"Mother, I'm so scared. ”

The girl lifted her face and looked at the woman holding her with tears in her eyes.

"Xiaohua is good, Dad came back to save us, bear with me, okay?"

The woman caresses the girl, but who knows how she is feeling at this time.

"Hmm. ”

The girl buried her face in the woman's chest, and she was now feeling cold. Only by snuggling tightly in a woman's arms can she feel a trace of warmth.

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It's been two days, and the troops of the Yan Kingdom have been slaughtering this town incessantly, destroying the otherwise peaceful and peaceful streamside town beyond sight—men, women, young and old—and the shattered bodies have been discarded in the streets, and the wet blood flows down the cracks between the stone bricks into the drains along the streets, like the dung that flows from the thatched houses.

"Go over there and take a look, are there any Chu thieves!!"

"Yes!!"

The soldiers in black light armor scattered again, searching for the townsfolk who had been hiding, the life of their leather boots colliding with the ground echoing in the blood-stained alleys.

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"Mother, I'm hungry. ”

The girl raised her head weakly and looked at the woman tiredly, the sparkle in her eyes getting darker and darker.

"Xiaohua, your father will definitely come, with your favorite dumplings, bear with me now, okay?"

The woman stroked the girl's head and told her not to make a sound—she heard the sound of approaching footsteps, making her heart beat stronger, and a trace of cold sweat ran down her thin cheeks.

"It seems that there is only one place left and there is no search left, you go and see if there is any cellar or something like this!"

The soldier's voice came from above the woman's head, making her subconsciously hug the girl in her arms.

"Listen to me, Xiaohua, my mother will get you something to eat, can you wait here for a while. ”

The woman pressed her chapped lips into the girl's ear and murmured softly. Only she knew that her husband, the girl's father, could never come back, and even this Qingquan town in the border area was attacked like this, let alone the Xinjiang army over there.

"Hmm. ”

The girl nodded slightly, not knowing if it was because she was already very well-behaved or because she was hungry and had no strength, she curled up and watched the woman stand up without saying a word.

The woman put the girl in the corner, looked at the dying girl, her eyes were full of distress and self-blame, and her hands trembled and pulled out a knife covered with black rust from the already empty rice jar.

After years of war, the country has collected all the food, and the woman has heard that there are people in Danyang City who are hungry, let alone their side of the frontier - however, they can't give up, and they won't give up, because they have the most powerful king in the world, and because of this, they believe that they will win, even if it still requires some sacrifices.

The woman gritted her teeth and slashed the knife in her hand towards her wrist. However, because of such a long period of starvation, she didn't have much blood to come out, only a small thick stream of blood slowly flowing out of the wound. The woman put her bloody wrist in front of the girl's mouth. The girl, who was already hungry and delirious, felt the hot and humid touch and subconsciously licked it. The girl didn't know what it was, she just knew it was something she needed, something she had been treasured when she was just born, it tasted so sweet, and she couldn't stop sucking on it.

The woman watched the girl's face gradually return to ruddy, and finally smiled reassuringly, but this smile seemed so tired.

"Poof!"

The silence was interrupted by a sudden noise, and the woman panicked and covered the girl's body with straw, and swayed towards the entrance of the cellar with the rusty knife.

"I didn't expect there to be a cellar here, brothers go in and search it to see if there are still Chu thieves alive inside!!"

Three men in black light armor jumped into the cellar and jumped in front of the trembling woman.

"Hmph, I didn't expect there to be a bitch of Chu State here-by the way, Erju, haven't you killed the Chu thief just now, I'll leave this one here to you!"

The tall man at the head said to the thin man behind him, who was a little rickety, and stepped aside. Each of them deeply hated the Chu State, the Chu army that separated their wives, and hated and envied the people born in such a powerful country—of course, they were also afraid, afraid of this country like a powerful lion—but they certainly would not be afraid of the defenseless woman in front of them. The thin man stared at the frail woman in front of him, smiled cruelly, drew the knife at his waist and slowly approached her.

"Why, why? What's the point of you killing so many folks?"

The woman raised her head and looked directly at the fierce rickety man, yellow tears flowing from her deeply sunken eyelids.

"Hahaha!!! how many families in our Yan Kingdom have been shattered and how many people are in pain, do you know?

The rickety man grabbed the woman by the hem and threw her to the ground.

"That... We have never done anything to slaughter old and weak women and children, and what about you, to take your incompetence out on the unarmed innocent! Is this your resistance? You cowards!"

The woman got up from the ground, shouted hoarsely, and raised the long knife in her hand tremblingly.

"Hmph, you bitch, Lao Tzu will make your life worse than death right away!!"

