Night. The capital of Cangyan Province, on the outskirts of Cangqing City. Temporary Headquarters of the First Army Corps in the Northwest of Cangling Country.

Qiu Bai stood solemnly in front of the large table, facing the sand table on the table. He was the only one in the huge conference room. He wore no armor, only a cyan military uniform.

"Report!"

"Come in. Huber's voice was low.

"Squeak-" The door was pushed open. A non-commissioned officer in a white uniform walked in briskly and gave a military salute to Qiu Bai.

"Report to the general, according to the news from the reconnaissance troops at the front, the troops of the Jianyan Kingdom have begun to move. ”

"What?" Huber looked up and turned around, "so fast?"

"We expect them to attack in two hours. The troops at the front have already prepared their defenses. ”

"How many of them are there?" asked Qiu Bai in a low voice.

"According to the estimates of the front staff, the vanguard is at least two divisions, and the follow-up troops are about between three and four divisions. ”

"How many spirit masters are there?"

"Spirit Master?" the non-commissioned officer was stunned for a moment, "I didn't detect it." ”

"What?!" Qiu Bai's face changed instantly, and he strode up to the non-commissioned officer and grabbed him by the collar, "How can it not be detected? Is the Jianyan Congress stupid enough to only use ordinary people to attack?!"

The non-commissioned officer was taken aback and instinctively wanted to retreat, but was grabbed by Qiu Bai and couldn't break free.

"These fools!" Qiu Bai scolded fiercely, loosening the collar of the non-commissioned officer vigorously, turning and slapping his palm on a chair beside him. In the next second, the chair turned into a pile of sawdust.

The non-commissioned officer took two steps back tremblingly, for fear that the general would fire himself on him.

"This group of fools in the staff department doesn't consider all possibilities at all! What if the enemy dispatches a high-level spirit general above the sixth order and sends a small detachment composed of all spirit masters to infiltrate our army's rear defense line to sabotage it? The vast majority of the fortresses are conquered from the inside!"

Qiu Bai stood back in front of the sand table, staring in the direction of the border.

"If they're going to raid the backline...... The best breaking point should be ......"

His gaze was like a blade, quickly sweeping the entire sandbox, stopping at one of the points on the borderline.

"Here...... In the rear of this point...... The nearest township is...... Qingyan Town?!"

He suddenly stood up from his chair, propped his hands on the table, and a powerful wave of spiritual power instantly gushed out from his body like a spring, covering the entire room. In my mind, scenes began to play back rapidly.

"How...... What's the matter, General?" asked the non-commissioned officer cautiously.

"Qingyan Town...... Qingyan Town ......"

Qiu Bai stared at the sand table tightly, his fists gradually clenched. Two minutes later, he suddenly stood up and hurried out the door.

"General, General, where are you going?" the non-commissioned officer hurriedly followed.

"I'm going to go to the front line to support myself. Pass my order, the first spirit regiment will assemble and follow me to the front! Five minutes later, let's go!"

"Quack-quack-quack-" Three loud crow cries came from the canopy of the big locust tree in the middle of the town, and spread all over the street.

Ye Hengyuan was lying in the hammock in his room, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.

Although the proprietress also agreed to let herself go, what should she do? Who can help me stimulate the martial spirit? Even if it is stimulated, what should I do after that? Even if I go to the national capital, what should I do? I don't know anyone......

Do you really want to join the army? Or do you want to join a sect? Who wants to accept me, and what if no one accepts me?......

More and more thoughts were wrapped together, like a snowball, rolling bigger and bigger, gradually filling his entire brain. He shook his head vigorously, sat up from the hammock, and walked out of the room.

"Squeak-" There was a stampede on the floor. He slowed down, passed the doorway of the kitchen, and walked around to the backyard. The backyard was also quiet, with a few chicks and ducklings in the cage asleep, and all that was left was silent things, such as pots and pans, bottles and jars piled on the side. He lay on the ground, looking out at the dark night sky.

