Volume Two: Naked Primitive Accumulation of Capital - The Zhulong Lantern (Part Two)

"Please take a look, senior." Luo Qian took out a small box. Inside, neatly arranged, were several things Xin Yezi had never seen before. Curious, the old man picked up an object with two legs joined together. "What's this?" Luo Qian chuckled. "A Divider Compass. When you set up a formation and need several distances of exactly the same length, you can measure them out with this instrument." He demonstrated as he spoke. "There's a catch here. Close it, and the two legs lock in place. Every distance you mark out will be exactly equal."

Xin Yezi's eyes lit up. It was only a little gadget, but its cleverness was its strength. Setting up formations often called for identical lengths, and this Divider Compass would be a tremendous help.

"And this..." Luo Qian picked up a modified Compass. One leg bore markings and could be moved freely, while the scale had been changed to the feet and inches used in the Immortal Realm. He had paid a high price to have an instrument factory in the lower realm make them.

"You can measure whatever length you need right here. Even if you need several different lengths, you won't have to work through them one by one. You can get it right in a single try. And it can draw circles."

"And this is a Vernier Caliper..."

"This is called a Leveling Instrument..."

Luo Qian introduced everything in the box to Xin Yezi, one item at a time. The more Xin Yezi saw, the more he liked them. None of these little things was particularly valuable, but each solved a major problem. Luo Qian smiled. "Senior, do you remember when we first met? While you were designing the Defensive Formation for my Luo Family Medicine Shop on Ningyao Mountain, you told