The Jincheng Defense Line, for most of the people of Great Xia, may be just a term that is mentioned by chance, or a place that is so far away that it is impossible to go once in a lifetime, but for the vast majority of Northland men, it is a holy place.

A holy place for achievement!

The origin of the northern land is that the emperor Yihai fought against the Mobei royal court, and the army crossed the Yumen and the desert, opening up a new territory.

This territory is isolated outside Kyushu, and internally it must rely on the Central Plains to continuously transport grain and grass to maintain, and externally, it must withstand the continuous attacks from foreign races, desolate people, fierce beasts and the harsh natural environment, like a nail, firmly nailed to the northwest of Great Xia, guarding the gateway to the Western Regions of Great Xia.

And the reason why this nail can be pushed on this land, the most critical "force point" is the Jincheng defense line.

Starting from the Xiaotian Mountains, along the mountains and rivers, a golden city wall stretches for thousands of miles, covering the entire northern land.

For hundreds of years, countless Great Xia men have fought bloody battles here, resisting all kinds of demons, monsters, fierce beasts and desolate people, and firmly guarding the northern land.

And the biggest ideal of the boys in the north is to practice a good martial arts, and then go to the Jincheng defense line to join the army, kill the beast king or the desolate general, make meritorious achievements, and become famous in the world.

As a traverser, Pan Long is not like ordinary Northland people who are obsessed with going to the Jincheng Defense Line to serve in the army. But since he was a child, he is also full of yearning for this iron-blooded Great Wall.

When he was a teenager, he had imagined more than once what it would be like when he first arrived at the Jincheng defense line in the future.

Is it to become a merchant, with a team of horses, to trek through the sunset, and when you are exhausted, you finally see the majestic city wall ahead?

Is it to practice a good martial arts, become a soldier, and come here with your comrades with high spirits to meet the challenges of fate and the baptism of war?

Or was he a man of culture, came here with a bookcase on his back, depicted the great rivers and mountains with pen and paper, and recorded the lives of the soldiers who guarded the frontier for the Great Xia with paintings and words, leaving them for future generations to refer to?

But he never thought that he would become a rebel expert determined to overthrow Great Xia, accompanied by a green forest thief with a high wanted warrant in the government, and easily passed by here, just to go to the Western Regions to do business.

For him now, this frontier defense line that once fascinated him is nothing particularly worth talking about.

There is no city wall in the world that can stop the True Grandmaster, no matter how heavily guarded it is, after all, it can only rely on some special magic weapons to threaten the True Grandmaster.

And that kind of magic weapon, it is no problem to deal with a fierce beast equivalent to the realm of a real person, and it is no problem to deal with a wise person...... It can only be said that barely is better than nothing, that's all.

Pan Long looked at the heavy city wall in front of him, the heavy sun-shooting crossbow that could smash most of the fierce beasts by weight alone, and smiled slightly.

Then, he wrapped He Ping'an with his true qi, and with the help of the stealth magic weapon that He Ping'an carried with him, the two of them disappeared, flew past the Jincheng defense line, and flew into the distance.

Leaving the Jincheng defensive line, the land became more and more barren. This is the vast desert that blocks the natural barrier between the North and the Western Regions.

There are many large and small deserts in the northwest of Kyushu, from Yumen Castle to the north, there is a desert called "Black Gobi", and from the west side of the Jincheng defense line to the west, there is a desert called "Trap".

The Hollow Desert has a long-standing name called "Desert of No Return", which comes from the name of the people in the vicinity - "you can't get in and out", and they call this desert in the local dialect.

Later, when Bactria was established, Emperor Taizu Jiazi arranged the construction of the Silk Road, and one of the trade routes passed through this desert.

When the first caravan across the desert returned with a full load, the old and often depressed Emperor Jiazi smiled happily and said: "The ancient name of this desert is 'no return', because everyone who enters it cannot come back. But now that situation has changed, it certainly shouldn't continue to be called that name. So I'll give it a new name, 'Hollow Desert'. ”

Since the Great Xia Taizu opened the Golden Mouth, the desert of no return has become a trap desert from now on. From generation to generation, Great Xia's caravans traveled through this desert, which was a desperate situation for ordinary people, buying and selling goods and spreading culture, and continuously transporting the influence of Great Xia to the countries of the Western Regions.

At this moment, Pan Long and He Ping'an are walking in this trade route.

The desert is vast and full of endless yellow sand and sand dunes, not to mention the vegetation, not to mention the few rocks.

Walking in this environment, you will soon be unable to distinguish between southeast and northwest. So in general, even those caravans led by old horses will choose to go out by day and night - because at night they can use the North Star to determine their bearings, so they don't have to worry about getting lost.

But Pan Long and He Ping'an don't need to worry about this.

The desert is also full of Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi, and once a master passes by, the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi will be disturbed by him, forming some unique changes.

If it is in a place where water and plants are abundant and living creatures are luxuriant, the disturbance of the vitality of heaven and earth by various creatures will be intertwined with each other and form interference. However, the species in the desert are very simple, and the changes formed by the supreme master passing by with a group of people and disturbing the vitality of heaven and earth will remain for a long time.

Not many people can spy on this change, but Pan Long is one of them.

So after a little observation, he could see that a large number of people had passed not far away...... There is no doubt that those are the traces left by the Great Xia caravan.

He was about to speak, but saw He Ping'an look in all directions, and then pointed to that side.

"Well, that's over there. The Great Xia caravan passed along that side, and that was the trade route. ”

Pan Long was taken aback, he had practiced the Confucian mastery of "doing what he wanted", and he had also practiced the Legalist mastery of "Rope Law World", in the realm of real people in the world today, if he was sensitive to the perception of the surrounding environment, he should be among the best, if not the first.

Because of this, he was able to judge that this road had been passed by a master with a large group of people some time ago by spying on the subtle changes in the vitality of heaven and earth.

But even if he wants to rely on the changes in the vitality of heaven and earth to judge whether this road has ever been walked by a master, he also needs to pay full attention.

He Ping'an could see it at a glance? How did he do it?

Then He Ping'an explained it to him, but Pan Long was confused, and he didn't understand how the "signs" he said could be seen.

But he had at least established one thing: for ordinary people, the desert seemed to be almost everywhere, and it would be disorienting to walk. But in the eyes of He Ping'an, an old horse who knows the way, this road is full of traces left by caravans, which can be called road signs everywhere, and it is easy to find the right path here.

So they ran wildly, and it didn't take long for them to cross this desert, which was once known as "unable to get in or out".

When finally a small village was built in an oasis on the edge of the desert, He Ping'an stopped.

"Look. He pointed to the village, "That's Mingsha Village, which belongs to the Xiangsha Kingdom and is the westernmost point of the Western Regions. Once upon a time, people here thought that this was the westernmost point of the world. ”

"Are you familiar with this place?" asked Pan Long.

"Of course. He Ping'an smiled, "Let me introduce myself, in the Xiangsha Kingdom, I am called the 'Knight of the Mountain', and this village is precisely my territory. ”