Chapter 507: Chapter 172: Daoist Priest Fan Wants to Enter the Imperial Palace? The Fu Clan of the Imperial City! (A 10,000-Word Mega Chapter, Please Subscribe)_1
Hu Banban felt a sharp pain in his ears, as if a mischievous child had set off a firecracker right beside him.
So much so that his eardrums rang with a persistent buzzing noise.
But he no longer cared about his own sensations.
He looked at the Little Prince in his arms in a state of panic, asking loudly with an anxious and concerned tone, "Little Prince? Little Prince? Are you alright? Little Prince? Please say something to me!"
Seeing the Little Prince looking bewildered, Hu Banban became even more frightened.
His voice quivered as he spoke urgently, "Little Prince, please don’t scare me! I’m already in my fifties or sixties, I can’t be frightened like this!"
"Hu... Hu Banban..." The Little Prince finally spoke, which allowed Hu Banban to let out a heavy sigh of relief.
Before he had the chance to check for any injuries on the Little Prince,
he heard the Little Prince say, "You... you look over there."
Look over there?
Hu Banban struggled to pick himself off the ground awkwardly, and following the direction pointed out by the Little Prince, he looked that way.
He was stunned.
He was dumbfounded!
Hu Banban saw that the towering walls of the Imperial City had, at this very moment, developed a huge breach! Looking from left to right, the breach was at least forty to fifty meters long!
It was even more exaggerated when looking from top to bottom, because the breach was not simply a hole!
It was a segment of the city wall, forty to fifty meters in length...
that had collapsed!
Around this huge breach, there were numerous dense cracks spreading slowly in various directions.
Through this breach, amidst the billowing clouds of dust, Hu Banban could vaguely see the inside of the Great Zhou Imperial City.
He felt he could vaguely make out the citizens inside the Imperial City, who were also staring blankly in this direction.
The expressions of nearly everyone present were strikingly uniform.
They could not accept that such a thing was happening right before their eyes.
Especially those who had grown up in the Great Zhou Imperial City.
"The city walls of the Imperial City... have collapsed..." Hu Banban was clearly one of these people, and he felt a dryness in his mouth, his muttering voice trembling, "How... how could this... this happen?!"
This was an event that had not occurred in the Imperial City walls of the Great Zhou for hundreds of years, a wall that had stood against centuries of climate had just tumbled down!
Was it due to neglect over the years?
Impossible!
The Great Zhou Dynasty alone spent no less than hundreds of thousands of taels of silver every year just on the maintenance and reinforcement of such city walls. And that did not even account for labor costs. How could it possibly be due to neglect?
In a daze.
Hu Banban remembered what had just happened; he remembered Daoist Fan Wu punching toward the city walls.
Then he felt the earth shake and the mountains tremble, after which he was so frightened that he picked up the Little Prince and ran.
Afterward, he heard deafening roars.
And also an invisible shock wave that blew him to the ground.
It seemed...
Could it have really been such an event?
Hiss!
Could it be...
Hu Banban’s horrified gaze immediately locked onto one of the few standing figures among so many people there. The only people still standing were Fan Wu, the Nanjun County Prince, Xing Fengzi, and Yun Jiuqing, who had held onto Old Blue Ox and had not been blown over.
Hu Banban then set his gaze on Fan Wu, where he could see the terrifying musculature behind him, which resembled a ghastly mask.
He could also see Daoist Fan Wu’s body.
At that moment, emitting faint wisps of smoke.
"Shocking... defying all reason, it simply defies all reason!" Hu Banban felt as if his worldview, which he had formed over decades, had been shattered by Daoist Fan Wu’s punch.
After all, in his impression, the city walls of the Great Zhou Imperial City were the sturdiest existence in the world.
He had seen countless people trying to claim that prize of ten thousand taels of silver, as well as countless overzealous cultivators from afar trying to prove their worth using the city walls.
All of these people, without exception, ended in failure.
In recent times, the person who had caused the most damage to the Great Zhou Imperial City walls was a few envoys from the greater Flame Dynasty who had visited a while ago.
But their damage to the city wall was very limited; even if they could make a dent half a meter deep,
it was a minor issue for the city walls, which could be repaired in just a few days.
However...
"Oh my mother..." Hu Banban had been so shocked that he forgot all his courtly manners, and he swallowed hard, trying to soothe his parched mouth, "How long will it take to repair? One year? Two years?"
"How much silver will it take to fix? One hundred thousand taels of silver? A million taels of silver?"
In comparison, that reward of ten thousand taels of silver seemed to be of little significance.
The most crucial point was that there was actually someone who could break the city wall!
And to bring it down with a single punch!!
Good gracious!!
At this moment, the other spectators who were staring dumbfounded at the collapsed wall finally managed to scramble up from the ground in a disheveled manner.
The shifts in expressions on their faces and the astonishment within their hearts.
