After this foundation building monk fair of the Great Zhou Kingdom, the soldiers and horses hoarded in the Danyang camp began to be mobilized and sent to the frontier battlefield. The border between the Great Zhou Kingdom and the Northern Qi Kingdom is a stretching valley jungle with many large and small mountain passes. These passes are battleground and must be guarded.

In the sky, several golden and cyan flying sword rainbows flashed, Ye Qin, Zheng Daochang, and a middle-aged foundation-building monk of the Zhou family, Zhou Xing, the three of them fell into one of the passes. They arrived next to more than twenty Qi cultivation monks, all of whom were the protectors of the Great Zhou Kingdom. The task of their group was to ensure that this pass was not occupied by the monks of the Northern Qi Kingdom.

The middle-aged monk of the Zhou family took out more than ten formation flags, handed them to Ye Qin and Zheng Daochang, and said, "Zheng Daochang, Brother Qin, this is the formation flag, you two help me set up a large guard formation at this pass!"

Ye Qin and Zheng Daochang took over the formation flag and quickly planted the formation flag in the dangerous place of the pass.

These array flags shot light towards the sky, and in a short time, all the lights were connected, and a faint light shroud for several miles enveloped the entire pass. If the monks of the Northern Qi Dynasty wanted to enter the pass, they had to break through this layer of light mask first.

After Ye Qin had done this, he had time to check the terrain of this pass.

This is a steep pass built against the mountain, where the Great Zhou State hoarded 100,000 troops. Outside the pass, hundreds of thousands of troops of the Northern Qi State came to attack, and the two armies were fighting under the pass.

Ye Qin climbed a high platform on the city tower and looked at the valley and jungle beyond the pass, his expression indifferent. Tens of thousands of mortal soldiers of the two armies were densely packed between the valleys, arrows rained down, shouting and killing shook the sky, and a large number of soldiers were killed every moment.

Since embarking on the path of cultivating immortals, Ye Qin has personally experienced a lot of battles, and he has seen countless dead. He didn't have much of a sense of this war between the mortal armies of the world.

It's just that he feels a little unworthy for these mortal soldiers in his heart. The Zhou family and the Lu family went to war just to seize a small spiritual stone vein between the mountains on the border between the two countries. This is a conflict of interest for immortal cultivators. However, in order to avoid serious casualties among the monks of the two major immortal cultivation families, they let the mortal soldiers of the two countries fight. These soldiers who died on the battlefield will not know why they were sent into battle until they die.

Zhou Lin didn't know what to come to a few feet behind Ye Qin, Tingting stood quietly, looking at the brutal battlefield outside the pass, and seemed a little unbearable.

Ye Qin turned back to her and said, "Zhou Lin, do you know why Great Zhou and Northern Qi are going to war?"

Zhou Lin thought for a moment, shook his head gloomily and said, "Senior Qin, junior don't know why Great Zhou suddenly started a war with Northern Qi. This is a decision made by the upper echelons of the family, and ordinary disciples like me are not qualified to participate. Moreover, the Great Zhou royal family and the Northern Qi royal family have a century-long marriage, and the two countries have not had such a big war for a long time. My own sister married a secular member of the Lu family in the Northern Qi Kingdom, and I don't know what her current situation is. ”

Ye Qin was silent.

In the eyes of many immortal cultivators, mortals are like ants, used to safeguard the interests of these great immortal cultivators. In this regard, the Lu family is no different from the Zhou family.

A Qi cultivation period monk of the Great Zhou Kingdom hurriedly rushed up to the city tower, and said in a panicked voice: "Senior Qin, there is a battlefield ahead where the battle is tight, Senior Zhou and Senior Zheng ask Senior Qin to go over immediately!"

Ye Qin was stunned, on the battlefield of mortal soldiers, do they still need immortal cultivators to take action?" "Oh, where are they?"

The monk said, "It's in a valley ahead." ”

Ye Qin thought for a while, he didn't understand military affairs, but he also knew that the core of the pass needed someone to stay, so he looked back at Zhou Lin and said, "This high platform is the core of the Great Array Banner, and it is also the highest point of the entire pass, you guard here." If there is a mutation, send me a message. ”

Zhou Lin nodded a little nervously, "Yes, senior, don't worry!"

Ye Qin immediately threw out the flying sword, took the monk who came to report the news, and flew directly away from the pass and flew away to the valley in front of him. In a few breaths, he passed the soldier and landed on a mound tens of feet high.

Zhou Xing, Zheng Daochang, the two of them were standing on the mound, looking indifferently at the battlefield ahead. There were also seven or eight Qi Cultivation Stage cultivators beside them, as well as numerous mortal generals. The generals seemed a little apprehensive.

Ye Qin walked up to them and asked, "Brother Zhou, Daochang Zheng, I don't know if the two of you called me here, what's the matter?"

