Fire Monster

Chapter 5: Psychic Crossbow
"Jia, Yi, Bing, Ding, Wu, Ji, Geng, Xin, Ren, and Gui, these are the ten levels of spiritual supply arrays. This is a standard Gui-level spiritual supply array. In terms of quality, it should be qualified."

Zhao Guanshan couldn't help but play with it for a while before he carefully put it into the animal skin backpack he carried with him.

This backpack was also left by my parents. Although it is worn out, it is sturdy. Although it does not look very spacious, it can actually hold a lot of things. There are also several independent small bags sewn inside, which is very suitable for putting some fragile and precious gadgets in without worrying about confusion and damage.

Next, he packed up the remaining practical materials and took them away.

The Taoist temple will not interfere, because as long as you are proficient in the practical operations, it is your ability to take the practical materials out and sell them.

However, if you are not proficient in the practical operations but sell the practical materials, which eventually leads to failure in the final examination, then don't blame being forced to be sent to the Imperial Seal Great Wall to be cannon fodder.

Every sip and every bite has been calculated.

After Zhao Guanshan left here, he went straight to the fifth three-level imperial seal house, which was also the classroom for the fifth course, but it was an elective.

The name of the course is - Daily maintenance and basic repairs of nine common psychic weapons.

Because Zhao Guanshan wants to assemble a psychic weapon for himself.

The Taoist Palace does not prohibit martial arts, nor does it prohibit ordinary people from possessing psychic weapons.

It also provides many channels to obtain psychic weapons.

For example, Zhao Guanshan’s neighbor Yang Mao, as long as he can pass the final examination, he can get a psychic weapon that he can use for free, but he cannot sell it or leave it to his descendants.

The three elective courses were very quiet, with few students to be seen.

This is also normal.

Because the elective courses are only open to third-stage liberal arts students, and they only need to choose one from three, the number of options is even smaller.

But the fifth course is an exception.

Most of Zhao Guanshan’s liberal arts classmates, including students from the previous class, the class before that, and the next two classes, will choose this fifth course as their elective course.

There is no other reason, because psychic weapons can be used here.

This is also an important direction of the Taoist Palace’s reform after the advent of the divine punishment, so that mortals can also master and use extraordinary powers.

Psychic weapons came into being.

This is not a magic tool, nor is it a magic tool with imperial seals.

Their definitions have already been described in detail in the first stage of study.

Magical instruments are powerful weapons used by immortal cultivators before the coming of divine punishment.

The Sealed Magical Instruments are powerful weapons used by the surviving cultivators after the coming of divine punishment. They have been greatly improved, with reduced spiritual energy consumption, higher cost-effectiveness, and are not easily damaged. These include but are not limited to passively triggered Sealed Magical Instruments like the Sealed Oil Lamps.

Psychic weapons are supplied to martial artists for use. They do not require complicated operations or harsh conditions. They are extraordinary weapons based on the spirit-supplying array as the energy center.

Its power is in no way inferior to that of the imperial seal weapon, but it is easily damaged.

Based on this, repairing and maintaining psychic weapons has become a course, and those who have learned it can do this job.

When Zhao Guanshan arrived, the teacher was teaching on the first floor. There were hundreds of students attending the class, all of whom were level 7 and 8, or, using Earth's concept, first and second year high school students.

As he is in the third year of high school, he does not need to attend classes and relies entirely on self-study.

When I arrived at the study room on the second floor, I saw that it was full of classmates, dozens of people in total.

Either they were memorizing or writing and drawing frantically, and everyone felt the pressure of graduating soon.

If you fail the assessment, you will be forced to be sent to the Imperial Seal Great Wall.

Although most of the martial arts apprentices would be placed in the Imperial Seal Great Wall, how could these weaklings from the liberal arts department compare with those tall, strong and mighty martial arts apprentices.

If you don't work hard at this time, when will you wait?

"Zhao Guanshan, do you want to practice today? But you have to queue up."

A classmate noticed Zhao Guanshan and whispered that his name was Liu Chen, and he was one of the few friends Zhao Guanshan had in the Taoist temple who shared the same fate with him.

Because they had both been deeply corroded by evil spirits and were in very poor health, they were nicknamed the Sick Cat Duo.

This was given to them during their second period of school by little kids who hadn't realized how cruel the future would be. It was one of the few ways they had fun.

But they didn't know that the gift from fate had already been secretly marked with a price.

Now these little brats either switch to martial arts or push themselves madly here. The final examination is really like a mountain to them.

There are no poor students here, only cannon fodder.

"It's okay, I'm not in a hurry."

Zhao Guanshan smiled and sat down opposite Liu Chen. After completing the spirit offering formation, the remaining steps were basically not difficult for him.

"Zhao Guanshan, which psychic weapon do you plan to choose for the final exam?"

Liu Chen asked, feeling a little irritated and anxious.

"Any one will do, but in your case, I suggest you choose the Psychic Lance. Although it has the highest frequency of failures and the most types of failures, and is especially difficult to repair and disassemble, one thing is that the chance of the Psychic Lance's spiritual array being damaged is very small. So, you don't want to repair a spiritual array, right?"

Zhao Guanshan said something casually, then stood up and went up to the third floor, leaving Liu Chen shivering there. Actually, his grades were good, but his psychological quality was not good enough!
As expected, there were a lot of people in the practical room on the third floor. Occasionally, some classmates came out happily, having successfully completed a practical exercise, as if they were sure of victory. Others came out with a pale face, extremely nervous, and sweating profusely.

