Mingde City and Hongyi City are very similar, they are built on a "gap" in the Henglu Mountain Range, which is considered to be built on the Henglu Mountain Range, but compared to Hongyi City, the Henglu Mountain Range is a little weak here in Mingde City, and Mingde City has already penetrated the Henglu Mountain Range in one city, unlike Hongyi City, which has Yumen Pass as the exit of the canyon after Hongyi City.

What's even more special is that on this side of Mingde City, the Yokoku Mountain Range has branched off into a small mountain range called Changbai, which is named because it is covered with snow all year round because it cannot be adjusted by the temperature of the Sky Shifting Star Array. With an average altitude of about 700 to 1,000 meters, this mountain range is inconspicuous compared to the Yokochiku Mountains, but it is also a very high mountain range in the area surrounded by plains.

This small mountain range extends from the Yokoku Mountains and ends at the Yokoku Mountains in a semicircular arc in a roughly U-shape. And this mountain range and the Yokochiku mountain range enclose a large plain...... Or a basin, so to speak, so that the city of Mingde is a plain out of the city, and about fifty or sixty kilometers away are the mountains that stretch continuously.

In fact, this pattern is very similar to Hongyi City, which is also a border city of the Star Emperor, except that the former is a mountain range, while the latter is a river.

In the middle of the Changbai Mountains, there is a canyon that runs through the entire mountain range. This canyon is called Yulong Gorge, originally called Yulong Gorge, named after the Southern Continent Coalition Army to resist the Dragon King, but later because the Dragon King unified the north and south continents, he felt that this Dragon Gorge was unlucky, so it was changed to Yulong Gorge.

And when it comes to the topography of this canyon, it doesn't look like it's a natural formation, but it looks like it's been split open with a knife - there are many legends about this canyon, but these legends are varied, and most of them don't sound reliable.

Among them, the most reliable and supported by a little historical data is that this canyon is a canyon deep on the horizon split by a virtuous king in ancient times in order to strengthen the rule of the northern continent over the southern continent.

However, although this legend is supported by a little historical data, it still can't help but make people smack their tongues -- a monk split a canyon, and the entire Jade Dragon Gorge is hundreds of kilometers long! What a terrifying power this must be! Even today's half-step soul-level monks dare not assert that they can split such a canyon!

As if to confirm this ancient legend, the entire canyon of Yulong Gorge is roughly in a "V" shape, narrow at the bottom and wide at the top. The upper end of the canyon is more than 100 meters, but the bottom end of the road for pedestrians is only about 10 meters, which is only enough to accommodate two horse-drawn carriages in parallel.

After leaving Mingde City, the three girls who had never left the Star Emperor finally understood how cold it was in the north without the protection of the Sky Shifting Star Array.

The plain between Mingde City and the Changbai Mountains is not the territory of the Star Empire, so the Star Emperor did not expand the range of the Sky Shifting Star Array here, which means that there is no temperature regulation of the Sky Shifting Star Array here.

They could even clearly see that the outside of Mingde City was bounded by the walls of Mingde City, and it was full of life on one side and cold and dead silence on the other. And the latitude is so high that even in the relatively warm months of August and September, the maximum temperature here does not exceed minus 15 degrees Celsius.

In fact, this kind of temperature is considered good, what the stars and spirits don't know is that the lowest winter temperature here can reach minus seventy or eighty degrees Celsius.

Of course, for Ren Tianxiang, who had passed by here, the severe cold was also in his consideration, but the current temperature was not very low, and Ren Tianxiang used their spiritual power to protect their bodies, barely able to resist this cold. If the temperature is a little lower, Ren Tianxiang will use his fire element to keep the stars warm, and if it is too troublesome, Ren Tianxiang also has several warm clothes in his storage ring.

Under such severe cold, the caravan was also moving very fast, and Ren Tianxiang guessed that they should have added a magic circle to make objects lighter on the freight carriage, which allowed them to keep the entire caravan fast even if they were carrying heavy goods.

The distance of fifty or sixty kilometers is not long or short, but in fact, it is only a few tens of minutes, and Ren Tianxiang and they followed the caravan to the front of the canyon. The horses in the caravan are all good horses, and after running for so long, I haven't seen them tired, so it seems that there is no problem in running directly to Maple City.

That is, the caravan actually traveled once a day, and this time their horses did not even need to take a break to reach the opposite city. And the caravan of a large chamber of commerce like the Mingwei Chamber of Commerce only has one trip a day, and the commission of the small servants and guards is three to four times that of the ordinary dart team dart walkers - just this kind of commission, Ren Tianxiang can completely imagine how much money these big chambers of commerce make on the trade route between Mingde City and Fengcheng.