The rickety man pinned the woman to the ground and tore her clothes frantically like a madly terrible ghost.

"Get out of the way!!"

At this moment, the tall man at the head grabbed the rickety man on the woman's body and threw him against the wall with great force.

"I'm sorry that my men have defiled you. ”

The man looked down at the dying woman, sighed, and shook his head.

"That's right, we're cowards - we're weak but we don't want to admit that we can't win on the frontal battlefield and we can only kill you by some small means, and then go back to our people and tell our people how brave and good we are to defeat the army of Chu. Ahahahaha, what a self-deception, obviously a weak person but I don't want to admit it, and I can't let go of that bit of vanity. But, I'm still sorry, I have to kill you, because I don't want to let this meaningless action go to waste because of me—but, at least I won't let you die without dignity, don't you Chu people keep saying that even if you die, you have to die with your head held high? Come, stand up, I'll wait for you. ”

When the woman heard the man's words, she slowly rose from the ground, trembling on all fours, and fell down weakly—but at that moment, a broad palm grabbed her shoulders and gently lifted her up.

"I'm sorry. ”

The man whispered softly in the woman's ear, and the long knife in his hand quickly passed through the woman's abdomen.

"Nothing to be sorry about... Thank you.... NOW ... I've finally fulfilled my promise to him. ”

The woman vaguely felt that someone was holding her hand, the man she loved the most, who had told her that even if she wanted to die, she would die with her head held high, and she would win glory for the country. The woman smiled, her body falling limply, and the glint in her eyes gradually faded. Until the moment when the breath completely disappeared, there was still a smile on his face.

The man looked at the woman's body in silence, shook his head, and turned away, not paying attention to the girl in the corner, or pretending not to notice.

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"Mother... ”

A petite figure slowly emerged from the pile of straw and pounced on the woman who had fallen to the ground, beside her mother.

The girl had just woken up, and she didn't know what was happening, and even if she did, her young mind couldn't understand it. She didn't know anything about why her mother didn't respond to her call, why her mother told her to hide here all the time, only that she kept shaking the woman's body - although she already felt a faint sense of unease, she still thought that her mother was just asleep.

"You don't need to shake, she's dead. ”

A deep voice suddenly sounded in the empty cellar, but there was no sense of disobedience.

"Death? What does that mean? Can you tell me what happened to my mother?"

The girl looked up and looked around at the empty space.

"What it means to die, you can see for yourself. ”

The broken iron knife, which should have been motionless on the ground, shook violently, and the black rust on the surface of the knife cracked, shooting out a crimson light from the rush. The rust peeled off, revealing the garnet-red blade, which, with a dazzling light, rose from the ground and hung in front of the girl.

"Hold it, and then, you'll understand everything. ”

The girl's mouth opened wide for a moment as she looked at the gorgeous blade, and the girl's yearning for beautiful things made her subconsciously grasp the hilt of the knife engraved with the pattern of the flower on the other side - since this moment, her life has completely changed.

"Ahhhh!!!h

Strange blood-red lines appeared on the girl's skin, and an incomparably strong spiritual power fluctuation erupted, destroying the entire house into ruins.

"This is what this world is really like ... ”

The girl looked up at the gray sky, her eyes were red, and tears of blood were pouring out of them, and she knew everything that was happening in this town, even in this world.

"Mother, father, mayor and grandfather, everyone... Ahhhh!!!!h

The blood-colored light condensed into a pair of wings on the girl's back, as monstrous as the wings of the devil - only a red skeleton and a tattered membrane. The wings slowly opened, then swung up and down, carrying the girl's body into the air, and, of course, the strange knife.

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"Hurry up, dispose of all these corpses, we have to catch up with the big army as soon as possible!!"

With his hands on his hips, the man commanded his men to clean up the piles of corpses, bury them or burn them, just like they did with garbage—whether they were once beautiful women or handsome teenagers, they were like garbage at this time.

"Really, why did you leave us to deal with these troublesome things, obviously they dealt with the most Chu thieves, but let us stay here to deal with the aftermath!!"

A thin man slammed into the ground with the lowest level of spiritual skill in the army, grumbling impatiently. A small pit gradually appeared in the ground, and on the other side, a man in the same military uniform dragged the mangled body of a woman into the pit.

"Okay! Don't mumble about the second pot! Hurry up and finish your work and leave, in case Chu Kou comes, we'll be finished!!"

After the work, trouble, this is how these Yan soldiers think of what they are doing now, as if they are now doing something as ordinary as housewives taking care of the housework.

"Okay, good—huh??"

The man named Erju raised his fists again, but the ground shook like never before.

