Chapter 381 Life Model
Once, Zhao Guanshan thought he had entered a very mysterious and powerful illusion, so much so that he began to doubt the truth of everything.

But gradually he came to understand that there was no illusion. Something must have happened to restore the originally broken and desperate world of immortal cultivation to normal. What he lacked was the memory of this.

“So it wasn’t me who saved this world of immortal cultivation. Someone else saved it.”

“But has this world of immortal cultivation really been saved?”

Zhao Guanshan let go of the mechanical sparrow in his hand, and it fluttered away. It was not a sparrow, nor did it try to disguise itself as one, but it now looked like a real sparrow. This was just an overflow of added value.

“Pullingleng!”

A group of more sparrows flew in from afar. They circled and landed freely. The mechanical sparrow blended into them without any flaws throughout the whole process.

A crow stood alone on a treetop in the distance. The breeze blew the branches, causing its body to sway slightly.

In the dense grass, a green mantis stood on the broad-leaved grass, like a cold-blooded swordsman, ruthlessly scanning the world.

Even in a winding and complex ant nest underground, a group of thousands of ants are working hard, and no one can tell the difference.

All of these are mechanical creations evolved by Zhao Guanshan based on the mechanical Taoist talismans.

That’s right, it’s evolution, not manufacturing.

Over the years, he was very lazy about his own practice on the hill, and was not very enthusiastic about anything else, including the mechanical talisman, which he had thrown out long ago.

But it was precisely this state that always gave him a flash of inspiration when he listened to the chirping of insects in the quiet night, the singing of birds at dawn, and the blooming of flowers, and gave him a deeper understanding of the mechanical Taoist talisman.

Machinery is not an element, and Taoist talismans are also not an element.

The core should be a rhythm.

The psychic circuit that Yang Mao had created that could resonate with the fire of Li was a kind of rhythm, but even though this rhythm was later improved and supplemented, it could still only be considered a primary rhythm.

It is far from reaching the deeper meaning of the Lihuo Dao Fu.

That is, to the extent that it can temporarily replace and make up for karmic debt.

That is why the young female fairy said that the essence of spiritual practice is to seek and obtain a power that can delay, slow down, and temporarily replace karma, and to integrate this power with oneself.

This is also the core essence of Lihuo.

Once you understand this, you will know what the mechanical talisman is lacking.

What it needs is a method that can complete a higher-level rhythm, a more authorized code, a method that can temporarily replace karma and complete the most basic life cycle.

No one can help with this method, and there is no corresponding field in the Lihuo Dao Fu, so Zhao Guanshan has to cultivate, simulate, and evolve it by himself.

It’s like training a big model.

Over the years, he has disassembled all the limited Tianming 3080 high-level material on hand, striving to achieve the greatest effect with the smallest unit.

From the original fully mechanical body to the current half-biological, half-mechanical body.

Because he found that a fully mechanical body would not necessarily have an advantage. In many cases, it was only necessary to add a few mechanical units in key parts to increase the comprehensive strength and survivability of a living body several times.

Of course, he did this because there were few high-level material resources and he did not want to go down the mountain. He did not even want to directly absorb the rich spiritual energy in the world of immortal cultivation. Over the years, he basically relied on the innate pure yang energy generated by his pure yang body every day to survive.

In a word, don’t go down the mountain, don’t practice, don’t be involved in cause and effect, and don’t bear the karma.

As for the small amount of karma generated by training the large mechanical talisman model, it is not a big problem.

Because it mainly depends on Zhao Guanshan himself to observe, calculate, and modify and adjust again and again.

By simulating the rhythm of life, we can write and deploy new mechanical psionic circuits for mechanical talismans.

And this cannot be achieved in a few years or decades. It may take hundreds or even thousands of years.

During this process, he seemed not to be practicing, but his practice became deeper.

Because the way of life is actually the way of spiritual practice.

In a blink of an eye, another ten years have passed.

Zhao Guanshan was still a young boy on the hill. At this time, the mechanical creatures he was training and simulating had just entered the third generation.

He is trying to evolve new mechanical creations using 60% biological organisms and 40% mechanical organisms.

But the addition of these two is not as simple as adding a prosthetic limb or a mechanical heart. Instead, he needs to engrave the rewritten and deployed mechanical talismans on the mechanical body, and then use the mechanical talismans to affect the biological body.

In short, the mechanical body serves as the brain and the main body, and the biological body serves as the auxiliary.

This kind of combination needs to be as precise and delicate as life itself, so it is very difficult.

At this time, machinery is just a medium, and mechanical talismans are the foundation.

Unfortunately, the difficulty of this topic was far beyond his imagination, and after hundreds of experiments, he could not make any progress.

