Chapter 53
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"Brother Yong Lie!" their eldest senior brother greets the top disciple of the Mystic Engineer Establishment. Although this meeting is unexpected, it wasn't a bad thing for the younger generation from the two lower counties to sit together for a discussion and exchange of cultivation, martial art, and common knowledge. Most importantly, unlike the others sect in the ten counties, the Mystic Engineer Establishment focused in a different profession altogether.
In their establishment, their status is governed by the hierarchy of Qualification! If one comes with enough talent, they could graduate from the establishment with amazing future prospects, but even those untalented may not be a mere worm in other counties nor kingdom! And the reason is that the disciples in the Mystic Engineer Establishment are all Celestial Designer in Training, and qualified First-Grade Celestial Designer!
Among the ten counties, the Mystic Engineer Establishment may seem to be the bottom three in the term of cultivator's strength, but in fact, their ability to battle may not lose to the Heavenly Sword Sect, if their disciples were given the chances to perform well. This was due to the reason they possess an extraordinary technological knowledge, but lack of battle experience to have them used.
Added with the lack of time and response in their tools, this ends up leaving them at the eight spots last year, which is quite a disgrace. But no matter how bad they fall, the Mystic Engineer Establishment face no worries. According to the travelers that went across their Willow Timber County, ten out of ten were surprised by the amazing technology that was used in their daily necessity.
For example, the Wen Wu City were recently introduced into the greenhouse method in medicinal herbs farming, but the practice has been used by the Willow Timber County for long within their five main cities. When the question was asked, it seems that because of the improvement of technology, the migration from villages to town and soon towards the city enhanced their growth, which is why they possess five cities but no towns or villages.
Plus, due to their advanced technology, the traveling between cities was executed by a special vehicle called as the hundred horses carriage, which was similar to the train system back in Zhang Wu Ji's former country. The only differences are instead of using steam from the burning charcoal, the Hundred Horses Carriage is activated by a complete hydraulic system that allows the power from the running horses to be transferred into the carriage for it to move.
Their sharing end up beneficial for both side, especially when the ten of them were given many kinds of funny little treasures as a souvenir to be brought back home. Receiving a special gift treasured even by Yong Lie himself, the former hand him a scroll after knowing the latter were a Celestial Designer himself.
[Obtained one Celestial Engineering Blueprint]
"Brother Yong Lie, this gift is too precious to somebody like me!" Zhang Wu Ji stands up and tried to return the scroll to the former, but he rejected the gesture. Left with no choice, Zhang Wu Ji exchanges the scroll with three Fighter Chasing Dan instead.
After a short period of exchange, the disciples and the elders left their Living Quarters. Before leaving, Yong Lie added one more sentence to Zhang Wu Ji;
"Brother Wu Ji, if you have the chances, come to the Willow Timber County, I am sure you will love everything you see!" he finished his word before leaving.
Finally returning to his room, Zhang Wu Ji takes a look on the scroll first.
Ungraded Blueprint - Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon
-Damage: 90 Points| Fighter Qi Consumption Rate: 10
-Capacity: 1 Shot | Usage: Single Activation Treasure
-Durability: 19/20 | Quality: Ungraded
-Information: Yuan (Round) Tie (Steel) Hand Cannon. A single activation treasure that can be activated and fired the moment it's ready. After activation, adjusting the firing direction will be made impossible.
-
Ingredient Required:
(3) Advance-Grade Iron Ingots
(1) Pure Brimstone Powder
(2) Fur Charcoal Powder
(7) Salt Crystal Powder
"This..." Zhang Wu Ji almost laughed at their blueprint and the required ingredient to make this crafting happened. For him, he required no effort to produce the Advance-Grade Iron Ingots. As for the Brimstone Powder, also known as sulfur, the Fur Charcoal Powder from the Charcoal Hounds, and the Salt Crystals, or better to call them saltpeter in his former world, this three-ingredient can be easily obtained from any blacksmithing room.
The fact that this three item combined together would be the formula for the gunpowder, which contains 10% of Sulphur, 20% Charcoal, and 70% Potassium Nitrate! This formula is known as the Black Powder during the medieval age period in his former world!
"I am in fact, making an ancient Hand Cannon myself. How about I made something out if this?" If it was a debate of knowledge and invention idea, perhaps nobody in this continent can match against him. With so many ideas in his mind, Zhang Wu Ji carries an intention to upgrade the design, but soon give up because the most important thing of all, he did not carry any of the Double Xuan Paper with him to this county, so where can he refine this blueprint?
Left with no option, he put aside this intention first, but not after he spent some time going to the Blacksmithing Department belonged to the Heavenly Sword Sect, and crafted three of the Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon before he returned to their Living Quarters again to inspect his next treasure.
Basic Onyx-Class Spatial Ring
-Capacity: 10 items | Weight Limit: 1 tonne
-Usability: Direct | Fighter Qi Consumption Rate: 5
-Durability: 70/70 | Quality: Entry-Level
-Information: Made from high-quality Onyx Crystals, this ring is crafted by the Third-Grade Celestial Designer, Master Long Wu himself. In total, there are 10,950 rings available, and 5,950 of them are in their Basic level. The ten treasures stored within can be spiritually connected with the user, allowing item such as food, drinks, meditation manual, and medicine to constantly injected into user's body without cost.
"Holy shit! That's a spatial ring! Master Mother actually give me something good but I only notice them now!" Zhang Wu JI is shocked by his Master Mother's generosity, but at the end, he intended to return the ring after the gathering is over, because if he were to compare everything in his body, perhaps this spatial ring will be the most expensive treasure.
"How can one possess a spatial ring if they're not willing to pay at least a billion Gold Coin to purchase it? Plus based on the written information, this Master Long Wu, a third-grade Celestial Designer, only crafted a total of 10,950 rings, and one of them is in my hand," he said in mind.
