"Okay, hurry up and go through. Don't be dawdling, or I might turn the front into a plain!" Ye Lang reminded the dazed crowd.
"Let's go!" Ye Yi was also straightforward, not asking more questions, as it wasn't the time for that now.
Of course, there were still people who asked later, and the unexpected answer they received was that the beam had almost no power at all. It merely stimulated the previously stable alchemic array, causing the energy inside the city wall to become chaotic and leading to its collapse.
Originally, disrupting this energy balance was a very difficult task, and all possible scenarios had been considered and defenses put in place!
However, Ye Lang found a small gap and utilized his alchemical cannon to accomplish the destruction!
Speaking of which, I have to mention his alchemical cannon – it was a very interesting piece of equipment. It could adjust its power and the composition of its elements at will.
Ye Lang calculated the proportions and injected a little magic element into the alchemic array, causing it to collapse!
This may sound simple, but it was actually very difficult, or rather extremely difficult. Otherwise, they wouldn't have only just come up with the idea of destroying the city wall.
Ye Lang had to make extremely precise calculations to determine how much energy was needed and how much power was required to inject those elements, in addition to calculating the light emitted by the alchemical cannon.
Nothing could be omitted!
Fortunately, this was something Ye Lang had calculated before; otherwise, he would not have been able to do it now.
As for why he calculated this? It seems that he once thought about using this method to escape. Of course, at that time, he just wanted to escape the sight of the Ye family, not the entire empire.
If people were to find out about this, it would be embarrassing. Do we really need to destroy the city wall just to run away from home?
But now everyone is relieved, luckily, he calculated it...
Returning to the main point, everyone continued to flee, cooperating to take care of the ordinary people in need, crossing the gap in this city wall. Fortunately, there are very few ordinary people without martial arts and magic abilities here, so there are not many people in need of care.
Otherwise, not to mention this place, there would have been a big problem earlier. Ordinary people would have started to tire from walking so far!
Of course, compared to ordinary people, magicians are slightly better, but at least they can support themselves!
However, this is also a very serious problem. Now we have a long way to go to escape the pursuit, and it's not over just by escaping this imperial city; we need to escape the influence of the Xiangkong Empire.
Note, it's the influence, not the national borders; the Xiangkong Empire still affects many surrounding kingdoms. To be considered safe, we need to enter the influence range of the Vermilion Bird Empire, but that also can't be considered absolute!
To sum it up, we still have a long way to go!
After Ye Lang and the others left the city wall, they saw troops coming from both sides. Everyone could have expected this. With so much commotion, if they couldn't react to it, then they wouldn't be worthy of being the city guards of this imperial city.
And everyone also believed that the city guards and the pursuers rushing over were very surprised that Ye Lang had destroyed the impregnable city wall. They originally wanted to prepare for a decisive battle at the city gate!
"Ye Lang, why did you stop?" Zhen Xiaoyan's voice made everyone notice Ye Lang's abnormality.
After leaving the city wall, Ye Lang looked at the troops on both sides and then stood still!
"Little brother, what are you thinking?" Ye Lanyu asked.
"We need horses now, or we will not be able to escape from these pursuers!" Ye Lang frowned, looking at the city guards riding towards them. He thought of this problem.
"We know that, but there's no time to get them now, let's just run first!" Ye Chengtian said helplessly.
Ye Lang shook his head and said, "No, we should go and snatch them now. They are here ahead of others, so we still have a buffer period! If we wait for the big army to catch up later, it will be even more trouble!"
"..." Ye Yi and the others fell silent, immediately understanding that as long as they could calm down a bit, they would also think of this.
"Alas, I regret it, I once thought of making an airship. If we had an airship, we wouldn’t need to escape like this!" Ye Lang regretfully said, but others couldn't understand what he was talking about, an airship?
"Why didn't you then?" Ye Lanyu asked directly.
"I wanted to, but I haven't designed it yet, nor do I have the materials to realize it. The cost is too high!" Ye Lang shook his head, saying helplessly.
"If even you think the cost is high, then it's not worth considering!" Ye Chengtian said directly.
In front of Ye Lang, a super profligate spender, he would disregard items with very high costs, so if he said the cost was too high, then it must be terrifying. The entire Ye family might not be able to afford it!
"Darn it, I’m so stupid, I really regret it! I shouldn't have considered the cost before and just spent all of our family’s money, since we no longer have a share!" Ye Lang looked regretful, beating his chest and stamping his feet...
"..."
"Don't worry! They can take everything from our family in the empire, but they can't take everything from our entire Ye family!" Ye Yi smiled, somewhat mysteriously, wanting to keep Ye Lang in suspense and tell him later.
However, Ye Lang shrewdly guessed a bit, "I know, you must have been prepared for this a long time ago, with some assets and influence that others don't know about! So I can still squander our money now? That’s great, I thought there would be no chance this time!"
"..."
At such a time, you're still thinking about squandering! But this kid squanders in a very interesting way. If it weren't for the hodgepodge of items on him, this time would have been much more troublesome - at the very least, they wouldn't have run here unscathed!
"Let's go, Dad, Grandpa, we three generations of the Ye family will go to steal horses! The others follow behind a little further, Fatty, keep an eye on them!" Ye Lang disregarded everyone's speechlessness and ran directly towards the city guards on one side.
He ran without using martial arts, but his speed was very fast, giving the false impression that he was not fast, at least not as fast as those martial artists.
"..."
Ye Yi and Ye Chengtian shook their heads and followed, using their martial arts to chase after.
"?!"
At this point, everyone finally realized that Ye Lang was not running slowly; he was consistently ahead of Ye Yi and Ye Chengtian!
Although at this moment, Ye Yi and Ye Chengtian were not using their highest level of martial arts, their speed was not something an ordinary master could catch up to, let alone Ye Lang, who wasn't even using martial arts.
All of this was too strange, but due to the situation, no one inquired further. Even if they were to ask, it would not be the first thing to ask; there were many other things they needed to address.
Why are there so many strange occurrences with this kid, it’s really hard to understand and to fathom!