The Legend of Swing Sword and Execution of Demons

Erecting new towers and building new cities in the cold and uninhabited areas of the Far North is always time-consuming and laborious.

For nomadic tribes who were not good at building fortifications, the construction of such a huge project would be rare, not to mention once in a hundred years, and it would probably be unheard of in five hundred or even a thousand years.

Therefore, building a new tower and a new city is not a spur-of-the-moment move, but has its own special purpose.

Just like the former emperor of Zhongzhou left behind several hidden chess moves before he passed away to save Zhongzhou from its decline.

The previous Holy Khan, Aruut, had a life of mixed merits and demerits like Emperor Jing of Zhongzhou. During his reign, he made some foolish and bad moves that would be cursed for the rest of his life, but he was not a mediocre person or useless.

The establishment of the city of Batulu was strongly advocated by Arut. Before he set out to return to the royal tent, the foundation of the Tower of Babel had been laid. When he was dying on the way, he still did not forget to leave a will to complete the two projects.

After realizing the profound meaning of the Holy Khan's last will, the upper echelons of the three courts of the Oirat, at least in this matter, put aside all their grudges against each other and spared no effort to push for the completion of the two major projects without any compromise.

The construction of Batulu City took three years to complete, and the Tower of Babel took a full five years to build!

It is not difficult to see from this that the two are extremely important strategic deployments for the entire Wala.

Initially, the Wala officials kept the relevant information within a limited scope and strictly prohibited its arbitrary dissemination.

In the next ten years, the word that the bitter cold land can forge true warriors was slowly spread to the people of the Oirat, secretly guiding the young and middle-aged Oirat to embark on the journey of conquering the Far North. Eventually, the ambitious Oirat people gradually accepted the idea that they would achieve success by going to the Far North.

It was also during the past five years that more and more warriors emerged in Wala who could compete with the first- and second-rate or even top-tier martial artists in Zhongzhou, and the effectiveness of the Tower of Babel and the City of Batu gradually became apparent.

To this day, most of the Oirat people have only vaguely heard that their warriors all came from the mysterious far north, but they do not know the specific details.

Only by actually stepping into the city of Batulu and walking through the Tower of Babel can one uncover the mystery.

After leaving Niu Mountain, Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen have been looking for the reason why the Wala warriors appeared in large numbers.

He learned from others and perfected his stolen Wala identity all the way until he became a regular Wala soldier and won a place in the city of Batulu.

In order not to appear too abrupt, the two of them spent another half a month to integrate into this martial arts academy that combined self-isolation, mutual learning, and duels and competitions, similar to the mixture of Zhongzhou Academy and Jianghu sects.

Bit by bit, I piece together what I know and understand about the city of Batulu and the Tower of Babel from what I have seen, known and interacted with.

The permanent population of Batulu City is about two thousand.

Fully three-quarters of the staff are special rotation personnel who maintain the daily operation and protection of the entire city.

These rotational personnel exist entirely to serve the remaining 500 or so people, and will complete a complete rotation within half a year based on the needs of their respective positions.

Those 500 or so people were selected through various selections, or because they had made outstanding contributions, or because they were gifted and had particularly eye-catching performances.

In the city of Batulu, these 500 people have a unified name - Trial Warriors.

Coming to this city of warriors is just the beginning of the trial.

Only those who can fight their way out of the city, gain the qualification to challenge the Tower of Babel, and pass the "battlefield trial mode" of the Tower of Babel can be called warriors.

And if you can challenge and pass the sixth level of the "Tiantian Trial Mode" among the ten levels of the Tower of Babel, you will be awarded the title of "Batulu" and will have the power to command at least a thousand people on the battlefield!

Although they have not yet stepped into the Tower of Babel, Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen are already certain that the reason why the Wala warriors they met in Lingxiao Ferry and Yixian Canyon looked like seasoned veterans was because they had entered Badulu City and climbed the Tower of Babel and had been honed through repeated, devilish training as Yang Daxin had said.

The three-foot-thick ice does not form overnight, and the trials after entering the Badulu City are definitely not something that can be accomplished overnight.

Most of the trial warriors reach this point when they are sixteen or seventeen years old. They wait, train and endure, and in the blink of an eye, three to five years have passed.

The city of Badulu, which consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, naturally does not support idle and mediocre people.

