Chapter 1393 The First Chaos of the Nine Tribulations in the Upper Three Heavens 3
Starting from the center of the Lan Clan compound, if someone looked from the sky, they could clearly see the violent airflow, with a kind of decaying momentum, sweeping out to all directions!Everywhere it passed, the entire Lan Clan turned into nothingness.
Many human bodies disintegrated in a very bizarre manner when they got in contact with this wave, not even having the time to scream.
The impact of the explosion went out in all directions, only leaving a deep hole in the middle that was so deep that its bottom couldnāt be seen. There was a burst of smoke, and soil dropped down the cracks constantly, and then water emergedā¦
Immediately, the emerged water was swallowed down by the sudden cracks in the groundā¦
The widest crack was a few feet wideā¦ Many youngsters of the Lan Clan fell in this crack, which extended all the way as though it had no endā¦
The Lan Clan covered a large area, almost one-fifth of Tianlan City! Tianlan City was a big city with millions of residents!
But this big explosion reduced the whole Lan Clan to flat ground from the middle, and its impact spread outward to the whole Tianlan City!
More than half of the houses had collapsed!
The entire Tianlan City became a mess.
The explosion had passed. But all around it was quiet like a ghost town. Everyone lost their voices under such shock. Only that huge mushroom cloud remained slowly rising, turning, going straight to the skyā¦
Lan Buhui stood high up in the sky, bleeding through his eyes, ears, nose and mouth. Under such shock, he was also temporarily deaf, and even his internal organs suffered serious injuries.
He did not deal with his own injuries but just stood in the sky, his expression calm and numb, his eyes sad and lonely. He stared at the chaos underneath.
The Lan Clan was exterminated!
Under such a concentrated and cruel blow, the Lan Clan very thoroughly became history!
In the Lan Clan, only fewer than 30 Supreme Martial Artists escaped from the explosion. Even the current Clan Head, Lan Yingfeng, was buried in this turmoil!
Even the 30 Supreme Martial Artists who escaped were wounded and in very bad states. All of them looked like ducks struck numb by the thunder. There was no psychological preparation for such things that happened to their clan at all!
They had never imagined that the big clan of tens of thousands of people would be destroyed with a bang just like this.
Crackā¦
Dirt and rocks continued to fall through the cracks in the ground, and the dust slowly began to dissipate, revealing the incredulous faces of everyone.
āAh!!!ā One of the Supreme Martial Artists suddenly knelt down on the ground and yelled at the sky. āMy godā¦ whatās happeningā¦ Whatās happening!??ā
āMy grandsonā¦ My sonā¦ Myā¦ā Another Supreme Martial Artist, who was bleeding all over, only managed to speak half a sentence before he lost consciousness.
At once, the messy site of what used to be the Lan Clanās compound was filled with yells and cries.
Each and every person has a place where their sense of belonging is attached to.
Lan Clan was the place for all these people. It was where they belonged.
Under extraordinary circumstances, any place that gives you shelter, warm tea, warm food and family is where your roots are!
Itās your belonging!
So long as a group of people moves toward one direction together, belonging in this group gives your life a meaning even if it didnāt have one before.
This is the joy of life.
Right now, the Lan Clan was exterminated and tens of thousands of people were wiped out. It was tantamount to sucking out the backbone of these people and depriving them of their direction and meaning. This feeling was beyond description.
In this state of mind, even the heart of hatred couldnāt hold back the feeling of utter hopelessness! It was a feeling of being hollowed out from mind to heart and to soul.
After a long time, only a few of the people regained their hearing. They kept staring at the scene in front of them and looked around in disbelief. It seemed that they couldnāt believe yet that the home they had spent their whole lives in was just gone like that.
Lan Buhui let out a long sigh up in the sky, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
āClean up the messā¦ and wait.ā Lan Buhui said helplessly, and he suddenly turned back and disappeared.
The explosives were too powerful!
Mo Tianjiās habit was always to underestimate his own power and overestimate that of his opponents, so though he already tried to calculate the power of the explosives properly, he didnāt imagine that twenty thousand kilos of explosives going off at once would have such power.
According to his estimates, one kilo of explosives could destroy a house, then ten would destroy a small yard of several houses; one hundred would destroy a small hill, and one thousandā¦ would destroy a whole mountain.
But some things were beyond Mo Tianjiās current abilities to calculate.
Such as the power of explosives.
One kilo of explosives worked differently from one hundred kilos. The power of two thousand or twenty thousand kilos was also not simple multiplications.
In other words, even if you multiply the power of two thousand kilos by one hundredā¦ it would absolutely not be equal to or in fact, would be far inferior to the power of twenty thousand kilos of explosives going off at the same time!
Gu Duxing had just held Mo Tianji and supported that strange shield when he felt an overwhelming heaviness pressing down on him. He desperately held on and the cultivation of the two men rushed into the shield rapidly, resisting the violent impact. A strong and powerful force crushed against the shield, and the two lost consciousness, only knowing that they pressed onto the shield and were sent flying away.
