Chapter 88

The Cultivation Room was very quiet, with only the faint sound of air stirring as breaths circulated.

Xue Lingyun spread the stack of Tang Sect hidden weapon blueprints across the table and examined them one by one.

The contents of the blueprints were even more detailed than he had expected—every hidden weapon was labeled with material ratios, forging techniques, and assembly sequences. Some even included several alternative options.

The handwriting in those notes varied. Several had clearly been added by later hands, the writing messy but the content solid.

He turned to a highly ranked hidden weapon blueprint and stopped.

This was the long-lost Tang Sect "Sand-Shadow-Shooting"—a belt-mounted hidden weapon that could fire thirty-six poisoned needles at once when its mechanism was triggered, with an extremely wide coverage area.

The blueprint detailed its inner structure: the arrangement of the Needle Slots, the distribution of spring tension, and the multiple linked Trigger Mechanisms.

Its most exquisite part was the force-distribution device. It could evenly divide the force of a single pull among all thirty-six needles, ensuring that every needle was fired at the same speed.

He stared at the diagram for a long time, a thought turning in his mind: If this force-distribution device were used in a Soul Tool, could it create a scattering effect where one shot became multiple projectiles?

Soul Guidance Cannons were currently all single-shot weapons. To achieve area coverage, they could only fire continuously, which consumed a great deal of Soul Power and heavily wore down the Launcher.

If one Soul Power shell could be dispersed into several smaller warheads, creating a coverage effect with a single trigger pull, the advantage in group battles would be enormous.

He sketched a rough diagram on paper, breaking down the structure of the force-distribution device. Then he drew a