Not only that, but with the black sand of the grasslands, the pungent stench is also wafting outward, and spreading throughout the grasslands along the unobstructed terrain of the Great Plains.

Although this smell is no longer smelled after spreading so far, the windy spring and autumn seasons every year still make every grassland person who smells this smell full of worries, worried that this smell will bring the curse of black sand.

Tianxun and Daxun in the past dynasties have sent people to explore and study, but unfortunately they lost a lot of manpower and did not reach the core area, and they were killed by that invisible force without even seeing a specific enemy.

They found neither the source of the smell, nor any sign of black sand elsewhere, where the black sand seemed to lose its strength and turned into ordinary grains of sand, except for the borders that continued to spread outward day and night.

As a result, the masters of the grasslands, who were prepared for danger in times of peace, regarded attacking outward as a basic national policy, targeting not only the Wardsman Empire in the west, but also the country behind the mountains in the north, and even sent a huge fleet to explore the sea in the east.

However, due to the slow expansion of the black sand, and the different reigns and ruling styles of Tianxun and Daxun in the past dynasties, this kind of foreign aggression showed different strengths in each different period, with some urgent and some slow.

Whenever the radical Tianxun or Daxun is in power, the three major military cities will always usher in a huge challenge.

At the same time, in order not to cause turmoil throughout the steppe, this threat from the Black Sand was concealed by the high ranks, and only circulated among a few high-ranking Axuns and the Great Khan of the Great Tribe.

After a long time, it seems to be habitually ignored by many people, because the area of the grassland is tens of millions of square kilometers, and it seems that there is no hurry.

But the real nightmare began when the current Tianxun Ollinger took office 30 years ago and organized a census of the population, which clearly showed that the average weight and height of children born in the past two years were a little lower than before, regardless of the tribe or grassland.

It is as if there is a special force influencing the people who live on this land, not only humans, but also animals and plants.

This caused tension among Tianxun and Daxun, who wanted to find out the reason, but except for the discovery that the speed of the outward spread of the City of Death suddenly increased at some point, there was no other abnormality in the entire grassland.

The speed of expansion of the Black Sand border has been fully accelerated, and the area of the entire Death City has exceeded tens of thousands of square kilometers, and the crisis of the extinction of the country and the species does not seem to be far away.

Five years later, the recounted data made them even more alarmed, although not a single case of the disease caused by it was found, and it did not affect any normal life and production activities or even the awakening rate, but it turned out that the curse of the black sand really existed and continued to affect everyone in this grassland.

It's not that the pastures are black and sandy, but that the average height of an adult steppe person is six centimeters lower than it was a few decades ago.

So in contrast to the north, which was cut off by mountains and had nothing to gain from the sea, the steppe people set their sights on the southeastern territory of the Wadersmann Empire, which was closer and less populous, but vast enough.

This rich land that they have been spying on for thousands of years, this new home that will allow them to escape that curse.

Of course, the effect of this curse is silent and imperceptible, and ordinary and ignorant grassland herdsmen do not know at all, and if it were not for Dang Sen's noble status, he would naturally not know this secret.

This made Philip suddenly understand why the large-scale offenses of the steppe people have become more and more ferocious in recent decades.

It wasn't until eight o'clock in the evening that he spotted a hint in a great plain to the east between the cities of Ferretti and Nopua.

By the moonlight and the light of the fire below, this force looked no different from the others, less than 200,000 men, and did not carry anything like loot, like an ordinary straggler.

But Philip always felt that something was wrong, because the army had stopped, and was still stationed unobstructed on a huge plain.

Even for the steppe, which never talks about tactics, this is a very low-level and rare mistake.

Suddenly, Philip remembered when he had passed by Ferretti City before, looking at the charred ruins below, he did not fly down, but could only circle the sky twice to show his condolences for the deceased.

But he sensitively discovered the collapsed altar and soul monument in the temple in the center of the city, especially the large hole in the middle of the altar that was dozens of meters deep, and he felt as if he had discovered something extraordinary.

The vision at night was too poor, and Philip decided to fly down to scout.

Sure enough, as he approached, the steppe people were immediately on alert, the cloth of the tent was torn open, and the bed crossbow hidden underneath was also exposed.

Philip dodged a four- or five-meter-long crossbow on Arthur, and broke out in a cold sweat, which was a full thousand meters high, and it seemed that he had been captured from Ferretti City and had been brought all the way here.

Even with the cover of the night, he didn't dare to take any chances, and motioned for Ave to pull up, now that they were not wearing armor, Arthur's tough fur was as fragile as a layer of paper in front of such a powerful weapon.

