A month passed in a flash.
After bringing Lou Gao back, Li Xuan went to the Yellow Turban Warriors and wrote down all the materials needed for the subsequent construction of Ladi Canyon on a list.
Li Xuan went to Xingluo City and purchased all these materials directly, so there is no need for Li Xuan to continue purchasing materials.
In addition, Li Xuan purchased two thousand slaves in small towns along the way.
So there are now nearly 6,000 capable laborers in Ladi Canyon.
Li Xuan will also need to purchase some female slaves in the future, otherwise, Li Xuan is worried that these strong laborers will blow up the camp.
After purchasing all the supplies and slaves, Li Xuan began to retreat again.
After going out to relax, Li Xuan's soul power level successfully broke through to level 38.
Practice, practice, just practice is not enough.
After breaking through the soul power level, Li Xuan's life returned to a dull state. Apart from refining alchemy, he practiced cultivation every day.
...
On this day, Li Xuan was refining elixirs in his simple cabin when he heard someone approaching his cabin nearby.
Lady Canyon is sparsely populated, and the people who come here are basically his own people. However, Li Xuan was more cautious, quietly put away the elixir, stood up, and pressed his body against the wall.
"Bang Bang Bang..."
The door was knocked, and Li Xuan breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that it was one of his own.
It seemed that it was time for the Yellow Turban Warriors to build themselves a quiet room to refine elixirs and retreat. The temporary camp at the entrance of Ladi Canyon was too crude.
Whether you are refining elixirs or practicing in seclusion, you need a quiet place where no one can disturb you.
"Who is it?" Li Xuan asked loudly outside.
"Brother Xuan, it's me. My teacher has something to do with you. Let's go." Siyu's voice came from outside.
Li Xuan relaxed completely when he heard Siyu's voice, patted the plant ash on his body, opened the door and walked out.
During this period, Li Xuan had been in retreat, and his body was covered with plant ash left over from alchemy.
"Brother Siyu, what does Mr. Lou want from me?" Li Xuan looked at Siyu who was driving, scratched his head and asked in confusion.
"Hey, you'll know when you get there." After Siyu said that, she took Li Xuan into the carriage.
Li Xuan suddenly thought that a month had passed since Lou Gao arrived at Ladi Canyon.
"Is it possible that the Sky-shattering Cannon was successfully produced?" Li Xuan suddenly thought of something and looked at Siyu in shock and asked.
"Hahaha, Brother Xuan is indeed smart. Yes, after a month of hard work, the teacher has made a fourth-level shaking hand cannon, which is prepared for you to use for self-defense." Siyu said to Li Xuan He showed a bright smile and nodded in agreement.
After hearing Siyu's words, Li Xuan excitedly slapped the car, his palms were numb from the shock, which proved that Li Xuan was really too excited.
"Brother Siyu, the fourth-level Sky-shattering Cannon has been released. How long will it take for the fifth-level Sky-shaking Cannon to be produced?" Li Xuan blinked, his eyes full of excitement. An expectant look.
Thinking about it, the fourth-level Sky-shaking Cannon already exists, and the fifth-level Sky-shaking Cannon is not far away. As long as the fifth-level Sky-shaking Cannon is made, Li Xuan can do a lot of things.
“The difference between the fourth-order and fifth-order earthquake cannons is too great. We have also tried to make the fifth-order earthquake cannons, but without exception, they all failed. There are many crafts in them that we No, we need time to get familiar with it." Siyu sighed and said helplessly.
The complexity of the fifth-level Sky-shaking Cannon can be said to be dozens of times that of the fourth-level one. It is not unusually difficult to create a fifth-level Sky-shaking Cannon.
But it makes sense to think about it. After all, Titled Douluo are the top group of people in the Douluo Continent. They are completely different from Soul Saints and Soul Emperors. They are not that capable of dealing with Titled Douluo-level beings. Easy to make.
"Brother Siyu, don't be in a hurry. Let's take this matter slowly. Is the ore from Mr. Lou enough? Do you need me to purchase some more ore supplies?" Li Xuan comforted Siyu. , and then asked if I needed to purchase supplies.
Li Xuan doesn't know about forging, and the only thing he can do for them is logistical work so that they have enough materials for forging.
"You may need to purchase some ore supplies. The fifth-level forging materials are a bit consumed. I will ask the teacher to write a list later, and Brother Xuan will send it to the Blacksmith Guild." Siyu pondered for a moment, and then Said to Li Xuan.
If you want to purchase suitable ores, you still need to use the power of the Blacksmiths Guild. After all, the Blacksmiths Guild is also an established force and has many channels of its own.
