Li Zhu did not deny Qinglu's words, but rather directly admitted them.
"Yes, I did it on purpose..."
Why did you do that?
Qinglu questioned once again!
"Miss Qinglu's words are quite interesting. Your Heavenly Dao Alliance has tried to assassinate me time and time again, and now you ask me why I did it? Don't you think you deserve all of this?"
Li Zhu said without any politeness!
"You didn't know about the Heavenly Dao Alliance back then, yet you still set a trap for us, which shows how treacherous you are..."
Qinglu said with some annoyance!
"Miss Qinglu's words are far too extreme. Since you recognized me as the Crown Prince, you should know that one of the entrances to this tunnel leads to the Crown Prince's palace. Yet you pretended not to know, and in the end, you even used this tunnel to set fire to my palace. You're like a crow that's fallen into a coal pile; you can see the darkness in others but not your own..."
Li Zhu retorted, saying that although the opponent was powerful, he wasn't particularly afraid. The room contained a large quantity of ready-made gunpowder; against firearms, even the most skilled martial artist would perish. His only concern was how to escape once the gunpowder detonated. After all, gunpowder had no eyes; anyone who got close would die if it exploded…
"I had no intention of harming you, so what difference would it make whether I told you or not? On the contrary, you saw through everything but pretended not to know and even gave me a fake password. Your behavior is simply despicable..."
Qinglu argued illogically!
"That's not right. I don't know why you're asking me this difficult question, so I'm just giving you a random answer..."
Li Zhu retorted sharply, saying that he would not tolerate such hypocrites!
"Give me the correct password, or you won't leave here alive today..."
Hearing Qinglu's words, Li Zhu clicked his tongue and teased her.
"Why do villains always say things like this? Don't they think this kind of threat is pointless? Since you've already decided to kill me, what difference does it make whether I give you the password or not? Besides, as long as I don't reveal the password, I might even live a little longer, right?"
Li Zhu's words left Qinglu speechless for a moment. She hadn't expected Li Zhu to be so eloquent. However, she was, after all, a woman, and a woman's privilege was to be unreasonable...
So she drew her sword and threatened Li Zhu, saying...
"You can try my swordsmanship. I want to test whether a person will die after being stabbed three thousand times. If you can withstand it, I'll consider letting you go..."
Li Zhu rolled his eyes at Qinglu, thinking to himself, "Fuck your whole family..."
If he were to withstand three thousand sword strikes, he'd probably be nothing but a skeleton...
Therefore, Li Zhu did not respond to Qinglu's words, but instead pointed to a wooden box next to him and asked...
"Miss Qinglu, do you know what this is?"
Another characteristic of women is their strong curiosity. Even if something has nothing to do with her, once you ask her about it, she'll want to know what it is...
So Qinglu leaned closer to the wooden box, looked at the dark thing inside, curiously picked it up and smelled it, then said in confusion.
"This smells of sulfur and saltpeter. Could it be residue from those Taoist priests' alchemy?"
Li Zhu smiled mysteriously, took a few steps back, picked up the oil lamp beside him, and said...
"You can't see clearly like that. Let me light a lamp for you so you can take a closer look. This is a good thing..."
Qinglu thought to herself, "Could I have smelled it wrong?"
So she instinctively grabbed some more and smelled it, but she still only smelled sulfur and saltpeter...
Li Zhu placed the oil lamp a short distance away, indicating that Qinglu should take a closer look...
Taking advantage of this moment, Li Zhu silently retreated to a jar, which still contained gunpowder. He quickly picked one up and threw it at Qinglu, roaring...
"Go to hell!"
When faced with something suddenly thrown at you, the instinctive reaction of a normal person is to block it to avoid being hit...
Qinglu thought the same thing, so she made her move. But in that instant, an indescribable sense of life-or-death crisis rose from the depths of her heart, forcing her to stop. However, the feeling of danger did not subside; instead, it intensified…
This left Qinglu somewhat bewildered, unsure of the source of the danger—was it the jar? Or the box in front of her?
Every hair on his body stood on end. A fear that came from the depths of his heart made him retreat rapidly. This shocked her. She had thought that no one in the Eastern Palace could threaten her life, which was why she was so confident in being there. She just hadn't expected that her life would be threatened so suddenly...
Li Zhu jumped out of the window immediately, rolled down the steps, and leaned against the stone steps under the railing...
Then a loud bang echoed throughout Luoyang. The canister shattered, and the gunpowder scattered into the air like ash…
The oil lamp immediately ignited the gunpowder in the air, which acted as a fuse, and a huge flame instantly filled the entire room, igniting the fire inside the wooden box as well…
boom!
A deafening explosion rang out, the powerful shockwave tearing the entire room to shreds. And this was just the beginning; all the gunpowder stored inside was detonated in that instant…
Boom! Boom!
A massive explosion resounded throughout Luoyang, and everyone's gaze turned towards the Eastern Palace. At that moment, flames soared into the sky, illuminating the entire city…
However, upon seeing that it was the Crown Prince's residence, everyone relaxed and went back to doing what they were doing, as they were already used to it; this was the third time recently…
Some people even spread rumors that the Eastern Palace was an ominous place, that the previous dynasty's crown prince died there, and that now it was the new Tang dynasty's crown prince's turn, and that these fires were a warning to him...
Li Zhu, of course, didn't believe these words. After all, every fire had a reason. But even so, when he saw the gunpowder reduce several rooms of the Eastern Palace to rubble, he still wore a bitter expression...
His spending spree is unbelievable. Others squander money, but he's truly squandering the entire family fortune. If this continues, the Eastern Palace might have to be demolished and rebuilt...
Whoosh!
Several figures appeared not far from Li Zhu, staring in shock at the scene before them…
"Your Highness, was there thunder just now?"
Zhao Feng, like a country bumpkin who had never seen the world, asked curiously. The others were also curious, but none of them dared to ask!
"This isn't thunder, this is an explosion..."
Li Zhu said with heartache, not only for the palace that had been razed to the ground, but also for the gunpowder that had just been produced…
"An explosion? What was that?"
Zhao Feng couldn't help but ask again!
"An explosion is a phenomenon produced by gunpowder under an open flame..."
Li Zhu stopped there, because he noticed that everyone was looking at him with blank expressions…
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