Technology Generation Gap: Xiliang-43
Yang Ning's cultivation has always been multi-threaded, so during the hour he spent practicing the <Fate Reversal Heavenly Star Technique>, he didn't rest but also studied the <Tai Heng Scripture>, <Heaven-grade Daoist Arts 3>, <Earth-grade Daoist Arts 12>, and <Human-grade Daoist Arts 99>.
The Tai Heng Scripture is a Law Power uses magical Cultivation Method to circulate within the body and temper the body. Yang Ning read it once and put it down. This Cultivation Method is no different from the Cultivation Practice Method for the Body Refinement Realm, except that the energy used for tempering is changed from Qi and Blood to Law Power.
Yang Ning possesses the Crimson Dragon Crimson Cloud Strength, the Purple Gold Coiling Dragon Body, the Nether Dragon Carefree Roam, and the Heavenly Dragon World Ending Sound, all of which are Peerless Divine Abilities Divine Ability.
Even disregarding these Peerless Divine Abilities, his self-created <Black Tortoise Breath Concealment Technique> is Cultivation Method calculated using Spirit Realm, and it involves a wider, more complete, and more comprehensive range of Meridians than <Tai Heng Scripture>.
What the <Black Tortoise Breath Concealment Technique> lacked was only the idea of sublimating Law Power. Yang Ning extracted the relevant parts from the <Tai Heng Scripture>, integrated them into the <Black Tortoise Breath Concealment Technique>, and then renamed it the <Black Tortoise Scripture>. This was his fundamental method.
<Heaven-grade Daoist Arts 3>, <Earth-grade Daoist Arts 12>, <Human-grade Daoist Arts 99>, as the names suggest, are 3 Heaven-grade Daoist Arts, 12 Earth-grade Daoist Arts, and 99 Human-grade Daoist Arts.
The three Heaven-grade Daoist Arts are as follows:
<Heavenly Sword>: Top-tier sword Divine Ability: By merging one's will with the heavens and earth, one can unleash a sword strike that gathers the power of heaven and earth. A single strike can easily pierce through mountains and cleave through seas. Some powerful beings have even used the Heavenly Sword to shatter stars.
<Feather Step>: A top-tier Movement Method that allows one to ride the Spiritual Qi and tread on spiritual energy. When mastered to perfection, one can traverse millions of miles in a single step, and even circumnavigating the world takes only a few steps.
<Body Burn>: A method of mutual destruction, burning all the Essence Blood and Law Power in the body to unleash a move far exceeding one's own combat power, but the user will die after using it.
Yang Ning is indeed very strong, but he possesses the Azure Emperor Shakes the World Fist and the Nether Dragon Carefree Roam, and even his explosive Divine Ability, the Crimson Dragon Crimson Cloud Strength, completely overwhelms these three Divine Ability.
But you still have to learn it, at least to know what it looks like when it's activated, and then use your Peerless Divine Abilities to imitate it.
Yang Ning quickly skimmed through the 12 Earth-grade Divine Ability and 99 Human-grade Divine Ability Divine Abilities, gaining a general understanding of their functions.
They are mainly used to enrich one's methods, because Peerless Divine Abilities consume extraordinary amounts of energy. For example, Yang Ning's <Fate Reversal Heavenly Star Technique> requires Divine Ability Power, and most people have very little Divine Ability Power. Using it every time they fight would be too painful, so they naturally can't just raise their hands and use it whenever they want in normal combat.
There are also mutual amplification and mutual restraint among Divine Ability. The more supernatural abilities you learn that are mutually restraining, the more ways you have to deal with enemies. The more supernatural Divine Ability you can combine to create combos, the stronger you will naturally become.
However, learning Divine Ability takes time. If you spend most of your time practicing Divine Ability, your personal cultivation will fall behind, your strength will naturally decline, and the Divine Ability you can use will naturally become weaker.
Fortunately, Yang Ning didn't need to worry about this problem. He summoned 123 clones in the Spirit Realm. 123 clones cultivated the Heaven, Earth, and Man Divine Ability, and 8 clones cultivated Peerless Divine Abilities, which would not delay his time at all.
