Li Yao was rather amused at first. But on second thought, it was not a bad idea. At the very least, after he shaved his face clean and put on the clothes of ordinary people in space, nobody would recognize him unless they were particularly observant. Therefore, it would save him a lot of trouble.
After Cultivators advanced into the superlative height of the Building Foundation Stage, their control over their muscles would be much better. They could even slightly change the shape of their bones.
Li Yao's appearance right now was vastly different from when he participated in the Skyhill Sword Seminar. He had modified himself into a more mediocre and ordinary appearance. Even his hands had been modified to a certain extent. Therefore, even Xie Anan failed to recognize him at first glance.
The girl blinked and vaguely felt that there was something familiar about 'Sand Scorpion', as if she had met him somewhere a long time ago. Blushing, she said, "Nice to meet you, Master Sand. I didn't know that you still remember me."
Li Yao smiled. "Of course I do. Thanks to your calmness on Iron Plateau, the rescue operation later went smoothly."
Xie Anan blushed even more when she heard that. She lowered her head and looked at her feet, while she thought to herself, I didn't know that he really remembered me.
It was not until this moment that Hou Zitao realized what was going on. He was secretly delighted. It seemed that Sand Scorpion was not an unreasonable person. Immediately, he raised his eyebrows and winked at his companions. He squeezed out a brilliant smile and said, "Nice to meet you, Master Sand. I am Hou Zitao from the Refining Department. I was told that Master Sand was coming to the Refining Department for an exchange.
"Everybody knows that Master Sand is the best warrior of the six tribes of Iron Plateau. But few people know that Master Sand is adept at refining, too. We've seen the 3D pictures and structural designs of the True Qi armor, the True Qi sabers, and the crystal bombs that you've modified. They are indeed very delicate. Many aspects of them are among the best in space! We can't wait to share our research projects with you, Teacher Sand, and ask you to give us some pointers! "
"Take the project that I'm working on for example. I feel that the switching between long-range magical equipment and short-range magical equipment in the world of Cultivators is still very difficult to achieve. There are no good solutions yet.
"Spiritual guns will become a pile of garbage if they run out of bullets or crystal cells. Sabers and swords, on the other hand, lack the ability to attack remotely.
"A cultivator. It was often necessary to carry a spiritual gun and a chainsword or a vibration saber in order to meet the most basic requirements for long-range and short-range attacks, regardless of the weight. From the perspective of logistics and the maintenance of magical equipment, it is too troublesome!
"Therefore, I'm preparing to design a super weapon that integrates both long-range and short-range magical equipment, which will solve the problem once and for all and greatly reduce the burden on the Cultivators!"
"You know that the Temple of Immortals and the space pirates are attacking everywhere right now, which has greatly affected our supply lines. If such a super weapon is successfully developed, we will certainly earn a lot of returns!"
"Teacher Sha, if you are interested. You're welcome to visit my refining room at any time, or even research together! "
"To tell you the truth, my research has already entered the most critical phase. As long as the final sum of money is in place, we will soon be able to produce the first prototype and even enter the mass production stage! "
Li Yao smiled. "You are too polite, Professor Hou. You have published five papers in the 'Bimonthly Journal of the Firearms Association' and 'Light Magical Equipment Research' at such a young age. You are now an expert in the field of firearms magical equipment."
"As for your paper. I've read them all, especially the improvement plan of the 'Ice Fire Bomb'. By combining the spiritual energy of freezing and high-temperature and releasing it at the same time, the damage of the bomb will be increased by the expansion of the heat and contraction of the cold. The few formulas and rune arrays mentioned in the paper have inspired me a lot.
"However, what I'm best at is not the production of firearms magical equipment, and I know a thing or two about firearms. We will certainly discuss and learn from each other, but I can't say that I'm going to give you any guidance."
This time, Hou Zitao and the other young refiners were truly surprised. They had thought that Sand Scorpion was a bumpkin who did not know anything. They didn't expect that he would know so much about Hou Zitao's paper.
The four of them looked at each other in bewilderment. They had been planning to brag about their paper, but now, they were not sure whether or not they should act according to his plan.
Li Yao smiled casually. After the cooperation between Flying Star University and Iron Plateau was settled, he had gone to the Refining Department of Flying Star University to read a lot of files and papers.
Other than the few subjects that were highly confidential, most of the files about the subjects were open to the public and could be purchased on the relevant academic websites.
Of course, the core data would not be provided. But for experts such as Li Yao, he could infer a lot of things even through the files that were open to the public.
Over the past month, although he had been staying in the Cross Wind Space Zone, he had a basic understanding of all the specialists and scholars in the Refining Department of Flying Star University.
His field of study was single magical equipment. Hou Zitao's field of study overlapped with his own. Therefore, he had studied the topic more deeply.
Li Yao smiled and said, "Master Hou, the idea of combining remote and melee magical equipment is very good. However, I feel that the path you have chosen, although not wrong, has increased the difficulty of the project. Combining vibration sabers with spiritual guns is too complicated from a technical point of view. Even if you succeed, the cost will be too high."
