Blade of Reckoning: A Folk Horror Saga
Chapter 610

Erlang Returns

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Boom!

The explosion was deafening, sending shattered stones flying in every direction.

Sha LiFei liked to exaggerate when he spoke, and the same went for playing with gunpowder. He called it "a little," but in truth, he was always afraid it would not be enough.

This time, he had used up every last bit of his stock.

"Earth Listening String" Yue SanEr truly lived up to his reputation as an old-school geomancer. He might not have been a Feng Shui Master, but his ability to pinpoint locations was extraordinarily precise.

The explosion had occurred directly beneath the city gate.

Back then, there had been an inverted Jing Guan beneath this place. It counted as a feat of arms, so when the Shu King Residence was built, nobody had considered it taboo. They had even buried vat after vat underground to monitor any movement below.

As a result, quite a few cracks remained in the ground here.

When the New-Style Gunpowder exploded, it directly heaved up the entire stretch of earth.

After the rocks went flying, a massive crater appeared. The vermilion-and-copper-studded palace gate of the Shu King Residence collapsed with a thunderous crash amid the flames.

Even the surrounding walls cracked and caved in, leaving gaps behind.

The Shu King's army had gathered in the square before the gate. As stones rained down from the sky, quite a few were instantly smashed until their heads split and blood flowed.

The military formation they had arranged was thrown into disarray as well.

Worse still, several nearby formation flags had been knocked down by boulders. The massive white Funeral Lamps fell with them and were ignited by the candle flames.

The Soul Guiding Lamp formation consequently lost its effect.

Almost at once, howling winds and flying snow wrapped in thick fog surged

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