Lord of the Desert

Chapter 175 Force Majeure
The sky is bright.

The sound of dogs barking and people gradually rose, and there was smoke in the city.

Hong Fan went to Tieyingtang of Cui's house to get a new steel sword and hung it around his waist, and went back to Chaoriyuan.

After washing, changing clothes, and eating some Aunt Liu's hot pancakes, he returned to Beicheng.

It wasn't until he stood on the high wall and put the camp of the snake people in the distance under his nose that Hong Fan's mind settled down.

Then, he found a corner in the tower where no one could get in the way, pillowed on his sword scabbard and covered his helmet, and fell into a deep sleep.

This feeling was quite unsteady, and the nightmare continued.

It sounded like a battle drum.

It seems that there are vertical pupils watching.

The knife was cut sharply, and the hair was covered with blood.

At the end of the dream, Hong Fan inadvertently looked towards the sky, and vaguely saw a big snake with several heads staring at him...

I don't know how long I've been asleep for this sleep.

When he lifted the helmet on his face, the iron armor on his chest was already hot from the sun.

The sun is blinding.

Hong Fan squinted his eyes to catch a glimpse of Tianguang, only to feel dizzy and painful in his head, so he closed his eyes again and changed to looking inside.

True Qi is flowing automatically.

Although he didn't rest well, his combat strength was still mostly restored.

Thanks to the Dragon Soul Fruit, his cultivation has successfully broken through the second Hunran Meridian, and [-]% of the third "Yangwei Meridian" has been opened up.

"you're awake?"

Someone is talking.

Hong Fanqiang opened his eyes, only to notice that Hong Shengli was not far away.

He was wearing heavy armor, his body smelled of blood and sweat, and there was a fresh wound on his left cheek, from the corner of his eye to his jaw.

Fortunately, the wound is not deep, and the medicine has been applied.

Hong Sheng looked extremely serious.

But I haven't seen him for a day, he seems to be ten years older.

"what happened?"

Hong Fan knew something was going to happen, so he blurted out and asked.

"The blood sacrifice of the snake man has begun."

Hong Sheng replied.

"The five-sacrificing snake man who fought against his father at dawn entered the altar."

He knew very well that what the other party asked was not the wound on his face.

After two bloody battles, as long as people are still alive, missing arms and legs is not a big deal.

Hong Fan got up immediately when he heard the words, and cast his gaze to Beibei.

The red mist that covered the sky in the early morning has disappeared.

Snake people surrounded the altar layer by layer, waiting quietly.

As far as the picture is concerned, there is nothing special about it.

But Hong Fan could feel that kind of depression—for example, the dull atmosphere before a storm.

The atmosphere in the city was equally dignified.

He turned his gaze around.

The city wall has been largely cleaned, and the corpses of the two armies are gone—since we know that the snake people have special means to draw blood from the air, the human side will naturally respond.

He also saw Zhu Jingfu and Jia Ziyong among the newly replaced defenders in the city.

Upstairs in the main city, five masters of sympathy between heaven and man gathered together, as if they were discussing the means of joint attack.

Only Hong Wu and Gongsun Shi were seriously injured by Broken Tooth and were unable to fight again in a short time, so they were replaced by Ge Tianlang, the head of the whirlpool sect, and Cui Jiayan, the head of the Cui family.

At this moment, Hong Lie came up on the wooden ladder.

"How is uncle's injury?"

Hong Fan asked first.

At dawn, he heard that Hong Li had been wounded by a snake man of the Fourth Sacrifice, but at that time he was exhausted physically and mentally, so he couldn't care more.

"I just came from the mansion."

Hong Lie replied with a three-point smile.

"I was slashed on my thigh, which hurt my bones and muscles; fortunately, there was a pad for my skirt armor, so there is no danger of my life."

Sheng Fan and the two of them were relieved when they heard the words.

After a while, Hong Sheng couldn't help asking: "Cousin, is there a time when the snake man's blood sacrifice fails?"

