Chapter 240: Perception
The steppe cavalry, after being cleared two or three times by Hei Xuan's unscrupulous large-scale attack, there were only more than 30,000 people left, and these more than 30,000 people were still being slaughtered with very rapid efficiency.
This time, Jiang Yan did not recruit prisoners on the spot like he did on the battlefield of Baixincheng last time.
On the one hand, it is because the supreme commander of the steppe cavalry is still there, Lie Hong, Lie Cang, and Elder Xi are all still alive, and with these people as the backbone, unless they take the lead in expressing their stance first, it will be difficult for the steppe cavalry to surrender on the spot.
On the other hand, Jiang Yan hadn't digested the eight thousand Yan soldiers he had captured last time, and the demand for manpower was not as urgent as it was then, so it didn't matter if he surrendered or not.
After the order to retreat from the Golden City of Liehongquan spread, the steppe cavalry all turned around and fled in the direction they had started to come and go. Although an army of 80,000 cavalry had been defeated by a mere 10,000 enemies, and had to retreat at the risk of being pursued by the enemy, it sounded ridiculous?
"Pursuit, maintain the basic formation!"
Naturally, the air forces of the Red Jade Tower would not let the enemy escape, and with the advantage of flight speed, they fiercely bit the retreating steppe cavalry and poured firepower.
However, after all, the number of people on the side of Hongyulou was still at a disadvantage, and Jiang Yan didn't want to let the sub-planes under his command suffer unnecessary casualties, so when pursuing, in the face of the grassland cavalry who were scattered and fleeing, the Hongyulou Air Force could only choose to pursue a small part of them.
In the end, after making the steppe cavalry pay the price of thousands again, they successfully escaped from this battlefield and withdrew from the scope of Shengyun Country.
The speed of the excellent war horses produced in the Northern Regions is obviously higher than that of the Eastern Regions, and the 80,000 cavalry rationed are still the best of the best, and even carry the meager blood of foal-like beasts. In addition, the steppe cavalry also mastered a unique set of riding skills, which can infuse their own strength into the horses under their seats, increasing the foot strength of the horses in a short time, so that they are not much worse than the land beasts when running at full speed, of course, the duration is very short.
But it was enough for them to let the rest flee after paying some of the sacrifices of the queen.
If you chase it hard, Hongyulou has the advantage of the troops, and it is not that it can't continue to chase here, but the problem is that the other party is too scattered, and Hongyulou has to be equally scattered if you want to chase it, and the probability of increasing variables after leaving Shengyun Country will also increase, Jiang Yan feels that it is better not to take that risk.
ββThrough some hidden sentinels arranged outside, Jiang Yan has already detected the clues of Xingluo Sect alone, and it would not be good if he was ambushed and sniped after leaving Shengyun Country.
After such a long salvo of salvo fire, the 'Thunder Array Magnetic Rail Gun' brought out this time, although there are still bullets left, the more important gun body has been damaged by one-third, and the remaining two-thirds are mostly worn, I don't know how long it can be supported, and the rune bombs have been sprinkled, Jiang Yan doesn't want to take the risk of dividing his troops to pursue in this state.
Ordinary soldiers forget it, but as a heaven-level powerhouse with high-end combat power of the enemy, they have gained something. - Elder Xi is dead.
The Red Jade House Air Force, which had given up pursuing the remnants of the enemy army, concentrated its remaining firepower and sniped at the old man together. Elder Xi, who had been suppressed by Huang Ming from beginning to end and could not raise his head, and could be defeated at any time, finally couldn't support it after being caught by the air cavalry with thousands of thunder array magnetic rail guns, and after being caught by Huang Ming, the flaws attached to the Ming King's fire were torn apart on the spot.
As for Lie Hong and Lie Cang, who was being targeted, they survived after paying a heavy price.
After giving the order for the whole army to retreat, Lie Hong launched a desperate secret method similar to the disintegration of the Heavenly Demon, and his whole body was full of blood, and the released martial arts illusion completely turned into a vicious blood wolf, showing the reason why he was called the 'Blood Wolf King' on the grassland.
