For the next three days, everything was uneventful.

The city of Zeyang was peaceful and serene, and Li Changjing's injuries were finally completely healed after Lu Li's careful treatment, and his strength in half-step ascending to the immortal returned.

However, Xu Huairou seems to be very busy these days, staying at Bingmei's residence every day, and she didn't come out until the evening, so that Li Changjing couldn't chat with her if she wanted to. In addition, Fang Zhengwen was also busy with everything, and he couldn't see each other for a few days, but he heard that the holy mission sent by the imperial court was imprisoned because he was dissatisfied, so he wanted to forcibly go out last night, and directly clashed with the guards of the Gu Commander and the Meng Commander, and I heard that five or six people died.

By the fourth day.

This day was a rare good day, the sun was shining and the breeze was slow, the head of Zeyang City was busy, there were piles of weapons, armor and arrows and artillery stones everywhere, and countless soldiers and people were nervously and orderly stepping up preparations for war and strengthening the city defense.

Every twenty or thirty meters on the city wall, you can see a mysterious behemoth with edges and corners, which is closely guarded by guards, and is tightly covered with oilcloth, so that it is impossible to see what it is.

Suddenly, the heavens and the earth darkened rapidly without warning, and everything was instantly dyed with a strange layer of blood red, which caused all the defenders and men to stop what they were doing, and when they looked up, they immediately saw large red clouds coming silently from the southern sky, rolling like a tidal wave.

Although Zeyang City is inland, it is located on the edge of Daze, which is as vast as the sea, and the people of Zeyang have long been accustomed to the unpredictable and changeable climate similar to the seaside.

However, this time is clearly very different from the previous ones, and for some reason, everyone's heart is beating inexplicably.

"That'...... So how is the cloud red? Someone shouted in surprise.

The red clouds were getting closer and closer, seemingly slowly, but in the blink of an eye, the original clear sky was obscured, and the surroundings became even darker and more foggy, and at this moment, a large and unsettling dark red dust suddenly surged over the horizon.

"What the hell is going on?" Someone asked in surprise, his voice already trembling a little.

But no one answered.

Buzz –

Suddenly, a long strange sound came from the air, and in the dark red dust mist that kept churning, several huge shadows loomed without warning, approaching side by side in this direction.

"What's that?"

"What's that?"

"What the hell?"

There was an uproar on the city, and all the defenders and civilians widened their eyes and stared closely at the shadow that was getting closer and closer.

Finally, several giant shadows completely broke away from the dust and mist, and the defenders and people on the city wall suddenly found that they were several tall skeleton monsters, each of which was surrounded by dense skeleton warriors of all shapes and sizes, all holding chilling strange weapons in their hands, all of which were extremely terrifying and abnormal.

Immediately afterwards, the defenders and civilians on the city wall found that behind each skeleton troll, there were also groups of skeleton soldiers, with neat armor and orderly queues, extremely solemn and serious.

The scene in front of him was really shocking and terrifying, and the defenders and civilians on the city wall were all stunned and changed color.

Several skeleton trolls continued to approach in stride, shaking the entire city with each step.

"Oh my God! It's a skeleton! Someone finally woke up from a dream, and his voice was full of panic.

The city immediately exploded.

"Oh no! The army of monsters has attacked! ”

"Oh my God, how can there be so many!"

"How can there be such a big monster!"

"Hurry up and report to your lordship!"

In the boiling panic, I finally heard an officer hissing and shouting: "All back to their positions!" All take up arms! ”

As if the end of the world was coming, the originally blue sky disappeared in a blink of an eye, replaced by piles of red clouds like rolling waves, thick like blood, like the top of a mountain.

Under the blood clouds, surrounded by a group of heavily armed soldiers, Fang Zhengwen, dressed in battle robes, ascended to the top of the city.

The corners of his robe were occasionally blown by the strong wind blowing in his face, revealing the silver scales inside, but his expression seemed to freeze, and there was no fluctuation in the wind.

Behind him, on both sides were capable people who came to help from all over the world, all with solemn faces and holding their breath, trying their best to hide the fear that came out of their eyes from time to time.

