Chapter 407

As the first research institute in the Wanli Heshan, taking a domineering name seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary.

It was just that there were only six or seven hundred people in that group, although the mortal research team was now divided more and more finely, a team of six or seven hundred people definitely couldn't be considered large.

This research institute had no specific research direction; it seemed they researched whatever they thought of, or whatever Wei Yuan assigned them, they researched.

Besides that, those Crouching Dragon and Young Phoenixes who shone brilliantly at the Bao family were not in this research institute.

At this time, other mortals were not very concerned about this matter. Everyone was busy now; those who worshiped gods worshiped gods, those who farmed farmed, and only the hundreds of people who had just reincarnated from the Gate of Myriad Realms were a bit at a loss, not knowing what to do.

Wei Yuan's mind moved, and he transmitted the current situation of the domain, the surrounding environment, etc., as data to the mortals, and then assigned a task: how to make money.

At this time, Wei Yuan had finally appeased the cat and Flying Sable, let the Flying Sable move around in the domain, and went to the Weapon Forging Workshop and Sun Yu's place as usual.

It was just that Wei Yuan didn't know that after he left, the old Daoist Chuhe sneaked to find the Flying Sable again and began to communicate earnestly, starting with a sentence: I am willing to worship you as my foster father...

The Flying Sable didn't know what foster father meant, but instinctively felt that it didn't seem to be a good word, so it spat at the old Daoist, then drilled into the ground and began to roam. There seemed to be many good things under this piece of land, so it had to find them slowly.

The old Daoist Chuhe had the cultivation of spitting on his face and drying it, rethinking his rhetoric, and preparing to try again when he met the Sable Master next time. Thinking back to the year he subdued the cat and snake, it wasn't once or twice, but took a long time of hard work.

The Flying Sable fought the cat and snake alone and could occupy the upper hand. If he could worship it as a foster father, the old Daoist Chuhe's strength would instantly double, and he could walk sideways among the Dharma Forms. Even if he met Fenhai, he could affectionately call him Little Fen, or Little Hai.

As for the matter of worshiping as a foster father, others didn't understand spiritual beast language, so who would know the truth?

At this time, the Weapon Forging Workshop was flourishing, and several blast furnaces had been set up in the past few months. In order to be more efficient, Yu Zhizhuo even built two blast furnaces at the mine cave outside the domain.

Although it wasn't in the domain, and a wave of cultivators had to be changed every half day, it was still better than transporting ore for over a hundred miles.

Sun Yu had opened a medical clinic in the new city, which already had dozens of apprentices and was preparing to continue expanding the scale.

And his own main attack now was the gunpowder formula. It was just that after Ji Liuli left, there was no means to simulate physical properties, so he could only use the old method, trying new formulas and optimal ratios bit by bit.

Now Sun Yu had to complete hundreds of explosions every day and record the corresponding data.

Thinking of simulating physical properties, Wei Yuan suddenly had a vague idea, so he stayed at Sun Yu's place for an afternoon, scanning all the data Sun Yu had recorded with his spiritual sense. Wei Yuan had seen it, which was equivalent to the mortals in the Dao Foundation having seen it.

In the blink of an eye, the official harvest season arrived. Wei Yuan temporarily put down other work and focused on handling the harvest.

The grain harvested this season would be nearly two hundred million catties, for which Wei Yuan had already built a large number of granaries in advance. Now the Azure Void could harvest a season every two months. If calculated by the standard of four hundred catties of grain per person per year, it could already support three million people, and now the entire Azure Void only had one million people.

However, four hundred catties was only the lowest standard to keep people from starving, and Wei Yuan didn't stop opening fields, planning to open up to two million mu of fields in the next season.

As piece after piece of grain fields matured, the spiritual energy in the Wanli Heshan was constantly erupting, the spiritual energy concentration was constantly increasing, and the area of fertile soil was getting larger and larger. Then one day, Wei Yuan suddenly discovered that the mortals inside were also harvesting.

In the Wanli Heshan, mortals had already opened up many fields on the fertile soil. And most of what was planted in these fields was grain and vegetables, which had also matured and could be harvested by mortals.

If these fields were placed in the outside world, they should be classified as spiritual fields, so it looked like the yield was very high. Those dense and sturdy rice grains looked like the yield per mu was around eight hundred catties.

The mortals harvested grain and vegetables, actually took them home and started cooking, and then wisps of cooking smoke appeared in the Wanli Heshan for the first time.

Wei Yuan observed with rapt attention, temporarily putting other things aside.

He saw that after the mortals cooked the rice and dishes, they actually started eating in a decent manner. Wei Yuan was very strange. His spiritual sense scanned over, and the essence of those meals was actually spiritual energy, which was the same essence as the stones and mud in the Wanli Heshan. The mortals, however, were eating seriously, tasting seriously, and some were moved to tears, holding a bowl of white rice and crying, saying that they had never eaten such delicious food in their lives, and in this life, they would uphold a craftsman's heart, focus on cooking, and if they succeeded in cultivation in the future and embarked on the immortal path, they would be the "Rice Immortal."

Wei Yuan really wanted to strike him with a thunderbolt.

If everyone thought this way, would there be Steamed Fish Immortals, Roast Chicken Immortals, and even Plain Water Immortals in the future?

Putting aside these few outrageous guys, Wei Yuan suddenly discovered that these people who had eaten had their physical bodies strengthened slightly. And those who studied cultivation methods had traces of Body Forging on their bodies!

How could this be possible?

