164 chips named "Dragon Heart Generation" by Li Shiming, 32-bit core, 168MHz, memory 1Mx8, RAM 192Kx8, 1.8V voltage.
The Dragon Heart Generation 1 was not a very good chip, but it was good enough for him to use in some facilities that did not require particularly large computing power.
He also planned to produce multiple batches of such chips, on the one hand to accumulate production experience, and on the other hand to obtain a reasonable plan for spirit stones.
With the chip, the LED display screen he designed for the identity jade disc became possible.
Yes, he placed his plan of obtaining spirit stones in a reasonable way on installing an LED display screen on the identity jade disc. Originally, the identity jade disc was able to provide remote visual chat like virtual imaging.
But that requires the cooperation of corresponding magic arrays. In addition, this function is only open to the high-level members of the sect and not to ordinary monks of the sect.
Li Shiming used his knowledge of magic arrays and, with the help of the computing power of IBM z15, successfully converted part of the array's information into data after a period of research on the array, thus realizing the digitization of the array.
This research result is only useful to him. Without the help of the chip, no monk can process complex hexadecimal data.
He made a shell similar to the mobile phone in his previous life. After placing the identity jade disc in it, the information of the identity jade disc can be displayed through a 16-centimeter LED display screen, and touching the display screen can also activate simple functions of the identity jade disc.
This function allows remote friends to have a visual chat. The remote friend is within a thousand miles of the sect's formation. If the range exceeds this, it will be impossible to connect to the sect's formation.
After clicking on the display screen, a list of friends in the identity jade disc will appear. After selecting a friend, you can choose whether to enable visual communication.
He also made restrictions in the chip so that it could only connect to the Tianhai Sect's sect formation and recognize the Tianhai Sect's identity jade disc.
Since the energy consumption of LED displays and chips is not large, he used a small battery as the energy source. The spirit stone stimulated a small current through a magic circle to continuously charge the small battery.
One spirit stone can allow this video call device to be used for several years. Although its functions are far inferior to the mobile phones in the previous life, it is definitely much better than mobile phones in terms of energy.
In terms of security, once the chip and the identity jade disc are locked once, they will be completely bound.
The sect's identity jade disc is extremely secure and only the sect's identity holder can open and use it, which makes what should be the most complicated security function become exceptionally simple.
Li Shiming also designed several complex formations on it, the kind that are actually of no great use, but require computing power like IBMz15 to figure out.
Yunze was invited to Eagle's Beak Island, and he was a little curious about this place.
Although supplies had been delivered many times before, Li Shiming had never allowed him to enter the island.
There are many kinds of spiritual plants planted in the spiritual fields, but none of them are precious varieties.
He knew about these spiritual plants because all the spiritual seeds here were purchased through him.
The natural limitations of the high-level lower-grade spiritual fields make it impossible to grow precious spiritual plants, but after several months of growth, these spiritual plants have given the island a different landscape.
Fu Lingzhu also branched out into five main branches. With the care of an intermediate spiritual plant husband, this kind of spiritual plant with low requirements grew very quickly.
"Junior Brother Li, I wonder if there is any big order this time?" Both parties sat down at the stone table outside the cave, and Yunze asked first.
It’s no wonder he asked this. Previously, orders for hundreds or thousands of spirit stones were all sent directly through the identity jade disc.
Such a solemn invitation this time inevitably made him think of the big order.
At the same time, he was also curious about how many spirit stones Li Shiming had. Li Shiming had only been in the sect for a year, so his wealth was truly terrifying.
"Senior Brother Yun, you're joking. I don't have any spirit stones left!" Li Shiming said with a wry smile and shook his head.
This made Yunze slightly stunned. He didn't understand why Li Shiming said that. Did he want to borrow spirit stones?
According to the standards of Yun's Trading Company, Li Shiming also meets the loan conditions, but he doesn't know what happened to Li Shiming that he needs to borrow spirit stones to get by.
"I have invested all my spirit stones in a research project, and now there are some results. So I would like to ask you to come over and help me see if this research is valuable?" Li Shiming went on to explain.
"What research is it?" Yunze asked with interest.
"This item is 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision', and it must be used together with the identity jade disc!" Li Shiming smiled and took out the shell of the identity jade disc that he named 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' and handed it over to introduce it.
Yunze took over the 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' and could guess its function from its name.
