Ming Dynasty, New Rome, and Infinite Divine Machine

"See you later. Come on, try your best for the exam tomorrow." He waved and got off the elevator again - the elevator was still there.

Before ten minutes, Lu Huaiyang came up from downstairs. Shangluo had just poured himself a cup of hot tea, but the tea was still too hot to drink.

"Is this the end?"

"Why, that's it. As a Heavenly King, you must pay special attention to sharp words. This is called 'OK'."

"Ah, is this good?"

"It happened that my junior brother was repairing the air conditioner downstairs. After talking to him, I rub one for you - you don't know yet, right? We use light silver alloy as welding rods. The outdoor unit brackets of the air conditioners in the three main halls are all It's soldered there with light silver."

[Is it true that Lei Xiu’s career direction is welding?]

"What electric welding? Electric welding is not important. Good guy! Isn't light silver very expensive? I remember that Zhang Tianshi only gave me the weight of a sword."

"The weight of a sword is already very large, and this is all that is always kept in the palace. But as a welding rod, it is not taken out, and it is still in the palace. The light silver will not be lost, and it can be collected back when needed. So it is also It's not considered 'used', it's just stored in another place - it's just a partition in the warehouse anyway, so it's better to use it as a welding rod. But yours is different. You want to take it outside the palace, so you have to ask. Ask you if you have thought it through clearly. Let’s talk.”

He paused for a moment: "Besides, there are actually quite a lot of treasures in this palace."

"for example?"

"For example, this pillar next to you." He knocked on the pillar next to him. The pillars are larger than those of the Forbidden City Halls in the Two Capitals, so now that the giant trees have been cut down, they now support three halls that are even larger than the giant structures of the Tang Dynasty.

Sitting next to this pillar, a person looks as small as a bean sprout. Fortunately, there were many people walking around in this room, and it was divided into different sections, so it didn't seem deserted.

"Isn't it made of reinforced concrete? That's why the pillars are so big..."

"It looks like golden nanmu imitated by reinforced concrete. In fact, the concrete is just a disguise - green leaves and purple stems, Xuanhua and yellow solids. There is a whole building wood inside. Even Lu Zu had to cut it with two swords. Break."

"Building wood??? So this is a magic weapon disguised as an 'industrial product disguised as a natural wooden structure'?"

"Tsk, tsk." Lu Huaiyang shook his head, "In this world, not only industrial products must be disguised as natural styles, but magic weapons must also be disguised as industrial products."

"A magical weapon of this level is placed here as a pillar?"

"It's 'real estate' wherever it's placed, so why not use it as a pillar? After all, it's not outside the Grand Palace. Oh, and by the way, don't cast your spiritual power here carelessly."

"Otherwise, what would happen?"

"Otherwise, the building wood inside this pillar will grow! It will grow as big as you lose. Theoretically, each building wood can be used as a seed for cultivating spiritual energy materials in the future. Because the growing building wood can also be cut and used. "

Shangluo stood up quickly, moved the stool a few steps to the side, and stayed away from the pillars: "I won't be near these pillars anymore. I'm scared to death."

"Don't worry, not every pillar is filled with construction wood. Where can there be so much construction wood? We can't manage it at all. Only construction wood is used in a few necessary large pillars, which are both earthquake-resistant and fire-proof."

"I was shocked. I thought I had been dancing in a minefield. Which pillars are made of wood? I'll stay behind."

"Strictly speaking, it is actually the branches of the building wood, not the building wood itself. There is only one building wood in itself. Even the Mingtang on the top of Zijin Mountain is only supported by a large tree branch - tell which pillar is Building wooden pillars is very simple. If you look up, there is a three-legged golden crow at the top of the pillar."

Shangluo looked up. He saw the ceiling. Jinshen Hall has a ceiling, and you can't see the structure of the house when you raise your head.

"Um." Lu Huaiyang also raised his head and glanced, "Oh, yes, those are construction marks. They are invisible from the ceiling. But Shang Tianjun, you can feel it yourself. Jianmu's spiritual power can be felt."

"I look scared. Is there any convenient way?"

