Chapter 853: Just Rob One (2/2)

At this point, Qianye came to a new level of realization regarding the schemes of the imperial military. If it wasn’t for Ji Tianqing’s arrival, the day he completed the basic outfitting of the Martyr’s Palace and shifted it into full output mode would be the day of its destruction.

Ji Tianqing was already beginning to remove some of the components at this point. “Stop gazing and stop the engine. You’re not going to make me work while it’s running, are you?”

Responding to Qianye’s will, the Earth Dragon’s heart slowly stopped beating and the engine grew dark as its intricate parts stopped operating.

Ji Tianqing moved as swift as the wind, immediately removing several components before opening up the internal compartment. From within, she carefully fished out a fist-sized silver drum and tossed it to Qianye. “This is for you!”

Qianye was greatly astonished because he could actually sense a violent force brewing inside this argent cylinder. Once ignited, the resultant blast would rival that of hundreds of origin grenades—it would even injure a divine champion.

He immediately sank into a horse-stance. His hand shot out at lightning speed but turned gentle at the final juncture, supporting the cylinder with an ephemeral application of force.

Qianye heaved a sigh of relief as the tube landed in his hand. This brief ordeal had actually left him drenched in cold sweat.

His instincts told him that he himself would survive if this thing were to explode, but Song Zining would probably be done for and the crew would be wiped out. Ji Tianqing possessed a mysterious background and superior abilities, so she might leave with her life, but it definitely wasn’t going to feel good.

How could she toss such a dangerous thing without a warning?

Carrying this dangerous cylinder, Qianye could neither toss it nor put it down anywhere. In the end, he put it away in Andruil’s Mysterious Realm.

Ji Tianqing’s eyes lit up. “Such high-grade spatial equipment! As expected of the awesome Sire Qianye, the fierce character who had embarrassed the imperial military, one of the empire’s twin rising stars, and candidate for the most handsome man in the younger generation! You really do have some good stuff. What else do you have? Let me see.”

Qianye refused calmly. “That’s all, nothing else.”

“So stingy, it’s not like I’ll rob you.” Ji Tianqing rolled her eyes at him and then went back to fixing the engine parts. Finally, she latched the cover back on and patted her hands. “All done, now you can use her any way you want.”

Qianye issued a mental command to start up the engine and sighed in relief to find the engine still operating normally. This bomb was a hidden danger. Now that it had been removed, Qianye felt exceptionally relaxed.

Ji Tianqing jumped down from the engine and arrived beside Qianye, smiling. “Mission accomplished, Sire Qianye. When do you plan to start fighting?”

“Fighting?”

“Of course! The neutral lands wouldn’t be the neutral lands without all the fighting. I finally managed to run away, no, I mean… get dispatched to this place. We have to grasp this time to wage a couple of wars! War, I say!”

Qianye felt a wave of distress washing over him. Who would’ve thought this fellow was a warmonger? In order to stop her from throwing more military orders at him, Qianye could only look at Song Zining for help.

This time, however, the seventh young master ran completely counter to him. “We’ll fight! Of course, we have to fight! Let’s take down that Fatty Ji’s Southern Blue first. I see that we’re not too far off from that place. It’s a great location to build a fort.”

“Taking a city right off the bat?! I like it! How many men do we have?”

“You, me, and him. Three of us,” Song Zining replied.

Ji Tianqing’s smile froze up. She glared fiercely at the seventh young master, saying, “Are you trying to fool me?”

Song Zining replied, “Of course not! If you guys aren’t going, then I’ll go alone.”

Qianye felt a deep headache. He dragged Song Zining back and said helplessly, “Don’t be rash, okay? Ji Rui is already obedient now, and there are a lot of benefits we can milk from that fatty. Besides, you’re not his match.”

Song Zining sneered. “I don’t necessarily need to attack in order to let him know my power. This fellow is clearly taking advantage of your softheartedness, attacking time and again. Too bad for him, Song Zining is also in the neutral lands now. That means there’s no more leeway for him to play his two-faced games. He will either submit or we’ll wipe him out sooner or later.”

“This…” Qianye felt that there was no need to go that far, but he had just been criticized for being soft-hearted and the seventh young master was quite agitated now. So, it wasn’t appropriate for him to say too much.

Thinking back, it would seem Song Zining had never before acted so thunderously because of his matters.

“So what exactly are we going to do first?” Ji Tianqing seemed to be in more of a rush compared to Song Zining.

It looked like things were about to go south if this battle-hungry madman wasn’t given anything to do. Qianye quickly recalled the expansion plan he had gone over with Song Zining before. “Let’s set up a mercenary corps first. Having a corps in the outside world will allow us to do some different things.”

“Mercenary corps? Good idea! Let’s do that.” Ji Tianqing’s tone made it sound like she was the commander and Qianye was the aide.

Qianye collected his thoughts. “Let’s find a base of operations and construct some basic defenses. Money isn’t a problem for the time being, but outfitting the hired guns will take some planning. We’ll also need people like Ji Rui to cooperate so that we can recruit people in Southern Blue…”

Qianye hadn’t even finished speaking when he was cut short by Ji Tianqing. “Man, that’s so troublesome, we’ll just rob one!”

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