It seems that this relic is just a sugar-coated bullet, but it is estimated that the old monk Du Yuan did not expect that Li Shiming, a fourth-level Qi training cultivator with no foundation, would be able to cultivate spiritual thoughts.
Not to mention cultivators like Li Shiming, even among the second generation of immortals, even among the top second generation of immortals with amazing talents, there are not many who can cultivate spiritual thoughts in the Qi Refining Stage.
The main reason is that spiritual root talent and mental talent are two different talents. Having top-notch spiritual root talent does not mean that one’s mental talent is also top-notch.
There are really too few top talents like Baili Jinyan, otherwise his father in the Holy Ice Sect would not have prepared so many resources beyond the Qi Refining Stage for him.
Li Shiming took a string and hung the relic in front of his chest, so that he could absorb the high-quality Vajra power that permeated the relic at all times.
As for the erosion of the Buddhist mark, he found that this was a good way to train spiritual thoughts. After the Buddhist mark was blocked by spiritual thoughts, it would be constantly eroded by the spiritual thoughts.
Ling Nian relies on his soul, so he has sufficient follow-up support.
However, the Buddhist mark emitted by the relic is like rootless water. As the spiritual thoughts are constantly consumed, the Buddhist mark eventually turns into pure spiritual energy, which is absorbed by the spiritual thoughts, making them even more powerful.
"This is the sugar coating given and the shells sent back!" Li Shiming said to himself with some pride after making this discovery.
As for the other skill of the old monk Du Yuansong, 'Speaking Lotus Flower', it has been mastered by Li Shiming during this period of time, and can be used in conjunction with 'Magic Sound Entering the Ears (Fake)'.
The power of 'Spitting Lotus' is not small, mainly because of its effect of bewitching people. However, under his research with IBMz15, mainly after IBMz15 analyzed the two sound wave techniques of one Buddha and one demon, he combined the two to form a new technique.
This new technique, which Li Shiming called the 'Demon Sound Lotus', referred to the use of spiritual power in the 'Lotus Speaks from the Mouth' as well as the sound manipulation techniques of the two techniques, and also incorporated the research results of later generations on sound.
In the known field, the role that IBMz15 can play can be seen through the "Magic Lotus".
This new sonic technique might be a little immature in the use of spiritual power, but in terms of sound skills, it far surpassed the Buddha and Demon sonic techniques.
The main reason for the power is that Li Shiming is too weak. It is effective against cultivators of the same level, but for cultivators of a higher realm than himself, the effect decreases as the realm increases.
Of course, the effect of the "Magic Lotus" still needs to be tested in actual combat, and this effect is analyzed by IBMz15.
While practicing the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique', the spiritual thought once again gave Li Shiming a surprise.
As usual, he sat beside the spiritual vein and used the abundant spiritual energy to practice the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique'.
The 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique' was put into operation. As he yearned for the spiritual energy from the outside world, his spiritual thoughts involuntarily transformed into a large net that extended out of his body, wrapping up the entire exit of the inferior spiritual vein.
None of the golden spiritual energy emitted by the inferior spiritual veins could escape the capture of the spiritual thoughts, and all of them were sent into the body by the spiritual thoughts.
Just with this one move, his training efficiency increased significantly.
He had some research experience on the cultivation of Qi Refining cultivators.
The research results were mainly obtained by combining his natural spiritual roots and the three spiritual roots, as well as what he heard from other cultivators.
If the efficiency of cultivating natural spiritual roots is counted as 100, then the efficiency of cultivating double spiritual roots is 50.
But the 50% for dual spiritual roots is not the real 50%. It also depends on which spiritual root technique of the dual-attribute spiritual roots is being practiced. If the attribute spiritual root data of the practice technique is 80, then the practice efficiency is 80% of 50, and the actual practice effect is 40.
The theoretical efficiency of practicing three spiritual roots is 33.33. Just like double spiritual roots, it also depends on the spiritual root data corresponding to the attribute skills of the practice. The practice effect is calculated according to this ratio from 33.33.
Some monks who practice two-attribute skills need to add the data of the two-attribute spiritual roots together and then divide the number by two before they can continue calculating.
Li Shiming's actual cultivation efficiency is about 27, which is definitely one of the top ones among the three spiritual roots.
This is also the reason why his cultivation speed is not slow. His original choice to cultivate gold-attributed spiritual power was extremely correct.