"It's easy if it's convenient." He pointed to the printer next to him. "Otherwise, why would you think the printer is here? Because when these spiritual equipment are arranged, they must follow the spiritual veins."

"Ah, I remember that the food we had last time was also down here. There was also a camera in there."

"Yes, the pillars next to the place where the magical artifacts are arranged are Jianmu's pillars. To put it simply, the signal here is good."

"By the way, can I get connected?"

"In fact, it is indeed possible to connect wires. But firstly, it is not good to wire randomly in the palace. If you turn around and trip 'that person', it will be over. Secondly, in fact, the wires are already connected. The wires are already troublesome. It is difficult to connect them again. It’s twice as troublesome to connect a wire to the inside of the building. But for large equipment, it must be connected, usually with a red wire.”

"Hey" Upon hearing this, Shangluo suddenly raised his head and looked at the pillar——

Seeing this posture, Lu Huaiyang also reacted: "You don't want one too, do you?"

"The signal seems to be very good. You see everyone in the room checking Fetion from time to time."

"This. It's fine if you want a piece of light silver. But let me think about this jianmu."

"No? If not, forget it."

"Wait, don't tell me, it seems okay. I'll ask."

Lu Huaiyang put down the Fetion card: "There happens to be one that is free and unused. If you use it, you can pick it up the day after tomorrow - where are you going to put it?"

"Put it in the patio of the yard."

"That's no problem." Lu Huaiyang explained, "Actually, it's not a big deal. Just take it if it's in the warehouse. But remember to use it according to the manual, otherwise if it suddenly grows out of control, you will have to It’s on the front page.”

Chapter 675

"Isn't it bad to take such a precious thing?"

"The building wood itself is not a particularly precious material treasure, but the management procedures are very troublesome. There are only so many existing ones, and if you want to break a new one, you have to go through the procedures - because the size of the building wood is uncertain, and it may suddenly grow. It’s very big, so it’s very troublesome to manage. I always feel unsafe if I don’t keep it under my nose. If it’s properly managed, there’s nothing wrong with taking it out for use. Are you sure it’s stored in your home?”

"Yeah." Shangluo nodded and confirmed.

"That's okay. Just don't take it outside the city wall, because within this range, even if something goes wrong, you can fix it."

"Then when it was delivered to my home, it was also as big as a pillar?"

"How can I give it to you if the pillar is so big? We will first guide all the spiritual energy out and restore it to the size of a branch. Then you can take it to the yard and pour the spiritual energy into it yourself. It doesn't take too much, because Jianmu is very long. Very quickly, with a little bit of spiritual energy, the branches will start to grow taller, and they will slowly start to get thicker when they grow into the size of a big tree. But..."

"but what?"

"But don't just place the building in a place where Qi veins gather. It can easily absorb too much spiritual energy and grow to the size of the sky and the earth."

"Wait a minute." Shangluo suddenly thought, "Is this Jianmu really easy to get?"

"These are just branches of Jianmu, not Jianmu itself. Jianmu is a huge structure of 'all the emperors from above and below'. Although it is broken now, it cannot be moved here casually. We It’s just pruning the branches of Jianmu. There are many such branches. If it weren’t for the inconvenience of management, there would be almost as many as needed.”

"Then what do you think about us planting wooden logs all over the ground to serve as signal base stations?"

"Base station? What base station? Like a wireless transmission tower?"

"What a great idea!" Someone suddenly clapped his hands behind him. The two of them looked over and saw Zhu Xianfen standing there.

"I personally think there is a problem with this." Lu Huaiyang replied, "Does His Majesty the Emperor still remember the time when he did the wireless transmission tower experiment?"

"Ah, that's true"

Shangluo asked from the side: "What does it look like?"

Zhu Xianxian explained: "When we were verifying the way to build the power grid, we considered wireless power transmission. As a result, all the metal objects around the test site were crackling and sparking. Now we use Jianmu to send the spiritual network everywhere. , may cause many people to see things they shouldn't, and allow devices that shouldn't receive the signal to receive the signal. For example, the radio at home may receive strange information, and may even randomly impact the brain of a lucky viewer. Maybe I can turn him into a qigong practitioner directly. So..."

