Chapter 721 – The Ugliest Sister-in-law

“Dang it ……….”

In the Dan Room on the seventh floor of the Sitian Supervisor, Song Qing rolled up his sleeves, holding a purple-golden sledgehammer with iron tongs of the same color, and stood in front of an anvil hammering steel.

His white coat was stained with black ash, and his forehead was dripping with sweat, with thick dark circles under his eyes, as if he would die suddenly at any moment.

After forging out the impurities, Song Qing took out a dark golden nail, aimed it at the iron embryo, and struck the head of the nail hard with a sledgehammer.

With a piercing sound, the dark golden nail pierced through the iron embryo.

“No comparison, no comparison at all ……….”

Song Qing shook his head regretfully, “What kind of material is the Demon Sealing Nail cast in the end? Is there really such a metal in the world?”

The Demon Sealing Nail in his hand was brought back by Sun Xuanji, who had been entrusted by the alchemy wizard Xu Ningyan to deliver the Demon Sealing Nail to Song Qing.

Duke Xu was worthy of being a wizard willing to dedicate everything to alchemy, a confidant of Song Qing, contributing such an important artifact to the Sithian Supervisor for research.

Duke Xu had contributed the Demon Sealing Nail with only one request, and that was that he wanted the alchemists to imitate the Demon Sealing Nail.

The alchemists were badly touched.

Not only did Duke Xu contribute divine artifacts, he also entrusted them with important tasks.

At that moment, a white-robed warlock quickly walked into the Dan room and said in a loud voice:

“Senior Brother Song, Teacher Supervisor Zheng asked you to take this box to the bottom of the building and give it to Senior Sister Zhong.”

Supervising Zheng Teacher ……… Song Qing slightly puzzled took the wooden box and asked:

“What is it?”

The white-clothed warlock shook his head, “Teacher Supervisor Zheng said that only Senior Sister Zhong can open it.”

Song Qing, always an opinionated (rebellious) disciple, sniffed and went straight to open the box, but failed to do so.

“OK!”

Song Qing nodded, holding the half-foot-wide, one-foot-long wooden box, leaving the Dan Room, and following the stairs to the first-floor lobby, and then through the iron door at the back of the lobby, into the ground.

The sound of footsteps echoed in the quiet underground, and oil lamps tinted everything a warm, soft orange.

Song Qing lightly sniffed the faint stale scent in the air, most of the white-clothed warlocks of the SZTD were outside, either in the army or traveling to save people, and there was less time to open the door for Zhong Li to get some air.

Passing through the dark and hyper-long corridor, Song Qing stopped at the door of a forbidden room and looked in through the air window on the door.

Zhong Li sat in the corner in silence.

“Senior Sister Zhong!”

Song Qing pushed open the door and walked over to her, also sitting down on a plate, “Supervising Teacher Zheng asked me to bring this to you.”

Zhong Li opened his eyes and took the wooden box, and the moment he entered his hand, the locking tongue automatically popped open.

Opening the lid of the box, a wooden hammer half an arm’s length lay inside the yellow silk cloth-lined box.

The wooden hammer is light brown in color, the handle is rubbed and oily, and the head and handle are engraved with a fine array of patterns.

Zhong Li froze for a moment and looked up at Song Qing.

Song Qing happened to bow her head, and the senior siblings locked eyes and spoke in unison:

“Chaotic Life Hammer!”

Song Qing came to a sudden realization and said, “No wonder Teacher Supervisor Zheng said that you should be the one to open the box, this damn thing can’t be made to work by anyone else but you.”

The Chaotic Fate Hammer, according to Mr. Supervisor, was made when he was young and spontaneous.

If you hold this hammer and hit someone’s head, you can change your destiny, but the destiny is not controllable, and the person who holds the hammer and the person who is being hit will have their destinies changed together.

People are divided into three, six, nine classes, and all walks of life have their destinies.

Once you change your destiny, you will be condemned by heaven and your life span will be halved.

