Chapter 65

The Kong family, Kong Donglai faced his younger brother Kong Donghua's mangled corpse, his anger surged! Kong Donghua was not just his younger brother, but also one of the few cultivation geniuses in the Kong family. Now, this 'genius' younger brother was already lying in a 'coffin.'

After being furious for a long time, Kong Donglai wrote a letter to his uncle in Wuyang City, who was also the Grand Tutor Kong Xiang, and sent his youngest son to secretly slip out of Nanyang, heading north to Cai State!

Looking at the map, Kong Donglai's expression was ruthless: "Li Yulong, Li Xian, Li Liang, the Brilliant Stars Group? Humph, this time I will use the power of Cai State to destroy Anyang. Once Anyang is destroyed, I can use the excuse of Anyang's fall to remove Li Yulong!"

"Zhi'er, come here!"

Kong Yingzhi, dressed in hemp clothes, walked over, "Father."

"Zhi'er, you lead five hundred elite soldiers, all of whom are at the Eighth Layer of the Qi Condensation stage or above, and the Foundation Establishment stage. Lie in ambush near Anyang. Seize the opportunity to snatch relevant materials, talents, and technology! Also, keep an eye on Li Xian and Li Liang, and make sure to eliminate them!"

"Yes!" Kong Yingzhi immediately gathered his troops and left. All the elite soldiers were disguised and left the city in broad daylight, marching away.

From then on, no one knew the Kong family's plans, nor did they know what actions the Kong family had taken. Of course, many people were just watching the show—regardless of what the Kong family did, as long as there was a show to watch, it was fine!

On the third evening after Li Xian killed the Golden Core expert, the news had already spread throughout Wuyang City.

When Wang Chuan of the Wang family heard about this, he burst into laughter: "This kid has guts! I haven't even settled the score for Wang Ming's death, and now he has offended the Kong family. Hey, I wonder if it was planned or just reckless?"

Beside him, Wang Yuhuo, Wang Ming's father, had a cold expression: "I think the battle must have been very intense; otherwise, Kong Donghua's body wouldn't be so mangled. The situation must have been such that he couldn't hold back."

Wang Chuan looked at the bright spring scenery outside and said with a calculating tone: "No matter what, the situation is very interesting now. Keep an eye on things and see if Kong Xiang has any recent activities. Humph, if the old man dares to do anything he shouldn't, I'll bring him down. When the time comes, I'll take his place and become one of the Three Dukes. Then, I'll make the Li family wish they were dead!"

"Big Brother will definitely succeed! I'll go take care of it!" The power of hatred is great, and after the pain of losing his son, Wang Yuhuo had already begun to fall.

Not only here, but the First Prince, Second Prince, Third Prince, Empress Huagui, and the Emperor were all plotting. In short, this matter was truly significant! The Great Xia Kingdom didn't have many Golden Core experts, and the Golden Core stage was almost the first goal pursued by countless cultivators—powerful, noble, and a five-hundred-year lifespan! It's easy to imagine the impact of the death of a Golden Core expert.

"An attack by a city siege crossbow killed a Golden Core expert? What a powerful city siege crossbow!" Shangguan Guang, the father of Shangguan Yong, put down the intelligence in his hand and sneered, "Was the city siege crossbow made of dragon bones? Did Kong Donghua just stand there foolishly without dodging?"

Without mentioning others, the next day, which was the day after the bidding was completed, Li Liang personally came to the Green Cloud Valley to find Li Xian.

"Rare visitor, rare visitor, Big Brother, you finally decided to leave your little territory and come to see me."

Li Liang was furious at Li Xian's words: "Don't joke around with me. Tell me, how did you manage to kill Kong Donghua! Even if you had just crippled him, it would have been fine. Now that he's dead, we and the Kong family are in a life-and-death feud! Father is only a Second Rank official, while Kong Xiang is already a First Rank. Do you know how much trouble this will bring to Father!"

Li Xian sighed, "Brother, do you know how many people are after me? You didn't see those greedy eyes. To avoid offending too many people, we could only offend one family severely."

"Fallacy!"

