I am Master Maoshan

Chapter 2123 Blue and Gold Cavalry
“My lords, are you from the Skyfire Divine Realm?” The old man hunched over, a gleam of light flashing in his cloudy eyes.

Liu Jun and Xu Baoer looked at each other and saw vigilance in each other's eyes. Liu Jun subconsciously touched the hat on his head to confirm that the dragon horn was completely covered. Although the dragon scales can be retracted and extended freely, the dragon horn is still a trouble.

"Hmm? Old man, how did you know that?" Liu Jun asked in a casual manner, while looking at this seemingly ordinary old man inconspicuously.

He noticed that the old man's left little finger was missing a part. Although the wound had scabbed over for many years, one could still see how serious the injury was.

The old man grinned, revealing a few yellow teeth. "When I was young, I did medicinal materials business in the Skyfire Divine Territory for decades. Your accents still have the unique ending of Skyfire City."

As he spoke, the old man made way for the other person and turned to point to a yellowed map hanging on the wall inside the house. "Look, that's the trade route map I drew back then."

Xu Baoer looked in the direction of the old man's finger and saw a sheepskin map covered with mold spots, on which were marked seven trade routes from the Skyfire Divine Realm to the Platinum Divine Realm in red. She keenly noticed that three of the routes passed through a place called "Black Water Swamp", which was heavily crossed out with black ink.

"Old man, let me ask you something." Xu Baoer retracted her gaze and softened her voice unconsciously, "Are you the only family left in our village?"

The smile on the old man's face suddenly froze. He trembled as he took out a copper pipe from his arms, stuffed some dried herbal leaves into it, took a deep breath, and then answered: "There are only nine households left, all of them are old bones and youngsters."

In the smoke, the old man's eyes became vague. "Last month, when the Silver Armor Guards of the Platinum Divine Realm came to recruit strong men, we, the old, weak, sick and disabled..." He raised his crippled left hand and shook it, "were not even qualified to be cannon fodder."

"Call for help?" Liu Jun grasped the key words sharply and exchanged a solemn look with Xu Baoer. He noticed that when the old man said this, a muffled "dong" sound suddenly came from the well in the yard, as if something hit the wall of the well.

The old man seemed not to hear the noise in the well, and continued to mutter: "Yes, the order was issued by the God King himself. All men over the age of sixteen and under the age of fifty must apply." He suddenly lowered his voice, "I heard that the lair of that terrifying monster was discovered in the Black Water Swamp in the north, and the masters and troops of the Platinum God Realm have basically rushed there to kill it."

At this moment, there was a sound of hurried horse hooves in the distance. The old man's face suddenly changed, and his pipe fell to the ground with a clang: "Oh no! It's the patrol team! Hurry up!" Before he finished speaking, several figures riding black war horses and wearing platinum armor appeared at the entrance of the village.

Liu Jun's pupils shrank - there was a faint blue light flashing on the hooves of those war horses.

"They are the Blue and Gold Cavalry from the Platinum Divine Realm," Xu Baoer explained.

As one of the five major divine domains, the Platinum Divine Domain naturally has elite troops similar to the Extreme Fire Army. The Blue Gold Cavalry is one of these elite troops. Their individual strength is not as good as the Extreme Fire Army, but their number is much larger than the Extreme Fire Army, with a total of 200,000. Normally, their mission is the same as the Extreme Fire Army, which is to protect the Divine King City. The only difference is that the Extreme Fire Army protects the Sky Fire Divine King City, while the Blue Gold Cavalry protects the Platinum Divine King City.

The Blue Gold Cavalry only obeyed the orders of two people in the entire Platinum God Realm. One was the Platinum God King, and the other was the chief steward of the Platinum God King's Palace, Jin Buhuan. These two people had supreme status in the Platinum God Realm, and their orders were the guide for the Blue Gold Cavalry's actions.

Liu Jun looked at the war horses that were flashing with a faint blue light and couldn't help feeling a little confused.

Logically speaking, if this kind of elite force that guards the royal city appeared here, it must be that Jin Buhuan, the chief steward of the Platinum God Palace, is here, or just like in the Skyfire Divine Realm, a new God King has appeared.

These blue-gold cavalrymen were armed with sharp weapons, and as soon as they appeared, they rushed towards Liu Jun and his men like a tiger descending from a mountain. Their eyes revealed indifference and murderous intent, and it was obvious that they were not ordinary enemies.

Xu Baoer looked at this sudden situation and couldn't help but blink, feeling a little confused: "What's going on? Did they see us?"

There was a hint of nervousness in her words. After all, the sudden appearance of an enemy always made people feel uneasy, but not scared. With her strength, even if she was injured, it would not be a problem for her to kill a hundred or eighty such cavalrymen.

Liu Jun did not answer Xu Baoer's question, but responded quickly. He raised his hand and waved it, and several invisibility charms appeared in his hand. He attached these invisibility charms to the three of them, and his movements were skillful and fast.

Although this invisibility talisman may not be effective against strong people who have reached a certain level of strength, it is definitely enough to deal with these cavalrymen.

The elderly couple looked at each other in amazement at this scene. The three living people who had just spoken to them disappeared in the blink of an eye.

They were very surprised, some even couldn't believe their eyes. Even the crying children stopped crying after seeing this scene, blinked their eyes and forgot to cry.

Just then, the sound of horse hooves came closer, and the blue and gold cavalrymen actually rode directly into the yard.

They had no intention of going through the main gate at all. The leading cavalry captain shouted loudly, raised the front hooves of his warhorse high, and slammed heavily into the adobe wall with his body wrapped in blue and gold armor.