But based on the situation now, it was the time for a good rest before the next day's competition. Although his next battle wasn't going to happen until a day after tomorrow, but feeling nervous for it is normal, especially when Zhang Wu Ji is neither experience nor used to all these significant events on ongoing around him.
While this youth is trying to rest, another two youth is speaking with each other, evaluating their youngest sibling and his performance.
"Did you noticed the sudden changes in the battle today?" Zhang Wu Yuan asked his second brother. As one of the three siblings, how can he not pay attention to his youngest brother's battle? Especially when they're the closest blood relative of his and knows him for his whole life until now. And the most important question of all, how did their youngest brother with a Trash Martial Body cultivates to this level!
270 Strands of Fighter Qi! If he obtained another thirty more, Zhang Wu Ji will easily enter the 4th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter! And if their youngest brother with Trash Martial Body can advance into such a level, then what will become of them? Even a Violet Emperor Martial Body and Heaven Qi Martial Body will feel threatened by their brother's Trash Martial Body!
"IF you able to enter the ten finalists of the Upper Counties, go ahead and challenge Xiao Wu Ji and see what is his secret!" the oldest, Zhang Wu Yuan ordered his second brother to test their youngest brother to see what made their brother improve so drastically.
"Wu Chou understands. But big brother, what about the manual we talked about?" Zhang Wu Chou cupped his palm together as he replied his eldest brother, but then, he came out with a different question.
"Here, take this two copies. One is for you, and another is for Wu Ji. Practice them diligently because it took me great effort to borrow the book back to my residence to copy them. And it was by using my master's reputation to get this done." Zhang Wu Yuan passes two books into Zhang Wu Chou's hand and instructed him carefully to make sure he did not waste this effort.
"Wu Chou thanked elder brother and also on behalf of his younger brother first." Zhang Wu Chou bowed as he held the two copies of manual tightly. After talking for a little more, the two siblings returned to their own accommodation and rest for the upcoming day of heated battle.
Written on the surface of the cover;
[Sun and Moon Convergence Sutra]
.
.
.
"First of all, let this humble headmaster congratulates the Seven Star Sect to triumph against the other four sects for the top position of the Lower Counties. Following from their group results, the State Teacher and the elders agreed that the Sixth spot this year will be taken by the Willow Timber County, followed by Crystalline River County, the Herb Valley County, and at the bottom, the Jie's County!"
"Now, we're proud to presents the Seven Star Sect with the rewards sponsored by the southern Imperial Kingdom himself, under the order of his Majesty, Emperor Zhao Feng himself!" the headmaster of the Heavenly Sword Sect announced the positioning that were already decided by the elders and state teacher before he prepares to hand the rewards promised to the Seven Star Sect's representative.
And as the most senior amongst the group, their master mother went up to the stage to accept the rewards, where he beauty stunned the crowd although she was already a seventy plus years-old. Because of her depth of cultivation, her appearance is more similar to a woman in her prime age, which was the most beautiful period of her youth.
"Lady Beiping Ruolan, please convey my congratulations to Headmaster Liang Tian for his disciple's amazing feat." the headmaster privately delivered a word to her in secret.
"This humble headmistress will make sure the headmaster received your congratulation," she replied before leaving the stage.
"With the first event is completed, this headmaster would like to invites the participants from the Upper Counties to enter the Formation Square, and prepares for the Upper Counties segment of Battle Royale!" he waved his hand to activates the formation, and like the previous match, the square turned into a different location where the participants all entered without hesitation.
At the beginning of the battle, the five sides did not make any provocative movement is afraid that they'll fall to their opponents trick, but as the battle still failed to disqualified a single disciple after an hour of running, chasing, and hiding, one of the five sects started to get into an aggressive stance.
Their formation changed out of sudden, and caught a few disciples scanning around unnoticed. But instead of fighting stealthily, they end up raising a commotion to lure everyone over to the spot.
Metal Flavor Flame strike!" the palm of the disciple burn red until it was similar to a molten metal before it slapped at the back of his opponent. The amazingly deadly attack forced the opponent to throw out a mouthful of blood as he collapsed on the ground.
Similar to what the first disciple does, the others also attacked with a force that can kills. Luckily, only three disciples were to fall under this trick, but seeing that the real battle finally starts, the crowd begin to group at the middle of the formation, where the top students of the five sects finally gathered.
With each of them were suspicious of another sect, nobody vote to combine their strength, which is also the same for Zhang Wu Chou and his four loyal subordinates, the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Returning the gigantic blade in his hand, the four of them wield their own weapons while being awed by the amazing performance from their strongest senior brother.
Supreme Sword of Four Seasons!
Under the supply of energy from his Fighter Qi, Zhang Wu Chou controlled the four gigantic swords as he fights against the opponents from the four different sects. And out of all expectations, nobody among the four sects managed to get closer to him at all.
The Summer Sword strikes at his opponent without a hint of mercy in pure strength, while the autumn sword destroys all form of his opponents attack before they reach his position. Left with no other options, the crowd of four different sects is destroyed by Zhang Wu Chou until the top disciple from Snow Mountain Maiden Sect made her move.
"Elder brother Wu Chou, please forgive Bing Xue!"
"Mountain of Frigid Snow Palm!" the top disciple of the Snow Mountain Maiden Sect, Han Bing Xue used her strongest skill to defeat Zhang Wu Chou's deadly attack. Her execution carries the threat of a huge mountain formed by her Fighter Qi as she slammed it down at her opponent, where it forced Zhang Wu Chou to defend the attack with all four season's sword.
But this opening allows the top student from Black City Armored Forces and Five Flavour Flame Sect to take it as their advantage!
"Triple Flavour Flame Combination Strike!"
"Thousand Calvary striking the City!"
"Master Senior!" the four subordinates of rushes to help, but unfortunately, the four of them were defeated without even the need to redirect their attack.
