Xunyang City stands with smoke and clouds, west of Lufeng Ling Mountain, north of the Moon Shadow River, leading the barbarian Jing and controlling Ouyue, with three rivers and five lakes, it is the first important town of Zixuan Dousu, and it is also the last barrier to protect the imperial capital Weiyang City.

The city is one hundred and eight miles in circumference, and the city wall is eight zhang low and eleven zhang high. The foundation of the city is wide and can carry eight horses at the same time. It is surrounded by nine city gates, each with four layers of iron fences. The city wall is made up of green black spirit stones and the blood of fierce beasts, which is the third strongest city of Zixuan, and it is also one of the few cities built by the legendary spirit king Yi Shizhong in person.

Five hundred years ago, Yi Shizhong, the legendary spirit king of Zixuan, suddenly rose up in the disaster of fierce beasts that swept the entire dimensional world, and he led the Weiyang army to retreat from the fierce beasts, expand the territory, chase the fierce and stubborn, and reorganize the Zixuan River Mountain, and this Xunyang City was one of the most important battlefields in his past.

It is said that after defeating the surging tide of fierce beasts here, Yi Shi stood at the head of the city, looked at this piece of scorched earth, and was silent for a long time. When asked why, he sighed and said the proverb that has been circulating in Zixuan for a long time: "Every five hundred years, there will be a king who will prosper, and there will be a person who is really famous in the world!"

According to the explanation of later generations, Yi Shizhong said that every five hundred years, there will be a disaster like the end of the world on this Zixuan plane, and then there will be a king rising from it, turning the tide and saving lives from fire and water.

Up to now, 500 years have passed since Yi Shizhong, and the disaster he predicted has come as scheduled.

The empire had just suppressed the rebellion of the Moyuan Alliance in the Northwest Wind Breath Wasteland, and this Purple Lotus Sect had risen again in Yunmeng Tianze in the south. In just a few years, he rushed out of the sealed valley, crossed the barrier of the 100,000 mountains in the south, and swept through the southeast seven places of the Zixuan plane. The empire, which had already suffered a great injury, fell into a storm again.

This Purple Xuan Sect was carrying an increasingly large rebel army to the southeast, rising all the way. Everywhere I passed, there was no blood, rain, and thousands of miles of red land. Even Xunyang City, an immortal city, saw that it could not be spared, turning into another dead city on the road to the rise of the Purple Lotus Sect.

Yes, thanks to Yi Shizhong's vision and persistence. After returning to the dynasty in victory, he immediately ordered the reorganization of Zixuan's dimensional array, and rebuilt this Xunyang City at one of the most important nodes of the array. It was this lonely city that was able to survive in this troubled world, blocking the millions of rebels under the self-proclaimed Purple Lotus Hades Throne from the prosperous place of the imperial capital within his reach, and also sheltering the inexplicable cold night in the city.

After these days of recuperation, his injured body has recovered as before. The stump was now hanging from his waist, and the splinter was clinging to his chest. The scar on his forehead had scabbed over and slowly turned into a strange mark shaped like an eye. He didn't tell anyone about all this, not even Captain Shi Jian, who he trusted the most.

It's just that these days, his mind is still empty, and the ink is like an abyss. He didn't have the magical powers that the legendary spiritual cultivators could see, and he didn't see anything unusual about the ghost that was sleeping in his spiritual sea.

The self-proclaimed Immortal Soul Sealer was gone, and even the accident that occurred during the requiem ritual that day had not spread in the city, as if it had never happened. He went back to the boot barracks, recuperated, drilled, and everything was still the same.

The whole city seems to have fallen into the numbness and persistence of the past.

It took him a long time to adjust to the changes that had taken place in his body, and the spiritual eye on his forehead was able to open and close freely, dividing the world in front of him into two boundaries: normal and spiritual. As long as he thinks as he thinks and his spiritual eyes are closed, those complicated aura, soul separation Gu, and the complicated lines brought by the city defense array will quietly disappear, and the world will return to its original appearance.

But he still felt that all this was a little unreal, and he always felt as if his body was not his own. His soul was out of his body, looking down at the world from afar in the sky, and at his own body, which was already somewhat alien to him.

As long as he opened his spiritual eyes, the snow, the city, and the person of him seemed to become a painting, with messy lines in the painting, fluttering around with the aura, seemingly irregular, but with their own order. He always tried to look at what was behind these lines, but every time it was like a fish trapped in a fish tank, trying to pounce out, and bounced back in front of the image.

He sighed softly, withdrew his gaze, and stepped back onto the wall.

From here, you can see a barren place when you walk in the cold night. The cyan spirit stone on the city wall had been scorched black by the fire, and this scorched black stretched all the way down the city wall, extending to the iron gate of water below the city, passing the ruined dock waterway, and then overflowing the river bank line that divided the color of death, and stretched into the abyss-like moon shadow river.

The barren black color of the blood and fire spread like vines to the fiery water-walled camp on the Moon Shadow River.

