I Feel a Little Weak

"Load a shoulder-fired Gatling!"

At this time, the Black Tortoise was not equipped with any weapons. The most obvious difference was that the shoulders that were originally shown in the design to carry two weapons were now empty.

Following Yi Xuan's command, a Gatling, several times larger than the one Yi Xuan had used before, suddenly appeared on the previously empty shoulder of Black Tortoise Xuanwu.

After the Gatling appeared, it was placed on the shoulder of the Black Tortoise. Then, with a series of mechanical movements on the shoulder, the somewhat unstable Gatling was firmly fixed to the shoulder of the Black Tortoise.

This is yet another cultivation technique that Yi Xuan used on the Black Tortoise, namely the use of Storage Bag.

It turns out that Yi Xuan had placed a Storage Bag, which is very common among cultivators, inside the shoulder of the Black Tortoise. Inside the Storage Bag were various weapons, ammunition, and energy that the Black Tortoise needed to carry. Yi Xuan even put a lot of spare parts and maintenance robots inside.

This perfectly solves the Black Tortoise's endurance and logistical problems. It must be said that in the world of technology, achieving this level of capability would be much more difficult.

Seeing the Gatling gun loading notification on the screen, Yi Xuan activated the visual aiming of the Black Tortoise, and then Yi Xuan Gatling on his shoulder aimed at a mountain peak he was looking at and spewed blue flames.

That's right, it's still Yi Xuan's favorite Blue Flame Gatling, but its power is more than twice as strong as before. The most obvious difference is that the caliber of the bullet is three times larger. If it were any bigger, it might not deserve to be called a gun, but rather a cannon.

The moment the Black Tortoise spewed blue flames from its shoulder, the mountain peaks in Yi Xuan's eyes in the distance were completely shrouded in smoke, and a tremendous sound echoed through the valley.

The birds that originally inhabited the valley seemed to be facing the end of the world, desperately flying out of the valley.

The Gatling fired for only about ten seconds before stopping.

This time, the issue wasn't about the barrel's strength. Learning from past experiences, this time Yi Xuan used an alloy he made himself from brass and Mysterious Iron to craft the barrel.

Although the barrel may still overheat, with a little care, it can be easily adapted to prolonged combat.

The reason for stopping was that after scanning with his Divine Sense, Yi Xuan discovered that if the fighting continued, not only the mountaintop, but half of the mountain would be leveled by the Gatling gun.

Yi Xuan was very satisfied with the result. Even a Golden Core expert would have a headache with such a powerful attack!

Unfortunately, the ammunition was consumed too quickly; in just a short while, the ground beneath the Black Tortoise was covered with the remaining shell casings.

Afterwards, Yi Xuan conducted tests on the shoulder-mounted Barrett and the functional tests on other weapons equipped on the Black Tortoise, and the results exceeded Yi Xuan's expectations.

However, problems ultimately arose during testing of the energy defense system.

This test is actually quite simple: Yi Xuan the energy shield of the Black Tortoise, then stands there and passively takes hits.

Yi Xuan didn't start with the Hell difficulty level; instead, he had the Nüwa No. 6 combat robot equipped with a standard Gatling for attack.

The test results were quite good; under attacks from a standard-level Gatling, the energy shield was completely able to keep out the incoming Spirit Stone bullets.

However, problems arose when Yi Xuan later equipped the robot with Barrett for attack.

It's not that the energy shield was penetrated by Barrett's bullets.

Instead, the energy shield blocked Barrett's bullets, but the resulting recoil transmitted into the mech, causing injury to Yi Xuan.

Despite his Qi Refining Realm Perfection physique, Yi Xuan's internal organs were actually injured by the recoil.

Fortunately, Yi Xuan had healing pills in his Storage Bag. After taking one, his body began to recover quickly. However, the damage from the recoil force transmitted into the mecha was still quite unpleasant, and Yi Xuan was still somewhat shaken.

It seems that although the Black Tortoise is perfectly functional, Yi Xuan's physical condition has become the biggest obstacle to his improvement.

Somewhat frustrated, Yi Xuan lost interest in continuing the test and had No. 01 take the Black Tortoise back to the underground base of the Azure Cloud Sect.

"Master! Where did you go just now?"

When Yi Xuan returned, he happened to run into Liang Shi, who was studying. Seeing that his master was in a low mood, Liang Shi asked him curiously.

Unfortunately, Yi Xuan was completely absorbed in his own world, shook his head, and walked out of the base.

After half a month of construction, not only the old courtyard, but also the secret chamber that had been destroyed by the Nascent Soul expert was rebuilt.

Yi Xuan pushed open the door and walked straight towards the Azure Cloud Sect's mountain gate. Along the way, disciples Yi Xuan and greeted him, but Yi Xuan was completely oblivious to the outside world.

Even after arriving at the plaza in front of the sect's main hall, Yi Xuan remained completely bewildered.

"Yi Xuan? Yi Xuan?"

A few familiar calls pulled Yi Xuan back from his own world. He saw his master, Xiao Anhe, standing in front of Yi Xuan at some point.

"Master? What brings you here?"

"What? Here? Take a good look around, where are you?"

After listening to his master's words, Yi Xuan looked around and realized that he had actually arrived near the sect's main hall.

So he scratched his head sheepishly and said, "Hehe, I ran into some problems and got so engrossed in thinking about them that I accidentally ended up here!"

Xiao Anhe looked at his disciple with amusement and said, "If you have any questions, why don't you ask your master? When will you ever figure them out on your own?"

After considering it for a while, Yi Xuan realized that, just as his master had said, continuing to think this way would only lead him into a dead end.

It would be better to tell the Master about the problem; perhaps the Master has a way to solve it.

"Master, I've encountered a problem. I feel a bit weak and need to improve my physical strength. However, as you know, for Rootless Person, the only way to increase True Qi is by advancing to the Qi Refining Realm stage. The increase in physical strength is almost negligible, so I don't have any good methods to improve my physical strength."

"Hmm!" Xiao Anhe pondered for a moment before speaking, "You simply want to improve your physical strength? You don't have any requirements for Divine Sense or True Qi?"

"That's right! Master, you have a solution?" Yi Xuan heard Xiao Anhe's question and felt that his master might really have a solution, so he asked expectantly.

Xiao Anhe gave Yi Xuan, "You wanted this method? Didn't your senior brother tell you to ask?"

"Uh! What does this have to do with my senior brother?"

Looking into Yi Xuan's innocent eyes, Xiao Anhe no longer doubted him and said, "If you just want to improve your physical strength, then I do have a way! That is to learn martial arts!"

"Practicing martial arts?" Yi Xuan asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Indeed! In the Cultivation Realm, martial artists are indeed far inferior to us cultivators in strength, but their physical cultivation is far superior to ours. It's just a pity that their potential is limited, otherwise, perhaps even we cultivators wouldn't be their match."

"Master! But after all, I am Rootless Person, without Spirit Root. Is it... right for me to practice martial arts?" Yi Xuan asked with some worry.

Xiao Anhe waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, martial artists follow a different path than us cultivators, so they don't need the support of Spirit Root at all!"