Chapter 22: The Lie of Twenty Years Ago

Three months later, the already clear situation on the border battlefield between the two countries suddenly made waves again.

In the early morning, the sky is cloudless and the breeze is warm.

The camp of the Star Luo Empire, which was nearly a hundred miles long, was like an ancient giant beast stalking across the plains in front of the mountain range, and the eyes were full of tension and slaughter.

But underneath this murderous appearance, there is exhaustion and anxiety that is difficult to hide.

They are now at an absolute disadvantage.

The military strength of the Heaven Dou Empire was actually much weaker than that of the Star Luo Empire, whether it was the combat quality of the ordinary army or the average strength of the Soul Master Legion, it was extremely average.

However, with the secret support of the Wuhun Palace, the Star Luo Empire was suppressed and retreated, and could only continue to shrink its defensive line.

Up to now, the only thing they can do is to stick to the border and use natural hazards to delay time, but they have no way to organize a counterattack.

Even if it was inconvenient for those Titled Douluo Elders who were famous all over the world in the Martial Spirit Hall to make a move, there were always some people with unknown reputations who could haunt the battlefield and bring great pressure to the Star Luo army.

The combat power of any Titled Douluo-level will have a huge impact on the local battle situation, not to mention that there is far more than one Titled Douluo of the Heaven Dou Fang at this time.

In addition, a large number of soul masters in the Soul Hall have also continued to be put into the battlefield, and the improvement of military strength has reached an extremely exaggerated level.

In the past few months, the Star Luo Empire's defense lines on the plains have been quickly defeated and dismantled.

However, the Heaven Dou Empire's side was steadily advancing, and it was difficult to stop it at all.

Fifty miles outside the Star Luo Empire's battle camp, after breakfast early in the morning.

Then they heard the thunderous sound of war drums in the distance, and everyone knew that this was the Heaven Dou Empire that had begun to attack again.

One phalanx after another appeared outside the camp, and each huge phalanx was composed of 10,000 people.

With a series of general orders issued from the Central Army, hundreds of thousands of Heaven Dou Empire troops slowly moved forward, which was a full ten heavy cavalry regiments, and they were also all the heavy cavalry brought by the Heaven Dou Empire this time.

They did not move fast, but the overwhelming oppressive force made the earth tremble.

Immediately behind the ten heavily armored legions were the 22,000 soul masters assembled by the Heaven Dou Empire.

After that, ten more light cavalry legions rushed out from both wings, all of them composed of soul masters.

The plain battlefield is constantly cut and divided into countless small battlefields, so as to maximize the role of soul masters in each legion.

Under the combined action of tens of thousands of soul masters, flame and ice attribute soul skills were quickly laid on the battlefield.

With the blessing of various auxiliary types of soul skills on the heavy cavalry, the momentum of the entire military formation has increased a lot.

The powerful coercion that came to his face made the face of the commander-in-chief of the Star Luo Empire's military even more ugly.

This has been repeated countless times over the course of three months.

In this case, the only thing they can do is to use the terrain advantage to barely cope.

Fortunately, the current Heaven Dou Legion is not in a hurry, and there is no intention of fighting against the Star Luo Empire. Rather, it slowly encroaches, dividing the battlefield little by little on the premise of retaining its own strength.

But everyone understands that this weak balance will not last long.

Zhu Zhuyun walked in the barracks worriedly.

Her soul power was exhausted at this time, and as a high-level soul king-level powerhouse, she had a relatively high degree of freedom on the battlefield, and she could retreat to the barracks to rest at any time.

But he was alone and not with Davis.

On the one hand, as Davis, there are not many opportunities to go to the battlefield, and there are also many affairs in the imperial capital.

On the other hand, the two of them hadn't used the Martial Soul Fusion Technique for a long time now.

Since the conversation with Zhu Zhuqing many years ago, there has gradually been a lot of barriers between her and Davis.