After consolidating his own strength, Yang Ning entered the Spirit Realm and opened the database.
Mobile office software has such a useful note-taking function that many people upload their Cultivation Method and insights to their phones.
After all, a mobile phone is absolutely confidential; it cannot be opened by anyone else. In case of accidental death, the data can be passed on to descendants through a will.
But if you carry a secret manual with you and someone steals it, then you're truly lost.
Where are all the data on my phone stored?
That's right, they all exist in the Spirit Realm.
Spirit Realm is the server, database, computing service center, and customer service center for all mobile phones. All videos, texts, voice messages, animations, and data uploaded by everyone are recorded by the Spirit Realm the moment they are uploaded, and then transmitted to someone when they want to view them.
Has no one ever questioned the problems involved?
No, to outsiders, a mobile phone is just Identity Jade Token with slightly added functionality. They've been using Identity Jade Token for thousands of years, so naturally they wouldn't suspect a mobile phone.
Moreover, nobody knows what kind of video or text this is, let alone how much space is needed to store hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions of videos.
The reason is simple: the concept of a memory device has never existed in the Cultivation World before; the technological gap is simply too vast!
Mobile phones on Earth have evolved from the early mobile phones, with countless people participating in learning, researching, and manufacturing them. In addition, the information explosion and the fact that most people have bought USB flash drives and memory cards have led to the concept of information storage becoming known to the world.
How did Ke Taiheng's mobile phones come about?
Jiang Boming single-handedly invented the bitwise operation concept of Yangping Yinzhi and created the Identity Jade Token, while Yang Ning directly upgraded the Identity Jade Token from the pager era to the smartphone era.
There's no build-up, no gradual progression; it's a direct leap to one peak, then another. How can anyone comprehend or learn from that?
Moreover, Yang Ning actively suppressed the development of mobile phones, making the manufacturing process incredibly simple, so that any Artifact Forging Master could make one as long as they knew how to draw talismans.
But nobody knows what this symbol actually means.
Isn't anyone curious? Isn't anyone discussing it?
Yes, there are some, but they're incredibly difficult to get started with. There are practically no textbooks available. Learning code from scratch without any materials is practically impossible in the smartphone era—what's the difference between that and reading gibberish?
Moreover, this skill is useless if few people learn it.
Aren't there forums online? Can't we post threads to discuss these topics?
Of course you can, but every time you post, it gets buried.
At this point, even the most passionate enthusiasts will succumb to the lack of attention day after day and eventually give up on their hobby.
Do you want to form a group to discuss this in real life?
LOL, it's impossible to form a group online. We're all cultivators, who has that much free time to chat online!
I still have countless mobile phone orders to fulfill!
Besides, what's the use of studying this? Will it advance your cultivation level? Will it greatly increase your combat power?
Even if you have some brilliant ideas, such as developing software or making a game.
There's an app on your phone called "Deep Blue Service Center." You submit your request, and Deep Blue will create the app and upload it in no time. They'll even list your name in the developer's section! Isn't that thoughtful?
Deep Blue AI, this powerful weapon, has wiped out professions like illustrators and programmers in their infancy!
Yang Ning knows all too well how to raise the bar for entry into an industry!
While learning about weapon crafting and formations, he also began to improve the powerful weapon he had designed when he was in the Body Refinement Realm.
Having advanced to the Qi Refining Stage, his vision and perception are different from those of the Body Refinement Realm. Many designs can be solved much better from the perspective of the Qi Refining Stage.
After the Spirit Realm can materialize Spirit Artifact, this powerful weapon can also be manufactured, tested, and simulated within the Spirit Realm.
As for the simulated object, it is of course the real Lin Family.
Yang Ning didn't know much about the Lin Family at first and thought it was still the same powerful Lin Family that dominated an era. But after he started to understand, he realized that the Lin Family had become extremely corrupt!
For example, the Lin Family was wealthy, so mobile phones were commonplace for a long time. Not only did people with the surname Lin have them, but even the maids and servants in the Lin Family each had one.
