Chapter 27: Nanotech Battle Armor! A Self-Repairing Battle Armor!

“And these Traits seem to be a little different from human Traits too!”

Xiao Xuan raised a brow.

A human’s Flame Enhancement generally strengthened the damage of their own flames. For example, his current Purple Trait increased the power of fire-element attacks by 1000%.

If it were Green, then it would usually fall somewhere in the 200% to 400% range.

But this weapon’s Flame Enhancement seemed to be strengthening the power of the weapon itself!

Then again, after thinking about it, he quickly understood.

These Traits were meant to directly strengthen the weapon itself!

“But for me right now, this is actually perfect.”

“This weapon’s tier far exceeds my own combat power. If I use it, I can absolutely kill enemies above my level!”

“And those Traits can actually be upgraded too? If I raise them to Purple, the effects will probably skyrocket, won’t they?”

Thinking that, Xiao Xuan did not rush to upgrade them immediately.

Instead, he directly reduced the weapon’s weight tenfold!

In an instant, the weight of the weapon—which he had only barely been able to lift with his full strength—rapidly decreased.

Xiao Xuan casually weighed it in his hand.

“This weight is just right!”

Xiao Xuan smiled in satisfaction.

Then he opened the other box.

HISSS!!!

As the seal on the box opened, a large amount of steam billowed out from inside.

The massive metal door slowly swung open.

A Smartwatch immediately appeared before Xiao Xuan and the others.

“Nanotech battle armor may be a little weaker in raw defense than ordinary battle armor, but it is by far the most convenient.”

“And it also has a self-repair function. Even if it gets damaged later, as long as the core is not destroyed, it can quickly repair itself by consuming nanomaterials!”

“And nanomaterials are not expensive, either.”

“You really do know how to choose. I have a colleague who saved up for decades to buy a seventh-tier suit of battle armor!”

“He thought the higher the defense, the better, so he chose a conventional suit. But after one battle damaged it, the repair bill cost him over ten million!”

Liu Feng said with a smile from the side.

“Then what if the core is damaged? The repair cost must be extremely high, right, Professor Liu?”

Su Qingwu asked curiously from beside him.

“No, not a single coin!”

However, Liu Feng only gave a mysterious smile.

That left Su Qingwu completely dumbfounded.

“Because it is scrapped, and there is no way to repair it, right?”

Xiao Xuan explained with a smile.

“Huh? Then isn’t that rather useless?”

Su Qingwu was stunned.

“Hahaha, exactly. The biggest flaw of nanotech battle armor is that once the core is destroyed, it is completely finished!”

“So Xiao Xuan, you had better be careful. Even the cheapest of these things starts at a billion!”

Liu Feng laughed, then gave Xiao Xuan a serious warning.

“In the near future, I probably will not run into anyone capable of destroying the core of my nanotech battle armor.”

“And if I do, I will probably be dead already, so why would I still care about the armor?”

After hearing that, Xiao Xuan only responded indifferently.

“That makes sense.”

Liu Feng nodded in immediate agreement.

Xiao Xuan did not hesitate any longer. He picked up the Smartwatch, then, with another quick slash of the blade, reopened the wound on his already healed finger and let a few drops of blood fall onto it.

Nothing happened.

“Oh, I forgot to tell you. This Smartwatch binds to soul fluctuations! You only need to activate its soul-scan function.”

Liu Feng’s voice sounded at just the right moment.

The corner of Xiao Xuan’s mouth twitched. He felt that Liu Feng had done it on purpose.

Why had he not reminded him before he cut his finger?

But if Liu Feng knew what Xiao Xuan was thinking, he would have cried injustice on the spot.

He had simply been too shocked by Xiao Xuan’s wound-healing speed.

Because he had noticed that not only had Xiao Xuan’s earlier wound already vanished, even the one he had just cut open had healed rapidly within a few seconds!

“A self-healing-type Trait? Damn, this kid actually has that kind of Trait. Right, no wonder his Vitality fluctuations felt so violent just now.”

