In a castle on the edge of the Akamala Heath northwest of Mitarion, the melodious sound of the flute came from the castle, and the Mitarion soldiers who were patrolling the castle walls heard the sound of the flute, and they all began to sway, as if they were drunk by the sound of the flute.

Zhao Yan, who was ambushed half a mile away from the castle, saw this situation, waved to the dozens of people around him and said, "Everyone, get on!" and then stuffed a ball of cotton into his ears, and then jumped out of the hiding place first.

Dozens of sturdy figures followed him and swooped down on the castle, screaming across the open field, startling the crows in the surrounding bushes to scatter in all directions.

In the south-central part of Mitarion, hundreds of Mitarion's cavalry were advancing rapidly along a valley, and the sound of horses' hooves echoed between the mountain walls on both sides, and suddenly, one of the last cavalrymen seemed to hit an invisible wall, and was suddenly pulled backwards from the horse's back.

Immediately afterwards, the cavalry moved forward from the back, and people kept falling off their horses, and the leading general also felt strange, pulled the reins, and stopped.

However, before they could defend themselves, dozens of figures appeared on all sides, swords were raised, fists and feet were flying, and only a wail could be heard in the valley, accompanied by the neighing of horses' ass, where could Mitarion's soldiers withstand Xu Xun and other cultivators who had cultivated to a high level, and most of them fell in a moment.

The leading general saw that the group of heroes was about to kill his side, and hurriedly beckoned the remaining soldiers, urged the horses, and tried to escape quickly, but just walked ten zhang, only heard a sound of "Kerala", and a big pit collapsed in the road in front, and several soldiers and horses fell in, and the general saw that it was wrong, and no longer cared about his own soldiers, turned around and went to the mountain wall next to him, came to the mountain wall, rose up, climbed on the mountain wall, and climbed up with his hands and feet.

Peng Mu looked at the general who gradually disappeared on the mountain wall, shook a soldier away with his backhand, and said to Xu Xun: "Second brother, it's okay to let one go, right?"

The sword flower in Xu Xun's hand flickered, and the blood splashed on his face with a hint of hideousness, and nodded: "Let him report the news, the more chasing us the better." ”

The general who had climbed to the top of the hill listened to the wailing in the valley gradually disappear, reached out and wiped his wet forehead, and turned and galloped towards the nearest city.

"Morning light, look ahead. Guo Xinzhu controlled the flying sword, stretched out his foot and kicked the morning light who was curled up behind the sword body and slept.

"What?" Morning Light rubbed his sleepy eyes, only to feel that it was pitch black, but there seemed to be something shining faintly.

Guo Xinzhu sighed and said, "It seems that you can't sleep tonight, hurry up and sacrifice the Xuanzhu of the water, we have to go to the water." ”

Chenguang was still in ignorance, looked up at the little starlight above his head, and asked himself, "Isn't it that you are tired and want to trick me into hurrying?"

Guo Xinzhu kicked him and said, "You are sleepy, hurry up, didn't you see the huge storm in front of us? in a few moments we will be killed in the cold and lightning!"

Hearing this, Chenguang turned over, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and stared at the huge darkness in front of him.

The darkness was like a bottomless abyss, and a little light blue electric light faintly revealed from the darkness seemed to want to escape from the darkness, but was dragged back alive.

This darkness reached from the sea to the sky, like a mountain reaching to the sky in front of them.

A light breeze blew, and the stars above began to twinkle, as if this breeze caused them to swim in the sea of stars.

In the blink of an eye, the wind became stronger and stronger, and Guo Xinzhu controlled the jade sword and shook a little. Chenguang hurriedly took out the Xuanzhu from his arms, recited the formula, and said to Xinzhu: "Xinzhu, you put away the flying sword, let's go down." ”

Guo Xinzhu nodded and accepted the sword flying technique, and the morning light grabbed her waist, and the two fell straight into the sea.

Overhead, the turbulent waves of the sea seemed to have turned into another piece of sky, and the surging power of the sea could still be felt twenty feet below.

