This is truly flying with a sword, not like last time.
Last time, Sun Simiao was riding a lowly creature, and he, Yuan Tiangang, was that lowly creature...
Old Yuan was very excited, completely unaware of anything else, he only knew that this feeling was great!
But as he flew, he, like Fang Er, discovered the problem. This damn thing could only fly straight up and down, but couldn't change direction, which was really frustrating!
He sat cross-legged on the wide, broad sword, stroked his nonexistent beard, and pondered how to deal with it.
On the ground, Fang Er and Sun Simiao watched him with telescopes.
They saw that after sitting for a while, he inspected the large sword beneath him, then took something out of his pocket and inserted it into the sword's hilt.
The hilt was made of dragon bone, covered in dragon scales, and hollow inside.
Then, Fang Er, with a shocked expression, saw a stream of fire spurt out from the hilt!
Propelled by the fire, Yuan Tiangang staggered, almost falling off.
After stabilizing himself, he burst into laughter.
"Hahahaha! This is a miracle!"
"Hahahaha........."
Damn, this old geezer really knows how to have fun!
Fang Er watched this scene with his mouth agape.
He saw Yuan Tiangang standing on the flying sword, carving an arc in the air, and quickly descending towards the ground.
"Whoosh........."
About two meters above the ground, he leaped off. The large sword flew several meters away and plunged directly into the adjacent Octopus Lake.
"Boom!"
As soon as Yuan Tiangang steadied himself, the giant sword erupted, sending water waves several meters high into the lake.
A mass of bright red blood stained the clear lake water.
With a *splat*, an alligator's claw flew out of the lake and landed at Fang Er's feet.
Everyone:.............
Holy crap, what the hell is this.......
Fang Er's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot as he stared at Yuan Tiangang: "Old Yuan, you did that on purpose!"
"Uh, can you believe me if I say it was an accident?" Yuan Tiangang said somewhat awkwardly.
Fang Er: ........
I don't believe you for a second!
This wicked old man!!!
He bent down, picked up the half alligator claw, shot Yuan Tiangang a fierce glare, and turned to walk home.
As he walked, he took out his walkie-talkie.
"Qing Que, get me ten more sets of that dragon scale armor and dragon scale swords!"
...........
At the Fang residence, Xi Tong had already returned from the Myriad Song Realm, successfully bringing back over thirty phoenixes.
During dinner, Xi Tong mysteriously pulled Fang Er to the backyard.
"Little thief, look at this!"
Saying this, she took out a box from her pocket.
The small box was exquisite, and Fang Er chuckled as soon as he saw it.
"What, are you proposing to me?"
"I'm proposing to your face! Hurry up and open it!" Xi Tong glared at him impatiently.
Fang Er took it with a smile, opened the lid, glanced inside, and froze.
"This! Where did you find this?!"
"Myriad Song Realm! I dug it out of the old phoenix nest, damn it!"
Xi Tong was very pleased with his shocked expression and said triumphantly.
Inside the box was the mysterious cube that had shaped her body!
The same kind found in the meteorite crater in South Africa!
"With this, we can return to the main world. How about it, satisfied?"
How could Fang Er not be satisfied!
Xi Tong had said long ago that parallel worlds were based on Earth's existence, and everything in space was just a mirror image – visible, but inaccessible.
Including the parallel world Xi Tong had been in, satellites and spacecraft launched could only hover in low Earth orbit, unable to even reach the moon.
Only by returning to the main world could they break out of Earth and head towards the sea of stars.
"What do I need to do?"
He pointed at the cube and asked.
Even with the item, they needed to know how to proceed.
Xi Tong didn't answer. Instead, a playful smile crept onto her lips. She stepped forward, hooked Fang Er's chin with her jade finger.
"Sun thief, you haven't paid your dues in two months!"
Fang Er: ............
This woman always brings up improper matters when discussing serious business!
Damn it, any man would be provoked!
"Slap!"
He slapped Xi Tong's face back, saying fiercely.
"You little vixen, you're getting more and more arrogant!"
Xi Tong deliberately licked her lips.
