in2ebook #137 - Exploding Bronze Door
#137 - Exploding Bronze Door
Chapter 136: Blasting Open the Bronze Door
If there's enough gunpowder, and it's pure enough, it can blast open not just a bronze door, but even a mountain.
Now that Zhang Chen has money, he naturally doesn't need to painstakingly extract materials to make gunpowder himself. Zhang Chen directly transformed into a vampire bat and went to the county town, then used silver to directly purchase various materials in the city.
Zhang Chen bought a lot of materials for explosives. Fortunately, he had the fox spirit to help. The fox spirit was tireless and could transport things back and forth continuously.
After the fox spirit had purchased goods dozens of times, Zhang Chen returned to the cave and said to the fox spirit, "I will personally demonstrate how to make high-explosive gunpowder for you. You must study hard, because the job of making gunpowder will be entirely handed over to you in the future."
Upon hearing this, the fox spirit Nannan widened her eyes and carefully watched Zhang Chen teach.
At this moment, Zhang Chen also sighed inwardly. This world doesn't have spatial abilities like 'Sleeves of the Universe'; otherwise, why would I be so troublesome?
Zhang Chen bought a lot of materials. Of course, he wouldn't use all of it to blast the bronze door. He was more prepared for the Pingbian Royal Mansion.
"If I weren't considering the possibility of unknown mysteries hidden within the Pingbian Royal Mansion, I would really want to throw a few packs of explosives directly into the Pingbian Royal Mansion and blow it to the sky," Zhang Chen muttered to himself.
However, he felt that the Pingbian Royal Mansion had been able to confront the imperial court for hundreds of years, so it definitely wasn't that simple. If his tracks were exposed due to a trivial matter, and he got himself involved, it wouldn't be worth it.
Zhang Chen made gunpowder very carefully. That was a bronze door that was nearly a meter thick, probably weighing hundreds of tons. Collapsing the bronze door was impossible, but blasting a gap was still possible.
"With so much gunpowder, are you going to blast that stone crevice?" the fox spirit asked.
She still didn't know that Zhang Chen wanted to blast open the bronze door and collect the experience points behind it.
Zhang Chen shook his head upon hearing this: "That stone crevice is easy to blast, but if the gravity emanating from the twelfth-order mystery isn't resolved, even if the stone crevice is blasted open, it will be impossible to approach the twelfth-order mystery. Now, leaving that stone crevice can still serve as a cover. If we blast open the stone crevice, and someone accidentally notices this place in the future, or it leads to the leakage of the twelfth-order mystery's aura, attracting others to covet it, then our actions would instead benefit others."
Zhang Chen's voice was full of scrutiny. Of course, he also wanted to obtain the twelfth-order mystery as soon as possible, but the most difficult part of obtaining the twelfth-order mystery wasn't the crevice, but the gravity of the earth.
Because Zhang Chen mastered water control, he directly soaked all the gunpowder to prevent explosions, and then he could boldly make gunpowder.
He didn't ask for much; he only hoped that after the explosives detonated, they could blast a gap in the bronze door, and he would be satisfied.
Soon, Zhang Chen made the gunpowder, and then directly froze it. This time, Zhang Chen held his breath and dived into the water.
Because the passage crevice was narrow, it was not easy for Zhang Chen to shuttle through the passage crevice. Fortunately, he had the fox spirit as a coolie, and because the gunpowder was not afraid of water, Zhang Chen directly strung the gunpowder together with ropes, and then the fox spirit dragged it to the front of the bronze door.
Zhang Chen looked at the bronze door in front of him, scanned the seamless bronze door, and began to think about how to embed the gunpowder in, and where to embed the gunpowder to unleash the strongest power.
Although the power of gunpowder is good, if you want to exert the greatest power, it must be in a sealed space as much as possible.
Zhang Chen looked at the bottom of the door. Because of the high threshold, there was a 20-centimeter-high gap under the bronze door. The gap was one meter wide, enough to fill with gunpowder.
Zhang Chen filled all the gunpowder, then sealed it with layers of river silt, and then dried the moisture. Zhang Chen even felt that it was not safe, fearing that he would be blown up, so he directed the fox spirit to take the flame to light the fuse. As for Zhang Chen himself, he jumped into the river early.
As for whether the entire mountain would collapse?
Zhang Chen wasn't worried about this. Although his two thousand kilograms of explosives were powerful, they were still far from the power that tore apart the hundreds of miles of earth fissures before.
