Today's duel was thrilling and exciting for the crowd of onlookers. No one had expected Yan Liqiang's archery skills to be so strong. Cai Yingwu, who shot from Yunzhou, was killed by Yan Liqiang with one arrow. Later, the strong man who lived in seclusion in Canglong Mountain spoke and then left. The dragon was nowhere to be seen, which made everyone imagine. Then, Guo Yifei from Feitianmen jumped out to fight in person. But what was even more surprising was that Yan Liqiang had been prepared for this. He had already taken out one million taels of silver to tie his life together with the lives of the people from Feitianmen, and used Feitianmen as a scapegoat. What was even more surprising was that at this time, a group of people rushed in under the banner of Lingshan Sect...
Did even Lingshan Sect, one of the four major sects of the Han Empire, intervene in the duel between Yan Liqiang and Feitian Sect? This would be really interesting...
The series of events directly made tens of thousands of people watching by the Tianchi Lake exclaim in their hearts, secretly feeling that the trip to Canglong Mountain was not in vain. Everyone's eyes were looking in the direction where the sound came from...
There were not many soldiers and horses rushing out from the mountain pass over there, only more than thirty riders. Under the watchful eyes of tens of thousands of onlookers, before the thirty-odd riders could reach the edge of Tianchi Lake, a figure had already taken off from the leading rhinoceros dragon horse and flew directly towards Tianchi Lake at a speed many times faster than that of the rhinoceros dragon horse.
Yan Liqiang was standing in the Tianchi Lake, watching with interest the man flying towards him. He was a little surprised in his heart. Just looking at his figure, momentum and speed, he was definitely far superior to Cai Yingwu before. It was obvious that he was not ordinary and might be a strong man at the Wuzong level.
As the figure approached rapidly, Yan Liqiang could see the man's face clearly even through the heavy wind and snow. He was a middle-aged man, almost two meters tall, with a square face, big ears, half white and half black hair, eyes like copper bells, and a thick black beard. He carried a huge axe on his back. Just by looking at him from a distance, one could feel that the man was full of momentum, especially the way he ran towards him with the axe on his back. It was like a Tyrannosaurus Rex charging, with an aura that was so powerful that it could tear apart everything in its path.
"This is Master Yan..." The man had not yet come to Yan Liqiang, but he had already seen Yan Liqiang. He spoke from a distance when he was still hundreds of meters away, and there was a little anxiety in his voice.
“Yes, I am Yan Liqiang. May I ask who you are…” Yan Liqiang responded.
“Hahaha, I’m glad that Mr. Yan is okay. I’m Wen Zhaolun, the deputy head of Qianji Hall of Lingshan Sect…” As soon as the word “Lun” fell to the ground, the man landed five steps away from Yan Liqiang with a gust of wind. Where his feet landed, he stepped on the hard ice surface and made two half-foot deep pits. The snowflakes on the ground within a radius of several meters were blown away by his body.
Deric Wan? Looking at the man in front of him, Yan Liqiang muttered in his heart, this is really too coincidental, just looking at this man, Yan Liqiang felt an inexplicable sense of joy in his heart.
"So you are the Vice-Hall Master Wen of Qianji Hall. I have heard of you for a long time..."
"Has the duel started? Where is Cai Yingwu, the elder of Feitian Sect who wants to duel with you?" As soon as he landed, Deric Wan's big eyes like copper bells scanned around.
"The duel is over!" Yan Liqiang pointed to the bloodstain beyond the white rice, "Cai Yingwu is there!"
"Ah, you have won!"
"In fact, the duel will be over in the blink of an eye!" Yan Liqiang said lightly.
Hearing what Yan Liqiang said, Deric Wan looked Yan Liqiang up and down, and when he saw the horn python bow in Yan Liqiang's hand, his eyebrows suddenly twitched and his eyes widened, because he could also see the level of power represented by the horn python bow from the pattern on the horn python bow. Anyone who was familiar with the horn python bow could tell the difference. In just a moment, a look of surprise appeared on Deric Wan's face, even with a hint of shock, because people who could use a Hundred Stone Strong Bow were rare even in this world.
