The northwest is a desolate place, there are many powerful tribes living in the Ghost Crossing Plain, although the northwest is desolate, but there are still some coniferous forests in the wasteland, the vegetation is exceptionally dense, and it also makes the birds, beasts, insects and pigs extraordinarily many, the water washes the rotten branches and leaves, the corpses of birds, beasts, insects, and pigs, and the clear spring water flowing out of the white shale is slowly turning black in the mountains and forests.

The black wasteland is like a place where evil spirits live, and behind the wasteland is the faintly visible cold mountain range, stretching for thousands of miles, like towering giants.

Wasteland, cold mountains, black soil, this is the Cold Mountain Range.

Now in the midst of a huge mountain range in the far northwest of the vast empire, war broke out this year.

The army of the empire once again entered the Ghost Crossing Plain, and the soldiers of Great Qin began to march towards the Hanshan Mountain Range.

After three years of peace, a great war broke out again.

Under the sudden attack of Great Qin, a medium-sized tribe of 30,000 people was annihilated, and under the iron hooves of the army, blood was covered on the ground, spears were pointed, and countless killings were killed.

Although the land in the Northwest Cold Mountains is barren, there are many precious elixirs and treasures, as well as many precious minerals and monsters, which are also the reasons why the empire is willing to go to war.

The war in the northwest opened, and this was also a huge chain of interests, and countless elixirs and precious spiritual objects that were helpful for cultivation were constantly being transported back to the northwest, and then in various places in the Dao Empire.

Over the years, Daqin has always wanted to take down all the Hanshan Mountain Ranges, and the actions of the Peerless Marquis surprised everyone, and under such huge profits, many people in the imperial capital have chosen to remain silent.

The emperor was also silent, although many people in the imperial capital knew that on the day the war report came, lightning and thunder thundered over the palace, and everyone could feel the anger from that man.

The war broke out, and nearly a thousand teams were scattered in the Onidu Plains, and their numbers were not much, many thousands, and few hundreds, and their task was to collect the news in the Onidu Plains, which had elixir and spiritual objects.

It was only the war that caused many people to stay and station in this Onidu Plain, which was not suitable for human existence at all.

In a narrow valley in the Ghost Crossing Plain, two sergeants were guarding.

One of the sergeants was curled up in the middle of a leafy tree with thorny fruits, wrapped in a blanket of grass and camouflaged with some branches and leaves.

Another sergeant stood between some rocks, covered in stone powder.

The two sergeants were motionless, and even if they were close enough to a distance of tens of paces, it would be difficult to see them without looking closely.

Suddenly, the soldier in the tree moved silently, one hand behind his back, and a small brass mirror in his hand, dangling towards the valley.

A figure slowly emerged in the light mist, gradually becoming clear, stepping on the black earth, stepping on the dead branches on the stone path, and making a sound that seemed particularly clear and sharp to the ears of the two sergeants.

It was a pedestrian dressed in a cyan power suit inside, his face wrapped tightly in a black cloth, and only his eyes were exposed, carrying a heavy salute on his back.

It seems that he is not familiar with this mountain forest, or he is curious, and the visitor does not walk fast, as if he is looking at the surrounding environment.

There were still more than fifty steps away from the guards of the two soldiers, and the sergeant in the mountain stone moved, took a step, and with a bang, pulled out the black long knife on his back, and asked in a deep voice: "Who is it!"

The soldiers in the trees not far away were still motionless and silent.

"Whew"

The pedestrians walking on this black land were a little surprised, but they were not frightened, but they exhaled, stopped, looked at the rock-like sergeant, and said loudly: "But the Yufeng Battalion in the Northwest Frontier Army's Eight Phases Army?"

"Identity!" the sergeant said coldly, still vigilant, without any extra words.

"Su Li, the temporary commander. ”

The person who came spoke calmly, tore off the thick black gauze covering his face, and revealed a young, clean, somewhat sweaty face with a faint smile on his face.

The sergeant holding the long knife of the black border army, when he saw the face of the person who came under the black cloth, a look of disbelief suddenly flashed in his eyes, but the muscles in his body were still tense, as if he could burst out of his whole body strength at any time, and he still did not have the slightest nonsense: "Password!"

"Eight phases of wind and rain. Su Li wiped the sweat on his face and spit out the word seriously.

The sergeant, who was holding a black border military sword, looked relieved.

At this moment, in the misty mountains and forests behind him, there was like a tide, and in an instant, a Great Qin soldier with black leather armor and a black cloth on his face pierced out at an extremely fast speed and arrived in front of the young man.

The sergeant on one side of the tree straightened up in the branches, made a noise, bowed to the faceless man, but did not come down, and when the salute was finished, he hid in the branches and leaves, and began to watch the guards motionlessly.

"Sure enough, he is the elite of the empire, most of the soldiers are good at using knives, although he is not a cultivator, but with many years of murderous aura, he can also break through to the first realm, although the road ahead for such a cultivator will be narrower, but who dares to underestimate it. ”

Su Li bowed back to the sergeant on the tree, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Su Li, who came here to go to the northwest alone, followed the caravan to Guidu City, Su Li reported directly to the military headquarters, and with a military order, he was directly transferred to the front line and became the commander of a team on the Guidu Plain.