Wei Yuan suddenly felt that he was a bit confused. The spiritual plants in the Wanli Heshan were not immortal plants, and they were also part of the Dao Foundation, just changing the form like stones becoming tripods. The mortals were the same.

Mortals eat, physical bodies strengthen, and the degree of strengthening exceeds the food eaten. Doesn't this mean that the Dao Foundation swallows itself, and then it can grow fat? Where did the extra spiritual energy come from?

After reading Xu Wenwu's materials, one sentence left a deep impression on Wei Yuan, which was the conservation of mass and energy. Thinking carefully, this was also one of the fundamental great Daos of world operation.

Now why was his Dao Foundation deviating from the great Dao? Wasn't this equivalent to stepping on the right foot with the left foot, and then flying higher and higher?

Wei Yuan truly felt a bit panicked at this time. Deviating from the great Dao was no small matter!

After calming down, Wei Yuan carefully scanned all people and all dishes, monitoring the source and direction of every strand of spiritual energy, and finally discovered that these people also possessed the ability to absorb heaven and earth primordial energy, and the extra spiritual energy was actually added to the mortals.

The more spiritual plants in the Wanli Heshan, the faster the speed of swallowing heaven and earth primordial energy to produce spiritual power. But they were part of the Dao Foundation, and the essence was to increase the speed of the Wanli Heshan swallowing heaven and earth primordial energy. Abstractly speaking, it was like having only one entrance and exit.

And now with the mortals with spirituality having eaten, they themselves had also become points capable of swallowing heaven and earth primordial energy, although they were insignificant compared to the Wanli Heshan, they were relatively independent. At this time, with thousands of mortals, there were thousands more points swallowing heaven and earth primordial energy.

That batch of cultivating mortals had made progress in Body Forging after eating the food, and they were all ecstatic, like fanatical believers receiving a response from the gods. They began to build their own activity courtyards and opened up new fields on the fertile soil around them.

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Wei Yuan observed the lives of the mortals while dealing with the affairs in the domain. The harvest season was busy to death, and after the harvest, there was a lot of work, such as grain processing, storage, re-plowing the land to prepare for the next season, as well as opening new fields, cleaning up rotten soil, and so on.

And at this time, the mortals in the Dao Foundation followed suit and established two more research institutes, one named "Research Institute Above Chaos," and the other "Research Institute of Primordial Light." The names were more exaggerated than the other, but Wei Yuan truly didn't see any difference between the three research institutes, only that there were two Crouching Dragon and Young Phoenixes in the one above chaos.

Wei Yuan didn't interfere with them and continued to be busy with domain affairs. At this time, the three thousand Dao soldiers of Taichu Palace had arrived, and the Qinghe Cui family had sent another five hundred people, plus the five hundred people selected by the domain itself, the fifth Dao Foundation class officially started. The first lesson of the class was to identify ore, understand the physical properties of the earth, and polish the state of mind. Today, everyone needed to polish the state of mind of five thousand catties of ore.

At this time, the mortals had results in researching physical properties, and for the first time, Inch-Gold Charcoal was reproduced in the Wanli Heshan. Inch-Gold Charcoal was forged from spiritual wood, with a fire ten times more vigorous and lasting than ordinary charcoal, and it could produce spiritual fire when ignited. This was also the main material for new gunpowder.

The physical properties of Inch-Gold Charcoal were relatively simple, and Sun Yu already had detailed data, even drawing its structural diagram. After Wei Yuan sent this data into the Wanli Heshan, the mortals experienced thousands of failures, and finally, Inch-Gold Charcoal was reproduced.

Wei Yuan was originally quite happy, but next he saw that the members of this research team were all starting to light fires and cook in their homes, using Inch-Gold Charcoal. And originally, they all used spiritual power to light fires for cooking, just making a show of it.

This time, there was real cooking smoke in the Wanli Heshan.

However, the quantity of reproduced Inch-Gold Charcoal was limited, so the research team chose a piece of fertile soil nearby and started planting spiritual trees. There were quite a few types of spiritual trees in the Wanli Heshan, and the mortals chose the clear-spirit tree, planting hundreds of them at once, and he didn't know where the saplings came from.

After careful observation, Wei Yuan finally understood. The saplings were actually the same as those objects with the meaning of tripods; the mortals learned the ready-made meaning of the clear-spirit tree and molded the saplings out of stone. Everything was running on a normal and understandable track until here.

But the saplings were replanted by the mortals, and the meaning within changed—they became real saplings, and the biggest feature was that they also had spirituality and could independently absorb heaven and earth primordial energy.

This matter was very outrageous.

In the following months, the Azure Void finished opening fields and welcomed another harvest season; the fifth Dao Foundation class in the Azure Void ended, and the Heavenly Green Hall picked up one hundred and eighty Dao Foundation Dao soldiers for free. Compared with the stable development of the Azure Void, there were many more outrageous things in the Wanli Heshan.

More and more mortals began to cultivate, and finally, a genius appeared, who only took a few months to complete Body Forging and was about to impact the Dao Foundation; more than a dozen mortals suddenly fell ill. Wei Yuan didn't understand the principle and was helpless, finally only able to watch one person die of serious illness and return to the Gate of Myriad Realms.

Wei Yuan suddenly understood that the so-called birth, old age, sickness, and death now only left birth, which was a cycle.

At this time, there was a joyous atmosphere somewhere in the Wanli Heshan, and a team of people came out of the courtyard, with a bridegroom in the middle, who was about to go to another place to pick up the bride.

(End of chapter)