Chapter 221: Another journey
After the God's Tomb collapsed, the buildings on the ground began to slowly collapse, first the temple, and then the entire square. In less than three days, the entire central area collapsed completely. Eventually, along the original square river channel, the entire central area turned into a square lake with a length and width of thousands of feet.
Qingshi released the Xuanhu and parked it in the lake, and they stayed on the boat. But none of them thought that they would stay here for three full years.
As the God's Tomb collapsed and sank underwater, the originally strong evil spirit in this area disappeared, and the spiritual energy was also reduced a lot.
The collapsed boulders blocked the passage originally connected to the sea, and the Hai Lingbiao people all escaped before that.
Without the evil spirit, beasts and birds of prey on land and in the sky can enter this area. However, the beasts on land cannot enter the water and climb onto the boat, and they will only be killed by the vigilant puppet warriors.
The strange birds and golden-billed birds in the sky came a few times, but the Xuanhu was not an infuriating airship. After several shellings, they no longer dared to attack.
Therefore, in this wild island where ferocious beasts are raging, Qingshi and the others are quite safe. They are no longer like the situation when they were chased by these ferocious beasts and fled for their lives when they first arrived on the island.
The reason why I stayed for three years was helpless. Without the Qi airship, they would not be able to sail far. Within less than ten thousand miles to the southeast, islands will begin to appear. It was a sea area called the Sea of Dark Clouds, but even with the Xuanhu, they did not dare to cross this vast ocean with it.
Qingshi's idea is to fly from the air, so he has been studying new aircraft for the past three years. And now, he's finally done.
Parked on the front deck of the Black Tiger was a small spaceship that was eight feet long, one foot high, and only one foot and a half wide. Qingshi and the others spent a huge sum of money to buy it before leaving Xiaomei Island.
At that time, they bought a total of two spaceships and six airships. This was the largest and best spaceship, and this one alone cost ten Dragon Balls. Of the eight airships, only half are left now.
The difference between a spaceship and an airship is that a spaceship has a deck and cabins above and below the deck, while an airship has only a concave steerage cabin.
This small spaceship has very good performance and is equipped with a spirit stone driver. There are three circular drive rings with a diameter of six feet in the front, middle and back of the flat bottom. On an island with thin spiritual energy, it can fly up to a hundred feet in the air.
Now, this spaceship has changed a lot from its original appearance. The hull is more slender and stronger. There are three independent small cabins below the deck. The cabins above the deck have been removed, and only one is installed near the tail. A dense cloud silk canopy that provides protection from wind, rain and sunlight.
Qingshi also installed a magic circle on the spacecraft. The magic circle creates an invisible energy barrier that envelops the entire spacecraft. It can not only shield the line of sight and play a certain invisibility effect, but also has good defense capabilities. At least those strange birds can't try to cause damage.
A gun position is reserved on both sides of the spacecraft. In order not to increase the weight of the ship, Qingshi does not install the two supporting cannons on the gun position. However, if necessary, Qingshi can remove the cannon from the storage at any time. Take it out of the container and install it.
The biggest change is that there are a total of sixteen 'wine barrels' hung on metal racks on both sides of the ship, eight on each side. 'Wine Barrel' is the name given by Duan Wutian, but of course it is not a real wine barrel.
This is a new type of driving spirit weapon with a shape and size similar to a pot-bellied wine barrel. According to Qingshi, this is a 'spirit stone amethyst hybrid jet aircraft engine'.
"Let's go!" Duan Wutian shouted excitedly while standing in the airship, "I've been staying on this broken island for three years. It's so boring."
"That's right," Chen Tianye said with a happy smile on the side, "Not only is it boring, but it's also exhausting to hit the iron with a sledgehammer day after day! Now the hard days are finally over!"
"It's not boring!" Little Fatty lay on the side of the boat, tilting his head and said, "This island is quite fun!"
Qingshi smiled slightly, and naturally understood the truth of what the three of them said.
