The concept of "hybrid" was that, when a Cultivator needed a Crystal Suit or a Colossus to fully output their spiritual energy, their abdomen, their veins, their brain, or any other messy tissues on their body that were used to store "spiritual energy reactors" would input the energy into the crystal reactor of the Crystal Suit first. Then, through the complicated fusion procedures inside the crystal reactor, the energy would be highly mixed with the crystal fuel carried by the Crystal Suit itself, before it would be transmitted to every power rune array and battle unit around the Crystal Suit through the output tubes of the crystal reactor. Eventually, the energy would be transformed into blades of light, flames of light, or jet power in various forms and burst out.
In other words, the original two power sources were fused into a single power source.
It was not hard to imagine how difficult it was.
It was because the outburst of spiritual energy of a Cultivator was highly unpredictable and disordered. Even the Cultivator himself could barely control it.
When Li Yao was burning his life and soul in fury, he might not have been able to control the spiritual energy that was bursting out of his cells precisely.
However, the crystal reactor was a magical equipment unit that required high stability and precision.
When Li Yao first entered the Refining Department of the Grand Desolate War Institution when he was a teenager, the laboratory exploded because of a minor problem with the crystal reactor during an experiment. The entire Refining Department was almost destroyed.
That was only the mass-produced Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit. The temperature and pressure that the crystal reactor had to deal with were not too high "relatively speaking".
If it was the high-level Crystal Suit that was specially designed for Yuanying or Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators, like the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit that Li Yao was wearing right now? What kind of drastic changes in temperature and pressure would the crystal reactor of the Mystic Skeleton Battlesuit be faced in a fierce battle, and what kind of spiritual waves would it have to output?
At such a time, adding the spiritual energy of the Yuanying and Divinity Transformation Stage Cultivators themselves into the crystal reactor and triggering a reaction at the same time, wouldn't it be asking to be killed?
The 'hybrid model' was based on a whimsical hypothesis. When it was produced in reality, too many problems had to be solved. Materials science, new fuel science, spiritual energy synthesis, aerodynamics, and of course, the most fundamental rune arrays and dynamics were involved. Everything was covered, and it was more difficult than climbing to the sky!
Countless refiners in the Xing Yao Federation were conducting research in this area. Li Yao himself had also experimented with it and modified a series of immature models.
However, faced with all kinds of unsolvable problems, even Li Yao had to admit that his capability was far from enough. Or rather, the Federation's accumulation in materials science, dynamics, and other aspects was not enough yet. Perhaps, it would take hundreds of years of accumulation before a mature and reasonable "hybrid" layout could be proposed.
Even with such a high level of difficulty, there were still countless refiners who threw themselves into the research.
This was because the benefits of the hybrid style were obvious.
One Crystal Suit had two power sources. However coordinated and synchronized they were, they could never reach the level of '100% synchronization'. The best they could do was approach 'perfect synchronization'.
It was like the difference between a fake leg and a real leg no matter how carefully it was produced. Even if other people could not tell, the user would always know.
The higher the level of the user, the greater the interference of the 'fake leg' would be.
If a champion of a short-distance race were to sprint a hundred meters with a real leg and a fake leg, the result would be greatly affected in any case.
It was the reason why many high-level trainers did not like the dual power sources and the 'hybrid' layout.
If the spiritual energy of the trainers could be input into the crystal reactor first, and after a series of complicated reactions, it would be greatly enhanced before it burst out through the crystal reactor. In such a case, the problem of 'incoordination and synchronization' would not exist at all, because there would only be one power source in the first place!
That was the effect of 'one plus one is greater than two'.
Also, in the 'hybrid' layout, there were two power sources. Therefore, there were actually two sets of ancillary spiritual energy transmission circuits.
One set was the spiritual energy transmission tubes that were connected to the crystal reactor, and the other set was used to transmit the spiritual energy produced by the human body itself.
The latter set of spiritual energy circulation circuits might not have actual 'tubes', but when designing the Crystal Suit, the smoothness of the circuits and the non-interference of each other still had to be taken into consideration.
One Crystal Suit with two kinds of spiritual energy circuits would be too cumbersome and chaotic, which would greatly affect the mobility and defense of the Crystal Suit.
The Crystal Suit was a piece of magical equipment that could be used as a training ground in a snail's shell. Tens of thousands of rune arrays and thousands of magical equipment units had to be accommodated in a small area to trigger at least hundreds of different techniques. All the refiners were racking their brains to subtract the components. Even if they could reduce the components to the size of a fingernail, it would be of great benefit to the improvement of the performance of the Crystal Suit.
If the 'hybrid' layout was successful, one set of spiritual energy circuits would be reduced. In the end, hundreds of components would be reduced, and the overall design would be more whimsical and free.
