Inside the royal residence.
Xu Qingnian abruptly remembered that he had overlooked one thing.
The power of the Immortal Dao would not work.
The power of the martial dao would not work.
The power of Confucianism wouldn’t work either.
But one still had public opinion.
Yes.
Public opinion.
At this moment, Xu Qingnian had placed all of his hopes on public opinion.
Xu Qingnian’s idea was simple.
Formations repelled each other, and the higher the grade, the more vicious the repulsion.
If they were forcibly engraved, the spell would automatically break down.
One must rely on a power to stabilise the balance between the formations.
The masters of formations under the heavens must have studied this problem carefully and definitely have tried to use many powers.
If it were a power like the Immortal Dao, the Martial Dao, the formation world would have cracked it long ago.
Even the power of Confucianism is not impossible to get.
But there was only one thing that they could not get.
To be more precise, they could get it, but definitely not too much.
That was public opinion.
If you want to gain public opinion, you must do something in the dynasty that benefits the people, and it must not be a small thing, but something that will benefit the people and at the same time let them know that you have done something good.
This is how you can gain public opinion.
It’s just that these public opinions are not many. All parental officials have some public opinions, but those public opinions are all wisps.
It is not like what Xu Qingnian has done.
The public opinion in his body is like a sea.
Thinking of this, Xu Qingnian tried to refine it for the fifth time.
At that moment.
He did not have any hesitation.
Boom.
Sun True Flame appeared.
With the proficiency from the previous times, the fifth time he refined it, Xu Qingnian only spent less than half an hour.
Then the Divine Martial Cannon was refined.
And after that, he directly began the most crucial, and the main step.
Engraving the array.
It was still the Lightning Gathering Formation engraving.
When the Lightning Gathering Formation was carved, Xu Qingnian began to carve the second formation.
This time, Xu Qingnian looked careful and added public opinion into it.
Soon, something exciting happened to Xu Qingnian, the formations were indeed isolated from each other, although not completely, but it was working.
Unlike before, there was no effect at all.
“Sure enough, the power of public opinion is effective.”
Xu Qingnian revealed a flash of joy, and then began to inject more public opinion, trying to completely isolate it was still a little difficult.
As public opinion continued to be injected.
The formation was indeed isolated, no longer repelling each other and appearing calm.
Xu Qingnian carefully carved the second formation.
About half an hour later.
The second Spirit Gathering Formation was successfully engraved.
The two formations were perfectly separated by public opinion.
This was a huge breakthrough and Xu Qingnian clenched his fist, he was very excited, but he did not rush too much and continued to carve the third formation.
The process of inscribing the third formation was the same as that of the second formation.
Xu Qingnian looked incredibly careful.
It was another half an hour.
The third formation was also successfully engraved.
The Third Grade Lightning Gathering Formation, the Third Grade Spirit Gathering Formation, and the Third Grade Yuan Gathering Formation.
After they were all engraved, Xu Qingnian was completely relieved.
In an instant, Xu Qingnian wanted to try activating the Divine Martial Cannon to see how capable it was.
It was just when Xu Qingnian injected spiritual energy inside.
Suddenly, the entire Divine Martial Cannon shook once again.
“What’s going on?”
Xu Qingnian frowned.
But soon, the formation jade began to break inch by inch, failing once again.
“How can it still fail?”
Xu Qingnian revealed a stunned look.
There was something wrong with this.
No, it should be extremely problematic.
Public opinion had clearly isolated the formation, so why was it still breaking apart?
He took a closer look while the Divine Martial Cannon broke open again.
As before, but better than before, it lasted for a while.
Before, he couldn’t even carve it successfully.
This time at least the engraving had succeeded.
It was a puzzle.
Xu Qingnian examined it carefully.
Only after waiting for a while did Xu Qingnian then realise what the problem was.
Public opinion had indeed separated the formation, but the problem was that once the formation was activated, it would penetrate public opinion, and the two would still collide for self-destruction.
