Lord of the Desert

Chapter 418 Cannon

After the fifth day of September, Xijing had a heavy rain that lasted for several days and nights, washing away the remaining summer heat.

Since then, everything went smoothly for Hong Fan.

On the eighth day of September, the first batch of thirty disciples of Jincimen began their internship journey, which immediately increased the production capacity of Kaimingxing and Junchixing.

On September 12, the first batch of six high-end carriages were completed, each stamped with a number from "001" to "006" and delivered to the homes of their intended owners.

Ten days later, these luxury vehicles, which were powered by at least two horsepower and towed by four horsepower as standard, caused a sensation among celebrities in Xijing. Many wealthy families and businessmen came to Junchixing to place orders, and the cumulative number of orders exceeded thirty vehicles, which was enough to earn back the investment.

With such a result, Master Lu Yun and his companions were so happy that they walked with the wind, as if they had seen a bright future when their family would be revived. Their admiration for Hong Fan was like the surging waters of the Yao River, which was difficult to express in words.

The journey to the south was also progressing smoothly.

On September 25th, with the assistance of many warriors, the first set of sheds and production lines were ready and officially put into use.

Coke, limestone and iron ore are in their places.

Hong Fan, Yuan Lingxue, Shen Tiexin, He Siyuan, He Zhixin, Wen Zhongguan, Hong Fu and others gathered together to witness the ignition of the first blast furnace in Tiannanxing. The poured red molten iron was refined into fine steel through the converter.

The shed was filled with loud cheers.

Seeing the idea he had been planning for a whole year finally come true, Hong Fan's mind went blank. He could only scoop up a handful of bright molten steel with trembling hands and express the heat he felt as sweat all over his body.

At this moment, he had a wonderful realization - if a warrior wanted to achieve great success in martial arts, he might need much more than just good skills, good resources, and day-to-day seclusion and training.

The coking coal dug out from the bottom of the Wohu kiln, the steam ejected from the drainage tunnel, the burning coke fire, the flowing iron and steel water... all these witnesses will not only be remembered, but will be transformed into nutrients.

Close your eyes and the world becomes dark.

The red heat of steel still shines before our eyes.

With his hand on his heart, Hong Fan was inexplicably certain that from now until the first level of Yuanci, he would not encounter any obstacles in his practice.

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Three days later, September 28th.

As autumn draws to a close, the ground between the seven peaks of Canglang Mountain is covered with fallen leaves.

In an uninhabited valley, Hong Fan, wearing a sand armor, threw himself forward with a loud bang and crashed into a birch tree as thick as a bowl, which was ten feet away.

The tree fell to the left, the man flew to the right, and the dead leaves fluttered in the sky.

This time he fell sideways on the ground, leaving a mark in the earth more than a foot long, and lay on his back, unable to get up.

After a while, intermittent bitter laughs were heard from the woods.

In the past few days, Hong Fan tried to make a new combination of martial arts and destiny stars to make up for the shortcomings of martial arts classics.

The Blazing Explosion is not perfect.

As one of the top martial arts classics with fire attributes, it is almost the ultimate in lethality, even surpassing "Tiangang Shenfeng Jing" and "Ashura Fighting Sutra", but it is relatively mediocre in terms of defense, speed and range.

Fortunately, Hong Fan still controls the Sand World and possesses many systematic killing methods.

The first is Shunbu, which represents speed.

In the aviation industry of the past, pulse detonation engines were a technology route that many countries had long been researching. By forming a strong and continuous jet airflow through cyclic detonation, it not only avoided the complex and heavy rotor structure, but also achieved higher thrust.

The main obstacle to its practical application lies in materials.

Until Hong Fan traveled through time, humans still had not found something that was both light and thin and could withstand the temperature and pressure pulse changes (227~1727℃, 0-20kg/cm) caused by cyclic explosions for a long time.

But this is not a problem for the sand world.

Hong Fan's desert creations are both hard and soft, and can be repaired at any time as long as the true essence of the sand world is not exhausted.