Zhou Xing pointed ahead and said, "Brother Qin, what do you think it is?"

Ye Qin looked in the direction he was pointing.

The two armies had a force of more than 5,000 elite soldiers and soldiers, who were fighting bloodily on a flat ground in front.

In the military formation of the Northern Qi State, there were dozens of bare-chested broadsword sergeants who rushed to the forefront, shrouded in a faint red light, not only invulnerable, but infinitely powerful, one such sergeant was enough to resist dozens of sergeants of the Great Zhou Army. Even though these broadsword sergeants were shot by a dense array of locust-like arrows, they were barely scarred, and the sharp arrows were broken instead.

Several times in succession, the soldiers of the Great Zhou were defeated and retreated.

Seeing this, Ye Qin was not too surprised, just frowned, and said, "They should have been cast with some kind of spell, Vajra Cover or Divine Power Talisman or something. Brother Zhou, didn't you prepare the rune paper? Just bless the soldiers of the Great Zhou with the rune paper. ”

"Yes, but it's no match for these broadsword sergeants. ”

Zhou Xing shook his head and said, "Brother Qin, why did you first arrive, you don't know much about the secular battlefield, they don't use vajra covers and divine power talismans, but a kind of evil qi unique to secular soldiers, which is called iron-blooded. There is very little iron and blood in the body of ordinary sergeants, but when thousands of sergeants are gathered, this evil aura becomes quite terrifying. And the most headache thing is that these evil qi are collected by the monks, tempered, and then concentrated on dozens of soldiers, which will make them not afraid of any spells, and their combat power will increase by dozens of times, or even hundreds of times. Ordinary spells, they don't have much effect. If Brother Qin encounters it, he must not underestimate the enemy. I asked Brother Qin to come over because I was worried that Brother Qin would suffer a secret loss in the future, and I could deal with it by seeing this iron-blooded evil qi with my own eyes. ”

"Iron Blood?"

Ye Qin's brows furrowed even tighter, when he first went to the Northern Qi Kingdom, he met the evil cultivators of the Red Cloud Sect collecting iron-blooded evil qi on the way, and he almost carried a heel. He had long been vigilant against this iron-blooded anger. "Brother Zhou, do you know if there is any way to restrain this iron-blooded demon?"

Zhou Xing shook his head and said: "This is the pure iron-blooded evil qi of the Supreme Gang and Yang, which not only repels evil spirits and demons, but also repels the mana of the immortal family, which is extremely difficult to restrain it." However, they are not invincible, after all, they are only mortal flesh and blood, and they can't exert much power of iron and blood. Just look at it and you'll see it. ”

After Zhou Xing finished speaking, he didn't say more.

Zheng Daochang looked like an old god, and obviously didn't plan to make a move.

Several Qi cultivators set up a strange fine iron cylinder on the dirt slope. Ye Qin has seen this thing, this is a stone cannon, which is available in the cities of many secular countries, and it can fire stone bullets and be used to defend the city, but the range is not far, at most hundreds of zhang.

However, this fine iron stone cannon seems to be a little different, the workmanship is exquisite, and the base of the cannon barrel is engraved with a strange formation, as well as the position of the inlaid spirit stone. Inside the barrel of the cannon is an iron bullet made of fine iron.

Ye Qin was wondering.

A monk had already installed a lower grade spirit stone and activated the formation on the cannon body.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, a dazzling red light erupted from the barrel, and a missile shot out. A few miles away, in the military formation of the Northern Qi Kingdom, a pit appeared at once, and a large area of blood around it appeared.

Even the sergeant who was blessed by iron and blood couldn't stop the power of this missile, and was smashed into several flights.

On the barrel of the gun, the spiritual power of the lower-grade spirit stone had completely disappeared and turned into a waste stone sand.

The monk cleaned up the waste rock, replaced it with a low-grade spirit stone, and continued to fire. The army formation of the Northern Qi State was overturned by the bombarded people. The decline of the Da Zhou [***] team was quickly reversed.

Ye Qin stared at the stone cannon, watching these monks busy, speechless. He had just discovered that this stone cannon was actually a large spiritual weapon. This kind of spiritual weapon is almost no threat to agile monks, but when used to fight, it is surprisingly domineering.

"What is this?"

Zhou Xing said with a smile: "This is the Sky Bombardment, a spiritual weapon refined by the refining master of the Great Luomen, which is specially used for sharp weapons on the battlefield. It's just that the amount of refining is scarce, and our pass is just a mouthful. However, this bite was enough to make the Northern Qi army suffer. ”

The Northern Qi army's tentative offensive failed to take advantage of it.

Several Qi cultivation period monks from Northern Qi rushed over and tried to destroy the stone cannon, and it could be seen that there were three Great Zhou foundation building monks present, and they immediately retreated in shock, not daring to rise again.