Then, Yang Ning discovered that an old scoundrel from the Lin Family was using his phone to flirt with a maid, and that the Lin family matriarch was having an affair with a servant.
This is not an isolated case; Yang Ning discovered more than 7,000 cases in just one day!
Furthermore, under this feudal system, even if the upper echelons demanded secrecy, the specific tasks were still carried out by the servants. The mobile phones in the hands of the Lin Family servants and the cloud-like Water Droplet Yang Ning spread to the Lin Family could be used to steal information silently.
Furthermore, the Lin Family has not experienced war for tens of thousands of years, so even the strictest regulations would gradually become mere formalities under the long-term peace.
Therefore, some servants, in order to show off, would connect with their lovers to boast when the formation was being maintained or the Spirit Stone were being replaced.
No one cared about this behavior, and soon others followed suit, making it a trend.
Once more people are involved, it becomes difficult for those above to intervene. After tens of thousands of years of development, even a servant who exchanges Spirit Stone has a network of connections behind him. The steward in charge of the servants can't bring himself to speak up, and they dare not report such a small matter to the Lin Family, so of course they have to cover it up.
Anyway, there haven't been any problems for tens of thousands of years, so what if it's leaked, right?
After all, how could anyone be so foolish as to attack the Lin Family?
You think this is bad enough?
You're mistaken.
The protective formation used by the Lin Family is called the Five Elements Rotation Formation. It uses the power of the five elements to eliminate damage. No matter what kind of attack it is, it will be neutralized layer by layer under the effect of the formation, transformed into the Five Phases Spiritual Qi, and then released into the air.
This formation has a simple name but an extremely high potential. When it was first built, ten cultivators at the Spiritual Law Realm tried to test its defensive capabilities. They attacked it continuously for three days and three nights, but the formation did not even show any fluctuations!
The formation consists of five zones: Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, fire, and earth. Each zone has twelve large bases, each large base has thirty-six small bases, and each small base can hold eight top-grade spirit Spirit Stone. In addition, there are 100 spare top-grade spirit Spirit Stone. To make the formation work, it requires 18,280 top-grade Spirit Stone.
Each Spirit Stone can be used for five years. However, the formation does not stop every five years to replace the Spirit Stone. The formation master selects top-quality Spirit Stone of specific years. Five years is a total of 1825 days, plus an extra year for leap years. Replacing 10 spirit stones every day is just right.
However, after several thousand years, the Lin Family began to struggle. After all, top-grade Spirit Stone were very expensive. Although the Lin Family did not lack these several thousand top-grade Spirit Stone, there were many branches within the Lin Family, and some people were in need of them!
Besides, there hasn't been a war for thousands of years, Hengming Tower guarding the area, it's foreseeable that there won't be a war for thousands of years to come.
Why would I even bother using top-grade Spirit Stone then?
The faction guarding the formation replaced some of the top-grade Spirit Stone stones with high-grade Spirit Stone.
At first, they only changed a little bit, but because no one noticed and they tasted the benefits, they became bolder and started changing large amounts of spirit stones. Eventually, the Spirit Stone supplied to the formation changed from top-grade Spirit Stone to high-grade Spirit Stone.
The difference between top-quality and superior quality is dozens of times!
The defensive capabilities of the Five Elements Rotation Formation, having changed its energy source, have naturally decreased significantly.
By this time, the Lin Family may have already discovered that someone had embezzled funds, but it was too late. That person had already amassed so many top-grade Spirit Stone that his cultivation level had risen significantly, and he had become a pillar of the Lineage. His descendants were also managing the Teleportation Formation, each with profound cultivation and formidable strength.
They can't control it, but they can't just stand by and watch all the top-grade Spirit Stone flow into their own lineage's pockets. But if they hand them over to other lineages, those lineages won't agree either, since everyone knows how lucrative this position is.
So the Lin Family agreed that each branch would guard the formation for fifteen years, taking turns.
Each lineage can only maintain its position for 15 years, and it won't be until hundreds of years later that it's their turn again. The window of opportunity is short, so wouldn't they be making a fortune?
So the next one went even further, directly replacing the high-grade Spirit Stone with mid-grade Spirit Stone.
