Shushan: Extinction

Chapter 224 Inscription Literature

Before they knew it, it started raining again. Gong Tianwu returned to the room. The flickering candlelight cast a dim light in the study. Outside the window, the night was dark, with only the sound of wind occasionally blowing through the treetops, making a rustling sound.

Suddenly, there was a rapid knock on the door. Gong Tianwu's eyes flashed with light, he put down the book, and said in a deep voice:

"Come in."

The door was pushed open, and my third uncle Cui Ziyang walked in quickly, holding a box wrapped in silk cloth in his hand, and then he said with a gasp:
"Seventh brother, the things have been delivered."

Gong Tianwu took the box, his heart trembled slightly when his fingertips touched the cold wood.

He gently opened the box, and inside were two pieces of extremely finely polished crystal. The crystal was transparent, with the edges cut very flat, the surface was as smooth as a mirror, and there was a faint glow flowing.

"Thank you for your hard work, Third Uncle."

Gong Tianwu said in a low voice, with a hint of gratitude in his tone.

Cui Ziyang waved his hand, his expression still serious:

"This thing is not easy to make. I asked several craftsmen to polish it. What do you want it for?"

Gong Tianwu smiled slightly and did not answer directly. Instead, he took out the crystal and walked to a corner of the room. There was already a wooden shelf there. The shelf had a simple structure but was extremely stable.

He carefully mounted the crystal on the wooden frame and adjusted the angle until the focal points of the two crystals overlapped perfectly.

Cui Ziyang stood aside, watching Gong Tianwu's actions, his eyes full of confusion:
"Is this a mirror?"

Gong Tianwu shook his head, with a hint of excitement in his tone:

"No, it's a microscope."

"microscope?"

Cui Ziyang frowned, obviously having never heard of this term.

Gong Tianwu took out a box from the side, and inside it was a stack of mica rock flakes as thin as a cicada's wing, which were very smooth.

Then Gong Tianwu carefully picked up a piece with a bamboo clip, placed it under the wooden microscope, adjusted the focus, and then leaned over to observe.

By observing the crystal, the texture of the mica rock slices was magnified dozens of times, and the details that were originally difficult to distinguish with the naked eye were clearly visible.

Gong Tianwu took a deep breath, picked up a thin needle from the side, and then began to outline on the mica slice bit by bit under the microscope.

It only took a few minutes. Gong Tianwu frowned, took off the thin slice of mica rock, threw it away, and then replaced it with a new one.

This time, probably because he was more familiar with it, it took less than ten minutes for Gong Tianwu to stop and said with a happy face:

"It's done!"

Cui Ziyang said in astonishment:

"What's done?"

Gong Tianwu waved his hand, blew out the lights, and then drew the curtains to prevent the bright moonlight from entering. The room was suddenly plunged into darkness.

Immediately afterwards, Gong Tianwu took out a small bamboo tube from the side and carefully dripped a drop of water on the mica rock slice that had just been prepared.

Suddenly, the thin sheet began to shine, sometimes bright and sometimes dim, like a candle swaying in the wind, which could go out at any time.

Gong Tianwu then dropped another drop of water on it, and suddenly, the thin sheet began to shine brightly, apparently even brighter than five or six candles placed together!

Gong Tianwu's eyes flashed with ecstasy, and he murmured in a low voice:
"It really works!"

Cui Ziyang was completely shocked at this time. He took the thin piece of mica rock and looked at it over and over again:

"What's going on?"

Gong Tianwu stood up and smiled from the bottom of his heart. It had been a long time since he had experienced the joy of creating something new.

This was his first guess, which has now been successfully verified.

During his last reincarnation, Gong Tianwu was thinking about a question.

There are many powerful formations in the Shushan world, but these formations often occupy dozens of meters, several acres, or even hundreds of acres. Some mountain protection formations can even cover the entire mountain.

Even the smallest formation: the dust-proof formation requires six square meters.

So, is it possible to miniaturize certain formations by using tools like microscopes and micro-carving techniques?

Theoretically, even if this is successful, the power of the formation will be significantly weakened.

However, it can also lower the threshold for using the formation to an incredible level - for example, it can be used by mortals! !

The reason for saying this is that the formation itself has the characteristic of automatic operation, and once activated, you can leave it alone.

