Enlightenment: Attaining the Dao at Age 8

Because of the forum’s real-name verification system, Li Chang’an’s post quickly received numerous responses from other Reincarnators. Deng Ankang then used his administrative privileges for the thread to pin the post.

That single action set off a firestorm.

After all, the Reincarnator forum catered to the entire Reincarnator population.

Getting pinned at the top of the trending list caused Li Chang’an’s private messages to explode. Inquiries of all kinds flooded in like a snowstorm.

Most Reincarnators could recognize genuine quality and weren’t easily fooled by a mob of paid shills.

Besides, judging by the photos Deng Ankang had posted, the chances of it being a fake were slim. After all, who could possibly hire a Tier Five Special Mutant Creature to be an extra for a photoshoot?

As for the theory of killing it first and then faking a piercing wound from a kinetic weapon, well, you’d need a shell that could actually penetrate the Special Mutant Creature’s defenses to begin with!

And even taking a huge step back, suppose it *was* a fake. The weapon’s design was still incredibly impressive—it looked far more advanced and futuristic than the popular Energy Particle Beam Cannons currently on the market.

Furthermore, the firepower of a city’s defense system was a critical lifeline, directly impacting the survival of a Reincarnator and their town against the threat of the Dark Tide. Consequently, a good number of Reincarnators decided to inquire, operating under the principle that it was better to be safe than sorry.

’What if it’s real?’

’If I can get my hands on one, it’d be a massive win, right?’

Thus, only a few dozen minutes after the post was pinned, Li Chang’an had already received nearly a hundred orders for his military weapons. Most customers were just buying one or two cannons to test their effectiveness; only a small handful of those with deep pockets were willing to purchase several at once.

Of course, the vast majority of Reincarnators were still just watching from the sidelines for the drama to unfold.

After all, the first guinea pigs had already made their purchases. They figured they would only have to wait a few months at most to see if the Night City Military Technology Group was for real or just pulling a scam.

Once the truth came to light, they could then make their decisions based on the weapons’ performance and cost. There was no rush.

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Watching the number of orders continue to climb, Li Chang’an couldn’t help but grin. ’This is a fortune!’ he thought.

With so many whales lined up and waving their Rebirth Points around, Li Chang’an felt it would be a crime not to take full advantage of the massive influx of customers and fleece them for all they were worth.

「A full day passed.」

Lying in the City Lord’s Mansion of Cangxuan City, Li Chang’an did a preliminary tally of the orders. He quickly discovered that in a single day, he had received orders for nearly three hundred Energy Particle Beam Cannons and two hundred Super Electromagnetic Cannons.

He was collecting a ten percent deposit on each weapon...

That meant Li Chang’an had collected nearly ten million Rebirth Points in deposits alone!

Amidst his excitement, Li Chang’an forced himself to calm down. With Cangxuan City’s current factory production capacity, taking on so many orders in such a short time was already pushing their limits.

With these nearly ten million Rebirth Points in hand, Li Chang’an decided to further expand his factory’s production capacity.

Keep in mind, the last time Li Chang’an had expanded the factory was only a month ago. To be expanding again so soon showed just how staggering Cangxuan City’s rate of development was.

With a massive injection of capital, the military weapon production lines in Cangxuan City were now running around the clock. In addition, the High-level Evolver guards Hu Xiuyuan had promised had arrived. As expected, it hadn’t cost Li Chang’an a single coin—their services were covered by the reparations Hu Xiuyuan had forcibly extracted from the Cao Family.

It was safe to say that both the Cao Family and the Gu Family had suffered a major loss at Li Chang’an’s hands this time.

The two major families had originally believed the plan they’d painstakingly devised was perfect. They had even factored in Su Ruobing and Hu Xiuyuan.

The risk of failure was supposed to be virtually nonexistent.

