Xuantian 1: Ancient Xuandongtian

Chapter 225 Bow of Defeat

Chapter 225 Bow of Defeat
1. The Second Ill-gotten Gains
Waterside Manor.

As soon as Mu Hanchan came back, he summoned Xiao Ren.

After seeing the person, Xiao Ren's eyes became serious and he asked with concern: "Master, why are you injured?"

"Cough cough!"

Mu Hanchan coughed twice and said, "I'm fine, it's not a big problem.

I have two important matters for you to handle now."

"Okay, what is it?"

Xiao Ren asked, cupping his hands.

Mu Hanchan untied the Qiankunyuan bag that was interwoven with black and white Tai Chi, and suddenly dozens of magical weapons flew out of it and landed in front of Xiao Ren one by one.

"This...a top-grade magic weapon, a mid-grade magic weapon, and...there are also one or two low-grade spiritual weapons.

There is also a mid-grade spiritual weapon!"

After Xiao Ren recognized it, his expression changed and he said.

"I need to recuperate now. Please help me sell these things on the black market and bring back the spiritual stones."

Mu Hanchan said.

"Well,… okay."

Xiao Ren hesitated for a moment, packed up dozens of magical weapons one by one, and went out when it was getting dark.

Mu Hanchan followed quietly until he saw Xiao Ren return to the manor, then he sneaked back into the waterfall cave.

Xiao Ren returned very slowly. No one knew what he was thinking, but he didn't do anything else.

In the waterfall cave.

"How many spirit stones did you sell?"

"1800."

Xiao Ren said, and with slightly trembling hands, he handed the package full of spirit stones to Mu Hanchan.

"it is good."

Mu Hanchan said affirmatively, and then said: "There is a second thing, you can do it tomorrow."

"what's up?"

So Mu Hanchan took out a bloody buffalo tendon and a thousand-year-old vine that he had bought from the young master of Li Wang's mansion and had been soaked in spiritual energy and water, and gave them to Xiao Ren.

"This is…?"

Xiao Ren asked as he looked at the two valuable materials.

“Find a woodworking shop in the city that specializes in making wooden instruments, give them a month, and ask them to make a bow for me.

The quality must reach the highest level.

Ask them how much they need for production and processing fees.”

"Ok."

So the next day, Xiao Ren went to handle it immediately.

He returned to Huanshui Manor in the evening and said, "Master, they checked the strength of the vine branches and the toughness of the beef tendons, and said that the two materials have reached the standard for making top-grade magic tools.

"Well, I know this, otherwise I wouldn't have let you take it for testing."

Mu Hanchan replied.

"One of them said they wanted to drill a hole in the middle to serve as an arrow hole."

Mu Hanchan frowned and said, "My vine branch is hyperbolic, and its bend can be used as a place to put arrows, so there is no need to drill a hole.

And if you drill a hole,

If you need to install additional formations, there will definitely be an additional charge.

Otherwise it will disrupt the smooth flow of spiritual energy."

Xiao Ren said: “The explanation they gave was that it was a top-grade magical weapon with great power.

The requirements for the speed of the monks' spiritual power operation are very high.
And the quality of spiritual power is even better.

So we drilled holes to install a roundabout.
It is to buffer the spiritual energy and avoid harming the meridians and body of the monks."

Mu Hanchan frowned and said, "What they said is right, it does make sense and can play that role.

But I am not the kind of monk they expected.

My spiritual power is of sufficient quality to withstand "vigorous exercise", just tell them so and let them do as I say."

"Ok."

So Xiao Ren went again and came back soon.

"They agreed, but said they would charge a processing fee of 320 spirit stones."

Mu Hanchan was silent for a moment and then said, "How long will it take to make it?"

"Three months."

"Can it be faster? Two months, one month is best."

Xiao Ren suddenly felt that the young man in front of him was a little impatient, but he didn't know what to say.

He replied: "I have asked about this as well. The production cycle of a top-grade magic weapon is 1 to 3 years.
March has been extremely fast.

If you want to compress the time, you have to double it.”

"How much will it cost?"

"In two months, the price will increase by 1.3 times. In the fastest month, the price will increase by 1.7 times on top of the previous increase."

