Chapter 76: Aiming for the Sinkhole
The next day, the army led by Zhao Tianming set off with the members of the Royal Guard.
Some members of the Royal Guards soon discovered that most of the officers they saw had a second-order spirit sword in their hands, and if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have thought that in a border city like Zhennan County, which was close to the barbarians, they could actually have a second-order spirit sword in their hands.
If it was just one or two officers who had a second-order spirit sword, they felt that this was normal.
But now they saw that at least dozens of officers had second-order spirit swords, which completely subverted their cognition.
In the market, a first-order spirit sword requires at least 10,000 gold coins, and a second-order spirit sword requires 100,000 gold coins.
In the minds of those members of the Royal Guard, Zhennan County can be regarded as a poor and remote country, and there is very little oil and water.
They could imagine that the officers in front of them seemed to have made a fortune, which was completely unexpected.
But they didn't talk much, they could only sigh in their hearts that Zhao Tianming was really wealthy, and he even issued second-order spirit swords to his subordinate officers.
With a second-order spirit sword, those officers can be sharpened like clay, and they will no longer be afraid of the barbarian shield.
In the past, those officers did not dare to collide head-on with the barbarian shields.
Many times, the ordinary guns and swords of ordinary soldiers and the shields of barbarians collided violently, and in the end, it was the ordinary guns and swords of ordinary soldiers that were broken.
Even officers with a slightly higher rank did not dare to collide with the barbarian shield with the first-order spirit sword at will, for fear that they would accidentally break the spirit sword.
Not long after Zao Wou-Ki set off, he was called over by Wan Qingqing.
He couldn't figure it out in his heart, he had thought that Wan Qingqing was going to the Feather Demon Sect.
And now that he found that they were really walking in the direction of the sinkhole, he realized that Wan Qingqing's purpose was really the sinkhole.
"Wuji, you let your Red Bird go to the front to spy on the information!
Wan Qingqing gave Zao Wou-Ki an order.
"Okay!"
Zhao Wuji had a black line, and then he realized that Wan Qingqing wanted to take him with him, but it was so that he could let the Sky Devouring Sparrow spy for her.
The Sky Devouring Sparrow went to the front to spy on the enemy according to Zao Wou-ki's request.
And Zao Wou-Ki and the others saw a lot of demon beast corpses on the ground along the way, and those corpses had already turned into white bones.
Although this time, they didn't see the beast tide appear, but the ground was full of the corpses of various demon beasts, which also made him extremely shocked.
After a while, the Sky Devourer flew back.
When he heard the report of the Devouring Sparrow, his heart suddenly became tense.
Wan Qingqing hurriedly asked, "Zhao Wouji, what is the situation in front of you now?"
"There are a large number of demon beast corpses in front, and the front is very miserable!"
Zao Wou-Ki replied honestly.
"Oh, then let's move on!"
Wan Qingqing sighed.
As everyone moved towards the sinkhole, they saw more and more dead monsters on the ground, and their hearts were suddenly extremely shocked.
Even though the corpses were those of demon beasts, they were shocked.
They didn't want to die on the ground like the corpses of those monsters, and end up in a pile of white bones.
And after a while, everyone saw a large group of demon beasts appear in front of them.
They immediately prepared for battle to prevent those monsters from rushing over.
But after a while, they were pleasantly surprised to find that the monsters were not rushing towards them.
After those demon beasts passed, Zhao Wuji and the others continued to move forward.
Along the way, they did not find any danger.
If it had been before, the monsters here would have attacked them.
But now, although they saw some demon beasts occasionally appearing in front of them, those demon beasts did not attack them, but seemed to go crazy, scurrying around.
Although no demon beasts attacked them at this time, they didn't feel any joy in their hearts.
Instead, they felt more nervous, they didn't want to end up like those monsters.
After a day's march, the party set up camp on a flat ground that night, intending to spend the night.
Zhao Tianming asked his soldiers to keep vigil at night to prevent the demon beasts from sneaking up at night.
And just after nightfall, six Royal Guard soldiers came in front of Zao Wou-ki's tent, and he realized that Wan Qingqing had asked him to go to her now.
Zao Wou-Ki frowned, and asked the six Royal Guard soldiers to take him to Wan Qingqing.
Soon, he was sent to a tent by the six soldiers.
"Tell the princess, Zao Wou-Ki has already brought!"
A Royal Guard soldier shouted into the tent.
"Let him in!"
Hearing Wan Qingqing's voice coming from inside the tent, Zhao Wuji's heart tightened, and he couldn't understand what she was calling him over for at this time.
"Does she want the Sky Devouring Sparrow to spy on the monster at night?"
His mind was spinning rapidly, and he felt that this was a very high possibility.
When Zao Wou-Ki entered the tent, he quickly saw Wan Qingqing in a military uniform.
"Zao Wou-Ki has seen the eldest princess!" Zao Wou-Ki said respectfully.
"Don't be so polite, I'll get straight to the point! Zao Wou-ki, I think you must be wondering why I entered the sinkhole in front of me, right?"
