Chapter 90: The Right Way to Die [First Order Request]

"I don't eat beef."

"..."

Xu Yishen thought his young master had lost his temper, so he turned around and wanted to have someone take the hot dish away. However, he heard a whistling sound coming from the side the next second and realized something was wrong.

"few--"

puff!
A slap came over, and the big head was shattered into pieces in an instant. Red and white things exploded in a fan shape, and countless fishy things gushed out, floating and falling on the faces of everyone in the room.

After a moment of silence.

"father!"

Looking at the headless body of Xu Yishen who was still sitting on the chair due to inertia, Xu Shenghong's eyes were about to burst out in anger. However, the murderer seemed to be fine and even turned his head and grinned at him.

"..."

With just one glance, all the resentment in Xu Shenghong's heart was sunk into the cold cave, and a strong fear and desire to survive surged into his heart.

escape--

You must escape.

He was the fastest, and he had already run to the door before his uncles and uncles at the same table could react. But before he even took a step, there was a blast like the ignition of cannon powder behind him.

puff!
The huge spear pierced through his chest, and the terrifying force blew a bloody hole in his chest and nailed him firmly to the ground. Xu Shenghong, whose lungs were rotten, was not dead yet. He held the spear with both hands and wailed.

"what!!"

The banquet was in chaos at this time. The Xu family members of different generations rushed out one after another, but Wei Mingqi ignored them and turned to the woman beside him:
"Go back to your room and change your clothes. Come out in half an hour."

Mei Xing, who was still sitting quietly on the chair, was not an ordinary woman. She didn't care about the blood on her body. Instead, she gave him a beautiful look:
"My little husband, am I a spoiled child in your eyes? Do I need you to protect me at this time?"

"That's not the case. You are stronger than most men in this world."

Wei Mingqi reached out and wiped off the blood spots on her face, saying in a gentle tone, "But I know you like to keep yourself clean."

Being coaxed by him like this, even Yu Qing felt his heart softened, and he finally stood up and bowed to him and said:

"As you command, young master~"

After saying that, the woman deliberately twisted her waist and passed by him. Wei Mingqi resisted the urge to slap her peach, thinking that he must find a chance to do it to her in the next two days.

When the room was empty, Wei Mingqi walked up to Xu Shenghong. The boy was still alive. When he saw him approaching, he raised his eyes with difficulty and looked at him pleadingly.

"few--"

puff!
The body of the spear broke into two halves. Wei Mingqi took the Dragon Blood Spear back from the ground and swung it vigorously in his hand. Immediately, a long scarlet streak appeared on the ground and the spear body became smooth again.

"That's really good—"

Holding the spear with the faint dragon scale pattern in his hand, Wei Mingqi felt the power of the blue dragon surge in his body, and his hand actually felt slightly hot, which surprised him.

There seems to be some connection between Dragon Blood Iron and Dragon Essence.

"Right inside!"

"quick--"

There were footsteps outside the courtyard. Wei Mingqi put away his thoughts for the time being. Soon, a group of armored servants rushed in, among whom were some uncles from the Xu family, shouting:

"Whoever takes his head will be rewarded with 1,000 taels of silver and his surname will be changed to Xu!"

Upon hearing such a generous reward, these servants, who were no different from professional soldiers, were immediately aroused and rushed forward like a tide.

Dozens of steel knives slashed at him, but the lone young man simply lowered his shoulders and swung his spear, then concentrated his breath and took a deep breath.

Boom!

There was a sudden thunderclap and a raging spear rolled through the crowd like a terrestrial dragon. In an instant, countless broken arms and limbs and steel chips swirled up and down like leaves. The people at the back didn't know what happened, but they felt a breeze blowing and their faces were warm.

Someone subconsciously wiped his face, but when he raised his hand, he saw the scarlet on his palm.

“…Ghost!”

"What's going on in front? Don't push back!"

The courtyard was not big and there were too many people. The front collapsed at the first touch and some people in the back didn't know what happened until a series of "thunderbolts" approached and blood and body parts fell like raindrops from the sky. The suffocating terror finally triggered a total collapse.

Not long after, a young man holding a blood spear and looking like Shura appeared from the doorway, his eyes swept around.

"put!"

boom--

There was a muffled sound from the wall not far away. After hearing the noise, someone turned around and hope appeared in his eyes.

hum!
He shook his hands vigorously, and the instantaneous force twisted the spear in half, causing a layer of blood mist to rise from the surface of the spear. Then the tip of the spear suddenly shot up, shattering an arrow as thick as a baby's arm in the air.

The technician operating the crossbow on the wall felt cold all over when he saw this scene. The others felt as if they had seen a demon. They turned around and ran away without any hope.

Not long after——

Yu Qing changed her clothes and took a shower. When she came out, there was no sound in the entire Xujiabao. She looked around and finally saw a few people in a training ground.

"Sir, this really has nothing to do with us. It was all Xu Shenghong's own decision. We have advised him—"

"This kind of major event is usually handled by the clan leader, but...but according to the rules of previous years, everyone should be in the underground fire storehouse."

Several old men kowtowed like crazy. Yu Qing was curious and jumped to the side of the man who smelled fishy.

"Why are you still chatting? Go take a shower and kill him. You stink~" She looked like she didn't care about human life, and scared the old men so much that they trembled all over. One of them raised his head and said, "Don't kill us! Sir, I know Xu Yisheng is forging a killing weapon without telling us. It's in the underground fire storehouse. I'd like to take you to see it--"

Wei Mingqi looked over and nodded when he heard this, "You guys follow me down."

Soon, a rockery in the garden was moved away, and a long stone staircase extended all the way downward, with a faint glow of fire at the end.

