Middle-earth calendar, April 1st.

Twelve days have passed since the beast demon entered the customs, and in this short period of twelve days, the human beings of Middle-earth, who have enjoyed the peaceful and prosperous era for hundreds of years, have experienced what is the catastrophe of the end times.

The army of beasts and demons divided into two routes, sweeping across the entire Middle-earth from the north and south.

The main force of the beast demon, the army of the South Road, is not bad, but it is only active near Kunlun Mountain and Qilin Mountain, because the southwest border of Middle Earth is mountainous and hilly, sparsely populated, and the Kunlun faction and Shushan faction have transferred most of the people in advance, the loss is not too big.

And the army of beasts and demons on the North Road, which has been marching east from the Yellow River corridor, has left no people and animals and no grass wherever it passes. This beast demon army is divided into dozens of shares, each of which has as many as tens of thousands of demon beasts, dozens of beasts and demons scattered to attack, eat when they see people, just a dozen people in time, the North Road beast demon army has been thousands of miles, hundreds of large and small towns, tens of thousands of villages have been wiped out.

The two legs of human beings can't outrun the agile beast demon at all, from Guanzhong all the way east, all the way to Jinju City, at least tens of millions of innocent people died in the mouth of the beast demon, and the displaced people are countless, half of the country in the middle of the earth is ravaged by the beast demon, mourning all over the wilderness, and countless casualties.

Two days ago, after the North Road Beast Demon took down and swept through Wutai Mountain and Jinzhou City, it did not continue to move eastward, but took the route south, and went straight to Luoyang City, the imperial capital of the current imperial court!

Jinzhou to the imperial capital Luoyang, about a thousand miles, according to the foot of the beast demon, almost a day or two can reach the imperial capital.

The people in the world are panicked, the world is in chaos, bandits are everywhere, robberies are rampant, and the entire court has almost fallen into a state of complete paralysis.

In order to appease the people of the world, Emperor Renzong led all the royal nobles and did not flee, but stayed in Kyoto, while quickly transferring the capital and the surrounding people, while mobilizing the last soldiers and horses, wanting to start a final decisive battle with the beast demon outside the imperial capital.

In this situation, the 30,000 disciples of the Righteous Path and the Demon Sect who set out from Mount Emei, under the leadership of Changkong, Xiaoya and others, finally rushed to the capital in the early morning of this day.

Yun Xiaoxi, Xiaoya, Changkong, Shangguan Yundun, Guanxia Fairy, Xiao Youya and others entered the palace to discuss with Emperor Renzong about resisting the beast demon, and the others immediately took over the defense of the capital to prevent the beast demon from sneaking up.

The second time he came to the palace, Yun Xiaoxie was full of emotion in his heart, it was only less than a year, and his wife Li Tielan, who accompanied him last time, had already died in most of the world.

Emperor Renzong has been getting a lot older recently, and his body and bones have weakened, and now everything is handed over to the prince of the prison country to deal with, but Yun Xiaoyi and other cultivators came, Emperor Renzong still took Empress Xianshu and hundreds of civil and military officials out of the palace to greet him, and after a short greeting, Yun Xiaoxiao did not have time to chat with his father-in-law and mother-in-law, so he was welcomed into the Jinluan Palace to discuss major matters.

As soon as these 30,000 cultivators came, the capital, which was almost completely out of control, finally stabilized, and the people were not too panicked, thinking that as long as these cultivators protected themselves, the beast demon would definitely be killed.

In the main hall, Yun Xiaoxie's brother-in-law, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, was talking about the current movement of the beast demons on the North Road and some defensive measures around the capital.

I only heard the prince point to a huge map hanging on the wooden shelf and said: "The beast demon is currently divided into at least thirty shares, after entering Shanxi Fendi, it is very strange that it did not come directly to the capital, but swept Wutai Mountain and the ancient city of Jinzhou to the north, and stayed near the ancient city of Jinzhou for a day, and then rushed towards the capital, if it were not for these demons who suddenly changed direction, before you arrived, the capital would have been lost." ”

Changkong frowned and said: "This beast demon has fought all the way from Guanzhong to the Central Plains, and the width of its range of activities is about three or four hundred miles, and it is going straight to the capital, how can they suddenly change direction?"

Everyone thought it was strange when they heard it, and they thought they wouldn't be able to catch up, but they didn't expect the beast demon to suddenly take the road to the north, attack the ancient city of Jinju, and stay outside Jinju for another day, and then go south again, heading towards the capital.

