Wang Qi's main purpose on this journey had been to find the reincarnated body of someone who might once have visited the Immortal Heavens, as well as any Immortal Artifacts that might have recorded relevant information.
Both were quite important—because, to a great extent, neither was particularly reliable.
After all, Fallen Immortals lost memories, and even if Immortal Artifacts could record spiritual impressions due to the indestructible nature of immortal power, they might not necessarily have recorded impressions useful to Wang Qi.
Qingchao Zong was undoubtedly a Fallen Immortal. But for some reason, he had yet to awaken his past wisdom. Therefore, under these circumstances, recovering the School of Numbers of the Middle Ages' Half Immortal Weapons was also an especially important task.
And now, this Half Immortal Weapon had somehow become part of that strange array of magical artifacts, making it difficult for him to break it by force.
"Tut, this is a little troublesome..." Wang Qi pondered for a moment, then asked a crucial question. "Ah, right. Come to think of it, how did you solve the problem of storing instructions?"
"Instruction... storage?" The hillfolk language had no technical terminology related to computing devices, so many of the terms were coined by Wang Qi himself. Qingchao Zong did not quite understand.
Wang Qi could only explain it a little.
"Storing information" was the most significant difference between computational machines and traditional calculation aids.
Take the Jacquard Loom, for example. The reason this kind of weaving machine could automatically weave patterns was because it had preset "templates" that made needles pass through fixed positions.
Those punched cards used their macroscopic structure to record information, then used that information to influence the weaving of cloth.
Storing information and interpreting information—these were the characteristics of all "computational machines."
Since, according to