They didnāt know how far they went, but in Gu Duxingās vague consciousness, they flew over two or three hills.
With a bang, the two fell down in a forest and suddenly leaves and twigs flew all around. The two bodies fell from the top of the trees, and when they dropped onto the ground, they were already in a mess.
Gu Duxing regained consciousness immediately, and the first thing he did was to check on Mo Tianji. After a long while, Mo Tianji slowly woke up, blinked a few times, and suddenly sighed. āHow could my calculation be wrong? Iāve calculated hundreds of timesā¦ It was supposed to be foolproofā¦ā
Gu Duxing didnāt know whether to laugh or to cry. This guy was actually thinking about this kind of thing under such a situation.
Taking a look at the shield, he saw that the back of the shield had been burned into a mess. The originally heavy shield was almost as thin as the wings of an insect nowā¦
Should the explosion be more powerful, this shield would have been wastedā¦ In that case, Mo Tianji and Gu Duxing would unavoidably have to perish together with the Lan Clanā¦
Mo Tianji looked at the shield and gasped. āThisā¦ is unexpected.ā
Gu Duxingās face was full of speechlessness. āTianjiā¦ Youāve really gone too far this timeā¦ I guess the whole Tianlan City is destroyed nowā¦ā
Mo Tianji coughed, his eyes revealed a hint of embarrassment.
āHow did you figure this thing out?ā Gu Duxing made the gesture of an explosion, indicating the explosives.
Mo Tianji coughed and said, āThat time, I went down to the Lower Three Heavens and happened to hear fireworksā¦ It was to welcome guests. I did some research on it out of curiosity and verified the formulaā¦ And then I realized, though the Lower Three Heavens had this thing for a very long time, usually it was used for ceremonies, festivals, and the likeā¦ā
āItās best to use it to attack a city. But in that case, the effect is not very obvious as well. I felt it was a waste. How could something so powerful not have any great use?ā
Mo Tianji coughed. āSo when I came back that time, I started to work on it; I changed the formula seven or eight times and realized that the power of the explosives can definitely be improvedā¦ā
Gu Duxing was dumbfounded. āThatās how you made this thing?ā
Mo Tianji sighed. āYes. Afterward, I realized that though this thing is powerful enough, itās not very useful against experts above the cultivation of Monarch Level and Martial Saint, after allā¦ Why would someone stand foolishly and wait for you to bomb them? So I set it aside. This time, it was only to blast the channelā¦ that I got it out again.ā
Gu Duxing sighed, speechless.
Just such a thought destroyed one of the Nine Super Clans?
āHow much of this thing do you have left?ā Gu Duxing asked, taking a deep breath.
āNoneā¦ā Mo Tianji spread his hands. āFor many years, this is all Iāve made. This time, I was only afraid that itād not be enough, so I used it allā¦ I really didnāt expect that even a shield made of meteoric iron and star silver almost couldnāt handle itā¦ā
Gu Duxing inhaled as though he had a toothache.
The storage from several years ago was gone with a bang just like thisā¦
Seeing this power and thinking that Mo Tianji had been carrying 20,000 kilograms of explosives on him when he was around himself and others, even with Gu Duxingās calm temperament, he couldnāt help but feel shocked.
Oh my godā¦
If by any chanceā¦ had it exploded, there would not have been such a thing as Nine Tribulations anymoreā¦ Everyone would have perishedā¦
Mo Tianji continued, āThis shield is the heirloom of Xie Danqiongās family. I took it for a look and realized that it could utilize the power of wind, especially when you need to move in the direction of the wind. So long as there is wind, a person could even fly up using the shield, and it is extremely sturdy. This time, since we held on to the shield, we were able to ride the wind and admire the scene of explosions behind at the same timeā¦ā
Gu Duxingās face twitched.
Sceneā¦
We brothers were only a tiny bit away from seeing the scenery at hellā¦ Though Eldest Brotherās nickname is King of Hell Chu, heās not actually the King of Hellā¦
About the current situation, Gu Duxing felt fortunate and somewhat guilty.
āTianji, it was really too much this time,ā said Gu Duxing. āMany innocent people have died.ā
Mo Tianji was silent for a moment, a flash of guilt reflected in his eyes. He said quietly, āMaybe itās too muchā¦ But itās worth it.ā
Gu Duxing sighed. The power of the explosives was completely out of expectations, he really couldnāt blame it on Mo Tianji.
āThe Lan Clan had done all the evilness possible, bullied the people as they wished. Now that they have died, we eliminated harm for the people.ā Mo Tianji laughed coldly.
āUnder the oppression of the Lan Clan, there were many in hereā¦ who were good men who had the bravery to resist even at the risk of death, yetā¦ reality was such that it didnāt matter even if they risked their livesā¦ For these people, they probably would feel happy to die inside there as well? To die together with these scumsā¦ they arguably died with their wish fulfilled.ā
Mo Tianji said indifferently, āAs for those who dared not even think of resistingā¦ To live so cowardly, how is it any different from being dead?ā