Chapter 48: Chapter 48: Huge Cannon (Second Update)
Translator: 549690339
Just as Xu Fan was admiring the scenery of the Endless Sea, he suddenly heard an excited shout.
“I get it! I get it!” shouted an excitedly, running towards Xu Fan.
With his eagerness, he looked just like a primary school student showing off a difficult problem to his teacher.
“Junior Brother Xu, your outermost rune structure serves as a hub for transmitting information. Theoretically, as long as there are enough relay artifacts, you can make contact even from far distances,” he excitedly said, feeling like he had entered a magical realm.
“Impressive, it took me a long time to comprehend this rune structure.” Xu Fan praised. This Senior Brother Sha was indeed a genius.
“But not as impressive as Junior Brother Xu, who could figure out such a combination of rune arrays,” Sha returned the compliment.
At this moment, the Floating Skyship had already left the continent, and the coastline behind the ship was no longer visible.
Just then, the entire fleet descended towards the sea surface. The Floating Skyship and nine warships landed on the sea surface, raising huge waves.
At this point, one of the warships emitted an odd sound, a secondary cannon on the ship lit up with a green light.
‘Boom!’
There was a loud noise, and a green light beam a meter thick was shot directly at the distant sea. The Golden Flame Patrol riding on the Golden Flame Bird patrolling the sky immediately flew towards the area hit by the green light.
After a short time, a squadron of Golden Flame Patrol carried a gigantic whale 500 meters in length.
“That’s a lucky start, it seems that this resource gathering trip will be very rewarding,” Sha said, looking at the giant whale being carried in the distance.
“This is a Shallow Sea Whale. Its size indicates that it should be at the Void Refining Stage.”
“We’re going to have good soup for dinner tonight, pity that we can only drink its soup since it’s a Void Refining Stage Demonic Beast,” Sha said regretfully. Before reaching the Golden Core Stage, one couldn’t randomly eat things.
At this moment, Xu Fan was not worried about whether he’d be able to have the soup at night, but rather impressed by the firepower of the massive cannon.
Just one shot, and the Void Refining Stage Monster was gone.
Seeing Xu Fan’s astonished face, Senior Brother Sha laughed. His expression mirrored his own reactions the first time he saw that massive cannon, and like him, Xu Fan was also impressed by its power.
“Junior Brother Xu, it’s your first time seeing the cannon in action, you’ll get used to it.”
“That was just the secondary cannon. Wait till we encounter monsters at the Tribulation or Mahayana stages, that’s when the show begins.”
“When all nine main guns from the nine warships fire together, they can even shatter space.” Overexcited, Sha described to Xu Fan the power of the coordinated firing of the main cannons, sparking Xu Fan’s interest.
“Senior Brother Sha, how many Spirit Stones are consumed for one shot of that secondary cannon just now?” Xu Fan asked curiously.
“It’s not just the Spirit Stones that are consumed, but if we convert it all to Spirit Stones, it would be about 100,000 Spirit Stones for one shot.”
“That’s not a concern, just selling the parts of that Shallow Sea Whale would net us 500,000 Spirit Stones,” Sha said, recalling he’d asked his Master the same question before.
Xu Fan gasped. One shot and it’d take him more than a month to recover the cost.
“That’s nothing. The main cannons are even more thrilling. One shot costs
500,000 Spirit Stones, but it can injure Demon Beasts of Tribulation or Mahayana Stages,” Sha continued, and then started discussing the innovation in the Rune Array that Xu Fan had just seen.
Three days later, through Ye Xiaoyao’s connections, Xu Fan was able to get on one of the warships. This time, his primary task was to investigate the Rune Array of the Spirit Power cannon.
Once he boarded the Floating Skyship, Xu Fan realized that the Heavenly Gate showed great partiality towards Artifact Refiners, sparing no effort to nurture them.
In the past few days, since he’d boarded the Floating Skyship as an Artifact Refiner, he’d been given a pile of resources left over from collection, just from the leftovers.
Xu Fan roughly estimated that these scraps could be worth over 30,000 Spirit Stones. In the Floating Skyship, artifact refiners were particularly welcome to study the runes inscribed on the ship’s hull. There was a hope that the
Heavenly Gate could create a colossal ship capable of soaring across the Endless Sea in the future.
Xu Fan, glancing at a Nascent Soul Patrol nearby, couldn’t help but sigh. This was the only downside of being in the Floating Skyship fleet. Other than professional artifact refiners and alchemists, everyone else was at least at the Golden Core Stage, and it was rare to even see Golden Cores.
In Xu Fan’s words, if you randomly grabbed a cultivator wearing battle armor on the ship, their cultivation level would be at least Nascent Soul, and if you were lucky, you might even catch a Void Refining Expert.
“Senior, I just needed to examine the runes array on the giant cannon. There is no need for a guide,” Xu Fan said, surprised by the attention he was getting.
“No worries, observe as you like. I just want to learn from you. I’ve been studying Artifact Refining recently.” A young man clad in battle armor who had reached the Nascent Soul Stage — and was therefore able to transform his appearance —said.
At this point, Xu Fan didn’t stand on ceremony. He put on his glasses-like artifact and started examining the runes on the giant cannon.
As Xu Fan observed the runes, he also chatted with the Nascent Soul youth who had just started studying Artifact Refining.
“Little brother, have you made any discoveries?” the Nascent Soul youth asked Xu Fan, who wore a look of astonishment.
“Nothing major, I was just admiring the rune craftsmanship on this warship. Especially the runes on this Thunder Flame Giant Cannon, they are so ingenious, along with the special refining technique for the cannon barrel, it is really…”
At this time, Xu Fan felt like a bumpkin unfamiliar with high technology. The more he delved in, the more he realized the gap.
“Really? I also examined these runes, they seem ordinary to me. Find the right artifact refiner, we can also produce something alike,” the Nascent Soul youth nonchalantly replied, thinking if he studied for several decades, he could also build such a warship.
Xu Fan was about to scoff but when he thought of the youth’s cultivation level, he swallowed his words.
Stay low, stay steady, those who argue too much in the Cultivation World don’t live long.
“Senior speaks rightly.”
Xu Fan didn’t say much. After observing the runes for a while, he returned to the Floating Skyship.
Just as he arrived, he was caught by Sha, the stupid one.
“Junior Brother Xu, I apologize, but I mentioned your ideas to my master and he’s very interested. He wants to talk with you,” Sha apologetically said.
Damn, I thought you were my friend, and you turned around and sold me out.
Feeling helpless, Xu Fan had no option but to follow Sha to the Artifact Refining Division.
Upon entering, Xu Fan was amazed once again. Just the space expansion technique alone, without the corresponding runes, would leave him clueless even after a hundred years of puzzling it out.
On the outside, it looked like a regular room but inside it was as large as a small secular town.
Sha took Xu Fan to a benign-looking old man.
“Are you the friend Sha mentioned, the one with innovative ideas about the Communication Talisman?” asked the old man in a gentle manner.
“Indeed, I am,” Xu Fan replied with a bow.
“Your idea is quite innovative. I gave it some thought. If we can set up 36,000 large treasure artifacts dedicated to transit across Xiangzhou, paired with your idea for the rune array.”
“Cultivators all over Xiangzhou would be able to use our Communication
Talisman. ”
“We could further enhance the Communication Talisman so that it could
perform long-distance visualization conversations,” the old man said,
unhurriedly.
At that moment, Xu Fan realized that he shouldn’t underestimate anyone’s wisdom. Video chatting, even virtual projection, was now possible..
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