Lord of the Desert

Chapter 426 Turboprop Engine
December 11, early morning.

The sky was clear, the heavy snow had just stopped, and everything in Xijing City was covered in white.

In the study of Asahi Mansion, the enamel clock struck the time of Si.

Hong Fan copied a new article on the theory of approximation of real variable functions, put it together with the reply letter to Bu Tianze, and then took a car to Xingshengtang.

For today's lunch, he had prepared top-notch wine and gifts in advance, and invited Gu Taining, the assistant commander in charge of the military department of the Xijing Military Academy.

However, this meal was not for Hong Fan himself.

Wu Hongling has been in the position of Secretary of the Imperial Guard for many years. Although she is diligent, she is not outstanding. She was originally only focused on training her daughter and did not have many ideas.

But ever since Tianjiang Hongfan took on the responsibility of the second team, her performance test scores have skyrocketed for two consecutive years, and she has unknowingly surpassed her colleagues by a long way.

At the end of the year, the position of deputy director-general in charge of the state's widows happened to be vacant, so Wu Hongling began to think about seeking a promotion. But thinking of her limited abilities and connections as an orphan and a widow, she had to ask Hong Fan to take care of it privately.

The warriors of the Zhangwu Academy are an armed force on par with the Tiqi. Although their individual strength is weaker, their numbers are greater. In Xijing alone, there are more than 50 warriors at the Guantong level, who are responsible for the arrest and disposal of crimes committed by warriors below the Hunran level.

Naturally there are many competitors for such a powerful position.

Fortunately for Hong Fan, there are very few corners in Liangzhou today where he cannot do anything.

After December, the merger of Tiannanxing and Tongyun Villa progressed in full swing, and the fact that Zhu Zhanran praised Hong Fan's talent and treated him as a close friend regardless of age difference was known to everyone in Liangzhou.

Considering that it was only a month ago that Hong Fan and Qu Luoyi smashed up the Tongyun Pavilion, the huge difference between the Zhu family before and after even gave rise to rumors such as "Jin Hai Chi Sha has a very powerful background and is not of the Hong family's bloodline"...

The lunch took most of the hour. Everyone at the table was talking happily and drinking more than a hundred taels of silver worth of fire jade.

In the afternoon, Hong Fan went to the Zhangwu Academy and spent 400 points of military merit in exchange for two "Fenzhong Pills".

This elixir is made from the liver and gallbladder of the exotic beast Nine Phoenix. After taking it, it can greatly increase the affinity to the innate spiritual energy of the fire element in a short period of time. It is used to assist warriors who have reached the peak of the Pure Land and those who have the spiritual connection with heaven to break through.

Every day that wind and snow blow, the end of the year is closer.

Aunt Liu brought Taohongliulv in and out every day, purchasing holiday gifts according to the list to be brought back to Jinhai.

Hong Fan was just about to take a break after a busy year, but two days later he suddenly received a visiting card - the 48th ranked genius on the list, "Zhu Zhongjun", Duan Qu, traveled to Xijing to challenge him for a ranking.

After being on the list for a year and a half, this is the first time he has been challenged by someone lower than him.

Duan Qu studied the "Bamboo Cloud Sword Canon" and was famous for his exquisite and sharp swordsmanship, and was best at finding flaws.

Unfortunately, Hong Fan was not the type of warrior who could counter the opponent's moves. He started by using the Desolate Sand Realm to restrict and the Fiery Tide to kill. In less than two minutes, he used a Fire Jade to force Takenaka-kun to admit defeat.

Only then did everyone know that Chisha had switched to practicing the "Blazing Explosion Sutra".

On December 15th, a long line of more than a dozen horse-drawn carriages left Chaori Prefecture in the early morning and embarked on the journey back to Gimhae.

Half a month later, the sound of firecrackers celebrating the New Year flooded the land of Kyushu.

Hong Fan was not in Gimhae City for the past year, but Gimhae did not remain still because of his absence.

Gao Junxia practiced martial arts diligently and reached the state of humility in August.