The overall combat performance of such a Crystal Suit would be improved by more than 10%.
In a battle of experts, the outcome of the battle could be decided by a hair's breadth. Not just a 10% improvement in performance, even a 1% improvement would be a 'revolutionary breakthrough'. How could the specialists of Crystal Suit not be attracted by the 'hybrid' layout?
Li Yao had a deep communication with Di Feiwen, the deputy commander of the Black Wind Fleet. He knew that the Imperium had entered the bottleneck of 'technological stagnation' hundreds of years ago when the territory of the Imperium reached the limits. Over the past hundreds of years, there was even a sense of 'lifelessness' in the circle of refiners. There were even bizarre theories such as' all the magical equipment that could be created had been created, and we only needed to strive for perfection '.
Other than the advantages in the practical fields such as the 'light membrane theory' and the 'multi-refraction technique', the Crystal Suit of the Imperium was not much more advanced than the Crystal Suit of the Federation.
The problem of the 'hybrid layout' had not been solved by the Federation, and neither had the Imperium.
However, this Master Jin Tianzong …
Li Yao thought quickly and immediately guessed what the so-called 'anomaly' was.
If this Master Jin Tianzong had indeed made breakthroughs in the field of the 'hybrid layout' of the Crystal Suit, he would truly be 'damned'.
The chain of interests that had been shaken was too solid, and the interest groups were too enormous. The water was too deep!
Compared to the 'linked layout', the 'hybrid layout' had the absolute advantage and belonged to the indisputable 'new-generation technology'.
If the 'new-generation technology' had indeed been developed, what about the 'old-generation technology'?
The Crystal Suit was the king of magical equipment, and the Crystal Suit industry took up half of the entire magical equipment industry. The number of Colossi was too small after all to support an enormous industrial system and industrial chain. The Crystal Suit was the real king!
Right now, all the refiners and the Crystal Suit centers adopted the 'linked layout'.
How many respected masters of refining had dedicated their entire life to polishing the "linkage layout" so that they could reach perfection through the refinement of the refinement?
How many Crystal Suit centers and military-industrial complexes had invested astronomical funds in the development of the next-generation 'linked layout' so that the synchronization rate of the two power sources could be improved from 99.9% to 100%? Then, when the 'hybrid Crystal Suit' appeared, it was very possible that the 'linked Crystal Suit' would be crushed easily, and the jobs of countless' masters of refining 'would be smashed into smithereens. The interests of the military-industrial complexes under the four Kurfürst families would even be affected!
In a 'young country' that was thriving and faced with enormous pressure for survival, the birth of new technologies was never a problem.
Most people would only learn and improve the new technologies in a hurry, resulting in a healthy competition and trying to make the cake bigger.
For example, the 'Glorious Sunlight Group' and the major sects of the Xing Yao Federation would only spare no effort to devote resources to the study of the 'hybrid Crystal Suit'.
The reason was simple. The Federation might be destroyed by the Imperium at any moment. Only newer, more powerful magical equipment could keep everybody alive!
Also, everybody was confident that the Federation would keep developing, and the cake would be bigger in the future. Even if some of the cake was lost right now, it would be earned back in the technological progress very soon.
However, in an 'Imperium' that had reached the limits of expansion, where every field was highly monopolized, and where the culture was conservative, the situation might not necessarily be so.
"The Imperium of True Human Beings is the strongest in the universe. As long as the 'linked Crystal Suit' is polished to 100% perfection, all the enemies will be destroyed. So, is there any need to create a 'hybrid Crystal Suit' at such a great risk and cause chaos?"
Li Yao believed that a lot of 'masters' and 'grandmasters' in the circle of refiners of the Imperium must've thought so.
There was no 'Jin' surname in the four Kurfürst families.
Also, judging from the fact that Jin Tianzong was praised as' impartial 'and exposed the academic scandals of hundreds of descendants of the four families mercilessly, his relationship with the four families was not very good. It was possible that he was a' troublemaker '.
"Even if the 'hybrid Crystal Suit' is really possible to be realized, the critical technology should be firmly grasped by 'us' instead of allowing an 'outsider' to do whatever he wants with it."
Li Yao was even more convinced that somebody in the refining centers and the military-industrial complexes under the control of the four families would've had such an idea.
All in all, it was not hard to understand why Master Jin Tianzong, who had always been a distinguished professor of the Refining Department of the Imperial Polytechnical University, ended up messing around with such an ambitious gambler as Queen Li Linghai and plotting to overthrow the current system of the Imperium.
Li Yao was only interested in the Tempest God at the beginning.
However, after hearing what Li Jialing said and analyzing the whole situation, he was more interested in Master Jin Tianzong than in the Tempest God.
"Let's go and witness the arts of refining of the highest level in the Imperium!"
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