"You are... a hundred-stone bow?"
"Deputy Hall Master Wen has good eyesight, this is the Hundred Stone Strong Bow!"
"Hahaha, you really deserve to be the one chosen by the hall master to be the worshiper of Qianji Hall of Lingshan Sect. When Hall Master Zhang came back that day, he told me that your archery skills were quite good. I didn't expect that you could even use a bow of 100 stones. That's amazing. This is what it means to be a hero in youth!" Deric Wan grinned and gave Yan Liqiang a thumbs up.
"Thank you, thank you. By the way, I remember that day, Hall Master Zhang gave me the badge of the golden guest of Qianji Hall of Lingshan Sect. Why did Deputy Hall Master Wen say that I was a worshiper?" Yan Liqiang felt that Deric Wan should be a generous person, so he asked directly.
"I don't know about that!" Deric Wan touched his head. "When Master Zhang came back from the Imperial Capital that day, he did ask you to be the golden guest of our Lingshan Sect's Qianji Hall. But this time when I came to deliver something to you, I received a letter from Qianji Hall on the way. Master Zhang said that you are now my Qianji Hall's worshiper. In the letter, Master Zhang also said that you are in trouble in Ganzhou, and asked me to let those blind people in Ganzhou know about it. About a month ago, I heard about the battle between Feitian Sect and you on the road, so I hurried here. Unfortunately, we encountered heavy snow and blocked the mountains in Suzhou and Xuzhou a few days ago, and the roads were cut off. I was delayed for a few days. I arrived in Lanzhou yesterday, and then I let the convoy go slowly behind, and I brought people to Tianchi to find you first..."
After hearing what Deric Wan said, Yan Liqiang finally understood why Lingshan Sect could arrive so quickly this time. It turned out that Deric Wan had already brought people from Lingshan Sect to deliver things to him before Zhang Yourong received his letter. Halfway through, he received news from Lingshan Sect and learned that Zhang Yourong had encountered trouble in Ganzhou, so he rushed here quickly. As for the upgrade of the gold medal guest official to a worshiper, it was probably the result of Zhang Yourong's support behind the scenes. Although Yan Liqiang was not a member of Lingshan Sect and did not know much about the rules of Lingshan Sect, he could also guess that it was definitely not an easy thing to become a worshiper of Lingshan Sect's Qianji Hall.
"Let me ask, what has Deputy Hall Master Wen been ordered to send me this time?"
Speaking of the things sent, Deric Wan's expression suddenly became rich. He rubbed his hands, a little excited. "That is a strange thing, a big lump of steel, but as long as you add water and light a fire, it can keep moving. The power is amazing and it won't stop. The hall master said that it was something he and you discussed while drinking tea in Imperial Capital City. Last year, the hall master spent a whole year with the craftsmen to make this thing. He made many prototypes and kept improving them. Finally, he finalized it and made several in Qianji Hall. The one I sent you is one of them. The hall master said you will understand it when you see it..."
Yan Liqiang understood it all at once. Zhang Yourong got his inspiration. After breaking through that layer of window paper, he returned to Lingshan Sect and became the world's number one master of machinery. After a year of experimentation and improvement, he had created the world's first stable steam engine...
Although Yan Liqiang had already anticipated that such a day would come, and that it would not be too far away, he was still in a trance when he heard the news. He had a dreamlike feeling. He was perhaps the only one in the world who knew how much change the steam engine built by Zhang Yourong would bring to the world. The Silver Continent was about to enter the Steam Age. An era in which steam and military force were equally important had already begun the curtain of history...
Yan Liqiang, who returned to Ganzhou, had actually been waiting for this day to come...
(End of this chapter)