Chapter 111: Be a Good Person in the Next Life

As Wanyan Hongxi waved his large hand, granting the positions of Prefect and Inspector to Zhang Chu'an and the others, their revolutionary base once again experienced a second explosive surge.

The first time was when Hong Qigong's Beggar Sect and Qiu Chuji's Quanzhen School supported them with their entire fortunes; after understanding their cause and actions, these two factions not only provided manpower and effort, but Qiu Chuji and the others even contributed all the land and wealth of the Quanzhen School to support their revolutionary cause, and all the assets of Hong Qigong's Beggar Sect were also contributed, causing most of the Clean Robe Faction to leave the Beggar Sect.

Regarding this, Hong Qigong did not spare self-mockery: "This old beggar's Beggar Sect is now truly just a group of beggars gathered together."

However, they did not regret it; after all, this land was still ruled by the Jin people, so what use were money and assets? If they could drive the Jin people out of this land and let the common people live well, they would not hesitate to sacrifice their own lives, let alone mere money and assets.

Thus, these two factions were veteran partners of the revolutionary army; whenever the revolutionary army had new weapons, they would invite the leaders of these two factions to inspect them, such as the 107 rocket launchers redeemed by Zhang Chu'an.

With twelve deafening booms, the shells in the barrels were fired skyward in unison like a violent storm. In that instant, the distant mountain peak instantly fell into frantic destruction.

The violent explosions were like the sky collapsing and the earth splitting, shaking every soul, as if tearing the entire world apart. And that vast sea of fire was even more breathtaking, with blazing flames dancing like fire dragons.

Such power truly brought immense shock to Hong Qigong, Qiu Chuji, and these ancients.

Qiu Chuji and Hong Qigong had seen firearms before; Qiu Chuji, a Daoist, was even an expert in making firearms, and had even witnessed military firearms.

For instance, incendiary firearms, which mainly utilize the burning properties of gunpowder to scorch enemies or burn and spread fire to enemy targets, while also possessing functions like releasing poison gas and smoke to kill enemies. Major weapons included fireballs, caltrop fireballs, thunder fireballs, smoke balls, poison smoke balls, iron-beaked fire hawks, bamboo fire hawks, rockets, and fire cannons.

Among them, rocket-type firearms were made by binding a gunpowder tube to the front of an arrow shaft; once ignited, the reaction force of the gas expelled backward by the burning gunpowder propelled the arrow forward.

There were also explosive firearms, which utilized gunpowder burning within a sealed container to generate intense heat and gas, causing the container to explode to kill enemies. In war, the explosive firearms used in large quantities mainly included thunder cannons, iron fire cannons, and Earth-Shaking Thunder. Among them, Earth-Shaking Thunder was the most powerful; its shell was wrapped in cast iron, filled with gunpowder inside, and equipped with a fuse. Upon detonation, the cast iron shell would be shattered into fragments, possessing immense killing power.

But compared to the weapons they saw today, these were simply toys in the hands of children.

Just as they were marveling at the power of such weapons, they heard Zhang Chu'an sighing there, "Bringing out twenty artillery battalions at once is truly heartbreaking; spending one-fifth of the savings accumulated day and night, how can we face the million-strong Jin army, whose men are like tigers, horses like dragons, climbing mountains like apes, entering rivers like otters, with momentum like Mount Taishan?"

The other six of the Seven Masters of Quanzhen were instantly stunned; before this, they had always heard Qiu Chuji complain about how Zhang Chu'an disregarded Wu Gong, thinking it was just a joke, but hearing Zhang Chu'an's sigh just now, they realized Qiu Chuji's words were conservative.

"Men like tigers, horses like dragons, climbing mountains like apes, entering rivers like otters, with momentum like Mount Taishan—if I remember correctly, that is an exaggeration, right?" Sun Bu'er asked doubtfully.

