Chapter 401, Kraken

The Hongjiang River is a large river leading to the Endless Sea, with the widest position exceeding 100 li and the deepest place being 10,000 zhang. It passes through dozens of large and small cities, and Jiangcheng is one of them.

Located near the mouth of the Hongjiang River, Jiangcheng is a commercial city developed by water transportation, with a permanent population of 6 million. But the garrison was not much, only 200,000. Among them, there are very few monks above the Jindan stage, only a few hundred. There are only about a dozen monks in the Yuan Infant Period. The garrison officer was a Heavenly Demon in the late Yuan Infant period, named Kuang Wuyang. He has already experienced many hunts and is considered a veteran.

Although Jiangcheng does not have many garrisons, as a city close to the Endless Sea, they will be the first city to be attacked every time it is time to hunt. Therefore, Jiang Cheng spent a lot of money to build a super protective array. Its defense is no worse than that of the military city of Nanyu City. It is precisely because of this that Jiangcheng is rarely captured.

In addition to his own thousand-man team this time, Li Xiao also brought 50,000 soldiers to support Jiangcheng. By the time they arrived outside the city, Jiang Cheng had already entered the first level of alert. A super huge protective shield completely enveloped the entire Jiangcheng, which covered an area of tens of miles.

When Li Xiao arrived, Kuang Wuyang led a group of garrison officers to greet him. When he saw each other for the first time, Li Xiao had a good impression of each other. Although he is a heavenly demon, he does not look down on Li Xiao in the slightest, and he does not put up any shelf. Dressed in a delicate tight-fitting robe of dark color, a long beard that hangs down to the chest, coupled with those deep eyes, it gives people a very stable and reliable feeling.

Regarding Li Xiao's situation, the soldiers here have all heard of it. It's just that when they saw Li Xiao's appearance, they still had a trace of suspicion about those rumors in their hearts. Although Li Xiao has now advanced to the middle stage of the Yuan Infant in the past few years, he still looks too young. None of them showed it, though.

After settling the personnel, Li Xiao led several centurions to go straight to the council hall where Kuang Wuyang was. During the small talk on the road, Li Xiao heard that the vanguard of the Kraken had launched the first round of sneak attacks. After being repulsed, he was repairing in the river at this time, waiting for the arrival of the army. Therefore, about Li Xiao's arrival, the other party also obviously knew.

In addition to maintaining law and order on a daily basis, the most important task of the garrison in Jiangcheng was to prevent hunting. Therefore, the garrison and Li Xiao are stationed close to the river. From Kuang Wuyang's meeting hall, you can directly see the situation in Jiangzhong.

When Li Xiao arrived, Kuang Wuyang was discussing the situation with several generals in the infancy stage. Seeing Li Xiao coming, he didn't shy away from suspicion, and directly let him participate in the discussion. Through their discussions, Li Xiao finally had a more detailed understanding of the hunting of this kraken.

The Kraken's range of attacks includes all coastal cities except the front line, as well as cities like Jiangcheng, which are close to the rivers that enter the sea. They won't go too far inland, after all, they are sea monsters, and leaving the water will greatly reduce their strength.

Every year, in so many cities, the Kraken will choose several large cities as the main targets. As for the main target, they will choose according to the feedback from the vanguard sent at the beginning. Normally, the cities they choose as the main attack will not end well.

The garrison of Jiangcheng had already fought a battle with their vanguard, and the other side should have passed the news back. All that is left to do now is wait. No one knows which city they will focus on. Just like gambling, time is the hardest time when waiting for the answer to be revealed.

Seeing that there was nothing to do, Li Xiao decided to meet the so-called kraken that he had never talked about before. After all, now it's just the vanguard outside, and the strength is very average, and the strongest one is a kraken equivalent to the middle stage of the Yuan Infant, and most of the others are sea monsters below level ten.

Knowing that Li Xiao was going out of the city, Kuang Wuyang was naturally not at ease. After persuasion failed, Kuang Wuyang decided to find two mid-Yuan Infant monks to accompany him. The three mid-primordial monks were together, and with the strength of the opponent's vanguard team, even if they were surrounded, they could have escaped me. After all, the other party didn't have many well-trained troops, only some demon beasts.

As soon as the three of them got out of the protective shield, they immediately hid their breath and plunged into the river and swam to the depths. In order to deal with the kraken, in addition to arranging a huge protective shield, Jiang Cheng also set up many detection formations in this river. Once there are a large number of krakens and demon beasts in the river, the people on the shore will be able to know clearly. So Li Xiao: They don't need to look around.

The three of them were very careful to move forward in the water, and there were too many monsters in this water area now. Although they are all ordinary demon beasts and pose no threat to them, they are all natural spies of the Kraken, and once they are accidentally discovered, they will definitely attract a large number of monsters and demon beasts to attack.

