I changed the world.

He must build a research team that can take his place in technological development; otherwise, it will become increasingly difficult for him to fully understand more and more ancient technologies and combine them with modern technology on his own.

Unfortunately, such matters cannot be handled through commercial recruitment or outsourcing, as they are too sensitive. Therefore, Zhang Jing decided to use terracotta warriors for research.

Of course, the transformation of a terracotta warrior is not something that can be done at will. In order to find a suitable candidate, Zhang Jing has been paying close attention to such news. After all, not every senior scientific researcher dies. In addition, Zhang Jing does not want to make a wish directly using a wishing book, since it feels somewhat like a curse. He thinks it is better to have fewer such wishes unless necessary.

So far, we have four people, and we will continue to add more people to the team in the future.

With the addition of these professionals, and in collaboration with Zhang Taihe, a fourth-order saint, a laboratory that combined modern and ancient styles gradually took shape through continuous refinement.

Of course, this laboratory is far from complete. The lack of equipment and the imperfect energy system are important factors restricting the laboratory, but the biggest problem is still the personnel issue.

Zhang Jing has a limited number of terracotta warriors at his disposal. Unless he can master the technology of making terracotta warriors, he will find it difficult to make further breakthroughs in this area.

Volume Two: The Truth Hidden Behind History Books: Chapter 1057 The Phase Stone (Taking leave for National Day)

Currently, the Tai Xuan Hall still lacks advanced modern instruments. In addition, the power consumption of some large instruments is extremely high. In the cave, the only way to solve the energy problem for the time being is to install a hybrid solar and wind power generator set, and the effect can only be described as unsatisfactory.

In fact, even these wind and solar power generators were purchased, installed, and tested by Zhang Jing with considerable effort, originally intended for supplying power to the Kunlun Cave Heaven. This was also the reason for temporarily placing the laboratory in the Kunlun Cave Heaven; its basic conditions were the best…

Fortunately, the main research direction of Tai Xuan Hall is still to restore the technological path of ancient times. In addition, Zhang Jing and his apprentices have found a lot of physical objects and data in the ruins. Therefore, in terms of the current technological direction, everything is still based on ancient technology.

It should be said that knowledge is interconnected, especially in scientific research. Even though the tools and knowledge systems used are very different from those used in the past, these professionals have already become competent in their work after an initial period of adjustment.

The main gate of Tai Xuan Hall is protected by special restrictions, preventing ordinary people from entering.

Of course, Zhang Jing was different. He had the highest authority. After successfully entering the Tai Xuan Palace, he found himself in a huge hall. In the hall, the first thing he saw was a huge altar-shaped structure.

This hall has an arched dome and is extremely large, taking up almost half of the floor. The altar in the center is carved with intricate runes, and above the altar floats a huge crystal that looks like a diamond. This crystal is more than a person tall and its surface is cut into countless facets at complex angles.

The crystal, and even the main structure of the altar, was previously dismantled directly from the ruins and then repaired through trial and error.

Compared to the damaged altar in the ruins, the altar before him was clearly in operation. Zhang Jing could sense a powerful force field circulating around the altar, and the runes floating in the void were confining the powerful force field to the area above the altar. At the core of the force field, the huge diamond-like crystal was now emitting a blue-purple light, enveloped in a dense glow.

Zhang Jing stared at the enormous crystal, which gave him a very peculiar feeling, as if it were both here and there, existing in two different spaces at the same time...

In fact, for a cultivator of Zhang Jing's level, he could clearly sense that the huge crystal that seemed to be floating in the air was actually located in two different spaces, both in this cave world and in the void...

However, Zhang Jing still doesn't know what kind of process this thing is made of. Fortunately, many things can be used without knowing how to make them, and the "phase stone" in front of him is this type of thing.

Even though Zhang Jing and Zhang Taihe still haven't figured out how this magical material was made, fortunately, the phase stone they found in the ruins earlier was intact and usable, so they used it directly here.

At this moment, Zhang Jing could clearly sense that energy was being extracted from the void by the phase stone like a torrent and injected into the altar below. On the altar, this energy was further refined, transformed, and further constrained into a usable energy field.

This is a unique energy source used in a way that is completely different from the current forest and the Qi of the Wenling Mountains. A large amount of energy is confined to this altar. At the same time, streams of light are projected from the altar onto the rune nodes engraved on the roof, and then from these rune nodes into various unnamed devices located around the altar, as well as other rooms distributed around the hall.

In summary, this enormous altar serves as the energy core of the entire building.

At this moment, Zhang Taihe and a thin middle-aged man were standing in front of the altar. When they saw Zhang Jing enter, they nodded to him.

"Teacher, is the energy output of the phase stone stable now?" Zhang Jing had been here before, and after standing in front of the altar for a while, he asked directly.

"It's stabilized now, and there shouldn't be any more accidents." Zhang Taihe nodded. When this rune altar was first built, there were two accidents, one of which directly blew up half of the Tai Xuan Palace.

