Chapter 38: Betrayal and Conspiracy
After the tenth month, the relocated people of Yingbei City gradually settled down, and shops opened one after another, revealing the prosperity after the disaster.
Today, an ascetic monk came from outside Yingbei City.
He was dressed in linen, and his shoes and bamboo canes were carried with him, as if he was measuring the millions of miles of mountains and rivers in the Eastern Wilderness.
Under the perennial wind and sun, the dervishes have chapped and dark skin, and their expressions become more and more bitter and gloomy, giving people a bitter and hateful appearance.
At the beginning of his entry into the city, there were still some sneakers who followed him.
However, when he and the others happened to bump into each other a few times, they found that the old monk was indeed penniless, and then scattered in twos and threes.
No one knew that after leaving the old monk, these thugs were either chased and hacked to death by their companions, or they were crushed to death by the suddenly falling wall, or other strange ways of dying.
Even after the yamen conducted an autopsy, they shook their heads again and again, calling them strange and evil.
And after the ascetic walked through the city for a while, his figure gradually rose into the air, and he stepped into the void.
If Sima Yuan and the others were here, they would have found that this ascetic monk was actually following their traces.
The ascetic monk silently comprehended for a moment in the thousand-zhang high blank dragon soul dementoring land, and then gently grasped it in the place where Qin Mao and the white dragon were fighting, as if searching for some kind of breath.
Eventually, the dervish stopped at the place where the mad demon monk had fallen, his eyes were complicated, and he seemed to be muttering to himself, "Why bother?"
"When is the time for retribution?
Thousands of feet in the sky, a terrible cold wind whistled by, as if a fierce soul who had died of resentment was crying and complaining.
After the ascetic was silent for a long time, he let out a long sigh, "Let's report it."
Then his sad face looked down, and he reached out a pale and withered hand like the bark of an old tree, and grabbed it lightly downward.
In an instant, he saw a faint qi burst out from the place where he walked.
The qi is golden yellow, like the emperor's breath left in the wilderness, and the majesty is endless.
The dervish muttered to himself: "The Emperor's Heavenly Avenue is grandiose, and it is really extraordinary. ”
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After passing Yingbei City, Sima Yuan and the three continued to walk northwest.
According to Sima Yuan's meaning, it is to go around the periphery of the Tianshu Depression and return to the west along the edge of the Eastern Wilderness and the North Sea.
The route of this trip is like stepping on the separation zone between the North Sea and the East Wilderness and the West Underworld, first going north and then turning west.
The purpose was to bring Qin Xin's father and daughter back to the Western Purple Heaven Sect, but it was not to fly with the sword, let alone to walk in the air, but to ride a horse by boat, or to carry a hitchhiker, or to follow a caravan of merchants.
Of course, with Sima Yuan and Qin Mao's late cultivation, it is only hundreds of thousands of miles away, and it only takes a few days to travel back and forth between Zixiao and this place, if it doesn't stop, it will be there in one day.
But this trip focuses on travel, and it also allows Qin Xin to make up for human feelings and experience the sinister nature of the rivers and lakes.
As for why he wanted to get close to the Beihai border, it was Sima Yuan's careful thinking.
Among the seven islands in the North Sea, Jiushenyuan is close to the Eastern Wilderness, and has repeatedly invaded the human race in the south, and the two sides have been fighting for thousands of years.
The most recent battle between the two clans was three hundred years ago, when the Nine Divine Yuan poured out of the nest and once destroyed the entire northern 100,000 li radius of the Holy Spring Country, the Eastern Wilderness Upper Country.
400,000 people were captured, and countless more died in the belly of the beast with their claws and bloody mouths.
As for the soldiers participating in the battle of the Holy Spring Country, more than half of the casualties were killed, and nearly half of the families in the country wore linen and filial piety to mourn the dead.
These cruel facts were all told by Sima Yuan to Qin Xin when the three of them rode north and passed by a barren mound.
