Chapter 281 — Craft That Rivals Heaven
The Herdsman of the Wasteland · Page 4 of 4
The hundred or so people aboard looked down and saw that the middle of the great bridge was broken, a li or more of deck and piers missing; it must have been that in the bitter cold of the snow disaster the river froze over and ice mountains formed on the water, slid down from upstream and smashed the bridge.
Now the river ran swift and furious, and to repair the bridge would not be easy.
The treasure ship came down at Jiazhou City, and the prefect of Jiazhou hurried out to welcome them. Ling Yushu said: "Prefect, muster the divine-ability practitioners and hand them to the Vice Minister of Works to repair the great bridge.
" Across a stretch of five or six li the river lay empty; not a trace of water remained even on the riverbed, and the water in the silt had been drained dry by several hundred divine-ability practitioners. "Gentlemen, fuse the stones and join the bridge!
" After a while stone pillars rose one by one from the riverbed, and many officials of the Ministry of Works came flying over from the great mountain nearby, bearing cut stone, and slab after slab was laid down in perfect order.
An hour later the great bridge ran through. Shen Mu's heart shook, and inwardly he sighed in admiration: "This is a true miracle, workmanship that beggars ghosts and gods!
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