Chapter 320 Primal Furnace (5000)
The sky at an altitude of ten thousand meters is vast and boundless, as if endless blue silk stretches to the horizon, vaguely connecting with the horizon.
The thin clouds in the sky were slightly illuminated by the sunlight, like a veil floating in the sky.
A black shadow rushed past like an arrow. From the ground, one could only see a small black dot quickly crossing the sky, but strangely, it did not leave any trace of white airflow, as if the entire sky was making way for it.
The black surface of the falcon was faintly emitting a faint magical glow, which contrasted with the sunlight in the sky, outlining a cold and smooth outline.
"At full power and Mach 3, the magic crystal consumption rate is quite fast. We have only flown 1,200 kilometers and have already consumed 5 units of magic crystals. This is five times more than the cruising speed of Mach 1.65. If it is more, it will almost catch up with the sky."
Fang Yu controlled the direction of the falcon and looked down. He saw the mountains and rivers below scattered like a chessboard. It was already the end of August in the main plane, and from time to time he could see a small patch of yellow fields in the green grassland or forest.
It's like the earth is covered with yellow patches.
The Nambis Mountains are located south of Luwak and northwest of Estria, running across the entire border between Luwak and Estria.
This mountain range also separates Esteria from the Norven continent, turning it into a large peninsula.
It is said that earthquakes often occur in this place, but fortunately the magnitudes are not large and have no impact on Estella and Luwak, so no one pays much attention to it.
The road leading here is very difficult to walk on. The mountains are not low, but they are very brittle. Huge rocks often fall from the top of the mountains, making it impossible to build a road. It has become a natural barrier that separates Estella and Luwak.
It is also because of this that the semi-slave and decadent dynasty of Estria can continue to exist, otherwise it would have been conquered by Luwak long ago.
"The Falcon model is quite old. It was developed in the TR750. At that time, it was mainly used for single-person medium-distance fast cruising."
"But in TR811, the Norwen Continent began to fully deploy medium-distance teleportation arrays. This made travel faster for business travelers, though the cost was slightly higher. As a result, Falcon sales plummeted."
"With fewer sales, Speed Aircraft has focused its business on short-haul flights, large commercial airships, luxury cruise airships, and inter-dimensional aircraft."
"This type of medium-range small aircraft is almost no longer developed, so the early Arcane Engine AE200 has been used."
"Sky's Arcane Engine is already the 9th generation AE TITAN539 engine for small and medium-sized luxury cruisers produced by Speed. The technological advancement is far different."
Yuzi blinked and explained to Fang Yu.
Why the hell were you doing this before? Why didn't you tell me when I bought this Falcon?
Oh, by the way, this Falcon was compensated by Sibed Company, not purchased.
"AE TITAN539? Are there going to be TITAN739 and TITAN939 later?" Fang Yu snorted.
A lavender hue appeared on Yuzu's body, indicating surprise. "Huh? Master, how did you know?"
As expected, the unscrupulous businessmen in every world have the same ideas.
Capitalists should be hanged under the streetlight!
By the way, the Orange model can be updated to version 2.5Pro in a few months to release some of its reasoning capabilities, and then a new charging level can be opened, charging 888 big week coins or 150 dollars a month.
At the same time, we will develop a 2.5mini version, cut out some things, and only retain the question and answer and image generation. The plug-in function cannot be used, and the price is 49.9 or 8 yuan per month.
This kind of quick update does not require the use of the Orange Big Model with 3 trillion parameters in its own private server. The Orange Big Model that Yuzu Technology has already trained is enough to update for five years.
However, with the current investment of major companies in AI, and after the paper is released in a few days, the architecture of most of Orange's large models will no longer be a secret. It is estimated that in one and a half to two and a half years, they should be able to get to the edge of 2.5Pro.
We have to first raise their expectations so that they will be interested in creating an AI atmosphere, the industry will rush to roll up AI applications, there will be more AI talents, and AI will enter human life faster.
