—155 A.D.——

Although it is not clear what is meant by "transmission", it should be taken literally to mean "to transmit" and "to deliver".

However, Zhang Jiao did not feel anything unusual, but in the blink of an eye, the scene of the original luxurious manor living room turned into a wasteland, surrounded by sparse vegetation and clouds, and he found that his medicine basket had not been "teleported", and the sharpened staff was still in his hand.

There was a majestic and grand voice from all directions.

"[Now announce the trial content of the 'Daoshu Book Battle']," the voice said: "[Ahead is a ruined ancient city occupied by thieves, with 10,000 defenders, but the leader of the thieves led 6,000 men out to plunder, and only more than 3,000 remained. 】”

The surrounding clouds and mist dissipated, and Zhang Jiao saw that there was a mountain and water in the distance in front of him, and the terrain was excellent, but there were many collapsed and destroyed earth cities in the city walls and houses, and the sky was covered with clouds, and it was difficult to distinguish the direction.

If he sits in the north and faces south, he is in the south of the city, separated by a turbulent river on the east side, and there are towering mountain cliffs on the west side to block the view.

The grand voice continued: "[After receiving the information that the lair has been attacked, the leader of the thieves will return in an hour, and those who successfully break through the defense and reach the treasure house of the thief army before that will be deemed to have passed the trial, and will decide the order of selecting the Dao art book according to the order of arrival. 】”

Three thousand defenders, scattered on three sides, if they attack, they must have the legendary "True Matchless", that is, the strength to defeat a thousand people head-on, and the other two who are currently participating in the trial do not seem to have such skills, Zhang Jiao thought and nodded slightly.

“【…… In addition, the loud voice paused, adding, "[Killing other trialists will be considered a failure in the trial.] 】”

This one is to protect himself, Zhang Jiao thought self-deprecatingly, a person who is not a talent is not a talent, and he has learned a little "unequaled" combat skills by chance, that old Taoist does not mention, even if he is a young Taoist, there is no possibility of winning when he confronts him head-on.

However, it is not unconscionable to rashly propose "how to get all three books", according to Zhang Jiao's observation, although the two Taoists are quite familiar, they are not in harmony with each other.

They had only thought about how to pass the trials faster than their opponents and compete weakly with each other, but they themselves gave them another way, which was to "let all the opponents out of the game and win." ”

Although I don't know what the skills of the two Daoists are, they must all be able to see at a glance that their strength is low, and they speak to provoke a fight, but they are not qualified to participate in the battle at all, so they do not trust each other, knowing that doing so will be beneficial to the third party, but they can only choose to strike first.

This is the strategy of "two tigers competing for food".

At this time, Zhang Jiao heard the loud voice announce: "[The trial begins!] 】”

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According to Zhang Jiao's plan, he will use the "Phantom" ability to quietly stab some of the thieves' scouts to death with a pointed staff, and then change into their costumes and sneak into the city.

He guessed the beginning, but not the ending.

Advancing a short distance towards the city, Zhang Jiao successfully found a team of five scouts, who looked quite different from the Central Plains, all of them were powerful, five big and three thick, wearing shabby leather armor with no protective ability, only the scout captain was wearing iron half-body armor and a horn helmet.

Leaving the Phantom behind a rock, Zhang Jiao quietly followed with a pointed staff, silently stabbing the scout who walked last.

So far, it has gone well, Zhang Jiao was about to sneak back, but saw the scout captain suddenly turn around, and found that his subordinates had been killed inexplicably and did not try to search at all, but just shouted at the empty space in strange language: "Buddhist temple - huge!" ”

Before Zhang Jiao could understand the meaning of that strange sentence, his body flew out as if he had been hit by a battering ram, and let out a heart-rending cough in the air.

"Hah! Room of oil! The scout captain grabbed a pair of short-handled axes from his waist and chased them in the direction that Zhang Jiao flew away.

"Protection?" "Watts?" "Crooked?" The other three scouts stayed where they were, each expressing their doubts in strange language.

It is worthy of the difficulty of Shura...... There is no last resort to arrange a trial...... Zhang Jiao quickly thought as he rolled in the air: if he wanted to follow the original plan, he would have to assassinate a scout captain, use his armor to hide the difference in physique and appearance, and keep silent to cover up the language problem, so that even if he could enter the city, he would not be able to go far.

Bang! Zhang Jiao fell to the ground, and the "phantom" disappeared, unable to struggle for a while.

"Dai!" The captain of the scout strode up and slashed with his axe.

At this time, if you shout to admit defeat, you will probably be teleported out of the trial scene, and the "three books alone" that you talked about before has become a joke, and you can only leave this fairy cave mansion in a gloomy way and go back to do the first show of the day......

I'll bet - the "Phantom of Death" is still available! Zhang Jiao's eyes were sharp, and he stabbed the iron-clad thief in the unprotected throat with his pointed staff without dodging.

Poof! When the thieves' axes slashed Zhang Jiao's head, Zhang Jiao's pointed staff pierced his throat.

"Smack." A cracking sound came out, and the "Zhang Jiao" who was cut off shattered, and reappeared less than an arm's length away on the left side, only to see him covered in cold sweat and his arm trembling.

"Although I don't understand what you're talking about...... Zhang Jiao got up, looked at the scout captain who was spurting blood from his throat and his eyes were wide open, "But it's you who 'wear' this time, cough cough cough!" ”

Whew—The Ironclad Thief fell on his back, but the next moment he turned into a puff of golden dust and rolled up into the sky with a clear breeze, leaving only the Iron Armor and the Hatchet in its place.

"[Eliminate the thief 'Wu Chang', all his subordinates have escaped, and the trial evaluation has improved]" That grand voice sounded in Zhang Jiao's ears.