For a moment, a new dilemma emerged.
Xu Qingnian pondered quietly in the courtyard.
And so it was.
Three or four days in a row pa*sed.
The whole of Great Wei Kyoto was quite quiet these days.
But while there were no major events, there were many minor ones.
Wang Chaoyang’s arrival in Great Wei’s Kyoto and the opening of the Sage Academy had indeed attracted many disciples.
The main reason is that there are 3,000 great scholars in the Heaven and Earth Palace of Literature, so it is not much to expect Wang Chaoyang to teach people.
One sub-sage.
But if there were great Confucians to guide them on a regular basis, this would be a great blessing to them.
In these three or four days, I don’t know how many people had gathered in the capital of Great Wei, all of them heading for the Heaven and Earth Palace of Literature.
Since the Zhu Sheng lineage was put to death, the surviving Zhu Sheng lineage did not dare to say anything, and they all read their own books and did their own things honestly.
They were not involved in the bashing of Xu Qingnian, so naturally, they would not get involved in other things that happened.
Those who read a lot of right and wrong had basically died out.
But most of the merchants and powerful people, as well as some people who had not yet entered the ranks, but had also read for several years, came to the Heaven and Earth Palace of Literature.
As a result, for the past three or four days, the city of Wei has been overcrowded.
It is a good thing that the Heaven and Earth Palace of Literature is a sacred artefact, and from the outside it looks like it covers an area of 100 acres, but in reality, when you walk in, you will find that it is huge.
But even if it is big, it can’t hold up to the enthusiasm of the readers of Great Wei.
Not only the Great Wei scholars, but also many scholars from all over the world have set off to see and learn from it.
As for Xu Qingnian’s Shouren Academy, a large number of scholars come every day, wanting to join the academy and learn from the teachers.
However, the Shouren Academy has restrictions on accepting disciples, not particularly harsh, but mainly a test of character.
The whole process is a time consuming one, resulting in a large number of people coming, but few wanting to be initiated.
It is not as good as the Heaven and Earth Literature Palace.
The Heaven and Earth Palace of Literature has a sacred weapon to select talented people with good qualifications, and they are all hired.
So in just a few days, the Heaven and Earth Palace had already accepted 30,000 disciples, and in the end the court issued an order to stop the unlimited expansion of the Palace.
For one thing, the court still wanted to promote Xu Qingnian, but Xu Qingnian had business to attend to and was not available for the time being.
The second reason is that it is still a question of whether or not it will be effective if so many disciples are recruited in one go, so it will be suppressed for the time being, and if excellent talents and scholars are really cultivated, then the power will be slowly delegated.
The main reason, of course, is the fear of replicating the Zhu Sheng lineage, recruiting a large number of scholars and starting to engage in some tactics, which is what the Great Wei Dynasty hates.
The main reason for this is that they are not afraid of trouble from the Heaven and Earth Palace, but they are afraid that this kind of thing will disgust Xu Qingnian and also the Great Wei.
What can we do if we destroy it? In the end, it would still be killing your own people? Isn’t that sick?
The only thing that makes people curious is what Xu Qingnian is doing these days.
For three or four days in a row, Xu Qingnian seemed to have evaporated into thin air, remaining within the royal residence without any news coming out.
The Six Great Immortal Sects had been anxiously waiting for Xu Qingnian, and they wanted to come over from time to time, but in the end they did not want to disturb Xu Qingnian.
And it was today.
Xu Qingnian began to refine for the tenth time.
In the past three days, Xu Qingnian had repeatedly refined four more times, all of which had failed without exception.
But the continuous failures did not dampen Xu Qingnian’s confidence, but instead allowed Xu Qingnian to completely understand the reason.
Why did the formation break even after using public opinion to isolate it?
It was because it was difficult for the public opinion to withstand the power of the formation. To put it bluntly, it was only when there was more public opinion that it could carry the penetration of spiritual qi, but if there was not much public opinion, it would be difficult to withstand the penetration of spiritual qi.