“The problem lies in the engraving of the runes. We didn’t fully understand the meaning of these runes beforehand, which led to the error,” the thin middle-aged man added from the side. He was Fan Lun.

"This is truly a technological system completely different from ours, and there are still so many points to study. If we could publish the discoveries here, it would really cause a sensation in the academic world..." Fan Lun said with a regretful expression, "I think the knowledge here is even more valuable than deep space exploration..."

Zhang Jing smiled and nodded. He knew that although the middle-aged man in front of him had some questionable character during his lifetime, he was indeed quite accomplished in terms of academic achievements and was a true professional.

“There are gaps in the development of ancient times, which is something we need to further explore.”

"The war with the gods forced the sages to close the passages to the extraordinary. As time goes by, we are reviving, and those evil gods of the past, those strange beings hidden in the shadows, are also reviving. So, our time is also very tight..." Zhang Jing nodded.

Unlike Zhang Taihe, Zhang Jing would not tell all the terracotta warriors the truth, especially as the number of terracotta warriors continued to grow in the future. The real secret would only be known to a few high-ranking terracotta warriors.

Even though terracotta warriors are not inherently capable of betrayal, they do possess self-awareness, so necessary precautions are still required.

For low-ranking puppets like Fan Lun, all they knew was a different story.

This was something Zhang Jing and Zhang Taihe had already discussed. As for Fan Lun and the others, what they knew about the cause and effect was the background of this world. Since the ancient times when history could not be verified, there had been extraordinary powers. Many of the myths and legends in the East and West in history were real or derived from reality.

The underlying storyline is the war between humanity and evil gods, as well as various strange entities that threaten human survival. For a long time, the guardians of the East and West maintained a tacit understanding and fought together against powerful enemies.

P.S.: My whole family is going on vacation for the National Day holiday, so... ahem... I need to ask for a break and also take a break to think about the upcoming content. I'll be up and about a week, and will resume updates after the holiday. Finally, I wish everyone a happy National Day...

Volume Two: The Truth Hidden Behind the History Books: Chapter 1058 The Experiment

However, 700 years ago, the overly arrogant Church showed its covetousness for the East.

Their conspiracy destroyed the Demon-Sealing Tower that sealed the evil god, which directly led to the loss of control over the chaotic power and caused enormous losses to the Xuanmen sect at the time. This also became the most crucial factor that broke the trust between the East and the West...

What followed was a brutal war, in which a large number of elites died on the battlefield.

The disasters and deaths brought by war have become the perfect breeding ground for the resurgence of evil gods, and the parties whose greatest energy has been tied up by the war are also unable to devote enough power to suppress it in the first place...

And this led to an even greater disaster…

Ultimately, under immense external threats, the war had to be brought to an end, but by then, it was too late…

In order to ensure the continuation of human civilization, the ancient sages proposed the final solution: to seal off all supernatural powers and sever the connection between the subspace and the real world.

Thus, the Zhou Tianyuan Lock was set up, and in the years that followed, the West called it the 'Great Silence' and the East called it the 'Severing of Heaven and Earth'.

The current timeline is one of the period after the Zhou Tian Yuan Lock failed, when the extraordinary reappeared in the world. Sects hidden in ancient history are gradually emerging, and the gods are about to return.

However, due to the historical gap experienced by Zeng Lin, many Wu technicians urgently need to be rebuilt. In particular, sects that are currently severely damaged also need trustworthy people to help them through this transitional period.

The fact is that this version of the story clearly promotes the work of the terracotta warriors. After all, even terracotta warriors, after being pulled back from the dead, need a spiritual anchor for their work, and the goal of "protecting humanity" is undoubtedly very convincing.

Furthermore, the sect's continuous growth is also extremely beneficial to them. After all, even as puppets, they cannot be immortal. Low-level puppets must reincarnate after their lifespan ends, and Zhang Jing, who has reconstructed the underworld system, may have room to manipulate this. Of course, for the puppets, it means understanding that the sect can protect them when they reincarnate in the future.

After exchanging a few more words with Fan Lun and Zhang Taihe, the group headed up to the second floor together.

Upon reaching the second floor, Zhang Jing immediately saw a huge circular pool.

The pool appeared to be over ten meters in diameter, with intricate runes carved around it. It was now filled with some kind of liquid, which was bubbling and boiling within it.

As the liquid boiled and rolled, the complex runes around it projected symbols that swirled around the pool. More energy was transmitted from the phase stones below along the rune nodes and into the pool. Zhang Jing could clearly feel that the liquid at the bottom of the pool contained enormous energy.

More than ten meters above the pool, near the ceiling, black polyhedra engraved with intricate runes floated in the air. These polyhedra appeared to be densely packed, numbering in the countless. They were arranged in an extremely complex array and moved in an irregular yet intricate pattern, like the tides of the sea, forming various complex patterns in sync with the energy fluctuations below.

At the edge of the pool, three researchers stood in an equilateral triangle formation, arms outstretched, seemingly guiding something.

As he moved, a huge spherical object floated and sank at the core of the pool.

