Barrett

The machining of the Barrett's parts showed just how wise Yi Xuan had been to build a 3D printer. Nearly a hundred completely different parts had been finished in less than five days.

Since the Barrett itself had a modular design, Yi Xuan also made a number of improved modules to make future upgrades easier.

He assigned two of the five Nüwa-type robots to assemble the Barrett.

It was not that Yi Xuan was too lazy to assemble it himself. As the things he made grew more complicated, their assembly requirements grew more demanding. Though Yi Xuan was a cultivator, he still fell well short of the robots in precision and assembly techniques.

Under No. 01's control, the two robots worked together in perfect coordination. Fifteen minutes later, the Barrett Yi Xuan remembered appeared before his eyes.

Looking at the deadly weapon, Yi Xuan knew that everything so far had been preparation. If he wanted it to have the power to threaten a Golden Core True Person, the real work was only beginning.

Yi Xuan placed the Barrett on the workbench and extended his Divine Sense, beginning to inscribe all kinds of spiritual arrays on the gun. They included arrays to strengthen the weapon, but most important were those that would eliminate its enormous recoil.

Another two days slipped quietly by. Yi Xuan, sitting at the workbench, finally stretched and stood up.

Fortunately, Yi Xuan had cultivated the Spirit Refining Instruction and made considerable progress with his Divine Sense. Only then had he been able to finish inscribing the spiritual arrays on the weapon.

Yi Xuan had originally thought inscribing the arrays on the Barrett would be as simple as it had been with the air conditioner, but once he got started, he realized he had been too naive.

A weapon like the Barrett needed more than arrays that applied to the entire weapon. It actually required parts to be inscribed on numerous components, and even between them.

Inscribing arrays of this kind gave Yi Xuan the biggest headache. Many of the Barrett's components were extremely delicate, while the arrays themselves were full of energy. Inscribing them onto the components was bound to affect their performance.

The larger components were fine; the arrays' energy did not have much effect on their interiors. But the small ones were a nightmare. The slightest mistake, and the energy in an array would warp a component out of shape.

Yi Xuan had no choice but to use his Divine Sense to hold the components in shape while he inscribed the arrays.

Dividing his Divine Sense between two tasks this way was full of challenges.

Even though Yi Xuan's Divine Sense was already stronger than that of an ordinary Qi Refining Realm cultivator, he still ruined quite a few components during the inscription process.

Fortunately, Yi Xuan spotted the problem in time and had No. 01 make spares of the components prone to it.

Yi Xuan reached out and picked up the Barrett from the table. The sight of its pitch-black barrel sent a chill down the spine.

Quite a few bullets were also laid out on the table, all of them much larger than the ones Yi Xuan had used before.

Yi Xuan had converted all the 12.7-millimeter rounds into Spirit Stone bullets specifically for the Barrett. Only with these bullets could the Barrett in Yi Xuan's hands show the world its terror in this cultivation world.

When Yi Xuan emerged from the secret chamber, he found that the sun had just risen. He went into the street for breakfast, brought along some food, and went to Liang Shi's home to tell Shi Zhenghao and Liang Shi to come to his house after breakfast.

Seeing Yi Xuan appear, Shi Zhenghao knew that his junior brother seemed to have found a way to deal with a Golden Core True Person.

He promptly took Liang Shi, who was about to eat, and went to Yi Xuan's courtyard.

Shi Zhenghao's speed was utterly beyond Liang Shi's comprehension. Liang Shi was holding a bun and about to stuff it into his mouth when the world flashed before his eyes, and he found himself standing in his master's courtyard.

Liang Shi stared at the bun in his hand for a long time before realizing that his martial uncle had brought him over.

Although he was furious that his martial uncle had interrupted his breakfast, Liang Shi thought about his martial uncle's strength and could only take a vicious bite of his bun.

Shi Zhenghao, meanwhile, barged straight into Yi Xuan's bedroom. Seeing Yi Xuan holding a strange stick, he asked, "Have you thought of a way to deal with a Golden Core True Person? What are you doing with a lousy stick in broad daylight? Are you injured and using it as a crutch?"

Hearing Shi Zhenghao's words, Yi Xuan nearly rolled his eyes to the heavens. He doesn't know a treasure when he sees one.

Yi Xuan tossed the Barrett into Shi Zhenghao's arms and said, "If we want to deal with a Golden Core True Person, this is what we're counting on!"

Shi Zhenghao turned the Barrett over and over in his hands for a long time, but could not figure out what was so marvelous about the stick.

In the end, he could only shake his head. "Are you sure you're not joking with me? Apart from being forged from red copper and worth a little money, I can't see how this thing could possibly threaten a Golden Core True Person!"

Yi Xuan pointed at the Barrett's sight. "Put your eye here, then try looking at the sect hall on the mountaintop!"

Shi Zhenghao took a skeptical look, then froze. "Th-that... is that the law enforcement elder?"

Yi Xuan smiled and nodded. "That's right. He cultivates in the plaza in front of the sect hall every morning!"

Shi Zhenghao looked at Yi Xuan in disbelief. "How far is it from here to the sect hall?"

"Wouldn't you know if you sensed it with your Divine Sense?"

Shi Zhenghao rolled his eyes. "Do you think your senior brother has lived too long? If I released my Divine Sense to sense it, I don't know about the others, but the law enforcement elder would definitely notice me immediately!"

Although both Shi Zhenghao and the law enforcement elder were fully aware of what had happened back then and of the sect's attitude toward Shi Zhenghao, those matters could not be brought into the open. Otherwise, no one would look good.

In other words, if the law enforcement elder discovered Shi Zhenghao, he would still come to arrest him without hesitation.

Yi Xuan had no choice but to answer. "Thirty thousand meters! It's thirty thousand meters from here to the hall in a straight line!"

For a cultivator's Divine Sense, especially that of someone at Shi Zhenghao's level, thirty thousand meters was a bit of a stretch, but still within sensing range.

But it was utterly impossible for the naked eye. That was why Shi Zhenghao saw the Barrett in a new light.

"But what good is seeing him? You want me to glare that old bastard to death?"

Yi Xuan shook his head and pointed to a mountain peak in the direction away from the sect. Taking the Barrett back from Shi Zhenghao, he said, "Scan that spot with your Divine Sense!"

Shi Zhenghao obediently extended his Divine Sense, scanning back and forth over the spot Yi Xuan was pointing at.

Yi Xuan braced the Barrett, made a few small adjustments, and pulled the trigger at that spot.

Although a suppressor was fitted to the Barrett, the shot still exploded in the three men's ears like a thunderclap.

Yi Xuan stood up, rubbing his shoulder repeatedly. He had not expected the Barrett's recoil to remain so powerful after he had layered so many shock-absorbing spiritual arrays onto the gun. The impact had left his shoulder aching.

Beside him, Shi Zhenghao, who had been watching with his Divine Sense, stiffly turned to look at Yi Xuan. "That old bastard is dead for sure!"