Nightmare Immortal Era

Chapter 32: Equipment Upgrade

After finishing shopping and returning to the dormitory, Yang Ning categorized the tasks he needed to do.

Permanent tasks:

1. Cultivation

2. Collecting information on translated martial arts techniques and starting the deciphering work for the "Great Dragon's Image Technique"

3. Cataloging books in the library

4. Refining tools

New tasks:

1. Testing the upper limit of the Cloud Mist Information Matrix

2. Summarizing and organizing various information about Ocean Cloud City

3. Understanding the courses of other grades, as well as the courses for formal disciples, maidservants, and servants, in order to know oneself and the enemy and be invincible in battle

4. Finding a way to secretly develop one's own power

The first thing to do was to test the upper limit of the Cloud Mist Information Matrix and see who could perceive this technique. Yang Ning started with the school's teaching building. The teachers at Immortal Ascension Academy were mainly at the Seventh or Eighth Layer of physical cultivation, but among the higher-grade teachers, there were Qi Refining cultivators. The dean, Fang Zhuo, and elders like Wei Daocheng were Qi Refining Fourth Layer cultivators.

After dispersing the Cloud Mist water droplets into their courtyards, Yang Ning was still unsatisfied. He directly flew into their bedrooms and cultivation chambers, openly scanning the Qi Refining Fourth Layer cultivators' cultivation.

But they didn't notice anything!

"As I suspected!" Cultivators can naturally sense spiritual scans from others, but Yang Ning didn't scan them. He collected information using natural light. Who would be vigilant against natural light?

As for the Cloud Mist water droplets used to collect information, they had a diameter of only 3 micrometers. There were plenty of water droplets of this size in the air. Who would pay special attention to one of them?

Moreover, his spiritual power, which had been transformed by the Nightmare Energy, was extremely weak in quantity. He didn't follow the same path as orthodox cultivators, and their systems were different. Even if their divine senses detected him, they would ignore it as a naturally occurring foreign object.

After all, even Qi Refining cultivators, with greatly enhanced spiritual power, couldn't match the calculation power of a Transcendent Level computer. Divine sense wasn't used to pay attention to such trivial matters.

"He is the highest realm cultivator in Immortal Ascension Academy!" After searching around, Yang Ning confirmed that there were no supreme elders or secluded experts in Immortal Ascension Academy. Even the five librarians in the library were only at the Third Layer of Qi Refining.

"Then let's see the Ocean Cloud Army!" Yang Ning shifted his gaze to Haiyun Jun, who lived on the Haiyun Dam.

The Haiyun Army was established to resist Demonic Beasts in the sea. This army had a longer history than Immortal Ascension Academy, but in the past, they only caught criminals. It wasn't until Immortal Ascension Academy moved in that the Haiyun Army took on the responsibility of protecting the students and gained some attention.

But it wasn't much attention. They only promoted their commander from the First Layer of Qi Refining to the Fifth Layer.

The current commander of the Haiyun Army was Lin Fangyue. He had a robust figure, a big head, and big ears. At first glance, he looked like Dong Zhuo.

Yang Ning observed him for three days. He either spent his time with women or was with women. Not to mention cultivation, he didn't even see him practice martial arts.

Moreover, this wasn't a disguise. He was really slacking off!

Oh no, should I say he's enjoying life?

As for the affairs of the Haiyun Army, he handed them all over to his four subordinates: Lin Zhice, Wang Xiao, Bo Yunlai, and Zhao Jiyun.

Among them, the latter three were at the Third Layer of Qi Refining, while Lin Zhice was at the Second Layer of Qi Refining. It was obvious that he had connections.

"Looking at it this way, Ocean Cloud City doesn't seem as terrifying as I imagined!" Fear comes from the unknown. The Cloud Mist Information Matrix directly revealed all the secrets of Ocean Cloud City. The unfamiliarity in Yang Ning's heart disappeared in an instant. Now, it was like playing a game with a map. Being cautious and steady was still necessary, but the strategy could be a bit bolder.

