You have mastered the art of thunder and you tell me that it is in a strange world?

Chapter 318: Serving the People is the Wonderful Treasure
Zuo Chen went straight to a good restaurant in Kyoto and ordered a lot of good wine and food. When he asked Mr. Lu what he liked to eat, Mr. Lu asked for some stir-fried radishes.

"I've always liked this, and I don't think I can change it."

"Why change yourself because of the transformation?" Zuo Chen smiled and said, "That's good, that's good."

"Hehe. What the Taoist said makes sense. If it were before, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to understand this."

"How to say?"

After drinking a glass of wine, Donkey Master explained:
"Alas, before I transformed, I was obsessed with my transformation, thinking that I might not be myself again after changing my appearance. This obsession formed a wall in my heart that I could not get over."

"Then I thought, the main reason I embarked on this journey was to accompany the Taoist priest and Caiyi. It would be comfortable and enjoyable! Why bother about the form? I simply gave up the obsession of changing into a human form.

"Hey, isn't it a coincidence? My mind suddenly became clear and there was no obstacle in the way. I succeeded in no time!"

Seeing Mr. Donkey laughing, Zuo Chen was also happy.

If one follows one's heart, one will achieve the Tao. Donkey Master has always been his mount, and there is spiritual energy circulating in his body. In this way, he is no longer bound by his ego. The spiritual energy that was previously circulating smoothly also grows instantly, which greatly improves Donkey Master's Taoism.

The path of cultivation is like this. Many cultivators have sufficient foundation, but they are bound by obsessions and find it difficult to make the next step.

If your thoughts are clear, many difficulties and obstacles on the way will disappear.

"Now that you have transformed, it will be bad to ride it when you travel in the future."

Hearing what Zuo Chen said, Donkey's face froze:
"Please don't, Taoist Priest. I went through so much trouble just to travel with you two. Isn't it a waste of my transformation?"

"I didn't say I wouldn't take you with me." Zuo Chen said with a smile:

"Are you interested in trying to drive the Immortal Shuttle?"

Donkey: “Ah?”

……

Zuo Chen introduced Mr. Donkey to the small boat.

The small boat was a little resistant when it first saw Master Donkey. Master Donkey was also surprised that Zuo Chen actually had such a magical treasure with spiritual wisdom.

But soon, Mr. Donkey came over to the boat and started chatting with it.

I don't know what the Donkey Master said, but after half an incense stick of time, the boat stopped resisting the Donkey Master and let him steer it.

But Mr. Donkey soon discovered the unusualness of the boat.

This small boat is not restricted by the terrain. When it is pushed towards the shore, a ball of water will automatically condense underneath it to drag it, allowing it to move freely on the water. Combined with the donkey's own magical ability to shrink the distance into an inch, its speed is much faster than a normal cart.

The only problem is that the boat makes a lot of noise when it moves, so the people on it may need to use concealed houses all the time to avoid attracting attention.

But even so, Mr. Donkey was very happy.

From Zuochen's perspective, on the first day that he and Xiaochuan were together, the donkey and the boat were still getting used to each other, but on the second day, the two of them were running around with the hidden house talismans given by Zuochen, and on the third day, rumors of "Lu You, the immortal driving a boat" spread outside the capital.

Seeing that Mr. Donkey was happy, Zuo Chen finally felt relieved.

Started formal research on communication incense.

But this time Zuo Chen didn't plan to work alone behind closed doors.

He found Chang Taozi and Shun Jiangliu.

Chang Taozi had no place to live, and he couldn't just wander around forever, so he was given a title of a great scholar in the library and was allocated a small house to live in.

Chang Taozi, who had just embarked on the path to immortality, was very excited. Whenever he encountered a little problem, he would come to Zuo Chen for advice. Zuo Chen also told him one by one. After spending a month, he actually made a lot of progress and officially stepped into the threshold of cultivation.

As for the river flow,
After he found out that the master of the library earned two hundred coins a month and four hundred coins for food expenses, he closed his fish stall and devoted himself to studying in the library. His more than ten years of basic supernatural skills gradually blossomed with different colors after receiving the support of true Qi.

If we were to ask who has made the fastest progress among the disciples, it would naturally be him.

"This is the problem that the communication talisman is facing now. What do you think?"

Hearing Zuo Chen's questions, Chang Taozi fell into deep thought, as if thinking about how to solve these technical problems.

In fact, Zuo Chen discovered it during the test that day.

Chang Taozi studied the subject of "research and study".

His thinking was very advanced and clear. Even the old gentlemen in their seventies and eighties in the library were far inferior to Chang Taozi.

Zuo Chen even felt that Chang Taozi was not a person of this era.

However, when Zuo Chen shouted "Odds change, evens remain the same" in front of Chang Taozi, Chang Taozi's answer was "What".

Not a “fellow villager”, maybe it’s just a simple gift, or some other adventure.

Chang Taozi paced back and forth, thinking for a long time before asking:
"Master, can't this communication incense be carved on stone and store the communication in this way?"