Wan Qingqing asked directly.
"Yes, please tell the princess directly, I don't want to guess!"
"Then I'll be direct and tell you the truth! The reason why I want to stay here in Zhennan County and not continue my activities is because I found out that there is a treasure here, and that treasure is in the sinkhole. And before I wanted to sneak into the barbarian camp, I wanted to borrow some branches of the sacred tree to see if the branches of the sacred tree could block the mysterious power of the sinkhole! But I didn't expect that I had no way to sneak into the barbarian camp, and I was assassinated! However, you don't have to worry, our master has already obtained some seeds of the barbarian sacred tree, so you don't have to worry about those demon beasts. ”
Wan Qingqing said to Zao Wou-Ki.
"What is the Sacred Tree Seed?"
After hearing this, Zao Wou-Ki's brows furrowed slightly.
"You see, this is the seed of the sacred tree!"
Wan Qingqing immediately took out some sacred tree seeds from the storage ring and showed them to Zao Wou-ki.
Zao Wou-Ki recognized that the Sacred Tree Seed that Wan Qingqing had taken out was the Tiankun Tree Seed.
"Princess, are these seeds important? I have also entered the barbarian camp before, and I have also grabbed some sacred tree seeds from there!"
"Snatching some sacred tree seeds from the barbarians is just one of my purposes, we want to go there and get some sacred tree branches to use to deal with the mysterious power released by the sinkhole!"
Wan Qingqing replied.
"I see!" Zao Wou-Ki listened and suddenly realized.
He used to think that Wan Qingqing sent people to attack the barbarian camp, probably to eliminate those barbarians and never stop the scourge of barbarians.
But he didn't feel like it, he pondered that if Wan Qingqing really wanted to destroy the barbarians, he would definitely send a large army to exterminate those barbarians.
Only now did he know that Wan Qingqing wanted to steal the seeds of the Barbarian Sacred Tree and take some branches of the Sacred Tree.
Undoubtedly, if Wan Qingqing really did this, he would be slapping the barbarian in the face.
To the barbarians, the sacred tree held a sacred place in their hearts, and any desecration of the sacred tree was severely punished.
And Wan Qingqing went to the treasures in the sinkhole, not to destroy the barbarians.
Doing this to the eldest princess, Zao Wou-Ki could only touch his nose.
He knew that no matter what the top leaders of the Eternal Kingdom decided to do, it was not something he could stop, and it was impossible for him to ask Wan Qingqing to exterminate the barbarians.
Zhao Wouji's eyes flashed, and he said to Wan Qingqing: "Then the grass people, please ask the princess, then do you know what treasures are in the sinkhole? The grass people want the princess to more or less reveal some news to me!"
"Although I really want to tell you what treasures are in the sinkhole, I really don't know, and I can only say that entering the sinkhole this time is a very dangerous operation!"
Wan Qingqing replied lightly.
Zao Wou-Ki gasped when he heard this.
For a while, he didn't know how to answer Wan Qingqing.
Wan Qingqing sighed and said: "Zao Wou-ki, my master just sensed that there must be some kind of treasure in the sinkhole, but what that treasure is, I really don't know, what we can do next is to continue to work hard to go inside, it is said that there are many strange things in the sinkhole, and we can't find out the truth of those strange things!" In short, Zao Wou-ki, you must let that red bird open his eyes to see the situation in front clearly, and don't miss any clues, this place is very dangerous, and any slight negligence may lead to the destruction of the entire army!"
"Princess, don't worry, the grass people will definitely obey their orders!"
Zao Wou-Ki hurriedly replied.
He had seen a lot of dead bodies of demon beasts on the road before, and he knew that this place was really very dangerous.
"Zao Wou-ki, go back, you will follow me tomorrow!"
Wan Qingqing said.
"The grass people obey!"
Zao Wou-Ki exited the tent and exhaled.
He knew that he was being used as a gun by Wan Qingqing, but her identity was the eldest princess of the Wangu Kingdom, and she had this power.
The next day, Zao Wou-Ki followed Wan Qingqing forward.
According to Wan Qingqing's request, he asked the Sky Devouring Sparrow to go to the front to explore the way.
A quarter of an hour later, Devouring Heaven and Devouring Blood told Zao Wou-Ki that it saw many small pits on the ground in front of it.
It got in touch with the other monsters, and learned from them that the pits had recently appeared here, and from the pits from time to time a kind of pitch-black giant rat would emerge.
After Zhao Wouji heard this, he immediately relayed the news to Wan Qingqing, so that she could prepare.
When Wan Qingqing heard this, Dai's eyebrows furrowed, and she asked her subordinates to prepare to move forward cautiously.
Soon, the team saw numerous deep craters on the dirt road ahead.
Zhao Tianming immediately stopped the procession, and he sent ten officers to inspect the pits.
And before, Zao Wou-Ki had already told him the news that there were giant rats in those deep pits.
Therefore, Zhao Tianming used the method of luring out those giant rats with fragrant meat.