Research-Style Cultivation, Starting by Refusing to Be a Furnace – Chapter 32

Ch 32: Manufacturing Bullets

Dan Peak, halfway up the mountain, inside the cave abode.

Wei Xing had been thinking about Dan Qi’s words. For Wei Xing, the only thing he could come into contact with that would cause an explosion was a pill refining furnace exploding. Apart from that, there was gunpowder. Gunpowder was a mortal item, and there should be some in Qingyuan City.

“Exploding the furnace won’t work. It requires constant heating from the pill fire, and besides, how can you make bullets out of such a big pill furnace? Even if it’s miniaturized, it’s still too big.”

“Gunpowder is possible, but it’s difficult for the firing pin in a handgun to simply strike the gunpowder and cause it to explode,” Wei Xing analyzed, looking at the Glock pistol in his hand.

“To use it as a primer, the primer needs to respond immediately after being struck by the firing pin, unleashing an amazing amount of explosive energy inside the magazine, and then quickly firing the bullet,” Wei Xing analyzed the basic conditions required for a primer.

“Unstable pills, unstable pills. Seventh Senior Brother said that unstable pills can also cause the furnace to explode, pills… explosion…”

“Wait!” Wei Xing suddenly thought of a perfect solution.

“Since unstable pills can explode, can I miniaturize pills that are on the verge of exploding but haven’t yet, and then place them at the bottom of the magazine, put some gunpowder in the magazine, and wait for the handgun’s firing pin to strike the bullet, triggering the pill explosion, which in turn triggers the gunpowder explosion, and then launches the bullet!” Thinking of this, Wei Xing’s breathing became rapid and he was extremely excited. The problem of bullets had a direction in principle!

Wei Xing randomly went to Qingyuan Prefecture and stood inside a general store.

“Tell your Head of the Li Family, find me some gunpowder now, the more the better. I believe he can get a lot with his ability. I’ll wait here for you to bring the stuff,” Wei Xing was still wrapped up tightly. Fortunately, the old servant in the store knew from the Head of the Li Family that this was an Immortal, and treated him well.

Late at night, the old servant brought the things to the store and said in a deep voice, “Immortal, here are fifty pounds of gunpowder. Due to the short time, I could only collect this much for now.”

Wei Xing waved his hand, and the gunpowder was put into the storage bag. He casually asked, “What’s your name? In the future, when I meet you, don’t let anyone else know.”

The old man listened to Wei Xing’s emotionless voice and said in fear, “This old man is called Ma Sheng. Immortal, please feel free to order me around.”

Wei Xing nodded, looked at the bowing old man, and said, “From now on, I will call you Old Ma. Remember, don’t let anyone else know about this matter. Continue to collect gunpowder, and I will come to get it. Presumably, your Head of the Li Family has already told you not to leak the news, otherwise…” Wei Xing stopped talking, but laughed coldly a few times.

The laughter entered the old man’s ears like a death knell. The old man quickly saluted and said, “This humble old man knows. I dare not delay the Immortal’s important affairs. Unless this humble old man dies, no one else will know. I hope the Supreme Immortal will not implicate my family.”

Wei Xing left in the dead of night.

Dan Peak, inside the cave abode halfway up the mountain.

“Letting the Head of the Li Family handle such mortal things as gunpowder should be no problem,” Wei Xing said, touching the storage bag.

“Now everything is ready, all that’s missing is the east wind!”

Wei Xing looked at the pill introductions in the Pill Dao Annotations, carefully selecting pills that could be used as primers. After thinking about it, combined with his own strength level, perhaps only Spirit Returning Pills could be tried.

“Now, miniaturize the Spirit Returning Pill, suppress a large amount of Spiritual Energy inside the Spirit Returning Pill, so that the pill is in a state of almost exploding. Wait for the Glock pistol’s firing pin to strike, causing the pill to explode, and the heat released by the large amount of Spiritual Energy drives the gunpowder to explode. The bullet at this time must have a very high speed!”

Inside the pill furnace, the lights were always bright.

In order to miniaturize the pill to the size of a small steel ball, Wei Xing had been constantly reducing the amount of various raw materials.

From the required amount for refining a complete Spirit Returning Pill, the raw materials were reduced to one-quarter, one-fifth, one-sixth, all the way to one-tenth of the original amount, constantly experimenting, recording, inputting Spiritual Energy, and testing the critical value.

Finally, at one-eighth of the original conditions, a Spirit Returning Pill the size of a small steel ball was obtained!

