Meanwhile, over in Black Moon City...
At this point, Zhou Xu still had no idea that Fisher had completely flipped the table and fallen out with Peter. He was busy tinkering with the production line for his flintlock guns.
If nothing went wrong, their Great Zhou's first batch of flintlock guns would be ready by the beginning of spring next year.
Ever since the war with the greenskins ended, Zhou Xu had mainly immersed himself in cultivation, research, internal development, and a bit of international trade. As for the messes in other countries, he had not been interested in them at all.
"His Majesty, General Xie has arrived."
Hearing this, Zhou Xu nodded and went straight to a side hall nearby to meet Xie Liancheng.
"Have you made some new progress again?"
"Wouldn't you know it, I really have. You could even call it a major discovery."
Xie Liancheng nodded. Then, without keeping him in suspense, he began speaking.
"When we were doing our research back then, we discovered that martial artists cultivated by using the energy within their bodies to temper their sinews, bones, and muscles, while also infusing that energy into them. That was how they continuously increased their strength, right?"
Zhou Xu nodded cooperatively, and Xie Liancheng continued...
"So I followed that line of thought when designing the Body Forging Fist. Its main focus was to exercise every muscle as much as possible, allowing the entire body to undergo thorough tempering and thereby improve."
As he spoke, Xie Liancheng gestured with his hands.
"Earlier, we obtained a cultivation method called 'Torrent Fighting Qi' from that Barton Empire. I took a brief look at it at first and felt that only the breathing method was somewhat useful. The cultivation method itself was more or less the same as