After experiencing Yingbei City, Qin Mao also seemed to see it, and he was interested in the 'great cause of the emperor' that Sima Yuan had instilled in Qin Xin, intentionally or unintentionally
Consciousness is no longer so resistant.
Perhaps, as Sima Yuan said, it is impossible for future generations to never grow up, rather than always sheltering them under their wings like this, it is better to let go of the shackles and let them soar.
However, at this time, Qin Mao, who was hundreds of zhang behind Qin Xin, was a little anxious, frowning again and again, looking at Sima Yuan from time to time and asking, "Is it too early for her to see these at this time?"
saw Sima Yuan sitting on the back of a white horse at this time, swaying and drowsy.
He slowly opened his eyes, and after glancing at Qin Mao, he said lightly: "Don't worry, the Zixiao Sword Spirit is alive, and it will protect the master's safety." ”
Qin Mao frowned, hesitated for a moment, and sighed lightly.
At the same time, nearly a thousand feet in front of the two, a looting drama was being staged.
But under the two cliffs, a convoy of more than 100 people slowly arrived.
There was a glimmer of sky ahead, rocks were falling sideways, and pedestrians were either killed or injured, rather than spared.
This fleet of vehicles is luxuriously decorated, which is not comparable to ordinary merchants' homes. Presumably, the owner of this convoy must be a powerful figure in the Flying Soul City of the Holy Spring Country.
Otherwise, it will be impossible to mobilize the first-class Soul Army of Flying Soul City.
The Soul Army has a total of 5,000 people, all of whom are wearing talisman armor and holding magic weapons, and all of them are above the second level of qi refining.
After the Five Thousand Soul Army formed an array team, it could be called a huge killing weapon that could hunt the Yuan Infant True Realm.
At this time, after the convoy entered, an angry shout immediately broke out from above, "Release!"
In an instant, more than 100 arrows fell like meteors in the sky, dense and overwhelming.
Such a situation is enough to frighten people's hearts and tear their livers and gallbladders.
Especially on the arrows, faint spiritual lights flickered slightly, like fluorescent.
The light was faint and almost negligible.
But before it fell in the air, it was hooked into pieces in the blink of an eye, turning into a waterfall of spiritual light, pouring down.
Such a terrifying momentum is enough to kill any Jindan existence in an instant!
And on the cliff of this uninhabited wilderness, the only one who can have such power is the 'one-eyed dragon' who can power a hundred miles away.
The one-eyed dragon is not a dragon, but a great thief who has been crisscrossing the Flying Soul City of the Holy Spring Country for more than ten years.
Its name is Liutu and it lives in the nearby Candle Dragon Mountain.
It is rumored that his cultivation is unfathomable, almost able to penetrate the gods, and his strength is only below that Flying Soul City Lord Feng Kangyu.
Everyone in Flying Soul City knows that the city lord has fought with the one-eyed dragon several times, and it can be regarded as a mixed victory, between the two sides.
At this moment, the convoy under the cliff suddenly encountered a rain of arrows, and the formation was immediately chaotic, and the people were neighing, as if they were about to collapse.
By the time the rain of arrows fell, more than half of the more than 100 people had been killed or wounded, and only a few people who had hidden behind the luxurious carriage survived.
But at this moment, they have become frightened birds, trembling, and their expressions are extremely pale.
Apparently scared out of his mind.
Not to mention defending against enemies like this, even escaping is a problem.
Immediately, under the frightened expressions of the others, figures fell from the sky and surrounded the convoy.
After a loud roar, a middle-aged figure walked out of the thief camp.
Its thick eyebrows and big eyes, horizontal flesh and solemnity, there seems to be a fierce color in his eyes, "Up, no one is left!"
The people around him laughed fiercely when they heard this, and rushed towards the convoy like wolves.
After breathing, after screams, there was nothing alive in the convoy.
Shaoqing, a middle-aged man who was close to the attendant smiled and said: "The three masters, none of them are missing, they are all solved." ”
Unexpectedly, the third master gently bowed his head, reached out and patted it gently, and the root class was immediately shattered.