He had already seen clearly, or felt clearly, and when he let go of the spirit membrane outside the green spirit core, a familiar aura filled the air.

The aura was very powerful, much greater than what he had felt in the temple of Gaokan City, and there was more than one of them, which made him addicted to it for a moment, and he almost didn't dodge the crossbow.

If I wasn't mistaken, it was something that had been dug up from the temples of Brando City and Ciudad Ferretti, and perhaps from the city of Nopua, but it was hidden under a huge shed, so it was impossible to see what it looked like.

Whatever it is, it must be the core secret of the temple.

After thinking about the cause and effect, Philip quickly made a decision to report his findings to the city of Gokan.

But before he could find a suitable place to land, he heard a loud, shrill chirp in the distance.

Looking up, in the sky more than ten kilometers away, huge golden eagles with shadows were flying here, and there were more than 30 of them.

If it was daytime, or four or five golden eagles, Philip was naturally not afraid, but these were more than thirty, and it was a night with very low visibility, and with the broken jackets and bows and arrows that he and Afu were now on, it did not seem to be a wise idea to face the enemy head-on, so the two of them made a gesture and fled desperately to the south together.

The existence of these golden eagles also shows from the side that the secret that this steppe people are trying to hide has been found by him.

He rode on Arthur's body, and regretted it a little, if he hadn't let her die after capturing Didice, the sister of Rixindolan, and had brought Murphy over for interrogation, I'm afraid Ferretti City would ......

It makes no sense to talk about it now, and it only adds to the troubles.

The golden eagle is a little faster than Arthur's mother and son, after all, the wings are larger and the body shape is more aerodynamic streamline, so Philip simply did not have time to find a suitable place to use the intercom.

It could only fly all the way to south-east, and according to the information we had received earlier, the Knights of the Templar were coming from this direction at full speed.

But the Wardsman Empire is too big, maybe a hill, a dense forest will make him miss it, not to mention the night when he can't see his fingers, he really has no confidence.

Looking at the shadow that was getting closer and closer behind him, Philip kept slandering the Southern Daxun Mingge who was beheaded by him from the army, all of them were Daxun, look at the strength of others, and then look at the quantity and quality of other people's empty knights.

In contrast, Mingge is like a stepmother's child, completely incomparable, no wonder he cares so much about the Phantom.

He was wrong to blame Mingge for saying this, the reason why the Western Grassland Daxun Ran Ridoran had so many huge golden eagles that were only a little worse than the legendary giant beasts was not his own credit.

Rather, it was because his sister was married to the prince of the largest tribe in the western steppe, that is, the middle-aged man who was pierced by Paul's sword.

And his tribe is called the Golden Eagle Tribe, and this expedition, he contributed more than half of the adult Golden Eagles, just to realize that great dream.

Philip remembered that the husband looked at him after his death, and the mockery on his face really felt a little ironic, whether it was his current situation or the conspiracy of the steppe people, I am afraid it gave him a lesson.

Fortunately, in order to hide his tracks, Ran Ridoran hid the Golden Eagle Knight far away in advance, so it was more than ten kilometers away from him.

Mother Earth goddess Gaia blessed herald, and when the distance was shortened enough to see the color of the knight's armor, and the quivers in his and Aph's hands had been shot empty, Philip finally spotted the traces of the troop ten kilometers to the southwest.

At this time, there were still thirteen golden eagles left behind them, and Afu's body was fine, but only a little wounded, but the Phantom and Arthur's flesh wings had been shot through several wounds, and there were also two iron arrows stuck in his shoulders and thighs.

He hadn't been so embarrassed in the sky since the war began.

They were able to be spotted from such a distance, thanks to the golden armor of the Templars, which reflected a blurry luster in the light of the fire, and the 20,000 horses gathered together, as if a golden ribbon had been spread over the earth, which was unusually conspicuous.

Philip flew decisively to that side, and three of the golden eagles behind him immediately flipped backwards, as if to go back to report the news.

Philip didn't care much, and dived all the way, using the nimble skills of the silver unicorn to dodge the arrows shooting behind him.

And Afu also cooperated with him and flew in the other direction, diverting half of the golden eagles to reduce the threat here.

Such an obvious figure had already attracted the attention of the Knights of the Temple below, only to see them stopped, distributed in battle formation, and the military formation was strictly organized, and at a glance, I knew that the training on weekdays was very strict.

A knight in gorgeous blue armor waved his hand, and immediately split a team of 100 people from the formation.