Zhang Zhao had never experienced a battle of this scale, thousands of cultivators stood against the wall and engaged in endless crazy beasts, there was no dazzling talisman sword qi, and all that came from his ears was the simple and familiar sound of sharp weapons entering the flesh.

The formation of these cultivators in the Nine Shadows seems to be chaotic and disorderly, but in fact, they have a great way, and the number of cultivators on the battle line stretching for several miles is too much worse than that of the beasts, and these earthen walls can not only block the castration of the beasts, but also keep the cultivators from being attacked on their backs.

The cultivators in the front of the earthen wall only had to slash and kill the beasts that rushed at the front, and the occasional leap over the wall was blocked by their companions guarding behind the earthen wall. Therefore, although the beast herd looked menacing, each cultivator faced only a dozen beasts, and the pressure was not too great.

Zhang Zhao watched from the side for a moment, his heart was shocked, when he heard Ye Qinghe talk about the beast rejection earth city, he thought it was a city, but he didn't expect that it was thousands of earth walls connected like this, and such a beast control method that everyone worked together had never seen before.

These cultivators cooperate with each other tacitly, attacking and defending without panic. Zhang Zhao had been following behind the bearded people, and when he saw that their knives and guns were pointed at the throat and chest of the red-eyed beasts, nearly a hundred beasts were lying together in front of them, and none of them had more than two wounds on their bodies.

Zhang Zhao felt that he was also an expert in this kind of thing, but in such a chaotic battle situation, these cultivators were able to make accurate shots every time, and this kind of cultivation state of mind was really shocking. It would be fine if there were only a few people like this, but Zhang Zhao looked at it everywhere he looked.

Zhang Zhao, who was standing behind the two earthen walls with the Immortal in his hand, couldn't intervene at all, looking at the beasts that fell to the ground and twitched, all he could do was recite the requiem incantation. In less than half an hour, the sound of slashing around him gradually subsided, and the tens of thousands of fierce beasts in front of him had all fallen to the ground.

Zhang Zhao was dumbfounded, he couldn't imagine that such a large number of beasts could be slaughtered so easily. The cultivators between the earthen walls did not rush back to rest, but jumped out one after another to skin and cut the flesh of the dead beast on the spot.

The air was filled with a strong smell of blood, and at this time, many men with wooden carts poured out behind Zhang Zhao, and they moved in an orderly manner, putting the freshly peeled animal skins and bloody pieces of meat on the cart and pushing them back. In the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of beasts had been divided into piles of flesh and skin, and they were continuously transported to the rear, leaving only some internal organs and charred corpses on the ground.

The beard and a few men turned around and came back, Zhang Zhao saw that each of them had blood on their mouths: "Uncle, what are you ......doing?" ”

Although Zhang Zhao had seen people eat tender meat from cattle and sheep from the herdsman tribe, he had never tried it himself, and he didn't feel a little chill on his body when he saw these cultivators drinking blood: "Uncle, when can you take me to Xuluo City?"

The beard was a little impatient: "Didn't you say it? I'll ask someone to take you there after I'm busy for a while." What are you anxious about?" Zhang Zhao looked around at the area that had calmed down: "Aren't those beasts all dead?"

"It's not okay to die, if we don't have them, how can we people live?" the hooked knife man waved away the blood on his hand: "How much meat is so little? ”

Zhang Zhao was a little puzzled when he heard this: "Is there still a beast coming?" Only then did the bearded man understand what he meant: "Of course, you think it's over in a while? ”

At this time, behind the earth wall, a ball of fire was thrown again and again, and Zhang Zhao saw that countless beasts had gathered several miles away, and with a low roar, tens of thousands of red-eyed beasts were rushing towards this earth city again.

Zhang Zhao felt that this time there were much fewer beasts than the last time, and in just a short time, the people pushing the wooden cart behind them poured out again, and they all moved the beast meat and hides to the back with happy faces.

