After three hundred years of accumulation, Song Zhong is now in a strong position. The Half-Immortal Thunder produced in the Wutu Temple was refined into more than one hundred and twenty Wutu Half-Immortal Thunder flying boats. Along with the increase in the number of flower demons, Yimu Divine Thunder also gradually exceeded the output of Wutu Divine Thunder. Eventually, the number of Yimu Divine Boats was even higher, reaching 150.
Most of these flying boats are 1,200 feet long, and only ten of them reach 1,500 feet. The reason for this is not that Song Zhong does not have enough divine thunder in his hands, but that he does not have so many genuine artifacts as the core. Even the genuine artifacts needed for these ten ships were obtained by Song Zhong with great effort. To this end, he even contributed his Earth-Opening Divine Shuttle.
Without genuine artifacts as the core, the larger the flying boat, the more high-grade spiritual stones it would consume. Although Song Zhong was rich, he could not supply hundreds of large flying boats.
Therefore, Song Zhong also installed pseudo-immortal weapons as cores on those secondary flying boats. Although they are not as powerful as the fairy cores, they are still enough to support the operation of a 1,200-foot flying boat.
After having so many divine thunder flying boats, Song Zhong became more confident. However, he still has not revealed these killer weapons in front of others. Most of the flying boats were hidden, and only about ten were left outside for people to see.
Even those ten ships, after adding the powerful Thunder Divine Ark and the Cold Ice Demon Ark, became an extremely powerful force. It's enough to compete with any super sect.
If Song Zhong's hidden troops came out together, they would be able to sweep through almost half of the cultivation world. But Song Zhong was not satisfied with such a powerful armed force. He kept asking the flower demons below to step up production and continue to increase the inventory with the number of one ship per year.
It doesn't matter even if the subsequent flying boats don't have the core of the immortal weapon. Song Zhong planned to use them as backup supplies. Once you have the immortal weapon, you can upgrade it into a top-level flying boat that can fight.
In addition, they are also extremely useful in the event of a major war. In case the airship on the front line is damaged and needs to be overhauled, the core can be replaced so that it can quickly enter the battle.
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Of course, during these three hundred years, Song Zhong did not completely copy Taoist Thunder's design. He himself also made necessary changes to the Thunder Flying Boat based on actual combat conditions.
The most important changes lie in two points. One is a way to supplement the core spiritual energy, and the other is the Divine Thunder Tower.
It turned out that when Song Zhong was commanding ten divine thunder flying boats at the same time and conducting battle exercises, he suddenly discovered an extremely serious problem, a big problem that would turn his flying boat fleet into garbage if not handled properly. It was precisely in response to this problem that he had no choice but to transform and upgrade Shenzhou.
And this problem is the power problem of the Divine Thunder Flying Boat. You must know that all the top flying boats in the world of cultivation are based on genuine immortal weapons. In this way, when they fight, they can use the special abilities of the immortal weapons to continuously absorb the spiritual energy of the surrounding heaven and earth, and quickly Supplementary consumption.
Since the speed at which the immortal weapon absorbs vitality is super fast, even greater than the normal consumption of a top-level flying boat, this top-level flying boat becomes a war fortress that never falls, and can even fight against loose immortals.
However, in the world of cultivation, top-level flying boats are extremely rare. There are only one or two in each super sect. Therefore, even if there is a sect war, there will not be many top-level flying boats.
Even in the spiritual world where spiritual energy is poor, the huge earth realm is filled with a sufficient amount of spiritual energy that can supply the consumption of several top-level spaceships. So generally, this isn't a problem at all.
However, Song Zhong doesn't just have three or five top-level flying boats! Instead, there are as many as a dozen ships, and there are nearly 300 secondary divine ships that can also absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to fight. If such a large fleet were to desperately absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth during a war, it would be a very terrifying demand. Even the low-level spiritual world cannot guarantee supply. Even the spiritual world, which is rich in spiritual energy, cannot support such a large amount of consumption for a long time.
Once a large amount of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth disappears in the spiritual world, not only will Song Zhong's fleet become useless waste, but it will also have catastrophic consequences for the entire spiritual world, and may even kill all the creatures in it. Let it completely turn into a deserted land.
Song Zhong is not a murderer, and of course he cannot allow such a thing to happen. And he might also fight in special realms, such as the Nine Nether Hells and the Endless Abyss, where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth itself is very meager, but evil and demonic energy are extremely abundant. If you still want to fight by absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, you will definitely suffer a big loss.