"You all!" Zhang Wu Chou's calmness is replaced by fury, as he forcefully explodes some of his Fighter Qi to create an opportunity. With both hands raised above his head, Zhang Wu Ji gathers the power from the sunlight as he whispering a few sentences from the Sun and Moon Convergence Sutra.
"Burning Sun Verse!" Zhang Wu Chou executes the breathing and Qi churning technique into his body. As a cultivator with the blessing of the Heaven Qi Martial Body, Zhang Wu Chou faces no difficulties to use all the Fighter Qi in his body! The first chapter of the Sun and Moon Convergence Sutra, the Burning Sun Verse allows one to increase their fighting force by twofold in a fight, with the cost of increasing the rate of exhaustion of Fighter Qi.
And when this first chapter was used by Zhang Wu Chou, it was almost like a tailormade skill for somebody without a limitation of Qi inside his body.
The sword of four season strikes at his four top opponents, as he retaliates with a one on four matching. It was exciting enough, making even the Heavenly Sword Sect's Headmaster stands up to praise his disciple for his ability to fight against four Inner Qi Warrior Cultivators.
"Long Huang! Today is the day I'm defeating you!" Zhang Wu Chou aimed his attack at the top disciple from the Black City Armored Force, but before his attack succeeded, a disturbance arrived.
"Fire Nation Long Fist!" a ranged attack came from afar, striking accurately on his waist. This disturbance allowed Long Huang to escaped from the attack, but unexpectedly, Zhang Wu Chou is completely unharmed from that attack. The only visible damage was a portion of his clothing is burnt, revealing not the fair skin of the youth, but instead, a very thin layer of silk.
"Iron Silk Weaving Beetle's Armor!" every elder present in the Heavenly Square were impressed by the generosity of the Headmaster of Heavenly Sword Sect to provide his direct disciple with the Iron Silk Weaving Beetle's Armor that worth as much as a Spatial Ring. Best of all, the armor he wears is able to withstand any attack coming from range by 90%, leaving only 10% of the damage managed to seeps inside.
"Zhang Wu Chou!" Long Huang strikes at the former, seeing he was still unscathed after such a critical battle, but before their fight is able to continue, a sneak attack came from a disciple from the Blood Art Sect. His attack strikes not on the top fighters, but one remaining participants from the Heavenly Sword Sect, leaving it with only Zhang Wu Chou alone.
"Ding!" with only ten standing participants within the stage, the fierce battle ended. Unexpectedly, the Blood Art Sect was the only with three disciples remaining, followed by Five-Flavor Flame Sect, Snow Mountain Maiden Sect, and Black City Armored Forces with two disciples each, and Heavenly Sword Sect, with only Zhang Wu Chou remaining.
Although he was the strongest fighter amongst the ten of them, it was worthless because no matter what, the first place was still taken by the Blood Art Sect, with their Heavenly Sword Sect standing at the last position once again. The sneaky results planned by the Blood Art Sect was despicable enough, inciting the fury from Zhang Wu Yuan and Zhang Wu Ji indirectly.
With his master by his side, Zhang Wu Yuan were restricted from making a fuss, but this was different from Zhang Wu Ji because nobody was by his side to control him!
"Shameless bastard!" Zhang Wu Ji charged at the three Blood Art Sect's disciples and tried to attack them. But with his strength, what kind of respect shall he get from his opponent where two of them were in their 9th Stage Inner Qi Fighter and their leader at his 12th Inner Qi Warrior strength.
Among the three, one of them came forward to handle this atrocious action from Zhang Wu Ji, but nobody intended to take any action, as all of them were expecting to watch a bullying battle where a 9th Stage cultivator is fighting against a 3rd Stage cultivator. He withdraws his sword out to fight against Zhang Wu Ji's Jade Ruler, but unexpected to everyone in Heavenly Square, something incredible happened!
A blunt Jade Ruler shatters a sword the moment they clashed at each another. Worst of all, a bronze colored wheel formed with Fighter Qi appeared at Zhang Wu Ji's palm as he slaps the wheel into the cultivator's face directly!
"Bronze Emperor Wheel!"
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"Brother Yong Lie!" their eldest senior brother greets the top disciple of the Mystic Engineer Establishment. Although this meeting is unexpected, it wasn't a bad thing for the younger generation from the two lower counties to sit together for a discussion and exchange of cultivation, martial art, and common knowledge. Most importantly, unlike the others sect in the ten counties, the Mystic Engineer Establishment focused in a different profession altogether.
In their establishment, their status is governed by the hierarchy of Qualification! If one comes with enough talent, they could graduate from the establishment with amazing future prospects, but even those untalented may not be a mere worm in other counties nor kingdom! And the reason is that the disciples in the Mystic Engineer Establishment are all Celestial Designer in Training, and qualified First-Grade Celestial Designer!
Among the ten counties, the Mystic Engineer Establishment may seem to be the bottom three in the term of cultivator's strength, but in fact, their ability to battle may not lose to the Heavenly Sword Sect, if their disciples were given the chances to perform well. This was due to the reason they possess an extraordinary technological knowledge, but lack of battle experience to have them used.
Added with the lack of time and response in their tools, this ends up leaving them at the eight spots last year, which is quite a disgrace. But no matter how bad they fall, the Mystic Engineer Establishment face no worries. According to the travelers that went across their Willow Timber County, ten out of ten were surprised by the amazing technology that was used in their daily necessity.
For example, the Wen Wu City were recently introduced into the greenhouse method in medicinal herbs farming, but the practice has been used by the Willow Timber County for long within their five main cities. When the question was asked, it seems that because of the improvement of technology, the migration from villages to town and soon towards the city enhanced their growth, which is why they possess five cities but no towns or villages.
Plus, due to their advanced technology, the traveling between cities was executed by a special vehicle called as the hundred horses carriage, which was similar to the train system back in Zhang Wu Ji's former country. The only differences are instead of using steam from the burning charcoal, the Hundred Horses Carriage is activated by a complete hydraulic system that allows the power from the running horses to be transferred into the carriage for it to move.
