"City Lord, the latest batch of weapon-making materials has been put into storage."
Zhang Guoqing bowed slightly and said.
"Based on the previous consumption rate, this batch of soldier-making materials should be able to last for seven days."
Zhang Guoqing's tone was very calm, but his eyes were full of helplessness.
Resurrected from the dead and regained his youth, he has been with Zhou Shu for more than half a year.
In the past six months, he has experienced much more things than he did in the previous hundred years.
The weapons-making materials he saw were things he could not imagine before.
It is no exaggeration to say that just this batch of army-making materials, if given to Daning, would be enough to raise Daning's national power to several levels.
After the initial shock, Zhang Guoqing gradually got used to these things.
After all, he has been a state minister for decades, so he still has this kind of determination.
Now he is responsible for helping Zhou Shu take care of these soldier-making materials, and the work is done in an orderly manner.
Speaking of which, he still doesn't know Zhou Shu's true identity.
Zhou Shu did not take him back to Tiangong Pavilion, nor did he take him back to Tongguan City.
Instead, he built a new city and named it - City of Divine Weapons!
Except for Zhou Shu, there is no one in this city of divine weapons. They are all divine weapon spirits like Zhang Guoqing.
Speaking of which, Zhou Shu searched for talents in various fields from secular countries in the world, and used the art of forging weapons to help them forcibly ascend to the divine realm.
Yes, Zhou Shu really did it.
He can indeed use the art of weapon-making to give these people divine power, simply because their bodies are all divine weapons.
Although it is said that with this power, Zhou Shu can make anyone become a saint, he does not help people improve casually.
Instead, they carefully selected many people like Zhang Guoqing.
To completely overthrow the destiny is not something that can be achieved by simply creating something divine.
Zhou Shu knew very well that he could create something divine, and a transcendent person would naturally be able to do it easily.
This whole world may be just a playground to others.
He doesn't know how powerful the opponent is, so he must be cautious enough to have any chance of success.
To achieve all this, people like Zhang Guoqing are crucial.
The strength can be forcibly improved, but Zhou Shu can't do anything about his character, ability to deal with others, etc.
Zhang Guoqing can become the prime minister of a country in the secular world and remain in power for decades. This ability is absolutely extraordinary.
He has this ability, so when he has the sacred power, he can better control this power and help Zhou Shu do things.
If you randomly select a person and give him divine power, he will not be able to control this power at all. It is more likely that he will use this power to do whatever he wants.
That's not what Zhou Shu wants to see.
"Is it only enough for seven days?"
Zhou Shu also frowned slightly.
Creating holiness sounds great, but when you actually do it, you realize how difficult it is.
Let’s not talk about the requirements for the art of forging weapons for the moment. The consumption of materials for forging weapons alone is enough to put people off.
It is no exaggeration to say that the weapon-casting materials required to create a divine weapon like Zhang Guoqing are enough to cast dozens of primitive weapons.
The value of dozens of Yuan's divine weapons is definitely more than that of a mere Daning country.
Therefore, the current Zhang Guoqing is an out-and-out national scholar.
"Seven days is already the most conservative calculation."
Zhang Guoqing also said helplessly, "City Lord, your consumption rate is too fast.
If we continue like this, the speed at which we collect the materials for making weapons will be far unable to keep up with the speed at which you, the City Lord, consume them."
The person Zhou Shu cultivated was naturally more than just Zhang Guoqing.
In the past half year or so, there have been twelve sacred ones in the City of Divine Weapons.
Some of them are good at governance like Zhang Guoqing, some are good at business, and were once the richest men in a country;
Some people were national masters in medical skills, while others were great generals...
Now they all perform their respective duties and work together to build the city of divine weapons.
Of course, one of their most important tasks is to collect materials for making weapons.
To be honest, they definitely did not use normal business methods to collect materials for making weapons.
For those who have divine power, if they want something, they can just go and get it.
If Zhou Shu had not explicitly prohibited them from disturbing ordinary people's lives, they would have been able to clear out the mines in a country casually.
Even if they have restrained themselves now, the speed at which they can gather materials to build weapons is beyond imagination.