When the three of them cautiously sneaked for thousands of feet, they finally approached the gathering place of the Kraken. It's just that at this time, they don't dare to approach at will. There are a large number of demonic beasts on the periphery of the Kraken gathering place, and many of them are above the sixth or seventh level. They're wandering around here. If Li Xiao and the others approached, the water flow they drove was very likely to be discovered by those demon beasts.

Just as the two mid-Yuan Infant monks were about to call Li Xiao back, Li Xiao sent a message to them and told them to wait for him here, and he went in alone. Before the two could say anything to stop them, Li Xiao had already gradually disappeared in front of them under the surprised gaze of the two.

After blending into the surrounding river, Li Xiao tried to turn around twice in front of several seventh-level demon beasts, and after making sure that the other party could not find himself, Li Xiao slowly dived into the depths. After sneaking around for a stick of incense again, Li Xiao came to a huge cave, and there was a huge squid-like monster guarding the entrance of the cave. This squid has a head of 10 zhang in size alone, and its long tentacles are more than 30 zhang. Such a large volume is the largest of the demon beasts Li Xiao has ever seen. The strength of this demonic beast is also very strong, reaching the level of ninth.

Li Xiao cautiously walked around it, but the other party didn't notice it. This made Li Xiao also breathe a sigh of relief, it seems that the stealth ability of his ability is indeed strong. Not long after entering the cave, you will find yourself in a huge hall. In this hall, Li Xiao finally met the real Sea Clan. As others have described, the appearance is very similar to that of the demons, except that the skin is blue, and it is difficult to find if you don't look carefully in the water. Moreover, the sea tribe is generally much taller than the demon race.

At this time, there were more than a hundred sea clans in the hall, most of them were in the Jindan stage, and there were only a few in the Yuan Infant stage. In the deepest part of the hall, a very burly Sea Clan's strength had reached the middle stage of the Yuan Infant Stage, and he was the most powerful of them.

At this time, the tall sea tribe was crossing his hands on his chest, kneeling in front of a mirror, and talking to it. On the opposite side of the mirror is a sea tribe with a wrinkled face. The words of the Sea Clan are slightly similar to those of the Demon Clan, and before this, Li Xiao also made up some of the words of the Sea Clan, so he could barely understand what the other party said.

At this time, the young Hai Clan had just reported the situation of Li Xiao's team to the other party. After listening to this, the other party said, "If only such a few people came, it wouldn't have much impact on our plans." After raising it for so long, it's time to harvest. You keep watching, and as soon as someone else comes, let me know. If I had a meeting and I had just informed the Commander, he would have informed me. Is there anything else going on?"

The young kraken immediately said, "I just heard a report from outside that three mid-primordial monks of the demon clan have entered the river, probably to hear our news. It's just that they have hidden their breath and haven't discovered it yet, do you need to send someone to find them out and kill them?"

The old man didn't think about it, and said directly: "They shouldn't dare to get too close, but it's better to find a way to find them and kill them." lest something happen to them, let them know that the water is ours. If it's okay, I'll break it. ”

Hearing this, Li Xiao didn't listen anymore, and swam straight outside. Not long after he left the entrance to the cave, a kraken swam out. Then take out a special conch and quickly blow it a few times. Then the surrounding river immediately rippled, and where the ripples passed, all the krakens suddenly froze, and then immediately flew outward.

Seeing this, Li Xiao couldn't care too much, and immediately increased his speed. Fortunately, most of the demon beasts around him were below level eight, so they were not discovered. Those demon beasts above level eight still stayed around the cave entrance.

Soon, Li Xiao found the two mid-primordial demon clans separately just now, and at this time, they happened to be discovered by two demonic beasts like swordfish. Because it flew right next to the two of them, it caused the current to fluctuate violently in order to avoid him.

After the two of them found out, the surrounding demonic beasts immediately rushed in their direction. Seeing this situation, the two of them could no longer care about hiding, and immediately launched an attack on those demonic beasts, and the demonic energy under the water was churning for a while.

At this time, Li Xiao also showed his figure, and casually dealt with more than a dozen sixth- and seventh-level demonic beasts around him. Then he sent a voice to the two of them: "Go." Then he took the lead and swam towards the top of his head. Seeing this, the two immediately got rid of the entanglement of the surrounding demonic beasts and quickly chased in the direction of Li Xiao.

The speed of Li Xiao and the others in the water was about the same as that of these sixth- and seventh-level demonic beasts, so they couldn't get rid of the demonic beasts that were gathering more and more behind them. At first, it was Li Xiao who opened the way in front and killed those demon beasts that stood in the way. In the back, it turned into two other people opening the way in front, and Li Xiao helped the palace. Otherwise, the latter two would definitely be drowned under the attack of these demon beasts.

At the same time that Li Xiao's side was discovered, those eighth-level demonic beasts that were originally still at the entrance of the cave immediately swam towards this side quickly, and their speed was much faster than that of Li Xiao and the others who were in the water.