"Where did these beasts come from, and how many of them will there be?" Zhang Zhao took advantage of their busy time to ask the hooked knife man who seemed to have a good temper, and the hooked knife man smiled: "That's the hyena in the depths of the Nine Shadows, a group of at least tens of thousands, you have to eat everything you see, and this thing is the most in the Nine Shades." ”

Before the two could say a few words, the next group of beasts had arrived, and this time Zhang Zhao found out that these hyenas had eaten the scattered charred corpses and internal organs on the ground first, and then rushed desperately.

After this time, there were obviously more beast corpses on the ground, Zhang Zhao saw this and hurriedly stepped forward to help, after he peeled a few skins, a man waiting in the pile truck next to him shouted in surprise: "Where did this little brother come from? ”

The bearded man also noticed Zhang Zhao's neat skinning and fleshing action: "Ouch, this kid really has two strokes, and this technique is not much slower than ours." Several people were unconvinced, and their hands were secretly strengthened, and their speed was still much worse than Zhang Zhao.

Zhang Zhao was even more taken aback after carrying a large bundle of animal skins and following them to a few earthen walls, hundreds of people were quickly separating the animal skins and meat, and then putting pieces of animal meat into the bubbling soil cave to roast. But except for the occasional fishy smell, there was no smell of meat.

The man next to him casually took a piece of cooked meat and put it in his mouth, and he also handed over a piece after seeing Zhang Zhao running forward: "Little brother, you can also eat some, we don't know how long we have to be busy, if we have kung fu, we have to fill our stomachs first." ”

Zhang Zhao took it and smelled a burnt smell on the meat first, put it in his mouth and chewed it a few times before frowning, this meat was not only hard and old, but also had a strange fishy smell, and what made him unaccustomed was that there was no salty taste in this meat.

The man on the cart didn't notice Zhang Zhao's abnormality, and after putting down the animal skin on the cart, he took a dozen pieces of meat and brought them to the bearded man. Zhang Zhao saw that they were all eating with relish, so he asked, "Uncle, did you forget to put salt in this piece of meat?"

Seeing Zhang Zhao holding the barbecue in his hand and being difficult to swallow, he couldn't help but laugh: "I didn't forget to put anything, salt is a rare thing here." He ate his own in a few bites and then took the piece of meat from Zhang Zhao's hand: "Let's go eat what you have in the car, you will definitely not be able to swallow this." ”

Several cultivators also laughed: "Didn't you see that we all drank a lot of beast blood? The hooked man waved his hand at them: "Don't laugh at him, if it weren't for this little brother's quick hand, we would have to be busy for a while." ”

Zhang Zhao saw that the beard was not taboo and ate the barbecue meat that he had bitten into, and felt a little embarrassed: "A few uncles, there are still a lot of dried meat in my car, and everyone will eat it together." The beard shook his head: "Forget it, let's just taste that thing, if you get used to it, how will you live this life?"

Although Zhang Zhao felt that he was not picky, the tasteless dry and hard barbecue really discouraged him, so he had to take a few pieces of jerky from his car and eat them. At this moment, the trumpet sounded in the distance, and a large number of wild beasts rushed again.

It wasn't until more than ten waves of impact had passed that Zhang Zhao understood the true meaning of the phrase "busy for a while" with his beard. The beasts in front of him seemed to be endless, and he asked the Hooked Knife Man to know that it had been a day and a night since he had arrived.

Although Zhang Zhao couldn't stand in front and show his skills, after every wave of beasts fell, he immediately rushed forward to help clean up. With him joining, the dozens of people with beards went back early to rest every time, which made the cultivators next to them envious.

"Lao Bao, you guy really have a vision, where did you find such a helper?" The bearded man laughed when he heard the question of the cultivator next to him: "Even the kid who drove out of the car from the beast herd yesterday, you don't have to blush, he left after being busy for a while." ”

Since he felt that the beast meat was unpalatable, Zhang Zhao thought that those people were not good at craftsmanship, but after he interviewed and roasted a few pieces, he realized that if the beast meat was not roasted to a mushy paste, the fishy smell in the meat would be even stronger. After asking, Zhang Zhao learned that except for a few yin-loving grains growing next to the city, the entire Jiuyou people usually rely on these beast flesh to feed their stomachs.

