Chapter 176: Contemporary Extraordinary Programmer: 《classic Mechanics Programming Language》
Under the rough instillation from Pink-Haired Yue, Yuan Zhu simply established a hasty cognition of [Knowledge ≈ Magic Power], [Formulas and Theorems ≈ Spell Model], [Mechanics Magic Net ≈ Crystal Wall Magic Net], [Skull Server ≈ Spellbook].
Of course, there are qualitative differences between the two.
For example, after all, in the neighboring universe, “Magic Power” as a Supernatural Element exists naturally. Magic is the method of utilizing Magic Power. [Magic Net] is artificially constructed around the energy “Magic Power.”
Magic Power comes first, then the net; spells come before the Magic Net.
But things are completely different on the Du Ling side, because [Knowledge] itself is not supernatural and has no Power.
Uh, that’s hasty. Polluting Knowledge flowing from other [Pollution Roots] is not included.
Pure “traditional mechanics knowledge” is very ordinary, without any Power, stably and low-key residing in ancient textbooks.
These mechanics knowledge only produce supernatural effects after being instilled into the [Skull Server] processor and operated with the Blessing of the [Mechanics Magic Net].
The intelligence ditty suddenly rings out.
Yuan Zhu pushes up his nonexistent goggles, transforming into a reasoning master. Countless formulas and images of scientific celebrities flash behind his head, instantly comprehending the truth of the Universe: “So, the power Origin of the [Knowledge School] is that initial [Classic Mechanics Magic Net]! It transforms ordinary mechanics knowledge into Supernatural Powers that surpass the ‘Physics Worldview’. The Skull Server is merely a casting medium that draws out this power.”
Meng Xiyue nods: “You can understand it that way.”
“I don’t understand!”
Principal Yuan’s accent suddenly changes, ancestral home Zhejiang: “Since the origin of the [Knowledge School] is the [Physics Worldview. Mechanics Magic Net] System specifically constructed to shield all pollution phenomena. Then what about the [Insect Cultivation Server] you made in Insect City? Doesn’t that violate the original intent of the [Magic Net]? It’s no longer Pure, but extremely polluting! You damned heretic!”
The Skull Server that Meng Xiyue made in Cao Ling City, and the cooperation she wants to do with him, all violate the settings of the [Classic Mechanics Magic Net], and are instead extremely heretical!
Pink-Hair, however, has a calm and composed expression, calmly gnawing on a chicken leg, saying plainly: “The fact that you can ask that shows you’ve already understood the existence state of the [Classic Mechanics Magic Net] very well.”
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The original intent of creating the [Mechanics Magic Net] was to find a [Artificial Supernatural Root] purely imagined, unaffected by any [Pollution System] and without any intervention from Supernatural Powers.
And using it as Foundation to create a “flat substitute Magic Net” belonging to Du Ling Star, fulfilling the creator’s “Otherworld (Du Ling) mage dream.”
The completion of the [Mechanics Magic Net] and its usage method very thoughtfully replicate the framework of the [Magic Net]. It has step by step become the second largest “Acquired Artificial Pollution Root” in Du Ling World, second only to the Pale Great Law.
According to recollections from later generations’ “First Generation Knowledge School Members (Mechanics Mages)” who participated in creating the [Mechanics Magic Net], that “initial net weaver” chose [Absolute Physics Universe] as the [Anchor Concept] to escape interference from other Pollution Systems after deep consideration.
What is the Physics Universe?
It is the absolute ideal Universe of Yuan Zhu’s Earth hometown, with no Supernatural phenomena existing. Like in physics problems, assumptions such as “friction coefficient of 0, absolute vacuum environment” that are hard to achieve.
With the [Physics Universe], [Classic Mechanics] naturally serves as the cornerstone (code) constituting the Worldview. After stripping away all Pollution Sources, the [Classic Mechanics Magic Net] was born. At this point, [Classic Mechanics] is no longer classic, becoming a new “Artificial Pollution Root.”
Unlike any Pollution Demon God in history, the first thing the spellweaver did after initially creating the [Mechanics Magic Net] was to emulate the Pale Great Law and choose absolute open source!
Unlike the harsh entry conditions that are destined to return all assets—including all Power gained from cultivating the [Law], along with one’s own Soul—to the Pale Great Law.
