Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo' Chapter 1171 583: Out Selling Yourself Again? (2)

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Previously on Steam Era: The Lord of 'Puluo'...
Li Banfeng and Tang Shijiang infiltrated the Yanghuitai Coal Mine, confronting the coachmen and their leader. While Li Banfeng engaged the coachmen, Tang Shijiang revealed his true identity to the leader, who recognized him as a fellow disciple from the same master. Their exchange quickly escalated into a fight, with both employing powerful techniques and weaponry.

A length of water pipe extended from Tang Shijiang's back collar, spraying a column of water to block the flames, the water sprayed on the rickshaw's body, stirring up layers of white mist.

The Driver Leader pulled the rickshaw, desperately dodging, the water drenched the rickshaw, equivalent to lowering the temperature, which was extremely detrimental to the steam engine.

Yet this water column was difficult to evade, as if it had eyes, spraying at the foreign car, the Driver Leader really couldn't dodge anymore, bracing the water column, he circled behind Tang Shijiang, extending his right foot, about to use the Trample Over Thousands of Rivers.

Bang!

As soon as his foot landed, a row of nails grew from the ground, piercing through the Driver Leader's right foot.

The Driver Leader felt intense pain, the technique failed to be executed.

When was this secret mechanism set up?

Could the Gong Xiu Technique be used so covertly?

The Coachman was stunned for a moment, the nails stuck in his foot quickly tied themselves up, binding the Coachman's right foot to the ground.

A big knife chopped down from above the Coachman's head, the Coachman didn't know where this big knife came from, and could only barely evade using the Carefree Technique.

After dodging the big knife, an axe grew out of Tang Shijiang's back, sweeping horizontally toward the Driver Leader's waist.

The Driver Leader had no escape, the giant axe opened a slit on his belly.

Seeing the knife axe coming again, the Coachman used the Carefree Technique, adjusted the position of his right foot, forcibly broke free from the nails on the ground, and quickly widened the distance from Tang Shijiang.

His sight locked on Tang Shijiang, preparing to use the Passing Glance.

A dozen or so mirrors emerged around Tang Shijiang, reflecting hundreds of figures, the Coachman looked through the gaps between the mirrors, only feeling dazzled, unable to tell which figure was real, the Passing Glance failed to take effect.

The Driver Leader swung the rickshaw, smashing a mirror.

The mirror fragments turned into a silver dragon, following behind the Coachman, fiercely chasing, without missing a single piece, all pierced into the Coachman.

In the confrontation thus far, as long as Tang Shijiang dodged one step, the Coachman could use the Traveling Cultivator's advantage to suppress the opponent in one breath.

Yet Tang Shijiang didn't move a step, standing in place, dismantling moves as they came, always choosing a hard confrontation with the Driver Leader.

This is the disciple of Grandpa Train, with hard bones, and hard methods.

The Coachman turned the rickshaw handle, pushing the rickshaw forward, charging close to Tang Shijiang again, the carriage extending the hinge knife, let's see how Tang Shijiang would defend.

Tang Shijiang put on a pair of iron gloves, grabbed the hinge knife with his right hand, unscrewed it from the carriage, and directly tore open the carriage with his left hand, tearing apart a pipe in the middle of the carriage.

Screeech!

The foreign car emitted a loud noise, starting to shake uncontrollably.

This is the top-level experience of Craftsman Cultivation, Tang Shijiang sprayed water onto the carriage just now, seeing fog rise from the carriage, from the fog's thickness, he judged the temperature at various parts of the carriage.

Based on the temperature changes, Tang Shijiang found the location of the steam pipeline, donned iron gloves, and tore the steam pipeline apart.

With the steam pipeline ruptured, pressure dropped sharply, the Coachman's speed plummeted.

Under these circumstances, continuing the fight with Tang Shijiang would be suicide for the Driver Leader.

The Driver Leader tried to flee with the rickshaw, while Tang Shijiang held onto the carriage chasing in pursuit.

If the Coachman slowed down a bit, Tang Shijiang could dismantle the car, but the steam pipeline was leaking steam, the Coachman wanted to go fast but couldn't.

In the face of life and death, the Coachman whistled repeatedly, summoning subordinates to aid in battle.

No need to arrange tactics, no need to issue commands, just a whistle, the Coachmen still entangled with Li Banfeng immediately changed formation, moving forward to block Tang Shijiang.

Their awareness in changing tactics was still uniform, all having only one thought at the moment, to exert every effort to hold back Tang Shijiang to save the Driver Leader.

Yet while they were uniform in intent, there were issues in execution.

Tang Shijiang scattered twenty screws onto the ground.

These screws ran wildly across the ground, rushing towards the foreign car's wheels.

A screw grabbed a wheel, pierced through the spokes, pierced through the carriage, locking the wheel.

Out of sixty Coachmen, forty rapidly changed formation, while twenty didn't keep up the pace, unable to push the carriage, slowing down.

The train formation fears disunity most.

These twenty slowed down, equating to being stranded within the formation.

The Coachmen drew tools from the carriage, intending to pull out the screws locking the wheels, but Li Banfeng wouldn't give them the chance, exploiting their disorderly standings, flashing between them, killing all twenty Coachmen.

Losing so many hands at once, the Coachman formation's combat power was greatly diminished.

Yet the Driver Leader had no recourse, Tang Shijiang was still chasing holding the carriage, he could only order the Coachmen to fight Tang Shijiang to the death.

Tang Shijiang had plenty of screws, but used sparingly, only scattering twenty.

This is Grandpa Train's formation, Tang Shijiang knows it inside out, his sole purpose was to make part of the cars move, part immobile, forcing the formation to expose a flaw with his own means.

This was a tactic agreed upon by two, if a flaw showed in the formation, Li Banfeng would act at once, leaping within the formation, killing another twenty Coachmen.

There were still more than twenty Coachmen left, to form a formation, at least twenty were needed, if Li Banfeng kept killing, the Coachman formation would be no more.

The Driver Leader whistled again, this time not letting the Coachmen change formation.

He instructed the Coachmen to stand still, everyone simultaneously utilizing the Path-breaking Technique.

This was the last resort, also a helpless one.

Chasing behind the car, Tang Shijiang suddenly saw an earthen wall emerge, blocking his path.