He looked at Shangluo: "Is this really necessary? Can it be considered Zhongguo technology? Because you always mention base stations and the like."

"If you want to deploy personal information terminals across the country, base stations are indispensable. The building does not need to be too big, it just needs to be able to serve the local area. What I just said is right, rashly transmitting high-intensity electromagnetic waves over long distances may cause many unforeseen consequences. The expected consequences. Even if it is just a low-intensity electromagnetic wave that transmits information, the current radio stations are becoming more and more noisy, right?"

"That's true." Lu Huaiyang nodded, "I remember in the beginning, a team radio station could call the division level at any time. This was the beginning. Although there is no wireless transmission now, wireless signals such as radios and telegraphs are More and more, each communication frequency band is getting noisier. It also makes sense to extend to the spiritual network. In the final analysis, there are very few people using the spiritual network. When there are more in the future, some signals must be deployed locally. tower."

Zhu Xianxian looked at the pillar: "But whether there is a problem with the 'local signal' itself remains to be seen. The safety of wireless signaling devices such as broadcast towers has been verified. But broadcasting the spiritual network directly, The result is hard to say yet. But one thing is for sure. You see, why I like to come to work."

"Because the signal is good, right?" Shangluo replied.

"Well, it's a bit embarrassing to say this. I'm a Dan cultivator, not a Xuan cultivator, so I'm not very familiar with the Fetion card thing. But here I have Jianmu as a signal base station, so I can go online anytime. But if I were to plant Jianmu everywhere just for the purpose of going online, it would obviously be irresponsible, so I don't have a Jianmu plant near my house - the signal there has always been not very good."

[Wow, your majesty is so virtuous, you have to use your own network to access the Internet. 】

"Why does it seem like someone is talking about me?" Zhu Xianxian shook his head, "Anyway, Shangluo, are you going to take one home and use it on your own?"

"It sounds like I took one home as a home base station just for the purpose of surfing the Internet."

"Then what other reason is there?"

"For... ah, yes, for working and studying. I also need to install a TV at home, I also need to make video calls, and I can also install a printer and so on - will it be easy to use after installing it? I haven't tried it yet."

"Of course." Zhu Xianfen said matter-of-factly, "Because the nobles of Tianyi go to and from get off work through Jianmu. The emperors and immortals 'go up and down', Jianmu itself is where the immortals go up and down. passage, otherwise there would be no need to put the printer next to it.”

"So what if I want a signal?"

"Then you have to let the jianmu branch out - the jianmu will not grow a crown until it is a hundred feet tall, which is a height of 1,780 meters."

"Then I still have to make Jianmu grow that tall to be a base station?"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk." Zhu Xianfen shook his head, "Look, this Jinshen Palace is not that high."

"How is that done?"

"You just dig it into the ground. If you want to leave 10 meters of tree canopy outside, you dig 150 meters into the ground. That's how the three main halls were built, and digging them in can resist earthquakes."

"Is it so troublesome? Can't it be cut in the middle?"

"When Jianmu grows up, he is almost indestructible. Even Lu Zu can cut it with two swords. So if you want to use it - let me remind you that according to relevant laws and regulations, the height of garden trees must be so high that they can 'collapse' It cannot go out of bounds when it comes down. In principle, it cannot exceed 20 meters, and the crown part of the tree cannot go out of bounds. At your home, it seems that you can only knock it down 150 meters by yourself."

"Ah this."

"How about it, do you want it?"

"Yes." Shangluo agreed, "I'll take it back and try it myself. Maybe I can improve it."

"Well" Zhu Xianfen nodded, "That being said, I also want to install one for myself. I think I also lack a TV at home. No, I also need a printer."

Chapter 676 Affairs

"Jianmu?" After hearing Shangluo's introduction, Phaethon looked at the window: "It's amazing. This one is amazing."

"Have you heard of Jianmu?"

"There are very few powerful mysteries that can transform supernatural power into physical properties. This power literally 'connects heaven and earth', which is very important. When Orthodoxy canonizes, it requires evidence. Jianmu is to prove the existence of the mystery itself. strong evidence."

