Nuclear-powered Sword Immortal-Chapter 85 Nuclear Power Engine

Lingxiao City.

Zhao Family’s mansion.

Gu Jinlai did not reside in the Meteor Star Guard Mansion but moved to the Zhao Family’s estate instead.

The reason for choosing Zhao Family’s mansion was, firstly, the high walls surrounding the estate.

Secondly...

The Zhao Family had a straight path.

This layout of the path was very convenient for deploying certain tactics.

However, since Gu Jinlai planned to make Lingxiao City the foundation for the rise of the Gu family, he naturally did not intend to wreck the city.

The battlefield he chose was never within Lingxiao City.

...

At this moment, in a tranquil room with an elegant environment.

Gu Jinlai was seated on a precious carpet with a scroll bearing the phrase "Be as Good as Water" hung on the clean white wall behind him.

His spirit was concentrated on the consciousness’s miniature figure, quietly planning.

There, only four Qingguang remained.

The disciples of the Purgatory Demon Sect and the Heavenly Gang Sect might not be good people, willing to do anything for gain, but they did not stain their hands with the blood of tens of thousands of innocent people over four years like the Three Great Families did.

Most of those at the Hugging Pill stage had at most a few dozen to a hundred lives on their hands.

In this case, the combined red names of both sides did not exceed any individual one of the Wang, Zhao, and Fang families.

He had obtained ten Qingguang.

Adding to his original Qingguang reserve, he had a total of twelve, deducting two for washing the sixteen layers of Karma down to fourteen, leaving ten.

After that, he used six on the Grand Sun Nine Refinement Visualization Method to perfect the cultivation of this top-tier Heavenly Master inheritance.

After the Grand Sun Nine Refinements Visualization Method reached perfection, the two clusters of purple light, already attracting each other due to the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method, had now fused into one.

As nearly a month had passed by now, a new cultivation technique had yet to be transformed.

"There are still four Qingguang left, I need two for activating the Short Range Defense Cannon, a significant weapon for True Spirit Possession, leaving two leftover...

Gu Jinlai looked at the two merging clusters of purple light: "I originally thought the fusion process would be quick, but judging by the current trend, it might take several months to a year for it to coalesce into form and become a new cultivation technique."

The time was not long.

For many Refining God Immortals, it’s even considered short.

But he did not intend to wait.

He always believed that the resources used were the good resources.

Qingguang was the same.

At this thought, a Qingguang rapidly merged into the mix of purple light clusters.

All of a sudden...

Gu Jinlai felt his spirit and consciousness enter a wondrous state.

It was as if...

Some form of life, some strange object, was being conceived.

In this process of conception, his thinking became extremely active, constantly pondering.

What is the core of the Grand Sun Nine Refinements Visualization Method?

Soul!

Great Sun!

What is the core of the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method?

Great Sun, Demon God.

Soul, that is, life.

Great Sun, soul, Demon God...

When he connected these notions, a deity that existed only in myth and legend sprang to mind.

Sun True God.

Donghuang Taiyi.

"Boom!"

As his thoughts flowed to this point, a ring of golden flame runes suddenly appeared at the center of his forehead.

There...

It seemed as if golden flames burned fiercely, emitting a divine, magnificent, and immense divine power.

However, this circle of flaming rings lasted only for a moment and soon faded away.

The "concept" of Donghuang Taiyi also gradually disappeared.

In a super boost state of mind, Gu Jinlai quickly realized something.

Too distant.

Donghuang Taiyi is the incarnation of the Great Sun.

Its energy is equivalent to an entire constant star.

Not to mention the constant stars in myth and legend, even the Sun beyond Blue Star contained an energy difference compared to him at this moment; how huge was it?

Immeasurable.

Not just him, but even those Primordial Spirit Monarchs, Devas, and Saints, even those great beings strong enough to invite Heavenly Tribulation upon themselves and shed their mortal bodies, are less than one ten-thousandth of the energy of the Great Sun above the Sky Dome.

The Grand Sun Nine Refinements Visualization Method and the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method were too far from Donghuang Taiyi.

He...

A mere mortal, fancied reaching the heavens in one step.

"I can’t do it," Gu Jinlai understood in his heart.

"At least, I can’t do it now."

With that thought, the phantom of Donghuang Taiyi faded away.

A new structural model rapidly took shape in his mind.

A force that mortals could control.

And moreover...

It was the ultimate power that mortals could currently control!

"Artificial Sun!" Gu Jinlai’s spiritual world let out a roar like a sonorous bell.

Nuclear Power Engine!

Controlled nuclear fusion!

A Great Sun suddenly manifested within his spiritual world.

Upon the manifestation of the Great Sun, a surge of energy continuously permeated and spread through his body, and in a flash, he felt as though his body was being forged and tempered in fierce flames, being recast from inside out.

This state lasted for a moment and quickly dissipated.

Ten seconds were up.

At the same time, Gu Jinlai clearly felt a certain special trace element within his body exhausted completely, turned into powerful energy that tempered his body.

This trace element...

Connecting it to his slight thirst,

He quickly understood something.

"The hydrogen accumulated in this body?"

And this round of refinement...

had elevated his Upper Demon Body to peak level.

One more step, and he would transform into a Great Demon.

"Hydrogen."

Gu Jinlai was very familiar with this element: "The human body’s water content, organic molecules, proteins, and cells all contain hydrogen."

In nature, hydrogen is ubiquitous.

To use the power of hydrogen for bodily refinement!?

In other words...

"In the future, will I become stronger even when I drink water?"