The whole caravan approached the entrance of the canyon, and before entering the canyon, Wang Zhen, who was at the forefront of the caravan on horseback, pulled out the spear hanging on the saddle and shouted: "It's time to enter the canyon, all the staff draw their knives, tighten the formation, and the magic circle rises!"

Wang Zhen's words fell, and the guards on both sides of the caravan all pulled out the standard long knives in their sheaths, and then approached the carriage beside them. They released their spiritual power, and the spiritual power that escaped was absorbed by the magic circle on the carriage as the energy to drive the magic circle engraved on the carriage.

A film of light that enveloped the entire caravan stretched out from under the territory of each carriage, and a pale blue halo scattered around, faintly protecting everyone.

This is a relatively common linkage defensive circle, which is combined by multiple single circles to form a large defensive circle. Because the entire caravan was mobile, the source of power for these defensive circles mainly came from the pure spiritual power released by the guards.

However, after all, these magic circles are all used by the people, and they are mobile, and generally speaking, there is no way to maintain the operation by absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, and this is also the disadvantage of this kind of magic circle.

In actual combat, because it is necessary to provide spiritual power for the magic circle on the carriage, the guards of the caravan cannot leave the carriage too far, and this actually restricts their actions to a certain extent. In the face of such a disadvantage, the caravans of these large chambers of commerce can only increase the number of guards or invite some powerful monks to sit in the caravan.

After the magic circle was unfolded, Wang Zhen still rode his horse to the front of the entire caravan, although he was observing the movements around the caravan. His weapon is a spear, because he is passing through a canyon, and in such a small space, if he is really in danger, it will be advantageous to use a spear. Therefore, under the introduction of the other guards around him, Ren Tianxiang and the others learned that once the caravan encountered horse thieves, this Mr. Wang Zhen must be the strongest defense force of the caravan.

However, the weapons of those guards were all long knives, and because of the constraints of the magic circle, their combat range would not exceed two or three meters around the carriage. And they are not like monks like Wang Zhen who have specialized in learning marksmanship, compared to the spear, which has an advantage in the canyon, the knife almost does not need to be learned, and it can be used by chopping and slashing, and the effect is outstanding.

As for Marcus, after the circle was unfolded, he was at full speed, and he landed alone at the rear of the caravan, following Ren Tianxiang and them on horseback. It seems that the division of labor between Marcus and Wang Zhen is very clear, Wang Zhen opened the way, and after Marcus was broken, the strongest of the two caravans protected the caravan like this.

After Marcus stayed at the end of the caravan, he looked at Ren Tianxiang and the thin clothes they were wearing, smiled, and asked, "Childe, miss, do you feel cold? If it's cold, I have clothes here to keep you warm." ”

"Thank you, Mr. Klingberg, we can protect our bodies mentally without being too cold. Ren Tianxiang replied politely, then he looked at the top of the canyon and asked, "Mr. Klingberg, what do you say this canyon will do if it collapses? Wouldn't all commercial activities between Mingde City and Maple City have to stop?"

"Collapse? Marcus laughed, as if he had heard a funny joke, "The Jade Dragon Gorge is a commercial artery, and neither the Dragon King Empire nor the Star Emperor will allow any problems here. Don't look at the fact that this mountain wall is almost vertical to the ground, it looks crumbling, but these mountain walls can be sturdy, and there are magic circles set up by the people of Fengcheng and Mingde City on it to prevent the mountain from collapsing.

I've been a merchant in Klingberg for so many years, and this mountain wall has not collapsed, and even some small rocks have never fallen. ”

"Are there many horse thieves here...... Uh, I mean, where do the horse thieves usually come from? This canyon leads directly to Mingde City and Maple City, and these horse thieves are coming down directly from the canyon?"

"Coming down from the canyon? Marcus still smiled, "Young Master Ren, don't underestimate this mountain range, in order to prevent the other party's army from crossing the mountain range and attacking, there are many traps on this mountain, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a forbidden area for life." ”

"How did the horse thief get into the canyon?"

"Ren Gongzi don't worry, the answer you got is just ahead. There is a fork in the road not far in front of Yulong Gorge, which leads to Fengcheng on one side and the depths of the Changbai Mountains on the other. Those horse thieves lived in the mountains where there were no traps, and usually entered the canyon from that fork in the road to rob the caravans passing through the canyon.

You see, this canyon can't accommodate so many people at one time, and those horse thieves are very familiar with the terrain on the mountain, and the armies of Fengcheng and Mingde City can't come to arrest them, so they can only let them wander around on this mountain. ”

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