So as soon as this issue appeared, it immediately attracted Song Zhong's attention. After nearly a hundred years of research, Song Zhong finally managed to solve this problem through two improvements.
One of Song Zhong's solutions is to change the way Divine Thunder Flying Boat replenishes its spiritual energy. In addition to exposing their ability to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on their own, it also allows them to absorb stored divine thunder as power.
After all, these flying boats are all refined with divine thunder, and they are not repelled by divine thunder from the same origin and root. With a few modifications, they can convert thunder balls of the same attribute into their own spiritual energy. It's the same as using spirit stones to replenish spiritual energy, except that the spiritual stones with thin spiritual energy are replaced by thunder balls with huge spiritual energy.
In this way, as long as Song Zhong reserves enough divine thunder in the divine thunder flying boat in advance, he can use thunder balls to replenish the spiritual energy when he cannot absorb the spiritual energy of the world, so that the divine thunder flying boat can continue to fight.
Anyway, for Song Zhong, with so many subordinates condensed thunderballs, there is no shortage of this thing. In addition, there is enough storage space in the divine thunder flying boat, and there is no problem in storing mountains, let alone a mere thunderball. !
Ever since, Song Zhong, who was wealthy and wealthy, had each divine thunder flying boat store enough thunderball reserves for the flying boat itself to use in continuous combat for a month. With these thunder ball reserves, Song Zhong can make his divine thunder flying boat fleet exert great combat effectiveness even in a space without the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
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In addition to this improvement, Song Zhong also specially improved the divine thunder launcher. In the past, divine thunder towers were installed on flying boats as their main weapons. The Divine Thunder Tower can absorb enough spiritual energy from the flying boat, condense it into a thunder ball, then automatically aim and launch it. As for convenience, it is really convenient. It can attack automatically without anyone looking at it.
However, the consumption of the Divine Thunder Tower is really terrible. This consumption is mainly reflected in two aspects. One is that the Divine Thunder Tower itself is expensive, accounting for almost one-third or even more of the total cost of the flying boat. The other is that the Divine Thunder Tower is expensive. Leita consumes too much spiritual energy.
Because the divine thunder launched by the Divine Thunder Tower is all made on site, a large amount of spiritual energy will inevitably be wasted in the process of absorbing spiritual energy and condensing the thunder balls. The amount of spiritual energy wasted has something to do with the Divine Thunder Tower itself. A high-level Divine Thunder Tower wastes less spiritual energy and condenses it quickly, while the opposite is true for low-level ones.
However, even the most advanced divine thunder tower wastes half of the spiritual energy in the process of condensing the divine thunder, and its cost is almost comparable to that of high-end spiritual treasures.
In this regard, Song Zhong said that he was under great pressure and always wanted to improve, but had no idea how to start. Until one day, he accidentally discovered a treasure he obtained in his youth, and then he was inspired and found a solution.
The treasure Song Zhong found was the dragon-headed sky-blasting cannon. When he was still an innate monk, he was hunted down by four foundation-building monks. One of them used this dragon-headed sky-blasting cannon in conjunction with the earthly fire god thunder. Bombard Song Zhong. If it weren't for the big bronze bell, a hundred Song bells would be dead. That was the closest Song Zhong had come to death, and he was a little scared when he thought about it now.
After Song Zhong captured this dragon-headed sky-blasting cannon, he kept it as a trophy. It wasn't until that day that I had a sudden impulse to dig through my old things and found it again.
After seeing the dragon-headed sky-blasting cannon, Song Zhong's eyes suddenly lit up. The Dragon Head Sky Cannon itself can be regarded as a low-level thing to Song Zhong, but it gave Song Zhong a whole new revelation.
Because the principle of this dragon-headed sky-blasting cannon is completely different from the principle of releasing divine thunder in the cultivation world. The divine thunder tower in the cultivation world condenses the divine thunder by itself and then throws it out. However, the dragon-headed sky-blasting cannon is made after the divine thunder is made in advance, and then fired when it is used.
Regardless of this small difference, when it comes to using it, it is a huge difference. The Divine Thunder Tower that condenses the divine thunder on its own consumes Shenzhou's own spiritual energy. Shenzhou's own spiritual energy also needs to be used for flight and defense. There is not much of it in the first place. When it is consumed by the Divine Thunder Tower, it becomes even more stretched.