"As expected, this is how it should be used!" Yang Ning had read The Three-Body Problem and even borrowed the failed experiences of the Trisolarans. The key was to only steal information and never expose oneself.

If you only send an AI to cause trouble but never expose it to humans, where would there be any problems with Zhang Bei Hai?

However, the Trisolarans' minds were too simple, but after being deceived, they quickly changed and even spread a big lie that humans have not realized until death.

Trisolarans do not lie.

The experiences of successful people should be learned from, and the experiences of failures should also be learned from.

After some probing, it was found that Ocean Cloud City could not test the upper limit of the cloud and mist information matrix. However, Ocean Cloud City did not have any higher-level cultivators, so they temporarily stopped and let Deep Blue make efforts in other directions.

First, understand the class schedules and course content of all students at the Immortal Ascension Academy.

Second, understand the operation and development of various industries in Ocean Cloud City, as well as laws and regulations and means of business competition.

Third, go to various translation chambers, studios, and research the secrets and techniques of translating cultivation methods.

Fourth, research a method to strengthen one's own strength and influence.

With the cloud and mist information matrix, he already understood the principle of the Ma brothers monitoring the dormitory. They used a crystal ball engraved with the rune of the Grotto-Heaven Eye.

This Grotto-Heaven Eye increased the observation distance but reduced the accuracy of observation. It not only couldn't observe the soul but also couldn't control the angle because it needed to cooperate with the runes on the ceiling.

In short, this thing only has a top-down perspective, and it's fixed, even dumber than modern cameras. Yang Ning created a water curtain to simulate the image and deceive this surveillance.

While deceiving the surveillance, he also counter-surveilled the Ma brothers, clearly understanding the monitoring gap between the two, so he could do his own things during the surveillance vacuum period.

For example, manufacturing some modern production equipment.

Blast furnaces, lathes, milling machines, hydraulic presses, angle grinders, various machining tools.

During this process, the superpowers brought by the Dragon Ball provided great help.

Electricity can be used to provide energy and for electric heating and metallurgy.

Water can be transformed into water blades for cutting.

The ability to control wind essentially creates temperature differences and manipulates air molecules. The former can be used to generate electricity for self-control, and the latter can provide oxygen to the furnace, increasing the flame temperature.

Of course, due to limitations, the precision of the equipment he made was severely lacking.

But what technology cannot make up for can be compensated for by metaphysics.

Just like how a tank can run at supersonic speeds under the erosion of nightmare energy, and a sniper rifle can produce infinite bullets, when nightmare energy is injected into these processing equipment, Yang Ning greatly improves the precision of these devices.

Moreover, as long as Yang Ning successfully activates these devices once, he no longer needs raw materials. It can create parts out of nothing!

Yang Ning also tried to figure out the principle behind it, but nightmare energy was so unreasonable that he couldn't make sense of it even after studying it for a long time.

Thinking that even the Primordial Dragon, who could create the universe, was forced to move by nightmare energy, what's wrong with creating something in the void?

The only limitation is Yang Ning's own mental power output.

He can produce 8 points of mental power per day. If he doesn't practice the "Black Tortoise Aura Concealing Technique" to gather his mental power, he can produce 15 points. But cultivation is fundamental, so 8 points of mental power is the current limit.

One bullet weighs 40 grams, 1408 bullets weigh 56 kg, and 8 points of mental power can produce 448 kg of items in the void.

A fifth-generation fighter jet weighs 20 tons, and it takes one and a half months to accumulate enough to build one.

Of course, even if Yang Ning has the technology now, he still lacks the processing conditions and environment.

In fact, his room is almost full.

Five hundred square meters would be called a luxurious large flat if used for living, or even a villa.

But if five hundred square meters were used as a factory for processing and producing goods, it would only be considered a small family workshop!

Therefore, when Yang Ning saw a piece of news, he was instantly filled with anger!

(End of this chapter)