Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎforeadx;? Qianlong City is not far from Qingcheng, but the first to approach Qingcheng is the 200,000 new army formed by the Ningnan Imperial Court.

It can be seen that the Ningnan Imperial Court wants to fight a two-sided encirclement and annihilation battle, but through the speed of the two Ningnan armies, it can be seen that the combat styles of the commanders on both sides are completely different.

The Fifth Army, which set out from Qianlong City, was slow and marched step by step, as if it was afraid of falling into the trap of the Wind Army, while the Ningnan Army that came from Fengyuan County was diametrically opposed, showing the strength of the newborn calf who was not afraid of the tiger, and the whole army was up and down, day and night.

A vanguard of the Ningnan New Army was the first to approach Qingcheng, this vanguard was composed of a corps, and when it was still more than 20 miles away from Qingcheng, it stopped, set up camp, and arranged outposts for the main army behind.

Shangguan Xiu was very curious about the combat power of the new army, and decided to go and investigate it in person.

If the combat strength of the new army is similar to that of the Central Army, then there is no need to fight this battle, and the side should take the opportunity to withdraw from Qingcheng, after all, with tens of thousands of troops, it will not be able to resist the front and rear attacks of the 300,000 army no matter what.

But if the combat strength of the new army is not very good, there will be a dozen in this battle, at least it can give the new army a head-on blow and greatly reduce the opponent's strength.

No one is born a veteran, born to fight, all by relying on the baptism of battles, from the dead crowd.

If these 200,000 recruits are tempered into veterans, the strength and combat power of the Ningnan Army in Mingshui County will have an overwhelming advantage over their own side, which will be extremely unfavorable to their own side.

Shangguan Xiu took Xiao Jue, Wu Yufei, Liu Biao, Guo Duan, Wang Xu, and more than 1,000 cavalrymen out of the city from Xicheng and went straight to the Ningnan Army twenty miles away.

The flood had receded, but the road was still very muddy, and many roads had been washed away by the flood, and after more than ten miles, and then went further, with woods on one side of the road and grass on the other.

Xiao Jue and the others were puzzled, and they all stopped, turned their horses closer to Shangguan Xiu, and asked, "Your Highness, what's wrong?"

Shangguan Xiu didn't speak immediately, but closed his eyes, Xiao Jue and the others looked at each other, not understanding what was going on.

After a long time, his closed eyes suddenly provoked, and two sharp lights shot out of his eyes, and he said in a solemn tone: "There is a murderous aura,"

Ah, when everyone heard this, they were all secretly surprised, there was a murderous aura, could it be that there was an ambush here, thinking of this, everyone looked around nervously, and as far as the eye could see, they couldn't even see a ghost, let alone any ambush,

Shangguan Xiu raised his eyes to look at the forest on the right side of the front, and said in a deep voice: "You guys are waiting for me here, I'll go over and investigate,"

As he spoke, he knocked the stirrups with both feet, urging the horse to walk towards the woods, how could Xiao Jue and the others rest assured, and were about to follow forward, Shangguan Xiu turned around and shouted: "No one is allowed to follow, this is a military order,"

Everyone was shocked, and hurriedly reined in their horses, looking at Shangguan Xiu with worried faces one by one,

Shangguan Xiu rode a war horse and came to the front of the woods, the woods were attacked by the flood, and the trees were inclined in the same direction, in addition, the woods also blocked a lot of debris washed down with the flood, and looked into the woods, there was a thick layer of silt on the ground, and all kinds of messy debris, among which there were many corpses that were soaked in the flood and were black and swollen, and the forest exuded a rotten smell and a pungent stench.

Secretly frowning, Shangguan Xiu turned over and dismounted, looked intently into the depths of the forest, and said in a deep voice: "Who is hiding here, coming out to speak,"

The woods were silent, deadly silent, and suddenly a gust of wind blew out of the forest, blowing the silver hair on Shangguanxiu's chest fluttering,

At the moment when he blinked, there was a silent more person in front of him, this person looked fifty years old, but his hair was jet black, and he did not look old at all.

Wearing ordinary cloth clothes and pants, a pair of thin-soled cloth shoes under his feet, the clothes are not gorgeous, but they are very clean, a pair of white cloth shoes, spotless, and the soles are not even a little mud.

If you look closely, you will find that he is not standing in front of Shangguan Xiu, but suspended in front of Shangguan Xiu, between the sole of his shoes and the ground, there is an inch or so in the air, but he is floating too steadily, and the distance in the air is too small, which will give people the illusion that he is standing on the ground.

Looking at his face, the heavenly court is full, the earth pavilion is round, and the red light is full of face, which makes people feel kind and rich, but looking at his eyes, they are not at all like the eyes of a living person, but more like a pair of eyes that exist in a corpse.

The black eyes are very light, the whites of the eyes are grayish-white, and the cold eyes look like a pair of gray eyes.

With the sudden appearance of this person, Shangguan Xiu involuntarily took a step back,

His feet were deeply immersed in the mud on the ground, and the person seemed to be standing on a slope, his feet were close to the ground, slowly sliding backwards, spiritual pressure, incomparable spiritual pressure, so far, even in the Great Elder, he had never felt such a powerful spiritual pressure,

Of course, Shangguan Xiu did not ignore the long sword worn by the other party's side, the scabbard of this sword was made of the snake skin of the red chain snake, red and black, and the hilt of the sword was dark red throughout.

Even before the sword was unsheathed, Shangguan Xiu had already felt the strong murderous aura coming from the sword, and the murderous aura he felt just now came from this sword.

