In her mental space, FengXue spoke to Vesa, "Don't you need to comfort her?"
Vesa chuckled, "You think everyone can be chosen by the progenitor's blood?
We chose her as our Queen; there is a reason for it. She won't fumble with just this.
It's just a small pebble on her long winding road."
Compared to MingYue now, Alex is having the best day of his life. He laughed loudly as his experiment showed results.
Faerith, standing by his side, looked dumbfounded at the object in his hand.
After Alex exchanged objects with MingYue, he started experimenting with qi, mana crystals, and then artifacts from her world.
From the experiment, he discovered that Qi and Mana are similar types of energy, the only difference being that Qi is denser and wilder, while Mana is milder.
This means that if they use a cultivation system with mana, the body's requirements would drop drastically, in theory.
However, he hasn't tried this yet since he needs a test subject. What he did was try to switch the energy source and see the result.
The weapon from his world, like the gun MingYue used, inflicted more damage when using Qi as its fuel source, but it damaged the weapon, allowing only limited use for it.
The only exception is when someone like MingYue uses it.
Since she is a cultivator, she can control her qi, making it milder before putting it into the weapon's charge.
He then tried using a mana crystal to activate the storage ring.
At first, the progress was slow since the formation required the user to inject their qi, so Alex needed to create an interface to inject Mana from Crystal into the formation.
He had to learn the formation from scratch, but it didn't take too long for Alex.
With his abilities and help from Vesa translating some functions he didn't know, everything went smoothly.
"This is just like how a circuit board works; the only difference is they use qi, inject it into a specific material, and mold it to produce the result they want."
In Alex's world, a circuit board works as an electrical circuit that can only produce two outcomes: on or off.
Through this, people then layer them above one another, creating a complicated logic that allows them to create computers and many other smart devices.
But with formations like this, the possibilities become endless.
Even the latest research in his world on quantum computers can only produce three different results, but the cultivator's formation can produce an infinite amount of outcomes.
"No wonder every cultivator has their own array inheritance; the way they create formations is fundamentally different.
It depends on what kind of pattern of outcomes they capitalize on."
Alex then called Faerith to create software and hardware for the ideas he had in mind.
The result is now the object in his hand, looking like a cube the size of a 3x3 Rubik's with a small screen on it.
The use is very simple: they can just point it at an object and place it in the storage space.
The screen then shows the content, storage capacity, and current charge.
In case the mana charge runs out, the cube will have 72 hours to recharge or everything inside will be destroyed.
This is a step down compared to the storage ring from MingYue's world, but Alex feels satisfied with the result.
He knows the possibility of a product like this; he can dominate the market.
A dimensional storage that can be charged with a Mana crystal at an affordable price.
The model he holds also has a good storage size for a 10x10 cubic meter area.
"Based on the data I read, the real storage ring makes every item imperishable.
I am sure we can also add this feature to the storage cube. But how did you get this technology?" Faerith Asked.
Alex then threw the cube toward Faerith, who caught it with surprise, almost stumbling down in the process.
He had reasons for not including those features; he didn't want the cube to be capable of holding living beings, only inanimate objects.
The only reason MingYue's storage ring cannot hold living beings is because there is no oxygen there; it's a vacuum.
But no cultivator understands what oxygen is.
Instead, they make a crazier invention: a small world in a pocket, but MingYue tells Alex only immortals have those.
But this is no problem for Alex.
They could easily put an oxygen tank and fill the storage space with it.
Adding some artificial gravity, manipulating the pressure inside to make it habitable.
This will make the cube require more energy.
But there will be many problems if he releases a product like this; people will use it for illegal purposes, such as kidnapping people and bringing monsters from dungeons into the real world.
"That is why I hired you. I don't want questions like that.
Your job now is to optimize this and also make a smaller version that people can use as a smartwatch, phone, or just accessories like jewelry.
Don't forget to put some biometric security on it, too."
Alex knows he needs a plan before releasing this kind of product on the market, but he is still not satisfied; his mind churns to make something more ambitious.
"Vesa, since dungeons work the same as secret realms, can you take over one too? Like what you do for MingYue?"
Alex communicates telepathically with Vesa.
[As I said before, based on the current King's knowledge, a dungeon is just another world, so this is not possible, but I need you to enter the dungeon first to make sure.]
[As for secret realms, they are artificially created by cultivators using formations, and you should know they rarely put countermeasures in case someone tries to hack the array with sophisticated methods from your world since they don't have a concept like this.]
[The fundamentally different way of utilizing formation is already enough for them.]