I'm in the Teyvat running group

The biggest advantage of this six-ring constraint array is that it truly simulates the origin and operation of Teyvat, and by slowing down the viewing method, it captures as much information as possible, which is René's "shadow puppet method". According to René, he can now draw an arc in spacetime and calculate that the first few million points are on this arc. However, the algorithm is already perfected. The next step is to optimize the algorithm and combine it with spacetime itself.

He has been studying this thing for over five hundred years since the beginning of the world, which is why he is confident that he can solve it within a month.

Of course, the best news for Yanfei is probably that she can sell more tickets in the next month. According to her estimate, the first three times will be similar in scale to the current ones, because there will still be many foreigners coming. The scale will gradually decrease later, and Yanfei will also gradually lower the price, which may eventually drop to one or two thousand Mora per ticket, so that most ordinary people can afford it.

This is certainly good news for Fontaine, as half of the money will be given to Fontaine, and many mages and scientists will come here in the future, which will further promote Fontaine's development. The new Grand Governor happens to be a graduate of the Academy of Sciences.

However, even if this thing can make money, it will most likely have to be reinvested. The manufacturing cost is high, and the maintenance cost is terrifyingly high. Three full-power operations would be a huge maintenance expense, and it involves comprehensive maintenance from the heat dissipation array to the constraint array. Each maintenance would cost billions of Mora, so the money earned would probably only be able to subsidize this.

Even so, at least two legendary alchemists and three or four legendary mages would need to be stationed there regularly, otherwise it would be difficult to start daily experiments normally, which would be troublesome for some core characters, such as Aino.

She has to go to the lunar base every week to oversee part of the experimental work, and she also has to handle some matters related to the magic array. She is so busy that her scalp is numb. Moreover, the teleportation array between the lunar base and the ground cannot be used. Yunxiu plans to ask Columbia to temporarily send Aino back and forth for a period of time, which would be much faster. After the experimental devices here are turned on at full power, it is possible to solve the problem of space itself as soon as possible, and solve the problem of using storage bags and teleportation arrays at the lunar base.

This is Chu Li's next research topic, which has already been submitted. However, the first step is to focus on studying the essence of time in René's research.

Aside from receiving data and reports daily, Yunxiu spent his time taking afternoon naps in Baisong Town and strolling around Fengdan City, occasionally handling some business matters. A few days later, an unsurprising message arrived from Yuehai Pavilion—Liyue's first artificial Demon God Core had completed testing and was to be installed on the Hyperbeam Cannon for a major upgrade; naturally, he, as the developer, would be present.

"So... what's the upgrade direction this time? The original energy limit of the Super Lightsaber Cannon should be sufficient, right?" Yunxiu looked at the Tianquan, which was now much larger and had obviously added many more magic arrays, and smiled at Xianyun beside her, "Aunt Xianyun, we can't just increase the output scale again, can we? It's pointless now, isn't it?"

"This time, I plan to increase his attack frequency." Xianyun crossed his arms and pushed up his half-rimmed glasses. "I can increase the heat dissipation array and the output array, and increase the speed to one shot every ten seconds. However, when multiple arrays fire at the same time, there will be resonance problems in the arrays. I have no clue how to solve this problem. This is the main reason why I came to you."

“I don’t have much of a clue about this either. The formation doesn’t seem to have any major problems… How about we fire a couple of shots first?” Yunxiu looked at it carefully, but still didn’t have any good ideas. After all, he hadn’t thought of this thing at first. At that time, there wasn’t enough energy, so he could only charge it and fire. One shot per minute wouldn’t be a big problem.

Now that it has shrunk to one-sixth, many problems have gradually begun to surface, which is understandable.

"Okay." Xianyun waved to the people in the command room and said, "Set sail for Exercise Field No. 1. We'll fire a few rounds to test it out."

"Yes! The Tianquan has been activated and is expected to arrive at the Heguan war fortress in three hours!"

Chapter 485 Solving the Problem of Fire from the Edge of the Abyss

The Tianquan was very fast. After all, after the artificial demon core was replaced, the efficiency of the flight array was greatly improved. The Tianquan, which was originally hovering near the Guyun Pavilion, quickly headed towards the vicinity of Heguan. Only there were enough demons to test it out. Perhaps a few would infiltrate from the Dark Outer Sea.

The Dead Zone fluctuates over time. It's late July now, and the next large-scale outbreak won't happen until mid-August, which is still a long way off, so we can only go to the Dark Sea.

Just as they arrived above the Dark Sea, a bolt of lightning shot straight up and landed on the deck of the giant ship, which had been expanded to a diameter of 2,500 meters. It was Tsukihime.

