Way of Natural Element Fission and Fusion
"Is this what he made?" Hengming sat upright in the Lin residence.
He witnessed two Spiritual Law Realm cultivators being vaporized because they couldn't escape through their caves, and for a moment, he felt his mind was a bit blank!
This was Spiritual Law Realm cultivator, someone who had cultivated an indestructible body, capable of surviving even with only a single Seed of Life remaining. And yet, he died just like that?
Was he killed by a magical Law Artifact created by a cultivator at the first level of Qi Refining?
That thing isn't even Spirit Artifact!
The first hydrogen bomb was assembled right under his nose, and although he didn't see the other hydrogen bombs with his own eyes, they were put into his body!
He naturally knew everything about the structure and composition of a hydrogen bomb!
The outer shell? It's just ordinary iron!
Inside, it's just a cloud of gas that's very common in the sky!
Core?
It's just a special ore used for cultivation by cultivators at the Eighth Level of Body Refinement!
What kind of power could such a collection of things possibly possess?
But what was the result?
Standing before the two Spiritual Law Realm cultivators who had vanished without a trace, showing no signs of resurrection whatsoever, Hengming Tower froze.
No, there are things in this Taiheng Realm that I can't even understand?
In the blink of an eye, he had returned to the Taiheng Palace and arrived in front of Yang Ning and Yuanxi, who were watching the live broadcast.
"How did you do that?" Hengming asked.
"What?"
"I asked that big mushroom, how did it do that? Why is it so powerful?" Hengming asked.
"This..." Yang Ning blinked and asked, "Senior Hengming, what is matter made of?"
"Uh..." Hengming was taken aback; he really didn't know the answer to this question!
But it didn't matter. He immediately picked up a stone and examined it carefully.
After a long while, Hengming turned his head and said, "It seems to be tiny particles?"
"Is this what you're seeing?" Yang Ning pulled out another screen, showing Xiao Huan the live stream on the other.
Yuanxi only had Yang Ning in her heart, so she also listened to the lesson.
What appeared on the screen were individual crystals of soil.
"Yes, that's it!" Hengming nodded.
"I'm asking about matter, not soil!" Yang Ning laughed. "Are metals and wood also made of these things?"
In the blink of an eye, Hengming had already examined both metal and wood.
"That's really not it!"
Yang Ning nodded and magnified the crystal on the screen again and again until it revealed the tightly packed molecules.
"This is the most basic structural component of matter: the molecule!"
"Huh?" Hengming looked bewildered. Could matter really be magnified to this size?
Moreover, the crystals that originally appeared very irregular actually had such a beautiful structure when magnified?
"This is just the basic structure of matter. Below matter are elements, and the basic structure of elements is the atom!"
These are all junior high school physics concepts. Elementary schools don't teach physics, so junior high students can understand them without difficulty. How much more so for cultivators and magical artifacts with their more agile minds?
Yang Ning spoke very quickly, but with the help of the explanation on the big screen, Yuanxi and Hengming understood it without any difficulty. In just a few words, they had already grasped the basic concepts of atoms, molecules, quarks, Atomic Nucleus, and electrons.
Although nuclear fission and Nuclear Fusion are terrifying explosions, their basic principles are not difficult at all, and are things that even elementary school students can understand. Yang Ning only explained for less than ten minutes, and the two of them already understood why Xiliang-43 had such powerful force!
What follows is bewilderment, shock, and even a sense of being lost!
"E=mc², is there really such knowledge in this world?" Hengming blinked, then suddenly thought of something, "Yang Ning, did you crack the secret of the Purple Heart Stone and obtain Jiang Yun Nation's Supreme Divine Ability?"
Others might not know who the Xuantian Sect is, but how could he not know?
He not only knew about the Xuantian Sect, but he also knew about Yang Ning's production base at the bottom of Yingzhou. When the inner disciple the Taiheng Sect went to Yingzhou to collect the Yang God Method, he even helped to cover it up.
There's no other way; an idle and almost invincible immortal artifact can only find meaning in life by finding amusement everywhere it goes.
"No!" Yang Ning shook his head; this was the truth.
"Then how did you know all this?" Hengming asked, as if he had thought of something. Hengming added, "Of course, I won't force you if you don't want to tell me. Taiheng doesn't pry into the secrets of its disciples. Even if you really have other Supreme Divine Ability, it doesn't matter!"
Yang Ning believed this, after all, his White Dragon Swallowing Absorption Technique had never been turned off since he advanced to the Qi Refining Qi Refining Stage, so how could the Hengming Tower not see it?
But he never asked.
"Well, there's nothing wrong with talking about it!" Yang Ning thought for a moment and asked, "Are you aware of the Qin Mountain incident?"
"I know!" Hengming nodded, but he only knew that such a thing existed, and did not know that Yang Ning had obtained a Dragon Pearl.
Yuanxi shook her head; she didn't know.
"Then I'll tell you!" Since his wife didn't know, even if Hengming did, he would still tell her again.
"That was when I had just embarked on the path of cultivation. Our Flying Boat had only been flying for 23 days when Lin Tianheng stopped us. He said he was tracking a disciple of the Myriad Saints Alliance named Tuo Buchuan, who was hiding in Qin Mountain and he couldn't find him, so he made us get off the Flying Boat to look for him!"
