Two days later.

On an open field more than thirty miles from Ziqiong City.

At this moment.

Yang Zhengchu, clad in white, with silver hair flowing.

Held his life-bound flying sword in his arms, standing aloof in the wind.

He exuded an indescribable charm.

However, what clashed with this stunning Sword Immortal image was a series of modern equipment not far from Yang Zhengchu.

The most conspicuous among them was the computing core of the Taihu Light supercomputer, with hundreds of gray cabinets the height of a person arranged into a massive base array.

Every cabinet was embedded with two striking blue-green stripes, one thick and one thin.

At this moment, the hundred stripes were pulsing faintly and brightly with a uniform rhythm, as if breathing.

Accompanying this pulsing rhythm was a low sound of flowing water—the liquid cooling system cooling the supercomputer.

To the left of the cabinet array were a series of special capacitors, used to power the supercomputer.

Perhaps some would find it strange:

Isn't that wrong?

Capacitors can only output current instantaneously, right? How can they power a supercomputer?

It's actually an interesting question.

The impression of capacitors outputting current instantaneously comes from a misunderstanding created by examples in middle school textbooks.

In fact.

Current is never output instantaneously—its output process depends on the resistance in the circuit and the voltage across that resistance.

The example in middle school textbooks showed a capacitor with its positive and negative terminals directly connected by a wire, without any electronic components.

Since the wire's resistance is very low, the capacitor discharges in a very short time.

This so-called 'short time' is beyond human perception, thus considered as instantaneous discharge.

It's similar to the situation of asking, "Are you in?" only to hear "I'm done" immediately.

If the resistance is not very low and the discharge time is not very short, the process becomes perceptible, and it no longer seems instantaneous.

Special capacitors are an example of this.

Here's another interesting story.

There's a rumor in the capacitor world:

If you search for super capacitors on certain shopping platforms, the storekeeper might even teach you how to make a gauss cannon (fog).

Thus, using special capacitors to power a supercomputer is not so bizarre.

Beside the special capacitors is the core part of the entire Thunder Tribulation process:

A massive high-pressure container housing monster crystals and MC-290, responsible for supplying energy to the ferrous helium microcrystal array.

Considering that some are not well-acquainted with ferrous helium microcrystals, let's explain:

Ferrous helium microcrystals are standard tiny hexagonal crystals, much smaller in diameter than oxygen molecules, but not gaseous.

An oxygen molecule is made of two oxygen atoms, with an atomic radius of 0.074 nm and a molecular diameter of 0.296 nm.

Thus, many solid micro-particles are smaller in volume than oxygen molecules and are intangible—this is middle school chemistry knowledge.

When a large number of ferrous helium microcrystals form a crystal array, they form a hard, transparent crystal array.

When there's an external impact.

Countless tiny ferrous helium microcrystals will block the impact.

At the same time, a dimer helium polymerization reaction occurs, decomposing again into helium ions and ferrous ions.

At this time, the energy from the monster crystal (possibly vacuum zero-point energy in the Mo Family secret chamber) is injected, causing them to regenerate into ferrous helium microcrystals.

Thus, they are micro-particles, not gases.

If you really can't understand, just imagine the ferrous helium crystal array as tempered glass.

Next to several large high-pressure containers are several ion channel detectors and condensing microorganism containers.

When the Thunder Tribulation descends.

The ineffectual part of the lightning will be blocked by the ferrous helium crystal array, similar to other Tribulation Formations, but more lasting.

Using the supercomputer, the least powerful Thunder Tribulation will be directed into the energy storage container of condensing microorganisms by the ion channel detectors.

Finally, through reducing electric potential energy, it will fall onto Yang Zhengchu, completing the Tribulation.

Moreover, to ensure the success of this Tribulation plan, the command has additionally dispatched four top-tier experts, all leaders in relevant fields.

Including Zeng Gu Cheng and Tang Pin, there are currently six top-tier academicians present.

In a way,

this could already be considered an academic all-star team, something you might not see in a typical national-level project.

The one managing the Taihu Light supercomputer module's calculations is Director Qian Chaohai from the Floating Point Think Tank at the National Supercomputing Center Wuxi. He was holding a report and said to Zeng Gu Cheng:

"Academician Zeng, the mapping of chiral symmetry is out, and the heteronormal vector of the homotopy invariant is approximately 1.488."

Zeng Gu Cheng took the report, glanced over it, and clicked his tongue, asking:

"Director Qian, is there no way to further reduce it to below 1.4?"

Qian Chaohai showed a slight wry smile, shaking his head:

"Impossible, even combining the resources of both Fuyue on Radiation Island and the Poop Country's apex can at most squeeze it below 1.45."

"What if we consider the Cantor Set?"

"Still impossible, even if we further relax the equivalence relation, what we obtain is still the derived category of a topological space. This is a technical hardware barrier, unrelated to algorithms or manpower."

Upon hearing this, Zeng Gu Cheng pursed his lips, looked at Yang Zhengchu in the distance still posing, and eventually made up his mind, saying:

"In that case, let's use 1.488.

Xiaozhuo, go and tell the Yang Family to prepare for the Tribulation in ten minutes!

Other departments, pay attention, enter the final preparation phase!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a sound of orderly and forceful responses rang out around:

"Floating Point Modularization Group received!"

"Sequence Reference Group understood!"

"Lookout Center guarantees completion of the mission!"

In less than half a minute.

The atmosphere on-site suddenly turned grave, even carrying a few shades of oppression.

The vast open ground was left only with the clatter of keyboards and the hum of machines starting up.

Buzzing—

The vibrations of the supercomputer grew louder, and even the ground was vaguely trembling.

Three minutes later.

"Report! The activation rate of the Shen Wei 26010 many-core processor has reached its peak, entire machine efficiency 72.88%!"

"Report! The 264-bit vector instruction set is operating normally, HPCG peak efficiency at 0.28%!"

"The atmospheric simulation framework has been launched, accuracy is three kilometers!"

"EH group is fully prepared, awaiting the next instructions!"

Meanwhile.

From a vantage point several kilometers away, Ma Ning acted as a race starting official, shooting a signal gun skyward.

Woosh—

The signal flare exploded in the sky, blooming into a pink flower.

The next moment.

Yang Zhengchu's aura surged, his flying sword ascended into the air.

A seal in his Qi Sea, long suppressed, was shattered instantly by a surge of Spiritual Energy.

BOOM—

In an instant.

Clouds churned in the sky, black clouds pressed down on the city.

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