But the jade formation is so big that you cannot inject too much public opinion into it.
It has something to do with the material, but not very much.
So Xu Qingnian came up with a solution after four days of pondering, plus four consecutive failures.
Use the power of the Immortal Dao and wrap the power of public opinion around it, in that case, it might be able to be effectively stopped.
Thinking of this, Xu Qingnian began to refine the weapon for the tenth time.
This time, Xu Qingnian condensed the Spring and Autumn Brush, engraved a formation, and injected public opinion into the process, then condensed the power of Immortal Dao, then injected public opinion, then condensed the power of Martial Dao, followed by injecting public opinion, and finally injected the power of Confucian Dao.
With three different powers protecting the public opinion, in case the aura penetrates, there are still two layers of public opinion in place.
Having reached this point.
If it still failed, then there was nothing at all that could be done.
Xu Qingnian did his best.
Soon.
The three formations were completed.
Xu Qingnian injected a spiritual energy into them, looking a little nervous.
If it was successful, there was actually another benefit.
That was that whether one was an Immortal Dao practitioner or a Martial Dao martial artist, or a Confucian Dao scholar, they could activate the Divine Martial Cannon.
Boom.
The Divine Martial Cannon was activated, and in an instant, the body of the cannon trembled, and Xu Qingnian became more and more nervous.
And dark clouds emerged from the dome of the kingdom’s sky.
Ka-ching.
A shocking thunderbolt was injected into the Divine Martial Cannon, and to the outside world, what was happening within the King’s Mansion instantly stirred up a lot of controversy.
“What’s going on here? How did it attract heavenly thunder for no good reason?”
“Is it possible that it was condemned by the heavens?”
“How can thunder be born on a weekday?”
Many people were curious, Kyoto was sunny and clear and suddenly a thunderbolt fell, this was indeed puzzling.
“You guys are bullSh*tting, how could Xu Sheng be condemned by the heavens, this is a thunder tribulation, Xu Sheng is crossing the tribulation, once he succeeds, he will become an immortal.”
Some people immediately retorted, arguing that this was not a heavenly condemnation, but a transmigration, and once it succeeded, he would become an immortal.
“Ah yes, yes, that’s really true, I’ve read some books and they all say so, that immortal cultivators need to cross the Nine-Nine Thunder Tribulation, and once they succeed, they can be immortalised and ascend.”
“Hiss, that means that Lord Xu is going to become an immortal?”
“Lord Xu is going to become immortal?”
“Earlier, when inscribing the scriptures, those immortal clan powerhouses took the initiative to show favour one by one, so it’s really possible.”
A chorus of voices rang out, all thinking that Xu Qingnian was going to cross the tribulation and become an immortal.
The Immortal Sect forces had been watching Xu Qingnian, and when they saw the lightning tribulation appear, the crowd could not decide, because there was indeed talk of crossing the tribulation to become an immortal among the Immortal Sect, but this was obviously impossible.
When it was really an immortal tribulation, it must have been more than that.
Inside the imperial palace.
The Empress was the first to ask someone to investigate what had happened. The appearance of thunder clouds for no good reason was not a good sign.
In the Palace of Heaven and Earth Literature.
Wang Chaoyang also noticed the thunderstorm, he looked in the direction of the Ping Chao Wang Palace and smiled coldly in his heart, he did not know what was happening, but the appearance of the thunderstorm was certainly not a good sign.
He hoped that this thunderbolt would be more violent, and that it would be best if it could kill Xu Qingnian in one breath.
In the end, the lightning struck down.
It was injected into the Divine Martial Cannon.
The originally pale golden Divine Martial Cannon instantly became dark and incomparable.
The Lightning Gathering Formation and Yuan Gathering Formation activated in turn.
Xu Qingnian looked at the Divine Martial Cannon with a deadly gaze.
He was terrified, afraid that it had failed again.
