Chapter 351: A Toad Descends to the World

After the great battle, the cultivators of the Taichu Palace gathered together for the first time. This time they were discussing the Dao Foundation plans for the new batch of Dao Foundation cultivators, which was a matter of great importance, so everyone put down their work and gathered here. In addition to the previous cultivators, Fei Yutong and Xu Wenwu were also on the list.

Xu Wenwu's cultivation progress was advancing by leaps and bounds. Since obtaining the Green Lotus to improve his aptitude, Wei Yuan discovered that as long as someone around him digested luck, Xu Wenwu's own cultivation would also improve.

Seeing that Xu Wenwu was not far from building a Dao Foundation, Wei Yuan let him come to listen and familiarize himself with the Dao Foundation in advance.

Wei Yuan first displayed the immortal sword Pseudo-Sun, which had both combat and fire control effects, and was the first choice for the domain's Dao Foundation at present. Then there was the Great Brightness Demon-Subduing Sword, and then the Ten-Direction Glazed Golden Fire that had just matured and had not yet been promoted.

After Wei Yuan finished displaying, True Person Chuhe, who had the oldest qualifications, said: "These immortal swords are truly good, and the Ten-Direction Glazed Golden Fire is even a step further. However, most of these are of the Fire element, and this world of the Shaman domain is close to Water and Wood, this is one point.

Secondly, my garden is getting bigger and bigger, and the spiritual fields also need Dao Foundation cultivators to take care of them, otherwise there are large pieces of spiritual land but no one to cultivate. So I think, the time for this batch to build foundations can be put back a little, it won't be too late to start building foundations after researching Water-element and Wood-element Dao Foundations."

Sun Yu also said: "Fire element is also divided into many types, in fact, we can further subdivide, for example, using Wood element as the foundation, Wood generates Fire, this is the Fire of Life. This fire requires a slightly higher level than the rootless fire, but it is also Human-rank, and the difficulty is not much higher. Cultivating this fire is naturally suitable for alchemists."

Yu Zhizhuo was most familiar with material properties, so he picked up a Great Brightness Demon-Subduing Sword, wiped it casually, reduced it to spiritual energy, and said: "In fact, Dao Foundation becoming a sword will consume extra Dao power, and it doesn't have any extra combat power, it's better to directly realize the Five Elements Yuan Qi, so the difficulty of cultivation can be lowered a little more."

Everyone discussed one sentence after another, and finally the core was concentrated on the Ten-Direction Glazed Golden Fire. This Dao Foundation is actually the Qi of the Five Elements, belonging to the foundation of the foundation, not even needing an external shape, reducing the extra burden to the lowest.

Since Yu Zhizhuo replaced ordinary rootless fire with wine fire, the difficulty of this Dao Foundation dropped to a new low point. Everyone's thinking was opened up based on this.

For example, the Qi of Wood element, obviously weeds are easier than pine and cypress. So True Person Chuhe held a handful of grass in his hand and only used a moment to analyze the grass Qi, laying the foundation for Wood-element grass Qi.

Then the cultivators used another moment to perfect and supplement it, and thus the first Wood-element new Dao Foundation in Qingming based on grass Qi was born: Six Paths Jia-Yi Divine Wood Qi.

Gold element is also easy to handle, gold and iron are difficult to melt and refine, but there are easy ones to melt, Yu Zhizhuo directly selected tin.

Earth element has nothing to say, it's just loose or tight, and the downward space is limited. The most difficult to deal with is Water, no matter what, no good way to reduce the difficulty could be found, so it had to be abandoned.

Wei Yuan embodied the Dao Foundations that laid the lower limit, and the cultivators discussed and perfected them. From then on, Qingming had a few more Five Elements Dao Foundations that suppressed the world.

However, Wei Yuan expected that groups like the Xu family elders would become more and more numerous in the future, which was also a major source of income for the domain, so whether the Dao Foundation was powerful or not was also quite important.

The main inspiration for this aspect came from Fei Yutong. The little girl's suggestion was to design the Great Brightness Demon-Subduing Sword into different shapes, and the colors were also different. Although the essence was the same, it looked like three different immortal swords, which could be chosen by everyone.

