Wedge In the middle of winter, the soulless walker
The midday sun in June was dazzling and violent.
No one said a word more than a caravan winding its way through the gorge in the scorching sun, the heavy snort of the pack horses and the loud whip of the groom echoing through the silent valley.
The creaking wagons occasionally revealed their contents as they shook, and the vermilion wooden crates reflected a few pale blue cloud patterns, indicating that the caravan had come from the distant clouds and was heading towards the Sunset Empire.
The eyes of the people accompanying him were tired and lazy, so it seemed that the goods were not of much value.
The leader of the caravan was a middle-aged man with a beard, he licked his chapped lips, raised his hand to wipe the beads of sweat that were rolling down his forehead, his already small eyes narrowed into lines, looking at the long road in the distance, his thick eyebrows twisted into a "Chuan" character.
"Hell, on this hot day, there is no wind at all, and it doesn't let people live. The bearded man spat the ground and cursed loudly.
It seems that God heard the man's scolding, and the valley inexplicably hit a chill, but it was not like the refreshing wisp of coolness in summer, but more like the biting cold in winter.
But anyway.
The wind is blowing.
The caravan stopped moving forward, all of them were suppressed by the strange celestial phenomena in front of them, a large area of haze swept from the northern sky, like thousands of black lis rushing in the sky, the heavy clouds wrapped in thunder instantly obscured the light of the scorching sun, the sound of thunder was endless, the temperature dropped sharply, the sweat beads that were still hanging on people's eyebrows condensed into frost, the ground was covered with a layer of white fog, and the day turned into night in an instant.
The men who had been on the trade route for more than 20 years were no strangers to this cold, which only occurs in the middle of winter, when they put on warm sheepskin jackets, fur hats against strong winds, and heavy blankets for goods and pack horses, and struggled through the snow. But this kind of weather should never occur in this hot June. Many people's thin coats soaked in sweat have been frozen into hard iron stones,
The wind is getting stronger and stronger, mixed with scattered snowflakes are as sharp as knives, cutting their cheeks painfully, the men who run the business are all experienced in life, they quickly thought of a way to deal with it, the men invariably waved the horsewhip in their hands, drove the wagon, formed a circle, and protected the people inside, the tall cargo box formed a wall, resisted most of the strong wind, and the quick-eyed people have dismantled some wooden boxes, piled them in the middle of the car formation, and raised a small flame in the oldest way.
People sit carefully around the hard-won campfire, enjoying the luxurious warmth and discussing the strange weather, their beards still frowning and not saying a word.
"Boss, have we bumpered with evil?" a bald man gently poked his beard with his elbow.
The beard shook his head and said, "I've never heard of such a strange weather, I wonder if it could be the means of those great cultivators? ”
When the bald head heard this, he was dumbfounded, and shouted in a lost voice, "We are being targeted?!"
"A handful of old age to live to a dog!" scolded the bearded, "our caravan is only carrying some ordinary goods, counting our dozens of lives, how many catties and taels are counted, such an existence will be eyeing us? I think it's probably something big has happened, and we've just been caught up in it. When he said this, his expression looked a little stunned, ordinary people could really only resign themselves to fate in front of those cultivators.
"Boss, there's someone up ahead!" a voice rang out.
"I'll take a look. He sat up suddenly, and rushed to the cargo box, and through the gap, he saw a black figure in the white fog in the distance, and several tall flags were erected behind him.
The howling wind could not hide the heavy footsteps ahead, and the people of the caravan crowded behind the crates to see who was coming, and all of them were very calm, and years of experience made them not act rashly until things became clear.
A large area of black shadows slowly approached, there were more than a thousand, and their silhouettes were clearer in the wind and snow, the standard armor, the halberd of Zhangyu, the iron helmet inlaid with horns, and the red dragon totem on the banner, this is an army of the Sunset Empire, is it the Sunset Frontier guards who came to rescue them?
This thought was quickly dispelled, Sunset was still a long way from here, and the number of border guards search team should not be so large, so what the hell is this army for?, there was a faint uneasiness in the beard's heart, and he looked at his companions around him, and read the same worry in their eyes.
The army was already very close, but no non-commissioned officer came out to ask questions, and they continued on their way as if the front of them did not exist.
The rumbling footsteps were like a drumbeat beating in people's hearts, only a dozen feet away, and the bearded man looked at the army, and opened his eyes wide, and then opened his mouth, his face full of horror, as if he had encountered something terrible.
Something terrible indeed.
What he saw was a face in an iron helmet, a face with only shriveled flesh wrapped around bones, not the face of a living person. The army behind also showed their bodies in the mist, their armor was full of mottled rust, or lost their heads, or broken arms, or missing legs and feet, some of them were already skeletons, but without exception, they were all moving forward, this was not the army of the twilight, this was the Yin soldiers from the underworld.
