315: Chapter 315 Holy crap, Sect Master Xu's magical weapon exploded!

"Sect Leader Xu, please," Perfected Golden Toad made a welcoming gesture.

Xu Ruyu took a deep breath and adjusted his stance.

He closed his eyes, and the Haotian True Qi Chapter within his body began to circulate slowly. A wisp of pure "Haotian True Qi" followed his Meridians, flowed into his right hand holding the gun, and then, following a preset path, was injected into the Array Pattern inside the gun's body!

"Buzz..."

A low, sustained humming sound echoed from within the gun's body!

The Array Pattern on the surface of the gun's body began to light up one by one, starting from the grip!

Those silver-blue glows, as if they had come to life, spread and converged layer by layer along the carved spiral grooves, compression nodes, and acceleration tracks!

Finally, all the light surged toward that long, thin Gun Barrel!

Inside the barrel, one could vaguely see a ball of extremely bright energy, spinning and compressing frantically, taking shape at an astonishing speed!

A subtle yet powerful aura emanated from the muzzle! That

was the omen of pure "kinetic energy" compressed to the extreme about to be released!

On the sidelines, everyone's hearts were in their throats! Those complex Array Pattern were actually activated! And that aura... so strong!

Xu Ruyu opened his eyes, his gaze like lightning, locking firmly onto the center of a deep black scorch mark on the Testing Wall, likely left by some powerful Spell.

His finger slowly pulled toward that crude "Trigger."

Just at this moment of great anticipation and critical tension—

"Boom!!!"

An extremely dull roar, like a thunderclap from the Nine Heavens, exploded from Xu Ruyu's hand!

It wasn't the sound of energy being ejected from the muzzle!

Rather... the ball of frantically compressed energy inside the gun's body had lost control just an instant before it was about to rush out of the muzzle!

It broke free from the constraints of the Array Pattern and exploded violently within the Compression Chamber!

The straight barrel of the "poqi type i" rifle instantly swelled and twisted, then shattered into countless fragments with a "bang"!

The short, thick Compression Chamber bulged suddenly like a balloon being inflated from within, and then it split asunder!

Metal fragments mixed with the violent energy shockwave splattered in all directions!

Xu Ruyu felt a jolt in his hands as a massive force came from the gun's body, nearly throwing him off his feet!

He tightly gripped the handle, which had already turned into fragments, and staggered back a few steps before he managed to steady himself!

The smoke and debris kicked up by the shockwave enveloped him entirely!

When the smoke and dust cleared and everyone saw Xu Ruyu's appearance—

After a brief dead silence, deafening laughter erupted like a volcanic explosion!

Xu Ruyu still maintained his stance of holding the gun, but his current appearance was truly too comical!

His head of black hair, which had been fairly neat, was blown upright by the violent blast of energy, making him look exactly like a bristling hedgehog!

His face was smoked pitch-black by the soot and metal debris, leaving only his two eyes and a row of white teeth clean!

The azure robe on his body was slashed by fragments in many places, revealing the similarly blackened skin underneath!

The funniest part was his expression—it wasn't frustration or anger, but a kind of... daze? As if he hadn't yet recovered from the explosion, he stood there blankly, his mouth slightly open and his eyes staring straight ahead.

"Hahahaha!!!"

"It exploded in the chamber! It exploded in the chamber! Sect Leader Xu's weapon backfired directly!"

"My god! That's hilarious! What on earth was that sound? I thought it was going to be so powerful, but it just blew up in his own face!"

"I told you! With his forging skills, he wants to perform Artifact Refining? It would be a miracle if it didn't explode!"

"Look at him! His hair is all standing up! Doesn't he look like the hedgehog I raised when I was a kid? Hahahaha!"

"Fair without, foul within! What's the use of those Array Pattern being so sophisticated? If the base body is no good, everything is for naught!"

The rebellious apprentice, Mo Ran, laughed the loudest, doubling over until tears almost came out: "Sect Leader Xu! The power of your weapon is indeed great, it's just... it just blew up on yourself!"

"Hahaha! I take back what I said before. Your level of Artifact Refining isn't playing house, it's... it's self-destruction! Hahaha!"

Even those normally steady Golden Core Stage Artifact Refiners couldn't help but shake their heads and chuckle.

This result was completely within their expectations. Crude forging and fragile Materials simply couldn't withstand that kind of violent energy impact.

Perfected Golden Toad stroked his beard, a flash of realization that things were as expected passing through his eyes, and he sighed softly.

It seemed that while Sect Leader Xu was an extraordinary genius in the Array Dao, he truly... had no talent in the path of Artifact Refining.

Elder Qingli, it seems, had misjudged him this time.

Xu Ruyu stood in place, feeling the waves of mockery coming from all sides. He looked down at the fragments in his hand, where only the grip remained, and then at the metal wreckage scattered across the ground.

On his face, there was no frustration, no shame, and not even any embarrassment.

On the contrary, his eyes grew brighter and brighter!

"It exploded... it really exploded..."

He muttered to himself, his voice carrying a hint of irrepressible excitement.

He squatted down and pushed aside the fragments with his fingers, searching for something carefully.

Soon, he found the Gun Barrel, which was now completely twisted and deformed, and the Compression Chamber, which had split into several pieces.

He picked up a fragment and held it close to his eyes, scrutinizing the remnants of the Array Pattern that still held a faint glow.

"The thrust was too great... it exceeded the material's limit..." he murmured to himself, his finger gently tracing the break in the Array Pattern. "This node... the energy convergence speed was too fast, and the pressure relief structure of the Compression Chamber couldn't keep up..."

"And here, at the moment the Trigger was pulled, the opening speed of the energy release channel wasn't synchronized enough, leading to a backflow impact..."

The laughter around him continued, but Xu Ruyu had already turned a deaf ear to it.

In his eyes, there were only those fragments and the calculations running wildly in his mind.