Xiao Ren replied.

"Just tell me, how many spirit stones do you need?"

"707.2 yuan."

（320×1.3=416，416×1.7=707.2。）
Mu Hanchan was silent, as if the price had already hurt him greatly.

But after a long time, he said affirmatively: "Okay, let's do it this way."

After saying that, he gave Xiao Ren eight hundred spirit stones.

2. Xu Tang Workshop and those unknown producers.

"Brothers, sisters!"

A young man in his twenties suddenly stood on the workshop's roof and called out to everyone.

There were nearly a hundred people in this group, all of them were lazy and their cultivation was around the sixth level of Condensation Stage, neither higher nor lower.

"What's wrong? I'm taking a nap!"

A sturdy man said dissatisfiedly.

"Brother Tang and I have something to tell you all."

"What the hell? We haven't had any work for half a month. If this continues, everyone will starve to death."

"Yeah, and it disturbs people's naps."

Unexpectedly, one person immediately retorted: "If you think it's not good, then go hunt animals. You don't dare to risk your life with monsters."

"I asked you to grind iron and grind stones, but you thought it was too tiring."

The strong man didn't appreciate it and said, "Your workstations are better than ours, so of course it's easier to talk while standing."

"Then isn't it normal for us, the seniors, to have a good position? Why don't you blame yourself for coming in late?"

"Haha, it's fine if there's a good seat, but I'm afraid there will be people standing in the toilet without taking a shit, eating more and doing less."

"What did you say…"

"Okay! Quiet!"

Another middle-aged man in his late twenties spoke up, interrupting the chattering of the crowd.

“We’ve got a big job!”

"What big job?"

"I'll ask Brother Xu to pass the order to everyone so you can check it out for yourself."

So he gave a piece of parchment roll to the people below.

Unexpectedly, as soon as it reached the first person's hand, that person screamed out in surprise: "A top-grade magic weapon?"

"what?"

At this moment, everyone was excited and rushed forward to see it.

“Everyone, be careful and don’t tear the parchment. This order must be kept. It will help us improve our qualifications.

It can also prove the strength of our workshop." "Is this true? Our workshop has not received such an order for ten years."

"of course it's true."

“Then why would the wood shop give it to our workshop to make it?”

"Because the customer's deadline is tight, we need to process day and night, and only the number of people in our workshop can barely operate. Of course, the processing fee is also doubled."

"How long?"

“Complete production and four tests within one month.”

"Ah? A month?"

"The time is really tight. According to the blueprint of this top-grade magic weapon, this order will probably require 128 steps.

Especially the last 28 steps,
It's all about array debugging, it's hard to handle."

"No matter how hard it is, you have to support me. This is an opportunity for our workshop. We finally got such a big order, we must complete it!"

So the two of them began to direct and encourage, and started the production day and night.

3. Use dry vines to make a bow.

A month later.

Xiao Ren came back with something wrapped in layers of black cloth.

After Mu Hanchan opened it, a spiritual energy came over him.

"Wow!"

Xiao Ren couldn't help but let out an exclamation.

The main body of the bow is dry gray, with thin grass-green vines wrapped around it, which looks solid and gorgeous.

The dry gray color of the main body of the bow forms a sharp contrast with the tiny grass-green strips of paper that are nourished by spiritual energy.

"Um…"

Mu Hanchan also expressed his satisfaction.

“Is this the ultimate magic weapon?”

Xiao Ren muttered to himself.

"what is this?"

Mu Hanchan suddenly discovered that there were three rows of small seal characters on one end of the bow.

When I looked closer, I saw the words:

Producer: Xu Qiang

Supervisor: Tang Wei
Produced by: Xu Tang Workshop

Xiao Ren explained: "Top-grade magic tools are made individually, not in batches, and each one is excellent, so the name of the craftsman must be engraved on it.

This is a long-standing tradition.”

"Aren't there any top-grade and top-grade magical instruments?"

"Well, it's not at that level yet."

Mu Hanchan said: "But top-grade magic tools have product numbers, right?"

"Yes."

Xiao Ren replied: "Top-grade magic tools are the only ones that are produced in large quantities and are excellent.

