Chapter 10: Heavenly Work (6)
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In fact, Xiao Xia has faintly heard the word 'Tiangong Plan' for a long time, after all, the population of Shenjitang is chaotic, if the project in this plan is huge, there must be a lot of people involved in it, and it is absolutely impossible not to leak the news, especially if there are people with other intentions who deliberately spy on it. However, Xiao Xia didn't know the details, and he didn't care about what this Shenji Hall wanted to do. It's just that when Chief Craftsman Wei told him, he was a little concerned.
Regardless of how credible the words of this old man who is addicted to the art of mechanisms, just looking at his extremely confident attitude, it seems that this so-called heavenly plan really has some weight, at least it is a key point in this storm whirlpool.
However, Xiao Xia did not continue to ask, nor did he express his willingness to join the Shenji Hall, but just smiled faintly. There are many things that don't need to be actively asked.
Three days later, the mechanism of the engraved talisman was finally put together, a closed mechanism the size of a hut, and the fire elixir injected into it would be burned, turning the power of the explosion into a driving force. As long as this step is taken smoothly, then this thing can be regarded as a complete success, but at this time, the faces of the people standing around are a little strange.
As long as the last step is successful, the reward of 1,000 taels of gold will be in hand, and everyone will naturally be happy, but this is also the most dangerous and accident-prone step. The shell of this mechanism is extremely thick, and it is not easy to see how the rune operation of the enclosed talisman is clear at the first time, although the verification of this talisman array was very smooth before, but after the seal was engraved on this mechanism, there have been some changes. Especially in the process of seal carving, there have been one or two small problems, which took some brains to solve, and the time to put together is a little tight. Undoubtedly, it also left a shadow in everyone's hearts.
The most important thing is that it takes two people to drive and control the talisman, and who should take on the two most dangerous positions.
Chief Craftsman Wei expressed his regret without fear: "Wei Feng Dao is the leader, and the son of a daughter is not able to sit down, once he has an accident, who will modify these talismans?" So he doesn't have to go." ”
Everyone looked at each other and was speechless for a while. Because it's not unreasonable. Even if something happens to the mechanism experiment, as long as Xiao Xia is fine, there is room for improvement. And if he dies in an accident, the bounty may all be lost.
Xiao Xia still stood up, shook his head and said, "I said before that this final test will be done by myself, how can I go back on my word? ”
"No!" Chief Craftsman Wei simply stretched out his hand.
Xiao Xia thought about it. said: "I know this set of talisman arrays best. If there is a small glitch in the middle, maybe only I am the most convenient to repair the strain, whether it is to stop the rune array or find a way to make up for it. And if you wait until the fire secret medicine in it is completely out of control, this talisman mechanism will not be preserved, and it will be much more difficult to find out the cause of the failure from the shattered wreckage afterwards, and it may not be possible to recreate a set of mechanism talismans to recreate the seal. ”
Chief Craftsman Wei also looked embarrassed, but these reasons are also very important, and now this time may not allow them to come again.
Xiao Xia added again: "If I come to control it myself." The chances of success will increase by at least three or four percent. ”
"Okay. Chief Craftsman Wei finally sighed and nodded in agreement. "But there's one more. Which of you is going?"
Everyone was silent for a while, although Xiao Xia occupied a position unconceivingly, which was very convincing, but after all, this was a life-threatening thing, and everyone had already passed the age of fledgling enthusiasm, and no one had the courage to scramble to show his righteousness, and in the end, it was the old man Zhang, who had never spoken much, raised his hand.
Others breathed a sigh of relief and were inevitably surprised, this old man has always been honest, if it weren't for the one-handed talisman spell that was passable, it was almost the same as an old farmer with his back to the loess for three generations, but what he didn't expect was that he actually stood up at this time.
Old man Zhang didn't look righteous and awe-inspiring, but his face was expressionless, and he asked dryly: "If you go, can you have an extra bounty?"