Every three years, the trial warriors will be assessed in batches according to age groups and role characteristics, and the fittest will survive.

Leng Mei and Jiang Yichen did not go into the details of the assessment. If the two of them had really wasted three years here, the land of Zhongzhou would have been turned upside down.

There is no doubt that the focus of their attention is on the Tower of Babel.

Whether to build the city first and then the tower, or the tower first and then the city, is not a question of whether the chicken or the egg came first.

After all, the time was not far away, and such a major project was also recorded in the history books of the Oirat people who were quick to accept advice.

The tower was built before the city, the city was built before the tower, and the city was built for the tower.

It can be said that without the Tower of Babel, there would be no City of Warriors.

Both ancient and modern fortifications are closely related to weather and geography, materials and tools, and human and technical skills.

The Wala can still find ways to provide materials, tools and massive manpower.

Talents in weather, geography and technology are hard to come by.

Exactly twenty years ago, the Oirat suffered a backlash from their invasion of Zhongzhou and were driven back to their old nest.

This forced a group of powerful and noble bloodlines to move here with the Holy Khan Arut and hide there.

And in the wedge-shaped gap at the northernmost part of the basin, an extremely strong magnetic field that can induce natural illusions was discovered.

This was also the magnetic field that Jiang Yichen had seen in the Dragon and Tiger Lane in the Chrysanthemum Garden in Jiangning and in the Nine Dangerous Peaks of Cangwu Mountain.

In addition to making the Oirat people feel fresh, this special geographical condition also gave the knowledgeable Saint Khan Arut an idea.

Although the Oirat were forced to flee after being defeated by Zhongzhou 20 years ago, as they had the upper hand in the beginning, they still captured many prisoners of war.

Among them were ten people in total, including several elders and top disciples of the Tianji Sect, whom Saint Khan Arut was eager to recruit and was reluctant to kill.

The Tianji sect focuses on ingenuity and metaphysics, making it unique among the thousands of gangs flourishing in Zhongzhou, and is treated with courtesy by all forces.

In a great victory, the Wala side captured ten members of the Tianji Sect and took extra care of them as if they had found a treasure, without any neglect.

Arut repeatedly condescended to bribe the ten people with benefits, or used other people to intimidate them to force them to serve the Wala, but the Tianji faction members were unmoved and refused to obey.

The Oirat people were reluctant to kill the ten people, and even less willing to let them go, so they kept them tied up by their side.

Finally, after encountering this special geographical environment, Arut, relying on the eloquence he learned from the people of Zhongzhou, tried to persuade the ten people of Tianji to use this rare magnetic field in this far north to build a tower that could record the military style of Zhongzhou and the legendary martial arts, in order to demonstrate the strength of Zhongzhou and inspire awe in the Wala people who came to watch.

Although they knew that what the Oirat people said was not the whole truth, and they would certainly let the Oirat people study the method of defeating the enemy by observing the battle formations of the Central Plains army and the martial arts, the builders who were not skilled in mechanical settings would not be tempted by this legendary project.

It took Arut three months to make ten people reach a consensus from making one person waver.

When some veterans of the trials who have been toiling in the Tower of Babel for many years take a break and drink, they would occasionally say with emotion that the previous Saint Khan had spent three months honing his eloquence, which was enough to accelerate the development of Wala's cutting-edge combat power by thirty years, making it not fall behind Zhongzhou.

Some of those who were drunk even said that the hard work done by Arut Sheng Khan in the past three months would benefit the entire Wala for three hundred years.

  What this means is that after Wala takes possession of this Tower of Babel, they will be able to completely devour Zhongzhou and make it Wala's territory as soon as today or the year after next!

Even though Leng and Jiang could not empathize with the words of the Wala people, they could not deny that after participating in this war, they found that the individual combat power of the Wala people was far beyond what they had heard in the past.

The qualification for the Tower of Babel trial in Badulu City was not easy to come by.

If the two of them were not among the top masters in Zhongzhou and had recovered from their injuries by 70% to 80% before arriving in Badulu City, it would have been easy for them to be exposed when facing so many strong opponents, as they had to hide their skills and win without leaving any trace.

Fortunately, all the difficulties, big and small, along the way have been overcome one by one.

Now the two of them are only one step away from entering the Tower of Babel and starting the trial. (End of this chapter)