Mr. Su was a little confused when he saw the contract delivered to him. He raised his hand and touched his head, wondering: "What contract? What does this mean?"

"This is for your own good." The young man said with a smile: "Let's compete in martial arts, and if you win, you will get the gold ingot. This is clearly written in the contract." He said to the man, "Show it to him."

The man handed the contract to Su Laogeng. Su Laogeng looked confused. Several farmers behind him were also a little surprised. They thought they would just fight, so why did they make a contract? Some people couldn't help but said: "We can't read, but we can't even read."

don't know."

 “Read it to them.” The young man said, still smiling.

Naturally, the man knew the contents of the contract very well and read: "The contract is made: there will be a competition of martial arts, and the winner will receive a gold ingot. The outcome is unpredictable, and everyone will bear their responsibilities." He held the contract in one hand and a clay in the other.

He took the box and said to Mr. Su: "Just press your fingerprints."

"Is this really what it says?" Mr. Su said more suspiciously, "You're not lying to me, are you?"

The man said calmly: "What do you think you have to deceive?" Compared with the politeness of the young man, this man seemed much colder.

Su Laogeng suddenly felt unsure and waved his hand: "Forget it, I...I won't fight."

"It doesn't matter, the competition is purely voluntary." The young man smiled and said: "I won't force you." It was time to put away the gold ingots. Several farmers stared at the gold ingots, all reluctant to part with them. No one could bear it.

The resident said: "Su Laogeng, if you miss the fact that there is no such shop in this village, you... If you don't fight, I will fight!" A farmer was about to step forward. When Su Laogeng saw this, he hurriedly said: "Get out of here.

There is always a first come, first served, I want to fight first, you go away." He said to the young man: "Young students, let's compare our strength to see who is stronger."

 The man handed over the contract again. Su Laogeng only hesitated for a moment, then dipped his fingers into the ink mud and pressed his fingerprints.

The man immediately put away the contract without saying a word, returned to his horse, took a cloth bag from the horse's back, and put the contract and the ink pad into the bag.

Although Su Laogeng was a little uneasy, he still smiled and said to the young man: "You are young, you come first." After speaking, he raised his hand and moved it inwards.

The young man smiled kindly, but he knelt down and put the black cloth bag he had been carrying on the ground. The farmers were surprised. They stretched their heads to look, and saw the young man opening the black cloth bag. Soon,

A large knife appeared inside.

Su Laogeng suddenly changed his eyes and asked anxiously: "What are you doing with the knife?"

But the young man picked up the knife with a sense of ceremony. It was a straight knife. The blade was much narrower than the horizontal sword of the Tang Dynasty. One side of the blade was flat, but there was a protrusion in the middle on the other side. It was completely different from the sword of the Tang Dynasty.

"This is forged from the iron ore on the Jinshi Mountain in the Bohai Sea. It was forged by Li Xuanzhen, the first knife-smith in the Bohai Sea. It cuts iron like mud. I gave it a name, called Hongmang!" The young man said with a calm voice and a smile: "

The meaning of red light is that after the sword is unsheathed, the opponent will only see a red light and then sleep forever."

 “I won’t fight!” Mr. Su already realized that something was wrong. He stepped back and waved his hands: “I won’t fight.”

When several farmers saw the young man picking up the knife, their colors changed and they shrank back one by one. Two of them had already hid behind the big locust tree.

"The contract has been fingerprinted." The young man said with a smile: "It is a life and death contract. In a martial arts competition, life and death are your responsibility. I heard that you Tang people abide by the contract, so naturally you cannot go back on it." The blade pointed forward and bowed slightly: "

please!"

“He is not from the Tang Dynasty.” A farmer exclaimed.

Seeing the blade pointed at him, Mr. Su was so frightened that he took a few steps back, suddenly turned around and ran away. When the other farmers saw this, they also fled in all directions.

The young man did not move. When Mr. Su ran more than ten steps away, his feet suddenly moved forward like the wind. His face showed excitement and distortion. His originally handsome face became extremely ferocious. He was extremely fast.

, in the blink of an eye, he had reached behind Su Laogeng, raised his arms, and the red knife in his hand had been slashed down, only a scream was heard, blood spattered, and Su Laogeng's head had been slashed by the knife.

It was chopped off from the neck, and the head flew out. However, the headless body still ran forward a few steps due to inertia, and then fell to the ground.

 “It’s a murder, it’s a murder!” the farmers screamed, their souls were shattered, and they ran as fast as they could.

The young man put away his knife, looked at the headless body twitching on the ground, shook his head and sighed: "It turns out that the people of the Tang Dynasty were so cowardly. They would rather run away and be killed than fight to the death." He raised his head and looked at the hot sky in the sky.

Taiyang murmured: "The martial spirit of the Tang people has long since disappeared."

 The man was waiting by the roadside, and the young man walked back slowly, feeling uninterested.

“I’m not happy today.” The young man shook his head and said, “I still need to find someone else to compete with.”

The man said respectfully: "Your Majesty, we are walking too fast and the envoy is left behind. There is no need to rush forward and stay too far away from the envoy, just in case...!"

 “What if?” The young man opened his eyes wide: “What if?”

