Extraordinary in Reality Through Magic Games

235: Chapter 233 Ye Ming’s Surprising Discovery.Zhao Qi felt as if he had become Wu Gang.

Yes, that Wu Gang from Chinese mythology who chopped the laurel tree outside Guanghan Palace.

Both were punished to chop a tree that could never be cut down.

However, after thinking it over, Zhao Qi felt he was even more pitiful than that old brother.

After all, Wu Gang had Chang’e by his side, while he only had a greasy middle-aged uncle.

”Time to eat!” Yue Ruo shouted as she saw a feather floating down from the sky, running over to catch it with both hands.

Zhao Qi stopped his swinging axe and his wandering thoughts, joining the others to help.

The feather landed steadily in more than ten pairs of hands. Once it was on the ground, everyone grabbed a tuft of the fluff and kneaded it.

”Brother Zhao, why were you sighing just now?” Luo Xiling licked her hand, glancing at him.

”I was wondering when we’ll finally be able to chop this tree down.”

Five days had passed, and he had only made some messy dents on the trunk. Forget cutting it down, there weren’t even proper axe marks.

Most importantly, Immortal Xu would have the Kunpeng deliver one of its feathers every day. Licking the moisture within the fluff not only replenished their physical strength and vitality but also restored their energy.

Simply put, they didn’t need to sleep.

Thus, in these five days, they only did two things—”eating” and chopping trees.

Sighing deeply again, Zhao Qi let go: ”Director, you were frowning in deep thought this morning. What were you thinking about?”

Their trees weren’t far apart, so they could clearly see each other’s expressions.

”I think I understand why we’ve ended up in this situation.”

”Oh?!”

The others immediately lost interest in licking their hands and stared at him expectantly.

Looking around at everyone’s expectant gazes, the Director smiled proudly: ”We must have upset Immortal Xu somewhere.”

Isn’t that obvious?

Everyone rolled their eyes and lowered their heads to continue licking.

The muscles in Zhao Qi’s cheeks twitched: ”We’re not stupid, do you really need to say that?”

”Eh?” The Director was a bit surprised, ”You all know?”

”Of course.” Yue Ruo had eaten her fill. She grabbed some weeds from the ground to dry her wet palms. ”Immortal Xu knows we can’t do anything to these trees, so he tricked us into participating in some ’reward and punishment cultivation’ beforehand. He even said joining was up to our own will.”

”It’s obvious he’s unhappy.”

Luo Xiling added: ”He even gave us a batch of indestructible iron axes, and the trees were even planted overnight. How exactly did we offend Master?”

”Brother Ye? Any thoughts?”

”Ah?” Squatting to one side, Ye Ming snapped out of his trance while staring at the axe blade. ”Maybe... Immortal Xu has his own intentions.”

Luo Xiling grew interested in his behavior of staring blankly at the axe. She stood up and ran over to squat in front of him.

”Is your axe different?”

”Exactly the same as yours.”

Why is Brother Ye always so strange? Immortal Xu said he could go chop ordinary trees, yet he insists on suffering with us.

She noticed Ye Ming’s thumb lightly grazing the axe blade and muttered to herself before saying: ”Be careful, don’t cut your hand.”

Looking over, Zhao Qi asked: ”Is there something wrong with the axe blade?”

”It’s very hard.”

”I’ve been chopping trees with it for three days, I know it’s hard.”

Ye Ming flicked the blade, which hadn’t chipped at all despite days of frantic chopping. With a mysterious look in his eyes, he asked: ”Brother Zhao, what are the main factors limiting the development of modern technology?”

”Energy, materials, and humanity itself...”

Halfway through, Zhao Qi and the others froze.

Except for energy, which they hadn’t encountered yet, the others... the Mountain Gate seemed to have them all?

Seeing their stunned expressions, Ye Ming smiled: ”That’s right, just as you’re thinking.”

The Director stood up, his face solemn: ”Little Ye, are you saying the greatest benefit of the Mountain Gate isn’t teaching us immortal methods, but...”

”Yes.” Ye Ming held up the axe, showing the pristine blade to everyone. ”If—and I mean if—”

”There was a tank made of the same material as this iron axe, what kind of armor-piercing shell could blow through its armor?”

”Not just that.” Yue Ruo’s expression also turned serious. ”If the material is hard and strong enough, the thickness can be reduced, which lightens the vehicle and increases the ammunition capacity limit.”