The Concept of an Anti-Materiel Weapon

"Ow!" No sooner had Yi Xuan finished speaking than Shi Zhenghao slapped him on the back. Shi Zhenghao's strength had yet to fully recover, but the slap still left Yi Xuan grimacing for quite a while.

"Is that any way to talk about your senior brother? What do you mean, a turtle? Charging ahead when I know something can't be done isn't my style!"

Shi Zhenghao took a sip of tea and continued, "Besides, how old am I, and how old is that old geezer outside? If I'm still only a Golden Core True Person when I reach his age, I won't need anyone else to do a thing. I'll find myself a deserted spot and jump into a river. How disgraceful would that be!"

Yi Xuan knew his senior brother was only venting with words. He had been called a favored son of heaven by those around him since childhood; when had he ever been chased like a stray dog before?

Unfortunately, his strength was inferior, so all he could do was indulge himself with words.

"Senior brother, if that old geezer could be seriously injured, could you kill him at your peak?" Yi Xuan thought for a moment, then asked with some curiosity.

"Hmph! Now you're looking down on your senior brother!" Shi Zhenghao looked at Yi Xuan disdainfully. "Forget my peak. Even in my current state, if that old geezer were seriously injured, I could still take his life while he's down!"

"Really?" Yi Xuan couldn't tell whether Shi Zhenghao was joking or serious, so he could only ask again to make sure.

Shi Zhenghao was also a little puzzled. Seeing how serious Yi Xuan looked, he seemed not to be joking, so Shi Zhenghao nodded. "Of course it's true. Why do you ask? Do you have a way to seriously injure that old geezer?"

Yi Xuan thought for a moment, then nodded. "I'm not entirely sure, but I can give it a try!"

"Liang Shi! Liang Shi!"

Yi Xuan and Liang Shi both lived in this little alley. Liang Shi's home was at the entrance, while Yi Xuan's was at the far end. Yi Xuan only had to shout from his own courtyard for Liang Shi to hear him at home.

Before long, Liang Shi pushed open the door and rushed in, panting. "Master, did you need me for something?"

Seeing his disciple out of breath, Yi Xuan motioned for Liang Shi to sit down and have some tea first.

Once Liang Shi had caught his breath, Yi Xuan said, "Disciple, do you have a spare room in your courtyard?"

Although Liang Shi didn't understand why his master was asking, he answered honestly, "I do, Master!"

Yi Xuan nodded and pointed at Shi Zhenghao. "I'm going into seclusion for a few days. Your senior martial uncle will stay at your home for the time being, so remember to treat him well. Your senior martial uncle's strength ranks among the best of his generation in the Azure Cloud Sect. Once he's at your home, you can ask him for plenty of guidance!"

"Wait!" As soon as Yi Xuan finished speaking, Shi Zhenghao reached out to stop him. "What do you mean? Have you had enough of your senior brother? You're actually trying to send me off to your disciple's place?"

"What are you thinking? Didn't you just say you were confident you could take down that Evil Dao cultivator chasing you as long as he was seriously injured? I'm going into seclusion to research a way to seriously injure a Golden Core True Person."

Shi Zhenghao looked at Yi Xuan in disbelief. "You? Seriously injure a Golden Core cultivator? Don't joke with your senior brother, all right?"

Yi Xuan said nothing, but his expression had already told Shi Zhenghao that he wasn't joking.

Still somewhat incredulous, Shi Zhenghao looked at Liang Shi. "Tell me, has your master gone mad?"

But Liang Shi shook his head too. "No! Senior martial uncle, if my master says he can do it, then he definitely can!"

Seeing Liang Shi stand by his master so staunchly, Shi Zhenghao didn't know what to say. As he followed Liang Shi out of Yi Xuan's courtyard, he muttered to himself, "Mad. This master and disciple are both going mad!"

In fact, when he had questioned Shi Zhenghao just now, Yi Xuan had already come up with an idea for dealing with that Golden Core Realm Evil Cultivator: an anti-materiel weapon.

Although weapons of this kind still fell into the category of guns, their power was on an entirely different level from ordinary guns, and their range far surpassed that of other firearms.

Yi Xuan planned to develop an anti-materiel weapon. He wondered what effect one would have in this cultivation world.

"No. 01! Use the data to generate a model of an anti-materiel sniper rifle!" Yi Xuan ordered No. 01 after entering the secret room, where it was operating entirely mechanically.

"All right!"

A three-dimensional model of an anti-materiel sniper rifle soon appeared on No. 01's screen.

Looking at the model before him, Yi Xuan asked in surprise, "A Barrett?"

That was right. The model No. 01 had generated was none other than the Barrett, an anti-materiel sniper rifle famous across the world in his previous life!

Although Yi Xuan had never seen the actual weapon, he had often encountered it in games in his previous life. Players affectionately called it the "cannon," a testament to how powerful it was.

The Barrett's normal effective firing range was around two thousand meters, but in actual combat in his previous life, it had recorded fatal shots at distances of five to six thousand meters.

It also possessed tremendous destructive power. Tests had shown that, using ordinary M33 rounds, the rifle could penetrate steel plate up to eight millimeters thick at a distance of five hundred meters. Even at twelve hundred meters, it could still effectively penetrate steel plate up to four millimeters thick.

Since he was in this cultivation world, Yi Xuan had no intention of making the Barrett according to the original design. Doing that would be a disservice to his transmigration.

Having learned from his previous experience, Yi Xuan didn't intend to use mysterious iron to make the Barrett, either. After all, his encounter with a powerful opponent on his earlier trip to the capital had already proven that, among firearms enhanced through cultivation, only pistols and rifles could be improved with mysterious iron.

The Gatling previously improved with mysterious iron had fired for only a dozen seconds or so before its barrels burned red-hot. Yi Xuan estimated that, given the properties of mysterious iron, the Gatling could fire at full power for less than a minute at most before bursting, and in a more serious case, the entire Gatling could be blown apart.

Fortunately, while using the 3D printer to manufacture things before, Yi Xuan had bought quite a few materials from Fatty Lin's shop. Among them was a material with better metallic properties than mysterious iron: red copper.

After buying the material, Yi Xuan had tested it and found that both its strength and rigidity far surpassed those of mysterious iron.

Using red copper, Yi Xuan believed the cultivation-world version of the Barrett he made would surely outperform the Barrett from his previous life. Perhaps it could not only seriously injure a Golden Core True Person, but kill one in a single shot.

But all that could wait. The most important thing now was to make the weapon.

Yi Xuan ordered No. 01 to immediately synchronize the three-dimensional model with the 3D printer and begin printing. After that, all he had to do was wait for all the parts to finish being manufactured.