The expressions of the people around them changed drastically, and they retreated one after another.
The three masters smiled lightly, and a strong horizontal cultivation comparable to Jin Dan suddenly dispersed.
Everyone was like a heavy load, their bodies sank in unison, their expressions were frightened, and they roared.
The middle-aged man reached out with an expressionless face and pressed his hand lightly, and after everyone stiffened together, they completely cracked apart and turned into flesh and blood all over the ground.
At this point, only the three masters are left in the field.
He looked around, rolled up his robes, and buried the bodies of the thieves.
Then he slapped himself at himself, and his chest suddenly sank in half.
Immediately a mouthful of blood spurted out and fell to the ground, snorting.
At the same time, most of its breath fell in half, and its body staggered outward.
After breathing, the figure vanished.
Looking at the place where it travels, it seems to be the Flying Soul City.
Half an hour later, a young girl dressed in a pale yellow hue flew here.
The girl is Qin Xin.
She frowned, her eyes full of doubt.
In fact, before the middle-aged man made a move, she could have asked Zixiao Sword to stop it, but due to the master's order of 'don't speak, don't move, and don't show', she forcibly stopped the urge to do it.
She thought about it, maybe today's business was not over yet, so she decided to wait here.
Immediately, a concealed talisman appeared in his hand, and with a light touch on the top of his head, the petite figure disappeared.
Qin Xin didn't have to wait long, and just two hours later, a rumbling sound sounded at the bottom of the valley cliff.
I saw a mighty torrent of armor surging.
After breathing, the torrent of armor stopped before a dry corpse.
After a moment of silence, a deep shout, "The whole army listens to the order, Candle Dragon Mountain ambushes and kills my soul general, pits and kills more than 100 of my brothers, and leads the city lord's decree to immediately sweep away the Candle Dragon Village!"
The armor soldiers congratulated and roared away.
And the previous 'three masters' are impressive!
The name of the leader this time is Ran Xun, and it is Feng Kangyu, the lord of Flying Soul City, who sits down as a general.
The army numbered more than 2,000 people, all of whom were dressed in talisman armor and armed with spears and broadswords, and their bodies were awe-inspiring and murderous.
With Ran Xun's order, the two thousand-heavy armor runes turned into a rolling torrent and roared towards the Candle Dragon Mountain in front of them.
The two generals in the late stage of Jin Dan were unaware that a sword light was trailing in the sky behind them.
Half an hour later, two thousand rune soldiers arrived at Candle Dragon Mountain.
Candle Dragon Mountain is about 500 zhang high, there is a village Candle Dragon Village under the mountain, and there is a 'king' one-eyed dragon on the mountain.
The village is not big, but it is only ten hills, but it is famous in the Flying Soul City for a hundred miles.
The people of Gaiyin's village can plough the fields and farm the land, and they can pull the bow and sword on the horse, and they were even given a qigong method by the one-eyed dragon, which can strengthen the body after cultivation.
The number of people in the village is small, only about 1,000 people, of which women and children are the majority, accounting for sixty percent.
In other words, there are only more than 400 combat forces in the village, which is not enough for 2,000 soul soldiers.
But it is these people who have continuously cultivated 'soldiers' for the one-eyed dragon, so that it can run rampant for a while.
At this time, with the arrival of the Soul Army, the Candle Dragon Village was already heavily guarded, and the magic swords, bows and arrows had been waiting for a long time, as if they were ready to wait for work.
Flying Soul City and Candle Dragon Village are old acquaintances, and the two sides almost fight every ten months, and they fight every six months.
However, this time, the posture seems to be different from the previous one.
High in the sky, Qin Xin stepped on the Zixiao Sword and looked at the fighting method below with wide eyes.
She muttered in her heart, isn't it just to exterminate the bandits, what's so beautiful?
Just when he was puzzled, he saw a voice suddenly sound from the upper floor of the cottage below, "General Ran, can you let the 'three masters' come out and see it?"