In the past three years, Xiaopang has been playing wildly on the puppet Flame Dragon all day long, either going up the mountain to hunt birds or going down to the sea to catch fish, or running into the forest and chasing the ferocious birds and beasts.
As long as it is a spiritual beast that he likes, whether it is a small turtle or a giant bull, he will capture it and take it back to the egg house. If it weren't for the fact that they were too big and too difficult to fit into the egg house, he would have taken the flame dragon and viper as pets. Now, his egg house is basically a zoo.
Chen Tianye and Duan Wutian were forced to work as coolies, smelting metals, forging parts, etc. almost all year round. If they hadn't seen Qingshi working harder than them to design, process, build, and experiment with driving spiritual weapons, they would have given up on this job long ago. .
Even worse than them was Xiang An. He had not left the egg house even once for three years. He had to translate secret books every day and help Xiaopang take care of pets. He became a translator and breeder.
"Let's go!" Qingshi was in great spirits today, shouted, and then launched the airship.
All sixteen 'wine barrels' were seen pointing vertically downward, with hot gas spurting out from the bottom of twelve of them. The spacecraft slowly rose up under the reaction force and flew away from the deck of the Xuanhu. This spaceship only needs at least eight 'barrels' to fly.
As Qingshi waved his hand, the huge Black Tiger instantly retracted and disappeared.
Qingshi's mind turned, and his mental power controlled the driving device through the control array. Among the twelve "wine barrels" that performed work, the front and back two slowly turned sideways, becoming parallel to the hull of the ship. The nozzle faced backward, so the spacecraft began to move forward while rising.
After the spacecraft flew to an altitude of nearly a thousand feet, it could no longer rise. Compared with the Zhenqi spacecraft, its flying height was far lower. Fortunately, the weather was very good that day, with clear skies, no clouds in the sky, and no wind. Very soft. Qingshi drove the spaceship to fly smoothly and headed toward the southwest.
Soon, Qingshi locked the direction and let the spacecraft fly autonomously. He relaxed and looked at the white clouds, blue sea, and smaller and smaller islands under his feet. He felt very good.
After flying high in the sky, Qingshi looked far into the distance and discovered that this area of the sea was not the only island, but there were more than a dozen small islands around it. But they all looked deserted. Qingshi naturally felt that there was no need to explore them one by one.
Qingshi said to Xiaopang: "Let's leave today, let Lao Xiang come out and have a look, let's have some fun!" So, in the next moment, Xiang An suddenly appeared on the deck of the spaceship holding a few pages of writing paper.
Xiang An was stunned for a moment, then became excited. The past three years had undoubtedly stifled him.
Everyone was very happy and talked happily for a long time. Then, Xiaopang said he wanted to go back to sleep and asked Xiang An to go back with him.
Xiang An begged, "Brother Fatty, Boss Qingshi, please let me stay a little longer. By the way, where's the flywheel? I'll pedal it. I won't have to catch my breath for three days and three nights!"
"Now there is no need for human power!" Qingshi smiled, "We have bid farewell to human propellers and entered the era of automated jets!"
The 'wine barrel' designed and manufactured by Qingshi is a veritable jet engine.
Spiritual stones will slowly release spiritual energy under natural conditions. Qingshi originally wanted to use magic to speed up this process to achieve jet propulsion.
He has found a technique to quickly release the spiritual energy in the spirit stone. When he was in the Poseidon Tomb, he used this technique to create a bubble space, so that the energy cannon could have the environmental conditions to launch, because the energy cannon cannot be fired in the water. .
However, this technique is uncontrollable.
Later, Qingshi studied the principle of the Poseidon Tomb Formation Cannon, and he discovered that the evil spirit of the amethyst stone was the best medium to slow and controllable the spiritual energy of the spiritual stone.
Under the stimulation of specific spells, amethyst stones can instantly burst out a large amount of evil energy. This evil energy can also induce the spiritual stone to instantly burst out a huge amount of spiritual energy.
The Poseidon Formation Cannon takes advantage of the interaction between this spiritual stone and amethyst stone.
