An 85-year-old leading scientist known as The Smartest brain knows to humankind, and who contributed to the development of human societies in many fields like energy, machines, automotive, Medical, etc, and also know to be the Jack Of All Traders dies in a lab accident. When he went to the lab at the night to get some documents and due to a mistake of a junior scientist who forgets to turn off a machine that exploded killing him with it. Even though the damage has been bought under control as fast as possible but the scientist died without even leaving behind a corpse.
The scientist gets reincarnated into the world of martial arts and cultivation. He is born as the 4th grandson to the little brother of the Grand Elder of Xiao clan in a small town. He still retains all of his memories even though he reincarnated.
Since he retains all his memories, the scientist starts his research to understand the world and its rules from a young age while experimenting with knowledge from earth to differentiate both worlds.
Even though the town is small the Xiao clan is still one of the major families in the town that has a good business and well off compared to others. Xiao clan's main business for income from selling different materials needed for crafting and pill making alongside selling the pills and equipment. Even though they are not leading Clan in the market they are still one of the top in this town and surrounding towns and villages.
The scientist is known to be an odd one in the family as he is always experimenting or doing stuff that kids never do. And most of the things that he does even the adults cannot understand him and left him to his own world. The scientist is also fascinated with the art of cultivation that not only nurtures the human body making them stronger but also increases there life span. So he spends most of his time as a mad kid doing all kinds of stuff will also cultivating.
At the age of 13, the scientist made a lot of progress in his experiments and research that he is been doing for more than 8 years. He decides to make his first big project with all his current understanding of this world.
He decides to build a machine that can produce a medicinal powder for common health problems. The reason that he chooses to go with this idea first is that his clan has all the resources he needed for building the machine and also has a business need to use it which should make it easier for him later.
Even though the scientist is being treated as an odd man in the clan no one dares to say it to him as he has enough background and also talent in cultivation. He is known to be among the top 3 in the Xiao clan for his cultivation talent. The scientist's talent should have been off the charts if not for him spending 95% of his time with experimenting and other stuff and not cultivating but no one knows that.
Because of his talent, even the grand elder supports him very much. So it was an easy task to get enough resources that are needed to build the machine. Even though the medicinal powder is the lowest of the kind and only normal humans and humans who are at the stage of body tampering use. The scientist wants to use this experience to build a machine that can manufacture pills in the future.
The medicinal powder is generally made by the cultivators who are at Foundation Establishment stage and are level one and two alchemists. Even though the medicinal powder is the lowest of there kind there are still different levels to the powder that is manufactured that has different efficiency based on the precision of the process followed or amount of dreg left etc. The pills and powders are divides into four levels low, middle, high, peak/supreme levels.
Even though it is easy to produce the medicinal powder and has a high success rate of 70-80 percent for a level two alchemist and around 45-50 percent for a level one alchemist. when compared to around 15% of success for pill making for level two alchemist. The success rate of producing medicinal powders is higher than higher levels ones.
The goal of the scientist was to make the machine that produces medicinal powder with middle-level type and that has a success rate of over 85 or 100 percent. So spends most of the time on making the blueprints and experimenting with the modal, gathering data and revising the blueprint based on the data. Since this the first machine he is building he spent more time revising the plan and making sure that he has everything ready before making the final product as he knows that the amount of resources he can get is limited even with his status in the clan.
After spending almost 10 months of repeated revision and modification of the blueprints for the machine the scientist is satisfied with the design and confident that the final product will be of his estimated efficiency or at least close with about a 5% margin of error. During this time he also broke through to become a foundation establishment and stabilized its cultivation.
After finalizing things the scientist bought some of the servants working under him and spend almost 7 months to build the machine, it took more time as the scientist kept of updating the design along the side the development to adjust based on the data.
