[The sixth day of the second month of the tenth year of Daqian Jingyi, Mao Shi, a hill in Bashan]

"Yiqing, why did you come here?" Xu Ke and all the soldiers fled to the top of the hill, and after repelling the first attack of the monsters, he saw that the monsters under the mountain had no intention of attacking, so he asked Yiqing.

"If I hadn't come, you would have been reduced to the rations of those monsters!" Yi Qing Dynasty Xu Ke glanced at him, still said angrily.

"But here...... It's too dangerous!You should stay in Chang'an City!" Xu Ke sighed. Having said that, he was inexplicably grateful to Yiqing for his critical rescue.

"Don't talk so much nonsense yet! Hurry up and collect the fresh blood of those horned monsters, and you will be able to resist a wave of hunger and thirst when the time comes!" Yiqing commanded. In her heart, she didn't know the danger of this mountain, but because this place was extremely dangerous, she couldn't rest assured, and she had to come over to help no matter what.

At that moment, Xu Ke ordered all the soldiers to drag the dead four-headed long-horned red-haired monster to the top of the post, and each of them took out their own water bladder and slit the throat of the long-horned monster to bleed. Those horned monsters had a lot of blood in their bodies, and they were filled with water bladders for twelve people, and there was still a surplus of them. Zheng Kai and the others cut off the red skin of the horned monster, and temporarily made a leather bag with a large mouth, and stored the remaining blood in it.

Zheng Kai and the rest of the soldiers took out their blades and disemboweled the four monsters, especially to peel off their thick fur intact. Xu Ke saw that all the soldiers started to peel and cut the meat, and this set of actions was familiar with the road. He pulled Yiqing to the side.

At this time, the monsters under the hill were already lying still. The two of them looked down the mountain, only to see a large area of red demonic beasts surrounding this small hill, like a large blood-colored red cloud, trapping more than a dozen of them on the hill. These monsters advance and retreat in a measured manner, attacking and defending well, and I think it is because of a long period of training. Xu Ke couldn't help but sigh secretly, it seems that if he wants to get out of the country today, I'm afraid that his hope is extremely small......

Seeing that those demonic beasts no longer had the intention of attacking, the two of them chose a flat mountain rock and sat down. With the faint light above his head, Xu Ke looked at Yiqing again, and saw that her peerless pretty face was full of concern and worry at the moment. He suddenly felt sorry in his heart, and couldn't help but bow his head and say ashamedly:

"Miss Yiqing, I'm sorry! I'm tired of you and me......"

"Huh...... What kind of girl is not a girl, call it the second sister!" Yiqing still said loudly.

"II...... Second sister!" At this time, no matter what it is called, as long as Yiqing wants to hear it, Xu Ke is willing to call it, but although the word "second sister" has been exported, Xu Ke always feels a little awkward in his heart.

"Hahaha......! Good brother, you finally recognize me as a sister!" Yiqing couldn't help but smile and said.

Hearing Yiqing's laughter like a silver bell, Xu Ke immediately felt like seeing the sun in his heart, and couldn't help but feel extremely light. He suddenly found that Yiqing's smile was really like a fairy who descended to the earth, untainted and beautiful......

"You really shouldn't have come!" Xu Ke sighed, and a sudden burst of reluctance and heartache surged in his heart. If such a fairy in the world is called to die at the hands of demons with his own life, it is too undeserved. How can God be so cruel?

"Isn't it natural for my sister to come over to protect my brother?" Yiqing said with a smile.

"But ......"

"Don't worry, isn't there still a thousand-strong team of General Shen following behind?

"General Shen, what do you think of Shen Huan...... Will he really come to save us?" Xu Ke smiled bitterly. He had already calculated in his heart that at a normal speed, Shen Huan's men and horses should have arrived at Bashan a long time ago, but until this moment, Shen Huan's rear army was still no news, and God knows if this demon subduing general would come!

"I'm sure General Shen will come!" Yiqing said confidently.

"When the time comes, as long as General Shen's men and horses arrive, we will swoop from the top of the mountain, and join them in and out, and we will definitely be able to sweep away these monsters!" Yiqing said again.

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Xu Ke bowed his head and was silent, he saw that Yiqing was so optimistic, he couldn't bear to argue with her. He then asked, "Are all the people in the family okay?"

Yiqing said: "They are all good, I came to Bashan this time, and I was also entrusted by the eldest sister, the third sister, and the fourth sister...... Originally, they all wanted to come, but I persuaded them to go back!"

"They...... Why are they suffering? cough ......" Xu Ke sighed up to the sky, not knowing what to say.

"Who made you so unpersuaded, this stupid wood, and bent on leading troops to attack Bashan?"