"We'll reach the Nambis Mountains in about three minutes. Let's look at the map. The exact location... Yeah, it's in this direction, so it should be right!"
Fang Yu could already vaguely see the majestic Nambis Mountains stretching across the Esteria Peninsula nearly two hundred kilometers away.
"How can there be a floating mountain? Don't you see that mountain is floating in the sky..."
The weather near the Nambis Mountains was very good today, with almost no clouds. With Fang Yu's eyesight, he really couldn't see any floating mountains.
The mountains in the distance are rolling and the peaks are steep. The snow on the countless mountain tops that has not melted for years reflects the sunlight, which is occasionally dazzling.
Starting from the mountainside, there are layers of primeval forests. The accumulated water formed by the melting snow on the peak rushes down from the top of the mountain, forming streams into rivers. When it reaches a large drop, it forms waterfalls of varying water volume, reflecting several gorgeous rainbows under the sunlight.
There was a large area of vegetation growing that looked a little strange.
And there seemed to be some faint brilliant colors in the sky. Was I seeing things? Why did it look a bit like... the aurora?
"It should be around here. There are indeed no mountains floating in the sky. I've already descended to 6,000 meters, but I still can't see any..."
"Huh? Master, slow down, wait, something is wrong." An amber color representing alertness suddenly appeared on Youzi's body. Fang Yu was stunned. Before he could ask Youzi what was wrong, he felt the joystick in his hand being pushed upwards uncontrollably.
"What the hell! What's going on?!"
Suddenly, Fang Yu felt the Falcon plummet, and then all the internal instrument displays began to spin wildly.
"What's going on? Is the plane going to crash?"
Fang Yu pulled the joystick hard, but it was of no use. The Falcon seemed to have completely lost power and fell straight down in free fall.
No, not a free fall, this speed is like a dive.
In just a few seconds, the falcon plummeted nearly 1,000 meters like a meteor.
Dry!
Fang Yu grabbed the pomelo, raised his hand, fired an arcane missile, blew away the Falcon's hatch, and jumped out.
There was no time to use the Boundless Messenger to collect the falcon. Just as he activated the Feather Fall Technique, he heard a loud bang from the ground.
The Falcon fell to the ground and was broken into pieces, but it did not explode.
What's going on?
Fang Yu's face turned pale as he slowly landed halfway up a mountain.
"Master, I just discovered that there's something wrong with the magnetic field here..." The pomelo kept flashing purple light in Fang Yu's hand, "Master, be careful!"
Fang Yu snorted, without even turning his head, he waved his right hand, and an ice blade flew out, cutting off the head of a giant python that was about to attack Fang Yu from behind!
Dirty blood splattered everywhere.
"What is this?"
Fang Yu glanced at it and couldn't help but frown.
On the surface, it looks like a giant python, but who has ever seen a python with horns on its head?
Fang Yu picked up the python's head. This thing was still very tenacious. It wanted to bite Fang Yu even though only its head was left. Fang Yu grabbed its mouth and lifted it up.
There was nothing unusual about the other parts of the body except for the unusually tough skin and a single black horn growing on the top of its head.
Fang Yu broke the horn with his hands, and then he felt a suction force coming from the ground that was far stronger than gravity.
The broken horn produced a repulsive force with the broken horn in Fang Yu's hand.
Is this... a magnet?
This snake has a magnetic horn?
"I've never seen anything like this before. It's not an extraordinary creature, it seems to be just an ordinary one." Yuzu flew up unsteadily. "The magnetic field strength around here is extremely high, over 60,000 times stronger than normal. All living things around here may be affected by the magnetic field and undergo some mutations."
Sixty thousand times!?
Fang Yu calculated, the magnetic field strength is 30,000 gauss?
3 Tesla?
Isn't this much higher than the magnetic field strength of conventional neodymium magnets?
No wonder I saw the aurora just now.
No wonder the Falcon crashed.
Although the Falcon is an arcane aircraft and different from an airplane, a lot of metals are used in its manufacturing, including ferromagnetic metals. Under the influence of the magnetic field, when it flies to this place, it will naturally be sucked down by the magnetic field.
