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Everyone knew that Zhao Ruhui's blatant departure from the Taiwei Sect and joining the cultivation group was not trivial, and it was very likely to induce very serious consequences, and they didn't expect any reaction from the Taiwei Sect at this time.

Chen Hai, Su Yuan, Sun Gan, and Chen Zhang walked into the Bamboo Hall, and saw that everyone had a calm face, and said with a smile: "I am in Taiwei Sect, with Zhou Jun, Jing Yuan, Senior Brother Shen, and Senior Brother Ge, thanks to the shadow of Master Zhao, it is a happy thing to be able to study the puppet with Master Zhao in the future, why don't you have a heart of celebration on your faces, but you are all sad, what are you doing?"

Chen Hai said this, came forward to greet Zhao Ruhui, and saw that Zhao Ruhui also looked worried, he was also stunned, his eyes swept over Ji Yuanren and Xue Cun, although Ji Yuanren and Xue Cun knew that Chen Hai's exposure of his ambition to establish himself in Juquanling would induce a series of unpredictable consequences, but when they ascended to the middle peak, they made the worst psychological preparations, and at this time, they were also calm.

"I haven't seen Master Zhao for a long time, and I have something to say to Master Zhao...... Chen Hai said.

The others didn't know what Chen Hai had to talk to Zhao Ruhui in private, and they were puzzled, but they just watched Chen Hai invite Zhao Ruhui into the side hall to talk about something.

The side hall is poorly furnished, with two-zhang high bookshelves attached to the walls, full of book scrolls and thousands of large stacks of drawings, a sandalwood short case, symmetrically placed four futons, and a small couch for meditation and rest.

Su Aya was sorting out the picture scrolls in the side hall, Chen Hai motioned for her to go out first, and invited Zhao Ruhui to sit down opposite the two of them after the sandalwood short case.

"Since Master Zhao has stepped into Juquan Ridge, why is he so worried and in such a dilemma?" asked Chen Hai.

Zhao Ruhui was neither willing to betray his master, nor did he want to deceive Chen Hai, Zhou Jun and other people he valued most, but he didn't expect that Chen Hai would see something strange so soon.

Of course, Zhao Ruhui hoped for this in his heart, but he couldn't open his mouth to reveal the truth, so he just sat there silently.

Seeing Zhao Ruhui like this, Chen Hai also knew in his heart, and he was also relieved.

If Zhao Ruhui really wants to break away from the sect, he must have already considered all kinds of consequences, and at the moment of making up his mind, it should be more determined and indomitable, rather than worried and in a dilemma, Chen Hai knew that it should be that Zhao Ruhui did not deceive, and did not cover up too much.

"No matter what outsiders think of me, whether they call me arrogant or arrogant, or I don't know what I can do, but I don't need to embellish myself in front of Master Zhao," Chen Hai said, "Over the years, what I have done, which time has it harmed the interests of Hexi? Which time has Hexi not taken a great advantage? Of course, I also know that there are many people in Hexi who are dissatisfied with me, but they are not resentful and do not take advantage of it, but resentment does not take all the benefits......

"......," Zhao Ruhui sighed softly and said bitterly, "A lot of troubles arise from greed. ”

"Master Zhao may wonder, I have received a lot of favors from Hexi, why can't I leave all the benefits in Hexi? I believe that if I really want to do this, whether it is the prince Dong Chou, or even the old man of the Divine Marquis, it is impossible to treat me badly, and he will also give me enough status and power in Hexi," Chen Hai stared at Zhao Ruhui's face, and when he saw that he was mentioning the martial power Divine Marquis Dong Liang, Zhao Ruhui's eyelids twitched slightly, pouted and smiled, and continued to explain, " Perhaps the old man of Shenhou has already understood in his heart that I do not have a ready-made secret map of the intermediate or high-level divine machine chariot in my hand, even if the original low-level divine chariot is also the imperfect thing that I have worked with many craftsmen and craftsmen to study for many years. Speaking of which, this is also the key reason why I am reluctant to completely attach myself to Hexi, Zhao Shi may understand?"

"......" Zhao Ruhui had some guesses Hearing Lord Chen Hai personally confirm it at this time, it was too late to be shocked in his heart, and he didn't understand it for a while, how could this become the key reason why Chen Hai was unwilling to be restrained by the sect?

Chen Hai continued: "Master Zhao, just think about it, if only the Hexi family had obtained the secret map of the manufacturing of the Divine Machine Chariot and the Divine Machine Crossbow, would they continue to concentrate hundreds, or even thousands, of craftsmen and craftsmen to develop more powerful Divine Machine Chariots and Divine Machine Crossbows?"