But the final result made Xu Qingnian somewhat satisfied.
After a full quarter of an hour, there was no problem with the Divine Martial Cannon.
“Good.”
Xu Qingnian clenched his fist as he was incomparably excited, then he took the Divine Martial Cannon away and disappeared in the same place.
Nowadays, although Xu Qingnian’s strength was of the third rank, the power of the Immortal Dao was enhanced a hundredfold because of the augmentation of the Daode Sutra, so Xu Qingnian could exert some of the power of the second rank.
Little more than half an hour.
Two thousand miles away.
Xu Qingnian deliberately chose the Gobi Beach, which is deserted, a thoroughly large Gobi beach with a number of isolated mountains towering over it, making it difficult to find even birds and animals.
He took the materials with him, as well as the Divine Martial Cannon.
Xu Qingnian set up the cannon, and then injected an Immortal Dao power into it, adding it to the Divine Martial Cannon.
At this moment, the Divine Martial Cannon was filled with the power of thunder.
Boom.
A terrifying sound of thunder rang out.
The power of heavenly thunder instantly split out, turning into a ball of thunder, half a metre in diameter.
Bang Bang Bang.
The terrifying force of thunder and lightning directly exploded, and a mushroom cloud emerged above the dome of the sky.
This force, directly caused the earth to lift, the ground to shatter, a boulder to fly up, and then turn into dust in the explosion.
Starting from a hundred metres away, this force directly destroyed a hundred miles away.
Within a hundred miles, the earth trembled, a mess was created, smoke rose everywhere, and the shockwave blew Xu Qingnian’s clothes into a rattling mess.
Hundreds of hills were instantly bulldozed, and the smoke rose in all directions, swirling up a hundred feet of sand and dust, and for a while, the sky was dark.
This was the power of the Divine Martial Cannon.
A single cannon could destroy a hundred miles of mountains.
It was equivalent to the might of a third-grade martial artist.
Soon.
Terrible smoke filled the sky above, forming thick clouds of sand and dust that looked terrifying.
A chasm appeared and the earth crumbled, looking terrifying.
And at the end of a hundred miles, a huge deep crater appeared, with a radius of three to four hundred metres, a full hundred metres deep.
This was the power of the Divine Martial Cannon.
In the next moment, Xu Qingnian smacked his lips.
“A third-grade strike.”
“It’s quite a bit weaker than Master’s, but if you compare it to mine, it’s about the same.”
“It’s still not powerful enough.”
Xu Qingnian looked at this, and although he said this with his mouth, he was already incomparably joyful inside.
This cannon, with its terrifying power, was equivalent to a third-grade powerhouse striking with all his might.
The reason it was not as powerful as Wu Ming’s was because Wu Ming was a First Grade Martial Artist, and his use of the power of the martial dao was too extreme.
Naturally, he was no match for Wu Ming.
Of course, it was also true that Xu Qingnian was not satisfied.
After all, the power was still not enough, not because the Divine Martial Cannon was no good, but because of the material and other problems.
But that was nothing.
Now that the problem with the formation was solved, it was possible to do a lot of things.
For a moment.
Xu Qingnian returned to his original position, and he checked the Divine Martial Cannon to see if there were any problems.
After taking a closer look, Xu Qingnian did find a problem.
There were some tiny cracks on the Divine Martial Cannon, especially among the formation jade.
This was no small matter.
“The material still doesn’t work, although the power that explodes out is very strong, but the Divine Martial Cannon that was created with top grade spirit gold cannot be recycled, looking at this, it will be scrapped after four or five uses at most.”
After all, he had read the information books of the Ruyi Weapon Sect, so Xu Qingnian instantly understood what was wrong with this Divine Martial Cannon.
According to his calculations, he could only fire the cannon four or five more times at most, and it would probably be scrapped.
This could not be helped.
Material determined everything.
At that moment, Xu Qingnian didn’t say anything.
He began to refine it again.