And this speed still can't keep up with Zhou Shu's consumption speed. It can be seen how much Zhou Shu consumes the materials for casting weapons.
"City Lord, we have almost all the weapons-making materials within a million miles radius."
Zhang Guoqing thought for a while, added something, and said.
He actually wanted to persuade Zhou Shu to reduce the speed of making weapons as much as possible, but he also knew that that was unlikely.
So I can only vaguely remind Zhou Shu.
"If it's gone within a million miles, then continue to expand outward."
Zhou Shu said calmly.
"I was about to report to the city lord."
Zhang Guoqing sighed, as expected, the city lord would not give up.
Although he didn't know what the city lord wanted to do, he also knew that the city lord was planning something big.
"When General Han was expanding his territory, he encountered a force that was very powerful. He did not dare to act rashly and sent a message back to ask the city lord for your opinion."
Zhang Guoqing said.
The General Han he was talking about was named Han Jin. He was once a great general of a secular country. He fought countless battles in his life. After his death, he was brought back to the City of Divine Weapons by Zhou Shu to live a new life.
This Han Jin has also been helping Zhou Shu collect materials for making soldiers.
Asking the Holy Spirit to collect materials for making weapons, only Zhou Shu can do such a thing.
"What force?"
Zhou Shu asked casually.
"The other party calls himself Tiangong Pavilion."
Zhang Guoqing said.
These people used to make waves in secular countries, but they didn't understand the world of high-level warriors.
Although Tiangong Pavilion is spread all over the world, the customers they target are at least warriors above the Earthly Immortal Realm.
For people like Zhang Guoqing, the Earthly Fairyland is already an unattainable immortality.
"Tiangong Pavilion?"
Zhou Shu looked a little strange.
He deliberately did not let Zhang Guoqing and others come into contact with Tiangong Pavilion and Tongguan City.
To put it bluntly, Zhang Guoqing, Han Jin and others are destined to become cannon fodder in the future as a result of their creation of gods.
They were basically created by Zhou Shu to fight against the transcendent ones.
Zhou Shu told them clearly about this matter from the beginning, and this was also the price they paid for reviving their lives.
Tiangong Pavilion and the Zudi Human Race were Zhou Shu's former team members. If possible, he did not want to involve them all, although Zhou Shu himself knew that this was unlikely.
"No need for conflict."
Zhou Shu pondered for a moment and then said, "I will give you a handwriting, and you have Han Jin hand it over to the people in Tiangong Pavilion.
The people in Tiangong Pavilion will know what to do."
Zhang Guoqing knew that Zhou Shu was unfathomable. Since he said so, Zhang Guoqing would not doubt it.
"I know."
Zhang Guoqing nodded and said, "City Lord, I have already found the next candidate you asked me to find."
Zhang Guoqing continued to report, "This person's surname is Huang, his name is Shijie, and he is from Dajing Kingdom.
He is the prince of Dajing Kingdom, but he has been living among the people since he was a child and suffered many hardships.
But this man was born with great luck and was very good at strategy. After learning his identity, he successfully ascended to the throne in just four years."
Zhang Guoqing's tone was somewhat admiring. He had also been a country's prime minister, so he knew more about the difficulty involved.
The almost impossible thing was accomplished by Huang Shijie.
When Zhang Guoqing first saw Huang Shijie's information, he couldn't believe it.
Even if he knew how Huang Shijie did it and asked Zhang Guoqing to do it again, he would not dare to say that he could do it.
People like Zhang Guoqing think so, let alone ordinary people?
All we can say is that this Huang Shijie is an out-and-out monster.
"A few days ago, he became terminally ill and drove westward. Now he is buried in the western suburbs of Dajingjing."
Zhang Guoqing said.
"You know him?"
Zhou Shu nodded and asked.
Zhou Shu was not surprised by what Zhang Guoqing said.
The world is so big, how many monsters are there?
I don’t know how many such monsters there were on earth in my previous life, let alone this world?
As long as he is a talented person, it will be useful to him. The more evil he is, the more Zhou Shu likes him.
In fact, in the eyes of many people, Zhou Shu is not a monster.
