Immediately afterward, the captain, Lone Bamboo Sword, held a round piece of metal as large as a millstone in both hands.
The metal had numerous holes and was engraved with a wealth of magnificent patterns. It even shone with intense lightning.
At that moment, Lone Bamboo Sword knelt on one knee, holding the piece of metal aloft.
Immediately afterward, a large number of metal components flew out of the seven Dou Ling Academy members' Storage Soul Tools. Drawn by the metal disc, they rapidly assembled into a single whole.
All of this happened within a few short seconds, and the Dou Ling Academy members made very little noise as they assembled the Soul Tool.
Thus, to the spectators, Dou Ling Academy had practically gone completely still after wrapping themselves in a turtle shell.
In reality, the Dou Ling Academy members were nearly frantic. What they were assembling was one of Mingdetang's proud creations, the Thunder Giant Cannon.
Of course, the Core Array inside a genuine Thunder Giant Cannon was extraordinarily intricate, allowing a single person to operate it. With Dou Ling Academy's half-baked technical expertise, they really could not produce one.
What Dou Ling Academy was using now was an enlarged version of the Thunder Giant Cannon. Increasing its size made the manufacturing process much simpler, but it also meant that a Thunder Giant Cannon originally operable by one person now required seven.
Of course, needing seven operators was one thing. The reason the Thunder Giant Cannon's components flew out of seven people's Storage Soul Tools was purely that Dou Ling Academy could not afford a Storage Soul Tool large enough to hold the entire cannon at once.
A single oversized Storage Soul Tool like that cost enough to buy ten Invincible Shields, yet its range of applications was very