This time, Xu Qingnian used extremely high grade spirit gold, plus some of the top grade spirit gold.
He was going to refine a second-grade Divine Martial Cannon.
The previous Divine Martial Cannon could only be considered a third grade.
The power of the third grade was very strong.
But it definitely could not do the job of unifying the Middle Continent.
Unless several thousand third-grade Divine Martial Cannons were ma*s-produced and could not be damaged, it would still be troublesome.
Therefore, instead of refining a third-grade Divine Martial Cannon, it would be better to get five first-grade Divine Martial Cannons and twenty second-grade Divine Martial Cannons in one step.
Its purpose was simple, it was enough to achieve victory when it came to critical wars.
So Xu Qingnian’s idea was simple.
If they were to be used, they should be used more fiercely.
One hundred Third Grade Divine Martial Artillery Cannons would not solve any crisis, but could only say that it would enhance the country’s strength.
After all, there were many crises now, with the fourth generation saint behind the scenes, the mysterious Wang Chaoyang, plus the stupidity of the va*sal kings everywhere, the chaos in the world in three years’ time, the battle for the Buddhist sect, the battle for the Central Continent.
Which of these things is not a big deal?
How can we solve it by ourselves?
It is impossible to do everything by oneself, right?
Only by controlling absolute power can we sweep everything under the carpet.
Refining the Second Grade Divine Martial Cannon.
Xu Qingnian was even more attentive than before.
During the refining process, Xu Qingnian did not dare to take every detail lightly.
Before, it only took half an hour to refine.
This time, it took Xu Qingnian two hours.
After the Second Grade Divine Martial Cannon was refined, Xu Qingnian let out a long sigh of relief.
He rested for half an hour to recover his energy, and then began to carve the array.
This time, Xu Qingnian wanted to engrave a second-grade formation.
To carve an array, one only needed to reach the realm to be qualified to carve it, and the failure or success of the carving depended on whether the Yuan Shen was strong, and whether it was skilled, etc.
Xu Qingnian had become a Confucian half-saint, and his Yuan Shen was extremely strong. In addition, he had read all the books of the formation sect, and had deduced them hundreds of times in his mind.
The Confucian Dao had this advantage, saving Xu Qingnian a lot of time.
However, this time to engrave the formation, Xu Qingnian gathered ten layers of public opinion inside and out, lowering the aura of other systems and increasing public opinion.
The power of the Immortal Dao, the power of Confucianism, and the power of the Martial Dao were only used to protect public opinion.
This was so because Xu Qingnian did not just want to inscribe only three formations.
He wanted to inscribe more formations.
The Lightning Gathering Formation, the Yuan Gathering Formation, and the Spirit Gathering Formation.
Plus the Blast Formation, which made the lightning ball shoot a little faster, the faster the speed, the more energy it produced.
There was also the Solid Yuan Formation, to stabilise the power of thunder and lightning.
And Xu Qingnian had an even bolder idea.
What was thunder and lightning?
It was between heaven and earth, the most rigid and yang thing. When lightning met evil spirits, it would explode with terrifying power.
This is an innate suppression, equivalent to activating the Best*al nature of a beast.
Xu Qingnian deliberately carved the Evil Sealing Formation, he sealed the power of the supernatural arts within his body in the evil formation, and the moment the thunder ball coalesced, this power of the supernatural arts would automatically leak out, and it might produce even more terrifying power.
If it has no effect, then it will not affect the power of the Divine Martial Cannon itself.
But if it did, it might be a surprise.
At the same time, Xu Qingnian had also added three formations.
[Strong Spirit Formation] – [Strong Thunder Formation] – [Strong Speed Formation]
There were eight formations in total.
After thinking about it, Xu Qingnian didn’t do anything else and engraved two more formations.
[Implicit Weapon Formation] – [Nourishing Weapon Formation
It was good that they wouldn’t be repulsive anyway.
There wasn’t enough of the finest spirit gold, so if you wanted to make it better, there was no need to hold back and search.