Of course, Zhao Guanshan was not anxious, nor did he force anything. If there was no progress, he would just let it go and water the fruits and vegetables and weed the garden, which was also a pleasure. At this time, an uninvited guest broke into the hill again.

They are a group of people with nowhere to go.

Some of them were seriously injured and unconscious, some were disabled, some were tired, there were several children, and the woman who was already middle-aged.

She looked very miserable, one of her eyes was blind, and there was a cruel and ugly scar running from left to right on her face. A timid little girl of a few years old was following behind her.

“I don’t remember the way here. I took them to search here randomly for a few days, and somehow we found this place. Are you okay?”

She spoke a little uncomfortably. She had come here three times in the past thirty years. Time passed like flowing water. She had been wandering for half her life, but the boy in front of her still looked the same as he did thirty years ago.

“I’ve been here the whole time, so naturally I’m fine. But you guys, it’s you that look terrible.”

Zhao Guanshan smiled, just like before.

“Zhenhai City was breached, and they declared the Mechanical Dao Talisman illegal. I have now become a Mechanical Daoist, and I have been hiding and escaping with the remaining people. It is an endless process of hiding and escaping. More and more people have died and escaped. I have no other choice, so I thought of you. Can you take us in?”

“Why not.”

“Aren’t you afraid of trouble? I mean, the Floating Cloud Dao League is powerful, and almost all the immortal sects in the immortal world obey their orders. In this immortal world, no one can resist them.”

“My place is very remote. They can’t find it, and they probably don’t bother looking for it. Don’t worry, I’ll take everyone to rest and have some food first. I’ll build a few houses on the mountain tomorrow. Life may be hard, but it can save lives.”

“Thank you. I, I don’t know your name yet?”

“My name is Zhao Chengfeng.”

Zhao Guanshan smiled brightly. The woman in front of him looked a little dazed, but more of it was sadness. She had too many things to worry about. Thirty years passed in the blink of an eye. She went from a little girl who knew nothing to a disabled person today. Is this her life?

“I–” She stammered several times, and finally said nothing. She bowed her head, turned around and went back to work.

Zhao Guanshan did not participate either. He was just busy with his own things. Time passed like flowing water, spring came and went.

The hill remained silent, and nothing changed because of the addition of dozens of old and weak people.

As expected, the pursuers did not find this place, but there were more and more traveling merchants at the foot of the mountain, and a small path began to appear in those places that were easier to pass through.

Among the people she brought up the mountain, some of the seriously injured died, while others recovered well.

When you live in comfort for a long time, it is inevitable that you will have some thoughts.

The idea is not to go down the mountain to fight against stones, but to learn skills.

She couldn’t resist, so she came to Zhao Guanshan for help.
“Master, I don’t know your identity, please forgive me for calling you that. I know we are here to stay, so I shouldn’t be asking for more. However, I am carrying the mechanic tradition, and it is really hard for me to let go. Master, thirty years ago you gave me a mechanical magic treasure, which is extremely powerful. I believe you must have made great achievements in this field. I dare to ask you to choose a disciple and teach you the secrets in person. I am willing to repay such a great favor with my death.”

Zhao Guanshan looked at her. She should be no more than 45 years old this year, but her hair was already full of white. Her life was in danger and she would not live more than a year.

It has been exactly forty-five years since the immortal cultivation world regained its prosperity.

“good!”

After saying that, Zhao Guanshan pointed to a child in the distance and said, “Let’s pick him.”

“Thank you, Immortal Master. Thank you, Immortal Master. Yang Ti, come here quickly and pay your respects to your teacher.”

She was so surprised that she couldn’t believe it.

“You don’t need to call me mentor. I’m not an immortal. This child looks happy.”

Zhao Guanshan smiled, Yang Ti, Yang Ti, hey, this must be Yang Mao’s great-great-grandson, they are indeed of the same bloodline, there must be God’s will in everything.

At this time, he fumbled in his arms, then took out a sparrow and handed it to little Yang Ti.

“It’s just a little thing, play with it yourself, and see what you can figure out. It all depends on your luck.”

You may not give face to others, but you must give face to Yang Mao.

Not to mention the joy of Xiao Yangti and the others.

However, she fell ill in the winter of that year. Her life was like fire, and she passed away as soon as the cold wind blew.

Zhao Guanshan never asked her name, nor did he interfere too much in her life or death. He only looked at the small grave hidden on the hill from afar for a moment.

If he remembered correctly, this hill was originally transformed by the corpse fairy.

Is there some mystery behind this?

Zhao Guanshan didn’t know, but he was sure that at some point in the future, a girl would come here from afar, either getting lost or just passing by. She might not be born here, but she would definitely be buried here.

Maybe one day, his persistence will make sense.

Then the truth will come to him.

(End of this chapter)