The Time Traveling Prince Consort Plans to Rule the World for Me

In the past few days, Mu Jin rested for two hours on New Year's Eve, and spent the rest of the time going to the back mountain to develop explosives in a cave that she had someone temporarily dig out. She wanted to develop a kind of gunpowder that could be projected over long distances.

Su Yuntian's gunpowder requires the death of living people to detonate the target, which is greatly limited on the battlefield.

No one in the Nanshu camp knew how to make explosives, let alone use them in wars between countries.

After learning that Dongyue had a kind of gunpowder that could flatten mountains and rocks, the morale of the Southern Shu people was greatly reduced. After all, if they could even flatten mountains, what about them, who were just flesh and blood?

Mu Jin did not allow Ren to go into the cave with her to develop gunpowder, including Su Yi and Mu Yan. Therefore, the two grown men could only sit under the shade of the tree outside the cave entrance and stare at the cave entrance every day.

Muffled explosions could be heard from the cave entrance from time to time. In the first few times, the two grown men would nervously rush into the cave.

They didn't know how many times it was, but they retreated from the cave only after Mu Jin had repeatedly assured them that she would control the dosage, would not get hurt, and would not let them enter the cave.

"How did Ajin know how gunpowder was made?" Su Yi asked Mu Yan doubtfully.

Mu Yan said: "He said he saw it in a book."

Su Yi raised his eyebrows: "If it is recorded in the book, why haven't I seen it?"

"Since you know that Jin doesn't want to tell others, why don't you ask her?"

Mu Yan thought that Su Yi was doubting Mu Jin. He thought about it and felt a little unhappy about Su Yi talking about Mu Jin. He couldn't help but said, "Even if she lied to you, she was just afraid that you would be jealous."

"Jealous?" Su Yi raised his eyebrows and said, "What do you mean?"

"Su Yuntian's gunpowder was made by Nangong Ce, which means that this gunpowder must have come from the Nangong Divine Sect."

"You mean, the secret recipe of this gunpowder was given to Ajin by Nangong Min."

"Yes! That Sect Master Nangong is deeply in love with our Ah Jin." Mu Yan seemed to be still unhappy because Su Yi had just suspected his sister, and he did not care about Su Yi's current identity as the emperor, and said deliberately.

"I heard that Nangong Min was plotted against by his grandmother and cousin, so he had to separate from Ajin. Otherwise, our Ajin would have become the wife of Nangong Sect Master by now."

Su Yi was not annoyed when he heard Mu Yan say this, but just smiled faintly and said: "No!"

Mu Yan turned his head to look at him: "What can't you do?"

Su Yi looked towards the cave entrance with tenderness in his eyes and said softly, "As long as I am here, Ah Jin will never become the wife of the clan leader. She will only be my wife, princess, and queen."

He turned to look at Mu Yan and said with a smile: "No matter what my identity is, A Jin will only be my wife, Su Yi."

There was another bang at the entrance of the cave, and another explosion. This time the explosion was louder than ever before, with thick smoke billowing. A lot of sand and rocks at the entrance were shaken off.

"Ajin!"

The two grown men's hearts twitched and they quickly ran into the cave, only to see Mu Jin running out of the cave. Her face was darker than the bottom of a pot, and even the ends of her long hair were burnt.

"Pah!" Mu Jin spat on the ground beside her as she ran out of the cave. At this moment, not only was her whole body covered with sand, but even her mouth was covered with sand. She looked very embarrassed.

Seeing Su Yimuyan running over to help her with a worried look on his face, she showed her big white teeth, coughed twice, and said, "I'm sorry, I put a little more this time, and I didn't expect the power to be so strong."

Su Yi helped Mu Jin brush off the dust on her body, wiped her face with a handkerchief, and said, "It's too dangerous. Let me go in with you."

Mu Yan also helped Mu Jin to sweep away the dust on her head and tied up her hair. He said, "Yes, the emperor is right. Please let us go in with you. If anything happens, we can take care of each other."