But it took a long time to engrave the ten formations.
It took Xu Qingnian a full five days.
It took five days before the ten formations were successfully engraved.
This was a delicate job and Xu Qingnian did not want to make mistakes in the details, otherwise if this failed.
It would be a real problem.
The ten formations were completed.
Xu Qingnian let out a long breath.
His spirit was extremely dejected, the wear and tear was too severe.
It was indeed difficult to engrave a second-grade formation, and it was a test for the Yuan Shen.
But this was good.
This Divine Martial Cannon, there was no one else under the heavens who could refine it apart from Xu Qingnian.
It was useless even if one knew the refining principle.
One had to control the power of Confucianism, the power of the Immortal Dao, the power of the Martial Dao, and public opinion, and one also needed to have an extremely powerful Yuan Shen and to know about formations.
And at the very least, it must be of the second rank of the Immortal Dao.
Otherwise, even if it is refined, what is the use of a seventh-grade one, a sixth-grade one, a fifth-grade one?
So in a sense, it was a good thing that could not be replicated.
The second-grade Divine Martial Cannon was refined.
Xu Qingnian wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead.
He exhaled a long breath.
The Second Grade Divine Martial Cannon appeared in front of him, still shining golden in the evening sun.
Xu Qingnian punched in an aura.
In an instant, dark clouds rolled within a hundred miles, and lightning flashed.
Ka-ching.
A lightning bolt struck down and was injected into the Divine Martial Cannon.
Xu Qingnian took a hundred steps backwards, lest he be struck by the lightning.
It didn’t end just as a lightning bolt struck down.
Click.
Click.
Click, click, click.
Nine thunderbolts in a row fell down, viciously striking the Divine Martial Cannon.
Xu Qingnian smacked his lips a little.
Previously, for the third-grade Divine Martial Cannon, one lightning bolt had charged up to full capacity.
Now, the second-grade Divine Martial Cannon required nine lightning bolts?
But this was a good thing, the more lightning power needed, the more powerful it would be.
When the charging was finished.
Night had fallen.
The sky and earth were dim.
Xu Qingnian took a deep breath, next was the time to witness a miracle.
Soon.
An aura struck into the Divine Martial Cannon.
In an instant.
There was a buzz.
The Divine Martial Cannon trembled, a terrifying aura filled out, and the Haoran Wen Zhong appeared first, hovering above Xu Qingnian’s head, protecting him.
About ten breaths later.
Boom.
A heaven-shaking sound appeared.
A ball of thunderbolt power shot out from the Divine Martial Cannon.
The thunderbolt was white.
However, after pa*sing through the cannon’s mouth, it turned golden.
Eventually a ball of thunder ten metres in diameter shot out.
It shot out with an unparalleled might.
It was as if it was a sun.
It shone within a thousand miles.
All the living beings within a thousand miles were inexplicably palpitating, and they were trembling for some reason.
Boom, boom, boom.
The earth crumbled inch by inch, the light shone for a thousand miles, it was a destructive force.
A great earthquake struck.
Xu Qingnian was frozen.
A terrifying force that burned everything, melted everything and destroyed everything.
From a thousand metres away, everything, everything was destroyed, a mountain was bulldozed and ceased to exist under the impact of the lightning.
Two thousand miles of the Gobi desert, in less than three breaths, razed to the ground.
A terrifying mushroom cloud rose into the air.
This terrifying power was instantly sensed by many.
A full quarter of an hour later.
Xu Qingnian watched all this with dumbfounded eyes.
And at the same time.
Inside the capital of Great Wei.
A figure hurriedly came to the Hall of Nurtured Heart, looking incomparably panicked.
“Your Majesty.”
“It’s not good.”
“A natural disaster has befallen the territory of Great Wei.”
“A golden ball of light, collapsing mountains and rivers for two thousand miles, ah.”
The voice rang out.
The empress, who was reading a medallion, instantly revealed a shocked look.
