Chapter 314: Pistol

Arriving outdoors, he looked around and locked his gaze onto a large tree over a hundred meters away.

He raised the pistol, aimed, injected soul power, and pulled the trigger.

Pfft!

The sound of air friction arrived, and an ink-colored bullet turned into a streak of light and flew out; the moment it made contact with the large tree, a boom sounded, a violent explosion occurred, the tree with a diameter of one meter shattered directly, leaving a one-meter-deep hole in the ground.

"What happened?" Hearing the commotion coming from the library side, Ming Ji and the others immediately had their alarm bells ringing; in the time it took for a few flashes of movement, all three had gathered outside the library.

"Sorry, I was testing the power of a Soul Guidance Device I made." Shi Quan raised the pistol in his hand and explained apologetically.

Hearing this, Ming Ji and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief; besides them noticing the commotion here, some teachers and students of the academy had also noticed it, and while signaling Xu Wansen to go and disperse the academy's teachers and students, Ming Ji then spoke: "Young friend, the academy has special testing grounds for testing Soul Guidance Devices; if you want to use one, I can help you arrange it."

"Then that would be troublesome." Shi Quan smiled and checked the pistol in his hand; other than it being a bit hot, there were no major problems.

Di Tian looked at Shi Quan's pistol with some curiosity: "An interesting design; after compressing soul power to a certain degree, it uses the compressed kinetic energy to ensure power while also increasing speed."

For the soul power condensation design in this pistol, Shi Quan referenced the Tailed Beast Bomb, which can rapidly rotate and compress the injected soul power into a bullet, then burst it out; the speed and power of the bullet are directly proportional to the injected soul power.

Under Shi Quan's guidance, Di Tian had also learned quite a bit of knowledge about Soul Guidance Devices, so he saw the special aspects of Shi Quan's pistol at a glance.

Shi Quan nodded: "Although compression increases the power, it also causes great pressure on the Soul Guidance Device itself; if used too many times in succession, I'm afraid this pistol won't last very long, but specific details still require further testing."

"However, if the pistol is allowed to cool down midway, its service life can be increased significantly."

Gu Yuena said indifferently: "If you make this pistol larger and, when crafting it, build more stabilizing components, you could turn these bullets into rapid-fire, or enhance a single bullet; that is also a direction."

"I have this idea as well." Shi Quan nodded; what Gu Yuena mentioned was actually the machine gun and sniper rifle from his past life.

Ming Ji looked at the crater in the distant tree, his gaze falling on the pistol in Shi Quan's hand: "Young friend, if you want to further test it, you can come with me."

"Alright."

Shi Quan followed Ming Ji toward the other side of the Sun Moon Academy; the area occupied by the Sun Moon Academy was twice as large as that of the Heaven Dou Imperial Academy, and for these past few months, Shi Quan had been in the library and had not yet seriously toured this Sun Moon Academy.

Ming Ji also knew this, so he took this opportunity to introduce the situation of the Sun Moon Academy to Shi Quan in detail.

Following Ming Ji all the way south, after walking for about half an hour, they arrived outside a huge bungalow building, and behind the building was a large mountain reaching a hundred meters in height.

"This is the testing ground specifically for weapon-type Soul Guidance Devices."

Ming Ji led Shi Quan into the building; the hall was very large, without any flashy decorations, and was very plain.

"This way." Ming Ji led Shi Quan toward the interior, all the way to a room on the far left; calling it a room was less accurate than calling it an exit, as outside was a huge flat ground, and the flat ground was filled with Black Iron Stone of various shapes and sizes.

"Young friend, these Black Iron Stones were specially researched by the academy; their hardness and weight are extremely astonishing, and even a powerhouse at the Spirit Saint level cannot easily cause damage to them with a full-strength strike; they are used by the academy specifically to test the attack intensity of various Soul Guidance Devices; you can give it a try."

"Then I'll give it a try." A sharp glint flashed in Shi Quan's eyes as he raised the pistol.

Soul power was continuously injected, and he began to pull the trigger repeatedly, pfft, pfft, pfft.

Sixteen consecutive bullets flew out, shooting at sixteen Black Iron Stones at varying distances, emitting a huge roaring sound.

As for the subsequent bullets, there would be a one-second delay.

The pistol Shi Quan designed could store at most sixteen bullets; after the bullets were fired, if one wanted to shoot again, it required replenishment, and then through the soul power compression device inside the pistol, the soul power would be compressed to form bullets again; this process took about one second, which was the reason for the delay.

Bang!

As Shi Quan fired bullets in succession, by the thirty-sixth round, the pistol in Shi Quan's hand finally could not withstand the soul power compressed to the extreme within the bullets and directly exploded.

"Thirty-six rounds, huh?" Shi Quan was not very satisfied with this result; a barrier formed by Mental Power directly caused these exploded pistol fragments to remain suspended in mid-air.

With a thought, the scattered pistol fragments returned to Shi Quan's hand.

Compared to Shi Quan's disappointment, Ming Ji and the others on the side were greatly shocked.

Originally, they did not place much importance on the pistol in Shi Quan's hand, but now, after seeing the power it displayed, they completely changed their views.

They could see that the materials in Shi Quan's hand were not very precious materials, but the strength of the Soul Guidance Device produced exceeded the power of Soul Guidance Devices they made with materials of the same grade.

"Young friend, what is the name of this Soul Guidance Device of yours?" Ming Ji could not help but ask out of curiosity.

"Pistol." Shi Quan wiped his hand, and all the pistol fragments were collected into the Hundred Treasure Bag, "The accurate name is Soul Gathering Pistol."

"Soul Gathering Pistol?" Ming Ji's eyes brightened slightly, "Young friend, did you research this yourself?"

Shi Quan smiled, "What else?"

"Young friend, are you willing to trade the crafting method for this Soul Gathering Pistol?" Ming Ji asked straightforwardly.

"I can." Shi Quan agreed directly, "However, I need five Soul Guidance Devices: the Phantom Spirit Light Shield, Gale Speed Shoes, Spirit Energy Ring, Healing Holy Grail, and the Spirit Crown."

The five Soul Guidance Devices Shi Quan mentioned were all top-tier Soul Guidance Devices of the Sun Moon Empire, and the crafting methods for these Soul Guidance Devices were not recorded in the library.

Most of the books in the library were only principles of Soul Guidance Device crafting, and even if there were design plans and crafting methods, these were only crafting methods for low-level and household Soul Guidance Devices.

As for Soul Guidance Devices above the intermediate level, they were all kept within the Sun Moon Empire and would not be easily made public in the library; this was also one of the reasons why Ming De the Great so easily agreed to let Shi Quan read the books in the library at will.

"Five is too many!" Ming Ji's brows locked tightly, "At most, only two."

"Three." Although the crafting method for the pistol was special, it was not precious enough to exchange for five top-tier Soul Guidance Devices; Shi Quan saying this was just to haggle.

(End of chapter)