When Shangguan Xiu looked at the other party intently, a person's name suddenly flashed in his mind, Zhan Yu,

The name flashed in his mind, and he blurted out the name,

"Yes, Your Highness can still know the old man's name," the man said slowly, while speaking, his gaze fell on Shangguan Xiu's face, his eyes were not good-looking, and his gaze was not sharp, but when he looked at people, he gave people the illusion of insight into everything,

"The old man has always wondered, if the boys of the god pool don't make a move, who can kill Pei Ying, seeing His Highness today, the old man understands, His Royal Highness does have this ability, the spirit and blood leave the realm against the spirit and return to the true realm, although the gap is very large, but the special physique of the spirit and the special attributes of the wind system can completely make up for the lack of cultivation realm, and it is no wonder that the holy king will choose you, and even do not hesitate to take out the blood spirit pill as bait, but unfortunately, the holy king still miscalculated, the blood spirit pill not only failed to catch you, but also became an accomplice to kill Pei Ying,"

Shangguan Xiu's feet were still slowly sliding backwards, but there was no tension or panic on his face, looking at Zhan Xuan, he sighed in his heart, this is the spiritual cultivator of the Flying Ascension Realm, a spiritual cultivator who has already stepped through the void with one leg, half human and half immortal,

The corners of his mouth hooked, and said: "It turned out to be Mr. Zhan Ying, the younger generation is disrespectful," as he spoke, he bowed his hand, and then, he said: "Mr. Pei Ying has always wanted to return to his roots and return to the Divine Pond, and ask Mr. Zhan to hand over Mr. Pei Ying's ashes and bury them in the Divine Pond,"

Zhan Miao looked at Shangguan Xiu for a moment and said, "As long as you are willing to follow me back to Xuanling Palace, you can get back what you want,"

Shangguan Xiu asked rhetorically, "What if I refuse to go with you?"

"Then, I'm afraid I can't help you," as he spoke, Zhan Yan's sword was unsheathed,

At the moment when the blood-drinking sword was unsheathed, Shangguan Xiu felt a fishy wind rushing towards him, and what was in front of him was not like a person or a sword, but more like hundreds of corpses and souls.

"Today, as long as you can take the old man's trick, the old man will not be difficult for you, what does Your Highness think?"

With just one move, Shangguan Xiu raised his eyebrows, no matter how big the gap between the two of them was in cultivation, he didn't think that he couldn't even take a move from Zhan Miao.

His eyes flashed, the corners of his mouth hooked, and he said, "If I catch your sword, you can go, but you have to leave the ashes,"

Feeling that Shangguan Xiu seemed to be unusually obsessed with Pei Ying's ashes, Zhan Miao couldn't help but ask curiously, "Why do you want Xiao Si's ashes so much?"

"I promised Mr. Pei Ying that after his death, I would send him back to his roots, and I will definitely fulfill the promise I made,"

Not bad, but alas......

"You catch my sword first, and then tell me your promise," Zhan Miao slowly raised the blood-drinking sword and walked over to Shangguan Xiu step by step,

It's not so much walking, it's better to float on the ground, he stepped out in one step, the distance between the two was shortened by half, and in two steps, Zhan Miao had already reached Shangguan Xiu's approach, and the sword he raised also stabbed straight into Shangguan Xiu's throat.

His sword is not fast, and there is no forward stabbing action at all, it comes by the inertia of the body floating, but with the arrival of this sword there is also overwhelming spiritual pressure,

I saw that the mud around Shangguan Xiu's feet spread outward like a halo of water, and the ground continued to sink downward.

Such a strong spiritual pressure, Shangguan Xiu closed his eyes, feeling the strong pressure crowded from all directions, suddenly, his eyes opened, his body sank incredibly, like a fallen leaf, floating under the blade of the blood-drinking sword, and then swept by Zhan Yan's side, and when he floated to his back, his figure suddenly rose into the air incredibly, people were in the air, his arm waved down, Mo knife in hand, slashing down,

With the help of the pressure of the opponent's spiritual pressure, with his own wind attributes, he floated out of the gap in the spiritual pressure, flashed to the opponent's back, and then attacked by surprise, this is Shangguan Xiu's tried and tested attack method when he faced Gao Xiuwei's spiritual cultivators.

I don't know how many people who have cultivated above him have been damaged by his tricks.

However, at the same time as Shangguan Xiu slashed this knife, he suddenly realized that it was not good, and the other party's murderous aura concentrated on him, enveloping himself,

How Zhan Xiang came out of the sword, he didn't see it clearly, he just instinctively realized that the other party's killing move was attacking him, it seemed that Zhan Xiang had already expected that he would use this move, so he waited for himself to do it,

Shangguan Xiu didn't have time to think about it, he used all his strength to cast the wind shadow duel, and he heard a bang, a sonic boom sounded, and Shangguan Xiu flew backwards backwards,

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Two strands of white hair scattered lightly from the air, the wind shadow made Shangguan Xiu shoot out more than twenty meters away, and after he stabilized his figure, a mouthful of blood gushed out of his throat and eyes, he gritted his teeth and swallowed the blood back,

Looking down again, the two strands of silver hair on his chest were broken, and the placket of his chest was cut through a hole more than half a foot long, and the blood that flowed out dyed the placket red.

A drop of blood, along the blade of the blood-drinking sword, flowed downward, the blood bead flowed smaller and smaller, only blink of an eye, the blood bead disappeared completely, and the original dark red blood-drinking sword became red and bright.