Tian Yuan War Chronicles: The Path of Artifacts to Ascension – Chapter 45

Ch 45: Spirit Energy Hand Cannon

This day, Hua Kong came back at noon to check on the Little Wild Child and unexpectedly ran into Lin Yu and Lin Lan returning, which surprised him greatly!

“Why are you back? Nothing to do today?” Hua Kong asked.

“We were cut off from a job. Old Ancestor Lin Lian was a little angry, so she let everyone come back to rest for a few days,” Lin Yu said.

“Cut off from a job? What’s going on? Wasn’t this all agreed upon in advance?” Hua Kong asked, puzzled.

“The route we went to this time was a bit far! The client was persuaded by his subordinates to change escort agencies! They said that the cultivators here have too low of a cultivation! There have been incidents of losing goods on this route.

The other party’s escorts are mainly Nascent Soul Stage cultivators, but we are basically Golden Core Stage, and even some Foundation Establishment Stage,” Lin Yu explained.

“Losing goods? How could that be? Aren’t the goods transported in Storage Bracelets guarded by Flying Boats?” Hua Kong asked.

“That group of robbers were five Nascent Soul cultivators! Old Ancestor Lin Lian didn’t want to increase casualties unnecessarily! So she dropped the goods! And paid a large sum of Spirit Stones!” Lin Yu said, somewhat dejected.

“Doesn’t the Flying Boat have Spirit Energy Cannons?” Hua Kong asked, puzzled. The escort missions all use armed Flying Boats.

“The other party has a very powerful Magical Artifact that can corrode certain areas of our protective Formation Array, making the Formation Array weak!

The Spirit Energy Cannons on the Flying Boat have too large of a target, and once the Formation Array becomes weak, the other party easily knocked them off with Flying Swords! The Flying Swords were used in a mutually destructive way, writing off all the Spirit Energy Cannons!” Lin Yu said.

“I see!” Hua Kong said thoughtfully, thinking about countermeasures.

The fact that Tian Yuan Sect cultivators have lower cultivation levels compared to native cultivators is true, but this cannot be changed in the short term. He can only think of ways to improve the Magical Artifacts.

“Did Manager Ying and Manager Cao say anything?” Hua Kong didn’t want to overstep the two Managers and offer suggestions blindly.

“The two Managers said to wait for a while, improve the armor of the Formation Array and Spirit Energy Cannons. There is no good solution for now, because it is not yet clear what Magical Artifact the other party is using,” Lin Yu replied.

“Okay! I understand!” Hua Kong responded, then bid farewell and returned to his room. Lin Yu and Lin Lan also went back to their rooms to rest.

Back in his room, Hua Kong lay on the bed, still pondering this matter. The Spirit Energy Cannon can’t help but be called a genius-like creation, with power far exceeding the Bird Shooting Tube he made.

But the disadvantage is that it is slightly larger, and if not properly protected, it can easily be destroyed by the other party. Shrink it?

No! Currently, the escort agency probably won’t give him the time to work on these things. Besides, he is not an expert in building Spirit Energy Cannons. He usually focuses on building Space Magical Items and Flying Boats.

But Hua Kong was worried about the safety of Lin Yu, Lin Lan, and the others, so he thought about making some simple things that could be used to defend against enemies.

So, he took out the Spirit Energy Cannon components that he had scavenged from the Little Wild Child’s vomit back then from his Storage Bracelet and began to study them carefully.

In fact, Hua Kong had long been able to build Spirit Energy Cannons. He also had several on his Flying Boat, but it was still not easy to simplify its structure.

Building a Spirit Energy Cannon is simple in some ways. It is a combination of several Formation Arrays that absorb Spirit Stone Spiritual Power, gather Spirit Stone Spiritual Power, increase the manic degree of Spiritual Power, and launch manic Spiritual Power. Hua Kong didn’t find it very complicated to replicate these Formation Arrays back then.

But the distance between the Formation Eyes and the Formation Patterns, and the direction of the Patterns are all designed and calculated. The consequences of easily changing them are only two: misfire and explosion.

Copying is possible, but changing and transforming is not something that can be done overnight. It is common for it to take ten or eight years to complete.

