Refusing to ascend at the beginning

Chapter 269

"Boom! Boom..."

"Father, mother... I heard from my neighbor Uncle Li, are we all going to die? What is 'death'? Is it scary? Why is everyone so scared?"

In a small house, a girl's curious voice rang out.

The innocent and romantic curiosity and confusion of the child formed a very sharp contrast with the pale faces of her parents looking at the roof tiles.

The woman in the room heard this, touched the girl's head, and forced out a smile that was uglier than crying.

And this smile only fleetingly passed away.

The girl didn't get the answer, so she lowered her head and clasped her fingers and asked, "I sneaked out to play yesterday and saw Uncle Li, Aunt Li, and brother Ah Chen. They all hung themselves on the door with ropes. What were they doing? ? Are you playing some game? Why doesn’t dad let me watch it? "

The woman turned her head away, a look of unbearableness flashed across her face, while the man beside her glared angrily and shouted: "Stop talking!"

The girl trembled in fright. Looking at her fierce father, she was a little frightened and cried "Wow".

The man became even more irritated by the crying, so he stood up and walked out of the door.

He wanted to take a breath of fresh air outside, but he didn't expect that just after taking a breath, what he smelled was the stench of corpses permeating the surroundings.

The man covered his face in pain and squatted down in despair.

He knew that at this time in the city, it was not just his neighbor Li's family who chose to hang themselves...

This is Yuxiang City, a city under the rule of Pei State. It is not far from the capital. If you take a warship, you can reach it in about a month.

The city is quite large and the city itself is very prosperous.

But at this moment, the city was completely devoid of the bustling bustle of the past, replaced by gloom and gloom.

A strong fear of death lingered over the city.

"Boom! Boom! Boom..."

Along with the roaring sounds of attacks on the city defense formation outside the city, these fears shook the hearts of the people in the city.

Ever since the defenders stationed at Yuxiang City had exhausted their last soldiers and could only rely on the city's defense formation, they had been trapped for seven days.

Everyone knew that Pei State was in a difficult situation, so there was no need to think about reinforcements.

In the protective formation above the city, you can already see the cracks embedded in the air with the naked eye. Even those who have not practiced before know that this formation will not last long.

They also know that since this war, wherever the iron hooves of the Zhou Dynasty have run over, no one has survived.

Therefore, from the day they were besieged, they knew that they were waiting to die.

These days, they are tortured by fear every moment, like a blunt knife cutting flesh. Many people choose that instead of waiting for the Great Zhou to break into the city and be brutally killed by him, it is better to have a hearty last meal while they are still alive. Eat, and then die together.

In recent days, more and more people in the besieged city are experiencing mental breakdown, and more and more people are choosing to commit suicide.

The entire Yuxiang City was filled with depression.

What is surprising is that it is not just the inside of the city that is depressed, the atmosphere among the besiegers outside the city is not much better either.

The Iron Hoof of the Great Zhou Dynasty has been frightening for the past two months. In the imagination of outsiders, all of them are murderers. They should all be majestic and disdainful of human life.

But at this moment, in addition to the practitioners who were attacking the formation, the soldiers who were camped outside the city all looked haggard, looking at the towering city wall numbly like zombies, their eyes were bloodshot and there was no trace of spirit.

How does this look like an army that has won successive battles?

Except for a few soldiers whose eyes were shining brightly and who were licking their lips with bloodthirsty murderous intent, most of the soldiers looked at the city defense formation with more and more cracks and felt extremely conflicted in their hearts. They even secretly prayed in their hearts not to break the formation. most.

They no longer want to kill anyone.

Who is born to be a murderous maniac?
Even a man who is used to seeing life and death, no matter how brave he is on the battlefield and has killed countless enemies, his mind is almost broken after slaughtering more than ten cities in a row.

The armies of the two countries confront each other, and soldiers die on the battlefield. This is their glory and destiny.

No matter how brutal the fighting was during the battle, no matter how many soldiers died on both sides, they would not frown.

But killing unarmed civilians is another matter.

The cries of swaddling babies, the ignorant eyes of young children when watching the falling sword, the begging for mercy of honest farmers, the nostalgia in the eyes of ancient old people, every time they dream back at midnight, they will collect debts from them and let them sleep at night. Can't sleep.

In the Great Zhou army, many people chose to be deserters, wanting to get less blood on their hands.

But for up to half a day, their heads would be hung in the most conspicuous place in the military camp as a warning to others.

The people in the city don't want to die, but they can't live.

People outside the city didn't want to kill, but they were forced to pick up the butcher's knife again and again.

This chaos in Middle-earth is so weird.

The choice of life and death is not in the hands of both parties, but in the hands of a practitioner who is accompanying the army of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

And that man stopped in mid-air at this time, looking at Yu Xiangcheng excitedly.

It seems that he is not looking at a city, not at a group of living beings, but at... the raw materials for alchemy.

He is the elder of the Heart-Destroying Pavilion, but he just swallowed the Hidden Heaven Bead and now disguised himself as a practitioner of the Immortal Fate Chapter.

His realm is among the best among the cultivators hidden in the armies of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and he has reached the early stage of the Seventh Realm.

The cultivators of the Seventh Realm posed too great a threat to the mortal army, so along the way, he destroyed the city in succession, until he was only a few cities away from the capital of Pei Kingdom.

According to his understanding, he was the fastest and might be the first to break into the capital of Pei.

This made him very excited, and he wished he could break through Yuxiang City right now, collect the essence and blood, and continue moving forward.

Unfortunately, Yuxiang City is already close to the center of Pei State, and the defensive formations are well done, so it will take more time.

However, it's coming soon.

A cruel smile appeared on his face.

