Chapter 379: Herbal Medicine Gene Research
Ye Zan's original plan was to let Wu Changsheng and the others experience it. Anyway, he has the authority, but if they can't pass those tests, he can take them there directly. Anyway, the main purpose of bringing them here is just the rewards after passing the level, not really caring about the process of this experience.
However, Mr. Ta obviously didn't think so. It seemed that he was ready to train these unsatisfactory juniors.
As for this situation, Ye Zan couldn't say anything, presumably no matter how hard Ta Lao practiced, he wouldn't be killed, so let him be happy.
Wu Changsheng and others entered the Tongtian Tower, and Ta Lao's figure also disappeared, leaving only Ye Zan in front of Tongtian Tower. At this time, a sword light flew over from a distance, and a figure appeared in front of Ye Zan. It was Ye Yi among the six clones.
"Elder, this is the herbal medicine you want." Ye Yi handed Ye Zan a Qiankun Ring while talking.
This Qiankun ring contains the herbs that Ye Zan told them to collect before, and the Yuqingzong is currently in short supply. However, it is a pity that in this small world, since alchemy is quite backward, there is no large-scale cultivation of herbal medicine. In other words, the herbs that Ye Yi and the others collected were basically wild, and there were not many of them.
Therefore, it is basically impossible to rely on the herbal medicine from the small world to maintain Yu Qingzong's consumption. Even now, Small World is planning to plant herbs, but it won't come in handy in a short time.
Ye Zan looked at the herbs in the Qiankun Ring, and quickly estimated how long it would last. He couldn't help shaking his head helplessly, and said, "It seems that we still have to find another way."
You know, besides Yuqingzong, there is also Yuqing Taoist Palace now, and there is also a lot of demand for pills. It's just that the treatment at Yuqing Taoist Palace can't be compared with Yuqingzong's, otherwise Yuqingzong's inventory will bottom out in a blink of an eye.
However, talking is better than nothing, if you can support it for a while, you will have more time to think of other ways! Ye Zan put away the Qiankun ring, and did not talk to Ye Yi again, but directly checked the changes in this small world through Skynet.
Looking at it this way, I really saw some problems. For example, the construction of public transportation brought more benefits to this small world than pure benefits.
Now, although time has not passed, the public transportation network in the small world has already taken shape. Major cities around the world, as well as some large resource distribution centers, have been connected by public transportation networks. The ground public transportation uses rail transportation, which is simply a railway, so it is convenient to be completely controlled by artificial intelligence.
This rail transportation, whether it is freight or passenger transportation, is far stronger than the original transportation method of the small world. However, this also brings about a problem, that is, a large part of the group of people who rely on transportation for food will lose their jobs because of this. It's like the appearance of thousands of miles of sound transmission has made many postmen unemployed, but after all, thousands of miles of sound transmission can't transmit things, so the group of postmen has not yet been completely replaced.
And this rail transit is powerful. In the long-distance transportation of bulk goods, traditional transportation methods are not competitive at all. That is to say, in short-distance transportation, since the track network is not so densely distributed, it is considered that some people can still have a meal.
Therefore, after seeing the power of rail transit, many people began to join forces to oppose rail transit and found out all kinds of weird reasons. But on the other hand, the big merchants who have tasted the sweetness are very supportive of this new mode of transportation, wishing that every corner of the world can be reached by this method.
Fortunately, the rail transit was built by the Taoist Palace. Because of the status of the Taoist Palace in this world, no major incidents occurred. Otherwise, if an unfamiliar force or organization wants to spread this rail transit, I am afraid that it will encounter a lot of resistance.
To know,
Those who eat the food of transportation are not the simple low-level laborers that people think. There are water gangs for river transportation, and caravans for land transportation. Don’t look at the people who do things below, but the power of this kind of gang is sometimes not dared to provoke easily by big businessmen.
Moreover, even if the Taoist Palace came forward, the rail transit network would still be sabotaged secretly from time to time. For the sake of profit, some people really dare to do anything. The so-called barefoot is not afraid of wearing shoes. Anyway, I can't live anymore, so what if I poke a hole in the sky.