Hell really.
This is the second sentence of the beard that is fulfilled today.
The demon army was still approaching, and the merchants began to shiver uncontrollably, and they crossed the walls of the wooden boxes, and the aura of the soldiers was as gloomy as an abyss, and the extremely cold temperature also covered their feet with a layer of ice crystals. Trembling, as if facing the abyss, like walking on thin ice, this is their situation at the moment. This phrase is supposed to describe people who are cautious, but they don't need to be cautious at this moment, because they are deprived of even the ability to act. People are like this, when faced with an uneasy environment, they will want to ask for a living, they will want to resist, but when they find that their strength is insignificant in the face of the threat they face, all they can do is savor the despair and fear.
Suddenly
It's dawn
A ray of light illuminated the inky black clouds and illuminated the snowy canyon.
Immediately after, there was a mournful cry that seemed to tear the sky apart.
It's not a scream
More like a dragon's groan
It's not a dragon groan
It's the thunder sound of God's punishment coming into the world!
Thousands of arcs of light poured down, and one of them enveloped the skeleton soldier at the head, and there was no suspense, the thin figure was like a moth swooping down on the lamplight, and it was annihilated in the power of the sky.
More thunder struck the army of Hades on the ground, large swaths of soldiers were shattered, or turned into flying ashes, the thunder in the distance lit up the sky, and the beard found that hundreds of meters away as far as his eye could see, and even above the canyon, there were all these black and oppressive walking corpse skeletons, one after another The lightning that split the night sky and the endless stream of walking corpses were entangled, people seemed to be in the battlefield between the heavenly realm and the underworld.
"Beside the door, the chaos is everywhere, and today I will definitely let your demon stay here!" The energetic voice overshadowed the thunder and resounded through the sky.
On the other hand, there was a hoarse voice: "This group of guys fought everywhere when they were alive, and some ended their lives in a hurry, and they didn't know how they died, I woke them up, and then helped me do something, and by the way, let them see more of the world, isn't it a good thing, disaster and chaos, and it's serious." As for saying that I'm a demon, hahaha, you still have some eyesight. ”
The heavenly fire scorched the earth, engulfing the walking corpses that were miles away, the sky that was originally as black as night was reflected by the firelight, the flames several feet high were connected together, surrounding the car array, and the fragmentary sparks bounced onto the wooden box and made a "crackling" explosion, and the bearded man looked at his brothers who were like ashes, sighed, and sat down on the ground, and the whole person was much older.
Whether it was the demons who were moving forward, or the thunder and flames that fell from the sky, they all regarded their chariot formation as the center of the battle, and even if the battle was decided, everyone must be more than lucky.
"Break through the formation, and then leave quickly. There was a voice from the sky, in an unquestionable, commanding tone, the beard felt that this voice was somewhat familiar, this should be the sound that sounded before, he raised his drooping head, and found that there was an extra man in white in the car formation.
The man is slender, with black hair scattered behind his head, his face looks extremely handsome, he is dressed in white and reaches the ground, and the hem of the big coat outlines a piece of clouds with precious blue and gold threads, and above the sea of clouds, it is an ancient tree that grows in front of the bright moon.
The ancient tree is a sandalwood tree.
Remembering something, he slammed up from the ground, straightened his waist, and meticulously straightened his thin gown, his movements looked clumsy, but they were extremely solemn, as if he was performing the most sacred ritual. After finishing the arrangement, he slowly fell to the ground and bowed respectfully to the man in front of him.
The night shadow shines on sandalwood, and there is a double moon in the vault.
This sentence is talking about the two most noble bloodlines within a radius of thousands of miles in the southern clouds, the bloodlines of the sky god of the Dome Family: the Dome Shadow Moon and the Dome Tanyue. The former and current patriarch of the Qionglong family is also one of the most powerful and powerful several great cultivators in the world today.
The bearded men also guessed the identity of the person who came, and knelt down one after another. Vault Tanyue, the current patriarch of the Sky Clan, is tantamount to a god-like existence in their eyes.
"Leave quickly, I'll cut off. The man looked at the kneeling people and waved his hand.
"My lord, the front is dangerous, our lives are cheap, and there is no reason to let the adults break off. The beard and the merchants behind him no longer trembled with fear, and their eyes burst into battle. Most of these people have been merchants for generations, living in the clouds, going to and from sunset, and doing the exchange of daily necessities, although they are all low-level people, but they also know the benevolence and goodness of the ruler of the land where they live, the Sky Dome family. It is said that businessmen value profit over affection, but the beard understands that the supreme glory of being able to fight side by side with the patriarch cannot be exchanged for wealth.
