Chapter 10: Battle Under the Moon
At the same time as the snow stopped, a mechanical hummingbird made by the armory flew over the snowfield and landed on Xiao Qianye's windowsill, and the White Tiger Legion withdrew from Fulong Town that night, and retreated without a fight, which was obviously something that would shake the morale of the army and affect morale, but at this time, Luo Qi was completely unable to appease the soldiers in the camp, he personally tied up a few people dressed in a caravan and brought them to Xiao Qianye, with a flattering and flattering smile on his face, trying to defend himself: "Second son, those two fire beads were paid tribute by this caravan, I really didn't expect them to poison you with ulterior motives! I've already arrested all of them, and I'm at your disposal! โ
Xiao Qianye just glanced coldly at the few businessmen kneeling in a row, he didn't want to waste a minute in this kind of interrogation that he had already colluded with a confession at a glance, so he simply waved his hand directly and motioned for Luo Qi to deal with it himself.
Compared with this matter, he is more concerned about the hummingbird from the imperial capital headquarters in his hand, the armory imitates the prototype of the hummingbird for the three armies to make this batch of exquisite machinery, can quickly convey orders to the defender generals everywhere, each hummingbird will be carved with the emblem of each department to make it easy to distinguish, and the one in his hand is bordered with gold powder, and the left and right wings are painted with the sun and moon totems, it is obvious - this is the order of the crown prince.
Although the mechanical hummingbird is fast, but the vast area of the weeping snow plateau of Jialuo, coupled with the extremely harsh blizzard climate, even the ingenious mechanical hummingbird has to fly for about two days to reach Fulong Town, the reason why the crown prince ordered the withdrawal of troops is undoubtedly for his eldest brother Xiao Yibai, if it is calculated according to time, the eldest brother should be brought back to Qianji Palace by Cen Ge on the front foot, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will know about it on the back foot, otherwise the hummingbird will not fly to his hands so quickly.
The crown prince is far away in the imperial capital, how does he know about the situation here? Could it be that there is any special means of communication between the eldest brother and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?
Ten years away from Feiyuan, the information of the two countries is blocked and the road is far away, although he himself still went to Kunlun Mountain as he wished with various relationships, but Tianzheng Mansion, as the gate valve family of the imperial capital, naturally wants to take the initiative to avoid suspicion and cannot often be too close to the powerful Xiuxian sect across the sea, so he has only had some correspondence with his family for so many years, but his father and mother have never mentioned the unbelievable rumors of the eldest brother.
I still remember the night I went home, he dragged his tired body to the empty mansion alone, the eldest brother stood by the door with a night light and waited for him, the twin brothers who had been reunited for a long time kept silent and looked at each other without anyone speaking, just when he was about to step into the house, a gorgeous sedan chair was lifted from the end of the avenue, and the crown prince suddenly came, looking at him with a pair of light golden eyes with a slight smile.
He lived in Kunlun Mountain, a place that was indisputable to the world for ten years, and for a while he forgot the etiquette he should have, so he stood stupidly for a long time, until the eldest brother covered his mouth and snickered and pushed his shoulder, he hurriedly looked for the etiquette taught by his father and mother in his childhood, but the crown prince had already taken the initiative to reach out and support his arm one step ahead of him, and a look signaled that he didn't need to be polite - it was a sick young man, his face was as pale as paper, but he had the momentum of not being angry.
Xiao Qianye subconsciously rubbed his forehead, he always felt a little inexplicably restless, when it came to the body, the eldest brother's physical condition really made him extremely worried, when they were children, they also entered the Eighth Hall of Military Aircraft and the Eighth Hall of Law Cultivation in accordance with the practice of the imperial princes and magnates in the imperial capital, the eldest brother was not interested in that kind of long and dull course, and often skipped class halfway and disappeared, but even so, he could always easily come out on top in the semi-annual exam, leaving those tutors and instructors who were dissatisfied with him speechless, At that time, his body was still healthy, unlike now, when he always coughed at night, and his face was always covered with a faint layer of exhaustion.
Just when he was distracted, a white paper crane flew in from the window, Xiao Qianye instantly came back to his senses, his first reaction was to instinctively buckle the sword spirit at hand, the paper crane flapped its wings and fell unscrupulously on the table in front of him, and directly unfolded into a wonderful light mirror, Xiao Qianye frowned and looked at the picture in the mirror, Xiao Yibai leaned on the bed and drank medicine, compared to the poisonous attack next to Binghe at that time, his skin was instantly dark and black, which made his face really improve a lot.
The mirror lasted only a few seconds before shattering and vanishing, as if to silently warn him not to act rashly in this way.
Xiao Qianye suddenly turned his head to look at the topography map hanging on the other side of the room, and picked up the battle reports against the White Sect over the years and studied it again and again, strange to say, although the White Sect is a powerful cult with a large number of believers, but it does not have a very clear doctrine, and even the festival like the Snow Lake Festival is also evolved from the Central Plains culture, its main altar Qianji Palace is located on the Weeping Snow Plateau, and there is a huge snow tablet connected to the sky in a hundred miles behind it, which is said to have been left by a certain god in the heavenly realm, It records the true history of the flying wall falling into the sky and falling into the sea, but for a thousand years, no one has been able to get close to the snow monument, even the birds passing by will be torn to pieces by the powerful divine power inside, and the army will also make a detour to patrol, so no one has really seen whether the history is recorded on it, everything is a mystery.