Zhao Ruhui sighed in his heart, although the Divine Machine Crossbow and Divine Machine Chariot still seemed to have great flaws, but if it was only obtained by the Hexi family at the beginning, it would be enough to become the decisive force for Hexi to crush the other clan clans, so naturally there was no need to concentrate hundreds of craftsmen to study the intermediate Divine Machine Chariot.

In this case, it will consume a lot of manpower and material resources, not to mention, and it will also greatly increase the risk of leakage.

There is another possibility, although Chen Hai did not say it, Zhao Ruhui can also think of it.

The Shenji crossbow is too powerful and too simple to operate, ordinary people have the Shenji crossbow, and the Xuanxiu disciples will not be able to stand high, if Hexi really had the exclusive manufacturing secret map of the Shenji chariot and the Shenji crossbow, there is also a possibility that it will be shelved, so as not to spread such a sharp weapon and break the balance between the civilian society and the clan clan.

Zhao Ruhui had long seen that the reason why Chen Hai was able to create miracles repeatedly, his main mind was to use it on the "grassroots generals" who accounted for the vast majority of the children of the poor family, and at this time, after listening to Chen Hai's explanation, he completely understood.

In the history of Yanzhou, there is naturally a gap between the Hanmen and the Zongmen, even if there are some amazing Hanmen disciples in each era who can rise like meteors, but after the rise, they are quickly assimilated by the Zongwang and become a new Zongsu.

Even Dongliang, the Marquis of Wuwei, intended to use a large number of Hanmen disciples in his early years, but only a few decades have passed, and it is difficult for Hanmen children to get ahead in Hexi.

And the core reason why the gap between the Hanmen and the sect lords is difficult to cross is that the clan clans almost monopolize all the cultivation resources.

And what Chen Hai did at this time was to make the cultivation resources monopolized by the clan clan less important, and the gap between the Han Sect and the sect lord was naturally much shallower and faster than ever before.

"The Divine Marquis has sent me into the workshop, but if I want to present the secret map of the intermediate god locomotive one day, it will be considered two clear. Zhao Ruhui thought about this, so he didn't hide it anymore, and told everything that happened in the Tibetan Machine Valley.

"In that case, the gods are not too harsh on me, I believe that these disturbances will disappear in a few days, so let's just ignore them,"

Chen Hai nodded with emotion, although Dong Liang himself was still in Hexi's position in the end, he asked others to have more patience, and said,

"If Hexi wants to get the secret map of the manufacturing of the intermediate god locomotive, he has to be patient-if he wants to build an intermediate god locomotive in the real sense, he needs to adjust the structure of the rune array, I just have some ideas, and I am still very immature, which is the key reason why I want to invite Zhao Shi, Yuan Ren, Xue Cun and others to gather in the Meilin Bamboo Palace. In addition, even if it is a junior god machine chariot, there is still a lot to ponder......"

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Xie Quanting, Chen Jue, and Dong Pan reported the matter of Zhao Ruhui's detachment to the Metropolitan Protector's Mansion, just like a stone sinking into the sea, and they never saw any reaction from the side of the prince Dong Chou to this matter, and for such a big matter, Dong Pan, Chen Jue, and Xie Quanting had no right to decide anything without authorization, so they could only let the matter drag on.

Zhao Ruhui openly broke away from the Taiwei Sect and climbed to the middle peak of Juquanling to join the workshop, which did not seem to cause much of a strong sensation, but the potential impact was profound and long-term.

Taiwei Sect's delay in making a move, in the eyes of the world, is undoubtedly equivalent to Taiwei Sect's tolerance of Chen Hai's behavior of setting up his own door in Liquan.

The other eight world lords were originally waiting to see the reaction of the Taiwei Sect and the Dong Clan, and they were all waiting for the Taiwei Sect and the Dong Clan to be angry and crush Chen Hai's ambitions, but the time was delayed until the seventy-eighth year of the Yitian Emperor, and after realizing that the Taiwei Sect might not take any direct measures, the other eight world lords turned around and suddenly saw the craftsmen who had gathered in the bamboo house of the middle peak of Juquan Ridge, and there were already nine masters in the Ming Realm including Zhao Ruhui, Ji Yuanren, and Xue Zhi.

In the refining and puppet arts, there are more than 200 craftsmen who have achieved good results in the Spirit Restoration Realm.