Although this course covers the repair and maintenance of nine common psychic weapons, it actually only tests three aspects.

The first step is maintenance, which requires you to maintain the nine kinds of psychic weapons. This is an easy question.

The second step is identification, which requires visually identifying from a pile of damaged psychic weapons which ones can be repaired and which ones need to be scrapped. This is not difficult and is a easy-to-get-point question.

The third step is repair. You need to choose one of the repairable psychic weapons pointed out in the second step and repair it. The time is two hours. This really requires rote memorization and a few practical exercises. It is equivalent to the difficulty of vocational schools on Earth. For Zhao Guanshan, it is still a free point question...

“The queue for later!”

A guy who was a little thin but still stood out from the crowd of chickens spoke coldly.

This is also Zhao Guanshan’s classmate, Pang Ziyu.

He was considered one of the kings who once dominated the liberal arts college. He dreamed of switching to the martial arts department, but he fell short by a little bit in every assessment because he had not cultivated the first breath of pure yang energy.

How miserable.

Until now, he could only work hard to make up for the three plus one liberal arts course.

Wish him good luck.

Zhao Guanshan stood aside silently. Waiting is a virtue.

Besides, he won't wait long.

He knew very well the practical level of these people.

You haven't even mastered the things you memorized by rote, but you're already wasting precious practical opportunities, haha.

As expected, in just half an hour, only a handful of people successfully completed the practical exercise, and the rest walked out with pale faces, like zombies.

This is not Earth. You can live a happy life even if you get zero points in the exam and rely on your parents for support.

However, there is still half a year left, and after this blow, most of them should still have time to work hard to become stronger.

After all, the final examination was really too easy.

There was no one in line in front of him, so Zhao Guanshan swiped his card and walked into the practical room. He only had two practical opportunities left for this course.

He had used up all the previous opportunities to practice because he wanted to determine which psychic weapon was more suitable for him.

After comprehensive consideration, he chose the psionic crossbow and psionic spear.

The former is a psychic weapon that can be assembled, tied to the wrist, and charged with three bursts of energy in advance.

It is concealed, low-key, and unexpected, and it deals decent damage. Its only weakness is that its effective attack range is only within ten steps.

You can use it for yourself.

The latter can take the practical materials out and sell them.

At this time, a total of thirty-two grids were lit up dimly. Zhao Guanshan took out the practical materials he needed from them, put some that needed to be sold into his backpack, and then sat in front of a partitioned operating table.

Below the operating table, there is a huge black box filled with various damaged psychic weapons waiting to be repaired.

That’s right, in order to train students, the Taoist academy can maintain psychic weapons outside the monastery for free.

Many cash-strapped martial arts apprentices and even martial artists would send their psychic weapons over.

The entire repair period is ten days, and the Taoist temple also promised that the worst repair can ensure the normal use of the psychic weapon. If it is completely damaged, a second-hand psychic weapon will be compensated.

In short, the students got the opportunity to practice, and the martial arts apprentices got free benefits. It was just a good thing.

However, because of this, even if Zhao Guanshan completed the practical training in this course, he could not take his results away.

Otherwise, he could just repair a psychic weapon and take it away, why go through so much trouble.

At this moment, Zhao Guanshan did not intend to repair the damaged psychic weapons, but quickly took out the spirit supply array he had already assembled, and then used it as the core to install the practical materials he had just received one by one.

In less than thirty minutes, a small psychic crossbow was successfully assembled.

Because it's really easy to assemble.

Of course, this is a huge reform achievement of Daogong's modular production, standardized production, and assembly line production of various standard parts.

Apart from the core spiritual supply array, this psychic crossbow is essentially the same as the firearm assembly on Earth.

Zhao Guanshan suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and quickly tied the psychic crossbow to his right wrist.

This object is only 15 centimeters long, 4 centimeters high and 5 centimeters wide. Once covered with a sleeve, almost nothing can be seen.

It has two attack modes. One is to use a standard fine steel crossbow arrow, which can fire three shots in a row and break a three-finger-thick wooden board within ten steps.

In this normal mode, a piece of energy storage spirit stone can be fired continuously three thousand times.

Specifically, there is no need for people to string the crossbow themselves. Instead, they put the crossbow arrows into a special quiver, with three arrows in a row, and reload each time they fire. It is very fast, but it is only suitable for dealing with conventional enemies.

If you want to kill the strange evil demon, you have to use the second attack mode.

That is, use the energy storage spirit stone to supply spiritual energy to form three spirit-storing crossbow arrows, which can kill the free-range third-level evil demon at one time.

This attack mode is extremely powerful, but its only drawback is that it can only be fired five times with one energy storage spirit stone.

Moreover, the process of condensing the spirit-storing crossbow arrows is also very long. If there are three of them, there will be a thirty-minute cooling period...

The solution is simple. Replace the spirit supply array with a more powerful one and provide more spirit arrow boxes. However, the size will increase then. So, it is better to go for the psychic heavy crossbow with terrifying power that can fire one hundred spirit arrows continuously.

The psychic crossbow is actually used for emergencies.

But the psychic heavy crossbow is not among the nine common psychic weapons.

That's a heavy weapon.

(End of this chapter)