Qin Shi Ambitious

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"You're really causing me trouble, but what can I do? I'm your older brother!"

With a resolute turn, Shao Yu shielded the pained Tianming behind him, looked at the eight black-armored Qin soldiers, gave a low shout, and charged forward.

As the young master of the Xiang clan, Shao Yu's combat skills are quite good among his peers, and he went to the Qin-Chu battlefield at the age of eight, so he has a wealth of experience in large-scale battles.

Although the eight Qin soldiers in front of him were elite troops from Xianyang and well-equipped, Shao Yu was strong enough to lift a bronze cauldron weighing over a thousand pounds. He could throw the cauldron dozens of meters away, so dealing with these soldiers would not be difficult.

The reason for their escape was that these eight men were merely the vanguard. If they were entangled and then caught up by the archers, no matter how strong they were, they would be sitting ducks.

But now, for Tianming's sake, the spirited young Shaoyu has to perform beyond his usual level: he plans to deal with these eight people as soon as possible, and then carry Tianming away.

"Drink!" Dodging the thrust of a gleaming halberd, Shao Yu snatched it away with his bare hands and swept it with tremendous force, breaking the spines of the two Qin soldiers at the front. He then spun back to parry the subsequent swings of the Qin soldiers, using the shaft of the halberd he had seized to lock the enemy's spearhead, before pulling it back forcefully with one hand...

It went even more smoothly than Shao Yu had imagined. After dealing with this small squad of Qin soldiers, he quickly charged forward, hoisted the scorching Tianming onto his back, and was about to escape when, just then, Qin soldiers arrived from the direction of Mo Guichi...

Moreover, there are many of them, dozens in total.

Now caught between a rock and a hard place, Shao Yu turned to look around, and finally had no choice but to grit his teeth and run back.

Upon returning to the suspension bridge, Qin troops arrived again from the direction of the Mechanized City. Shaoyu didn't linger, but instead, with Tianming, jumped directly into the water near the Mechanized Xuanwu...

Outside the city of the mechanical city, Yan Dan's troops had already entered the city's territory.

He was followed by martial arts experts from Confucianism and other schools of thought. Along the way, the group learned that more regular Qin troops were moving towards the Mechanical City, which was already in grave danger.

It seems that quicksand will never gain complete trust.

"The Giant..."

Zhang Liang traveled with Yan Dan all the way, and he seemed quite indifferent to the fact that the Mechanized City was being attacked by quicksand.

After all, he could sense that the leader of the Mohist school was also quite calm.

Zhang Liang believed that if his guess was correct, the current Grand Master was indeed the former Grand Master Yan Dan himself. In that case, he and the Quicksand were allies, and their plan was definitely to devour this Qin army and strike at it.

However, Zhang Liang has not yet discovered Yan Dan's arrangement, which suggests that Yan Dan's arrangement lies within the mechanical city itself.

Thinking of this, Zhang Liang feigned concern and asked, "Has the Grand Master devised a strategy to defeat the enemy?"

"The Qin army is powerful and difficult to defeat. Does Zifang have any ideas?" Yan Dan did not reveal his intentions, but instead asked the other party.

"I am foolish and dull-witted, and I have no solution," Zhang Liang said with a guilty tone.

"Then we must first enter the city to rescue the heroes of the six kingdoms. As for defeating the enemy, I believe that with everyone's wisdom, we will surely find a way." Yan Dan glanced at Zhang Liang, answered calmly, and then spurred his horse to speed up.

"To rescue the heroes of the six kingdoms..." Zhang San, the leader of Xiaoshengxianzhuang, muttered to himself, a relaxed smile playing on his lips, and followed...

In the forbidden area of ​​the Mo family in the Mechanized City, Lu Wei and Ji Yan arrived at a huge metal door, finally unable to go any further.

Looking up at the azure dragon pattern on the metal door, Lu Wei guessed that the location of the Azure Dragon mechanism must be behind it.

The exterior of the Azure Dragon Gate was very smooth and about ten feet high. It appeared that there were no mechanisms to open it. Ji Yan took out the Jingni Sword and tried it. He found that the entire gate was made of a special alloy, and judging from the sound of knocking, it was probably more than three feet thick. Obviously, it was impossible to open it by brute force.

“If this is the Azure Dragon behind it, then when the Mo family’s mechanics come to maintain it, they can’t just rely on the Mo Core to open the door.” Xiao Yan’er sheathed her sword, opened her bright eyes, and analyzed, “Moreover, this door is too big. It should be for the Azure Dragon mechanical beast to enter and exit. If it’s for people to come and go, it’s impossible to open this door every time.”

The metal gate itself is easy to despair, and most people would give up after trying it without success. But Ji Yan thought about it for a moment and was sure that there were other entrances and exits, so there was no need to waste her time worrying about the gate itself.

"The works of mechanics generally pursue ingenuity, and they will place the clues openly and conspicuously. This is especially true of the higher the level of mechanics. This is particularly evident in the Mohists."