That is the Purple Lotus Rebels, the besieging army led by the first fierce general under the Purple Lotus Hades Throne, the Blood Mist Spirit King Red Lian'er. In addition to the Linjiang Gate in the north of the city, there are two army camps on the east and west sides. This time, the Purple Lotus army enveloped hundreds of people up and down the river, claiming to be 500,000, although General Chuanshi scoffed at it and dismissed it as bragging, but in the eyes of the people in the city, looking at this continuous camp stretching across the three sides of the land and water, the number is not much different.

There is a statue of a spirit beast every fifteen steps on this city, these statues are several times the size of the cold night walking body, with open mouth and teeth, and bulging eyes, similar to the body of a dragon, called the negative mound, lifelike.

Perhaps thanks to the blessing of the injury, the work of these days in the cold night is to wipe and maintain these statues every day. In particular, to ensure that a mechanism behind the spirit beast can be opened at any time, and from time to time a special spirit stone is carried and placed behind this mechanism.

A few days ago, he had secretly opened his spiritual eyes and carefully examined these spirit beast statues. It was found that on the bodies of these spirit eagles, the complex and delicate spirit threads formed a delicate array, and the mechanism that he carefully maintained every day and the open mouth of the spirit beast were undoubtedly the array eyes on the spirit beast.

It's just that the intricate lines on this spirit beast are completely connected to the entire huge city wall, and finally spread across the general's mansion in the center of the entire city, and converge in the Lufeng Spirit Mountain in the south of the city. There, it should be one of the thirty-six nodes of the legendary entire Zixuan Plane Great Array, and it is also where the true power of Xunyang City is located today.

Regarding that spiritual mountain, Han Yexing thinks he is very familiar with it. It is one of the thirty-six caves of Zixuan, and the mountain is shrouded in purple mist all year round, and there are often spiritual practitioners in it. Although this mountain is called the Spiritual Cave Blessed Land, it does not prohibit mortals like him from entering.

In his spare time, he often went up the mountain to collect medicine and firewood to give to the old blind man who was singing. Once, he suffered an accident and almost died on the mountain, but he never really met the legendary spiritual master. But when he looked at it this time, he was almost burned by the dazzling light emitted by the dazzling purple aura.

So, he could only close his eyes and do his work honestly.

Fortunately, although the work of maintaining the spirit beast here was monotonous and boring, it was better than his brothers practicing day and night on the newly built warship in the south lake of the city, and it was easier than the frightened vigil errand in this city.

At the beginning of the siege, General Chuanshi opened the door of convenience, and Xunyang City suddenly flooded with hundreds of thousands of refugees from all over the country, and the dragons and snakes were mixed, and no one could say how many spies of the Purple Lotus rebels were inside. In this way, although there is no need to worry about the source of soldiers during the siege and bloody battle, the people who surrender to the army cannot be screened one by one.

Therefore, this kind of confidential work involving the great array of city protection can only be participated in by people like Han Yexing, who are residents of Xunyang City and have someone to protect them.

It's just that today's atmosphere is a little special, as soon as he stepped on the city, he was pulled to his knees by Captain Shi Jian on the side. Han Yexing secretly looked up, not far away, a pair of golden-purple spirit armor was standing at the head of the city, and the hideous negative relief on the arm armor that no one in the city knew had already shown the identity of the owner of this armor-

Now the only boss of Xunyang City, who once followed the legendary Spirit King Yi Shizhong to fight, and personally received the name of one of the nine sons of Weiyang - and is also the most trusted and relied on the spirit knight of the current Zixuan Spirit King Zixuan Kiss - the negative general Xunchuan Shi.

Although he has been in the army for nearly half a year, he still sees his commander for the first time, the legendary general who uses soldiers like a god and sticks to the invincible general.

However, Xun Chuanshi naturally didn't care about what a soldier beside him was thinking, his gaze was quiet, and he just swept the river from afar, stopping at the rebel water village that was huge and beast-like.

Xunchuan Shi has a slender body, and a few strands of meticulously groomed white mustache flutter down, showing the elegance of his body, but it is a little incompatible with his battle armor. The spiritual practitioner has a long life, and it is said that before following the legendary spirit king Yi Shizhong, he was a scholar who did not ask about the world, but only took pleasure in plowing and reading.

One day, he read the book and felt that he had stepped into the road of sealing the soul on his own. Later, he was inspired by Yi Shizhong and became one of his first followers. In the bloody rain and bloody wind all the way, he led the negative battalion, one of the nine battalions of the Weiyang Legion, to fight in the north and south as a scholar, and punished the murderer for thousands of miles, but he never tasted defeat.

After the legendary spirit king Yi Shizhong died in the decisive battle with the Spirit Hunting Alliance, the battle of the Apocalypse, this Xunchuan stone returned to Zixuan, retreated to the countryside, and cultivated under the Lufeng Spirit Mountain outside Xunyang City.

If it weren't for the chaos in the world today, he would go out of the mountain again, clean up people's hearts, and desperately stick to Xunyang City, which has fallen into despair, I am afraid that no one will know that this elegant old man who has entered the age of the curtain is the legendary Weiyang Nine Sons - the famous general of the army.

