Lu Yao clicked on the tip bar.
The screen jumped to a land boat path outside of White Castle, this was where the Earthbound Boats transported all kinds of materials, and White Castle had specially opened up a new path just so that they could obtain the specific raw materials they needed in a timely manner.
At this moment, there was a strange shaped carriage travelling on the boat road.
The horses at the front of its carriage were replaced by a box-shaped metal device, with a copper horse head on top, and a large iron box attached to the bottom, which was fitted with huge iron wheels on both sides.
The iron wheels drove the carriage forward on the road, combining both speed and stability, leaving the boats on both sides behind.
The one driving the fire steam carriage was Shang Xun.
Lu Yao flipped through the backstage wiki.
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Fire Vapour Wagon]: A vehicle invented by Shang Xun based on the improvement of the horse carriage and the Earthbound Boat, using the Fire Vapour Furnace as the power source to drive the wheels for rapid movement.
Life: 66/66
Mana: 0/0
Damage: 0
Defence: 1
Speed: 12
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Initially, Shang Xun wanted to make the Earthbound Boat completely controllable by humans, but the method of replacing the Wu Elemental with the Fire Vapour Furnace proved to be completely unworkable.
All the structures of the Earthbound Boat as well as its operation could not be separated from the core of the Wu Elemental. The Wu Ji Clan relied on the Wu Elemental to briefly fuse with the Earthbound Boat, something that could not be done by outsiders.
Taking out the Wu Elemental, the Earthbound Boat itself was an earthly oar made of clay and stone.
And to drive such a heavy boat on the ground became an impossible task.
Shang Xun had to adjust his direction.
He aimed at the Yao tribe’s traditional carrier, the horse carriage.
Compared to the ground-driven boat, the structure of the carriage was much more delicate and intuitive, and moving forward by pulling the carriage through the horses was something that any Yao could understand.
After repeated attempts, Shang Xun decided to use a fire and steam furnace to create a new kind of iron horse. The iron horse would not fatigue, and it could keep running as long as the charcoal and omnipotent stones in the furnace still burned and provided strength.
He asked for advice and help from other scholars and craftsmen in White Castle to pound the iron horse into shape.
Instead of a tail and four legs, the Iron Horse only needed a body and wheels on either side to drive the vehicle directly forward. And the driver sitting at the back only needed to control the direction with the steering rudder.
The manufacture of the Fire Vapour Carriage was not difficult, the thought process was more important, and this was where Shang Xun excelled. The real difficulty was after hitting the road.
Firstly, there was the problem of the wheels.
The smelting and mining techniques of Uda City were extremely proficient, radiating almost halfway around the world, making the amount of available metals for the Yao Clan extremely plentiful. Unfortunately, the manufacturing process did not grow as fast.
Wooden or copper wheels were not hard enough and were prone to wear and chipping, and the centre of gravity would also become unstable in the rapid advancement of the vehicle.
Furthermore, once the fire steam furnace was lit, it would continuously spew out steam, and the wheels would keep turning, making it a challenge to stop.
Shang Xun replaced the copper and wooden wheels with iron wheels, and quickly extinguished the fire by closing the lid and filling it with gravel.
Then there was the problem of road conditions.
The wagons could go on any road that a horse-drawn carriage could go on, but in heavy rains or muddy roads, because of their heavy weight, the wagons were more prone to getting stuck in the mud or skidding and overturning.
On the whole, however, they were more widely used than ground boats. As long as one knew how to use a fire steam stove and a carriage, one could drive it, and it could be carried out without any obstruction even outside the land boat path.
Shang Xun drove the Fire Vapour Carriage and arrived at the Eastern Continent by boat, driving all the way to the Rose Garden in the Valley of the Gods.
He kept his promise and drove back.
Red Leaf was overjoyed, she sat on the Fire Vapour Carriage and looked east and west with curiosity written all over her face.
“You’re amazing, building a car so quickly.”
Shang Xun manoeuvred the rudder, “Luck was good, I happened to come across the White Castle side doing the [Brass Furnace Dragon], I went over and got the reward to finish this.”
Red Leaf curiously said, “I heard Lord Pinkman say that the Brass Hearth Dragon is by far the most incredible invention of the Yao Clan, what exactly does it look like?”
“It’s like a squashed dragon.”
“Huh?”
“It’s just like that. The shape isn’t quite right, but the Brass Hearth Dragon is indeed a replica dragon.”
Shang Xun said, “It can cast spells directly, just by standing in the spell casting position and triggering the spell with the dragon’s language through the brass keel. It’s still shocking to see it live.”