Chief Craftsman Wei looked like he was constipated, and after being bored, he still said, "Two hundred taels of silver." ”
"Hmm. Although the silver ticket is not as good as gold, it is still okay. Old man Zhang nodded. "So if there is an accident and he dies this time, I will send these silver taels back to my hometown to hand them over to my family, if this is really an accident, can I add a sum?"
Chief Craftsman Wei was furious when he heard this, and raised his hand and smashed a tool in his hand: "Bah, can't you say something auspicious about this old man?"
Old man Zhang shrank his head, and the tool flew over his head, and he immediately stood up straight, but he still looked honest and about to die.
The manpower was decided, and the installation test began immediately, and several trap beasts worked together to carry the huge talisman mechanism to a slightly more remote workshop, where the craftsmen set up the various settings, and the others stood far away. At this time, Chief Craftsman Wei didn't know where to move a set of armor from the Shenji Hall for Xiao Xia to wear on his body. This armor is much thicker than the ordinary armor of the Divine Machine Hall, and it is tight, almost all but the nostrils are tightly covered, and even the eyes have a thick layer of crystals, but there are rough traces of alteration in many places on the armor, which are obviously temporarily transformed in a hurry.
Chief Craftsman Wei watched Xiao Xia put on this armor, and pulled out a thin steel cable from the back waist of this armor, and pulled it through the door until it was far away, and then came back and said to Xiao Xia: "You have to control the formation in the mechanism, if there is a bad pool, you will not have time to use the talisman to protect yourself, this set of machine armor is hidden in the four water lines of spiritual light charm, as soon as you encounter fire, it will automatically touch, you only need to beat this machine on the waist, this steel cable can also quickly pull you out"
Seeing that this can almost be regarded as the ultimate means of protection, Xiao Xia was really moved. On the other hand, the old man Zhang on the side didn't pay attention to it, just watched silently from the side. After waiting for these preparations that had nothing to do with him to complete, he walked with Xiao Xia to the huge talisman mechanism.
With this armor to protect himself, Xiao Xia is even more sure in his heart. But seeing that the old man next to him was still wearing a linen short coat, without any protection, if there was an accident, I was afraid that he would die, and he was inevitably a little embarrassed in his heart. This temporary armor is probably the limit that Chief Craftsman Wei can do, after all, it is extremely difficult to make a spiritual light talisman, and it is not easy to change the armor, so it is unlikely that he will make another set. Xiao Xia couldn't help but say to Old Man Zhang: "I want my husband to accompany me in danger." I'm so embarrassed. ”
"It is only natural to take people's money and do things for others. Brother Wei was polite. Old man Zhang is still a little cowardly like that, as if since he can compensate for the silver, he really doesn't care about his life.
"Uncle Zhang's family is very short of money?" Xiao Xia remembered that the old man Zhang had asked a similar question before, if there was an accident and he died. Can the money from the compensation be returned to the family?
There was silence for a while. Old man Zhang's wrinkled face squeezed out a kind smile, as if it was rare to bloom a little greenery and vitality on the land that had been dry for decades, and said: "Little Lao'er has a little grandson, who is seven years old this year, lively and cute, smart and clever, but it is a pity that his legs and feet are a little inconvenient, if he can replace him with a pair of refined prosthetics of Shenjitang." Let him run and jump like other children, which is the biggest wish of Xiao Lao'er in this life. Just a good prosthetic leg costs at least a few hundred taels of silver."
"Doesn't the old man make and buy and sell talismans on weekdays?" Xiao Xia was a little surprised. Although hundreds of taels of silver is a lot, it will not be too difficult for a wild Taoist priest who can make a medium-grade talisman to really want to save it.
Old man Zhang smiled dryly: "Lao Er just learned some spells with a Taoist master when he was young, and he didn't have a job to do some small things to help the villagers do what he could on weekdays, and it was okay to keep one party safe, where would he dare to buy and sell talismans for profit?"