As for the four spiritual roots, the theoretical cultivation effect is only 25. In addition, the four spiritual roots share the data of each spiritual root, making the cultivation effect even worse.
Not to mention the five spiritual roots, whose cultivation efficiency is even worse.
Of course, these are just theoretical data. In fact, there is an important gap between natural spiritual roots, double spiritual roots, triple spiritual roots, and four or five spiritual roots. That is the sensitivity and absorption rate of spiritual energy. The better the spiritual roots, the stronger the sensitivity and absorption rate.
Many cultivators with four or five spiritual roots are simply unable to achieve the theoretical cultivation efficiency because they are unable to sense enough spiritual energy. Even if they absorb the spiritual energy and put it into the spiritual energy vortex, a large amount of it will be wasted.
At a certain speed, spiritual thoughts reduce the gap between spiritual energy induction and absorption rates.
Spiritual thoughts can sense spiritual energy more clearly, and can even extend out of the body, forming a collection network around it that is more effective than the body's own absorption, collecting spiritual energy that meets the requirements of cultivation and sending it into the body.
After acquiring spiritual thoughts, Li Shiming's actual cultivation effect is almost close to the theoretical upper limit of 27.
This cannot be compared with the cultivation effect of a natural spiritual root of 100, but it is enough to catch up with the weaker cultivators with double spiritual roots.
Li Shiming thought to himself that he should set up his own spirit gathering formation as soon as possible so that the effect of his cultivation could be improved. Although there is an upper limit, even if it is improved by 0.1 each time of cultivation, it will be very considerable after accumulation over time.
On the next day, Li Shiming used his identity jade disc to exchange the soul storage rune, acceleration rune, firmness rune, sharpness rune, fire rune and frost rune among the magic runes. It was not that he did not want to exchange more, but that he did not have many good deeds left.
He used the remaining good deeds to exchange for a special formation called the 'Shocking Clouds and Falling Thunder Formation'.
The 'Shocking Clouds and Falling Thunder Formation' was the only lightning formation he found among the formation knowledge that could be exchanged.
Since lightning formations have high burst attack power and are a natural restraint on demonic techniques, they are extremely popular.
But the problem is that lightning formations have great flaws. The lightning in the formations are not generated for no reason. Thunderclouds need to condense in the sky before thunder will fall.
Any cultivator who sees thunderclouds suddenly appear in the sky will remain alert and it will be difficult for him to fall into a lightning formation.
As for the 'Shocking Clouds and Falling Thunder Formation', since it takes too long to gather clouds, the knowledge of this lightning formation is extremely cheap, so it is not a very practical formation.
There was no trouble in learning the magic runes. At this point, when Li Shiming first came into contact with magic, he was able to comprehend the true meaning more easily because of his memories of his previous life and the cooperation of IBMz15.
He was learning the art of attachment not for the purpose of making magical instruments, at least for now he did not have the energy for that.
Even with the help of IBM z15, his time and energy are limited every day.
Here we have to mention another benefit of spiritual thoughts, that is, after practicing the 'Ice Heart Jade Thoughts Technique' to nourish the spiritual thoughts, his spirit will be completely restored, and coupled with the recovery of the body through practicing the 'Five Elements Qi Gathering Technique', he no longer needs to rely on sleep to restore his spirit and body.
In other words, he could almost go on for at least a month without rest, just like a foundation-building cultivator.
This allowed him to spend more time each day, and of course, he also learned more.
Time passed, and after several days of hard work, the machine tool he called the "industrial mother machine" was officially completed.
The entire machine tool was enchanted with 'solid runes', making it far more stable than what was shown in the design drawings of the previous life.
The cutter head of the machine tool uses a low-grade magic weapon, which was enchanted by Li Shiming himself, the 'Spirit Storage Rune', the 'Solidity Rune' and the 'Sharpness Rune'. A small amount of spiritual power is injected into the formation, which can continuously replenish the spiritual power in the 'Spirit Storage Rune'.
The cutting ability of machine tools is indestructible when it comes to mortal metals.
The machine tool is powered by the 'Shocking Clouds and Thunder Array'. The lightning power generated by the array passes through a newly-made power collection converter, becomes a stable current that enters the battery and is then connected to the machine tool.
The 'Shocking Clouds and Falling Thunder Array' consumes spirit stones. As long as there are enough spirit stones, the electricity generated will be endless, and the amount of electricity can be adjusted according to the size of the 'Shocking Clouds and Falling Thunder Array'.