"We have met once, but we are not familiar with each other."
Zhang Guoqing said, "Huang Shijie is a man of deep thought and elusiveness."
"It doesn't matter."
Zhou Shu said casually, "Please accompany me for a walk, just in time to explain our affairs to him."
Zhang Guoqing nodded. As a subordinate, it was his duty to do so.
……
The western suburbs of Dajing Kingdom, within the imperial mausoleum.
Thousands of soldiers guarding the mausoleum did not notice that two people just appeared in the imperial mausoleum.
"Bang——"
Zhou Shu just waved his hand, and the heavy coffin flew directly into the air.
With another wave of his hand, a corpse from the coffin had already flown out.
I saw the corpse wearing a dragon robe, suspended in the air.
Although Zhang Guoqing also came back from the dead, this was the first time he saw Zhou Shu resurrect someone else.
Before, Zhou Shu acted alone.
The light in his eyes flickered, and Zhang Guoqing's eyes remained unblinking.
He was full of curiosity about how Zhou Shu managed to bring people back to life.
Since his resurrection from the dead, Zhang Guoqing has been frantically absorbing everything he has come into contact with.
Now, he already has a certain level of understanding of martial arts.
But the more contact he had, the more confused he became.
Even with his current strength, he definitely does not have the ability to bring people back to life.
Not to mention, directly raising an ordinary person to their level of strength.
Zhang Guoqing has no idea how Zhou Shu did it.
It is also because of this that Zhou Shu has always been unfathomable in his eyes.
Now that he has the opportunity to see Zhou Shu perform it in person, he will naturally not let go of this opportunity.
Just when Zhang Guoqing was staring at Huang Shijie's body with burning eyes, suddenly, a sneer appeared on Zhou Shu's face.
"It's so fast, can't you bear it anymore?"
Zhou Shu said coldly.
"What?"
Zhang Guoqing was a little confused and looked at Zhou Shu in surprise.
At this moment, Huang Shijie's body suddenly opened its eyes.
Two terrifying gazes shot out, as if they were real.
Zhang Guoqing was shocked and subconsciously took a step back.
Although he possesses divine power, he is still an out-and-out fledgling in martial arts.
He has never fought with anyone in his life. When he was alive, he was a weak scholar and the prime minister of a country. How could he have the chance to fight with anyone?
After following Zhou Shu, what he did every day was to manage the city of magic weapons. He didn't even have many opportunities to meet people, let alone fight with them.
Zhang Guoqing is the first person like him since the beginning of the world. He has never fought with anyone and has almost never practiced martial arts. As a result, he became a god as soon as he started.
If you don’t have enough life experience, it would be impossible to control this feeling of soaring power.
Although Zhang Guoqing did not go crazy because of this, he did not become a truly peerless master because of it. When encountering problems, he still subconsciously retreated.
Huang Shijie opened his eyes, and the dragon robe on his body was rising in the wind.
The originally shriveled purple-black body became plump and rosy at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In the blink of an eye, a mummy has transformed into a young man in his twenties or thirties.
Zhang Guoqing also calmed down at this time, the power of the true source in his body was rolling, and his aura soared into the sky.
Zhou Shu's reaction was very dull, but he had an extra divine ax in his hand.
"Are you Huang Shijie or someone else?"
Zhang Guoqing shouted loudly.
The aura erupting from Huang Shijie's body in front of him was no weaker than his own.
This is definitely not the Huang Shijie I know.
The Huang Shijie I know definitely does not have this kind of strength.
If he really had this kind of strength, Dajing would have dominated the world long ago. How could other countries exist?
Besides, if he really had this kind of strength, there would be no need to fake his death. He could always be the emperor of the Dajing Kingdom.
Huang Shijie didn't even look at Zhang Guoqing. He was just a tool and not worthy of his attention at all.
When his eyes fell on Zhou Shu, Huang Shijie's eyes were very strange. There was appreciation, fear, and hatred in his eyes.
With many emotions mixed together, Huang Shijie slowly said, "Zhou Shu, do you know your guilt?"
“Where does sin come from?”
Zhou Shu looked at Huang Shijie and did not rush to take action, but said calmly.
