Spaceship Engine
Although he was terrified of the old man's strength, Yi Xuan didn't worry unnecessarily after the old man left, since the old man showed no hostility.
However, upon closer reflection on the old man's words, coupled with the twelve-character warning left by the High Antiquity Artifact Sect, and the previous incident Mystic Gate advised Chu Longcheng to switch to Loose Immortal, it became clear that the old man's words were also relevant.
Yi Xuan felt that there were probably many secrets hidden behind this world that he was unaware of.
But the old man refused to reveal a single word.
In Yi Xuan's view, this old man's actions were just as unethical as those of the High Antiquity Artifact Sect. He had piqued everyone's curiosity, but then he stopped halfway through his sentence?
It feels like you're watching a movie and getting really into it, and then a commercial breaks suddenly start, and you finally get to the end of the commercials.
Then a pop-up appeared asking you to scan a QR code to pay to watch it. Isn't that disgusting?!
Most importantly, Yi Xuan currently wants to make payments via QR code, but there is simply no such channel available.
Shaking his head to dispel the thoughts in his mind, Yi Xuan entered the Artifact Sect Great Hall and had No. 01 read the Jade Slip given to him by the old man.
One hour, two hours, three hours.
Finally, after ten hours, No. 01 managed to read the contents of the Jade Slip from the computer in the main hall.
Although the computer in the Artifact Sect Great Hall is not the original No. 01, its performance is still quite good. In my previous life, it would have been able to easily defeat all the world's supercomputers.
Even with such superior computing power, it took this computer ten hours to read just one Jade Slip, which shows just how much was stored in that Jade Slip.
If it were Yi Xuan's own Jade Slip, it could be viewed during the reading process, as the content was recorded exactly according to Yi Xuan's requirements.
However, the way the Jade Slip in the Cultivation Realm record their contents cannot be matched with computers. Therefore, when reading the contents of these Jade Slip, an extra step is involved: conversion. The unique records in the Cultivation Realm are transformed into a form that computers can recognize. In layman's terms, it can be thought of as transcoding.
Therefore, it's not that Yi Xuan didn't want to check the contents during the reading process, but that he simply couldn't.
However, as soon as the Jade Slip was read, the massive amount of content was immediately organized and summarized by No. 01, and also projected onto the screen.
Looking at the content that kept appearing on the screen after being organized by No. 01, Yi Xuan felt as if her worldview was being swept away by a typhoon.
After the typhoon passed, our entire worldview faced collapse.
The reason, naturally, comes from the contents of the Jade Slip.
Even after seeing it with her own eyes, Yi Xuan still couldn't believe what was on the screen.
Because what was recorded in this Jade Slip was not some cultivation Cultivation Method or secret technique, but all the technical data of an engine, even including the research and development process.
Moreover, this is not an ordinary engine, but a space engine.
Actually, that's not accurate anymore. This thing has completely transcended the concept of an engine, or perhaps the term "spaceship engine" would be a better description!
Because the amount of data is too large, it is impossible for No. 01 to summarize all the content in a short period of time.
Therefore, under Yi Xuan's orders, No. 01 read the main parameters and some basic information of the spaceship's engine.
But after reading it, Yi Xuan was even more dumbfounded.
What's going on?
Having finally accepted the premise of inventing a spaceship engine within Immortal Script, the data unexpectedly gave Yi Xuan another surprise.
He discovered that the energy consumed by the spaceship's engine was actually Immortal Qi, which is Dark Matter.
In other words, the Dark Matter capable of destroying this Cultivation Realm was actually successfully utilized by the High Antiquity Artifact Sect millions of years ago.
But what's even more shocking is what follows: according to records, the spaceship's engine can reach a speed of one-tenth the speed of light.
It should be noted that even Chu Longcheng, who has already ascended to immortality, can only travel at a maximum speed of one percent of the speed of light in the universe.
Yi Xuan simply couldn't fathom what was going on with this High Antiquity Artifact Sect. How could a cultivation sect, in the process of cultivating immortality, suddenly start developing a technological tree?
No wonder he told others not to cultivate immortality; it turns out he'd discovered a new way out.
As he continued reading, Yi Xuan's surprise grew.
This engine is capable of accelerating to one-tenth the speed of light, and it even has the ability to jump through space.
However, due to technological limitations, the maximum distance that can be jumped at any given time is only about one light-year.
But for Yi Xuan now, this has reached a height that he can only look up to.
Even with the aid of the Book of Technology, it would still take Yi Xuan at least several hundred years to develop a spaceship engine of the same level.
Now, with the readily available technology left behind by the High Antiquity Artifact Sect, Yi Xuan only needs to thoroughly understand all the information to theoretically possess the ability to travel between stars.
Just as Yi Xuan was getting excited, No. 01's voice interrupted him, "Boss, I've discovered something else interesting!"
As No. 01's voice faded, a recording appeared on the screen in front of Yi Xuan.
Looking at the content on the screen, Yi Xuan's expression was complicated.
Some of his doubts were finally confirmed.
The content wasn't about any particular technology, but rather it recounted a small episode in the recorder's life. In Yi Xuan's view, it was like a page from a diary, unintentionally transcribed into the Jade Slip by the recorder.
This passage recounts an event that occurred one day in the recorder's life: the sect discovered the whereabouts of a former traitorous disciple and dispatched a member to eliminate the traitor.
Faced with such a behemoth as the High Antiquity Artifact Sect, a traitor couldn't cause much of a stir and was directly suppressed.
However, the disciples who were sent out searched everywhere but could not find anything that the disciple had taken with him when he defected.
It is said that the most important of these is the sect's technology related to mechanical puppets.
But the person was already dead, and all the clues had been cut off. Even if the High Antiquity Artifact Sect was powerful, finding this thing would be like looking for a needle in a haystack, so they had no choice but to give up!
There's nothing wrong with this account; it's quite unremarkable.
But Yi Xuan made a connection to the Puppet Technique tradition of the Azure Cloud Sect!
According to the information about the spaceship engine recorded on the Jade Slip given to him by the old man, the so-called mechanical puppet should be related to robotics engineering technology.
In other words, the Puppet Master who was once the leader of the Azure Cloud Sect likely inherited the Puppet Master's skills from the High Antiquity Artifact Sect.
Although there was no direct evidence, technology doesn't lie, Yi Xuan felt that his guess was probably pretty accurate.
The techniques used in Puppet Technique do indeed share some similarities with the technology used in spaceship engines.
Unexpectedly, I do have a connection with the High Antiquity Artifact Sect!