The number of young craftsmen and apprentices who gathered in the middle peak of Juquanling and who were qualified in refining weapons and puppetry, was as high as 2,000.

Those poor disciples who are full of desire and ambition on the path of cultivation have no way out, and they may have scruples before, but there are no serious consequences when they see Zhao Ruhui openly breaking away from the Taiwei Sect, what choice should they make, do they still need to consider?

If it weren't for the fact that joining the workshop also required passing the assessment of refining weapons and puppetry, the middle peak of Juquan Ridge would have been crowded out long ago.

Although the combined strength of the Cultivation Society and the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion Huwei Camp was still far from being comparable to the top world lords such as the Dong Clan and the Miao Clan, at the northern foot of Qintong Mountain, even if the forces of the Nine Great World Lords stationed in Liquan let down their guard against each other and joined forces to suppress the Workshop and the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion, it was no longer an easy task.

Whether it is the Hexi Dong clan or the Beiliang Miao clan, it is impossible to really send a large army to exert pressure, and if you don't want to fight chickens and eggs, compromise has become the only choice.

At least the Dong clan, the Miao clan and other clans, at this time, did not want the eight clans of Jingjun, who were close at hand, to put their hands into Liquan. They knew in their hearts that once they let the eight clans of Jingjun reach in, it would be possible for the eight clans of Jingjun to sweep them all out of Qintong Mountain with the help of the strong combat power of the Xiyuan Army.

At this time, Chen Hai also formally proposed to the Craftsmen's Association to take back Juquanling.

Compared with the spiritual land of Juquanling, Miao Dong and the other nine world lords are more concerned about the control of the quenching gold placer mine at the bottom of Juquan Lake. Before Chen Hai's return, the Craftsmen Guild controlled by the Nine Great Worlds began to arrange for the refining furnace to move into Liquan City, and it became a logical thing for Chen Hai to take back Juquanling from the Craftsmen's Guild as a place for all craftsmen to practice.

At this time, looking back, Zhaoyang Village, located at the southeast foot of Juquan Ridge, is more like a gateway from Liquan to Juquan Ridge.

The mid-level Shenji Chariot, stronger armor, thought to be thicker, higher density quenched armor, and stronger impact, requires faster speed, which all points to the core problem, that is, the Shenji Chariot needs stronger power.

Previously, in order to solve the problem of lack of power, Chen Hai connected two wind showers in parallel and drove two pairs of load-bearing wheels forward at the same time, and theoretically they could connect one more wind shower in parallel to drive the third pair of load-bearing wheels, which was also a research direction of the workshop.

However, in this way, although the driving force of each Shenji chariot can be increased by 50%, the complexity of manufacturing and control will be increased by several times, and the driving force will be increased by 50%, which is still far from meeting the needs of the intermediate Shenji chariot.

The body structure and armor of the mid-level Shenji Chariot have been comprehensively strengthened, and the weight has to be increased by three or four times, and the speed has been increased by one-third, which means that the driving force is required to be increased by at least seven or eight times, rather than seven or eight times.

Chen Hai thought for a long time, and the only possibility was to completely improve the internal structure of the wind shower.

The current rune array prohibition is divided into two categories, one requires the true yuan mana to drive the operation after the sacrifice, which accounts for the vast majority of the existing rune array prohibition;

The latter kind of talisman prohibition, Chen Hai called it the Heavenly Machine Prohibition, the number is so rare, it is not difficult to imagine how difficult it is to innovate a new Heavenly Machine Prohibition on the basis of the existing Heavenly Machine Prohibition.

On the way back from Lucheng East, Chen Hai spent months pondering this issue, and also participated in some of the ideas put forward by the Craftsmen's Association, and finally felt that merging the Wind Charm Array with the Flame Gathering Charm Array or the Wind Charm Array with the Space Charm Array might be able to create the new Heavenly Machine Prohibition he needed.

The most basic rune array itself is composed of a variety of Dao seals, the Wind Charm Array, the Flame Gathering Array and the Space Rune Array themselves are all compound rune arrays, and the three rune arrays must be dismantled and recombined to form a new secondary compound rune array, and the calculation work is so complicated that it will be devastating.

Even if the Dao Fetal Realm is strong against the sky, they may not be able to create a new compound rune array in their lifetime, and a few people have the patience to retreat for more than ten years or even decades, just to deduce a new compound rune array.

And Chen Hai's establishment of the workshop was to disassemble the talisman array, list all the possible combinations, and hand them over to the craftsmen below to verify.

