"How can we make up for it?" Emperor Zhaode asked.
Lin Yi took out a folded piece of paper, spread it out on the stone table in the pavilion, and said, "This is it."
The drawing on the paper depicted a very rudimentary machine.
After examining it carefully for a while, Emperor Zhaode still couldn't figure it out and asked, "What is this?"
Lin Yi said, "This machine can be called a 'steam engine.' This machine will benefit all people, bring blessings to all living beings, and usher in a new era."
Looking at the bewildered Emperor Zhaode, Lin Yi shook his head slightly. The greatness of the steam engine was something that perhaps only he could understand in this world.
This feeling of being the only one sober while everyone else is drunk is exhilarating, truly exhilarating.
Lin Yi thought to himself, "At this moment, if we add the narration 'The gears of fate have begun to turn,' it would feel absolutely amazing."
In his previous life, while he was lying in a hospital bed, he read many books.
After transmigrating, Lin Yi had forgotten many things. However, as his cultivation level improved, he discovered that he could retrieve these things from his memory.
This time, what he found was the working principle of Watt's steam engine.
Watt's steam engine is not complicated; it consists of a few key components: steam inlet, steam outlet, cylinder, piston, connecting rod, and crankshaft.
Watt's improvement mainly involved separating the condenser from the cylinder, allowing the cylinder temperature to be maintained at the temperature of the injected steam, thereby improving the steam utilization rate.
This became common knowledge in later generations.
Many people forget what they've learned, or they simply haven't put their heart into learning it.
Emperor Zhaode turned his gaze away from the steam engine blueprints and asked, "What does the True Man need?"
Lin Yi silently gave Emperor Zhaode a thumbs up in his heart. Such a cooperative teammate is always the most adorable, no matter the situation.
"As long as His Majesty allocates some craftsmen to me, that will suffice," Lin Yi said.
Emperor Zhaode nodded and immediately gave the order.
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Chapter Nineteen: The Seed of Talismans Arrives in Guo Bei
Time flies, and years pass quickly.
Before we knew it, a month had passed.
Late July is the hottest period of the year in Beijing, known as the "Dog Days of Summer".
The "three" refers to the three periods of the hottest days of summer: the first, middle, and last.
"伏" can be understood as the weather being too hot, so it is better to stay still than to move. It also means "to subdue evil", which is the evil of summer among the so-called "six evils" of wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness and fire.
In a quiet room within the Imperial Preceptor's residence, Lin Yi sat cross-legged on a cloud bed. With each breath, wisps of invisible purple energy were continuously absorbed and refined.
As time went by, the moon gradually rose high in the sky.
Suddenly, Lin Yi, who was sitting quietly on the cloud bed, trembled. His body was overflowing with true energy, and naturally, his ancestral aperture between his eyebrows opened.
Everything happened naturally, without any obstacles.
A spark of innate spiritual light within the sea of consciousness, nourished by true energy, radiates brilliant light like a pearl cleansed of dust.
This innate spiritual light comes from the Wuji (the primordial state of nothingness) and returns to the Wuji. It is what Taoism refers to as the fetal light or heavenly soul, and also what Buddhism refers to as true nature, original nature, Bodhi, and so on.
Lin Yi opened his eyes, stood up, and leisurely recited: "I have a bright pearl, long locked away by worldly troubles. Today, the dust is gone and the light shines forth, illuminating countless mountains and rivers."
Within the sea of consciousness, countless true texts appeared one after another on the previously silent "Star River True Scripture," flashing and changing continuously. Finally, three hundred and sixty-five true texts flew out, reflecting each other with that point of innate spiritual light.
Lin Yi calmed his distracting thoughts, regulated his breathing and vital energy, and focused his mind on visualization.
True texts are also known as "talismans".
The talisman is the spirit of heaven and earth, and the register is the name of ghosts and gods. It can command the primordial energy of heaven and earth, communicate with the spirit of heaven and earth, restrain ghosts and gods, and arouse the true energy in the body to visualize the spirit, transforming it into a seed of talisman in the dantian.
This is the source of all magical power.
In Taoism, there are terms like talismans and incantations, while in Buddhism they are called seed scripts or mantras. Although the names are different, the underlying principle is the same.
For a cultivator, to master a certain spell, one must visualize the corresponding talisman and then refine the true seed of the talisman.
Only by achieving this can one be considered to possess magical power, be able to perform spells, and be a genuine magician.
Whether it's Taoist true energy, Buddhist vows, or innate demonic energy, as long as it's injected into the talisman seed, a phantom talisman will emerge from it. Once this phantom talisman appears, a spell can be cast.
Each sect cultivates different Taoist methods, so the spells cast from the same talisman seed will vary greatly depending on the true energy infused into it.
The same talisman might generate two different spells depending on whether the true energy is water-based or fire-based.
The deeper one's cultivation, the more true energy the talisman seed created through visualization can contain, and the greater the power of the spell.
The more exquisite the visualization method, the faster the talisman seed transforms into true energy, and the more responsive the spell will be. The spell follows the thought, and vice versa.
Within Lin Yi's dantian, 365 True Script Talismans merged with the Star River True Qi, transforming into the source of his magical power.
In the blink of an eye, the Seven Star Dharma Robe was bestowed upon him.
With a flip of his palm, the Three Lights Divine Water and the Starry True Fire appeared simultaneously.
With a flick of his finger, seven sword energies—Sun, Moon, Venus, Jupiter…—shot out, leaving craters of varying depths on the ground.