Enter the Immortal Cultivation

Although the project has not officially started yet, Chen Feng doesn't have much time. According to him, he still has to train a few skilled laboratory apprentices, which is also very busy - entering the Yuanling Environment Verification Department is a test of the ability to control mana. If the mana in the body is not well controlled and the mana is constantly dissipated, the environment inside the Verification Department may be polluted. This alone will eliminate many people.

After seeing several Tianlingling disciples coming here, Chen Feng let Wang Qi do as he pleases, and then took a few new experimental dogs into the Verification Department. Wang Qi, who had nothing to do, had to take the "Introduction to Refining" textbook marked by Chen Feng and Chen Feng's own refining notes to the Wanfamen station.

On the way, Wang Qi couldn't help but start flipping through Chen Feng's notes. In his opinion, everyone is a noble theoretical scholar, and it is really stupid to invest precious time in technical work - the reason why humans are united and powerful is because they have learned to divide the work and cooperate. If one person takes care of all the work inefficiently, what is the difference between that and a powerful monkey? Handing low-level technical work to ordinary people and using theories to promote the progress of all mankind is the attitude that a great scientist should have.

After opening Chen Feng's notebook, Wang Qi found that his thoughts were so damn correct. Look, Chen Feng, a wise Five Absolute True Transmission, also thought so!

Take a look at other people's refining techniques. Ignore all the principles and just write down some techniques and common formulas. Then for materials, you only need to know a few that you need? What? Common materials? Is it possible for me to use them in this refining? No? Then why should I know? Commonly used magic weapon classic structure? Why do I need to know those things? I just need to know how to refine the simulation base.

With this attitude, Chen Feng just used the marginal notes in the refining textbook and a small half of the notebook to complete the study of refining techniques!

Wang Qi not only exclaimed: "This is the real refining technique that is close to life and everyone needs to master - it's so simple."

Zhen Chanzi sighed: "The world is going downhill, people's hearts are not as good as before... At that time, I had to at least learn how to maintain and repair magic weapons..."

Wang Qi then ignored Zhen Chanzi's sigh. Natural materials and treasures can be produced on a large scale, and magic weapons can naturally be produced on an assembly line, and the cost can be reduced to a level that was unimaginable in the ancient times. Foundation-building disciples like Chen Feng can afford treasure-level calculators.

When Wang Qi walked to the Wanfa Gate, he happened to see an outer disciple of the Wanfa Gate holding a few books and standing at the door in a daze. Wang Qi remembered that this person was called Liang Jin, so he went up to greet him: "Hey, what are you standing here in a daze?"

Unexpectedly, after seeing Wang Qi, Liang Jin seemed to be extremely frightened, and hurriedly took two steps back and bowed deeply: "Wang... Senior Brother Wang!" Unexpectedly, his movements were too big and all the books in his hands fell to the ground.

Wang Qi asked curiously, "What's wrong with you? Why are you so polite all of a sudden?"

Liang Jin took two steps back and said stutteringly, "That... that... How dare I do this in front of my senior brother? I'm so rude again..." He started to pick up books in a hurry.

Wang Qi squatted down and picked up a book to take a look. The name of the book was "Selected Works of All Laws", an academic journal in this world.

However, this "journal" is completely different from the journals that Wang Qi read in his previous life. First of all, this thing does not publish the main part of the paper, but specifically publishes the abstract, keywords, and part of the conclusion of the paper. Occasionally, it will also be attached with the evaluation of the paper of the senior overhaul team - if you want to see the main body of the paper, you have to go to the paper library of the Immortal Alliance to exchange it yourself. Secondly, since only abstracts are published, a journal can often compile many papers. Finally, this journal does not accept submissions at all, and it is entirely up to the editor of the journal to choose. And a paper cannot only be included in one journal.

From Wang Qi's perspective, this is a quick but inefficient system.

Scholars who already have a reputation and connections can quickly spread their papers, first by relying on small journals, then being selected by high-level monks and selected into large journals. If they are new disciples who are followed by high-level monks, they may become famous overnight. However, some new theories that are not very compatible with mainstream theories, or unknown newcomers in the scientific research community, are more miserable. Their theories often take a long time to be noticed.

This is somewhat unfavorable to academic progress.

The journals themselves cannot bring direct benefits to the authors of the papers, and it is even difficult to be called "qualifications". The journals of Shenzhou are essentially more like "advertisements" for papers, and the real benefits of the authors of papers still come from the exchange and citation of other monks in the Immortal Alliance paper library.

If we only look at the history of Shenzhou, this strange system actually has historical origins. The core feature of academic journals on Earth is "peer review". This system appeared in Europe in the 17th century. Its formation is actually influenced by two factors-first, Europe is small enough, and letters and journals are delivered quickly. Second, communication tools are not developed, but the postal service is already developed enough.

Unfortunately, Shenzhou is a large continent. Unless it is a top-level repair, even a high-level cultivator will have to walk for half a month to reach it with a flying sword - and it is very unrealistic to rely on high-level cultivators to send letters. In addition, long-distance communication methods actually existed in the ancient times tens of thousands of years ago. Although the delay is very serious and the information that can be transmitted is limited, it is still enough to discuss theories. Moreover, during this period, everyone was engaged in theory for their own practice, so they were not so concerned about the spread of papers.

And because the physical laws here are very different from those on Earth, the Fantasy of Ten Thousand Immortals was popularized earlier than the telephone and telegraph systems, so a paid paper library appeared earlier than the journals, which can be regarded as running into the era of online paper libraries.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that since the exchange, download and citation of papers are directly linked to the income of cultivators, whether it is out of consideration for intellectual property protection or the copyright awareness of cultivators, a similar free preprint system has not appeared - or it may have appeared, but was killed by Feng Luoyi and a group of network administrators.

An extremely inconvenient system.

However, if you look at this system with a skeptical attitude from the beginning...

"The old man said it well. This system was not created for convenience. The Immortal Alliance adopted this strange system to ensure that the theory would not be lost to the greatest extent."

The Ten Thousand Immortals Fantasy was set up as a system that only modern practitioners can enter from the beginning. This is a means of identifying souls. Only modern practitioners who have undergone health cultivation and whose souls have undergone transformation after breaking through Tongtian can obtain information from the Ten Thousand Immortals Fantasy. If you want to exchange a large amount of modern theories, you must have a large amount of merit. In the merit reward system of the Immortal Alliance, the biggest beneficiaries are front-line researchers, and such people are unlikely to betray the Immortal Alliance.

This is a very effective defense method.