Vientiane Throne of Civilization

Chapter 1593 We want them all!
Zhou Xu was obviously unaware of what was happening in a certain sea area. After a brief meditation, his attention was unconsciously attracted by the new mantra he had acquired.

During the research process, Zhou Xu soon discovered that 'Moving Clouds and Rain' and 'Black Evil Mysterious Wind' occupied two corners of his body respectively, and had no interaction with other mantras.

After a few simple attempts, Zhou Xu quickly determined that these two mantras could not be combined with his original mantras.

'行云布雨' is because of different languages ​​and cannot be used together, so it can only be used separately.

It is worth mentioning here that he tried to recite it. Unlike the local mantra that he could recite fluently, when reciting "行云布雨", Zhou Xu felt for the first time that the mantra was difficult to pronounce.

If you want to be able to pronounce it smoothly, you may need to spend some time practicing.

As for the mantra magical power called 'Black Evil Mysterious Wind', it cannot be separated at all. You can think of it as a seamless whole with no room for separation.

During this process, Zhou Xu discovered another problem, that is, this mantra magical power seemed to be useless even if he recited it.

He didn't know what to do at this moment and was speechless.

[Forget it, let me meditate first. I am a little tired today. I will study it slowly another day. ]

With this thought in mind, Zhou Xu quickly sank into his own spiritual space.

Then, something unexpected happened.

He discovered that the ball of light named 'Black Evil Mysterious Wind' was actually floating in front of his soul body!

This was the first time he had seen such a thing.

Standing in his own spiritual space, Zhou Xu stared at the ball of light, looking left and right, but couldn't figure out what it was.

He tried to reach out and grab it, but the ball of light passed straight through his palm.

At this moment, Zhou Xu seemed to have realized something. He directly let his consciousness enter the soul body and then tried to grab it. Sure enough, he successfully caught the ball of light in his hand!

In the spiritual space, his existence itself is a conscious entity, or a soul. He has no entity. In the soul state, if he wants to perform related operations, he must first have a body, that is, the soul body he has created.

Once you have a body, the ball of light can be grasped.

Holding the black ball of light in his hand, Zhou Xu quickly felt that there was a trace of energy in the ball of light, which kept drilling into his soul body.

Or it could be said that it is his soul body that is absorbing this energy.

This discovery gave Zhou Xu new ideas.

[Could it be that this mantra power must be absorbed before it can be used? ]

Zhou Xu tried to inject magic power to speed up the absorption rate, and sure enough, the absorption rate increased.

However, after absorbing for a long time, he saw that his own magic power was almost consumed by less than 30%, and the black light ball in his hand did not shrink much. This forced Zhou Xu to temporarily give up the idea of ​​absorbing it all in one breath.

We still have to take this matter slowly.

A new day had arrived. The purpose of his coming here had been achieved, and Zhou Xu had no plans to stay in the Batton Islands any longer.

Joan of Arc and Bolevin were not on Island No. 1 at the moment because of their missionary mission, and Zhou Xu had no intention of disturbing their work. After briefly meeting Bai Tu and understanding the situation, he prepared to return to Black Moon City.

Of course, before leaving, he left the positioning compass to Bai Tu and told Bai Tu the function of the positioning compass.

He certainly didn't have time to search the world for the things he left behind, so at this time, he could only leave it to his subordinates to do it.

In addition, Jabbar naturally stayed here as well.

During this period, Jabbar's loyalty quickly reached over 80 points, which was a pleasant surprise.

But even so, Zhou Xu had no intention of transferring Bolevin away.

Judging from the current situation in the United Nations, unless countries go to war again, there is still no room for development on the mainland. Next, their Great Zhou will have to continue to develop towards the sea.

In other words, it will still be necessary to mobilize combat forces at that time.

Let's not even talk about the future, just talk about now. Don't forget that this time the front-line fleet came out to explore, in addition to occupying the Barton Islands, it also occupied a Mithril Island. That's right, that island has been officially named Mithril Island.

As an island that possesses the important resource Mithril, it is imperative that strong men be sent to take charge to ensure that everything is safe.

After Zhou Xu thought about it for a while, he decided to arrange for Jabeur to go there.

After all, Bolevin stayed in the Batten Islands and, as a bishop, he could still carry out missionary work.

Jabbar is a pure mage who mainly practices on weekdays.

Then isn’t practicing cultivation any place?

Arranging him to go to Mithril Island will allow him to retreat without being disturbed.

On the way back, Zhou Xu took the ironclad ship No. 002. With the mentality of having nothing to do, he sent the ironclad ship No. 002, which had been in service for almost a year, back to the South China Sea port for a major overhaul.

At the same time, in Copperforge...

After talking with Kong Daqian, Carl rushed back to Copperforge as quickly as possible and went to meet King Baron almost overnight.

"What?! The Great Zhou has already invented a flintlock rifle?!"

In the government office, Baron, who was a little sleepy, suddenly woke up instantly. His rough face was full of disbelief. He stared at Carl with his round eyes, as if asking if he was joking with him.

But after seeing Carl's serious and dignified expression, Baron knew that this was true, which made Baron couldn't help but scratch his hair that was as messy as a pile of straw.

For a moment, I was speechless.

In the development of firearms, the Great Zhou was actually ahead of them every step of the way?

At this moment, a deep feeling of powerlessness almost completely overwhelmed him.

But Karl was in no mood to waste time with him. He rushed back overnight and was now extremely tired.

So he quickly conveyed the conditions offered by the Great Zhou to Baron.

"According to the Great Zhou, if you want to exchange for the steam engine, you have to come up with a better design that is valuable enough. One copy may not be enough."

"And if you are not willing to exchange the design drawings, Da Zhou has proposed a joint research and development project."

"To put it simply, we provide the design, they provide the technology, and we jointly set up a research and development team to share the research and development results."

"Of course, if we choose to jointly develop the technology, then we will definitely not get the steam engine."

Faced with this problem, Baron's sleep-deprived head now felt a terrible headache.

"Karl, what do you think about this?"

You know what, Baron really asked the right person this time.

Regarding this multiple-choice question, Carl had been thinking about it all the way after he walked out of the meeting room of the Foreign Trade Department of Da Zhou.

Facing the question raised by Baron at this moment, Carl slammed the table and gave the answer.

"We want them all!"

"..."

Looking at Baron who didn't say anything, Carl just continued talking to himself.

"The Great Zhou didn't say that we couldn't choose both. We have quite a few design drawings handed down from the old civilization period, and we have no idea what to do with many of them."

"We can first use those design drawings that are obviously impossible to manufacture at this stage to exchange for steam engines from Da Zhou."

"Then come up with a design that is difficult to manufacture, and use the technology of Da Zhou to jointly develop and share the results!"

(End of this chapter)