Li Changjing and his entourage stood quietly a little farther away under the leadership of Bing Mei, among which several girls had delicate waists and thin waists, skirts and ribbons, under the cold armor, they looked particularly delicate and weak against the backdrop of the blades, like flowers in the thorn bushes, which was particularly eye-catching.

In front of Zeyang City, the skeleton army poured in like a tide, with amazing power and murderous aura.

Chang Yu took a cool breath, looked at the dense skeletons of all kinds and said, "All of them are demonized blood skeletons!" ”

The Ice Charm was staring at the blood clouds in the air, and said slowly: "And there is also a large-scale evil magic assistance to increase their combat power, Zeyang City is afraid that it will be more than auspicious." ”

Xu Huairou glanced at the so-called capable people who rushed to help, and whispered, "Can't those people help?" ”

Bing Mei didn't answer, Li Changjing had already shook his head and replied: "I went around just now, and I didn't see any real masters, the strongest are just a few Dao Masters of Haoran Temple." In such a large-scale battle, their role was not even comparable to that of the three hundred demon subduers in the Demon Swinging Castle. ”

Xiao Yu's face was pale, and she forced herself to calm down: "Don't be afraid!" We have more than 30 Skybreaker crossbows, so we may not be able to defend the city walls! ”

Bing Mei was silent, her gaze retracted from the air, and she stared calmly at the front of the city.

The skeleton army was getting closer and closer, and at the front were several giant skeletons as tall as towers, each step could reach a distance of seven or eight meters, and the skeleton warlocks in their eye sockets began to wield magic weapons, and a powerful threat of substance erupted silently, overwhelmingly attacking the defenders of Zeyang City.

Most of the defenders in the city are the tiger-headed army of the imperial court, Rao is well-trained and experienced in a hundred battles, and has long been affixed with a talisman to resist threat, but it still caused a lot of commotion, looking at the nightmarish approaching Hell Demon Tower and the Skeleton Demon Army, everyone has a feeling of powerlessness and despair in their hearts.

"One, two, three......" Chang Yu roughly counted, and said with a white face: "There are eight big skeletons in total!" No wonder the threat is so terrifying, if it weren't for the talismans we prepared in advance, this battle might have been lost before it was fought. ”

"I'm afraid it's more than that, that time in the sky above Wangze, I have seen seven or eight, this time I came to attack Zeyang, which has heavy troops, I am afraid that they will pour out." Lu Li let out a long sigh.

Li Changjing said in a deep voice: "Today's fierce battle is inevitable, everyone be careful, especially beware of the old thing of the Skeleton Yuanzun." ”

Qingyan on the side shivered, and whispered, "Those blood spiders are also terrifying......

Bing Mei looked at Xu Huairou, saw that she was in a trance, frowned and shouted, "Xiao Rou! ”

"Huh?" Xu Huairou woke up like a dream.

"Now is not the time to be cranky, what is there to wait for this battle to pass." Ice Charm Road.

"Yes." Xu Huairou bowed her head and responded, still uneasy.

Another long strange sound sounded in the air, and the army of skeletons suddenly boiled and rushed forward like a wave, and the sound was extremely terrifying.

The skeleton archers attached to the eight Hell Demon Towers opened their bows one after another, only to see a strange blue light swept into the air, dragging a long tail flame and falling to the city.

The tiger-headed army in the city raised their thick shields in unison, and instantly formed countless copper walls and iron walls, almost blocking all the arrows that were entwined by the cyan flames, but the cyan flames fell to the ground and did not go out, and dozens of soldiers were splashed on their bodies by this kind of yin fire bomb, and immediately rolled to the ground and screamed, like crazy, so that the onlookers scattered in fear, and the lineup began to be messy at a speed visible to the naked eye.

As for the so-called capable people who rushed to help, they were even more panicked, many of them dodged in a hurry and made a mess, and some even secretly regretted it in their hearts, scolding themselves for running to death.

