"Even after seeing it again, it still feels a bit exaggerated," Elder Chen said with emotion, looking at the damaged area ahead.
Such power, even for a Spirit Ancestor, would mean certain death if they couldn't escape in time.
"Boss, how did I do?" Zui Hongchen, having had his fill, excitedly walked up to Xu Tianyang and asked.
"Not bad, but it would be even better if your aim was more precise," Xu Tianyang said with a encouraging smile.
"Since research on semi-automatic weapons has yielded results, it's time to begin mass production."
The core of this semi-automatic rifle lies in the black technology of the 'milk bottle,' which can store spirit power. Without the milk bottle, it would at most be a glorified stick, and even if a Spirit Master picked it up, they wouldn't be able to achieve such effects.
The use of spirit tools consumes spirit power. Without the assistance of the milk bottle, which Spirit Master would have such terrifying spirit power reserves to continuously unleash thirty attacks of the strongest power level?
"Then what level should we produce first?"
"Let's start with Level Five. Level Five is sufficient and can serve as mid-tier firepower for the army," Xu Tianyang said slowly after a moment of thought.
Top-tier firepower naturally refers to nation-guarding divine tools like Level Seven, Eight, and Nine Spirit cannons.
The Sun Moon Empire currently has only one Level Nine Soul Engineer, and that is his father. Although his mother is already a Titled Douluo, she is still a bit lacking in spirit tools and has not advanced to Level Nine.
The existing Level Nine Spirit cannons were made by Xu Yunxiao in his spare time, and there are only a few stored. They will not be used easily unless absolutely necessary.
Moreover, the majority of the five great national protection Spirit legions are Spirit Ancestors and Spirit Kings, so Level Five is perfectly suitable.
"Elder Chen, please keep a close eye on the research regarding exoskeleton mechs. The Empire has been quite busy recently, and I may not have time to check on it," Xu Tianyang said, entrusting Elder Chen after deciding on the level of the semi-automatic Spirit rifle.
Exoskeleton mechs were also a research topic proposed by Xu Tianyang within the past year. Due to the large leap that large-scale mechs represent for the current Sun Moon, research had not made significant progress.
Therefore, Xu Tianyang proposed tackling it in individual parts, and thus the exoskeleton mech came into being.
"This is my duty as an old subject," Elder Chen nodded with a smile, then said with concern, "I have also heard about the recent situation in the Empire. People from the Douluo Continent are continuously landing on the Sun Moon Continent, which inevitably causes chaos. Your Highness's safety is paramount, and you must not take risks lightly."
"Don't worry, Elder Chen, my strength is not to be underestimated. Coupled with this invincible shield, no one can harm me silently," Xu Tianyang said with confidence. He had already broken through to Level Thirty-Eight, a truly miraculous improvement.
When his full strength erupts, even a Spirit King is not his match. Coupled with his terrifying mental force and the life-saving spirit tools all over his body, assassinating him would require a Titled Douluo to act personally… The Sun Moon Continent and the Douluo Continent completely merged three months ago, much faster than Xu Tianyang and his companions had anticipated.
Thanks to the groundwork laid by Xu Tianyang and others, over the past year, people from both continents had become quite familiar with each other through ships. The situation on the Sun Moon Continent was also well-known to the people of the Douluo Continent.
They learned that on the Sun Moon Continent, there was the Sun Moon Empire, the sole hegemon, and that the Titled Douluo who had briefly appeared at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion was the Emperor of the Sun Moon Empire.
The Sun Moon Empire was immediately listed by the Douluo Continent's powers as a top-tier force, second only to Spirit Hall.
Of course, such a classification naturally drew dissatisfaction from many forces, including the Star Luo Empire. They also had Titled Douluo, and they even possessed Martial Soul Fusion Technique. In the Star Luo Empire's view, the Sun Moon Empire was only slightly stronger than the Heaven Dou Empire but inferior to them.
The Star Luo Empire's overall national policy is relatively aggressive. Its attitude towards the Sun Moon Empire is not as stable as that of the Heaven Dou Empire, with the aggressive faction outnumbering the conservative faction in court.
Fortunately, the three Empires checked each other, and although there were skirmishes at the borders, no large-scale wars have broken out so far.
The overall situation on the continent is tending towards stability.
Under these circumstances, the Sun Moon Continent was actively updating and iterating spirit tools. The Heaven Dou Empire had first experienced the terror of spirit tools; the terrifying scenes caused by Xu Sheng that day were still vivid in their minds. Therefore, the Heaven Dou Empire maintained a friendly attitude towards the Sun Moon Empire.
At the border between the two nations, a free trade city, Xu Ri City, rose from the ground.
This city was built by the Heaven Dou Empire and then handed over to the Sun Moon Empire for management. Now, the Heaven Dou Empire is extensively purchasing spirit tools from the Sun Moon Empire through various means, beginning to arm its own military.
However, powerful spirit tools are controlled items in the Sun Moon Empire. The spirit tools purchased by the Heaven Dou Empire are all low-level spirit tools below Level Three, or some auxiliary spirit tools.
This has not caused a qualitative change in the opponent's strength.
As for the Star Luo Empire, perhaps it was not yet ready to embrace the new era, or perhaps it was confident in its national strength and did not value spirit tools much. At the Ming Dou Mountain Range on the border of the Sun Moon Empire, the armies of the two nations have been in constant friction.
In the past three months, ten small-scale battles have already broken out.
However, the Sun Moon military, under Xu Yunxiao's orders, was relatively restrained and had not used large-scale spirit tools. The battles were still within a controllable range, not enough to alarm the Star Luo high-ranking officials.
The Sun Moon high-ranking officials unanimously believed that with the integration of the two continents, a battle to establish prestige was indispensable. Now that the Star Luo Empire had come knocking, they did not want to scare off the prey that had delivered itself to their doorstep.
Aside from these two great Empires, Spirit Hall merely built a sub-branch in Ming City, appointed a Spirit Saint-level bishop to manage it, and then made no major moves. Spirit Hall's base was still the Douluo Continent.
Bibi Dong had no energy to manage the Sun Moon Continent before she had consumed the Douluo Continent.
The Seven Treasure Glazed Tile School's pursuit of spirit tools surpassed even that of the Heaven Dou Empire. They were not satisfied with the mid-to-low-end spirit tools on the market and had always wanted high-level spirit tools above Level Six from the Sun Moon Empire.
However, apart from a Level Seven close-combat spirit tool sold at the Myriad Treasures Pavilion, no spirit tools above Level Six had entered the Douluo market from the Sun Moon Empire.
Despite repeated setbacks, Ning Fengzhi was not discouraged. Recently, he began negotiating with the Sun Moon Empire again regarding sending people to cultivate spirit tools.
Under this atmosphere, exchanges between various forces on both continents were in full swing, and interactions between Spirit Masters also became more frequent.
However, not all Spirit Masters liked spirit tools; a large portion of them believed that spirit tools were external objects and that it was better to specialize in one's own Spirit.
Among them, the Blue Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan even openly criticized spirit tools. Confident in their status as the world's number one Beast Spirit, they did not believe that spirit tools would threaten their position.