Chapter 220:
The Natural History Conference of the Dongwei Spiritual Age lasted from morning to night. In the evening, more than a hundred people had a working meal at the Xiaoyu Hotel. After eating, they dispersed.
Cowley's people had contacted the card game, but no one invited Duke to play cards.
Duke simply took Vivian, Mulali, Mulashan and others to visit the night market in Runwu City and visit this large city with a population of nearly 20 million.
The inner city is full of tall towers, each taller than the last. At night, they light up with lanterns, as if putting on a light show. Especially after replacing the strong light, there is no fear of consuming spiritual energy, and the inner city is illuminated as bright as day.
A dazzling array of shops, flashing neon signs, and an endless stream of people.
Show the charm of the metropolis.
However, compared to the splendor of the inner city, Duke prefers to visit the outer city. He sees many dirty and dilapidated low-rise buildings, as well as shantytowns where low-rise houses are patchworked together. You can even see them every time you pass by an alley. Crime occurs.
Robbery and theft are common.
"It seems to be no different from Shenjiao City." Mulali sighed.
"The lives of ordinary people at the bottom everywhere are pretty much the same." Duke hurriedly walked through the streets and dismissed a few crimes before his interest waned.
There is a huge sense of separation between arcane mages and ordinary people.
This sense of separation is greater than the separation between the upper caste and the lower caste, the third brother on earth, but it is not just a simple gap between rich and poor.
Because whether it is Runwu City or Shenjiao City, the lives of most people at the bottom are pretty good, at least they won't go hungry. However, the life of the arcane mage class is like paradise, with no disease, no disaster, and a long life of hundreds of years. Everything is available.
"Ordinary people still have to experience the sufferings of life, old age, illness and death. Alas, I eat and drink well every day, and I deserve it..." Duke shook his head.
Vivian, who was always taciturn, suddenly said: "Sir, you have done a good job, both in private and public ethics. You have never oppressed ordinary people, and you also invented a bright light to disperse the anger for ordinary people. Dark, the people are grateful to you."
"I haven't done enough." Duke sighed.
Then he looked at his female knight again: "Vivian, I found that you are actually very talented in speaking. Please talk more in the future and don't always be silent." Vivian nodded: "Yes." Then she returned to her usual
behavior
. He is rigid and quiet, and does his job of guarding the knight captain conscientiously, without being arrogant.
Duke also restrained his sympathy and wandered around the streets of the city from the perspective of a bystander.
Observe the scenery of this era and this world.
The towering chimneys emit billowing smoke regardless of day or night, and are blown out of the city by the constant arcane wind.
The machines in the factory are roaring, trucks are queuing up to pull goods from the factory, and workers are riding bicycles, coming and going in shifts. In this huge city, there are ugly pictures and beautiful moments. The hardships of life have not wiped away the smiles on people's faces.
"I can do something..." Duke thought to himself.
When the people on the street began to thin out, Duke took his entourage back to the inner city and returned to the Drizzle Hotel to rest.
The natural history conference lasted for three days.
Duke did not come on stage for the next two days. He basically listened to other scholars giving academic reports, and then discussed the current development of natural history and imagined the future of natural history.
"I have learned a lot." Duke really felt that this academic conference was the right one.
It gave him a clear understanding of the natural history development of the entire Seven Towers Federation and even the entire human society, and he also knew where he should work hard in the future.
"If the current human society belongs to a great era, such as the era of the first industrial revolution and the second industrial revolution, then what I have to do is to lead mankind into the era of the third technological revolution, and even the era of industrial revolution. 4.0 Era."
"This era."
"It can be called the Era of Cave Spirituality!"
Duke was filled with pride, as if he had already seen the beautiful future led by himself: "Compared with the difficulty of upgrading technology, the extraordinary spiritual arcana The changes that power can bring will be faster, more violent, and broader!"
There was no delay in Runwu City.
The day after the natural history meeting ended, Duke returned to Shenjiao City with Aziguli, Dinjige, Gurewin, and Na'vi.
Cowley and Bovis also plan to stay in Runwu City to visit friends.
"Duke, you have attracted a lot of attention in this meeting, especially Mr. Jefferson Yanque, who is very optimistic about your future!" Dinkige smoked a cigar and said casually to Duke, " We even invited you to join the Erudite Tower in Runwu City."
