A few lines appeared on the virtual screen:

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Name: Blue Water Snake

Status: * (Anomaly detected, not displayed)

Habits: Good to live in deep pools, isolated and solitary, stubborn sexuality, like sudden surprises, although the appearance is fierce, but the sex is not bad.

Health: 500

Combat power: 300

Durability value: 100 (5 times, the time spent underwater with the cultivation of the realm ascension, currently half an hour at a time)

Combat skills: scare the enemy, roll the opponent to death (literally)

Other skills: Go underwater, it is a must-have mount for your wild fishing by the lake, ups and downs in the river, and underwater exploration

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Murong Tian wondered in his heart, this panel didn't look like a big fierce beast, and even its combat power was not as good as that thousand-year-old nine-tails.

The system explained that the focus of the design of the monster itself was not on combat, but on a functional underwater mount.

But this giant snake is obviously much more difficult to deal with than the nine-tailed fox!

Yu Qing had already seen the scene of Murong Tian subduing the nine-tailed fox before, so he was not surprised.

She jumped down from the Red Pavilion and crouched at the water's edge, not knowing what she was studying.

Ye Wanru and some of the other surviving monks all widened their eyes in amazement.

"The serpent is gone?!"

Ye Wanru jumped down with Yu Qing and said in amazement.

The water is still muddy, but it is as level as a mirror.

Only the severed arms and stumps floating on the water surface show the ferocity of the once giant snake and the tragedy of the battle.

"How did you do that?"

Ye Wanru asked curiously.

Murong Tianzheng had a headache How to explain, Yu Qing at the water's edge spoke:

"It's not completely gone, you see."

She pointed to the huge armor-like creatures that had sunk to the bottom of the water.

Ye Wanru squatted at the water's edge and supported her hands with her hands: "What is this?" ”

Some disciples of the Liuxian Sect salvaged those things under Yu Qing's instructions.

Pitch-black unidentified metals were stacked one by one, the edges extremely sharp and glowing with a cold glow.

The metal sheet is made in the shape of snake scales, and the connection between the pieces is so tight that there are almost no traces of welding.

Ye Wanru took a closer look, and said with doubts: "This seems to have fallen off from the giant snake." ”

Yu Qing asked, "Could it be some magic weapon?" ”

Ye Wanru shook her head: "Ordinary offensive magic weapons have to rely on the monk's True Qi to drive, but in the battle, I have not seen any traces of True Qi fluctuations, but it is like a mechanism, which is placed on the body of this demon beast, but I don't know how this mechanism is activated." ”

"It's weird, it's the first time I've seen a ...... using a mechanism to transform a monster."

Murong Tian was stunned when he heard the conversation between the two.

Remodel...... Monsters?

What does that sound full of technology?

Isn't this the world of cultivation with an oriental fantasy background!

He looked at the big creature carefully, his fingers touching the edge of the metal piece, and it felt something familiar.

This...... It seems to be steel!

It also seems to be a metal composite material, and it is estimated that more than one metal is fused.

The serpent certainly didn't appear out of thin air, and may have been lurking in this deep pool or deep in the woods all along.

The mountains behind Canaan are full of jungles, and the air is very humid.

If it is an ordinary iron tool, it is soaked in water and scratched on the mountain wall, and it should have worn out or rusted a long time ago.

After being immersed in water for so long, the metal still shone with a sharp light, like a newly forged one.

A little bit of chemistry knowledge before crossing in comes in handy.

The material of this thing is very similar to modern alloy steel, by adding manganese, chromium, tungsten and other metal elements, the hardness and toughness of steel have been greatly improved, and the practical performance has become extremely excellent.

Therefore, it can not only be sharp and abnormal, killing invisible, but also extremely tenacious and difficult to break.

This kind of smelting technology is generally only available to industrial civilization.

Has the level of science and technology in the world of immortal cultivation advanced to this extent?

He secretly complained to the system: "The Kyushu continent is not going to set off an industrial revolution, right? ”

The system was speechless: "Host, have you ever seen a Xiuzhen novel that talks to you about science?" ”

How can those supernatural phenomena such as mystical ascension, spirits, and spells be combined with modern natural science that is based on empirical evidence and can be reproduced?

"And how do you explain this?"

The system's voice was solemn: "I don't know. ”

The system is also very confused, it can't detect the state of this monster, it seems to have been tampered with by some unknown force.

Murong Tian pondered, maybe he had to find a place to summon once.

As far as he knew, ancient Chinese people had already discovered some chemical elements, such as common gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, mercury, carbon, sulfur, oxygen, etc.

However, due to the constraints of the time, people's understanding of the elements could only stay at the level of simple observation and subjective speculation.

The level of productivity here has not changed much, and farmers near Liuxian Mountain are still using iron plows and oxen for farming.

Since monks can rely on True Qi to refine unique magic weapons, then maybe someone can break through the limitations of power and technology and refine something beyond the times?

There is the corresponding motivation and technology, not to change the status quo of the productive forces, but to create a killing mechanism......

It's chilling to think about.

Yu Qing noticed that Murong Tian's face was pale, his eyes were staring straight at the metal block, and asked:

"Do you know anything about casting technology?"

Murong Tian studied Chinese at university, and his knowledge of science and engineering was limited to high school.

I don't know much about casting technology, and I am limited to some popular science videos on station B, so I don't dare to say I understand.

