The valley in the early morning is shrouded in a faint shimmer.

The dew drops on the tips of some leaves reflected a colorful luster, and Lin Yi, who had been resting for a while, opened his eyes at this time.

A breeze blew from the other side of the cliff, wetting his face.

The night's trek did not affect his physical strength in any way, and he walked with a heavy load, and even felt like his strength was increasing, but his stomach was empty again.

He picked up some mountains and rivers and began to eat the marching rations slowly.

He was waiting for an ironclad army he had never met.

The number of people is unknown.

The direction of the military order is unknown.

It is not even clear whether the Iron Ce Army will come.

Since even cultivators of the Divine Mind Realm can die, then in this mountain forest, everyone can die.

......

What he didn't know was that in a woodland less than fifty miles away from him, there were hundreds of soldiers and cultivators of the Northern Wei Dynasty who were staying at this time.

There are several large flowering trees in this woodland, although they are not spiritual flowers, but they are blooming at this time, not only the petals on the trees are overlapping, like a brocade, but even a thick layer has fallen on the ground.

Such a beautiful scenery does not even exist in Jiankang City, only the imagination and painting scrolls of famous painters in Jiankang City.

The beautiful flower trees and the petals on the pavement ground even diluted the murderous aura on the hundreds of Northern Wei soldiers and cultivators.

All of these sergeants and practitioners were dressed in black armor, which seemed to be specially made, very light and soft, but the leather looked tough, and in some fatal areas, it was clearly lined with other materials.

The Northern Wei Dynasty didn't seem to have much demand for aesthetics, and their main concern was always whether it was practical.

Even though the Northern Wei Dynasty has actually learned a lot from the south in the past few decades, including daily life, including dressing habits, and even some etiquette.

However, this learning was not recognized by the Southern Dynasty.

In the subconscious of the Southern Dynasty, even if the Northern Wei Dynasty was so strong, most of the territory was even a few nomadic and nomadic tribes who only knew how to eat air-dried meat a hundred years ago, and their clothes seemed to be just piling up fur enough to keep warm on their bodies.

Especially in Jiankang City, which has experienced several dynasties, those rich businessmen and magnates even have to arrange their food finely, carve a flower, and even an ordinary cold-cut mutton has to be marinated in several different ways. In the eyes of these people, even the celebrities of the Northern Wei Dynasty are naturally barbarians.

But is that really the case?

Those Jiankang scribes who were slightly drunk in the warm afternoon and wrote books may not have seen the real Great City of the Northern Wei Dynasty, they may not have seen the Fengyue of the famous scholars of the Northern Wei Dynasty, or, even if they know something, they are unwilling to admit in their hearts that these barbarians in the north have caught up with the south in many aspects.

The ornaments on the armor on the hundreds of Northern Wei sergeants and cultivators are very beautiful, and they are also layers of flowers.

Some parts are for durability, while others are for breathability.

Between the petals of the flower, heat and moisture flow out of the nail when you walk.

This ornamentation is practical and aesthetically pleasing.

Even in the entire Southern Dynasties, there were very few light armor comparable to this, and those who could wear such armor were by no means ordinary soldiers and cultivators.

Among these Northern Wei people who sat in this forest to rest temporarily, many of them had calm expressions, without any hint of exhaustion, and even had a kind of calmness, without the slightest sense of danger.

It is unlikely that ordinary cultivators of the Yellow Bud Realm and the Destiny Palace Realm will have such an bearing.

However, in the center of these sergeants and cultivators, it was a young girl who was sitting.

The girl wore the same black armor as them, but unlike everyone else, the rest of the people sat on the floor, but she had a chair.

The chair was just an ordinary wooden chair, upholstered in soft animal skin, and it wasn't tall, but in such a place, it seemed extravagant, even a little ridiculous.

This girl seems to be slightly older than Lin Yi, with picturesque eyebrows and very beautiful, but for some reason, it gives people a chilling feeling.

