Returning from the abyss

Chapter 1375 Lingzhou

The mountains are natural barriers, and the passes are built with mountains.

In ancient times, the territory of Lingzhou did not belong to the Central Plains dynasty. Only when the emperor of the previous dynasty was about to fight for the world, he led his troops northward and broke through the natural barriers of the world. From then on, he brought Lingzhou back to the Central Plains, promoted education, and enlightened the people. Over the next hundred years, the customs of the Hu people were eliminated.

Those who refused to obey the rules could only continue to flee to the bitter cold north. Living by the water and grass was not a good life, and the extreme north was cold for half a year, so it was inevitable that they would miss the beautiful land of Lingzhou.

However, today, the northern part of the Great Wall has organized a decent army, and with the help of the demon star, this army has caught up with the elite troops of the Central Plains in a short period of time. When the border defense was not very tight, it broke into the heart of Lingzhou in one fell swoop.

However, this so-called advantage ended after Qin Taishi’s divine army descended from the sky.

Only a few days after arriving at the border, Grand Tutor Qin had reorganized the frontier troops. Ten of his generals each led a troop and attacked from all four directions, without fear of dividing the troops to resist the enemy. All ten routes were victorious, and the morale of the frontier troops was stabilized in an instant.

The demon star was not easy to deal with. Seeing Qin Zhong's aggressiveness, he immediately stopped hiding his demonic methods. Although he could not regain the advantage, he dragged the battle into a stalemate. After all, the number of soldiers in Qin Taishi's hands was limited. Even if he continued to recruit soldiers, he could not cram all the young and strong men in Wei into the team. Lingzhou was so large that there were always places that were difficult to take care of.

Therefore, Qin Zhong narrowed the scope of his control, with the three core cities of Lingzhou, Guanyuan, Gouchen, and Lingjiang as the center, deployed troops to build cities, set up war rituals, raised soldiers with blood and killing, gathered the people of Wei, turned human sentiment into weapons, and occupied the terrain first. No matter how the northern army plundered and killed, it could not shake this line of defense.

At the same time, Qin Zhong's ten troops also launched counter-harassment tactics. The strength of these ten elite troops should not be underestimated. Even the Northern Frontier Army mixed with demons would have to abandon their weapons and weapons if attacked. But if they wanted to confront him head-on, that was exactly what Qin Zhong wanted.

It was easy for Lu Ning to know this, as these stories had long been spread throughout the capital. Unlike Dong Zai, Master Qin had to intervene in the game and intercept the destiny when facing the powerful attack of the Ten Palaces of the Demon Stars. However, Master Qin had a strong army in the northern frontier and even maintained a subtle advantage.

But when I really arrived in Lingzhou, everything I saw was different.

Lu Ning had seen extremely powerful superpower battles, seen spaceships sailing through time and space, seen gods bestowing punishment, and had also seen images of gods-killing wars.

But it is difficult for ordinary people to feel what the scene would be like when "corpses everywhere" is no longer an adjective but a statement.

In fact, it didn't take a lot of people, more than a thousand corpses were enough to fill the area Lu Ning could see. And neither side of the war had the energy to clean up the corpses, so the profession of corpse picker was born. Now there were a few people walking around the battlefield, collecting the weapons that could still be used, and the soldiers on the Wei side would also take off their badges and put them in a bag on their waists.

These are people from the Wei Dynasty. They don’t have the ability to go to the battlefield, so they help out off the battlefield.

Lu Ning's appearance made them slightly alert, but after seeing how she was dressed, they continued to busy themselves with their own things.

Of course, they would not doubt whether they were spies or not, because they would not even think about such things. As long as they wore Wei's clothes, they would assume that they were one of them.

The battle that took place here obviously ended with the victory of the Wei side. Most of the corpses that Lu Ning saw were dressed as people from the northern frontier, and the corpse pickers did not miss anything on these people. Some of the corpse pickers even brought sharp knives to stab these northern frontier people in the vital parts.

The reason is a somewhat ridiculous statement - to prevent resurrection.

Normally, the people of Saibei would have been gone long ago, after all, no matter how many people they could gather, they could not match the foundation of the Wei Dynasty after years of recuperation. But things were different after the demon star intervened. The people of Saibei had made an agreement with the demons that after their death, they would turn into minions and continue to act. This meant that it was not enough to just kill them with ordinary weapons, but they had to be destroyed until they could no longer form minions.

