Chapter 487

The leakage of black gunpowder had long been in Wei Yuan's expectations; Western Jin even had firearm New Armies. But leaking it to the Shaman tribe so early was very unexpected, and the time node was also very intriguing—before the Great Cause-and-Effect Curse?

"Who was the person who leaked the gunpowder to you?" Wei Yuan pursued.

"I, I don't know! This matter is only known to Lord Grandmaster Hongye, and the one who went to the Azure Void to contact was also Lord Grandmaster Hongye's confidant, Hidden Owl. I only know that after he came back that time, we began to study gunpowder."

Wei Yuan questioned repeatedly, but couldn't ask for more details; it seemed that this Great Shaman's status was indeed limited, and it couldn't get close to Grandmaster Hongye.

Wei Yuan asked about the production and storage of gunpowder again. This Great Shaman knew quite a lot, so it spoke endlessly.

In the eyes of the Shaman tribe, black gunpowder was actually a very chicken-rib-like thing, with some value, but not much. This was actually similar to the views of Wei Yuan and the cultivators of Taichu Palace. If it weren't for the "Moment of All Living Beings" and the beginning of using trenches and tunnels, gunpowder would not have been widely used in the Azure Void.

It wasn't until Sun Yu formulated the best ratio of black gunpowder that the use of gunpowder gradually began to spread. After that, after researching the thunder gunpowder with greatly increased power, the firearm finally became the main weapon of the Azure Void troops.

Although the Shaman tribe had the formula for black gunpowder, they didn't find the best ratio, and the overall power was only equivalent to 60% of the Azure Void's black gunpowder. In addition, the Shaman tribe had never found a way to mass-produce it, mainly because the amount of saltpeter was not large. Moreover, the One You Wu didn't attach much importance to gunpowder, so after a period of accumulation, they only produced tens of thousands of jin of gunpowder, and that self-detonating giant beast used up 20,000 jin at once.

It's just that this Shaman didn't know the secrets, and was completely ignorant of what "filling the lack of heaven" meant, but just heard the One You Wu mention it once; although it didn't understand what the word meant, it inexplicably felt it was very mysterious and domineering, so it remembered it.

Reading the original text!

Tens of millions of Shaman tribes were busy like ants, and this place had completely turned into a war base! In the Azure Void, Wei Yuan summoned the cultivators of Taichu Palace, and after everyone arrived, he told them about the Shaman tribe obtaining the gunpowder formula from the Azure Void, and then said: "This person is very likely the one who leaked my aura and brought the Great Cause-and-Effect Curse."

A moment later, Wei Yuan said: "Everyone has seen the results of this battle; this is just the Shaman tribe's probing force, not even considered a real vanguard, but our casualties are already extremely heavy. If there are no reinforcements, this battle will be very difficult to fight."

"No!" Wei Yuan rejected it without thinking.

"It doesn't matter." Wei Yuan had no expectations for the Cui family. The situation was indeed as Cui Yu said; it was possible to transport a few thousand people over, but an army of over 100,000 was simply unrealistic.

Black mud stained the wounds, instantly making the Shaman soldiers scream desperately in pain, but they were all firmly tied up and couldn't move at all. The Shaman scholars then chanted Shaman curses, and blood light rose on each soldier, and the places where the black medicinal mud was applied began to bulge slowly.

It's just that his next sentence accidentally revealed the truth: "If we really can't fight, we'll just run; anyway, the Shaman tribe can't catch up with us."

Wei Yuan hesitated for a moment, but still sent the new strategy into Human Renjian Yanhuo for optimization and perfection. Actually, there was no need to send it; Wei Yuan also knew that this was the only and final method.

"But after a while, there will be a plague, and it will become material for the Shaman tribe to cast curses. We don't have that much time to bury them; the urgent matter now is to build city defenses."

Sun Yu and Yu Yu Zhizhuo looked at each other, both silent. Behind Bao Yun's words were very clear. However, since Zhang Sheng didn't speak, they couldn't say anything either.

Wei Yuan was completely unaware, just frantically deducing, and didn't know how many times he had deduced, when Wei Yuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration in his brain, like lightning piercing the darkness, instantly illuminating a corner of the world! This method was not in the analysis plan!

Wei Yuan forced himself to calm down, took out the report again, and began to read it carefully, completely unaware of the passage of time.

It's just that this strategy...

At this time, a cultivator rushed over and asked: "Realm Master, the meaning of several doctors and generals is to burn them; what do you think..."

