Chapter 161: Nine Days of Crisis
Chen Yuan unexpectedly completed the last test given to him by the dragon turtle, and under the witness of all the strange beasts in the core area, he successfully obtained the identity of the foreign core member of the Star Lake, and was specially approved by the dragon turtle to have the right to enter and exit the core area of the star lake at will, and the most important thing is that he completed the five-year covenant, and he can already take the little white turtle Mu Xuan out of the range of the Star Lake and enter the Nine Heavens Domain.
After completing the task, Chen Yuan, who had not returned home for a long time, was naturally like an arrow, and a day after the task was completed, after saying goodbye to these elders in the core area, the dragon turtle arranged for Bai Ze to send them out of the forbidden land of Xingchen Lake.
Outside the forbidden land, a huge gray wolf was already waiting here, Chen Yuan gently stroked the gray wolf's head, and the gray wolf also affectionately licked Chen Yuan with his tongue. This gray wolf is none other than the gray-maned wolf king Big Gray.
After getting acquainted with Lu Shu and Ying Zhao, in the past four years or so, Big Ash has gained a lot of benefits, especially after eating an earth spirit flower from Ying Zhao, the earth attribute talent in the body has been developed, and it has successfully evolved from an ordinary beast with spirituality to a foreign beast that can cultivate independently, although it only has the cultivation of Shuangxuan Bai Xuan, but its strength has been firmly above the golden feather eagle, and it is on par with the old ape of Beishan.
It can be said that in the past few years, Big Ash has completed a reborn transformation like Chen Yuan. In the past two years, Big Ash has been active in the outer area of Xingchen Lake, although it has been fighting, but with Lu Shu and Ying Zhaozhao, at least there is no danger. As for why it is here, it is because after Chen Yuan completed the task, he found the big gray through the Ying Zhao and ordered it to wait outside the forbidden land today, without it, Chen Yuan would have to spend some effort if he wanted to return to the village.
"Now there is some chaos outside, you must be cautious, don't take risks, it's good to go out to practice, but you must remember that if you do what you can, you can ask for help from Xingchen Lake if you have any difficulties, and we old guys will definitely arrive in the shortest possible time."
Also, Chen Yuan boy, you have to protect Ah Xuan, it is the hope of our Xingchen Lake in the future, and we can't make the slightest mistake, otherwise I will ask you!"
"Don't worry, Bai Lao, I will take care of Ah Xuan. Chen Yuan nodded solemnly, and the little white turtle Mu Xuan also poked his head out of Chen Yuan's arms, and said to Bai Ze in a voice with a hint of childishness: "Don't worry, Grandpa Bai Ze, I'm very powerful." Bai Ze smiled and nodded.
Chen Yuan patted Big Gray on the back and said, "Let's go, go home!" Big Gray let out a long roar and rushed towards the direction of Linxing Village.
"Go ahead, these nine days, after all, are still the world of you young people, and there are some responsibilities that cannot be avoided. Bai Ze looked at Chen Yuan's distant back, and couldn't help but sigh.
The cultivation of the Great Gray has improved, and the speed has naturally increased, and the village, which originally took about half a day to reach, will arrive in only about an hour. The son who hadn't seen him for a long time returned home, Mu Qingfeng and his family were also very happy, and the lunch was naturally very rich, although this time it did not cause a sensation in the whole village, but including Mu Yuanshan, all the relatives of Chen Yuan came to Mu Qingfeng and had a happy reunion dinner.
This time when he went home, Chen Yuan brought a lot of precious medicinal materials from Xingchen Lake to nourish the body, as well as rare ingredients to replenish qi and blood, so Chen Yuan personally cooked this time and made a table of colorful, fragrant, and very nourishing meals for his family. At the dinner table, Chen Yuan told about some of his recent experiences, while his grandfather Mu Yuanshan and his father Mu Qingfeng chatted with Chen Yuan about some trivial matters in the village.
Chen Yuan's cousin, the child of Chen Yuan's uncle Mu Qingyun's family, is six years old this year, with long pink carvings, especially those big watery eyes, as if he can speak, like a cute doll, and now that Chen Yuan is back, he sticks to Chen Yuan. Chen Yuan also loves this sister to the extreme, not only made a bracelet with the essence of the five elements he collected and put it on her wrist, but also handed over the Shengsheng Xuanyuan Pill that he had worked hard to obtain in the academy competition to Uncle Mu Qingfeng.
The Shengsheng Xuanyuan Pill was originally the elixir that Ning Wuru planned to use to give Chen Yuan to break through the Shaking Yue Realm, but Chen Yuan did not use it in the training of Xingchen Lake. Considering that the Shengsheng Xuanyuan Pill contained a powerful aura, Chen Yuan thought of leaving it to his sister to transform her physique and improve her talent.
Because he knew that Chen Yuan was a spirit devouring body, Ning ruthlessly chose an elixir like the Shengsheng Xuanyuan Pill that had no attribute tendencies, and the greatest effect of this elixir was to enhance and gather aura, and it was the best choice to improve the physique.
After eating, Chen Yuan instructed Mu Qingyun to dissolve the elixir with water before his cousin was twelve years old before she underwent talent awakening, and give it to her in three days, and then on the second day after returning to Linxing Village, he followed his father and some villagers to come to Weiqing City with the materials that needed to be traded.
After delivering the goods safely to the trading place, Chen Yuan came to the City Lord's Mansion with a familiar car, and with the identity token of the Taoist Academy, he soon met the City Lord Xiao Lie.