At this moment, the giant wolf virtual image that was churning with wisps of riotous blood-colored aura became condensed at this moment, and clusters of blood-colored aura fluttered and fluttered on the surface of the body like its wolf hair, and the size of the wolf drive also swelled to more than forty meters, and the fiery red figure in the depths of the blood wolf's body had been completely hidden.
"Whoaβ"
The giant wolf opened his mouth and roared angrily, and suddenly his figure flashed, turning into a huge shadow covering the sky, and quickly rushed towards the position of the fierce sky that was being besieged by Luo Yingjie and seven or eight second-level, eighth-order, second-level and ninth-order alien beast soldiers and rune machine soldiers.
The King Kong Storm Ape roared and stopped, took three steps in the void, and after sinking his waist and stomach, he was beaten out by it with a charged punch that was incomparably similar to that of a human martial artist, and with the help of the human martial arts luck method, this punch exerted ten percent of its naturally strong physical strength, and the thick fist wind pressed the void with circles of twisted ripples, which continued to fluctuate with the fist. Even if it is the carapace defense that Hei Xuan is proud of, if it is not attached to the Yuan Force protection, it will be smashed by this punch.
It was with this set of martial arts fist techniques that were given by Jiang Yan with his ability to be comparable to the realm of human grandmasters, that the Vajra Storm Ape was able to face the fierce red that was two orders higher than it many times.
But now that the scorching red is starting to fight hard, it is a little beyond its strength to get together.
"Whoaβ!!"
The blood-colored giant wolf roared in his mouth, and without looking at it, he swung out a claw, and the blood-colored arc giant blade with a length of more than ten meters flew out and tore the fist of the King Kong Storm Ape to pieces, and with no less effort, it cut out a huge wound that was deep in the bones of its arm, and finally the blood blade fell to the chest of the King Kong Storm Ape and blasted its breastplate to the ground before it finally exploded, and the explosion of birth shook the King Kong Storm Ape far away, and the ape's mouth screamed, blood and several pieces of internal organs were spewed out.
The King Kong Storm Ape, who almost broke an arm again, has no strength to fight again.
Since the beginning of the war, it has mostly attacked with the same arm, because its other arm was broken by Qi Gen in the last battle with the Brute Bone Emperor Dragon, and it has just regenerated today, so it is inevitable that it is a little fragile, and it is too reluctant to use it in the same level of battle.
Seeing the sudden change in the situation, Ziqu also suddenly burst out with all his strength, and the entire lion body was wrapped in a rich purple-gold thunder light, using his body as the core to transform into a purple sun with a diameter of more than thirty meters, and the intense flare reflected the heavens and the earth with a bright purple.
The purple sun pulsated like a heart, and its size continued to expand, and soon it swelled to a size of eighty meters, emitting a light that would make it impossible for the soldiers on the earth to even look up at the sky.
In the face of Ziqu's brewing attack, the blood-colored giant wolf raised its head and opened its wolf kiss slightly at Ziyang, and a burst of red light between his mouths was rapidly increasing.
Both sides were gathering momentum, and they all turned into two large whirlpools, pulling the vitality between heaven and earth and converging towards the position of the two.
After three breaths have passed.
High in the air, the huge purple sun, which had swelled to a diameter of 100 meters, seemed to have finally been accumulated, and then suddenly shrank rapidly, and the diameter collapsed back to the size of thirty meters, but the mass was obviously more condensed, and the dazzling light that had been radiating outward also dimmed.
However, the void around Ziyang that gradually distorted and became uncertain clearly showed that its power was actually rising instead of decreasing.
After the void seemed to crack with a cracking sound, Ziyang trembled slightly, and then smashed down the blood-colored giant wolf below.
It was also at this time that the giant wolf's mouth suddenly opened to an exaggerated angle that looked like it was about to dislocate, and a crimson torrent larger than its size, thirty or forty meters thick, gushed out of its mouth, and hit the rapidly falling Ziyang from the bottom up.
The falling purple sun collided with the red torrent, creating a strong burst of explosive energy aftermath, and the resulting wave of shock gas turned into a hurricane, sweeping everything nearby and blowing away.
The few steppe cavalrymen who had not had time to escape were swept away like garbage, and when the men and horses landed again, they were directly smashed into pulp. Some of the air forces that were close to the Red Jade Tower were inevitably attacked, but fortunately, they had the ability to fly, and most of them readjusted their flight attitudes after being shocked away.