"Junior sister, you remember correctly; it is an exaggeration. As for men being like dragons, that is hard to say since I have never seen one, but is there any difference between tigers and horses encountering such a fellow? They would all be beaten into meat paste. Moreover, those adjectives just now described the Jin army during the early Jin period; the current Jin army has already degenerated. If there really were a million such armies, the Great Song would have been destroyed long ago," Qiu Chuji, who knew Zhang Chu'an well, couldn't help but complain.

This fellow was still as insanely ruthless as ever; he thought bringing a guard platoon to gang up on someone was already excessive, until he saw Ouyang Feng surrounded by an entire brigade.

It was undeniable that Ouyang Feng was indeed formidable; as one of the Five Greats of the World, he possessed high Wu Gong and could use poison and snakes, but he had encountered Zhang Chu'an, who disregarded rules even more and had no concept of Wu Gong.

Ouyang Ke had just arrived at his territory and hadn't even started acting tyrannically before he was captured; Zhang Chu'an said he would first publicly castrate him, then wrap him in a fishnet and cut him into a thousand pieces.

Hearing this news, Ouyang Feng rushed over from the Western Regions at full gallop; after using various methods to cause chaos in the base, he went to the dungeon to save his nephew, only to be blocked inside the dungeon himself.

With ten thousand men holding guns, even if all Five Greats came together, they would have to kneel, let alone a single Ouyang Feng. Originally, someone as meticulous as Ouyang Feng should not have failed to notice Zhang Chu'an's arrangements.

But this kid Zhang Chu'an truly did not treat Ouyang Ke as a human being; first, he used guns to shatter his limb joints, then crippled all his meridians; next, he made him eat nothing, drink nothing, and sleep nothing, and whenever he tried to sleep, people would shine strong lights in his eyes.

This method of torture was very peaceful but truly torturous.

After the maidservants who visited daily told Ouyang Feng what they had seen, he went mad; if they continued treating him like this, his son would be tortured to death, and he only had this one son.

In his desperation, Ouyang Feng was predictably captured alive. Seeing Ouyang Feng, also one of the Five Greats, captured alive, Hong Qigong felt sorrowful and just about to plead for mercy when he was flatly refused by Zhang Chu'an, who pointed at Ouyang Ke's nose and said, "This kid fought my big brother for a girlfriend; now that he has fallen into my hands, how can I let him have a good time?"

Hearing this, Ouyang Feng laughed loudly to the sky and said to Ouyang Ke, "Nephew, making your big brother wear a green hat, even making your big brother raise your son for you, you are not losing out."

Seeing this, Zhang Chu'an scratched his head and interrupted, "Let me interrupt; your nephew never succeeded in snatching her; right now, they might not have even held hands."

The torture endured over this month made Ouyang Ke unable to hold back a roar: "I didn't succeed in snatching her, so why do you treat me like this? Even those who succeeded in snatching her haven't been treated as excessively as I have!"

"There is no other way; you also said you made someone wear a green hat. No matter how I treat you, everyone will only applaud; in fact, the more miserably you are tortured, the more everyone will applaud, so of course I must use the most torturous means to torture you."

Zhang Chu'an's matter-of-fact tone left this uncle and nephew stunned, but what shocked them even more was yet to come.

"And although I am torturing and killing you uncle and nephew with the intention of killing my big brother's rival, I can completely tell the outside world that you two committed many evils, and that I did this for reason and justice, so that the grievances of the victims can be avenged. No matter how high one's Wu Gong is, the revolutionary army will bring this person to justice and give the victims' families justice."

"Moreover, your status in the Jianghu is high, and your influence is great; the more miserably you die, the less the Jianghu factions will dare to oppose us, otherwise they will meet the same fate as you. Look, cutting you into a thousand pieces not only pleases me but also wins the hearts of the common people and intimidates the Jianghu factions; why should I not do it?"

At this moment, Ouyang Feng felt he was unworthy of the title of Poisonous Creature; he, who always thought himself very evil, never imagined the human heart could be so evil; let's be good people in the next life, he thought, as he lacked the brain to do evil things.