"You are Chen Yuan, more than four years have passed, and you have grown up, I almost didn't recognize it! I heard that girl Wanqing said that you were assigned by the academy to carry out a long-term mission, how could you have time to come to me?" Xiao Lie looked at the young man in front of him with some surprise, and said in great surprise.
Compared with more than four years ago, Chen Yuan has indeed changed a lot, the height is needless to say, it has grown to about one meter nine, and the face has completely taken off its childishness, sword eyebrows and starry eyes, handsome appearance, and the long-term hard training in Xingchen Lake has made Chen Yuan's body shape very perfect, streamlined muscles, distinctive lines and full of explosive power, temperament is a little more majestic in calmness, and his eyes have become much sharper.
Regarding Chen Yuan's entry into Xingchen Lake to cultivate, the Heavenly Dao Academy's statement to the outside world was to send Chen Yuan to carry out a long-term and highly confidential mission, as for the details of the task, none of the details were disclosed, all Chen Yuan's friends in the academy knew that only Chen Yuan went to the mission, and he didn't know where Chen Yuan went, so Xiao Lie asked Chen Yuan suspiciously.
"The mission is complete, so I can come back to visit my relatives, and I haven't received much information from the outside world for more than four years, so I came here to inquire about the situation of the Nine Heavens Domain and the Dao Academy. Chen Yuan said to Xiao Lie with a smile.
Hearing that Chen Yuan asked about the situation in the Nine Heavens Domain, Xiao Lie sighed and said, "Now the border of the Nine Heavens Domain is invaded by a large number of disasters, constantly attacking our city. Now that the border is tight, the Nine Domains jointly issued a conscription notice, calling on the monks of the Nine Heavens Domain to garrison the border city and eliminate the invading beasts and humanoids.
The students and teachers of the Daoist Academy are also within the scope of the recruitment, and many teachers and students of the Youtian Daoist Academy have gone to the front line on the coast of the Endless Sea, but the situation is still not optimistic. All the main cities in the whole region have entered a state of combat readiness, and in addition to a part of the troops stationed in my Qingqing City, half of the troops have gone to support the front line, and the entire Nine Heavens Domain has already been rumored to be. ”
Looking at Xiao Lie's melancholy expression, Chen Yuan found that compared to more than four years ago, there were many more gray hairs on Xiao Lie's sideburns, and the Weiqing City Lord, who was majestic and full of anger at the beginning, now felt a little old, which showed that the situation in the Nine Heavens Domain in the past few years had been precarious under the invasion of foreign races.
Hearing Xiao Lie's description, Chen Yuan was shocked, although he had heard the news of the alien invasion of the border as early as four years ago, he didn't expect that more than four years had passed, and the situation had become so serious.
"The city lord and I will tell me in detail about the beginning and end of this alien invasion. With such a major event related to the safety of the Nine Heavens Domain, Chen Yuan felt that he needed to understand the process and development of it.
Xiao Lie didn't refuse, just looked at the direction of the Endless Sea worriedly, and said to Chen Yuan: "The beginning of the invasion was more than four years ago, and the news you brought back at that time was the first attempt of the alien race, but unfortunately although I reported it, because this situation has happened from time to time for thousands of years, it has not been taken seriously.
Moreover, the aliens did not penetrate deeply, but only attacked some small towns near the border, and after sending more troops to defend them, the situation was much better, but this calm only lasted for two years.
Two years later, the alien race suddenly began to invade on a large scale, and the attack was as fast as lightning, and it took two days to kill from the border to the inland, and the borders of the nine major regions were broken one after another, and some of the acropolis closer to the border were captured.
Such an incident caused an uproar within the scope of the Nine Heavens Domain, and an emergency meeting was held among the Nine Domains Domain Lords, and the troops of the capital and the major main cities were urgently mobilized to support the front line, and it took a month to take back the fallen Acropolis.
But the tragedy is that all the people in these acropolises, whether they are humans or animals, are dead, corpses are strewn all over the field, and a large part of them have been assimilated into humanoids, and the whole city has been turned into a dead domain.
But this is nothing, and the most important thing is that by the time the realms reacted and recaptured the city, the alien race had already achieved its goal. I don't know when the calamity has mastered a way to pollute the environment of heaven and earth through blood sacrifices, and if they have enough blood, they will be able to turn the entire Nine Heavens Domain into their home turf.
We reacted too late, and by the time we reacted, the blood of millions of people had already been used to contaminate the heavens and the earth, and by the time we got back the lost Acropolis, the entire frontier had been pushed forward for hundreds of miles.
And the worst news is that the three major territories of the disaster, the Endless Sea, the Great Wilderness, and the Pale Plains, just enclose the Nine Heavens Domain, and now the pressure is exerting on three sides, which is compressing our living space step by step in this way.
Moreover, they have a large number of humanoids and beasts as an invading force, and we can only rely on strong and towering walls to defend them, and we cannot take the initiative to attack. Because once the army is dispatched to take the initiative to attack, then there will inevitably be large-scale casualties. Once we have dead and wounded, then the alien races will have a steady stream of blood to pollute the heavens and the earth, further achieving the purpose of compressing our living space.
So now on the front line, there will be a large number of humanoids and desolate beasts launching suicidal attacks on the border cities every day, because there are constantly warriors on the battlefield who are assimilated and donate their blood to become puppets to re-attack the cities they once guarded, and the aliens are not afraid of consumption at all, and now it is suspected that this disaster intends to use all the power accumulated for thousands of years to this invasion, and the situation of the Nine Heavens Domain is very bad and very passive. ”