NOVEL ONLINE FREE 30: Technology and Cultivation
“Little Junior Sister, what have you been working on recently? I haven’t seen you go out for several days.”
Tantai Ming hadn’t been trained for several nights and was getting restless, even his sleep wasn’t as sweet.
As soon as he entered the room, he saw Chu Sang writing furiously at the table, surrounded by a large stack of books and the floor covered with drafts and discarded papers. He was surprised and walked over to take a look. “What’s this?”
“A handgun.”
She didn’t even lift her head.
“…A handgun?”
Tantai Ming blinked. What was that? Little Junior Sister always came up with strange words.
“It’s a kind of magical tool, I suppose. This tool has extremely strong explosive power, can be carried around, and fires continuously in an instant, catching the opponent off guard. It’s very useful.” Chu Sang thought for a moment and explained.
Given Yan Wangxing’s vindictive nature, there was an eight or nine out of ten chance he would come for revenge.
In the original story, this person was ruthless. If she really fell into his hands, she would probably be tortured until she wished for death… Chu Sang shuddered at the thought.
Just running wasn’t a good idea. She needed to come up with more practical self-defense methods.
The difference in their realms was too great, ordinary talismans and sword techniques wouldn’t be enough. So why not make a cultivation version of a handgun?
Chu Sang had always been a person of strong execution. She immediately spent several days and nights without sleep, drawing design drafts.
She also found dozens of books on tool refinement from the library. Although it was a gun, its structure was quite different from modern firearms. Since this was in the cultivation world, she naturally followed the cultivation world’s methods.
While drawing the design, Chu Sang also wondered if she could combine tool refinement and talisman techniques. If talismans could be drawn on paper, couldn’t they exert power when carved on weapons? For example, drawing a miniature spiritual gathering array inside the handgun as an energy source, along with explosive talismans, strengthening talismans, acceleration talismans…
It seemed no one in the cultivation world had ever done this before.
She would be the first to try this new approach.
Tantai Ming couldn’t understand these messy things. He crossed his arms, resting his chin on them, looking like a puppy. After watching for a while, he got sleepy, yawned, his eyelids fought for a while before he fell asleep.
When it was almost evening, he was awakened by the young woman’s voice, “Finally finished drawing!”
Tantai Ming looked over. “…The shape of this gun looks so strange. I’ve never seen a magical tool that looks like this before!”
Chu Sang put away the drawings. “Seventh Senior Brother, accompany me down the mountain.”
At the foot of Lingqing Sect’s mountain was a market. Over the decades, several other sects had been established. The disciples from the mountain sects and the market below often traded. After decades of development, the market had grown to about the size of a small town.
The town had many shops of various sizes, including several forging shops.
Chu Sang entered a shop and handed over the drawings. The masters all shook their heads after looking, saying they couldn’t make it.
They had never seen such a strangely shaped magical tool, quite different from ordinary swords, sabers, hammers, and halberds. They were just ordinary blacksmiths and had no idea how to start.
She went around to several more shops before finally finding a large, lavishly decorated store.
Seeing a customer arrive, the shopkeeper put down his pipe after taking a puff and examined the drawings for a moment. “It can be done.”
“How much?”
The shopkeeper held up one finger. “Ten thousand spirit stones, no bargaining.”
“Ten thousand spirit stones, the price is quite reasonable. This is really an honest shop.” Chu Sang promptly took out ten thousand low-grade spirit stones and handed them over.
The shopkeeper frowned, looking at her with a somewhat strange expression.
Chu Sang quickly realized it probably wasn’t ten thousand low-grade spirit stones. After all, even the most ordinary sword magical tool could sell for over ten thousand low-grade spirit stones.
She hurriedly took out ten thousand mid-grade spirit stones and handed them over. “This should be enough, right?”
The shopkeeper’s smile faded, his expression turning cold. “Ten thousand high-grade spirit stones. No bargaining, no credit.”
