The capital of Cangyan Province, the northern suburb of Cangqing City. Joint Command.

A tall fence that stretched for hundreds of meters covered the barracks behind it. The walls are all double-layered and made of a mixture of stone and wood. Dozens of heavily armed soldiers and non-commissioned officers lined up in two columns on both sides of the wall, patrolling back and forth.

Several points of light of different colors appeared in the night sky in the distance, from far to near, getting bigger and bigger. A few ordinary soldiers standing by the door on patrol suspected that they were dazzled, raised their hands, and rubbed their eyes vigorously.

In less than two minutes, Ye Hengyuan and the five of them landed at the gate of the wall. All five put on masks at the same time.

"Hello sir!" The soldiers guarding the gate immediately saluted when they saw the epaulettes on Li Wenxin's uniform.

Li Wenxin took a few steps forward and showed his ID to the captain of the soldiers guarding the door.

"We are from the Spirit Core Valley. I just went on a mission and came back to report to the command. Please open the door. ”

"Okay. The captain of the soldiers saluted again and motioned for the soldiers to open the gate on the wall.

Ye Hengyuan raised his head and watched as the two large iron doors with a height of nearly three meters slowly opened inward. These two iron doors are printed with patterns, with the national emblem of the Cangling Kingdom on the top and the Three Holy Beasts on the bottom. But the pattern in the middle is incomprehensible, a bit like a key, but it is crooked, and it is difficult to see what it is for a while.

"Let's go," Li Wenxin said, "Leng Han, General Bai is asking us to go directly to the headquarters, right?"

"Yes," Leng Han nodded, "Master said that after entering, she would ask someone to pick us up to her room." ”

The five men walked in along the road in front of them, passing through barracks, storehouses, and watchtowers. This joint command was originally one of the permanent headquarters of the Northwest Corps, but it began to expand after the start of the all-out war, nearly doubling in size and adding a number of temporary buildings. There are constantly guards patrolling back and forth in the barracks, and many of them are still spiritual master squads with high cultivation, and they all exude strong spiritual power fluctuations between their gestures. Each of the guards didn't ask them anything, just saluted. They even saw two generals in full uniform competing on the drill ground. The two generals were both mid-level spirit masters, both in their fifties, both with beards that were about to cover their lips, one holding a nine-ring machete, and the other holding a black plate axe in each hand, practicing martial arts in front of nearly a hundred soldiers and junior officers. After only a few minutes, they walked to the door of the central building of the joint command.

"Greetings, emissaries. Please come with me. ”

A young female major with long ice-blue hair similar to that of the cold walked out of the gate of the central building and saluted Ye Hengyuan and the others. She turned around and explained a few words to the gatekeepers before leading them upstairs.

The five followed the blue-haired major into a small office on the first floor. The office is small in size and simple in furnishings, nothing more than a desk, chairs, filing cabinets, and a simple magic guide lamp. Bai Suxin was sitting in a chair, listening to two spiritual masters from the Ministry of State Security report to her.

"Alright, you guys go back first. Bai Suxin waved her hand lightly, releasing a layer of ice-blue soundproof spiritual power wall, surrounding the entire office.

"Yes, General. ”

The two spirits immediately saluted and exited the office. The blue-haired female major also withdrew. The five men immediately took off the masks on their faces.

"Master. ”

"General White. ”

Leng Han and Li Wenxin stepped forward at the same time and stood on both sides of Bai Suxin. Bai Suxin stood up, stretched out his hand, and touched his cold hair.

"General Bai," Li Wenxin said, "we met the Master of the Scorpion Sect's Foreign Affairs Hall. She told us that the Scorpion Sect had not sent people to collect medicinal herbs in the Demon Sound Forest in the recent past, let alone hunted spirit beasts. ”

"Well," Bai Suxin nodded, "That's fine." Governor Huang of Cangyan Province has just come with an investigation team from the provincial government and discussed it with the Joint Command. They decided that what the Demon Bat King said should be the truth. It is very likely that this incident was committed by a certain cult gang that roamed the northwest region. ”

"Cult gang?" Ye Hengyuan was a little surprised.

"It's an underground force composed of evil spirit masters who practice evil arts," Lei Xi replied, "As long as there are people, there will be underground organizations." ”

"That's right," Bai Suxin said, "Governor Huang and other officials of the provincial government have analyzed that this incident is likely to be related to several recent kidnappings and thefts that have occurred in various parts of Cangyan Province. The murderers are likely to be the same group. ”

"General Bai," Li Wenxin said, "then do you think their purpose is?"

"It's still hard to know for sure," Bai Suxin said, "and we won't know the truth until we find out this gang and defeat them." We can only come to one conclusion at the moment, and that is that there must be someone in this gang who is related to the Scorpion Cult, and is likely to be a traitor to the Scorpion Sect. Vice Marshal Long just sent someone to tell me that a few of you should cooperate with the provincial government and the security team to investigate the traces of this gang. ”

"Huh?" Ye Hengyuan and Leng Han were stunned at the same time.