Chenguang and Guo Xinzhu were in the spherical bubbles, looking at the waves above their heads, Guo Xinzhu smiled: "Then I'll rest for a while, thank you for your hard work." ”

Chenguang smiled bitterly: "Tomorrow you have to fly a little longer." ”

Guo Xinzhu closed his eyes and slowly spit out a sentence: "Don't think." ”

The bubbles faded away as the fish watched.

In the city of Dunkirk in Mitarion, General Stewart sat in a large and luxurious room, frowning at the few urgent reports on the table.

On 28 November, the 2nd Search Team lost contact with the Antamita Plateau, and when the 1st Search Team arrived three days later, it found traces of engagement, but there were traces of the movement of the brigade on all sides, and it was impossible to determine the whereabouts of the other side.

On December 1, the 3rd Search Team was ambushed in Ryan Valley, and only one of the 270 people escaped, and a day later rushed to the neighboring Ryan City to report the situation.

On December 3, the 7th Search Team found a large number of Shenzhou people in the Minas Forest and engaged them, the enemy was too strong, the 7th Search Team lost 157 people, and 23 people were still chased and killed by the opponent during the retreat, and the remnants were rescued by the 5th Search Team.

On 4 December, the 11th Search Team encountered the enemy in the western steppe of Gelentino, and after confirming that the other party was a Shenzhou, the search team retreated, losing 59 men.

On the same day, the 22nd Search Party was ambushed near the Antamita Mountains, and only three escaped, presumably by fellow ambushers in the Ryan Valley.

Stewart put down his report and took another map of his country and studied it carefully.

After half a ring, he slammed the table and sneered: "The people of Shenzhou are really treacherous, but do you want to hide it from me Stewart?"

He was about to call the adjutant outside the door, but there was a knock on the door, and Stewart was slightly puzzled, and then said aloud, "Come in." ”

The door opened, but it was not the adjutant who entered, but a fat man. This man Stuart was very familiar with, Kyle Peterson, the commander of the Mitarion West Legion.

As soon as Peterson entered the door, his face was full of smiles, but unfortunately the fat on his face affected the quality of his smile, and it made people feel a little sick.

Peterson took off his top hat and bowed to Stewart, "General Stewart, Kyle Peterson, Commander of the Western Legion, reports back to you. ”

Stewart sat still, raised his hand, and said, "Say it." ”

Peterson still kept his head down, and said with a smile on his face, "Yes." As he spoke, he carefully took out a parchment roll from his bosom, held it in both hands and handed it to Stewart, and said: "General Stewart, this is an order issued by Charlemagne himself, let you return to the royal capital immediately, and the pursuit of the remnants of Shenzhou will be handled by the villain." ”

Stewart frowned, but did not answer, and took the parchment to look closely, and Peterson was still standing in front of him with a respectful appearance.

After a while, Stewart finished reading the parchment roll, rolled the parchment roll again, and put it in his arms, and then said to Peterson: "Kyle, how many troops are you going to send to exterminate the remnants of Shenzhou?"

Peterson immediately replied: "The little one thinks that the west is mainly to defend the sea and the sky, so he left 10,000 archers and 5,000 infantry in the four important towns in the west, as well as 500 elite knights, and the rest have been transferred to deal with the remnants of Shenzhou." ”

Stuart nodded and said, "Twenty-five thousand infantry, five thousand cavalry, five hundred knights, except for four thousand archers, which is slightly less, should be about the same." ”

Peterson listened to Stewart's words, a few drops of sweat flowed from his forehead, he hurriedly raised his hand to wipe it, and said, "The little one is to obey the emperor's order, so as to eradicate all the remnants of Shenzhou......

Stewart interrupted him with a wave of his hand, "Kyle, here's the information I got from the search team I sent a few days ago, take a look." As he spoke, he handed Peterson the reports he had just read.

After Peterson finished reading them all, Stewart asked, "What do you see?"