“Ten thousand… high-grade spirit stones??” Chu Sang’s eyes widened. Had she heard wrong? Ten thousand high-grade spirit stones was equivalent to a hundred thousand mid-grade spirit stones, or a hundred million low-grade spirit stones!
Her entire fortune now added up to only twenty million low-grade spirit stones, and she still needed to save to buy a spirit vein!
Why didn’t this shopkeeper just go rob people??
“Our Treasure Forging Tower has a five-hundred-year-old brand, with over a hundred branches across the Five Continents. We’ve invited top-grade tool refiners and only produce spirit tools. We’re the first choice for upper-class cultivators to forge their heart-connected weapons. Our quality and price are incomparable to those third-rate shops.”
“Moreover, the spirit tool in your drawings is tricky in shape, with a high failure rate. It will consume more rare treasures, and it’s a custom order. The price should be ten times higher. Ten thousand high-grade spirit stones is already a conscientious price.”
The shopkeeper swept his slanted eyes over the two, his face showing disdain. “Judging by your appearance, you look like children from wealthy families. I didn’t expect you to be so poor that you can’t even afford this many spirit stones, yet you dare to step into our shop to custom order a heart-connected spirit tool?”
“Go, go, go, don’t hinder our business.” An attendant came to drive them away.
Tantai Ming was angered by the shop’s behavior of judging people by appearances and couldn’t help but step forward to argue. Chu Sang held his hand and shook her head, leaving.
“Little Junior Sister, don’t be discouraged. If it really doesn’t work out, we can go find Fifth Senior Brother! Our sect does have a tool refiner!” On the way back, he comforted her.
“Fifth Senior Brother?”
Chu Sang had been at Lingqing Sect for several months but had never met this Fifth Senior Brother. He was actually a tool refiner?
Although Lingqing Sect was just an unknown small sect with only about a dozen disciples, she didn’t expect they would have pill refiners, beast tamers, and tool refiners.
Especially tool refiners, who had the highest entry threshold and were one of the scarcest existences on the continent. Tool refiners with even a bit of reputation were sought after by thousands, their services hard to buy even with a fortune… It was somewhat unexpected.
“Yes, our Fifth Senior Brother entered the path of tool refinement. I heard he’s a very powerful tool refiner! Cultivators from all over the continent specifically hire him with large sums to refine their heart-connected spirit tools. He’s usually so busy we don’t even see him.” Tantai Ming seemed a bit uncertain. “Although he doesn’t often return to the sect, we’re still sect siblings. He should help with this small favor!”
Before Chu Sang could be happy, she thought of something and became wary. “By the way, what’s Fifth Senior Brother’s name?”
“Su Chen’an.”
Chu Sang: “……”
It’s over. She knew it. Another big villain.
She had really fallen into a den of villains!
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Longcheng, one of the largest money-burning pits in the Central Continent. This place was known for certain special industries, with both gambling houses and pleasure houses being very lively and prosperous.
Among them, the Fengyun Casino was the largest casino in the city.
Extravagance and prodigality, spending thousands of gold in one go, were the most common occurrences here.
Many people had their families ruined because of this, but for those upper-class cultivators, it was just a place to pass time and have fun.
In a private room on the fifth floor, the lingering smoke from the incense burner isolated the noise and chaos outside.
A handsome young man in blue robes was clearly tired after a night of indulgence, lying on a soft couch with his eyes closed to rest.
Suddenly, he heard some movement and opened his eyes to look out the window. He saw a paper crane about the size of a palm flying over.
“…A message from the sect?”
That was rare.
Su Chen’an lazily caught the paper crane and opened it. It said a little junior sister had joined the sect and needed help with something.
A little junior sister…
He had received news several months ago about a new little junior sister joining the sect, but he had no intention of returning, nor any curiosity about this little junior sister.
What did junior sisters represent?
Trouble.
He thought of the previous three junior sisters, each more troublesome than the last.
“This is…” There was an attachment under the letter. Su Chen’an opened it and his expression changed slightly.