In other words, this broken hammer would not only cause an unfathomable change in one’s destiny, but the starting point would be the halving of one’s lifespan.

However, Zhong Li was an exception, because Zhong Li’s current destiny belonged to the “Divine Wrath”, and the chaotic fate hammer couldn’t change such a bad destiny, so she was able to avoid the side effects instead.

“Why did Mr. Superintendent give this to you?”

Song Qing looked puzzled, “Although you are now a prophet and are going to suffer all sorts of calamities, the Chaotic Fate Hammer can’t do anything about it. But if you use it to change someone else’s destiny haphazardly, your calamities will be aggravated, right?”

Zhong Li shook his head and silently put the hammer away.

“Alas, the days when Caiwei isn’t at the Si Tian Supervisor, it feels like the entire Stargazer Building is clean. Senior Sister Zhong, Senior Brother still has to go back to refining weapons, so I’ll leave first.” Song Qing got up and pushed off to leave.

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Distant Overseas.

The White Emperor with white scales like jade, bull nose, crocodile lips and lion mane, with four hooves flying, sprinted above the sea.

Waves of ten thousand hectares, lifting up the eyes is the sky, in addition to the sky, there is only a vast and endless ocean.

Whitey found his destination precisely above the sea where it was hard to tell where to go.

It looked down, gazing at the sea beneath its hooves, its azure eyes lit up with a deep, shadowy light, like swirls.

A whirlpool ensued on the surface of the sea, rapidly expanding into a maelstrom tens of meters in diameter, with white foam churning up.

The White Emperor plunged headlong into the vortex, and in a few moments, he rushed out of the vortex with a long, curved spear in his mouth that looked like bone and stone, and gold and jade.

It flew on all four hooves, like a stallion, and dissipated into the sky.

The vortex slowly subsided and the ocean resumed so.

………….

Dongling City.

The urn was built at the head of the city, and Xu Pingfeng stood on the top of the urn, his white clothes fluttering, his posture like an exiled immortal.

He carried a jug of wine in his hand and looked out to the north.

…………

Yunzhou Central Military Camp.

Crate wagons transporting Zizi weights moved in and out of the barracks, and the bottom soldiers repeated their duties of guarding and patrolling, ready and waiting to go out on the battlefield.

Compared to the Yunzhou Army, which was fighting in three fronts, the 30,000-strong Central Army was the one that remained the most intact, and the elites had been recuperating and resting on their pillows.

For a month, the barracks had hardly been out of service.

At this point, as winter drew to a close, the bottom soldiers were fine with limited insight, but the middle and upper level generals began to sit up and take notice.

They realized that as the pace of spring approached, the advantages and disadvantages of their own side and Da Bong’s would, step by step, begin to reverse.

So the voices of those who went out of camp to fight grew louder and louder.

Today, more than a dozen middle and senior generals are kneeling outside the marquee to “force” Qi Guangbo to send troops.

Among them was Zhuo Haoran, who had been relegated from a left army lieutenant to a deputy lieutenant of the Charge Battalion.

“Great General, we can’t delay any longer, if we don’t take advantage of this winter to take Qingzhou, it will be hard as hell for our army to hit the capital after the spring festival.”

Zhuo Haoran, whose left eye was gray and unable to see, growled:

“I will but seek to die, but please, Great General, let me die on the battlefield, please, Great General, send out troops.”

The surrounding generals agreed, even though they looked down on Zhuo Haoran, the defeated general, their stance was the same at this time.

After a while of fussing, just when the generals thought they had nothing to show for it, the army tent lifted up.

Qi Guangbo was dressed in military attire, one hand pressed the hilt of the sword, his gaze was calm, his face was bland, and he swept the generals, and instead of being angry, he smiled and said:

“It’s quite a bit of patience to have made it this far.”

Solo purpose Zhuo Haoran was stunned:

“Great General?”

Chi Guangbo said in a deep voice:

“Zhuo Haoran, you buried six thousand elites in Songshan County and should have been punished by military justice. This general cherishes talent and spared your life. Now I’m asking you if you want to redeem yourself.”