Could it be that Jinju City is really so important to the beast demons that it has caused hundreds of thousands of beast demon armies on the entire North Road to change direction?

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Xiaoya said: "This may be the will of heaven, if they hadn't diverted to the north, the capital would have ceased to exist a long time ago." ”

Yun Xiaoye shook his head suddenly, and said softly, "The demon god is waiting for us to come." ”

Everyone was stunned and looked at Yun Xiaoxie.

Yun Xiaoye took a few steps forward, pointed to the huge map hanging on the wooden frame, and said: "Since entering the customs, the beast demons have covered hundreds of miles, coming straight to the east, but when they reached about seven hundred miles west of the capital, they suddenly went north, and washed Jinzhou in blood, and you see, this is not a beast demon, it is dozens of scattered beast demons suddenly all flocked to Jinzhou, but after the bloodbath of Jinzhou, these beast demons were again dispersed into dozens of strands to attack from all sides, when we were about to arrive, why did they go far and bloodied Jinzhou?" What is there in Jinju that is worth them to join forces with? What are they staying near Jinju for a day? It doesn't make any sense at all. Therefore, I guess that the purpose of the demon god is not Jinju, but us, and the demon god knows that according to the calculation of time, the beast demon will arrive in the capital two or three days earlier than us, so she changed the route of the beast demon's march, and the demon god is waiting for us to arrive. ”

When everyone heard this, their faces were a little ugly.

Yun Xiaoxie's analysis is very reasonable, the reason why the beast demon has not captured the capital for a long time should be the 30,000 cultivation masters who came from Mount Emei.

Fairy Guanxia frowned and said: "Is this demon god confident or conceited, the North Road Beast Demon is not the main force, although there are a lot of them, but the people we came here this time are all cultivation masters above the Imperial Sword Realm, 30,000 masters may not be the opponent of these hundreds of thousands of beast demons, she is waiting for us to come so much, is she completely sure to defeat us?"

Yun Xiaoye shook his head silently, his eyes staring deeply at the map, with a suspicious look on his face.

Even if the 30,000 cultivators in the world fight hard with these hundreds of thousands of beast and demon armies face-to-face, the victory or defeat is five or five, and both sides have an overwhelming advantage, why should the demon god take the risk?

If she captures the capital first, the world will be completely chaotic, and there will be no room for maneuver, and after the fall of the capital, the 30,000 people will definitely return to Mount Emei, why should the demon god miss such a great opportunity to destroy the world?

What made Yun Xiaoxiao even more puzzled was that the main force of the beast demon on the south road, after arriving at Qilin Mountain six days ago, had been wandering near Qilin Mountain, and it had been six or seven days since then, and the main force of the beast demon on the south road still had no movement to attack Mount Emei.

"What are the demon gods waiting for?"

Yun Xiaoye muttered silently in his heart, his face contemplative.

At this time, Changkong said: "Is there this possibility, the demon god wants to drag us through the beast demon on the north road, so that the defense of Mount Emei will naturally be empty." ”

Yun Xiaoxiao shook his head and said: "It is absolutely impossible for this reason, the army of beast demons on the southern road has been gathered in Qilin Mountain for as many as six or seven days, if the demon god really wants to contain us through the beast demon on the north road, as early as two days ago, after we stayed away from Mount Emei, they would launch an attack on Mount Emei, and now we have arrived in the capital, it will take several days to rush back, but now the army of beast demons on the south road is still standing still, so the demon god definitely does not want to rely on the beast demon on the north road to contain our force." ”

Everyone discussed for a while, analyzing several possibilities, but after thinking about it carefully, it was unlikely, and in the end, it could only be concluded that the demon god was overconfident and was not afraid of the power of human cultivators.

After some discussion, Yun Xiaoye said to Emperor Renzong: "Father, when I went to the city first, I saw that there were still many people in the city, why haven't they been transferred yet?"

Emperor Renzong said: "The capital is the first in the world, with a permanent population of millions, and now it has been transferred to seventy percent, but there are still one million people who are unwilling to leave. ”

Yun Xiaoye asked again, "How is the defense of the capital now?"

