Traveler's Comprehension Guide

Chapter 36 Handmade vs Semi-Machined

Li Anxian didn't have much real energy, and his spiritual consciousness was only so-so. He tried his best every day to refine the weapon only once.

But he firmly believes that his future is full of hope, and he holds the belief that accumulating a little will make a lot. He plans to start from this small bullet case, accumulate slowly, and make a little progress every day. One day, the weapons before the time travel can be brought to this world!

In the next day, he refined another conical bullet, and on a whim, he engraved a few runes on it to increase its strength and sharpness.

Dongfang He almost fell backward in anger.

Those runes are usually used on flying swords or similar attacking magic weapons. Li Anxian would do well to get an iron awl without a point or edge. Can this thing smash the enemy to death, or can it scare the opponent to death?

He confessed earnestly: "Nephew Li, from now on, don't say that your refining weapon is your professor, our Qingyao Sect can't afford to lose that person..."

Li Anxian was almost depressed, isn't it just a warhead, what about it?
Forget it, don't be as knowledgeable as this old man, feel aggrieved and panicked.

Anyway, no matter what others said, he made up his mind to go all the way to the dark, and no one persuaded him.

People are alive, the most important thing is to be happy!
But he soon realized that adding runes to bullets was not a good idea.

The mechanical properties of the spiritual material itself are excellent, and with the blessing of runes, the hardness directly crosses a big step.

This is not making bullets, this is to test the strength of the barrel, right?

Why are bullets made of copper better than steel?Isn't it because copper is softer than steel, it is easier to extract the shell, and the barrel wears less?
Putting such a hard bullet into the chamber of the gun, okay, let’s not talk about the power of a single shot, the rifling is at least half worn, and the rifling becomes smooth in an instant.

Just relying on the hardness of the spiritual material itself seems to be a bit congenital.

Now that others are in the world of self-cultivation, their imaginary enemies in the future are either monsters or monks. The bullets are too soft, and it is estimated that they can't even pierce the opponent's protective body. How can they defeat the enemy?

He wants to use this thing as a trump card!
But the difficulties are temporary, but the wisdom of the predecessors is infinite!
Li Anxian didn't use his brain much, and immediately came up with several plans.
One is to take the way of shelling and piercing armor, and put a bullet holder on the bullet; the other is to use copper clad iron to reduce the wear and tear of the barrel, and the third is to reverse the history and directly load the dart with a smooth bore.

Ideal is full, the reality is very skinny.

Li Anxian knew that no matter what kind of plan he had, it was far beyond his ability, and now he was just thinking about it in his head, and it would not be too late to think about the other ones after the bullet was made.

Therefore, Comrade Xiao Li was not in a hurry to refine other parts, but slammed into the cartridge case with all his strength. Due to objective conditions, only one piece could be made a day.

But how much technical content can a shell case have?In just three to five days, the proficiency will increase, and with the same consumption, it can continuously refine three to four bullet casings!
Not long after, he came up with a whim and distracted himself to refine two bullet casings simultaneously, and he succeeded in one attempt!
The only shortcoming was that his consciousness was consumed too quickly, and he had a headache for half the night that night.

Fortunately, this recovery from consumption is itself a means of exercising one's consciousness.

But within a few days, he became dissatisfied again, and quietly moved his mind.

From a modern point of view, refining a weapon purely with spiritual consciousness is equivalent to handcrafting it before time travel, it is tailor-made and inherited from ancient methods, all kinds of high-end.

But in fact, there are very few decent inheritances, and most of them are grass-roots teams. The quality depends entirely on character, and the speed and quality depend on the destiny.

This was not the result Li Anxian wanted to see.

If a worker wants to do his job well, he must first sharpen his tools!
He immediately began to think about how to improve efficiency and reduce consumption. The first idea that popped into his mind was to build a miniature machine tool controlled by God's consciousness with the Concentration Array as the core.

As for machining, any modern person with a normal IQ must immediately think of machine tools.

However, Comrade Xiao Li soon realized that micro-machine tools were unreliable, and the reasonable solution was to use the Concentration Formation as a workbench to manufacture a mechanical device for auxiliary refining.

Even if you can only pull a blank or press a piece of metal, that is an all-round progress in the refining industry - why do you have to use spiritual consciousness to solve things that can be solved by machinery?

Thinking of this, Li Anxian fell into deep doubts. Why has no one thought of this in the tens of thousands of years of history in the world of cultivating immortals?
Well, this should be a question of philosophy.

According to his understanding, for monks, refining tools is like a husband and wife. It is a very private and personalized thing. Can you imagine that things like a husband and wife are as standard as an industrial assembly line?

It's simply impossible!
Therefore, monks always maintain the tradition of "handmade" refining.

But Li Anxian comes from a modern age that is striding towards intelligence. For him, industrialization and standardization are firmly engraved in his bones!
From the bottom of his heart, he rejected this kind of self-styled inefficiency.

After thinking about it, he made a decision, the first step is to build a stamping machine!
The structure of the stamping machine is simple, as long as there is a suitable mold and enough pressure, the goal can be achieved.

Li Anxian has never been in contact with mechanical processing, let alone mechanical design. Designing a stamping machine is not ordinary.

But he didn't care about that much at all, he put aside all the constraints of thinking, and worked hard for the result.

What gears, hydraulic pressure, and transmission, Li Anxian only knows what they are, but he doesn't know why, but he knows what the principle of leverage is.

Following this line of thought, a manual pressure device that uses levers to work gradually took shape in his mind—it was nothing more than a sturdy frame, coupled with levers and simple transmission devices, there was no difficulty at all!
This is what I used to smash walnuts in my hometown.

Li Anxian started immediately, drew a simple blueprint, and marked all the dimensions on it, even the ratio of the lever was clearly calculated.

Then there is no more then.

He found sadly that the size of this thing was too big, far beyond his refining ability. What's more, although the punching machine was simple, it used a lot of raw materials, but he was only familiar with black iron and copper essence. The number of spiritual materials is far from enough.

Helpless, I can only ask Dongfang Heron to help refine the punching machine!
Li Anxian only said a few words, and Immortal Master Dongfang fully understood his meaning. With a wave of his hand, all kinds of parts that Comrade Xiao Li needed were already in front of him.

Dongfang Luyu advised earnestly: "Nephew Li, this thing is only effective for low-level magic weapons or ordinary things. There is nothing wrong with using it as an aid, but it is a foreign thing after all, so don't go astray!"

"Disciple understands!" Li Anxian agreed, but couldn't help complaining in his heart: Really, his grandma has seen a ghost, it's so delicious because it's made by hand?

　This chapter has been coded for a long time, and I have been hesitating whether to write it like this, and whether it will collapse after coding.

　　But finally think about it, if I traveled to the world of cultivating immortals myself, I would definitely not do as the Romans do, either flying around with a sword, or chopping endlessly with a knife. No matter what, I would get out the gun.

　　Because this thing is more secure than a sword!

　　I have already made it very clear in the book, this is the story of an unlucky boy with poor aptitude who exhausted all modern means and struggled in the world of self-cultivation.

　　No one stipulates that after crossing, you must abandon everything in the past and live like a native, right?

　　So, don't spray if you don't like it.

　　Finally, this chapter was originally intended to be called "The Beginning of the First Industrial Revolution in the Cultivation World" or "Blowing the Horn of the Industrial Revolution in the Cultivation World"

　　The topic is a bit big, so I changed it to this one.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)