So there is the item number, but nothing else.

Top-grade magic tools don’t have product numbers, but they do have manufacturers, and they are usually upgraded from top-grade magic tools.”

Mu Hanchan said: "So, about one-third of the top-grade magic tools will have space reserved, and this will be explained to the buyers when they are sold, so that the buyers can choose whether to reserve this space based on their upper limit, right?"

"Yes."

He also said: “Not only can the top-grade magic tools be advanced, but the lower-grade magic tools can also be advanced, but they can only reach the middle-grade position.

Even the upper middle and upper upper grades cannot be advanced."

Lowest grade → Low grade → Middle-lower grade → Middle grade. (Advanced)

Medium quality → upper-middle quality. (Cannot be advanced)
Upper middle grade → upper grade. (Cannot be advanced)
Top grade → Top grade. (Advanced)

Top-quality → Top-quality. (Cannot be upgraded)
Top-quality magic tools are manufactured independently, and each piece is produced on a single line. The drawings are provided by the store for the client to choose from.

The so-called processing fee is actually the drawing fee.

For commissions to produce top-grade spiritual weapons, the client needs to provide the drawings himself.

"So mid-grade magic weapons have the highest trading rate?" Mu Hanchan asked.

Xiao Ren shook his head and said, "Not really, upgrading a low-grade magic weapon to a medium-grade one has already reached the limit of the materials.

Basically, it's almost useless.

Not much trading value.

The items that are traded most often are the medium- and high-quality magic tools that cannot be upgraded. The high-quality magic tools are too expensive, so the transaction rate is also very low.

As for the top-grade instruments,

It is most cost-effective to buy it in a store, but it is not much cheaper in the second-hand market.
Because the channel was cut off.”

"Hey, okay."

Mu Hanchan said helplessly.

"This is a top-grade magic weapon, a personal high-end custom-made one. Master, please give it a name."

Xiao Ren said as he looked at the magic weapon, with love and envy in his eyes.

"What do you think?"

"A dead tree comes back to life in spring. How about we call him the Bow of Spring?"

Mu Hanchan did not deny it, but said: "Pick up the bow in your hand."

So Xiao Ren picked it up with one hand and looked at it carefully, his eyes full of admiration.

In just a short while, his hands became cracked and blood even flowed out of the cracks.

He quickly put it down and said in horror: "This...?"

"Now you know why I soaked it with spiritual energy after I bought it, right? These newly grown tiny green branches can serve as protection."

After saying that, he waved his hand, and the green branches wrapped around the handle. When he grasped it again, the dead wood no longer absorbed the vitality of his hand.

"So that's it."

"In this case, do you still think this is a dead tree coming back to life?"

"I don't think so. The aura of this bow is so severe that even if there are many green vines wrapped around it, it can't hide the aura of damage."

After saying that, he looked at his cracked hand again.

"In that case, let it be defeated."

4. There is not one in a million.

The possession rate of each level of magical instruments by cultivators in the Condensation Realm (from the perspective of Heaven)
Low quality: 3.25%
Low quality: 18.34%
Middle and lower quality: 25.41%
Medium quality: 37.66%
Upper middle grade: 13.98%
Top grade: 1.06%
Top quality: 0.2903%
Excellent: 0.0097%
Bow of Defeat Parameters:

The bow body measures 121cm.

Bowstring straight line external measurement 87cm
There are five linked compound arrays in each section, and the compound array consists of 2 arrays embedded inside 3 arrays.

150 degree semi-full inlay process.

The third formation is large, and the second formation is small.

There are five forks at each end of the bowstring, and each fork has a different stagger.

比例为0.5：0.9：1.6：2.1：2.4。

Like grabbing with five fingers.

Bow body hardness 8.3,

Bowstring toughness 17.6.

The bow can withstand a pulling force of 2.2W to 3.5W.

Bowstring spiritual power push value: 3.9W~4.7W.

Thousand-year-old vine branches are second-grade top-quality materials, and bowstring buffalo tendons are third-grade low-quality materials.

Maximum bowstring stress value: 5.5W (distortion) ~ 5.8W (breakage).

Maximum penetration power: 7W+.