Legendary Armament Canon Novel - Chapter 48

Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios

F*ck your ancestors! Who the hell wrote my name on it! Zhou Shu was furious.

I’ve already kept such a low profile, yet they still discovered me?

These bastards, what is the meaning of kill without delay?

You want to kill me immediately?

Zhou Shu subconsciously looked around. It felt as if an assassin would suddenly appear at any moment.

Fortunately, there are no hidden spies around me.

Even Sun Gongping’s paragraph had a note of a traitor. Only his didn’t.

But after thinking about it, it made sense. The geniuses on the list all had extraordinary backgrounds, and they had been extraordinary since they were young, so Great Wei had planted spies around them.

In the past, he was just an insignificant Forging Apprentice. Now, he had only become a superintendent for a few days. The other party might not have had time to plant spies around him yet.

No wonder those men in black wanted to kill Cheng Yong. If this list falls into the hands of the Great Xia Imperial Court, the spies of Great Wei will be completely uprooted.

These spies were almost all planted around the geniuses ten years ago. If they were removed, it wouldn’t be so easy to place them again.

Sun Gongping, Sun Gongping, I’m going to save your life this time. All it will cost you is a few meals!

According to the list, Sun Gongping had a servant who was a spy from Great Wei. If the other party wanted to attack him, Sun Gongping would probably not be on guard.

I have to find a way to return this list.

Zhou Shu rubbed his chin as he pondered. Those bastards from Great Wei want to assassinate me. When would be a better time to deal with them if not now?

He definitely didn’t have the time or strength to deal with so many spies. He could only hand over the list and let the Great Xia Imperial Court handle it.

I can’t give it to them openly. It will be dangerous if the spies of Great Wei target me.

Zhou Shu shivered.

At the top of the list, Lu Wenshuang, a fifteen-year-old third-rank Grandmaster, had been targeted. Given so, his current strength was definitely far beneath the other party.

Now, he had already been targeted by the spies of the Great Wei even though he had only revealed his talent in forging. If he revealed his Martial Dao abilities, wouldn’t the other party pay more attention to him?

Zhou Shu didn’t want the other party to pay more notice to him at all. He wished that the other party wouldn’t notice him.

Even a third-rank grandmaster may be assassinated. It seems I’m not strong enough. I need to be at least first rank to be safe.

It looked like he had to speed up the progress of his forging. The Huben Saber had brought the Dragon Elephant Prajna Technique, and the Hundred Refinements Ring Pommel Saber had brought the Heaven Saber Art. He didn’t know what the Horse Slaying Saber would bring him.

General Meng will be heading out in a few days. If I give him the Huben Sabers, he will probably bring them to the frontline. There will be more opportunities for them to complete kills than giving them to the Huben Troops. The same goes for the Hundred Refinements Ring Pommel Sabers and the Horse Slaying Sabers.

Zhou Shu calculated in his heart. The more kills the weapons he forged completed, the more benefits he would receive. He was now thinking that the weapons he personally forged had to be handed over to the combatants in the future.

For Imperial Guards like the Huben Troops, there weren’t many opportunities to kill enemies, so giving them weapons was a waste.

Forging could not be rushed, but the matter of the name list could not be delayed.

Zhou Shu looked at the name list again, memorized its contents, and rolled it up.

After some thought, he changed back into his bloody clothes and covered his face, revealing only his eyes. Then he opened the window and jumped out.

Although it was already nighttime in the Huben Troops’ camp, the place was brightly lit.

All of the Huben Troops were brimming with killing intent. Fast horses galloped out of the camp as military orders were issued from Cheng Wanli’s tent.

The Huben Troops had just been established, and they had already failed their first mission. How could Cheng Wanli, who had just become a ranked martial artist, endure this?

He mobilized everyone in the Huben Troops and went around to capture traitors everywhere, according to the news from the Divine Constable Bureau.

“General, I remember there are still a few people…” Cheng Yong had seen the name list. Although he didn’t remember much, for those he did, the Huben Troops had already sent people over.

“These people are all ranked martial artists. The Huben Troops won’t be able to handle it,” Cheng Wanli said in a deep voice.

“The Divine Constable Bureau has already sent people. If necessary, the Demon Executing and Fiend Eradication armies will also send people to assist!

“Unfortunately, we don’t know where that senior is.”

Cheng Yong sighed. “Senior has helped our Huben Troops many times, so he must be a senior of Great Xia. If we can find him, he will definitely return the list to us.”

Cheng Yong’s face was full of respect. He now knew that after they left that day, the senior had killed all the men in black, killing them one by one with a single slash each, simple and neat.

This was equivalent to the senior taking revenge for them.

Cheng Yong only wanted to kowtow in gratitude to him personally.

Cheng Wanli shook his head. “Senior’s thoughts are elusive. Perhaps he doesn’t care too much about the list.”

High-ranked martial artists had all kinds of personalities. Cheng Wanli couldn’t guarantee the personality of the senior who had helped the Huben Troops several times.

Ding!

While the two of them were talking, a white light suddenly pierced through the tent and nailed onto the table beside Cheng Wanli.