"Well, it's more of a courtesy," Duke replied.
Jefferson Yanque has lived for hundreds of years. What kind of genius has he never seen? Duke doesn't think that his current performance is really any more outstanding than those geniuses. After all, he is currently focusing on studying, and the bright light technique is more like a flash of inspiration.
So if someone treats you politely, he won't take it seriously.
Dinkiger did not say much in this regard, but asked: "What are your plans in the future? I remember when you received the Outstanding Erudite Invention Award, you said that you still have a lot of inspiration in natural history. The Giant of Light should still be able to Continue to grow?"
Upon hearing this, Duke understood Dinkiger's thoughts and said with a smile: "The Giant of Light is currently seeking to transform, from a single lamp production to a comprehensive spiritual weapon production. However, I am interested in it. The positioning is to take the patented production route."
"Patented production route?"
"Yes, we only produce spiritual weapon products for which we have patents. Of course, if we can obtain permanent patent authorization for other spiritual weapons, it does not mean that we cannot produce them." Duke continued. , "In short, the Giant of Light is never willing to be stuck." "
This is a good idea. The reason why Runwanjia failed is the failure at the patent level. It is difficult to truly monopolize the industry by relying on agents alone." "
That's true."
" However, if the Giant of Light wants to take the patent route, it will be fine in Black Dragon River, but there will be many obstacles in other cities."
Duke smiled and looked at Dinjige: "It is precisely because of the difficulty that we need more like-minded partners. Sir, Sir Dinjige, are you interested in joining the Giant of Light?"
Dinjige did not agree immediately, but said with a smile: "Do you know that many shareholders of Runwanjia have divestment plans?" "
Oh. , what do you mean?"
"The Giant of Light has the potential to become bigger and stronger. I know that there are many people who want to get on this express train and contribute money and efforts. I wonder if you have any plans to accept it?"
Runwanjia Although it only failed in the lighting war.
Moreover, Clarinda has shouldered most of the responsibilities on her own, and has already alleviated Runwanjia's predicament by selling shares in Xibidi.
But if you fail, you fail.
Facing the rising sun of the giant of light, the Runwan family has become the setting sun. The arcane mages on this big ship don't want to be silent with the big ship, so they have to look for a new big ship.
Duke pondered for a moment and responded: "I have no objection, but the decision-making power of the Giant of Light can only be in my hands, and you need to have 100% trust in me. If they agree, I welcome you to join the Giant of Light." Giant."
"Not to adopt the board of directors' decision?"
"No." Duke smiled lightly, his attitude unwavering.
Perhaps the board of directors' collective decision-making can avoid risks and make relatively correct decisions, but this is not what Duke wants.
Only when the Giant of Light is completely under his control, will he be willing to strengthen the Giant of Light step by step and achieve his goals with the help of the Giant of Light.
Leading mankind into the era of cave spirituality.
"I understand. I'll discuss it with everyone when I get back and I'll give you an answer later." Dinkige already understood Duke's attitude.
The rest depends on what Runwanjia's shareholders will make.
...
After two days and two nights of flying, the Shadow Chaser airship successfully landed at Suktara Master Tower. It felt particularly wonderful to return to our own territory.
"Chiji!" Xiao Dou couldn't wait to go out and play.
"Levin, take Xiaodou out and have some fun." Duke waved.
Levin, who grew stronger and stronger, still looked as silly as before. After agreeing, he took Kabuto to play in the castle.
As for Duke.
First I went to meet Suktara who had not yet gone to work in the Union Tower: "Teacher, I'm back." "I
'm back." Suktara smiled gently, "Did you gain anything from attending the natural history conference this time? What gains?"
"I gained a lot. It gave me a clear understanding of the entire natural history, and even my cultivation path has improved a lot." Duke replied.
According to Xiaoyi's progress prediction, his current level 1 cultivation progress has reached about 58%. Thanks to the promotion of strong light technology, the people throughout the Seven Towers Federation have enjoyed strong light illumination, and their spiritual feedback has continued to promote his understanding of spiritual arcana.
At this natural history conference, the exchanges between scholars helped to increase his understanding of spiritual arcana.
After going back and forth, the cultivation progress is already halfway through.
It had not been more than two years since he was promoted to Arcane Mage.
