Chapter 296

Wei Yuan immediately stood up and went with Sun Yu to the shed where the girls lived.

After the incident that night, Wei Yuan gathered all the girls who had intercourse in one place to observe the subsequent changes that might occur to them, and also to avoid spreading the influence to others. All the related boys were gathered in another place, but the management was relatively loose, and they still had to work and cultivate with others.

At this time, every shed where the girls lived had two rows of sleeping mats. The girls were lying or sitting, very quiet, and seemed not to understand what had happened, or what it meant for them. But some girls subconsciously held their lower abdomens or touched them gently.

Wei Yuan walked to the side of a few girls, carefully checked their whole bodies, and scanned them repeatedly with his spiritual sense, but found no abnormalities. No matter from which angle they looked, they were all living girls of flesh and blood, just with a bit of vitality gestating in their abdomens at this moment.

Sun Yu said: "I have already checked, everything is normal. Perhaps a more thorough check is needed, but that would require cutting the body open to explore carefully."

Live dissection?

As if knowing Wei Yuan's thoughts, Sun Yu said: "There is no rush for a moment. In the future, if someone dies in battle, you can give me the corpse. However, that kind of exploration is always deviated from the most real situation, so if you want to figure out what happened, it is best to find one who is pregnant..."

Wei Yuan had a feeling of hair standing on end. Just as he was about to ask if this would invite heavenly punishment, he remembered that the Xuanming Hall had its own secret method to eliminate karma. And if killing one person could save millions, according to the Heavenly Dao of this world, there would still be quite a bit of merit.

No matter what, Wei Yuan could not accept live dissection of a pregnant girl. Sun Yu also knew he wouldn't accept it, just mentioning it to tell Wei Yuan that there was such an option.

Facing over a thousand girls, both were at a loss.

After a moment, Wei Yuan asked: "Is this situation normal?"

Sun Yu said: "It's definitely not normal! It's possible for one person to get pregnant after one intercourse, but the possibility of ten people getting pregnant after one intercourse is very low. And now it's over 1,070 people; the possibility of this being normal is the same as me achieving Return to Oneness. So, this must be arranged by a great power!"

Wei Yuan remembered another thing and said: "The guards couldn't make them pregnant, but the boys of the same origin and blood could. Could it be..."

Sun Yu understood Wei Yuan's meaning, thought for a while, and said: "I will find a way to test it."

Wei Yuan wisely didn't ask how to test it, just leaving everything to Sun Yu.

Over a thousand girls getting pregnant at the same time—this kind of strange thing naturally attracted attention. But whether it was Ji Ji Liuli or Old Daoist Master Chuhe, they couldn't find anything abnormal.

Wei Yuan could only put this matter aside and observe the subsequent changes. There were still many things in the realm; just feeding these tens of thousands of people was a big deal. Although 800,000 catties of spiritual rice had just been harvested, if these young boys and girls were to cultivate with all their might, they would need at least two catties a day, and 800,000 catties of spiritual rice wouldn't be enough for ten days.

Wei Yuan continued to reclaim fields while finding a piece of high-grade spiritual land and planting the Black Pearl Rice.

Pearl rice is one hundred grains per catty; for planting, one mu can only take one catty of seeds, which is one hundred seedlings. Any more and the spiritual power in the ground wouldn't be able to supply it. This rice produces about thirty grains per plant and normally takes three years to grow; the current market price is one tael of immortal silver per grain, and the original seeds are priceless.

Besides eating, clothing still had to be put aside for the time being; Wei Yuan wanted to arm these tens of thousands of people first. Taking advantage of the fact that the Shaman tribe and Western Jin didn't know that there was such a fresh force in the realm, Wei Yuan wanted to make them have combat effectiveness quickly, so that when someone came to invade, he could catch them off guard.

Originally, the fellow disciples of the Tianqing Hall and Shuiyue Hall were also not small help, but Wei Yuan always felt that Ren Ren Suxing gave people a strange feeling. And he seemed to have great appeal among the disciples of the Tianqing Hall; he didn't know if he had always been like this in the past, or if he had done some homework on the way here.

Wei Yuan once wanted to see his position on the Merit Ranking, but after flipping through it for a while and not finding it, he was too lazy to look further down. Anyway, Zhang Sheng was sitting in the realm, and others couldn't make waves.