Nowadays, the soldiers and civilians in the northern border have regarded it as common sense. Unlike people in other places, they have become numb and accustomed to death. When Lu Ning walked across the battlefield of corpses, no one came out to ask.

When Lu Ning crossed the field of corpses and walked in the direction she had learned from asking for directions, a large amount of soul colors appeared in her demonic eyes.

There were naturally countless souls wandering on the battlefield. However, unlike the souls of ordinary dead people, the souls of the dead in battle would be entangled together, no longer retaining the form of a single human being, but gathering into a ghost. This kind of ghost was more violent and difficult to control than the normal souls of the dead. At least Lu Ning had no way to control it with his current means.

However, this also shows that the demons don't have a similar method.

When the setting sun turned the earth into a pool of blood, Lu Ning saw the outline of Gouchen City.

It is located in the mountains of Lingzhou, relying on natural barriers, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Zhenshui, one of the three rivers in Lingzhou, is on the edge of the city, but at this time there is a foul smell in the water.

Seeing the Gou Chen doesn't mean you can get there tonight. If you look at the mountain, you will die. It will take half a day to get to the Gou Chen from here.

She set up camp on the spot, but the water here was obviously unavailable, so she could only condense ice from the air, throw it into the pot to boil, and then cook today's food.

As the sun sank, the warmth of spring began to fade. The coldness of the wilderness also began to spread amid the wailing of the soul, but Lu Ning could now completely ignore this coldness.

Arriving before the beginning of summer, she had already arrived, but she still needed to see what it meant to arrive at Qin Zhong's camp. She was sure that Qin Zhong's camp would be heavily guarded, and ordinary martial artists would be rejected if they came here.

After all, although the martial artists are good at martial arts, they are notoriously difficult to discipline. Even when the imperial court was suppressing the Demon Sect, the imperial army went alone and did not join the martial artists.

For someone like Qin Zhong who is strict in military discipline, it is even more impossible for him to accept people from the martial arts world at will - or rather, he has a special method of recruiting people from the martial arts world.

Although Lu Ning had the badge of an envoy, she obviously needed to join as a martial artist to gain more autonomy. At the same time, she was also very clear that her mentality was not what a soldier should have.

"But support is also somewhat dangerous. Without prior communication, what kind of support is that?" Lu Ning considered the various plans drawn up by the distribution center. "As for organizing an army on my own, it's obviously not a particularly good method..."

As I gradually fell asleep, the wind outside the tent became stronger and stronger.

She felt that she was unconsciously performing a momentary vision, taking everything around her into her dream. In the dream, it was as if she had returned to that cold winter night, to the besieged city of Xingyin. "Who is in the dream..."

Lu Ning suddenly woke up, but she was still in a dream and tried her best to cover up her breath.

This was not her performing the "Momentary Scene". This quite real dream was not created by her. The Gou Chen City in the distance was like a pillar of fire rising into the sky. It was heavily wrapped up in the dream and could not be spied on in any way. However, the mountains and plains outside were filled with a dreamy mist, and the real dreamer was already looking at it from the sky.

——Night tour.

Now Lu Ning has the same ability, so she can better appreciate the exquisiteness of the night tour when setting up a scene for a moment. The dream that Lu Ning had arranged was pieced together from everyone's memories, so there were many unreasonable places. It was only because people had no feelings in the dream that they were not seen through. However, in this way, her methods such as set words are limited to some superficial inductions. Once she wants to do things such as getting closer to the relationship or asking about the inner thoughts, it will still trigger the inner vigilance.

However, the dream of night wandering can be completely realistic. Every moment spent with everyone in the dream can leave a deep subconscious trace after waking up, and ordinary people are completely defenseless.

However, the blazing pillars of fire in the Gou Chen City completely blocked the prying eyes in the dream. Lu Ning didn't know what the pillars of fire were, but based on her perception in the dream, she knew that it was probably some kind of ritual.

Ye You just flew through the air with his dream. Lu Ning had not yet mastered the skill of moving freely in the dream, but she was familiar with the use of the Momentary Scene and did not let Ye You discover her.

After Ye You left, the dream did not disappear. While Lu Ning was sighing at the other party's powerful abilities, she went to Gou Chen City in the dream. Although she could not control the wind, she could still speed up her pace in the dream.