Lu Wei agreed with Ji Yan's opinion, and based on his personal understanding of the Mohist school, he immediately focused his attention on the azure dragon pattern on the metal door.

Having received the prompt, Ji Yan looked at the pattern along with everyone else. After half an incense stick had burned, she smiled faintly: "Just as Brother Lu said~"

The main body of the Azure Dragon pattern on the door is clearly a map of the passage they walked through, and the most exquisite eyes of the Azure Dragon are composed of the eight trigrams!

Different arrangements of the hexagrams can represent numbers, so the eyes of the Azure Dragon pattern are both a code and the place where the code is used.

Xiao Yan'er has studied a wide variety of subjects since childhood, and in her view, this kind of deciphering is related to the Yin-Yang School.

Are the Mohist school and the Yin-Yang school also related?

"Okay, then go ahead." Lu Wei said calmly, his hands behind his back as if he had seen through everything. Ji Yan, after hearing the instructions, came back to her senses and nodded silently, walking back the way she came. After a while, the sound of gears turning came from the left side of the metal door: a passage of normal doorway size appeared.

Their guess was completely correct.

When Ji Yan returned, the two entered the Azure Dragon Secret Chamber together. Even though Lu Wei was quite knowledgeable, upon seeing the scene unfolding before him within the massive chamber, a long-absent tremor flickered in his pupils...

'This is the Mohist school's plan for a mechanical city, and also the Mount Tai plan!'

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After the traps and mechanisms in the Mo Core Chamber killed two waves of Qin soldiers, Master Ban had no choice but to order a halt to the attack when faced with the dozen or so Mohist disciples being escorted by the quicksand.

Although he knew that this would only put himself and others in danger and would not save his disciples, he could not allow the Mo family's mechanisms to kill his own disciples!

For now, we can only delay until the bigwig arrives.

The door to the Ink Core Chamber was impregnable; even without attacking the outside, it could be defended without any problem.

"The Black Tortoise has been activated, and the poison in the water is no longer a problem." Master Ban stroked his beard, still unaware of how the central pool, which had been reinforced with defenses, had been poisoned.

Theoretically, if the poison wasn't injected from the central pool, the only way to spread the poison throughout the city would be to target the underwater mechanism, Xuanwu itself.

That would be much more difficult, but if it were a Black Qilin, it wouldn't be impossible...

He shook his head almost imperceptibly to put those thoughts out of his mind; now was not the time to dwell on them. "We can't get out now, but if we hold out, we can hold out for a long time. So no matter what leverage Wei Zhuang pulls out from outside, no one should open the door."

"Some sacrifices are unavoidable, or even necessary."

Master Ban glanced at Yan Yun and Xiang Shi Fan Zeng, whose expressions remained unchanged, and knew that among the characters still outside the Mechanized City, only Gao Yue and Shao Yu had special identities. If they were captured, even though it had been agreed beforehand that the gates should not be opened, it would still be difficult for them not to go and rescue them.

"Eek!" Big Iron Hammer, waiting at the peephole, watched as one of his forging disciples was brazenly killed by Wei Zhuang. He couldn't help but punch the wall, but there was nothing he could do.

"The little quicksand has only been established for a few decades, yet it's running rampant on our Mo family's territory. We clearly have the strength to fight back, are we just going to watch them slaughter our brothers?"

Turning around, Big Hammer roared angrily.

“If it were just the Quicksand, they would certainly be no match for our Mohist school.” Gao Jianli stepped forward and said coldly, “But now the Quicksand has Gongshu Chou of the Gongshu family as an ally, as well as soldiers from the Qin state.”

"So what! Don't we still have righteous warriors from six kingdoms with us now!" Big Iron Hammer pounded his chest: "If you don't want to go, then let me go alone. I want to see if Wei Zhuang can withstand my Thunder Hammer!"

His words resonated with some of the disciples within the Ink Core, but no one stepped forward to speak out.

"Before the Grandmaster left, he said that all matters within the Mechanized City would be decided by Master Ban and me. Are you going to disobey the Grandmaster's orders?" Gao Jianli narrowed his eyes, uttering the Grandmaster's name, which caused the bulging veins on the big iron hammer's head to subside...

"Ugh!"

...

At the entrance of the city, we transferred to a small boat to enter the Ink Pond. Some of the Qin soldiers here had just been lured away by Shao Yu, but even if all the Qin soldiers were still there, they obviously couldn't withstand the intrusion of the righteous men led by Yan Dan and Zhang Liang.

In the midst of a chaotic battle, the dark inner energy of the Mo family slowly coiled around Mo Mei's eyebrows. Yan Dan thrust out his sword, instantly ending the lives of the last four Qin soldiers.

"I'll go and lower the cloud boat."

After giving instructions to Zhang Liang and the others, Yan Dan used his lightness skill to leap and bound to the top of the Ink Rule Pool. But as soon as he stepped onto the top level, he was surprised to find that someone was waiting for him there.

“Scarlet Smoke…”

Looking at the cold smile of Lord Dongjun of the Yin-Yang School, who was holding Gao Yue hostage, Yan Dan's expression became extremely solemn...