"No problem!" Li Xuan nodded without any hesitation.
After all, the Sky-shattering Cannon is for your own use, and Master and Disciple Lou Gao cannot be allowed to advance the materials themselves.
“Haha, that’s great!” Siyu smiled and nodded.
Now that none of the three of them can leave, it is most appropriate for Li Xuan to purchase ore.
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Half an hour later, Siyu brought Li Xuan to the outside of Fentian Pavilion.
As soon as I arrived at the door of Fentian Pavilion, I heard the clanging sound inside. I didn’t expect that the sound insulation effect of Fentian Pavilion was so good. The sound of forging was so loud that you could only hear it if you were close.
Siyu took one step ahead of Li Xuan, stepped forward, opened the door, and led Li Xuan into Fentian Pavilion.
Lou Gao was forging the parts of the Sky-shattering Cannon. After giving the last hammer blow, he threw the parts into the heavy water pool of Xuantan.
Xuantan heavy water has average thermal conductivity. Although the temperature of the parts is extremely high, it does not cause waves in the water.
Lou Gao heard the sound of the door opening and turned around to see Siyu and Li Xuan.
"Brother Xuan is here!" Lou Gao came to Li Xuan with an enthusiastic face and said with a smile to Li Xuan.
"Have you met Mr. Lou? Did you get the Sky-shattering Hand Cannon?" Li Xuan first saluted Lou Gao, and then asked Lou Gao excitedly.
"Of course, well, that's it." Lou Gao nodded towards a big box in the corner and said with a smile to Li Xuan.
Li Xuan turned his head without hesitation, took three steps and two steps at a time, came to the box, carefully stretched out his hand, and opened the box.
The box was full of sawdust. Among the sawdust was a cylindrical cannon barrel that was dark in color, as thick as a bowl, and half a meter long.
There are two handrails on the barrel, so you can hold the Sky Cannon to fire it. Li Xuan carefully took out the cannon barrel from the box, placed it in front of him and observed it carefully.
The barrel of the cannon is dark in color and is extremely heavy to hold, weighing about twenty kilograms. Although Li Xuan is young, his cultivation level of more than thirty years makes him extremely powerful and precise. It's not too strenuous to catch the Sky-shattering Hand Cannon.
Li Xuan took a look inside the Sky-shattering Cannon. It was also dark inside, with nothing there
As the light changed, Li Xuan was shocked. There was a layer of delicate and complicated dark gold on the dark surface of the Sky-shaking Cannon. Patterns are mysterious and full of power.
"This is the fourth-level Sky-shaking hand cannon. My craftsmanship can only go so far. But brother Xuan, don't worry, this thing can be used normally. We have tried it." Lou Gao smiled and said to Li Xuan.
Li Xuan nodded. As one of the three great craftsmen of Douluo Continent, Lou Gao's forging skills are very good, so he can forge a fourth-order Sky-shattering Cannon without any problem.
But it is too difficult to make the fifth-order Sky-shaking Cannon. I need to study the height of the building more carefully before I can make it.
"Let's go, Brother Xuan, let's go out and try this cannon. In order to test the power of the Sky-shattering Cannon, we asked the Yellow Turban Warriors to build a shooting range." Sidi said with a smile to Li Xuan.
"There is also a shooting range? Great, let's go and try it now!" Li Xuan's eyes also lit up, and then he nodded to Sidi and said.
“Let’s go, let’s go now!” Lou Gao smiled and patted Li Xuan on the shoulder, and then led Li Xuan out of Fentian Pavilion.
After leaving Fentian Pavilion, I got on the carriage. Half an hour later, I came to an open space.
The open space is extremely spacious, and the ground is very flat after being suppressed.
"The effective attack distance of the fourth-level Zhentian hand cannon is about one thousand meters, and the effective killing radius of the explosion is thirty meters. The actual killing radius can reach 80 to one hundred meters. Come on, Brother Xuan, this is a cannonball, come and try it! " Lou Gao introduced, pointing to the Sky-shattering Hand Cannon held by Li Xuan.
Then Lou Gao took out another box from his soul guide. When he opened the box, there were more than a dozen sky-shattering artillery shells that were similar to modern artillery shells.
It’s just that the shells of these Sky-shattering Cannons are not exactly the same as ordinary shells. There is also a layer of complex patterns on the surface of these shells.
It seems that these cannonballs are also magic weapons.
In other words, the launcher and the cannonball are both magic weapons, so their lethality is indeed quite large.
"Because artillery shells are very dangerous, you can't just leave them around in the house. Come on, try them out yourself, and be careful." Lou Gao explained to Li Xuan with a smile.
