Everyone saw enormous new mechanisms being pushed, one after another, to the edge of Yueyang City's walls by scholars. These new mechanisms had sturdy bases, each supporting a huge cylindrical body.
There were a full two hundred of them.
Ordinary people merely found the cylindrical bodies strange, but scholars of the Craftsmen School and scholars of high literary rank were horrified.
Zong Xuan, a dignified Great Scholar, was so shocked that his mouth fell open.
An extremely faint, seven-colored radiance shimmered over the surfaces of those cylinders, as though tiny rainbows encircled them. The radiance kept moving, making the Divine Gold Mechanisms look as though they were breathing.
That was the divine radiance unique to divine gold!
Divine Gold Mechanisms!
A Qing Kingdom general cursed, "You're cheating! These are Divine Gold Mechanisms-Sainthood Mechanisms comparable to Dragonfire War Engines! Mechanisms like these cannot be used in the battle for prefectures, much less to determine the victor!"
He Qionghai gave the general a pitying look and said, "When the standards for the battle for prefectures were established, they did not address specific materials. They merely stipulated that mechanisms personally made by Great Scholars could not participate. The highest literary rank among the makers of these mechanisms was only Grand Academician. Even if a Great Scholar stood beside them and taught them word by word, that would not violate the rules."
The Qing Kingdom generals froze for a moment before realizing that, when the rules for the battle for prefectures were established, no one could possibly have imagined a nation willing to use divine gold in such a battle.
Zong Xuan said, "The power of these Divine Gold Mechanisms!"
He Qionghai nodded and said, "All of you, begin unleashing protective war poetry. Yes, all of you, including the Great Scholars in the army!"