"But all my people in the clouds, who walk under the sky, will be protected by our people. Tan Yue waved her hand, and a gentle wind came slowly, holding up her beard and her line, crossing the wall of the car array, and flying into the distance.
It turns out that God, you still let us live. The beard thought of his third sentence before, smiled bitterly, and was sent out of the way.
"Your ancestors have lived in my clouds for generations, and if I can't protect you, what face will I have to see the ancestors of my family. Looking at the people who disappeared from sight, Tan Yue whispered softly.
"The patriarch of Tanyue is really a benevolent monarch, and he actually showed his body in this Heavenly Divine Technique for the lives of a few ants, kill you, and your hundred-mile thundercloud will dissipate. A hoarse voice came from the darkness in the distance, indescribably oppressive, as if an invisible hand had taken hold of the speaker's throat.
A thick dead air covered the canyon, with a suffocating rancid stench, and a terrible roar resounded through the sky, the sound tore through the wind and snow in the sky, shook the endless thunder, and even the raging flames on the ground were gradually extinguished under the suppression of the dead air.
A huge shadow enveloped Tan Yue's body, Tan Yue looked up, only to see a huge, hill-like baby head floating in the sky, the right half of the baby's cheeks turned into white bones, the left eye was white, the bloodless half of the lips gently opened and closed, with the other half of the white bones, it looked at Tan Yue, and the left eye without pupils was clearly flashing with greedy light. The baby's skull in the sky roared again, and the rich dead gas turned into billowing smoke and dust was sucked into the mouth, half of the baby's cheeks bulged high, and it opened its huge mouth, densely, and the wriggling black gushed out of its mouth, spreading a thick layer on the ground, that is..... Countless walking corpses, these walking corpses are obviously different from the previous ones, with strange shapes, some are densely covered with sharp bone spurs, some are swollen, and the foul-smelling liquid is constantly oozing from the surface of the body, and some even have several corpses spliced together, moving forward in an indescribable strange posture. In just a few moments, the sea of these monsters flooded the entire valley.
"Rotting Baby Demon Knife ....." Tan Yue's face became solemn, "You demon, if I don't kill you here today, I don't know what kind of atrocities you will do with this knife in the future!"
"Patriarch Tanyue, you and I are both Jingsheng cultivators, looking at this knife, you should also know that the odds of winning today are not great, right, and you are still talking about killing me? ”
"Jingsheng Realm? I really don't know what truth you understand, which world you perceive, and what sages you admire. Tan Yue's hands formed a magic seal, and a vast and lofty aura emanated from his body, rushing towards the sky.
The inky black clouds began to roll again, the wind rushed up like a wave, and the neatly stacked wooden boxes were pushed up into the air by the wind, and with a "pop", a little moist trace appeared on the ground, like a small blooming flower.
The snow stopped, the wind stopped, and it rained.
Harness the Heavens
The sound of rain covered all the sounds of heaven and earth, and the torrential rain poured down from the sky like a dragon, like a layer of water curtain connecting heaven and earth, and a small stream of water soon flowed on both sides of the canyon, and the water flow converged into a stream, and the stream turned into a river, just a moment, the monstrous flood rushed forward with the gravel and mud tyrannically.
You don't see the water of the Red River coming up from the sky
You don't see the sky, and you are angry, and ten thousand bones are buried
Although they are demons, they may not be afraid of swords, but in the face of the great power of heaven and earth, they are just as insignificant.
Tens of thousands of walking corpses were smashed to pieces by the waves or swept away by the floods, not knowing where they were headed.
The seal of Tanyue changed again, so the temperature dropped again.
Celestial Magic
The torrential rain condensed into ice particles in mid-air, and fell in a torrent, accumulating more and more on the ground, and the babies in the sky were frozen into ice by the extremely cold air because of the rain. An ice wall about dozens of zhang wide and 100 zhang high slowly formed behind Tan Yue, and at the same time, there were two huge ice walls like spring shoots after the rain, standing majestically in front of the canyon for hundreds of miles, echoing each other in a triangular shape.
It was raining heavily, coupled with the sudden drop in temperature, a layer of white mist appeared in the canyon, Tan Yue gasped slightly, and looked at the two figures that appeared in the white mist with deep eyes.
The first to appear was a man in a dark blue robe, the man walked slowly, his face covered his mouth and nose with a black cloth, and his eyes, as if blind, were white. The other figure, instead of moving, hid its body in the mist.
"In this weather, my old bones are about to be frozen and cracked, the Tanyue Patriarch has a way to reach the sky, and my tens of thousands of walking corpses, along with that demon knife, have been sealed by you, what should I do next?" The man's voice was hoarse and piercing like metal cutting through glass.