They never expected Li Chang’an’s combat strength to be so monstrous that he could turn the tables and annihilate a Law Enforcement Team in a Subdimensional Space—a team led by a Tier Eight Reincarnator and supported by several Tier Seven Reincarnators.

The move had truly caught both families completely off guard.

And because they were so unprepared, when they learned that Hu Xiuyuan had suddenly stormed into Kyoto to make his move, both families were caught flat-footed and paid a heavy price.

Now, upon learning that Li Chang’an had secured a massive number of orders through the forum, the two families’ hatred for him intensified. They likely detested him more than they would their own fathers’ murderer.

Of course, Li Chang’an couldn’t care less about their hatred.

After all, even if he did nothing, these military-industrial conglomerates, with their massive market share, would always see him as a thorn in their side—the kind they would eliminate without a second thought the moment they got the chance.

He might as well drop the pretense and bring the conflict out into the open. Who knew, perhaps Li Chang’an could even leverage the notoriety of these powerful families to attract even more attention.

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With matters at the factory settled for the time being, Li Chang’an could turn his attention elsewhere.

All that was needed now was to strengthen patrols and security within Cangxuan City. This would prevent outsiders from infiltrating the core departments of the factory and guard against any potential sabotage from the Gu and Cao Families, who might make a desperate move. With those measures in place, most other matters no longer required Li Chang’an’s personal attention.

For now, besides consolidating his own Cultivation, Li Chang’an’s most important task was to head to the advanced talent development center inside Cangxuan City to teach a class.

You heard that right... he was going to class!

The knowledge Li Chang’an possessed was all learned aboard a Hengyu-class Battleship from the Liyang Empire. In the current Main World, it was undeniably bleeding-edge, super-advanced technology, far ahead of its time.

If Li Chang’an wanted to replicate all the advanced technologies from the battleship and put them into mass production, he would need to personally cultivate a team of loyal engineers to spearhead the research and development.

And now, a group of loyal, high-level engineers had already been chosen from Cangxuan City’s factories through a rigorous selection process.

All that remained was for Li Chang’an, the project head, to conduct their training in phases.

Frankly, if he hadn’t acquired a special talent in a previous life, Li Chang’an would have been reluctant to take time away from his own progress at this critical juncture to teach a group of engineers.

His time was incredibly valuable, and he had none to waste, at least for now.

But because of this talent, he had high hopes for the upcoming classes.

[Unique Special Title: Star Sky Preacher]

[Special Effect 1: When you teach a class on any subject, your students’ comprehension increases by 50%!]

[Special Effect 2: When you teach a class on any subject, your own comprehension increases by 50%!]

[Special Effect 3: When you teach a class on any subject, both you and your students have a higher chance of triggering a ’Eureka Moment’. When triggered, learning efficiency increases by 100%~300%.]

[Special Effect 4: You are a preacher of the cosmos. After leaving a planet and entering the starry sky, you will have a higher affinity with interstellar factions!]

The Star Sky Preacher talent essentially turned Li Chang’an into a one-man ’talent development center’.

The comprehension and natural aptitude of any student he taught would be massively enhanced.

Based on the description of the third special effect, Li Chang’an himself even had a chance to receive a special buff that increased his own learning efficiency!

’I can train others and benefit myself at the same time...’

For a support talent with no direct increase to his combat power, Star Sky Preacher’s special effects were still incredibly powerful.

Inside a secure classroom at the Cangxuan City Talent Development Center, over thirty engineers and scientific researchers, all dressed differently, sat whispering amongst themselves.

It was no exaggeration to say that every single one of them was a leading scholar at the forefront of their respective fields. Normally, they were the ones giving lectures, not attending them. The number of people in the world qualified to teach them could be counted on one hand.

Yet now, they had been suddenly ordered to attend a lecture...

This left them both surprised and baffled, and they couldn’t help but wonder: just what kind of legendary figure in the scientific community had City Lord Li invited that would compel a group of industry titans like them to take time out of their valuable schedules to be here?

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