"Even a fallacy is a reason. Come, come, come, I've already prepared five thousand sets of stainless steel weapons and armor. Since Big Brother is here, take them away. With these five thousand sets, the military elite will basically have one set each."

Li Liang was shocked: "Five thousand sets? Your production speed has increased so much?"

"Five thousand sets are nothing! The wire problem has been solved, and in a while, producing fifty thousand sets a day won't be a problem."

Five thousand sets of weapons were impressive. The same slender sabers, the same shiny armor, filled five layers of the huge warehouse. At a glance, it looked like a bright army of immortals had descended.

"Great!" Li Liang shouted. Although it wasn't the first time he had seen it, he was still excited every time he saw such shiny armor and weapons; especially after hearing the exorbitant price of the stainless steel weapons at the bidding, Li Liang was secretly amazed—Xian, you're really ruthless.

Five thousand sets of armor and weapons were not a small number, but it didn't matter. As soon as they heard about the new weapons and armor, Wang Jian led his five thousand elite soldiers directly over and returned in the afternoon, the soldiers excitedly chattering, touching their shiny armor, and looking at the mirror-like blades, grinning and showing their yellow teeth, laughing foolishly.

After a few days of turmoil, Li Xian was finally excited again, because—the first locomotive had been completed!

Actually, with the engine, bearings, and the help of magic, the core issues of the locomotive were not too difficult; the biggest problem was the details of gear shifting, changing gears, and control.

For this, Liu Bin, along with a group of people and some of the research lab staff, even improved geometry, mathematics, algebra, and a considerable part of basic physics.

"Brother Li Xian is here!"

From a distance, a group of children shouted. These children were the future pillars that Li Xian had prepared, and they had already started learning and being cultivated. Of course, even as children, they still had to take oaths.

In this immortal realm, taking oaths was almost a daily occurrence—wanting others to believe you, wanting to be trusted, taking oaths was almost inevitable, and it had become a cultural custom.

"Uncle, Uncle, I want to drive!" Zhao Fei pulled on Li Xian's sleeve, refusing to let go. Beside him, Xia Qingqing smiled at the two, taking care of the children running around.

Liu Bin was very nervous, constantly sending people to drive the children away. The first experimental locomotive was still very dangerous, and he didn't want the children to get hurt.

Li Xian picked up the stubborn Zhao Fei, ignoring his cries, and threw him to Xia Qingqing, then went forward to observe.

Liu Bin explained beside him: "We used a three-wheeled support, with the engine at the back and the front for steering.

Additionally, to solve the problem of the spirit-gathering array's instability during movement, we used multiple different structures of spirit-gathering arrays for power, and used jade as a filter and regulator (capacitor).

Technically, because we used black iron wire, the engine was reduced in size by half. The engine's power is four horsepower."

"Four horsepower? That's too small, right?" Li Xian frowned slightly, "I remember the engine for the textile machine had already reached six horsepower. If connected to an external spirit-gathering array, it could even reach ten horsepower.

This locomotive has a lot of space, so we can definitely set up more spirit-gathering arrays."

But Li Xian had long become a hands-off manager, only giving hints for the research, leaving the rest to others.

Liu Bin opened his workbook and explained bit by bit: "Young Master, the spirit-gathering array must be stable to work. During movement, the spirit-gathering array will be interrupted due to shaking. This is unavoidable.

Currently, the limitation of the locomotive is not the engine, but the spirit-gathering array. We are working on improving the spirit-gathering array, but the results are not good."

"Spirit-gathering array?" When Liu Bin mentioned it, Li Xian understood. Many arrays required "communication with heaven and earth," and the spirit-gathering array was no exception. The locomotive would inevitably shake during movement, causing the spirit-gathering array to fail.

"If we want to change it, we need to dismantle the current array system and rebuild the foundation of cultivation!" Xu Ren said. The meaning was clear—this path was not feasible!

Li Xian pondered for a long time and finally had an idea: "Try using a water suspension device to stabilize the spirit-gathering array. Also, consider whether we can eliminate the spirit-gathering array and use spirit stones to provide energy!

By the way, how is the research on spirit stones going?"

Tang Rong, hearing Li Xian's question about spirit stones, immediately became embarrassed: "Young Master, we have made some progress, but... the results are limited."

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