Chapter 544: Spirit Gun

Some fellow cultivators might be curious: since this spirit gun can be activated without using mana, how exactly does it work?

The shop owner laughed, seeing the crowd below grow larger, and on the spot took the spirit gun and disassembled it.

"It's actually a threaded screw joint?" Yan Buji's expression changed.

This method should be used for making puppets and such, emphasizing convenience—after all, who treats a puppet as a treasure? Aren't they all just cannon fodder?

But an Accumulation Device is different; it must undergo sealed refinement to guarantee its integrity, so it won't collapse during use.

However, the sealing method of this spirit gun adopts a threaded screw joint similar to that used for puppets, first carving threads on each component and then joining them.

Moreover, no protective secret spiritual patterns for stability were seen; it's simply assembled via threaded joints, which is like the method Yan Buji saw craftsmen use to make objects in his mortal days.

However, Yan Buji didn't think this was a big problem; on the contrary, from the moment this spirit gun's bullet destroyed an Accumulation Armor, he understood its true meaning.

That is cost!

Please look, these are all the parts of this spirit gun. They include the barrel, trigger, magazine, and firing pin..... Each component can be manufactured separately, and even if you use parts produced by Great Bear City, you can freely assemble them! Convenient and usable. However, here we do not recommend that you purchase parts and assemble them yourself, after all, spirit guns are like spirit cannons, also carrying the risk of bursting the barrel; it's not that better materials and parts make it stronger, but rather depends on the gun's stability and functionality.

Here, Great Bear City today begins selling spirit guns, offering a service to match spirit gun parts for everyone; welcome to enter the store, for details you may consult the in-store staff!

Alright, no more talk, Great Bear Spirit Gun First Generation, officially released!

Yan Buji rushed in and directly bought one from someone.

He even bought a full set of the components currently available for purchase at the Great Bear Chamber of Commerce, then quickly left the place.

How much does the cultivation chamber here cost?

It depends on whether you buy or rent; renting is cheaper.....

Rent for thirty years.

Eh, okay!

Yan Buji cheerfully paid the spiritual stones, entered a manor, set up a protective formation, affixed talismans, and then sat down to carefully study this spirit gun.

Even if this spirit gun only works on Lianqi Phase cultivators.....

Yan Buji frowned, disassembled the spirit gun without hesitation, and was surprised to find that none of these parts bore any spiritual patterns for rebound detection or self-destruction, as if they weren't afraid of someone figuring them all out and then copying them.

He took the barrel and examined it carefully: 'Material, this gun barrel is an alloy of two First-Tier Spiritual Materials, and then..... is this incense?' Yan Buji found it strange, noticing an incense scent in the barrel, realizing this should be Great Bear City's unique secret method of forging objects using incense qi, which he could naturally not analyze.

The remaining components are also simple, and it's not hard to understand their operating principles.

But the difficulty lies in one point: how to control the fired bullet?

Yan Buji took a magazine, examined it closely, and found that the magazine only has the function of storing and maintaining ammunition, without any spiritual patterns to assist cultivators in controlling it with spiritual stones.

Furthermore, judging by the speed at which the spirit gun fires bullets, it belongs to the type where even someone with sufficient spiritual sense to control it doesn't need to, while someone lacking spiritual sense cannot control it.

"So it only considers range and firing speed, without considering letting cultivators control the bullet?"

Yan Buji took a bullet and observed it carefully.

The bullet is spherical in shape; a magazine can roughly hold one hundred such spheres.

One hundred?

Yan Buji then picked up some components, examined them, and suddenly said: 'Although this spirit gun has a single-shot structure, it should be convertible to rapid fire.'

However, considering the barrel and overall stability of this spirit gun, unless components are replaced on a large scale, doing so would be no different from remaking an entirely new gun.

I suppose the people of Great Bear City have already researched the next stage, right?

But actually, this gun's function is not aimed at high-level cultivators; even if they are at Foundation Establishment Stage, as long as their spiritual sense is strong enough, they can dodge in the instant an opponent loads and fires a spirit gun bullet, knowing that some spells are unpreventable because they sense no aura and are too fast to react.

But this spirit gun is entirely different; it relies on spiritual patterns on the barrel to accumulate spiritual energy, using that spiritual energy as the firing force, and the bullet's exit also disturbs spiritual energy fluctuations, making it impossible for a normal cultivator to react in time.

Of course, this gun's lethality is indeed notable; even against an Accumulation Device not refined by oneself, without one's own essence contaminating it, it can still cause harm as long as one has good eyesight and quick reflexes—if the bullet hits a person, it does damage, which is indeed far more formidable than regular Accumulation Devices.

"If one wants this spirit gun to threaten high-level cultivators, unless the gun's spiritual patterns are replaced with ones that don't absorb spiritual energy and whose bullet firing doesn't disturb spiritual energy flow, but then the spirit gun's cost would likely exceed that of ordinary Accumulation Devices, and factoring in bullet expenses, large-scale promotion would be utterly impossible."

"Honestly speaking, this spirit gun is even less threatening to a person than a cultivator who specializes in archery."

"Archery is fine, because although bow and arrow, like the spirit gun and its bullets, are two separate entities, the archery technique has been passed down for a long time, and through mental connection it is not inferior to the spirit gun in controllability and practicality; the main issue is that it's hard to get started and hard to master."

"However, the reason few cultivators can learn this type of ranged weapon, the bow and arrow, is mainly because firing arrows also stirs a portion of spiritual energy fluctuations, alerting people."

"Essentially, for ranged weapons, unless it's an ambush or a long-range attack that occupies absolute advantage, once detected, can the attacker still hit you and not be able to run away?"

"Spirit guns are the same, but they are advantageous in being low-cost, usable by anyone."

"That is to say, the primary users of spirit guns and spirit cannons are not loose cultivators, but the great sects."

"Of course, for low-level cultivators, the emergence of spirit guns makes up for their lack of firepower; as long as they form groups and wield spirit guns, they need not fear even encountering great demons."

"This is also why Yan Buji feels that the era is undergoing change."

"Moreover, according to this spirit gun's refining method, a complete production line has likely been formed. Anyone who masters this spirit gun's refining technique, with sufficient resources and full power, who knows how many spirit guns could be made in a day."

"However, buying a spirit gun is not difficult, but these bullets....."

"Yan Buji looked at these special steel pellet bullets; although the pellets are small, they have the function of storing spiritual energy, and are even equipped with some highly turbid spiritual materials to aid in refining—these are all special refining techniques, which Yan Buji completely cannot understand."