Dragon's Origin

Chapter 779: Seeking New Materials (Part 1)

Wang Sheng's cultivation is only at the Legendary Realm, a full three realms away from those sealed old guys. Although Wang Sheng is accustomed to overcoming the strong with the weak, at this level, three realms are simply an insurmountable gap.

When he was Unranked, Wang Sheng could kill Fourth Realm Lord Dai with a sniper rifle, but now asking Wang Sheng to use a sniper rifle against those sealed masters is out of the question. The sniper rifle bullets hitting those people would probably only make their bodies shake a little; they definitely wouldn't be injured.

Sniper rifles won't work, and heavy sniper crossbows won't either. When Wang Sheng designed it, the heavy sniper crossbow was meant to deal with Ninth Realm masters. In fact, with good materials, even masters who had just advanced to the Legendary Realm couldn't 100% defend against the heavy sniper crossbow's attack. The Legendary masters who died under the heavy sniper crossbow can fully attest to this.

Back on Earth, although the heavy sniper crossbow's power couldn't compare to anti-tank armor-piercing rounds, it was at least several times stronger than the Barrett M82A1 with a 12.7mm caliber anti-materiel rifle.

But here, the current heavy sniper crossbow's power is still somewhat insufficient. If Wang Sheng wants to help Lin Xiu, and his own cultivation can't be improved in a short time, there's only one way: to use tools.

Either use special bombs, such as incendiary bombs or poison gas bombs, or continue to increase the power of the heavy sniper crossbow so that the fired heavy arrows can achieve the power of anti-tank armor-piercing rounds.

Wang Sheng can't make anti-tank missiles. Even if he could, with that kind of missile speed, it would be impossible to hit a Thirteenth Realm master. So, Wang Sheng can only find a way to make high-speed armor-piercing projectiles. If he can achieve the power of penetrating over one meter of armor like on Earth, he believes even a Thirteenth Realm master would have to kneel.

To make heavy arrows achieve that kind of power, he needs to refer to the design of long-rod penetrators. Wang Sheng is familiar with the use and basic principles of various in-service weapons and equipment on Earth and is quite familiar with long-rod penetrators. Wang Sheng only needs to strengthen a few aspects of the design.

First is the material. The material must be hard enough to break through steel armor and, of course, break through the defenses of masters. Wang Sheng doesn't have to worry about this. Da Xue's claws can easily tear through rocks and iron blocks. Presumably, the shells of powerful creatures in the ocean can also do the same.

Second is flight stability. No need to worry about this. The heavy sniper crossbow itself has rifling, and the heavy arrows fired are like sniper rifle bullets. There's no need to worry about them flying off course.

Of course, the most important thing to increase power is to increase mass and velocity. Long-rod penetrators are kinetic energy projectiles that rely on powerful kinetic energy to smash the hard warhead into the armor.

Now, Wang Sheng needs to consider finding suitable materials to increase the weight of the heavy arrows and increase the initial velocity of the heavy sniper crossbow to increase power.

Since discovering super-strong demon beasts in the ocean, Wang Sheng has been looking forward to the day when he could strengthen the power of the heavy sniper crossbow. Now, he can finally wholeheartedly do this.

For the material of the arrowheads, Wang Sheng's first thought is something similar to the sword-like or spear-like upper jawbone of swordfish or marlin in the Earth's oceans. There is evidence on Earth of a swordfish's rostrum penetrating a 50-centimeter-thick ship bottom. The rostrum of a super-strong demon beast-level swordfish is definitely a good material for making armor-piercing projectiles. He doesn't know if there are similar fish in this ocean; Wang Sheng needs to search.

Whether it's marlin or swordfish, they are deep-sea fish. They are at least three to five hundred meters deep. This is just common sense on Earth; in this world, it's probably even deeper.

Wang Sheng has a diving suit, underwater thrusters, underwater breathing cylinders, and even golden cloud patterns to conceal his aura. After pondering for a day, Wang Sheng finally decided to go underwater to explore.

Bai Xue can only fly Wang Sheng to the deep-sea area, but it can only circle in the air waiting for Wang Sheng while he is in the water. It can't help at all in the sea. Although A'Qi was worried, she didn't say a word to stop Wang Sheng. Anyway, A'Qi has already decided that the worst outcome is that she will die with Wang Sheng. Death is not something to be feared for A'Qi.

Carefully avoiding an area where super-long tentacles had appeared, Wang Sheng jumped directly into the water while still a dozen meters above the sea. Da Xue spread its wings and flew swiftly, issuing provocative long cries to help Wang Sheng attract attention on the surface of the sea. Wang Sheng, entering the water, plunged straight down.

The golden stripes of the Suanni Transformation were able to hide Wang Sheng's aura from Ling Xu Old Daoist's Eleventh Realm aura detection when Wang Sheng was at the Sixth or Seventh Realm. Now that Wang Sheng is at the Legendary level, it is definitely possible to hide from the perception of Thirteenth or Fourteenth Realm demon beasts.

All the way down, Wang Sheng felt the surrounding aura becoming more and more terrifying. After only diving two hundred meters, he had already discovered that there were at least thousands upon thousands of Sixth and Seventh Realm demon beasts around. If Wang Sheng hadn't known that there were many creatures in the ocean, an ordinary person who didn't know anything would definitely be too scared to move.

The golden cloud has one advantage: it can shield Wang Sheng's own aura, but it doesn't prevent Wang Sheng from sensing the demon beasts through their aura. Wang Sheng has already turned off the underwater thrusters. This thing requires spiritual energy to activate the formation stones, which is easy to expose. Wang Sheng just casually took a few metal items to overcome buoyancy and went all the way down.

Diving down five hundred meters, the surrounding demon beast aura had changed from the Sixth and Seventh Realm to the Seventh and Eighth Realm, and occasionally there would be Ninth and Tenth Realm ones. However, Wang Sheng had not yet detected any extremely fast fish.

At this depth, Wang Sheng already felt a little stuffy. If it weren't for the diving suit made of the skin of a Fourteenth Realm Super Sperm Whale, Wang Sheng estimated that diving another two or three hundred meters would be his limit. Now, with the help of the diving suit, Wang Sheng felt like he was only diving fifty or sixty meters deep on Earth, even at a depth of eight hundred meters.

At this moment, Wang Sheng was like a lifeless iron block, slowly sinking into the ocean. Neither the surrounding fish nor the demon beasts were interested in Wang Sheng.

Continuing down, Wang Sheng felt that he had exceeded a depth of one thousand meters, entering about one thousand two hundred meters, and Wang Sheng felt some discomfort. But this was still not Wang Sheng's limit; he could still dive.

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Finally, at about one thousand five hundred meters, Wang Sheng understood that he could not continue down. At this depth, Wang Sheng began to search carefully.

The surrounding demon beast aura faintly transmitted was already at the Legendary Realm or even the Epic Realm. Each one seemed to be much stronger than Wang Sheng himself, and their size was at least several times, dozens of times, or even hundreds of times larger.

After staying at this depth for less than half an hour, Wang Sheng suddenly noticed a powerful demon beast aura moving rapidly. Its speed was faster than all the surrounding demon beasts.