Their sharing end up beneficial for both side, especially when the ten of them were given many kinds of funny little treasures as a souvenir to be brought back home. Receiving a special gift treasured even by Yong Lie himself, the former hand him a scroll after knowing the latter were a Celestial Designer himself.
[Obtained one Celestial Engineering Blueprint]
"Brother Yong Lie, this gift is too precious to somebody like me!" Zhang Wu Ji stands up and tried to return the scroll to the former, but he rejected the gesture. Left with no choice, Zhang Wu Ji exchanges the scroll with three Fighter Chasing Dan instead.
After a short period of exchange, the disciples and the elders left their Living Quarters. Before leaving, Yong Lie added one more sentence to Zhang Wu Ji;
"Brother Wu Ji, if you have the chances, come to the Willow Timber County, I am sure you will love everything you see!" he finished his word before leaving.
Finally returning to his room, Zhang Wu Ji takes a look on the scroll first.
Ungraded Blueprint - Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon
-Damage: 90 Points| Fighter Qi Consumption Rate: 10
-Capacity: 1 Shot | Usage: Single Activation Treasure
-Durability: 19/20 | Quality: Ungraded
-Information: Yuan (Round) Tie (Steel) Hand Cannon. A single activation treasure that can be activated and fired the moment it's ready. After activation, adjusting the firing direction will be made impossible.
-
Ingredient Required:
(3) Advance-Grade Iron Ingots
(1) Pure Brimstone Powder
(2) Fur Charcoal Powder
(7) Salt Crystal Powder
"This..." Zhang Wu Ji almost laughed at their blueprint and the required ingredient to make this crafting happened. For him, he required no effort to produce the Advance-Grade Iron Ingots. As for the Brimstone Powder, also known as sulfur, the Fur Charcoal Powder from the Charcoal Hounds, and the Salt Crystals, or better to call them saltpeter in his former world, this three-ingredient can be easily obtained from any blacksmithing room.
The fact that this three item combined together would be the formula for the gunpowder, which contains 10% of Sulphur, 20% Charcoal, and 70% Potassium Nitrate! This formula is known as the Black Powder during the medieval age period in his former world!
"I am in fact, making an ancient Hand Cannon myself. How about I made something out if this?" If it was a debate of knowledge and invention idea, perhaps nobody in this continent can match against him. With so many ideas in his mind, Zhang Wu Ji carries an intention to upgrade the design, but soon give up because the most important thing of all, he did not carry any of the Double Xuan Paper with him to this county, so where can he refine this blueprint?
Left with no option, he put aside this intention first, but not after he spent some time going to the Blacksmithing Department belonged to the Heavenly Sword Sect, and crafted three of the Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon before he returned to their Living Quarters again to inspect his next treasure.
Basic Onyx-Class Spatial Ring
-Capacity: 10 items | Weight Limit: 1 tonne
-Usability: Direct | Fighter Qi Consumption Rate: 5
-Durability: 70/70 | Quality: Entry-Level
-Information: Made from high-quality Onyx Crystals, this ring is crafted by the Third-Grade Celestial Designer, Master Long Wu himself. In total, there are 10,950 rings available, and 5,950 of them are in their Basic level. The ten treasures stored within can be spiritually connected with the user, allowing item such as food, drinks, meditation manual, and medicine to constantly injected into user's body without cost.
"Holy shit! That's a spatial ring! Master Mother actually give me something good but I only notice them now!" Zhang Wu JI is shocked by his Master Mother's generosity, but at the end, he intended to return the ring after the gathering is over, because if he were to compare everything in his body, perhaps this spatial ring will be the most expensive treasure.
"How can one possess a spatial ring if they're not willing to pay at least a billion Gold Coin to purchase it? Plus based on the written information, this Master Long Wu, a third-grade Celestial Designer, only crafted a total of 10,950 rings, and one of them is in my hand," he said in mind.
But based on the situation now, it was the time for a good rest before the next day's competition. Although his next battle wasn't going to happen until a day after tomorrow, but feeling nervous for it is normal, especially when Zhang Wu Ji is neither experience nor used to all these significant events on ongoing around him.
While this youth is trying to rest, another two youth is speaking with each other, evaluating their youngest sibling and his performance.
"Did you noticed the sudden changes in the battle today?" Zhang Wu Yuan asked his second brother. As one of the three siblings, how can he not pay attention to his youngest brother's battle? Especially when they're the closest blood relative of his and knows him for his whole life until now. And the most important question of all, how did their youngest brother with a Trash Martial Body cultivates to this level!
270 Strands of Fighter Qi! If he obtained another thirty more, Zhang Wu Ji will easily enter the 4th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter! And if their youngest brother with Trash Martial Body can advance into such a level, then what will become of them? Even a Violet Emperor Martial Body and Heaven Qi Martial Body will feel threatened by their brother's Trash Martial Body!
"IF you able to enter the ten finalists of the Upper Counties, go ahead and challenge Xiao Wu Ji and see what is his secret!" the oldest, Zhang Wu Yuan ordered his second brother to test their youngest brother to see what made their brother improve so drastically.
"Wu Chou understands. But big brother, what about the manual we talked about?" Zhang Wu Chou cupped his palm together as he replied his eldest brother, but then, he came out with a different question.
"Here, take this two copies. One is for you, and another is for Wu Ji. Practice them diligently because it took me great effort to borrow the book back to my residence to copy them. And it was by using my master's reputation to get this done." Zhang Wu Yuan passes two books into Zhang Wu Chou's hand and instructed him carefully to make sure he did not waste this effort.
"Wu Chou thanked elder brother and also on behalf of his younger brother first." Zhang Wu Chou bowed as he held the two copies of manual tightly. After talking for a little more, the two siblings returned to their own accommodation and rest for the upcoming day of heated battle.