Chapter 321 The Death of Yan Dan

"You seem neither surprised nor somewhat surprised to see me?"

Dongjun Yanfei casually toyed with the three-legged golden crow formed from the dragon's aura in one hand.

Yan Dan glanced discreetly at the lever on the left side of the cloud boat, realizing that he needed to deal with the formidable enemy at hand for the time being. He figured that Zifang would surely come up quietly to check on the situation if he noticed that he hadn't gone down for a while.

With something on his mind, he lightly removed the brim of his hat, revealing his true face to outsiders for the first time since faking his death at the cost of the destruction of the Yan state: "Long time no see. I knew you would come."

Yan Dan learned from Master Ban's previous letter that someone had triggered the switch and was trapped in the trap chamber of the Illusionary Sound Box. He thought that Fei Yan's threat had disappeared, but he never expected to meet her at this time.

Was the target imprisoned in that secret room the wrong one, or...?

Yan Dan carefully observed the yin-yang long dress on Yan Fei's body and found no signs of weakness or poisoning.

Is there a flaw in my design...? If Yanfei had entered the trap room, even if she had a way out, she would never have been able to appear so 'glamorous'.

"Stop your hypocrisy. I know everything you've done in the Mo family's forbidden area."

Yan Fei gently lifted the arm that was holding Gao Yue, and Gao Yue, still unconscious, immediately showed a pained expression: "So you see, I've come to return the favor~"

"Oh?" Yan Dan met her gaze calmly, not even glancing at Gao Yue. "Could it be that you already have that thing?"

He was not without affection for his daughter Yue'er; in fact, his affection for her was quite intense: after all, she was his only bloodline and his only heir.

But this fervor could not stir any waves in the face of his long-cherished wish to restore his country, and the rational man knew that the more he showed concern at this time, the more dangerous his daughter's situation would be, and also his own.

"You mean the Illusionary Sound Box?" Yan Fei's heart turned cold, but a bright smile appeared on her lips: "It is a treasure of the Yin Yang School, so naturally I will accept it."

"If that's the case, then why hasn't Lord Dongjun left yet..." Yan Dan estimated the time and slowly said, "There are many grudges between you, but I have never taken the initiative to retaliate against you. On the contrary, I have always been tolerant of you."

"More than a decade has passed. I am no longer the Crown Prince of Yan, but you are still the Lord of the East of the Yin-Yang School. Why should you still be indulging in the past?"

"If we stop now, it won't be in vain that we once loved each other."

"Heh." Faced with Yan Dan's feigned persuasion and real provocation, Yan Fei was not angered at all. She knew what Yan Dan was waiting for.

'The more you talk to Yan Dan, the more you'll fall into his trap. Lord Dongjun, please don't make me save you a second time.'

Recalling the cold, arrogant face that walked into the trap room when she was almost unable to suppress the poison gas and was about to faint, as well as the instructions she gave him during the subsequent treatment, Yan Fei easily released the three-legged golden crow to circle in the air. This action immediately made Yan Dan feel as if he was facing a great enemy, and he clenched his hands tightly around Mo Mei.

"It seems you're not as calm inside as you appear on the surface."

With a disdainful smile, Yan Fei didn't want to talk to the other party anymore. Her main purpose in planning against the Mo family for so many years was to use Yan Dan to cultivate the Yin-Yang Cleansing Technique.

According to that guy, the destruction of the entire Mohist school is beyond my control, so let's just eliminate the target decisively!

In the way that causes the other person the most pain~

Thinking of this, Lord Dongjun suddenly put Gao Yue on the ground, and with a flick of his Yin-Yang magic, Gao Yue's face, which had been in pain, gradually returned to calm, and she even opened her eyes in a daze.

At this moment, even if Yan Dan wanted to restrain herself, her eyes inevitably met those of her daughter, who had just regained consciousness and was still in a daze.

"Gao Yue, he is your father, go now~"

Yan Fei leaned down, her seductive voice whispering in Gao Yue's ear. As the final "ba" sound faded, Gao Yue seemed startled, like a rabbit, and instinctively ran forward. Yan Fei, surprisingly, did not stop her at all, and simply watched with a smile as the girl rushed towards Yan Dan.

Yan Dan watched her daughter approach step by step. Their recognition of each other seemed too rushed and hasty, all forced upon them by Dongjun of the Yin-Yang School...

Yan Dan's gaze shifted back and forth between Gao Yue and Yan Fei behind her. Without hesitation, she drew her black eyebrow stick and placed it between herself and her daughter. This action instantly brought tears to Gao Yue's eyes, as if she had been hypnotized, while Yan Fei immediately revealed an even more contemptuous expression...

But Yan Dan remained unmoved; the dark sword energy emanating from his sword, Mo Mei, surged forth, and he directly attacked his own daughter...

No one knew better than Yan Dan how Six-Fingered Black Knight died. He knew that Gao Yue was very likely the medium through which Yan Fei cast her curse, so he must not get close to her.