Chapter Forty-Six: The Secret Realm
Longpan had ups and downs in his early years, and he had risen and fallen countless times in this life. Every time he rises and falls, it means the overthrow of another force. How much was destroyed, I'm afraid even he couldn't tell. Among those opponents, large and small, mediocre and incompetent make up the vast majority. But it's not without the real amazing talent. There were many times when Delongpan fell into a great crisis, but in the end he won them all.
Lu Nim is an indelible opponent in Longpan's memory.
Other forces, only when they are very weak, have to be in a corner of peace. Whenever there is a little opportunity, they all seize it fiercely and climb up. Only this Lu Minoru is different from his Lu Jiazhai.
Lujiazhai, just listening to the name, is a small cottage that I don't know which one to hide. Of course, that's also the case. This small cottage is nestled in a barren mountain. The mountain was still a stone mountain, and there weren't even many plants. Except for a few lonely trees standing in the village, which were planted spontaneously by the people in the village when they were bored. It's a pity that this mountain may not be suitable for plants to survive, and even a few small saplings are growing crookedly, and one by one they seem to be about to die, and they can't help but be weak when they look at it.
It stands to reason that such a nest, which is almost engraved with the word "barren" on the plaque, does not need to be destroyed by people at all, and it may disappear one day. However, the biggest setback that Long Pan has encountered in his life is also suffered here.
If you want to talk about the battles that Longpan has experienced, in fact, most of them are others who come to provoke him and destroy him. And who he took the initiative to attack, this number of times, before taking Shifang City, was very rare. When he decided to capture this Lujia Village, he also saw that although the village was dilapidated, the strong men inside were very capable. He just wanted to take it for himself.
He didn't want to think about it. A broken cottage where even the saplings are going to die, but the people in this village are all alive and well, is there anything abnormal about this thing.
Longpan didn't know that even though this cottage seemed to be surviving, it had really been here for more than a hundred years.
Lujiazhai. To be exact, it is the ancestor of the owner of the village, Lu Nim, who was a close attendant of a certain Shifang City Lord. The current city lord was naturally one of the very few people who had entered the glacier and gained great strength from it.
Although the squire was only a guard, his mind was rare and clever. He knew that the city lord had a big secret, and he, the insiders around him, would definitely be killed, so he first arranged it and recorded the secret, and then thought of countless strategies, and finally let his blood be hidden from the world, and lived incognito in a place far away from Shifang City with that secret.
It is true that the attendant also left a warning to future generations not to fight the idea of the glacier. Of course, even if he didn't warn, in front of the behemoth of Shifang City, with the little spark he left behind, there would be no way to break through at all. Perhaps in the future, the descendants of a certain generation may also give birth to a great strategist and finally break this pattern. But before the dragon disk appeared, after all, there was still none.
Lu Nim's wisdom is actually no longer under the ancestors. If he had the idea of going to fight this glacier, I am afraid that there would have been nothing to do with Longpan for a long time. However, adhering to the will of his ancestors also brought himself the disaster of killing, which he could not deduce anyway.
Lujiazhai occupies a favorable geographical position. The strength inside is far beyond the imagination of outsiders. Add to that the wise leadership of Lu Minoru...... These conditions add up, and they are still invincible to the dragon plate. When it's true, it's fate. Maybe that dragon pan is really a person with excellent luck.
Although the purpose of Longpan's annexation of Lujiazhai was not achieved, it got a handwritten letter that seemed to have been circulated for many years. At the beginning, the ancestor of the Lu family had never entered the glacier, but he clearly affirmed that there was indeed a secret realm in the depths of the glacier. This handwritten book is much more honest and reliable than the rumors that are true and false outside. Long Pan is a decisive person, and after a little thought, he judged that this matter was not false - of course, he only wrote a "true" word on the left and a "false" word on the right, and after a few casual glances, he felt that he was emotionally more inclined to the word on the left. As for whether this thing was deliberately made by the people of Lujiazhai to deceive the world, he didn't think about such a profound point at all.
Or it should be said that Long Pan was originally a careerist among careerists, an outlaw among outlaws. He got this news, even if it was only a bit of truth, it was enough to make him desperate. What's more, this handwritten book is conclusive, and there is more than one point of credibility. If he doesn't have a heart, it's wrong.
Once Longpan decides, he will never be entangled again and again and hesitant. However, the Ten Square City is not an ornament.
The foundation of the construction of Shifang City is to prevent outsiders from trespassing on the glacier. It can be said that it is a choke road. On one side is a deep cliff, and you can't see what it is at the bottom, only you can hear the waves like anger and roar endlessly; on the other side is a cliff barrier, and you can't see what it is from above, but you can hear the wind rolling, and the momentum is like thunder. ——This momentum alone can eliminate the idea of ordinary people to explore. What's more, for many years, this is not without death.