Zhuo Haoran exclaimed:

“If I can snowball my shame, I have no regrets in dying.”

Qi Guangbo threw out a decree letter with the seal of marquee and faintly said:

“Lead the left army of 8,000 elites to Songshan County to support the three armies of the Dragon Elephant, White Rhinoceros, and Broken Front.”

Zhuo Haoran’s face was ecstatic:

“My lord!”

Chi Guangbo stopped looking at him and turned to look at a general on his right:

“Wen Xuan, lead the Artillery Battalion’s six hundred artillerymen and the Trapping Battalion’s three thousand foot soldiers to support the Black Armor and Green Python armies in Dongling. At the same time, bring this general’s handwritten letter to Ji Xuan.”

The same threw out a writ with the seal of the marquee.

“Zhao Bing, you lead three thousand light cavalry to cut off the supply line to Songshan County, make sure to travel day and night.”

“………..”

As one order was given, not long after, half of the generals outside the tent were sent away, Qi Guangbo swept through the remaining crowd and said without hesitation:

“Pull out the camp and swallow Wanxian with this marshal.”

………..

Pine Mountain County.

From the urn at the top of the city, Miao Youfang’s angry voice came:

“There is no regret in falling, Mo Sang, I gave you the Go that only a scholar from the Central Plains could learn, and this is how you repay me?

“Hmph, barbarians are barbarians.”

Then there was Moxan’s voice:

“This is the game that is very popular among the Central Plains people? It’s not that difficult, could it be that I’m the legendary reading seed?”

Miao Youfang snorted:

“What do you know, it’s called the Great Way to Simplicity. The simpler something is, the deeper the learning is.

“You see, with these five pieces, I can swing them horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. Or I can swing the sides first, then the center. There are a thousand different ways to play, and the steps are treacherous.”

Moxan, who was already wearing light armor, scratched his head:

“Although what you said makes sense, I still think it’s simple, I’m really a study seed. When the war is over, I’ll stay in your Central Plains and take the exam to become a scholar before going back, my father will be dead happy.”

“What are you talking about?” Biting into his nesting head, Xu Zhi Lao had just stepped into the threshold of the urn after checking the garrison armaments, when he heard these words.

Miao Youfang said as he dug in to prevent Mo Sang from stealing the pieces:

“We’ll play Go again. Chess, the way of the gentleman.”

Xu Erlang thought to himself, “How can this vulgar martial artist play chess? Fixed eyes to see, black and white pieces a two three connected to the line, the longest is four, regardless of white and black, even full four will be cut off.

“You, you call this Go?”

Xu Erlang looked at him with an odd expression on his face.

“Isn’t it?” Miao Youfang asked rhetorically, and without waiting for Xu Erlang to speak, he let out a triumphant “Hey.”

“Don’t think that playing chess is the privilege of you readers, what’s actually so difficult about it. With my intelligence, I figured out the trick in a single tea break.

“I didn’t know how to play chess before, purely because I was bluffed by you readers.”

Moxan chimed in:

“I also think it’s simple, O Lord Xu, do you think I can be like you and take the Scholarship exam? We haven’t produced a scholar in the Southern Border yet.”

I think your Zhongyuan dialect has become standardized ……… Xu New Year chewing on the nesting head:

“Brother Miao, who taught you your chess skills.”

Miao Youfang answered as he landed his pieces as if they were flying:

“Your sister-in-law.”

Xu New Year froze, “Which one?”

Which one? Miao Youfang also froze and thought carefully, saying:

“The ugliest-looking one.”

Xu New Year recalled carefully and froze, unable to guess who he was referring to when he said ugliest.

“You just say the name.”

“Munanjia ah.”

Who is Mu Nanjian, forget it, when you have a chance to see it in the future, remember to tell her that Miao Yufang said she was ugly ………. Xu New Year secretly memorized it, then arched his hand towards the two talented comrades and walked aside to read the book of war.

The reader’s mind is eight-sided and basic in its operation.