Chapter 5: Exquisite Iron Blowing into the Sky

Chapter 5: Exquisite Iron Blowing into the Sky

Chapter 5: Exquisite Iron Blowing into the Sky

No one would waste their time and energy on a piece of junk, let alone carve it into such a delicate and complex form.

He Lingyun just stays at Lishan Immortal Sect to indulge in cultivation and has little experience, but he is definitely not a fool. When something is abnormal, there must be something wrong. Senior Brother Wen spends so much time and effort on a piece of ordinary iron, he must have his purpose, and this purpose cannot be just to amuse the unlucky junior sisters in the neighboring Lishan Immortal Sect.

Thinking of this, the female monk took light steps and came to the platform where the strange flying sword was parked. She bent down to look at it carefully, and reached out her hand to touch it carefully, using her fingertips to experience the forging process of this strange flying sword at the closest distance.

As a senior swordsman, he only needs to try it out to know whether a sword is good or not. When his fingertips slide across the flat sword body and feel the silky and cold touch, He Lingyun can tell that the forging craftsmanship of this sword is absolutely top-notch, and it is more sophisticated than the spiritual treasure-level flying swords forged by the immortal-level elders in the sect who specialize in forging.

"Brother Wen, I want this sword!"

He Lingyun turned to Wen Rui, his eyes firm and resolute.

Wen Rui showed a barely perceptible smile and was about to reply when he was interrupted by He Lingyun: "However, I have no idea how to use this flying sword. I need you to teach me how to control the sword. The sect's competition is coming soon, and changing swords before a battle is a taboo for sword cultivators. Time is running out, so please teach me now."

"Do not worry."

Wen Rui said: "You don't need to make such a request. I will teach you attentively. After all, this is also one of my research topics."

As he spoke, he took out a jade slip from his bag and handed it to He Lingyun: "Come on, come on, sign this experimental project participant agreement, and we will start the class right away. I promise you will learn it all."

He Lingyun glanced at it curiously, and saw a line of title on the jade slip that read: "Agreement for Voluntary Participation in the Testing of the New Flying Sword Prototype..."

Reading further, the entire document was more than ten pages long and was as complicated as the "Body Donation Agreement" she had signed before, with many detailed provisions on rights and obligations.

For example, in the terms of rights and responsibilities of both parties, it is stipulated that if the tester is injured or killed due to quality problems of the flying sword, Party A, that is, Wenrui, will bear full responsibility and pay compensation based on the damage results.

If the tester fails to comply with the rules for flying the new flying sword, or causes an accident due to operating errors or flying the sword while drunk, the tester will be fully responsible. If he dies, it will be fine, as he only needs to compensate for the remains. If he is not dead, he will have to pay additional compensation to Wen Rui.

The party providing the flying sword is responsible for sword-flying training, which includes flight courses, theoretical courses, and practical training. They promise to teach until you learn it, and you will immediately be able to fight after learning it. If you fail to learn it in one session, you can take another session for free. If you really cannot learn it, a full refund will be given and you will be fined three times the amount.

The party receiving the flying sword must cooperate with the teaching seriously and obey the training arrangements. If they deliberately resist training and refuse to study seriously, resulting in failure to complete the training, no refund will be given.

The flying sword is forged using the Jinling Sect's unique patented technology. Under no circumstances may the user conduct reverse engineering analysis on the flying sword manufacturing technology or disclose the flying sword manufacturing secrets. Wenrui has the right to take any necessary measures to supervise and urge the user to implement the confidentiality clause.

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He Lingyun read the entire article until he felt dizzy. This agreement can be considered fair and just, and it does not unilaterally benefit any party.

Even though there was nothing wrong with the agreement, He Lingyun couldn't help but frown and said, "Brother Wen, you and I are both fellow disciples of Jiejiao. Don't we have this little bit of trust? At most, we can just swear an oath. Why do we need to sign something like this? I'm tired of reading it. I really don't know how you wrote it."

"Junior Sister He, you are still too young. Do you know how we, the Jiejiao immortals, were involved in the Conferred God Tribulation?"

Wen Rui explained very seriously: "Many predecessors of Jiejiao were dragged into disasters like moths to a flame when someone came to their door and said 'Daoyou, please stay'. They didn't know how to negotiate the conditions in advance and just agreed to it. In the end, they were deceived and lost their lives. These are all bloody lessons!"

Pointing at the jade slip, Wen Rui looked like an experienced person, and said to He Lingyun earnestly: "So, little sister, I'm going to teach you a lesson. The circle of cultivation is very chaotic. Cultivators, especially human cultivators, are all very evil. No matter what you do in the future, you must sign an agreement in advance and perform everything according to the provisions of the agreement, so as not to be inexplicably involved in some great cause and effect or great disaster!"

He Lingyun was a disciple who joined the Lishan Sect after the Conferred Gods War. He knew very little about the Conferred Gods War, and only occasionally heard vague fragments from his master and senior sisters. When he compared these with the rumors within the sect, he felt that what Senior Brother Wen said made some sense.