Finally after around spending around 1 and a half years of hard work the machine is finally complete. It has most of the earthly technology and techniques using the cultivation world's methods alongside them. Since he already broke through to foundation establishment he can use sprint qi and had no problems crafting some of the small the formations that are in the machines. But for most of the complex one, he requested some of the senior members in the final paying them enough compensation to build the formations needed. During this time the scientist did not neglect his cultivation even though it is still the same 5% of his time.
Finally, the day has arrived to test run the machine and collect enough data and make needed modifications as required. He spent the next month tweaking the machine and the final product is good to go.
The machine is around 10 feet in size and needs a cultivator or sprits stone to supply energy need to run it. The machine has many options and should be able to use it to produce most of the medicinal powders. And efficiency is also quite high as it has a hundred present success rate on lower-level powder, around 78% on middle-level powder, around 35% for high level and last less than 10% for peak/supreme level powder. There is also an option to select what level of powder it should manufacture also making it easy to use and produce a medicinal powder.
As for the consumption of energy, it is a little higher as a low-level foundation establishment cultivator that is from level 0.5 to 1.5 should be able to run the machine for 1 to 3 hours respectively and the same for the higher-level foundation established cultivators that are from level 7 to 9, they should be able to run it for 3.5 to 4.5 hours before they exhaust their spiritual energy.
A level two alchemist can make around 100 grams of medicinal powder in about half a day and around 200 to 250 grams in a day. As per this machine, it should be able to produce around 420 grams of medicinal powder per day or in 9 hours, which is almost double the amount produced by the alchemist. The amount of produce will also decrease based on the level of the medicinal powder. The estimates are for lower-level medicinal powders and the amount produce decrease based on the level of medicinal powder.
The machine is mainly tuned for the production of low-level and middle-level medicinal powders and actually has high cost than alchemist when used to produce a high and supreme level medicinal powder.
The scientist has not able able to optimize it for a high and supreme level because he did not have enough knowledge and data and also this is the first big machine that he made after his reincarnation. But he has the confidence that he should be able to slowly improve the efficiency of the machine in the coming months or year.
After the final modifications, the scientist sent his followers to get the ingredients needed for manufacturing the first batch of the medicinal powder. At this point in time, the scientist has already broken through to the level 2 foundation establishment stage. And should be able to run the machine for 1 hour and his personal attendant who is at 4th level of foundation establishment stage should be able to run for 2 hours, It takes around 2 hours to recharge full amount of spiritual energy for the scientist and around 4 hours for his personal attended without the use of any external resources. So both of them took turns to run the machine for about 6 to 7 hours a day and produced about 300 grams of low-level medicinal powder or around 230 grams of middle-grade medicinal powder.
So they decided to produce the low-level and middle-level medicinal powder alternative days so that they can produce a constant amount of supply. The produced amount is sent back to the clan for an additional amount of resources. The scientist did not produce much high-level powder as he wants to perfect the middle level to 100% success rate as he believed that increase the middle-level success rate to in turn increase the high-level powder success rate and also will have a solid foundation to upgrade the machine later.
Taking the resources from the clan, producing the powder, and exchanging it for more resources continued for almost 6 weeks when the senior in charge of the resource found that something was off. Even though he knows that some people in the clan exchange different items and materials they do not need for resources they need, they only do it once in a while but not as continuously and consistently as the scientist. Because the senior knows that no matter what they do it is still that cultivation is more important. But he left it as is as he knows that everyone in the clans treats him as an Oddball and the only reach they still care because he one of the top three most talented people for cultivation in the clan.
The senior is also confused about as from where is the scientist getting the medicinal powder form as he knew that only alchemist can make the medicinal powder and alchemist are rare like one in every 100 cultivators have a talent for alchemy. Because of this reason, the pills and powder they produce are costly makings it so that only cultivators can buy them and also not a lot of it at one time. But some of the powder that the scientists sent for the exchange of resource is something that only a level 2 alchemist can make. Not knowing what to make it the senior throw this thought back of his head and continued on with his work.
