As a Father, I Just Want to Watch You Achieve Immortality Chapter 1541: LV6 Rank Guanyin Lotus Bullet, Underworld’s Assassination Weapon for King Yan, Watching You (4)
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The projectile soared directly over the sentinel Grandmaster's head, hurtling toward the camp at a blistering speed!
Its intended destination—
The State Preceptor's personal military tent!
The sentinel’s eyes bulged, nearly splitting from the shock!
Boom—!!!
Simultaneously.
From hundreds of miles away, a cataclysmic blast echoed, sounding as if a massive meteor had collided with the earth.
Inside the primary command center.
Xie Yushen, the State Preceptor, was engaged in a chess match with a gaunt, elderly man. This senior was Gu Qianqiu, the Grandmaster of the Bashu Sword Pavilion and a powerful Divine Tribulation Cultivator.
The two were focused on the board, alternating between placing black and white pieces.
They were deep in conversation.
"State Preceptor, have you dispatched a message to His Majesty to request the intervention of the Old Dragon God from the Dragon God Clan?"
"Compelling the Old Dragon God to act requires a heavy price. Such expenditures... naturally demand His Majesty’s authorization. Furthermore, the Old Dragon God’s ultimate ambition is to move his people from the East Sea onto the dry land."
"Since that territory falls under His Majesty’s rule, the Dragon God Clan's emergence onto the shore requires royal consent."
Xie Yushen spoke with a faint, knowing smile, his salt-and-pepper hair swaying slightly.
He watched the game with an air of tranquility.
In truth, the match lacked any real tension; despite the Divine Tribulation Cultivator’s immense strength in Cultivation, his talent for chess was mediocre at best. It was a common occurrence—longevity did not always equate to mastery over the game.
Xie Yushen looked down at the dragon formation on the board, which was gasping for survival, and smiled softly.
Using two fingers, he lifted a black piece from the bowl.
Abruptly—
The State Preceptor’s eyes sharpened into slits.
He was struck by a visceral sense of impending doom that made his skin crawl and his very blood run cold.
Lethal danger!
An assassin was targeting him!
"They have arrived!"
"The Underworld... has finally struck!"
"As expected, the Underworld has sent their killers!"
Xie Yushen inhaled sharply.
His intuition had been correct!
He had anticipated this perfectly. Having spent days meticulously analyzing the intelligence regarding the Underworld, he understood their methods better than anyone.
Across from him, Gu Qianchi remained unmoved, offering only a thin smile: "The Way of Mechanisms? It is a minor craft, nothing more than a collection of clever tricks."
Gu Qianchi’s senses were transcendent. As one who had reached the Divine Tribulation stage, he had grasped Dao Yun and forged a connection with the Will of Heaven and Earth. His Heaven and Earth Soul had already achieved a profound evolution.
He had already sensed the approach of the terrifying black-gold Thunder Dragon and the massive, luminous Lotus Bullet as they tore through the sky from hundreds of miles away!
Plop.
A chess piece hit the board.
But Gu Qianqiu’s seat was already vacant.
He reappeared high above the military camp, his focus fixed on the black-gold electromagnetic shell and the giant Lotus Bullet that were screaming toward them.
He raised his hand and opened his palm!
In that instant, the surrounding space seemed to solidify.
A torrent of Sword Qi erupted, weaving into a dense, shimmering web designed to intercept the two lethal strikes.
Hiss hiss hiss—
The electromagnetic projectile, wreathed in black-gold Shenxiao Thunder, slammed into the Sword Qi barrier. The sheer force of the impact caused the web to bulge inward violently.
It looked like a high-velocity ball straining against a net, spinning with such ferocity that it threatened to tear through the mesh at any second!
Hmm?
Suddenly, Gu Qianqiu’s expression shifted.
The Lotus Bullet, though caught within his Sword Qi web, possessed far less kinetic force and penetration than the electromagnetic shell.
However, it began to vibrate with a frequency that was utterly terrifying!
Boom—!!!
A split second later, a brilliant golden light exploded!
The darkness of the night was completely banished by a blinding radiance. Countless rays of light burst forth with unmatched splendor and overwhelming intensity.
The heavens shook as a thunderous roar erupted!
A massive mushroom cloud, radiating searing heat, bloomed in the sky. The cloud expanded in all directions, carrying a force capable of shattering the earth!
Because of the LV6 [Chess Saint] Dao Fruit, the powers of Great Avalanche and Black and White Collapse had significantly bolstered the attack.
Consequently, the destructive potential of this Guanyin Lotus Bullet was far greater than its predecessors!
An explosion of this magnitude would be unbearable even for a Peak Martial Artist of the Martial Saint Four Transformations. They would likely be left in a state of total disorientation, if not fatally wounded!
The colossal mushroom cloud continued to blossom between the sky and the ground.
It surged upward and billowed outward!
Its peak reached thousands of feet into the air!
Anyone within a thousand-mile radius could clearly see the terrifying spectacle!
The entire imperial army camp fell into a stunned silence. Every soldier looked up in horror, paralyzed by the sight.
Their throats went dry and their bodies turned cold with fear.
Had that Lotus Bullet actually reached the ground, the army...
The casualties would have been beyond counting!
If a Divine Tribulation expert hadn't been present to protect the camp...
A single Lotus Bullet would have left the field carpeted in corpses!
A weapon of war!
A weapon of absolute, extreme destruction!
Even Gu Qianchi, despite his Divine Tribulation Cultivation, could not help but narrow his eyes in thought...
What kind of mechanism is this?!
How could it produce such a monstrous detonation?
How long has it been since he last paid attention? Have mechanical arts truly reached such a terrifying peak?
With such weapons in play, how could conventional war even be waged?
A few of these dropped from the sky would be enough to wipe out an entire legion!
Gu Qianchi hadn't expected the explosive power of the Lotus Bullet to be so formidable. Of course, a single blast wasn't enough to truly threaten a Divine Tribulation Cultivator like himself.
However...
Within the confines of a military camp, he wasn't the only one at risk.
In truth, while the Guanyin Lotus Bullet had the power to cripple a Peak Martial Artist of the Martial Saint Four Transformations, true masters weren't idiots; they wouldn't simply stand there and wait to be hit!
They would evade!
Thus, Gu Qianchi realized at a glance that while this device posed a minimal threat to top-tier experts in a duel, its impact on large-scale warfare was catastrophic...