Through Skynet, Ye Zan quickly went through the situation during this period of time in his mind. He wasn't very angry about what those people did, they just wanted to live. Even if those people intend to stop the wheel of history from rolling forward, is it really necessary to run over them?
Fortunately, at least there is short-distance transportation. When the transportation network really develops and covers all corners of the world, short-distance transportation may also face survival difficulties.
While bringing benefits to the majority, is it necessary to sacrifice the interests of the minority, or even the right to live?
If you let the people in the Dao Palace figure out a way, or let those in power in the secular world figure out a way, I'm afraid that's really the only way. However, Ye Zan is different. In terms of productivity development, he does not belong to the same era as people in this world. Therefore, there are some things that people of this era can't think of, but Ye Zan can find some solutions from the development history of the technological world.
"Old Cheng, go to Ye Yi and the others to get some information." Ye Zan contacted Cheng Liangqi through thousands of miles of sound transmission.
"Elder Ye? Okay, I'll go right away. Is there anything Elder Ye can do?" Cheng Liangqi was a little surprised when he received Ye Zan's voice transmission, obviously not used to the communication method of voice transmission.
"It's nothing else. After a while, the head of my Yu Qingzong will come to see you. You and the fellow Taoists in the Taoist Palace will say hello in advance and make good preparations." Ye Zan asked Wu Changsheng to meet them again. About the matter, I explained to Cheng Liangqi.
"What, the headmaster is here? All right, all right, I'll let everyone know." Cheng Liangqi quickly responded.
"Hmph, that's it, see you later." After saying this, Ye Zan hung up Qianli Voice Transmission.
On the other hand, Cheng Liangqi, holding the soundless voice transmission of Qianli, seemed to be a little preoccupied for a while. It was finally time to meet the head teacher of Yuqing Sect, which meant that Yuqing Taoist Palace would really become a branch of Yuqing Sect, instead of just changing a name.
Of course, this is something that will happen sooner or later, and there is actually nothing to be sentimental about. From the moment the Dao Palace was renamed, this matter has actually been doomed.
Cheng Liangqi collected his thoughts for a while, and while notifying the others with a thousand-mile sound transmission, he left the Dao Palace where he was and headed for the Steel Fortress.
The information that Ye Zan asked Cheng Liangqi to collect was a plan on how to arrange those people. To put it bluntly, it was to find another job for those who had been robbed of their jobs. For example, the maintenance of the rail transit network, the loading and unloading of goods, the logistics and transportation after leaving the station, etc., all these need people to do it.
The reason why Ye Zan didn't automate all the work is actually to leave some job opportunities for people.
After explaining these things, Ye Zan asked Ye Yi to go back to the Iron Fortress, and waited for Cheng Liangqi to go to get the materials. As for himself, he once again scanned the world through Skynet, and then flew away in one direction.
After a while, Ye Zan landed in a valley, the vegetation in the valley was quite dense, and some white berries grew among the grass and bushes. These milky white berries are exactly the spiritual fruit known as the spirit fruit of the heavenly spirit and the earthly heart. It is almost extinct in the Shenhua domain, and there is only such a growing place in this small world.
In the beginning, Cheng Daqi harvested those heavenly spirits and earthly hearts in this valley, but luckily he didn't kill them all.
The reason why it is said to be almost extinct is because there are still many restricted areas in the Shenhua domain, and no one can guarantee that there are no such spirits in those restricted areas. In addition, each sect and sect still has some medicinal gardens that have been passed down for a long time, which may not be passed down from the heart of heaven and earth. However, generally speaking, at least in the market of the Shenhua Domain, there is no such thing as the Heavenly Spirit and Earth Heart, and many people don't even recognize this kind of spiritual fruit at all.
This Heavenly Spirit and Earthly Heart is not very magical in terms of efficacy, but it has a wide range of uses, and it can even be directly used as Yunling Pill to supplement mana. Once, Cheng Daqi gave Ye Zan a pack of Tianling and Earth Heart, and Ye Zan also gave a bottle of top-quality Yunling Pill. It's just that Ye Zan has used up those heavenly spirits and earth cores, so this time he came here to collect some more, and on the other hand, he was also preparing to transplant the fruit plants.
