See Jiangshan

East Territory, Baixue Pass.

The night was dark, the snow was flying, and the heart-piercing wailing sound came from the snow-covered wasteland, like a tsunami from the mountains, Xu Ran even felt the city wall tremble slightly under his feet.

She was leading troops to clean up the city. There had been a fierce battle an hour ago, and the corpses were densely piled up in three or four layers, and there was a piece of soft and rotten flesh when stepped on.The infantry, archers and the vanguard of the magic army fought desperately and defeated the enemy three times.

Ten days have passed since the demon army launched a fierce attack on Baixueguan. At first they fought on the plains, and the demon armies of various tribes dispatched like waves, constantly advancing the front line. In the early morning of two days ago, twenty tall wells were pushed under the city wall. The vanguard of the army tried to attack the city with firecrackers and heavy arrow rain, and the corpses built a hill under the high city wall and did not give up.

Xu Ran was in charge of defending the north of the city. They received orders to guard desperately and try their best to consume the enemy.She didn't know how long Bai Xueguan could last, and she didn't have time to think about it.In the past ten days, she only rested for two hours, and the rest of the time she was fighting or preparing for battle.

The situation is extremely dangerous tonight. On her summit, General Huaiyuan led a cavalry force of 5 people out of the city. He originally planned to gallop out from the south gate and cut in from the side of the infantry phalanx of the magic army. The shape collapsed, and then returned from the north gate.After rushing five miles outside the city gate, they encountered the snow wolf cavalry of the demon army. The snow wolf cavalry came very fast, as if they had fallen from the sky.The snow wolf was ferocious, regardless of enemy or friend, trampled to death all the low-level demons standing in front of them, just to cut off the retreat of the cavalry of the Zhendong Army.

When the battle at the top of the city was at its most intense, Xu Ran couldn't come up with more reinforcements to respond. She knew that if the cavalry didn't rush back to the city gate, they might be killed in the encirclement.

At that moment, no one could have imagined that the battle situation would undergo an extremely strange change in the next second.Suddenly, the demon army was like a puppet with broken strings. They stopped their conquest, bowed and howled to the east, and let their swords and guns kill them.

Bai Xueguan was able to breathe.

Xu Ran simply bandaged the wound, went to the top of the city to direct the cleanup of the battlefield, looked at the dark army of demons on the plain, and heard those crying and howling, frowned irritably: "What the hell are they calling?"

At the same time, there was also turmoil within the Zhendong Army. Many veteran generals who had been in Baixueguan for 30 or [-] years looked surprised and excited.They have been listening to them all year round, and they can understand a few words of Mozu language.

Soon a colleague came to answer Xu Ran's doubts, and whispered a few words in her ear quickly.She stared wide-eyed, feeling unbelievable and ridiculous.

"Calling my king, death... It seems that the great demon king is dead."

died?How can it be? !

The existence of the Demon King is the spiritual belief of the Demon Race.

Even with limited knowledge of this race, Xu Ran could feel the astonishing unity of emotions of the lower demons. During the battle, they were extremely fanatical and fearless, stepping on the dead bodies of their own race.When the spiritual belief dies, it is equally sad and irrational.

The sorrows and joys of human beings are never connected, but the demons are probably connected, she thought so.

"Each battalion orders soldiers! Each battalion orders soldiers!"

The herald came running from afar, Xu Ran's heart trembled, and he went up to meet him and asked, "What's the matter?"

"The marshal has arrived!"

A group of generals gathered at Baixueguan, and they didn't have time to go down to the city to greet them, only to see the smoke and dust billowing on the road inside the pass, the horse in golden armor rode first, and the black cloak broke through the snow, and it was in front of him in an instant.

The supreme commander of Zhendong Army got off his horse and strode up to the top of the wall, followed by more than a dozen deputy commanders and generals.

Officers above Deputy Lieutenant Bai Xueguan stood in a row and said in unison: "Hello, Marshal!"

