Out-of-Control Armor

"Guga! Put a little more muscle into it!"

"Clang!!!"

"Clang!!!"

"Clang!!!"

While everyone here was hammering away furiously at the armor's outer shell, the electrician Guga on the other side was carefully crafting wires.

You deserve the fine craftsmanship of Gugugaga.

After about an hour or two, a brand-new set of armor was finally finished.

Lin Xiao was so exhausted he was twitching all over.

This armor was so terribly late that he had to output Soul Power the entire time to supply Guga, and the Soul Power consumption was ridiculously high.

Finally, the painter Gugas took paint cans and started coloring the armor.

"Hiss—"

Ugh... This time I really am wrung completely dry down to the last drop...

The Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect disciples who had been watching from the side all gathered around now, their eyes locked on the red-and-gold color-matched armor, staring in disbelief.

Piece after piece of metal armor interlocked tightly, with clean lines, complete with breastplates, pauldrons, and greaves.

Things like this were something even the veteran blacksmiths within the sect couldn't manufacture.

"Get back! Don't scratch the paint, guga!"

The painter Guga trotted over on his short legs, stretching out his little hands to push those disciples hard, not letting them get close to the freshly painted surface.

After resting for a moment, Lin Xiao tremblingly stood up and approached the armor.

"Cool~ It's even got the same color scheme as Iron Man! How do you put this on? Is it one of those automatic transforming ones?"

"Boss, we'll help you! Guga."

The mechanic Gugas disassembled the armor accessories one by one.

Then they installed them onto Lin Xiao.

He twitched the corner of his mouth.

Fine... Looks like I overthought it...

That's right, with not a single spirit ring right now, how could there possibly be Iron Man-style automatic assembly...

"Snap—"

"Snap—"

As the armor at each joint interlocked, three mechanic Gugas piled on top of each other to snap the faceplate into place.

Not going to lie, this faceplate was somewhat redundant.

It was just an iron plate with two holes punched in it...

Lin Xiao moved his limbs, feeling somewhat stiff.

"Guga, what kind of functions does this armor have?"

"Tough, can fly, guga."

The mechanic Guga proudly akimboed his small, chubby waist.

Lin Xiao's eyes lit up instantly.

"It can fly?! How do you fly?!"

"Boss, press the little button on top of the chest and you can fly, guga."

Button?

Lin Xiao reached out and fumbled around his chest area.

There was no help for it; the armor joints were stiff, the range of motion at his neck was limited, and he couldn't lower his head to see his chest at all.

Found it—a hard little protrusion.

"Click!"

"Whoosh!!!"

With a jolt of spark-igniting noise, a massive amount of flames began to spew from the bottom of Lin Xiao's feet.

A strong thrust pushed upward, and his entire body instantly left the ground and took to the air.

"I can fly! Hahahaha!"

Lin Xiao hovered mid-air, laughing excitedly.

Right now, he just wanted to shout out loud: Chinese people can fly!!

Yet as he flew higher and higher, he gradually realized something was wrong.

The propulsion device on this armor had no way to control the scale of the power!

The high-altitude wind grew stronger and stronger, and Lin Xiao panicked inside, hurriedly lowering his head to shout:

"Guga! How do I get down?!"

The mechanic Guga tilted his head back, cupped his small hands around his mouth, and shouted back:

"Boss! You have to wait until the gunpowder inside burns out!"

"Oh, what the hell!!"

Lin Xiao's scalp tingled, his hands and feet thrashing out of control.

His body tilted, and the armor instantly lost balance, beginning to barrel and crash all over the sky.

"Ughahahaha!!! Help!!"

Lin Xiao made a sharp turn in the air and slammed heavily into the ground, yet the gunpowder on his legs was still firing.

His helmet scraped along the ground as he slid rapidly.

Seeing Lin Xiao rushing toward them and the others at extreme speed.

"Get out of the way!!"

The disciple who reacted the fastest on the side shouted, then instinctively dodged to the side.

And Lin Xiao timely braced his hands against the ground to adjust his posture.

"Swish—"

Lin Xiao spun in a corkscrew, brushing past his scalp, smashed a huge hole in the retaining wall behind, and then vanished into the distance.

That disciple only felt his scalp grow cool and reached out to touch it.

"Crap! My hair is gone!!"

He screamed with wide eyes.

Another disciple nearby patted his shoulder with a look of lingering fear.

"Brother, be content. Just now, if you were a fraction off, your head would've been blown right off."

Meanwhile, the Gugas on the side panicked and rushed off in the direction Lin Xiao had flown.

"Ughahahaha!!!"

A scream echoed across the entire sky above the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect.

Hearing the sound, a crowd of disciples patrolling the plaza outside the courtyard curiously raised their heads to look up at the high sky.

"Whoa~ Someone is flying! Does our sect have any flying spirit masters?"

"Doesn't look like it. That dark blob in the sky looks like a chunk of iron, why is it getting bigger?"

Just as his voice fell, a sharp-eyed disciple nearby turned pale with fright:

"You idiot bird! That thing is coming right at us!!"

He grabbed two dazed companions beside him and threw himself flat onto the ground.

"Swish--!!"

The sound of something tearing through the air rang out, and the chunk of iron brushed right over the top of their heads.

By this time, Li Lin Xiao was practically crying.

He couldn't stop, he simply couldn't stop!

This was way more thrilling than riding a roller coaster!!

"Holy crap! Is that the Seven Treasures Pagoda up ahead?!"

His eyes widened in terror as he looked at the Seven Treasures Pagoda-shaped building ahead.

This was the core landmark building of the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect!

The entire pagoda was carved of jade and adorned with glazed tiles, unimaginably precious, and even a single tile was worth dozens of gold coins.

If he really crashed into it head-on, let alone offering an apology, selling himself ten times over wouldn't pay for a fraction of it!

He frantically twisted his body, but the out-of-control propulsion device simply wouldn't obey commands!

He completely failed to control the momentum of his descent!!

"Swish--!!"

"Bang!!!"

The 3rd floor of the Seven Treasures Pagoda was instantly blasted open with a huge hole, and priceless jade fragments clattered down.

Fortunately, however, the gunpowder inside finally burned out.

Lin Xiao was wedged in the middle of a crossbeam, the flames at the soles of his feet sputtering a couple more times before finally extinguishing and puffing out a plume of white smoke.

"Finally stopped..."

He reached out to brace himself against the roof beam, wanting to stand up.

"Snap—"

Unable to bear the weight, the crossbeam cracked and collapsed directly.

"Ugh!!"

A sudden sense of weightlessness washed over him. Lin Xiao let out a scream and plunged straight down!

"Bang—"

"Hiss... Doesn't seem as painful as I imagined. Although the flight capability is a bit outrageous, this damage-resistance ability is actually pretty good~"

Lin Xiao slowly climbed to his feet and twisted his aching neck.

Then his entire body stiffened.

Through the holes in his faceplate, he saw four dumbfounded stewards.

With a slight tilt of his head, another four appeared.

Looking up again, Ning Fengzhi sat in the main seat, with Sword Douluo and Bone Douluo sitting on either side, all of them silently staring at him.

For a moment, the entire grand hall fell somewhat quiet.

Lin Xiao felt as though he could hear a crow caw as it flew across his head.

"Clack—"

A glazed tile fell down from overhead.

Ning Fengzhi slowly raised his head to look at the huge hole above, then looked at Lin Xiao, who was encased in iron armor.

"Xiao Lin... Are you... preparing to renovate the Seven Treasures Glazed Tile Sect?"

"Ahem... Uncle Ning, this was an accident. I didn't control my direction properly while testing the armor."