This matter was not difficult, Wei Yuan followed the advice, and soon completed three new Dao Foundations, namely the Great Brightness Demon-Subduing Golden Feather Sword, Silver Wing Sword, and Profound Green Sword.

The second topic was whether to develop firearms with magazines.

According to Xu Wenwu's idea, this topic didn't need to be discussed at all. His own world had already proven that rear-loading was one generation more advanced, and continuous firing was another generation more advanced. The new generation generally beat the old generation.

But the result of the cultivators' discussion was that using a magazine required a gun mechanism, which was difficult to produce in large quantities. Moreover, the current output of gunpowder was limited, even if new gunpowder was used, one bullet would use two jin of gunpowder. After continuous firing, the amount of gunpowder used would definitely skyrocket dozens of times, which could not be supplied at all.

Because of the "Moment of All Living Things," Wei Yuan's strategy had always been to ensure that everyone had a gun.

And to increase the output of gunpowder, it was necessary to provide Yu Zhizhuo and Sun Yu with a large number of Dao Foundation cultivators they needed. At the same time, the research on material property principles also needed to be put on the agenda.

So in the final analysis, what was most needed at present was to promote the Five Elements Dao Foundation as soon as possible, lower the threshold for human foundation, and increase the number of Dao Foundation cultivators.

As soon as the meeting ended, True Person Chuhe, Sun Yu, Yu Zhizhuo, and Feng Tingyu flew straight to the new city. Today was the day they opened the altar to preach to the Xu family teenagers. The people of the Taichu Palace were all fond of being teachers and were extremely serious about this, and no one wanted to miss the opportunity to preach and show the mystery in front of thousands or tens of thousands of people.

True Person Chuhe was the most active, preaching every seven days, rain or shine, so the progress of the Xu family teenagers' "Local Scripture" was the fastest.

There was nothing for Wei Yuan to do with such good things, so he could only let Xu Wenwu stay alone, preparing to give him some guidance on his cultivation.

Wei Yuan learned the style of True Lord Xuanyue, sat slowly in the upper seat, set up his posture, his Qi was deep, and said: "Just embody the visualization map and let me see."

Xu Wenwu sat cross-legged on the futon, forgetting both things and himself, and after a moment, the visualization map emerged.

Wei Yuan was drinking tea, and as a result, he sprayed out a mouthful of tea!

In the words of the world outside the sky, this toad was entrenched on a bunker, wearing a steel helmet, wearing a bulletproof vest, a rocket launcher in its left hand, and a Gatling gun in its right hand.

This was not all, the toad's back also grew a pair of huge dragon wings, although it was a bit incongruous, it looked truly exceptionally cool.

Since cultivating the ten thousand li of rivers and mountains, this was the first time Wei Yuan's Dao heart had been lost. He silently wiped the tea from his lapel, wanting to comment a few words, but he didn't know where to start.

After a long silence, Wei Yuan asked: "Where do the bullets come from?"

Xu Wenwu was stunned.

He scratched his head and said: "Then I'll go back and think about it again, and see if I should add an ammunition box or something."

Wei Yuan didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Is the visualization map's anomaly something that can be added just by saying so? And Xu Wenwu had a dark heart, the Gatling gun had nine barrels, this was not something that could be solved by one or two boxes of bullets. So Wei Yuan spoke earnestly, telling Xu Wenwu the truth about being ambitious and impatient.

Just as Wei Yuan was trying to persuade him, he saw Xu Wenwu think of something, suddenly realized, and the visualization map changed accordingly. The bunker the toad was lying on slowly evolved, and actually turned into a large ammunition box! Looking at the size, I'm afraid it could hold tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition inside. And the ammunition box also had a peephole, where you could see it was filled with ammunition, not just an empty shell.

Wei Yuan was silent for a long time again.

Finally, Wei Yuan spoke again: "The ammunition for the weapons in your left and right hands is not interchangeable..."

When these words came out, Wei Yuan felt a bit ashamed. This was simply nitpicking, picking bones in an egg, having nothing to say but insisting on commenting.

But Xu Wenwu suddenly realized, as if enlightened, and said: "That makes sense! I'll think about it again..."

"You go back and think about it slowly!" Wei Yuan blasted Xu Wenwu out.

After Xu Wenwu left, Wei Yuan recalled the toad he had back then. Except for being big, there was only one word left: bald.