The top-level flying boats had almost infinite spiritual energy, so they didn't care. However, after Song Zhong formed the Shenzhou fleet, it would no longer be possible to have endless spiritual energy, so the consumption would become huge.
But if the Divine Thunder Tower is replaced by a dragon-headed sky-blasting cannon, it will be completely different. The Dragon Head Sky Cannon consumes only a little bit of its own spiritual energy, which can be used to aim and launch. The divine thunder it needs can be accumulated in normal times. This saves the divine thunder flying boat a lot of spiritual energy, allowing it to fight for a longer period of time!
Song Zhong quickly figured this out, and then began to collect methods for refining treasures such as the Dragon Head Cannon.
With Song Zhong's financial resources and power, collecting these things was no problem, and coupled with the ingenuity of Shui Jing and others, after spending decades, the brand-new treasure 'Divine Thunder Dragon Pattern Cannon' came to the fore. Sora was born.
The length of the divine thunder dragon pattern cannon ranges from three to thirty feet depending on the needs. It is engraved with exquisite dragon patterns and looks extremely gorgeous.
So far, Song Zhong has only built two types of divine thunder and dragon pattern cannons refined from Wutu Half Immortal Thunder, and divine thunder and dragon pattern cannons refined from Yimu Divine Thunder, and installed them on his two major types. Divine Thunder Flying Boat.
After installing the divine thunder dragon pattern cannon, Song Zhong's divine thunder flying boat immediately increased its combat power, more than doubling it. It has too many benefits and is countless times superior to the Thunder Tower.
In addition to saving spiritual energy, the Divine Thunder Dragon Pattern Cannon is also cheap after all. Because it does not require condensation of divine thunder, and the materials and formations required to condense divine thunder are the most expensive. Calculated, one divine thunder tower can produce more than a dozen divine thunder dragon pattern cannons of the same level. It is precisely because of this that Song Zhong was able to mobilize more financial resources to collect fake immortal weapons. Otherwise, he would not be able to build such a large fleet.
In addition, in terms of combat effectiveness, the two things are completely different. The Divine Thunder Tower can only fire one type of divine thunder, but the Divine Thunder Dragon Pattern Cannon is different. If you install the Wutu Divine Thunder, it will launch the Wutu Divine Thunder. If you install the Yimu Divine Thunder, it will launch the Yimu Divine Thunder. Moreover, the divine thunder dragon pattern cannon made by Yimu Shenlei also has power when it fires Yimu Shenlei.
Although the power of the divine thunder launched by other types is not increased, it is more lethal than the blessed divine thunder of this type when dealing with enemies with competing attributes.
In addition, the rate of fire is also a huge gap. The Divine Thunder Tower needs to condense the divine thunder, and this process is very time-consuming. Therefore, generally speaking, the intervals between divine thunders are relatively long, and it takes a few breaths at the least.
But the Divine Thunder Dragon Pattern Cannon is different. As long as there are enough cannonballs, it can fire continuously. It can fire two to three cannons in one breath. In other words, in the time it takes for the Divine Thunder Tower to fire one shot, the Divine Thunder Dragon Pattern Cannon can fire seven or eight shots, or even more than a dozen shots. This is equivalent to increasing the combat effectiveness several times, and is naturally much more powerful than the Divine Thunder Tower.
Of course, although the Divine Thunder Dragon Pattern Cannon is better than the Divine Thunder Tower, it is not without its shortcomings. Its biggest shortcoming is that it requires a dedicated person to control it. Each divine thunder dragon pattern cannon requires a dedicated gunner to load the shells, aim and launch. But the Divine Thunder Tower does not need to be so troublesome. It is fully automatic and extremely labor-saving.
However, this shortcoming is nothing to Song Zhong, he has many people. Whether it is the flower demon or the puppets of the Wutu Palace, under Song Zhong's enlightenment and creation, the number of each of them exceeds one million. Arranging some people to control the flying boat is no problem at all.
Moreover, after these people went up, it was not just as simple as firing. At critical moments, they can also personally participate in the battle, which is a fighting force that cannot be underestimated.
All in all, after being transformed by Song Zhong, the combat effectiveness of the Divine Thunder Flying Boat has been greatly improved. Once a battle breaks out, it will definitely shock the world. It's just that Song Zhong doesn't want to expose his strength yet, lest he become the target of public criticism. Unfortunately, Song Zhong's wish failed again. Sometimes, if you don't make trouble for others, others will make trouble for you!