The chaotic mind became even more chaotic. He couldn't help but think of the few friends in the village who grew up together. One day, they asked themselves what they wanted to do in the future. When they said they wanted to be chefs, they each laughed back and forth. In fact, they are all the same as themselves, they have no martial spirits and no lofty ideals. Now, they have basically moved away with their parents, and they have not been heard from again.

The captain said he could do great things. But what is the big deal......

"Woo-la!" a bright white firelight suddenly swept through the air, illuminating almost half of the night sky, but it only made a faint sound, not small enough to wake the sleeping man.

"Huh?" Ye Hengyuan rolled over and got up, raised his head, and glanced in the direction of the firelight. That's the direction of the front.

"What's going on?" he subconsciously spread his legs and ran towards the main road in the middle of town.

Could it be a sneak attack from the enemy? How could it be......

The road was empty. He picked up speed and kept running northwest. After running more than ten meters, he stopped. The flash of fire had vanished, and silence had regained in the air.

"Hi. He shook his head, ready to go back. But in the next second, his eyes widened and he froze in place. A large cloud swept in from the distant sky—no, not a cloud of nature, but a cloud condensed by spiritual power. This large cloud was incomparably thick, showing a silvery-white color like moonlight, and it advanced towards the sky above the entire Qingyan Town little by little. It resembles a large bird, with a round head in front of it, a large body in the middle, and two wings on either side. In the center of its "body" and two "wings" there was a faint glimmer of bright white fire—exactly like the one he had just seen.

He was completely stupid, froze in place, staring blankly at the sky, not knowing what to do. Growing up, he had never seen anything like this. Although he had read many storybooks about powerful spirit masters, he still had a hard time accepting this scene when it actually happened in front of his eyes.

What is it? Is it an enemy? Or is it ......

In the few seconds he was stunned, a huge white cloud had already moved over the entire town. When it moved over the large locust tree in the center of the town, it suddenly split from the center, and the "head", "left wing", "right wing" and "tail" separated from the largest "body" at the same time, scattering into five parts.

"Boom-Kara!"

Five incomparably loud roars rang out at the same time. The five white clouds began to flash at the same time, expanding vigorously outward like inflation, and a trace of electric light with a "crackling" sound converged in their respective centers, condensing five huge thunderballs. In the next second, five thunderballs began to fall rapidly at the same time, turning into five silver-white lightning bolts as thick as giant pillars, smashing fiercely into the buildings below.

"Ahh

Ye Hengyuan exclaimed irrepressibly, his body lost his center of gravity, and he sat down on the ground. In the next second, he immediately got up and fled without looking back.

Five huge bolts of lightning struck the east, west, south, north and center of the town. In just a few moments, five incomparably huge deep pits appeared on the ground. Everything that was struck by lightning, whether it was a person or a house, was reduced to nothing, as if they had never existed.

Immediately after, the identical five thunderballs appeared again. This time, instead of smashing down, they spewed out dozens of bright white lightning bolts as thick as arms, raining in all directions in a clockwise direction. Countless bolts of lightning intersected between heaven and earth, forming a terrifying web of destruction.

"Ahh

"Boom—"

"Woo-"

The entire Qingyan Town turned into a human purgatory in an instant. Silvery-white lightning shoots out in a roulette volley, each jet taking the lives of at least one person or destroying an object visible to the naked eye. House after house collapsed under the bombardment of lightning and turned to powder. Those who did not wake up were directly scorched by the thunder and lightning, and those who were awakened were also crushed into meatloaf by the collapsed houses. Everywhere there were scattered broken bricks and rubbles, and the wails of the wounded. Whether it was civilians or ordinary soldiers left behind, almost no one could escape from this terrifying thunder net.

