Heavenly Dao Divine Realm, December 4, 17th year of Yuanping......

After almost three months of arduous trekking, Yan Liqiang and the people of the Four Seas Dart Bureau finally arrived in Laizhou, and at this time, Laizhou had already ushered in the first snowfall in the winter of the seventeenth year of Yuanping, and the temperature dropped sharply.

The goose-feather-like snow mixed with the cold wind rushed towards him and blew on his face, as if he was being cut with an ice blade, Yan Liqiang, who was riding on the rhinosaurus horse, pulled up his mask a little, so that the cold snow flakes and cold air did not penetrate into his collar, even if he didn't have to touch it with his hands, Yan Liqiang already felt that his eyelashes had been stained with a layer of crystal snowflakes.

Yan Liqiang, who was riding on the horse, wore gloves on his hands, he just held the reins with one hand, while his other hand kept pinching into a fist, then unfolding, then pinching into a fist, and then unfolding, and so on, and so on, after doing it for a while, he changed his hand again, freed the hand holding the reins, and let that hand begin to repeat the action of pinching fists and unfolding.

In this cold weather, only in this way can you keep your fingers and arms flexible, not let your fingers become stiff, and then in case of danger, you can open the bow as quickly as possible and maintain the accuracy of your archery skills - this is the experience that Yan Liqiang summed up along the way.

There are few pedestrians on the official road, the snow has accumulated more than a foot thick, the rhino dragon horse has become slow and dignified between steps, the team has weak walking, dozens of days of running, and various dangers on the road, has already made everyone in the team extremely tired, whether it is mental or physical, one by one is close to the limit. But fortunately, on the way here, although there were a lot of dangers and difficulties, under the protection of a strong bow in Yan Liqiang's hand, there was no further reduction in the team, but a few dart masters were injured a little bit, but none of them were in danger of life.

"Everyone cheer up, today we will strive to get to Su'an City before dark, and tomorrow, we will be able to return to the Sword God Sect......" Yan Liqiang, who was walking at the front of the team, turned his head and shouted, giving everyone a shot of chicken blood and stimulants.

At this time, Yan Liqiang's status in the team is completely different from when he was in Jinling, he is definitely the core and leader of the team, and the dart masters in several teams, looking at Yan Liqiang's gaze, just like they looked at the previous dart, just like now, Yan Liqiang shouted, Wang Hui and several other dart masters shouted, "Cheer up, cheer up, don't pick a son here......"

A few dart masters shouted, and the silent line slowly began to shake again.

Before returning to Laizhou, everyone wanted to come back, and when they really returned to Laizhou, in addition to the exhaustion and the spirit of suddenly slackening, they didn't feel much excitement, if they wanted to say that there was, there was only a kind of relaxation for the rest of their lives, and there was a complicated feeling that couldn't be explained- How spectacular it was when the team went out a few months ago, but I didn't expect that only a few people would come back today, and the chaos in the Han Empire seen along the way, as well as all kinds of rumors and news that I didn't know whether they were true or false, cast a shadow on everyone's hearts.

Everyone continued to walk on the official road for a while, and as soon as they turned an intersection, they saw that there was an extra checkpoint on the official road in front of them.

Yan Liqiang remembers that when he left Laizhou a few months ago, he also took this road, there was no sentry post here, I don't know how there were two more sentry towers now, and there were some rejection horses piled up on the road outside the sentry tower, and a horizontal log was used to block the official road in the middle of the rejection of horses.

The people stationed at the sentry post also found Yan Liqiang and his party approaching the sentry post, and a bunch of people who were originally hiding in the sentry tower next to the sentry post all walked out one after another with weapons, quite vigilant.

"What's going on, why is there an extra checkpoint in front......" Wang Huihe rode a rhinosaurus horse, trotted forward two steps, and came to Yan Liqiang's face, asking Yan Liqiang's opinion, "Why don't I go over and take a look first, everyone is waiting here......"

Along the way, everyone was nervous by the endless situations and accidents, the White Lotus Sect, bandits, bandits, local bullies, and unrestrained sergeants somehow suddenly emerged from all over the place, close to the city is fine, as long as it is far away from the city, along the way, there are those who set up customs and cards, there are those who take advantage of the robbery, there are those who kill people and goods, and there is chaos everywhere, so as soon as I saw the sentry card in front of me, the nerves of several dart masters in the dart bureau and everyone in the team suddenly tensed.

Yan Liqiang had quietly taken off the gloves on both hands, he pinched his fingers, and then moved the bow bag containing the bow and arrows to the side, placing it in a more convenient position, and then squinted at the sentry post and the environment on both sides of the road, " No need, they have already seen us, so let's go over together, if we are cautious, we will make the other party feel uneasy, and be more vigilant, maybe something will happen, this is already the boundary of Laizhou, only a few hundred miles away from the mountain gate of the Sword God Sect, the Sword God Sect should not allow anyone to mess around in Laizhou, just look at my eyes later!"

