This march was indeed effective, and in three days it actually walked 400 miles, gradually entering the central area of the desert.

Yi Jiuxiao looked out from the window of the carriage, and his eyes were full of yellow sand, and the yellow sand was still uneven, and there were large and small sand dunes everywhere.

The team traverses the flats between the dunes, with no people or other creatures in sight along the way. Except for the team moving, there was dead silence.

At this rate, there are still six days left to get out of the desert.

This desert is a long strip, 3,000 miles wide, completely across the entire state of Shazhou, almost impossible to bypass. The longitudinal direction, that is, the direction in which the team travels, is much narrower, only more than 1,200 miles.

If the current pace of the march is maintained, it will be possible to get out in six days, which is much faster than previously expected.

The desert was hot during the day and cold at night, with a large temperature difference, but it had little effect on the cultivators of the forbidden army. Yi Jiuxiao was even more afraid, his physical strength far surpassed that of a cultivator.

But cultivators don't suffer and ignore everything, such as the sandstorm, which the team encountered on the fourth day.

The raging wind swept through the sky and the yellow sand rushed from afar, and the sky suddenly became dark and misty.

The whole team was drowned in a sandstorm in an instant, the horses neighed in the dust, and the powerful hurricane blew the carriage to pieces, and the whole team was crushed.

These forbidden troops basically grew up in the capital, although the magic power is profound, brave and good at fighting, but who has encountered this scene. Immediately there was confusion and panic.

Qi Bin didn't know how to deal with it, but he was much calmer than the sergeants after all. Immediately, he ordered everyone to stop advancing, and formed a formation to protect the place, and all the sergeants dismounted, and the people were around, protecting the horses and vehicles in the middle.

One hundred shield soldiers sacrificed their shields and resisted the wind, so that the impact of the wind and sand was temporarily smaller, and the two hundred flying sword soldiers retreated to the surrounding guards, and the guards and miscellaneous soldiers gathered the chariots and horses and arranged them neatly in the middle.

The princess, Qi Qingru and Yi Jiuxiao did not get out of the carriage and continued to hide in the carriage.

After a quarter of an hour, the mana was exhausted, so they had to withdraw their shields and let the storm blow.

Although it is a group of monks, they are also powerless in the face of the power of heaven and earth, as weak as ants.

The sandstorm lasted a whole day and a night before it gradually became smaller.

During this period, in order to protect the chariots and the feeding of the war horses, the shield soldiers formed a total of three formations, and the initial formation could support for a quarter of an hour, and the last formation only supported for less than half a quarter, which shows the huge consumption of mana.

Even so, the warhorses guarding the center were still hanging their heads and showing fatigue.

The sandstorm was finally about to stop, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed.

Before the whole queue could be assembled, another puff of smoke and dust rolled in the distance, and the smoke and dust were as big as the previous sandstorm.

Qi Bin's heart tightened, could it be that the sandstorm still stopped, but he soon found that something more serious than the sandstorm had come.

This is a group of bandits! Qi Bin built the ninth layer of the foundation, and when his divine thoughts swept over, the number of people was clear.

There were as many as 800 people who came, including 100 foundation building monks, and the leader was the early stage of Jindan's cultivation.

Qi Bin secretly complained to himself, his side is now sleepy and lacking, how will he respond to the enemy in the face of such a strong bandit.

The bandits did not rush directly to kill, but stopped a hundred feet away.

The leader rode out of the procession and came to a distance of fifty feet from the guards, and shouted loudly.

"Listen to the other side, the man fled quickly, the woman stayed with the chariot and horse, if you don't obey the order, you will be killed!"

At this time, Qi Bin also got on the war horse and walked to the forefront of the team, but he only moved a few feet forward and didn't dare to go too far.

The person on the other side is a Jindan monk, and if he, a foundation building monk, is suddenly caught by the other party, he will be in trouble, and he can still help each other by leaning close to the team.

"Who is on the other side, so bold! We are the royal forbidden army of Qi State, you dare to intercept it, and you don't retreat quickly!"

"Haha~" The person on the other side laughed wildly and said: "Old man Sha Leopard, what about the forbidden army? It's you forbidden soldiers who stopped me today, did you hear what I said clearly just now, give you a quarter of an hour, if you don't escape, then you don't have to go." ”

As soon as the sand leopard finished speaking, a huge coercion emanated, and the coercion of the Jindan monk was very small.

Kaizhou Taishou Chengyuan's coercion Yi Jiuxiao once understood, but the coercion of the sand leopard seems to be different, with a bloody murderous aura in the coercion.

Under the pressure of the sand leopards, those war horses couldn't help but fall to their knees with their front hooves, and all the sergeants hurriedly formed a formation to stand firm.

Yi Jiuxiao was still in the car at this time, and now his cultivation was a cut higher than when he was in Kaizhou, and he was already in the late stage of the Martial Sect, so it was not difficult to resist coercion.

The sand leopard is really unusual, and Cheng Fu, the Taishou of Shazhou, once mentioned that he is one of the strongest bandits in the desert. Growing up in the desert, when Master found him, he was raised by a leopard, so he was named Sand Leopard.

And this person is very cunning, he is slow to shout and not move, and he is also afraid of the strength of the forbidden army.