The man cautiously said: "The Tang Kingdom has a vast territory and rich resources, and there are many talents. Their world is a huge world with countless masters. The prince has a noble body. If he meets the top masters of the Tang Kingdom and makes a mistake, his subordinates will not be able to explain it to Mo Lizhi."

.”

"If there is no arena in the Tang Dynasty, what is the meaning of my trip?" The young man's eyes were shining: "I hope to meet a real master. But along the way, all the Tang people are vulnerable. This is the first time.

?”

"Twenty-seven!" the man said simply and neatly, "This is the twenty-seventh person that the prince challenged after entering the Tang Dynasty."

 The young prince looked up to the west and asked, "How far is it from Tangdu?"

“According to the current traveling speed, we can reach Tangdu within ten days.”

The young prince smiled and said: "In other words, I still have ten days to challenge the masters of the Tang Dynasty." Without saying much, he got on his horse, flicked the reins, and galloped towards the imperial capital of the Tang Dynasty.

 Chin Xiao is also in the suburbs.

Less than twenty miles outside the city of Hangzhou, there is a wasteland. Qin Xiao and Yu Wenchengchao stood side by side, looking at the little Taoist Zhang Tailing who was working not far away. After a while, Zhang Tailing ran over: "

Master, everything is ready, you can light the fire."

“Brother Qin, what’s going on?” Yuwen Chengchao looked confused, “What’s in those sacks? Why are they buried under the rocks?”

Qin Xiao smiled mysteriously and said: "Don't worry, eldest son, you will understand everything later." He asked Zhang Tailing: "What is the rope you use to start the fire made of?"

"The outside is soft paper, and the inside is wrapped with saltpeter powder." Zhang Tailing explained: "Powdered saltpeter is the easiest to burn. If the soft paper is wrapped with powdered saltpeter, even if it is stuck with water, the fuse will continue to burn." He said proudly:

"This is a method I came up with myself. Stay farther away and light the fuse to ensure your own safety."

 “You’re quite a smart kid.” Qin Xiao chuckled and said to Yu Wencheng, “My eldest son, let’s go over and take a look.”

Yu Wencheng looked suspicious and nodded. Zhang Tailing led the two of them forward and walked to a pile of rocks. Dozens of stones were piled into a pile. Under the rocks, there were several sacks buried. From the sacks, there were

A thin rope was led out and extended several meters away.

Yu Wencheng knelt down and picked up the tinder and looked at it. He even went up to it and smelled it. Then he said: "There is indeed saltpeter powder in it."

Qin Xiao chuckled and led Yu Wen Chengchao to the end of the ignition rope. Then he took a piece of fire in his hand, blew the fire and handed it to Yu Wen Chengchao. Yu Wen Chengchao hesitated for a moment, knowing what Qin Xiao meant.

Immediately, he lit the tinder rope with a fire breaker.

 “Stab it!”

 The tinder catches fire and spreads quickly to the other side like a snake.

"Cover your ears!" Qin Xiao took the lead in covering his ears. Yu Wencheng also covered his ears when he saw Zhang Tailing. For some reason, Qin Xiao's explanation was certainly correct. He also raised his arms to cover his ears. He saw the fuse burning over him. Soon, it was over.

Hearing a loud "boom", even if he covered his ears, Yu Wen Chengchao still felt as if he heard the sound of huge thunder. His body was shaken, but he had already seen that the pile of stones were flying in all directions, like smoke and dust.

open.

Yuwen Chengchao opened his eyes wide and couldn't believe it.

After a while, Yu Wen Chengchao put down his hand and turned to look at Qin Xiao. When he saw Qin Xiao looking at him with a smile, he said in surprise: "This...is this the trick you are talking about?"

“This is actually not a trick.” Qin Xiao smiled and said, “Master, how powerful is it?”

Yu Wen Chengchao just wanted to go over and have a look, but after the loud noise, rocks were flying, so he really didn’t dare to get close. He asked in horror: "What is in the sack? Then... why did those rocks fly?"

"Fire thunder!" Qin Xiao said with a smile: "The stuff inside the sack is called fire thunder. When it encounters fire, it will explode like a giant thunder."

Yu Wen Chengchao looked horrified and said: "Fire thunder? Where did this fire thunder come from?"

"It doesn't matter where it came from before, but from now on this fire thunder will belong to us." Qin Xiao said with a smile: "My eldest son, when you said that the Queen Mother would attack Shuning City, if such a fire thunder was planted under the wall

, will the city wall collapse immediately?"

Yu Wencheng nodded and said: "If there are enough, with the power of this fire thunder, it can indeed collapse the county wall. This is much more powerful than those engineering equipment."

"I'm thinking, if we hit Xiling in the future, wouldn't the Wutuo people's cavalry be very powerful? Let's lay all these fire thunders on the ground to lure them into an ambush. When the fire thunders rumble, you think it's the Wutuo cavalry.

Are Tuo's cavalry more powerful, or this fire thunder?" Qin Xiao chuckled and said, "One day, I will use this thing to deal with them and let them taste the power of Tang Fire Thunder."

Yuwen Chengchao also smiled and said: "If there are really a large number of these fire thunders, they will indeed be a great weapon against the Wutuo cavalry." He was extremely shrewd and understood that the fire thunders must be related to Zhang Tailing, so he smiled and said: "

It seems that your apprenticeship is not in vain, but it is truly a treasure."
Chapter completed!