Xiao Xia sighed slightly, although there are very few of them, but there are indeed honest people like Old Man Zhang among the Fu Daoists, of course, from the perspective of the Great Qian's law, this is the duty that a real wild Taoist priest should have. This old man's hands are as dry and rough as dry branches, a wrinkled old face that has been squeezed and tortured by the wind and sand and years, and his accustomed humble temperament are all honed in the farmland Sang Mo I don't know how many years. He couldn't help patting the huge mechanism in front of him and said, "Don't worry, Uncle Zhang, after this mechanism talisman is completed, I should find a way to send you back with the bounty no matter what." ”
Ignoring whether Old Man Zhang could hear the other meanings implied in these words, Xiao Xia's hands had already been placed on the activation talisman engraved by the seal, and he began to move the talisman array. A faint red light began to light up from the pipe, and the fire elixir that had been placed in advance began to be injected into the mechanism, and began to burn violently under the attraction of the rune array.
Old man Zhang stood directly below the mechanism and put his hand on the largest talisman in the center, which was the talisman that maintained the convergence and rotation of the fire elixir, and could not be driven by the fire element force in the mechanism, so it could only be maintained by one person on the outside.
If there is enough time, it is undoubtedly safer to use the stone slab to gradually imitate the form of the mechanism step by step to test the effect of this talisman array, but under the urging of Chief Craftsman Wei, he can only omit the intermediate steps in this way, and it can be slowly improved, and the method of completely using the power of fire and secret medicine to maintain the talisman array has not had time to try, so he can only let Old Man Zhang drive the talisman in the middle. Unable to see the state inside the mechanism, Xiao Xia could only feel the changes inside through the fluctuations fed back from the talisman in his hand.
If other Fu Dao priests came, this was indeed an extremely dangerous attempt. Cultivation is not the innate realm, can not touch the subtle realm of the law from the heart, even the talisman spell released from the hand is no different from the stone thrown out, but Xiao Xia is different, his understanding of the talisman has long passed the feeling of those authentic disciples of the Dao sect like Ji'er, he has drawn the talisman since he was a child, and he has inadvertently modified the subtle feeling developed in the talisman moire, but there is a little bit of 'talisman from the heart' taste. And this talisman magic array was originally modified by him by borrowing a lot of methods from the Heaven and Earth Oven Great Array that he had seen in the Tianhuo Sect's rudder, and he had already experienced the changes in that large array. At this time, he closed his eyes, only from his hand, only from the subtle pulse of the fire element force in the talisman, and there was actually a picture in his mind that the talisman inside the mechanism was running, and the fire secret medicine was burning violently.
The extremely dense fire elemental power was ignited, turning into unparalleled heat and explosive power. However, under the guidance of the talisman, the explosive force can only be applied to the piston of the mechanism in the closed mechanism, pushing the piston to move non-stop on a rotating bearing. The piston bearings were attached to a huge stone mill outside the house, and the stone mill, which was almost larger than the house, began to rotate slowly.
Outside the house, cheers rang out in the distance. They couldn't see the inside of the mechanism, but the rotation of the stone mill showed that the rune mechanism was indeed working as expected.
The stone mill rotated faster and faster, and the stone plate, which was seven or eight zhang wide and at least hundreds of thousands of catties, could only be slowly driven by the huge flow of water from the waterfall, but there was no water flow, no blades, only a dull roar from the mechanism. The millstone spun as fast as a child's twitching top, and the ore placed in the hopper next to it was crushed like dried crisp beans as soon as it fell into it. Those watching from a distance were dumbfounded, almost unimaginable that it was purely the power of the mechanism. The eyes of those craftsmen were shining, and Chief Craftsman Wei was even more excited.
So far, the qiē has been as smooth as expected, at least from the outside.
Inside the workshop. Xiao Xia's mind was completely immersed in the operation and changes of the rune array. The inflow of fire elixir has reached its maximum. This mechanism talisman has been operating to the expected limit, and the talisman inside automatically operates under the rich fire elemental force, condensing the core of combustion and explosion into a flying and rotating ball of flames, and then pushing the mechanism with the power of the explosion. As long as all the fire elixirs injected this time are consumed, this talisman mechanism can be declared completely complete.
