Secondly, there’s still that one purpose: borrowing brainpower.
The artifact refining style of the Jiushan Sect, due to Lady Xuanhua’s study of modern knowledge, especially in chanical construction and such, has changed to so extent and already shows so differences compared to the Xuanwei Realm:
For example, various Shenxiao Flying Boats.
But overall, it still leans towards the ideas of the Xuanwei Realm.
This is normal, after all, she is a cultivator who grew up in the Xuanwei Realm.
But the people in the nursing ho are different. The concepts they learned from a young age, the novels and comics they saw growing up, have all made their thinking distinctly different from Lady Xuanhua.
Zheng Fa handed them this Xuanming Sha to "play" with, just to see what kind of fresh ideas their divergent thinking could produce, and whether it might bring him so surprises.
If he were to micromanage, making these brilliant minds just do as he says, it would really be a waste of their wisdom and wouldn’t fit with Zheng Fa’s original intention of establishing the nursing ho.
It’s better to give them so space for free play.
Seeing Old Man Bai’s still sowhat puzzled expression, Zheng Fa smiled and further explained:
"Mr. Bai, teaching everyone Immortal Dao is not about having them follow my steps exactly."
"The nursing ho, after all, is a research institute."
"It’s best to let a hundred flowers bloom, allowing everyone to showcase their talents."
Old Man Bai understood, he glanced towards Rainbow Mountain, seemingly looking at those laboratories, and smiled:
"Even rare spiritual materials can be used to nurture them... no wonder so many people want to join."
Group Leader Yang, hearing this, suddenly pointed to the stone monunt and said, "How should we handle this thing? I see the desire to co here is quite urgent."
The few of them looked at the monunt, seeing two sections of text inscribed from top to bottom, with the upper part in ancient Chinese and the lower part seemingly in a local language. The inscriptions had wear marks, showing careful effort, and actually looked sowhat authentic.
The only odd thing was, the character "Zheng" was very clear...
Old Man Bai shook his head, sighing, "Foreigners aren’t fools; this is an opportunity for cultivation."
If it was a few years ago, it was understandable for foreigners not to know what cultivation was.
But in recent years, although Zheng Fa hasn’t made any big moves, neither has he ever hidden it. Who wouldn’t know that becoming immortal is a good thing?
"What do they want?"
Group Leader Yang held back a laugh: "Ancestor recognition."
"No, do they really think soone will believe it?"
"They know it’s fake, we know it’s fake, even the whole world knows it’s fake." Group Leader Yang glanced at Zheng Fa, "But as long as the director says it’s real, then it’s real."
Zheng Fa thought for a mont, and then said, "These are small matters, you can decide, I have at most two conditions:"
"Director, please go on."
"One, spiritual materials exchanged for grain; the products of Jiushan Grain Company or even Jiushan Pharmaceutical Company in the future can give them so shares."
"Two, in the future, when the nursing ho recruits postgraduate researchers, if they pass the exam, they can join the nursing ho."
Simply put, Zheng Fa adapted half of the Hundred Immortals Alliance’s model here.
This is, of course, because Zheng Fa considers the modern world as his own Daoist Field. It’s always inevitable to cultivate these people, whether sooner or later, as long as they have brains, it’s all negotiable.
On the other hand, he also couldn’t be bothered with the hassle, as he still regards the nursing ho as a research institution.
Other matters can be left to the officials.
What he wants are just these spiritual materials—or rather, he values that sea domain capable of generating Xuanming Sha even more.
Upon hearing this, Group Leader Yang’s face was full of confidence: "With these two conditions, it will be easy to negotiate."
Old Man Bai asked, "How do they plan to negotiate?"
Group Leader Yang laughed and pointed to the monunt: "Isn’t it, with irresistible passion, like blood is thicker than water?"
Old Man Bai looked at the monunt and after a long pause, sighed: "You say it’s fake, yet it can actually be used as if it’s real."
Zheng Fa was taken aback, looked at the stone monunt, and his expression gradually brightened.
...
"I am to make an Immortal Trapping Sword?"
Lady Xuanhua pointed at her nose, wearing an expression of having been overestimated by the sect leader and feeling incapable.
"Fake, fake."
Zheng Fa explained: "Just have the appearance, with spiritual materials being more or less acceptable."
Zhang, who seed to understand, said: "You want to make a fake Immortal Trapping Sword and secretly replace the original Immortal Trapping Sword?"
Zheng Fa nodded.
He had always been troubled by one issue—how to take the Immortal Trapping Sword without provoking Haori Mountain’s retaliation.
The Immortal Trapping Sword, such a True Immortal Treasure, truly tempted him.
But if he took the Immortal Trapping Sword, Haori Mountain would surely go mad.
Then, between him and Sect Leader Yan, it would be anyone’s guess who would provoke Haori Mountain’s hatred more.
"Haori Mountain isn’t stupid!" Lady Xuanhua still did not understand and muttered, "If I could refine an Immortal Trapping Sword indistinguishable from the real one, we wouldn’t have to fear them?"
Although the Heavenly Craft Pavilion is strong, to be honest, they are only capable of refining Magical Treasures.
The standard for refining Spiritual Artifacts and Spiritual Treasures is not there at all.
Let alone refining a True Immortal Treasure like the Immortal Trapping Sword.
Spiritual materials could still be managed—although the spiritual materials used for the Immortal Trapping Sword were all collected by Tianhe Venerable from Xuanwei Spiritual Materials and are very valuable.
But through the transformation of spiritual materials, with the current accumulation of the Jiushan Realm, at a considerable cost, it could still be achieved.
The problem is that the spiritual energy circuit required to generate a sword spirit is extrely complex.
Not to ntion, the intrinsic status of True Immortal Magical Artifacts is extrely high, with so mysterious aspects that even Zheng Fa and others don’t understand; or rather, how to elevate the status of a Magical Treasure to True Immortal is sothing Zheng Fa hasn’t figured out yet.
Even if Lady Xuanhua were more confident, creating a fake Immortal Trapping Sword, she really had no certainty and even felt that Zheng Fa was trying to make things difficult for her.
Even Zhang was frowning, seemingly thinking that Zheng Fa was fantasizing.
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