Interestingly, she wasn't wearing her signature general's armor today. Instead, she was dressed in a relaxed and comfortable casual outfit. Her long hair was tied into low pigtails, which made her look much cuter. She wore purple over-the-knee socks with small lightning bolt symbols embroidered on them, and a plaid skirt. Yunxiu was quite satisfied with this outfit—actually, the armor was only worn because a general had no choice but to wear it.

Whether it's weaponry or the Four Sacred Treasures, Tsukihime can activate them at any time, meaning that theoretically, she could wear a bikini armor like in some games...

Of course, Yunxiu is a rather petty person, so this rule wouldn't apply to him.

"Oh (〃'▽'〃) You're here today! I thought you were still at the Creation Center." Yue Ji looked at Yun Xiu, who was pondering magic arrays on the deck, and jumped into his arms in a flash, forcing Yun Xiu to carry her in a princess carry. She smiled and kissed Yun Xiu on the cheek: "The long-awaited beautiful girl is here! What brings you here today?"

“Although I’m here on official business today…we can definitely go have some fun together after we’re done.” Yunxiu rubbed his stubble against Yueji’s face before laughing, “Help Aunt Xianyun solve a problem: find me a few monster gathering spots so I can shoot some monsters and see how it goes.”

“No problem. We were supposed to have a strike mission tonight.” Yueji took out a crystal plate from her storage bag, then brought up a map and pointed to a location, saying, “There’s a group of abyssal monsters gathering here. They should be fully assembled by the day after tomorrow. The original plan was for the war fortress to launch an attack. Since you want to try, let’s launch it directly there.”

Yunxiu took the crystal plate and sent the data directly to Xianyun. Soon, the super light sword cannon slowly moved forward. Although the super light sword cannon has the ability to strike at long range and can briefly open a spatial gate to strike at a distance of thousands of kilometers, the problem of normal continuous firing has not yet been solved, so let's not bother with that for now. Moving forward and striking within line of sight is the safest and most likely way to obtain key data.

Before long, a demon appeared in sight, followed by several waves of fierce attacks that landed directly below. Yunxiu did indeed feel the peculiar resonance of the multiple consecutive attacks.

"So that's the problem..."

This is indeed a troublesome issue. In fact, "gunboats" in human history have also had similar problems. When the triple main guns of a battleship are firing, they will inevitably encounter the problem of shell dispersion. In the end, a very interesting method was used to solve this problem: a delayed firing mechanism was used, staggering the firing time by tens of milliseconds, so that the shells would be fired in turn.

However, this won't work on the Super Light Sword Cannon array.

Xianyun encountered instability caused by the interference of energy fields when multiple magic arrays were rapidly firing in turn.

This is a key difference from the muzzle shockwave of a battleship: the supersword cannon does not fire projectiles, but rather highly compressed energy beams.

The essence of an energy beam is a continuous flow of energy output, not a one-off projectile.

If array one and array two are activated simultaneously, their energy fields will overlap, interfere, and resonate in space—this cannot be solved by simply "staggering them by tens of milliseconds," because the duration of the energy beam is much longer than the time of the stagger; at least tens of milliseconds will not suffice.

Is it feasible to stagger the time by more than ten seconds?

That won't work either. Even with the new artificial demon core, it takes four to five seconds to fully charge. Then, calibration and firing are required, and a "dry shot" must be fired first to clear the airspace in front of the cannon. If the interval is more than ten seconds, it means that the firing interval will be extended to more than twenty seconds...

However, the previous optimizations already reduced the attack speed to one shot every thirty seconds, so the actual improvement wasn't that significant, rendering the powerful energy core meaningless.

"If that's the case... then the energy beam can essentially be considered a fluid, except it's not a nearly solid fluid under confinement, but rather one that's released." Yunxiu pondered for a moment, then pulled out dozens of large sheets of paper. With a shake, hundreds of Thousand Wind Hands appeared, each holding a pen. They quickly wrote algorithms and then continuously drew various runes and patterns.

Before Xianyun arrived on the deck and found him, Yueji already had more than forty pages of algorithms and rune pages piled up in her hands.

“That should work.” Yunxiu smiled and handed the stack of papers to Xianyun: “Change the arrangement of the output magic circle according to this idea, and at the same time use this algorithm to modify the output method of the magic circle itself, replace the original trigger point with the output point, and then you should be able to fire continuously.”

Xianyun accepted the stack of papers with some skepticism and quickly went down to prepare.

Yunxiu pulled out two deck chairs on the deck and lay down with Yueji to start playing games together. Although the place was desolate and the atmosphere wasn't very comfortable, the Tianquan was protected by a magic array, so sunbathing was still possible.

"I heard you guys did something big at that Creation Center, even Mama Fox Palace has been working there all this time?" Yue Ji, controlling a character who was constantly shooting arrows from behind Yun Xiu's character, turned her head to look at Yun Xiu and said, "I didn't expect you to come here today. Although there is indeed news that the Tianquan ship is coming to test, aren't you busy?"

