The Immortal Seeker: Legend of Bronze Mirror
Chapter 390 - 172: Purple Thunder Rocket, Star Assassination Plan (Please Subscribe)

Chapter 390: Chapter 172: Purple Thunder Rocket, Star Assassination Plan (Please Subscribe)

In an instant, time swiftly passed by.

Less than two days remained before the mid-July festival. A small dragon phantom slipped into Heavenly Fragrance Courtyard, into Su Lianqing’s boudoir.

"Greetings, young master."

"How are the preparations going?"

This was naturally Xu Qing’s Divine Soul leaving its shell to come to the Heavenly Fragrance Courtyard.

His physical body was extremely weak now.

Even after consuming precious elixirs brought back from the Xuantian Treasure Vault, it would still take a day or two to recover his Qi-Blood to a decent extent. As for returning to peak condition, it would take at least ten days, which was clearly too late. Moreover, the consumed Lifebound Essence Qi, unless replenished by the divine effluence from the statues in the Xuantian Treasure Vault like last time, would be very difficult to restore.

In summary, healing King Lin turned out to be more difficult than he had anticipated.

Fortunately, King Lin himself had broken through to the Martial Arts Grandmaster Realm, mastering the control of Qi-Blood with intricate precision. Otherwise, it would have been very hard to fully heal his injuries.

However, for King Lin to truly become a Martial Arts Grandmaster, he needed to undergo a hundred days of closed-door death meditation to refine his Qi-Blood into lead and mercury, achieving the perfect unification of spirit. This process also required many rare medicinal ingredients to concoct elixirs that solidified the foundation and nourished the origin, serving as a supplement to the spirit during the meditation.

It can be said that the emergence of each Martial Arts Grandmaster requires an unimaginable amount of resources. But having resources alone is not enough, one needs to have reached the realm to qualify for advancement.

To put it simply, it’s like taking the Imperial Examination. Only after one becomes a Scholar and gains the qualification to be an official can one discuss being an official.

Of course, with strength, resources can always be collected. However, the realm of a Martial Arts Grandmaster can only be comprehended by oneself.

Xu Qing’s advantage this time was that, by using this opportunity, along with his Heavenly Repairing Tribulation Hand and various other methods, he explored some secrets of the Martial Arts Grandmasters, which would be extremely beneficial for his future breakthrough to the Martial Arts Grandmaster Realm.

Nevertheless, King Lin advanced using the Spirit and Body Integration approach, while Xu Qing, who did not practice this integration but followed the path of Dual Cultivation of Magic and Martial Arts, found it even more difficult.

But the potential of Dual Cultivation is greater. At the Martial Saint Ghost Immortal Level, this path offers a broader future than that of a solitary Ghost Immortal or Martial Saint. At this level, advancing is actually easier than for Ghost Immortals or Martial Saints.

Of course, this is only relatively speaking.

The main takeaway this time was more long-term, though there are indeed many troubles at the moment.

Xu Qing couldn’t afford to be tired and summoned his Divine Soul’s strength to arrange subsequent matters.

Su Lianqing and Xu Qing had reached a rare harmonious understanding. While Xu Qing was healing King Lin, she utilized her abilities and did a fair amount of preliminary work.

After listening to Su Lianqing’s report, Xu Qing roughly understood that their opposition’s forces were located on a small island not far from where the Jiangning River and Black Water Lake intersect beneath Qixia Mountain, known as Qishan Island.

It belonged to the jurisdiction of Jiangning Prefecture but was on the edge of the prefecture’s territory.

The place was usually desolate and not on any major commercial route.

Su Lianqing continued, "From Madam Sea Sand, I acquired a batch of Fang Immortal Dao’s Purple Thunder Rockets which just arrived last night. It’s a pity, now the Sea Sand Gang and Fang Immortal Dao have fallen out, and these Purple Thunder Rockets are stock from prior orders."

Xu Qing of course knew why the Sea Sand Gang had a falling out with Fang Immortal Dao; it was all because of the incident he caused on the East Sea vessel last time.

What a boomerang effect.

But without doing so, the events of that day wouldn’t have gone so smoothly.

Because of this incident, Madam Sea Sand’s influence in the Sea Sand Gang has been reduced, and it seems that Prince Yu is also beginning to doubt her.

In such a predicament, the fact that she could still supply a batch of Purple Thunder Rockets showed Su Lianqing’s capabilities; she really had Madam Sea Sand thoroughly tamed.

When it comes to these matters, after all, Su Lianqing is a professional.

The Purple Thunder Rockets are arrowheads developed by Fang Immortal Dao using Purple Thunder Gunpowder, engraved with runes. Once shot, they explode upon impacting the target and are especially effective against shadowy and malevolent creatures.

This is because the presence of such creatures is far greater overseas than in Central Earth, therefore Fang Immortal Dao naturally has a strong demand and greater motivation to research such items.

Of course, the Purple Thunder Rockets sold by Fang Immortal Dao are already an older generation of products; it is said that they have now developed even more potent gunpowder, with greater physical destructive power than the current Purple Thunder Gunpowder, along with a smaller volume and lighter weight.

Xu Qing was well aware that the Grand Secretary and his colleagues were still limited by their era. Once Fang Immortal Dao continuously advanced their firearms and gunpowder technology, if they were to counterattack Central Earth in the future, even if the Great Yu Dynasty recovered its national strength, it would face great trouble.

He hadn’t expected that Fang Immortal Dao would manage to combine Dao Skill with firearms.

What an extraordinary development.

But gunpowder was originally concocted by practitioners of the Dao.

Fang Immortal Dao and the practitioners from before the Middle Ages were in the same lineage, so it wasn’t surprising for them to carry forward and enhance these techniques.

Moreover, these individuals respect the knowledge of things and have integrated some of the Mysterious mechanisms of the Mo Family. Plus, in the former dynasty’s expedition to the Extreme West, members of Fang Immortal Dao also went along, which indeed broadened their horizons.

Had it not been for the severe crackdown on Fang Immortal Dao during the early establishment of the Great Yu Dynasty, which caused them to lose many inheritances and classical texts, Fang Immortal Dao would not have spent such a long time recuperating and revitalizing in the Southern Ocean.

This was also related to the Great Yu Dynasty’s strategy in the Southern Ocean for a period, which made the development of Fang Immortal Dao very challenging. Later they encountered the Westerners invading the Southern Ocean.

Fang Immortal Dao has endured to this day, truly solidifying its foundation in the Southern Ocean.

Xu Qing then inquired Su Lianqing about the details of using the Purple Thunder Rockets, which turned out to be uncomplicated. As long as there were archers with a certain level of combat ability, they could use them.

However, with the limited number of Purple Thunder Rockets, they could only be used in the most critical volley.

Xu Qing: "Have you selected the archers from Breeze Village yet?"