Chapter 455: Final Battle

Liu Jin stood in place, his gaze crossing with An Ziyang's.

Escape, no meaning.

Fire, had already extended from the end of the Imperial Road, from An Ziyang's feet; the speed was not very fast, but the officials in the crowd behind who had never practiced martial arts absolutely could not escape this long and narrow Imperial Road.

He made a mistake.

An Ziyang, this notorious playboy, had been building his "persona" since the moment he wandered the Ordinary Jianghu; even now, even after doing so many major things, this "persona" was still playing a role.

If it were anyone else who did "bombing with golden juice," I fear Liu Jin would doubt his purpose. But only An Ziyang did this, which made everyone feel it was reasonable.

A miss is as good as a mile.

He once had the opportunity to grasp the clue, but missed it, so he had to swallow the bitter fruit.

Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom——

Firelight gushed out from under the ground, extending all the way to Liu Jin's front.

"Factory Master!"

An Eastern Depot eunuch flashed to Liu Jin's side, lifted him, and leaped onto the wall of the Imperial Road.

Firelight spread into the crowd.

Wails were cut off as soon as they were uttered. The crowd was pierced by flying gravel, and scorched blood splashed.

Liu Jin closed his eyes.

Because of a misjudgment of An Ziyang, he lost everything.

If he couldn't attain the perfect realm, Zheng Zheng Anqi would not fight Li Miao head-on, but would directly leave the capital and return to Yingzhou, wait for a few hundred years, and return to the Central Plains after Li Miao died.

And he, would die meaninglessly, together with the Eastern Depot buried here.

"Factory Master, Factory Master!"

Suddenly, the call of the Eastern Depot Heaven-Man came to his ear.

"Look... the explosion, stopped!"

Liu Jin suddenly opened his eyes.

Smoke rose, residual limbs and broken arms, mountains of corpses and seas of blood, people still alive were rolling, struggling, wailing on the ground, and more were motionless broken corpses—at least that was the case in front of him.

The Eastern Depot Heaven-Man spat out true energy with his palm, dispelling the smoke in front of him.

The scene of the second half of the Imperial Road was revealed before Liu Jin's eyes.

The panicked crowd was surging toward the second half of the Imperial Road, screams, trampling, and pushing were everywhere, but... just like the Eastern Depot, the explosion stopped and did not cover the entire Imperial Road.

Liu Jin turned his head suddenly to look at the exit of the Imperial Road.

An Ziyang and Mei Qinghe had long disappeared.

"So... that's it."

Liu Jin muttered.

He understood; An Ziyang might indeed have made two preparations, but Li Miao pushed the situation too fast and too fiercely; speaking of which, from Li Miao returning to the capital until now, it was only a short four days... even if An Ziyang tried his best to mobilize people, with the Great Ming's technology for making gunpowder, he couldn't get gunpowder that could cover the entire Imperial Road.

He deceived Liu Jin to go over just now, not for provocation, but to hook the crowd to the first half and then detonate, but Liu Jin didn't move, so he had to pull that hemp rope.

Liu Jin waved his hand.

The Eastern Depot Heaven-Men understood immediately, flew to the second half of the Imperial Road, and intercepted the fleeing crowd.

After a while, the crowd was blocked back.

The Eastern Depot Heaven-Men walked to Liu Jin's side with ugly faces, saying in a low voice: "Factory Master... the number is not enough..."

"Although the explosion stopped halfway, it also killed quite a few people; now there are only two hundred people, and there is the last Fengtian Gate, no matter what, thirty or forty people will die... but Zheng Zheng Anqi needs at least one hundred and seventy or eighty people to restore his realm... We—were still turned over by that An Ziyang..." ===== CHAPTER 456 =====

"We—were still turned around by that An Ziyang..."