The good days mentioned by the bearded old bag refer to the season when the beast herd is relatively dense, because at this time, everyone can let go of their belly and eat the meat of the beast, and after the peeled animal skin is dried, they can also exchange more rice, grain, oil and salt with the traders who came to Jiuyou.

Zhang Zhao had already felt that Jiuyou's life was hard in the realm of life and death that day, but he didn't expect it to be so bitter. Not only can I only eat those dry and hard beast meats, but I also have to face the darkness that makes me unable to distinguish between day and night all the time.

After another day, the Nine Shadow Cultivators who had resisted dozens of waves of beast tides were already tired, but everyone's face was full of joy, because the mountains of animal skins and beast flesh behind the earthen walls were enough to make them proud.

Many of them were also injured, but Zhang Zhao felt that it was much less than he expected, although the few melee battles he had participated in were not long, at least a hundred people died, but after three consecutive days of bloody battles, the losses of the Nine Shadow Cultivators were still much less than this number.

In addition to dozens of cultivators who had some flesh wounds, and a few people behind the earthen wall a few feet away who had lost too much blood and were helped down for treatment, he didn't see anyone nearby who was killed by wild beasts, Zhang Zhao, who had personally experienced the attack of the hyena, felt that this was simply incredible.

He approached and took a closer look, these cultivators took into account both offense and defense, and every time someone slashed a fierce beast, the people on both sides were staggered guards, and the rules were clear between advance and retreat, and they took turns attacking in the face of the beasts that were constantly pounced.

Zhang Zhaozheng was fascinated, and several hyenas jumped over the wall beside him, and were knocked down one by one by two cultivators behind the wall, and finally the one that landed on the earthen wall took a few steps and pounced in his direction.

The little brother dodged away. The two cultivators saw Zhang Zhao blocking in front and hurriedly jumped up, but they saw a flash of sword light in front of them, and the body of the hyena burst out with blood in the air, and it was easily cut into pieces by Zhang Zhao.

Zhang Zhao smiled at them: "I'm fine." But neither of these two people paid any attention to his smug words, but regretted with regret: "What a good animal skin, just let you destroy it, this is worth fifty taels of silver." ”

Zhang Zhao saw that the two of them didn't look like they were joking with themselves: "I'm really sorry, I forgot to peel the skin." He immediately reacted to the price that the two said: "Is such an animal skin worth fifty taels?"

A few years ago, Zhang Zhao also lived a careful life, and the skin of the blue-eyed gray wolf was sold for a few hundred taels of silver, which was also a lot of income, and of course he remembered it vividly. Although the fur of these hyenas may seem coarse, they are thick and soft to the touch when they are peeled, and they are not much worse than the wolf skin.

"Uncle, have you been fooled? How can such a beast skin be worth two hundred taels of silver? Listening to Zhang Zhao's words, one of the sword-wielding cultivators glared coldly: "Are you stupid as a group of us? Fifty taels is not low, at least you can exchange it for half a catty of salt." ”

Zhang Zhao's eyes widened even more: "A pound of salt is only ten taels of silver, why are your things here so expensive?" The sword-wielding cultivator didn't bother to pay attention to him, turned around and jumped between the earthen walls to concentrate on the guards.

After all the beasts fell to the ground, Zhang Zhao couldn't help but ask about the animal skins when he helped, and the bearded man thought he wanted to do some fur trading: "Little brother, you can indeed make some money by transporting some animal skins from Jiuyou, but the road is too far to row, do you think about how long you have walked this way?"

Zhang Zhao shook his head: "I mean you go to Wuxuan to sell it yourself, and then transport some rice and salt back, so that you can make more money?" Even if we transport millions of animal skins at a time, we not only have to ask from door to door, but we will not be able to make much money by those profiteers. ”

The hook knife man sighed: "Little brother, we have tried what you said a long time ago, those merchants desperately lowered the price when they saw the animal skin of Jiuyou, and as for the rice and salt, they couldn't make up a few thousand catties at a time." Instead of time-consuming and laborious tossing, it is better to let those who are willing to come to Jiuyou earn some money, and the ones they bring can barely be enough. ”

"Why don't you go to the Five Shadows to find some sects to do these things together?" Zhang Zhao felt that his method was good, but the Nine Xuan cultivators laughed when they heard it: "What you said is simple, even if there is no war between the Nine Shadows and the Five Xuans now, which sect will join forces with us? Do you know how many Five Xuan cultivators have died in our hands in the past few hundred years?"