Such a speed of cultivation is terrifying enough. You must know that most arcane mages have to settle in the 1st environment for more than ten years or even decades before they can consolidate their understanding of spiritual arcana and let their spiritual cores continue to twist, entangle, and outline. , until promoted to 2nd level.
"Yeah, that's why the teacher doesn't stop you from attending academic conferences. Spiritual arcana is not something you do behind closed doors. It can be used to attack jade. Only by communicating with others can you help you understand faster and expand your knowledge faster. "
Changing the topic, Suktara continued: "But since you are back, you should take it easy and continue designing and casting the Touch of All Souls with the teacher." "
Okay!" Duke agreed happily.
Forging the first-level arcane weapon - Touch of All Spirits, is definitely an important learning opportunity for him. The reason is that on the way back from Runwu City, he discovered the third arcane wonder in his spiritual sea - the healing arcana. The wonder has been built.
Arcane Shield, Illusion, and Healing, the three arcane wonders did not fill the 1-ring spiritual core orbit.
He can also free up space to forge a unique arcane weapon of his own.
After all, Jiuhuan Xiaoyi and Yihuan Sand Eagle are companion arcane weapons that do not occupy orbital space, which was a great help to him.
"If there is a chance in the future, maybe I can refine the sea of qi and the sea of blood into arcane weapons, which also do not occupy orbital space... In this way, I have four arcane weapons, which do not need to occupy the orbit, which is better than There are too many others!"
At present, he has not decided what type of arcane weapon he will cast. He plans to learn the technology of casting arcane weapons first and then think about it.
"Then teacher, go to the Union Tower to order a knot first. After dinner in the evening, we will start to forge the Touch of All Souls." "
Yes."
After sending Suktara to the shuttle, Duke himself asked the driver to come. Shuttle, and then left the Suktala Mage Tower.
Instead of going to work at Penrose Wizard Tower, I went to Lingchi Farm.
Putting on a large arcane mage robe and putting on the hood, Duke directly called out the chicken, and then merged with the chicken.
Elf form arrives.
His figure suddenly rose to more than two meters tall.
The pointed ears, pale face, green pupils, flowing blond hair, and obviously stronger physical fitness compared to before, all made Duke happy to indulge in it.
"What a pleasure it would be if I could stay in elf form forever!"
"You're thinking of eating shit and trying to tire me out!" The chicken's voice suddenly sounded in his heart, complaining in a cursing manner.
"Haha, be quiet!"
"No!"
"I want to cast a spell on your Ji Yulu. If you don't be quiet, I can't cast the spell with peace of mind." Duke frightened the chicken.
This undoubtedly hit the chick's weakness, and the grunting voice gradually became quieter.
Duke was wandering around in Lingchi Farm, and Xiaoyi hung up and performed the breathing method, shrouding the surrounding area of two to three kilometers in breathing resonance.
Whether it is Ji Yulu, Yulu, or other plants planted, such as Chuixuezhu, they are all slowly stimulated by the resonance of breathing. The forces of nature work in cycles to strengthen the roots of these plants and allow them to thrive.
After two hours of this, the elf form was suddenly released, and Duke returned to his height of 1.8 meters.
The chicken also condensed its body, panting heavily and looking at Duke: "Quick, give me the spirit crystal, I haven't been so tired for several days!" "Don't worry, let me
check your body." Duke carried it The chicken's tail, look at it carefully.
Compared with Xiaoyi’s previous records.
"The tail is a little shorter, the hind legs are getting thicker and thicker, and the front end is about to separate into five toes... Congratulations, little chicken, you have evolved a little more like a frog!" Duke smiled and took out the spiritual crystal and stuffed it in The little chicken said in his mouth, "Work hard and strive to evolve into a great elf as soon as possible." With a
squeaking sound, the little chicken chewed up the spiritual crystal and swallowed it in one gulp.
Then he rolled his eyes at Duke, and was about to hit Duke's belly when he suddenly stopped: "Duke, I haven't seen Kikyo for a few days. Tell the blonde big boob girl and ask her to bring Kikyo over tomorrow. Let's play."
"Okay." Duke agreed.
The chicken then hit his belly and disappeared.
"Sir, are you going back?" Mulali came over and asked.
"Go to Mage Penrose Tower."