The open source, authorization, and usage conditions of the [Mechanics Magic Net] are zero! With no Price, the [Mechanics Magic Net] is free to all who aspire to become contemporary new-style mages, scholars yearning for Knowledge and research exploration, and old-era remnants still clinging to physics under the impact of the Supernatural Worldview.
This generous “open source teaching” behavior caused the [Knowledge School] to wildly expand and grow over the next hundred-plus years. With the aptitude of an [Acquired Pollution Root], it grew bigger and stronger, comparable to other top-tier [Pollution Roots].
Meng Xiyue tosses aside the chicken feet gnawed down to the bones and continues the rough instillation: “Do you understand the [Open Source] behavior? That’s unconditionally opening the Knowledge of [Mechanics Magic Net, Knowledge School] to the outside. It not only welcomes pure ‘Mechanics Mages’ to join; it also inevitably allows Supernatural beings from other Pollution Systems to enter.”
“The original intent of the [Mechanics Magic Net] includes the idea of ‘establishing heart for Heaven and Earth, establishing destiny for the people, continuing lost teachings of past sages, and creating peace for myriad generations.’ It has two thresholds. The first is very low, open to all ordinary people. The [Skull Server] as a casting medium requires no Aptitude, allowing ordinary people to use and release pre-stored Power. The second threshold is Mental Power distorted by the [Mechanics Magic Net], possessing ‘Server Programming’ ability—’Knowledge School Apprentices’.”
“In short, neither threshold is high, and there are no significant Side Effects or Price. The [Mechanics Magic Net] is completely open to the outside, so numerous [Pollution Systems] can infiltrate and penetrate effortlessly, getting a full view. Over time, some [Pollution Systems] choose to merge with the ‘Knowledge School’, using a certain [Pollution] as the core, the [Mechanics Magic Net] as Template, customizing private server frameworks for them.”
“The most famous and most successful among them is the head of the Twelve Mandates, the [Rat King]!”
As she speaks, Meng Xiyue drops a major industry bombshell on the clueless Yuan Zhu. In fact, the Rat King’s ascension story is no secret, but outsiders who don’t know the field are completely unaware that the Rat King’s Pollution Root is, in a certain sense, a benign Alienation branch of the [Mechanics Magic Net].
Sure enough, hearing the last sentence, Yuan Zhu shows a bewildered retarded expression: “Huh? [Rat King]? [Classic Mechanics Magic Net], Knowledge School? How do these connect? I don’t quite understand.”
Meng Xiyue: “Now that you know the birth origin of the [Mechanics Magic Net], let me explain the operation method of the ‘basic Magic Net.’ First, it replicates the structure of the [Crystal Wall Magic Net]. Everyone who actively touches the [Magic Net] with their Soul, has their Mental Power eroded, and gains ‘spellweaving ability’ is called an [Apprentice].”
“An Apprentice’s Soul touching the [Magic Net] registers their own ‘0-ring login account.’ At the same time, they can bind a personal [Skull Server], edit learned Knowledge into ‘mechanics models,’ and store them in Spell Slots. [Spell Slots] depend on two parts: the higher the Skull Server quality, the more built-in Spell Slots, and the stronger the stored ‘Spell Models’; additionally, the deeper the personal Spirit combines with the [Magic Net], the higher the level (1-ring to 9-ring), the more Spell Slots opened in one’s own Head. Like me, my personal Soul Pollution degree is very low, mainly relying on the [Skull Server].”
Yuan Zhu nods to indicate understanding. He had personally seen Pink-Haired Yue in the great battle in Little Xihong Realm against the eggplant-headed monk, slapping away the high-speed Grandma Yu. It relied on pre-stored [Classic Mechanics Basic Model. Newton Dull God Palm. Style 1/2/3……] in the Skull Server.
Just issue a mental command, and the Skull automatically triggers ‘Classic Mechanics Model’ attacks. Without paying anything oneself, enemies can be slapped to explode or shatter—truly an essential divine tool for home use, travel, or sudden sneak attacks.
By the way, the Newton Dull God Lord who created the [Newton God Palm] was one of the early three phantom gods at the birth of the [Knowledge School]. Together with mid-period Lagrange and late-period Manhattan, they jointly created the [Classic Mechanics Magic Net. Three God Skill Models].
