Demoness, where are you Fleeing to?
Chapter 337 - 286 This is a token of love_1

Chapter 337: Chapter 286 This is a token of love_1

When Li Xuan reached the sixth floor and saluted Yu Hongchang, he was surprised to find that besides Yu Hongchang and Xue Yunrou, there was an unexpected fellow here.

"Tingtian?"

Li Xuan looked at Tingtian Ao, who was lying at one side, in surprise: "Mr. Ao, how come you are here?"

"Of course, it’s by the order of Master Duchenghuang, to escort the princess to Longhu Mountain!"

Halfway through Tingtian Ao’s speech, he noticed the skepticism on Li Xuan’s face, and it snorted: "Don’t underestimate me. Though I’m not good at fighting, when it comes to sensing abilities, none of you can match my single claw. And there’s this—"

It pointed to a necklace embedded with obsidian: "Master Duchenghuang can descend through this, he is a God supervising all Duchenghuangs in the south, and can maintain a heavenly level of strength anywhere in Jiangnan. Before the princess leaves Jiangnan, he instructed me to stay with the princess at all times and not to leave without permission."

"So that’s how it is! No wonder." Li Xuan understood now that this was the biggest guarantee to ensure the princess’s safe arrival at Longhu Mountain.

Then Li Xuan recalled something: "By the way, I want to ask Mr. Ao something, do you know about the rumor spreading in the Liudao Division lately? Who is framing me and tarnishing my reputation?"

A few days ago, he had taken a bucket of bone soup from Sanweiju to Chenghuang Temple to find Tingtian Ao, but he didn’t see him.

However, as soon as Li Xuan spoke, the atmosphere in the room suddenly became weird.

Xue Yunrou was watching her fingernails as if she wasn’t pleased with her nail polish. Yu Hongchang was holding a teacup, blowing the leaves inside expressionlessly, as if she didn’t hear what they were saying.

But somehow, beads of sweat were oozing out of Tingtian Ao’s fur.

"How would I know?" Tingtian Ao replied in a firm tone after just half a heartbeat: "A few days ago, I was helping your Liudao Division to capture those demons involved with the Maitreya Teaching. How would I have time to listen to your Liudao Division’s gossip? I’ve been very busy."

"Really?"

Li Xuan looked at Tingtian Ao skeptically, a trace of disdain on his face: "How come you don’t know anything? And you still have the nerve to brag about being the successor of Diting."

Tingtian Ao could only answer guiltily: "Even the divine skill of Diting is not omnipotent."

"Xuan, don’t bully it anymore."

Yu Hongchang smiled and stood up for Tingtian Ao: "You should come over here and look at this game of chess between Yunrou and me. I’m ready to surrender, but I think Xuan, you must have a way to turn the tables."

"Didn’t you call me over here to discuss about the guard duty on the ship, Hongchang?"

As Li Xuan spoke, he deliberately glanced at Xue Yunrou nearby, and seeing her indifferent expression, sat down to look at the chess board in front of them.

"Do you have a record of this game?"

Once the palace lady handed over the game record, Li Xuan had it figured out.

From the order of their moves, these two were not completely clueless, but their skill level was around amateur third rank. However, what worried Li Xuan more was the potential powder keg that might explode at any moment.

Unexpectedly, he remained in the room for two Shichen and the relationship between the two women was harmonious, like real sisters, without a hint of abnormality.

The only exception was Yu Hongchang, who had hung his ’Taoheng Xuanji’ pendant on her chest. As she moved, the bizarrely shaped gem swung back and forth, emitting the unique soft light of jade.

Li Xuan was initially worried, but then he found that Xue Yunrou didn’t show a bit of unusualness and seemed to ignore the ’Taoheng Xuanji’.

With his mind at ease, he went on to explain the chess game to the two women. Afterwards, he played a game with them, guiding them through their moves.

However, when it was night, Yu Hongchang needed to regulate her Yin and Yang energy by meditation. As he and Xue Yunrou left Yu Hongchang’s room, Xue Yunrou began to walk towards the deck, her eyes red, her tears falling like a kite with a broken string.

Li Xuan quickly grabbed her, but Xue Yunrou kept struggling: "Xuan, if you like the princess, then go with her! Why do you cling to me?"

Li Xuan was secretly surprised, thinking Yunrou’s political acumen was impressive. In those past two Shichen, Xue Yunrou didn’t show any signs of discomfort.

"Yunrou, what are you talking about? Yunrou, don’t move, don’t panic."

He quickly took out a jewelry box from his Sumi Ring and handed it over.

"What is this?" Xue Yunrou instantly recognized the ’Zuoyuzhai’ mark on the jewelry box, which was the most famous jewelry shop in Nanjing City.

"Dressed in jade, bought it a few days ago, and haven’t found the opportunity to give it to you."

Li Xuan smiled and wiped Xue Yunrou’s tears: "You try it on? I thought it looked good on you the first time I saw it."

"The style is indeed good, but—" Xue Yunrou opened the box, her eyes revealed a look of amazement, but she still snorted: "What you gave to Yu Hongchang, was indeed a ’Taoheng Xuanji’."

