Zhang Zhao quickly cleaned up everywhere and withdrew, and accompanied the elders to talk softly outside, but after waiting for half an hour, Sheng Jin didn't come out, and when Leng Pingyuan couldn't hold back and was about to scream, Sheng Jin finally walked out slowly from inside with a cane.

"What's the matter, is it the soul soldier you said?" Sheng Jin saw their appearance with a deep face: "This...... Well, the pictures on the wall are too complicated, and the years are too long and a little blurry, so ......"

"Hey, just say that you don't understand it, you can have it, you can hold a few bowls of water in your stomach, everyone knows it, and you can laugh at you. Sheng Jin didn't care about Leng Pingyuan's sarcasm: "I'm just a forger, and I don't know the law, what's so embarrassing about this?"

"Zhang Zhao, think about it again, was there anything still stained on that stick at that time? I can't understand the runes drawn by Uncle Yu, but there are several places where it is written that a large amount ......of essence and blood will be fused."

Recalling the scene in his mind, Zhang Zhao finally paid attention to a place that he hadn't noticed before. It was the elder of the Thousand Blades Sect who hugged him tightly in the back and was first stabbed through the abdomen, and then strangled to pieces by iron chains.

The viscous blood gushing out of his body flowed against Zhang Zhao's back, and most of it did not spill to the ground, but surged towards Zhang Zhao's right arm in an extremely strange way, and was then sucked clean by Po Xian.

Compared with before he started, the blood-soaked Broken Immortal Black Stick seemed to have a red halo attached to it, but the battle situation was too fierce at that time, if it wasn't for Sheng Jin's mention of the essence blood, Zhang Zhao wouldn't have noticed anything unusual at all.

After listening to Zhang Zhao's description, Sheng Jin immediately beamed proudly: "Then you can't be wrong, you must have sucked enough essence blood first, plus the immortal crystal you put in first, which happened to inspire this soul soldier." ”

He immediately put away the smile on his face and saluted solemnly in the room: "Uncle Yu, no wonder you said that this thing can break the immortal soldiers in the world as soon as it is completed." Sheng Jin is close at hand, and it is a pity that I can't get close to you. ”

The elders and Zhang Zhao also saluted solemnly, and Liu Feng also felt emotion in his heart: "Zhang Zhao, let's choose a day to go to the Changxi Forest to pay respects." If it weren't for Uncle Yu's relic, you and I would have almost separated yin and yang. ”

I know the secret hidden in the Broken Immortal, but it is not easy to use this soul soldier. A top-grade immortal crystal was nothing to Zhang Zhao, but a cultivator who had reached the realm of incarnation would also die if he bled too much, so he couldn't be stimulated by his own essence blood at all.

As the days passed, the news coming back from outside became more and more shocking. More than ten cities set up on the border of the Xuanmu Domain have all fallen, and none of the cultivators and soldiers in the city plus hundreds of thousands of people have survived.

In the expectations of the various sects, at this time, the five Xuan cultivators would be gathered to fight the beast tide with all their might, but the blue sky outside the sky was unusual, and they actually fell silent and ignored the matter.

In the Lingxiao Hall, the elders of the two alliances in the northwest of the Xuanmu Domain had sad faces: "Master Changqing, this time the matter is full of weirdness. In the past, the beast tides we have experienced have all walked around the city, but now they are forcibly broken one by one. ”

Yu Yi of Fengwei Hall and Xiao Lianxu of Yunyangling played a key role in the battle for the crystal vein, and when Wanhua Pavilion raided Lingxiao, the two of them also did their best to help the battle and were seriously injured before they recovered, and Changqingzi naturally treated them with special courtesy.

"You don't have to worry, in the past, the beast tide entered the Xuanmu Domain for a maximum of dozens of miles, and your place was almost thousands of miles away from the border, so it's too early to worry now. ”

"Although the fifteen cities outside the sky have fallen, I think those people will not be killed, and the loss of the beast tide must not be small. Besides, most of the northwest of our Xuanmu Domain are woods and rice fields, and those animals will disperse on their own sooner or later if they have no food. ”

Xiao Lianxu's eyes were round and his voice was like a flood bell: "Changqing Chief, it's not that we are alarmist, all the news so far has been brought back by those who immediately fled when they saw the beast tide." No matter what the city, as long as there is a battle, no one will appear alive. ”

Yu Yi, who lowered his phoenix eyebrows, sighed softly: "We have already received a summons from the head of Changqing, and we plan to send our family to Lingxiao in a few days, but we have lived there for hundreds of years, and we can't watch the people around us...... Alas. ”

Chang Qingzi nodded: "Of course I understand your feelings, our factions are an alliance of life and death, there is no need to be polite, what do you think now, let's discuss it." ”

Xiao Lianxu raised his eyebrows: "Okay, then I'll say it first, judging from the news that came a few days ago, the beast tide has penetrated more than three hundred miles into the Xuanmu Domain." Instead of sitting at home and waiting for these beasts to come to the door, let's work together to stop them from a hundred miles away. ”

Chang Qingzi stood up, stretched out his finger and drew a line on a map made of sheepskin behind him: "The beast tide is here now, according to your meaning, where should the people we send to intercept it?"