Emperor Renzong smiled bitterly and said: "Since the outbreak of the catastrophe, bandits have been everywhere in the world, although the armies of all walks of life have been integrated recently, but most of them are in various places to appease the civilians. The infantry of the Nine Cities and the border guards who were just transferred from the north a few days ago, there are about 700,000 people, according to the experience of soldiers and beast demons in various places in the past few days, ten elite soldiers can block an ordinary beast demon, and they are not the opponent of the beast demon at all, now that you are here, you will definitely be able to block this beast demon. ”

Yun Xiaoye did not have any optimistic attitude towards this, and said: "If the people can be transferred, it is better to move to the northeast as much as possible, according to the path of the beast demon, at noon tomorrow at the earliest, and at dusk tomorrow at the latest, we should be able to reach the outskirts of the capital, we don't have much time." ”

Late at night, above the imperial city, Yun Xiaoye stood on the high city wall, looking at the starry sky and the clear night breeze, his expression was very condensed.

The capital in front of him and the imperial city behind him were different from before, it was already the second half of the night, and the lights were still bright, and it seemed that everyone was waiting for the judgment of the end of the world.

Looking at the familiar imperial city, Yun Xiaoxie's mind couldn't help but think of Li Tielan's figure again, this huge imperial city is where she grew up, the last time she came here, she accompanied her, and now she has come back again after a few months, but it is no longer a person.

The night was quiet, except for the occasional footsteps of the Imperial Guards patrolling in the night wind, and nothing else.

Suddenly, a faint but very familiar fragrance floated from behind Yun Xiaoxie, Yun Xiaoxie turned his head slightly, and saw Xiaoya standing silently behind him.

"Xiaoya, it's so late, why haven't you rested yet?"

"Hey, the beast demon has approached the capital less than three hundred miles, who still has the heart to sleep peacefully? Childe, do you think we can win? Will we still be alive tomorrow?"

Yun Xiaoye nodded firmly, and said: "Since ancient times, evil has not been able to defeat the right, tomorrow we will fight, we will definitely win, and we will also live well." ”

Xiaoya smiled, she is a girl after all, no matter how high her cultivation is, in the face of such pressure, it is inevitable that she will be a little flustered.

However, after hearing Yun Xiaoxie's assurance, the pressure and panic in her heart seemed to dissipate most of it.

It seems that as long as this man says something, it must be true.

She said happily: "With you by my side, I am not afraid of anything." ”

Yun Xiaoxiao looked at the smile on her face, looked at the shallow dimples, as if she had gone back to many years ago, and always thought that Xiaoya had changed, but at this moment he found that Xiaoya was still Xiaoya, that innocent, kind, timid storyteller girl.

"Childe, what are you looking at?"

Seeing Yun Xiaoye in a daze at herself, the little girl's cheeks flushed, and she said softly.

Yun Xiaoye came back to his senses and said with a smile: "It's nothing, it just feels like you've grown up." ”

Xiaoya was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "I am thirty years old this year, of course I have grown up, do you still think that I am the little girl who followed her grandfather more than twenty years ago?"

Yun Xiaoxiao shook his head and said, "I didn't mean that, don't talk about this." By the way, there is one thing I have always wanted to ask you, why did you want to get Poria Cocos Rouzhi in the first place, after you caught Rouzhi, there was no movement, what are you doing with that Rouzhi? Don't tell me nonsense such as resurrecting your grandfather with Rouzhi, Xu's predecessor has passed away for more than ten years, and his soul has long been reincarnated, what are you trying to do to Death Ze to catch Rouzhi?"

The little girl's body was shocked, and she seemed to glance at Yun Xiaoye with a little weakness, and then retracted her gaze and looked away.

Said: "It's been more than half a year, how did you remember to ask this? Don't worry, Rouzhi is alive and well in the temple, I didn't kill it, I just used a few drops of its blood." ”

Yun Xiao Evil Qi said, "Then why did you catch it?"

The little girl said faintly: "This is a big secret in our Holy Sect, even Wan Qizi and other Holy Sect seniors don't know this secret, so don't ask around." ”

When Yun Xiaoye heard that Xiaoya was reluctant to speak, he suddenly became a little worried in his heart, he always felt that Xiaoya was plotting an unknown big thing by catching Rouzhi.

Poria Cocos Meat Zhi is one of the seven treasures of heaven and earth, as famous as its own divine wooden stick, and the aura is extremely rich, especially the meat Zhi, a drop of blood is enough to bring people back to life and prolong life.