Moreover, on the way back to the east, Chen Hai had already come up with all the possible organizations of the new compound rune array, and at this time, he needed a large number of refiners and puppet craftsmen who were good at Dao seals and rune arrays to help verify them one by one.

Otherwise, Chen Hai would have to verify all five or six hundred possibilities, and he wouldn't want to do anything else in this life.

The craftsmen of the Spirit Restoration Realm have the ability to deduce simple rune arrays, and hundreds of Spirit Restoration Realm craftsmen have devoted all their energy and enthusiasm to the study of the Heavenly Machine Prohibition, and each of them is assigned three or five craftsmen and apprentices as assistants, the efficiency may not be hundreds of times faster than Chen Hai doing this alone, but it can still be done thirty or forty times faster.

But if Chen Hai wanted to do this, he needed to gather the refiners and puppet masters of the cultivation to completely break the portal restrictions.

However, the amount of resources required to do this is terrifying.

Hundreds of puppet craftsmen and more than 400 apprentices have to make offerings to Yueyin every month; in addition, five or six hundred kinds may have to be verified, and if it goes well, they also need to consume as many as one or two thousand pieces of Xuanhuang middle and lower grade magic weapon materials, which must be supplied by the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion.

The foundry and smelting workshop to which the craftsmen belong to the Craftsmen's Association, according to the original agreement, the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion has always accounted for a two-percent share, even if the price of quenched iron is pressed quite low by the Nine Great World Valves, but the two-percent share also brings unimaginable wealth to the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion every year.

It's just that in the past two years, the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion has accumulated a little, and it is mainly used to support Chen Hai to lead the elite army to fight in the eastern region of Jinzhou, and the subsequent monthly Divine Machine Chariot and two Divine Machine crossbow parts will be sent to Lucheng, and the war beasts exchanged from the Demon God Temple will also be given priority to equip the Elite Army.

Chen Hai returned to Juquanling, and the resources available to the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis Mansion were not increased, but reduced in a short period of time.

In addition to the life, practice, and testing sites of all refiners and puppet craftsmen should be built one by one, and after Juquanling, as the foundation of the Zhaoyang Pavilion Marquis' Mansion, the defense system of a sect was gradually improved.

These will consume unspeakably horrific resources.

In the spring of the 78th year of Emperor Yitian, Chen Hai restarted two workshops in Juquanling, outside the system of the Craftsmen's Guild, specializing in the manufacture of simplified versions of the Shenji chariot and the Shenji crossbow.

On the way back to Qintong Mountain in the east, Chen Hai dismantled the internal structure of the arrow array box and simplified the rune structure of the arrow array box.

Although the simplified version of the Arrow Array is much less powerful, it is also more practical.

The previous arrow array box was equivalent to a yellow-level mid-to-lower grade magic weapon, and it was extremely difficult to refine, which was also the biggest bottleneck that the manufacturing scale of the divine crossbow could not be raised.

The simplified version of the arrow array box, which can be refined by the craftsman's apprentice, is far less powerful than the Shenji crossbow, and can also realize the continuous firing of five arrows, and the five-inch short crossbow loaded with quenched arrows is still extraordinary in drilling penetration within 300 steps.

The Shenji crossbow cannot be manufactured on a large scale, and will be used as a heavy weapon in the army in the future, and the simplified version of the Tianji crossbow, regardless of stability, portability, and shooting speed, is much stronger than the existing iron arm bow and arm crossbow in the world.

The only problem is that the Tianji crossbow is cast with ninth-level quenched iron, each weighing one hundred and twenty or thirty catties, as a bow and crossbow for individual equipment, it is still too heavy, and it can only be barely withstood by casting it with eighth-level quenched iron with higher strength, and the weight is reduced to forty catties.

But in this way, Juquanling needs to secretly transport 20,000 catties of quenched iron from Lucheng every month, which is also extremely troublesome.

Fortunately, after Zhao Ruhui broke away from the Taiwei Sect and joined the workshop, everything in Hexi was as before, otherwise the passage in Hexi would be cut off, and the connection with Lucheng would not know how many times more troublesome.

The simplified version of the Divine Combat Vehicle was built to replace the Puppet Beast, and its main function was to carry quickly, rather than charging into battle.

After removing the heavy armor, the complex dual-wind array box drive structure was also changed to a much lower cost single simplified version of the wind box, and the load of the puppet car in the field can also be maintained at more than three thousand catties, and the load passing on the gallop is as high as seven or eight thousand catties, and the speed is comparable to that of a fast horse that never gets tired, far from being comparable to an ordinary healthy horse.