After the Northern Qi army attacked for a while, there was no result, and the troops retreated, and Zhou Xing immediately let the secular generals lead the troops back to the pass. Most of these generals were secular disciples of the Zhou family, and in front of Zhou Xing, the highest-ranking monk of the Zhou family, they didn't even dare to take a breath

In the next ten days, the Northern Qi army continued to provoke their pass, and the battle became fierce. As Ye Qin had predicted, the monks of the two countries never fought directly. Whether it is to bless the sergeant with rune paper, or to bombard the sky cannon, or to use other methods, it is only an indirect fight.

The Lu family and the Zhou family were very restrained in this battle. As long as no monk clan is killed, even if more mortal soldiers die, then both sides still have room for maneuver, and it will not escalate into a war of the Immortal Cultivation Family, and may even involve the two major Spiritual Mist Immortal Cultivation Sects, Qingdan Sect and Beast Spirit Sect.

"No one can afford such a large-scale battle in the Immortal Cultivation Realm. ”

Every night after the war, Ye Qin came to the tower alone and whispered to himself. Although he felt that it was not worth it for the mortal soldiers, he also had to agree that in fact, it was better for the Great Zhou and Northern Qi to send mortal armies to fight for the spirit stone vein in the valley than for the Zhou Clan's Immortal Cultivation Family and the Lu Clan's Immortal Cultivation Family to fight directly.

Ye Qin's cold gaze stared at the valley. He could clearly see that there were as many as dozens of evil cultivators in the distant valley, secretly collecting items from the secular battlefield, iron-blooded evil spirits, and even the corpses of soldiers in the valley jungle full of bones. As for what to do, you don't have to guess to figure it out.

"A flock of vultures!"

Ye Qin snorted coldly.

He planned to leave the Great Zhou Kingdom after the expiration of the one-month Protector Immortal Master. The conflict between the Lu family and the Zhou family, he doesn't plan to get involved anymore, no matter how the two of them fight, as long as it doesn't escalate into a sect war, it won't hinder him.

The task given to him by the sect was to investigate the reserves of this small vein and see if the Lu family needed the support of the sect. He found that the strength of the Zhou family was not too strong, and the Lu family was enough to cope with the current situation.

He didn't plan to serve the Lu family, let alone work hard for the Zhou family. In the past few days, he has exchanged the Protector Immortal Master of the Great Zhou Kingdom for a low-grade spirit stone that is enough for him to use for several months.

As for where to go after leaving the Great Zhou Kingdom, Ye Qin didn't think too much about it, he had a lot of places to go.

In the past three years of going down the mountain, what has really been useful for him is cultivation and increasing his knowledge. While cultivating, you can travel to various countries, the land of chaos, the Wanyue Lake Immortal Cultivation Realm and the Heavenly Dome Origin Immortal Cultivation Realm, you can all go. When the training period expired, he returned to Qingdanmen to retreat and cultivate, and hit Jindan Avenue.

Ye Qin looked at the sky, it was already late at night, and he was about to return to his residence in the city from the platform. Suddenly, he saw a familiar dim gray shadow floating out of the Zhou State Pass and rushing towards the valley.

"Daochang Zheng, what is he doing in the valley late at night?"

Ye Qin was hesitating, whether to follow the past. Daochang Zheng is a monk from the land of chaos, with a haze and murderous aura hidden in his eyes, which Ye Qin dislikes, and he usually has no intersection with this Daochang Zheng. Moreover, Daochang Zheng's cultivation is quite high, and he is a middle-level monk who builds the foundation, so he may not have the ability to deal with Daochang Zheng.

At this time, a figure of a green monk floated down from the city gate, following behind the gray shadow from a distance.

"Zhou Xing?"

Ye Qin secretly gasped. There were only three foundation-building monks in this pass, and two of them went out in one night. He waited calmly for a while, and when he saw that no other monks came out, he immediately turned into a shadow of green smoke, flew out of the pass, and followed the two of them.

Ye Qin didn't dare to be careless, and followed extremely carefully to see what they did. If you notice something is wrong, leave immediately. If Daochang Zheng found out that Zhou Xing was following, the two of them would definitely fight. He could have easily taken the opportunity to leave.

Zheng Daochang galloped for dozens of miles in the dark valley jungle, and when he came to the front of a deep valley, he stopped, took a map, watched it through the dim moonlight for a while, and hesitated, "It should be here!" He looked back, gritted his teeth, and jumped into a deep stream hundreds of zhang deep.

After half a ring, Zhou Xing stood silently where Daoist Zheng was standing just now, glanced at the deep stream, it was dark and bottomless, his eyes couldn't help revealing a strong murderous aura, and he cursed in a low voice, "Bastard, how does this old man Zheng know that the spirit stone vein is under this deep stream? Since you have found it, for the sake of the Zhou family's hundred-year plan, you can't leave it!" He resolutely flew down the deep stream.

(To be continued)