Mage Penrose Tower is still the same, quiet and peaceful. Except for Assistant Tutor Vikas who likes to take a stroll, everyone else either stays in the office or in the laboratory.
Dang Dang.
Duke knocked on Kyria Fury's office door.
After Assistant Gis opened the door, she immediately welcomed Duke in. After bringing tea, she consciously closed the office door.
"Duke, are you back from the meeting?"
"Yes."
"It's your first time attending an academic conference. What are your thoughts and feelings that you can share?" Kiriya had a slight smile on her face, giving people the feeling of being full of collagen.
Girls of this age are indeed rich in collagen.
Besides, as an arcane mage, I am afraid that collagen will rarely be lost over decades or hundreds of years.
"How do you feel? I have benefited a lot. However, after the three-day meeting, I feel that I am still a little transparent and need more efforts. Otherwise, few knowledgeable people will take the initiative to discuss with you." Duke said his true feelings.
Mainly spectators, low participation.
"Take your time, you are only eighteen years old. Maybe the grandsons and great-grandsons of those erudite scholars... all the grandsons are older than you. It is normal for them not to like to discuss with you." Kiriya smiled. He said comfortingly.
"Think about it. If a seven- or eight-year-old kid sat at the same table with me to discuss spell models, I would be uncomfortable." "
Haha."
"By the way, I miss Platycodon, so you can take Platycodon tomorrow." Bring it over?"
"Okay, Platycodon is also talking about it at home. The number of elves in Shenjiao City is limited, and they are all hidden deeply by big families. It is rare for Platycodon to meet such a companion as Xiaoji." "You know Black Jiao
. How many elves are there in the river land?"
"I asked Grandpa, and he couldn't tell for sure, but there should be five or six. The three spiritual plant scholars in the local city should all have contracted elves. "
There are also outlets?"
"Yes."
"Hmm." Duke wanted to exchange ideas on raising elves with other elf owners, but after thinking about it, he decided not to do it.
On the one hand, there is no time and there are too many distractions.
On the one hand, I feel that even the Nutao family doesn't know how to cultivate elves, so asking others is probably in vain, as elves are too mysterious.
Fortunately, the elf has a long lifespan, and Duke still has a lot of time to help the chicken evolve.
"Okay, that's what I came here to talk about, let's go."
"See you tomorrow."
"See you tomorrow."
After leaving Kiliya's office, Duke went to sit in the office of Assistant Vikas and chatted for a while. A sentence of gossip.
Now Vikas has completely bid farewell to academic research and is dawdling around all day.
"Just don't worry, I'll take care of your research team." Assistant Assistant Vikas said, "You give us the experimental procedures, and people like Team Leader Dras will be able to run the experiment safely for you." After doing it, there will be no problems."
"You helped me a lot
as a tutor." Duke basically adopts a free-range approach to the topics assigned by the tutor. He only needs to formulate the process, collect the data, and then let Xiaoyi write One paper is enough.
There is no time to lose.
Only in this way will he have more energy to study other fields.
"Let me tell you, the mentor still values you." Vikas said with emotion, "In so many years of working in Penrose Mage Tower, I have never seen the mentor be as tolerant to any arcane mage as to you. Let you go to work."
"Yes, the tutor is very good to me."
"Isn't it? I remember when I was young, when I came here to study, I would be scolded by the tutor if I didn't pay attention to my studies. Even Oriana and Barr Za and Blanc, if they make mistakes now, their mentor will scold them, but he will never do it to you."
Vikas said enviously.
Duke asked, "Is there a possibility that I have never made a mistake?"
Vikas was stunned, then laughed: "You kid!"
But after he laughed, he looked carefully Thinking about it, it seems to be true. I have never seen Duke make any mistakes.
Especially when it comes to writing papers, it seems like Duke has never been called back to revise them once.
"What a terrifying future!" After Duke left, Vikas sighed inwardly, "Perhaps I can witness the rise of an arcane mentor in my lifetime...Duke, with his current talent, should be promoted to an arcane mentor. !"
...
After finishing the chores, Duke devoted himself wholeheartedly to the casting of the Touch of All Souls.
"You have to continue to practice the material processing techniques. The Bingxin Jade Bead needs to use spiritual energy to stabilize its performance. When it is critical, then inject the prepared water velvet silk..." Suktala is a qualified teacher and teaches Du step by step. gram.