Xiaoya didn't want to say it, and he didn't want to ask again, so he had to say: "Xiaoya, you and I have been old friends for many years, and I still have to advise you in a word, the Demon Sect is a Demon Sect after all, and most of the Demon Sect disciples are not right-hearted, if you have the opportunity one day, you should leave." ”

"Come on, you've said this sentence eight hundred times, I feel that the Holy Sect is very good, don't worry about me, let's think about how to deal with tomorrow's beast demons. ”

The next day, at noon.

Yun Xiaoye was discussing with the sect masters of various factions how to deal with the beast demons and protect the people of the capital, and suddenly, the Kunlun faction's Feng Qiuyu strode into the main hall.

Seeing Feng Qiuyu's serious expressions, everyone's hearts were full of joy.

The head of Changkong said: "Senior Sister Qiuyu, is it a beast demon that has appeared?" ”

Feng Qiuyu nodded and said, "Just now, the secret sentinel on the periphery came back with news that a large number of beast demons had appeared in Yang Village, fifty miles north of the capital. ”

Everyone's faces did not change, and they hurriedly looked up the location of Yang Village on the map, and soon, Xiao Youya, the head of the Xuantian Sword Sect, pointed to a place on the map.

Shen groaned: "The beast demon has arrived here, and the action is really fast, how many beast demons are there in this group?"

Feng Qiuyu said: "It's about less than 20,000." ”

Xiao Youya said: "Is there a bird demon in the air?"

Feng Qiuyu shook his head and said, "No, all of them are beast demons." ”

Xiao Youya snorted and said, "Less than 20,000 beast demons dare to be so bold, I really don't know whether to live or die, Feng Shi nephew, where is the closest beast demon army to this beast demon?"

Feng Qiuyu said: "It should be a hundred miles away." ”

Xiao Youya clenched his fists and said, "God-given opportunity, at this moment, the beasts and demons are scattered, we should take the initiative to attack and break them all, what do you think?"

This world-destroying catastrophe had already made the roots of these cultivators' hated teeth itch, and when they heard Xiao Youya's proposal, they all felt that it was feasible, after all, there were only 20,000 beast demons, and even if they couldn't completely annihilate this beast demon, they would definitely be able to greatly damage their vitality.

Since the beast demon entered the customs, the cultivators of Middle Earth have not fought face-to-face with the beast demon, and they don't know the depth of the beast demon's strength, and now it is really a godsend, a small group of beast demons actually ran to the outskirts of the capital fifty miles, just to use this beast demon to practice.

Changkong said: "I agree, a battle between us and the beast demons is inevitable, just as they are scattered, we will attack and consume their strength. ”

Xiaoya also agreed: "Well, what Master Xiao and Master Changkong said is reasonable, without further ado, we will immediately order troops and set off." ”

Yun Xiaoye said: "It's just 20,000 beast demons, you don't have to send them all, in my opinion, for the sake of insurance, you can send 10,000 people, and the main force is still staying in the capital to prevent accidents." ”

Everyone also felt that 10,000 cultivators should be more than enough to deal with 20,000 beast demons, so they nodded immediately.

After a stick of incense, about 10,000 cultivators were assembled.

These 10,000 people, with the Kunlun faction, the Demon Sect, the Shushan faction, the Huangshan faction, and the Xuantian Sword faction as the main forces, Xiao Youya personally led the team, Xiaoya, Yun Xiaoxie, Feng Qiuyu and others were among them.

The distance of fifty miles is nothing at all for a cultivator, and the time for the sword to fly about two pillars of incense has arrived, and the mighty cultivator is flying at a high altitude, only to see countless streamers piercing the sky, which is extremely spectacular.

It is also considered that this beast demon is unlucky, although the entire North Road beast demon army is divided into dozens of shares, each of which is about 10,000 or so, but the beast demon that broke into Yang Village has been separated from other beast demon companions for hundreds of miles, and it is really intolerable for cultivators not to take them to open their knives, such a great opportunity, of course, human beings will never let it go, from receiving the news that this beast demon appeared in Yang Village to more than 10,000 cultivators galloping towards the north, it only took less than two pillars of incense, and the action was quite decisive.

During the flight, Xiao Youya began to arrange the task, and said: "Master Yun, the Shushan faction's sword technique has the most powerful attack power, this attack takes the Shushan disciples as the vanguard, these beast demons are bloodthirsty and vicious, don't be merciful, you must break through the beast demon formation as quickly as possible." ”

Yun Xiaoye nodded and said, "The junior knows, so I will order it." ”