Cultivation begins with separation

Purple Mountain.

Inside the Purple Mountain Academy that no one cares about.

A young man is giving a lecture.

Most of the children sitting below are farmers from the surrounding areas of Purple Mountain, and most of them are mortal descendants of the Yi family.

The young man always has a gentle smile on his face. Even if a child is distracted or even falls asleep in class, he will not change his expression.

He will gently remind the distracted children, and wake up the sleeping children gently or let them continue to sleep if they are tired.

When the young man teaches, his voice is always very gentle, showing a patient look.

As the class ends, one child after another bids farewell to the young man.

The young man put away the textbooks.

He quickly left the classroom.

Walking in the empty academy.

The young man couldn't help but sigh.

When he came to this academy, the magic instruments here roared and people came and went.

But the glory was short-lived. In just three or two years, the academy was depressed.

At that time, Shi Aqiu was still young. He only heard others say that the academy was illegal. Some people said that the dean, whom he had only seen from a distance a few times, was arrested and the academy could not continue.

At that time, there were also official people asking him whether he would return to his hometown.

But Shi Aqiu learned a lot of knowledge in the academy and was very reluctant to return to his original small village.

It’s not that the original small village is bad, but because mortals rarely have the opportunity to travel far, especially the people in his small village, who have lived not far from their birthplace all their lives, and the most intersection is the nearby village.

Shi Aqiu didn’t want to live this kind of life, so he resolutely stayed, regardless of other people’s persuasion.

Fortunately, his best friend Shi Alu also stayed.

Although the academy no longer distributes living supplies, the untaxed fields are still enough for those who stay to live.

Although the academy has declined, it has left behind a lot of things that have not been moved away.

For example, many abandoned large magic tools, old clothes and other daily necessities left by many students.

Especially in the library, most of the books have not been moved away.

Those books made Shi Aqiu not feel that life in the academy is boring at all.

Shi Aqiu did not return to his residence directly.

Instead, he walked towards an abandoned workshop.

Soon, he saw more than a dozen young people fiddling with a machine that was made of countless steel-like objects, similar to a square box, and three or four meters high.

One of the sturdy young men saw Shi Aqiu coming and greeted him.

Soon, Shi Aqiu joined them.

With Shi Aqiu joining, the actions of more than a dozen people began to become orderly. Obviously, under Shi Aqiu's guidance, several people quickly assembled the machine.

As the machine was assembled.

Several young people carried buckets of water and poured them into a huge container of the machine.

Another young man filled the grass and wood fuel piled around into the machine.

After ignition, as the fire became stronger, wisps of steam appeared, and then the machine began to rumble and run.

"Great, it's moving."

"We succeeded."

"Without using spirit stones, we have made a magic weapon that can be driven."

One by one, the young people were cheering.

With the cheers, many people gathered around.

These people are all people living in the academy, and some of them have even married and had children.

At this time, the people who came around, whether men or women, all stared at the running magic weapon with their eyes wide open, looking at it in disbelief.

The smoking machine broke their cognition.

Many mortals know that there is a kind of spiritual firearm in the fairyland. As long as you have a gun license, you can legally purchase this kind of firearm. With spiritual firearms, most cultivators can become kind in front of you.

But this kind of spiritual firearm also needs to be driven by spiritual stones.

Now this kind of magic weapon that does not need to be driven by spiritual stones makes them a little dazed for a while.

Some people even thought that if mortals can also refine magic weapons, the distance between mortals and cultivators will be closer.

As Shi Aqiu and others created magic weapons that do not need spiritual stones, the news spread quickly.

The people who manage Zijinshan College even specially reported the matter.

As the matter was reported.

Shi Aqiu and others could only wait for news.

Late at night, Shi Aqiu and his group gathered in an empty classroom and bought a bunch of food and sake.

Everyone was celebrating their success.

Many of them did not want to get anything from Zijin Mountain through this magic weapon, but wanted to prove the value of Zijin Mountain Academy.

Because, a long time ago, there were rumors that Zijin Mountain Academy would be demolished.

Without Zijin Mountain Academy, they would lose their place to stay.

After all, the Immortal Kingdom is not fair.

Just like the noble families who bought the spiritual veins and fields, they could not hire casual cultivators to plant spiritual fields. The rent for hiring ordinary people to plant fields must be in accordance with the laws of the Immortal Kingdom, and the noble families do not have to pay taxes to the Immortal Kingdom.

And casual cultivators, even if they buy the spiritual fields nourished by the spiritual veins of the city, still need to pay taxes.

The same is true for the fields bought or reclaimed by ordinary people.

Shi Aqiu and others planted ten acres of fields in the academy. Zijin Mountain did not collect taxes from them. They could harvest as much as they planted. This benefit was not available in other places.

A few people like Shi Aqiu did not look at the income from the fields, because most of them did not get married and did not even finish planting ten acres of fields.

They just came because there were many books in the academy that were hard to find in the outside world.

After they left one by one.

A dark and strong young man greeted Shi Aqiu.

The two walked back to their residence together.

"Aqiu, do you really plan to stay in the academy?

To be honest, I don’t think our kind of magic weapon will make the cultivators of Purple Mountain agree to our request.

Each of these immortal cultivators from aristocratic families are extremely arrogant. "

“Alu, the Yi family is different, at least not now.