Duke devoted his full attention and followed Suktara's instructions to deal with it.
Suktara looked at Duke's movements and said: "You need to practice the operation. Your talent in understanding is the strongest that the teacher has ever seen. However, in terms of hands-on operation, it is much worse than your understanding." , you must practice in this area, practice more."
"Yes."
The understanding is blessed by Xiaoyi, but the operation has to be practiced by Duke himself, so the gap is natural.
Fortunately, Duke is also a great knight, and the blessing of fighting spirit greatly increases the coordination and stability of the body, improving his own operational talent.
in this way.
Time passes day by day, and August is here in a blink of an eye.
The casting of the Touch of All Souls has reached the final stage. Suktara has completely taken off his hands and is only responsible for providing vocal guidance. The rest of the work is completed by Duke.
"Nice work, kid."
"It's not bad, teacher."
"No need to be modest. Your talent in alchemy has surpassed everyone else." Suktara's satisfaction with Duke has already exploded. .
This month and a half of arcane weapon casting process has further strengthened her opinion.
Perhaps Duke would stumble a bit during the hands-on operation, but Duke made no mistakes in the entire process and ideas of casting the arcane weapon. He was even more precise than Suktara himself when doing it himself.
This is talent.
Unparalleled talent.
A few days later, it was announced that the casting of Touch of All Souls was completed. Shanfeis, who had been waiting outside the laboratory for a long time, rushed to the experimental table as soon as Suktala agreed to come in.
Looking at a whip made of crystal on the stage, his breathing gradually became rapid.
"All the materials have been refined, Shanfeisi. Next, it is up to you to refine it yourself and complete the final step of the activation process." Duke said calmly.
Shanfeisi did not answer, but nodded heavily.
Then in the laboratory, the final step of refining the arcane weapon began on this exquisite crystal whip.
After half a day.
The crystal whip was completely refined by him. Following the guidance of his thoughts, the crystal whip slowly disappeared on the test stand.
"Huh!"
Shanfeisi let out a long breath.
Duke looked at him a little nervously: "How is it? Is everything working normally with this arcane weapon?"
Shanfeis looked ugly and frowned, as if there was something wrong with the refining of the Touch of All Souls, which made Duke Something feels bad.
"What's going on, Shanfeisi?"
The Touch of All Spirits was led by the teacher, but most of the details were actually refined by Duke. It can be said that its success or failure is the most direct test of Duke's technology, and the result will be related to whether the information collected by Xiaoyi during the casting process is correct.
Shanfeisi lowered his head and said nothing.
Duke couldn't help but turn his head to look at Suktara, and saw a faint smile on his teacher's lips, without any trace of panic or embarrassment due to failure.
This made Duke's heart move.
Then he slapped Shanfeisi fiercely: "You are scaring a ghost!"
"Hahahaha!" Shanfeisi burst out laughing, "You must have been scared by me, hahaha, I know you are so confident all day long. Man Man's performance is all pretending. In fact, many times you have no idea, yes or no!" "
Get out of here." Duke's expression returned to calmness, Xiaoyi also successfully verified the technology of casting arcane weapons, and can safely include it in the database .
Shanfeisi was overjoyed: "Haha, you were so scared!"
It was just a prank, Duke didn't take it to heart at all: "Go back quickly and try the effect of the Touch of All Souls, and I won't let you eat."
Suktara suddenly said: "Go to Master Scott's Tower with Shanfeis and use it to check the patient's body to see if there are any errors in the function we imagined. If there are errors, you can take it back and make some corrections. ."
"Yes, teacher." Duke responded.
Shanfeisi had also laughed enough and put his arms around Duke's shoulders: "Let's go directly to Shenjiao City Hospital to check the patients. I'll treat you to a drink tonight!"
Suktara quickly warned: "Don't get drunk. Duke still wants to take lessons with me."
"Roger it, Lord Suktara, you help me forge arcane weapons for free without getting paid, how dare I delay you from giving lessons to Duke." Shanfeisi can also tell the difference. Prioritizing, "I'm just going to treat Duke to a meal and send him back after the meal."
The two left the laboratory, took the shuttle directly to Shenjiao City Hospital, and began to experiment with the effects of the Touch of All Souls.
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