Wei Mingqi led Yu Qing and several elders of the Xu family inside. The stone steps were long and the temperature rose as they went inside. When they were almost at the end, waves of heat came over them.

"The Xu family's underground fire is well hidden."

Yu Qing fanned his face with his hands and looked at one of the elders: "There are always rumors in the martial arts world that the reason why the weapons produced by your Xu Family Castle are so sharp is all due to the earth fire. Is this true?"

The elder was frightened by Wei Mingqi and knew everything. He nodded quickly and said:

"Underground fire is the foundation of my Xu family. The weapons produced from it are 30% better than those produced from nearby blast furnaces with the same materials. That's why my Xu family has spent a lot of money on it over the years. What you two adults saw in the town is just a trick."

Blindfold?
Thinking of the hundreds of blast furnaces in the town, Yu Qing was wondering how there could be such a costly trick. When she reached the end of the stone steps and saw the scene inside, her pupils dilated slightly, and she understood what a huge price was.

Although the stone steps are narrow, only when you really go down will you find that the area under the Xu family's house is almost completely hollowed out. The space of several hundred square meters is vast, and is filled with many daunting raw steel equipment, some of which look like pig iron molds, and some like ceiling hooks. In the middle, there is also a huge blast furnace with flames blazing, and the flames shoot out several feet high.

"Sir, that is the underground furnace. It has never been extinguished for a hundred years. It was my great-grandfather Xu who first discovered the geothermal energy here and dug deep to find it. Then, during the reign of Emperor Suzong, this place was officially granted to my family."

Wei Mingqi had seen this thing in the game, so it was not surprising. He also knew that the reason why Xu family weapons were sharper than others was not because of the so-called underground fire, but because of the things living inside.

Compared to the stove, another object caught his attention.

"what is this?"

Wei Mingqi walked to a long tube, squinted his eyes and looked at it for a long time, and barely made out the two cast characters "Hongtian" on it.

An elder walked up to him and looked at him for a while, then said with a slightly changed expression: "This... looks like a cannon?"

"Seems to be?"

Wei Mingqi looked at the mouth of the tube that allowed him to crawl in and out, then turned to look at the elder: "Don't you know what this thing is?"

His face was already covered in blood, and now he looked like a ghost in the dark underground. The old man was frightened by him and his face turned pale. He said:
"The arrangement of things in the underground furnace is all decided by the clan leader, and only his people can come in normally. I just vaguely heard rumors that Xu Yisheng seemed to be making some incredible killing weapon here."

Wei Mingqi frowned at him, pointed at the long tube and asked again: "I'm not asking if you knew about it in advance, I'm asking if this thing is a cannon!"

This time, the elder finally nodded.

"Yes."

"..."

"And this is just one section. The rest of the sections need to be connected together and the gun hoop to form a complete cannon."

Wei Mingqi frowned when he heard this.

Yu Qing, who was standing next to him, walked up to him and said, "Who has the guts to buy such a big cannon? Does the buyer want to bombard the immortal warrior?"

The corners of Wei Mingqi's mouth twitched when he heard this. The hermit martial immortal was not stupid. Standing there and letting people hit him was like a stick, but if they fired at the Golden Palace, that would be a possibility, after all, the Golden Palace would not have legs and run away.

As he thought about this, a goal suddenly emerged in his mind.

It's actually not hard to guess.

Not to mention the separatist regimes outside the Great Wall, they can make this thing themselves, and there are only a few families in Guanzhong who have the ability to buy, transport, and hide it. Coincidentally, one of the people Wei Mingqi knows has such ability.

Thinking of this, Wei Mingqi seemed to suddenly understand why Zhao Chengsi reacted so strongly when he went to the armory last time. My goodness, could there be a sky-blaster hidden underneath?

"Ow—"

While he was thinking, there was a sudden movement in the underground blast furnace. The flames at the furnace mouth surged and there seemed to be a roar of a ferocious beast. Then a rolling heat wave came towards him. The temperature around him rose sharply. After several people raised their hands for a long time, the movement slowly subsided.

"What do you have in your stove?"

Hearing Yu Qing's question, several elders hesitated for a long time, and finally the more honest one stood up and said:
"That's the spirit of underground fire. It has been like this for hundreds of years. It flares up from time to time. Most of the time it's not serious like today, but there are exceptions. In that case, not to mention people, even the things underneath will be melted, so -"

"So you're going to sacrifice people?"

The elder was interrupted by Wei Mingqi's sudden words. He shrank his neck and wanted to cry but could not. Logically, such a secret matter was only known by the upper echelons of the Xu family. No matter how stupid Xu Yisheng was, he would not tell it. But this devil knew it and pointed it directly at the group of children.

"The spirit of the underground fire is restless, and can only be appeased by feeding it with the blood of living people. There is no other way. My Xu family's ancestors have only just developed the Ten-Year Grand Sacrifice, and this matter has always been presided over by the head of the family... We have nothing to do with it."

Hearing his sophistry, Yu Qing's eyes flickered a little, and he said, "You haven't prepared the blood of a living person yet, have you?"

"..."

Not long after, the woman in green skirt led out five or six children from a secret hut. Although they had been sent to this underground furnace not long ago, the temperature here was too high. The children were not in good condition and some even had to be held by Yu Qing.

"Little Lord?"

"Ah."

Hearing the question, Wei Mingqi nodded, raised his chin and said:

"Take them up first."

The two of them now had a tacit understanding. After Yu Qing took the people away, Wei Mingqi turned around and looked at the group of elders.

It would be fine if ordinary members of the Xu family didn't know about it, but these old men were in high positions and usually enjoyed the money brought by the underground blast furnace, but in the end they actually said it had nothing to do with him.

"You guys, you deserve death."

　There are two more updates today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)