"But if Bashan Mountain is not eliminated for a day, the people of Chang'an will suffer sooner or later!"

"Well, yes...... Attacking Bashan is not your business alone, I am also from Chang'an, and I have to come to contribute!"

"Yiqing...... Oh no!Second sister, thank you!" Xu Ke couldn't help but hold Yiqing's hand and thanked him sincerely.

Yiqing hurriedly withdrew his little hand, and two red clouds crawled slightly over his face. She suddenly lowered her head and said with some embarrassment:

"Sick wood, you still call me Yiqing, if you don't want to call this 'second sister', then don't call it...... Speaking of which, you're two years older than me......"

After saying that, Yiqing's voice became smaller and quieter.

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In fact, long before Xu Ke was going to go on the expedition, Yiqing had already made up her mind that she would also contribute to the attack on Bashan, and at the same time, she was even more relieved that Xu Ke was not at ease.

After all, the "Tsing Yi Demon King" stationed in the Bashan Demon Cave is a well-known name in both the human and demon worlds, and it is extremely dangerous to be an enemy of him.

For two whole days on the third and fourth days of the first month of February, Yiqing took Xu Ke around Bashan Mountain, saying that it was to help Xu Ke get familiar with the terrain, but in fact, she herself had to go into the mountain herself......

She knew that if she directly offered to go with Xu Ke, Xu Ke would definitely not agree. Yes, it was the beginning of February

Fifth, after Xu Ke led the troops out of the city, she said goodbye to the sisters in Xu's mansion and planned to rush to Bashan alone.

However, when she was about to go out, the other three sisters in the Xu Mansion did not follow her, and they all said that if she rushed to Bashan, everyone would also accompany her. Especially Xu Ke's newlywed wife Yao Zibei, she will definitely go with Yiqing. Yiqing persuaded for a long time but it was useless, and finally had to use her "killer feature".

Her so-called "killer feature" is actually a lie. She told the three sisters that she had a magic weapon on her body, and when it was really critical, she only needed to use this magic weapon to protect herself. But this magic weapon can only save one person from escaping, but it can't protect others. If the three sisters insist on going to Bashan, once they fall into a critical situation, they will become their own burden......

When the sisters heard this, they believed it to be true, and they had to let her go out of the city alone. In fact, Yiqing has no "magic weapon" that can get out at any time, all she has is a heart of concern that she can't let go.

After Yiqing was delayed in Xu's mansion for some hours, he went out of the West Gate again, but he couldn't catch up with Xu Ke's people. After she came to Bashan, she took a wrong mountain road, and when she walked around the mountain, she walked for most of the day, and it was already dark. At that time, Xu Ke had already entered the cave, where could she find Xu Ke's trace?

Although it was already evening, Yiqing still did not want to go back to the city. She simply found a col at random and slept on the ground. In the middle of the night, she suddenly heard a dense scream of monsters not far ahead. She then leaped forward and followed the horned monsters all the way, only to discover that it was the infamous White Rat Demon King who was leading the team. Accompanying the White Rat Demon King was a masked man. Yiqing had heard before that the demon lord who commanded the demon army was a man with a mask. At this time, seeing that the White Rat Demon King was very respectful to the masked man, he knew that that person must be the Demon King.

Seeing that the White Rat Demon King and the Demon Lord arrived here late at night, Yiqing was surprised in his heart, and naturally followed closely. Later, she saw the two men enter a huge cave and soon after ran out again. Yiqing followed them from a distance.

Yi Qing saw that the white rat demon king was shouting and shouting, and he summoned a large number of long-horned monsters under his command. Then, he and the Demon Lord led the demon soldiers all the way to the south, and reached the exit of a cave, and arranged these long-horned monsters on both sides of the exit, as if they were going to deal with the enemy who came out of the cave.

Yiqing didn't dare to slack off, and immediately ambushed not far from the cave, holding his breath. Sure enough, after a short time, I saw Xu Ke and more than a dozen soldiers coming over. It was too late for her to shout the police, she saw Xu Ke fighting hard, and wanted to rush to the hill to hold on to it. At that moment, she rushed to the scene, and the imperial envoy flying sword helped them, and opened a bloody path......

At this time, although they went to the top of the hill, they didn't have to worry about those monsters attacking each other in groups for the time being. However, if we blindly stick to the danger and stick to it for a long time, how should we deal with it? Yiqing is at a loss for this.

Now, she had to hope that Shen Huan's reinforcements would arrive as soon as possible......

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In this way, the people on the mountain were on full alert, and the monsters under the mountain were not in a hurry to attack. The two sides of the people and horses were consumed like this, and time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the sun had already set, and the sky and the earth were even more gloomy.

