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Chapter 120 Technological Cultivation, Boundless Magic Power

Lin Zhuo spent some time studying the little robot that Chi Jiang had sent. The Tongxin Type 10, an expert in emotional companionship for young children, is quite an old product. The earliest Tongxin Type 1 was a toy for his grandfather's generation when they were children, and Lin Zhuo's first Tongxin robot was also a gift from his grandfather.

Back then, his whole family—his cousins ​​and other relatives—would be taken by his parents to visit his grandparents during holidays. The occasions were lively, but the noise and commotion of the kids was something he didn't want to recall. Lin Zhuo received the same "Children's Heart Robot" as all the other children; as elders, we must understand the importance of treating everyone equally.

Later, the year his grandfather passed away, Lin Zhu remembered the childlike robot he had hidden in the closet. When he tried to turn it on, he found that it had broken down due to the aging of its parts. Like a small corpse, it still lies in the storage box under his bed in his bedroom.

The new Type 10 robot that Chijiang gifted him was never marketed or promoted; it was a laboratory product made with no expense spared, specifically created for his use alone.

However, many of the design features are still retained from the old model, such as pressing the head to turn on, voiceprint, fingerprint and iris scanning authentication, and the ability to select voice mode and set initial personality, etc.

Lin Zhuo also spent a little time studying this little gadget.

"Hello master, please give me a nice name," Tongxin Shixing said in a sweet and innocent voice like a child.

"Change the voice mode. Be more mature."

"No problem, bro, how's it now? Want some?" The little robot let out a barbell-like laugh.

"Too sentimental. Be serious."

"Instruction received! Executing! Apply current voice mode?" This time it turned into a rigid, indifferent electrical tone.

Lin Zhuo sighed, "As long as you're happy."

"Okay, Kobayashi, I've changed my voice mode. Please confirm that my name is 'Kaixin', or change it to something else."

"That's fine then." Lin Zhuo realized he had really become a boring adult. He used to spend time naming his little robots. He had already forgotten what his old childlike robot was called, otherwise he could have continued to use that name.

After completing the initial setup, Lin Zhuo first laid down three rules for the little robot, setting a series of prohibitions to prevent it from delving into any rune.

After confirming that the little robot could understand and had memorized the commands in its chip, he opened the online forum and purchased electronic lecture notes and video files of the Grand Mage's online courses from other players.

He discussed with the seller which data transfer protocol and file format the storage hard drive should use, to avoid the small robot being unable to read the content later.

The azure trade channel opened, delivering an old-fashioned USB drive. The seller Lin Zhuo found was also an Earthling from a parallel universe, so many things were compatible.

Lin Zhuo had only ever seen USB flash drives in museums, so he didn't know how to use them for a moment. The little robot took the USB flash drive...

The disc, with its round, bulging belly, suddenly dipped into a square groove. After aligning the USB drive with it, it was inserted, and the disc shuddered.

"Remember my previous instructions: you are only allowed to look at them and memorize them by rote, but you are not allowed to actually deduce those mathematical formulas," Lin Zhuo reminded him again, still worried.

The little robot didn't answer; its small, circular eyes blinked, seemingly reading data. Clearly, the USB drive's transfer speed was too slow, hindering its progress.

A moment later, its eyes flashed, and it took the USB drive and handed it back.

"All the materials have been added to the 'Good Kids Textbook Library.' Xiaolin, shall we arrange a study schedule for you?"

"No need." Lin Zhuo was a little helpless after being coaxed, and now seriously doubted Chi Jiang's intentions in giving away the emotional companion robot.

After another hour of battling wits with artificial intelligence, Lin Zhuo's throat was dry from talking, but he was finally able to get the little guy to assist him in practicing the Dao of Talismans.

Lin Zhuo took out a blank talisman from his backpack. The little robot stood on his shoulder, raised a small hand, and emitted a holographic projection beam from its palm, which struck the talisman and quickly outlined a talisman-shaped stroke. Lin Zhuo copied it, and the holographic projection then outlined a second stroke while canceling the first one.

Repeating this process continuously, within just a few breaths, a strange, unseen character appeared on the paper.

Normally, when he needs to draw such symbols, he has to draw auxiliary lines and write formulas, which takes him several minutes to complete the calculation, leaving him covered in sweat.

The efficiency is vastly different from what it is now.

This is the most basic application of artificial intelligence in the practice of talismans, and it carries virtually no risk of the talismans being corrupted by the laws.

Besides, the greatest help of artificial intelligence is in deducing spells.

Every rune, even the lowest-level scribbles, is rich in meaning. A single character can have multiple meanings, and the combination of two rune characters can expound even more complex principles. Translated into common language, it could be written into a long passage.

The longer the combination of symbols, the more complex the meanings that can be derived.

Because the meanings and connotations of talismans are complex, their magical power is mixed and chaotic. Therefore, practitioners need to concentrate and chant the incantations repeatedly to sort out the meanings and make the magical power flow smoothly, which can enhance the efficacy and power of the talisman.

Lin Zhuo once saw a statement on the forum that a true master of talismanic arts can not only surpass others' lengthy discourses with just a few combinations of talismanic characters, but also does not need repeated refining afterward. He only needs to recite the incantation once when inscribing the talisman to bring his magical power to a perfect state.

He dared not aspire to such profound Taoist skills; it was more suitable for him to honestly start climbing the Great Tao from scratch.

Any mature incantation must have been repeatedly refined and polished, with not a single word added or omitted, reaching a state of perfect perfection, just like a timeless poem.

The spells created by novice practitioners of talismanic arts are bound to be verbose and tedious. Take Lin Zhuo's "Hidden Dragon Pot" for example. If it weren't a fan-made creation based on the Small Pot Heaven Technique, the length of the talisman would probably be three or four times longer to achieve a similar effect.

Now that artificial intelligence is available, it will be much easier for Lin Zhuo to create and improve spells.

Of course, artificial intelligence cannot learn any runes. It's like a foreigner who doesn't understand Chinese trying to write an article in a foreign language, which Lin Zhuo then translates. The result is likely to be incoherent and the magic power so chaotic that it cannot be used to create a spell. As an auxiliary tool, this thing is very useful, but it can never complete the task of compiling spells for Lin Zhuo.

"Kaixin, do you have medical nanorobots in your body?" Lin Zhuo suddenly asked this question.

"Of course, Kobayashi, do you need an injection?"

"Listen to me—it's like this, like this, like this."

"Piece of cake!" The little robot hopped and skipped, like Tarzan, jumping from Lin Zhuo's shoulder to his chest. It grabbed his clothes with one hand and pressed the lower edge of his heart with the other. The invisible nanobots gathered into a trickle, passing through the fabric fibers, through the skin, and into the chest.

Lin Zhuo also took out the Dharma seat from his ring and introspected on himself.

Below the heart, thousands of delicate divine veins glowed in the darkness, illuminating the surrounding flesh and blood. These veins outlined circles of supernatural restrictions, encircling the central true rune, like an artificial Dyson cloud surrounding a star.

The silvery streams of nanobots approached the restricted structure and were absorbed by the extending divine veins. Then, at Lin Zhuo's request, the nanobots began to outline the strokes, guiding the divine veins to form runes.

[Unnamed blank skill]

[Skill completeness 55% — 56%, 57% — 60% —]

[Skill Compatibility % - 5% -]

As Lin Zhuo and the little robot became more and more adept at cooperating, the progress in creating the supernatural power technique began to increase dramatically.

"Indeed, technology combined with cultivation has potential!" Seeing this, even Lin Zhuo on the throne couldn't help but smile.