Yuanxi frowned immediately. The first month on the path of cultivation is very important. Fourth Brother, oh wait, I mean Lin Tianheng, how could he do such a thing?
This is an act of vengeance for blocking the way!
Yang Ning continued, "I had just embarked on the path of cultivation at that time, and I didn't want to confront Tuo Buchuan, so after I went down there, I didn't look for anyone, but instead found a river and practiced my fist techniques on the river!"
"Hmm!" Yuanxi nodded. As expected of Brother Ning, although she had never tried practicing boxing on a river, she knew from the start that it would definitely be useful!
"Then I discovered that when water droplets got on it, the patterns under the droplets became larger!"
"Huh?" Hengming was taken aback, and immediately summoned a water droplet and placed it on the chair. He found that the patterns under the water droplet had indeed become larger!
"Then I created the <Lone Boat on Calm Lake Contemplation Method>, which allows me to control water flow, and combined it with my own <Seven-Day Breathing Technique> to create the <Black Tortoise Breath Concealment Technique>." Yang Ning said, "Of course, that's not the point. The point is that I discovered that if you use two water droplets at a certain distance, you can make things appear larger!"
"Is that so?" Hengming Tower was even more bewildered. He immediately summoned two water droplets, zoomed in and out a bit, and hey, it really worked!
"Using this method, I discovered that the human body is actually composed of round, flat structures, which I named cells!"
Hengming blinked. He knew what cells were; in the Taiheng Realm, they were called the Seed of Life.
"Then I thought, cells certainly aren't the limit of microscopic time, after all, cells come in all sorts of shapes and sizes!" Yang Ning said, "So I made even larger Water Droplet, which can be magnified even more!"
"There hadn't been any progress until Ming Yunxiu gave me a bottle of Golden Cauldron Pill!"
Hengming reached out and pulled out a bottle of Golden Cauldron Pill.
Yang Ning's lips twitched. This guy is like Doraemon, he can find everything.
"This Golden Cauldron Pill can emit a golden cauldron power that can suppress Qi and Blood, allowing them to be tempered multiple times!" Yang Ning said. "And I discovered that the Golden Cauldron Pill actually becomes lighter after being left for a period of time!"
"It must be because the effects of the medicine are wearing off!" Yuanxi asked.
"You could say that!" Yang Ning said, "However, it's not that the medicinal effects have worn off, but rather that something within the elements has been lost!"
The Golden Cauldron Pill was collected from heavy metals during the cultivation of the Purple Cloud Golden Cauldron Qi. This substance is actually the radioactive element cesium-137.
Cesium-137 has a half-life of up to 30 years, but once refined into Golden Cauldron Pill and ingested, it can completely decay within a week under the influence of Qi and Blood.
Yang Ning said, "My mining robot also found this kind of thing when it was prospecting for minerals on the seabed. I initially thought it was naturally formed, but after observing it for a while, I discovered that these metals were actually produced by another type of metal!"
Yang Ning took out a piece of green mineral that was still emitting a fluorescent glow.
Uranium-235.
If there weren't four practitioners sitting here, then we could basically have a feast.
"This ore can actually produce Golden Cauldron Qi!" Yang Ning said, "I was completely baffled, but after some research, I discovered the secret of atoms and atomic fission. I named this green ore uranium, and after uranium undergoes fission, it produces Golden Cauldron Qi, which I named cesium!"
As for what kind of research was conducted?
Yang Ning didn't say anything, and Hengming and Yuanxi didn't ask either, mainly because both the research on Cultivation Method and the research on weapon crafting were top secrets.
Even though Yang Ning has already revealed these things, they would be considered top secrets among top secrets for any Artifact Forging Master!
"I know this uranium!" Hengming nodded; that's what the core of the hydrogen bomb is. "And what about the outer liquid layer?"
Yang Ning casually tossed the Golden Cauldron Qi into the nearby lake, and saw the lake water explode with a roar, after which a light and ethereal gas was formed in the explosion!
Cesium-137 explodes upon contact with water, producing hydrogen gas!
Hengming's eyes lit up. "So that's how it is!"
He was unaware of the difference between ordinary hydrogen and Helium-3; to the naked eye, the two gases appeared virtually identical in density and mass.
Yang Ning smiled slightly, "So, with uranium and helium, putting them together, Xiliang-43 was born!"
He spoke as if he knew 1+1=2 and then solved Goldbach's Conjecture, very casually.
The key point is that Hengming and Yuanxi had no idea how difficult it was. Seeing Yang Ning's nonchalant attitude, they thought that building a hydrogen bomb was really that simple!
"I never imagined that things in nature could be so wondrous!" Hengming said, his eyes growing even brighter.
He had long since reached the limit of progress; now he could no longer cultivate and could only live as a layabout every day.
But who wouldn't want to become stronger!
And now, what Yang Ning has discovered—well, the Way of Nature or the Way of Elemental Splitting and Gathering—seems to have opened up a new path for him!
I can continue to get stronger!
Thinking of this, Hengming no longer looked at Yang Ning with the same eyes he used to look at a junior.