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Huo Yuhao smiled calmly: "Wanting to be lazy and want a more convenient life is one of the driving forces for the development of technology, isn't it?"
Xuan Ziwen was stunned for a moment, then nodded and smiled: "You are right. Your unnecessary actions at this time may give future generations the opportunity to be lazy in the future."
"I am currently researching a sealed milk bottle technology that can store soul power in the milk bottle and never dissipate."
"As long as my technology is realized, I can unconditionally charge soul guides. Then even ordinary people can use soul guides and enjoy the portability they bring."
Huo Yuhao looked at him with some surprise and said, “Teacher Xuan, I have always believed that in the future, the threshold for using soul guides will be lowered to the point where even ordinary people can use them. You will definitely succeed!”
Xuan Ziwen was stunned, and a smile appeared on his originally calm face: "I didn't expect that a little guy like you could understand me. Okay, then I will accept you as my student."
It is undeniable that although Mingdetang has indeed developed many soul guides for use in war and combat, in the process of developing these military technologies, many scientific research results will inevitably flow into the civilian field.
The end result is an improved standard of living for all citizens.
After hearing about Mingde Hall's original intention yesterday and seeing Xuan Ziwen who had such an idea today, Huo Yuhao couldn't help but praise them in his heart.
Huo Yuhao and Xuan Ziwen began a conversation, with Xuan Ziwen mainly asking questions, inquiring about Huo Yuhao's design concepts and soul guide concepts.
Just like Jing Hongchen yesterday, many of Huo Yuhao’s ideas made him marvel.
Xuan Ziwen took the bottle from the soul guide machine and injected his gentle soul power into it. After two days of placement, the soul power in the bottle was already empty.
Soon, Xuan Ziwen inserted the filled bottle back into the soul guide machine tool and placed a piece of ordinary metal against the tip of the engraving knife.
"It's a genius idea." Xuan Ziwen looked at the soul guide machine tool that was running again and commented indifferently, "Unfortunately, I am not very optimistic about it for the time being. If I want to conduct in-depth research, there are too many problems that need to be solved."
Huo Yuhao frowned and asked, "Why?"
"It's simple. You all underestimated the complexity of the advanced core array." Xuan Ziwen said calmly, "Although your fourth-level soul guide can already engrave simple core arrays, you embedded dozens of core arrays in this machine tool just to engrave this simple core array."
"If you want to increase the level of the engraved core array, such as stacking five different core arrays, then the number of core arrays to be inlaid must be far more than five times."
"Because the density of these core arrays is too high, if we want to avoid mistakes, we must carry out very complex and strict planning."
"Either increase the size or reduce the number of core arrays. In any case, the difficulty will increase exponentially. It is definitely impossible to solve it in the short term."
After hearing Xuan Ziwen point out his shortcomings, Huo Yuhao fell into deep thought.
Chapter 196 Xuan Ziwen (Part )
Seeing Huo Yuhao lost in thought, Xuan Ziwen smiled calmly and encouraged him, “However, even if we can engrave primary core arrays in batches, it is already a very remarkable idea.”
Xuan Ziwen had a good first impression of Huo Yuhao, the student that Lin Jiayi forced upon him. He was unlike the previous royal disciple.
“Teacher Xuan,” Huo Yuhao asked again at this time, “Can we completely dismantle each core array?”
Xuan Ziwen was stunned and frowned: "You mean..."
Huo Yuhao said: “No matter how complex each core array is, it is nothing more than a superposition of graphics and lines. Therefore, we do not need to design a high-level soul guide machine tool that can engrave high-level arrays. We can use countless low-level soul guide machine tools instead.”
"For example, one machine tool is only responsible for engraving straight lines, another machine tool is only responsible for engraving circles, and the third machine tool is only responsible for engraving triangles... and so on. Finally, the metal materials go through these processes and are finally arranged and combined into the desired core array."