Our dean, the mountain master, has no descendants for the time being.

The relationship between the Yi family on the mountain and the dean is not too close, so these immortal cultivators of the Yi family cannot be unscrupulous in Zijin Mountain.

We have also been to the county seat and visited colleges in the county seat, but the libraries in those colleges are not as good as those here.

Not to mention Xia County, perhaps there is no other college in the entire Qingzhou that has collected as many mortal books as Purple Mountain College.

Because there are basically no immortal cultivators who would specially collect books for mortals.

Without Purple Mountain College, we would not have been exposed to a lot of knowledge in our lives. "

"I don't understand why you are so obsessed with knowledge?

Our lives are short, what’s the point of learning so much useless knowledge? "

"Alu, you also know that no matter how busy I am, I will never miss my daily lectures, right?"

"Um?

Don’t you like to be a teacher and enjoy the feeling of teaching and educating people? "

“You are wrong, this is what I study for.

Our lives are short, but there will be students who will inherit my knowledge and pass it on from generation to generation. "

"Is it necessary to go to such trouble?

You write a book and say it, and let the immortal cultivators preserve the words in jade slips so that they can be passed down for thousands of years. "

"You don't understand. The knowledge I inherited is not only the knowledge recorded in writing, but also my thoughts and my thinking."

"I really don't understand, please tell me."

"You will understand later."

...

After half a month.

Shi Aqiu followed a Yi family cultivator and rode a big green bull that ran like flying to the top of Purple Mountain. Here, he met an unexpected person.

"Oriental teaching?"

Compared to the dean who has been missing all year round.

Dongfanghong, who was responsible for most of the affairs of the college back then, became familiar to the students of the college.

Dongfanghong looked at Shi Aqiu and found that she had no impression, so she stopped worrying.

She looked at Shi Aqiu and said:

"Your name is Shi Aqiu.

I've seen your so-called magic weapon.

You may not know that 90,000 years ago, magical weapons like yours that were not powered by spirit stones were called steam machines by the Taoist Academy.

However, this kind of machinery was quickly eliminated by the Taoist Academy.

Do you know why? "

Shi Aqiu thought for a while and said:

"Is it because of motivation?"

Dongfanghong nodded,

"That's it. Steam power has its limits, especially the steam power generated by the burning of ordinary materials. If spiritual materials are used as fuel, it can provide more power. However, in this way, it is different from using spiritual stones to provide spiritual energy. What's the difference?

Moreover, the power energy of steam power is not as convenient as the storage of spiritual stones. "

Looking at Shi Aqiu's thoughtful look, Dongfanghong continued:

“Not only is it steam, but the Fairy Kingdom began to use electricity 70,000 years ago.

Electric energy is more convenient to store than steam energy, and many electric machines have been developed.

There are even many power stations built in rivers and even seas, and there are also many wind power stations. However, with the development of the times, it is found that to maintain the long-term operation of power stations, the machines manufactured need to be durable, so it is necessary to add spiritual materials such as spiritual iron. .

Perhaps because it consumed too much, or perhaps because the electric energy was not as stable and efficient as the spirit stone, the electric machinery was slowly abandoned. "

Generally speaking, immortal cultivators are reluctant to use spiritual materials for mortals.

Shi Adong said:

"This is because electric energy is of little use to immortal cultivators, so they give it up. What if it is used by mortals?"

"You want to build electrical machinery?"

"Indeed interested."

"Very good, next, I will help you collect some information in this regard.

No need to wonder, it’s just that I have encountered some difficulties in energy transformation. Maybe your research can be of some help to me.

Even if it doesn't help, I won't blame you. "

Dongfang is red, gold is the root of heaven.

As she came to Purple Mountain, she soon discovered the supernatural power of Taichu Zixing.

At first, she said she would help Yi Dong guard the mountain for twenty years, but now, even if Yi Dong drives her away, she is unwilling to leave.

If Yi Dong hadn't made Taichu Zi Xing his natal creature, Dongfang Hong might have had other ideas.

Through studying Yi Dong's various experimental records, although most of those records were deleted by Yi Dong, there is not even much core content.

But Dongfanghong still discovered that Yi Dong had benefited greatly from refining Taichu Zixing into a life object.

As a result, she naturally came up with ideas.

It is difficult to find a gold treasure similar to Taichu Purple Apricot.

However, the Dongfang family has a thunder-type treasure that remains.

In this world, the Five Elements treasures are generally very precious and rare, because only the Five Elements attributes have Heavenly Spiritual Roots, and the other Ice, Wind and Thunder attributes are all foreign Spiritual Roots derived from hybridization and mutation, which are similar to the Second Spiritual Roots.

This cultivation is usually based on the Heavenly Spiritual Root, so one can imagine how rare the treasures with Five Elements attributes are.

Dongfanghong naturally wouldn't make ordinary things into life objects. As for the incompatibility between the thunder attribute life object and the spiritual root attribute, Dongfang Hong couldn't care less.

She didn't know when Yi Dong would come back. If he drove her away from Zijin Mountain, without the purple energy of Taichu Zixing, it would be much more difficult for her to modify her skills.

So she needed to hurry up, and she would not let go of even the meager help from mortals like Shi Aqiu.