"Senior Brother Huang" was named Huang Ding. He was a veteran seat-holder at the Spirit Province Mechanism Institute of the Hundred Crafts Gate school, as well as a peak Grand Artisan who had been renowned for years, with extraordinary learning and talent.
In his excitement, he answered the questions everyone fired at him, even freely explaining the principles involved.
"The entire process relies on chips like these to perform the calculations themselves. All we need to do is design the programs beforehand."
"Yes, no manual intervention is required, nor do we need any Puppet Masters or Puppeteers... This isn't the same sort of mechanism device we used in the past!"
"Without a computing core, maintaining this method of communication manually would take considerable mental effort. Only someone at Core Formation or above could sustain it, and even then, large-scale use would be impossible!"
"Even without supernatural magic power, mortals can grasp these communication principles. The results would merely be somewhat weaker. You could say this has let it shed its old bones and be reborn."
"The communication range? I don't know how far it could ultimately reach, but it could at least increase tenfold or a hundredfold!"
"Especially the data packets and routing model Grand Artisan Li mentioned! Weave them into a network, and people at opposite ends of the heavens could still communicate. It's simply a stroke of genius!"
Although the Puppeteer Dao Path followed a road entirely different from technological civilization, only a thin sheet of window paper separated the two.
Now that Li Chen's magnificent contribution of these methods had pierced that paper, it was inevitable that these cultivators would grasp the concept of networks found in technological civilization.
They were not stubborn old fossils clinging to familiar ground, but cultivators in pursuit of truth.
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