In the small and sealed space of the gun barrel, the two gases are released instantly, forming a huge pressure. When the pressure reaches a threshold, an explosion occurs. The driving force generated by the explosion pushes the projectile along the barrel to be ejected. This is the array gun. working principle.
The same principle applies to exploding cannonballs. The cannonballs are hollow and filled with extremely high concentrations of liquefied evil spirits and spiritual energy. When the launched shells hit the target, the pressure of the impact will cause the evil spirits and spiritual energy to react violently and cause an explosion.
Qingshi discovered through research that this process can also go in the opposite direction, that is to say, the evil spirit can be slowly released through improved techniques, thereby inducing the spiritual energy of the spirit stone to be released at the desired speed, so that slow release can be achieved. Controlled.
Of course, this kind of slow release is relative to the explosion.
In the 'wine barrel', the evil spirit and spiritual energy are mixed to produce high temperature and high pressure. The bluestone controls the speed of the gas overflow, so that it does not reach the pressure of explosion, and allows the high temperature expanding gas to be continuously discharged through a nozzle, which realizes the jet Advance.
The principle is very simple, but it is a very complicated project to design and manufacture a spiritual weapon to realize jet propulsion and control it. With Qingshi's formation and weapon cultivation, and the help of Duan and Chen, it took three years to complete.
In fact, the jet propellers they manufactured were very immature. Since there were no precision measuring instruments and lathes, all parts were made by hand or processed with simple tools. The finished product not only looked rough and ugly, but also had poor performance. Hard to guarantee.
Therefore, originally eight "barrels" could levitate the spacecraft and let it fly, but Qingshi installed sixteen more for safety. But as crude as it is, this jet spacecraft is already the greatest technological invention on the planet.
Xiang An was dumbfounded, and then he noticed the genius of Qingshi and exclaimed that it was amazing.
Xiaopang got impatient and immediately took Xiang An back to the egg house.
Qingshi stopped Xiaopang and asked him to wait, saying that he had something to ask Xiang An.
"Old Xiang," Qingshi asked, "How many times have you translated those two secret books? You haven't finished them in three years?"
"Do you think this is a storybook?" Xiang An said angrily, "This is martial arts and martial arts, at least advanced martial arts and martial arts that are above the mid-level prefectural level! And I can't even recognize the words on it. I take it literally. Can I translate it for you and you can learn it by following it? So, I can only try to practice it myself first, and only after I find that the practice method is correct can I translate it based on my own experience."
"Of course I understand what you said," Qingshi said, "But you have to fully learn it before you can translate? Maybe it will take you twenty or thirty years to succeed in cultivation. Are you going to make us wait twenty or thirty years?"
"What are you waiting for for twenty or thirty years?" Xiang An said angrily, "Do you think I am willing to be locked up in that zoo for decades?"
"So I asked you to translate as soon as possible!" Qingshi comforted, "It will be completed and liberated early!"
"Of course I hope it will be soon," Xiang An said, "You don't need to be successful in cultivation, as long as you understand the correct method of cultivation. I am currently interpreting and practicing at the same time, and I have completed nearly half of the water source skill. I’ve also finished the first part. I said, can’t you let me come out for some air from time to time?”
"I'm doing this for your own good," Qingshi laughed in a low voice, "This way you will be motivated! You practice with great concentration in it. By the time you finish the translation, you should at least be able to practice these two secret books. By then you You won’t be afraid of Seventh Brother and Amano when you come out, right? Now you won’t be bullied by them all the time when you come out.”
"That's true!" Xiang An nodded.
"Okay," Qingshi said, "just translate with peace of mind and practice diligently. By the way, I have something here that can definitely help you, but I'm just lending it to you. You have to give it back to me after you use it."
Qingshi said as he took out a small incense burner and handed it over. It was the dark gold agarwood burner presented to him by Mo Sihai in the past.
Dark gold agarwood is the first auxiliary divine object for spiritual practice and enlightenment. Xiang An naturally knew that. He immediately took it happily, his frustration disappeared, and he happily followed Xiaopang back.
