Patrol Captain

The wind and snow were howling, and the chains were rustling.

Under the cover of night, the ancestral mountain shrouded in shadows looks like a man-eating abyss.

In this gloomy night, someone drove a group of chained and disheveled figures into the mountains!
It's like herding livestock!
There were shouts of fear and curses from among them, but these people had no power to resist at all.

Behind them there was a mass of black air lurking, controlling these figures of Tianguan like puppets, and they stepped into the vast ancestral mountains in the darkness.

And behind these people, there were several figures hidden in the void, concealing their bodies and following behind, just like shepherds driving a flock of sheep, and they went into the mountains together.

One of the invisible shadows turned its head when entering the mountain. Its sharp eyes like an eagle looked through the boundless wind and snow, and glanced a few miles away. Then it turned around and rushed into the vast fog of the ancestral mountain!

A few miles away, in front of a bronze carriage with rows of armors, Chen Yuan faced the biting wind and snow, squinting his eyes as he watched the group of people enter the ancestral mountain, golden light dancing in his eyes.

"I didn't expect that the chief secretary of the Beiliang Palace would actually agree to it!" A slightly surprised voice sounded in Chen Yuan's ears.

On the side, Pei Yanhu, who was wearing tiger armor, had lightning in his eyes. He saw the group of Beiliang people setting off and looked thoughtful.

"Because they were planning to go into the mountains in the first place. The prince of Beiliang has been missing for so long. Every day of delay would increase the danger. I think they had already made preparations to go into the mountains."

"Besides, I gave them some clues and death row prisoners. There's no reason for this person to refuse!"

Chen Yuan put his hands behind his back, speaking in a leisurely tone, as if he didn't care at all.

"If this mountain is really as dangerous as you said, then the Prince of Beiliang has been missing for so long, I'm afraid he must have met with an accident. These people..." Pei Yanhu tilted his head and frowned. He didn't finish his words, but his meaning was very clear.

It means that I am not optimistic about these people!
Chen Yuan shook his head, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes.
“I think there’s some chance!”

"That prince of Beiliang was able to send a message half a month ago, so he must have some treasures on him. These people may have known that their young master is still alive through some means, and maybe he has something that can sense it, so they agreed with me and went into the mountains immediately!"

"Just wait, it won't cause any loss to us anyway!" Chen Yuan said in a relaxed tone, with wrinkles at the corners of his eyes rising.

After hearing what Chen Yuan said, Pei Yanhu thought it was very likely and nodded.

He now has a clear understanding of his own position and knows that Chen Yuan has his own methods of doing things, so he does not ask any more questions.

"You have your own reasons for doing things, so I won't say much. By the way, the eunuch sent by the court couldn't stand the torture and has confessed the purpose of this trip."

"This person has come here on the order of the Emperor. The order is for you to issue an order to tell the world that you have no intention of rebellion and are willing to come to the capital to plead guilty. Your Majesty will show leniency and give you a lighter sentence."

Chen Yuan heard this, his eyebrows moved slightly, turned around, and sneered, "It's not surprising to me!"

"Why is it not an imperial edict but an oral order? There is a lot to be said for this."

"If I were the emperor, I would probably do the same."

"You mean, His Majesty wants to calm this matter down, and then summon you to the capital to find a reason to kill you?" Pei Yanhu frowned, not caring at all about Chen Yuan's disrespect to the current emperor, but heard the implication of Chen Yuan's words.

"To kill or not to kill is entirely up to our Majesty!" Chen Yuan's face showed no emotion.
"It depends on whether I am willing to be a minister quietly or transfer to another position. Anyway, I can forget about coming back to Shu."

"The emperor's mind is hard to predict. I'm afraid he will try to eliminate the problem in the end!"

Chen Yuan said this without any burden. It was pure nonsense to say that he, a time traveler, was loyal to an emperor whom he had never even met.

He is loyal only to his own power.

He could see a lot from this oral instruction.

"Damn it!" Pei Yanhu gritted his teeth, veins rolling on his face, and spat.

"Haha, old man, don't get angry. This is expected. The oral order is just based on the eunuch's words. Now he has no say on how to say this."

Chen Yuan already had his own thoughts on the matter. Then he became more serious and looked down, "What did you get out of this eunuch about Xu Shaoqing and the Deputy Inspector of the Sky Patrol?"

In fact, he had another purpose in injuring the lamplighter and having his men take him away, which was to confirm from the eunuch's mouth whether the words of the other two were credible.