There is no doubt that explosive propulsion is far superior to compressed air propulsion in terms of efficiency, power, flexibility and pre-motion. The only problem lies in precise control.

The location, equivalent, and frequency of the explosion...

The strength, structure, deformation of the sand armor... Without a supercomputer, all parameters could only be fitted little by little through empirical methods. After a morning of repetition, the vast woodland was full of broken woods, gravel, and earth pits caused by instant step practice, and there was still little progress.

He threw away his sand armor and stood up.

Hong Fan recorded the experimental data, rested for half an hour, and started the second project.

Sniper represents the range.

The blazing fire essence has two effects, one is high temperature, the other is explosion.

In comparison, the power of the explosion is particularly huge, but because it cannot be directed, once it is released close to the body, both the enemy and us will be injured.

Among the three basic killing methods recorded in the martial arts classics, Fire Jade is the only long-range projection type, but its range is only more than ten feet, and its speed is only more than a hundred meters per second. It is almost impossible to hit the target first in a battle at the innate level.

It is recorded in the martial arts training experience provided by the Martial Arts Academy that most practitioners of the Blazing Explosion Code only use the Fire Jade as a final execution skill, and usually use the Soul-Chasing method on hidden weapons to take into account the lethality, speed and range.

Fortunately, Hong Fan has a better way.

Standing on the hill, he used sand to build the hoe and shape the barrel of the gun; since there was no need for air compression, the whole process was completed almost overnight.

Observe, aim and lock.

The blazing fire essence was poured into the bullet in the gun chamber, setting it to trigger the detonation.

Think and shoot.

The air waves from the muzzle of the gun surged, and Hong Fan's hair flew.

Almost at the same time, three hundred meters away, a golden-red flame exploded like a ball, creating a whirlwind of smoke and dust within a few meters.

When the vision became clear again, an irregular crack about one foot deep appeared on the rock surface, and large pieces of stone slabs fell off.

A second later, a thunderous explosion was heard from afar.

Judging from visual observation, the power of this shot far exceeds that of an offensive grenade, similar to an RPG-210 with 7 grams of TNT charge. If a congenital warrior is hit, the chances of survival are probably very small unless he has practiced top-level martial arts or specializes in defensive regeneration.

“This is outrageous…”

Hong Fan was speechless for a moment when he saw the effect of this improved killing method.

He was not dissatisfied, but too satisfied.

The effective range of 800 meters, the initial muzzle velocity of 900 meters per second, and the destructive power of a one-shot kill at the same level. Not only that, its true energy consumption is much less than that of the sniper sand that needs air intake and compression before the conversion!
"This is not a killing method that can be classified by the fourth-grade master of the Martial Arts Academy. It is superior and transcends levels!"

Hong Fan muttered to himself, feeling countless inspirations pouring into his mind:
From single shot to continuous shot, from single barrel to multiple barrels, from pure kinetic energy destruction to compound destruction, from time-delay fuse to armor-piercing implosion, from ground-to-ground to air-to-ground, from single-player duel to two-army confrontation...

“If all this is realized, perhaps my output ability in the Xiantian realm will be close to Feng Manyun?”

Hong Fan couldn't help but fantasize.

“No, even Feng Manyun, even the Ten Classics can’t compare to me!”

He breathed heavily and wrote furiously for a while, until he had written down all the chaotic thoughts in his mind, and then he regained his composure a little.

The new killing method has no name yet.

Hong Fan couldn't help but think of the four great skills in the Qi realm in the Tiangang Shenfeng Sutra - Gang, Biao, Vortex, and Shun.

"This killing method should also be named with a single word."

He took out a blank page and wrote down the words "kill", "destroy", "blast", and "thunder" first, then "order", "suppress", "execute", and "rule"...

After writing half a sheet of paper, Hong Fan shook his head and laughed.

"Great vulgarity is great elegance, and we should return to its original nature."

As he spoke, he wrote the word "炮" in regular script.

(End of this chapter)