Just as Wei Xing was secretly happy, an accident came again.

The Spirit Returning Pill in front of him exploded with a “bang.” The miniaturized Spirit Returning Pill that was refined could only be formed, but could not be stabilized!

Watching the Spirit Returning Pill turn to ashes, Wei Xing tried a few more times, and got the same experimental results.

“If it can’t be stabilized, then it’s definitely useless.” After trying so many times, Wei Xing already knew that the explosion occurred because so much Spiritual Energy could not be stabilized inside the Spirit Returning Pill.

“If only these violent Spiritual Energies could be stabilized,” Wei Xing stared at the new problem in front of him, thinking about countermeasures.

“With the resources I currently have, I can’t solve this matter. Is there anyone in this Qingyun Temple who can solve it?”

“Sword Dao doesn’t seem to have anything to do with stabilizing Spiritual Energy.”

“Beast Peak is even less likely.”

“Pill Dao won’t work.”

“Weapon Refinement won’t work.”

“Talisman seems feasible!”

Then Wei Xing shook his head again. Talismans were too big after all, and the talisman paper alone could not be attached to this small pill!

“Then there’s only Formation. Formation… If I inscribe the formation on this pill to maintain the stability of the Spiritual Energy at the critical point, it might be feasible!”

Central Peak, Trading Pavilion, Wei Xing once again stood opposite the Official named Jian San and asked, “Official, I want to ask, among the Cultivation Methods that can be exchanged, is there a Formation that can maintain the stability of Spiritual Energy?”

After speaking, Wei Xing placed three white jade bottles in Jian San’s hand. These were three bottles of Spirit Returning Pills.

This scene amused Jian San. In the past, Wei Xing was indifferent and emotionless, but this time he actually understood ‘worldly wisdom’!

“This kid has made a lot of progress recently.” Jian San looked at Wei Xing, but did not reply directly. He still couldn’t see anything, and he was still wrapped up tightly.

Wei Xing probably guessed what Jian San was thinking and thought, “It’s not that I don’t understand worldly wisdom, it’s that I have to pretend to be indifferent and ruthless in special times to reduce trouble.”

“Official, please accept it. I also want to improve,” Wei Xing’s voice finally had some warmth.

Jian San picked up the three white small bottles, opened them and glanced at them, and smiled, “Although these three Spirit Returning Pills are of no use to me, but seeing that you want to improve so much, it’s okay to tell you. Go exchange for the Spirit Gathering Array with Contribution Points. There is a small Formation attached to the Spirit Gathering Array that is used to maintain the stability of Spiritual Energy, called the Solidifying Spirit Array, which has the effect of maintaining the stability of Spiritual Energy.”

Wei Xing was overjoyed when he heard this and thought, “Worldly wisdom is still useful.”

After thanking him, he hurried to the Cultivation Method exchange column and found the exchange place for the Spirit Gathering Array. It clearly stated Spirit Gathering Array for Dao Breath Realm, 200 Contribution Points.

“What the heck, I said that the Weapon Peak is dark, but I didn’t expect the Formation Peak to be even darker! At least a Weapon Refinement Technique only costs 100 Contribution Points, but the Formation Peak is good, one Formation costs 200 Contribution Points. Are you selling the Formation separately!” Wei Xing was angry when he saw it.

“They are all cultivating in the same temple, and they are hurting each other!” Wei Xing looked at the Cultivation Methods on several other Peaks, and sure enough, each one was more outrageous than the last.

The most speechless thing was that Wei Xing had been complaining that the Cultivation Methods of other Peaks were black-hearted, but he didn’t expect that their Pill Peak was selling even darker! Following the Formation Peak’s example, they sold one pill recipe at a time. What was even more outrageous was that they even sold the pill refining furnace according to the grade, following the Weapon Peak’s example. Not only that, but if you wanted to find someone from the Weapon Peak to refine a pill refining furnace, you had to give Contribution Points or Spirit Stones to the Pill Peak, otherwise they wouldn’t let you refine it!

Good fellow, Wei Xing found out after asking that the Pill Peak had bought out the final forming method of the pill refining furnace from the Weapon Peak long ago! Except for the Weapon Peak and the Pill Peak, anyone who wanted to find a Weapon Peak disciple to refine a pill refining furnace had to give Contribution Points or Spirit Stones as compensation.

“Good fellow, what kind of demons and monsters are these?” Seeing this, Wei Xing suddenly felt that the Formation Peak was really conscientious to sell the Spirit Gathering Array and give away the stable Solidifying Spirit Array.