"There are many benefits to this. As long as we use low-level machine tools to set up the basic template, no matter how complex the core array is, we can finally piece it together. Moreover, there is no need to design overly complex machine tools."
Xuan Ziwen's eyes widened. He did not refute immediately because his first reaction was that this plan was feasible.
He uttered two words from between his teeth: "Genius."
But Xuan Ziwen quickly thought of several problems that needed to be solved: "But you ignored the soul power required for engraving the high-level core array. The soul power input by the low-level soul guide machine tool is insufficient."
He paused for a moment, a gleam of light flashing in his eyes: "Wait, this is related to the sealed milk bottle I am researching. As long as I can develop a sealed milk bottle, this problem will be solved."
"By then, the core arrays of level 7 and 8 soul guides can also be engraved in batches."
But then he showed a trace of worry: "No, the cost is too high."
"The cost of making ordinary baby bottles is already high enough. Even if I can develop a sealed baby bottle, the cost will definitely be higher."
"If we want to engrave the core arrays of level 7 and 8 soul guides in large quantities, according to what you said, we have to design hundreds of templates, which means hundreds of high-level milk bottles. The cost is very huge for Mingde Hall."
At this moment, Huo Yuhao smiled.
"Teacher Xuan, costs can be diluted."
Xuan Ziwen was stunned and asked, "How to dilute it?"
Huo Yuhao said: “If we want to mass-produce an eighth-level soul guide, we need one hundred machine tool templates and one hundred eighth-level milk bottles. These are fixed costs. No matter how many we produce, one or one hundred, they must be spent.”
"But if we produce a total of 10,000 level 8 soul guides, then all these fixed costs will be diluted into these 10,000 level 8 soul guides."
"All we paid for was the metal materials and soul power consumed to make these eighth-level soul guides, as well as these fixed costs."
"But what we got was a full 10,000 level 8 soul guides!"
"What do you think of this tiny cost compared to the benefits?"
Xuan Ziwen only felt his heart beating faster and faster.
As an eighth-level soul engineer, he certainly knew how difficult it was to engrave the core array of an eighth-level soul guide.
Even for a soul guide genius like him, it is not easy to create an eighth-level soul guide.
But now a student told him that there is a plan in front of him. If it is feasible, he can produce 10,000 level 8 soul guides at once in the future.
How could he not be moved by this?
Xuan Ziwen sat in a daze on the chair, looking up at the ceiling. After a long while, he chuckled, "If your idea really succeeds, I really can't imagine what the future of soul guides will be like, and what the future of the Sun Moon Empire will be like."
He is a pure researcher, and is somewhat indifferent to things other than soul guides, but as long as something catches his interest, he will put aside all his airs.
Although Huo Yuhao is now his student and this is only their first meeting, the two of them can enthusiastically discuss a soul guide issue and are of the same mind.
Xuan Ziwen looked at Huo Yuhao with admiration again and said, “Huo Yuhao, I now officially declare that you will be my fifth student from now on. The door of the third laboratory will always be open to you.”
As he spoke, he handed Huo Yuhao a nameplate.
Huo Yuhao took the nameplate and thanked him.
Xuan Ziwen smiled and said, "Once I have completed the two current research tasks, I will apply for funding from Mingde Hall and focus on the research of soul guide machine tools. But..."
He looked at Huo Yuhao with a strange expression: "Why are you still a level 4 soul instructor?"
Huo Yuhao said helplessly: "Teacher Xuan, I am only thirteen years old and have been stuck at the fourth-level half-soul mentor for several months. I am just waiting for you to give me some guidance so that I can enter Mingde Hall to study."
"Thirteen?"
A thirteen-year-old fourth-level soul master, such talent, even Xuan Ziwen couldn't help but exclaim in amazement.
"Okay, if you have any questions, you can ask me now. Some of your seniors are out for training, so I can give you individual tutoring."
Huo Yuhao couldn't help but be overjoyed and asked several questions that had been bothering him for a long time.