Mu Jin smiled and said, "Whether you come in or not, it won't affect the success or failure of my research on gunpowder. Having you two standing beside me will only distract me."

Su Yi knew that Mu Jin said this only because she was afraid that any danger would affect them, and she did this to be ready to sacrifice herself at any time.

Su Yi wanted to say something, but was interrupted by Mu Jin: "Don't worry, I have roughly calculated the dosage. Whether it succeeds or not, we will know after we go out and try it."

After saying that, Mu Jin turned around and walked back into the cave, but was grabbed by Su Yi and told to rest for a while.

Mu Yan also comforted Mu Jin: "Yes, Jin, take a rest outside first, eat something and then go back in. You have been busy inside all day."

Mu Jin looked at the two men in front of her who cared about her, and a smile appeared on her lips.

"I'm just going in to get the developed gunpowder. Later, we'll take it to the deserted mountain outside and try it out."

Having said that, Su Yi and Mu Yan didn't know how to stop them, but they still insisted on going in with Mu Jin.

Mu Jin didn't stop them and followed them into the cave.

In the cave, Mu Jin opened a stone chamber, pointed to several boxes filled with powder on the ground and said, "Since you are all here, help me move these things out of the cave."

Su Yi and Mu Yan didn't say anything as they picked up the boxes of raw materials for gunpowder that Mu Jin pointed out from underground and carried them out of the cave. After going back and forth several times, they soon moved all the raw materials for making gunpowder out of the cave.

Outside the cave, Su Yi and Mu Yan watched Mu Jin pick up powdery substances from three different boxes and pour them into bamboo tubes according to different proportions.

Mu Yan asked: "Ajin, what's in this?"

Mu Jin replied: "Charcoal, saltpeter, and sulfur."

Mu Yan said in disbelief: "How can these three ordinary things move mountains?"

Mu Jin smiled slightly and said, "I'll open your eyes later."

Soon, Mu Jin wrapped up several assembled cannon barrels. She rolled the fuse together and placed them one by one in two baskets.

When the two baskets were full, Mu Jin asked Mu Yan to bring the horse over. After the two baskets were placed on the horse's back, she climbed on the horse and said to Su Yi and Mu Yan, "Let's go to the wild mountain over there, quickly."

After he finished speaking, Mu Jin rode his horse and galloped away without waiting for Su Yi and Mu Yan.

Su Yi and Mu Yan reacted and also mounted their horses, chasing after Mu Jin.

When they arrived at the place, Mu Jin picked up a bundle of gunpowder with a long fuse on it.

Mu Jin looked at a cliff several dozen feet away and determined that the huge rock on the cliff was the target of the explosion. She took out a fire starter and lit the fuse.

He quickly put gunpowder on the bow and arrow, exerted force, and shot the gunpowder at the huge rock on the edge of the cliff more than a hundred feet away.

"Come on!"

Mu Jin shot the gunpowder out, turned around, pulled Su Yi and Mu Yan to hide behind a huge rock facing away from the direction of the gunpowder and squatted down.

"Open your mouth! Cover your ears!"

After Mu Jin finished speaking, Su Yi and Mu Yan looked confused and followed Mu Jin's example, squatting down with their mouths open and covering their ears.

Just as the three of them covered their ears, they heard a deafening noise behind them, followed by a bright light accompanied by gravel, wood chips, etc., sweeping in from behind like a gust of wind.

The three of them instantly felt a sense of collapse and earth-shattering, followed by a buzzing in their heads and ears. Su Yi instinctively took his hands off his ears and hugged Mu Jin.

After everything calmed down, Mu Jin slowly raised her head. She was overjoyed, broke free from Su Yi's arms, and ran out from behind the boulder, followed closely by Su Yi and Mu Yan.

The three of them looked towards the cliff. There was no huge rock there. Even half of the cliff had been blown beyond recognition by gunpowder.