Escape? Zhang Jiao looked at the three ordinary scouts who had stayed in place before, and sure enough, they had disappeared - although most of them had also turned into dust, since it was said that Le was fleeing, it was better for them to escape.

Several conclusions, Zhang Jiao thought while putting on the iron armor, first, his "substitute death phantom" will gradually move away with the passage of time, and it is useless when the opponent moves quickly, when the distance is short; Second, the language of this barbarian thief is self-contained, and it has a combat skill that is similar to "unparalleled" through loud drinking, which is difficult to penetrate; Third, killing a boss will cause his men to scatter, but killing a normal thief will attract the attention of the boss.

Seem...... There are exploits, but they need to be verified, and there are many dangers in the process...... Oh, if you want to defeat two "immortals", how can you be afraid of danger?

Zhang Jiao tidied up his armor, put on the horn helmet to cover his face, took a deep breath, and walked towards Tucheng.

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The thieves occupy an earthen city with three floors, the outer city where ordinary thieves and low-level bosses are stationed, and the inner city where elite thieves and high-ranking bosses live.

During his stay in the city, Zhang Jiao secretly killed another chief - the unlucky ghost who lost his "team", but the centurion above was unaware of this, and it was already Zhang Jiao's limit to confront a "chief" head-on, and finally he began to collect intelligence in the city instead.

In terms of organizational structure, five people are a "team", ten people are a "tiah", a ten-person team is composed of a team commander, a serpent commander and eight ordinary thieves, but a hundred-person team has one hundred and eleven people, more than the centurion and the ten personal guards directly under him, and similarly, the thousand people will also have their own personal guard hundred teams, so the number of people under the jurisdiction of a thousand people is ......

Zhang Jiao shook his head and decided to give up calculating such a pointless thing.

As for the conclusion, killing and injuring ordinary thieves will attract at most one chief, and if you want to attract the attention of the hundred commanders and the thousand generals, you must kill their personal guards.

The three guards of the 1,000-strong guards were each near the three gates of the inner city, and they themselves were nowhere to be seen, perhaps drinking and having fun, until the guards were attacked.

Compared with the unnamed Wu Chang, Shi Chang and Centurion, these three thousand people will have names and surnames, respectively, called "Facas", "Wells" and "Wilcas", Zhang Jiao refused to think about their names after reading them a few times and confusing them.

In addition, although there are natural barricades outside the city, but the city is interconnected, presumably possible mutual framing will also occur here, when Zhang Jiao went to the west and east of the city to observe, only to see the surname of the old road side holding a whisk, lightning flashing, countless symbols of being killed gold dust scattered everywhere, and the young Taoist surnamed Zuo side is throwing charms everywhere, the yellow wind is rolling, from time to time there are thieves who are blown up to the sky and do not fall.

At a cursory glance, several centurions have already died at their hands.

Even with a horned helmet, Zhang Jiao couldn't help but sweat on his forehead, if it weren't for the rule of "kill the tester or fail", he would have been hit by these two people a long time ago.

The next development was not as he expected, after the two Daoists destroyed the withering and decaying and entered the outer city gate, they did not attack the inner city gate, but coincidentally rushed to the south gate where Zhang Jiao was supposed to attack, and of course, the defenders over there were almost completely undamaged, and directly met the two of them.

Erdao was not afraid, keeping a vigilant distance from each other while fighting, and at the same time communicating: "Hmph, it's really just a guy who wants to fish in troubled waters, and he dares to say anything about all three books." "If you are not afraid of what he means, why did you come as soon as you entered the city?" "Aren't you here too?" “……”

The two were silently distancing themselves and preparing to return to the direction of their main attack, but they saw a carriage swaying from the edge of the battlefield, and after destroying it at the same time, they found that there seemed to be three elite thieves lying inside.

Whoop - With an angry roar, three pitch-black, giant wolf figures rushed out of the inner city, leading a group of guards straight to the two Daoists, making them stumble.

Zhang Jiao, who was watching the battle from afar, quietly retreated and slipped in through the open inner city gate.

It is true that the status of the chief is not high, and it is even lower than the ordinary guards of a thousand generals, but this does not prevent Zhang Jiao from scavenging for alcohol and inviting them to drink, and the barbarian language used is only "Mide", "Zhun Ke" and "Kang".

I have to say that they can get drunk with such a weak wine, which proves that this barbarian is generally not good at drinking.

"I've seen it...... Immortals. In front of the treasure vault in the inner city, Zhang Jiao saw an old man wearing a loose and gorgeous Taoist robe, with crane hair and a childish face, and his beard and hair were white.

"[It's hard work all the way]," Lao Dao said in a voice that was almost the same as the loud voice before: "[But it's a little reckless and too tricky.] 】”

"The strength is not good, so I have to do this," Zhang Jiao replied, "and please ask the immortals to give me a book." ”

"[Yu Ji and Zuo Ci have not yet been defeated,] "The sleeves of the old Taoist robe flicked, and the fierce battle at the entrance of the outer city appeared in the air: "[You can choose to wait for the battle to end, or accept an extremely difficult assessment, if you pass, you will force them to be defeated, even if you fail this assessment, it will not have any effect. 】”

"I'm willing to accept it!" Zhang Jiao responded.

The formal test is over, and there is no longer room for interference, and there are additional opportunities at this time, which are naturally seized.

"[So ......]" The sleeves of the old Taoist robe flicked, the image disappeared, and there was an extra person beside him.

I saw that he was born with a majestic and majestic appearance, a golden crown on his head, a hundred flowers in a robe, Tang Yi armor, a lion treasure belt, a jujube red horse in his crotch, holding a Fang Tian painting halberd, glaring angrily at Zhang Jiao, and shouting in his mouth:

"[Who dares to fight with me Lu Fengxian! 】”