He was surprised and annoyed that someone was still fighting the bird monsters - he didn't understand why those people were acting in hiding from the Ye Gang, wasn't their past performance qualified enough?

As soon as he thought that his dignified head of the martial arts had been snubbed by the prisoners of Purgatory, he became angry and determined to find the traces of those guys. The various cultivations in the Trace Hall came in handy at this moment, although without the support of Ze Qi, many magical trace methods could not be used, but the essence of tracking was careful observation, and the insight stronger than ordinary people was a talent that purgatory could not take away.

Ye Liancheng kept his subordinates quiet, and he carefully groped for the gravel mountain like a mouse.

These thin layers of light gray mudstone were not crumbling at first, they were supposed to be complete slabs that had fallen from the sky and shattered into this shape. He raised his head, and there was only an endless sky above him, and the dazzling light of the fire forced him to avoid the edge, and he quickly lowered his head.

The stones that appear out of thin air, like people who disappear out of thin air, have a vague connection with each other...... Ye Liancheng caressed the gravel mountain, and the person who was observing the mice in the mountain sighed: "They have finished eating." ”

"Helper, let's guard this gap and 'wait for the rat'. ”

"Just look at it. ”

The crowd cheered, waiting for the rat to be sent into their mouths.

Ye Liancheng's body has long been restored, for him, eating is just to fill his stomach and satisfy his taste buds, he no longer has the mood and desire to eat raw mice.

However, the subordinates are different, many of them are still missing arms and legs, and they do not have those rare herbs in Yanghua Mountain, even if they eat and drink nonsense, they will recover quite slowly, and if they are attacked by the bird army, they will definitely be more than lucky.

So they were forced by Ye Liancheng - of course, it was a compulsion, few people were willing to feel the inescapable pain in order to walk faster - and they had to eat a large amount of beast herbs every day. As time passed, the pain of punishment seemed addictive, and they no longer refused to eat, but gobbled up their bodies to fill them whole.

The army composed of this prisoner was about to evolve into a complete body, but Ye Liancheng knew that the next step was the most difficult hurdle to overcome......

Penitential sentence.

Ye Liancheng always felt that he was strong-willed, at least before he encountered the penitential punishment, he had never thought that there was any punishment in purgatory that he could not bear. But penitance is different, it is an indescribable pain, it is different from ordinary punishment for physical deprivation, but it shocks the soul of man, makes him feel endless remorse and fear.

It was as if he had been put in a coffin with a slit, and then he dived deep into the sea, the water soaked his feet little by little, blistered, and then his knees, his chest was overwhelmed by the heavy water, his eyes could never be opened again, the salty liquid replaced the blood, and the man seemed to become a puddle of water, slowly seeping into the sea, and his consciousness never faded. He seemed to feel something, but as if he didn't feel anything, the five senses expanded into infinity, and infinity is man's number one enemy, which is endless, and finally points to the endless cycle of reincarnation.

Reincarnation is more chilling than the endless spread of the future, and the penitential punishment is a reincarnation with no end in sight.

Ye Liancheng vaguely remembered the voice he made when he accepted the confessional punishment, he wailed and begged for forgiveness, and he didn't even know who he was crying to, but he was just in contact with the pain of eating away at his soul, and what made him even more desperate was that he was also wailing before his last breath.

His time seemed to be stretched and cut into countless fragments, and Purgatory was stingy and left behind only a completely consistent picture.

He looked at his men, estimating that their bodies were about to reach the stage where they needed to undergo purgatory, and they didn't know how bleak the future was.

Rustling......

Suddenly, there was movement in the nearby woods, a slight sound from an observer.

Ye Liancheng turned his head abruptly, and his sharp gaze stabbed into it: "Who is it?"

The people who had been hiding knew that they could no longer hide, so they walked out of the thick woods.

For a moment, the prisoners who were obsessed with chewing on rats raised their heads, and the corners of their unkempt and overgrown mouths were still stained with blood, not only the blood of rats, but also the cows they had eaten a few days ago, and the monkeys they had eaten earlier, and the remains of their lives were fortunately condensed in a small corner of the human face.

A few of the remaining rats were able to break free from their mouths full of sharp teeth, but with their hands slightly lowered, the rats were at a loss.

"Who's coming?" Ye Liancheng asked, secretly speculating whether the person who came was the same as the person who set the trap.

"You are Ye Liancheng?"

The other party is a burly man, his eyes are as sharp as Ye Liancheng, and he knows at a glance that he is a ruthless corner, this kind of temperament is not owned by the aborigines, Ye Liancheng guessed that he was a prisoner, and he had extremely high rights in the world, maybe it was a powerful minister who was thrown into purgatory because of the defeat of the political struggle, and his majestic physique can also be confirmed, he is most likely a military attaché.

Seeing that the man didn't mean to report his home, Ye Liancheng didn't hesitate.

