In late autumn, the food in the Northern Wilderness began to gradually decrease, and the wild beasts living in the Northern Wilderness would soon form a beast tide driven by hunger, impacting the human settlements, and using humans to sacrifice their own temples.

In order to resist the beast tide, the Northern Dynasty also began to mobilize personnel and materials to the border towns on a large scale, as the front line to face the impact of the beast tide, Blackstone City naturally received the greatest care, and countless personnel and materials went forward one after another, and were continuously sent into Blackstone City.

At the gate of Black Rock City, in order to avoid causing a riot, the city lord Jiang Tianbai had already transferred people and horses to maintain order here, and a long line of carriages full of supplies and a group of soldiers in armor were lined up at the city gate, and there was no end at all. Such a large team, but in an orderly manner, whether it was the wagons escorting supplies or the soldiers, they were very disciplined, and slowly entered the city through the city gates, without causing the slightest confusion.

"Alas, I don't know if I can go back alive this time!" a soldier lined up in the queue zuihou, looking at the Black Rock City in front of him, but as if facing the entrance to hell, said to his companions with a bitter face.

"Don't think too much, there are a lot more soldiers transferred this time than in previous years, when we just need to be careful, we may not be so unlucky, it's really not good, then we will find a place to hide, and when the beast tide passes, we will come out again!" comforted his companion.

"I hope so!" The soldier sighed lightly, as if he had suddenly remembered something important, and asked his companion, "Can you give the family a settlement allowance from the imperial court this time?"

"Leave it to the family!?" The companion said dissatisfiedly: "Why! This is what Lao Tzu bought in exchange for his life, I have not been treated by the family since I was a child, otherwise how would I risk my life to come here to resist any beast tide for a few dozen taels of settlement expenses!"

"It's good if you don't pay it! Lao Tzu doesn't pay it either!" The soldier smiled: "When you enter the city, my brother will take you to a good place!"

"Where?"

"Yixiang Pavilion!" the soldier said with a lewd smile on his face: "That's really a good place! There is everything in it, according to some veterans, there are not only the yellow flower girls who are ice and jade, but also the young women of the good family who are full of charm, there is simply everything, and even if you are willing to pay a lot of money, they can also get you the fox girl of the demon clan. Catwoman, I was fortunate to see them in Wangdu last time, not only do they all look like fairies, but their bodies are even hotter, and they all have a fluffy little tail, which must be wonderful after going to bed!"

"Really!?" Hearing him say this, his companion suddenly became interested, and his eyes lit up and said: "I can't imagine that there is such a place in such a border city as Black Rock City!"

"Of course, every year, tens of thousands of soldiers are transferred to resist the beast tide, and the imperial court has issued dozens of taels of silver to each soldier as a settlement fee, you calculate, this is a million taels of silver!" The soldier explained: "That's why the Qin family, the first family in Black Rock City, will spend a huge amount of money to build this Yixiang Pavilion, in order to earn the silver in the pockets of our soldiers who came to die!"

"That's good! I'll enter the city later, you take me to see and see, I don't know if I can go back alive this time, it's better to be happy before I die!"

"Okay!" the soldier pointed to Blackstone City and said, "In order to attract business, the Yixiang Pavilion is built not far from the barracks, and it is the highest in the entire Blackstone City, except for the City Lord's Mansion, you see, ......it is right there."

As the soldier was talking, he suddenly stopped talking, and looked in the direction he was pointing in, only to see that a thick black smoke was rising from there at this time, reaching straight into the sky.

At the same time, in Blackstone.

"Oh no, no, fire, fire, fire......" The man who was the first to notice the smoke rising from the city hurriedly shouted loudly

"Where is the fire? Where is the fire?......"

"Look! there it is!"

"There! Isn't that the Fragrance Pavilion there?"

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Black Rock City, the Lord's Mansion.

"City Lord! The imperial court has transferred a total of more than 30,000 soldiers this time, as well as various weapons, grain and grass, which is enough to load tens of thousands of carriages, as for the specific data, it needs to wait for all the personnel and materials to enter the city before they can be counted!" Li Ru, as a staff member, reported what he knew to a middle-aged man sitting in front of him.

"Hmm!" The middle-aged man, dressed in a black robe, listened to Li Ru's report while splashing ink and writing calligraphy on rice paper.

Although Li Ru is a staff member, he is mainly responsible for helping the middle-aged man in front of him manage daily affairs, but this does not mean that his own strength is poor, he also has the strength of the congenital four heavens, seeing the calligraphy written by the middle-aged man on the paper, he can see that the other party is replacing the sword with a pen, and the words in his pen faintly reveal a sword aura, every stroke is an iron and silver hook, obviously a set of extremely exquisite swordsmanship, I can't help but admire: "The city lord really deserves to be a swordsman, which opened the eyes of his subordinates!"

This middle-aged man is the only one in Black Rock City who has broken through the innate sword so far, the city lord of Black Rock City appointed by the Northern Dynasty - Jiang Tianbai!

"Hehe!" Regarding Li Ru's praise, Jiang Tianbai just smiled, but he didn't stop at the pen, and he saw that this painting was about to be completed.

Suddenly-

"Bang!-"

The door was slammed open from the outside, and a soldier hurried in.

Disturbed by the sudden change, Jiang Tianbai's pen shook, and a drop of ink dripped uncontrollably onto the paper, and a piece of calligraphy that was about to be completed was directly scrapped because of this, Jiang Tianbai's face couldn't help but change, revealing a look of displeasure!

"Bold!Who let you break in!?" Li Ru saw the city lord's displeasure on his face, and hurriedly scolded the soldiers who suddenly broke in.

"Subordinate...... The subordinates have something important to report!" Being reprimanded by Li Ru, the soldier hurriedly knelt on the ground and said tremblingly.

"What's the matter!?" Jiang Tianbai asked in a deep voice, while reaching out and gently brushing the scrapped calligraphy, only to see that where his palm brushed, the paper suddenly turned into powder.

――The sword qi breaks through the body and releases it to defend against the enemy!

"City ...... City...... There was a fire in the city!" The soldier was obviously frightened by Jiang Tianbai's trick, and his tongue became even more unfavorable.

"Fire!?" Jiang Tianbai frowned, now that the imperial court has transferred a large number of personnel and materials, there must not be the slightest mistake, and the city is on fire at this time, which makes him have to worry, and asked in a deep voice: "Where is the fire?"

"Yixiang Pavilion!"

"Huh?" Hearing that it was Yixiang Pavilion that caught fire, Jiang Tianbai's brows furrowed even tighter: "How is the fire?"

"As far as my subordinates know, I'm afraid that the Yixiang Pavilion is in ruins at this time!" the soldier replied.

"Every brick and wood in the Yixiang Pavilion has been soaked in the blood of beasts, ordinary fires can't be ignited at all, and the Yixiang Pavilion is simply the root of life for the Qin family, even if there are some small fires, it is impossible to burn so big!" Li Ru analyzed: "Unless ......"

"Unless someone deliberately set it on fire!" Jiang Tianbai said.

"City Lord, do you want me to bring some people to take a look!" Li Ru asked.

"No need!" Jiang Tianbai waved his hand and said: "The most important thing now is to settle the personnel and materials sent by the imperial court, we are already short of manpower, and the affairs of Yixiang Pavilion are still handled by the Qin family themselves!"

Seeing that the city lord didn't allow it, Li Ru didn't mention it anymore.

"It's just that I'm very strange, who is so bold that he dares to burn down the Yixiang Pavilion!" Jiang Tianbai's eyes narrowed slightly, and he muttered to himself.