That snow tablet is where the belief of the White Sect lies, a thing that has not been approached for a thousand years, actually firmly grasps the heart of every believer, and worships it religiously.
Xiao Qianye's fingers suddenly cramped, and even the muscles on his face couldn't help jumping - after the Tianzheng Mansion was destroyed a year ago, the only survivor, Xiao Yibai, was taken directly by Feng Ji from the imperial capital city thousands of miles away to the vicinity of the snow monument, but then the eldest brother couldn't remember anything, and this matter could only be resolved.
He stared absentmindedly at the place where the paper crane disappeared, shaking his head and shaking off all the complications that came out of his mind, after all, Xiao Yibai was still in the Qianji Palace, he couldn't risk his eldest brother's life, that was his only blood relative in the world, no matter what, he couldn't let the eldest brother have an accident!
Distraught for a while, Xiao Qianye walked out of the room with the sword spirit, although the army had withdrawn from Fulong Town, in fact, the camp of the White Tiger Legion had been on the plain outside the city for so many years, and it did not have any particularly serious impact.
As soon as he came out, he saw Luo Qi coming over, he should have been paying close attention to his every move, and immediately flattered him with a smile: "Although the snow has stopped tonight, the weather here in Jia Luo is abnormal and changeable, and there are still many difficult monsters to trouble, so it is so late that Gongzi should not go out to avoid danger." โ
"I'm just walking around the neighborhood." Xiao Qianye politely refused, and without waiting for Luo Qi to reply, he had already strode out of the barracks.
Walking all the way, there is a gentle glacier tributary along Fulong Town, because of the snow lake festival, there are a lot of bright lotus lanterns floating on the river surface now, he ghostly walked to the river, watching the orange lamps slowly go away from his eyes, and suddenly there was a moment of distraction.
Xiao Qianye smiled bitterly and rubbed his forehead, squatted down in the ice and snow to pick up the lake water and washed his face hard, it was only half a year since he came back, but his mood became more and more irritable day by day, obviously there was nothing particularly annoying, but he always felt that there was a layer of dark clouds that could not be dispersed and lingered around him.
When he opened his eyes again, the lotus lamps on the glacier disappeared in an instant, Xiao Qianye was startled and immediately held the sword spirit tightly and observed for a week, and in the distance, a lotus lamp glowing with blue light floated down the stream, and stopped strangely after drifting in front of him, the light of the wick was blurry and dreamy, only the small word in the middle stinged his eyes for a moment - Xiao? Is it the lotus lamp he put the other day?
Impossible, this is a tributary of the glacier in both directions, and it is absolutely impossible for the lotus lantern he put to float down the river here!
The sword spirit hooked up the sword qi to protect his body, and he finally saw a vague figure faintly appearing on the other side of the river, Xiao Qianye was secretly surprised, the army was not far behind him, who dared to openly provoke in such a place?
In the next second, he was keenly aware of the abnormality, although he couldn't see it, he seemed to be silently dragged into some kind of powerful spatial enchantment, the sound of the wind that was still whistling in his ears just now disappeared in an instant, and the goose feather snow turned into a drop of colorful light balls that were strangely suspended in the air.
The commander of the dark department walked towards him with the current, his face was buried in the halo and could not be seen at all, only the red lotus deliberately lit on his chest seemed to be able to drip blood, and the voice was more like isolating time and space, and he couldn't hear men, women, and children: "Childe left the camp late at night and walked alone, aren't you afraid of encountering any demons and monsters?" โ
"I haven't encountered demons and monsters, and those who pretend to be ghosts are already in front of me." Xiao Qianye responded coldly, the seven-turn sword style shot down towards the other party unceremoniously, the water surface was stirred up by the sword wind, and the person who came lightly avoided the whirlpool, and it turned out to be stepping on the air out of thin air to dodge agilely, and the two of them had passed dozens of moves in the moment of lightning, and then they each stepped back and looked at each other coldly across the river.
Compared with the shock, Xiao Qianye's heart at this moment is more of an uneasiness about unknown forces, although he is not good at spells, but it is not completely untouched, but the various spells of Kunlun Mountain give people a feeling of spring breeze, which is completely different from the cold and weird shown by the mysterious person in front of him!
When the seven-turn sword style provoked the water waves to attack, the person's fingertips would have a bewitching blood light flashing away, and then the water flow was also dyed the same dazzling bright red, as if he had eyes, stabbing at him in the opposite direction, the sword spirit cut through the water thorns, and he really smelled a strong smell of blood from the clear ice river!
The Great Commander of the Shadows gently clasped his five fingers, and the blade of the sword did not slash his body, but he did clearly feel the sharp pain of tearing his skin, which was injured by the invisible sword qi.
