Chapter 348: The Scourge of the Beast (1)
Although samples of black liquid and blood stains were obtained, it was as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack to find out the secrets of Sifang City and determine the content of the summoning array through this clue. The traitors of Cloud Weaving City are more like they have disappeared into the Three Thousand Worlds, and there is no trace of them.
Fortunately, Li Yunuan has no obsession with this.
In the following days, Wushuang City continued to trade with the surrounding cities, with occasional friction, but the overall harmony was gradually recognized by other cities in the Northern Regions, and its status rose accordingly, faintly meaning that it was on par with the two cities ranked eighth and ninth in the Northern Regions.
Naturally, the two sisters of jealousy and hatred did not let go of Wushuang City, and in three years, led by Li Yunuan, the backbone of Wushuang City did not know how many open guns and hidden arrows they had suffered. In this regard, Li Yunuan has always been a soldier to cover up the water and soil, and without moving, he cleaned up most of the pink eye.
Because no matter how the cities of the Northern Regions accept this rising star, Li Yunuan clearly knows that in their eyes, Wushuang City is still a nouveau riche and can't get on the stage!
In the third year, taking the opportunity of the expansion of the city and the construction of the city, she took out the Great Array of Ten Thousand Masters Mountain Protection that she had gifted, and after a slight change in the formation, buried it under the foundation.
This cautious decision soon paid off: two months after the completion of the new city, the Northern Regions ushered in the largest beast run in history!
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Beast Run, as the name suggests, is that the demon beasts that originally lived elsewhere were driven by certain factors to migrate en masse and forcibly seize the land of other forces in the cultivation realm.
The northern region is adjacent to the southern wilderness, so there will be a small-scale beast run every hundred years.
Of course, the cities of the Northern Regions have never hated beast runs, because the largest beast run recorded in history was only about three hundred demon beasts with seven or eight thousand descendants, and the demon beasts led by them were the highest equivalent to the Yuanying realm of the human race. The monks of the Northern Regions Alliance attacked together, and after three months of slashing and slashing, they improved their combat experience and harvested a large number of rare materials.
Since almost every beast run will bring benefits to the Northern Regions, the monks of the Northern Regions even believe that the beast run is a blessing from heaven. Therefore, when the catastrophe that finally swept through the Northern Regions first appeared, none of the nine cities in the Northern Regions were vigilant, and the families gathered excitedly after receiving the news to discuss how to allocate the quota of the city's beast hunting team.
Wushuang City didn't get the news that the beast run tide was about to happen, and they were still in an embarrassing position of being marginalized, only Ouyang Anming and Yanyun Fairy, out of the friendship of their allies, sent someone to send a message to Wushuang City, as well as the historical record of the two cities dealing with beast runs.
Unfortunately, this aid came too late.
When the assistance of Sifang City and Weaving Cloud City arrived in Wushuang City, Li Yunuan had just received the news that a crystal mine in Wushuang City had been occupied by demon beasts.
"More than a hundred demon beasts, most of them birds, and half of them were armored, attacked without warning. We can't support it if we are desperately hunting and killing. Fortunately, these demon beasts were not wiped out, as long as we escaped from the range of the crystal mine, they would not chase and kill. ”
On the transmission note, the person in charge of the crystal mine said silently, and Li Yunuan cast a spell on the water mirror, and it can be seen on the mirror that the crystal mining area has become dark, and all kinds of demon beasts are circling and running!
Just as he was observing, suddenly, a big raven with wings and eyes as long as two feet long and blood-red like lanterns swooped down towards the water mirror as if it had noticed the voyeurism of the water mirror, and the momentum was sharp and poignant!
Seeing this, Li Yunuan immediately cut off the contact, but even so, a crow feather flew out of the water mirror.
"Sure enough, the one who came was not good. Holding the crow feather, Li Yunuan said in a low voice.
"It's just a herd of animals, Master Zun gave me a hundred men and horses, and I will sacrifice their inner pills tomorrow!" Gao Cuiyun said disdainfully.
Due to the limitations of her qualifications, she has just completed the foundation so far, and she is far from being married. However, Li Yunuan believes that the biggest shortcoming of the cultivation realm is that he is overly superstitious about personal strength, and at most he gathers more than a dozen disciples and arranges a small formation. Since Wushuang City has participated in the chaos in the Northern Regions, if it wants to rise among the great powers, it must tie the monks together and exert more powerful power.
Therefore, she worked hard to absorb the memory fragments of the Demon Venerable, and also taught Gao Cuiyun and others who followed her the means of arranging troops, so that they had more actual combat experience than monks of the same level, not so much monks as war generals.
However, even though she was quite satisfied with Gao Cuiyun's growth, hearing her say such words of contempt for the enemy, Li Yunuan categorically interrupted: "Don't worry, I think there is something else going on in this matter." ”
Gao Cuiyun was puzzled: "What does the master scruple about?"
Li Yunuan said: "I'm just curious. The demon race and the human race have always been incompatible, but they try not to invade each other, and now they are invading the dwellings of the human race on a large scale, why - only expelling, not slaughtering?"
Whether it is a demon race or a human race, it is only after constantly fighting against heaven and earth that they finally escaped from the fate of ants and achieved today's glory. Therefore, under normal circumstances, unless there is a thirst for killing, the human race and the demon race have always divided the land and lived, and the well water does not interfere with the river water.
After listening to her explanation, Gao Cuiyun was suddenly a little confused: "Yes, why do they only chase and don't kill?"
