The army of Jinpeng Fort has new news every day: the west occupies a city of Shule State, the eastern mountain pass has built a checkpoint that cannot be opened by thousands of people at a miraculous speed, and another country in Xiaoyao Sea has surrendered to King Dubu, the third young lord Shangguan Yun is about to become the king of Xiaowan, and Shangguan Fa himself is likely to get a real king title from Beiting......

In order to cover up his defeat, Dugu Xian insisted on claiming that the Great Snow Mountain had been completely destroyed, and he also hoped so in his heart.

In a series of major events in the Western Regions, the Dragon King and the Great Snow Mountain have been forgotten, and only a few people still remember the army that was buried by the last blizzard of the dead winter, believing that there must be survivors among them.

Blizzard is the destroyer, and more than 300 seriously injured warriors of the Great Snow Mountain did not survive the harsh weather and froze to death in the wilderness.

Blizzard was also a savior, not only helping them remove the burden in an extremely brutal way, but also completely covering up the team's tracks.

The warriors who struggled forward did not even have a chance to say goodbye to the deceased.

They marched south for a month, traversing the desert and the desert, trekking through swamps full of traps, and when spring came, the dragon king led the party to the edge of a forest that no one had ever heard of.

The forest is boundless, like a raging ocean, wary and hostile to strange visitors.

Gu Shenwei did not dare to move forward rashly, so he ordered to camp outside the woodland, rest his body and raise livestock, and also take this opportunity to solve many internal problems.

The swordsmen began to miss the snow-capped mountains all year round, although it was also a barren land, but the swordsmen were familiar with the way of survival there, deserts, swamps, and forests, all of which made them worried.

At first, homesickness only haunted the swordsmen's hearts, but slowly more and more people spoke their minds, and the call to turn around and go home increased every day.

The Swordsmen under Tuo Nengya are even more unstable, they are loyal to Tuo Boss and the Dragon King, but they still have a typical swordsman personality, hoping that their efforts will be rewarded, and the sooner the reward comes, the better.

Today, even the most distant returns seem illusory.

This team of more than 1,000 people has not yet split, firstly because they are full of loyalty and fear for the Dragon King, and secondly, there is no way to escape, and no one wants to turn back and repeat the hardships of the past month.

Gu Shenwei's belief in his heart became more and more firm, and he insisted that if he continued to walk, he would soon find the hidden mountain road leading to the Xiaoyao Sea.

Even after several guides admitted in frustration that they were lost, Gu Shenwei still did not waver in the slightest, Jinpeng Castle is now in full swing, and the Great Snow Mountain must avoid its front, even if it can't reach the Easy Sea in the end, it will have to be temporarily hidden in the wilderness in the south for a year and a half.

Gu Shenwei once again asked for help from Providence.

Three warlocks slaughtered and sacrificed on a hillside, spilling entrails and burning fat to produce vague signs.

"The gods told us to continue our journey south. "A warlock predicts the future from the form of the scattered guts," but...... There are surprises and disasters waiting ahead. ”

"I saw death, countless deaths. The second warlock observed the appearance of the rising smoke, "But behind the death stood a huge golden-armored god...... The dead will not be forgotten...... Great deeds. ”

"Pick up the sword. "The third warlock relied on meditation to make prophecies, and his words were the simplest and most effective.

On the third day that the Daisetsuzan army camped outside the forest, pairs of peeping eyes appeared in the cracks of the trees, and there were more and more of them, and the hostility became more and more obvious.

The fugitive army crashed into the legendary wooddwellers.

It was a group of wild men, wrapped in animal skins and leaves, armed with wooden bows and javelins, and speaking a strange language that no one could understand.

Gu Shenwei's initial method was to show them favor and send them a few horses and dozens of swords, hoping to win the hearts of the people and find a guide who was familiar with the terrain.

But the thinking habits of the savages are different, and Gu Shenwei didn't understand which of his actions offended them in the end.

The wildlings began to sneak up on them, reaching into the camp at night to assassinate the sentries, or hiding near the water source, shooting sharpened wooden arrows from the dense grass, with a skill and whereabouts that rivaled the top Jinpeng killers.

After the assassination of the tenth warrior, Gu Shenwei abandoned the overture strategy and declared war on the savages in the forest.

He organized his swordsmen and swordsmen into a team of fifty people, a total of more than twenty teams, entered the forest in batches, took care of the front and back, covered left and right, and gradually advanced, and fought with the wild men around each tree.

The warriors of the Great Snow Mountain were depressed for a long time, and they were ruthless, killing more than 100 wild people in five days, and finally, they found a village inhabited by wild people.

The young people of the village were either killed or fled deeper into the forest.

Everyone was red-eyed, and they all had the urge to slaughter the village, and the killing ** in Gu Shenwei's heart was also aroused, but he maintained restraint at the last moment, only snatched some of the food, and took away five old people and more than a dozen children.