"The three of them have their own missions and they don't communicate with each other. This eunuch only knows that the people from the Patrol of the Sky are here, and they want to take back a group of detained Sky Marchers from us."

"As for the Junior Secretary of the Ministry of Rites, the eunuch only said that this person is not as simple as he appears to be. He doesn't know much about him. He only knows that it was the Martial Temple who passed on the order. He is very tight-lipped and even he doesn't know."

"But it sounds like you are quite dissatisfied with him, and I am afraid you are trying to take advantage of him."

Pei Yanhu lowered his voice.

When Chen Yuan heard this, his eyebrows flickered slightly, and then he rolled up his sleeves and said, "That's it."

"No matter what their purpose is, I will stir up some trouble and muddy the waters before I leave!"

"I have sent a message to secretly bring Mr. Gongsun from the front line!"

When Pei Yanhu heard Mr. Gongsun, he was stunned for a moment, then he suddenly realized and a smile appeared on his usually serious face.

"Then I am relieved!"

As he spoke, the commander seemed to have let go of a worry, and felt relaxed. He did not stay any longer.
"It's already late at night, and the Fusi can't be short of people, so I'll take them away!"

Chen Yuan nodded.

Then, Pei Yanhu quickly left with a group of armored soldiers.

Chen Yuan stayed outside the ancestral mountain, turned his head and looked at the ancestral mountain not far away, his eyes shining with light.

"Lu Ming, it's very cold at night. Pass the order down and have your soldiers light a fire to keep warm!"

"Yes!"

Before long, in the pitch-black night, wisps of blazing flames rose up, dotted the snowy mountains and forests, accompanied by the sound of popping firecrackers.

On the other side, in the ancestral mountain there was green mist and howling wind.

There was a shrill scream.

In the dark green fog, the death row prisoners, with their hair loose, looked around in the fog.

The shackles on their bodies have been removed. They are holding various Taoist weapons in their hands. Their eyes are filled with doubt and fear, and their bodies are tense.

"Something in the Fog 1"

In the mist, there was a swaying figure like a ghost, and the paper money flying in the mist from time to time gave people a creepy feeling.

Suddenly, there was a surge of energy in the fog, attacking a death row prisoner from behind, very close to him.

The man's face suddenly changed, he turned around abruptly and raised his sword to block.

"Ding"

The swift impact sent the man flying towards the other side of the foggy forest and into the mist.

The next second, a pair of pale hands stretched out from the fog like lightning, grabbed the man's shoulders, and dragged him into the depths of the fog, accompanied by the terrified screams of the death row prisoner.

"What the hell are these things!" "No, chase them, or we won't know how we died."

Someone yelled hoarsely. Three people were ambushed and captured by the thing in the fog for no apparent reason. The intense fear made someone go crazy. He immediately led the Taoist soldiers and chased in the direction of the screams.

Someone took the lead, and the others followed with a stern look on their faces, suppressing their fear. They followed the sound of screams, through the fog, and finally came to a grave.

A lonely stone tablet, a grave mound covered with overgrown grass, and the sounds of struggle and screams coming from the grave mound.

The Tianguan death row prisoners who had chased after them got goosebumps when they saw this scene. They looked at each other with fear in their eyes.

"Pretend to be a ghost!"

Someone was so scared that he shouted to give himself courage and then chopped at the grave.

The tomb mound was split open, breaking into two with a loud bang. Inside was a black leather coffin. The coffin was opened, and the Tianguan death row prisoner who had just been captured and disappeared fell out.

This person's eyes were bulging and his face was distorted. He seemed to have been frightened to death and his soul had been sucked dry!

This scene made these death row prisoners feel a chill all the way down to their heads.

"Run back!"

The former family guard, now a prisoner, facing such a gloomy and unclear death, now all he wants is to escape!
So, everyone prepared to sprint in the direction they remembered coming from.

However, the next second, these people's figures suddenly stiffened, and a black gas emerged from their bodies, tightly controlling their bodies.

Then, several figures appeared from the air.

The leader among them snapped his fingers towards the fog, and black streaks of light flew out from his fingertips.

Soon, the black gas penetrated the fog and landed on the figures whose faces were as pale as paper. Then, the figure quickly turned into a paper man, and then flames rose up, burning the paper men one by one.

The pairs of lifelike eyeballs looked extremely eerie in the firelight and were submerged in the blink of an eye.