But he also thought that he was a modern person after all, and his cognition should be very advanced for most people in the world of cultivating immortals whose cognition of the elements was still stuck in the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.

So he nodded and reasoned his way: "It's not like something that can be made with the current state of the art." ”

Yu Qing suddenly touched the bypass:

"Is it similar to the 'strange snakes' I encountered in the woods before?"

Murong Tian frowned, if those things are really "artificial intelligence", it stands to reason that this is the product of the information age!

What's in the control system of those "monster snakes"? It can't be a circuit!

That's when he remembered that he should catch one and study it!

Before studying it carefully, he couldn't compare the technical level of the two, so he replied to Yu Qing with a confused look.

As soon as he wanted to enter the Yuping Forest to find the remains of a "strange snake", he saw Xuanyuan Lianxi being supported by his attendants and coming over from the Yuping Forest.

Xuanyuan Lianxi had recovered a little, and his face no longer looked so pale.

He beckoned, and one of his attendants stepped forward with a cage woven of gold wire.

The "strange snake" was grinning in the cage, hissing incessantly, constantly hitting the edge of the cage like a moth to a fire.

Yu Qing commanded to the disciples of the Flowing Immortal Sect on the side:

"Those 'strange snakes' in the woods are strange and aggressive, so you can catch them all with me."

Xuanyuan Lianxi shook his head:

"When I arrived, there were no 'strange snakes' left in the woods, and there were only some traces of battle, and this one was found on the branches after I searched the forest."

Only then did Murong Tian remember the "snake" that was thrown away by his senior sister and hung on the branches.

Other things on the ground, after deviating from the original trajectory, still changed their trajectory and disappeared without a trace.

Where will they hide?

……

The air was filled with the stench of burning oil.

Xuanyuan Lianxi broke free from the attendant's arm, slowly walked to the edge of the pool, and squatted down, his face was cloudy, sinking as if he could drip water.

His fingers rubbed a touch of the oil on the wall of the pool, close to the tip of his nose, and sniffed.

The voice was bitter and cold, and word by word popped out from between the teeth:

"This batch of fire oil is from Zhongzhou."

Yu Qing remembered the fire in Shiping Village, felt a chill, and asked:

"How did this stuff come out?"

Xuanyuan Lianxi hooked the corners of his lips, but the tails of his eyes and eyebrows were cold:

"Now I'm going to ask my sister who is in charge of the stone grease."

Paraffin?

Murong Tian, who was immersed in studying the "strange snake", was shocked.

This seems to be an ancient name for crude oil.

He once studied Shen Kuo's "Dream Creek Writings" in a university class, which recorded:

"There is oil in the territory of Yan and Yan, and it is said that Gaonu County produces fat water, which is also. Born in the water, the sand and stone are mixed with the spring water, "melancholy" and come out, the native people take the pheasant tail to carry it, it is picked into the reed, quite like pure lacquer, burning like hemp, but the smoke is very thick, and the curtain is black. To doubt that its smoke can be used, try to sweep its coal for ink, black light such as lacquer, pine ink is not as good as also, so it is great. Its literacy is "Yanchuan Stone Liquid" is also. This thing will be great in the world, and it will be done from the beginning. Cover oil at most, and be born in the earth without limit, not as pine as sometimes exhausted."

This is the earliest written record of oil in ancient China.

Extracted from oil fields, unprocessed is crude oil.

After processing and refining, people give more accurate names to petroleum according to their different characteristics and uses, such as "gasoline", "diesel", "lubricating oil", "asphalt", etc., in order to distinguish them.

And the black-brown liquid that spewed out of the giant snake's fangs, as well as what the head of Shiping Village led people to spill, were very close to crude oil.

It is viscous, has a pungent smell, is flammable, and does not extinguish when exposed to water.

It seems that crude oil has already been discovered in this era, but it does not seem to have been put into large-scale production and used as a fossil energy source.

The system prompts: "Host, you can't correspond to the cognition of the original world to the current world." ”

"Huh?"

The system explains:

"In this world, Qi is the source of all things, and there is no concept of fossil energy such as coal and oil that you are familiar with."

"Doesn't exist?" Murong Tian was shocked, "What is there underground?" ”

"The leylines—the endless cycle of Qi."

"The coal and oil you are familiar with are the remains of ancient organisms formed after 10,000 years of precipitation, and in this world, after the death and decay of living things, they will turn into Qi in the underground and enter the cycle of heaven and earth again."

"This kind of energy can only be mobilized if it is refined into the body by a person with a spiritual root. The number of cultivators is scarce, less than one ten-millionth of the human race. Ordinary people who do not have spiritual roots, except for manpower, animal power, animal and vegetable oils, can no longer use other energy from the outside world! Naturally, it is also difficult for the productive forces to develop. ”

Murong Tian guessed:

"Since Qi can be used as energy, will anyone come up with a way to refine the stone grease from the Qi in the veins? In this way, we will be able to break through the energy constraints that restrict the development of productive forces. ”

The system hesitated: "But the true qi between heaven and earth cannot be stored, and it will only dissipate without the cultivation of the cultivator to enter the body." ”

So how are these stone greases refined?

The "strange snake" in the cage is still tirelessly hitting the cage wall, and the mesh has been knocked out of a bulge by it.

It never seems to stop.

What exactly is its energy source?