The twelve soldiers around Xu Ke drank some beast blood when they were thirsty, and gnawed some beast meat when they were hungry. It's just that the blood of those horned monsters has quickly coagulated, and there is no way, so the soldiers have to endure the pungent fishy smell, forcibly bite these blood clots and flesh pieces, and then chew and swallow them. They know in their hearts that if they don't eat, they will die faster!

At night, the cold wind blows in the mountains, and the cold wind howls in, which is really cold and biting. The twelve soldiers had to all huddle together, and then covered with thick horned fur, Rao was like this, those soldiers were still shivering from the cold, Xu Ke looked at their miserable situation, couldn't help but shake his head, and didn't know if they could survive this cold night.

Xu Ke and Yiqing sat around on the other side of the hill, the mountain wind was getting tighter and tighter, Xu Ke saw that Yiqing was also frozen, so he took a newly cut longhorned red fur and wanted to put it on Yiqing. I don't want to, but Yiqing thinks that the fur is bloody and dirty, and she doesn't want to cover it. Xu Ke had no choice but to take off the general's robe on his body and put it on Yiqing.

On the top of the mountain in the dark night, the cold wind is cold, and Xu Ke can still endure it. After all, he had taken a lot of long-horned essence in his body, and at this time, he was the only one on the top of the entire hill who could endure the severe cold. He got up and moved his hands and feet, but at the same time he looked intently at the bottom of the mountain, beware of the monsters taking advantage of the gap.

"Sick ...... Sick wood, I ...... I still feel cold...... "Yiqing was lying on the ground, although her back was against a rock, but under the biting cold wind, she was still shivering from the cold.

Although she has the ultimate sword skills, she is only a woman after all, and she is still unable to fight against this strange cold of heaven and earth on the top of the mountain on such a cold night.

Xu Ke had a large piece of clothes that could not be taken off, and he saw that Yiqing was so cold that he couldn't bear it, so he had to sit next to Yiqing, lean down, and use his body to shield Yiqing from the cold wind.

Later, he could only hug Yiqing tightly. The two of them had their backs to the boulder and lay on the ground in their arms. At this moment, they had no other way but to protect each other and hug each other, and use the heat of their respective bodies to fight the cold.

The cold wind blew more and more fiercely, and the sound of this wind howling seemed to be everywhere in the heavens and the earth. Even the crescent moon in the sky hid in the clouds and shivered. There are only a few stars left, and they are still struggling to endure under the cold wind......

In this demonized world, this lonely hill, this cold night, Xu Ke hugged Yiqing in his arms, and fell asleep in a trance.

The hill was no longer manned, but strangely, the monsters below the hill did not attack all night.

The night passed like this, and on the next day the sun rose again in the east, and the wind gradually stopped

。 After the Demon Cave erupted again, it was finally no longer cold on this hill.

After Xu Ke woke up, he counted everyone and saw that the twelve soldiers under his command were all alive. Last night's strong wind only frostbitten their faces, hands and feet, but fortunately, everyone slept together in a huddle, and none of them froze to death.

Of course, they had already taken the soup boiled by the red gall in the cave before, and when they arrived at the top of the hill, they ate four more pairs of red gall. The red-haired bile has a hot and pungent taste, which can best help people resist the cold. Therefore, all the soldiers were lucky enough to endure the night on the hill.

When the twelve soldiers woke up in the morning, they were all overjoyed to see that their hands and feet were still intact and that their lives were unharmed, and they were all overjoyed, as if they were in a dream. Although there were nearly a hundred long-horned red-haired monsters surrounded by the mountain, they could not escape death despite the fact that they ran out of food and water in the long run. However, at this moment, they found that they were still alive, but they were already hugging each other, and they were inexplicably happy, eager to sing and dance and celebrate......

Human beings are like this, as long as a little joy in front of them is enough to sustain them to continue the hardships and pains that follow.

Xu Ke asked Yiqing with concern, is she feeling unwell? Yiqing shook her head, and when she remembered that the two of them hugged each other and slept last night, her cheeks suddenly turned crimson, and she quietly hid to the side.

Naturally, relying on the warm current in Xu Ke's body, Yiqing not only survived that cold night, but also slept very comfortably, and his body was unharmed.

Just because last night, Xu Ke was afraid of Yiqing's frostbite, so after half of the night, he silently recited the mantra, secretly sneaking true qi and circling around his body quickly. He has been practicing the true technique of the Tai Doctor for many days, and he has already established a considerable foundation. The True Yuan in his body gushed out from the sea of dantian qi, constantly running Zhou Tian, and that chaotic Yuan true qi was like a barrier, resisting most of the severe cold.

