Chapter 267: Imperial Ancestral Temple
In this underground Technology base with an environment comparable to scenes in movies, Xuan Chong and Xu Xi were chatting very passionately together.
Both sides focused on the hot topic of “professional crossover,” diving deep into the conversation.
Xuan Chong was quite curious about “Attribute Points,” while Xu Xi was also very envious of Xuan Chong’s current “Geometry” modeling ability.
The abilities given by the System were exactly what the other wanted; thus, both sides suddenly came up with various “ideas” on how to make good use of the abilities.
Xu Xi: “Let’s set up an airborne combat Troop; you provide a set of ‘Missile Projection Pod,’ and I’ll provide Extreme Warriors, how about that?”
Xuan Chong: “Good, um, then who provides the lives?”
Xu Xi: “My Extreme Warrior Attribute Points can stack to withstand seventy g’s of overload; you handle the airdrop pod Force Field Protection, see if it’s feasible?” (This is after 19 surgeries and transformations, with Muscle attributes reinforced to Aluminum Alloy level monster)
Xuan Chong nodded: “My airdrop pod can achieve eighty g’s of landing buffer—theoretically possible; but I still think we should pay attention to safety. (Doesn’t want to dampen spirits, expresses opposition, repeatedly emphasizes safety)”
Xu Xi was clearly excited: “Naturally, I value safety the most.”
…Warrior and Engineer…
Qin Tianyi wanted to gossip about which Space-Time region Xuan Chong “lives” in. But Xu Xi didn’t follow up on what Qin Tianyi most wanted to hear, instead only passionately discussing how to use the tools brought for this “Exam.”
As for Xuan Chong’s side, he was also very measured; anything involving the “Golden Finger” from previous Transmigration through Space-Time. For example, Xuan Chong’s “Brave Soldier” Novel and such, he didn’t rudely probe on the first meeting.
Although Xuan Chong felt that “Liu Dayang” obviously also had something similar to his own Novel.
Just like in the Mortal Cultivation Genre, when two Cultivators make friends, who asks for the other’s trump cards right away.
Both sides hit it off very well, unlike those women chatting chit-chat and constantly probing boundaries.
As for why not chat with Qin Tianyi? Xuan Chong was afraid of trouble.
Xuan Chong: When chatting with this type of person, “how many people in your family,” “how much is your salary,” “how big is your house,” “which School did you go to in high School,” it seems like caring and understanding, but the purpose of the chat is always around “grasping the other’s background”; the more you chat, the less useful information you get, no emotional value, only gaining evaluations like “Evaluation scoring.”
In men’s Communication, thinking is mostly focused on “Depth”; in women’s Communication, it’s mostly focused on “Breadth.”
Just like boys following trends, when chatting about Ultraman, they won’t diverge much to the actor playing Ultraman, suit manufacturers, and such. The topic is always focused on the historical development of Ultraman’s plot and characters. (Depth)
Women are different; for things they like, they diverge from online to offline, accustomed to knowing more Information than others. So, women not only watch dramas but also stanning. (Breadth)
Men’s Communication focused on single-element “Depth” is conducive to in-depth Cooperation, while bestie-style chatting diverging in “Breadth” is conducive to the parties’ overall control of the region.
This is the thinking strategy evolved by men and women to cope with their respective environments. Unless it’s a man pursuing a woman, the man will accommodate the woman’s thinking and painstakingly focus on “Breadth.”
…Hook and Hook…
Xu Xi: My “data loading” target is limited to carbon-based life; on a microscopic level, this is a high-density “Energy Matter Operational Configuration.”
What is “Energy Matter Operational Configuration”? The electron flow in human Neurons is one configuration; the Photons in Photosynthesis ultimately participating in Energy fixation is also one. Xu Xi’s direct “Point Allocation” increases the operational density of these electrons and Photons by billions of times, then whether plants or animals, they will be accelerated by these “configurations,” forcibly turned into another life state.
Xuan Chong was greatly shocked by this; the System’s Technology indeed surpassed his imagination.
Xuan Chong was very modest: My Torque can, to a certain extent, guide Materials mechanics processing; actually, my ability is suited for large Equipment processing.
The reason Xuan Chong was modest was that for this “hook” the System opened for him, he completely didn’t know its physical principles, so he didn’t dare to “tout it vigorously.”
Facing Xuan Chong’s expectations, Xu Xi also shook his head, indicating: This involves Space and Time, not something he could understand.
