Chapter 690 - 69: Build High Walls, Store Up Grain, and Postpone Claiming Kingship
The elder from the Gongsun Family was named Gongsun Huaizhi; he was over eighty years old. His martial arts were honed through the years, culminating in a cultivation of the Fourth Layer Heaven. Should a fight ensue, someone like Ye Buyi, a spirited and brave young man of Third Layer Heaven, could knock the old man to the ground.
However, when it came to the Mechanical Techniques of the Gongshu line, he was considered the strongest of his time.
Although Gongsun Wuyue was the family head of the Gongsun Family, he was far inferior to him in the realm of mechanical arts. At this moment, the Great Elder, as if a spring had been installed under his buttocks, suddenly shot up, eyes wide and tongue-tied, staring at the prisoner behind Li Guanyi, unable to utter a word for a while.
Then, grabbing Li Guanyi’s arm, he exclaimed, "How did you, a single person and not even a grandmaster, manage this?"
Li Guanyi was polite and gentle in response, saying, "The Military School has a saying, ’To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.’ I can’t subdue others without a fight, but I can strike where they are weak. With a bit of luck and the help of my friends, I managed to take down these people."
Gongsun Huaizhi squatted down, looking at the bound Qi Junsong, and said:
"My, my, a War General of the Five-layered Heaven, fully armored, and you single-handedly took down these thousand men, impressive, very impressive!"
Gongsun Huaizhi sighed with admiration, "Your vision is indeed better than ours, my lord, the head of the family. I’m convinced now. All right, I’ll send thirty of our best craftsmen to Jiangnan in secret."
"You mentioned a Hidden Weapon Storage earlier, we’ll take responsibility for that as well, so please accompany this one to inspect it."
He was truly convinced, looking at the tied-up people, he couldn’t help but click his tongue: