Aoyama

Chapter 269 Climbing the Tower

The long-ringing bell is heavy and rapid, like the Yellow River flowing from east to west.

In the grain and oil shop, Chen Ji was standing in the yard when he heard the bell. He suddenly turned his head and looked into the distance. He saw the large flags of the border troops on the parapets slowly falling down, as if the city was collapsing as well.

He waited for the bell to ring, wanting to hear how many times it would ring this time. But after waiting for a long time, the bell never stopped ringing, and it became more and more urgent!
Chen Ji's heart trembled, and he climbed up to the roof by the eaves. He stood on the ridge and looked towards the city gate, but he saw that the gate, which was originally tightly closed, had been opened at some point, and the yellow earth and charred mountains outside the gate were visible at a glance.

The next moment, countless black cavalry appeared on the horizon. The first one was wearing heavy armor, holding a fluttering black flag in one hand, and riding a majestic warhorse.

Jingchao Tiance Army!
Chen Ji's heart gradually sank to the bottom. He didn't expect that the moment of opening the gate and surrendering the city would come so soon. He looked around and found a higher building to climb up, wanting to see it more clearly.

In the wind and sand, black cavalry were seen approaching like a torrent, rushing into the city recklessly.

The border troops standing on both sides of the road threw away their halberds and broadswords, took off their rattan armor, and watched in silence as the Tian Ce Army came up to them, sitting on their horses and looking down at them from a high position.

Chen Ji watched silently for a long time. He had to return to Longmen Inn as soon as possible to pick up Xiaoman, Zhang Xia, and Zhang Zheng from leaving the prince and the Yulin Army.

But just as Chen Ji was about to jump off the roof, something strange happened.

The general holding the black flag stopped his horse, waved the flag with one hand and pointed it at Guyuan City: "Kill!"

A general of the border army stood in front of the flag, waving his hands and shouting something, but the general holding the flag rushed forward regardless.

The long tip of the flag fiercely pierced the body of the border general. General Jing Chao used the flag to pick up the corpse of the border soldier and waved it in the sky, turning his horse around on the spot as if to show off: "The fields are covered with bones, and the barren land is thousands of miles long!"

The Jing Dynasty cavalrymen slapped their heavy armor on their chests, making a rumbling sound: "The fields are covered with bones, and the land is scorched for thousands of miles!"

In an instant, all the Tian Ce Army cavalry raised their spears and rushed towards the border troops who had lost their weapons.

The last will of the late King of Jing Dynasty is true. The Tiance Army wants to break their promise and massacre the city!
Guyuan is finished!

The Tian Ce Army's cavalry rampaged through the city, and in a moment they split into eight black torrents that swept towards the heart of Guyuan.

The general who had been holding the banner earlier, along with more than a hundred riders, rode up the stone steps to the city wall and had a panoramic view of the entire city.

A soldier of the Tiance Army quickly climbed to the roof of the highest building in the city, holding a command flag.

The general on the city wall waved his flag, which was then passed on by the flag officers on each building. With such a wide field of vision, the general's orders could be delivered to every corner in a moment.

The black torrent of the eight-part essay moved with the flag order, as if it were an arm controlling a finger, and it inflicted a crushing defeat on the border troops!
Seeing the border troops falling in droves, someone among the Jing Dynasty's cavalry blew a loud horn. The horn sounded domineering, and more and more Jing Dynasty's cavalry rushed into Guyuan City.

The Tian Ce Army's cavalry pulled iron chains, and when they passed the earthen houses in Guyuan, the iron chains pushed down the houses like dead wood and rotten wood, burying the people under the rubble.

Some civilians escaped from the house, but were caught up by the Tian Ce Army's cavalry and stabbed to death with a spear!
The archer of the Tian Ce Army held a fire whistle in his mouth, pulled out an arrow wrapped in oilcloth from the quiver, and lit it with the fire whistle.

They shot arrows indiscriminately, burned everything in sight, and drove all the people in Guyuan City in the same direction, like shepherding sheep.

This is to gather everyone together and kill them all!
Chen Ji looked around, where was the white dragon?

Where is Hu Junxian?

Where are the firearms?
Isn't there a plan? Why is there no movement while watching the Tian Ce Army killing people like mowing grass?

……

……

At this time, hurried footsteps were heard on Taohuaifang Street. Chen Ji stood on the roof and looked down. It turned out that more than a dozen Yuancaotang employees who had been deceived to Duokufang before were coming with knives to kill them.

Someone looked up and saw the traces on the roof. He immediately raised his machete and pointed: "That guy is on the roof. Kill him!"

Chen Ji frowned and quickly jumped back into the yard.

He reached into the box and quickly stroked each ginseng. The ice stream that had been swirling in his dantian for a long time poured out, and each ginseng turned into crystal clear beads, and Wuyun swallowed them in big mouthfuls in the box.

The huge ice flow obtained from Prince Jing, Concubine Jing and Concubine Yun had never been dissipated, but now there is finally a chance!

The vast and majestic molten flow fed back and ignited the fire in his body.

One lamp after another, it was as if an inverted galaxy was ignited in the body, and Chen Ji's blood was burning!
With a loud bang, someone split the door of the grain and oil shop and roared, "He's in there, don't let him get away!"