Even in theory, as long as a mortal possesses enough spirit stones, he can activate some powerful mountain protection formations.

Therefore, in order to realize his own ambitions, Gong Tianwu began to collect a large number of formations in the last ten years of his previous life, and he did not seek to understand them in depth, but only wanted to learn them whole.

Because he knew one thing very well:

The world is so big that there are all kinds of talents. As long as you are willing to dig, provide fertile ground for growth, and establish a scientific system, a large number of talents will naturally emerge.

You don't need to finish all the things, you just need to make a good start and put the right people in the corresponding positions, then of course surprises will follow.

What Gong Tianwu had done before was to use a microscope to carve a miniature magic circle on a piece of mica rock only the size of a fingernail.

Of course, it is the simplest miniature magic array: the lighting array.

To the naked eye, the visual effect of this miniature magic circle is just a small black dot.

The normal version of this formation only requires four formation patterns and one spirit stone to activate.

Gong Tianwu completely replicated the four array patterns in a miniature manner, and used spiritual liquid to activate them.

At this time, the piece of mica rock fragment engraved with the lighting array was still very stable, and even the light it released was still bright.

After witnessing this scene, even Kang, who usually seldom spoke, couldn't help but speak out:

"I never thought that such a great thing had never been attempted before!"

Gong Tianwu smiled:
"Of course there is a reason for this. First of all, there is no such thing as a microscope in this world."

"Secondly, the threshold for setting up a magic array is also very obvious. One must be someone who has already entered the Dao and can control spiritual energy."

"However, once a mortal enters the Dao, then in the value system of this world, he is already a superior person, a high and mighty immortal."

"They have to face the pressure of internal competition from their fellow disciples and the pressure of cultivation resources every day. How can they invest a lot of energy and material resources to study this thing? The key is that the results of this research will cause the power of the formation to be greatly reduced?"

Lian Kang was so shocked, let alone Gong Tianwu's third uncle Cui Ziyang. He felt that his three views were almost completely overturned.

Everything he saw at this moment shocked him, as if an ancient person had obtained a functioning Huawei mobile phone.

"How did you do that?!"

Cui Ziyang couldn't help but ask again:
Gong Tianwu laughed:
"It's actually very simple. It's just to engrave the formation that originally covered dozens or even hundreds of meters into a miniature form onto ordinary magic tools and equipment." "And you've already seen the effect. Although this is just the simplest formation."

Cui Ziyang took a breath and looked at Gong Tianwu in disbelief:
"How is this possible? The array patterns are so complicated that they will fail if you are not careful. How can it be miniaturized to such a small range?"

Gong Tianwu looked calm, but his tone was filled with unquestionable confidence:
"Ordinary people can't do it because they can't see the details of the formation. But now, with this microscope, I can accurately depict every pattern of the formation."

Gong Tianwu pointed to the thin piece of mica rock in front of him and explained:
"What is engraved here is a miniature version of the lighting array. Originally, it would have taken up an entire room, but after my calculations and adjustments, I can achieve the same effect by accurately engraving the patterns on it."

Cui Ziyang's eyes suddenly lit up:

"I saw you made this in just one stick of incense. If you become more skilled, you can make it even faster. If you sell this thing, you can make a lot of money!"

Gong Tianwu smiled and said:

"This thing has the potential to do more than just make a fortune."

“It will surely go down in history as a brand new discipline in this world!”

Cui Ziyang was so shocked that he couldn't even close his mouth:
"A whole new discipline? What is that?"

Gong Tianwu said:

"Inscription literature!!"

After saying this, Gong Tianwu leaned over the microscope again and began to carefully study the patterns on the mica stone. Under the candlelight, his figure appeared particularly focused.

Cui Ziyang stood aside, looking at his young nephew, feeling a lot of emotions in his heart.

"Perhaps, my wealth and even the wealth of my descendants will depend on him."

Cui Ziyang murmured softly, then quietly left the study, leaving Gong Tianwu alone to immerse himself in the world of refining equipment.

It was late at night and in Gong Tianwu's study, the only sounds were the flickering candlelight and the rustling sound of the pen tip scratching across the mica slabs.

After all, the miniaturization of a lighting array is only the beginning. This huge new field is just the tip of the iceberg.

