signingbooks #740 - "Eternal Energy"
#740 - "Eternal Energy"
Liang Yue wasn't aware that the manipulators behind the scenes had gleaned some reliable information from the previous battles, and even if he knew, he wouldn't care.
At this moment, he had once again entered a state of focused research.
Obtaining an Apostle's physical body was clearly more valuable than just that small cup of the Water of Life.
Following the previous routine, he sent half of it to the laboratory of the AI Xiaowu in the base world.
The other half, after being distributed among the women and a portion to his disciples, the remainder became his research material.
Compared to Liang Yue's interest in the internal mechanisms of the Apostle, such as the deeper levels of operation of the S2 Engine, the people in the base world mostly focused on the Apostle's two high-heat light whips and the carapace material.
After all, these materials, with a little refining, could be crafted into weapons and armor with considerable power.
Relatively speaking, the gene level, the microscopic operating principles, infinite energy, and other absolutely high-end fields were still a bit too early for them.
At this time, the people in the base world, although their combat power was very good due to the simultaneous cultivation of multiple systems and various skills, were still slightly lacking in terms of cultivation realm.
Compared to Liang Yue, the village chief, they had already been left behind by a significant margin.
Among them, even Saeko-senpai, Hinata, Alwyn, and others, who had the fastest cultivation progress and were the most diligent and hardworking, had only just entered the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage!
They were about to be qualified to enter the Golden Core stage, but compared to Liang Yue now, they were still far behind.
Among them, the acquisition of the first transformation of the Thirty-Six Transformations of Tiangang ~ Creation of Fortune, was the opportunity for him to widen the gap between himself and the women.
But there was no way around it, the threshold for this technique was too high ~
Even if Liang Yue opened up the requirements and placed the cultivation method on the shared platform, the women still couldn't learn it, and even entering the door was difficult.
The fastest progress in this area was actually Liang Yue's personal disciple, Bao Yun, who had now officially stepped down from the position of Sect Leader of the Flowing Cloud Sect.
Relying on his years of dedicated research, this disciple of his had now begun to slightly touch the edge of the Qi Absorption method of Creation of Fortune.
However, this was not because Bao Yun had particularly good talent.
Of course, his aptitude and talent were indeed very good…
Just like when managing the Flowing Cloud Sect, when trying to sort out the ultimate mysteries of this technique, Bao Yun would often first do a comprehensive analysis of his own.
First, he would build a general framework, establish corresponding management systems, and then gradually subdivide it bit by bit.
This was a stupid method.
Because it emphasized steady progress, step by step, and required time to carefully polish it.
Applying this way of thinking to cultivation, the price to be paid was also not small.
It was precisely because of this that when Liang Yue had just selected the DC plane as a public world and returned to the Flowing Cloud Sect, Bao Yun had only outlined a minimalist version of the Qi Absorption Lotus of Creation of Fortune.
However, correspondingly, among his disciples, there were very few who could surpass Bao Yun in the research of this great divine power.
Rather than envying the fish at the edge of the pond, it is better to go home and weave a net.
It was precisely by adhering to such a pragmatic attitude, coupled with his already good talent, that he was able to achieve today's achievements…
Now, Liang Yue was also taking such an attitude when studying the several Apostle materials in his hand.
However, compared to Bao Yun's time-consuming approach, he had a shortcut to take!
That was the assistance from the AI Xiaowu ~
This was not a joke, but because Xiaowu's deduction method was almost the same as Bao Yun's cultivation strategy.
Both adopted a method of comprehensive expansion, outlining the main framework and shape, and then gradually going deeper, filling in details, and verifying principles.
Both were using the most stupid method to steadily grind away at time ~
The difference between the two was that the AI Xiaowu's computing speed was much faster than Bao Yun's, and it also had various experimental tools and external objects to assist it.
Once there were any stage-by-stage results, they would be sent to Liang Yue in a timely manner.
And Liang Yue himself only needed to follow his train of thought, constantly launching sprints, raids, and then repeatedly pulling back in deeper areas.
He didn't have to worry about ultimately doing useless work because of research direction issues.
Because Xiaowu was there to help him hold the bottom line…
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In this way, unknowingly, more than half a year passed.
During this period, Liang Yue's research could be described as rapid progress, and he barely managed to understand the operating principle of the so-called S2 Engine, and with the help of the AI Xiaowu, he successfully created an individual that could generate energy infinitely within the body.
As a result, the side quest "Eternal Energy", which he had privately thought would be the most difficult task, was completed by him easily…
Ten thousand points, plus an advance on a lottery draw ~
But the early completion of the task did not bring him any sense of satisfaction.
Because the credit for Liang Yue being able to complete the task ~ almost all came from the AI Xiaowu's scientific deduction!
Regarding that individual who had formed a replica of the S2 Engine in the body and could theoretically generate energy infinitely, it was also a clone created by Xiaowu based on its own original biological gene technology.
This experimental subject had no soul and did not need to eat, so it spent almost all day in a daze in the laboratory.
Just like the Africans before the Age of Discovery, the products on that continent were too rich, the soil was fertile, and the climate conditions were good, so there was no desire to move forward at all.
Moreover, the efficiency of energy conversion of the S2 Engine in its body was also very low, almost only able to achieve a balance between its own daily consumption and the energy obtained.
Just like an ordinary person who doesn't need to eat, healthy, environmentally friendly, and without desires…
It had no tendency to evolve in the direction of ferocity, wildness, and gigantification, like the Apostles in the world in front of him.
However, this was understandable.
After all, compared to the Apostles who had innate conditions such as the Fruit of Life, this manufactured individual was almost a blank slate.
Apart from the fact that the AI Xiaowu subconsciously made it a little prettier out of the need to meet Liang Yue's aesthetic views, there was almost nothing to recommend it.
The purpose of creating such a clone was only for Liang Yue to complete the system task.
More advanced individuals than this mediocre experimental subject could actually be produced by the AI Xiaowu's ability.
In fact, in addition to the exploration and deduction of the S2 Engine, Xiaowu had been simultaneously conducting research on the Fruit of Life almost without distinction.
In the original plot, the SEELE organization, and NERV under the leadership of Gendo Ikari, could also almost perfectly replicate the EVA replicas that could be infinitely reborn and had evolutionary potential.
There was no reason for it to become difficult for Xiaowu…
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