The leader, with a thin face and a pair of eyes as sharp as an eagle, watched all this with a frown on his face. Then he came to the tomb and looked at the coffin and corpse inside with a fixed gaze.

Chang Jinchun came to the corpse and touched the center of its eyebrows with his finger. The brain was empty and the spirit inside disappeared completely in a short time. No one knew what destroyed it or took it away.

"It seems that Chen Longhu didn't lie to me!"

At this time, the prisoners on death row bared their eyes and screamed.

"Let us go, we want to go back."

"We would rather go back to death row than die in such an unclear way."

Chang Jinchun turned his head, and the respectful and steady demeanor he showed in front of Chen Yuan now turned into a sharp aura like a knife, and the powerful aura of a half-step dragon and tiger enveloped these people.

“Shut up. If you want to shout loudly to attract the monsters wandering in the fog and turn you into corpses in the grave, I will not stop you.”

As he said this, he sneered.
"Go back. I just tried to find the way back, but I couldn't find it, let alone you. This place has been distorted. We can only move forward."

"Chen Longhu handed you over to me, and your lives are in my hands. If you can help me find the prince, you will be a meritorious official of Beiliang. At that time, you will have another identity, and Chen Longhu will not pursue you anymore."

"You're going to die anyway, so why not help me find the prince? That way you can have a chance of survival!"

The prisoners on death row these days only realized what was happening when they heard this.
"What? The Prince of Beiliang also disappeared here!"

They knew that this prince of Beiliang had caused a stir when he first entered Jinguan City.

Chang Jinchun said nothing, raised his hand and lifted the restrictions on these people. After the restrictions on these death row prisoners were lifted, their expressions changed for a moment, but no one dared to move.
This strange place is full of fog. If I run around, I won’t even know how I died. I think it would be better to follow this person from Beiliang.

At this time, Chang Jinchun turned his head and ordered the people behind him, "Sacrifice the prince's life lantern!"

"Yes! Lord Changshi!"

Soon, someone spit out something, a golden light flashed, and a golden lamp flew out.

This lamp is about a foot high, with sacred golden light and clear colored glass. At the wick, a pea-sized blood-red flame flickers.

This is the Life Fire Glazed Lamp!
This item is a thing of borrowed luck. It can nourish the soul, strengthen the luck, and feed back to oneself. It was refined by someone who spent a huge amount of money and consumed his own luck.

This belongs to the Prince of Beiliang!
Brought it here from Beiliang just to find this prince.

Judging from the life fire, the prince is not dead yet, he is just in a bad condition.

They have to find the prince based on the sense of life fire.

"Keep going up the mountain!"

Chang Jinchun took the life lamp in his hand, then recited a spell. After a few breaths, he blew suddenly at the life fire on it, and the life fire, which was originally the size of a pea, instantly swelled.

Then he threw the glass life lamp in his hand forward!
This life lamp instantly emitted a glazed golden light, broke through the green mist, and flew in one direction.

Chang Jinchun's eyes suddenly gleamed.
"Follow!"

time flies.

Outside, the sky gradually brightened, the wind stopped and the snow stopped.

In the woods outside Zushan, piles of bonfires had burned out, but wisps of green smoke were still rising.

Inside a bronze stable, a figure in green was lying on thick fur, taking a nap. Suddenly, a golden light appeared in the cleft between his brows.

The next second, the golden flesh crack suddenly opened hideously, golden light flowed inside, and pictures flew by.

The flying tombstones, the terrifying paper figures, and the cracked mountain were swallowed up, along with the old man holding a golden lamp and with half of his body torn apart.

Then, after a sharp tinnitus, the scene changed, and a bloody hand was pulled out from the bronze coffin. As the eyes turned to look up at the sky, a vast thunder pool and countless coffins floating in it were seen.

The next second, the picture was suddenly interrupted.

Chen Yuan suddenly opened his eyes and rubbed his aching temple with one hand.

Wait until the shrill sound in your ears recedes like the tide.

The light in his eyes became extremely bright.

Everything is connected together!
This mountain actually leads to the forbidden area of ​​demons!
At this moment, countless thoughts surged in Chen Yuan's mind, and plans were deduced in his mind one by one.

Since all these strange things come from a legend uttered by Huanlong.

Why not create a legend yourself?

Let the world fight for it, break into the forbidden land of demons, break into the Ten Thousand Mountains.
Chen Yuan suddenly stood up, and a bold plan emerged in his mind!

I also need to pave the way for my trip to the capital of gods! (End of this chapter)