Cui Yutang and Hong She became fathers one after another. The latter had been wasting the Marrow Cleansing Pill in the past two years and even achieved the Lesser Invisibility Realm at the end of the year.

Zheng Zhun once intended to marry his only daughter to Hong Sheng, but gave up because the two young men opposed it.

In addition, Li Xingfa, the former commander of the Wudang Cavalry Team who had always been privately supported by Hong Fan, also entered the Hunran Realm. After obtaining permission from all parties in Jinhai, he summoned the scattered members of the Li family and started a new life.

New Year’s Day, Hong Family Ancestral Hall.

Hong Fan handed over two Fenzhong Pills and the Earth God Weapon "Red-faced Suanni" to Hong Wu. In this way, including Hong Sheng and Ming Shen, even when he was not there, the Hong family could gather nearly three innate combat forces.

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The thirty-first year of Zhenghe, the tenth day of the first lunar month.

Jinhai is a branch of Taishan.

The wind dragged its steps, staggering among the mountains.

The light blue sky wrapped around the rocky peaks, and everything was covered with snow, trembling in the belly of the atmosphere.

At a pass that may have never been trodden by anyone, Hong Fan stood against the wind, with four turbine engines shaped from the wild sand at hand roaring red hot.

At the exhaust port, several rocks the size of human heads were blown down the cliff by the jet, with no echo to be found.

After the suicide method "Cannon" came out, speed became the biggest shortcoming of Hongfan martial arts.

The original preferred solution was the pulse detonation engine, but after many experiments over the past few months, he was limited by his current state and progress was extremely difficult.

So, as a second best option, he turned to the "piston-turboprop-turbojet-turbofan" technology route that he was most familiar with in his previous life.

After taking this step back, Hong Fan returned to his comfort zone and suddenly felt that the world was vast and open to him.

At speeds of hundreds of kilometers per hour, the wind resistance of the blades is not too large, so the propeller with the highest propulsion efficiency is still the first choice.

As for the driving structure, there are two options, one is piston and the other is turbine. After several tests and comparisons, the latter won with its simple structure and stable operation.

From turboprops to turbofans, the general structure of turbojet engines is actually the same. The core is nothing more than a five-stage system of intake, compression, combustion, turbine, and exhaust. The differences are the number of turbine stages and the source of propulsion (propeller or fan driven by the turbine, or directly by exhaust jet).

After several attempts, everything went smoothly, but soon there was only one problem left - after changing the energy input link from combustion to incandescent heating, the power of the single machine could not keep up.

If the quality is not good, we can only increase the quantity.

With the sand wings taking shape, Hong Fan took off into the strong wind in the valley. The four turboprop engines on board roared at full speed and the plane rose a hundred feet in an instant.

The cold wind cuts on your face like a knife, and the strikes of the oars blades are like thunder.

He could no longer hear any sounds from nature, he only knew that he was getting faster and faster.

It is much faster than the maximum speed of instant step.

In just a dozen breaths, Hong Fan passed by more than a dozen mountains, crossed a distance of dozens of miles, and finally left all obstacles behind and hit the dreamlike white plain.

Deep in the sky, dark clouds stretch like a dam.

Hong Fan pulled himself up to meet him, like a red-hot blade cutting through the iron dome, and saw the setting sun locked deep behind it turn into a golden spring, pouring out sunlight like a waterfall towards him...

After a while, Hong Fan enjoyed his freedom and collapsed exhausted on the top of a wild mountain.

Maintaining the Sand Wings and four turboprop engines at the same time brought tremendous mental stress, and also drained all of his Blazing Fire Essence in a short period of time.

But regardless, the results are gratifying.

If the general killing method is the addition of multiple factors, then Hong Fan's mixture of sand and fire is like multiplication. The innate two-in-one panel can create a speed of over 600 kilometers per hour.

This not only surpassed the former Duan Tiannan, but also surpassed most of the Yuanci warriors.

"Innate 2, my speed and destructive power have caught up with the fighter planes of World War II, but if I were to fly a Gundam, what level would it be?"

Hong Fan muttered to himself, and fell asleep in exhaustion amidst the ice, snow and mountain breeze.

(End of this chapter)