“We did an experiment where we cast the highest specification [Spell of Endurance] with a Brass Hearth Dragon on a pony, and it ran inside the White Castle for a whole day in a row, excited as hell. In the end, we had to knock it out, otherwise it would still be running and break its body.”
“You guys are amazing!”
“Amazing was Lord Fellows, and the seers and the tricksters, not that I was much help.”
“Nonsense, I have heard Lord Pinkman said, Lord Fellows high evaluation of you, said you solved the most important problem of the White Castle …… said you are a genius!”
“I do not count what genius, but just rely on luck to get it right.”
“You are too modest!”
“I’m not modest either, I’m serious, I’m just because my family is poor, I’ve done a lot of work since I was a child in order to have enough to eat, so my mind is more mixed, and I often think randomly.”
“If I were to say so, I’d have to thank Lord Yao Shen, if it wasn’t for the blessings of the gods, I probably would have died on the streets when I was a child. At that time, my father had only died not long ago, and life was indeed quite difficult.”
“It’s so hard for you, I will take good care of you in the future!”
Lover’s eyes, how Red Leaf looked at Shang Xun how satisfied, head bubbling red.
Under the witness of Pinkman, Shang Xun and Hong Ye officially tied the knot in the Rose Garden, and it was also the first pair of Rose Envoys and humans to be united in the Yao Clan.
The only sad person was the little fish man.
The fish goo had a hard time getting back from its break, witnessing the lovers driving around and having a rose wedding, and it still had to be in the car the whole time with tears and blessings …… After that, it applied for a long holiday.
Pinkman again agreed.
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The birth of the Firesteam Carriage had a more immediate secular impact than the Brass Hearth Dragon.
For most people, spells this transcendent field of things is still too far away, visible is still the most common clothing, food, housing and transport, can have a better life in these areas, is the most important.
Shang Xun invented the fire-vapour carriage, and was quick to publish all the structures and technologies in the White Castle.
To him, the important thing was to make the Fire Vapour Wagon run and be able to feel the flying-like sensation. The salary of a lifelong scholar was already quite good, and it was followed up with a subsidy from White Castle.
This invention was the first to be bought by Salt City at a high price, and the merchants were extremely sensitive to the market and new goods, gathering craftsmen as fast as they could and building the first batch of fire-vapour carriages out.
Just as the merchants judged, the appearance of the fire steam carriages on the roads caused a huge response and a frantic pursuit.
One by one, the wealthy groups were the first to purchase the fire steam carriages.
From then on, they didn’t have to wait for a ground boat, they could drive directly to wherever they needed to go, which was faster and easier than a ground boat. Most importantly, they could enjoy the same driving pleasure as the Wuzhi people.
The fire steam carriage was transformed into two models, one was a private carriage, and the other was a large vehicle used for transporting goods, which could be fitted with lorry compartments at the back, allowing for faster and more frequent transport of goods. The two models each had their own uses and quickly turned into trade carriers for merchants.
Several other cities finally took the hindsight to introduce fire-vapour carriages one after another.
However, one step at a time, whether it was Yao City, which had the best technological reserves, or the low-profile but affluent Saniro, the fire wagons they made were always more expensive than those of Salt City, resulting in Salt City controlling most of the market for fire wagons in disguise.
Merchants might not be good at inventing, but controlling costs and reducing overheads was professional.
Outside of Salt City, a fire steam wagon with an iron horse head came and went, and the land boats in the land boat path were gradually eliminated, and they returned to the underground and Uda City.
Lu Yao was somewhat touched.
The exclusive ability of the Wu Ji race was full of potential, but the development ability was not very good, and so far they had not been able to further expand and develop the Wu element into new areas.
This was probably also due to the Wu Ji’s solidly conservative ethnic characteristics.
Luckily, they had the Omnipotence Stone, and having the money to buy finished products was a stimulus for consumption.
Lu Yao got up and twisted his waist.
Twisting and twisting, the game interface displayed.
[Ululu has discovered the Black Devil.]
[Yao Clan’s underground survey ability has been slightly improved.]
Lu Yao immediately looked through the backstage.
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【Black Devil】: The sediment formed after the decomposition of a Transcendent’s corpse or fire props, adsorbing a large number of dead plants and animals evolved into a highly concentrated and dense waxy grease that contains a powerful but refuted power. Extremely heavy in itself, it usually converges and moves deep underground. Special creatures.
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Lu Yao read back and forth a few times.
From the description, Black Devils were somewhat similar to oil.
The oil in the Yao Clan’s world was alive?