Respectively [Basic Mechanics Model. Newton Dull God Palm Series], [Advanced Mechanics Model. Lagrange God Fist Series], and the higher-threshold [Manhattan God Finger Series], known as fist-palm-finger three absolutes three god skills.
Once the three major series are fully mastered, one can cultivate the most classic advanced Ultimate Skill of the [Knowledge School]: [Three Parts Return to Origin].
Of course, the greater achievement of the three phantom gods is successively optimizing, perfecting, and Upgrading the nascent [Classic Mechanics Magic Net]. Making its functions increasingly complex, becoming a super-large comprehensive platform. Relying on Computing Power to continuously advance ‘scientific’ progress in numerous Domains.
When optimizing the [Magic Net], they extensively referenced ancient sci-fi (novel) literature descriptions of the [Internet].
Ultimately, in this world destined not to develop the [Internet], developing the Skull Server into a ‘personal terminal computer’; basic mechanics Knowledge, formulas, models become a set of basic ‘programming code.’
Ordinary people holding a Skull Server just perform simple operations, triggering the stored ‘mechanics spells,’ or using pre-stored Program software like playing with a Mobile Phone.
While true Knowledge School Apprentices whose Souls contact the [Magic Net] can use Mental Power to program in the Skull Server, compiling their own ‘Knowledge’ into small models in the ‘Classic Mechanics language,’ gaining the [Magic Net]’s attention, transforming into ‘mechanics spells.’
Truly becoming [Supernatural Coders/Mechanics Farmers?]
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When the traditional [Classic Mechanics Magic Net] develops to a limit under the ‘Physics Worldview,’ it hits a bottleneck. It can’t all be ‘physics spell models,’ right? That would make this [Magic Net] too monotonous and lacking.
Keep in mind, by the time the [Mechanics Magic Net] formally took shape, Du Ling Star had long been in a state of a hundred schools contending.
Various large and small ‘Pollution Roots, Pollution Systems’ emerged endlessly, strange abilities constantly appearing. All that could gain fame had strong characteristics of their own, with immortals among men as numerous as hemp—long since not something simple ‘Basic Mechanics Model spells’ could cope with.
Secondly, whether it was the initial weavers of the net, or the subsequent Three Illusion Gods who continuously perfected the Magic Net, or the genius scholars continuously emerging from the Knowledge School, none of them had personalities content with mediocrity.
Every true Knowledge School powerhouse has a greedy heart. They would absolutely not be satisfied with only researching traditional mechanics spells under the Classical Physics Universe View within the Magic Net platform; it was simply too monotonous and boring.
Everyone was an ambitious sort, with an indescribable desire for knowledge. Watching various Pollution Roots gushing forth around them, displaying inconceivable effects—who could resist the impulse to “capture, slice, and dissect”?
Exploring the mysteries of immortals, demons, gods, and Buddhas, claiming them for oneself in a safer way (Magic Net spell models), thoroughly analyzing the secrets of gods and demons—it was simply a pleasure surpassing gods and demons!
Additionally, at the inception of the Mechanics Magic Net, the original intention was precisely to replicate the grand spectacle of the Magic Net in the neighboring Crystal Wall Universe, with all sorts of bizarre spells available for casual use.
If all Pollution Systems could be parsed, generalized, and utilized through the Mechanics Magic Net, then even a random Knowledge School apprentice could indirectly master the abilities of numerous Pollution Systems.
This is how new-generation Du Ling mages should be!
Finally, there were no shortage of insightful individuals among the other Pollution Systems who early on saw the tremendous potential of the Mechanics Magic Net. Especially its open-source nature—if they could successfully integrate their own Polluting Energy with the Magic Net, they could indirectly lower the “spread threshold” and massively popularize and propagate their own Supernatural System.
All these reasons drove the early Classic Mechanics Magic Net to merge with other Pollution Roots.
Coincidentally, during this period, under the efforts of the Three Illusion Gods and generations of Knowledge School geniuses, the Magic Net System had formed a sufficiently robust Mechanics Programming Language.
Meng Xiyue said proudly: “Our Knowledge School calls this most foundational ‘Classic Mechanics Language Instruction Set’ Inert Knowledge. They perfectly embody the Mechanics Magic Net’s characteristics of being sturdy, stable, anti-pollution, and unshakable… And on this basis, we developed a technical operation for structuring Pollution Systems with Inert Knowledge.”