Wei Yuan faintly felt that it seemed to have something to do with his Gate of Myriad Realms.

Wei Yuan suddenly saw a face that was still a bit childish. He remembered this face; he had just forged a Dao foundation in the training class a few days ago, and because he was less than twenty years old, he was quite eye-catching. It's just that he didn't expect that he had just stepped onto the immortal path and died in battle on the front line.

Wei Yuan took a deep breath and gradually made up his mind.

Wei Yuan discussed with Yu Yu Zhizhuo for a while about how to build the new works, and everyone went to get busy. Wei Yuan was a bit upset, flew to the front line again, stood over Ding'an City, and watched one corpse after another being carried out of the ruins and transported to the open space south of the city to be placed.

At this time, a new city defense design had been completed in Human Renjian Yanhuo. This design was perfected and optimized around Yu Yu Zhizhuo's concept, and Wei Yuan agreed after reading it, so more than a dozen Dao Foundation warriors appeared and went to Ding'an City to renovate the defenses.

In the hall of a building, more than a dozen Shaman scholars were surrounding a broken short-barreled cannon, carefully dismantling every part, and then carefully drawing it on the blueprint.

"Then what should I do?"

I don't know why, but when he heard this sentence, Wei Yuan's heart suddenly moved, and then he felt that the shadow in the moon also seemed to move. This feeling was fleeting, but Wei Yuan was no longer the self of the Dao Foundation period, and the many immortal plants in the Dharma Form made him extremely sensitive to fortune, not to mention the girl Yin-Yang and the shadow in the moon, so he would never have a whim for no reason.

He sometimes pondered, sometimes stood up and roared, and even smashed the ground fiercely, looking like he was crazy. Only in this lonely moment could Wei Yuan be unscrupulous, venting the anger and fear in his heart, more of it was fear, fear of defeat.

However...

On the huge open space at the other end, a giant beast was lying on its side on the ground, its abdomen opened, and teams of Shaman coolies were carrying boxes of gunpowder and piling them into its belly.

Wei Yuan only vented a little each time, then looked at the report again, constantly writing and drawing on the map manifested in front of him. But no matter how he studied it, the result was the same. The gap in strength between the two sides was too great, and the Shaman tribe's warriors had already exceeded the population of the Azure Void; this was simply not a war that the Azure Void could withstand now! Wei Yuan's heart gradually sank into despair, and his body also felt a bone-chilling cold; Human Renjian Yanhuo seemed to have entered deep winter.

At this time, 900 li away from the Azure Void, it had completely become the Shaman tribe's forward base, with countless tents and temporary houses.

Xu Xu Henshui smiled and said: "Things in the world are not satisfactory eight or nine times out of ten. Anyway, it's unlikely to get reinforcements, so why go back? It's better to stay here and have a vigorous battle with the Shaman tribe, which will also be a good story in the future."

There were at least hundreds of such open spaces, and hundreds of thousands of Shaman soldiers were undergoing transformation.

This matter was settled, and the Council Hall suddenly fell into silence.

The girl Yin-Yang just watched quietly from the side. Cui Yu hesitated and said: "I have already written to the family, and there should be support from the clan. But the two places are too far apart, and transporting a large army over is simply unrealistic."

Wei Yuan flew down to the mortuary, walking among the corpses, looking at everyone's face. Many people's faces still had the last expression before death, some fear, some anger, and some panic; all kinds of life were frozen on their faces.

"But..."

All plans ultimately had only one result: defeat.

Tens of thousands of mortals in Human Renjian Yanhuo suddenly knelt down and bowed three times to the central Jade Mountain. After bowing, they seemed to have changed, their spirituality improved a lot, and many people's confusion faded, and they began to get busy.

Xu Xu Henshui had good intentions, but unfortunately, no one in the room laughed.

No one mentioned Taichu Palace. Now the situation at the Northern Mountain Gate had become extremely urgent again, the Liao tribe suddenly increased troops on a large scale, and the Little National Teacher moved his formation forward, pressing so hard that all the True Persons couldn't breathe. There was nothing much to say about the topic of reinforcements, and no result could be discussed, so they just said a few words and that was it.

Wei Yuan began to ask about the various changes of the Shaman tribe recently, and the more he asked, the more solemn his expression became, and Human Renjian Yanhuo also went all out, beginning to re-deduce the war situation.

Xu Xu Henshui sighed: "It's useless for you to go back; the ancestor above your family originally didn't want you to come over. If you went back, not only would you not be able to get reinforcements, but you would also be detained at home and never be able to come out again."