Fang Zhengwen's face turned pale, and he shouted fiercely, "Turn on the divine soldiers!" Get ready to shoot! ”

The order spread, and the mysterious behemoths placed every twenty or thirty meters in the city were torn off the tarpaulin, only to see that the shape was like a sleeping cabinet, four or five meters long, nearly two meters wide, with arms, strings, grooves and other structures, and on both sides there were boxes, wheels and other things, and many places were engraved with various runes of different sizes, which were the sky-breaking crossbows supervised by Ice Charm these days.

At this moment, the eight Hell Demon Towers have approached about fifty or sixty meters away from the city wall, and the various skeletons clinging to them are clearly visible, in addition to more than 20 skeleton archers on each one, there are also more than 20 skeleton scratchers and nearly 100 skeleton knife and axe hands, all of them are ready to attack with their teeth and claws.

With the sound of zaza, the crossbowmen quickly shook their pedals, and the control machine pulled the long strings of each sky-breaking crossbow, and the giant arrows that were ready to fire began to slowly adjust their direction and angle, and under the command of the general, they aimed at their respective targets.

Fang Zhengwen waved his hand, and the officer next to him immediately shouted: "Shoot!" ”

Only a series of shocking muffled sounds were heard, and more than a dozen Heaven-Breaking God crossbows were released together, and the huge arrows as thick as pillars roared out, shooting towards the eight Hell Demon Towers like lightning.

With a loud thunderclap, a huge arrow shot into the shoulder of a Hell Demon Tower, which exploded to pieces, and more than a dozen skeleton soldiers clinging to the surrounding area were shaken off on the spot, falling straight from the air and shattering on the ground.

Xiao Yu clapped her hands and cheered, but saw that everyone next to her had solemn expressions, and looked carefully, it turned out that in the first round of shooting, only this Hell Demon Tower was hit, and all the others failed.

The only one hit in the Hell Tower wasn't destroyed, it shook for a while, and soon rebalanced itself under the control of the six skeleton warlocks in its eye sockets, and then continued to stagger forward.

The defenders of the city were all discolored.

"These monsters are really super weapons for siege of the city, it seems that except for the Sky Breaking God Crossbow, ordinary city defense equipment has no way to take it." Chang Yu took a cool breath.

"It's just a high-speed ladder with amazing load capacity and defense!" Lu Li's face became even more worried, and as he spoke, he took out his strange purple tripod used for refining medicine from his sleeve, preparing to refine the elixir for healing injuries on the spot, so as to help those injured soldiers.

"But how can the accuracy of the crossbow be so bad?" Xu Huairou, who had returned to normal, frowned.

"It's hard to aim, these giant skeletons are coming too fast." Li Changjing said in a deep voice: "Besides, the completion of the Heaven Breaking God Crossbow has only been a few days, and the training time of the crossbowmen is simply insufficient. ”

"This is troublesome, there are less than three hundred finished crossbow arrows made of golden spirit bamboo, and if you waste one, you will have one less!" Chang Yu said nervously.

As he spoke, a second round of shooting thunderbolts was issued, this time the situation was slightly better, three giant arrows hit the Hell Demon Tower, but unfortunately none of them hit the vital point, none of the eight Hell Demon Towers fell or stopped, and the speed of the hit was only slightly slowed down, and the others still strode forward, the front one had already stepped on the stone bridge, and effortlessly crossed the not too shallow moat, and the huge bone arm seemed to be able to touch the city wall as soon as he stretched out his hand.

At such a distance, the defenders of the city felt the horror of the monster in front of them, although the guardian rune resisted most of the threat, but the visual and psychological fear still spread like a plague, after all, it was the first time they encountered such an enemy.

Zeyang City is the largest town in the Wangze Plain, known as a military fortress, the city wall is as high as fifteen meters, which is rare in the territory of the imperial dynasty, but such a height is only as high as the chest of the Hell Demon Tower.

When the nightmarish shadow loomed over the top, even the iron-clad tiger head army began to shake and disperse, and even paralyzed to the ground, even the officers waved their swords to threaten to no avail. In the face of such a terrifying behemoth, the traditional weapons and instruments for defending the city, such as knives, guns, clubs, bows, crossbows, and forks, seemed so weak and useless at this moment.