“The initial batch of data was simply too massive… The Spirit Realm main network can only squeeze out less than 20% of its computing power without affecting usability, which is insufficient.” Yunxiu chuckled as she unleashed a powerful slash in the game, instantly killing the monster in front of her and looting a pile of strange equipment before sighing, “We need to build a second artificial demon core and a computing center at the level of the Spirit Realm main organization, so Abedo will be tied up for the next few days. Fox Palace is helping to manufacture the chip's substrate; we can only analyze it after that’s built.”

"I still don't understand why we need to study this..."

“Because if time can be calculated using Master René’s equations, then combined with the World Formula, theoretically we can calculate what happened at a certain moment.” Yunxiu patted Yueji’s head and said, “The square of the product of the spatial constant and the elemental exponent, multiplied by the correction value of the earth vein resonance, finally yields the ‘existence coefficient,’ which is the World Formula. If we combine this with the distribution of prime numbers and the shadow of time, we can calculate a certain existence at a certain point in time… for example, what you ate the night before last.”

"The night before last was Walnut's birthday, so didn't we eat at the Carlos Grand Fontainebleau Hotel?"

"...That's not the point."

"This is so hard o(≧口≦)o Let's change the subject." Yueji rolled over and lay down next to Yunxiu: "I wonder what An Yue is doing. These past few days have been summer vacation, and she insisted on going to play with her grandma, so she went to the castle tower... I hope she won't do anything strange?"

"I think An Yue is quite reliable..."

No, if Yunxiu could see the castle tower, she would find that An Yue was already trying to act like a little adult and imitate the Thunder God giving orders.

"That's true, after all, Mother is quite serious about these kinds of things."

No, if Tsukihime could see the castle tower, she would find that Raiden Shin fully supports his granddaughter's actions.

The couple exchanged some practically non-existent parenting tips, and then, incredibly, fell asleep while basking in the sun.

As for modifying the magic array of the Super Lightsaber Cannon, even if Xianyun quickly read the paper, it would be impossible to complete the modification in a short period of time. Finally, after four hours, and after the two of them had a nice afternoon nap, a new round of strike tests could finally begin.

With a barely audible thud, the Superlight Sword Cannon quickly charged and fired, swiftly annihilating a legendary monster in front of it. Then, every ten seconds, a steady stream of Superlight Sword Cannon energy beams was fired from the magic array below. This terrifying attack capability, firing once every ten seconds, turned the giant ship into a pincushion. It fired for a full four minutes, killing more than a dozen monsters and clearing out several large groups of monsters before stopping.

The water-generating array began operating to dissipate heat, and the mecha troops were also deployed to begin maintenance.

“The maintenance pressure has not decreased…” Yunxiu sighed and said, “The attack capability has indeed become much stronger. Although the enhanced constraint capability of the magic array theoretically increases the lifespan of the magic array, rapid launch also reduces the lifespan. In the end, the difference is not that big.”

"But this is a good thing." Yue Jizi carefully looked at the horde of monsters below before smiling. "It's fine to hold back during normal times, but once it gets to a situation comparable to a flood control war, we can take turns firing. Don't we have eight Jade Pavilions now? A single high-speed barrage can kill hundreds of monsters, right?"

“Strictly speaking, it’s not that simple, but your thinking is correct. You are indeed a general who has guarded this place for so many years.” Yunxiu patted Yueji’s head before continuing, “However, if the Qunyu Pavilion is slightly modified, its potential will also increase. It seems that eight platforms are not enough. Perhaps building about two platforms every year would be a more appropriate choice.”

Yunxiu glanced around again before continuing, "The older generation also needs improvement. The artificial demon core has enough energy, so perhaps we can add some other things, such as doubling the size of the Returning Machine."

"Let's talk about that later. How was this magic array created? What algorithm was used?" Xianyun looked at Yunxiu with a beaming smile and asked, "And when did you learn this amazing thing?"

"In the next few days..."

"That's really great, who came up with this?"

"My son is the one who did this."

"...Why are you insulting everyone?"

"Uh...? Aunt Xianyun, it really is my son. Pingsi is behind this." Yunxiu proudly opened a paper, the one Yun Pingsi had published some time ago. She pointed at the paper and laughed, "I'm talking about my son, Yun Pingsi. He's the child of me and Sugar. He's a professor at the Imperial Academy now."

Xianyun stared at Yunxiu expressionlessly for a while, then put the crystal plate in her hand back into her storage bag: "...Would it kill you to just say 'My son, Yun Pingsi, is the one who did this' next time?"