Ye Zan raised his hand to sacrifice the jade ball, released a batch of robots, and quickly completed the work of picking and transplanting. To be on the safe side, Ye Zan didn't remove all the fruit trees, but kept some in the valley, so that if there was a problem with the transplanting, the spiritual fruit would not be extinct in his hands.
After doing these things, Ye Zan didn't stay in the small world for long, and urged the fairy palace token to leave here and return to his residence in Yuquanfeng.
However, after returning to the residence, Ye Zan did not stay idle, but flashed into the Yuqiu space again. In the Yuqiu space, there is an area dedicated to placing various technological equipment, just like a laboratory in a different dimension. Now, with the Yuqiu space, Ye Zan has moved many things here, and most of the experiments are carried out here.
On one side of the laboratory, several devices are analyzing the Yuanying and Yuanshen extracted from the people of the mysterious forces.
Those Nascent Souls or Primordial Spirits, soaked in special liquid and placed in transparent containers, looked like baby specimens, quite evil. One by one pipelines, and then on various parts of Yuanying or Yuanshen, it seems that you can faintly see that the light of energy flows out along the pipelines and submerges into several surrounding equipment. On the display screens of several devices, data such as various waveforms or charts are displayed, which will change rapidly every once in a while.
Ye Zan did not stop here, and soon came to the other side of the laboratory, which also has a lot of technological equipment. However, the target of these devices is not a Nascent Soul or a Nascent Soul, but a black bead the size of a fist. This black bead is the soul bead that has been promoted to the monarch level. Ye Zan hopes that through the study of the soul bead, he can get a glimpse of the secrets about the soul.
However, this is still not the place where Ye Zan wants to stop.
Ye Zan came to the end of the laboratory, and finally stopped in front of a row of technological equipment. On the wall, a huge display screen is divided into several display areas, one area displays a plant, and the other area displays a wonderful image like a long spiral staircase. The other several display areas display a large amount of data, which are constantly scrolling and changing.
That's right, this is a research area for plant genes, and what is being studied is a common herbal medicine.
Ye Zan glanced at the display screen, came to a device, and pressed a few buttons, the indicator lights of the device lit up one by one, and the data on the display screen also accelerated instantly, scrolling as fast as a waterfall. Not long after, the data scrolling stopped, Ye Zan looked at the data but shook his head helplessly, pressed the button on the device again, and a container with plants popped out.
Ye Zan wanted to use genetically modified technology to shorten the growth cycle of this herb, but after simulation calculations, the result did not satisfy him.
Even though, Ye Zan was already able to shorten the growth cycle of some herbs by a few weeks to a few months, which seemed quite remarkable. However, for these herbal medicines whose growth cycle is often several years, the shortened time does not have much effect.
However, Ye Zan's research is not completely fruitless. At least, through genetic research on a large number of herbal medicines, he found a gene fragment that converts inert aura in the genome of the herbal medicine.
The so-called inert aura refers to the aura that has the imprint of the human soul, even if it has been scattered in the world, it is still like a thing with an owner, and no one else can use it. Under normal circumstances, only by slowly wearing away the imprints in the inert aura over time can others use the aura again.
This is also why, in today's Shenhua Domain, people feel that the aura is thin.
Aiming at the problem of inert aura, Ye Zan once developed an activation device that could erase the imprint in the inert aura through energy bombardment, tantamount to reactivating the aura. However, this method cannot be used on a large scale, and Ye Zan only uses it by himself. At the same time, he also set up several special meditation rooms for Yu Qingzong.
However, these herbs can absorb the inert aura and transform the inert aura into normal aura through some methods. It is precisely because of this that today's ascetics can continue to practice by refining those herbs into elixirs. However, the conversion efficiency of herbs is not very high, so the growth of various herbs actually becomes worse and worse with the change of the environment.