Moreover, there was also a Feng Shui formation shrouded here. People outside who heard the movement would at most think it was an earthquake and would never think too much about it.
The fox spirit Nannan went happily with the book. Zhang Chen lay in the water, watching the fox spirit's departing back, and sighed inwardly: "My skill is so useful! If there was no fox spirit Nannan, I would have to do this kind of thing myself, and I would be worried all the time."
"Zhang Chen, save me!"
At this time, the fox spirit Nannan's voice came from a distance.
Without saying a word, Zhang Chen directly took the fox spirit Nannan away, and then quickly dived into the water.
"Boom ~"
Like the sound of thunder, constantly echoing in the mountains.
Even if Zhang Chen lurked in the water, he was dazed by the huge sound.
Huge shock waves rolled up, and stalactites hanging on the stone walls fell one after another.
It's just that Zhang Chen thought a little too much. A mere two thousand kilograms of explosives was not enough to face the Feng Shui formation. The entire underground tomb, in addition to a wave, was like an eighth-level gale blowing through, and there was no abnormality at all. People outside only heard a muffled sound suddenly coming from the mountain, and then all the abnormalities disappeared without a trace.
But on a certain mountain, the Feng Shui gentleman Zhang Chen saw before was standing on a small hill at this time, suddenly dropping the cane in his hand, looking at the mountain in front of him, his eyes full of excitement: "There is dragon energy here! There is dragon energy here! There is great creation here!"
"Pa!"
Just at this moment, the old village chief slapped the Feng Shui gentleman on the back of the head: "I told you to find a water source, what dragon energy are you looking for? Why don't you hurry up and look for a water source? If you can't find a water source today, you won't have dinner."
Hearing the old village chief's words, the Feng Shui gentleman looked excited, turned his head to look at the old village chief: "Ignorant! Fool! You don't even know what this Feng Shui pattern means!"
"I don't care what it means to you. If you can't find a water source today and delay my plan to sell water, you can wait to be beaten," the old village chief smiled coldly, and then said to the hooligan beside him: "Give him some lessons and let him know that we are not vegetarians."
The old village chief was educating the hooligan outside. Zhang Chen had already arrived at the bronze door at this time, looking at the twisted gap in front of him, his eyes suddenly lit up, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
The bronze door was still the bronze door, and even the shape had not changed in any way, but the bronze door was assembled after all, and the threshold was only ten centimeters thick of steel. At this time, a gap finally appeared between the bronze door and the threshold due to the impact.
The gap was not wide, only one finger wide. A normal bat could not pass through it, but Zhang Chen couldn't stand mastering the ability.
Then Zhang Chen transformed into thirty-six vampire bats, one of which actually mutilated himself and squeezed towards the door seam.
The door crack was too narrow. The vampire bat abruptly charged, actually breaking its own sternum to forcibly squeeze into the gap.
Pain!
So much pain!
It was no different from having his own ribs directly broken.
However, after enduring two body transformations, Zhang Chen found that his tolerance for pain had greatly increased.
Zhang Chen suppressed the crystal core's self-healing ability, preventing the vampire bat from healing.
At this moment, the remaining vampire bats swarmed forward, holding the prepared wooden sticks in their mouths, and vigorously poked the vampire bat into the gap, completely disregarding its life or death.
Ribs were broken by the wooden sticks, and its neck was twisted. Finally, the vampire bat was poked through.
As soon as the vampire bat landed on the other side of the door, the crystal core within its body began to flicker rapidly. A powerful healing ability burst forth, constantly repairing the wounds on its body.
However, in order to avoid wasting energy, the injuries were not completely healed, only enough to restore the vampire bat's ability to move.
Then, the vampire bat opened its eyes. The golden finger interface flickered before it, and sure enough, a large amount of experience points appeared before its eyes.
【Experience +100】
【Experience +70】
【Experience +200】
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A large amount of experience points poured in. As the last bit of experience light was absorbed, Zhang Chen's experience points became rich again, and his experience points once again broke through the 150,000 mark.
Seeing that the vampire bat had completed its mission, it suddenly transformed from a bat state into a stream of blood, and drilled back through the crack, merging with the thirty-five vampire bats. Zhang Chen regained his human form.
"I can summon the vampire bat back in the form of blood before it dies. It's a pity I can't make it drill into the crack in the form of blood and then transform into a vampire bat," Zhang Chen sighed, then looked at his golden finger interface.
