Chapter 569
Translated by: Berrrybunz
Edited by: TN and DeAndreR
Earning money was a problem in every world. The Shang System was even more desolate and backward, it was originally already poor, if they wanted to earn money, they needed to leave and find somewhere else to start.
Tang Tian and the rest did not leave without careful considerations. They still needed time to get used to Sacred Saint Galaxy.
Everyday, Tang Tian and the rest would have a new discovery, there were too many foreign things in the new world.
The Sacred Saint Galaxy and Heavens Road were two completely different worlds. Although the Sacred Saint Galaxy did not have martial spirits, the place was rich with materials, far exceeding that of Heavens Road. The treasures in Heavens Road stemmed from a system, but the refinement of weapons in Sacred Saint Galaxy was so profound and long, so much that it was even longer than Heavens Road"s history.
The two completely different systems of the two worlds, greatly expanded the group"s thoughts and views.
Little Fool became the busiest person, he needed to experiment on the various different unfamiliar materials continuously, and then select out certain materials to be sent to Sai Lei for further a.n.a.lysis.
He was more interested in refining weapons in the Sacred Saint Galaxy. It was a pity that Xiao Yu"s knowledge barely scratched the surface on the contents of the foundations. To help Little Fool segregate the materials and create summaries, Xiao Yu had already become his a.s.sistant. In this aspect, Xiao Yu, showed an outstanding gift.
Throughout the days, Tang Tian and the others were busy through day and night, because of the black rocks on the barren land, Tang Tian and the rest had to build a foothold before heading out.
The Red Gra.s.s Village was truly too small, and it"s defensive capabilities were too weak.
Tang Tian and the rest decided to expand the Red Gra.s.s Village, and having no money, they had to do the work themselves.
Worried that people would know where they came from, the new Red Gra.s.s Village had a large scale decision, for everyone to use mechanical techniques. Bing realized that the mechanical techniques of Sacred Saint Galaxy were very advanced, and was suspicious that the Southern Cross Army"s mechanical techniques, might possibly have been brought over by the Commander from the Sacred Saint Galaxy.
Shi Yong was a great help, he found many stronghold blueprints, although they were ordinary blueprints, but to veteran Bing and mechanical grandmaster engineer Sai Lei, it was sufficient.
The two of them formulated extension plans from the blueprints.
For materials needed, it was the black rocks that the beach had an unlimited supply of. The Black rocks, regardless of their hardness, or resistance to energy, were extremely outstanding. The only problem was that it was difficult to a.s.similate the black rocks into one body.
Tang Tian had asked Xiao Yu before, but Xiao Yu did not know what the black rocks were called, he only knew it was difficult to smelt. However, his power was too weak, and knew very little, so he did not overthink it. In the entire Shang System, there were just a handful of people that could smelt weapons, it was truly a place where even birds did not even want to defecate. The Red Gra.s.s Villagers knew that the black rocks were hard, so they used them to build houses.
Xiao Yu was extremely curious on how to a.s.similate the black rocks to be one.
In the plans to extend the stronghold, the most important were the six straight humongous pillars with diameters of 15m, and roughly a length of 170m. According to Bing and Sai Lei"s requests, these six huge pillars required the black metals to be forged and moulded as one.
The tough and durable Red Reed Sword Gra.s.s were weaved into a cylindrical shaped, inside it stuffed full with black rocks. The length of the cylinder, exceeded 170m, the diameter was more than 15m.
Little Fool retrieved out a bucket of transparent liquid, it was an ingredient that the Blood Meridians Laboratory had specially brought over.
To Little Fool, smelting the black rocks was a matter of effort, much less to say the large rock pillar. Hence when Sai Lei and Bing mentioned the plan, Little Fool almost went crazy, being helpless, he stuffed his head into the records that senior Gui Wu had left behind to look for ideas.
To be able to refine out the Forceful Subjugating Bead showed Senior Gui Wu"s high standard of refining spirit treasures, and could be rated as an extremely high achievement. Senior Gui Wu was born a Blood Saint, so he knew much about the various unorthodox methods, and surely enough, Little Fool found a possible idea.