"Life and death are destiny."
Huang Shijie said coldly, "You should be punished for your crime of changing other people's lives and disturbing the secret of heaven!
Since this is your first offender, I can spare your life.
As long as you plead guilty, I will give you a chance."
"Haha——"
Zhou Shu laughed loudly, "Tianji?
What is secret?
Life and death are fateful, whose fate is this?
You decide when people should die, when should people die?
Do you really think of yourself as the King of Hell?"
"King of Hell?"
Huang Shijie frowned. He had obviously never heard the words of the King of Hell that he would let people die at the third watch but refused to keep them alive until the fifth watch.
"It seems that you are not planning to plead guilty?"
Huang Shijie's expression gradually turned cold, and the surrounding air began to drop rapidly. Inside the imperial mausoleum, a layer of hoarfrost even began to appear on the ground and walls.
"Not guilty can be admitted."
Zhou Shu shook his head and said, "You are not qualified to make me plead guilty."
"If you don't eat the toast, you will be punished with alcohol!"
Huang Shijie's eyes flashed with anger, and he said coldly, "You think I can't kill you?"
"If I'm not wrong, you really can't kill me."
Zhou Shu smiled sarcastically and said, "Otherwise, you wouldn't have to talk so much nonsense.
Your actions in this world will be restricted. Did I guess wrong?
Moreover, your true body should not appear casually, otherwise, you would not use Huang Shijie's corpse to appear.
I've seen too many bluffing tricks like this, so you can't scare me."
Although he said this, Zhou Shu did not relax his vigilance at all.
The Kaitian God Ax in his hand is already emitting a faint light, and the ax blade is even more sharp.
Huang Shijie narrowed his eyes slightly, a look of anger flashed in his eyes.
"Huang Shijie was just an ordinary person before he died. I wonder how much power his body can bear from you?"
Zhou Shu continued, "Or have you modified his body?
If this is the case, then I have to thank you.
Maybe, I can still get a glimpse of some of the secrets of your weapon-making skills from him."
"Wishful thinking!"
Huang Shijie snorted coldly, "My patience is limited. I'll ask you one last time, do you admit guilt?"
"I said, why are you so childish?"
Zhou Shu shook his head and said, "I'll tell you one more time, don't admit it!"
"Very good."
Huang Shijie laughed angrily, "I gave you a chance, but you don't know how to cherish it.
Then it’s no wonder that I am cruel and ruthless.
From now on, you are officially on my must-kill list."
"Really?"
Zhou Shu smiled nonchalantly and said, "Just on the list?
You, the old man, have come in person, why don’t you just kill me?
If you kill me here, why don’t you just do it and be done with it?”
Zhou Shu's arm has been raised.
I can’t wait to open the Divine Axe.
From the moment Huang Shijie opened his eyes, Zhou Shu could already feel the violent emotions erupting from the Divine Axe, which wanted to kill Huang Shijie!
To be precise, it wants to kill the being possessing Huang Shijie!
This is not the first impulse to open the God's Axe. The last time I was with the Holy Emperor, the Transcendent One came and opened the God's Axe, and I had the same reaction.
At that time, the Kaitian Divine Ax acted spontaneously and directly forced the detached person back.
This time, Kaitian Divine Ax obviously has the same plan.
If Zhou Shu hadn't tried his best to control it, it would have burst out long ago.
"You are not worthy of letting me do it myself."
Huang Shijie said coldly, "Next, prepare to welcome the tragic fate.
All heavenly secrets will be back on track, and you will also accept my judgment!"
Before he finished speaking, Huang Shijie's body shone brightly.
Immediately afterwards, a beam of light shot into the sky.
Huang Shijie didn't even take action against Zhou Shu. His body turned into a beam of light and left the imperial mausoleum directly following the beam of light.
As soon as his figure disappeared, the shouts of the soldiers guarding the tomb could be heard outside.
Zhou Shu frowned slightly, "Let's go!"
He and Zhang Guoqing disappeared in an instant.
When the soldiers guarding the mausoleum rushed in, they found only an empty mausoleum, and their emperor's body had disappeared.