After studying these Formation Arrays for ten days or so, Hua Kong discovered that the core of these Formation Arrays is to absorb the Spiritual Power of Spirit Stones. It launches pure and enhanced Spiritual Power after absorption, with Gold Element and Fire Element Spiritual Power being the most powerful.

But now Old Ancestor Lin Lian and the others are not as extravagant as they were in Tian Yuan Continent. They are also not willing to use Spirit Stone Cannons. In fact, if they had launched a strong counterattack as soon as they discovered the other party’s tracks last time, the other party might not have gained an advantage.

Although the risk is also very high! But it’s not enough to sit still and wait for death. But Old Ancestor Lin Lian was obviously tied up. Spirit Stones stumped the hero!

Fortunately, the other party only wanted money, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable!

But the Spiritual Power in Spirit Stones can still be used without extracting it. Hua Kong thought of his Disc Bird Shooting Tube, which uses Fire Element Spirit Stone powder to launch projectiles!

Under the activation of the Formation Array, Fire Element Spirit Stone powder can explode, but the power is not as strong as pure Spiritual Power, but it can still be used.

Hua Kong then replicated the Formation Array that increases the manic degree of Spiritual Power to see if it would be effective on Spirit Stone powder.

He tried it, and unfortunately, it had no effect on Spirit Stone powder.

Hua Kong refused to give up. Since this Formation Array is indeed ineffective on Spirit Stone powder, it seems that this Formation Array is indeed designed for high-concentration pure Spiritual Power.

Then, is it possible to use a portion of pure Spiritual Power to detonate the arrowhead to increase its power?

It is definitely impossible to change all the Formation Arrays in a short time, but slightly modifying one or two should not be a big problem!

So, Hua Kong focused on studying the Formation Arrays for extracting Spirit Stone Spiritual Power and increasing the manic degree of Spiritual Power. After all, pure Spiritual Power is more powerful.

After more than a year of experimentation, Hua Kong was finally able to engrave these two Formation Arrays on Spirit Iron as small as the Small Steel Tube of the Bird Shooting Tube.

Hua Kong poured in the ground Spirit Stone powder and tried it. It didn’t work! The Formation Array cannot extract the Spiritual Power of such fine Spirit Stone powder! It’s really a case of one hair pulling the whole body!

Hua Kong had no choice but to make two-way adjustments to the Formation Array and the Spirit Stone used for the launch arrowhead. After a few months, he discovered that if he cut the Spirit Stone into a long strip and attached it to a specific position inside the Small Steel Tube, the Formation Array could extract the Spiritual Power.

Halfway there! Hua Kong was very excited!

Hua Kong then experimented with using the Formation Array to detonate pure Spiritual Power. This Formation Array was not very difficult. He just transplanted the original Formation Array for detonating Spiritual Power powder and could use it directly. After all, the stability of pure Fire Element Spiritual Power is much worse than that of Fire Spirit Stone powder.

Now the launch problem was solved! Hua Kong modified a Small Steel Tube and test-fired it. The arrowhead launched with pure Spiritual Power was much faster, and sometimes it would even disintegrate in flight.

What remained was the problem of Spiritual Power explosion. The main power of the Spirit Energy Cannon is the explosion of violent pure Fire Element violent Spiritual Power.

The focus now shifted to the Formation Array for increasing the manic degree of Spiritual Power. Unexpectedly, this Formation Array was very adaptable. It could be well applied to the Small Steel Tube with only simple modifications.

So, Hua Kong’s new Disc Bird Shooting Tube was built. Now the focus of the modification was on the Small Steel Tube.

Hua Kong engraved the Formation Array for extracting Spiritual Power on the rear part of the Small Steel Tube where the Spirit Stone powder was originally placed. He inlaid a cut Fire Element Spirit Stone strip at the Formation Eye position in the middle of the Small Steel Tube.

The outside of this Small Steel Tube was then wrapped with a layer of Spirit Iron for engraving the Formation Array for detonating pure Spiritual Power, sealed well, and the launch part of the Small Steel Tube was manufactured.