Written on the surface of the cover;
[Sun and Moon Convergence Sutra]
.
.
.
"First of all, let this humble headmaster congratulates the Seven Star Sect to triumph against the other four sects for the top position of the Lower Counties. Following from their group results, the State Teacher and the elders agreed that the Sixth spot this year will be taken by the Willow Timber County, followed by Crystalline River County, the Herb Valley County, and at the bottom, the Jie's County!"
"Now, we're proud to presents the Seven Star Sect with the rewards sponsored by the southern Imperial Kingdom himself, under the order of his Majesty, Emperor Zhao Feng himself!" the headmaster of the Heavenly Sword Sect announced the positioning that were already decided by the elders and state teacher before he prepares to hand the rewards promised to the Seven Star Sect's representative.
And as the most senior amongst the group, their master mother went up to the stage to accept the rewards, where he beauty stunned the crowd although she was already a seventy plus years-old. Because of her depth of cultivation, her appearance is more similar to a woman in her prime age, which was the most beautiful period of her youth.
"Lady Beiping Ruolan, please convey my congratulations to Headmaster Liang Tian for his disciple's amazing feat." the headmaster privately delivered a word to her in secret.
"This humble headmistress will make sure the headmaster received your congratulation," she replied before leaving the stage.
"With the first event is completed, this headmaster would like to invites the participants from the Upper Counties to enter the Formation Square, and prepares for the Upper Counties segment of Battle Royale!" he waved his hand to activates the formation, and like the previous match, the square turned into a different location where the participants all entered without hesitation.
At the beginning of the battle, the five sides did not make any provocative movement is afraid that they'll fall to their opponents trick, but as the battle still failed to disqualified a single disciple after an hour of running, chasing, and hiding, one of the five sects started to get into an aggressive stance.
Their formation changed out of sudden, and caught a few disciples scanning around unnoticed. But instead of fighting stealthily, they end up raising a commotion to lure everyone over to the spot.
Metal Flavor Flame strike!" the palm of the disciple burn red until it was similar to a molten metal before it slapped at the back of his opponent. The amazingly deadly attack forced the opponent to throw out a mouthful of blood as he collapsed on the ground.
Similar to what the first disciple does, the others also attacked with a force that can kills. Luckily, only three disciples were to fall under this trick, but seeing that the real battle finally starts, the crowd begin to group at the middle of the formation, where the top students of the five sects finally gathered.
With each of them were suspicious of another sect, nobody vote to combine their strength, which is also the same for Zhang Wu Chou and his four loyal subordinates, the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Returning the gigantic blade in his hand, the four of them wield their own weapons while being awed by the amazing performance from their strongest senior brother.
Supreme Sword of Four Seasons!
Under the supply of energy from his Fighter Qi, Zhang Wu Chou controlled the four gigantic swords as he fights against the opponents from the four different sects. And out of all expectations, nobody among the four sects managed to get closer to him at all.
The Summer Sword strikes at his opponent without a hint of mercy in pure strength, while the autumn sword destroys all form of his opponents attack before they reach his position. Left with no other options, the crowd of four different sects is destroyed by Zhang Wu Chou until the top disciple from Snow Mountain Maiden Sect made her move.
"Elder brother Wu Chou, please forgive Bing Xue!"
"Mountain of Frigid Snow Palm!" the top disciple of the Snow Mountain Maiden Sect, Han Bing Xue used her strongest skill to defeat Zhang Wu Chou's deadly attack. Her execution carries the threat of a huge mountain formed by her Fighter Qi as she slammed it down at her opponent, where it forced Zhang Wu Chou to defend the attack with all four season's sword.
But this opening allows the top student from Black City Armored Forces and Five Flavour Flame Sect to take it as their advantage!
"Triple Flavour Flame Combination Strike!"
"Thousand Calvary striking the City!"
"Master Senior!" the four subordinates of rushes to help, but unfortunately, the four of them were defeated without even the need to redirect their attack.
"You all!" Zhang Wu Chou's calmness is replaced by fury, as he forcefully explodes some of his Fighter Qi to create an opportunity. With both hands raised above his head, Zhang Wu Ji gathers the power from the sunlight as he whispering a few sentences from the Sun and Moon Convergence Sutra.
"Burning Sun Verse!" Zhang Wu Chou executes the breathing and Qi churning technique into his body. As a cultivator with the blessing of the Heaven Qi Martial Body, Zhang Wu Chou faces no difficulties to use all the Fighter Qi in his body! The first chapter of the Sun and Moon Convergence Sutra, the Burning Sun Verse allows one to increase their fighting force by twofold in a fight, with the cost of increasing the rate of exhaustion of Fighter Qi.
And when this first chapter was used by Zhang Wu Chou, it was almost like a tailormade skill for somebody without a limitation of Qi inside his body.
The sword of four season strikes at his four top opponents, as he retaliates with a one on four matching. It was exciting enough, making even the Heavenly Sword Sect's Headmaster stands up to praise his disciple for his ability to fight against four Inner Qi Warrior Cultivators.
"Long Huang! Today is the day I'm defeating you!" Zhang Wu Chou aimed his attack at the top disciple from the Black City Armored Force, but before his attack succeeded, a disturbance arrived.
"Fire Nation Long Fist!" a ranged attack came from afar, striking accurately on his waist. This disturbance allowed Long Huang to escaped from the attack, but unexpectedly, Zhang Wu Chou is completely unharmed from that attack. The only visible damage was a portion of his clothing is burnt, revealing not the fair skin of the youth, but instead, a very thin layer of silk.
"Iron Silk Weaving Beetle's Armor!" every elder present in the Heavenly Square were impressed by the generosity of the Headmaster of Heavenly Sword Sect to provide his direct disciple with the Iron Silk Weaving Beetle's Armor that worth as much as a Spatial Ring. Best of all, the armor he wears is able to withstand any attack coming from range by 90%, leaving only 10% of the damage managed to seeps inside.
