Chapter 6 Unexpected Test Flight Results

Chapter 6 Unexpected Test Flight Results

Chapter 6 Unexpected Test Flight Results

On a cliff in the Lishan Mountains, He Lingyun stood on the edge of the cliff, carrying the strange-shaped flying sword that Senior Brother Wen called "Sword 20", and was nervously preparing to test the sword.

A normal flying sword is naturally stored in a scabbard. When flying the sword, the swordsman makes a sword gesture with his hand and shouts "Sword come", and the flying sword will move according to his thoughts, automatically unsheathed and fly away, looking quite cool.

However, the strange-shaped flying sword developed by Senior Brother Wen was too large and heavy, so it had to be carried on the back of He Lingyun using a shoulder carrier.

This "Sword 20" weighs 150 kilograms and is 1.5 meters long. Its wings are also very wide. If it weren't for He Lingyun's graceful and slender figure, it would look funny on the back of anyone who is shorter.

"Follow the starting moves I taught you and try to launch the flying sword."

Senior Brother Wen stood beside her and gave her instructions: "Remember to make your movements graceful, swift and powerful. Oh, and cast a fire-proof spell on yourself before launching 'Sword 20'."

He Lingyun looked embarrassed and said, "Brother Wen, the opening moves you taught me are too weird. I have never seen such opening moves in any flying sword manual. Besides, why do we need to chant the fire-proof spell before flying the sword?"

Senior Brother Wen waved his hands impatiently and scolded, "Just do as I say!"

He Lingyun was extremely annoyed, but as he had to ask for help from others, he could only suppress his anger and keep silent, burying his doubts in his heart.

The girl clenched her fists, bit her lips angrily, and helplessly spread her long legs, with one leg bent and the other straight, one hand on her waist and the other pointing into the distance. This set of movements was the starting position of the "Sword 20" that Senior Brother Wen taught her.

"Go...go!"

With a delicate cry, He Lingyun shouted out the sword-controlling formula taught by Senior Brother Wen with a slightly blushing face. She just felt that this set of movements and formulas were too weird, and did not have the elegance of a sword cultivator at all. She felt extremely ashamed.

As the incantation was recited, the "Sword 20" on her back responded immediately. He Lingyun felt her shoulders sink and a huge roar came to her ears. Dust suddenly flew around her, as if an explosive talisman had exploded behind her.

The flat flying sword on his back whistled into the sky, with two streams of orange-red flames spurting out from the end of the sword, and it suddenly rose into the air at high speed accompanied by a piercing whistle.

Fortunately, she had cast the fire-proof spell in advance, otherwise the remaining tail feathers that had not fully transformed would have been singed by the two flames.

He Lingyun was stunned for a moment, looking up at the flying sword that had already climbed to a height of 100 meters, and muttered: "It's so heavy, but it can actually fly. How come it's flying before I even input spiritual power..."

"This 'Sword II Spirit' has its own power, and it consumes the aviation fuel in the fuel tank. You don't need to consume your spiritual power to lift it to fly..."

Wen Rui was halfway through explaining when he hurriedly said, "What are you still standing there for? You're almost hitting the mountain! Follow the sword-controlling techniques I taught you and use your spiritual consciousness to control the rudder and turn!"

He Lingyun quickly used the sword-controlling technique and used his telekinesis to remotely control the steering rudder at the rear end of the wing of the "Sword 20". The flat flying sword in the air drew a large circle in the air and bypassed the mountain that was blocking the way ahead.

For He Lingyun, the way to control this strange flying sword is very strange. Controlling a traditional flying sword is like flying a kite. To control the flying sword to change direction, one needs to use mental power to move the entire sword body. At the same time, one needs to consume spiritual power to make the flying sword break free from the constraints of the geomagnetic field and continuously input spiritual power to pull it to fly.

However, controlling this "Sword 20" is completely different. Among the heavy and huge sword body, only a small number of parts made of sword-forging spirit gold are controlled by the sword rider's spiritual consciousness. Those parts are less than half an inch in size. The spiritual power controls their movements and transmits them to the steering rudders on the wings and tail of the flying sword through a complex mechanical structure. The steering rudders deflect and guide the airflow to control the entire flying sword to make maneuvers and change its flying posture.

The sophisticated structure that transmits force has the auxiliary function of amplifying force. Senior Brother Wen also mentioned it when he was explaining this new flying sword. It is called the "hydraulic power assist system."

The swordsman refined this new flying sword and imprinted his spiritual consciousness into the control core, which was like a secret key to activate it. This made it impossible for others to interfere with the control of "Sword 20" with their spiritual consciousness. The spiritual power that was previously consumed to lift the flying sword to fly was now turned into controlling the steering rudder and other control springs that He Lingyun had not yet fully understood.

In this way, the spiritual power consumed by the swordsman in controlling this new flying sword is reduced to an incredible level, which can almost be said to be no spiritual power consumption, because the spiritual power consumed by remotely controlling a few small components is not as much as the spiritual power that can be restored immediately.

When Senior Brother Wen said before that this new flying sword could be wielded with ease by disciples in the early stages of Qi training, He Lingyun originally thought that he was talking nonsense. But now, after trying it, he had to believe it.

As a cultivator who transformed from a crane, He Lingyun's flying experience before transformation greatly accelerated her learning progress. Soon, she mastered the skill of controlling the flight of "Jian Er Ling" with the remote control rudder. The flat flying sword flexibly circled and shuttled between the mountains, inserted in the gaps between the peaks, and flew low over the tops of the pine and cypress trees on the top of the mountain. "Use consciousness to control the flying sword to rise, increase the throttle after reaching a high altitude, and test the supersonic cruise function."