But in the broken wood chips, Chen Ji had come to him.

The waiter from Yuancaotang chopped at him with a knife, but Chen Ji ducked to avoid the blade and punched the inside of the opponent's knee.

With a click, the guy's left leg twisted irregularly and his body fell to the left. Before he fell to the ground, Chen Ji punched him in the temple again.

The guy's head hit the ground, and there was a sound of cracking bones. His skull was shattered into pieces.

The dozen or so guys outside the door subconsciously took two steps back, breaking bones with their bare hands… This is an official in the Xiantian realm!

One of them gathered his thoughts and said, "Form a formation, and kill Xiantian as well!" As soon as he finished speaking, the servants of Yuancaotang worked in pairs, and more than ten people formed a plum blossom formation. Every two people were a petal, and they spun towards Chen Ji to kill him.

Chen Ji retreated step by step. The people in front of him were no longer the waiters in the herbal medicine shop. They were clearly the soldiers of the Jing Dynasty who had experienced hundreds of battles and were well-armored.

At this moment, the fire in his body was almost completely ignited, seven hundred and eighteen... seven hundred and nineteen...

Enough to break the formation!

The moment he turned around to meet her, the 720th fire in his body finally lit up, as if the last piece of the puzzle had been completed and the crescent moon had turned into a full moon.

Perfection!

However, just when Chen Ji was about to come into contact with the plum blossom sword formation, the fire in his body was extinguished again.

The world was silent, the sky and the earth were silent, and then there was a crackling sound between the muscles and bones.

Destruction in one moment, rebirth in the next.

Chen Ji only felt that his power was suddenly drawn away from his body by a huge force, and he became an ordinary person again.

The knife formation in front of him was pushing forward like a meat grinder. He originally wanted to break through it with a point and kill two people first to break the plum blossom formation. However, his punches were much slower than before and he couldn't break the formation at all!

what happened?

Why do we lose strength after lighting our whole body on fire?

Chen Ji retreated in a hurry, and the sword array swept past his abdomen, cutting a long slit in his robe under his ribs.

As he staggered, his muscles and bones cracked like thunder, causing the Yuancaotang waiter in the sword formation to wonder: "Climbing the tower?"

Chen Ji felt a sharp pain between his ribs, as if something was about to grow out wildly.

As he backed away, he lifted up the torn seam of his clothes to take a look, and discovered that a black stripe like a tiger had grown under his ribs, looking fierce and hideous.

The tiger stripes grew from the spine and spread to the abdomen, like a knife cutting through the skin and bones, and all the heat from the fire gathered here.

Chen Ji dodged the knife in a hurry and rolled to the other side of the knife formation in a panic.

and many more.

As the dark clouds continued to devour the crystal beads, the first fire began to burn again...

The second lamp, the third lamp...the ninety-ninth lamp!

The realm that had fallen previously returned together and became even more prosperous!
So, the mountain king's practice is to light up the fire all over his body again and again, grow tiger-like stripes and store the power within?

But Chen Ji wanted to call upon the power in the patterns but had no way of doing so, as if the molten stream from a furnace was locked within them and had cooled and solidified into black rock.

No, the sword seed that had been silent all this time suddenly drilled into the patterns and kept cruising in them.

Before Chen Ji could figure out what was going on in the sword array, a waiter shouted fiercely: "How dare you climb the tower at this time? We will kill him while he is sick!"

Chen Ji shouted with a dusty face: "Wuyun, eat quickly!"

One fire after another was reignited, and the strength that Chen Ji had just lost returned to his body. Although it was not much... it was enough!
In a flash, two swords came from the plum blossom sword formation, one on the left and one on the right. Chen Ji jumped lightly, and his toes touched the incoming swords, which actually jumped over everyone's heads and landed right in the "stamen" of the plum blossom sword formation.

There was a click.

Chen Ji raised his foot and kicked a man in the waist, causing the man to fly out with his spine broken. A gap was created in the knife formation by the kick!

The servants of Yuan Cao Tang were puzzled. How could the Xiantian Xingguan, who had just ascended the tower, build up to this point again in an instant?

Unheard of!

One of them raised his knife and chopped at him, but before the knife fell, Chen Ji had already grabbed his wrist and chopped at the other man.

The man whose wrist was caught by Chen Ji was like a shadow puppet being pulled by a string. He only felt a clever force coming from his wrist, and the two knives collided, and the heavy machete in the other man's hand broke.

The man's pupils shrank. The knife just broke like that?
"you……"

Before he could finish his words, Chen Ji grabbed his wrist and slashed it with his backhand. The guy cut his neck as if committing suicide, and blood splattered!

Chen Ji suddenly seemed to remember something and said loudly: "Wuyun, wait, don't eat yet!"

After Wuyun swallowed a mouthful of crystal beads, he raised his head from the wooden box with a bulging mouth and looked at Chen Ji blankly, sometimes asking him to eat quickly and sometimes not to eat. Should he eat it or not?

While thinking, the bead in its mouth turned into molten flow and entered its body. Chen Ji groaned, and the fire in his body went out again, and the second black mark grew out from his spine!

(End of this chapter)