Dragon's Origin

Mei'er was suddenly enveloped in immense happiness, feeling light and as if she didn't know where she was. It was only Wang Sheng's subsequent words that instantly brought her back to reality.

"Old Dao is going to take revenge!" Wang Sheng instructed Rose: "I need to prepare some good stuff for Old Dao. Help me buy according to this list."

Wang Sheng listed all the materials for making black powder, including basic items like sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter, as well as some additives to increase its power. He didn't need to hide anything from Rose and Mei'er, only instructing Rose to buy a thousand catties of each.

Even if it was a thousand catties of each item, after mixing them together, along with the ignition materials and metal powder, the total amount would exceed 1.5 tons. Black powder with a military ratio of two-thirds the power of TNT explosives could unleash the explosive power of one ton of TNT. Using it in the Dai Kingdom's palace would be more than enough.

However, when Mei'er heard that this was for Lingxu Old Dao, to help him, she doubled the quantity of each item without saying a word. Naturally, the two women added many other things to the list, items used by Dream Workshop, Qiansheng Yuan, Elegant Rhyme, and Runzi Workshop, plus the daily necessities of the mansion. A procurement list dozens of times larger than the one Wang Sheng produced was created.

No one could tell what Wang Sheng was going to do with these things from the list, which made those who were paying attention to the Changsheng Duke's mansion look forward to it. Was he going to produce something good?

The largest seller of saltpeter and sulfur was actually the Daoist sect. Most of it was bought from the Old Lord Temple, and enough was bought from other places to meet the quantity. Charcoal was the most common, and every noble family would use it. No one would suspect even if the demand was high.

However, Mei'er recklessly multiplied the purchase quantity by ten, which left Wang Sheng speechless. Who else besides Wang Sheng could configure black powder? This would increase Wang Sheng's workload tenfold!

A special courtyard was set aside for Wang Sheng to process these things. Fortunately, the weather had been sunny recently, with no rain, which reduced Wang Sheng's difficulty.

Mei'er directly bought twenty thousand catties of high-quality fine charcoal, ten tons. Wang Sheng only wanted a thousand catties, but Mei'er added ten times that amount, plus the Changsheng Duke's mansion's usage, so she directly bought ten tons.

Ten tons of fine charcoal, spread out in the courtyard, would cover twenty square meters and be one meter thick. If Wang Sheng had to slowly grind it into the fine powder needed for black powder with a mortar, how long would that take? Even if Wang Sheng's mortar was relatively large, capable of handling a few kilograms at a time, it was still ten tons, twenty thousand catties, which would require thousands of attempts to process all this charcoal.

And this was just the charcoal. It didn't include the sulfur and saltpeter, which also needed to be processed in the same way. Although those two were only ten thousand catties each, both charcoal and sulfur and saltpeter needed Wang Sheng to purify them before grinding, which was not a small amount of trouble.

Moreover, Wang Sheng didn't want anyone other than Mei'er and Rose to know this recipe, so he had to do it himself. Fortunately, he had done similar work before and was quite skilled, but it still took time.

While grinding, Wang Sheng suddenly had an idea. He had never thought of using the Nine Syllable Incantation to do these things before, but Wang Sheng thought of a way to replace manual labor and couldn't help but use it on that pile of charcoal.

The 'Forward' incantation increased Wang Sheng's spiritual energy control ability, coupled with the 'Fight' incantation, plus the assistance of the 'Soldier' and 'Person' incantations, and the 'All' and 'Array' incantations, directly acting on that pile of charcoal, Wang Sheng's spiritual energy emitted by the Nine Syllable Incantation directly acted on a large pile of fine charcoal, instantly shattering the charcoal into powder.

This was inspired by the formations that shattered the stone walls and Old Lord statues when Wang Sheng opened the door in the Daoist inheritance land, which not only contained the principles of resonance, but also the exquisite use of spiritual energy. It could not only shatter the charcoal, but also precisely control the force, so that the carbon powder would not fly around.

He didn't expect there to be such a good way to cultivate and do things at the same time. Sure enough, there was knowledge everywhere. Wang Sheng sighed and sat on the spot, starting to frequently use the Six Syllable Incantation on that pile of charcoal.

One time could only shatter it into pieces, but not into powder, which required multiple precise uses. Wang Sheng treated it as his own cultivation and used it again and again without getting tired.

Seeing that ten tons of charcoal had turned into charcoal powder comparable to the fine powder that Wang Sheng laboriously ground out with a mortar in less than a morning, Wang Sheng suddenly felt that some people were never satisfied. Since there was such a method, why not make it finer? Anyway, the finer the black powder, the better the effect, and there was no harm in making it finer.

Wang Sheng spent a full two days processing the charcoal, making it a level finer than what Wang Sheng had previously ground out with a mortar.

However, when Wang Sheng was shattering the charcoal, he suddenly discovered another phenomenon. During continuous and uniform vibration, the parts of the charcoal powder with consistent particle size and density would separate into layers. Some heavy things would sink, while light things would rise.

After discovering this phenomenon, Wang Sheng instantly realized that the purity of the carbon powder could be very high. Things with consistent density and particle size were definitely the same thing, while impurities would have different densities. After several days of vibration and layering, removing the impurities that floated up and leaving the dregs that sank to the bottom, the middle part could be said to be extremely pure carbon powder.

The subsequent sulfur and saltpeter were also processed in the same way, and Wang Sheng also obtained very pure sulfur powder and saltpeter powder. The added phosphorus powder and the like were also handled in this way. Wang Sheng estimated that the power of the black powder he made this time could be increased by at least 20%.

Even when mixing these powders, Wang Sheng used the Nine Syllable Incantation Six Syllable Incantation. As long as it wasn't uniform vibration, the powders would be vibrated very evenly by the non-uniform vibration, which was much more brilliant than manual mixing.

The final black powder was at least a dozen tons. After Wang Sheng processed them separately, he packed them into dynamite packs and placed them in dozens of storage rings, carrying them with him.

It took Wang Sheng ten days to completely process these dynamite packs. But this speed had already surprised Wang Sheng immensely. In the past, it would have taken one or two months to do it, and it would have been impossible to achieve such precision and uniformity.

What was the power of a dozen tons of black powder exploding at the same time? When the chemical warehouse in Tianjin on Earth exploded, the power was equivalent to 21 tons of TNT exploding, and how large an area was affected? Wang Sheng didn't want to kill innocent people indiscriminately. He certainly couldn't give all these dynamite packs to Old Dao at once.

Forget it, since he had told Old Dao that he was going too, then he would go together!