Especially the sentence "Human cultivators are very evil-hearted", she agreed with it deeply, and the person in front of her was a living example.

After forcing himself to review the agreement several times and making sure there were no deceptive clauses hidden in it, He Lingyun signed his name. Wen Rui also signed his name on it and thoughtfully made a copy for her to keep, thus formally concluding the agreement in written form.

After signing the agreement, Brother Wen's expression changed quickly and he became more attentive. He took the initiative to run to the flat flying sword and immediately started teaching on the spot.

"This flying sword is a test machine that I, my senior brother, finalized after twenty revisions. I haven't come up with a name for the sword yet, so let's call it 'Sword 2'. It is an all-weather strategic-grade heavy combat sword. The whole sword weighs 7 kilograms, with a maximum take-off weight of 3 kilograms. The cruising speed is Mach 5 and the maximum speed is Mach . It carries the PL- air-to-air sub-sword and the DIHUO- air-to-ground sub-sword. The ammunition bay and fuel bay use bag space technology, which can store tons of aviation fuel and sub-swords. Its endurance and firepower are excellent..."

Listening to Senior Brother Wen's endless explanation, He Lingyun's brain power was once again insufficient. She could not understand many of the words in it at all. As the competition was approaching, she knew that she had to seize the time to master the sword-flying method, so she had to force herself to memorize it by rote and was very studious and inquisitive.

"Brother, what do you mean by horse crane? It sounds to me like a unit of speed. Does it mean the speed of a horse plus the speed of a crane?"

"Mach is a unit of speed in physics, referring to the ratio of flying speed to the speed of sound. The speed of sound is about a thousand feet per breath. This flying sword is a supersonic flying sword, and its cruising speed reaches twice the speed of sound, two thousand feet per breath, and it can fly two thousand five hundred miles every hour." After hearing this explanation, He Lingyun understood Ma He's concept, but she immediately widened her eyes in shock and said in disbelief: "Brother, are you sure? This sword can actually reach the realm of 'Sword Emitting Thunder Sound' when it attacks?"

For sword cultivators, when the speed of a flying sword breaks through the sound barrier, it will sound like thunder in dry land. Once the sound barrier is broken, the sword's killing power will be silent. Those who are hit by the sword will often have their heads and bodies separated, and only the remaining consciousness can hear the sound of thunder from the sword.

In the era in which He Lingyun lived, the concept of "sound barrier" had not yet been born. Sword practitioners simply called this physical phenomenon "silent thunder" based on their practice experience, representing a very high level of swordsmanship and sword-controlling strength, a level that He Lingyun had not yet reached.

"What's so surprising? The aerodynamic design and power model of this 'Sword 20' are completely different from traditional flying swords. How difficult is it to reach the speed of 'Sword Emitting Thunder Sound'?"

Wen Rui curled his lips and said:

"It's just a breakthrough of the sound barrier. It's not that this flying sword is powerful, but the design of the old flying sword is really unreasonable. It doesn't conform to aerodynamics at all."

As he spoke, Senior Brother Wen spread out his hands, and using some kind of magical power, he conjured up an image of a standard flying sword of the current era in front of He Lingyun, and explained to the phantom:
"The traditional flying sword was originally designed to be held, swung and stabbed rather than to fly at high speeds. The center of gravity is in the middle, and there is no vertical tail to ensure flight stability. The power source is telekinesis, which has a very low spiritual energy conversion rate. This aerodynamic layout does not take high-speed flight into consideration at all. The faster the speed, the greater the deflection force. There is no self-stability to resist high-speed airflow, and it cannot provide lift during flight. The effective utilization rate of spiritual energy is less than 5%, which has greatly increased the threshold for the cultivation realm of the sword master."

As if to help He Lingyun understand faster, the illusion he used to demonstrate was very considerate and also created indicator lines simulating the airflow encountered by the flying sword. It showed the airflow lines surrounding the flying sword, and the vortex disturbing the flying sword, causing the flying sword to become unstable.

He Lingyun understood but seemed not to understand. Recalling his own feelings when he wielded a flying sword, it seemed that he could confirm one or two things.

The art of wielding a sword is essentially a specialized and upgraded version of the art of wielding objects. Sword practitioners use their spiritual consciousness to temper the sword embryo over the years, thereby establishing a closer spiritual connection with the flying sword. This makes it possible to control the flying sword from a distance with less spiritual power consumed, higher sensitivity, and greater power. They can also transmit spiritual power to the flying sword from a distance, using the flying sword as a carrier to perform all kinds of incredible spells and magical powers.

In the process of performing the sword-controlling technique, He Lingyun did encounter a bottleneck in sword speed. When the flying sword reached a certain speed, he had to increase the consumption of spiritual power to resist the strong wind and correct the flying posture of the flying sword.

The faster the speed, the stronger the gale, and the more difficult it is to control. This is no longer an obstacle to practice that can be overcome by any technique. One can only continuously improve one's practice and increase spiritual power to offset the impact of wind speed. Only then can the flying sword maintain a stable high-speed flying posture.