"That's no fun." Yunxiu looked at Xianyun with a smile and said, "Aunt Xianyun, having a good son and not showing him off is like wearing fine clothes in the dark. If I don't tell you, who will know?"

"That's not necessarily true." Xianyun quickly finished reading the introduction of the paper and smiled mischievously: "There's even that old guy Xiaoyue. But now I know it's not a coincidence of names. It really is your son. This naming method is just as good as yours."

"Um..." Yunxiu, embarrassed, grabbed Yueji's hand and vanished instantly, leaving only a voice behind: "Since there's nothing else, I'll be leaving. Aunt Xianyun, just remember to arrange for them all to be modified according to this algorithm!"

Xianyun smiled and shook her head. Looking at the paper in her hand, she quickly became engrossed. As an engineering master, she quickly saw the excellence of the theory and its applications.

"He really does resemble his son. He has a solid foundation, rigorous reasoning, and relevant results to verify his claims." Xianyun pointed at the crystal plate, reached out and grabbed the paper from a distance. Streams of immortal power condensed in her hand, and the paper quickly materialized into a scroll in her palm. She carefully put the paper away before continuing, "With this thing, optimizing it to eight seconds... no, six seconds per shot should be possible."

She hesitated for a few seconds before sighing, "It's a pity, what a terrible name this is."

Yunxiu, of course, couldn't hear any of this. He had already accompanied Yueji to Inazuma's "Anime Street". Taking advantage of the evening event, Yueji took him there for a signing event. Today was the release date of the 85th volume of "Yunxiu Zhenren's Demon-Slaying Chronicles". This thing can be said to have become a major IP in the entire Teyvat. It brings Xiangling billions of Mora every year. And this is just one of the comics.

The autograph session went quite smoothly, but soon, he was greeted by a completely unexpected person.

Skok placed a small pile of Mora on the table.

"Give me a copy, and then we need to talk after we sign it."

Chapter 486 Trading Empty Hands and Busy Revenge

Since Skykirk didn't demand immediate results, Yunxiu didn't say much. Instead, she quickly grabbed a book and was about to sign it when she heard Skykirk casually say, "For Ajax."

"Uh...no problem." Yunxiu quickly signed a book and handed it to Silky. After carefully counting out thirty Mora, she turned into a streak of light and left, landing in the direction of the Society's magistrate.

Yunxiu understood; this meant he should just go to the magistrate's office to look for him. As for the magistrate's office, Ayaka would definitely take care of Skykirk for him.

Objectively speaking, however, the appearance of Silky is generally not a good thing...

Her first appearance was to make a deal in place of Amaranta, and her second appearance was to brazenly recruit people and kill the clown. What is the reason for this time?

Kill the Sage? That's unlikely. After killing the Clown, Skirk didn't come looking for her for ten years. Although Ying said she had met him a few times, they had only eaten a meal together at most and exchanged some martial arts techniques and information about the Abyss.

As for communicating with the Seer to kill the Seer, Yunxiu had actually considered whether to just kill the Seer. She did have some plans to deal with the Seer, but the problem was that even the best plan had a kill probability of no more than 30%.

This also needs to take into account the possibility that the Seer might have one or two hidden cards; if they have enough hidden cards, the probability of a kill is less than 10%.

Moreover, if the prophet escapes, it can be said that there will be endless troubles ahead.

Silky's strength is even slightly inferior to Yi Xiaodaotian, and is roughly equal to his own. It's not because Silky's cultivation is much lower than his own; in fact, Silky's is slightly higher. However, he has a way to deal with Silky, while Silky doesn't have a very good way to deal with someone like him, the Iron Turtle.

This involves the issue of class counters and the differences in spell development.

Skirk is a warrior with high attack power but also low survivability. Of course, she is also very fast. It is easy for her to deal with fragile Evocation Mages. Most other mages also cannot deal with her powerful combos.

Most mages will have their defenses broken immediately when facing Skykirk, and then be sent back to the respawn point by a combo.

However, he was able to withstand Skykirk's three-pronged attack, and Skykirk didn't have a good way to deal with his counterattack.

This is completely different from Yi Xiaodaotian. Yi Xiaodaotian achieved sainthood through physical cultivation, and his physical strength alone far surpasses the attack power of most demigods. In addition, with his series of talents, the only way for Yunxiu to spar with Yi Xiaodaotian is not to fight. As long as he gets to your position, a combo and a finishing blow can easily take you down.

Of course, Yunxiu wouldn't be that crispy.

But in that situation, he had no choice but to take the beating and run away.

As for the attack...

Without offensive laws, he cannot break through Yixiao Daotian's defense. Of course, the protective laws can also be reversed into conceptual control. If he wanted, he could keep Yixiao Daotian trapped indefinitely, but that would not be very meaningful.