But at this moment, Xiao Xia felt that some of the most subtle talismans in the most central position of the mechanism had changed.
Xiao Xia was shocked, there was no such problem in the last few tests on the stone slab, and these talismans were also carved by his own hands. Or I watched a few other people engrave the seal with my own eyes, and I checked it repeatedly. There was no problem in itself, but the rune array was still running smoothly, but the runes themselves showed some signs of scattered collapse, as if the bracket carrying the heavy object was creaking.
Immediately, he understood that this was because when he was on the stone slab before, these talismans were not under the weight of the fire force inside the mechanism as they were now. These talismans were not refined to the point of perfection when they were carved on the seal, and now the fire line yuan power accumulated inside this organ is so rich that it is almost comparable to the high-grade fire line spells, and these slightly flawed middle and lower grade runes began to be unbearable, and gradually had a tendency to collapse.
The last batch of fire elixirs had been fully injected, and it was too late to stop the mechanism. At this time, the smartest thing to do is to immediately flick the mechanism on your waist and pull yourself out with the steel rope tied behind your back, even if those most basic talismans collapse immediately, it will take a few blinks of an eye to blow up the mechanism completely out of control. But Xiao Xia glanced at Old Man Zhang, who was standing not far away and maintained the central talisman, but instead of doing so, he pressed his hands on the mechanism, and his mind extended along the talisman array to those talismans inside the mechanism that could no longer bear it, trying to maintain it.
For others, this is simply as incredible as walking a tightrope on the abyss and carrying a burden of hundreds of catties, but Xiao Xia did it, six years ago, he repaired the running Heaven and Earth Oven Array in the Jingzhou rudder of the Tianhuo Sect, and now maintains this formation built by drawing on the Heaven and Earth Oven Array, which cannot be said to be proficient, but at least has a lot more certainty.
Even so, when the burning momentum of the fire secret medicine in the mechanism slowed down, Xiao Xia almost collapsed from exhaustion.
The roar of the burning of the fire secret medicine in the talisman mechanism gradually stopped, and the constantly rotating mechanism gradually slowed down, and the old man Zhang, who was standing directly below the mechanism, also turned around and bowed to Xiao Xia: "Thank you Brother Wei for your help." ”
Xiao Xia took a few breaths before saying, "Did my husband notice it too?"
"I didn't realize it before, but then the talisman almost collapsed, and it was all maintained by Brother Wei's strength, how could the little old man not know?" Old man Zhang sighed, the ravines were vertical and horizontal, and Mu Ne's honest face was also filled with some emotion, and his words were more than usual. "Brother Wei could have retreated, but for the safety of the little old man, he did not hesitate to take the risk to stay, and finally Brother Wei's way of cultivation was profound, and this crisis was passed safely. ”
Xiao Xia waved his hand: "Uncle doesn't need to be polite, it's fate that everyone has lived under the same roof for so long, and I also want to preserve this talisman, so as not to spend another effort to make it." ”
Old man Zhang stopped talking, turned to look at the mechanism behind him that was gradually stopping, a pair of cloudy old eyes as if he hadn't seen anything, after a while, he nodded, as if talking to himself: "After the success of this talisman mechanism, the power of the mechanism no longer needs to rely on manpower, animal power, and water power, and the mechanism beast does not need to be limited by the smart wood, the prospect of the mechanism is really promising, but that's just it, dare to claim to be a heavenly worker?"
Xiao Xia looked at Old Man Zhang's somewhat rickety back in a daze, a little stunned, it was really surprising that such an honest and willing old man suddenly said such a thing.
At this time, the cheering footsteps had already come from far and near, and the elated craftsmen rushed in at once, drowning out Xiao Xia's stunned and Old Man Zhang's stupidity with incomparable noise and excitement. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!)