The arrowhead part of the Small Steel Tube was also composed of two parts. The middle was still the Formation Array for extracting Spiritual Power, and the outside was covered with a layer to increase the manic degree of pure Spiritual Power.

In this way, wherever this arrowhead wrapped in violent Fire Element Spiritual Power touched, there would be a violent Spiritual Power explosion. Although this modification was not as powerful as the original Spirit Energy Cannon, it also had many advantages.

First of all, since the Spirit Stone for launching the arrowhead does not need to have a lot of Spiritual Power, it can be replaced with Fire Spirit Stones from the Seven Yang World or even the Six Yang World, which is inexpensive.

Secondly, this is based on the improved Disc Bird Shooting Tube. Although the power of a single shot is smaller, the damage is still amazing after a rain of arrowheads is shot out.

Third, although the improved Small Steel Tube is slightly larger than before, the Disc Bird Shooting Tube is only slightly enlarged, and individual cultivators can still use it, making it easy to operate.

Hua Kong made a hundred new Small Steel Tubes and test-fired them once. To Hua Kong’s surprise, due to some Formation Arrays starting a little slowly or extracting Spiritual Power a little slowly, the Small Steel Tubes would misfire. Nearly 20% of the Small Steel Tubes did not fire or explode.

Hua Kong had to put down his excited mood and improve the Formation Array again. It took another two years to complete the transformation of the Formation Array.

Now, after Hua Kong’s testing, at most one or two out of a hundred Small Steel Tubes will not be triggered. It was finally done.

After more than a year, Hua Kong made three new Disc Bird Shooting Tubes and three thousand Small Steel Tubes for Old Ancestor Lin Lian, Lin Lan, and Lin Yu to test-fire.

The few people exclaimed that the new Disc Bird Shooting Tube had a range of five miles, and it could explode after being hit, which was much better than the Spirit Energy Cannon.

Of course, Hua Kong also knew that the Disc Bird Shooting Tube he made could only be used for self-defense. The escorting of goods still had to rely on cultivators.

Lin Yu had already told him that since the last time their client was intercepted by others, Old Ancestor Lin Lian and Old Ancestor Xingzhou had discussed it. Old Ancestor Lin Lian retreated behind the scenes, and Old Ancestor Xingzhou was responsible for this matter.

Each Flying Boat is equipped with two externally hired Nascent Soul cultivators as the main and deputy leaders. The Spirit Energy Cannon operating cultivators are also hired externally, only responsible for firing the cannons to protect the Flying Boat.

And only the job of escorting the Storage Bracelets containing the goods is the responsibility of Tian Yuan Sect disciples.

So, although the cost is now much higher, and the price per job has also increased greatly, the number of customers has increased instead.

The five robbers who had robbed their goods last time saw the Tian Yuan Commerce’s Flying Boat and thought it was another piece of fat, so they stuck to it again, but this time they were not so lucky.

They were blasted into dregs three miles away by the Spirit Energy Cannon. This battle made the Tian Yuan Commerce’s escort agency famous.

But Hua Kong painstakingly crafted Magical Artifacts for them, and they were very moved, so they gave the new type of Disc Bird Shooting Tube a resounding name ━ Spirit Energy Hand Cannon!

Old Ancestor Lin Lian was in a much more relaxed mood because the escort agency’s business was on the right track. Occasionally, she would even take the initiative to ask Hua Kong for Small Steel Tubes to take back and shoot for fun.

Of course, Hua Kong was very careful with the artifacts he made. After improving them several times and feeling that they were more reliable, he made several and gave them to his family and familiar friends.

Of course, Hua Kong’s cultivation did not fall behind. After nearly a hundred years of accumulation in the Eight Yang World, Hua Kong not only made up for the gap between the two worlds, but also improved his realm to the Mid-Stage Golden Core.

Lin Yu’s realm entered the Mid-Stage Golden Core a few years earlier than Hua Kong.

And as the pride of heaven, Lin Lan’s realm has basically caught up with Old Ancestor Lin Lian and reached the Late-Stage Golden Core. There is only a small difference in realm between the two.

This is also one of the important reasons why Old Ancestor Lin Lian retreated behind the scenes.