Moreover, the martial soul fusion technique is such a thing, although the explosive power is strong, it consumes soul power very much. On the battlefield, it is far less useful than her fighting alone and using the characteristics of the ghost cat to assassinate and sneak attack.

At this moment, Zhu Zhuyun's originally bright and charming eyes were full of confusion.

The situation in the empire is getting worse and worse now, and with her knowledge, she can't think of any way to break the situation.

But at this critical juncture, Zhu Zhuqing, who was the real core of the Zhu family's faction, suddenly disappeared, which shrouded her heart even more.

I went to ask my father before, and I just waited for the news I got with peace of mind.

But how can you be at ease at such times?

Whether it is taking this opportunity to seize power in the imperial capital, or to establish meritorious deeds on the battlefield, even if it is to prevent being liquidated by the Heaven Dou Imperial Family after being destroyed, you can't do nothing.

If the borders cannot be defended, then it is really only a matter of time before the entire empire dies.

Not only Zhu Zhuqing, but also that Su Cheng has also disappeared during this time.

After so many years, because of Zhu Zhuqing's relationship, she is also familiar with Su Cheng, and probably knows some of the details of that person.

Compared with his more dazzling sister, although Su Cheng's reputation is not obvious, his strength should not be underestimated, and he is even stronger in cultivation.

The most important thing is that Su Cheng often has some unexpected whimsical ideas, but he can always get to the point.

A few words of advice to her occasionally can help her generate a lot of new realizations.

Even she inexplicably felt that Su Cheng's understanding of the ghost cat martial soul was a few points better than that of their Zhu family.

She has always had an inexplicable intuition in her heart that as long as these two people can be present, even if they can't turn the situation around, they can definitely play a key role.

What's more, the martial soul fusion skills displayed by these two people are completely different from her.

That weird Netherworld White Tiger, except for being slightly inferior in soul power, was definitely not weaker than ordinary Titled Douluo in terms of strength.

Just as she was thinking wildly, an exclamation suddenly came from her ears.

“…… What is that?! ”

"It's the Nether White Tiger!"

"It's the Martial Soul Fusion Technique that is unique to the royal family and the Zhu family, the Netherworld White Tiger!"

“……”

Zhu Zhuyun heard the sound and looked back.

I saw a white tiger phantom tens of meters long like a gust of wind passing through the air.

But she was more and more surprised at this time, and even unconsciously opened her red lips slightly.

Zhu Zhuyun, who was very familiar with this martial soul fusion technique, could see that it was not the martial soul fusion technique Netherworld White Tiger.

That's a person's martial soul real body!

"How could it be ......"

A huge white tiger sped through the air.

The pair of transparent wings formed by the hurricane behind him whistled and set off gusts of wind, and in an instant, they crossed a distance of hundreds of meters and went straight to the center of the battlefield!

At this time, there was a Titled Douluo-level powerhouse of the Heaven Dou Empire's camp who was wantonly wielding all kinds of soul skills, constantly slaughtering the soul master army of the Star Luo Empire.

The next moment, the man suddenly felt an earth-shattering killing intent sweeping behind him.

Then a gust of wind rushed by, and as soon as he turned around, a sharp claw slammed in.

Netherworld White Tiger's Eighth Soul Skill - Divine Wind Slash!

This soul skill from the mutated 100,000-year soul ring can integrate Zhu Zhuqing's whole body strength into a single claw, exerting her strength and speed to the limit, and it is her strongest single attack skill now.

That Titled Douluo, who had already consumed more than half of his soul power, was instantly enveloped by the aura of death, and hurriedly made a defensive move.

Although he successfully used his soul technique to resist, it was still difficult to resist his edge, and the huge claw marks passed through his body, and his aura instantly declined and dissipated.

After the huge white tiger's blow, the momentum was like thunder, and it didn't stop.

Jumping directly over, the wind swept into another battlefield, and once again killed another Titled Douluo who was exerting his might.