"Boom——"

The long-abandoned courtyard wall was immediately hit with a large hole several feet wide, and broken pieces of soil mixed with straw flew everywhere. The cavalrymen were unharmed except for a layer of dust on their horses and armor.

The old couple was in trouble. A fist-sized flying stone hit the old man's forehead, and blood immediately gushed out. The dark red blood flowed down the wrinkles and gullies, dripping onto the bleached coarse cloth collar.

The old lady hurried to help her husband, but the flying debris cut her arm, leaving a gash about an inch long, and blood soon soaked her sleeve. Only the little grandson was tightly protected by them, and the child's face turned pale with fear, but miraculously, even the oily skin was not scratched.

"Comrades, is there anything I can help you with?" The old man endured the severe pain and did not bother to wipe the blood that covered his eyes. He hunched over and walked forward to greet them.

His calloused hands tightly grasped the corner of his clothes, his knuckles turning white. The old lady trembled as she pushed her grandson into the house, but the child clung to the door frame and refused to move, his dark eyes full of fear. "Where's Sui Yang?" The cavalry captain opened his mask with a click, revealing a square face covered with scars.

He looked down at the old man, his voice sounding like it was pulled out of an ice cave. His eyes under the helmet glowed like a wolf in the shadows, and his right hand unconsciously stroked the standard long sword beside the saddle.

The old couple's faces changed drastically when they heard this. The old man staggered back half a step and almost tripped over the broken bricks on the ground. Sui Yang was their only son when they were 30 years old. According to the call for the Platinum Divine Realm a few days ago, Sui Yang met the conditions for conscription.

In order to protect their son, the old couple hid him in a well overnight. They thought they could hide the truth, but who knew that these evil stars would come to their doorstep.

The old lady suddenly knelt down, her bloody hands leaving several glaring red marks on her coarse apron: "General, please be kind, my son has tuberculosis, I'm afraid..." Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by the captain's cold snort.

"Bullshit!" The cavalry captain shook the reins violently, and the warhorse snorted and took two steps forward. "Someone saw him digging wild vegetables in the woods yesterday!" He suddenly leaned forward, and the joints of his armor made a teeth-grinding friction sound. "You should know what crime it is to hide a conscripted soldier. Old man."

The old man's legs went weak and he knelt down, blood oozing from his forehead mixed with cold sweat dripping onto the muddy ground. At this moment, a "clang" sound came from the inner room - the child hiding behind the door knocked over the pickle jar.

The cavalrymen all looked over. The captain narrowed his eyes and suddenly grinned: "It's okay to take this kid away to make up for the number. It just so happens that the altar needs more than 9,000 children."

"No!" The old man suddenly rushed over and hugged the captain's horse leg. The old lady let out a shrill wail and rolled over to her grandson.

The cavalrymen were in an uproar, and they all drew their weapons. With a flash of cold light, the captain had already put his long knife on the old man's neck, and the blood line left by the blade was particularly glaring on the old man's skin.

Outside the hole in the courtyard wall, some old, weak, sick and disabled villagers gathered around, but no one dared to take a step forward.

In such a war-torn time, it is already very difficult to survive, and no one has the ability to help others.

Just as the cavalry captain raised his long sword with a fierce smile, the cold light reflected from the blade flashed across the old man's cloudy pupils,

Xu Baoer's fingers hidden in her sleeves suddenly tensed up. Three silver needles tempered with "Drunken Immortal Powder" shot out from between her fingers.

"Whoosh——"

The leading cavalry captain felt as if his neck was bitten by a mosquito. He was about to reach out to slap it when he suddenly found that his palm had become a double image.

The warhorse under him snorted nervously, and the master on his back suddenly fell down like a puppet with its strings cut.

The other cavalrymen were even more ridiculous. Two of them fell directly to the ground, and another fell sideways, with his head stuck in his companion's stirrup.

"It's great to be young, I can fall asleep as soon as I lie down." Liu Jun took off the invisibility talisman pasted on his chest, and the yellow paper talisman spontaneously combusted into ashes without wind.

Xu Baoer couldn't help but roll her eyes when she heard that. Liu Jun was still in the mood to make jokes at this time.

Looking at the injured old couple, Xu Baoer applied medicine to them respectively.

The wound on the old man's head stopped bleeding instantly, and the old woman's wound also formed pink granulations at a speed visible to the naked eye. The old man forgot the pain and his cloudy eyes widened: "Doctor, you are a great doctor!"

Suddenly, a voice with a changed tone screamed from the door: "The Blue and Gold Cavalry is dead!"

The old man with missing teeth was seen running away in a tumble. The shout was like stirring up a hornet's nest, and the other villagers also began to scatter. Among them, an old man with a white beard and a cane ran particularly well. When the cane fell to the ground with a "clang", the man had already run more than ten feet away, and his worn hemp shoes raised two puffs of dust on the loess road.

Liu Jun's mouth twitched. "It's a pity that he doesn't become a scout with these legs. Seventy or eighty years old is the best age to fight for success."

"My lords, you should run quickly. If these cavalrymen can't return in an hour, a large group of cavalry will come to find us, and then we will be in trouble." The old man's wrinkled hands tightly grasped the corner of his tattered clothes, and his turbid eyes were full of anxiety.

Liu Jun slowly picked up the dry and hard tortilla on the table, gently brushed off the dust on the surface, and took a bite. The rough texture of the tortilla made him frown slightly, but he still maintained a calm demeanor.

"Don't worry, don't panic, I can handle no matter how many come." As he spoke, his eyes glanced at a certain place in the yard, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

Xu Baoer touched the old man with her finger and said gently, "Don't be afraid, old man. I won't implicate you."

There was a faint blue light flowing between her slender fingers, which was her unique soothing technique.

The old man sighed heavily, and his hunched back seemed even more bent.