It's just...

The team transporting corpses formed a long dragon, moving slowly. The open space outside the city was already filled with corpses, arranged densely and neatly, with a cold sadness.

Wei Yuan was filled with awe; he didn't expect this Uncle Xu to be so bloody.

Wei Yuan actually knew the other faces, at least he knew their names and general information. As a Dharma Form cultivator with extremely strong spiritual sense, this was the bad point; his memory was too good, and if he couldn't remember, he could store it in Human Renjian Yanhuo.

Plus the explosive arrows, now the gunpowder in the hands of the Shaman army might be less than 10,000 jin.

"People who die in battle on the battlefield are qualified to be buried!"

In a heavily guarded camp, hundreds of Shaman tribes of various shapes were lying or sitting at will, enjoying the food and wine sent continuously. Although their shapes were vastly different, they were all archers who could accurately hit the enemy from ten li away.

Behind Bao Yun said: "I'll go back once."

So every person lying on the cold ground was someone Wei Yuan knew, or even someone he was familiar with. Tens of thousands of corpses lined up, which was an ocean. Wei Yuan suddenly felt his heart tighten, and always had a feeling of being unable to breathe.

Wei Yuan smashed the report to the ground, his figure flashed and disappeared, appearing in front of the girl Yin-Yang. It seemed that only by hiding here, surrounded by distorted space, could he have a little peace of mind.

Wei Yuan continued to interrogate the Shaman tribe's troop strength, deployment, and goals for this trip, and then heard the Great Shaman say that he once occasionally heard a One You Wu say it was to "fill the lack of heaven."

From the side of the Desolate Ancestor tribe, Wei Yuan bought 900,000 jin of thunder sand in one breath, and now he was adjusting the new gunpowder day and night, totaling 3 million jin, so he didn't have to worry about the gunpowder production for the time being.

Several other Shaman scholars were scraping the cannon bore, putting the residue into a crystal box, and sealing it.

If this battle is lost, the casualties will be in the millions, and all efforts will be wasted.

Wei Yuan suddenly felt a move in his heart; Human Renjian Yanhuo had already completed the analysis of the trend of this war. He immediately entered Human Renjian Yanhuo and then began to read carefully.

The war analysis was actually a dozen reports, listing the possible trends of the war under different response strategies. All analyses were not only based on Wei Yuan's existing command experience, but Zhang Sheng, Cui Yu, Xu Yi, etc. also contributed, so they were quite reliable.

A point of light suddenly flew out of the girl's eyebrows and merged into Wei Yuan's body. And the celestial fortune hanging down from the full moon in the sky also silently merged with Wei Yuan.

Wei Yuan pondered for a moment and said: "Mark the identities of the war dead, then concentrate them for storage, cast ice-freezing Dao techniques to freeze them, and bury them one by one when there is time."

Zhang Sheng's eyes turned cold, and she said: "If this is true, then we cannot let him go."

That cultivator didn't say anything more, looked at the boundless corpses, sighed, and left in a hurry.

In an open space in a military camp, hundreds of Shaman soldiers were tied to pillars naked, and Shaman scholars were holding special cutting knives, drawing dozens of thin wounds on their chests, abdomens, ribs, and other weak points in an instant. Then they applied the ointment like black mud to these soldiers.

Wei Yuan breathed a sigh of relief; the gunpowder production problem that had plagued the Azure Void now seemed to be significantly more serious for the Shaman tribe.

This cultivator said a lot in one breath, but it made sense.

Behind Bao Yun said: "But this person may have already left the Azure Void, and the Shaman tribe cannot contact him, so they will not be exposed. So it is best to ask for help from the palace and request to send more disciples to support, and those who have been here before must not be missing any."

Xu Xu Henshui said: "The new gunpowder is currently used in the domain, and there are many wartime elixirs and various new firearms. If that person is in the Azure Void, the Shaman tribe will definitely not let him go and will definitely let him find a way to steal the secrets again. With the previous incident, he has no choice but to obey."

In the past, Wei Yuan won every battle against the Shaman tribe, and this one would be no exception; he would eventually win! It's just that the price would inevitably be heavy, but Wei Yuan was already prepared.

Wei Yuan knew that all the gifts of fate had already been marked with prices in the dark.

He looked at the girl Yin-Yang who had been quietly accompanying him and said: "... I don't care about reputation."

The end of the fifth volume, "If Love Has Heaven's Will."

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