Chapter 69 Assembly Line

"This is the jade message slip that I modified, but judging by the material, it should be more appropriately called a bamboo message slip."

Seeing Fang Chen so anxious, Lin Qingshan did not keep him in suspense and directly took out a piece of bamboo from the storage bag.

The bamboo is blue-green in color, and its jade-like surface is covered with black prohibitions and rune patterns, giving it a mysterious feeling.

This is the Shuiling bamboo.

The bamboo shoots of the Shuiling bamboo, which had been planted for two months, had grown to be more than three feet tall. Lin Qingshan also used local materials to make jade slips for transmitting messages.

Or as he said, it would be more appropriate to call it message slips.

"So how does this thing achieve the functions I mentioned?"

After observing carefully, Fang Chen didn't find anything special, so he asked.

Lin Qingshan had long been unable to suppress his desire to express himself. When he heard Fang Chen's question, he immediately began to show off: "Lord, you will know if you probe your spiritual thoughts into it."

Fang Chen was not worried that Lin Qingshan would harm him. After hearing what he said, he directly used his spiritual power to probe into the bamboo.

There was an instant sense of déjà vu.

It was like using spiritual thoughts to read the information in a jade slip, except that this jade slip was empty and did not record anything.

"Did you refine the water spirit bamboo into a jade slip?"

This was not unexpected to Fang Chen. The other party had already hinted at this by asking him to use his spiritual sense to investigate.

What cultivators call jade slips is actually a general term. It has nothing to do with the material. The key is that the information in it must be recorded and read with the power of the soul.

As long as it meets this condition, it can be called a jade slip.

The piece of water-spiritual bamboo that Lin Qingshan took out was obviously a blank jade slip, into which information could be input through spiritual power.

"That's right. And this is a mother jade slip. Each mother jade slip corresponds to a child jade slip. While retaining the communication jade slip capabilities, the mother jade slip can be used to view and modify the information recorded on the child jade slip, but not vice versa."

As Lin Qingshan spoke, he took out a large pile of bamboo slips from his storage bag. These were the jade slips he mentioned.

"One mother jade slip corresponds to one son jade slip? There are more than a thousand descendants of the Immortal Dynasty, so wouldn't there be thousands of mother jade slips? Isn't this equivalent to making more than a thousand pairs of jade slips for transmitting messages?"

Fang Chen looked at Lin Qingshan with some confusion.

"Lord, both sides of the jade slip can only receive and view information, and cannot modify the previous information. It is very different from the jade slips I made."

Lin Qingshan knew that Fang Chen didn't know much about the principles of the message jade slips, so he explained it again.

After hearing what he said, Fang Chen also knew that what he had come up with was indeed very powerful, but it was still somewhat different from his original idea.

"I didn't know much, so my tone was a bit harsh. You did a good job."

But being able to achieve this level, Fang Chen also felt that it could be used.

What he wanted to achieve was only a certain degree of informatization. Before he traveled through time, the world's first computer was as big as a room, and later it gradually developed into transistors and integrated circuits.

Everything needs a process to develop. Lin Qingshan deserves praise for being able to achieve this level.

"Hehe, I know what the Lord is not satisfied with. It's because these mother jade slips are divided into pieces."

After receiving the praise, Lin Qingshan chuckled and pointed out what Fang Chen was dissatisfied with.

"Ah."

Fang Chen was not too surprised. When he conveyed his needs to Lin Qingshan, he said that it would be best if one mother jade slip could correspond to multiple child jade slips, so he just nodded slightly.

"I have an idea for solving this problem, Lord, take a look at this."

As Lin Qingshan spoke, he took out a large board from his storage bag.

This board is also obviously made of bamboo strips, and there are bases on it. Judging from the shape, it should be used to place the mother jade slips. "This is a magical tool I created. It has not been named yet. By placing multiple mother jade slips on the base, I can use my spiritual thoughts to read and change the information in these mother jade slips at the same time."

When introducing such things, the pride on Lin Qingshan's face became even more obvious.

However, Fang Chen was already stunned at this moment, and blurted out: "Integrated circuit?"

"What?"

Lin Qingshan didn't understand what Fang Chen meant and was completely confused.

"Nothing, you're simply a genius."

Fang Chen's praise came from the bottom of his heart. The idea behind Lin Qingshan's magic weapon already had some traces of integrated circuits. He was able to figure out this kind of thing on his own, and his talent in formation was indeed amazing.

No wonder he was able to crack the forbidden combination of the jade message slips that were tightly controlled by the Immortal Sect.

"My Lord, you are too kind. Although this thing works well with the mother jade slip, it also has a problem. That is, it is too troublesome to refine. The same runes must be drawn on each base, and the mother jade slips and child jade slips are also the same. There are thousands of them, and it takes several months to make them."

Lin Qingshan was very happy that the surprise he had deliberately saved for the last moment received such praise. At the same time, as the designer of these things, he also pointed out their flaws.

"This problem is easy to solve. The descendants of the Immortal Dynasty have already entered the immortal path. Can't you just let them help you refine it?"

The defect that Lin Qingshan mentioned was not a problem at all in Fang Chen's opinion, and he casually gave a solution.

"It's not that simple. It's very difficult to get started with formations, prohibitions, and runes. Not everyone has the innate strong soul power and calculation ability like the Lord and I. Among a thousand descendants of the Immortal Dynasty, at most one has the talent for formations. But having one more unskilled helper won't be of much help."

Lin Qingshan shook his head and denied the solution given by Fang Chen.

Although the descendants of the Immortal Dynasty have entered the immortal path, the formation is after all the most difficult of the hundred arts of cultivation. He does not think that many people can learn it well.

Saying it was one thousandth was already giving face to Fang Chen.

The actual situation may be total annihilation.

In response to Lin Qingshan's rebuttal, Fang Chen directly asked: "Why should we let them learn the formation? Since the runes to be drawn between each base are the same, why not just teach them this one rune?"

"What's the point of learning only one rune? Then it can only be used to refine this magic weapon?"

Lin Qingshan thought about it and realized that if he only taught them to draw the same rune and they only needed to memorize it, many people would be able to learn it.

However, what is trained in this way is not a formation master, but a craftsman who only knows one kind of rune.

He doesn't think this kind of person is useful.

"Refine magic tools? They don't refine magic tools. They are only responsible for drawing runes on the magic tool blanks. The refining of magic tool blanks is left to another group of people."

Fang Chen corrected Lin Qingshan's statement.

"Is this okay?"

This practice somewhat shocked Lin Qingshan's worldview, as he had never heard of such a thing.

"Why not? If everyone just does fixed tasks, their proficiency will increase, and the success rate will also increase. This includes those mother-and-child jade slips, which can all be refined in this way."

What Fang Chen proposed was actually assembly line operation.

Each worker is only responsible for one process on the assembly line and ultimately completes the production of the product.

Specifically speaking, it means breaking down what a weapon refiner should do into several steps and then assigning them to different people to do.

As far as Fang Chen knew, many weapon refining masters had disciples to help them complete the smelting of materials, and they were only responsible for the final forging and engraving of restrictions.

This also proves that assembly line operation is completely feasible.

　The second update today, there will be another update in the evening

　　
　
(End of this chapter)