The impact spread to the nearby Iron Tooth City, which was blocked by the heavy walls, but the remnants of the past also stirred up the city like a typhoon.
After a few breaths of stalemate, the torrent spit out by the blood-colored giant wolf and Ziyang gradually weakened at the same time, the crimson torrent gradually became thinner, and Ziyang also became much thinner, so that the figure of Ziqu inside began to emerge.
"Whew-"
"Roar?!"
But at this moment, the torrent spit out by the giant wolf suddenly expanded again, and then went upstream, pushing the purple sun upside down into the clouds in the blink of an eye, and finally turning it into a bright star and disappearing into the sky.
The price of this sudden outburst was that the breath of the blood-colored giant wolf rapidly declined by a large margin, and its size also shrank significantly, turning back to the size of more than ten meters in diameter.
After flying the purple song, Lie Hong did not stop at all, and the four legs that drove the giant wolf virtual image stepped on again and again, running in the void, following the dark induction between the bloodlines of father and son, and rushed to the vicinity of Lie Cang in a few clicks.
The aftermath of the all-out confrontation between Lie Hong and Zi Qu just now spread out that the entire battlefield was in chaos, even the existence of the second and ninth orders was difficult to resist, so Luo Yingjie and the others, who were originally besieging Lie Cang, were also affected, and a group of people were all scattered far apart, and it was no coincidence that the father and son were successfully brought together.
After arriving at Lie Cang's side, Lie Hong didn't even hesitate for a moment, he directly opened the wolf's mouth and bit down, swallowing Lie Cang into his stomach in one bite, and then jumped up with a four-legged kick.
In the next instant, a thick magma cannon broke through the layers of sand and dust that filled the battlefield, and after narrowly brushing under the blood-colored giant wolf incarnated in red, it continued to penetrate most of the battlefield before disintegrating and dissipating.
Blazing Red didn't dare to relax at all, and continued to drive the giant wolf to step on the void again and again, moving his body irregularly and rapidly, and continued to jump and rise hundreds of meters into the air.
Woohoo Woo ...... Immediately after, the ground continued to crack, and huge stone spears burst out of the pit and stabbed fiercely at the location of the blood-colored giant wolf, and there were bursts of sudden increase in the weight of the spherical distorted areas displayed in the void, like invisible fishing nets trying to envelop the giant wolf inside.
Unfortunately, all of this was avoided by the giant wolf with incredible agility.
After constantly moving and jumping to a height of nearly a thousand meters, the giant wolf turned into a streamer and flew away quickly towards the northern sky. In the middle of the process, several more magma cannons shot diagonally from the ground aimed at its back, but unfortunately they were all dodged by its turn.
"Roaring ββ!!"
An angry lion's roar came from the sky, and I saw Ziqu rushing down with thunder and light all over his body, his eyes swept the scene of the battlefield, and then he locked on the giant wolf in the distance, and the light wing light behind him suddenly soared, and he stepped away and planned to pursue.
"Ziqu, forget it!" Jiang Yan's sudden voice made Ziqu's momentum suddenly stop.
"In terms of speed, the only one who can pursue him now is you. And he is desperate, even if he survives later, he will be greatly injured, and it is even likely that his life will be greatly reduced, and it is possible to be demoted from cultivation, even if he leaves it alone, it doesn't matter. On the contrary, you catch up alone, and you have to bear the risk of being counterattacked by him who is gaining momentum, which is not worth it. β
β...... Be. Ziqu stared coldly at the wolf shadow that was rapidly shrinking and becoming more and more blurred in his line of sight, let out a low roar, slowly withdrew the thunder light that was entwined around him, turned around and flew back to Jiang Yan who had landed.
A minute later, Huang Ming also returned, still clutching a bloodstained corpse on his claws, and his angry and dead-eyed face was none other than the Xi Elder who was fighting with him.
"Well, Huang Ming, well done. β
"Fortunately, I was not dishonored. Huang Ming showed the corpse in his paws, and said in a cheerful tone.
Then, Huang Ming's red eyes flashed with a few hints of fierce light and greed: "My lord, forgive me for being presumptuous, can I eat him?"