But this continued for the other 4 weeks, not only that made the senior shocked and what shocked him more is that the amount the powder handed over to the clan for the resource has increased reaching around 2800 grams per weak. If we think about it the clan itself produces about 30 to 35 kg of medicinal powder per week. Which makes it that the scientist sent for the exchange of resources almost amounts to 10 percent of the family average medicinal powder production level. Now he seriously became lost of what to do as this was a serious issue and it continued for more than two months, so he decided to take with the information about the situation to the 2nd elder of the clan who is in charge of the resources of the clan.
In the 2nd elder room, after hearing what the senior member in front of him said, even the 3rd elder has a look of confusion as of what is happening. Because affecting 10 percent of the medicinal powder production is not a small thing as this is one of the main sources of income for the clan. Anything around that percent of production will seriously affect the clan business. So the 2nd elder sent the senior member off and went to talk with the grand elder to ask what is going in this family.
In the big hall that looks grand when compared to the other rooms in the clan, 4 people are present. Three of the setting with one person in the main seat who look clam and has an aura to him, he is the lord of the Xiao Clan, to the right of him sat an elder who had a long beard that reached his chest and looks clam and a pleasant look he the grand elder of the clan and the person to the left of clan lord is 2nd elder. In front of the three stood another middle-age man who resembles slightly with the grand elder, He is the small brother of the grand elder.
It was the grand elder who called his small brother after he heard what happened from the second elder. The clan lord was also informed of the issue and they meet in the clan hall to know what is going on. The second elder broke the silence in the hall by state why he called the grand elder's brother and what he heard from the senior member of the family. The grand elder's brother was also shocked when he heard what was going and told everyone that even he has no idea of what is going on. So the grand elder asked his brother to call his grandson the main person responsible.
In the clan hall where the four people are present, the scientist walked and saluted the people present in the hall since being reincarnated he spoke where less with anyone including even his own grandfather he did not speak much. Seeing the scientist all the four of them in the room were shocked beyond belief. It was a grand elder who spoke first and asked if the scientist has broken through to the third level of the foundation established. The scientist confirmed that he broke through a few days back, listening to that all the members in the room are shocked because the scientist is only around 15 years and he is already in the 3rd level of foundation establishment realm. This is not only a record in their clan it is also a record in the whole town because the youngest person they knew of who was at the 3rd foundation establishment stage was when at 17 years old that was also because he was an inner disciple of the major sect in the sunset city. But the kid before them is only 15 years old that whole 2 years younger than the previous record.
The reason why the scientist broke through to the 3rd level is that he was spending his spiritual energy every day to run his machine which in turn lead him to cultivate to recharge his spiritual energy, making spend almost double the amount of time he spends for cultivation on average.
After some time all the 4 pairs of eyes in the hall lit with bright color and have a happy look on there faces. They now confirmed that the kid in front of them is not only top talent in the clan but also a top talent in the whole town. Making them happy beyond belief as they knew it that the raise of there Xiao clan will be unstoppable as long as the kid maintains his talent and cultivates. Everyone in the room felt that they underestimated the kid's talents.
After some time everyone in the room calmed down and returned to the main point why they call the scientist. It was the second elder who asked the scientist on what is going on with the medicinal powder.
Knowing that why they called him, the scientist did not hide anything and told them how he got the idea to build the machine and how he built it and produced the powder.
After listening to everything that the scientist told all four of them are again shocked out of there soul. There are more shocked than when they found out about his talents. Because something like this is never done before or even never heard of. What they heard made them feel like it was out of this world.
A machine that produces the medicinal powder, after some time everyone in the hall becomes agitated that they hurried the scientist to show them the machine. All the four of them cannot control their anxiousness as it is something really big, something that could change their whole world, let also their clan.
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The core concept of this story runs, unlike the other cultivation novels. It emphasizes more on the manufacturing and development of the technology, i.e getting to implement the well know earth technologies like automobiles, Mass manufacturing, energy production, weapons manufacturing, communication, entertainment, Medical, etc.
The theme should be making the cultivation world with the manufacturing of earthly technologies.