"Alas, I'm not going to break through the realm, ahhahahahaha!!Lao Tzu is really amazing!!"

The man laughed wildly and shouted excitedly to his comrades on the side, but they stared intently at the sky above the town, their pupils constricting with fear, and their bodies trembling.

"What's wrong with you, won't you be shocked by Uncle Ben's strength!!"

The rickety man patted his chest proudly, looking proud, but when he looked at his comrades around him, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

"Two pots... You.... See... ”

Another man pointed to the sky with his finger as if he had Parkinson's disease, and his hand trembled.

"What's wrong with the sky? Under.... ”

The second pot looked in the direction of his comrades' fingers, and the words of disdain in his mouth suddenly stuck in his throat - the innocence collapsed, and the blood-red light pierced the sky, shaking away the layers of clouds, and even the space seemed to be torn apart by the light.

"Blood debt and blood payment, suffer death!!"

The roar resounded in this world, the houses in the town were all crumbling, and the terrified Yan soldiers were even more paralyzed to the ground, and they were shocked by the powerful power contained in the voice.

"What。。。。。 ”

Only Erju, who was emaciated and emaciated, was still standing there, and even though his bones were creaking and shattering at this moment, his body was still standing there—because a figure in the sky was so familiar, as if it were the woman he had been pressed to the ground before.

"No... No.. No!!"

The figure in the light quickly enlarged in his field of vision, and in a breath it reached him. Erju's mouth was wide open, and the blood flowing from his nostrils dripped into his mouth, and he wanted to scream, but the figure in the light didn't even give him such a chance.

"Die. ”

He saw that it was a girl, who looked so immature and lovely, and heard her clear voice, however, no one felt any affection in the second pot, and it was too late to even fear - the knife in the girl's hand was cut down, and in an instant, the blood-red light swept across the earth, leaving a knife mark several miles long. Under this knife, not to mention the clumsy Yan soldiers, even a hill next to the town was cut off by the waist.

The rest of the soldiers could not understand what was happening, and could only look at the girl in horror and kneel there motionless.

"Die, you guys. ”

The girl floated in mid-air, the terrifying bloody wings behind her constantly flapping. She turned to the remaining soldiers behind her, raised her knife again, and slashed down.

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"THIS POWER ... ”

A long-haired man in a plain robe looked at the dilapidated hill and frowned.

"Master, whatever, as long as this power is strong enough and worthy of our use, isn't it?"

Next to the man in black clothes, a short-haired man in gold armor said impatiently.

"Yes. ”

The man in the dark robe nodded, at this time he was almost at the end of his rope, even if he had to take a risk, this kind of power was worth using.

"Then I'll leave it to you! ”

"Ahaha, okay! Finally, it's my turn to take in my apprentice!"

With that, the short-haired man turned into a golden light and rushed towards the owner of the blood-colored light.

"The knife... ”

The man in the dark clothes looked at the blood-red point of light, and looked at the blood-red demon knife in the girl's hand. At this time, he seemed to see the plain where corpses were strewn over a thousand years ago, and the powerful man who stood on the hill where the corpses were piled up, with three heads and six arms, invincible.

"Chi You's. . . Bloodstained Hua... ”

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"Who can, help me. ”

The girl lay in the ruins, staring blankly at the dim sky. A drizzle of rain hit her cheeks and slid down her pale cheeks. She no longer had the strength to move her body, so she could only wait for help from others, or death.

"Hahaha, do you pray for the help of others? Die, all you can believe, what you can rely on, is only yourself, and me. ”

A blood-red light suddenly appeared, obscuring the canopy of heaven and obscuring the girl's vision, engulfing her petite body—and the girl's cry of helplessness.

"No!!"

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"No!!"

A drizzle of rain hit the girl's face, on her messy ponytail, and mixed with the dust into mud stains.

The girl gasped and hugged her knees.

"What's the matter, Xiaohua, are you having nightmares again?"

The man walked behind the girl and put his cloak on the girl's back.

"Hmm. ”

The girl took a few more breaths, finally calmed down, turned her head to look at the honest man with a stubbly beard, and smiled sweetly.

"Thank you, godfather. ”

"Alas, I don't know when this battle will last, it's really hard for you. ”

The man rubbed the girl's head dotingly, just as a normal father would do to his daughter.

"It's nothing, it's all what I should do, you've always led everyone in the team, otherwise we wouldn't have survived until now. ”

The man looked at the dark night sky, sighed self-deprecatingly, untied the flask from his waist and poured it hard.