"Of course there are; but since they're done, there's something to be said for sure."

Hong Lie replied.

"We can only wait for the results."

"Without an absolute advantage in combat power, it is impossible to fight the snake man in the field."

Hong Fan nodded silently.

In the second bloody battle, Jin Haicheng suffered more than [-] casualties, slightly more than the Snakeman.

In addition, more than a thousand people were exhausted and unable to fight for a short time.

This still relies on the city walls and ordnance.

Half an hour later, it was not time (two o'clock in the afternoon).

The sun is at its peak in the day.

The blood spring of the altar boiled without fire, and a lot of bubbles came out.

A moment later, a huge snake skin floated up in the blood and quickly melted.

The snake people held their breath and looked forward to it.

They were not disappointed.

Ripples appeared in the bloody water, and red scales covered with fire slowly rose from it, and the body was more than a meter longer than before.

On the top of the city, countless hearts sank to the bottom of the valley.

Hong Fan swallowed his saliva, and watched the snake master general three miles away get off the altar.

"It has completed the sixth blood sacrifice?"

Hong Sheng asked softly.

No one answered.

In the distance, Chilin stretched his body and looked at his brand new body.

Then it looked at Jinhai City from a distance, and took an iron spear from Broken Yam.

After accumulating for a moment, the iron spear was thrown.

【What does it mean? 】

Just when Hong Fan was wondering, the turbulence and shock wave generated by the spear tearing the air spread, blowing away the sand within tens of meters of the red scale.

At the foot of the altar, a yellow cloud rose on the flat ground.

Time seemed to slow down.

On the city tower, even a master at the sympathetic level of Hunran, who has poor eyesight, can't see clearly the trajectory of the spear throwing.

In the eyes of everyone, there is only a red mark running across the atmosphere.

After that, the ring-shaped shock wave exploded heavily, like flower buds in a series of cones, blooming in layers one by one.

The iron spear hit the city wall below Hong Fan's side.

The gravel and soil clods exploded, and the shock wave pushed and released.

In the near-vacuum impact area, the atmosphere suddenly rolled back, causing strong convection to rustle Hong Fan's armor.

It wasn't until this time that the thunder that threw the spear and broke the sound barrier was long overdue, passing the city all the way to the distance.

The smoke died down.

The Iron Spear had already been smashed to pieces.

But the savage spirit representing absolute power swept across the city like a tsunami, extinguishing the fighting spirit of the defenders.

"It became..."

Hong Lie replied with a trembling tone.

He has fought against the snake people many times, and he knows that it will take several months for them to harden their scales after the blood sacrifice and stabilize at the new pinnacle of power.

For the snake man on the opposite side who was able to confront Hong Jian at the fifth sacrifice, this "peak" may be the middle level of Yuanci, or it may be high level.

But no matter what, it has now crossed the boundary between innate and original magnetism.

The spear just now is the proof.

Hong Sheng gritted his teeth.

Hong Fan's hand pressing the city wall was also trembling.

At this moment, the first thing the traveler felt was a trance.

After coming to Dahua for a whole year, he has earned many identities.

Dragon Bestowed Star King, Jinhai Tianjiao, Mathematics Genius...

Although the way forward was undecided, no matter how he thought about it, it shouldn't be too bad—until he witnessed the spear-throwing that spanned three miles just now.

Hong Fan suddenly understood what force majeure was.

He couldn't help but have an idea in his mind.

[Jinhai City can't hold it anymore, I will die here. 】

Formless and massive fear spread out, gripping Hong Fan's heart.

More and more chaotic thoughts followed.

[The sea of ​​gold will be broken. 】

[I have a lot of things attached to me. 】

[There is no need to make unnecessary sacrifices. 】

【If I leave now, I can escape...】

Thoughts rise and fall, circling endlessly.

Until there was a click.

It was Hong Fan who suddenly pulled out the steel sword.

From beginning to end, he didn't move.

There are not so many complicated trade-offs in the past, just three words.

Can't do it.

(End of this chapter)