Many metals could withstand fire, but not the corrosion of blood meridians.
He sent Old Man Fei in the blood meridian laboratory a large wicker basket of black rocks, and leaf a sentence saying "post-haste", Little Fool threw his hands up and could not care less.
Upon hearing the words "post-haste", without saying anything, he gathered the elites of the Blood Meridians Laboratory to tackle the problem. Although Little Fool was an expert in refining spirit treasures, but his understanding of Blood Meridians was lacking compared to the blood meridians specialists. If he were to fumble about in the dark, it would require a long time, but with Senior Gui Wu"s elaboration, Old Man Fei and his team quickly found the suitable blood meridian.
Astin Water, was a type of weak poison, and was the product of Madam Mu"s research. It"s poisonous intensity was extremely weak, but was the liquid that had the most outstanding results in dissolving the black rocks.
Little Fool held a silver spray bottle, which had a very unique shape, both fish tails were wrapped around each other, the two fish mouths were the bottle mouth, each one stretched to each side.
Pisces Constellation, silver treasure, [Pisces Spray Bottle]!
After obtaining this strange treasure, Tang Tian never knew what it could be used for, could it be to used to bathe after fighting?
But after that, he learnt of what it was for, the Pisces Spray Bottle was a piece treasure used in a day to day life.
It was extremely good to control liquids, suitable for blood meridian specialists, it was suitable for the cooking profession, tea profession, gardening profession, for it to be used in battle, it was suitable for water elemental illusions martial artists.
But Little Fool was using it for refinement, with a strange and unorthodox liquid refining method, it was extremely suitable for the treasure.
Little Fool had a serious expression as he pushed down the bottle mouth of the Pisces Spray Bottle in his hands. Chi, the Astin Water started to vibrate and transform into a fine mist that permeated into the pillar made of Red Gra.s.s.
The power of the Pisces Spray Bottle was revealed. If Little Fool relied on himself to control the Astin Water, the mist formed would be very little, less to think about permeating in proportion, he did not dare to even think about it.
Now, it was beautifully perfected.
Xiao Yu looked at the Pisces Spraying Bottle in Little Fool"s hands with curiosity, the shining silver spray bottle was beautiful and powerful!
The black rocks dissolved at a speed observable with the naked eye, they started to a.s.similate together, and the Astin Water did not cause any harm to the Red Reed Sword Gra.s.s.
After 20 minutes, a ma.s.sive black rock pillar was formed.
Tang Tian and the rest started to dismantle the Red Reed Sword Gra.s.s covering, the surface of the rock pillar was filled with a decorative design of the interweaving Red Gra.s.s.
Little Fool frowned, he felt that the Red Gra.s.s marks on the Black Rock Pillar were obstructing and ugly. But he knew that to use flames to forge such a black rock pillar, exceeded his capabilities.
Thick ropes were tied around the black rock pillar.
"Are you guys ready? The rest of you not helping, make way!"
Tang Tian directed from the sky, he pulled on one end of the thick rope, the other end was tied onto the black rock pillar. Around him, Bing controlled Sky Tiger, Jing Hao and Ling Xu, each pulled a rope.
The black rock was extremely dense and heavy, the weight of black rock pillar was imaginable, even Tang Tian who was so strong, was unable to shake the pillar by himself.
"Hey, all of you below, make way, watch out for your safety!"
"One, Two, Three!"
Tang Tian shouted in preparation, the thick and strong rope stretched taut, The Black Rock Pillar with a diameter of 15m and length of 170m gradually straightened up. The villagers around watched with curiously and were shocked to see the black rock pillar in front of their eyes suddenly appearing, although it was covered with vein patterns, when the humongous monster straightened in front of them, they were completely stunned.
"Okay, it"s straight! It"s straight!" Tang Tian shouted.
"So irritating, even a ghost will know it"s straight." Ling Xu said with annoyance.