Standing at the back, Xu Ran saw that the injured colleagues were suddenly refreshed.

This is the first time she has seen Princess Anguo, the legendary number one general of the dynasty, without three heads and six arms, and her figure is taller than ordinary women.A black cloak with golden armor and an iron mask covering the upper half of his face.Just standing there quietly, listening to his report on the battle situation when he went up to the peak, he gave birth to a deep and unfathomable demeanor.

"You're all doing great, I'm so proud of you!"

She spoke with a majestic voice, piercing through the cries of the magic army in the distance, and resounding through the defenses of Baixueguan.

Waves of cheers echoed her.

Xu Ran thought, maybe the Demon King was really dead, so that the marshal came to direct the battle in person.

Baixueguan does not have a moat like Chaoguang City, but only a stretching city wall that is built and repaired every year. It is like a mighty dragon entrenched in the snow field. It is a commemoration of the victory of the Eastern Expedition. It has witnessed the power of an emperor and the supreme glory of the dynasty. .

Until one after another, the demon soldiers rushed up, like densely packed insects and ants, opening their teeth and claws to gnaw off this hard bone.

Ants kill elephants more, and dragons are also riddled with holes.

The order they received was to try their best to consume the enemy, and in order to preserve the main force of the Zhendong Army, they launched a counterattack in Chaoguang City.Bai Xueguan couldn't hold on, Xu Ran thought that within three days, there would be an order to abandon the pass, and she was even ready to lead someone to the end.But now, everything is different.

"The Demon King is dead—"

Princess An raised her hand, and the applause stopped suddenly.Her voice is sonorous and powerful, giving birth to invincible pride:

"The demonic army with hatred is bound to launch a crazy counterattack. The darkest night is about to fall, we must survive, and the light of the human race will come. The real battle has just begun. Warriors, our homeland is behind us, relatives and fellow clansmen will see Follow us and tell me if you are afraid!"

The soldiers and generals surged with enthusiasm, raised their spears and daggers high, and shouted like mountains and seas.

"Never be afraid!"

"Never be afraid!"

Princess An Guochang set these four words back then as the battle cry of the Zhendong Army. Whenever they went to battle, the soldiers drank strong wine and shouted never to be afraid.

After Xu Ran came here, she gradually understood that they endured the ravages of wind and snow in the most bitter and cold place in the world, and faced races completely different from themselves. The lower demons were brutal and bloodthirsty. Some of the hills have turned out their fangs, and their skin is as hard as iron.The combat power of the high-level demons is equal to that of the great practitioners of the human race.

If you don't have a fearless heart, how can you hold the East Territory?

Along with the marshal, the most elite cavalry of the Zhendong Army came from Chaoguang City. They rode war horses with alien blood, held shields and lances, and wore heavy armor.

The marshal ordered the defenders at the top of the city to rest, but decided to seize the opportunity. When the magic army fell into great grief and was unable to fight anymore, he led the cavalry to harvest and injure the enemy as much as possible.

She came to Baixueguan within a short time, so she got on her horse and led her troops out of the city.

The atmosphere was extremely frenzied, Xu Ran stood in the crowd, looked at Princess An's fluttering cloak, and thought that people can still live like this.

***

Jiange, the back mountain of Danshan Mountain.

As the sky was approaching dawn, Cheng Qianren was stunned for a moment when he heard the shout, then turned around and opened the curtain.

The person on the bed didn't wake up, 'brother' was just an unconscious dream.

Seeing his eager and anxious appearance, Fu Keji vaguely remembered that many years ago, when Cheng Qianren Nanyuan first became famous, people seemed to have mentioned that although he had no parents in his family, he had a younger brother.Maybe my younger brother was no longer around, but no one mentioned it anymore.

A seriously injured person appeared in the back of Danshan Mountain, just after the opening ceremony of Jiange, and this incident was full of strangeness.But now it has become Cheng Qianren's family affair.

Fu Keji: "Since it's a family matter, I won't ask any more."