Then, the domineering Netherworld White Tiger began to rampant on the battlefield.

The Wind God's wings flew wildly, harvesting the high-level soul masters of the Heaven Dou side with absolute strength and speed superiority.

By the time they reacted and sent several Titled Douluo to join the battlefield again to contain them, they had already suffered heavy losses.

At this time, Zhu Zhuqing's soul power had bottomed out, and seeing that the other party had a new combat power, he didn't continue to entangle.

After using the two group soul attack techniques, he quickly retreated into the Star Luo Army Array.

Title Douluo is not so easy to kill.

Don't look at the previous one, she quickly attacked and killed the two strong men of the enemy with thunder methods, but that was just because Zhu Zhuqing's speed was too fast, and the Tiandou side did not expect such a variable at all.

Those two Titled Douluo had already consumed a lot of soul power in the previous battle, but Zhu Zhuqing used all his strength as soon as he came up, and he could only succeed in using a powerful soul technique in the state of the martial soul true body.

It is almost impossible to replicate the results of the battle in the future.

But that's enough.

All of a sudden, the morale of the Xingluo military was greatly boosted, and there were signs of gaining the upper hand.

However, the Heaven Dou Empire's ordinary army actually didn't suffer many casualties.

Zhu Zhuqing hadn't paid attention to these mortals before.

Her soul power is limited, and her first appearance must exert the maximum effect, and it doesn't make much sense to waste her soul power excessively on these people.

The number of armies of the two countries is more than one million, and with her little soul power, even if she stands still on the opposite side and lets her kill, she will not be able to kill inexhaustibly, not to mention that the opposite side is not without high-end combat power, and if she delays for a long time, she will put herself in danger.

What's more, she didn't bother to do it.

The Nether White Tiger is indeed extremely murderous, but it is to enjoy the killing in battle, not the senseless slaughter.

Slaughtering mortals will only wear down her will, but it will be harmful.

In her current realm, what she wants to look further at is perception, rather than simple accumulation of resources.

Unless it's the kind of special resource that transcends the level of this world, such as the Divine Inheritance.

After this battle, not only did the Heaven Dou Empire be shocked, but even his own side, the Star Luo Empire, was completely shocked.

Zhu Zhuqing almost single-handedly reversed the current situation.

Now, although Zhu Zhuqing, who has the Netherworld White Tiger Martial Spirit in her hand, has just stepped into the threshold of Peak Douluo, she may not even be her opponent for those ninety-sixth-level Peak Douluo.

Even if it is the Martial Spirit Palace, if she can't make an offering, if she doesn't want to spend a lot of lives fighting, she will be helpless for the time being.

It didn't take long for the Heaven Dou Empire to choose Mingjin to withdraw its troops.

However, it is conceivable that the next time there is a battle, I am afraid that there will be those peak Douluo who are famous in the Martial Spirit Hall to make a move.

After Zhu Zhuqing returned to the barracks, he immediately lifted the martial soul true body state and came to Zhu Zhuyun's side.

At this point, her face was so pale that it was almost transparent.

In just such a short period of effort, her soul power has almost bottomed out.

The short-term explosiveness of the Netherworld White Tiger Martial Soul is so strong that it is almost unreasonable, but the soul power consumption rate is also ridiculously fast.

"Zhuqing, you're finally here."

The dark clouds covering Zhu Zhuyun's heart dissipated in an instant at this time.

His eyes immediately brightened.

But in the joy, there is also a faint hint of hesitation.

He glanced around, and teased with a smile: "What about your little follower, why is it gone?" I remember that you two have always been inseparable? ”

"......" Zhu Zhuqing paused slightly before he said softly: "You said Su Cheng?" He can't come for a while. ”

"That's the case...... Zhu Zhuyun nodded thoughtfully, and then looked at Zhu Zhuqing, "But why did you become so strong all of a sudden now?" And it was the Netherworld White Tiger just now, right, but ...... your martial soul? ”

"Well, my martial soul has undergone some mutations, and my strength has broken through because of this."