"Someone from the White Sect?" Xiao Qianye's eyes looked directly at the bright red lotus on the other party's chest, and he still spoke with such determination, "You are not the sect leader or the great priest, are you the group of pretentious great elders?" Can't sit still so soon and take the initiative to send it to the door? โ
There was a complicated sneer on the blurred face of the visitor, and he nodded indifferently when he heard such a question.
In order to gnaw the hard bones of the White Sect, the Governor Gao has been deployed in secret for many years, but the Great Si Ming Cen Ge, who has been instructed by the King of Jialan and Yun Qiushui, is too tricky to have to delay again and again, after the unexpected death of the former Xiao Pavilion Lord, the Governor wanted to push the boat down the river to help his own people to the throne, but was stopped by the crown prince again, and it didn't take long for the second son of the Xiao Pavilion Lord and the second son of the Tianzheng Mansion to return from Kunlun Mountain, with amazing sword skills that immediately attracted the emperor's attention, if he successfully won the White Sect this time, Then the military cabinet that the Governor has coveted for a long time will be taken into the hands of the crown prince!
The purpose of his trip was to prevent the White Sect from being captured by this person, and it would be great if he could take the opportunity to provoke his snipe and clam to fight and lose, and then let Governor Gao benefit from the fisherman.
Of course, if you put aside Governor Gao's wishful thinking, he himself just wants to see the alien god cult that has stood for seven hundred years being trampled down, and as for who will end up in the hands of the crown prince and Gao Chengchuan, who will make the crown prince and Gao Chengchuan eye, fall into the hands of the end.
Thinking of this, the Great Commander raised his head and looked at the sky fixedly, with the gentle movement of his fingertips, the blizzard above really dispersed under the powerful spiritual power to reveal a bright crescent moon, and after a while, the moonlight was gradually covered by blood mist, Xiao Qianye frowned slightly, he was extremely unfamiliar with the spell at the moment, he couldn't judge what the other party was going to do, he could only cautiously hold the sword spirit to guard against his every move, but the person on the other side of the river suddenly let out a sigh and asked with interest: "Has the second prince ever seen the forbidden technique of the White Sect?" With blood as the guide and bone as the medium, from life to death, he will always obey the Holy Religion. โ
He raised his hand towards the blood moon, his five fingers were slender and slender, and the blood vessels could be clearly seen as if they were transparent under the blood mist, and at the same moment, several dead spirits flew out of the moonlight!
A flash of surprise flashed in Xiao Qianye's eyes, and he immediately slashed continuously, and the sword spirit cut through the body of the dead spirit's nothingness, but there was a deep discomfort in the quagmire, which made his throat sour and retched for a moment.
Ying Ying, the person on the other side, smiled, and deliberately lowered her voice to inadvertently reveal the secret hidden by the White Sect to him: "Did just a few dead spirits make the second prince disgusting?" Hehe, then if he leads the army to attack the Thousand Machine Palace, you must remember to bypass the lotus altar, otherwise the evil that has been sealed in the dust for seven hundred years below...... I'm afraid it will make you sick to your stomach and vomit on the spot, right? โ
Xiao Qianye took a deep breath and immediately calmed down, after the initial discomfort, his sword momentum became more aggressive, and within a moment, the white sword light shattered the last toothed necromancer, Xiao Qianye lit the river and instantly moved to the opposite bank, just when his wrist continued to rotate and prepare to cut off the opponent's head with a sword, the snow under his feet suddenly made an untimely "click" sound, the stiff sound like a machine made him instantly vigilant to withdraw his sword and return to defense, and sure enough, in the next second, a terrifying white bone hand burst out from under the snow, The fleshless bones were rattling, and they were also holding another bone as a weapon to attack him!
He took a big leap and had to return to the other side of the glacier in order to keep a safe distance, the man danced ten fingers under the moon, his lips and teeth moved silently as if he was chanting some incantation, and under the traction of his spiritual power, more and more necromancy appeared out of thin air, and more and more white bones also broke through the ground!
"It's a big snowfield here, and it's not uncommon for a few people to die." The Great Commander of the Shadows whispered ill-intentionedly, sneering word by word, "Just allow humans to kill aliens indiscriminately, and don't allow us to catch a few humans to cast spells?" Hehe, the second son is a disciple of Kunlun Mountain, and he can't be such a double standard. โ
"It's a cult." Xiao Qianye's eyes were terrifyingly cold, but at this moment, a wish-fulfillment smile rose on the face that had been blurred, and the figure of the great commander quickly disappeared into the moonlight, the necromancer roared, and the white bones went forward one after another, and after the fierce battle, countless red butterflies quietly flew out of the chopped bone fragments, one by one, flapping their wings and seeing that they were about to fly towards the military camp in the rear!
His voice was already far, far away, drifting to Xiao Qianye's ears along the wind: "Second son, be carefulโthose who are attached to butterflies will become loyal puppets of the White Sect." โ
It was too late to care about the distant figure, Xiao Qianye chased the flying butterfly and rushed back to the barracks without hesitation.