Xu Xi: “How about this, when I need some high-precision engineering Equipment, you help me with measurements; when you need manpower, you can come to me.”
Xuan Chong: “Thanks, Brother. (If it weren’t the first meeting and they weren’t familiar yet, for someone who can help him, Xuan Chong would call Godfather)”
Xu Xi glanced to the side; when Qin Tianyi saw Xu Xi looking over, she turned her gaze away, pouting. She was clearly dissatisfied that the two’s conversation completely left her out.
Xuan Chong was of course shrewd and immediately said: “Sister-in-law is very virtuous.” — Indicating he keeps a respectful distance because “do not bully your friend’s wife.”
Xu Xi smiled at Xuan Chong: “On this Plane, she and I are siblings.” Then added, “In the previous class, she was my Psychological Counselor.”
Xuan Chong nodded stiffly. (Although he didn’t understand the concept of Psychological Counselor, he felt there was an absolute rigid impassability between these two.)
Xu Xi: “You just heard those Martial Cultivation practitioners mention Mecha Armor, right.”
Xuan Chong: “Exactly, I just asked, and you came.”
Xu Xi: “Mecha Armor is personal Nano Armor; it fuses the ‘biofield’ (True Qi) in this world’s people with embedded liquid nano structures to form super Warriors. This is one of the core Projects in this Base right now.
By the way, you haven’t met the Qilin Lord here yet, right? He is a character native to this Plane, not from Wei School. His Dragon Power is to see the Future and copy the Future, like the Surveillance Cameras here. And this set of Mechanical Equipment.”
Xuan Chong: “This Mechanical Equipment? Um, isn’t this stuff from sci-fi Games?”
Xu Xi paused, looked at Xuan Chong, then said: “Sci-fi? What era did you enroll in?”
Xuan Chong looked surprised: “Not from the same era as you?”
Xu Xi was slightly stunned, thought of something, a bit surprised, then: “Oh, we’ll talk about this later. After this Exam—”
Xu Xi stopped this topic; Qin Tianyi, who had just gotten interested nearby, was very unhappy.
The two continued discussing the possibilities of Mechanical Equipment Development in this world.
Xu Xi nodded, suddenly probing out of the blue: “Looking at the System-assigned System you have, you should be a Commander, right? Previous task was a ‘War’ type course?”
Xuan Chong asked back: “Commander?”
Qin Tianyi quickly interjected: “Yeah, in some Classrooms at Wei School, if students score extremely high, they have to take on the final combat command task in the ‘course’ (Plane).”
Xuan Chong: “Me? Command War? This, Brother, don’t you think I’m a bit too shorthanded?”
Xu Xi was very happy, patted Xuan Chong’s shoulder: “Little brother, one good man with three helpers! Aren’t I your capital?”
Xuan Chong felt that Xu Xi was simply a social terrorist.
…Beast-mouth-style mechanical door, the beast eyes showed green light…
At this time, the mechanical door on the left side of the hall opened. The Qilin Lord appeared, this was a middle-aged man wearing a Daoist robe (only about thirty years old). He appeared to have an immortal demeanor, but Xuan Chong noticed that behind his long robe, on both sides of the spine, octopus tentacles for nerve connections were evenly docked, in a half-mechanical half-human state.
Qin Tianyi explained to Xuan Chong: “This is his new style; this guy changes his style every half month, last time he was even standing on a floating mechanical platform.”
Xuan Chong quite understood such behavior, if he could exchange for technical creations from various timelines. He would also change a set of equipment every half month.
After the Qilin Lord called the roll for the forty-three young talented individuals sent by various sects present, he then showed a spring-wind-like smile to Xuan Chong and the other two.
Especially to Xuan Chong: “Little one, you’ve gotten familiar enough, right? You must serve well here, don’t hold back. I will supervise your Dragon Power training.
Beside him, Qin Tianyi secretly reminded again: “Don’t be fooled by him, he can only sense when you use Dragon Power, but he doesn’t know the details of your Dragon Power.
Xuan Chong glanced at Qin Tianyi to express gratitude, while Qin Tianyi blushed and waved her hand, looking like a little daughter caught in the act by the adults.
As the native NPC of this plane, the Qilin Lord was puzzled, and upon seeing this, he smiled and said: “Youth is good.”
Then he took out a seal, which had a Qilin pattern; Xuan Chong looked at it, it was the same material as the waist token carried by Liu Haoxing’s father, the only difference was that Liu Dangzhen’s had a dragon pattern. This showed that the two belonged to different employing organizations.