"Forget it, the waves behind the Yangtze River push the waves in front..." Wei Yuan wanted to comfort himself, but then he remembered that in the data written by Xu Wenwu, the next sentence of this poem was "the waves in front die on the beach."

It's a pity that Ji Liuli was not there, otherwise Wei Yuan would really like to pull her to discuss whether to simply sacrifice Xu Wenwu to heaven.

At this time, the night was getting thicker, and Wei Yuan originally wanted to cultivate for a while, but his Dao heart was broken at this moment, and he couldn't calm down no matter what.

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So he simply flew to the weapon forging workshop, watching furnace after furnace of molten steel come out, turn into steel ingots, then repeatedly forged, then hammered into shape in molds, and finally slightly trimmed by craftsmen, turning into tools.

After watching for a while, Wei Yuan's heart gradually calmed down, and he went back to continue cultivating.

The domain was going to open fifty thousand mu of new grain fields, so the demand for farm tools increased greatly. During this period, the weapon forging workshop produced farm tools with all its strength, and the result was that the progress of opening fields accelerated significantly.

Zhao Guo, Yuyang Prefecture.

Pacification Envoy Cui Shutong picked up a set of breastplates, put them on his body, tried to swing a knife and pull a bow, and then took them off.

Someone beside him said: "My lord, this is a breastplate hand-forged by our craftsmen, made of hundred-forged steel, the quality is absolutely stronger than what Qingming produces."

Cui Shutong picked up a piece of breastplate armor plate and buckled it onto the assembled breastplate. There was a clear gap between the two armor plates, and a finger could be inserted in many places.

The man said: "Our breastplates use more steel, and the defense is also better. And it is carefully crafted by craftsmen. Each craftsman has different habits of handwork, so there will inevitably be some differences, but it doesn't affect the use at all."

Cui Shutong was noncommittal, just asked: "What is the selling price of the armor made by your firm?"

"Back to my lord, our quality is better, so it should be slightly more expensive, twenty-five taels a set."

"Too expensive."

The man gritted his teeth and said: "Twenty-two taels! It really can't be lower!"

"I'll consider it, go down."

The man was a bit unwilling, but still retreated.

Cui Shutong walked to the other side of the martial arts field and casually opened a cargo box with the Qingming logo. Inside were neatly arranged armor plates, fitting together, and it was difficult to insert a toothpick.

At this time, a young military general standing beside him said: "Uncle, we now purchase tens of thousands of sets of armor every year, this is not a small number! Why don't we let our own people earn some of this money?"

Cui Shutong picked up an armor plate produced by Qingming, picked up a heavy arrow, and inserted it into the armor plate, and the heavy arrow directly pierced the armor plate. He looked carefully at the steel quality of the fracture and remained silent for a long time.

The young military general also looked at the fracture and said: "The steel quality is not very fine and uniform, it is still much worse than hundred-forged steel. Uncle, the twenty-two taels he offered is already very low, after all, they are all made of hundred-forged steel."

Cui Shutong opened another box of armor plates, randomly took out a few armor plates, pierced them with arrowheads, and handed them to the young man. The young military general looked for a long time and didn't see anything, not understanding Cui Shutong's intention.

Cui Shutong said slowly: "These armor plates were all picked out by me casually. You think the steel quality is not very good, but what is rare is that the quality of every piece of armor is exactly the same. It can't compare to hundred-forged steel, but how long does it take just to prepare the materials for hundred-forged steel? The person you found might be able to build one hundred or two hundred sets without problems, but what about ten thousand or twenty thousand? How many craftsmen does he have? Can he guarantee that the quality of every set is the same as the one delivered to me?"

A series of questions made cold sweat seep from the young military general's forehead, and he didn't dare to answer.

Cui Shutong sneered and said: "The quality delivered to me is definitely good, the people I send to inspect the goods will definitely take money, and what they see is the goods specially shown to them. But the soldiers on the front line have to wear it to fight the enemy! If the armor quality is a little better, hundreds or thousands of people might die less in a big battle!"

Cui Shutong patted the young military general on the shoulder and said: "You are still young, and there will always be a time when you can stand alone in the future. There are many ways to make money, but don't make money on martial arts equipment. This is the foundation of our survival!"

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 352 =====