The winter night always comes very early, the grain city is shrouded in the night early, the lights are on, this city that has suffered a catastrophe has finally recovered a little bit of its original prosperity in a few years, the original inhabitants of the five grain city are less than 500,000, in the continuous attraction of population from the various states and counties of Cangnan Province, this winter has regained the scale of nearly 1.5 million people, the streets at night are full of people, business and travel are endless.

Castle Lord's Mansion.

A few bleak jujube trees were planted around the backyard of the city lord's mansion, and the cold wind blew by, and suddenly there was a rustling sound from the jujube trees, and a few fragile dead branches finally crackled and fell down after they couldn't survive this winter.

Xu Jiantao sat on the stone bench in the courtyard, carefully wiping the long sword in his hand with a cloth, the sword body was glowing with a faint golden light, that was the luster of the divine inscription, this is a long sword with a low-grade book, and it was sent from Lanyan City not long ago, Xu Jiantao knew that this was Lin Muyu's masterpiece, and only this talented emperor Yizi could make such a perfect work, Xuanpin blade, level 4 engraving, How rare it is to have a fusion of the lower grade book of the earth, and this long sword that does not necessarily have a second piece in Lanyan City is now in his hand.

After wiping the long sword, Xu Jiantao stepped to the center of the courtyard, sinking into the sea of qi, and in a blink of an eye, a fighting spirit luster extended from his body, and the next moment the sword light was a set of swordsmanship, and at the same time, there was a faint golden shield luster around his body, which was a sign of the third heaven realm of the Vajra Body Protection Divine Skill.

On the side, a guard smiled and said, "Lord Governor, your Vajra Protector should be able to cultivate the Fourth Heaven in a short time, right? ”

Xu Jiantao couldn't help but smile: "Don't talk nonsense, the Lord Commander stepped into the Holy Realm at the age of twenty-six, this kind of cultivation is really one of the few, I am far away, and I have grown so many years." ”

"Haha, how can he be compared with the commander, he is a rare genius in the empire for a thousand years, otherwise, the first emperor would not accept him as a righteous son, you see, the commander of Feng Jixing and the commander of Chu Huaiwei have followed the first emperor for many years, and they will not see the first emperor accept the two of them as righteous sons, and the first emperor's eyes are like torches, this is needless to say. ”

"Yes, the first emperor is like watching the fire. ”

Xu Jiantao sighed, looked up, but saw a branch of a jujube tree falling from the sky and falling straight above his head, but he encountered the qi of the Vajra Protector less than five centimeters away from the top of his head, and suddenly shattered inch by inch!

"These annoying date trees!"

The guard said, "Tomorrow my subordinates will order someone to cut them down." ”

"Not necessarily. Xu Jiantao smiled: "Keep it." ”

"What are you doing with them?"

"One day we will grow old, and we will have children around our knees, and at that time, every late autumn, we will lay dates to make our children happy, isn't it also a beautiful thing?"

"Haha, what the Governor said is very true, the last general has been taught!"

"How's the situation in Lan Yan City?"

"There's nothing big going on. The guard said respectfully.

"Hmm. ”

Xu Jiantao sat back on the stone bench, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said, "When will the people who went to the steel parapet patrol come back, and how are the preparations for the supply of the steel parapet?"

The guard said: "People should be able to come back early tomorrow morning, and the supplies are almost ready, enough for 100,000 horses to eat and wear for half a month, Governor, our Cangnan Province spends so many materials every month to supply the steel parapet, but we can't get any rewards, doesn't the Governor feel very wronged?"

"Haha, if you can block the iron hooves of the demons, what else is there to be wronged. ”

At this moment, a cold breath suddenly rushed in!

"Not good!"

Xu Jiantao hurriedly unsheathed his sword and shouted, "Call the sword guards!"

"What's wrong?!" the guard was shocked.

Above his head, a cold killing intent surged in, but it was a killer with a long sword in his hand, and his body was overflowing with frost aura, and a blue ice qi suddenly fell, blasting straight towards the top of Xu Jiantao's head!

This sword qi was amazingly strong, Xu Jiantao instantly knew that his protective qi would not be able to resist, and without hesitation, he pulled out a short dagger from his waist, and the dagger light flipped over, and a rich earthy yellow color light rose to the sky, and snowflakes flew around, instantly condensing a huge ice shield in front of the dagger!

Medium-grade earth calligraphy embryo - ice shield technique!

"Bang!"

The sword qi of the comer bombarded the ice shield, and under the collision of power, Xu Jiantao fell away, and the dagger dimmed in a blink of an eye, and a medium-grade earth book could only block the opponent's easy blow!

"Give me death!"

The assassin's handsome face was a little distorted, and the blood-red grandmaster magic around him danced wildly, with the overwhelming bombardment of the long sword, this blow was impossible for Xu Jiantao to dodge, the castration was too fast, Xu Jiantao couldn't dodge it at all even if he ran fast.

"Buzz!"

The blade in his hand trembled rapidly, and the lower grade heavenly book was launched, Xu Jiantao only felt as if the strength of his body was about to be drained, and suddenly his body cracked inch by inch, and in the blink of an eye, he reunited dozens of meters behind him.

