Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 152 Turbojet and Turbofan

Yes, the most important reason why Chen Ping wanted a piece of high-quality steel was that he wanted to use it to make a set of turbine blades.

Turbine blades, which are usually installed on flying soul guides, are among the most important parts besides the core magic array.

However, flying soul tools are basically all level four soul tools!
Could it be that Chen Ping is going to try to make a level four soul tool?
of course not.

Not to mention that Chen Ping can only create level two soul guide core arrays at present, and can be considered a level two soul guide master at most.

Even if he can now create a level four core magic array, what use is the flying soul tool he can't use himself?
The most important step in using this flying soul tool is takeoff, and the takeoff process involves injecting soul power into the soul tool and then propelling it towards the ground.

Once the body has ascended to a high altitude, then spread the folded wings.

At this point, thanks to the buoyancy of the airflow using their wings, they only need to use their soul guides to change the downward thrust into a horizontal thrust, which will allow them to accelerate in the air.

All of this requires a strong reserve of soul power within the body; otherwise, the altitude won't be high enough, and the buoyancy of the airflow won't be sufficient, let alone flight.

What Chen Ping needs to do is create a level-two flight soul tool.

Yes, even Shrek Academy's soul guidance system can only reduce the burden, cut the endurance, and enhance the soul master's soul power eruption by various means to lower the level of flying soul guidance devices to level three, so that a three-ring soul master can barely use these flying soul guidance devices.

How could Chen Ping possibly be planning to create a level-two flying soul tool?
For Soul Masters on the Douluo Continent, including those of the Sun Moon Empire, Chen Ping's idea was indeed a pipe dream.

After all, injecting soul power into the core magic array and converting it into flames to propel a soul master into flight requires a relatively strong thrust, and the soul power intensity within a great soul master is far from reaching this baseline.

Chen Ping was aware of all this, but he noticed one thing: the nozzle structure of all the flying soul tools used on Douluo Continent was turbojet type.

The biggest difference between a turbojet structure and a turbofan structure is that the turbofan structure lacks an external bypass duct.

On Earth, this would mean high fuel consumption and low efficiency. If moved to the Douluo Continent, it would mean an enormous consumption of soul power for soul masters, which low-level soul masters simply cannot afford.

Compared to a turbojet-structured flight soul guide, Chen Ping only needs to add a large turbofan and an external bypass duct to his flight soul guide. This will allow his flight soul guide to generate thrust not only by directly expelling high-temperature, high-pressure gas through the turbine and tailpipe, but also by gaining additional thrust through the rotation of the external bypass duct and fan.

This extra boost is the source of Chen Ping's confidence in creating a level-two flying soul tool, and it's also the holiday assignment Chen Ping plans to give to Qian Duoduo when school starts.

But before that, he had to forge out the refined steel he needed.

For Chen Ping, the obstacle standing between him and the field of Thousand Forging was his own heart.

He was a staunch materialist and couldn't understand why so-called patterns could exist within a single piece of metal.

I can't understand why tungsten steel, after being forged a thousand times, can not only reduce its size and increase its strength, but also increase its weight by 30%.

This incredible aspect, which completely overturned Chen Ping's basic concepts, is the fundamental reason why Chen Ping, despite his hard work, still couldn't reach the level of Thousand Refinements.

Fortunately, Chen Ping found a way this time: to forge entirely by feel. Since the forging process in Douluo Continent becomes less and less scientific as it progresses, why bother being meticulous? He'd just start hammering away based on his intuition first!
Understanding the underlying principles is something that theoretical scholars need to consider.

He should now utilize his engineering skills and just go with the flow and start hammering.

As for how the hundred-fold refined metal turned into the thousand-fold refined metal during this period, Chen Ping didn't need to care at all. As long as he could get the thousand-fold refined metal out and use it, that was enough for Chen Ping.

With such a purely pragmatic mindset, Chen Ping's forging skills finally improved rapidly.

Looking at the hundred-fold forged steel in front of him, which had been heated in the forging furnace for a full half hour and was now glowing red, Chen Ping used iron tongs in his left hand and an iron hammer in his right hand to lightly tap the hundred-fold forged steel, producing a crisp "ding-da-da" sound.

This strike is called the test hammer. Before forging, blacksmiths use this method to check the toughness of the metal being forged.

Noticing the slight deformation of the hundred-fold steel before him under the hammer blow, Chen Ping knew he could continue.

Unlike Tang San, who swung his hammer and sent rare metals flying everywhere, Tang San used the Chaotic Cloak Hammer Technique to prevent the rare metals from flying out completely, thus purifying the metals.

It was also different from Tang Wulin's two hammers flying up and down and pounding back and forth like chopping dumpling filling.

Chen Ping's forging method is the simplest one-handed hammering method. The iron tongs in his left hand hold the hundred-fold steel. Every time Chen Ping's hammer falls, sparks fly, making the hundred-fold steel in front of him shrink a little more.

A heavy sword has no edge, and a heavy sword has no skill.

Chen Ping hammered away, slowly and steadily removing the metal impurities, increasing the metal's density without damaging its internal structure.

Chen Ping's technique at this moment may not be dazzling or fancy, but every time he strikes, he can solidly improve the quality of the rare metal in front of him.

Soon, after a thousand hammer blows, with each strike, Chen Ping could fully perceive the texture of every part of the hundred-forged steel in front of him, and understood how to strike it to perfectly forge this rare metal.

One hour, two hours
Soon, Chen Ping's forging continued from day to night. His body, which had been taking medicine for many years, finally showed its advantages. Although he had been hammering for more than ten hours straight, Chen Ping could still swing the hammer.

At this moment, the hundred-refined steel in front of Chen Ping, which was originally the size of a ball, had shrunk to the size of a palm. The red-hot steel inside had a natural, seamless texture.

As the steel becomes increasingly solid, its density seems to have reached its limit, and it will no longer shrink inward.

But each time Chen Ping hammered it, he was subtly improving its texture, making it more natural.

The firelight illuminated the entire workbench in a fiery red glow. Chen Ping's clothes clung tightly to his body, the result of sweat seeping out and being dried by the high temperature.

But Chen Ping's eyes grew brighter and brighter, as if he had truly grasped the so-called feeling of being forged a thousand times.

(End of this chapter)