"This is the order that Vice Marshal Long gave just now," Bai Suxin said, "He said that he would send someone to inform Dean Hou and tell him that you are now on a mission." He is now on the front lines to oversee the war. The offensive has begun. ”

"Huh, the attack has begun?" Ye Hengyuan blinked several times in a row.

"Master, are we going to go back to the academy after completing this task?" asked Leng Han.

Lei Xi suddenly raised his head, glanced at Ye Hengyuan first, and then at Leng Han. She noticed that the corners of Leng Han's mouth twitched several times in succession, as if she was forcibly suppressing the mood swings she was about to show.

"Yes," Bai Suxin rubbed her cold hair, "I will also stay here first, lead the people of the Ministry of State Security to assist in the investigation of the case, and also prevent any further problems from happening in the Demon Sound Forest." ”

"Okay, General Bai," Li Wenxin nodded, "We know." We helped the 16th Heavy Infantry Regiment of the Northwest Army to repel the attack of spirit beasts in the southern part of the Demon Sound Forest, and hunted down a few Demon Sound Demon Bats led by them. In addition, we ...... "

"Brother Ashin. ”

Ye Hengyuan suddenly spoke, shook his head at Li Wenxin, and signaled him not to continue. Li Wenxin and Xue Mengyi turned their heads at the same time and glanced at him. Xue Mengyi nodded knowingly. Li Wenxin was stunned for a moment, but also nodded.

"Hmm. Very good. ”

Bai Suxin didn't seem to notice Ye Hengyuan, and a satisfied expression appeared on her face.

"Go and rest first. Someone will arrange a place for you to live and bring food later. Vice Marshal Long also said, you will join me as a representative of the Spirit Core Valley to attend the memorial ceremony to be held tomorrow morning in the central square of Cangqing City. After the ceremony, the provincial government and the law enforcement team will assign you a task. ”

The border of the country of Jianyan. Yandang Pass.

The wide walls look particularly dark in the night sky. There was no light source other than the faint light that would come every few dozen paces and the glow of the patrolling soldiers. The roaring sounds of the spirit beasts continued to come from all directions.

This Yandang Pass is the smallest level in the defense line of the Jianyan Kingdom located on the first line of the Cangyan Mountain Range, and it is also the least important level. It is just located at a corner on the northwest side of the Cangyan Mountain Range, to the west dozens of miles is the town of evil pass, which is heavily guarded, and more than 100 miles to the northeast is the three passes that are called "chain sets" -- the first peak pass, the even wall pass, and the desperate pass. Among the three passes, the desperate pass, which can be called a natural danger to ordinary people, is guarded by a spirit general and his spirit master troops all year round. And the only roads leading from this Yandang Pass to the territory of Jianyan Country are to the west and northeast. In addition, if you want to enter the territory of Jianyan Country from other directions, you can only forcibly fly over the Cangyan Mountain Range and pass through several spirit beast gathering areas of different sizes and scales. It is precisely for this reason that there are not many troops stationed at this Yandang Pass, which is just enough to hold the checkpoint and is unable to launch a counterattack. In fact, the Jianyan* side did not even think of using this as a □ point for the attack. Before the launch of a new round of all-out war, both the Cangling Kingdom and the Jianyan Kingdom regarded this Yandang Pass, which was located in the natural barrier, as a piece of chicken ribs, tasteless to eat, and it was a pity to abandon it.

"Wow, wow, wow, wow......"

"Wow......"

A series of loud horses' hooves pierced the night sky and reached the ears of the soldiers guarding the walls of Yandang Pass. Hundreds of bright clusters of light instantly appeared in their eyes, getting closer and closer.

"Enemy attack!" "Enemy attack!"

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"Prepare the defenses! Prepare the giant crossbow to defend the city! Prepare the musket!"

"Prepare for the archers!

A barrage of slogans sounded from the city walls. Hundreds of bright fires rose from the head of the wall, illuminating the wall. The city's giant crossbows and cannons, hidden in the holes of the walls, began to rotate and make a "creaking" sound. Bands of crossbowmen and spirits ran up to the city at high speed. The sound of horses' hooves was getting closer and closer, and they were about to enter the range of the crossbowmen. On the city wall, many soldiers who raised their heads and looked ahead blinked several times in a row. In their eyes, the light emitted by the vanguard of the enemy army suddenly split into two groups, one flying in mid-air and the other advancing on the ground. The thousands of colorful light clusters that had been in the past all changed color, turning into two different colors. The large group of small clusters of light on the ground was bright silver, and the slightly larger group of more than a hundred lights in the air turned into a dark red mixed with a little brown, which looked a bit like the color of blood.

In the blink of an eye, a crimson aura erupted from the hundreds of light clusters at the same time. Hundreds of crimson breaths condensed into a huge dragon head in the air, lighting up most of the night sky. The dragon's head was like the real thing, its mouth wide open, revealing fangs mixed with blood-red and brown