......

"Brush Brush ......"

Cold arrows shot out from the mansion, and more than a dozen Gentian battalion soldiers with steel swords hanging from their waists and crossbow arrows in their hands appeared, and those arrows were already blocked by the assassins one by one in the air.

Under the moonlight, the assassin's handsome face was very similar to a person-Lin Muyu!

Moreover, the blade in his hand also showed a faint starlight, which made Xu Jiantao and the others very puzzled, could this person be the murderer who assassinated Tang Lu and Tang Tian? The only difference is that at this moment, this person did not hide his identity as a demon, the grandmaster's demonic energy, the demon fighting whirlwind was whistling, carrying a long sword, and a powerful aura fell from the sky!

"Bang!"

The mansion building of the City Lord's Mansion for tens of meters instantly turned into powder, and the bodies of the three Gentian Battalion soldiers could not move, and they had already been divided when the sword light swept by!

"Use the Book of Heaven to form a formation!"

Xu Jiantao shouted, everyone dispersed, and the long swords in the hands of the three guards flew up with sky-high flames, which was the middle grade of the law of flames!

A thick frost cyclone flew around Bi Bing's body, and he couldn't help but sneer: "What the hell is the book of heaven! Lao Tzu is not afraid, just bring as many as you want!"

"Put!"

Xu Jiantao let out a low snort.

In an instant, the three Zhongpin Heavenly Books that recorded the divine text of "Fire God Destroying the World" were launched together, and countless fire rains flew down in the air, "brushing" and sweeping the frost around Bi Bing.

"Huh?"

Only then did Bi Bing feel the power of these three Heavenly Books, far from being comparable to the Heavenly Book of Flame Law in Tang Lu's hand, the flame power of that one after another penetrated into his body, scorching the spiritual power in his veins, and the ice on his body was even more shattered and melted inch by inch, and the armor on his chest was red in a blink of an eye, and it was melting rapidly!

"My God......"

Bi Bing finally felt fear at this time, his right arm had been scorched with a piece of skin, and a heart-wrenching burning pain came from all sides of his body!

"Bastard!"

Bi Bing endured tremendous pain and slashed out a frost sword qi!

"Poof!"

A soldier of the Gentian Battalion armed with the Heavenly Book Embryo Sword was immediately split in half, and died before he could even scream.

"Shoot the arrows!" Xu Jiantao ordered loudly.

There were more and more soldiers coming from the mansion, and the dense white diamond arrows flew in the air, and in the blink of an eye, there were at least seven or eight arrows stuck in Bi Bing's chest and arms, but the arrows did not penetrate too deep into the flesh, and they did not even hurt the bones and internal organs, and the body of the strong man of the five-star demon sect did not know how many times it had been tempered, it was too strong.

Bi Bing was full of shame, he originally thought that he could make a miraculous achievement to kill Xu Jiantao here, but he didn't expect to be defeated by the Book of Heaven!

The palm was raised, and the frost formed a whirling storm, blocking the white diamond arrows, and when the frost storm disappeared, everyone couldn't see Bi Bing's figure, and the five-star demon sect powerhouse had already fled.

......

Xu Jiantao carried a long sword with dim light, this long sword of the law of space teleported directly once, and also saved his life, stepped on the broken bricks and tiles and walked to the courtyard, looking at the mess in the place, Xu Jiantao couldn't help but sigh bitterly in his heart, so many people, so many heavenly book embryos, but still couldn't kill this demon assassin.

"Governor ......"

The guard on the side said bitterly: "We folded 7 people. ”

"Got it. Xu Jiantao looked up to the sky and sighed: "The demon clan has already targeted me, and it is all my fault, let everyone follow me to suffer such risks." ”

"Don't say that, Governor, we are Imperial soldiers, and we can die for the Empire at any time, and it is better to die here than to eat and wait for death in Lanyan City. ”

"I know, send a feather book to Lan Yancheng, and tell the rain commander what happened today. ”

"Yes!"

......

Three days later, in Lan Yancheng, a flying book arrived at the Gentian Camp Shuai's tent.

"It seems that the demon clan is really eyeing Xu Jiantao. Lin Muyu slapped Yushu on the table with some irritability, and said, "We will also count the calculations of the two royal authorities, and the demons will also come to ......."

Situ Sen and Wei Qiu dragged the feather book together, glanced at it, and looked at each other.

Situ Xue knew what was going on just by glancing at it, and said with a slight smile: "My lord, Xu Jiantao guarded Cangnan Province and provided troops, food and combat materials for the steel parapet, he would have been a thorn in the eye of the demon clan for a long time, if I were the commander of the demon clan, I would also deal with Xu Jiantao first, and then attack the steel parapet." ”

Lin Muyu was stunned: "If you use General Xue's inference...... Doesn't that mean that the demons will soon make a comeback?"

Situ Xue was stunned: "I'...... I just said it unintentionally......"

"My lord, is this really possible?" Wei Qiu asked.

"The demons have been dormant for seven months, it stands to reason...... They really can't hold it anymore. ”