Xu Ke looked down the mountain and saw that those monsters were still like yesterday, forming a large circle around the hill to fight against them, but they still had no intention of attacking upward.

At this time, Zheng Kai and a few soldiers had already walked more than ten steps down the hill and were picking up some black stones everywhere. This hill is very close to the Bashan Demon Cave, and the top of the hill is spewed out of black smoke from the Demon Cave day by day, and occasionally there is magma flowing through, so there are black stones scattered everywhere on the ground.

"Zheng Kai, be careful! Don't go too far!" Xu Ke commanded them loudly. He remembered that yesterday Zheng Kai and the others cut a few pieces of raw meat of the long-horned red-haired monster and handed them to Yiqing, but Yiqing didn't want to, but Yiqing thought that the beast meat was too fishy, and he didn't want to eat it alive. Today, they took the trouble to take risks to pick up those black stones, and they must have planned to make a fire to roast those raw meats, hoping that Yiqing would eat a few more bites.

"Don't worry, the big general, the little ones know!"

Xu Ke looked down the mountain again and saw that there was no movement on the side of the White Rat Demon King. He couldn't help scratching his forehead, he really didn't know, after the dozen or so of his people had fallen asleep last night, why didn't their big group of demon soldiers take advantage of the gap to go up the mountain and sneak attack?

In fact, after midnight last night, the Demon Lord saw that there was no movement on the hill, so he wanted to lead the demon soldiers to take advantage of the gap to sneak attack on the hill. Unexpectedly, the White Rat Demon King politely dissuaded him. He said that the wind was so cold tonight that the people on the mountain might not be able to bear it. Even if they didn't freeze to death, but there was no water to eat, they would die sooner or later, so why hurry?

Moreover, the White Rat Demon King tried his best to speak, saying that those people at the top of the hill came, and the longer they were hungry and thirsty, the more they lost their combat power. If you suddenly attack at this time, that man and a woman have great swordsmanship, especially the woman's two flying swords, it seems that they are still two famous swords that cut gold and break iron, in case one of them accidentally hurts the demon lord's noble body, wouldn't it be a crime that cannot be atoned for a hundred deaths? !

The demon lord heard the words of the white rat and felt reasonable, so he had to be patient at the moment, but he only besieged the hill without attacking, and saw how those people could support themselves without water and food.

In fact, in the heart of the White Rat Demon King, there was still fear in his heart for the Yiqing Daoist who made the flying sword. It's just because back then, he really suffered a lot under Yiqing. Ten years ago, he was forced by Yiqing to reveal his original form, and he was also treated like a pet by her, locked in a locked demon cage, and he was unable to advance or retreat...... For those old things, he did not forget them for a moment. After the world was demonized, he had been looking for an opportunity to take revenge on Yiqing. However, Yiqing is extremely cautious on weekdays, and returns to Chang'an City to rest every night, and he has never found a chance to start. Finally, more than two months ago, the demon soldiers under his command reported that Yiqing was staying in Xuchang Tubao. He was overjoyed at that time, and hurriedly ordered more than 500 long-horned demonic beasts, and rushed to Xuchang that night. It's just that he was afraid of Yiqing's sword technique, and just in case, he made the Demon Lord clear again, and invited the first master of the Demon Realm, the Red Flame Demon King, to help.

In the heart of the White Rat Demon King, he thought that the raid on Xuchang Tubao that night must be foolproof. He never dreamed that at the critical moment, it was Chi Yan who took action and saved Xu Ke and Yiqing......

At this time, the White Rat Demon King saw that Yiqing had been surrounded by a large number of demon soldiers under his command on a lonely hill, and he also had the Demon Lord by his side to help. This time, he expected that Yiqing would be unable to escape. Since he had regarded Yiqing as a turtle in an urn in his heart, he naturally had to take care of the other party slowly. He was going to trap the men on the hill until they were so hungry and thirsty that they had no strength, and then he would go up the hill and slowly torture them to death. Otherwise, how can the hatred in his heart be eliminated?

So, on the second day, the Demon Lord and the White Rat Demon King watched as the people on the hill set fire to the black stones, roasted the flesh and blood of their men, and then put them in their mouths and gnawed on them, but they were still unmoved......

Time passed in a hurry, and in the blink of an eye, it was another day.

Although the people on the hill had black stones to burn for warmth, and they had eaten cooked meat, the rear army they were eagerly looking forward to had never seen a single figure.

Except for Xu Ke, everyone else is anxiously looking forward to it, General Shen, when will you arrive?

God knows, where is Shen Huan at this time......