Xuan Chong took this seal, and instantly the four words “Mandated by Heaven” appeared on it.
Qilin Lord: “Ancestors have merit, sect has virtue, do not become complacent or self-destructing.” The mechanical tentacles behind him extended one branch, very mischievously pinching Xuan Chong’s shoulder, why call it “mischievous”, Xuan Chong saw that pretentious glint in this guy’s eyes.
Then he said to the attendant nearby who was like a mechanical SWAT officer: “Take him to familiarize with the properties of the Heaven and Earth, Black and Yellow four types of areas.”
Xuan Chong then noticed the Qilin Lord pulling out from behind a half-mechanical half-biological organization person. This half-mechanical attendant walked in front of Xuan Chong, and to Xuan Chong and the other two: “Three young masters, let this subordinate lead the way below.”
Liu Dayang (Xu Xi) waved his hand: “I have other matters, Liu Haoxing you go browse first. If he doesn’t explain things clearly, you can come ask me.”
Xuan Chong stared at this attendant’s mechanical ankle, while feeling that his own body bones seemed somewhat mechanized, clearly having undergone modification. While Xuan Chong was staring, this mechanical attendant’s lower body completed a ceramic structure paint color consistent with skin color, and he saw its hair was pure white, Xuan Chong suddenly realized what it was. —Nier: Automata android.
Before leaving, Qin Tianyi added: “After Dragon Seed Awakening, it can be divided into four tiers ‘Heaven and Earth, Black and Yellow’ according to ability level; the Qilin Lord is one of the current three Heavenly Rank attribute ability users in Xian Han. I am now at Black and Yellow Rank.”
…Future path? No longer familiar…
Walking in the underground base, Xuan Chong saw more future items.
Twenty-ton heavy space-armed satellite, high-pressure cooker-sized thorium nuclear reactor. Spider-like deep-sea robot.
Mechanical attendant: “The base is divided into Heaven and Earth, Black and Yellow four areas; your authority is Grade A, you can enter the Heaven Area with advance application. But if another Young Master is presiding over that area, you can only observe.”
Xuan Chong: “Is there higher authority above Grade A?”
Attendant: “The next higher level of authority is only the Qilin Lord. Alright now, you are to forge your exclusive seal.”
Half a shichen later, in the Qilin Nest’s factory, Xuan Chong stood extraordinarily neatly in the laboratory. In a piece of hot-worked steel, after he had drawn the torque, the moment the steel was put into the cooling room, the surrounding hydrogen explosive began to release, and the explosion’s energy wave along the torque began forging.
These metal parts in an instant, just like the condensation of materials such as Prince Rupert’s drop, formed a perfect stress structure from outside to inside.
The forged seal, in terms of material properties, surpassed any item produced by industrial forges in the world now, belonging to the irreproducible.
Xuan Chong, according to the guidance of the projection instructions, during the process of controlling the seal to form at once, when the internal information patterns were engraved, felt that other Dragon Power could be used in coordination with his own.
These Dragon Powers not belonging to himself came from the “divine lord tablets” in this laboratory.
And the Dragon Power of these tablets came from the seals carried by other Dragon Power Users. Each person’s seal could borrow “superpowers” from others in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Of course, the efficiency of each mobilizing others’ “superpowers” was at most one-tenth.
While forging the seal, Xuan Chong suddenly looked up at the glass bay above where some divine lord tablets appeared. These tablets were like transformable robots, flowing out from the magnetic levitation channel.
Embedded in the tablets were chip-like structures, each tablet recording different Dragon Power User information. An empty tablet appeared, the operating system beside prompted that Xuan Chong himself also needed to leave his own tablet.
The seal stays in his hand, the tablet stays in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
According to the ritual law explained by the current Xian Han Son of Heaven: this seal is the credential of the “priest”, the seal receives part of the Dragon Power, transmitted to the divine lord tablet. This process belongs to “offering Dragon Power as tribute”, supplied upward to one’s own ancestors and heaven and earth.
From a technical perspective, the Imperial Ancestral Temple ultimately requires all Supernatural Users to contribute their superpowers, for use in projects “beneficial to country and people”.
In this laboratory factory, after Xuan Chong performed the final worship step, he obtained recognition from many “divine lord tablets” and joined Jianye’s Imperial Ancestral Temple.