Li Yunuan said: "So I suspect that there is probably something else behind this." ”
Gao Cuiyun nodded and said, "It's the disciple who is reckless." ”
Li Yunuan shook his head and said, "It's not that you are reckless, it's just that you always feel that a demon is a demon and wants to kill it." In fact, the demon beasts and the human race are the creation of heaven and earth, and if we can create less evil, we should try not to kill, so as not to be full of blood, offend the way of heaven, and mislead in cultivation. ”
"Yes. Gao Cuiyun said curtly, stepping aside.
At this time, the letterheads of the two city lords of Sifang City and Weaving Cloud City also arrived, only to see the double flying color wings stop and turn into jade plates.
Li Yunuan grabbed the jade plaque, pasted it to his forehead, and read the message in it.
Suddenly, her face became solemn.
Seeing this, Gao Cuiyun and the others also held their breath.
After a while, Li Yunuan finished reading, divided the two jade cards to his cronies, one left and one right, and said, "Things are a little tricky. ”
"Could it be?" asked Gao Cuiyun as he used his divine sense to probe the jade plaque that had been given.
Li Yunuan said: "Ouyang City Lord said that this incident is the usual beast run in the Northern Regions, so don't worry too much. But I read the record of the beast run attached to the back of his letter, every time the beast ran in the past, it was a demon beast that broke into the human settlement, destroyed the residence, hurt the innocent, and finally even the city, the big demon led by the city, the strongest is no more than the Jin Dan of the human race. But the monster we encountered this time ...... Speaking of the raven alone, its cultivation is already in the late stage of Jindan, and it is ...... They are well-organized, advance and retreat in a measured manner, and they are not a group of murderous monsters as the jade plaque says!"
"Master suspects that this incident is not a beast run?" a female disciple asked.
Li Yunuan said: "At least it's different from the beast run in the records of the Sifang City, so either the records of the Sifang City are wrong, or ...... This time it's not a beast run at all!"
In order to put gold on his face and discredit the demon clan, saying that they are all monsters without conscience, this kind of thing is not strange at all in the cultivation realm, and the mortal world often cultivates history books to smear the previous dynasty.
But if the records of the Four Directions City are true, then it proves that the demon beast that invaded the Northern Regions this time is not a beast, it is-
Thinking of this, Li Yunuan immediately sent someone to invite Feng Qingde over!
Although he is always unreliable, he is the king of birds after all, and his understanding of the demon race is more objective and detailed than that of the human race.
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"This is not a demon feather. ”
The next moment he saw the feather in Li Yunuan's hand, Feng Qingde immediately asserted.
Li Yunuan was surprised: "Are you sure?"
This feather is more than two feet long, the thickest part of the feather handle is the thickness of a little finger, half a foot long, the widest part of the feather is more than a foot, the feather color is jet black and some green, no matter how you look at it, it is the feathers of the demon bird.
"Of course I'm sure, although it looks like a bird feather completely, the mana aura on its surface is a bit like a human cultivator!" Feng Qingde said undoubtedly.
Li Yunuan didn't dare to refute.
But in order to be sure, she summoned the little unicorn again, and after some sniffing, the latter came to the same conclusion.
"There is no smell of birds on the feathers, it is not a demon or a human, and it smells dirty. ”
"Smelly?"
Li Yunuan was a little curious.
Feng Qingde said straightly: "Can you still turn on the water mirror?" I want to see it with my own eyes. ”
"I'll try. Li Yunuan said, and then ordered the disciples to change a pot of mirror water, and added twice as many spars as usual, and after shaking the whirlpool, the mirror finally showed the image of the mine again.
Lifelessness is the first impression.
Although the sky of the mine is still clear and cloudy, the ground is also lush with vegetation, and the tools stacked neatly when the mining personnel withdraw, the moment they see it, the first thought that comes to their hearts is death.
Under the bleak white sun, a large group of monsters and monsters and birds gathered, as described by the mine manager, they occupied the mining area quietly and orderly, or squatted on trees, or lived in thatched houses, all of them were blood-red eyes and black bodies.
That's a little weird.
At least Feng Qingde felt that it was very abnormal.
After the little Qilin twitched his nose even more seriously, he said, "These people are not demon beasts!"
"These people?" Li Yunuan noticed the wording.
The little unicorn said: "Yes, their smell is very similar to people, but not from here, but ...... Older tastes, somewhat rotten, like ...... Broken ......"
"Broken?"
Li Yunuan felt uneasy inexplicably.
Could it be that this time it's something to do with the ice field?!
Feng Qingde's expression became more and more solemn, he stretched out his hand, reached into the water mirror, dipped a little liquid, took it in his mouth, tasted it carefully, and said in a low voice: "I see!"
Li Yunuan hurriedly asked, "What the hell is the situation!"
Feng Qingde said: "It's not completely certain yet, but one thing must be told in advance, this time it's not a beast run! To be exact, it's a thousand times more tricky than a beast run!"
"What? Then what should we do!" Li Yunuan said urgently.
Feng Qingde said: "This ...... I'll talk about it when I get back from the mine......! Close the city gates, those mines and spiritual fields, the parts that have been mined will be transported back to the city quickly, and all the spiritual plants that can be harvested will be harvested, if the demon beasts come over, give up! Don't fight with them, they ...... He is a messenger of death!"
"So serious?" Li Yunuan saw that Feng Qingde's expression was not false, and immediately said, "I'll go with you!"
Feng Qingde was about to refuse, but the little unicorn had already jumped up and muttered, "I'm going too!"