Xuan Ziwen naturally explained everything to him without reservation.
Huo Yuhao nodded as he listened.
He had previously felt that the seventh-level soul engineer senior from the Xing Luo Empire had a distorted understanding of soul guides. Although he could make them, he was not good at teaching others.
The Sun-Moon Empire's understanding of soul guides was more in line with his ideas. After hearing Xuan Ziwen's explanation, he suddenly felt enlightened and believed that he would be able to break through to the fifth-level soul guide soon.
But at the same time, a feeling of sadness rose in his heart.
The gap in soul guide equipment between the Sun-Moon Empire and the Star Luo Empire was too great. Although he left the drawings of the soul guide machine tools to Xu Jiujiu, it was ultimately impossible for them to compare with those of the Sun-Moon Empire.
After the explanation there is a break.
Xuan Ziwen muttered to himself, "Alas...if your idea really succeeds, the Sun-Moon Empire will be able to continuously produce various high-level soul guides. Thirty years? Twenty years? Or ten years? If the Sun-Moon Empire attacks the three countries on the mainland, I wonder what their chances of winning are?"
"After all, I am also a member of the Heavenly Soul Empire."
Huo Yuhao asked: "Teacher Xuan, aren't you from the Sun Moon Empire?"
Xuan Ziwen answered truthfully: "I immigrated to the Sun Moon Empire with my parents."
Runxue...
Huo Yuhao fell silent.
In fact, he didn't want to see the Star Luo Empire being conquered by the Sun and Moon Empire.
But after all, he was in the Sun Moon Royal Soul Instructor Academy. If he wanted to steal something from Mingde Hall, he should also do something for the Sun Moon Empire.
So how should he reconcile the conflict between the two?
Huo Yuhao narrowed his eyes.
He seemed to have found a way to have the best of both worlds.
Chapter 197 The Competitive Xiao Hongchen
Mingde Hall, Jing Hongchen's office.
Jing Hongchen was frowning at the table, with thick files in front of him. As the head of Mingde Hall, he had too many things to deal with, so his research progressed slowly.
Even Titled Douluo and ninth-level soul masters would feel exhausted by various trivial matters.
At another table nearby, a handsome young man also frowned as he observed the design drawings in front of him.
Behind him, five soul rings, two yellow, two purple and one black, flickered, and different metal materials kept changing and combining together.
The hard metal material was like a soft toy in his hands, changing into a suitable shape and finally condensing into the appearance of a soul guide.
He is the grandson of Jing Hongchen, the number one genius of the Sun and Moon Empire, Xiao Hongchen.
After a long time, the soul guide device was completed. He put another piece of metal material on it, injected soul power into it, and the soul guide machine tool automatically began to engrave.
Xiao Hongchen's tightly furrowed brows finally relaxed, and he smiled confidently: "Grandpa, I copied it."
Jing Hongchen stopped what he was doing and looked at him with a smile: "Xiao, with the design drawings, do you still need so many days?"
Xiao Hongchen said: "Grandpa, I not only reproduced it, but also improved it, and the efficiency has increased a lot."
He looked at the blueprint with some approval and asked, "Grandpa, I feel that the appearance of this machine tool is of great significance. Although many soul guides are of low level, the production requirements are very high and the process is very troublesome. Low-level soul guides can't make them, and high-level soul guides are unwilling to do it."
"With this soul guide machine tool, we can solve these problems. For example, only a few people have a voice transmission soul guide now, but maybe everyone will have one in the future."
A few days ago, Xiao Hongchen was concentrating on cultivation and was a little dissatisfied when Jing Hongchen called him. However, when he saw this soul guide machine tool, he was stunned for a moment. His strong interest prompted him to put down his cultivation.
He raised the corner of his mouth and asked, "Grandpa, who designed this?"
Jing Hongchen kept it a secret and said, "First, guess what level the soul guide who designed it is?"
Xiao Hongchen tentatively answered: "Level six? Or level seven?"