他们都是高手，、平衡之类的感觉，几乎如同本能。
They are all experts, with regards to fine control of strength, the level of precision and balance, it was basically instinct.
Tang Tian was not angry, he laughed, screaming at the top of his lungs: "Are you ready?"
A few people took out sledgehammers, with the bronze hammer in Bing"s Sky Tigers hands being the scariest. It was as tall as Sky Tiger, and gave off an icy cold feeling to whoever looked at it.
"Begin!"
Tang Tian bellowed, the few figures flashed like lightning, gathering all the energy they had, the few sledgehammers struck onto the top of the black rock pillar at the same time.
Bang!
A loud bang that hurt the villager"s ears sounded out, and the black rock pillar sunk downwards.
Bang Bang Bang!
The black rock pillar sunk little by a little, like a nail being struck into the ground non-stop. The shocking scene, made the villagers watch with their eyes and mouths wide opened.
黑石柱下沉十丈，，每个人都是汗流浃背，这样的体力活，绝对不是一般的圣者能干得来的。
The black rock pillar sunk in roughly 30m before stopping. Everyone was drenched in sweat, it was extremely laborious, and was absolutely not something an average saint could do.
The six black rock pillars formed a complete hexagon, Tang Tian and the rest sat on the floor in exhaustion. Everyone was so drenched they looked as though they were pulled out of water.
The villagers organized by Crane started working, many bunches of Red Reed Sword Gra.s.s that were tied together were distributed and weaved around the black rock pillars. A two layered fence-like web, now surrounded the entire village.
Another group of villagers started to pour black rocks into the cavity between the gra.s.s webs, the black rocks continued to pile, to a height of 120m before stopping. The ground was also spread with a thick layer of black rocks.
Little Fool started to spray the Astin Water, the ground and the black rocks in the gra.s.s web quickly melted and formed into one full body. After that, the top of the six black rock pillars also had the gra.s.s webs weaving with a set pattern. At the top of every black rock pillar were spires that erected upwards, resembling six sharp swords that pointed straight to the sky.
"Up ahead is the Red Gra.s.s Village, Master Meng Nan is staying there temporarily." w.a.n.g Zhun Xian introduced respectfully.
Beside him, was a man with a gloomy and cold expression, his entire body was donned with armour, his long and narrow eyes flickered with a cold light. The bodyguards he was travelling with, were all surging in true power, their aura was imposing.
"I want to see where is he from!" Shi Sen said coldly, he took a glance at w.a.n.g Zhun Xian: "At that time, if Commander w.a.n.g tries to find other excuses, don"t blame me for being rude."
"Zhun Xian does not dare!" w.a.n.g Zhun Xian was bitter in his heart, the man in front of him came from a huge background, he did not dare to reject, thinking about the Savager called Meng Nan, he wanted to use him as a shield.
Shi Sen did not look at w.a.n.g Zhun Xian, he said: "Commander w.a.n.g cannot be blamed too, The Blue Tide this time, has destroyed over 200 li of the pontoon bridge in the Sea of Light. As long as pontoon bridge is not fixed, the loss would be shocking, that is why Master had ordered to recruit villagers. I am currently carrying the shortfall of 200,000 people, Commander w.a.n.g, you better not make things difficult for me."
"Yes yes yes." w.a.n.g Zhun Xian nodded his head.
Shi Sen laughed: "the Shang System is so poor, Commander w.a.n.g, you have been suffering for the last few years. If the pontoon bridge can be fixed ahead of time, that would be a huge service, and I will definitely report back to Master, to request for some recognition for Commander w.a.n.g. My Vast Star System, in the entire Southern Region, has the top trading town with its strategic location. About how flourishing it is, at that time, Commander w.a.n.g, you will experience it for yourself, Haha."
w.a.n.g Zhun Xian sighed in his heart, his face helplessly revealed a smile: "Thank you Mr Shi for supporting me!"
