The Mech Touch novel Chapter 5440

Chapter 5440 Five Phases of Superstition

Ves found that it was much harder to deepen the application of hyper technology than he initially expected.

Certainly, there were a lot of different ideas that he could apply to energy shield generators and armor systems, but it was not as simple for Ves to figure out anything worthwhile.

His standards were high. The problem was not that his ideas were bad, but he was almost certain that other mech designers could do a better job than himself.

"I am not the only person who is working on deepening the application of hyper technology." He frowned.

Anyone who took a look at it would notice that the five classical elements occupied a very prominent position on the list.

This was because everyone could see that they had the potential to form a cycle!

Of course, trying to make it happen was way easier said than done. It turned out that Ves was hardly the only mech designer who dared to design a mech that attempted to form a complete cycle of the five elements.

Unlike the initially successful creation of the Elemental Lord, all of the other attempts to fabricate comparable machines had failed before they could even be completed!

No matter whether they were conventionally fabricated or materialized into existence, they almost certainly broke down due to the violent and uncontrolled interactions between opposing elements!

Ves couldn't help but smirk when he found this out. "It is not so easy to build a five element mech that can stably control all of these forces."

After a lot of mech designers had learned their lesson, they reined in their ambitions and fell back to designing mono-elemental or duo-elemental mechs.

Only the more daring ones attempted to tackle triple-elemental mechs, but they usually relied on special advantages to moderate the inevitable conflict that could arise.

When Ves read through the articles that highlighted the few triple-elemental mech designs revealed to the public, his expression shifted for a time.

Reading between the lines, he could easily tell that these mech designers either learned a thing or two about cultivation science or had access to a consultant with the respective expertise.

They all treated their mechs as artifacts that sought to leverage the power of heaven to amplify their performance.

The triple-elemental mechs even showed more obvious traces of mysticism that alluded to a deeper understanding of a special interpretation of the five elements.

After the Hyper Generation kicked off, the common consensus in the mech industry was that E energy came in many different variations. They were akin to different flavors that were wholly separate and discrete from each other.

However, according to a particularly dominant interpretation in ancient times, the five elements were a lot more interconnected to each other. They described different phases of a universal cycle. They were like the seasons of an axial tilted planet that repeated endlessly.

According to this mystical interpretation of the five elements, qi or E energy was naturally able to undergo transformations like the cycling between yin and yang.

One interpretation of the transformation between the phases sounded a bit interesting to him because it was tied into the concept of life and growth.

Water represented the formation of new plant life under the cover of winter snow.

Wood stood for the growth of new shoots of plants at the onset of spring.

Fire stood for the warming and feeding of solar radiation in the heat of summer.

Earth represented the ripening of grains and other plants that took place next.

Metal was associated with the harvesting of the ripened crops and the storage of seeds to prepare for the following cycles during autumn.

All of it sounded nice, but Ves personally thought it was a hamfisted way to tie the five elements to the seasons.

Ves did not put too much stock in the superstitions of old. He was a man of science and preferred to use a combination between his own observations as well as knowledge based on modern empirical research to build his own theoretical frameworks.

His mother taught him that anything related to spirituality was psychoactive and psychoreactive.

That essentially meant that superstitions and subjective beliefs actually had the power to change the behavior of spiritual phenomena.

"This must be why the five phases of transformation theory must have been so popular in ancient times." Ves speculated. "It is a convenient self-hypnotizing tool that enables many cultivators to easily combine and transform these classical elements."

It explained why mech designers who did not get exposed to this theory found it a lot harder to design multi-elemental mechs that produced greater synergies. Their own mental models lacked sufficient explanations that could help them tame the E energy attributes they sought to combine.

Though the existence of this harmonious cycle suggested that the five phases of transformation described a fundamental and objective truth about this reality, Ves did not put as much stock to this interpretation.

The same went for other relatively simple applications. _{freewebnσvel.cøm}

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