"Zhang Wu Chou!" Long Huang strikes at the former, seeing he was still unscathed after such a critical battle, but before their fight is able to continue, a sneak attack came from a disciple from the Blood Art Sect. His attack strikes not on the top fighters, but one remaining participants from the Heavenly Sword Sect, leaving it with only Zhang Wu Chou alone.
"Ding!" with only ten standing participants within the stage, the fierce battle ended. Unexpectedly, the Blood Art Sect was the only with three disciples remaining, followed by Five-Flavor Flame Sect, Snow Mountain Maiden Sect, and Black City Armored Forces with two disciples each, and Heavenly Sword Sect, with only Zhang Wu Chou remaining.
Although he was the strongest fighter amongst the ten of them, it was worthless because no matter what, the first place was still taken by the Blood Art Sect, with their Heavenly Sword Sect standing at the last position once again. The sneaky results planned by the Blood Art Sect was despicable enough, inciting the fury from Zhang Wu Yuan and Zhang Wu Ji indirectly.
With his master by his side, Zhang Wu Yuan were restricted from making a fuss, but this was different from Zhang Wu Ji because nobody was by his side to control him!
"Shameless bastard!" Zhang Wu Ji charged at the three Blood Art Sect's disciples and tried to attack them. But with his strength, what kind of respect shall he get from his opponent where two of them were in their 9th Stage Inner Qi Fighter and their leader at his 12th Inner Qi Warrior strength.
Among the three, one of them came forward to handle this atrocious action from Zhang Wu Ji, but nobody intended to take any action, as all of them were expecting to watch a bullying battle where a 9th Stage cultivator is fighting against a 3rd Stage cultivator. He withdraws his sword out to fight against Zhang Wu Ji's Jade Ruler, but unexpected to everyone in Heavenly Square, something incredible happened!
A blunt Jade Ruler shatters a sword the moment they clashed at each another. Worst of all, a bronze colored wheel formed with Fighter Qi appeared at Zhang Wu Ji's palm as he slaps the wheel into the cultivator's face directly!
"Bronze Emperor Wheel!"
"Brother Yong Lie!" their eldest senior brother greets the top disciple of the Mystic Engineer Establishment. Although this meeting is unexpected, it wasn't a bad thing for the younger generation from the two lower counties to sit together for a discussion and exchange of cultivation, martial art, and common knowledge. Most importantly, unlike the others sect in the ten counties, the Mystic Engineer Establishment focused in a different profession altogether.In their establishment, their status is governed by the hierarchy of Qualification! If one comes with enough talent, they could graduate from the establishment with amazing future prospects, but even those untalented may not be a mere worm in other counties nor kingdom! And the reason is that the disciples in the Mystic Engineer Establishment are all Celestial Designer in Training, and qualified First-Grade Celestial Designer!Among the ten counties, the Mystic Engineer Establishment may seem to be the bottom three in the term of cultivator's strength, but in fact, their ability to battle may not lose to the Heavenly Sword Sect, if their disciples were given the chances to perform well. This was due to the reason they possess an extraordinary technological knowledge, but lack of battle experience to have them used.Added with the lack of time and response in their tools, this ends up leaving them at the eight spots last year, which is quite a disgrace. But no matter how bad they fall, the Mystic Engineer Establishment face no worries. According to the travelers that went across their Willow Timber County, ten out of ten were surprised by the amazing technology that was used in their daily necessity.For example, the Wen Wu City were recently introduced into the greenhouse method in medicinal herbs farming, but the practice has been used by the Willow Timber County for long within their five main cities. When the question was asked, it seems that because of the improvement of technology, the migration from villages to town and soon towards the city enhanced their growth, which is why they possess five cities but no towns or villages.Plus, due to their advanced technology, the traveling between cities was executed by a special vehicle called as the hundred horses carriage, which was similar to the train system back in Zhang Wu Ji's former country. The only differences are instead of using steam from the burning charcoal, the Hundred Horses Carriage is activated by a complete hydraulic system that allows the power from the running horses to be transferred into the carriage for it to move.Their sharing end up beneficial for both side, especially when the ten of them were given many kinds of funny little treasures as a souvenir to be brought back home. Receiving a special gift treasured even by Yong Lie himself, the former hand him a scroll after knowing the latter were a Celestial Designer himself.Obtained one Celestial Engineering Blueprint"Brother Yong Lie, this gift is too precious to somebody like me!" Zhang Wu Ji stands up and tried to return the scroll to the former, but he rejected the gesture. Left with no choice, Zhang Wu Ji exchanges the scroll with three Fighter Chasing Dan instead.After a short period of exchange, the disciples and the elders left their Living Quarters. Before leaving, Yong Lie added one more sentence to Zhang Wu Ji;"Brother Wu Ji, if you have the chances, come to the Willow Timber County, I am sure you will love everything you see!" he finished his word before leaving.Finally returning to his room, Zhang Wu Ji takes a look on the scroll first.Ungraded Blueprint - Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon-Damage: 90 Points| Fighter Qi Consumption Rate: 10-Capacity: 1 Shot | Usage: Single Activation Treasure-Durability: 19/20 | Quality: Ungraded-Information: Yuan Round Tie Steel Hand Cannon. A single activation treasure that can be activated and fired the moment it's ready. After activation, adjusting the firing direction will be made impossible.