From history, the pontoon bridge in the Sea of Light was always built upon people"s lives. Every time it was built, only one out of ten of the conscripted villagers would survive. Even so, they did not conscript the villagers from Vast Star System, but ran over to the Shang System. Obviously they did not care about the lives of the people in the Shang System.
w.a.n.g Zhun Xian was born locally, everyone was his fellow friends and family, how could he bear to send them to their deaths.
But if he rejected…… the Shang System would definitely have a river of blood.
The bitterness in w.a.n.g Zhun Xian"s mouth became more bitter, he looked at Shi Yong, his hopes were now pinned on that Young Master Meng Nan.
Suddenly, Shi Sen"s footsteps beside him became sluggish, his breathing became quick and chaotic.
w.a.n.g Zhun Xian immediately regained his senses, he quickly raised his head, when he saw the scene in front of him clearly, his pupils involuntarily expanded.
Chapter 569 – Black Sword Stone Castle
Chapter 570 – Shi Sen
Translated by: Berrrybunz
Edited by: TN and DeAndreR
All around the castle was the flat black surface ground that resembled a public square, and what was more astonishing to people was that it was connected entirely with the walls. Looking from afar, it looked like a black ferocious beast, hibernating silently on the barren land filled with black gravel.
Shi Sen"s faced was filled with shock, he stopped in his tracks and squinted his eyes.
The 120m high castle walls, even from afar, he could feel the majestic aura coming from them. The scale of the castle walls, should not appear in a small place like the Shang System, only the flourishing strategic towns had the ability to house such majestic walls. The strange hexagon with its six sharp spires that were like swords pointing straight towards the sky, amplified the sharpness of the walls.
Shi Sen knew the six spires were absolutely not an ornament, with his abundant experience in battle, his power of observation was acute, he could feel a faintly discernible energy converged at the spires.
The Spires" purpose should be used to attack!
He suddenly believed w.a.n.g Zhun Xian slightly, the group of people that pushed back the Blue Tide. With such a castle,along with a set of battle abled crew, defeating the Blue Tide was more probable.
Shi Sen recovered from his shock, with an indifferent smile, he said to w.a.n.g Zhun Xian: "Commander w.a.n.g did not tell me that there was a castle here."
w.a.n.g Zhun Xian could hear the unhappiness and coldness in Shi Sen"s tone, he laughed bitterly: "To be honest, this place was still a barren land a few days ago."
Shi Yong was also completely stunned, previously the masters asked for stronghold blueprints, but no one would have thought of what would be the result of that. He thought they only wanted to build a small stronghold here.
And it was just a matter of days……
Shi Sen stared at w.a.n.g Zhun Xian"s face, he noticed the expressions that could definitely not be faked, and also noticed that the other members of the Precious Bright Village Regiment were also equally shocked, he believed them.
If that was the case, the newcomers did not come from small backgrounds.
And to spare no effort to build just a majestic castle in such a secluded place, there was definitely a reason! Could this place have something beneficial that others did not know of?
A few thoughts flashed past his mind. Shi Sen looked pensive, who knows, maybe I will get rich this time.
Thinking about that, his eyes flashed a trace of greed.
His personal strength was outstanding and had excessive military achievements, but without a family backing and powerful backer, he had waited so long but never got a promotion, and until now he never had his own land. If he could fish in a large sum of money and get things flowing, he could possible go up another level.
Once this thought surfaced, he could not get rid of it.
He licked his lips as his squinted eyes flashed a bright light aura. He was usually vicious and merciless and did not dread killing people. You come from a huge backing? So What? As long as I leave no one alive, who can do anything to me? At most I will push the responsibility to bandits and thieves, profiting is still the most important! Furthermore the distance of the Savage System to Vast Star System was too far.
It was so far that Shi Sen did not even care.
With regards to secrets, as long as the people landed in his hands, he had his own methods to get them to speak.
Even so, the defense of black castle, was truly too lax, streams of people entered and leave at will, and there were no one on the castle walls. They were too negligent, it did not even have the most basic defense.
Shi Sen had 50 bodyguards with him, although it was not a huge number, but each of them were strong. The key was that they had followed him for many years, and were adept at battle formations with good rapport.