Yu Yi and Xiao Lianxu approached to take a closer look: "There are only a few thousand people on Huaiyin Ridge, and we can't hold it for a few days if we go, Wutong City is too small, and the people have already run away, and most of the news we got came back from there." ”

"Facing the beast tide on the flat ground is to die in vain, before the two of you, what other city can hold on?" With Chang Qingzi's fingers, the three of them slowly swept their gazes from the map, and finally stopped in one place.

"It's Aoki Castle, there are a lot of woods around this city, and you can set fire to it in an emergency. The high wall of the city is thick and occupies the Liao Pavilion, which is also one of the best in our northwest. ”

"It's safe, the two of you will go back first and send the old and young in the door to Lingxiao, and I will also send someone to inform the two city lords of Aoki City, and then gather some people everywhere. If the beast tide still doesn't retreat, let's fight them to the death in front of Aoki Castle. ”

In Zhang Zhao's view, the beast tide is just a rumor that will soon dissipate, and the biggest benefit of this rumor is that it makes him relive the years of living in the town.

Every day, he would meet many neighborhoods whose faces were already a little unfamiliar, plus the soldiers and ordinary people including Commander Guo, and there was an extra piece of land like an ordinary village and town on Lingxiao. Every time he saw the curling smoke rising over there, Zhang Zhao felt an inexplicable warmth in his chest.

Patches of newly planted rice have already sprouted, and the cattle and deer and yellow sheep caught by the hunters in the distant woods in the town are not in a hurry to slaughter, but are enclosed and planned to be fed well, which makes people feel full of vitality.

Zhang Zhao's injuries had healed, and he woke up early that day, and suddenly remembered that he should have gone to catch some fish for the old butcher to try. Before he could reach the lake, he saw a fire shining in the air, and the two figures seemed to be about to fight.

Gu Qianzhong, who was dressed in a red robe, stepped in the air, and did not wave his hand, but there were flaming red sword lights slashing away, and from a distance, it seemed that a torrential fire rain was falling in front of him.

A few feet away, a gray-robed old man with a goatee stood with his head tilted up, staring at the fierce attack that fell on his head and stood still. Thousands of strands of crystal white silver filaments drilled out of Huo Ran's body, fluttering and extending to meet the flame sword rain sent out by Gu Qianzhong.

"It's over......" Seeing the scene in front of him, Zhang Zhao's first thought came to mind, and now Gu Qianzhong has reached the realm of transformation, and the red flame waves behind him are surging, and under the shroud of the fire rain sword realm, even the lake under his feet seems to be burning, reflecting a red light.

"Oops......" Zhang Zhao didn't have time to stop it, seeing that the Shadow Demon's body was about to be engulfed by the fiery red sword rain. When he was feeling sad in his heart, the silver threads in the sky suddenly fluttered up like white hair in the wind, piercing each sword light with precision like a needle.

Long, thick silver threads seem to emanate from the pores of the Shadow Fiend's body, and they are extremely tough in the face of fire. The momentum of Gu Qianzhong's Heavenly Fire Sword condensed by the Consciousness Transformation Realm was amazing, but it was greatly inferior in number, and under the precise selection of thousands of silver threads, the fire in the air gradually tended to be suppressed.

"Stay ......" Zhang Zhao swallowed back when he came to his mouth, and he found that there was a sense of relaxation in the expressions of the two of them, which was by no means the attitude that they should have in the face of the enemy, and the angle of the shot was not like a life-and-death fight, but more like a competition.

Gu Qianzhong let out a long laugh and his moves changed suddenly, and the fiery red sword light flickered left and right around the shadow demon, but no matter from which angle he attacked, the dazzling fire light could never be deceived into the silver filament that was several feet in a radius.

Failed to succeed after repeated attempts, Gu Qianzhong's offensive slowed down slightly, and the shadow demon immediately groaned in his mouth, and the silver filaments around his body skyrocketed and were overwhelmed, and the fiery red sword light in the air suddenly disappeared, and the two sides had already attacked and defended in an instant.

After a few breaths, Gu Qianzhong's condensed sword realm was about to be forcibly broken by the silver thread, and at this time, the remaining sword light around him suddenly retracted, gathering into a red giant sword in front of him, stabbing at the shadow demon with attack as a defense.