Zhang Zhao recalled the reaction of those people when they heard him mention Jiuyou when he was in Xuanmu City, and then he came to his senses: "I said that they heard that I was coming, and all of them had wrong faces in Jiuyou. It turns out that there are so many things I don't know. ”

It has been three days and three nights since Zhang Zhao arrived in this beast-repelling earth city, but the beasts on the opposite side still kept pouring up, Zhang Zhao couldn't help but worry: "When will these beasts stop?

"Do you think these beasts are human? they are such a group of people who can be clearly distinguished, if they rush together, what will it be?" The hooked knife man calculated the time: "I estimate that it will be about half a day, otherwise we will have to call for help." ”

"Can you still ask for help?" Zhang Zhao looked back at the pitch black: "Who will come to help, is it Senior Brother Ye's master?" ”

Another half of the day passed, and although the beasts had decreased a little, they did not stop attacking as these Nine Shadow cultivators had foreseen. The hook knife man's legs were blurred with flesh and blood, and he couldn't support it and retreated, and the dozen or so cultivators next to him were also injured.

Zhang Zhao volunteered to go up, this time he was afraid of hurting the animal skin and being accused by others, so he ingeniously turned out a string of sharp knife lights, laid a low wall of light like a fence in front of him, and then sensed the direction of the hyena with his soul sense, and the knife lights shot out one after another, submerged into the body of the hyena and shattered and scattered.

The iguana that had been hit by the knife light only had a small wound on the chest and abdomen, but the internal organs were cut by the knife qi, and they all withered to the ground. The bearded people were shocked when they saw it: "Oh, it turns out that you kid is so powerful." ”

Zhang Zhao finally had a chance to show his skills, and at the same time, he slashed out the sword light in one after another, and the other hand was not idle, and every time he swung out, there was a crisp sound of broken bones, and the hyena who was hit in the head fell to the ground without humming.

Gradually, more than a dozen cultivators in the gap between the earthen wall where Zhang Zhao was located were idle, and even those beasts that jumped in the air were accurately hit by the sword light he ejected and died behind the wall. Zhang Zhao's soul consciousness spread out more and more handy, and he kept a radius of several zhang around his body without leaking.

These Nine Shadow cultivators saw that Zhang Zhao had such a powerful power, and they were amazed and went to replace their companions around them, and finally survived this round of attacks. However, no matter how brave Zhang Zhao was, he could only hold on to a gap, and when another wave of beasts poured in, the injured Nine Shadows cultivators were already a little unable to support it.

A rapid trumpet sounded from Zhang Zhao's west side, followed by the same horn sound behind each earthen wall, and one by one a ball of fire rose into the air, illuminating the range of miles in front of them again.

Zhang Zhao's hand didn't stop, but he heard a low voice in his ears like a war drum, and he asked without looking back: "Uncle, what does this mean?" The hooked knife man behind him shouted excitedly: "Open your eyes and take a good look, let you see the soul of the Nine Shadows." ”

The sound of war drums got closer and closer, and then Zhang Zhao saw that the beasts in the south direction suddenly surged like a tide, screaming and jumping wildly, and countless beasts were thrown into the air, and the screams were broken into pieces from the air and fell to the ground heavily.

It was as if an incomparably huge force came close to the ground, lifting these beasts into pieces, and the beasts suddenly became a mess in the blood splash, but such an impact like turning over the river and the sea was definitely not something that one person could do, even a cultivator in the Yin and Yang Dacheng realm did not have such momentum.

Unstoppable, there were nearly a hundred knights in black armor, all of whom were armed with long knives in their hands, ignoring the movements of the beasts in front of them and just swinging their swords wildly. Under the windmill-like picking, the hyenas that stood in front of them were chopped into pieces.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves swept in front of Zhang Zhao, and the beasts instantly fell to the ground like mowing grass. Wherever the cavalry passed, the iguanas pounced on the black-armored knight and immediately gnawed desperately, but there was only a tooth-aching squeak, which could not cause a single injury.