Zhu Zhuqing didn't explain much.

In fact, with her current strength, there is no need to explain anything to anyone.

But Zhu Zhuyun is different for her after all.

"Mutation?" A smile froze on Zhu Zhuyun's face.

Then it quickly returned to its former sweet and soft appearance.

"I really envy you, Zhuqing, if only I could be like you." She sighed softly.

"Now that you have the strength you have, you can finally take complete control of your destiny. Dai Mubai or something like that, you can let him get out of the way at will. And there is also a friend like Su Cheng who stands by your side wholeheartedly, he is strong, and he usually speaks well, and it is really comfortable to get along with him. ”

Zhu Zhuqing was stunned when he heard this, turned his head to look at Zhu Zhuyun, and said in amazement: "You think so?" ”

"What?"

“…… Su Cheng is my friend, and he is very comfortable to get along with. ”

"Don't you think so?" The smile on Zhu Zhuyun's face was a little difficult to maintain, "Su Cheng is just a tool in your eyes?" ”

Her softly condensed cheeks were slightly stiff at this time, and they looked very unnatural.

"Zhuqing, maybe you've really changed. No, you changed more than a decade ago, but I don't want to admit it. Zhu Zhuyun sighed.

"Actually, sometimes I feel really lucky. My lack of ability, weakness, and lack of use is at least a testament to the fact that your feelings for me are true. ”

Zhu Zhuqing stared at Zhu Zhuyun in a daze, and his already bloodless cheeks became more and more pale.

She didn't expect that in the eyes of her sister, Su Cheng would be such a person.

Is it because I've been with him for too long and I'm used to those efforts as a matter of course?

On the contrary, in the eyes of outsiders, it is more distinct.

Or maybe it's because he never pretends to be in front of himself, often showing his ruthless and cynical side, but always treats others politely and gently, humbly and politely.

Which one is the real him?

Maybe I was wrong.

The side he showed in front of himself was the disguise.

But why is that......

Zhu Zhuqing suddenly realized that she had been with Su Cheng for more than 20 years, and she didn't even know what kind of person the other party was.

How have you spent all these years?

He worked hard to cultivate day and night, and fought for power and profit by unscrupulous means.

Maybe it's really like Zhu Zhuyun said, he only uses him as a tool? Or even use everyone around you as a tool?

No, it's not like that.

Whether it is for Su Cheng or Zhu Zhuyun, they are extremely special existences to themselves.

Maybe I've changed now.

It's easy to be ruthless with other people.

But when she learned that she could seize Su Cheng's bloodline, she was obviously extremely resistant in her heart.

"You're wrong, sister." Zhu Zhuqing looked at Zhu Zhuyun and said word by word: "I have never used Su Cheng as a tool. ”

Now that the war between the two countries has eased up slightly, Zhu Zhuqing did not stay on the border battlefield for long, said hello to the commander of the Central Army, and returned to the Star Luo Imperial Capital with Zhu Zhuyun.

The command of the army was naturally reluctant.

Such a powerful combat force, as long as it sits on the border, can turn the situation around to a certain extent.

But no matter in terms of identity or strength, they are obviously not qualified to change Zhu Zhuqing's decision.

The two of them could only be allowed to leave.

After returning to the Duke's Palace, Zhu Zhuqing did not go to meet Zhu Hongtao, but casually communicated with Zhu Zhuyun in the courtyard about the current situation in the empire and the next plan.

As for Zhu Hongtao, Zhu Zhuqing doesn't really want to see him now.

Although it stands to reason that she should be the first to pass.

After all, she can have the strength she has now, largely thanks to the guidance of that father over the years.

But after getting along all these years, she is no longer the little girl she was back then.

How can there be no doubts in the heart of those bits and pieces of irrationality.

It's just that everything the other party has been doing has really been helping her.