The existence of Inert Knowledge (Classic Mechanics Language) allows the Mechanics Magic Net to research and deconstruct Pollution Roots without being reverse-polluted by polluting power.
Hearing this, Yuan Zhu couldn’t help but think of his own Great Desolation Immortal Scripture digitized shadow in his mind.
His current utilization of Ghost Companion Divine Ability was to isolate and refine various unfamiliar pollution sources, extract Supernatural Characteristics, and use Shadow to pollute and color them, turning them into shadow pollution forms controlled by the Great Desolation Immortal Scripture that could be parsed and read.
The Mechanics Magic Net worked similarly, using Inert Knowledge to contact and parse various pollutions, ultimately combining with them to become “polluted Inert Knowledge,” then incorporating it into the Mechanics Magic Net, using basic “mechanics models” to reshape into “pollution version Inert Knowledge Models,” and developing Pollution Spells beyond Classic Mechanics.
The underlying logic of these pollution spells remained Classic Mechanics Model Inert Knowledge pollution variants. This bound originally dangerous, twisted, ever-changing, pollution-attributed knowledge/power under the Mechanics Magic Net’s constraints, turning it into stable “pollution version Inert Knowledge.”
From then on, the Knowledge School broke free of shackles and beheld a new world. They could use the Mechanics Magic Net to parse and research various Pollution Systems, forcibly analyzing and simulating with Inert Knowledge, greatly enriching the Magic Net’s spell library: “mechanics immortal methods, mechanics Buddhist dharma, mechanics sword techniques (sword cultivator), mechanics holy light…”
As a result, today, in every Knowledge School apprentice’s “spell model list,” pure Classic Mechanics Model spells are already exceedingly rare.
Apart from the mandatory Three Illusion Gods, new-era apprentices prefer spells with characteristics of other Pollution Systems. After all, pure physics models are simply too monotonous and boring.
Meng Xiyue: “Pre-storing Newton’s Divine Palm in the Skull Server is also a helpless choice. First, Newton’s Divine Palm is extremely classic with the highest cost-performance ratio, nurturing the strongest attack with the smallest memory. Second, this thing is also mandatory exam and required content, involving the Classic Foundational Mechanics Programming Language, which is the foundation of Magic Net programming.”
Yuan Zhu nodded: “I get it; this is like a boot-up pre-installed mandatory program.”
Meng Xiyue gave a thumbs up: “That’s a great way to put it! You’re definitely an old bookworm too, right? You like reading ancient Earth hard fantasy?!”
As an Earthling, Yuan Zhu really didn’t know how to retort. Nowadays, all realistic literature about his Earth hometown (electronic tech civilization) is classified as “old-school hard traditional fantasy” genre.
Because throughout history across dynasties, there were no lack of traversers from modern society. The texts they left described “missiles, networks, satellites, mobile phones…” and were seen as absurd fantasies. On the contrary, classics plagiarized by ancient traversers (realist school) were more popular.
Especially after entering the supernatural era, the emergence of various Pollution Systems actualized “existences” from classic story myths. In contrast, descriptions of Earth modern tech in classical hard fantasy texts could never be actualized.
Because in the supernatural world, there is simply no soil for technology.
The electricity revolution and electronic tech were tragically splintered and dismantled by dozens of lightning magic schools. Thus, unreplicable internet and other classical novel tropes became even more popular. In this fantastical world, they are genuine pure fantasy, xianxia genre!
Imagine someone who carries a “mouse” in their pocket every day as a biological USB drive, camera, projector, walkie-talkie—you describe to him a mobile phone with identical functions powered by battery.
He would only think you’re brain-damaged, read too much fantasy novels, and gone mad?!
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Yuan Zhu: “I roughly get it; the Insect Cultivation Version Skull Server is a re-deconstruction of the Qi Refining System using the traditional Mechanics Magic Net foundational framework?”
Meng Xiyue: “With your comprehension, stopping here is fine. But the rules operating behind this are far more complex, and it’s hard to explain clearly to an outsider like you in a short time.”
Yuan Zhu: “That tone of yours sounds awfully smug.”
“Hmph hmph, let me tell you another story about the Rat King to help you understand our mutual cooperation model.”
“Oh? I’m also very curious about the connection between the Rat King and the Mechanics Magic Net.”