Logically speaking, this is extremely dangerous.
But with Hengming Tower guarding the area, Taiheng never experienced war!
Without war, the Lin Family cannot be attacked; without attacking the Lin Family, no one will pay attention to the issue of formations.
So at some point, even the mid-grade Spirit Stone in the formation disappeared, and were replaced with low-grade Spirit Stone.
If the upper beam is crooked, the lower beam will be crooked too. The servants dare not touch the top-grade, high-grade, and mid-grade Spirit Stone, but taking a few low-grade Spirit Stone shouldn't be a problem!
If the Tianyi Sect had risen to power 10,000 years ago, and the war with Taiheng had not taken place in Eastern Victory, but in Southern Forest, the Lin Family might have made some reforms. But since they didn't, the Lin Family naturally didn't change.
The Five Elements Rotation Formation has been passed down to the present day, and even the usual 17,280 low-grade spirit stones are not enough to gather a complete set. There are only 13,255 Spirit Stone, and more than 300 of them are broken. However, because the Spirit Stone were embezzled, the servants have not been replaced.
The fact that this grand formation didn't dissipate is also thanks to the fact that its energy source wasn't just Spirit Stone, but also the Spiritual Qi absorbed from the air and the interception of Spiritual Qi when the Half-Immortal Artifact absorbed and released it.
The Lin Family is greedy even for top-grade Spirit Stone, so they will naturally embezzle the Spiritual Qi absorbed by the Half-Immortal Artifact. Anyway, if I don't embezzle it, others will benefit. Since that's the case, why not embezzle it!
Today, the power of the Five Elements Rotation Formation is probably less than one ten-thousandth of what it was originally designed for!
Yang Ning constructed all the mountains, rivers, palaces, secret chambers, and even the Five Elements Rotation Formation of the Lin clan's territory in the Spirit Realm, almost replicating the Southern Forest clan's territory one-to-one in the Spirit Realm.
The only slight difference is that Yang Ning cannot simulate Half-Immortal Artifact, but it's not a major problem.
Yang Ning observed the natural lightning strikes on the formation from all angles, and then recorded the formation's reaction data.
The lightning strikes cause fluctuations in the formation, which then activate to absorb the attack, cease operation, and the fluctuations stop.
The power of an attack can be determined by data such as fluctuation frequency, operation time, digestion time, and fluctuation duration. Yang Ning has the Divine Ability to Control Nine Thunders, which allows him to accurately calculate the intensity of heavenly thunder.
The intensity of each lightning strike is different, and the resulting fluctuations in the formation are also different. The Lin Lineage's territory covers an area of 500,000 square kilometers, and 500,000 lightning bolts fall on the formation every year. Yang Ning doesn't even need to observe for a whole year; he can clearly measure the defensive power of the Five Elements Rotation Formation in the time it takes to watch a thunderstorm.
He used the White Dragon Swallowing Absorption Technique to simulate the absorption of spiritual Spiritual Qi by a Half-Immortal Artifact. Each clone was a White Dragon Swallowing Absorption Technique. In the end, he used 140,000 clones to construct a formation with defensive strength comparable to the Five Elements Rotation Formation in reality.
In other words, the efficiency of his White Dragon Swallowing Absorption Technique is one in 140,000 that of Half-Immortal Artifact!
It's clear that even with all the advantages Yang Ning has, it's still not as great as the Lin Family's.
A single Half-Immortal Artifact can absorb and release Half-Immortal Artifact Spiritual Qi for a day, enough for Yang Ning to operate at full power for 140,000 days, or 383 years!
Everything is ready, except for...
In the Spirit Realm, the result of half a month of hard work was a rocket with a diameter of 38 meters and a height of 180 meters, which looked a bit chubby and was painted in pure white.
The rocket is engraved with two large, vertically arranged Chinese characters: Xiliang-43!
It's not to be symmetrical with the East Wind; West Liang refers to the Women's Kingdom of West Liang, and 43 refers to the 43rd of the 81 Tribulations.
The actress who plays the Queen of the Women's Kingdom is named Zhu Lin.
"Xiliang-43's first test begins!"