It can even be said that the person who Zhu Zhuqing has been able to get to this point today is Zhu Hongtao.

Whether it was teaching her to behave in the world at the beginning.

Or the exercises and potions in the back.

Until the last step of the bloodline seizure, she almost reached the top of the world step by step.

But it was precisely because of the bloodline seizure that the emotions in her heart were more complicated.

Although she knew that Zhu Hongtao couldn't be blamed for this matter at all, the choice was in her own hands.

But that's what the human heart is.

No matter how objective you are, it's always hard to ignore those special reasons after regrets.

In extreme moods, it is normal to be angry with others.

It is precisely because Zhu Zhuqing herself can clearly realize this that she is reluctant to pass at this time, so as to prevent herself from being unable to control her emotions at that time.

For this father, Zhu Zhuqing had some doubts in his heart, but he was undoubtedly more grateful.

After all, in the normal cognition of this world, there is no such anti-heaven skill as being able to perfectly disguise another person in appearance, figure, and even martial soul breath.

A hundred thousand years of soul bone technique may only be able to do it.

But if there was that kind of thing, Zhu Hongtao would not be able to break through to the Title Douluo realm for many years of cultivation.

In fact, Zhu Zhuqing has always speculated that there may be shadows of other forces behind Zhu Hongtao.

But what is the hidden truth is not the time to find out.

After all, now that the empire is suffering from internal and external troubles, the future fate of the Zhu family is also confusing, and it is pointless to care about irrelevant things.

It didn't take long for the two of them to walk outside Zhu Zhuqing's room unconsciously.

"Come in and sit down for a while?" Zhu Zhuqing said casually.

"Okay." Zhu Zhuyun smiled slightly, "It seems that I haven't been to your room since you were six years old." ”

Speaking of this, she also had some emotion in her heart.

Zhu Zhuqing's room has not changed much from when Su Cheng came, and it is as clean and neat as before.

Although she is now in power, she is not a person who is greedy for pleasure, and she has never thought of changing her residence.

The two walked from the front hall to the main hall, and Zhu Zhuqing walked to the table and poured two cups of tea.

Zhu Zhuyun took advantage of this gap to look around.

At a glance, I saw the layout in Zhu Zhuqing's bedroom.

I couldn't help but be surprised: "Hey, you also have this doll?" ”

"What?" Zhu Zhuqing was stunned when he heard this, and walked closer.

"That's it." Zhu Zhuyun stretched out his hand and pointed to the doll bear placed on the table, "The doll given by my father when I was a child, I haven't awakened the martial soul at that time. Alas, it was as if it was the last time he would see me alone. Oh, royal bloodline......"

After she sighed, a smile resurfaced on her face, "But it's okay, Zhuqing, you can change all this in a moment." ”

Zhu Zhuqing didn't listen to what she said later, walked to the room and took out the bear doll.

"You just said ...... That was the last time Dad saw you alone? ”

"yes, what's the problem?" Zhu Zhuyun felt that her expression seemed to be a little wrong, and asked cautiously.

Zhu Zhuqing shook his head, but didn't explain anything.

The two didn't stay in the room for long.

After drinking two cups of tea, Zhu Zhuyun was ready to get up and leave.

The main reason is that she feels that her little sister's emotions seem to be a little wrong at this moment, which makes her feel inexplicably depressed.

Zhu Zhuqing didn't say anything to stay.

At this time, she was just calm on the surface, but in fact, her heart had already been surging, and countless memories were tumbling endlessly.

After sending Zhu Zhuyun out of the room, Zhu Zhuqing silently stared at the doll in his hand for a moment.

Then gently throw it out.

"Bang-"

Zhu Zhuyun, who had just walked not far away, heard the sound and turned back in astonishment.

I saw the worn-out bear doll shatter in mid-air, turning into countless powders and scattering in the wind.

5 chapters are still owed.

(End of chapter)