"We believe, magic artifacts, are essentially just tools capable of casting spells automatically," Cheng Yun explained, "In essence, magic artifacts are high-density, solidified talismanic diagrams."
Zheng Fa nodded.
This is a new perspective of the current materials group in the retirent ho.
They revisited the relationship between spiritual materials and magic artifacts starting from talismanic diagrams and proposed an interesting explanation:
Magic artifacts, in fact, use the Five Elent Spiritual Energy within spiritual materials to form unique spiritual energy circuits, and these circuits are actually solidified talismanic diagrams.
Moreover, since the spiritual energy in spiritual materials is abundant, it can accommodate more talismanic diagrams than talisman paper, making the power greater and more lasting.
It’s a bit like semiconductors and circuit boards.
This perspective has gained a lot of support, and Zheng Fa didn’t see any major problems. However, the interactions among spiritual materials are unclear, leaving the essence of the spiritual energy circuits still a subject of debate.
In other words, no one has figured out why the spiritual energy flows this way and not that way.
Therefore, this theory can’t be said to be comprehensive, but rely an explanation.
It was clear that Cheng Yun was a supporter of this theory.
"So we thought, since magic artifacts can be used as talismanic magic users, and talismanic magic can make magic artifacts," Cheng Yun pointed at the machine tool and said, "then why not create a magic artifact that makes magic artifacts."
This statent was a bit convoluted.
But everyone present understood.
Old Man Bai darted to the machine tool, excitedly asking, "What can it make?"
Cheng Yun beca a little embarrassed, "Street lamps."
"Huh?"
"Bec... because of the limitations of Xuanming Sha, coupled with the fact that so artifact crafting spells are very complex," Cheng Xun stuttered, "we can now only manufacture the simplest spiritual tool street lamps."
Old Man Bai seed a bit disappointed upon hearing this.
However, Zheng Fa grew increasingly interested, "How are they made, can you show ?"
Spiritual tool street lamps were initially designed in the Jiushan Realm to use in conjunction with the Shenxiao Outer Pill.
As of now, they are present in both the Heavenly Palace Nine Islands and even in significant mundane places in the Jiushan Realm, indicating their low cost and simple manufacturing process.
It’s not an exaggeration to say it’s the simplest magic artifact.
Cheng Yun nodded to a few of his project group partners.
A girl pressed a button, and the sound of machines turning started up.
Zheng Fa watched as a tal piece, half a ter square, was being lted, forged, and polished.
What intrigued him the most was the step requiring spell use during manufacturing, where soone placed a hand on the side of the machine over a talismanic diagram, and the machine would automatically release the spell to refine the spiritual material.
A few minutes later, Zheng Fa held a small spiritual tool street lamp, scrutinizing it up and down.
He understood it at a glance.
This production process was not advanced to be called automated—since using magic artifacts always requires a cultivator’s divine sense, unless it’s a spiritual artifact with self-awareness.
So, these machines can never fully dispense with people.
But this doesn’t an the machinery is useless.
On the contrary, it only requires divine sense, not magic casting from people, which not only saves spiritual power but more importantly lowers the skill requirent for workers!
Furthermore, because it omits the ti needed to cast spells, the manufacturing ti is significantly shortened.
Not to ntion, the controllability of machine tools ans that the quality control of Jiushan Sect’s magic artifacts will improve further.
The benefits were endless for Zheng Fa to contemplate.
The spiritual tool street lamp in Zheng Fa’s hand may not be much.
But in his mind, this street lamp seed to illuminate the future of Jiushan Sect’s industry.
He pocketed the lamp and looked at Cheng Yun and the others with undisguised admiration in his eyes, "Excellent... you’ve given a big surprise. I’ll have Professor Tang note down your Contribution Values."
Cheng Yun and the others looked at each other joyously, with smiles stretching from ear to ear.
The scene of Zheng Fa holding it up was sothing everyone on Rainbow Mountain could see, and it was deeply imprinted in their minds.
At this mont, Zheng Fa was like an Immortal God in their eyes, and a word of praise from him carried a different weight.
Moreover, everyone knew that Rainbow Mountain had its own Contribution Value system, and since Zheng Fa said so, they would undoubtedly reap significant future benefits.
...
Leaving Cheng Yun’s workshop, Tang Lingwu curiously glanced at Zheng Fa, seemingly asking him why he was so happy.
Zheng Fa raised the street lamp in his hand with a smile, "This thing, besides its huge future significance, is very helpful to right now."
Tang Lingwu tilted her head, seeming puzzled.
"I’m rather short-handed lately," said Zheng Fa directly to Tang Lingwu, naturally not concealing much. "Though this thing can only replace so basic steps, it is very useful to ."
Ultimately, Cheng Yun’s idea is just taking shape, and there are still nurous challenges ahead:
The most apparent issue is that so artifact-making spells are incredibly complex, which makes having an artifact perform them not only prohibitively costly but also elusive.
The flexibility and precision of magic artifacts can’t match cultivators with slightly higher cultivation.
Just to illustrate, it’s like saying magic artifacts crafted manually by a master craftsman are currently beyond the capability of these machines, and it will remain so for a while.
These artifact machine tools might only be able to replace a portion of the relatively low-end artifact manufacturing processes for now.
But the issue is, Zheng Fa is short-staffed!
He sweated every effort to capture traitors of the Hundred Immortals Alliance primarily to fill the manpower gap in the Jiushan Realm.
In his vision, once these people ca, even if they were not skilled in artifact refining, they would need to be trained, at least to grasp one or two artifact refining techniques.
Now with the possibility of producing suitable artifact machine tools, there’s no need for training; they can directly hop onto the production line to power the artifacts, without compromising their quality.
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