Such high-grade magical instrument, each one requires tens of thousands of silver. Although the item in her hand was made by a master and the jade was excellent ice kind, it was only worth around one thousand and five hundred silver at most.

"How can these be the same?" Li Xuan couldn’t help but laugh: "That was what I exchanged for Hongchang’s life. This one is a token of my affection for you, Yunrou. What do you think?"

The truth is that his heart was bleeding; To acquire this, he had spent all of his remaining two thousand teals of silver, leaving him broke.

Nonetheless, it was worth it. As expected, Xue Yunrou’s anger turned into joy and her smiles bloomed all night.

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Four days later, the fleet escorting the princess, assisted by the east wind, sailed into the waters of Poyang Lake.

At this time, the fleet had to pause near Jiujiang City at the mouth of the lake for a day, replenishing various supplies including food.

Li Xuan also seized this opportunity, realizing a thought he had been harbouring for the past two weeks, an experiment.

He took Yu Hongshang and Xue Yunrou off the ship, found a deserted hill on the lakeshore, and scattered a large amount of silver thread from the ’Shenyi’, forming large coils and encircling them into a spherical shape.

Standing outside these coils, Xue Yunrou and Yu Hongshang, both with puzzled looks, watched Li Xuan.

"Xuan, what is this?"

"A Tokamak magnetic confinement device," Li Xuan knew they wouldn’t understand, "A method to simulate the sun."

In fact, it is nuclear fusion. He believes he has met the conditions to realize the idea of ’nuclear fusion’.

Of course, the crude ’Tokamak device’ he created with the ’Shenyi’ would not be able to reach the level of nuclear fusion.

— That would require temperatures in the billions, and even under the conditions of trillions of atmospheric pressures inside the sun, it would require temperatures in the tens of millions.

However, if only a small amount of tritium is fused, it shouldn’t be a problem. He only needs to reach the threshold of a thermonuclear reaction for now.

And after all, this is the Immortal World, and there is a ’heavenly level’ master beside him.

Li Xuan’s method is to first create a small-scale ’nuclear fission’, bringing the temperature to the critical point for nuclear fusion in an instant.

Because the pressure required for nuclear fission is relatively easy to achieve. It is much simpler to achieve high pressure with high temperature.

He has been looking forward to this experiment for a long time; ever since Yu Hongshang was promoted to the heavenly level, Li Xuan has had this idea.

And the tritium needed for the experiment is available on the market.

In this world, they are called ’Spirit of Nine Heavens’, existing only in altitudes tens of thousands of feet high. Much rarer than hydrogen, it is a rare material for refinement, significantly elevating the temperature of certain flames.

As for the radioactive elements to produce nuclear fission, they are ubiquitous in this world and widely used in various magical instruments.

"Simulate the sun?" Yu Hongshang frowned and glanced at the great sun in the sky.

She thought to herself, how terrifying is the power of that sun?

But Yu Hongshang has utmost trust in Li Xuan: "All you need to do is heat the central area, right?"

Li Xuan nodded: "It’s best if you concentrate the heat in as small an area as possible, and then heat it to the extreme. The higher the temperature, the better."

In the tomb, the Drought Demon was able to generate a high temperature of tens of thousands of degrees around its body, melting all the material within twenty feet. If Yu Hongshang could concentrate this heat in a small area, the temperature could certainly rise further.

At the same time, Fumo Vajra already had the Fumo shield in front of them.

Li Xuan then took out a single black lens and placed it on his forehead. This device borrowed from Leng Yurou can protect against the high temperatures and bright light produced during refinement.

Next, Xue Yunrou added several layers of defensive spells in front of them, then opened the Umbrella of Yin Yuan, sheltering them overhead.

— Both the high temperature and radiation produced by nuclear fission and fusion are beyond what Li Xuan can currently bear.

"Let’s begin!"

Following Li Xuan’s command, a faint light flashed in Yu Hongshang’s eyes. Then, a dazzling white light flashed in the center of those coils.

Perhaps because Li Xuan had thrown in a bit too much ’fuel’, the temperature of nuclear fission reached its threshold in an instant. The surrounding temperature then rose rapidly, producing a light a hundred times more intense than the sun. The surrounding trees spontaneously combusted, and with a booming sound, a great gush of strength swept away everything in its path.

Fumo Vajra was struggling to hold the Fumo shield in front of Li Xuan, and yet it kept retreating. The shield was making ’ding-ding’ noises, and a small mushroom cloud rose from above its surface.

Yu Hongshang was startled, she hastily waved her jade hand, summoned a Yin-Yang Fish Diagram in front of herself, blocking the onslaught of the scorching rays and the energy.

Meanwhile, aboard the tower ship, Vice Master Zhang, who was resting in his room, felt something and also looked over in surprise at the distant hill where a bright light had erupted.

Li Xuan ignored everything else, opening his ’Tao-protecting Eyes’ he observed the center of the explosion, until a few streaks of fresh blood seeped out of his forehead.

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