The Lang Clan had ford their new ho out of a rough circle of small mountains, and relied heavily upon the Banyan Building techniques. The Prosperity Company buildings had been replaced in the intervening years, but the Lang Clan preferred to maintain the mystical forest feel they had grown used to. The buildings grown out of trees were astounding not just from an artistic standpoint, but also because of all the anities seamlessly hidden within them. Hot and cold plumbing, heating and cooling of the air. So many comfortable things were seamlessly integrated into the still living buildings. It also ant the outsides of them still had small animals, birds, and insects living among the branches and upon the soil of each of the tree hos. The hos had floors and walls that could be heated or cooled, saunas, showers, baths, indoor ponds and aquariums. Cooking and food storage were a little more energy intensive, but Blastids could solve those problems while also powering blow dryers, vacuums, lighting, music players, and telephones to na just a few.
It was a place of modern earth conveniences, but made almost entirely out of living beings. News also spread quickly of his return and with the highest mbers of the Clan wanting to celebrate it beca a clan wide festival without any formal announcent or planning. Technically, everyone was family which ant their enthusiasm for the event spread rapidly so even those Sage had not only never t, but hadnt even been born when he last visited were still excited to join the party welcoming him ho. Decorations were easy, as over the years theyd figured out even more nuanced ways to use the Banyan building, making buds bloom in a whole rainbow of colors, with hundreds of scents and thousands of varieties of flower. A feast followed, and Sage t with grandchildren, and great-grandchildren in droves. It also ant he had to hand out a lot of gifts, but that was simple enough because of the Inner World.
In fact, the finale for the festivities was taking the whole Clan to visit the Inner World. For one day, the whole clan got quiet, left with only the Dragoons to defend the place while the whole of the Clan spent a few years on vacation. It wasnt just a vacation, as it was also an educational trip to update the clan of all the advancents that had taken place. While the Clan had many anities on the outside world, they had been away from the Inner World for the better part of a hundred thousand years. The whole civilization had crumbled apart and rose again more than once in that ti period. Even the oldest mbers of the research team were at least a dozen generations removed from Sages imdiate family. For those on the Inner World it was a eting with their ancestors and so enjoyed connecting with these descendants more than exploring the world, but most were busy learning of all the changes.
Compared to the living anities of the outside world, the Inner World had diverged quite a bit. The Banyan Building technology still ford the basis of most structures, and Bio-computers were all over the place, but now Blastids had been relegated to power sources. Magic Tools had gone through a chanical revolution, pushing them beyond Earths capabilities by a large margin. chanical devices using living creatures as a power source, and the addition of supernatural abilities through formations. The vehicles he used in the Tianxia Capital, and even the Shifting Jade Mountain were used because the mainstream technology from the Inner World would stand out too much.
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The truth of things was that Sage no longer knew how most of the technology of the Inner World worked. The research team and the engineers and inventors on the Inner World had moved far beyond the tis when he was running everything directly. All he did was give them a starting point by listing the basic idea of all the devices hed rembered from Earth. Hed also add more input whenever his mory was jogged. When a new problem appeared, or a new technology reminded him of sothing else, he would often rember an Earth device and then describe how it worked, or at least how it worked in his own estimation. For example, a jet engine. He knew only that it had a series of fans inside, from his mory of a cross section hed seen. Sketching out the design he rembered, his description of how it worked was that the fans in front sucked air through the intake. Each layer of fans compressed that air, and then near the back fuel was added. Upon ignition the next layer of fans were driven by the force of the combustion, being used to turn the fans in the front while the majority of the energy continued on through a narrow nozzle to create thrust.
Sage himself had no idea how exactly the fans were all geared or attached together. He also had no idea how they even started the thing, let alone the most optimal shape for the fan blades. Worse yet, he still had never found a substitute fuel to use for combustion. Hed previously theorized that the Laws of the world here were different than Earth, which altered the way chemistry worked in subtle ways. The researchers were stumped by this idea for years, as every fuel they tested out did not react the way they wanted, either being too low in energy, or the complete opposite and destroying the test device. The research stalled out for thousands of years until a variation of the Fire Blossom poison was created to fill the role. Special Blastids were bred to produce the new poison, which combusted in a more regular and even manner than the original poison.
That was about as much as Sage knew about the device, and hed moved on to providing input on aircraft shapes and the aerodynamics of wings. A field of study that was used to help optimize the Shifting Jade Mountain later, and which also led to the Flying Wing that had been part of the trade. The Flying Wings design thodology was the sa as the other flying machines, but it was the equivalent of a scooter in comparison to the supercars that were currently being used on the Inner World. Aircraft were designed to account for aerodynamic lift, drag and turbulence, even if those things didnt always apply. The Laws of Wind and other similar problems could completely alter how those things interacted with a vehicle and so their core systems were backup flight systems like a Flying Ship. Their smaller size made them much faster than the much larger Flying Ships, even when they couldnt take advantage of their aerodynamic properties. It was also even more true given the level of armants they could carry. A Flying Ship was large enough to carry huge sect defending or attacking formations, which the aircraft could not do, but instead they could carry weapons powered by high level Blastids. The weapons developnt programs were even more advanced than the others, as that had been one of the main purposes behind creating Blastids in the first place.
The Lang Clan had a busy few years ahead of them, learning about how to use everything so they could further improve their capabilities once they were back. They also spent many days together, celebrating on this vacation as a family, trying to make up for the ti that theyd been apart.
Theres certainly sothing strangely fulfilling about having so many descendants you havent even t them all.
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