"Ahh

Ye Hengyuan had already burst into tears, and while crying, he bent down and ran out quickly. He had seen his home, the only small restaurant where he lived and worked, that was in ruins by a lightning bolt. He didn't know anything anymore, all that was left was the instinct to survive, and the ability to run and escape, which he had cultivated since he was a child. In the process of running, the spiritual power on his body automatically gushed out, forming a transparent spiritual power film, tightly protecting his body. Immediately after, the spiritual power membrane turned blue-green, as green as water in a deep pool.

The thunderball seemed to have eyes, and it sped up the speed of spitting thunder and lightning. More and more lightning erupted in the direction of Ye Hengyuan.

"Smack!" a bolt of lightning as thick as his neck struck his left side, creating a half-meter-deep crater in the middle of the road. Another bolt of lightning grazed the right side of his body, cutting a gaping hole in his right arm. Blood flowed out in an instant, dripping blood and falling tears merging together, drawing a curtain of blood in the air.

But he didn't know it hurt anymore. He gritted his teeth hard, tore off his right sleeve with his left hand, wrapped his wounds, and continued to run forward in a route close to the S-shape, dodging the thunderbolt with all his might. No one noticed, and his back began to glow, revealing an elongated pattern. It was a turquoise Fang Tian halberd.

"Poof-" The five white clouds cracked open at the same time. Five people jumped out of each opening. They slowly descended from mid-air, and a layer of white spiritual power fluctuated on each person's body. None of them wore any armor, only silver military uniforms, and wore the silver-white rock-shaped national emblem of the Jianyan Kingdom on their chests. All five teams stood in a horizontal line, and each of the people standing in the middle of the squad wore a silver-gray armband on his right arm, which also had the national emblem on it.

Twenty-five people fell to the ground at the same time. The armband-wearing man in the middle squad took a step forward and stepped forward. He was a middle-aged man approaching forty years old, with a mustache and a large red mole growing on the left side of his mouth. He glanced to the left and right, released a wave of spiritual power, blowing away all the broken walls around him, and then waved his hand vigorously. Thunderball's action came to an abrupt halt. Immediately afterward, he had a silver-gray staff in his hand, and the head of the staff was inlaid with a fist-sized silver-white gem. There is no doubt that this person is the commander of this small force, and the staff in his hand is also his martial spirit.

"Scatter around, search where you are. If a survivor is found, he will be killed. Listen to my command to assemble, and then retreat. ”

More than a dozen miles away, another army was advancing at a lightning speed, heading straight for Qingyan Town along the main road. It was the First Spirit Regiment led by Qiu Bai. The First Legion in the Northwest of the Cangling Country, which is completely composed of spirit masters, is directly under the First Spirit Division.

Qiu Baifei was in the middle of the team, releasing his spiritual power to the maximum, enveloping the entire team, and opening his spiritual power detection to the maximum. The entire team looked like a cyan giant eagle under the cover of night and Qiu Bai's spiritual power shield, and no one could find its trace except for the powerhouses above the seventh order.

"Damn, we're too late! Looks like it's too late!"

Qiu Bai frowned. He had already felt the aggressive spiritual power fluctuations coming from front of him.

"Full speed ahead!

"Poof-bang-"

Ye Hengyuan ran out of the hellish thunder net array, continued to run forward without looking back, and rushed directly into a small forest outside the town. After running for dozens of meters, he gave up on his feet and fell heavily to the ground. He only felt that his brain was spinning, all his strength had been used up, and his body no longer listened to his commands.

The wounds all over the body erupted in tidal pain at the same time, and several of the larger wounds were even more piercing. Drops of blood flowed down his body, staining his already tattered clothes, almost turning him into a bloody man.

"Uh......h Uh......" He wanted to make a sound, but he couldn't shout anything. Not to mention his throat, he couldn't even open his eyelids, only two crystal tears flowed from his eyes, wetting the grass pressed under him.

Am I going to die? or am I just going to die? or am I going to be eaten by wild beasts?

How so......

"Buzz...... The Fang Tian Halberd symbol on his back ...... appeared again, flashing with an even more intense turquoise light, making a humming sound as light as a cicada's song