“So he was cultivating an Essence-Blood-burning cultivation art!”

“This kid is truly ruthless toward himself!”

At last, Liu Feng finally understood why Xiao Xuan had been able to unleash the terrifying combat power of a Peak Silver talent with only High Purple talent.

So he had obtained it through self-mutilation.

But the drawbacks of that were enormous. Truly enormous.

If one day Xiao Xuan suffered a severe injury, an ordinary person would only need to recuperate on their own to recover. But for Xiao Xuan, it would lead to Essence-Blood Depletion. In lighter cases, it would only worsen his injuries further.

If it were a bit more serious, it could damage his foundation or even cause his cultivation to regress.

And the most severe consequence, naturally, would be death on the spot.

He only hoped that once Xiao Xuan became stronger, he would stop maintaining this cultivation art at such intensity.

This kind of cultivation art burned Essence-Blood.

And Essence-Blood damage was among the hardest of all injuries to recover from.

Even someone with a Silver or even Gold healing-type talent could not increase Essence-Blood recovery speed by very much.

A Martial Emperor with a Silver healing-type talent could at most raise such a cultivation art to Peak Fourth-Tier.

Even if that person later advanced all the way to Martial Saint, the cultivation art’s grade would rise as well, but it would still only reach the sixth tier, perhaps even merely the fifth.

But Xiao Xuan was different!

The recovery speed he gained from recycling the Essence-Blood Depletion Trait was already comparable to the recovery speed of ordinary Silver Traits, perhaps even Gold Traits.

And it could also stack with genuine healing-type Traits.

Most terrifying of all, he could instantly toss that Trait into the recycle bin and make the burning of his Essence-Blood stop at once.

Even if he were severely wounded by accident, he would not need to worry about burning himself to death.

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While Liu Feng was still in shock, Xiao Xuan had already finished binding the nanotech battle armor.

HUM!!

In the next moment, a silver-black liquid rapidly spread out from the Smartwatch.

Very soon, that silver-black liquid covered Xiao Xuan’s entire body and turned into a suit of silver-black metal battle armor!

The armor even analyzed him automatically and formed a scabbard at his waist, then sheathed the Thunderflame Frenzy Saber in his hand.

The sheer level of intelligence made even Xiao Xuan click his tongue in admiration.

“This nanotech battle armor was obtained by the human race from a technological cavern ruin.”

“Before that technological civilization fell, it had already been able to rely on pure technology alone to fight eleventh-tier ferocious beasts stronger than Martial Saints!”

“Unfortunately, even after several hundred years of studying their technology, the human race has only managed to raise nanotech battle armor to the seventh tier at best.”

“As for nanotech battle armor above the seventh tier, all of it still comes from that cavern.”

“And the price for those... tsk, tsk, it is terrifying.”

Liu Feng could not help explaining it to Xiao Xuan. After all, as a professor, it was his duty to teach and guide.

After nodding, Xiao Xuan began checking the armor’s description as well.

【Ding… Congratulations. You have equipped the set: Silverwing Nanotech Battle Armor (Peak Sixth-Tier! Green)】

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Equipment Set: Silverwing Nanotech Battle Armor

Grade: Peak Sixth-Tier

Base Body Size: Up to 3 meters

Base Weight: 20 million tons

Base Rating: Tenth Heaven of the Martial King Realm

Traits:

【Defense Enhancement! Green】 (Battle Armor Defense *200%, 0/100)

【Flight! Green】 (Allows flight, Base Speed *150%, 0/100)

【Invisibility! Green】 (Conceals the wearer’s form! Cultivators who do not exceed the base rating by more than two minor realms cannot detect the wearer of the armor, 0/100)

【Self-Repair! Green】 (Can consume nanomaterials to repair battle armor damage on its own. With sufficient materials, repair speed: 10 suits per hour! 0/100)

【Size Change! Green】 (With sufficient materials, the armor’s size can vary up to 10 times the base body size, 0/100)

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