When he inserted his identity jade disc into the gap behind the 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision', the display screen suddenly lit up.
First, the majestic picture of the Nine Peaks is shown, with white clouds floating between the nine peaks, creating an enviable fairyland atmosphere.
Just seeing this display made Yunze's eyes widen. He looked at the small thing in his hand in disbelief, wondering why it could have such an effect.
There are similar effects in the world of immortal cultivation, such as more immersive illusion arrays and developing devices made of large spiritual crystals, but those require a huge price to achieve.
Although he didn't know what material the LED display was made of, he was 100% sure that it was not a spiritual object.
Thinking about the large amount of mortal objects delivered in the past few months, Yunze finally understood where Li Shiming used the mortal objects, which also explained why a large amount of mortal objects were needed.
Then the Jiufeng animation on the display screen blurred and became the background, and Yunze's basic information was displayed on it. This information was all publicly available.
Name: Yunze,
Affiliation: Genfeng, Yun's Trading Company,
Cultivation level: Eighth level of Qi Refining.
There is also a portrait of Yunze next to it.
Right below it is a cloud-patterned text called "Thousands of Miles Away from Each Other".
"Brother Yun, you can use your finger to tap 'Thousand Miles Mutual View' and choose a friend to contact!" Li Shiming instructed.
Yunze tapped on 'Thousand Miles Mutual View' and a row of his friends popped up. Looking at the number of his friends, it was far more than that of Li Shiming, who only had a single-digit number of friends.
Li Shiming's number of friends only reached nearly ten after he added a few senior brothers from the sect who had needs for formations, otherwise it would have been only two or three.
Yunze chose Li Shiming, and then a message came from Li Shiming's identity jade disc. Li Shiming took out the identity jade disc with the "Thousand Miles Mutual Vision" function installed and clicked to agree.
Yunze saw Li Shiming's face appear on the screen. He looked up at Li Shiming opposite him in disbelief. Li Shiming nodded and smiled at him. Li Shiming on the screen also nodded and smiled.
"Do both parties need to use 'Thousand Miles Vision'?" Yunze suppressed his excitement and asked the first question.
"This is a must. The identity jade disc does not have this function. It is completely dependent on 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' to achieve this!" Li Shiming nodded in affirmative reply.
Yunze quickly calculated in his mind that this would be a bit troublesome for the initial promotion, but it was not a big problem.
"Will 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' be imitated by other cultivators?" Yunze asked the second question.
In fact, if the "Thousand Miles of Vision" is taken back, the Yun's Trading Company will immediately invite formation masters, weapon makers and other professional cultivators to come. If it can be copied, they will copy it even if it offends Li Shiming.
Because if it can be imitated, even if their Yun's company does not imitate it, other companies will imitate it, which will be disadvantageous to the company.
"Senior Brother Yun, you can try it. I'm afraid you won't believe my private guarantee, but I'm confident that no one can replicate it!" Li Shiming said with certainty.
Even if a cultivator cracked the magic arrays used to conceal the truth and studied their interior, it would be meaningless.
Without the prior accumulation of knowledge, whether it is the internal electronic components, circuit boards, or chips, in the eyes of the monks, they are just a pile of mundane things and have no value at all.
The reason why Li Shiming dared to bring out the 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' was because of this. The benefits brought by the 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' would not be so great that it would drive the big trading companies crazy. There are only so many cultivators in the entire sect.
At the same time, this wealth is enough for Li Shiming, at least it can provide him with a reasonable source of spirit stones during the Qi Refining Period.
Without particularly huge benefits, no force would want to obtain the secret of "Thousand Miles of Vision" from Li Shiming.
Of course, he wouldn't tell Yunze that if he needed to, he could monitor these video chats through some kind of device.
Leaving a backdoor in a chip is a common method that is extremely easy to achieve when the technological gap cannot be detected.
The monks of this world will probably never be able to understand the significance of a set of sixteen-bit strings transmitted to each other during data exchanges.
"I wonder what Junior Brother Li's production cost is, and how many 'Thousand Miles of Vision' do you have?" Yunze asked the third question.
"Brother Yun, I have been working with you for a while and I believe in your character. The sale of this 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' can be handed over to Yun's Company at a unit price of fifty spirit stones!" Li Shiming replied with a smile.
