Good Results

After checking the 3D printer in front of him with his Divine Sense, Yi Xuan nodded in satisfaction.

At the same time, Yi Xuan felt extremely fortunate that he had transmigrated to this world of cultivation.

A cultivator's Divine Sense was truly a wonderful thing. It was essentially a combination of every communications and surveillance product from his previous life.

It could serve as radar to survey a cultivator's surroundings, as a scanner to scan the shape of objects, and even as an X-ray to examine their interiors.

Of course, those were far from the only uses of Divine Sense. Array Masters could use it to inscribe array diagrams, Alchemists could use it to monitor changes in medicinal ingredients inside a Pill Furnace, and Artifact Refiners could use it to give shape to the weapons they forged.

Liang Shi, who was eating nearby, was delighted to see his master nod. He asked, "Master, if there's nothing wrong with the installation, can we use this 3D printer now?"

To his surprise, Yi Xuan shook his head. "You've only been studying for a few days, and you're already trying to be clever!"

After being scolded by Yi Xuan, Liang Shi had no choice but to lower his head and eat. Then his master's voice reached his ears.

"The software hasn't been loaded yet!"

"Software?" It was the first time Liang Shi had heard the term, and he didn't quite understand what it meant.

Hearing their conversation, No. 01 spoke up on his own initiative. "Boss, Disciple No. 1's studies haven't reached the subject of software yet. Should I speed up his learning?"

Yi Xuan shook his head. He understood that one couldn't bite off more than one could chew, and he had no desire to pull up the seedlings to help them grow.

Liang Shi opened his mouth but said nothing. Still, from the look in his eyes, Yi Xuan could tell that he was very curious about the software he had just mentioned.

"All right, come over and take a look when you're done eating. I don't think you'd be able to sleep even if you went back!"

"Hehe!" Liang Shi smiled at having his thoughts seen through and came over to Yi Xuan's side to watch what he did next.

But Yi Xuan simply stood there without moving and said, "No. 01, have you connected to Bluetooth?"

"Yes, Boss. One unknown Bluetooth signal found. Pair with it?"

"Pair!"

"Ding! Pairing successful. External device connected. Please name it, Boss!"

"3D printer."

"Understood. Naming of 3D printer complete. Would you like to operate the 3D printer?"

Yi Xuan nodded. "Load the corresponding system!"

"Ding! Loading complete!"

Hearing that the printer's control system had finished loading, Yi Xuan began to feel excited.

"Begin testing!"

"Testing complete. No material detected. No heat source detected!"

After hearing No. 01's test results, Yi Xuan went to the side of the printer and placed several different ores into its material cartridge. Then he summoned Golden Flame from his sea of consciousness into his hand and guided it inside through the printer's material inlet.

Once he had settled Golden Flame in place, Yi Xuan's heart finally came down from where it had been hanging. He said to No. 01, "No. 01, bring up the robot model and start printing part No. 1!"

There was no need for Yi Xuan to concern himself with what came next.

The 3D printer itself had only a control system, not an operating system. That was because it connected to No. 01 through Bluetooth, meaning that operation of the printer was entirely in No. 01's hands.

Through the printer's transparent window, Yi Xuan could see that the print head had already begun extruding material normally. This meant his idea of using Spirit Fire as the printer's heat source had succeeded. Now all that remained was to see how the printed part turned out.

More than ten minutes later, the sound from the printer stopped, indicating that the printing was complete.

Before Yi Xuan could step forward to inspect it, No. 01 spoke.

"Boss, the print turned out very well. It exceeded the expectations in our plan."

Yi Xuan had complete confidence in No. 01's assessment.

That wasn't because No. 01 had operated the printer, but because Yi Xuan had installed something like a sensor on the print head. After each print was complete, the print head would use the sensor to scan the printed part and determine its quality.

After taking out the part and examining it with his Divine Sense, Yi Xuan found that the printer's precision had indeed far exceeded his expectations.

With that, the robot design could be reproduced in full.

Yi Xuan therefore ordered No. 01 to begin printing all the parts needed for the robot.

These even included the robot's hardware, a testament to just how formidable the printer's precision was.

From now on, processing capability and the like would no longer be factors limiting Yi Xuan.

Although Liang Shi didn't know how the printer had performed, the smile on Yi Xuan's face told him the results were good, and he grinned foolishly along with him.

Testing showed that the 3D printer's precision had not only far exceeded Yi Xuan's expectations, but its processing speed was also beyond that of any printer he had seen in his previous life. It took just one night to produce all the parts needed for the robot.

After a night's rest, Yi Xuan and Liang Shi had both recovered their spirits. Yi Xuan had No. 01 keep the printer working while he and Liang Shi began assembling the robot.

By the end of the morning, the first robot in this world stood before them, assembled through Yi Xuan and Liang Shi's combined efforts.

Looking at the humanlike thing before him, which had no legs and only two triangular tracks, Liang Shi asked curiously, "Master, is this the robot you were talking about? But why doesn't it have feet?"

Yi Xuan smiled but offered no explanation.

After all, Liang Shi had only been studying under No. 01's instruction for a little over ten days, and there was still a great deal about modern science that Yi Xuan couldn't explain to him.

Yi Xuan had no way to tell him that making a pair of mechanical legs and making a pair of tracks were a thousand miles apart in difficulty. After all, even in the world Yi Xuan had left behind before transmigrating, no one had managed to make a robot's leg structure feel truly human.

Four days later, there were four more robots in the secret chamber, making five in total, standing neatly before Yi Xuan.

Yi Xuan named the five robots Nüwa No. 1 through No. 5. The Nüwa model was a fairly basic type of robot, and they lacked the flexibility of the lifelike robots in science fiction films.

But they were more than adequate for Yi Xuan's secret chamber. Their tracks allowed them to reach designated locations quickly and steadily. Each robot was equipped with two mechanical arms, enabling them to handle most tasks involving picking things up, lifting, transporting, placing, and so on.

Looking at the robots before him, Yi Xuan was filled with excitement. It wasn't the excitement of accomplishment; rather, he knew that his secret chamber had now fully entered the age of semiautomation, and he would no longer have to put in so much physical labor.

No. 01 paired and connected with the five robots one by one. After that came loading the programs and testing them.

An hour later, the five robots were busy working in Yi Xuan's secret chamber. Liang Shi found it somewhat incredible to see them moving back and forth under No. 01's control, but he had seen so much while following his master that he had already grown used to such things.