Fang Er: ........
Close the door, unleash the beast!
He kicked the backyard door shut and, turning around, proceeded to do the deed right beside the swimming pool!
"[...Come on... giggle giggle giggle...]"
"Damn it, I'll beat you to death today!"
*Plop!*
Waves were stirred up in the swimming pool.
..........
The next morning, Fang Er slowly woke up, feeling something being thrown onto his face.
He picked it up and looked, it was Chai Yue's clothes..........
He looked around, and Xi Tong was nowhere to be seen.
Only Chai Yue was sitting beside him, her feet soaked in the swimming pool, turning to look at him.
And she was only wearing a bikini...
"Husband, do you still have strength?"
Fang Er's eyes immediately widened: "Who do you think I am!"
He then pounced like a wolf.
Soon, a song called "Left Finger Moon" echoed in the backyard.
.............
After a long time, Chai Yue pouted and complained.
"Mother has urged me to have a second child eight hundred times, and you're still wasting it!"
Fang Er chuckled: "Why have a second child? Your figure will be ruined if you have another."
"Even if my figure gets ruined, I still want to have one!"
"Really?"
"Really!"
"Then... shall we do it again??"
"Bah! Dream on, I'm almost dead from exhaustion!"
..................
Fang Er got up, put on his clothes, and asked, "Where is Xi Tong?"
Chai Yue helped him fasten his buttons and replied casually, "She said she went to the research institute to make something and left early this morning."
After the last button was fastened, Fang Er kissed her forehead with a smile.
"Wait for me at home, I'll come back to sow my seeds tonight!"
With that, he let out a laugh and walked out.
At the research institute, when he found Xi Tong, a pile of messy things were arranged beside her.
"What are you busy with?"
"Isn't it preparation for your return to the main world?"
Xi Tong said, not stopping her hands, drawing something on paper while piecing together the messy items.
Fang Er couldn't understand what she was doing and could only watch awkwardly from the side.
"Let me know if you need help?"
"You're not needed here. You'd best hurry and get more gold. The energy required will be immense!"
"Back then, to send me to the main world, they had to empty out an entire world!"
Fang Er suddenly remembered something: "Can we go back to your world and get those experts to help?"
"No way, that world is already dead after all its energy was drained!"
"Dead??"
"Ga..."
Returning to his office, he called Wang Xuance over using the walkie-talkie.
This guy had just returned yesterday and was preparing to head to the next world. If Fang Er had been half an hour later, he would have left.
"My Lord!"
"Sit. How many gold mining ships do we have now?"
"Around eight thousand."
This number made Fang Er's spirit lift.
Finding people and ships was Wang Xuance's responsibility, and he rarely inquired.
He never expected that they would have so many gold mining ships now!
"Assemble all the brothers!"
Fang Er suddenly stood up.
"Per regiment, allocate a thousand gold mining ships. Starting today, we will conduct large-scale gold mining!"
"Each parallel world will have a time limit of seven days. When the time is up, we will move on to the next world to continue mining!"
"Yes!"
Wang Xuance left without hesitation.
Fang Er, on the other hand, went to the warehouse and redeemed a massive amount of field rations.
Soon, the Skyfire Army stationed in Australia was mobilized.
Each regiment, with 1,245 people, after receiving supplies, drove their gold mining ships into one spatial-temporal tunnel after another.
Only three hours later, the first batch of teams returned, unloaded the gold bars, and then plunged back into the tunnels to continue mining.
Almost every minute, every second, ships were traveling back and forth between the Spatial-Temporal Administration and the various parallel worlds.
Gold bars were increasing at a visible speed.
Fang Er stayed in his office at the Spatial-Temporal Administration, going out every half hour to collect the gold bars and put them into the system warehouse.
He couldn't leave, otherwise, within half a day, the open space at the entrance of the Spatial-Temporal Administration would be piled high with gold bars!
This kind of task was very dry and uninteresting.
He tossed piles of gold bars into the system warehouse, not even bothering to count them.
But even without counting, he could estimate the approximate amount.
With eight thousand gold mining ships, even the slowest ones could return once every two hours.
