Chapter 138 - Gods on Earth
All of that had happened far too quickly, so much so that it seemed there was no way anyone could have expected such sudden changes to take place at all.
That thrust of the sword by Lu Xuan looked like some godly move pulled by a superhuman being, and that one thrust killed Song Lingfeng, who had been behaving as if he owned the place mere moments ago.
Lu Xuan turned to look at the crowd with plain, indifferent eyes, as if he was telling them that there was no turning the tables with him.
The notion was ridiculous.
The old guy had been thinking too much.
The place was dead silent then. To put it precisely, no one in the crowd expected either of them to survive such a crazy bombardment, yet not only had Song Lingfeng survived, but Lu Xuan had managed to do so as well.
Furthermore, compared to Song Lingfeng, who looked rather haggard and damaged, Lu Xuan had emerged totally unscathed. From head to toe, he was so clean that it seemed as if the airstrike had never even happened.
This was especially true when sharpshooters or marksmen, or even godlike gun wielders, gained access to such weapons. Such people became professionals capable of posing serious threats to cultivators.
Martial Arts Legends were nothing in comparison, as such weapons allowed one to shoot and kill even Deity level beings.
Lu Xuan had seen the heads blown off a great many Deity level fighters back in his past life.
That was the real reason why the Special Task Force was able to remain in control of them all, despite the massive emergence of cultivators.
A clan or sect with hundreds of cultivators was widely considered a huge organization, but the Special Task Force could easily rally and command thousands of gunmen wielding such modified firearms.
Such fearsome firepower allowed the Special Task Force to easily mow down any sect or clan in existence.
Any such group that dared to throw their weight around the Special Task Force was deemed a threat to be razed without mercy.
The Special Task Force of Lu Xuan’s past life had truly combined science and cultivation in their endeavors, making full use of any advantage available to them.
It was something that Lu Xuan had picked up back then.
His knowledge of the supreme path allowed him to have few problems infusing the rounds in his gun with such runes.
Not only was the rounds’ damage potential vastly amplified after the runes were carved onto them, but their range was also extended several times over. No common person would be able even to see when the bullets hit anything, as the rounds’ performance far exceeded the capacity of their sight.
Lu Xuan, however, was a different story altogether, as his Delusion-breaker Eyes allowed him to see very, very far away.
He’d brought about devastating damage using just one gun.
“Isn’t this frightening, indeed! Just what kind of a gun is that? Is that something developed by the Special Task Force?” Some were still so shocked by it all that the feeling could be clearly seen in their eyes. They’d caught wind of news that some within the Special Task Force were working to develop ways to combine runes with firearms, after all.
The cultivators had initially snickered at that idea, as no one believed that the Special Task Force could succeed, given how those two disciplines were of such vastly different fields.
However, what Lu Xuan had pulled had shown everyone that the Special Task Force had probably succeeded in their endeavor.
The Special Task Force was not alone in developing such ideas, as many forces overseas were doing the same thing. Many of them were official governmental institutions or agencies.
As the world became more and more restored with spirit qi, the threat posed to cultivators by firearms became increasingly meager. As the cultivators became more and more trained, the phenomenon of cultivators who were impervious to conventional firearms became increasingly commonplace.
While heavy weapons would still work on them, and the world still had the likes of nuclear weapons laying around, it was nonetheless unthinkable to use such destructive weapons to deal with people all the time.
As such, it became urgently imperative to develop ways of enhancing the power of existing weapons under such circumstances.
However, no one other than Lu Xuan had succeeded in such efforts so far.
“Mr. Lu has indeed ended the Song Clan single-handedly. His reputation for being someone capable of razing entire sects or clans all by himself holds true, after all.”
There were many who stared at Lu Xuan in the blizzard with their jaws dropping to the ground. It was as if they were staring at a god who had descended to the mortal plane instead of a mortal man.