Long Pan led his subordinates, and both sides tried to break through, but as a result, nearly half of the manpower was broken when he left the division, and it was rare to make an inch. It was only at this time that he had an intuitive and clear understanding of the danger of Shifang City: no wonder the world went forward and followed. If you get this city, it's really too small to see the world.
Fortunately, this Shifang City has never been a good place, and there are strong armies attacking from below. As far as Longpan is concerned, even if no one fights, he has to think of ways to instigate some men and horses to fight, so that his troops can blend in and pass directly through the city. Since there is a ready-made opportunity right now, of course, you have to wait...... There is no need to go into detail about fishing in troubled waters like this. In the end, he got what he wanted. It's just that after this battle, more than half of the men and horses under his hands were lost.
Longpan's elimination of Lujiazhai has been a big injury, crossing a ten-square city, and filling in half of the Thai manpower, the original army is still an army, and now there are only a few less than a hundred. And in front of them, it is a more mysterious and dangerous glacier that has no return.
At this point, even Long Pan wouldn't think that his subordinates could do anything if they went in.
But Long Pan didn't have a word in his heart.
Behind him is Shifang City, when the war has not been extinguished, if you turn around and go in, presumably at this time, no matter which side will refuse this combat force. Even if Long Pan said "The road ahead is dangerous, if you don't want to go, you can turn around on your own", presumably these people under him can keep a few. It's just that people who don't belong to him, will he still be cheaper than others? Yes, Long Pan didn't think about it at all.
His only command was "Onward!"
Long Pan's subordinates were all confused with small faces. For the close proximity to the glacier behind Shifang City, they have known it since childhood. There are all kinds of strange legends about the glacier. If there is still a little curiosity and yearning in childhood, after growing up, I have heard a lot of terrifying words, especially I am struggling to survive in the precariousness of the day, and it is not easy to live alive, so naturally no one will have such naïve and naïve thoughts again. They didn't understand what the master they were following was thinking. What exactly is being done.
However, if before coming to Shifang City, some people might jump out and question the strange attachment to the dragon plate. But since their manpower has been worn out one by one, their hearts have also become numb little by little. Until this time, even if they didn't know what was waiting in front of them, they could only silently obey the order of the dragon pan, and then they were infinitely dazed in their hearts.
As expected. The little man he had left was sunk clean soon after he entered the glacier.
These subordinates of his, I am afraid that they are still in this vast confusion until they die, and I am afraid that they will never be able to figure out how they died.
Long Pan is indeed a ruthless person. In the end, he was the only one left between heaven and earth. I don't see the stars and moon when I look up, and I don't have a living mouth when I look around. When you reach this glacier, it is as if all sound and color are cut off, the only sound is the endless gust of wind that blows out of nowhere, and the only color is the boundless gray that can make people despair.
But in this way, Long Pan's heart seems to be burning with a fire: Labor and management are admitted! Even if they want to die, they don't want to retreat!
In the midst of the vast emptiness, with no direction, he went straight ahead, and when there was no food, he used his weapon to gouge the snow and ice. One step, two steps, two days...... It's been going on like this. It's never been dead!
To say that Long Pan had already made up his mind to die at this time: at this point, would he still want to get out alive? But his life, as if forgotten by the king of Yama, did not come to accept it. If this is exchanged for a person whose mind is shaking, I am afraid that he has long doubted his life and death: in the biting cold, the feelings of the body have long been numb, under the repetition of this day after day, how can we conclude that it is not his own soul that is walking here, but the living self? Perhaps, his body has already fallen in some unknown place, and has been buried clean by this snow and ice?
Glaciers don't have day or night. Some are just a dull gray, about gray is the sky, and white is the snow on the ground. When a long-lost light appeared in front of the dragon's eyes, even he couldn't help but think in a trance that this was a hallucination derived from before death.
The thought only came to me for a moment.
The dragon pan narrowed his eyes and looked towards where the light came from.
In fact, he squinted, but he had opened his eyes to the extreme. The longer he stays in this glacier, the more his perception is already closed, and he is still moving forward with an obsession.
What appeared in front of the dragon pan was a white temple. Because it was so white and clear, it was no different from the ice and snow around him, if it weren't for the light that came from nowhere, he was afraid that with his current five senses, he would only regard it as a majestic iceberg, and bypass it in a daze.
Long Pan looked at it for a long time, and the emotions and perceptions that seemed to be frozen by ice and snow suddenly came to his heart: Ancient Country! Secret Realm! What he was looking for! Unexpectedly, ...... It's so close!
Long Pan felt that his frozen blood had begun to boil.
But it soon dawned on him that this was not his reaction to ecstasy...... He could clearly perceive that an inexplicable warm current was rapidly swimming and reshaping in his blood. This warm current is washing and condensing his body inch by inch. This kind of power is clearly ......