Nuclear-powered Sword Immortal-Chapter 45: Promotion

"I do want to know how you plan to make me confront a calamity," Gu Jinlai said.

Looking at the increasingly bright red Light of Karma, he mused, "Do I merely have to stroll outside for demons to crash into me?"

He scoffed, shifting his focus from the Light of Karma onto the glowing sphere surrounding his consciousness avatar.

Grand Sun Nine Refinements Visualization Method: Second Refinement, Small Achievement.

Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method: Small Achievement.

Wanxiang Sword Qi: Entry-level.

Invisible Sword Qi: Mahayana.

Crossing the World: Mahayana.

These were all the swordsmanship and cultivation techniques he had mastered.

Other techniques, such as the Nine Heavens Demon-Slaying Sword and Sighing Dragon Transformation Technique, although cultivated, were not yet at an entry-level and thus not listed.

"Six Purifications of Qingming, one employed to recall Os-Iridium alloy, leaving five..."

Gu Jinlai considered the thirty Gu family disciples soon to arrive.

Since he intended for them to follow the path of Demon Martial Artists, he could not neglect his own Grand Sun Nine Refinements Visualization Method and Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method.

With this thought, he immediately directed two beams of Qingming into the Grand Sun Nine Refinements Visualization Method.

A deeper level of understanding emerged, lasting a full twenty seconds.

When the Qingming scattered...

Grand Sun Nine Refinements Visualization Method: Second Refinement, Small Achievement → Third Refinement, Perfection.

This refinement of the Visualization Method not only offered a higher efficiency in practice but also led him to thoroughly comprehend the first Soul Secret Technique.

Great Sun Eternal Radiance Technique.

By igniting the overwhelming Power of Great Sun, it created an extremely dazzling aura of spirituality that irradiated and burned through the Demon Spirits.

"Unfortunately, Soul Secret Techniques weren’t very useful in direct combat," Gu Jinlai noted internally.

Next, he shifted his gaze to the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method.

With a thought, another two beams of Qingming smashed into it.

The difficulty of reaching Mahayana in the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method was notably higher than merely achieving Small Achievement.

Previously, to stimulate the Wanxiang Sword Qi, Gu Jinlai had already spent one Qingming on this Body Refining Method.

While its effect was only half exerted, the insight gained was still very significant.

Under such circumstances, two beams of Qingming failed to bring the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method to Mahayana, but upon the impact of the third beam of Qingming, it finally broke through.

Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method: Small Achievement → Mahayana.

"Worthy of a technique on the same level as the Grand Sun Nine Refinements Visualization Method, its practice difficulty is not much lesser compared to the increasingly challenging Grand Sun Nine Refinements Visualization Method," Gu Jinlai noted.

Luckily, the powerful technique brought similarly remarkable transformations.

Mahayana of the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method derived a...

Divine Skill.

Yes!

Not a secret technique, not an ultimate move, not a forbidden technique!

It was a Divine Skill.

"Great Sun True Demon Body!"

He quietly contemplated the mysteries of the Divine Skill derived from Mahayana of the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method.

Half an hour later, he suddenly said, "Su Nanxing, do not let anyone approach my courtyard, and should there be any disturbance within the room, there is no need to panic."

"I shall heed Master’s instructions," Su Nanxing responded.

As Gu Jinlai stimulated the spirit within his body, a blazing image of the Great Sun seemed to manifest behind him.

This image interwove with the external light, affecting his body, making his blood, True Qi, including his spirit and spiritism, all boil simultaneously.

At this moment, he felt his True Qi, body, spirit, and spiritism merge into one, transforming him into an indescribable existence.

In this mysterious state, his True Qi and body, propelled by the amplification of spirit and spiritism, seemed to break certain shackles and grow rapidly.

Grow!

Literally grow!

Gu Jinlai vividly felt the furniture around him such as tables, tea tables, and bookshelves shrinking rapidly...

While the roof beams seemed to be swiftly drawn closer to the eye.

In an instant, he had grown from a normal man of one meter eighty-six to a towering two meters sixty-six giant.

Two meters sixty-six!

Had it not been for the sufficiently high room, the suddenly enlarged Gu Jinlai would have toppled the building.

"This..."

Gu Jinlai looked at his arms, chest, and thighs, the bulging muscles rising, and an unprecedented sense of power surged within him.

This power...

Was like a bomb!

Every move he made could easily detonate this bomb, blasting out a force thunderous and mighty.

Not only that, in the state of Great Sun True Demon Body, he and the external world resonated uniquely.

It seemed as if he could draw some special energy from the external environment to replenish himself.

This energy...

Was the Sun.

He was absorbing solar energy.

No!

Solar energy was merely a catalyst; he utilized it to stimulate himself, causing a divine transformation in his body and gaining this changeable Demon God-like physique.

"Suddenly stretching a man under one meter ninety to two meters sixty, enlarging cellular gaps? Increasing cellular volume? Expanding nuclei? Seriously, what’s the principle behind it?"

Are we dismissing science, dismissing reason now?

This is not biology!

Gu Jinlai thought profusely but couldn’t solve it.

This made him, a seeker of Truth, very uncomfortable.

Unable to figure it out, he had to put these thoughts aside.

If even things like crossing dimensions can occur, and cultivation can be achieved, then him growing from one meter eighty-six to two meters sixty-six, too, is...

Normal.

Enough.

"My strength..."