His eight skills were now all gold-devouring beasts. The only two worth investing points in, and with high cost performance, were the newly acquired seventh and eighth skills:
【Skill 7 (Entry): Qi Refining Stage Three (100/4000)】
【Skill 8 (Mastery): Immobilization Talisman (0/2000)】
【Points: 150000】
Not too much, not too little, just 150,000 points.
"Let's upgrade the Immobilization Talisman first, otherwise I have too few self-protection methods right now."
Zhang Chen looked at the Immobilization Talisman and immediately chose to add points:
【Skill 8 (Quasi-First Order): Immobilization Talisman (0/4000)】
【Note 1: Please prepare one jin of pure gold to complete the upgrade.】
Zhang Chen looked at the skill. He was a little strange when he saw a quasi-first order, but when he saw the note, he was stunned: "Need one jin of pure gold?"
Didn't his skills usually upgrade directly by adding points? Why does it need material now?
Along with the doubts in Zhang Chen's heart, the golden finger actually explained to him: 【Talismans are special skills and require special carriers.】
Zhang Chen suddenly understood. The previous skills were almost magical powers, so of course they could be directly upgraded by adding points. But what about talismans? Talismans need to be drawn, so they naturally need a carrier to bear them.
Seeing this, Zhang Chen thoughtfully said, "Similar to magic treasures!"
"My skills can probably be divided into two major categories. One category is magical power, which can be infinitely upgraded as long as points are added. There is also a type, like magic treasures, that requires some material carriers. What exactly is going on? I'll know the difference after I finish upgrading."
One jin of pure gold is not a lot for Zhang Chen.
He, Zhang, may lack everything, but he doesn't lack gold.
Zhang Chen transformed into a vampire bat, left the underwater cave, and circled in the mountains after drilling out. Suddenly, his gaze paused and he saw the geomancer wandering in the mountains, as well as the village chief behind him, and eight ruffians from the village, each carrying flags and other objects, aimlessly wandering in the mountains.
"Haven't found the water source yet? It seems that this geomancer is just a liar! It should be known that although the underground water veins are exhausted, there is still a lot of groundwater in the mountains. This geomancer has been wandering in the mountains for a month, but he still hasn't gained anything. It seems he's just fooling people," Zhang Chen secretly said.
He was now busy upgrading talismans to deal with the competition, and he didn't look up to a few mortal humans. He directly flapped his wings and disappeared into the sky.
In a corner of the county town, Zhang Chen found an empty alley and directly revealed his tracks.
Zhang Chen's eyes swept over the bustling crowd, and then he swaggered towards the direction of the county government.
If you were to say where in the entire Northern Land has the most gold reserves? The Prince of Pingbian's mansion is certain, but Zhang Chen didn't dare to go rashly. Zhang Shicheng's shadow loomed over his heart, making him always feel that the Prince of Pingbian's mansion was not simple, so it's better not to provoke it casually.
Apart from the Prince of Pingbian's mansion, the most gold should be in the homes of the wealthy in the county town, but he had no grievances with those wealthy families, and Zhang Chen didn't want to do anything, so he simply came to the county magistrate's house to see how much private goods this county magistrate had.
Zhang Chen bought a bamboo hat to cover the sun in the sky, and strolled leisurely along the way, unknowingly arriving near the county government.
"The county government has dragon energy to protect it, but I possess dragon energy, and the fox spirit is naturally blessed by dragon energy. I'm not afraid of the dragon energy of the county town," Zhang Chen smiled triumphantly, and said to the fox spirit, "I want gold! I want a lot and lots of gold!"
The fox spirit rolled her eyes upon hearing this, "That county magistrate is really unlucky to be targeted by you. However, the county government is heavily guarded, and my illusion is restrained within the county government. It won't be easy to transport the gold out. You may have to wait a little longer. Moreover, it's not easy to find where the county magistrate hides the gold. I still need to spend a little time."
"You can go ahead and do it, I'm going to visit my master. I haven't seen my master for seven days, and now it's time to go and listen to his lecture," Zhang Chen said.
He never thought that the knowledge and classics he was learning now were useless. Only by learning more knowledge and understanding history can he discover more clues in the long river of history, and be able to find the origin and history of the big tombs he encounters in the future.
Zhang Chen smiled and bought some gifts, walking towards his master's house.
It was afternoon now, and it wasn't too late to visit. Moreover, Zhang Chen felt that his master's wife wouldn't say much if he brought food.
Note: In this world, people visit in the morning.