Stepping outside, Shi Quan surveyed his surroundings before his gaze settled on a large tree a hundred meters away.
He raised the pistol, aimed, injected spirit power, and pulled the trigger.
Puff!
The sound of air friction filled the air as a dark bullet transformed into a stream of light and flew out. The moment it struck the large tree, there was a loud boom, and the tree, with a diameter of one meter, shattered instantly, leaving a one-meter deep hole in the ground.
"What happened?" Ming Ji and the others heard the commotion coming from the Library, and their alarm bells rang. In a few flashes, all three were gathered outside the Library.
"My apologies, I was testing the power of the spirit tool I made," Shi Quan explained apologetically, raising the pistol in his hand.
Upon hearing this, Ming Ji and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief. Besides them, some teachers and students of the Academy had also noticed the disturbance. While moving for Xu Wansen to guide the Academy's teachers and students away, Ming Ji then spoke, "Young friend, for testing spirit tools, the Academy has dedicated testing grounds. If you wish to use them, I can arrange it for you."
"That would be troublesome," Shi Quan smiled, examining the pistol in his hand. Aside from being a bit hot, there were no other major issues.
Di Tian, however, looked at Shi Quan's pistol with some curiosity. "An interesting design. After compressing spirit power to a certain degree, it leverages the compressed kinetic energy to not only ensure power but also increase speed."
For the spirit power condensation design within this pistol, Shi Quan referenced the Tailed Beast Ball. It could quickly rotate and compress the injected spirit power into a bullet, which then burst forth. The bullet's speed and power were directly proportional to the injected spirit power.
Under Shi Quan's guidance, Di Tian had also learned a lot about spirit tools, so he immediately recognized the uniqueness of Shi Quan's pistol.
Shi Quan nodded. "Although compression increases power, it also puts immense pressure on the spirit tool itself. If used too many times consecutively, this pistol might not last long. However, further testing is needed to confirm."
"However, if the pistol is allowed to cool down in between uses, its lifespan can be significantly extended."
Gu Yuena said indifferently, "If you enlarge this pistol and, during its creation, build in more stable components, you could make these bullets into a continuous fire or enhance a single bullet. That's also a direction."
"I also had that idea," Shi Quan nodded. What Gu Yuena said was essentially the machine gun and sniper rifle from his previous life.
Ming Ji looked at the crater where the large tree once stood, his gaze falling on the pistol in Shi Quan's hand. "Young friend, if you wish to conduct further tests, you can follow me."
"Alright."
Shi Quan followed Ming Ji towards another side of Sun Moon Academy. The area occupied by Sun Moon Academy was twice as large as that of Heaven Dou Royal Academy. In these past few months, Shi Quan had been in the Library, and he hadn't truly explored Sun Moon Academy yet.
Ming Ji was aware of this, so he took the opportunity to introduce the situation of Sun Moon Academy to Shi Quan in detail.
Following Ming Ji south, they walked for about half an hour before arriving outside a large, flat building. Behind the building was a mountain reaching a hundred meters high.
"This is the dedicated testing ground for weapon-type spirit tools."
Ming Ji led Shi Quan into the building. The hall was very large, without any luxurious decorations, quite simple.
"This way," Ming Ji led Shi Quan deeper inside, eventually arriving at the leftmost room. It was less a room and more an exit, leading to a vast, flat area covered with black iron stones of various shapes and sizes.
"Young friend, these black iron stones were specially researched by the Academy. Their hardness and weight are astonishingly high. Even a full-strength attack from a Spirit Saint-Rank expert cannot easily damage them. They are specifically used by the Academy to test the attack strength of various spirit tools. You can try."
"Then I'll try," a glint flashed in Shi Quan's eyes as he raised the pistol.
spirit power continuously flowed in, and he began to pull the trigger repeatedly, puff, puff, puff.
Sixteen consecutive bullets flew out, striking sixteen black iron stones at varying distances, producing loud roars.
As for the subsequent bullets, there would be a one-second delay.
The pistol Shi Quan designed could store a maximum of sixteen bullets. After the bullets were fired, if he wanted to shoot again, he would need to reload, and then the spirit power compression device within the pistol would compress the spirit power to form new bullets. This process took about one second, which was the reason for the delay.
Bang!
As Shi Quan continuously fired bullets, by the thirty-sixth shot, the pistol in Shi Quan's hand finally couldn't withstand the extremely compressed spirit power within the bullets and directly backfired.
"Thirty-six shots, huh?" Shi Quan was not very satisfied with this result. The mental force barrier he created instantly caused the shattered pistol fragments to freeze 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 beside him were greatly shocked.
Originally, they hadn't paid much attention to the pistol in Shi Quan's hand, but now, seeing the power it displayed, their views completely changed.
They could tell that the Materials in Shi Quan's hand were not extremely precious, yet the strength of the spirit tool created surpassed the power of spirit tools made from Materials of the same Rank as theirs.
"Young friend, what is the name of this spirit tool of yours?" Ming Ji couldn't help but ask curiously.
"Pistol," Shi Quan wiped his hand, and all the pistol fragments were collected into his hundred treasure pouch. "The accurate name is Soul Convergence Pistol."
"Soul Convergence Pistol?" Ming Ji's eyes lit up. "Young friend, did you develop this yourself?"
Shi Quan smiled. "Otherwise?"
"Young friend, are you willing to trade the method for making this Soul Convergence Pistol?" Ming Ji asked directly.
"Yes," Shi Quan readily agreed. "However, I need five spirit tools: Phantasm Spirit Light Shield, Gale Speed Shoes, Ling Energy Ring, Healing Holy Grail, and Crown of Spirit."
The five spirit tools Shi Quan mentioned were all top-tier spirit tools of the Sun Moon Empire. The methods for making these spirit tools were not recorded in the Library.
Most of the books in the Library only contained the principles of spiritual tool creation. Even if there were design blueprints and crafting methods, these were only for low-Rank and household spirit tools.
As for Intermediate-Rank and above spirit tools, all of them were collected within the Sun Moon Empire and would not be easily made public in the Library. This was also one reason why Mingde Emperor so readily agreed to allow Shi Quan to freely consult the books in the Library.
"Five is too many!" Ming Ji frowned. "At most, only two."
"Three." Although the pistol's crafting method was special, it wasn't precious enough to exchange for five top-tier spirit tools. Shi Quan said this merely to bargain.