"I'm Ye Liancheng, dare to be a big name?"

"Why are you here?"

Ye Liancheng felt that his question was very strange, as if he should be somewhere else, which made him scratch his head, so he had to shrug his shoulders and say:

"What is this place?"

This is a rather ingenious way of coping, perfectly covering up Ye Liancheng's inner confusion, and at the same time, he can also get some information from the strong man's mouth.

The strong man was slightly stunned, and then laughed at Ye Liancheng's vigilance: "Master Ye, what a noble person is so forgetful! You don't even remember me!"

Ye Liancheng pondered and meditated, he couldn't remember when he had seen such a character in Purgatory, and he called himself "Master Ye", could it be the puddle of meat he saw a few years ago......

When the strong man met Ye Liancheng in purgatory, he was even more "a native of China", and he was overjoyed to hug him.

Ye Liancheng and him symbolically patted each other on the back, and then he asked awkwardly, "But I still can't remember you...... Yes?"

"It's okay," he waved his hand in a chic manner, "I'm Zhang Kezhao, and the left guard leads Zhang Kezhao." ”

Left Guard Rate ...... Listening to this familiar and unfamiliar official position of the Western Dynasty, Ye Liancheng fell into a short silence, he looked for a face that could correspond to a strong man in the distant memory fragments, and finally, a less important memory quietly emerged.

"I remember!" he patted Zhang Kezhao on the shoulder happily, "We met in the capital, and at that time I went to the capital to accept the Honor Hero Token from Emperor Dayan." ”

"That's right. Zhang Kezhao was equally happy, even flattered.

He has only one side relationship with Ye Liancheng, the other party is a famous martial arts master, and he is just a left guard who will be replaced at any time, in fact, he was not confident that Ye Liancheng could recognize himself before he recognized him, but it was rumored that Ye Liancheng valued friendship - or he valued connections - so he had a chance to try.

Although Ye Liancheng didn't recognize it at first sight, the result made him satisfied.

Ye Liancheng immediately pointed to the gravel mountain and said, "This is what you arranged?"

"It was set up by me and a group of brothers. Zhang Kezhao said.

"Where are they? We've been walking here for less than a month, and we haven't seen any birds or people, where are you all hiding?"

"Everyone is gone, and we are the only ones left here. ”

"What do you mean? Where did they go?"

"It's a long story, we have a new leader, and he's leading the prisoners against the birds. Zhang Kezhao briefly explained, "The main battlefield is not here, we only leave a few people here to interfere with the bird army, so that they can't judge the whereabouts of the large army, and they hide their tracks on weekdays, avoid detecting birds, and occasionally kill a few of them, so that they don't dare to attack easily, the longer we delay, the greater the possibility of our victory." ”

When Ye Liancheng heard that they had a new leader, he was immediately a little disappointed, he thought that this responsibility would fall on his head, so he also ran to the east and west to unite the prisoners. However, he felt that this matter was justified, he had only been in purgatory for less than ten years, and he was not familiar with the place, so why should he lead everyone to fight against the scheming and mysterious birds?

"You appeared so that we could join the others?" Ye Liancheng said eagerly, "More than a dozen of our brothers have been running around for a long time, and there is nowhere to use their strength. ”

The others nodded their heads and ripped off the flesh of the rat with their teeth as a sign of strength and determination. This brutal method transcends any words, and Zhang Kezhao immediately grasped the firmness in it.

"That's inevitable, Master Ye is a hero, how can I make heroes useless?" he said calmly, "I stumbled upon your whereabouts a few days ago, and I knew your ambitions with a little observation. ”

He scratched his head in embarrassment, thinking that the woods were really fateful, and that he was hiding in the forest when he was wrongfully imprisoned on the platform.

"And when are we leaving?"

"Wait until I see how the bird is doing. ”

"It was eaten by rats to the point of scraps. Ye Liancheng told him.

Zhang Kezhao smiled and shook his head: "Don't be deceived by the appearance of birds, some birds have strange powers, and they don't necessarily die like this." ”

Ye Liancheng recognized his negligence and felt that he was a battle-hardened warrior, and respected him.

Following Zhang Kezhao to the side of the gravel mountain, Ye Liancheng asked, "How to make this gravel cage?"

"It's the Yellow Emperor's artifact, there are only three, and this is the last one. Zhang Kezhao sighed, "There are not many of them, the first two killed the green pupil bird, and below this is a yellow pupil bird, we have been staring at it for a long time, it is quite cunning, you must be careful." ”

"What kind of bird?"

"Tibetan Bird, have you heard of it?"

Ye Liancheng shook his head.

"It's going to be invisible. ”

Zhang Kezhao cut the gravel with his hands, and immediately showed a surprised expression.

"Look. ”

Ye Liancheng looked.

The bird is gone, and there are no bones left......