The situation of the escort team is clear about the sand leopards, and the four brothers sent by Qi Bin to contact General Wuwei before happened to be captured by the sand leopards.

After using the soul search technique, the sand leopard killed all four of them, and from the memories of the four people, he learned a lot of information about the team, including the serious injury of King An Yuan.

Under normal circumstances, these bandits only robbed the merchants and the surrounding people, even the strongest bandits, they rarely dared to make a move against the army, let alone intercept the most powerful forbidden army in the Qi country.

Why did the sand leopard dare to do it? Not because he was bold, but because he was employed by the Zhou State, and it was the second move in the ambush arranged by the Zhou Emperor.

This is the border of Qi and Wei, and the Zhou State cannot dispatch its army, so it can only try to buy these bandits for its own use, and it is not only the sand leopards that are bought.

The sand leopard did not want to kill all the 500 forbidden troops, his goal was to kidnap or kill the princess. As for fighting to the death with the forbidden army, it was the last thing he wanted to see.

There is no Jindan master in the forbidden army, and he is completely sure that he will defeat the forbidden army. But the forbidden army is well-trained, and if it fights, his men will be at least more than half.

At that time, although he won, after his vitality is greatly damaged, he will be eaten by other gangs and there will be no bones left.

Therefore, as soon as the sand leopard came on the field, he tried to divide the military spirit of the escort team and used strong coercion to deter the opponent.

In his opinion, the forbidden army will soon be unstable and flee one after another.

But he was wrong, he measured the forbidden army with his own bandit thinking, and when the bandits encountered strength and danger, they would scatter like birds and beasts.

But the forbidden army is a direct subordinate army of the royal family, and it is loyal, and it would rather die in battle than run away.

"Fight for war, don't play these clumsy methods, it's useless. ”

Qi Bin was very smart, saw through the sand leopard's tricks, and laughed secretly in his heart. At this time, there is no choice but to fight, so the momentum does not belong to the sand leopard at all.

The sand leopard monster rolled his eyes and sneered: "Fight, what kind of battle do you take, is it up to you? If any of you can defeat me, I will retreat immediately, and if you can't beat me, I advise you to go back as soon as possible." ”

The sand leopard still doesn't want to fight hard, this team of 800 people has condensed his hard work for decades, he doesn't want to lose here, he still wants to force the forbidden army to give up resistance through deterrence, and a bloodless victory is the best result.

"Okay, I'll fight you, can you do what you say?" I saw a woman in red flying out of a carriage and standing at the forefront of the team, her momentum like fire and her face like frost.

"It seems that you are the county lord of Qi Qingru, I am in charge of them, you must be able to do what you say, can you do what you say?"

"What she says counts, I promise. "This time it was not Qi Qingru or Qi Bin who spoke, but Yi Jiuxiao.

After Qi Qingru got out of the carriage, Yi Jiuxiao also came out, and he walked out of the queue quickly and walked to the front.

Qi Qingru glanced at Yi Jiuxiao, and said in his heart: You are really not afraid of death, hiding in the car, there is still a glimmer of life when you come, and you will almost die when you come out, do you want to prove that you are the deputy envoy?

"Okay, since the deputy envoy has said it, the old man will believe you and do it. After saying that, the sand leopard flew into the air from the horse, and the advantage of the Jindan monk was that he could fly in the air, and even if he lost, it would be difficult for the Zhuji monk to take his life.

The sand leopard did not hold it big, and as soon as he stretched out his hand, he took out the magic weapon, which was in the shape of a clay pot, and when it shook in the wind, it grew into the thickness of a water tank, and rolling yellow sand came out of it.

This yellow sand was much more violent than the sandstorm just now, and after the yellow sand flew out, it actually condensed together, turned into a sand python, opened its bloody mouth, and swallowed it towards Qi Qingru.

Qi Qingru also showed her magic weapon, her magic weapon was a red ribbon, about two feet long.

As soon as Yi Jiuxiao saw this ribbon, he remembered the immortal rope in the legend of the Great Song Dynasty in his previous life, and that immortal rope was something that even Da Luo Jinxian could tie strongly.

At this time, the teams on both sides retreated, giving up a huge space for the two to fight, so as not to harm the pond fish.

Yi Jiuxiao also retreated with the team, but his eyesight was amazing, and he could see every detail of the battle against the two of them clearly.

This kind of cultivator battle is not something that can be seen casually, and he will definitely not miss it.

The little red ribbon also changed into the wind, and it became seven or eight long, and after leaving his hand, he flew into the air and turned into a dragon shape, and bit it towards the giant python.

Normally, it is very good for a foundation monk to be able to control the magic weapon against the enemy, and it is almost impossible to make the magic weapon transform. Because of the lack of mana of the foundation building monks, this is one of the essential differences between the Jindan monks and the foundation building monks.

But there are exceptions to everything!

Ordinary monks' magic weapons are obtained in acquired cultivation, and then refined for their own use. But this red ribbon was born, and Qi Qingru was tied to her when she was born.

At that time, King An Yuan was deeply surprised, so he didn't dare to announce it, the red ribbon has been growing with Qi Qingru, and was finally cultivated into a magic weapon by her, so it is easy to urge, and the mana consumption is very small.