"Good!"

The order was passed on, and the entire team raised their spirits, and Zhao Huipeng and Gu Zexuan, who were originally following Yan Liqiang, rode to Yan Liqiang's side without saying a word, making a vigilant gesture.

"Stop coming, dismount and be inspected......" There were still 50 steps from the sentry post, and an arrow shot from the sentry tower, landing on the ground seven or eight meters in front of Yan Liqiang, and there were also people shouting on the sentry tower.

Yan Liqiang raised his hand, and the whole team stopped, and then Yan Liqiang was the first to dismount, pulled down his mask, exposed his face, crunched on the thick snow, and walked towards the sentry post. Everyone behind Yan Liqiang also got off their horses one by one and led the rhinosaurus horse over.

Yan Liqiang looked at the dozens of people stationed at the sentry post as he walked, those people had complete armor and weapons, and they looked like sergeants, but the clothes they wore were a little different from the regular military uniforms of the Han Empire, the clothes of the regular sergeants of the Han Empire were red or dark red, while the clothes on the sergeants stationed at the sentry post were black, which made Yan Liqiang a little puzzled, but from the perspective of face and temperament, these sergeants stationed at the sentry post did not look like bandits and bullies blocking the way, which made Yan Liqiang feel a little relieved.

"Where are you from, and what are you doing in Laizhou?" a man who looked like a leader with a long sword on his waist on the other side of the checkpoint looked at Yan Li who came over and asked in a strong voice.

"We are the people of the Sword God Sect!" According to the experience along the way, Yan Liqiang first reported the mountain gate to deter the other party, so that the other party did not dare to act rashly, "We are from Jinling and we want to return to the Sword God Sect!"

"What? You are also from the Sword God Sect, but you can bring the identity of the Sword God Sect?"

Why so?

Yan Liqiang muttered in his heart, but he still took out his identity as a disciple of the Sword God Sect and let the other party see it clearly.

"Ah, yes, yes, it's indeed the waist card of the Sword God Sect, everyone is a family!" Hearing that man say this, everyone's spirits relaxed all of a sudden, but Yan Liqiang's heart was even more strange, and he had a vague conjecture - could it be that this sentry card in front of him was set up by the Sword God Sect?

At this moment, a soldier next to the man who looked like the leader seemed to remember something, and after looking at Yan Liqiang and the others a few times, he hurriedly leaned over and whispered a few words in the leader's ear.

"By the way, you said that you came from Jinling City, and you can meet the team of the Sword God Sect Four Seas Dart Bureau along the way?"

"If the Four Seas Dart Bureau hadn't sent a dart team to Jinling City a few months ago, we would have been the team of the Four Seas Dart Bureau returning from Jinling City!" Yan Liqiang put away his waist card and said calmly.

"Ah......" The man who looked like the leader suddenly widened his eyes and looked stunned, and after carefully looking at Yan Liqiang a few times, he suddenly came to his senses, "Your dart head is surnamed Feng?"

"Yes, our dart head is surnamed Feng!"

As soon as Yan Liqiang finished speaking, the man who looked like the leader almost jumped up all of a sudden, and hurriedly ordered a sergeant next to him, "Hurry up and notify you, the team of the Four Seas Dart Bureau Dart Jinling is back......"

"What's going on?"

"Please don't be surprised, we were notified before, if the team of the Four Seas Dart Bureau comes back, we will notify the sect immediately!" In the blink of an eye, the attitude of the man who looked like the leader towards Yan Liqiang and the others suddenly improved several times.

"You are also from the Sword God Sect?" Yan Liqiang asked strangely.

"Yes, now the entire Laizhou has been taken over by our Sword God Sect...... the man who looked like the leader replied proudly.

As soon as the little leader's voice fell, on the roof of a sentry tower next to him, a fluttering sound came, and a spirit pigeon that delivered a message flew up from the roof of the sentry tower at once, and flew quickly into the distance, and in a few breaths, it disappeared into the snowstorm.

Although there had been some speculations before, and he had seen all kinds of chaos along the way, when he heard the small leader in front of him say that the Sword God Sect had taken over the entire Laizhou, Yan Liqiang's heart couldn't help but be a little shaken, what does this mean, this shows that the current situation in the Han Empire has been chaotic to the point of unimaginable, so a super sect like the Sword God Sect will directly take over the entire Laizhou by strong means, and no longer care about any face of the imperial court - if there is still a imperial court......

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Two hours later, Yan Liqiang and his party met a group of cavalry from Su'an City to greet them on the way, and after identifying each other, the cavalry escorted Yan Liqiang and them back to Su'an City.

After encountering this group of cavalry to greet and escort them, all the people in Yan Liqiang's team completely relaxed their spirits and had a feeling of going home......