"Well, if only I could be a little stronger, I wouldn't have to work so hard for you alone. ”

In the night rain, the cool breeze blew, and the girl wrapped the cloak tighter, and her body unconsciously snuggled into the man's arms.

"Godfather. ”

The girl raised her head in the man's arms, looked at the man's weather-beaten cheeks, and whispered.

"I remember the day it rained, the day you picked me out of the pile of dead. ”

"Hmm, why did you suddenly say that again? ”

The man lowered his head and looked at the girl in his arms in bewilderment.

"It's nothing, it's just that godfather you gave me something called home again. So, I have to take good care of it!"

The girl looked at the man and smiled brightly.

"Ahh Now... It's not a home, when the war is over, let's go to Danyang City together, I must marry a lady to be your godmother, and then add a few younger brothers and sisters to you. That's when our home is complete!"

The man hugged the girl tightly, dreaming of a bright future for her, and a happy smile appeared on his face.

Unfortunately, the current situation did not give him such an opportunity - a spy rushed out of the woods and shouted loudly at the people who had been lying in ambush for a long time.

"The troops of the Yan Kingdom are here, everyone is preparing to sneak attack!!"

After hearing the words of the spies, the hundreds of people who were lying in ambush stood up on a diet. Of course, the girl and the man.

The six kingdoms of Qi, Korea, Yan, Zhao, Wei, and Qin took advantage of the king of Chu to go to Mobei and suddenly gathered a large army to invade Chu together. The six major groups surrounded the Chu State, but the main force of the Chu State was dragged by the Mobei Tiemin and could not return for help in a short time. For a time, the defenders of Chu were defeated and retreated, and the frontier army was inflicted unprecedented losses, so they could only retreat while interfering with the speed of the enemy's invasion.

And the girl is in a small detachment of the remaining frontier army, defending against the invading Yan army in the northwest of Chu State.

"Old eight, where is the location of the enemy troops?"

The bearded man asked the returning spy.

"About three kilometers to the northeast, the Black Feather Army of the Yan Kingdom was discovered, and there were at least a thousand people visually. ”

The spy took off his mask and guided everyone in the direction of the Yan army, reporting what he had observed.

"From what I've observed, there are only ten Tachibana Ukyo officers in that army to be careful with, and nothing else is worth mentioning. ”

The spy said to everyone, and then looked at the only girl in the team, Chu Xiaohua.

"Xiaohua, it shouldn't be a big problem for you to solve the four Black Feather Army officers in the Juyuan Realm. ”

"Well, leave it to me. ”

Chu Xiaohua patted the long knife hanging from her waist, full of confidence.

She does have that strength, for so many days, the number of Juyuan Realm powerhouses who have died under her sword has exceeded five fingers, if it weren't for her, I'm afraid that the frontier army would have been wiped out, and even the remnants of the less than a hundred defeated generals would not be left.

"Okay, let's take the will of the deceased, win again, and then, everyone live together!"

The man at the head, Chu Xiaohua's godfather, Chu Shanhe, raised his fist excitedly to the sky. A heroic remark aroused the fighting spirit of these remnants, and everyone raised their fists and shouted.

However, no one noticed the miserable look in Chu Shanhe and the old eight eyes in his mouth - they originally had ten brothers, comrades-in-arms who had spent more than ten years together in the frontier army. However, now there are only the two of them left.

"Then, let's go!"

Chu Shanhe and Lao Ba put on their masks and resolutely rushed in the direction of Yan Guo's large army, even though they all knew what kind of danger they were about to face.

Chu Xiaohua looked at Chu Shanhe's distant back, clenched the knife on his waist hard, followed, and muttered in his mouth.

"This time, definitely, can't afford to lose it all again. ”

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"I heard that those remnants of the Chu State were still resisting stubbornly, do you know?"

A soldier of the Yan Kingdom in black light armor said to his colleagues behind him, and he couldn't help but be a little worried.

"Cut, it's just a group of rats, and the Chu army without the Chijiang Army and the Golden Guard is not worth mentioning. Those frontier armies are nothing more than a rabble. At most, they will make a little noise, and if they run into the main force of our Black Feather Army, how can they have a chance to jump - well? Something seems to be wrong!!Be careful!"

The man jumped to the side, dodging the ghostly shadow of the knife and drew the spear on his back. The other also hurriedly drew the sword at his waist and quickly set it up.

"Hmph, what a coincidence, I was talking about you little worms just now, but I didn't expect it to appear like this. ”

"Really? I'm a bug?"

The person who attacked the two men appeared, and it turned out to be a young girl. The girl's eyes were bloody, and the smile on her face was extremely cruel.

"O lowly ant, are you ready to accept my wrath? ”

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