How many Tianhai Sect monks have identity jade discs? Only the sect’s top leaders know the exact number.
But a cultivator in the Qi Refining Stage can probably live over one hundred and twenty to one hundred and thirty years, and some can even live up to one hundred and fifty years.
There are sixty to seventy new disciples joining the sect every year. Adding in the disciples who join the sect through other channels, the number of Qi Refining cultivators must be more than five thousand.
As long as he sells one hundred 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision', he will have five thousand spirit stones. With the means of the Yun's Trading Company, of course, they can sell more than one hundred.
"Junior Brother Li, Yun's Trading Company will purchase each item from you at 60 spirit stones, but you are not allowed to sell it to other trading companies. It can only be sold exclusively by Yun's Trading Company!" Yun Ze looked at the 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' in his hand, and he deeply understood the meaning of it.
Perhaps Li Shiming did not understand the mentality of the Tianhai Sect monks. Face-to-face video chat, which was only available to high-ranking officials, was a very prestigious way of communication in the minds of the Tianhai Sect monks.
It is impossible for Yun's Company to sell 'Thousand Miles of Mutual Vision' for dozens of spirit stones each, as that would be a blasphemy to this form of visual chatting.
"Senior Brother Yun, this will put me in trouble. My small body can't withstand the requirements of those big trading companies!" Although Li Shiming was not good at business, he immediately understood Yunze's thoughts and said lightly.
If you want exclusivity, the conditions are different.
Yunze looked at Li Shiming again. He didn't expect that Li Shiming was so smart and changed his attitude in an instant.
"I don't know what Junior Brother Li thinks. Just tell me directly and we can discuss everything!" he said with a smile.
"I'll get 40% of the sales price. At the same time, Yun's Company must announce that 'Thousand Miles of Mutual Vision' is the result of Yun's research and must not reveal anything about me to anyone!" Li Shiming said, holding up four fingers.
"Impossible!" Yun Ze jumped up as if his tail was stepped on. After realizing that he had been disrespectful, he sat down again and said, "At most 30%. To sell 'Thousand Miles of Mutual Vision', the Yun family needs to pave the way, which costs a lot!"
"Deal!" Li Shiming stretched out his hand and said.
He was actually taking a risk. If the chance was 30%, he would have to sell the 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' for at least two hundred spirit stones per unit to make a small profit.
But he still agreed. The distribution of 'Thousand Miles of Huddle Viewing' had many hidden benefits for him. His relationship with Yun's Trading Company deepened, and he also got rid of the possible troubles of 'Thousand Miles of Huddle Viewing'.
The first batch of 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' was one hundred pieces, and he gave them directly to Yunze.
The contract between him and the Yun's Trading Company was a secret contract. The contents of the contract would only be allowed to be viewed by others when there was a conflict between the two parties and the sect needed to intervene.
Li Shiming continued to practice and research every day, and within the sect, the sudden appearance of "Thousand Miles of Vision" triggered a wave of enthusiasm.
The marketing method adopted by Yun's Company is very special. Yun's Company gave ten pieces of "Thousand Miles Mutual Vision" to important partners on the grounds that it would facilitate communication.
Some of these partners are wealthy cultivators, and some are celebrities in a certain industry within the sect. They were all carefully selected by the Yun’s Trading Company.
Of course, the Yun's Company also invited professional monks to disassemble and study the 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision'. Even though several pieces of the 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' were broken, the underlying principle was not discovered, let alone replicating it.
This high degree of difficulty in replicating makes Yun's Company feel more at ease.
After the ten monks used the visual chat function of 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision', they also wanted to send 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' to their friends, as it was so convenient for communication.
You have to know that communication between cultivators, even if they use identity jade discs, is you send a message and I reply. This way of communication cannot see the other person's expression, and you always have to guess what the other person is thinking.
But with video chat, it is different. It is as convenient as chatting in person. It allows monks who have been practicing in caves for a long time to have the opportunity to meet with friends without leaving home.
On the grounds that 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' was extremely rare, Yun's Trading Company released another ten pieces of 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision', and the price of each piece of 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' was as high as five hundred spirit stones.
Almost at the moment the news was released, all ten units of 'Thousand Miles Mutual Vision' were ordered, and many cultivators urgently requested Yun's Trading Company to restock the stock, and were even willing to pay the spirit stones first and wait for the goods.