It was difficult to communicate with the elderly, and it took ten days to understand each other's meanings through gestures and guesswork.

The old people had never heard of a place like the Easy Sea, they only knew that the further they went into the forest, the fewer the villages, but the more brutal the savages who lived in them.

Gu Shenwei ordered the camp to be pulled into the forest, and twenty soldiers escorted two old men who knew the way to set off a day in advance, and issued a simple order to every forest village they passed: supply a small amount of food, assign ten to twenty young men to join the army, and those who did not obey would be declared war.

The first two villages were relatively strong, not only refusing to hand over food and people, but also killing a messenger and taking the initiative to go out of the village to meet the battle.

The matter is very simple, Gu Shenwei only sent three or four teams of fifty people, and the battle was solved, the weapons and equipment of the savages were too rudimentary, even if they were familiar with the terrain, they could not defeat the prepared soldiers.

The rest of the journey was relatively smooth, and the inhabitants of the forest heard of this army of unknown origin, and either fled from the wind, or honestly carried out the order to hand over the grain and people.

This also poses a problem, the dragon king and his army cannot walk in a straight line, always marching from village to village, sometimes going in circles.

There was no way, more than a thousand people had to eat, and they could not hold out for a few days in the strange forest without the provisions of these villages.

Even so, from the dragon king onwards, everyone had to ration their food, and the village was too small to provide a limited amount of excess food.

After the introduction of the wild men into the army, the situation improved slightly, and although they also had to eat, they were familiar with the rules of the forest, and could always find prey and other food, which may not be appetizing, but did alleviate hunger.

The forest is so large that the wildlings know very little about its size and direction, and can do little to help them other than guide their armies to the neighboring villages.

They wandered in the forest for almost three months, raiding dozens of villages, barely surviving on meagre supplies, and the warriors' resentment became more and more obvious, and they did not dare to express it openly, so they vented in other ways, and on one occasion a squad of fifty men slaughtered a village, killing all men, women, and children, only because one of the soldiers was attacked by a hidden arrow.

Gu Shenwei could only confiscate the swords and humiliate them, and there was no way to enforce strict military orders.

The forest is like a complex and tight-fitting garment, always a constraint on outsiders, and the towering ancient trees that cover the sky and the poisonous mosquitoes like torrential rain are all driving the warriors to the brink of rage.

If he stays any longer, even the prestige of the Dragon King will not be enough to suppress the resentment of the entire army.

Gu Shenwei didn't plan to turn back, he had been looking for a way through the forest, for which he specially designated a few swordsmen who knew how to write and hyphenate, drew every village he visited on the drawings, and recorded all kinds of legends of the savages, and in this way, finally sketched the general shape of the forest.

He then sent ten groups of scouts to explore their paths in different directions, ordering them to come back when they found a dead end, and to turn around in five days at most if there were no obstacles.

Most of the scouts had returned early, with no way out of the way ahead of them, either deep gorges or mountains that were difficult to climb.

Only one group of scouts brought back a little hope, reporting that it was possible to continue southwest, although there were also high mountains blocking it, but there were paths between the mountains that could be passed.

According to the legend of the savages, there are no villages in the southwestern mountains, but monsters are often infested, so Gu Shenwei thinks that this direction is the most likely to cross the forest.

The army was dispersed, gathering as much food as possible, and after ten days, marching to the southwest.

The mountain road was even more rugged and difficult, and even the savages in the forest who joined the army were terrified and ran away on the way, but the warriors were still excited at the thought of being able to get out of the forest.

As spring drew to a close, food ran out, and the few pack animals left were slaughtered, and on a warm sunny afternoon, the Daxueshan army finally broke free from the siege of the forest.

In front of me is a paradise, walking in the old forest without seeing the light of day for two months, seeing patches of flowers and tender grass, countless birds and animals, everyone was stunned.

I don't know who started it, everyone shouted "Dragon King" in unison, and the doubts in their hearts were swept away, even if they couldn't get to the Easy Sea, their trip to the south was not in vain.

The savages who accompanied the army became more and more panicked, and many of them had no cover above their heads for the first time.

Gu Shenwei gave them the opportunity to choose: they could stay in the army and see the wider world, or they could turn around and return to the forest.

The panic stimulated the ambition of many savages, and most of them were willing to stay, and the number reached more than three hundred, so that the army of the Great Snow Mountain had another source, and Gu Shenwei organized them into a group and put them under his direct command.

Good things always followed, and on the third day out of the forest, the scouts who were exploring the way in front brought back news that shocked the whole army: a city stood more than a hundred miles away.

By mistake, the Daisetsuzan army broke into an isolated country, and after coming into contact with the city's leaders, they learned its name.

Many years ago, Gu Shenwei once heard about this country from a miracle doctor, but he didn't expect that he would really set foot on its land one day.

He didn't even expect that the fate of himself and the army of the Great Snow Mountain would take a major turn here.

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