Of course, the 'Shocking Clouds and Thunder Array' needs to be turned on ten minutes in advance in order to continue generating electricity, which is a not-so-small flaw.
The first equipment produced were single crystal furnaces, vapor phase epitaxial furnaces, oxidation furnaces, magnetron sputtering tables, chemical mechanical polishers, photolithography machines, ion implanters, wire bonding machines, wafer dicing machines, and wafer thinning machines.
These ten devices are production equipment for chip material wafers. Since there is no need to consider any technical barriers, and the wafer equipment could be manufactured domestically in the past, IBMz15 has a complete production design drawing.
There is another lithography machine. He did not choose the most advanced nano-level lithography machine first, but instead prepared to manufacture a micron-level lithography machine which is easier to manufacture.
Naturally, these devices all have a common shortcoming, that is, the lack of control chips. Like the "industrial mother bed", these devices lack the key core.
This is a chicken-and-egg dilemma. Li Shiming's solution is to make IBM z15 a universal substitute, simulating the required control processing programs to manage these devices.
Li Shiming did all these tasks in his spare time. Since he didn't need to sleep, he spent almost all of his free time on these tasks.
Three months passed, and during these three months, he purchased more than two thousand spirit stones worth of supplies from Yunze, including many ordinary items.
He had to consider one important thing, which was where to use so many mortal objects and where his spirit stones came from.
At present, about four thousand spirit stones have been used in Yun’s Trading Company. This number is not too much, but it is definitely not a small amount either.
Most of the Qi Refining cultivators could not come up with so many spirit stones at once, even the Formation Masters. Since Li Shiming had not been in the sect for long, it would be even more difficult to explain the origin of the spirit stones if he continued to spend lavishly on supplies.
He has currently spent four thousand spirit stones, which is the limit of what he can spend in a short period of time. He needs to start thinking about how to obtain a reasonable source of spirit stones in the short term.
The first batch of wafers was produced, but he was not satisfied with them due to technical and experience reasons.
After analyzing the IBM z15, he found the key to improvement, but he did not want to waste this batch of wafers.
Today is an important day. The micron-level lithography machine is officially turned on and will produce the world's first micron-level chip.
He did not place it in the computer room because the space was too small. In order to manufacture more advanced chips in the future, he needed to gain some manufacturing experience on micron-level chips first.
There is indeed a lot of information about IBMz15, but there is still some gap between the actual manufacturing and the information.
Take these three months for example. No matter how difficult it is to manufacture the wafers and micron-level lithography equipment, with the incomparably sharp five-axis industrial machine tool and the help of his spiritual thoughts, even some parts with special requirements can be sent into the machine room and completed by the consciousness-controlled third-grade sword base. It should not take long to manufacture these devices.
But the fact is that he encountered many difficulties in the process, and time slowly passed by during the trial and error process.
Fortunately, nothing disturbed him during these days, allowing him to practice and do his own things in peace.
Li Shiming opened a magic circle in the underground space. The air was expelled from the magic circle, and a constant temperature environment similar to a vacuum was formed inside.
This magic circle is used to trap the enemy. For cultivators, after losing the air, they can still mobilize their spiritual power to support themselves for a long time. The effect of extracting the air is not obvious.
However, it is the best choice for creating a sterile and dust-free environment. It does not require overly complicated filtering equipment. This formation can achieve this.
Li Shiming did not need to enter the formation. He controlled the micron-level lithography machine through his spiritual thoughts and sent a cut wafer into the equipment.
A cable extends from the computer room and is connected to the micron-level lithography machine.
The world's first chip is not a particularly advanced design, but a relatively backward product compared to its predecessor.
With the control of IBM z15, the micron-level lithography machine starts running and the internal light shines on the surface of the wafer.
Just like printing photos, the complex design is printed on the surface of the wafer, so that the wafer is engraved with the design circuit that meets the requirements.
The micron-level lithography machine is just a tool. What really completes this delicate work is the control of the IBM z15.
Waiting for the chips to be sent out of the micron-level lithography machine, the first batch of 450 chips were successfully engraved.
After the packaging process, the finished chip is not beautiful, and is even a bit ugly. There are even strange runes printed on the surface, which are all for the purpose of confusion.
After further testing, it was found that only 164 of the 450 chips met the design standards, and the rest were defective waste.