Hou Zitao was greatly shocked. He took a step back and blurted out, "There are too many melee magical equipment. How did you know that I was going to combine vibration sabers with spiritual guns?"
Li Yao replied, "You wrote a paper recently about the application of an ancient rune array named 'Meridian Electric Storage Array' to modern magical equipment.
"As far as I know, the efficiency of the Meridian Electric Storage Array in storing and releasing thunder and lightning is very low. It also has a lot of drawbacks. Even in the age of ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago, it was not a high-quality rune array and was abandoned a long time ago.
"If you want to increase the damage with the power of thunder and lightning, such an ancient rune array is not necessary at all.
"However, the weak magnetic field generated by such an ancient rune array can provide a very good buffer effect and offset part of the shaking caused by the vibration!
"Together with the research that you are working on, I believe that it is reasonable for me to speculate. Therefore, I speculate that you probably want to combine the vibration saber and the spirit gun, but the vibration saber vibrates at a high frequency. That's why you're looking for a special buffer material or a rune array that can buffer all the vibrations without affecting the shooting accuracy and the destructive power of the saber. "
Hou Zitao was dumbfounded. A drop of cold sweat slid down his forehead.
That was indeed his theory, but Sand Scorpion had been living on Iron Plateau, thousands of kilometers away, and he had only written a few papers. He had guessed his refining idea with just a few papers?
This, this was too monstrous! Who said that he knew nothing? He was a rich man who could be easily fooled?
Besides, the Meridian Electric Storage Array was an ancient, unorthodox rune array. Its efficiency in storing and releasing thunder and lightning was not high. Even in the age of ancient Cultivators forty thousand years ago, dozens of rune arrays of the thunder class with similar functions could have replaced it. Therefore, the ancient people barely used it and had long been lost!
He had learned of the existence of such an ancient rune array and its special buffer ability from a mysterious refiner named 'Fiend Star' on the Spiritual Nexus by accident. That was why he had started his research.
This Sand Scorpion had heard of the Meridian Electric Storage Array before, too? That was unbelievable!
Hou Zitao's face suddenly turned solemn. He asked respectfully, "Master Sand, do you think my idea is wrong?"
"It's not wrong. It's too difficult. The cost is too high. "
Li Yao explained patiently, "The Meridian Electric Storage Array is an ancient rune array from tens of thousands of years ago after all. The structure of the rune array is very primitive and unsteady. If you want it to run stably in gun-type magical equipment, you have to add a few stabilizing rune arrays to it. So, you can form a 3D rune array group.
Li Yao thought for a moment. After all, it was not a formal study and they were just chatting. Therefore, he did not bother to summon the light beam. He simply focused his spiritual gas on his right hand and waved it casually.
Ripples immediately appeared in the air like the surface of the water.
Li Yao shot out dozens of spiritual threads from his fingertips, leaving traces in the air. More than twenty formulas and almost five structural designs were conjured within a breath with the technique of drawing runes in midair.
"Hiss!"
Everybody was dumbfounded. They stared at the translucent strokes made of spiritual gas that were popping up in midair, unable to move their eyes away.
They had seen runes in midair before. Some of them with higher Cultivation could draw runes in midair with their spiritual gas as the brush and ink, too.
However, the runes they drew were like drops of water on a piece of paper. They would soon disperse and vanish.
Sand Scorpion's runes in midair, on the other hand, were so clear that they seemed to have been condensed in midair and would not disperse for a long time!
"This, this person's cultivation, just how high is it?!"
Everybody was greatly shocked.
Hou Zitao, on the other hand, was even more shocked, because he found that Sand Scorpion had written a series of equations that he had failed to figure out after pondering for a long time in only a few words. They were enough to solve the problems that had been troubling him!
As Hou Zitao read the equations one by one, he felt as if he had swallowed a huge pile of mustard in one breath. A cold air rushed straight to the top of his head. Not only was he suddenly enlightened, but his entire head was also blown open!
"This — this — this — with these equations, the most perfect structure of rune arrays can be calculated and a super weapon that combines a vibration saber and a gun of spiritual energy can be produced!"
Hou Zitao did not know what to say. He stammered, "Master Sand Scorpion, you've thought of this a long time ago!"
After only one minute, 'Master Sand' had been upgraded to 'Master Sand Scorpion'.
Li Yao, however, frowned and shook his head. He pondered for a moment and said, "No. Like I said just now, the path is too complicated.
"Look. If we follow this train of thought and adopt such a complicated set of buffer rune arrays, the final product will certainly have an enormous and heavy buffer magical equipment unit in the middle and front.
"For both guns and sabers, the most important thing is balance. The buffer magical equipment unit is like a tumor. Wherever it grows, it will completely destroy the balance of the weapon.
"It is needless to say that the buffer magical equipment unit will consume a lot of spiritual energy, too. As a result, the endurance of the weapon will be greatly reduced.
"I haven't mentioned the failure rate yet. I believe that you must've noticed it, too, Master Hou. Because of the design mechanism, the failure rate of the buffer magical equipment unit will not be low."
"Indeed."
Sweating hard, Hou Zitao nodded his head.
In fact, he did not notice anything at all.
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