The comprehensive management system for “Supernatural Users” created by Xian Han is the most advanced in the world. On one hand, it gathers resources of all Dragon Seed Awakeners toward the main lineage.
On the other hand, under the name of “Imperial Ancestral Temple”, it comprehensively utilizes the power of dozens or hundreds of Dragon Seed Users.
Xian Han’s central hub can create some quite transcendent concept armaments, such as flying saucers, or even mantle drilling machines.”
Under the Imperial Ancestral Temple system, Supernatural Users have a “tribute” settlement system. The more Dragon Power contributed in this settlement system, the more discourse power in the system.
Xian Han’s Supernatural Users are like multiple thin ropes, woven together…
Like browsing an online shopping site for the first time, Xuan Chong couldn’t resist and exchanged for a lightsaber for self-defense.
Xuan Chong carefully examined a lightsaber, this lightsaber’s Energy Bay involved processing of dozens of types of Dragon Power; this made Xuan Chong sigh with emotion, confirming that “Xian Han”’s national fortune remains strong. Rebellion is out of the question.
Xuan Chong: Even if a person possesses top-level superpower. Wanting to rebel in the Heavenly Palace, they will still be suppressed under the Five Finger Mountain.
Of course, Dragon Seeds rebelling in the Heavenly Palace won’t be killed, but assigned scripture-seeking missions for reform.
A race’s strength comes from the constraint and integration of each individual in the race.
Of course, most integration is sometimes full of high pressure. Often making libertarians feel unaccustomed.
For example, certain first Industrial Age openings, the white barbarians ate the early dividends of “newly built nations”, got heaven-sent fierce men, forcibly established a “strong ritual law constraint” system, when this strongman left, the subsequent “freedom seekers” in high positions would instigate the “freedom seekers” in the lower marketplace to break the tradition of “constraining everyone”.
And the constraints of ritual are often thankless, comprehensively suppressing everyone. (The set created by the wheelchair dictator and steel father, after decades on the road, encountered complaints from all sides.)
When the “constraint” pressing on everyone’s head is lifted, everyone is free, but some people are freer than others, and the public instruments collapse.
After the White Eagle and Mao Xiong’s glorious period, they have always been on the path of the younger generations in later years dismantling their own homes.
The more he sees of the Xian Han core system now, the more Xuan Chong abandons the idea of “dismantling Xian Han ritual law.” Because after “dismantling” it, how to “assemble it back together”?
After seeing these systematized creations in the underground base, Xuan Chong directly imagines a problem: after Xian Han ritual law is dismantled, how to constrain Supernatural Users, how to control industrial manufacturing and the hundreds of thousands of Han land rural villages?
According to previous life theory, Xian Han is essentially a semi-feudal semi-imperialist strong country.
The reason industry continues to develop and contradictions are controllable is because of the ritual system; it is its powerful constraints on the shortcomings of enfeoffment and capital in personnel matters.
For detailed examples, just like the White Eagle’s strongest industrial period, it was essentially still a capxxx strong country.
But the Rossx New Deal, this quasi-social policy that could “collect 90% tax from oligarchs,” allowed it to maintain efficiency comparable to socxxx.
Xian Han’s ritual law system is like a Ross x New Deal with super long standby time.
It is precisely because “ritual” constrains Xian Han’s internal feudal and large merchant groups to an irreproducible extent. Forcing feudal lords and monopoly merchants to give up a large amount of
As the story goes, the Qing court couldn’t manage it; the Qing court preserved the old forces to maintain balance and was unwilling to let them go. Here in Xian Han, the “Imperial Clan” was kicked to the Border, while the “outer relatives” were repeatedly purged. The Han court remains the Han court.
Xuan Chong: Once this ritual system is dismantled, Xian Han cannot maintain its current vast territory.
Xuan Chong assumed that for his own social stratum, if there were no mandatory constraints from ritual law, he would form an alliance with several nearby Supernatural Users, while using violent means to control the oligarchs within the range, then divide the land and establish states.
…As long as the program can run, don’t think about refactoring…
In the Lin Group’s base, Xuan Chong forged his own Seal in the “Imperial Ancestral Temple” facility, and his Supernatural User’s tribute was also recognized by the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
In a hemispherical energy cell, Xuan Chong calibrated his “seal” and “spirit lord tablet,” began downloading the Lin Group’s future technology database, and learned about the Lin Group’s plans for deploying new technologies to the world in the next ten years and twenty years.
Xuan Chong: My knowledge is still too shallow.