【reasonable. ] Apollonia also replied, [If there were buildings in Rome, the whole world over there would probably not be what it is today. Whether it is the Oracle, the Senate or the Muses, they cannot represent the whole of Rome now. Because half of the Romans no longer trust us, because they may never see evidence that the mystery can be "revealed" in the world in their lifetime. It’s time to show them building wood that can grow bigger and taller. 】

"Then you guys are really... really difficult to handle."

[Revealing mystery itself is dissolving mystery. ] Apollonia said helplessly, [This is the limitation of the road under the moon. It is our mystical nature that prevents us from revealing it to everyone who needs to know. So in the empire that was about to collapse, more and more people saw the decline of Rome. 】

"I noticed that each of you seems to have a very clear understanding of this matter."

"Ah" Phaethon sighed, "Indeed. The more sober you are, the more you know that Rome is hopeless. An important criterion that distinguishes planets from dwarf planets is that planets have the ability to clear other celestial bodies in their orbits. But now Rome can no longer clear out Columbia - Columbia, as an idea dedicated to 'earthly achievements' rather than 'mystical achievements', is now very powerful."

"When I finish dealing with things here, let's go and help." Shangluo glanced at the calendar next to him, "I found that being a Tianjun is quite busy, with a lot of trivial matters. There is an exam tomorrow, and then there is the New Year, and there are Installing the building materials, and receiving Victoria - she will come again, right? There are also Nanyang, Wudang, and the epileptic dragon on the Lianshan, etc. In fact, it is not a big deal. In other words, they are all very big, and my whole body is numb. And I have to do every one of them. Ah, this."

He suddenly touched his head: "So many things have piled up before you know it. Is Victoria the same?"

Phaethon nodded: "I think you do have this trend. Victoria's schedule is very similar to yours, and I guess the emperor's schedule is similar to yours. Everything is not that important, but every time you Things have to be done. When they pile up one after another, they take up all your time.”

"There's something wrong, there's something wrong." Shangluo pressed his forehead, "I'm here to practice Taoism. Why is this happening?"

"So look at the Taoist Patriarch and the Heavenly Master, do they really know how to take care of things?" Phaethon looked at him, "They don't care about things, probably because they will face such a situation. Once you establish relationships with many people, There will be many things and many arrangements waiting for you to do. This interpersonal relationship is like shackles, binding you to the world. So the immortals, including my father Helio Si, their common characteristic is "

"The Supreme Being forgets his love." Shangluo thought of this word.

By the Qinhuai River, "that" wonton stall.

"Hey, here we come." Sa Shoujian asked Shangluo to sit down next to him, "Have you had dinner?"

"Eat half of it. Just come over."

"Boss, here are two taels of wontons." Sa Shoujian ordered him a bowl according to the amount he had eaten for dinner, and the wontons came quickly.

After speaking, Sa Shoujian looked at him: "You must have something to do if you come to me so late. After all, you have to take the exam tomorrow."

"I was wondering, do I really have to take the exam tomorrow?" As he spoke, wontons were delivered, "Thank you." Shangluo raised his head and thanked the owner of the wonton stall, and took the wontons.

"Ah," Sa Shoujian smiled, "guess how I would answer."

"The exam is very important, right? I absolutely have to go. Elders usually say that—but I think, Master Sa, you might have a different opinion."

"My answer is, it depends on you."

"..." Shangluo was stunned for a moment, "If someone else said that, I would think he was perfunctory with me. But if you say that, Master Sa, I want to ask why."

"How do you see the world?"

"Use your eyes."

"So everything you see comes from your own senses. The value of everything in the world depends on your own judgment of it." Suddenly, he changed the subject, "Actually, I was already in Pontianak in the afternoon. . But for this bowl of wontons, I still came here on time."

"Is this chaos important?"

"It doesn't matter at all, I just think it tastes good. Well, that's it. I just think it tastes good and I want to eat it tonight, so I came from Pontianak."

"Then what do you want to do in Pontianak?"

"Indeed. But if you can't do what you want, it's meaningless. I make movies because I like making movies, and I want to give everyone some fun, because I see everyone having fun and I am happy too. But if it's specific," "Responsibility', I can say it directly, we Celestial Masters do not bear any responsibility except for an agreement made by the Taoist Patriarch."