All the black-armored soldiers who appeared gathered in an arc, and two of them came out of the crowd, and when they walked towards Lin Xi, they also ripped off the masks covering their faces.

Both of them are about forty years old, one has a long face, looks unusually cold, the other is white, the face is slightly round, looks kind, but intelligent, which makes people think of a fox in the mountains for the first time.

"Du Mu, the second deputy commander of the Yufeng Camp Qingzi. ”

The man with a long and cold face carried a double sword, although according to the practice of Great Qin, the armor on his body was no different from the rest of the sergeants, but it naturally showed the aura of an iron-blooded general, bowed slightly to show his identity, and said in a deep voice: "Please show the order and documents." ”

Su Li knew that this was the person in this team, the official rank was only below himself, and he knew that the next person was his deputy, but he obviously felt that this person was not kind to him, and even said that everyone here was not kind to him, and he sensed a kind of dissatisfaction and anger in the eyes of these people.

He frowned slightly, did not make a sound, untied the burden behind him, took out a dark iron pipe and a square iron talisman the size of a thumb from his sleeve, and handed them to the other party.

"Correct!"

After carefully checking the documents and iron talismans in the iron cylinder, the long-faced man turned around slightly and coldly spat out the words to the black-armored soldier behind him.

"Weng Juan, the head of the three-in-a-row husband of the blue character. The Great Qin general, with a white face and a slightly round face, bowed down to the sequence, but Du Mu, who had a cold face, still couldn't see half of the kindness and welcome on his face, but when Weng Juan's voice did not fall, he raised his eyebrows slightly, and said coldly: "Master Su, you came to the post alone, do you think that there is no danger in the Ghost Crossing Plain, and it is a place where you can walk around and watch the flowers?"

Su Li heard that the other party's unkindness was even more obvious, but he was a little puzzled by the words of his direct subordinate, and said slightly: "Why, isn't the convention like this?"

"Isn't this a special request from Lord Su himself?" Du Mu's face turned even colder, "The military headquarters has not sent guides and escort teams?"

Su Li shook his head: "Only someone sent me to the outpost of the Ghost Crossing Plain Wind Camp, so let me come by myself according to the map." ”

Du Mu was silent for a while, and both of them were sluggish, and their expressions became more and more strange, obviously thinking of something.

It was just a moment, Du Mu's face turned a little pale, and he said slowly: "Even armor and other armaments have not been issued to you?"

Hearing Du Mu's words, Su Li naturally understood something, and said self-deprecatingly: "Why, didn't you get it when you arrived?"

Du Mu was silent again, and the strange look in the eyes of the black-armored soldiers around him was also thicker, and his gaze was colder.

"My lord, I would like to forgive you for your humble words. Suddenly, Du Mu's face was blood-red, and several green tendons on his forehead burst out, and he said in a deep voice: "Please go back, don't give your life to us in vain!"

As soon as these words came out, all the black-armored soldiers who were originally silent breathed a little heavier, but their eyes were even more sharp and sharp, and everyone seemed to support Du Mu silently, only Weng Juan smiled slightly bitterly, as if he felt that this was a little unfair to Su Li, but he was helpless.

Su Li raised his head and looked at Weng Juan.

But to everyone's surprise, there was no anger on his face, and his expression was a little strange when he looked at Du Mu.

But after hearing so much, you should know that it's not that I don't want to go back, it's that I can't go back. ”

Looking at Du Mu's angry and cold face, Su Li just shook his head lightly in an incomprehensible manner.

Du Mu did not avoid his gaze at all, he was cold, he didn't make a sound, he had already completely expressed his attitude, and the Yunqin black-armored soldiers in the rear all gathered towards him slightly, which also invisibly showed his attitude.

"It's so different from what I imagined, but I'm not welcome to let me go back, at least it shows that you're a good person to me. Su Li looked at the attitude of the people in front of him, but instead smiled slightly, "This is better than I imagined." ”

Du Mu was slightly stunned, and then he understood some of the meanings, and shook his head coldly, "It seems that you are not stupid, I have already figured out that you are afraid that you will not be treated by some adults in the army, but you must understand that although I am not one of those people who are not for glory but only for the will of the peak, it does not mean that I will accept your arrival." I will not change my attitude and decision because of your words. ”

"I can see that you are a cultivator, and we need cultivators in the Qing Sanlian, but we need more experienced cultivators who can lead us and give the most correct instructions, rather than a young man like you, and you are too young. Du Mu was very direct, without any tactfulness, he didn't want to hand over his subordinates to such a young man, which would make these soldiers who had already stepped into hell with half a foot all die.

Su Li frowned, but looked at Du Mu and asked, "Can I ask a question first, did you just kill many people?"

Su Li's question made the emotions around him even stronger, and the cold killing intent came to him, Du Mu's eyes became extremely sharp, and he said word by word: "When I met the tribal army, the Qingsan Company was full of one hundred and twenty-one people, thirty-seven people were killed in battle, seven people were seriously injured, and twenty-six people were lightly injured. ”