The object emitted a soft light and was constantly rotating in the center of the pool. Through the light, Zhang Jing could vaguely see that in the center of the translucent sphere, there was a human figure with a blurred face curled up in the air, just like an infant in the womb.

Of course, you can tell from the shape that this is by no means an infant, but rather the form of a mature adult.

At this point, the adult's form was only partially completed. His body, especially the entire right side and his head, was still incomplete, with a large number of exposed nerves still wriggling, growing like dense nematodes.

Even so, it is already clear that this is the form of an adult human.

Zhang Jing did not disturb the three of them, but simply stood aside and watched silently, while Zhang Taihe frowned and looked serious.

As time went by, the person inside the sphere continued to grow. Zhang Jing could clearly see that the bones on his still-growing hands and legs had been fully formed, but the flesh attached to them was not yet complete. His body was in a semi-skeletal form, with meridians and blood vessels wrapping around the outside of the bones, while muscles and more nerves were wriggling and growing. In his abdomen, some body organs were exposed, which looked extremely terrifying.

If an ordinary person saw this, they would probably vomit immediately.

However, Zhang Jing did not find this situation too difficult to accept. He had been in this world for a long time and had seen a lot in various aspects. His psychological resilience was far beyond what this kind of scene could shake.

As time passed, the human body inside the sphere became more and more complete. Zhang Jing could see that most of his body had taken shape. Except for some exposed skin that was still growing, most of the body was already finished.

The head is the last part to form, yet the nerves in the cervical vertebrae twist and extend out like wriggling earthworms, then continue to grow, gradually building the shape of the brain. At the same time, the bones of the head begin to form, and the brain regions of the head also begin to form at the same time...

At that very moment, the human body, which had been motionless with its hands clasped around its knees, suddenly convulsed violently, as if electrocuted. Its entire body contorted in a convulsive, twisting posture. Simultaneously, the head, which had been growing in an orderly fashion, also began to contort. Strange, deformed bone spurs began to grow from the developing skull. Not only the head, but other parts of the body also began to sprout black hair. The once smooth and symmetrical body began to grow rapidly, as if undergoing a second puberty. The fascia and skeleton began to transform in ways contrary to human nature. Strange, eye-like objects began to appear on the abdomen and even the back. The partially formed skin began to rot like ulcers. Even the coccyx began to extend further, forming a tail-like structure that twisted and thrashed…

Volume Two: The Truth Hidden Behind the History Books: Chapter 1059 Pollution

The three researchers who had been diligently guiding the human body to take shape by the pool now looked grim, frantically adjusting various runes in an attempt to suppress the changes.

However, these rescue measures clearly had no effect; the human body inside the sphere had already transformed into a grotesque and twisted monster in a short period of time!

It even struggled and began to twist its body, trying to break free of its restraints...

Just then, Zhang Taihe, who was standing by the pool, finally made his move. He pointed at the struggling monster suspended in mid-air, and a ball of scorching lightning instantly wrapped around it. Then, several booming explosions rang out. The short explosions erupted from the center of the pool, and the intense light, accompanied by thunderous sounds, carried shockwaves that spread outwards. When they reached the edge of the pool, they were blocked by a light barrier.

This invisible light barrier seemed to have never existed before, but now, the shockwaves, after hitting the light barrier, rippled in a series of rings, but were blocked by a wall and could not spread further.

The monster hovering in mid-air emitted a piercing, nauseating sound that would make an ordinary person want to vomit, and struggled violently. However, after only a few struggles, it was engulfed by a series of explosive lightning bolts, just like a shrimp thrown into a pot of boiling oil, which only twitched a few times before becoming still...

“Failed again…” Zhang Taihe put down his hand and sighed.

At this moment, the powerful energy fluctuations that had enveloped the pool gradually subsided, and the rune array above the pool stopped moving, rearranging itself into a smooth plane.

Zhang Jing also sighed, but still comforted him, "Restoring ancient technology is not something that can be accomplished overnight. The achievements we have made so far are already quite good. There's no point in rushing it."

"This is the second failure in the past two days. Judging from the current situation, who knows how many more failures we'll have to go through." Zhang Taihe also sighed: "The stability of the experimental subjects remains a problem."

"Is Mr. Plantard not here today?" Zhang Jing looked around.

“He’s been busy organizing and analyzing the effects of those runes lately. Fortunately, we have the information, though the work is a bit tedious,” Zhang Taihe said. “It’s taken up a lot of Plantard’s time, and on top of that, he also has real-world matters to attend to…”

"Fortunately, the runes we analyzed earlier gave us a lot of inspiration. I'll give you the information I've compiled in a bit."

"Thank you for your trouble, teacher." Zhang Jing nodded. He understood that the number of researchers was still far from sufficient, given the complexity of the disciplines involved.

Zhang Taihe had previously introduced the alchemy laboratory to him, which involved more than 11 academic branches of technology, including alchemy, rune literature, golem making, spiritualism, esoteric studies, mystical rituals, and weapon crafting.

Even for many of the technologies involved, the currently collected data cannot fully cover all aspects.

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