Tan Yue was silent, her hand was clenched forward, and the ice particles in the sky condensed into lumps, instantly binding the man.
"The other one, how long will you have to hide?" Tan Yue snorted coldly, and with a wave of his sleeves, a strong wind blew away the fog in front of him, and when he saw the other person, his deep gaze finally waved.
The other person's pale face was seventy percent similar to Tanyue, and he was also wearing a white coat engraved with a sea of clouds, but above the sea of clouds, there were two full moons, one bright moon and one ...... Shadow Moon.
"You say I'm a demon, then your eldest brother, most of them are also demons, when I killed him, I tried to keep his original appearance, how about it, this look, you look satisfied. It is hard to imagine that the laughter of a man bound by ice and snow can be so ugly, like a gasp from hell.
Shadow Moon was expressionless, he raised his feet, and when his footsteps fell, he was already in front of Tan Yue, Tan Yue waved his sleeves again and set off a gust of wind, but the wind like a knife turned invisible a few feet in front of Shadow Moon. At the same time, Shadow Moon pointed like a sword, and the hand lightning stabbed into Tan Yue's chest. Victory or defeat is often in an instant.
Tan Yue had a fishy sweetness in his throat, he spurted out a mouthful of blood, and looked at the blue-robed man over the shadow moon, "The people you killed, or those who died from the rotting baby demon knife, will turn into walking corpses, all these years, I have been tracking down the whereabouts of my eldest brother, but I didn't expect it to be poisoned by you, although I don't know who you are, but if you don't get rid of you today, in the future, the world will be a battlefield of blood and fire." ”
"You have ten breaths of time at most, what can you do with me? You also feel the pain of death in your body, when you die and become my slave, what is the difficulty of dissipating this storm, thunder and lightning. ”
Tan Yue shook his head, he looked up at the sky, the falling ice particles had stopped, the thick dark clouds gradually dispersed, a ray of sunlight pierced through the clouds and fell on Tan Yue and Shadow Moon, bringing some warmth, Tan Yue stretched out his hand and took his brother into his arms.
"I still remember when I was a child, I envied you when you raised your hand and the wind and thunder surged from the sky, you told me that it was only a part of the power of the sky, and you said that the real power of the sky will only be understood when it will one day fly freely, I didn't understand it at the time, but now I understand. Every time Tan Yue said a word, her breath weakened a little, "I don't know how to fly freely, only birds can fly freely, and birds will only fly in the clear sky." ”
By this time, the dark clouds had completely dispersed, the flood had been absorbed by the earth, the sun was shining, and the weather had returned to the heat and dryness of summer, only the three iceberg-like walls of ice were shining brightly in the sunlight.
"Demon, you don't have a chance. Tan Yue closed her eyes with a relieved expression on her face.
Celestial Magic
The scorching sun was shining countless times brighter, the temperature was pushed to another climax, the extremely strong light converged to the place where the three of them stood through the refraction of the icebergs on three sides, and a holy fire rose from the canyon, which was the purest power of the sky, purifying all the filthy flames in the world.
Thunder cannot be suppressed, torrential rain cannot be washed away, extreme cold cannot be frozen, then it will be punished in this sacred and vast flame, this is the heavenly fire, the real, the temperature of the sky.
The baby's skull suspended in the air let out an extremely painful scream, it quickly dried up, and the bursts of dead air emitted were also incinerated by the flames, and the blue-robed man's body was ablaze, he tore the clothes on his body, and turned into light towards the center of the flames, and the two of them let out a beastly roar as they gradually dissolved.
I don't know how long it took, the flames went out, everything before vanished, as if it had never existed, and the only thing that could prove this epic battle was the two figures in the canyon.
The blue-robed man got up from the ground with difficulty, there were only a few simple rags left on his body, and the mask covering his mouth and nose had already been burned, revealing his true face, he was already full of bones from the nose down, without any flesh and skin, even his naked body was mostly rotten, and he himself was actually a walking corpse.
The blue-robed man looked at the black-clothed man who appeared in front of him at some point, and said in a deep voice: "Tanyue and Shadow Moon have died together, and the matter handed over to me by the organization has failed, why do you still want to save me?"
"The organization still needs you, although you are now half of the dead, but there will always be a day to recover if you save it. The man in black stretched out his hand and handed the man a long knife that was only half cut off, "The recovery of the rotting baby must also be as soon as possible, we have other important things to do." ”
The man was silent, took half of the long knife, opened the teeth of Bai Sensen, who were cracked to the base of his ear, and swallowed the knife into his abdomen.
A raven flew over the valley and let out a hiss.
The valley is empty.