Chapter 246 · Even Power Is Truth, Technology and Fantasy Bloom Together [BONUS CHAPTER]

Forget branding Chen Ming as a heretic. If anyone dared to doubt this technology, they would be branded as a heretic by everyone else, then tied to a stake with their whole family and slowly roasted over a low fire.

Objections, spying, hatred?

Whoever dared to reach out a claw would have their head chopped off by Chen Ming and kicked like a ball.

Those who listened had carrots to eat. Those who did not had iron fists to eat.

Under Chen Ming's pressure and temptation, the entire city, along with his territory, began to move quickly.

He was technology.

He was power.

He was truth.

From the implementation of the technology to its spread, it did not even take that long. After learning that Chen Ming had newly built factories, large numbers of farmers and workers rushed over. They were so eager that they would almost work for free, or even pay out of their own pockets, just to work under Chen Ming.

They were betting on the chance to receive better treatment, and they also held a tiny bit of hope that they might obtain Spirit Power later in life.

As for the Spirit Masters who had worked hard in his territory for years, doing all kinds of dirty and tiring work, acting even more like livestock than actual livestock, Chen Ming naturally rewarded them too.

He personally designed exclusive meditation methods for the Fifteen Ton Ant Spirit Master family and the Great Strength Savage Spirit Master family, both of whom had worked hard and made great contributions.

The cultivation efficiency was equal to 1.6, a full 0.2 faster than the 1.4 efficiency of the Douluo Heart Method. And because it was specially matched to their Martial Souls, it also gave a greater boost to the Spirit Masters' basic qualities.

As for advanced individuals, Chen Ming called them over one by one and rewarded them with things including, but not limited to, pills, gold spirit coins, and cultivation methods.

This behavior no doubt made the Spirit Masters working under Chen Ming even more excited. They felt that as long as they worked hard enough, they too could enjoy such excellent treatment.

As the steam engines began to run, each factory started producing.

High-purity strong liquor, bottled in glass bottles, became a popular luxury good.

Soap, with a rich fragrance and an extra effect on stains, became a daily item loved by many noble households.

Inside the printing factory, workers watched the machines keep running amid the sound of steam engines. Seeing sheet after sheet of white paper, which had once been expensive, continuously being spat out, they felt shock from the bottom of their hearts.

A newspaper office was established, and printed newspapers were sent to every corner of the city.

Although the ink was not exactly great, the paper was rough and slightly yellow, and the printed newspapers always had a damp feeling, each newspaper only cost two copper spirit coins. In the past, that price would not even have covered the cost.

Even workers who might not have bought more than a few sheets of paper in their entire lives would gather together with others to buy one newspaper, then ask someone who could read to tell them what was written on it.

Across the streets and alleys of the entire city, people were spreading stories about how smart Chen Ming was and how shocking the technologies he invented were.

From nobles and Spirit Masters at the top, down to street vendors by the roadside and workers inside the factories, everyone was discussing their own thoughts with great interest.

Such a thing was unprecedented on the entire Douluo Continent.

Because Chen Ming had obtained the royal tribute privilege from Qian Renxue, he very politely placed the label "same model as royal tribute" on every single product he made.

Of course, Chen Ming was not just making false claims. He did send the best batch to the Heaven Dou imperial family. After all, only then could it count as live advertising.

Royal-exclusive goods.

In this era, that was simply the best kind of publicity.

If the Heaven Dou imperial family had it, then the Star Luo imperial family had to have it too, and theirs had to be even better. Since the imperial families of the two great empires were using them, the nobles naturally had to use them as well. Spirit Masters and merchants who thought they had status would also have to use them…

In fact, as a fantasy world, even without traditional industrial technology, many forces could still rely on the unique methods of Spirit Masters to create craftsmanship no worse than the products from Chen Ming's territory—or even superior ones.

But the advantage of industrialization was that it drove costs ever lower while continuously increasing efficiency.

Those items made through Spirit Master methods, with no one even knowing how many could be produced in a year, simply couldn't compare to the steady stream of products turned out by industrialized production.

Chen Ming was now buying large quantities of raw materials across the continent at extremely low prices, processing them, then selling them for several times their original value, amassing enormous wealth from across the entire Douluo Continent.

Such a business model was bound to attract attention—and envy.

But by now, Chen Ming had already grown strong enough.

In terms of religious belief, he was orthodox.

In terms of imperial status, he was a great noble.

In terms of prestige and status in the Spirit Master world, he was even above the sect masters of the upper three sects.

If he gave the two great empires face, he would sit at the same table as their crown princes.

If he did not give them face, he would sit at the same table as their emperors.

He did not need to read anyone's face.

Whoever reached out would have their hand chopped off. Whoever stuck their head out would have their head cut off. Whoever looked for trouble would have their skin peeled off.

Who wanted to take bribes and block things?

Who wanted to steal technology?

Chen Ming would go up and kick them flying first, then slap them twice across the face.

As a result, even though Chen Ming had caused a serious impact on many industries, no one could stand in front of him and stop him.

Even the original giants of those industries had to bow and scrape before Chen Ming one by one, begging him to leave them a way to survive.

In a very short time, goods from Holy Soul City spread to every corner of the two great empires through the exchanges of merchants.

In the eyes of the world, Chen Ming's deeds and actions had almost taken on a mythical color.

These technological changes were extremely shocking to Spirit Masters.

Although they understood that Chen Ming himself was an absolute master in the field of medicine and could stand alongside experts like Ye Renxin, they had never imagined that he also had such talent in other areas.

As steam engines roared, as large amounts of steel came out of the blast furnaces, and as all kinds of equipment were slowly replaced, the farmers in the fields gradually became something they could no longer understand.

Finally, some people remembered that the reason Chen Ming had first gained the attention of the Heaven Dou imperial family was not because of his cultivation methods, but because he had provided a battlefield weapon called the crossbow.

In the field of mechanisms, Chen Ming had long been at the forefront of the entire continent, silently influencing the battles and direction of Douluo Continent.

From the very beginning, he had been an inventor.

Whether in technology or in Spirit Master cultivation, he had a talent blessed by the heavens and ways of thinking that ordinary people could never understand.

It was just that everyone had only paid attention to his talent in cultivation.

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