Wait, magnetic field, repulsive force... Could it be that the so-called floating mountain is just a big magnet?
Even magnets cannot form stable suspension.
And where is this floating mountain?
The magnetic field intensity in this place is too strong, and the drone can't fly. The spell doesn't seem to be affected. How about using the flying spell to try?
"Master, master, over there..." Fang Yu felt that Youzi patted him with the magician's hand. When he looked up, he saw that Youzi's body was flashing with colorful spots in the silver light. She was obviously surprised and confused.
Youzi used a tangible magician's hand and pointed at Fang Yu's side. Fang Yu turned his head and saw a fist-sized stone floating quietly two meters away from him, not moving at all.
!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fang Yu instantly used Wilde's Doting to add a mage armor to himself.
But looking at the stone again, there was still no movement.
Fang Yu only thought about it for a moment before he used a magic hand to grab the stone in front of him.
Huh? It looks like a rock.
Identify it.
"The slag from the original furnace? What is this?" Fang Yu asked Youzi curiously.
"The Primal Furnace?" A silver light flashed from Yuzu's body, and then he spun a few times in the air and cast a detection spell on the nearby area.
"Yes! It's here! I know!" An orange light bloomed from Yuzu's body, and she was obviously very excited.
"This is Ignacum! Ignacum!" Yuzu shouted excitedly, "The Primal Furnace is right here!"
"But how come this place has become a mountain range? There should be a valley here. The Eternal Furnace is 3,000 meters below the valley. How come it has become a mountain range now?" After being excited, Youzi became a little confused.
Fang Yu's face turned dark. You know it, but I don't.
Yuzu was still very excited, "Master, don't you understand yet? The mountain under our feet is the Floating Mountain!"
I still don't understand? You didn't say anything, so I don't understand a damn thing!
But, is this mountain the Floating Mountain? I don’t see any floating mountain.
Fang Yu pondered for a moment, raised his hand to pick up the pomelo, put it in the net bag on his chest, performed a flying spell, and flew quickly to the foot of the mountain.
This net bag was originally used to hold basketballs.
The Nambis Mountains stretch for nearly 300 kilometers and are nearly 100 kilometers wide. Although it is said to be the foot of the mountain, it is actually about 1,000 to 2,000 meters above sea level. The terrain is dangerous and far away from human habitation, with deep valleys, cliffs and high mountains everywhere. If you are not an extraordinary person, you can't come here at all.
“This! This is…”
Before Fang Yu's feet even touched the ground, he couldn't help but let out a cry of surprise.
I saw that the mountain I had just flown down was actually about 20 to 30 meters above the ground, suspended in the air.
The surrounding vegetation is very dense. If you are not too close and can fly, you will not be able to find that this mountain is floating!
Although you are not as mysterious as the legend says, you are indeed suspended!
Moreover, near the mountain, there are many large and small pieces of rubble suspended at a higher altitude, like the rings of Saturn, surrounding the mountain at a height of forty or fifty meters!
How is this possible?
This is a mountain! How does something so massive stay aloft? Could it be that this mountain is equipped with an arcane engine?
No, it's the stones that are the problem!
What on earth are these stones called slag from the original furnace?!
"Ignacum is a city of alchemy, true alchemy. Two-thirds of the golden arcane materials of the Great Arcane Age came from here, precisely because of the original furnace here!"
"The Primordial Furnace isn't a true furnace. Instead, it fastens the four elemental planes of the Inner Planes together in a specific way. The area where the four elements intersect is mapped onto Ignacum, becoming the Primordial Furnace."
"Water, fire, air, and earth, the four basic elemental planes, continuously provide this furnace with alchemical materials at almost no cost. After being refined and fused in the furnace, they are transformed into various rare materials, which are then transported from here to various places in the main plane and various sub-planes."
"The Primordial Furnace was built by the Occult Union in the Great Valley of Wally in TR 33. It took a total of 155 years, and was officially completed and put into operation in TR 188. It is known as the propeller that ushered in the Gilded Age."