-Ingredient Required:3 Advance-Grade Iron Ingots1 Pure Brimstone Powder2 Fur Charcoal Powder7 Salt Crystal Powder"This..." Zhang Wu Ji almost laughed at their blueprint and the required ingredient to make this crafting happened. For him, he required no effort to produce the Advance-Grade Iron Ingots. As for the Brimstone Powder, also known as sulfur, the Fur Charcoal Powder from the Charcoal Hounds, and the Salt Crystals, or better to call them saltpeter in his former world, this three-ingredient can be easily obtained from any blacksmithing room.The fact that this three item combined together would be the formula for the gunpowder, which contains 10% of Sulphur, 20% Charcoal, and 70% Potassium Nitrate! This formula is known as the Black Powder during the medieval age period in his former world!"I am in fact, making an ancient Hand Cannon myself. How about I made something out if this?" If it was a debate of knowledge and invention idea, perhaps nobody in this continent can match against him. With so many ideas in his mind, Zhang Wu Ji carries an intention to upgrade the design, but soon give up because the most important thing of all, he did not carry any of the Double Xuan Paper with him to this county, so where can he refine this blueprint?Left with no option, he put aside this intention first, but not after he spent some time going to the Blacksmithing Department belonged to the Heavenly Sword Sect, and crafted three of the Yuan-Tie Hand Cannon before he returned to their Living Quarters again to inspect his next treasure.Basic Onyx-Class Spatial Ring-Capacity: 10 items | Weight Limit: 1 tonne-Usability: Direct | Fighter Qi Consumption Rate: 5-Durability: 70/70 | Quality: Entry-Level-Information: Made from high-quality Onyx Crystals, this ring is crafted by the Third-Grade Celestial Designer, Master Long Wu himself. In total, there are 10,950 rings available, and 5,950 of them are in their Basic level. The ten treasures stored within can be spiritually connected with the user, allowing item such as food, drinks, meditation manual, and medicine to constantly injected into user's body without cost."Holy shit! That's a spatial ring! Master Mother actually give me something good but I only notice them now!" Zhang Wu JI is shocked by his Master Mother's generosity, but at the end, he intended to return the ring after the gathering is over, because if he were to compare everything in his body, perhaps this spatial ring will be the most expensive treasure."How can one possess a spatial ring if they're not willing to pay at least a billion Gold Coin to purchase it? Plus based on the written information, this Master Long Wu, a third-grade Celestial Designer, only crafted a total of 10,950 rings, and one of them is in my hand," he said in mind.But based on the situation now, it was the time for a good rest before the next day's competition. Although his next battle wasn't going to happen until a day after tomorrow, but feeling nervous for it is normal, especially when Zhang Wu Ji is neither experience nor used to all these significant events on ongoing around him.While this youth is trying to rest, another two youth is speaking with each other, evaluating their youngest sibling and his performance."Did you noticed the sudden changes in the battle today?" Zhang Wu Yuan asked his second brother. As one of the three siblings, how can he not pay attention to his youngest brother's battle? Especially when they're the closest blood relative of his and knows him for his whole life until now. And the most important question of all, how did their youngest brother with a Trash Martial Body cultivates to this level!270 Strands of Fighter Qi! If he obtained another thirty more, Zhang Wu Ji will easily enter the 4th Stage of Inner Qi Fighter! And if their youngest brother with Trash Martial Body can advance into such a level, then what will become of them? Even a Violet Emperor Martial Body and Heaven Qi Martial Body will feel threatened by their brother's Trash Martial Body!"IF you able to enter the ten finalists of the Upper Counties, go ahead and challenge Xiao Wu Ji and see what is his secret!" the oldest, Zhang Wu Yuan ordered his second brother to test their youngest brother to see what made their brother improve so drastically."Wu Chou understands. But big brother, what about the manual we talked about?" Zhang Wu Chou cupped his palm together as he replied his eldest brother, but then, he came out with a different question."Here, take this two copies. One is for you, and another is for Wu Ji. Practice them diligently because it took me great effort to borrow the book back to my residence to copy them. And it was by using my master's reputation to get this done." Zhang Wu Yuan passes two books into Zhang Wu Chou's hand and instructed him carefully to make sure he did not waste this effort."Wu Chou thanked elder brother and also on behalf of his younger brother first." Zhang Wu Chou bowed as he held the two copies of manual tightly. After talking for a little more, the two siblings returned to their own accommodation and rest for the upcoming day of heated battle.Written on the surface of the cover;Sun and Moon Convergence Sutra..."First of all, let this humble headmaster congratulates the Seven Star Sect to triumph against the other four sects for the top position of the Lower Counties. Following from their group results, the State Teacher and the elders agreed that the Sixth spot this year will be taken by the Willow Timber County, followed by Crystalline River County, the Herb Valley County, and at the bottom, the Jie's County!""Now, we're proud to presents the Seven Star Sect with the rewards sponsored by the southern Imperial Kingdom himself, under the order of his Majesty, Emperor Zhao Feng himself!" the headmaster of the Heavenly Sword Sect announced the positioning that were already decided by the elders and state teacher before he prepares to hand the rewards promised to the Seven Star Sect's representative.And as the most senior amongst the group, their master mother went up to the stage to accept the rewards, where he beauty stunned the crowd although she was already a seventy plus years-old. Because of her depth of cultivation, her appearance is more similar to a woman in her prime age, which was the most beautiful period of her youth."Lady Beiping Ruolan, please convey my congratulations to Headmaster Liang Tian for his disciple's amazing feat." the headmaster privately delivered a word to her in secret."This humble headmistress will make sure the headmaster received your congratulation," she replied before leaving the stage."With the first event is completed, this headmaster would like to invites the participants from the Upper Counties to enter the Formation Square, and prepares for the Upper Counties segment of Battle Royale!" he waved his hand to activates the formation, and like the previous match, the square turned into a different location where the participants all entered without hesitation.At the beginning of the battle, the five sides did not make any provocative movement is afraid that they'll fall to their opponents trick, but as the battle still failed to disqualified a single disciple after an hour of running, chasing, and hiding, one of the five sects started to get into an aggressive stance.Their formation changed out of sudden, and caught a few disciples scanning