"Why save me instead of the prince?" Zhongshu ordered Guan Zhengqing to question Wang Ruiyang who was unsealing himself.
Wang Ruiyang squinted: "Stop pretending, I can see the joy in your eyes."
Guan Zhengqing looked at Wang Ruiyang without saying anything.
"Okay, okay, Lao Guan, you saw the situation at that time. It would be more convenient for me to save you."
"But you are closer to the prince."
"Yes, I am closer to the prince, but that's why it is inconvenient to attack. Then Dong Shikui is on guard. Besides, the prince's cultivation is not at the Golden Core stage, but you are at the Nascent Soul stage.
Do you think I can run away with a person in the golden elixir stage? That prince looks like he doesn't understand anything at first glance, and I'm afraid he won't be able to endure hardships.
Lao Guan, this is all open, let me tell you straight away: the moment the second prince left the country, his mission was completed.
Your Majesty's sending a prince on an envoy is an attitude. The moment he leaves the country, his meaning ends; whether he lives or dies is irrelevant.
And you are the real negotiator.
Okay, let's go quickly and try to cross the Qiufeng Ridge and reach the East as soon as possible.
Along the way, I'm afraid I'll have to pretend to be a beggar, a homeless person, a handyman, etc. to get by."
Guan Zhengqing sighed and nodded slowly. Now that things have reached this point, he can only continue.
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It is already the third day that Zhang Hao and Zhou Xueyao have been busy. For more than two days, under Zhang Hao's guidance, they have equipped more than 30 explosive ratios, but the power is not satisfactory.
"The one with the best effect is this one." Zhou Xueyao pointed to the black-red gunpowder powder in front. It was prepared with dragon blood stone crystals, petroleum coke and ordinary sulfur.
Its explosive power is almost ten times that of ordinary gunpowder; but... there are still some problems, because the sulfur in it is ordinary sulfur, so the power cannot reach the extreme.
Zhou Xueyao's face was very serious: "Although such explosives are good, they cannot bring much lethality to the Golden Core stage and above.
The problem now is sulfur. If sulfur with the same spiritual material properties can be found, the power of this explosive will increase several times again. At that time, it can even threaten the Nascent Soul stage."
Zhang Hao looked at the explosive in front of him and frowned a little; the explosive was indeed not powerful enough, so he put it into a can made of steel. As a result, the steel can only had a few cracks but did not explode.
After thinking for a while, Zhang Hao asked: "Is there any way to temporarily add a little spiritual energy to the sulfur?"
"This... let me think about it... yes, it really exists! I'll go look for it." Zhou Xueyao trotted to the bookstore and started to rummage. After a while, she came out excitedly holding a scroll, "I found it. I remember
At that time, my father said that a 'replacement method' could be used to replace the spirituality in a spiritual material into an ordinary material of a similar type.
It’s just that the spirituality of replacement cannot last long.”
Zhou Xueyao opened the scroll, read the steps carefully, and smiled: "It's quite simple. As for sulfur... well... use high-grade spiritual stones to provide spiritual sources."
With that said, Zhou Xueyao began to 'refining alchemy'. This kind of spiritual replacement would still need to be achieved with the help of an alchemy furnace for the time being.
Zhou Xueyao's pale golden true fire slowly burned a small alchemy furnace, and her fingers were like butterflies piercing flowers, and they continued to make seals one after another. About five or six minutes later, a rich spiritual energy suddenly rushed out of the alchemy furnace, and Zhou Xueyao's slender body
The jade hand gently brushed the alchemy furnace, and a water-blue bead appeared on the palm.
The beads are very beautiful, pearl-sized and crystal clear.
However, after seeing this bead, Zhou Xueyao's eyes were stunned: "This color... I seem to have seen it somewhere before?"
"Really?" Zhang Hao was a little surprised.
"Let's try the power first." Zhou Xueyao carefully crushed this 'expensive spiritual sulfur'. It took a high-grade spiritual stone to refine a little sulfur, and the cost could no longer be described as expensive.
When the three powders are mixed evenly again, a little crystal luster appears on the surface of the powder, which is very beautiful. It sparkles like a pile of glass powder.
Zhang Hao and Zhou Xueyao rolled the gunpowder into a paper tube, put in a fuse made of ordinary gunpowder, and placed it in the corner. They stayed away and ignited the gunpowder with a three-meter-long bamboo pole. The front of the bamboo pole was already burning red.
"boom!"
An unprecedented explosion occurred, the earth trembled slightly, and the wall was lifted directly to the sky, completely shattered.
A large crater of about three meters appeared at the location of the explosion. The shock wave lifted up stone slabs within a ten-meter radius, and the defensive barrier in front of Zhang Hao and Zhou Xueyao was crumbling.
Such power was almost ten times that of the previous formula. Zhang Hao was stunned when he saw it, and then he was ecstatic.
The explosion was so violent that countless birds were alarmed. Even Zhang Shengde was alarmed and appeared above the small courtyard. After seeing that Zhang Hao and Zhou Xueyao were fine, he breathed a sigh of relief. Then he asked angrily: "Are you there?
What are you doing!"
"Dad, it's just an experimental explosive. How about it? It's pretty powerful."
"The earth is shaking. The whole family has been shocked by you. Do you think it's okay?"
Zhou Xueyao was embarrassed and a little naughty and stuck out the tip of her tongue at Zhang Hao.
Lao Zhang obviously hasn't realized the future of gunpowder. He just thinks... it's too noisy.
Zhang Hao said a lot of good words and apologies before letting Zhang Shengde leave. Zhou Xueyao asked the guards to come in and clean up, while she tried hard to recall where she had seen it.
Suddenly, Zhou Xueyao's eyes widened, and she glanced at the maid beside her who was clearing the table. On the maid's wrist, there was a self-woven bracelet with a carefully polished aqua blue "gem" hanging on it.
This maid was assigned to Zhou Xueyao by the Zhang family.
"Xiaoyun!" Zhou Xueyao's tone was a bit strong.
"Miss." Maid Xiaoyun was startled by Zhou Xueyao's voice and looked at Zhou Xueyao timidly.
Zhou Xueyao's face immediately put on a soft smile: "Xiaoyun, can I see the gem in your hand?"
"Ah...oh...ok..." Xiaoyun hurriedly took off the bracelet.
Zhou Xueyao took it over for appraisal for a moment, her eyes lit up, she nodded to Zhang Hao, and returned the bracelet to Xiaoyun, "Xiaoyun, where did you get this gem?"
Xiaoyun was a little excited: "This... there are a lot of them on the mountains where we are. They are very beautiful. This is a good thing. If you wear it regularly, you can avoid getting sick, avoid mosquitoes, and prevent prickly heat, etc.
We are all called "Shuiyu". Our village is also called "Shuiyu Village".
If Miss likes it, I still have several pieces here.
Water jade is cheap and fragile, so I always get a lot of it every time I go home."
Zhou Xueyao smiled: "Okay. Which town is your Shuiyu Village in?"
"It's in Baishan Town, just southeast of Changshan Town and south of Dakuang Town. It's about eighty miles away from here."
Zhang Hao's eyes suddenly brightened - this Baishan Town is also the current fiefdom of the Zhang family!
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