This meant an income of four thousand gold bars per hour, each weighing 200kg.
Four thousand bars would be 800 tons!
If they operated 24 hours a day without stopping, that would only be twenty tons.
He didn't know how long it would take to finish mining, and thinking about the drawbacks of the dragon scale set, he casually wrote two notes and sent them to the research institute, to be given to Motorola.
Then, he started reading novels to pass the time.
Well, the novel was written by the fat guy!
The fat guy who Li Shimin brought back from later!
I heard he's now a bald and fat guy, being watched by the Xuanjia Army to churn out words all day, and if he's a bit slow, he gets a little whip...
Alright, my sympathy for him for three seconds!
The days passed, and the gold bars in the system warehouse grew at a terrifying rate.
The Spring Festival of the seventh year of Zhenguan was approaching insensibly.
Fang Er's long clothes and pants were once again replaced with flowery shorts and a small vest.
One day, he was sitting in a lounge chair, chuckling happily, when a loud noise suddenly came from afar.
"Boom!"
The sound was like a thunderclap.
Fang Er was startled and leaned back.
"Holy crap!" he scrambled to get up and quickly threw a gold mining ship into the air.
The sound came from the direction of the experimental field. He glanced that way.
He saw countless people gathered around the experimental field, as if an experiment had just been conducted.
"Keep an eye on this place!"
After saying that to Xie Zong, Fang Er immediately rushed towards the experimental field.
In the middle of the crowd, Li Tai was squatting on the ground, covered in soot.
In front of him, a pit ten meters in diameter and about three meters deep was still emitting black smoke.
"What happened?"
Fang Er leaped off the gold mining ship and asked when he saw this scene.
"The light stone battery exploded!"
Li Tai said with great dejection.
Light stone battery??
Fang Er thought for a long time before remembering this matter.
Li Tai had indeed mentioned it to him before, but he was reading a novel at the time and didn't pay much attention.
Damn it!
This damn fat guy misled me!
Only now did he recall that Li Tai had been very excited at the time, saying that he had found a material that could be used to make new types of batteries, and if successful, the energy storage capacity would be more than a hundred times that of lead-acid batteries!
Fang Er pointed at the pit and asked, "How big was the battery that exploded and created such a large pit?"
"Not very big, only two cubic meters." Li Tai sat by the edge of the pit, lit himself a cigar, and continuously massaged his temples with his left hand.
At the bottom of the pit, Volt and Watt were together, with their backsides sticking up, collecting the battery wreckage.
Fang Er: ..........
Just making a battery, and starting with something this big, are they trying to outdo Yuan Tiangang in courting death?
Just then, Yuan Tiangang squeezed through the surrounding researchers. Seeing the scene, he said sourly.
"Fang kid, you're not being fair!"
"You didn't call this poor Taoist to join you for this kind of thing!"
"Miracles, this poor Taoist is the professional!"
Fang Er was speechless.
This old geezer, speak of the devil, and he appears...
"You old man, stop making sarcastic remarks. This isn't an experiment with explosives, hurry up and go somewhere cool to hang out!"
Saying that, he stepped forward and pushed him outwards.
Yuan Tiangang stared reluctantly at the large pit and shouted.
"Hey, hey, hey, don't! Explosions!"
"Where there are explosions, how can this poor Taoist be absent!"
"Judging by your attitude, you don't want it to explode, right!"
"You're looking for me, aren't you? Explosions or not, I'm the best at it!"
"Mountain Lord, wait!"
Li Tai suddenly stood up and strode over to Yuan Tiangang.
"Are you sure you can prevent the light stone battery from exploding?"
Yuan Tiangang chuckled, stroked his newly grown beard, and said.
"This poor Taoist doesn't know what a light stone battery is, but this poor Taoist only knows that explosions are very demanding conditions."
"You can blow things up, which means you have great talent in the art of miracles!"
"How about it, Your Highness the King of Wei, why don't you defect to this poor Taoist's tutelage?"
Fang Er's mouth twitched. When did this old geezer learn that monk-like way of speaking?