Fang Zhengwen stepped to the nearest Sky Breaking God Crossbow and shouted at the terrified crossbowman, "Shoot me again, hit it in the head!" ”

Several crossbowmen woke up from a dream, and hurriedly shook their stomps and adjusted their crossbow bolts to aim at the huge head of the Hell Tower that had already come to the front of the city. Suddenly, the Hell Demon Tower, which rushed to the edge of the city, raised an arm high, and smashed into the city from the air with a thunderbolt, only to hear a deafening roar, and the city wall collapsed several meters like paper, and more than a dozen soldiers who had no time to escape were instantly smashed into powder.

At the same time, a huge arrow roared and struck the chest of the Hell Tower, blasting out flying bones all over the sky, and countless dirty blood organs were splashed in all directions, but the Hell Tower was extremely strong, and under the control of the six skeleton warlocks in the eye socket, it frantically crashed into the damaged city wall, nearly doubling the collapse, and the skeleton warriors clinging to it swarmed down, letting out all kinds of terrifying screams, and pounced on the defenders behind the battlements.

"It's a pity!" Fang Zhengwen secretly screamed in his heart, and shouted at the scrambled crossbowman: "Panic!" Again! Punch it in the head! If you don't hit again, you'll cut off your head. ”

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The other side.

Bing Mei suddenly pulled Li Changjing to the side without warning, and whispered in his ear for a while.

"What, we're leaving Zeyang City now?" Li Changjing asked in surprise.

"Don't worry, listen to me." Ice Charm Yurong was cold, and said in a condensed voice: "Zeyang City is the largest town in the Daze Plain, known as a military fortress, not only the city is strong and full of food, but also stationed in heavy guards. ”

Li Changjing listened carefully.

Ice Charm continued: "If the skeleton monster wants to take Zeyang, it will definitely come out of the nest at this time, and the nest must be extremely empty and weak at the moment." ”

Li Changjing's face changed, and he said in a deep voice: "Do you want to sneak attack their lair?" ”

Bing Mei nodded slightly, "I heard that you have a wind deer cart, which is extremely fast, and it shouldn't take long to go straight to their lair." ”

"Shall we go together?" Li Changjing was still a little incredulous.

"Hmm." Ice Charm glanced back at the chaotic battlefield behind him, and said softly: "If I'm not mistaken, a large part of the skeletons besieging the city come from those Soul Gathering Arrays, and the source mana pool is the key, if we can destroy those damn blood pools, we may be able to relieve the crisis in Zeyang City." ”

"But...... We are the main combat force in the team, if we leave together, Zeyang City ......" Although Li Changjing thinks this is a good idea, but at the moment, a whole eight Hell Demon Towers are outside the city, if the two of them leave together, what if the city is broken?

"Zeyang City is safe for a short time." Ice Charm pointed into the distance, "Look. ”

Li Changjing followed her direction and looked at her, only to see Xu Huairou sitting cross-legged on the ground under the protection of Chang Yu and Chang Jingde, her eyes closed, and her whole body was shrouded in a cold air that was so strong that it was like a substance. ”

As soon as the words fell, the outer wall began to freeze at a speed visible to the naked eye, and at the same time rose sharply, and in the blink of an eye, it evolved into a wider and thicker ice wall, covering the original wall wall, and even the gap that was smashed by the Hell Demon Tower was repaired by the hard thick ice.

Li Changjing looked at the shadow in the distance with shocked eyes, and muttered to himself: "Rourou is so perfectly compatible with the ice spirit, such a big ice wall, maybe even the masters of the immortal realm can't condense it......"

"Are you relieved?" Bing Mei glanced at him, "I have successfully broken through the realm for Xiaorou last night, she is now the same as you, and she is also a half-step immortal strength, with her staying here, although she may not be able to completely hold it, but it can still be done after a while." ”

Li Changjing nodded, he was finally a little relieved, he recognized Miss Xu's combat power, and there were Qingyan, Chang Jingde, Chang Yu and others on the side to assist, Lu Li's auxiliary pill could also provide support, and the axe army led by Fang Zhengwen cooperated with each other, coupled with the blocking of the Heaven Breaking God Crossbow, it must not be difficult to drag on for a while.