"Of course it is possible, but this requires that the stone to be carved must be a precious jade that can carry spiritual energy. I'm afraid that it will not be widely available after it is made. It will cost more than ten taels of gold to buy one piece, which is not in line with my idea."

Zuo Chen's main purpose in making this thing is to reduce costs and try to make this "treasure" available to every citizen. If the price is raised significantly simply for the sake of convenience, it will become a luxury item that only the upper class can get...

Putting the cart before the horse. Shun Jiangliu, who was also thinking, suddenly slapped his head and said, "Master, do you know how to transfer incense?"

"What is that?" Zuo Chen had indeed never heard of this.

"Didn't you kill a nobleman some time ago? This skill was passed down from him." Shun Jiangliu said, "He divided the incense into branches, trunks, leaves and crowns. The incense burned by his subordinates is called leaves, which are transmitted from the leaves to the local branches, and then from the branches to the trunks in Kyoto, and finally from the trunks to his crown."

Shun Jiangliu paused here before continuing to organize his words:
"This was originally a method used by the nobleman to prevent his true identity from being traced. After he died, the information was made public. It was just recorded in the library that day, and I happened to see it. At that time, I found that this transfer method could solve the problem of one talisman corresponding to multiple people, and it could also solve the distance problem."

Zuo Chen immediately realized what Shun Jiangliu meant.

Isn’t this the earliest broadcast number service?
When landline phones first came out, people dialed the number and sent it to a service center via a transmission cable, which would then relay the number a second time. In this way, people could manually find the user they needed.

Later, with the development of computers, this type of relay number was gradually eliminated. Only some places that required confidentiality still retained relay dialing personnel, but that had nothing to do with technical capabilities.

However, the solution proposed by Shun Jiangliu is indeed a good solution for Zuo Chen.

Zuo Chen had fallen into a misunderstanding before. He had been trying to find ways to modify the quality of the items themselves. It was not until now that he thought of this simpler method.

After thinking carefully, Zuo Chen said:

"But how do we solve the problem of connecting the communication incense?"

There is a big problem with message incense, which is that the incense is one-to-one, so message incense is sold in pairs.

When the price was high before, no one cared about this issue, but since Zuo Chen wanted a big discount, he naturally had to consider how to make this thing.

Shun Jiangliu was also hesitant after hearing this. He had no idea how to deal with the situation for the time being.

Zuo Chen also fell into deep thought.

Do we really have to use an artificial broadcast number to hold on temporarily?

Chang Taozi thought for a few seconds and said:

"Master, do you have any method to identify each incense stick?"

"You can put numbers on these incense sticks."

Just like the mobile phone number in his previous life, Zuo Chen had previously planned to use this method to make a “cultivation version of the mobile phone”.

"I noticed that the cultivation book you gave me contains the Eight Trigrams and Sixty-four Calculations. This magical power seems to be able to record numbers."

Zuo Chen slapped his forehead.

It is indeed possible!

That thing is the basis of Taoist scriptures, and is also the magic circle that Zuo Chen often uses when he performs rituals. Zuo Chen has always wanted to develop this magic circle and make something that can benefit the people, but he only cared about the practical effects and forgot that this thing can also calculate numbers.

In this way, the message incense number can be entered into it, and the message transmission can be completed through the distribution of the sixty-four calculations of the Eight Trigrams.

The more Zuo Chen thought about it, the more excited he became. He went straight to the table and started calculating. Soon a thick layer of manuscript paper was piled on the table.

Chang Taozi and Shun Jiangliu couldn't help much and could only stand there stupidly.

"When the Taoist priest was recruiting disciples, I thought he would research some more powerful magic weapons." Chang Taozi couldn't help but sighed: "I didn't expect that the Taoist priest's research was so... plain and simple."

"Simple and unpretentious? I think it's quite useful." Shun Jiangliu scratched his head.

Chang Taozi was hesitant to speak, and ultimately she didn't know how to explain to Shun Jiangliu that "plain and simple" has little to do with "useful or not".

But it is indeed as Shunjiangliu said.

For the people of Daliang, this thing is much more useful than they imagined.

……

At the end of the long river of time, in the void, there was a wooden fish in front of an old monk in coarse linen clothes. He took a small hammer and knocked on it bit by bit, letting the empty sound echo around.

Suddenly, the old monk frowned as if he sensed something.

He placed the wooden fish and the hammer neatly aside, stood up and walked to the flowing river of time.

The long river of time has turned a corner, and some unspeakable changes have taken place. Its end point is still shrouded in an extremely illusory dark ocean and cannot be broken through.

This time, when the old monk reached the end of the long river of time, his empty eyes suddenly widened.

The long river of time that had been cut off actually moved forward a long way.

What emerged from it was a scene that the old monk had never seen before:

There is a lot of traffic and noise, shuttles are flying in the air, and tall buildings are standing tall.

What a beautiful sight.

"?"

A question mark finally appeared on his round bald head.

(End of this chapter)