The strands of silver quickly retracted and wrapped around the sharp giant sword, wrapping the entire sword body tightly, until only a fiery red hilt remained outside, and it stopped between the two of them.

A sharp ...... sounded, and countless silver filaments quickly withdrew into the Shadow Demon's body, and the Flame Giant Sword also dissipated at the same time. The two looked at each other and laughed, and jumped in front of Zhang Zhao.

"Admire and admire, this kind of thaumaturgy Gu has never seen before, Your Excellency, these silver threads seem to be hair, but they are not afraid of fire, it is really amazing. In this battle, Gu Qianzhong obviously failed to gain the upper hand, and later abandoned the defense and turned to attack to get a draw: "In the next Gu Qianzhong, did you not ask Your Excellency for your name?"

Zhang Zhao next to him hurriedly interjected: "Uncle Liu, this is the Uncle Gu I told you." Then he looked at Gu Qianzhong: "Uncle Gu, this is Uncle Liu who saved my father." ”

What he said was a bit nondescript, but fortunately, Gu Qian was open-minded and trusted Zhang Zhao and didn't care at all: "Oh, Gu has heard of it. Thank you Brother Liu for your righteous action, and we will have the opportunity to compete again. ”

Turning his head to look at Zhang Zhao with a smile, Gu Qianli couldn't help but admire: "You kid is really good, these strange people on the five mysteries can actually be found by you." With that, he nodded at the Shadow Fiend and walked away with his hands behind his back.

"What's the matter? Why are you and my Uncle Gu meeting and competing here? And ...... Why are you ......?" the Shadow Demon looked behind him and smiled smugly at him, "See, I'll just say that none of them recognize it." ”

Zhang Zhao then asked: "No, how can you be able to defeat Gu Shibo, hasn't he already reached the realm of incarnation?" Speaking of this, he stared at the Shadow Demon with wide eyes: "Could it be that you are also ......?"

Being able to tie with Gu Qianzhong in the metamorphosis realm, Zhang Zhao certainly guessed what the situation was. But not long ago, the shadow demon was seriously injured and wanted to die with Yuwendong and Hu Xiucheng, so why did he suddenly break through the realm in a few days?

"Haha...... Last night, I felt that the aura in my body was surging a little differently, and it was really beneficial to come here to meditate all night. It may be that Gu Qianzhong was alarmed when he introduced qi into the body, and he passed a few moves after a while. ”

Zhang Zhao felt that this thing was incredible, and he was even more shocked when he looked at the face of the shadow demon: "Your face ...... Aren't you afraid of being seen like this?"

Compared to his original thin appearance, there have been many changes on the Shadow Fiend's face now, except for being slightly fatter, even the position of his eyes and nose has moved, and the only thing that has not changed is the lock of goatee under his chin.

"Don't worry, you think everyone has soul eyes? I'm much better than you when my face changes. Shadow Fiend stroked his cheek and explained, "Haven't you ever noticed? ”

"From young to old, from short to tall, from thin to fat, from black to white, no matter how you change, why do you know those people so that you can always recognize them?"

That's because in your mind, you've long remembered a feature other than the person's appearance. Shadow Fiend smiled at his own reflection in the lake, "They don't know me well, but when they see their beards and clothes, they will naturally think that I am still me." ”

"My face changes a little bit every day, and it won't be long before it becomes the way it is, and they get used to it. Moreover, I also want to take my own appearance and live a life that is truly my own for a few days. ”

Zhang Zhao was a little confused when he heard this: "Don't they recognize them?" Don't you plan to leave Lingxiao now?" Shadow Demon asked with a surprised face, "Why do you want to go?" I didn't show the technique of drawing silk on Lingxiao that day, have you forgotten Gu Qianzhong's reaction just now?"

"This place is full of spiritual energy, it is simply an excellent place for cultivation, and usually you eat meat and drink wine with your father, do you know how comfortable I live every day? ”

"Hey, you're really not leaving?" Seeing him walk away, Zhang Zhao couldn't cry or laugh. The Shadow Demon was already a little crazy, and after breaking the Transformation Realm, it was even more difficult, anyway, he didn't mean to hurt anyone, so he had to stay.

If it were to be changed to another sect, there would be an inexplicable additional cultivator in the incarnation realm in the sect, and it would be like sitting on pins and needles. But after Gu Qianzhong told Chang Qingzi about the battle by the lake, both of them felt that there was nothing to worry about.

Zhuo Xuhan, a legendary figure on the Five Xuans, and Zhang Zhao, a Taoist like Dao Tianya, who is not famous but unfathomable, can make friends, and the shadow demon is indeed not uncommon in their eyes. What's more, he was injured not long ago to save the old butcher, and Gu Qianzhong watched him break through the metamorphosis realm with his own eyes.

(End of chapter)