Not just with drinking water.

Taking a breath of cold air could also make him stronger.

Hydrogen is also present in the air.

He recalled a widely spread saying on Blue Star—that most people’s frequent gasps of cold air contributed to global warming.

If the "hydrogen" in this air could actually undergo a fusion reaction and release energy...

This...

Global warming was not an impossibility.

"Case closed."

Gu Jinlai commented with a tsk.

However, in a moment, he realized something.

If what had burned just now was all the hydrogen in his body, his current state would likely be more than just thirst.

Just now, the Great Sun manifested, and the fiercely burning power must have been the body’s accumulation of heavy hydrogen and super heavy hydrogen.

His "spirit" activated the heavy and super heavy hydrogen, causing them to fuse into a new atom—helium, releasing an intense burst of energy that strengthened him on the spot.

And because this energy contained the property of "spirit," that is, the trait of "life," hence...

He came out unscathed.

Gu Jinlai focused his gaze on the newly fused orb of light.

It was not green, not blue, not purple.

Gold.

The stuff of myths.

Gu Jinlai carefully sorted through the formation and evolution of this cultivation technique.

Gradually, he figured out the seemingly chaotic yet orderly logic of this technique’s operation.

"By absorbing solar radiation and using that radiation to stimulate oneself, refining the body’s hydrogen into heavy hydrogen and super heavy hydrogen, then refining them repeatedly with spirit until they co-spirit, taking on life, and finally, as spirit explodes, causing heavy hydrogen and super heavy hydrogen to fuse into helium, releasing immense energy in the process to fortify the body."

Fortify oneself, then proceed with Qi Refining and God Transformation to condense more spiritual essence.

The more spiritual essence one has, the faster co-spirit is achieved, leading to larger-scale nuclear fusion.

A virtuous cycle is achieved.

Gu Jinlai sensed this change, a slight smile appearing on his face.

A new path of cultivation unfolded before him from this point on.

"Good."

He had finally carved out a path suitable for him, belonging to him.

From then on, he just needed to keep cultivating along this path.

Until...

he truly demonstrated the power of the "Artificial Sun" to the world’s cultivators.

"The cultivation technique has already completed fusion... As for the name..."

Gu Jinlai thought of the sun in that world, eternally suspended in the sky dome like a massive furnace, ceaselessly providing heat to Blue Star and the world.

"Eternal Furnace."

He muttered to himself.

This new cultivation technique would be called the Eternal Furnace.

With a single thought, the gold orb, which remained unnamed, displayed information related to "Eternal Furnace."

Gu Jinlai glanced at the three remaining Qingguang and directly threw one of them into it.

"Buzzing!"

Immediately, information was presented on how to efficiently use solar radiation to stimulate oneself, guide the spirit in causing co-spirit with the body’s heavy hydrogen and super heavy hydrogen, and how to efficiently use the energy released when heavy hydrogens and super heavy hydrogen fuse into helium to temper oneself.

A well-trodden path.

Eternal Furnace: entry-level → entry-level.

"Impressive stuff," Gu Jinlai commented, unsurprised.

It had taken a great deal of Qingguang to raise the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method from Mahayana to Perfection. The Eternal Furnace was a notch above, forming an entire pathway system, so expecting a single Qingguang to advance it from entry-level to Small Achievement was indeed unrealistic.

After pondering briefly, Gu Jinlai left the quiet room and moved to the adjacent Martial Arts Arena.

He manifested the Great Sun True Demon Body state directly.

"It seems... I’ve grown a bit stronger, not sure if I’ve reached Middle-level Great Demon."

Gu Jinlai examined himself.

After moving around for a bit, he acutely sensed something.

Under the sunlight, his energy consumption seemed to have significantly reduced.

What could only be sustained for a few minutes before, now...

Could go on for over ten minutes with ease.

Then he called over Nian Buwang, who was guarding outside, to test the Great Sun Divine Light.

The result was also slightly stronger, by about thirty percent, neither high nor low.

"Having just switched from practicing the Grand Sun Nine Refinement Visualization Method and the Great Sun Demon God Body Refining Method to the Eternal Furnace, it’s not so quick to reveal all sorts of wonders."

Gu Jinlai remarked.

He concentrated his mind on the two remaining Qingguang.

The two Qingguang were probably still not enough to cultivate the Eternal Furnace to Small Achievement.

However...

Gu Jinlai narrowed his eyes: "The people from Meteor Star Guard and Purgatory Sect should be arriving soon, then..."

At this moment, a series of footsteps approached from outside.

Gu Chaoyang soon appeared outside the courtyard: "Patriarch, we’ve just received news. People from the Heavenly Gang Sect have stopped a hundred miles away from Lingxiao City. It looks like they want to join forces with the people from the Meteor Star Guard before launching an attack."

"To think that a force with four... three Refining God Monarchs would be so cautious against a mere Heavenly Master like me,"

Gu Jinlai shook his head: "How are Gu Chifeng and the others doing with their training?"

Speaking of Gu Chifeng, Gu Chaoyang’s spirits lifted: "Training is going well. Thunder is so strong that Gu Chifeng said that with this weapon, even when facing thousands of troops, the ten of them could fight their way in and out seven times."

"That’s good."

Gu Jinlai nodded.

At this time, he seemed to feel something and glanced outside the courtyard.

Following that, Su Nanxing, who was visibly different from before, appeared at the entrance.

Facing Gu Jinlai’s gaze, he bowed slightly and said, "Master, as commanded, I have now achieved Refining God."