The night deepens.
Bluestone Cave Mansion.
Ning Zhuo put down the jade slip in his hand, looking fatigued and contemplative.
He had just skimmed through all the jade slips quickly.
"Empty Valley Sound Green Mechanism Tube..." the big-headed youth murmured to himself.
This Nascent Soul level inheritance contained multiple jade slips of cultivation techniques, involving various aspects.
The main cultivation method was called "Great Thousand Mechanism Sounds Scripture," a cultivation technique for mechanism cultivators, mainly focusing on the upper dantian. This technique could perceive the sound rhythm of objects, allowing cultivators to have a special divine sense that can perceive the unique scales inherent in mechanism components.
The first slip Ning Zhuo looked at was "Empty Valley Green Mechanism General Outline." This jade slip was akin to a table of contents and provided a guiding summary for the other contents of the inheritance.
Apart from this, there were other magic techniques, numerous and covering many areas.
For instance, "Returning Luan in the Empty Valley — Transformation Form," a sound attack technique that uses echoes to mimic bird calls, forming an astonishingly effective sound wave attack technique that can penetrate multiple layers of heavy armor, with extraordinary effects.
Another example is the "Green Bamboo Wind Sieving Essence," which was insights gained by a certain generation’s successor who cultivated in a bamboo forest, understanding the principles from countless bamboo canes swaying in the wind. It’s not a cultivation technique or spell, but simply an understanding of nature, an exposition of principles.
There’s also the "Thousand Mechanisms Spring Tongue Mysterious Essentials," mainly about making the reeds of mechanism components. The book records thousands of models capable of making the reeds simulate most of the sounds in the world. The "Vowel Reeds Book" Ning Zhuo studied, and the "Consonant Reeds Book" he deduced were just the beginning of the content.
Then there’s the "The Sky-Purging Radiant Tome." This is a martial arts set using a broom as the equipment. It was included by a certain generation’s inheritor who seized the opportunity, thus creating a corresponding spiritual bamboo puppet with unique effectiveness.
"Broken Jade Score" is a music score that, according to the general outline’s records, was originally lost. But during a successor’s life, they unexpectedly obtained remaining parts, which, upon using, were found to fit this inheritance extremely well, therefore collecting it with full effort. After several generations’ continued efforts, this music score was finally complete.
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After quickly skimming through these jade slips, Ning Zhuo had a more precise understanding of the entire "Empty Valley Sound Green Mechanism Tube" inheritance.
"To completely master this inheritance, two cultivation techniques are required. One is Mechanical Techniques, and the other is Music Skill."
"The actual effect of the inheritance is mainly using music skill to control mechanisms, and using mechanisms to express music skill, complementing each other. Therefore, in battle, the music sets the stage, with various sound attacks forming a battlefield suppression advantage. The enemy has to deal with the sound attack on one hand and various mechanical artifacts on the other, often flustered and struggling to cope."
"The primary cultivation resources in the inheritance are various types of spirit bamboo. From the very origin of the ’Empty Valley Sound Green Mechanism Tube’ inheritance, it was about transforming the bamboo forest to resist enemies. The root originated from spirit bamboo. The successors of the third and fourth generations all had deep cultivation techniques in spirit plants and spirit farming, thereby setting the tone for the entire inheritance."
Therefore, within the jade slips, there are many cultivation techniques and experience summaries related to spirit plants and spirit farming.
What Ning Zhuo cared most about were the various mechanical artifacts recorded in the jade slips.
There are musical instruments of the mechanical kind, such as Gold-breaking Stone-breaking Whistle, The Moonlit Wind-Sieve Flute, and the Pure-Heart Integrity Flute. There are various mechanical puppets like Green Bamboo Sword Servant, The Humbleheart Broken-Blade Guard, Shadow Bamboo Wall Guard, Dust Sweeping Monk, and Tearful Green Puppet. There are also mechanical weapons like the Hundred-Segment Langgan Whip. Additionally, there are mechanical carriages, called the Green Forest Python Chariot.
Ning Zhuo subconsciously compared with Yuan Dasheng, Mengye Tiger, Snow-colored Girl·Hui, and Snow Core Control·Xie.
"The mechanical bodies these deceased ones are using now are all of my design."
"Compared to the mechanical artifacts in the ’Empty Valley Sound Green Mechanism Tube’ inheritance, my designs appear noticeably crude at a glance, with a vast disparity."
The various mechanical artifacts recorded in the "Empty Valley Sound Green Mechanism Tube" inheritance have either been thoroughly tested or refined over countless processes. Unqualified ones are not documented to prevent future harm.
Therefore, these mechanical artifacts have undergone numerous improvements, iteratively refining their design until it is highly mature, with little to no room for improvement, at least as it appears to Ning Zhuo.
"Can I, with my current strength, manufacture these mechanisms?" This was Ning Zhuo’s first thought.
After thinking for a moment: "I have a mechanical platform; my capability to manufacture mechanisms far surpasses Foundation Establishment, even the Golden Core Stage."
"Now with comprehensive and detailed construction diagrams, there should be no problem for most."
"But for Nascent Soul-level, I still can’t do it."
"Because without the orthodox mana of ’Great Thousand Mechanism Sounds Scripture,’ many mechanisms’ refining steps also need corresponding improvements."
"Hmm... still need to study well, fully understand this inheritance to manufacture mechanisms more efficiently. Otherwise, attempting to build them immediately increases the likelihood of failure, easily wasting materials, and being very time-consuming."
Ning Zhuo felt quite confident about studying.
He was already proficient in various Confucian Cultivator methods, proving successful and reliable.
"These jade slips are mostly antiquities, coming from the original cultivators, with various generations of inheritors adding annotations and insights."
"If I use this for copying, the outcome should be quite outstanding!"
"It’s just a pity that from a rough view, there’s no clever solution for Yuan Dasheng and Mengye Tiger."
Ning Zhuo finally checked those three storage bags.
One contained many spirit stones: more than ten thousand low-grade spirit stones, tens of thousands of mid-grade spirit stones, and several thousand top-grade spirit stones. This resolved an awkward issue for Ning Zhuo.