When approaching Gou Chen City, she found that the flames enveloping Gou Chen City were accompanied by the howling of the wind and the roar of ghosts. This force blocked all investigations. Lu Ning only approached five miles outside the city gate and could not get any closer. She had a premonition that she would die if she fell into it, even in a dream.

Such a terrible ritual...

Lu Ning knew that he had no solution to break it. If it could be so powerful in reality, it would not be surprising that most of the corpses on the battlefield were from Saibei.

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It traveled across the sky at night and finally set further north.

It floated down and stepped into a military tent. All the soldiers here had fallen into a deep sleep. Only two "people" were in the main tent, playing chess and drinking.

“Even in a dream, you are too comfortable.” Ye You said with a smile.

"Aren't you waiting for Night Patrol to finish his patrol so that you can come here for a drink?" The slightly thinner man stood up with a smile on his face. He had a handsome face, but it was a pity that Night Patrol knew his true identity very well.

The other middle-aged man poured himself another glass of wine.

"Why is alcohol banned in the army? We can only have a few drinks in our dreams... It's not fun to go out at night, it's not fun at all."

"Pei Hang, Ba Jie, do I need to remind you? Li Ji has returned, and I'm afraid that what he has seen and heard these days will be reported to the Monster Star. The war will probably usher in a change." Ye You said softly, "I don't know why you monsters are so leisurely. You are clearly at a disadvantage, but you are not in a hurry at all?"

"Urgent?" Pei Hang laughed, picked up an empty wine glass, poured a glass of wine and handed it to Ye You, "We don't need to be anxious, there is nothing in this world that should make us anxious. Did the destruction of Fengdu scare you? Or did the fall of the Ten Palaces make you feel threatened?"

"We came here with our troops to preserve our strength and to help the demon star. But why did Mr. Huang Kui only let a demon king receive us?"

"Yeyou, even if you are a demon king, you still have your place here. Do you think that our system is the same as that of the human race, and that it is a little inappropriate? We are also demon kings, but positions are positions. If you don't obey the arrangement, don't come to Saibei to be a demon. It's that simple." Ba Jie smacked his lips, "Although you don't understand, you still did it, which is good. It's better than those Yin Shuai."

"…Riyou is not disobeying orders."

"I know." Pei Hang smiled. "Your Excellency will not make a mistake. The sun has not recovered yet, so it is not a good time to go into battle. And now we are showing weakness to the enemy. The defense line of the Wei Dynasty is looser than it was three years ago."

"Three years..."

"Is it strange?" Pei Hang patted his sleeves, not caring about the time. "The monsters have a long life span, so we can fight them for a long time. Master Qin is indeed not an ordinary man. Since he has been guarding the border, we have never taken advantage of him. But he is old after all. Can his spirit support him to guard the border for eight, ten, or even twenty years?"

"you……"

"We can afford to waste time. Yeyou and Fengdu can't afford to waste time, and we feel sorry for that. But we can afford to waste time very much. When Master Qin can no longer support the border, it will be our time to fight back. Before that, of course, we have to hide our strength." Pei Hang's handsome face now showed a sinister smile, "He is a good man who cares about the country and wants to protect more people. This is great. If he ignores the people and directly leads his army to the north to attack Mr. Huang Kui, and destroys the demon star at the cost of Lingzhou, or at the cost of Kui and Yongzhou behind being burned by the war, it can also be regarded as a solution."

"Isn't that more to your liking?"

Pei Hang laughed loudly: "That's right! Although the demon star has fallen and the people of the northern border can no longer fight, the demons can still attack the three states and go straight into Guanzhong, and even threaten the capital. By then, we will divide our forces on the spot, and Qin Zhong will not be able to come back to help. With only the people in the demon suppression department, who can stop us? The mortal army is no different from chickens and dogs to us."

After a night out and drinking, I felt a bit complicated.

Fengdu is not necessarily much worse than Saibei. Of course, Yeyou has not seen the hidden strength of Saibei, so it is difficult to make a judgment. But in terms of "resembling humans", the monsters in Saibei are much stronger than Fengdu.

"You thought of all this?"

Pei Hang was stunned, then sneered: "Although I know some things, the overall strategy was thought up by the demon king who received you. After all, that demon king was given the name 'Xu Fu'. As for how to do it as a whole, it is difficult for us subordinates to get a glimpse of the whole picture."