Cheng Qianren wanted to say that it was not a family matter, but he couldn't come up with a more reasonable excuse, so he could only thank him, which was his tacit consent.

When Jiange practitioners get along with others, no matter how close the relationship is, they also maintain a sense of distance and leave a private space for each other to show respect.

Just like last night when Ning Fu clearly found out that there were people in the small courtyard, he said to Cheng Qianren, just as long as you know it in your heart.

They got down to business.

Fu Keji: "Do you believe this?"

Cheng Qianren: "I believe it." I was beside me.

The devil co-existed with the heaven and the earth, and his death even caused subtle changes in the aura of the heaven and the earth. When a practitioner reaches a certain level, he will have his own perception in the dark.

The significance of Chao Ge Que's killing of the demon king is far beyond the civil war of the dynasty, and it is related to the survival of the entire human race.

Cheng Qianren: "No matter what others think, the Zongmen Alliance remains the same, and we still have to go to the East Territory."

Fu Keji nodded: "The swearing-in meeting is scheduled for the morning of the day after tomorrow, so prepare a few speeches."

After the two had a brief chat, Fu Keji left, and he had to go to discuss matters with the Jiange elders to arrange and coordinate various sects.

Cheng Qianren called Huaiqing and Huaiming again, and asked students from Danshan and Nanyuan to gather tomorrow in the back mountain: "There are a lot of things these days, everyone has worked hard, I will chat with you tomorrow."

These two people had obviously heard something, and they couldn't believe the news about the death of the Demon King. They really wanted to find someone to ask about it, but they hesitated to speak.

"Shanzhu, you look very tired, take a good rest."

Cheng Qianren responded.

There were only two people left in the room, and it was extremely quiet. Cheng Qianren heard "Brother" again, and was about to step forward, when the sound of that person's peaceful breathing in sleep came from the curtain.

He sat in front of the desk and opened a volume of Autumn's Notes, trying to calm himself down and think more clearly.

What exactly is that star? Going to Go Que to kill the Demon King must have thought about the possibility of failure. Could it be that using the distraction avatar to point to a star for him to see is what he thinks is the most important and the last thing to be done in life?

Why did he say 'if the fate of the dynasty's demise cannot be reversed'?

Did King Ansan also see this kind of 'fate', so he came up with the ridiculous plan of the high wall on the eastern front?

Cheng Qianren's thoughts were confused, and there were no answers to his thousands of questions. The "Borrowing from the sky for three days of spring light" in the diary came into his eyes. While reading, he saw Qiu Ming standing outside the fence of the small courtyard and said to him: "The devil king Living in symbiosis with the heaven and the earth, human beings cannot reach him, so to kill him, one must borrow the power of the heaven and the earth."

The sky was spinning, the light suddenly dimmed, and he was standing in the library of Nanyuan College.The beech wood floor is covered with copper lotus lampstands, and the light and shadow are intertwined like the ripples of the lake. Hu Yizhi beside him smiled and said: "Except for the snowy area where the demons live, the entire continent can be connected into a large formation."

I also saw Chaoge Que reading under the lamp: "I can't answer your question for the time being...you will know everything on the day of opening the mountain pawn."

Countless fragments of pictures flooded into my mind like a torrent, and flashed quickly, Cheng Qianren's headache was splitting, only to hear someone calling him "Brother, brother!"

He woke up with a start, eyes wide open, panting violently.

All vanished.It was already dark, the empty mountains outside the window were silent, insects and birds chirped softly.

I don't know who lit the lampstand on the table.The light was like a bean, the man held his hand and said worriedly: "You have entered a barrier."

The person who spoke turned out to be a young man: "If your mind is not calm, how can you cultivate in samadhi? It's too dangerous."

Shocked, Cheng Qianren shook off his hand: "You, you!"

The young man stared at him blankly, then called "Brother" again, tears streaming down his face.

Cheng Qianren was completely dumbfounded by his crying.