around unnoticed. But instead of fighting stealthily, they end up raising a commotion to lure everyone over to the spot.Metal Flavor Flame strike!" the palm of the disciple burn red until it was similar to a molten metal before it slapped at the back of his opponent. The amazingly deadly attack forced the opponent to throw out a mouthful of blood as he collapsed on the ground.Similar to what the first disciple does, the others also attacked with a force that can kills. Luckily, only three disciples were to fall under this trick, but seeing that the real battle finally starts, the crowd begin to group at the middle of the formation, where the top students of the five sects finally gathered.With each of them were suspicious of another sect, nobody vote to combine their strength, which is also the same for Zhang Wu Chou and his four loyal subordinates, the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Returning the gigantic blade in his hand, the four of them wield their own weapons while being awed by the amazing performance from their strongest senior brother.Supreme Sword of Four Seasons!Under the supply of energy from his Fighter Qi, Zhang Wu Chou controlled the four gigantic swords as he fights against the opponents from the four different sects. And out of all expectations, nobody among the four sects managed to get closer to him at all.The Summer Sword strikes at his opponent without a hint of mercy in pure strength, while the autumn sword destroys all form of his opponents attack before they reach his position. Left with no other options, the crowd of four different sects is destroyed by Zhang Wu Chou until the top disciple from Snow Mountain Maiden Sect made her move."Elder brother Wu Chou, please forgive Bing Xue!""Mountain of Frigid Snow Palm!" the top disciple of the Snow Mountain Maiden Sect, Han Bing Xue used her strongest skill to defeat Zhang Wu Chou's deadly attack. Her execution carries the threat of a huge mountain formed by her Fighter Qi as she slammed it down at her opponent, where it forced Zhang Wu Chou to defend the attack with all four season's sword.But this opening allows the top student from Black City Armored Forces and Five Flavour Flame Sect to take it as their advantage!"Triple Flavour Flame Combination Strike!""Thousand Calvary striking the City!""Master Senior!" the four subordinates of rushes to help, but unfortunately, the four of them were defeated without even the need to redirect their attack."You all!" Zhang Wu Chou's calmness is replaced by fury, as he forcefully explodes some of his Fighter Qi to create an opportunity. With both hands raised above his head, Zhang Wu Ji gathers the power from the sunlight as he whispering a few sentences from the Sun and Moon Convergence Sutra."Burning Sun Verse!" Zhang Wu Chou executes the breathing and Qi churning technique into his body. As a cultivator with the blessing of the Heaven Qi Martial Body, Zhang Wu Chou faces no difficulties to use all the Fighter Qi in his body! The first chapter of the Sun and Moon Convergence Sutra, the Burning Sun Verse allows one to increase their fighting force by twofold in a fight, with the cost of increasing the rate of exhaustion of Fighter Qi.And when this first chapter was used by Zhang Wu Chou, it was almost like a tailormade skill for somebody without a limitation of Qi inside his body.The sword of four season strikes at his four top opponents, as he retaliates with a one on four matching. It was exciting enough, making even the Heavenly Sword Sect's Headmaster stands up to praise his disciple for his ability to fight against four Inner Qi Warrior Cultivators."Long Huang! Today is the day I'm defeating you!" Zhang Wu Chou aimed his attack at the top disciple from the Black City Armored Force, but before his attack succeeded, a disturbance arrived."Fire Nation Long Fist!" a ranged attack came from afar, striking accurately on his waist. This disturbance allowed Long Huang to escaped from the attack, but unexpectedly, Zhang Wu Chou is completely unharmed from that attack. The only visible damage was a portion of his clothing is burnt, revealing not the fair skin of the youth, but instead, a very thin layer of silk."Iron Silk Weaving Beetle's Armor!" every elder present in the Heavenly Square were impressed by the generosity of the Headmaster of Heavenly Sword Sect to provide his direct disciple with the Iron Silk Weaving Beetle's Armor that worth as much as a Spatial Ring. Best of all, the armor he wears is able to withstand any attack coming from range by 90%, leaving only 10% of the damage managed to seeps inside."Zhang Wu Chou!" Long Huang strikes at the former, seeing he was still unscathed after such a critical battle, but before their fight is able to continue, a sneak attack came from a disciple from the Blood Art Sect. His attack strikes not on the top fighters, but one remaining participants from the Heavenly Sword Sect, leaving it with only Zhang Wu Chou alone."Ding!" with only ten standing participants within the stage, the fierce battle ended. Unexpectedly, the Blood Art Sect was the only with three disciples remaining, followed by Five-Flavor Flame Sect, Snow Mountain Maiden Sect, and Black City Armored Forces with two disciples each, and Heavenly Sword Sect, with only Zhang Wu Chou remaining.Although he was the strongest fighter amongst the ten of them, it was worthless because no matter what, the first place was still taken by the Blood Art Sect, with their Heavenly Sword Sect standing at the last position once again. The sneaky results planned by the Blood Art Sect was despicable enough, inciting the fury from Zhang Wu Yuan and Zhang Wu Ji indirectly.With his master by his side, Zhang Wu Yuan were restricted from making a fuss, but this was different from Zhang Wu Ji because nobody was by his side to control him!"Shameless bastard!" Zhang Wu Ji charged at the three Blood Art Sect's disciples and tried to attack them. But with his strength, what kind of respect shall he get from his opponent where two of them were in their 9th Stage Inner Qi Fighter and their leader at his 12th Inner Qi Warrior strength.Among the three, one of them came forward to handle this atrocious action from Zhang Wu Ji, but nobody intended to take any action, as all of them were expecting to watch a bullying battle where a 9th Stage cultivator is fighting against a 3rd Stage cultivator. He withdraws his sword out to fight against Zhang Wu Ji's Jade Ruler, but unexpected to everyone in Heavenly Square, something incredible happened!A blunt Jade Ruler shatters a sword the moment they clashed at each another. Worst of all, a bronze colored wheel formed with Fighter Qi appeared at Zhang Wu Ji's palm as he slaps the wheel into the cultivator's face directly!"Bronze Emperor Wheel!"