This makes it truly possible for an elite combat force to move thousands of miles a day through galloping roads.

In the past, even if a good horse like a young cunning horse could reach thousands of miles a day in a day or two, the consumption of horses and soldiers was too great.

Whether it is a simplified version of the Heavenly Machine Crossbow or a puppet car, it is not difficult for everyone to imitate it, but the final problem is the manufacturing cost. Chen Hai set up a new workshop in Juquanling, and the heavenly machine crossbow and loading puppet cars were directly sold to the outside world, and after the various families weighed the quotation given by Juquanling, although they wanted to ensure that the craftsmen's workshops they belonged to had the ability to manufacture heavenly crossbows and load puppet cars, but if they really wanted to have them in batches, they still bought them directly from Juquanling, which was much more cost-effective.

The puppet cart appeared on the road leading to the land of the Nine Great Lords at the end of February.

Of course, this is the first batch of puppet cars that have been built, even if it is a smooth gallop road, if it continues to advance for tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of miles, there will be all kinds of possible serious situations - the effective driving distance of the god machine chariot is even more limited, and before entering the battlefield, it is almost always dragged by a large number of mules and horses - Chen Hai arranges one craftsman and three apprentices for each puppet car so that problems can be repaired at any time if there is a problem on the way.

Of course, the families don't dare to be sloppy, and they also prepare extra healthy horses, so they can be dragged back to their destination when the puppet car has problems.

Chen Hai's most fundamental purpose is to test the first batch of users, and after the return of the craftsmen, the improvement data in all aspects will be summarized.

Although there is still a long way to go from the real requirements of Chen Hai's mind, and there are still too many imperfections, this does not hinder the love and persistent enthusiasm of many clansmen.

As long as Juquanling can be built, in order to compete for the four or five hundred Tianji single crossbows and forty or fifty loading puppet cars built by Juquanling every month, the nine world-lords must first argue for a distribution ratio.

In particular, the weapons produced by Juquanling, each batch will have a slight improvement, even if it is taken back as an imitation sample, all the major clans can not be left behind, even if each batch of small facelifts comes out, the price of the first batch is extremely high, everyone can only pinch their noses and admit it.

The time will soon come to the autumn of the seventy-eighth year of Emperor Yitian, even if there is nothing special on the side of Juquanling, Chen Hai will keep meeting with Dong Ning in the Blood Cloud Wasteland for ten days to ensure that there will be no accidents in the depths of the Eastern Desert of Jinzhou.

"Guo Hong wants to go to Juquanling to practice, and this matter has been mentioned to me for two days, but Montenegro is short of manpower, and there are really not many people who are good at managing civil affairs......" Dong Ning's soul and mind were dragged into the blood-cloud wasteland by Chen Hai, and the first thing was to tell Chen Hai about all kinds of headaches in Montenegro.

Guo Hongju was originally the leader of the tribes near Montenegro, and after Chen Hai captured Moyue Lake, he organized the tribes near Montenegro to vote.

Chen Hai brought Han Wendang and Han Jian back to strengthen the strength of Juquanling, but many generals who were good at civil affairs stayed in Montenegro, but he didn't expect Guo Hongju to take the initiative to ask to come to Juquanling.

"Guo Hong judged the study of mathematics and calculation, you mentioned the dismantling of many heavenly machine prohibitions in Lucheng before, Guo Hong said that he had studied it during this time, and he had a lot of experience, and wanted to go to Juquanling to ask you for advice...... "Using divine consciousness to condense a complete compound rune array structure is a very spiritual thing, this wisp of divine soul consciousness may directly disintegrate, Dong Ning can only let Chen Hai pick up a piece of gravel, and at the same time, let Chen Hai draw a compound rune array forbidden that Guo Hongju recently deduced, little by little!"

The puppet clone's Zhihai is extremely powerful, Chen Hai first drew the details of this composite talisman array, and then directly condensed it in the Zhihai, it is really a complete Heavenly Machine Forbidden Structure that can pull the wind and fire.

Whether this Heavenly Machine Prohibition can be suitable for building a wind array box for a mid-level chariot, or what kind of improvements need to be made to finally improve it, still needs to be further tested, but it undoubtedly proves that Guo Hongju is extremely talented in the study of the Heavenly Machine Prohibition and other rune arrays.

"You arranged for him to come to Juquanling quickly, whether the intermediate chariot can break through smoothly may be on top of this heavenly machine prohibition he created. Chen Hai was also quite excited when he thought that the mid-level tank would probably be successfully launched this year.