Wang Yu and Xu Yi could handle the guidance of the young boys and girls' cultivation methods, and occasionally Yu Yu Zhizhuo and Old Daoist Master Chuhe would also be interested and open an altar to teach. There were now five squares in the new city, each used for teaching different basic Body Forging methods.

When Old Daoist Master Chuhe forged his body, he cultivated the "Local Origin Sutra," so what he taught was also the "Local Origin Sutra."

When the old Daoist taught the method for the first time, seeing the dense crowd of tens of thousands of people on the square, he was so shocked that he pinched the cat beside him hard, and the cat clawed him back.

Looking at the bloodstains on his hand, the old Daoist finally confirmed that this was not a dream.

The old Daoist knew how many young boys and girls there were, and also knew how many people cultivated the "Local Origin Sutra." But the old Daoist didn't expect Wei Yuan to stop all activities and let them all come to listen.

The paper numbers and tens of thousands of people appearing before his eyes felt completely different!

Facing nearly 30,000 clear eyes, the old Daoist suddenly felt a sense of solemnity. He sat upright, took out a whisk from somewhere, placed it on his knees, and began to teach the true method of the Great Dao.

This lecture lasted for a full three hours, making the old Daoist's face ruddy and his magic power slightly increased; it also made the cat beside him sleep and wake up, wake up and sleep, and in a half-dream and half-awake state, it found that the old Daoist was still lecturing endlessly, so it secretly scratched him several times, and the old Daoist was completely unaware.

After this lecture, less than three days later, the old Daoist couldn't help but open an altar again. This time there were fewer people, only 5,000 came, and the old Daoist lectured for two hours.

Since then, every few days, the old Daoist would open an altar to teach, even delaying farming a little, but that's a story for later.

During these days, not only True Person Master Chuhe, but Yu Yu Zhizhuo also lectured twice, Sun Yu also lectured twice, and Xu Yi, Wang Yu, and Cui Yu each lectured once. Wei Yuan watched all this, sighing in vain, only feeling envy.

The teaching of the six Body Forging books was a long-term endeavor, belonging to the category of flowing water, and it would take several years to see results. However, Wei Yuan also had a method to improve combat power immediately: forging armor and fire guns.

Wei Yuan had always wanted to issue two guns to everyone in the realm. This idea not only didn't subside after the addition of nearly 50,000 young boys and girls, but even went a step further: Wei Yuan planned to equip every youth with a high-quality, high-power gun, rather than the primitive steel pipe gun that could only shoot within ten zhang.

It was just that although the idea was beautiful, when it was truly implemented, he found endless difficulties, such as the style of the gun, whether it was front-loading or rear-loading, what the diameter of the barrel was, the material of the barrel, the power of the gunpowder, the shape and material of the bullet... and so on. Every problem could be opened as a separate discipline.

Wei Yuan locked himself in his room for two whole days, during which he read Xu Xu Wenwu's insights again and again, and then talked to Xu Xu Wenwu several more times, finally making a little progress. If it were specific, if the unknown were divided into one hundred squares, Wei Yuan had already advanced two squares.

But the problem was that after advancing two squares, Wei Yuan found that the unknown had changed from one hundred squares to two hundred squares.

Only then did he truly realize a famous saying of Xu Xu Wenwu: The more you learn, the more you discover your own ignorance.

Wei Yuan deeply agreed.

It was just that Xu Xu Wenwu remembered this sentence, but didn't remember the other achievements of that great person who said this sentence; he didn't even know what that great person did.

However, progress was good, and combined with the so-called modern weapons described by Xu Xu Wenwu, Wei Yuan felt that he would sooner or later be able to research a new gun.

Just as the young boys and girls had lived in the realm for a month, Sun Yu sent a message to the cultivators of the Tai Chu Palace that the new gunpowder he developed was successful.

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Everyone gathered at Sun Yu's residence for the first time. Since this period, Sun Yu had been flipping and building courtyards whenever he had time to conduct different research. Now his courtyard already occupied several mu, divided into seven small courtyards, four of which were for poison making, one for medicine making, one for saving people, and one for gunpowder research.

However, Sun Yu took the cultivators to the outside of the courtyard. The terrain here was open, originally a mortuary for the Shaman tribe's corpses. Now that there had been no war for a period of time, the Shaman tribe's corpses had all dissipated their green energy and were cremated and buried, so this piece of land was vacated.

The empty square was full of potholes from explosions, and many places had traces of explosions overlapping, not knowing how many times it had been bombed.