"Then without further ado, we'll go now." Li Changjing let out a low snort, and with a big Luo Buddha's hand, he shattered the seven or eight skeleton soldiers who attacked in front of him, saved a few soldiers who were almost slaughtered, and turned around and shouted at Bing Mei.

Bing Mei nodded slightly, and the person swept out like light smoke, and disappeared into the city in the blink of an eye.

Li Changjing followed her back to the city, found a secluded place, and then summoned the wind deer cart from his sleeve bag, and then wrapped the fire pith around the rope as a whip like last time, and immediately headed towards the place north of the city to resist the wind.

The speed of the wind deer car is really amazing, it has already used more than ten kilometers in less than five minutes, and when I look back, the shadow of Zeyang City is gone, and I can only see the strange red cloud on the edge of the sky.

"Hold on, you must wait for us to come back......" Li Changjing couldn't help praying in his heart, so he whipped a few wind deer on the buttocks again, making them work harder, and the car went away like a rocket with a string of afterimages.

About ten minutes later, Li Changjing and Bing Mei directly crossed the Wangze Plain and arrived near the ancient barracks where they had encountered the Skeleton Commander before.

After putting the wind deer cart back into his sleeve, Li Changjing said in a condensed voice: "I know where to go down, and I also know the approximate location of those blood pools. ”

"Then you lead the way." Ice Charm nodded at him.

It wasn't long before the two of them came to the side of the deep cliff that was completely covered by trees and shrubs.

"The skeleton's lair is down here!" Li Changjing pointed to the front and said, "I fell from here last time, and it was very deep. The cliffs on both sides are paved with flat brick walls, and there is nothing to borrow, so we have to find a way. ”

Bing Mei observed carefully for a moment, and suddenly reached out and grabbed Li Changjing's belt, and jumped out of front without being cold, but he jumped directly off because the master of ascending the Immortal Realm could stay in the air.

Li Changjing was so frightened that he had to subconsciously hug her waist and really admired it in his heart: "I don't know when I can reach her realm?" ”

It took about three minutes for the two to reach the ground with a high-speed descent, clinging to the cliff wall.

Although Ice Charm had been here before, it had stumbled in from the other side, and because she was not familiar with the surrounding roads at all, she couldn't help but ask, "Where are those source mana pools?" ”

"Follow me." Li Changjing looked around and found that the surroundings were quiet, so he groped in the dark with his memory.

After turning a few lanes, I met a team of skeleton patrols, there was no shelter here, and there was no place to hide, the two of them could not avoid it, they could only fight with those skeletons, and because of the ice charm, the enemy was easily solved in the blink of an eye.

"Looks like there are still some skeletons left here, and we have enough to fight if we swagger in there so much."

Li Changjing also felt that it was inappropriate to break in, thought about it, and suddenly clapped his hands and said, "There is!" Last time, I stripped a few skeletons of armor and put them on, and dressed as skeletons to fool around in many places, why don't you draw gourds like this time, and do it again? ”

"Hmm." Bing Mei nodded, and actually agreed.

Li Changjing quickly peeled off a set of skull armor and put it on, but saw that Bing Mei was standing still, so he stripped another set and sent it to her, urging: "Quick, I'm ready, you can put it on quickly." ”

Unexpectedly, Bing Mei snorted, "I don't want these monster things." ”

Li Changjing was stunned: "Then how do you pretend to be a skeleton?" ”

Bing Mei didn't answer, Lan finger pinched a spell, and said a few words silently, and suddenly the figure blurred, and the outline was distorted.

Li Changjing's eyes widened, and he was dizzy unconsciously, his eyelids closed involuntarily, and when he opened it again, the ice ghost in front of him was gone, and it was replaced by another living skeleton soldier, whose armor was as deep as a hole, which scared him a lot.

"It's me." The skeleton soldier spoke, and it turned out to be the voice of the Ice Ghost.