Not long after, the last loud noise came——

"boom!"

The city defense formation was finally broken!

The elder of Heart-Destroying Pavilion was delighted, and he immediately waved downwards.

The generals on the ground took the order and passed on the order to enter the city and massacre.

The soldiers in formation had a look of resistance on their faces, their movements were dragging, they stopped every three steps, they really didn't want to enter the city.

In mid-air, the person from Destroying Heart Pavilion snorted coldly, raised his hand and waved out a stream of light, which landed behind the square formation.

It is the magic sound bell of the Heart-Destroying Pavilion.

Then, a bell rang suddenly, and the soldiers in the phalanx trembled inwardly and looked back in fear.

"Clap clap clap..."

A series of light explosion sounds were heard. The heads of the soldiers in the last row were suddenly crushed and exploded like watermelons. Red and white filth covered the backs of the soldiers in the second to last row.

Immediately afterwards, a bloody light emerged from the fallen headless corpses and converged towards the magic sound bell.

"If you delay any longer, I will move forward and kill them all row by row." The cold voice of the elder of Heart-Destroying Pavilion came from the sky.

The soldiers who were still alive immediately showed pain on their faces and ran towards Yuxiang City.

Within the city, shouts of "the city has been broken" spread one after another, and desperate cries rang out from everywhere in the city.

Everyone's cries were mixed together, and by the time they reached the air, they had converged into one voice.

Listening to it, it's like the city is crying.

The elder of Heart-Destroying Pavilion in mid-air showed an expression of enjoyment, and the smile on his face became even brighter.

What the demons of their lineage love most is to destroy a person's mind and then taste their despair.

Just before the Great Zhou army was about to enter the city gate, suddenly, two figures came through the sky from a distance, so fast that even the elders of Heart-Destroying Pavilion could not react.

"boom!"

There was a violent turbulence, which made the soldiers of Zhou Dynasty falter and stagger.

After standing firm, they looked up and found that there was an extremely deep, extremely wide, and extremely long ravine in front of the army, blocking their way.

They had only seen such great power in their lives, and even the practitioner accompanying them in the army was far from enough.

They looked up in horror and saw two figures standing quietly in the air, and at the same time they heard one of them say: "The three sect leaders are here, please stop."

The ones who came were naturally Su Han and Xu Lele.

Xu Lele originally wanted to strike at the Zhou army with a sword, but while he was still far away, his mind sensed the inner resistance of the soldiers to entering the city, and the practitioner's attack on his own soldiers. , when he was confused, he chose the route that just blocked their progress.

After striking the sword, he turned to look at the practitioner holding the bell weapon and frowned slightly.

At this time, the elder of the Heart-Destroying Pavilion came back to his senses. In shock, he used a string of bells to attack Xu Lele, while he hurriedly rushed back.

The demonic sound was so loud that even the air vibrated visibly!
Xu Lele waved his hand without changing his expression, smoothing out the sound waves of the magic sound, then stretched out his hand to take the string of bells in his hand.

"Huh? The magic sound bell?" He recognized this natal artifact that belonged exclusively to the disciples of the Heart-breaking Pavilion.

Su Xuan also frowned.

Xu Lele closed his palms and easily crushed the natal magic bell of the Seventh Realm person.

The elder of Heart-Destroying Pavilion, who had escaped far away in an instant, was shaken, and blood flowed from his seven orifices.

He didn't even have time to wipe away the blood, so he ran away at an even faster speed.

However, the next moment, Xu Lele's figure appeared in front of him, pinched his neck, and stopped him abruptly.

"Why are you running in front of me?" Xu Lele said lightly. He looked at the guy who had no power to fight back and frowned, "How could the people from the Heart-Destroying Pavilion be mixed up with the army of Da Zhou? And they were swallowing To hide the Dzi Pearl? The seventh realm...the cultivation level is not low."

The elder of Heart-Destroying Pavilion only felt that the pain in his soul was unbearable, like a thousand swords piercing the soul!

The hand that pinched his neck, its strong sword intent acted directly on his soul, causing more and more blood to flow from his seven orifices, and he soon became a bloody man.

"Why?! Why would the top of the Nine Realms appear here?!" There was only horror in his eyes, and he was roaring crazily in his heart.

Xu Lele snorted lightly and returned to the sky above Yuxiang City with the magic cultivator in his hand.

"The cultivation level is not low. He should be an elder-level demon cultivator in the Heart-Destroying Pavilion." Xu Lele said to Su Han.

Su Han squinted his eyes and stared at the demon cultivator in his hand, and suddenly thought of the cultivator with the same strange aura found in the Imperial City of Great Zhou.

At this moment, it seems that he must be a demon cultivator who swallowed the Dzi Bead and disguised himself.

Since there is a demon sect involved, this war is not as simple as it seems on the surface.

The Zhou army in front of the ravine outside Yuxiang City was stunned for a long time before they finally confirmed that the cultivator who truly regarded ordinary life as nothing had been caught. Not only did they not panic or run away, but Released the weapon in his hand with relief.

Accompanied by the sound of weapons falling to the ground, each of them couldn't help but kneel on the ground, digging their fingers into the ground, crying bitterly, as if they wanted to let out all the oppression they had suffered from the daydreams they had been having for the past two months. .

Tens of thousands of soldiers felt remorse, self-blame, and guilt. Their strong emotions were released at the same moment, and soared into the sky.

Feeling this extremely strong emotion, Su Han and Xu Lele looked at each other in surprise, both frowning in thought.

The people in the city didn't know what was happening outside, but they still felt that their death was coming, and the crying had not stopped.

So, all of a sudden, inside and outside the city, everyone was crying.

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(End of this chapter)