Under the microscope, the patterns of the formation gradually became clearer, and an unprecedented light ignited in Gong Tianwu's eyes.

***
Ten days later,

Gong Tianwu stood in the backyard of the warehouse with Hasar standing next to him.

At this time, Cui Ziyang hurried over and said with a happy face:
"We found a way in the abandoned mine."

Gong Tianwu raised his eyebrows and said:

"So fast?"

Cui Ziyang said with a smile:

"It's also a blessing from heaven. The hill with the abandoned mine is being sold, and it's been a year without a buyer. The spiritual liquid issue should be resolved now."

Hasarqi said:

"What is spiritual fluid?"

Gong Tianwu held a unique weapon in his hand. It actually looked like the head of a two-headed wolf.

"It is the core power used to drive the inscription."

Cui Ziyang said:

"You don't even know about the spiritual liquid? Pangu, the great god who created the world, knows about it, right?"

Hasar said:

"Of course."

Cui Ziyang said:

"When Pangu created the world, his blood turned into spiritual veins that circulate across the wilderness. The spiritual energy that permeates our land is emitted from the spiritual veins through the soil."

"When spiritual veins flow through certain special geological environments for a long time, spiritual stones will be formed. It is generally believed that spiritual stones are condensed and concentrated from huge amounts of spiritual energy."

"When the concentration of spiritual energy reaches a certain level, and there is a relatively special environment nearby, spiritual liquid will form."

Hasar suddenly realized:

"So that's how it is. That spiritual fluid should be very rare, right?"

Cui Ziyang said:

"It is indeed very rare, but spiritual liquid can also be artificially produced using spiritual stones. To be more specific, one spiritual stone can produce about 100 portions of spiritual liquid."

"This production process is similar to the process of mixing sugar cubes into sugar water. One sugar cube can make a large cup of sugar water."

"So although spirit stones are regarded as hard currency by immortals and are very rare for us, spirit liquid is something that is precious but can be bought with money."

Gong Tianwu smiled but said nothing beside him, because based on his accumulation in the previous life, he found that it was feasible to use the seemingly useless sky crystals in the waste mines to make spiritual liquid.

In his notes, the spiritual liquid made from spirit stones is called true spiritual liquid, and the spiritual liquid prepared from heavenly crystals is called industrial spiritual liquid.

For cultivators, preparing industrial spiritual fluid is actually a thankless task.

This is because the industrial spiritual liquid made using sky crystals is not only of extremely poor quality, but also contains less than one-third of the spiritual energy of normal spiritual liquid.

More importantly, the industrial spiritual liquid contains a large amount of harmful impurities that need to be removed. Even if this thing is made into spiritual stone with a lot of effort, it cannot be used to assist in cultivation.

So this road was directly blocked and no one has studied it for millions of years.

But for Gong Tianwu, who created the literature of inscriptions, it doesn’t matter how many impurities the spiritual liquid contains. It won’t enter the human body anyway, so it’s enough as long as it can achieve the effect of activating the inscription.

His previous trip to Tingfeng Peak was actually to prepare for the large-scale mining of sky crystals and the production of industrial spiritual liquid in the future.

In Gong Tianwu's plan, inscription literature is the core force that will support the Mortal Empire in the future! !
The industrial spiritual liquid prepared using sky crystals is like electricity and oil on Earth. It is the fuel that enables the mortal empire to take off.

The abandoned spiritual mine that Cui Ziyang bought at this time was actually pitifully small, and there were not many sky crystals inside. Its only advantage was that it was very close to Sansheng City.

Gong Tianwu felt that its production was of little significance and was mainly used for training. It could be used to cultivate a group of qualified workers for the production of industrial spiritual liquids and prepare for large-scale production in the future.

At this time, Hasar once again focused his attention on the strange weapon in Gong Tianwu's hand and asked curiously:

"Master, why don't you show its power quickly? We can't wait any longer."

Gong Tianwu nodded, then put his right hand into the two-headed wolf head as if he was putting on a boxing glove.

Then he raised his right hand and pointed it forward, where he could see a large stone.

The next second, a faint light flashed quickly in the four eyes of the two-headed wolf, and then there seemed to be ripples passing through the air at a very fast speed.

(End of this chapter)