Senior Brother Wen spoke as he watched the flying posture of the flying sword in the air.

He Lingyun never raised any doubts this time. She was completely attracted by the performance of this new flying sword. This flying sword was completely different from the flying sword she used and could hardly be regarded as a normal flying sword. However, it had the unique advantage of saving spiritual power. The flying speed and the weight of the sword itself also provided a unique impact advantage. As a sword cultivator, it was difficult not to be addicted to it.

A flying sword should be light and sharp, but this sword weighs more than 100 kilograms, which can be regarded as a heavy weapon like an axe. However, it is much more agile and swift than the heavy weapons such as flying axes and flying hammers practiced by monks who use strange weapons, and its flying speed is many times faster. This makes it many times more powerful than heavy weapons.

Although traditional flying swords are agile, they dare not collide with heavy weapons and magical instruments during a sword fight. They can only dodge and use their speed and agility to find flaws and directly attack the person controlling the heavy weapon.

In order to reduce the spiritual power consumption of the swordsman, the flying sword has to be made light. In order to increase the affinity with spiritual energy, it also has to use some wind-type spiritual gold with relatively weak hardness and toughness. The sharpness is okay for killing flesh, but it will cause damage if it collides head-on with heavy weapons, even heavy weapons made of ordinary iron.

The reason why He Lingyun's low-level spiritual flying sword was damaged by the Western monk was because it was hit directly by the monk's heavy Zen staff. The sword itself was not a precious sword, and it had been used for a long time without maintenance, so it was smashed into pieces immediately.

The force and weight of Sword 20 are comparable to those of a heavy weapon, while maintaining a flying speed that is not inferior to that of an ordinary flying sword. When sword practitioners are fighting with each other, they can control Sword 20 to hit the enemy's flying sword at high speed, and a low-level spiritual weapon-grade flying sword would probably be smashed on the spot.

He used his mind to remotely control the "Sword 20" to rise into the high-altitude clouds, and then used his mind to push the throttle lever according to the method explained by Senior Brother Wen. He Lingyun operated it while gazing at the heavy flat flying sword hidden in the clouds.

"Rumble--"

A muffled thunder-like explosion sounded in the sky, and the clouds were violently shaken. The mist where the flying sword was located was dispersed by an invisible force, revealing the black sword body shining in the sun. A thick ring of mist suddenly appeared around the sword body, and the flat flying sword shot away into the distance with the sound of thunder and the ring of mist hanging on it.

The thunder was still echoing in the air, but the flat flying sword was flying rapidly into the distance due to its high speed. In a few breaths, it turned into a small black dot in the sky.

He Lingyun was completely stunned. Even though she had been mentally prepared, she could never have imagined that she would so easily achieve the realm of "Sword emitting thunderous sound" that ordinary sword cultivators dreamed of. She was now a sword cultivator in the Jindan stage. If she used a traditional flying sword, she would have to at least reach the Yuanying stage and surge in spiritual power to maintain such a high speed of the flying sword.

"Don't just stand there, use the 'Spiritual Power Wave Amplifier' on your back to establish contact with 'Sword 20', otherwise 'Sword 20' will soon fly out of your spiritual perception range at supersonic cruise speed. I haven't installed an automatic navigation return system for Sword 20, so don't lose the sword just after testing it!"

Senior Brother Wen mercilessly hit her on the head, instantly waking He Lingyun from her shock. The female monk didn't care about being angry, and quickly injected spiritual power into the flying sword holder on her back according to the method taught by Senior Brother.

If someone had warned her before today that she would lose her flying sword, she would have thought that there was something wrong with that person's cultivation, or that his brain was damaged. However, what she was facing now was the dilemma of a sword cultivator who was about to lose his flying sword.

The range of a cultivator's spiritual perception is limited. Of course, it will gradually expand as the realm is improved. However, even for high-level cultivators who have reached the half-step ascension realm, the range of their spiritual perception can only reach a hundred miles centered on themselves.

Perhaps the range of perception of the spiritual consciousness of the immortal-level powers such as True Immortal, Golden Immortal, and Daluo Golden Immortal can cover thousands of miles, but it is not an area that can be reached by an ant in the Jindan stage like He Lingyun.

He Lingyun's spiritual perception range is only ten miles, which means that if the flying sword is more than ten miles away from her, her control over the flying sword will be greatly reduced. If the distance is farther, the flying sword may even lose control and fall to the ground.

In the past, when she controlled the flying sword, although she used it lightly and flexibly, her speed was very limited. The distance between her and others in a sword fight would never exceed ten miles, and it was rare for the battle distance to exceed three hundred steps.

However, during this sword test, the Sword 3 she controlled entered supersonic cruise, and could fly three miles per breath (second). The perception range of ten miles only required three or four breaths, and it took less than ten breaths to fly out of the maximum perception distance of twenty miles. If she did not respond correctly within these ten breaths, she might really encounter the serious problem of losing the flying sword.

The moment He Lingyun injected his spiritual power into the bracket, a metal rod protruded from the corner of the bracket. There was a folding structure on top of the metal rod. After rising to the highest point, it unfolded like a folding fan and transformed into a bowl-shaped metal bucket. The metal bucket slowly expanded and made a slight "drip" sound.

He Lingyun had no idea what Senior Brother Wen said and could only follow the instructions step by step. As she watched the black spot in the distant sky getting smaller and smaller and less clear, and her own spiritual consciousness gradually unable to sense the trace of "Sword 20", she began to worry.

(End of this chapter)