There was no noticeable change in her expression.

And she sat in the chair without any uneasiness, which was a matter of course.

She can hold on.

In the morning light, she was looking through a roster, naturally, as if she were in the garden of her own home.

"In Ni Yunshan and Li Moxiao, guess who I will choose next. ”

She suddenly looked up and laughed, but there was a hint of indifference in her smile. She asked a middle-aged man next to her with a smile.

This middle-aged man in black armor was completely dressed in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and even completely in the manners of the Northern Wei Frontier, his hair was the same as some tribes in the Northern Wei Frontier, with strips of cloth embroidered with scriptures of various colors wrapped into many braids, and then tied together.

It's just that this middle-aged man's face is very handsome, and even his beard is clean, he is very bookish, if he changes into ordinary robes, I am afraid that walking in Jiankang City will also be considered a teacher of a certain college, or a gentleman of some private school.

"Ni Yunshan and Li Moxiao, I guess you won't choose either. The middle-aged man smiled slightly and said, "I guess you will choose Chen Baoyun." ”

"Sir really understands me. ”

The girl closed the roster and threw it to a sergeant beside her, but she inexplicably restrained her smile and said coldly: "No matter how talented these two cultivators are, they are only geniuses, and what they fight here is luck and escape skills, even if they add up, they are not as good as the daughter of the Chen family of the Southern Dynasty." ”

"To live or to die?"

A black-armored general in front of her, who had been hanging his head down, stood up and asked indifferently.

"Of course she wants to live, but it's better to make others feel that she is dead, and only the Chen family knows that she is still alive. The girl raised her head slightly, looked at the few crimson petals that slowly fell down at this time, and said lightly.

"Obedience. The black-armored general saluted solemnly.

As he saluted, half of them stood up and saluted the maiden.

"May the pastures of the valiant and the fathers live with you forever. ”

The girl bowed in return, and said lightly.

......

The two sergeants quietly entered the Flat Bee Valley.

They were wearing green armor, which was rough compared to the black armor of these Northern Wei people, and it was only a standard armor, which was not particularly slim, and the material was a little too strong for this season.

So the two sergeants had sweat on their foreheads.

It's just that this kind of green armor is more practical than the black armor of these Northern Wei people in this kind of verdant place, and it can be integrated with the surrounding environment, not to mention that these two sergeants deliberately tied some branches and leaves on their bodies.

When they stopped to contemplate, it was no different from a miscellaneous tree, and many people might not be able to notice their presence even if they passed not far from them.

"You're the Iron Army?"

But as they quietly surveyed the surrounding valley, a voice sounded softly not far from their sides.

The two sergeants' faces turned pale and turned away like ghosts, only to see Lin Yi waving his hand at them, signaling them not to be nervous.

The two sergeants were slightly relieved to see Lin Yi's face and clothes, but there was still disbelief in their minds, and they still didn't understand why Lin Yi could discover their existence so quickly.

One of the sergeants didn't nod or shake his head, just looked at Lin Yi, "Are you?"

"Lin Yi, the sixth-year birth of the Heavenly Prison of the Southern Heavenly Academy. Lin Yi looked at the two sergeants who were still vigilant and said, "Wait here for the Tie Ce Army." ”

"Is there a warrant?" asked the sergeant, still speaking.

Lin Yi nodded, took out a triangular iron talisman from his bag and handed it to the two sergeants.

These two sergeants were very consistent with Tie Cejun's identity in terms of clothing and accents, so he didn't have much suspicion about these two sergeants, otherwise he wouldn't have come out to meet them directly.

"Where's the password?" said the two sergeants after just one glance.

"Password?" Lin Yi was stunned and frowned: "General Yan didn't tell me what the password is. ”

"That's right. The two sergeants breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. One of the sergeants took out a bamboo whistle and blew it, but it was a pleasant birdsong.

"It turned out to be a temptation. Lin Yi also reacted.

Immediately there was the sound of footsteps in his ears.