Peterson said: "General, the little one thinks that the people of Shenzhou have been frightened and fled. They began to flee from the southwest of the Antamita Plateau, some of them tried in vain to escape from the west to the Shenzhou Continent, some of them seemed to plan to return to the Shenzhou Continent from Nanchanaburi through the Golden Corridor, and some of them were somewhere in between. ”

Stewart shook his head and said: "Kyle, you are also a smart person, you don't need to go around in circles with me, it is obvious that it is not realistic for the people of Shenzhou to go through Nanchanaburi, and the southwest road is just a ploy to cover people's ears, these two people are almost with the aim of annihilating our search team, but they deliberately let go of a small number of our people, just to make us think that these two roads are the real retreat route, and also, you look at the road to the south, if there are civilians following, where can you go so fast?" And the road due west did not let our people follow at all, obviously, this road was the route they really escaped, from due west to the sea, and it was also the closest route back to the Shenzhou Continent. ”

Peterson hurriedly said: "The general is clever, and the little one sighs to himself." ”

Stewart looked at him, but no longer answered, but said to the adjutant outside the door, "Hans, go and gather our men, and return to the royal capital after dinner." ”

Peterson said, "Why is the general in such a hurry to return? ”

Stewart walked out of the house, and said as he walked: "Going to the Shenzhou Continent to attack Xia Yan, such a big thing can't allow me to rest." ”

Just as he was about to step out of the house, Stewart suddenly stopped and said to Peterson behind him, "Kyle, let me finally remind you that there has been no anomaly in the northwest direction, but the quietest places are often the most dangerous, so you better keep an eye on them." With that, he left straight away with his adjutant.

Guo Xinzhu opened her eyes in a daze, at this moment the two of them were still at the bottom of the sea, and the surroundings were still dark, and she was awakened by a shock.

"What's wrong?" Guo Xinzhu felt that Chenguang's breathing was a little urgent.

"I didn't want to wake you up to rest, but the guy behind me chased too closely, and I couldn't control the pace of progress. Chenguang said with a wry smile.

"The guy in the back?" Guo Xinzhu poked his head out of Chenguang's shoulder, and saw the guy behind him from the tumbling water.

A ball several feet in size, and there was a female face in front of the ball. Countless heads resembling vicious dogs surrounded the waist of the ball, and many tentacles covered with suckers were entangled behind the ball, pushing backwards and chasing the two of them at a rapid speed.

Guo Xinzhu sighed: "You are really unlucky, I haven't been able to see the sea monster Skula at sea for more than ten years, and you can actually meet it." ”

Chenguang said: "Thank you for the compliment, I have tried it just now, this thing is so soft and weak that even my stick can't hurt it, since you know its name, there should be a way." ”

Guo Xinzhu straightened up and said, "Legend has it that Skula was once a woman who was thought to be beautiful in ancient times, and then an evil witch was jealous of her beauty, and when she was bathing, she put poisonous snakes and vicious dogs into the water, and became one with her, and became Skula. It hated witches who turned themselves into monsters, and did not want to be seen in such an ugly appearance, so it hid under the ocean and fed on passing sailors. ”

"I don't want to know where it came from, I just want to know how to get rid of it." ”

Guo Xinzhu said: "You go up and fly to the sea, can't you?"

Chenguang sighed: "The storm is so big above, it will die faster. ”

Guo Xinzhu stuck out his tongue and said, "I forgot about this." ”

Seeing that Skula was chasing closer and closer, Chenguang hurriedly said: "You should think of a way, I have used all my strength to eat, I originally wanted to fight with it, but I want to vomit when I look at it!"

Guo Xinzhu laughed and said, "I don't want to see it either." ”

As she spoke, she suddenly had a flash of inspiration and said, "Yes, legend has it that this Skula was originally a beauty, I guess it doesn't want to see what it looks like now, let's find a mirror to reflect it, maybe it will scare itself to death." ”

Chenguang lamented: "This monster is thousands of years old, how can it be scared to death? Besides, where do we go to find the mirror now?"

Guo Xinzhu smiled: "You just have to go all out, and leave the mirror matter to me." ”