One defenseless castle, how could they not take it down?
He gently tapped the armor on his body with his scabbard. The bodyguards around him saw it, and immediately understood. This was their secret signal, it indicated for them to take action immediately, and they immediately adjusted their positions quietly.
Shi Sen smiled and said to w.a.n.g Zhun Xian: "I wonder who are they familiar with?"
w.a.n.g Zhun Xian said without a doubt: "Commander Shi Yong in my team."
"So it will still be one of the same family." Shi Sen"s smile became even more warm: "Can Commander Shi lead the way please."
Shi Yong had his doubts, they had already reached, why would he need to lead the way? But he did not bother voicing out and nodded: "Okay!"
Shi Yong was the vanguard as the party of people flew towards the black castle.
When the villagers below saw that it was Shi Yong at the front, and also saw w.a.n.g Zhun Xian in the group, they waved and sent their greetings.
When Shi Sen heard the villagers below discussing that an important person had come to find Master Meng Nan, a smile surfaced on his face. There was contempt in his heart, the people were truly too lax.
As long as they were close, he had the confidence that the opponent would not have time to react, and he could take down the black castle easily.
As expected from someone born from Savage System, if they were really born from those aristocratic families, there would definitely be elite fighters. Aristocratic families were hard on rules and regulations, and would never make such silly mistakes.
He raised the blade in his hand, the edge waving side to side slightly, it was the hidden signal to be prepared to attack.
He stared intently at the black castle. He did not even bother looking at the villagers below.
"It"s been a few days and it"s still not complete! Crazy Tang and Poker Face, what are they doing inside, being so secretive!" Ling Xu mumbled to himself, while doing a different form of training with his eyes closed. He grabbed a handful of small stones, seemingly stuck onto his hand, rolling about endlessly, like a lump of viscous liquid, sticking on Ling Xu"s palm and would not fall off.
This was to temper the sensitivity of his hands, the feelings of the palm, he needed to grasp the moment at the point of contact, with the fluctuations from the feeling coming from his hand, he had to be able to judge the strength, direction and so on. In the past, Ling Xu"s spear technique greatly relied on true power, but since he had chosen the dao path of Zero Energy Body, that method had lost its effectiveness, on the contrary, he had to return back to basics.
The palms were the most important part of interacting with the spear, so its capabilities are extremely important.
It was not only him, the rest were doing the same exercise to temper themselves, however, Jing Hao was also playing with the stones, while Crane was going around everybody awkwardly, jumping around. The black rocks on the barren land were all different in sizes with irregular shapes, he closed off his intuition and shut his eyes, the moment he touched a stone, he would quickly make a judgement through the feeling pa.s.sed from beneath his feet.
"The proposal Sai Lei came up with this time is said to be very powerful. It is based on mechanical techniques, and along with the consideration of a Treasure City, she created a completely new type of stronghold. Uncle Bing was very interested, and Crazy Tang was pulled to do the tough work."
Crane was panting, the training he was doing, was very tough, it consumed a lot of physical strength. In his over 10 years of life in training, he had been used to utilizing true power, but today he wanted to regain the instincts of the body, and this to him, was a restart b.u.t.ton.
This weird training method, was created by Crazy Tang.
"If you love to torment yourself over and over again, go do it in a training room or fighting grounds, you"ll be doing it slightly better than you"re good to go." Ling Xu did not mind his actions, but this slight distraction caused the little rocks in his hand to separate and drop all over.
Disturbed by this, the feelings in Crane"s feet immediately deviated, and he fell flat on the ground.
"There"s killing intent." Jing Hao suddenly opened his eyes, looking at the sky.
The two of them were startled, and immediately opened their eyes.
"Isn"t that Shi Yong?" Ling Xu asked with curiosity: "Who are those beside him? Is that the whatever village regiment?"
Crane crawled up from the ground, he swiped the dust off his body, and looked at the sky, he had a strange feeling: "No, they"re not weak, let"s go and ask them."
"They are speeding up!" Ling Xu raised his eyebrows and leaped up.