Cheng Wanli’s body stiffened, not daring to move.

“Even if mountains collapse in front of you, your expression doesn’t change. Great General, your self-cultivation is truly admirable!” Cheng Yong exclaimed.

Cheng Wanli cursed in his heart. Calm my ass! I was scared silly, okay!

On the table, a dagger was stabbed several inches into the wood, and the blade was still trembling slightly.

It was this dagger that had just passed over right above Cheng Wanli’s head and been nailed into the table. Throughout the entire process, Cheng Wanli hadn’t even noticed!

In other words, if the dagger had been aimed at his vital points, he wouldn’t have had the chance to dodge!

Inside his own central tent, in the middle of his army, his life was actually in the hands of someone else. Cheng Wanli was furious. It seems the Huben Troops’ training still isn’t up to standard!

He had forgotten that the Huben Troops and even all of the Country Protector Army were made up of ordinary people. High-ranked martial artists were never their targets. Those people were dealt with by the Demon Executing and Fiend Eradication armies.

“Look at what it is.” Cheng Wanli still felt that his limbs were numb and couldn’t move. He snorted at Cheng Yong.

Cheng Yong hurried over to take a look and was overjoyed.

“It’s Senior!” Cheng Yong yelled and walked out of the tent. “Senior, please wait!”

Cheng Wanli’s face darkened. He used to think that Cheng Yong was a steady fellow, but now, it seemed that he had been too kind to him!

Cheng Wanli took a deep breath as the numbness in his body slightly lessened. He reached out and picked up the thing that had been stabbed into the table with the knife.

With just a glance, Cheng Wanli’s expression changed drastically.

“Guards!

“Mobilize the entire camp. We are entering the city tonight!”

The main camp of the Huben Troops was outside the capital. The city gates were now closed, but Cheng Wanli couldn’t wait for dawn. He had to enter the city immediately. If he didn’t hand this thing over to the emperor, he wouldn’t be at ease.

As Zhou Shu watched, groups of soldiers leaped out from the Huben Troops’ camp. Leading them were Cheng Wanli and Cheng Yong. Zhou Shu smiled.

He retired from his responsibilities and left without claiming any merit or fame.

…

When Zhou Shu woke up, he felt refreshed. He first forged a Horse Slaying Saber to lift his spirits and then went to have breakfast.

Of course, he didn’t forget to visit Zhang Yibei and the others and encouraged them in passing.

It was already late in the morning.

When he returned to the 0th Workshop, there was someone standing at the door.

“Greetings, Grand Minister.” Zhou Shu cupped his hands in greeting. “Grand Minister, how did you have the time to come here? Had I known you were coming, I would have waited here.”

Ever since last time, Zhou Shu hadn’t seen Yin Wuyou for a very long time.

As the grand minister of the Forging Division, Yin Wuyou didn’t bother with the trivial matters in the workshops, and the workshop superintendents didn’t report to her directly.

The grand minister of the Forging Division was the superior of the superior of the superior of the workshop superintendents…

Yin Wuyou nodded noncommittally and examined the workshop with interest.

She was sizing up the 0th Workshop, but Zhou Shu was sizing her up.

Yin Wuyou was wearing a light green dress today. Her long hair was tied up simply behind her back, and her temperament was like that of a fairy. As she stood there, even if she didn’t speak, it still looked like a beautiful painting.

“I heard from the craftsmen in the Ministry of Works that the construction of the 0th Workshop cost more than three thousand taels?”

The Forging Division only gave 1,000 taels of silver for the construction expense of workshops. In other words, the cost had exceeded it by 2,000 taels!

“Grand Minister, as the saying goes, if you want to do a good job, you must first use your tools. If this workshop is built well, the mood of the Forging Apprentices will be much better, and the efficiency of their work will naturally be much higher,” Zhou Shu said unhurriedly.

“That’s why I feel that there was a need to spend this money.

“Besides, I was the one who paid for it. There was no need for the Division to pay. It should be fine, right?”

“It’s not a big problem.” Yin Wuyou turned around and looked at Zhou Shu with a spirited gaze, sizing him up.

Her gaze made Zhou Shu a little uncomfortable. “Grand Minister, why are you looking at me like that? I washed my face this morning!”

Yin Wuyou pursed her lips imperceptibly. “You are now the superintendent of a Forging Division workshop, not a Forging Apprentice. You can be considered someone of status.”

Zhou Shu: “…”

He was baffled and didn’t know what Yin Wuyou meant.

“As a workshop superintendent, you don’t even have a servant by your side. If word gets out, others will think I, Yin Wuyou, am abusing my subordinates.”

Zhou Shu was even more stupefied. A mere workshop superintendent needs a servant?

Xiao Zongshui and Li Hongyuan don’t seem to have anyone serving them.

That’s not right. There do seem to be odd-job workers in their workshops. Could the grand minister even manage such a trifle and assign an odd-job worker to me?

He was puzzled when he heard Yin Wuyou continue.

“Haitang, from today onward, you will stay in the 0th Workshop and serve Superintendent Zhou!”