β...... Huh?!" Jiang Yan couldn't help but pause slightly when he heard this.
"Ahem. Seeing this, Huang Ming hesitated slightly, then gritted his teeth and continued: "The flesh of a strong person in this realm, just like the flesh and blood of foreign beasts such as us, is a great tonic for us, and if you eat it, there are many benefits, so, ...... your lord."
People eat foreign beasts, and foreign beasts will also eat people, this is the most natural truth, Jiang Yan quickly understood Huang Ming's words, and also understood his doubts.
Jiang Yan himself is a human being, and according to what Huang Ming has seen and heard, he knows that human beings are very ethical creatures, so if it eats people, will it cause Jiang Yan's dissatisfaction?
"......" Jiang Yan's eyes flashed slightly, and after being silent for a while, he nodded calmly: "That's your spoils, you can dispose of them." β
"Thank you, my lord!" Huang Ming said happily, the strength of this human being has three levels and four orders, and eating his heaven-level martial arts body will help it even if it is comparable to eating a beast pill of a third-level and first-order beast king, and it is naturally good to be able to obtain permission.
But after all, Huang Ming still knew how to restrain himself, he didn't eat directly in front of Jiang Yan, but left far away with the corpse after saying goodbye, planning to go to a place where Jiang Yan couldn't see before acting, so as not to affect Jiang Yan's mood.
The intelligence of the alien beasts has reached this point, and their wisdom is no worse than that of humans.
β...... Have I changed?' After glancing at Huang Ming, who was leaving, Jiang Yan sat on Ziqu's back and raised his hand to touch his face.
If it was when he had just crossed over to this Canglan Domain, Jiang Yan asked himself, if it wasn't necessary, he wouldn't have allowed a foreign race like Huang Ming to go down and eat the human race who was also his own compatriot.
Obviously, compared with the beginning, Jiang Yan's mentality has changed dramatically unconsciously.
It's become a lot more ruthless.
Because of Huang Ming's move, Jiang Yan also found that he had unconsciously become able to slaughter human beings without mercy, and when he witnessed the air cavalry under his command reaping the lives of those steppe cavalrymen just now, Jiang Yan found that there were not many emotional fluctuations in his heart.
Sympathy, unbearable, almost none.
I remember that at the beginning, when he had just obtained the red jade blood bee, Jiang Yan asked the red jade blood bees to hunt for blood food, and when they encountered humans, they always asked the red jade blood bees to drive them away after giving them a little warning.
Right now......
Jiang Yan looked at a large area of corpses of the steppe cavalry scattered around the battlefield.
Post-war cleaning is also a very important task, there are probably more than 30,000 soldiers' corpses here, right?
Jiang Yan suddenly gave an order: "Zhi Brain, clean up the battlefield, and let the red jade blood bee swarm be dispatched to deal with the corpses of these soldiers, which can be recycled by turning them into blood crystals." β
"Yes. γ
After giving the order, Jiang Yan's brows suddenly furrowed deeply.
Even if it is an order that can be considered 'inhumane,' I have no hesitation or regret it now...... Something is wrong! This really doesn't look like the original me, right?! This is no longer a matter of decisiveness, but "ruthlessness...... No, that's not right, emotions like joy, anger, sorrow, and so on, I obviously still have them, so ......'
Jiang Yan carefully thought back on his past for a while, and finally came to a conclusion.
Is it a disregard for human life? Now, it seems that I am about to take the lives of outsiders seriously!!'
Jiang Yan examined his past experience again: 'When people's personalities change, there are often external causes, usually due to great changes or the persecution of the environment...... But I don't think I've ever encountered anything like it!'
Jiang Yan asked himself that he didn't seem to have encountered a setback that would cause a big change in his heart, right? At most, it was just a thrill.
So what the hell is he...... When did the change happen!?
'This must be clarified!' Jiang Yan instinctively felt that the reason for this was very important to him.
PS: QAQ, I got rid of it, the full attendance was almost gone, and I redeemed a leave slip to make up for it...... I don't have the money left to redeem the second one
PS2: This chapter has been corrected for free with 1,000 words, so please allow me to be lazy and just go to bed early to adjust