Sun Yu had already placed an iron table on the edge of the open space, on which were piled several piles of raw materials of different sizes. Wei Yuan recognized sulfur and charcoal, but didn't recognize the rest.

Xu Xu Wenwu was among the cultivators watching the ceremony. At this moment, he had already completed Bone Forging and was entering the final stage of Body Forging, Soul Refining. This progress was considered god-speed among ordinary cultivators, and for Xu Xu Wenwu's original aptitude, it was like a miracle; naturally, the price was also huge. To promote his cultivation progress, Wei Yuan had invested dozens of lucks before and after.

If it were other cultivators, these lucks would be enough to catalyze seven or eight Dao Foundations, but in Xu Xu Wenwu, it only allowed him to complete Bone Forging.

At this time, everyone was present, so Sun Yu didn't delay anymore and said straight to the point: "I have found a brand-new gunpowder formula, and the power is roughly three times that of the old gunpowder. The ingredients are as follows... The main material, Ice Flame Stone, also known as saltpeter, was replaced with Thunder Sand. Ordinary charcoal was replaced with Inch Gold Charcoal and Fire Glue, and two auxiliary materials were added.

As for why these changes were made, I will talk about it later. Now let's take a look at how the old-style gunpowder takes effect."

Sun Yu skillfully prepared a portion of black gunpowder, kneaded it into a ball, held it in mid-air with magic power, and then ignited it. This time, Sun Yu infiltrated the gunpowder with magic power, restrained the explosion process, slowed down the entire explosion by ten times, and magnified the internal image by ten times.

As a result, even Xu Xu Wenwu could see the slowed-down explosion process and blurted out: "High-speed camera!"

This concept was also written in the data Xu Xu Wenwu wrote, but it was classified as useless garbage by Wei Yuan. According to the performance of the camera mentioned by Xu Xu Wenwu, some Dao Foundation cultivators could achieve it with just the naked eye. And those high-end cameras, what hundreds of frames per second, or seeing things at the nanometer level, didn't need True Lords; many Dharma Form True Persons could handle it.

Moreover, the structure of this world seemed to be different from the world where Xu Xu Wenwu was, and specifically what was different, because Xu Xu Wenwu had long returned what he learned to his middle school teachers, so he had no way of knowing for the time being. As for university teachers, Xu Xu Wenwu had no gains from them, so there was nothing to return.

Actually, if it weren't for taking care of Xu Xu Wenwu, Sun Yu would only need to magnify the explosion by one time and slow it down by one time.

After everyone saw it clearly, Sun Yu said: "The principle of this gunpowder is mainly based on the combustion of charcoal to produce gas and heat. Saltpeter and sulfur are both combustion-supporting substances. The expansion of hot gas is the source of the explosion power. In fact, we already knew this principle before, so I started from this principle, first replacing the original materials with more powerful raw materials, then constantly testing, adjusting the ratio, and finally adding one or two auxiliary medicines according to the physical properties of the gunpowder produced, so that it expands more rapidly and powerfully."

Then Sun Yu pointed to the square and said: "After many tests, I replaced saltpeter with Thunder Sand, retained a little sulfur, and replaced ordinary charcoal with Inch Gold Charcoal soaked in Fire Glue, which burns faster and doubles the gas production, thus increasing the power to three times the original."

"To test the best formula, I tested and exploded it more than 1,700 times."

This is the basic process of research and lecturing in the Tai Chu Palace; not only to explain what was finally obtained, but also to explain the principles and the basic process of research clearly. In this way, latecomers can innovate on the basis of their predecessors without having to repeat every step themselves.

If others still want to improve the gunpowder, after hearing Sun Yu's lecture, they can start directly from the main raw materials, trying to replace them with raw materials that burn faster and produce more, which can save many detours.

However, this kind of teaching generally requires a corresponding price in the Tai Chu Palace, and many times it will not be made public, but as part of the inheritance of each hall. It's just that in Qingming, everyone is already used to communicating with each other, and with Xu Xu Wenwu, a visitor from outside the sky, everyone feels that their vision is unprecedentedly open, and their spiritual thoughts are surging, and they can't hide it at all; maybe before they even warm it up, there will be newer and better spiritual thoughts.

But this kind of communication is limited to the initial small circle, and Wei Yuan's thirteen Senior Brothers and Senior Sisters were unable to attend, and were still idling in the guest town at this moment.

ps: Borrowing monthly tickets for the big chapter!

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