Above the head of the city, the "Xunzi flag" flutters in the wind, and the hunting sounds. The corpse of the spirit beast guarding the city also began to whimper, as if it was ready to open its spiritual eyes at any time.

Xun Chuanshi stared at Dajiang, and after a long time, he sighed lightly: "The spirit dust has moved, the rebels will move, let the new barracks prepare for battle." ”

The generals beside him sang "No" loudly and turned to leave. After a while, Han Yexing and Captain Shi Jian were also called down the city wall and returned to the fleet in the south lake under the city.

Behind General Kawaishi stood a slender young man. The man had a pale face, looked to be in his early thirties, and was rubbing a snowflake-shaped spirit seal on his hand. In this armored city, he was dressed in a green shirt, which looked quite unusual. He is now the only Spirit Refining Venerable in this city, and he is also the accompanying spirit refining master Shuo Feng who General Chuanshi has introduced as a humerus.

"Shuofeng, has the matter of the requiem ceremony been dealt with a few days ago?" Xun Chuanshi stared at Dajiang with his eyes and asked casually.

"General, it's dealt with!" Shuo Feng heard this, and replied closely: "It is a few requiem masters left by Jingtang Linghou, who abandoned the city and fled, and they have been sent to prison by me, and they will be interrogated in detail when the general is free." ”

"Then how has the prevention and control of the Requiem Gu been handled?"

"The general can rest assured that the 'Soul Forgetting Gu' in this city has been effectively controlled, and there will be no more danger of spreading. Shuo Feng replied respectfully: "It's just that his subordinates are incompetent, and those few spirit sealers on the different planes have lost their traces again." ”

"Alas, those are all rising stars in front of you today, but it's hard for you!" Xun Chuanshi sighed softly: "By the way, the injured children in the Xunzi camp a few days ago are okay, right?"

"That person didn't kill him, and after these few days of recuperation, the four of them are no longer in serious trouble. ”

"It's okay to have nothing to do...... Alas, the emperor's government has been corrupted to this point because there are too many people like Shi Jingtang!" Xunchuan Shi shook his head slightly: "Shuofeng, you are outstanding among the spirit refiners of the younger generation of my Zixuan, and you are even known as the holy hand of the weapon array. This city defense array can be rebuilt by you, and we can defend this lonely city to this day, and you can be called a great contribution. ”

"The general has an overreputation! Who doesn't know, if the general is not there, this city, there are still some, I am afraid that at this moment, I will already die and be buried in the hands of the Purple Lotus rebels. Seeing General Chuanshi's praise, Shuo Feng immediately shook his head in a bit of panic and replied: "Besides, the general has always adhered to the world of fame, and what he thinks about is not what he can do. ”

"Oh, Shuofeng, when did you learn this!?" Xun Chuanshi chuckled: "But since you talk about what you think, then you can't guess what I'm thinking at the moment?"

"The general said that he laughed, I'm not the old blind man from the dock in the north of the city, but I don't know how to tell fortunes!" Shuo Feng smiled lightly, and replied: "This Purple Lotus rebel army has besieged the city in recent years, and it has been fruitless, and the recent action is not small, and the entire naval camp has suddenly moved, and all the displaced fishing boats that have been forcibly recruited have been transferred to the front camp, but I am afraid that a bloody battle is already in front of me, and the general is worried about this matter?"

"Shuofeng, you're just too smart. I'm not worried about this bloody battle, this Red Lotus Child's spirit is weird, and in today's troubled times, it can be regarded as a rare figure. But over the past year, she has used all the tricks she should use. ”

Xun Chuanshi sighed lightly: "What I think about is that now the entire Zixuan Empire is out of balance, the people's livelihood is poor, and evil is rampant...... I'm worried that Master Yi is not a person, and I will be ashamed of his old man's entrustment...... Do you think there is any point in defending this lonely city like this!? And what is the meaning of our life and soul's existence!?"

"General be cautious!" When Shuo Feng heard this, his expression couldn't help but change, and he hurriedly bowed down and said: "Although the current Spirit King Zixuan is the same as you as the ninth son of Weiyang, after all, she still got the personal inheritance of the Yi Lao Spirit King, and even this inheritance summons was brought back to Zixuan by you. Now she has cultivated a unicorn like Zixuan Weiyang for the empire, and she has the blessing of the will of the plane, and has the authority of Wushang. I think you should be happy, General. ”

"Alas, Weiyang is a good boy! It's just that old friend of mine......" Xunchuan Shi showed a helpless wry smile at the corner of his mouth, and was about to continue, when he suddenly heard the sound of war drums on the river, so he changed the topic: "You are right, it seems that a bloody battle today is inevitable." Guess how many percent of today's children will survive?"

Shuo Feng turned around and saw the recruit warships that were gathering in the South Lake under the city, and shook his head: "About thirty percent." ”

"I'll make a bet with you, I'm afraid that I may not be able to keep one percent, but it may be ...... No. Xun Chuanshi shook his head: "Alas, if there are those who survive, you can prepare it, and hold an awakening ceremony for them." ”