Whenever Yuzu mentioned the many creations from the Great Arcana period, she would speak with pride.
"However, there were no mountains here originally. It should be a canyon." Yuzu's tone became low.
"In ten thousand years, the world has changed dramatically. In sixteen thousand years, the slag from the original furnace has actually formed a mountain range." Yuzu sighed.
Fang Yu frowned. "Wait a minute before you lament the passing of time. The arcane mages have been gone for over 16,000 years. Who controls this primordial furnace? Where does the slag come from? And where does this strong magnetic field on the ground come from?"
Yuzu was stunned. "Of course it's automatically discharged. The Arcane Mage sets the daily requirements...Ah! It's broken!"
Yuzu reacted immediately.
The Kunlun Mountains on Blue Planet are considered young, with a history of nearly 20 million years. How could such a large mountain range be formed in just 16,000 years?
This proves that even after 16,000 years, this primordial furnace has continued to function! The slag and alchemical metals discharged have not only filled the canyon but have even formed a medium-sized mountain range along the canyon's terrain!
The arcane mages disappeared in an instant, and there was definitely no time to shut down the furnace. Therefore, the furnace continued to produce the set alchemical metals according to the production requirements set before the arcane mages disappeared.
If this furnace is not closed, sooner or later, the entire Norwen continent will be crushed by these slag and alchemical products!
Of course, this may take hundreds of thousands or even millions of years.
No wonder there are frequent earthquakes nearby. There is a production workshop below that is constantly discharging slag and alchemical materials. How could there not be earthquakes?
But no matter what, if the furnace is not closed, the main plane will be assimilated by the four elemental planes sooner or later.
The problem is, how to turn it off.
Even if we don't count the mountains that are over 3,000 meters high, and only count the 3,000 meters underground and the 2,000 meters above sea level, we still need to dig down 5,000 meters to reach the underground where the original furnace is located.
Fang Yu thought about the spells he knew, and it seemed that none of them could be done easily.
He didn't want to spend months digging in this place just to shut down a furnace.
Wait, why are you thinking about this? Even if there is a crisis, it will be at least tens of thousands of years in the future. Aren't we studying how this mountain flew up?
Fang Yu jumped up and dug out a piece of stone from the mountain. After identification, it was also the "slag of the primitive furnace."
As soon as he let go, the stone flew into the air and floated motionless at a height of about 150 meters.
Fang Yu took the stone and flew outward, and the magnetic field intensity dropped sharply.
When it flew ten kilometers away, Fang Yu let go again, and the slag from the original furnace fell to the ground with a snap like an ordinary stone.
Fang Yu flew back to the Floating Mountain and carefully observed the floating state of the stone-like object under the magnetic field again, and poked it with his finger.
The position has changed, but the suspension form has not changed.
Is this... the Meissner effect and the pinning effect?
No way?
Fang Yu's heart was pounding.
"Yuzu, in the Age of Great Arcana, what is the specific use of the slag from the primordial furnace?" Fang Yu asked, suppressing his excitement.
Yuzu's eyes flashed. "Slag is slag. There's more than one kind of slag in the original furnace. It depends on what it was producing at the time. This kind of slag should be a byproduct of cyber steel. Cyber steel can almost completely block all elemental damage. The resulting slag is generally useless and is usually transported to other sub-planes as garbage. What's wrong, master?"
Fang Yu raised an eyebrow. "Fool! Analyze for yourself why this mountain is floating! All the known conditions are laid out here, don't you think it through?"
Without Fang Yu's instructions, Youzi generally would not use its brain. The previous decryption of the encrypted package was because Fang Yu gave it a long-term task to decrypt the encrypted package, so it took the initiative to find a decryption method.
Yuzu was stunned, and a white light flashed a few times around her body. She was obviously thinking, and then a little silver light appeared on her body. "You mean... these slags are room-temperature superconductors!?"
Room temperature superconducting material appears~~~
(End of this chapter)
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