Gu Jinlai stretched out his hand, spread his fingers, and then clenched them fiercely.

"Boom!"

The hurricane exploded!

The hall seemed to whirl up a low-intensity air blast.

"I have never seen a Great Demon, so I don’t know how strong the Great Demon body is, but now... I am definitely stronger than the Upper Demons!"

The body of a top Upper Demon.

Hugging Pill Realm True Qi cultivation.

Plus a heavy sword, heavy armor...

"Crushing a couple of Refining Gods should not be a problem, should it?"

Gu Jinlai muttered to himself.

However, to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the four-thousand-pound heavy armor and sword must be arranged soon.

"No, after transforming into the Great Sun True Demon Body, being two meters and sixty-six centimeters tall, the armor can be made bigger and thicker, and the same goes for the sword. I can totally aim for ten-thousand pounds."

Gu Jinlai said.

With the same volume, Os-Iridium alloy is three times heavier than steel.

Ten thousand pounds of armor and sword is not a difficult task.

Gu Jinlai experienced the surging of this explosive power.

Three minutes later, he felt exhausted.

Five minutes later, every cell was sending out signals of weakness.

When it continued to six minutes, Gu Jinlai felt the overwhelming burden on his body, teetering on collapse, and he stopped this Divine Skill.

"Let’s talk about energy conservation."

Feeling his own weakness, he pushed the door open and went out into the courtyard.

When he placed himself under the sun, he clearly felt a special energy from the "sunlight" enter his body, soothing the muscle fatigue and restoring internal energy consumption.

With this trend...

It would take three to five hours to recover.

"So, the body absorbs solar energy to store and releases it when performing Divine Skills? An enhanced version of photosynthesis? Have I become a green plant?"

Gu Jinlai sat down and quietly felt the changes in his body.

He planned to try a few more times after recovering.

Practice yields true knowledge.

"There’s still one Qingguang left."

While waiting for recovery, Gu Jinlai’s Divine Sense returned to the remaining Qingguang.

"Using a Qingguang just to reminisce about Os-Iridium alloy is too wasteful."

Soon, he thought of the Heavenly Grass Pavilion and the Meteor Star Guard battle not long ago.

Especially the battle at the Heavenly Grass Pavilion.

Refining God.

At this moment, even without armor, relying on his newly acquired Great Sun True Demon Body, he dared to confront it head-on.

But what was the biggest issue he faced when those Refining God powerhouses had not yet appeared?

The large number of enemies!

In the Heavenly Grass Pavilion, dozens of Hugging Pill, Gang Condensation, and Qi Refinement cultivators swarmed him. Even though he could kill a Hugging Pill with just a few strikes, he was nearly overwhelmed by their numerical advantage.

Not just him; even Refining Gods, Divinity Transformations, who hasn’t been like this?

Once trapped in a sea of people without the ability to break out in a short period of time, any giant, any True Man has only a path of death.

In this world, the power of individuals has not completely pulled apart from that of the collective.

In the Meteor Star Guard, there’s a record that six years ago, a Refining God Star Commander adept in movement techniques, leading one thousand elite, took on the role of entangling, not allowing the Divinity Transformation to break out, and then let one thousand elite engage in relentless attacks to deplete his True Qi, ultimately causing that venerable Divinity Transformation to die from exhaustion.

"Aside from those standing at the pinnacle of the Cultivation World who can control swords to fly, and enter Qingming with their Primordial Spirit Monarchs, anyone can be killed by the tactic of sheer numbers."

Even if someone secretly stole or destroyed the Primordial Spirit Monarch’s flying sword beforehand, their fate wouldn’t be much better than that of the Divinity Transformation Great Masters.

"Being formidable myself is a deterrent, having a huge army is also a deterrent."

Gu Jinlai associated this thought with his biggest rival, Lin Xiao.

Lin Xiao, leaning on the Lin Family, occupied the city of Linfeng and trained two thousand elite and four thousand troops.

This was an army entirely his and the Lin Family’s private military.

If Lin Xiao attacked with six thousand troops, what could he rely on to defend?

The physical capacity of a person has limits.

Even killing six thousand pigs would take a long time, let alone six thousand people?

"Terrifying."

Being surrounded by six thousand troops, his sword would be blunted...

And then like everyone else.

Die.

Die of exhaustion.

Gu Jinlai sincerely felt the pressure.

"I must find a way to solve it."

Under the pressure of crisis, his thoughts ran rapidly.

Elite troops in ancient times on Blue Star were equivalent to the cavalry of various nations.

Cavalry charging, invincible.

What ended the era of cavalry on Blue Star?

"It was the machine gun!"

Gu Jinlai said.

The Maxim Heavy Machine Gun with a firing rate of several hundred bullets per minute.

A few dozen heavy machine guns could rout two thousand elite.

If holding the terrain advantage, defending city walls and fortresses, even a dozen or just a few would suffice.

"Unfortunately, I don’t know how to make such a machine gun."

Gu Jinlai shook his head.

Only regretting that he didn’t study enough in his past.

If he had studied more back then, paid more attention during classes, knew how to make smokeless powder, how to make bullets, how to make machine guns, he wouldn’t have...

"Wait a second."

At this moment, he seemed to suddenly remember something: "I really don’t know how to make a Maxim Heavy Machine Gun, but when my country launched its first type 55 destroyer years ago, didn’t I go through a round of public education on the 1130 Short Range Defense Cannon?"