There are spells such as the fire-avoiding spell, the water-avoiding spell, and the wind-fixing spell in Taoism, but it is nonsense to talk about toxicity without considering the dosage. The power of wind, fire, and water that these spells can offset is limited. When the flame temperature, water pressure, and wind speed reach a certain level, the spell will either become ineffective or the spiritual power required to maintain it will be so high that the caster cannot bear it.

In the world of cultivation, there are magical weapons that can completely eliminate the influence of the strong wind from the rule level, but their number is rare, and the owners are often powerful people who have become immortals long ago, such as Lingji Bodhisattva who possesses the Wind-Fixing Pill, and Du'e Zhenren who helped Jiang Ziya break the Wind Roaring Array.

For a group of low-level cultivators who have not yet passed the tribulation and become immortals, this kind of top-level magic weapon that can change the rules of the world is out of reach, and it is even more impossible to embed it on a flying sword as an accessory. Therefore, no matter what level a sword cultivator is at, he or she will more or less face the air flow obstruction caused by the flying sword's excessive speed. The sword speed breaking through the sound barrier has become a major hurdle in the practice of sword cultivators. If the hard power is insufficient, it is really impossible to break through this invisible wall.

As a sword cultivator, He Lingyun understood how difficult it was to achieve the "thundering sound of the sword", so he looked at Wen Rui with even more suspicion, thinking that this guy was just talking nonsense.

The more he thought about it, the more suspicious it became. He Lingyun asked coldly, "Brother, I don't believe that you can really use ordinary iron to forge a peerless sword of the level of "Sword Emitting Thunder Sound". And you just signed a "Body Donation Agreement" that will not be fulfilled at any time, and gave me such a sword. Why do you do this? What is your purpose?"

Wen Rui, who was in the middle of explaining, was startled when he heard this, but he did not show any panic of having his lie exposed. He calmly replied, "Whether it is true or not, we will know when we go outside to test the swords later."

This does make sense, but He Lingyun still stared at Wen Rui with his eyes slanted in silence, as if waiting for him to continue.

"As for what I am asking for..."

Seeing that she was unwilling to give up, Senior Brother Wen smiled bitterly and shook his head slowly, saying, "Isn't it because you, the unlucky little guys from the Lishan Immortal Sect, have fewer deaths every year, leaving some future seeds for our Jiejiao remnants, preserving the Jiejiao tradition and inheritance. Sooner or later, my Jiejiao will become great again!"

He Lingyun was stunned and said, "Make Jiejiao great again? Just relying on our extremely embarrassed Lishan Immortal Sect and your Jinling Sect with only one person?"

Wen Rui did not respond and continued:
"Do you think you are the only unlucky fellow in the Lishan Immortal Sect in the past hundred years who damaged his flying sword in a fight with an outsider and dared not report it to the sect, and is worried about not being able to get a new sword?"

Wen Rui said meaningfully, "Ever since the only spiritual gold vein in Lishan dried up a hundred years ago, the damaged flying swords of the sword cultivators in Lishan have not been replaced. After losing their flying swords, there have been dozens of sword cultivators who went out to look for spiritual gold ores and never came back. If you hadn't found me, I'm afraid you would have left the sect and ventured out to look for spiritual gold, and you would have never returned. I don't know where you died in the stinking ditch of the prehistoric land, and someone would have pulled out your tendons and skinned you to make a magic weapon."

Pointing at the strange flat flying sword beside him, Wen Rui said frankly: "This new flying sword is an affordable alternative developed by me to solve the problem of resource shortage in Lishan Immortal Sect. The original intention of the design is to use as little spiritual gold as possible and more ordinary iron, striving to achieve combat performance that reaches or even exceeds the old flying swords that require extremely high spiritual gold, mountain copper, and divine iron."

Wen Rui patiently continued to explain, "This new flying sword also uses extremely rare and precious ordinary irons such as 'hafnium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, molybdenum, tungsten, and yttrium'. However, cultivators have always regarded materials with low spiritual energy affinity as garbage, but they are not afraid of being robbed in the process of collecting such rare ordinary irons. As long as you spend more time, you can always collect enough.

If this test can prove that the combat effectiveness of the new flying sword I developed is not inferior to the traditional flying sword, and the traditional sword cultivators can successfully master the control technology and switch to using the new flying sword, it will greatly reduce the death rate of the sword cultivators of the Lishan Immortal Sect, so that not every sword cultivator sister will end up with a fate of "the sword is broken and the person must die." "

At this point, Wen Rui looked at the female cultivator with a gentle gaze and said sincerely, "There are only two Jiejiao sects in the world now, your Lishan Sect and my Jinling Sect. How could I not know the truth that the lips and teeth are cold? The only sect in the world that does not want the Lishan Sect to be destroyed is my Jinling Sect. The only human cultivator who wants to try his best to save your lives is Wen Rui of the Jinling Sect."

(End of this chapter)