"What if they are not friendlies?" Crane"s face darkened: "Take a guess where they"re from."
Where they"re from? Ling Xu frowned, and started thinking deeply, but when he realized Jing Hao who was beside him had already disappeared, he immediately became annoyed, he stomped angrily: "He went ahead! Little Crane, you"re annoying!"
"Oh, I did it on purpose." Crane had an indifferent expression.
Ling Xu was enraged: "d.a.m.n you, come, let us fight! I have endured with you for so long……"
His voice stopped abruptly, he turned and raised his head, looking at the sky in disbelief.
"Army!" Crane"s expression changed, his figure suddenly vanished.
w.a.n.g Zhun Xian suddenly realized that Shi Sen, who was beside him, had suddenly increased his speed, and almost at the same time, his bodyguards, had also accelerated! In the blink of an eye, they had traveled a large distance.
w.a.n.g Zhun Xians expression changed, although he was only a commander of the village regiment, but he was able to recognize what they were doing, it was…… an a.s.sault!
Shi Sen wanted to attack the black castle!
This judgement flashed across his mind like lightning, his face turned ashen. He immediately understood, why Shi Sen made Shi Yong walk in front, he wanted to use Shi Yong to confuse his enemy.
With the short burst of speed, Shi Sen and his men had completed a.s.sembling their formation.
The wind whistled past their ears, the black castle quickly became close, he could clearly see the shock and fear on the villagers faces below, they were truly a herd of sheep ready to be slaughtered and harvested!
Just like the black castle.
Shi Sen was extremely excited, the blood in his body was boiling and pumping hard, his fighting intent had reached its limits, he unsheathed his long blade, and held it high in the air!
The bodyguards beside him had unsheathed their long blades at the same time, releasing the wolf like howls!
Suddenly, a sword aura, flew towards them from below.
The sword aura was not dazzling, but Shi Sen still squinted, his heart turned cold. He was able to sense Sword Law infused in the sword attack, and from the corner of his eye, he glanced at the ordinary looking swordsman, he never expected the Savage System people to also have such a powerful swordsman!
Shi Sen did not have confidence to beat the opponent in a one against one battle, but now, he had already completed the group formation and had the acceleration. The might of the a.s.sault arising from the entire team had reached its apex, the entire team"s energy integrating as a whole, against one swordsman, Shi Sen could not help but smile.
Overestimating yourself!
So what if you have Law? Although that law of the sword aura is pure, but it isn"t strong!
Simultaneous Blade Slash!
The energy between the sky and ground suddenly seemed to congeal, but in the next second, the energy actually burst and exploded with a bang.
The energy of the entire team, surged forth like an angry wave, 51 blades, surged forth a sea of fierce energy as all of it charged crazily towards Shi Sen.
The dazzling blade auras caused the entire place to turn white.
Jing Hao"s sword aura broke like brittle gla.s.s, shattering into powder. At the place where Jing Hao"s sword aura was broken into pieces, the air seemed to ripple out like a water surface, one after another, the weak ripples undulated, distorting the blade auras that were was dazzling as the sun.
Blub!
A light sound came out, the blade aura swayed as it pa.s.sed through the ripple, flying straight towards Jing Hao!
Crane and Ling Xu"s expression changed, their hearts were panicking, the two appeared beside Jing Hao at almost the same time, and unleashed their moves in unison.
A crafty look flashed across Shi Sen"s eyes, the blade aura that was burning fiercely like a blazing sun, exploded without any warning!
The three of them were dazzled, the blade auras broke into threads, the countless fine threads was just like a big web, enveloping the three of them inside.
Shi Sen"s glance retracted from the threads of blades that trapped the three guys, his gaze landed on the wide open black castle, his eyes blazing with excitement, that was his goal!
Although the three of them were powerful, but entangling with them would only hinder his opportunity.
"Kill!"
The black castle was now like a beautiful young lady with her arms wide opened, all of their eyes immediately became red-hot.
But right at that moment, an unforeseen event suddenly occurred.