it. Is that enough?"

Engineer Zhou Xiuyun said easily, as if this wasn't an array diagram that ordinary workers spent a year learning to have an 80% probability of understanding and passing the exam.

The three did not rush to agree, but took the array diagram and looked at it carefully for a while.

"Yes."

"No problem."

Hua Bing and Wu Tianli answered one after another.

"Yes."

Jiang Ding answered a moment later.

His flying sword already contained a Tier 1 Gale Array, and in the time he had been looking at it, he had already gained some understanding of this array. This was an array that could comb various turbulent flows and unify the directions of these turbulent flows.

"Let's begin."

Engineer Zhou Xiuyun's expression remained unchanged, but she was truly envious in her heart.

When she learned it, it took her three months.

The future prospects of these most outstanding students in Rongcheng were not something she could compare with, and even their current strength was far inferior. Only the factor of age could earn some respect.

Ten minutes later, the three of them put down the 89-style heavy machine gun array diagram one after another.

"I will demonstrate it once, and then you will practice."

Engineer Zhou Xiuyun sat at the operating table and said unhurriedly: "Don't be afraid of waste. Accidents are inevitable at the beginning. The steel plant has prepared sufficient practice pieces for you, so don't have any psychological burden."

"Understood."

Jiang Ding and the other two observed carefully.

Hum!

Engineer Zhou Xiuyun officially started the operating table. The first step was self-inspection to confirm that all parts of the optical array engraver were normal. Then, dense light rays scanned the heavy machine gun barrel made of Law-Breaking Steel, knowing all the data of the barrel by heart.

"Connect to the gold pool."

A red signal light flickered and turned green. The tip of the engraving module, which looked like a mechanical arm, seemed to have something extra, which was difficult to see with the naked eye.

Jiang Ding knew that this was a liquid spiritual metal wire at a high temperature of over seven thousand degrees Celsius, the size of a silk-meter.

Under Engineer Zhou Xiuyun's control, the engraving module moved flexibly up, down, left, and right on the heavy machine gun barrel embryo, and from time to time, a small engraving knife extended into the inner wall of the gun barrel to quickly engrave something.

Sixteen or seventeen minutes later, Engineer Zhou Xiuyun stopped inputting magic power into the operating table. The gun barrel fell into the assembly line and entered the next inspection process. A green light lit up, indicating that the array engraving was successful and it was a qualified product.

"That's how it's done. Practice more, and ask me if you don't understand anything."

Engineer Zhou Xiuyun stood up and assigned an array engraving room to each of the three.

In another room.

Jiang Ding sat on the chair of the operating table and input his internal power into it.

Instantly, his vision blurred, and the perspective was magnified by more than many times. The originally smooth metal ground now looked full of uneven pits. Occasionally, just by slightly swinging his perspective, it felt like the world was spinning, and his perspective was extremely chaotic.

"How magical..."

Jiang Ding knew that this was his perspective being magnified many times, a microscopic perspective.

He calmed his mind and waited for the machine to complete its self-inspection.

Soon, only an endless metal world remained in his vision. His perspective was fixed at the silk-meter level, and a reference line was clearly visible.

Above the sky, a giant pillar reaching the sky was clearly visible; it was the appearance of the heavy machine gun barrel.

"Scan the object to be engraved."

"Connect to the gold pool..."

Jiang Ding followed the work manual in an orderly manner. The molten gold silk-meter-sized filament spitting out from the tip of the mountain-sized mechanical hand could finally be seen clearly.

With a thought, Jiang Ding operated the mechanical hand to point at the top of the gun barrel, dropping the first stroke of the array diagram from there.

The moment the silk-meter-sized molten gold filament touched the gun barrel, it melted a trace that fit its own size, perfectly blending into it. Starting from this, the molten gold filament spread in all directions, and a corner of the array diagram gradually took shape.

Everything went smoothly until a few minutes later, when the molten gold filament hit a bump the size of a house in the microscopic perspective on the heavy machine gun barrel. The molten gold filament scattered, engraving messy traces nearby.

"Failed."

Jiang Ding sighed. He had been very careful, but one careless move still led to a collision.

However, he had already roughly understood the difficulty. For him, whose "Thousand Silk Lead" was perfect, practicing for three or four days, four hours a day, should be enough to become a skilled worker like his mother.

The training time for this type of technical job among mortals is generally five to seven years, and relatively outstanding people have to be selected.

"Continue."

Changing to the next heavy machine gun barrel, Jiang Ding calmed his heart and continued to practice.

"This should be applicable to the third layer of the 'Great Sun Seed Sword Refining Method (Jiang Ding Version)', the cultivation of the iron sword."

Involving the fundamental path, a wisp of his mind wandered.

The third layer requires cultivating the wooden sword to a perfect realm, then absorbing the Great Sun essence and heaven and earth spiritual energy again to raise the temperature, turning it back into a mass of liquid, and then re-engraving the array diagram on the refined sword embryo.

This step is the most difficult. The better the sword embryo material, the more difficult it is. In the past, most of the nine candidate sword children selected from dozens of minor worlds by the Great Sun Sword Pavilion fell here, dying from qi deviation.

Mortals, without even spiritual sense or magic power, have to practice the supreme sword refining method, causing their spiritual sense to undergo a qualitative change during the mortal stage, giving them a huge advantage over others on the immortal path from then on. The difficulty is imaginable.

Qi deviation is to be expected.

The optical array engraver should be able to reduce the difficulty somewhat.

Of course, only somewhat, to the extent that one out of nine survives instead of one out of nine. Only cultivators with the top aptitude, comprehension, and opportunity will be able to practice the supreme Dao foundation sword of the Great Sun Sword Pavilion.

But it is also precious.

In the past, the Great Sun Sword Pavilion attacked the Immortal Sect regardless of everything, and finally paid the price of the lives of Soul Transformation cultivators and sect ancestors. The sect was exterminated. Most of the reason was the existence of Law-Breaking Immortal Gold, and the secondary reason was the technology of the optical array engraver.

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