Chapter 3148 — Dr. Benjamin II
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"Father-in-law, I've just called Miss Luan, the one behind the Fire Wolf Gang. She can send over an expert in this field to help us study and crack the first-grade automatic cauldron—but on one condition: the profits must be split fifty-fifty!" Kang Jingming said.
"Fifty-fifty. That's asking for quite a lot." Ancestor Xuanchen frowned slightly upon hearing this. But Miss Luan was no pushover like the heads of those ancient sects, to be squeezed at will. Since Miss Luan had proposed this split, it was essentially non-negotiable; any attempt to change it and she would very likely terminate the cooperation. That would be more loss than gain for Ancestor Xuanchen—after all, she was the only one he could find at the moment. Even if Ancestor Xuanchen could recruit people in the secular world for his own use, training talent and building a laboratory would still take time. By the time production began, the market would be nearly saturated—where would the big profits be then? The cauliflower would already be cold!
So, faced with Miss Luan's exorbitant demand, Ancestor Xuanchen had no choice but to nod and say, "Fine. Tell Miss Luan you agree—fifty-fifty it is. But her people must come as soon as possible!"
"Understood. I'll go tell Miss Luan right away!" Kang Jingming nodded, then went off to call Miss Luan back.
After receiving Kang Jingming's reply, Miss Luan wasted no words and directly dispatched her boyfriend's student, Dr. Benjamin II, to find Kang Jingming.
Benjamin II was indeed a formidable man. After picking up the cauldron and glancing at it only briefly, he roughly explained its working principle. "Inside this cauldron there should be a single-chip microcomputer that adjusts the intensity of the flame according to a time curve, in order to achieve the purpose of alchemy. To be honest, now that we know the principle, we could actually manufacture one ourselves."
"Manufacture it?" Ancestor Xuanchen frowned. Had he not thought of replicating a similar device before? But an alchemist refines pills by relying on his own perception of the pill's form to adjust the intensity of the alchemical flame at any moment—and that was merely a feeling. Who could record the flame's intensity while refining pills? Moreover, the intensity of the flame was only one's personal sensation; if asked to state exactly how intense the flame was, Ancestor Xuanchen himself could not say!
What was more, there was the coordination of time and temperature to consider. A single deviation and the pill would be ruined—and this involved some complex functional curves. After days of observation, Ancestor Xuanchen had discovered that this first-grade automatic cauldron was not as simple as it seemed!
True, it could refine pills automatically. But every alchemist's control of the alchemical flame and temperature had subtle deviations. With an alchemist's perceptiveness to accompany them, such deviations would not cause any consequences in actual pill refinement, because every alchemist corrected them by feel while refining. (To be continued.