After leaving the Golden Phoenix Restaurant, Shui Liu Xiang sat in a carriage and rushed back to the City Lord's Mansion.
This time, she had taken the initiative to look for Chu Xingyun because of an important matter.
The matter had to be explained from half a month ago …
Half a month ago …
At the edge of Central Province, in a hidden mountain valley, there were buildings made of logs that emitted the fragrance of wood.
The million craftsmen that had been mobilized from the Heavenly Craft Island had finally built a hundred thousand sheds and workbenches in a few months. They were ready to start work at any time.
In the past few months, the production of Gale Sharp Gold Arrows had completely stopped. In the past half a year, the million craftsmen had only used up the arrows but didn't produce anything.
Fortunately, the demon race hadn't invaded in the past half a year. Therefore, although there weren't many Gale Sharp Gold Arrows left at the front line, it didn't cause any unrest.
Of course, this situation couldn't last forever. Otherwise, if the demon race invaded on a large scale, what would they use to resist?
But today, there were no problems. The million craftsmen were ready and could produce large amounts of Gale Sharp Gold Arrows at any time.
With an order … the million craftsmen started to move. They officially started to mass produce Gale Sharp Gold Arrows and Demon Spirit Arrows.
In terms of materials, there was no need to worry. The material used this time was even better than Arrow Bamboo — Arrow Wood!
Arrow Wood was the most suitable material for producing arrows. The arrows produced from Arrow Wood had perfectly straight shafts and balanced bodies. It was more suitable than Arrow Bamboo for making arrows.
After tens of millions of years of development, Arrow Wood had become a common crop. Arrow Wood forests grew everywhere in the human territory and could be cut down and harvested at any time.
There were so many Arrow Wood that it could be said to be inexhaustible.
According to the military's thinking, since Chu Xingyun had already handed over the Shooting Wolf Arrow and Demon Spirit Arrow formation diagrams, there wouldn't be a problem to produce them.
It wasn't a problem to change the materials. After all … they were changing for better Arrow Wood and not shoddy ones.
The shafts of the arrows weren't produced by Heavenly Craft Craftsmen. Instead, they were produced by other workshops and transported to Craftsmen Canyon. The hundred thousand craftsmen from the Heavenly Craft Island were only responsible for carving the runes.
Soon, the first batch of Gale Sharp Gold Arrows was produced.
Taking a closer look, the Shooting Wolf Arrows produced by the Arrow Wood looked too beautiful. The arrows were like works of art.
The arrowwood was golden in color and had fine textures. Under the sunlight, it looked as if it was forged from gold.
The smooth shaft of the arrow, the pure white feathers, the golden luster, the sharp tip of the arrow, everything was perfect.
However, beautiful things might not be easy to use.
Back then, these runes were designed with the Arrow Bamboo as the foundation. Unless all the characteristics were the same as the Arrow Bamboo, the runes could still be activated, but the effects would be hard to say.
The Arrow Bamboo produced by the Arrow Bamboo had a hollow shaft, light weight, good elasticity, good toughness, and high hardness. Under the propulsion of the Gale Sharp Gold Rune, it could perfectly fly according to the designed trajectory.
However, Arrow Wood was different. The arrow shaft was not hollow, and its weight was a third heavier than Arrow Bamboo. Moreover, its toughness and elasticity were several times worse.
Taking a random branch of the Arrow Bamboo and bending it casually, the branches of the Arrow Bamboo could be bent into a circle.
But as a hard wood, why don't you try bending Arrow Wood?
The biggest characteristic of Arrow Wood was that it was hard and strong, but its elasticity and toughness were extremely poor.
As the saying goes, the character of Arrow Wood was one that would rather break than bend.
It was heavy, and its elasticity and toughness were extremely poor. The result was that the Gale Sharp Gold Arrow made from Arrow Wood could not be used at all.
Due to its heavy weight, this kind of arrow could not fly high or far. Its flying speed was slow, and its penetrative and destructive power were very poor.
Due to its poor elasticity and toughness, it did not fly far before the Gale Sharp Gold Array and the Gale Sharp Gold Array were activated, causing the entire arrow to explode into powder.
The Gale Sharp Gold Arrow was meticulously designed with Arrow Bamboo as the material. Everything was designed according to the characteristics of Arrow Bamboo.
There were more than ten characteristics surrounding Arrow Bamboo. If any one of them failed, it would result in the entire arrow being unusable.
The problem now was that although Arrow Wood and Arrow Bamboo were both suitable to be used to make arrows, there were seven or eight characteristics that were extremely different.
It flew slowly, flew close, had poor penetrative power, and had low destructive power. Furthermore, it did not fly far before the arrow disintegrated in the air …
All in all, this kind of arrow was a complete failure.
On the testing field …
Dongfang Xiu, Ximen Kuang, Beiye Cang, Nangong Junyi, and Sima Feifan stood there looking at each other.
The five of them had joined forces and forced the military to mobilize a million craftsmen from Heavenly Craftsmanship Island and placed them in this hidden canyon.
This was a treasure bowl, a golden hen that could lay golden eggs. Once they had it in their hands, they would no longer have to worry about not having enough money to spend.
Don't think that the Emperor's family members were all wealthy. In fact, that was not the case at all.
Just as the Arctic Emperor had said, when one's status reached a certain level, everything no longer belonged to him.
Although the five Emperors would occupy most of the human resources, they did not do it for themselves, but to better protect the human race.
In fact, the five Emperors would never give public property to their family members. If they wanted money, they had to earn it themselves.
Furthermore, the Emperor had a lifespan of over ten thousand years. His family had tens of millions of descendants. Even if he wanted to take care of them, who should he take care of and who should he not take care of?
This was how the world was. One did not worry about scarcity, but about uneven distribution. If the distribution was not good, conflicts would erupt within the family.
Take the five prodigies for example. Although they were valued the most, that was only because they had more cultivation resources. They had no right to sell them for money. If they wanted money, they had to earn it themselves.
Although each of them had six Imperial Armaments, those Imperial Armaments were not their private property. They were the family's most precious treasures.
Although they were currently used by them, they could be taken back at any time and given to more outstanding descendants to use.
In this year's year-end competition, they had successively lost to Shui Liu Xiang. After their luck had been taken away, their status within the family had plummeted.
Right now, they had to make some achievements to regain the trust of the family and the Emperor. Otherwise, once an even more outstanding descendant of the family matured, they would instantly lose everything.
Once the five prodigies were completely replaced, they would instantly lose everything they had now.
Even their six Imperial Armaments would be taken back. In just one night, they would lose everything.
It wasn't that the five prodigies had no opponents. In fact, they had competitors, and the competition was very fierce.
The five prodigies were only the most outstanding boys in the Eastern, Western, Southern, Northern, and Central Emperor's families.
Could it be that the five Emperor favored boys over girls and only valued boys with potential and talent?
Of course not. In fact, the Eastern Lingmu Emperor and the Western Black Gold Emperor were both men. However, the Northern Arctic Emperor and the Central Thick Earth Emperor were both women.
If men favored boys over girls, they could be said to be male chauvinistic. However, how could a female Emperor favor boys over girls? They were women themselves.
In fact, the five clans that the Five Great Emperors belonged to, in addition to the Five Great Prodigies, there were also the Five Golden Flowers. Their talents, potential, strength, and intelligence were not any lower than the Five Great Prodigies.
This time, they had sent the five prodigies instead of the five golden flowers out of helplessness.
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