The whirring sword wind faded away with the sound of hooves. After Zhang Zhao killed the dozen or so beasts left in front of him, he looked around, and even the raging fires on the ground were extinguished one by one as this terrifying cavalry passed by.

The light of the fire that rose into the air again illuminated the ground with minced meat, and the Nine Shadows cultivators beside Zhang Zhao were all amazed: "If it weren't for the sake of selling more animal skins, I really wanted to see the black armor riding a few more times." ”

Zhang Zhao was speechless, with his current vision, he could see from the strength of those black-armored knights swinging their swords, these hundred or so people were not weaker than the cultivators of the Yin and Yang realm, and Jiuyou actually had such an invincible team, no wonder the people in the Five Xuanzhong talked about it.

I don't know if it was the shock of this cavalry or something else, but the beasts that had been rushing like a tide also stopped moving. The Nine Shadow Cultivators dragged their tired bodies and went out to pick up a lot of the beast meat that the black-armored knight had chopped up.

Zhang Zhao saw several cultivators who had died of serious injuries wrapped in straw mats and tied up. The rest of the Nine Shadow cultivators didn't have much sadness on their faces when they looked at their companion's corpse, because each of them knew in their hearts that maybe it would be their turn next.

The hook knife man hastily wrapped a layer of cloth on his legs and leaned against the earthen wall, and when he saw Zhang Zhao's somewhat sympathetic gaze, he explained: "They can be regarded as a well-deserved death, and this harvest is enough for us to eat for two months." ”

The bearded man called the man who transported the animal skins to say a few words: "Little brother, your horse is almost rested, follow them back to Xuluo City now, and then you can find Xiao Ye and them." ”

It's just three days of getting along, but Zhang Zhao has a trace of reluctance to give up on these rugged and heroic Nine Shades cultivators, he looked at the hooked knife man and asked, "Uncle, don't you have to go back to recuperate your injuries, take my carriage together." ”

The hook knife man laughed: "What can I take care of such a little injury? I'll stay here for a few days, but it's a pity that you kid can't stay here, otherwise we can save a lot of effort." ”

No matter how they excused themselves, Zhang Zhao still put down a bundle of dried meat, and more than a dozen cultivators rushed forward to help him hang up the carriage. Zhang Zhao took a few steps and turned around to wave goodbye to these strangers who were fighting side by side.

Zhang Zhao couldn't tell the difference between the southeast and the northwest, and as the team transporting animal skin and meat walked all the way, he sat in the carriage and quietly recalled what had happened in the past few days, and felt that the strength of these cultivators in Jiuyou was really not to be underestimated.

Even if he cultivated to the highest beard, he was not at the realm of five qi, but Zhang Zhao compared him with several old monks in Baoxiang Temple who were killed by him, and felt that they were not at the same level at all.

Using the soul method to conjure up the figures of several Nine Shadow cultivators, Zhang Zhao casually made a move with them in his mind, and the result surprised him even more, judging from their formation cooperation, even if two or three came up at random, Zhang Zhao would have to rely on Da Luo Tian's hard attack to win.

Although these cultivators' moves were mediocre, they were extremely skilled in switching between offense and defense, which was the main reason why they could fight for days on end. In addition to being amazed, Zhang Zhao thought of the amazing black-armored cavalry team.

The soul sense turned into the scene he had just seen, Zhang Zhao imagined that he would face the impact of these black-armored knights by himself, no matter how he tried, except for jumping up early to dodge, there was no way to block this cavalry.

Whenever he thought of the feeling of those long knives slashing at him, Zhang Zhao would have an awe-inspiring meaning in his heart. Later, he conjured up several elders of the Yin and Yang Dacheng realm of Long Huaiqing to block the front, but they were still turned into smoke and dust in an instant under the impact of the black cavalry.

The rumbling hooves like war drums in Zhang Zhao's mind sounded again and again, and under the infection of this indomitable force, he himself seemed to have become a member of the black cavalry and was charging on horseback. Zhang Zhao, who was intoxicated with this domineering feeling, was having a good time, and the golden light in his black head suddenly became chaotic.

(End of chapter)