Li Xuan nodded, then held the soul-suppressing hand cannon in one hand, grabbed a shell with the other hand and carefully put it into the barrel.
"Qiang!"
The cannonball slid to the bottom of the barrel and interlocked with the mechanism. The sound of the mechanism jammed the cannonball.
Then Li Xuan poured the soul power from his body into the Sky-shaking Cannon. With the input of soul power, a layer of dark golden light suddenly appeared on the surface of the Sky-shaking Cannon.
Suddenly the soul power activated the mechanism, and a huge force was transmitted to Li Xuan through the shaking hand cannon. When the cannonball was fired, Li Xuan also flew backwards.
"Whoosh..."
The sound of a cannonball piercing the air was heard, and the soul-guided cannonball appeared a thousand meters away in the blink of an eye, before Li Xuan could react.
Li Xuan quickly adjusted his body in the air, and then landed firmly on the ground.
“Boom!”
At the same time, the artillery shell exploded, instantly shaking the ground, causing earth and rocks to scatter, and causing smoke and dust all over the place!
"I'll go, this power!" Li Xuan's eyes widened and he said with joy.
Although the cannonballs are extremely powerful, Li Xuan consumes very little soul power, which can be said to be very suitable.
But now that smoke and dust are everywhere, Li Xuan doesn’t know how lethal it is.
"We have tested that the power of a cannonball is about the same as a full blow of a level 75 Soul Saint, but...this cannonball is valuable, one hundred thousand gold soul coins per shot." The building towered. Shoulder, he said to Li Xuan nonchalantly.
"One hundred thousand gold soul coins?" Li Xuan's eyes widened when he heard Lou Gao's words. This was not a fight, it was all about burning money!
"It's time to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. It's not okay to go on like this. Even though I have money, I can't spend it like this..." Li Xuan frowned and muttered hesitantly.
Li Xuan got a large amount of gold soul coins from the Killing City, but he couldn’t help but burn them. Until now, there is no source of revenue in Ladi Canyon. Basically, Li Xuanhua Built with money.
Li Xuan's positioning for Ladi Canyon is to grow Longya rice and medicinal materials and make money by making wine. However, the construction of Ladi Canyon has not been completed yet. Even if the construction is completed, it will take time to generate income. .
"What's wrong, brother Xuan is short of money? Why don't you sell this to me?" Lou Gao heard Li Xuan's muttering, came to Li Xuan's side with a smile, and whispered .
"If you don't want to sell it, you can give this thing to Mr. Lou." After hearing what Lou Gao said, Li Xuan shook his head. Li Xuan did not intend to sell the Sky-shattering Cannon. After all, this thing was too heaven-defying.
The territory has no output, but Li Xuan himself has a lot of good things.
But the elixir in hand cannot be sold. Although this thing is effective, the risk is too high. If you are not careful, Li Xuan will appear in the sight of Wuhun Palace. In this case , Li Xuan is in danger.
In addition, medicated wine cannot be sold. Medicinal wine has appeared once in Tiandou City. The Qibao Glazed Sect should have a solid foundation. Once he sells it, he will be discovered immediately. For his own safety, he cannot earn this money.
Except for these two things, Li Xuan actually had nothing to sell.
"Why don't we find cooperation with the Po clan and make the elixir into a potion and sell it..." Li Xuan touched his chin, frowned and muttered.
The profit from elixirs is too high! Even if some Li Xuan is given to the Po Zhi clan, he can still make a lot of money. More importantly, Li Xuan can refine elixirs at extremely low cost and extremely high output!
The Po Clan itself is still a good shield, and the Po Clan also has its own sales channels.
After thinking for a long time, Li Xuan finally did not want to take this step.
Now that the gold soul coins in his hand are enough, it can last a day. Only after the fifth-order Sky-shattering Cannon is produced can Li Xuan have the confidence to sell the elixir.
As long as there are enough cannonballs, Li Xuan can even attack the Wuhun Palace!
However, even if the elixir is sold, it will not reach the point where the entire Wuhun Palace army attacks.
After all, Wuhundian’s goal is the entire Douluo Continent, and his main enemies are the two empires and the Shangsan Sect. He will not expose all his power in advance for Li Xuan.
At this time, the smoke and dust dispersed, and Li Xuan saw a large hole left on the ground.
"I'll go, this power! One hundred thousand gold soul coins are not a loss at all!" Li Xuan looked at the damage caused by the Sky-shattering Cannon to the ground, and his eyes widened in surprise. .
With this thing, I will be much safer walking on Douluo Continent in the future.
(End of this chapter)