I became a fox girl and was captured by the True Dragon Saint

After Li Ke finished speaking, he lay down on the stone table.

He didn't say much today, just sat there silently and listlessly.

Pei Min felt a little sorry: "It's true that you've been too busy in the past ten years. I can count the number of times you've been home on one hand... But it's been relatively quiet recently. You should go home, take a few days off, and spend time with the children."

However, this time Li Ke shook his head.

"What's wrong with you? Before your son was born, weren't you always clamoring for a holiday? Now that you have a family, why have you changed your temper?" Pei Min was surprised.

"Now that I have a son, I understand the importance of our work," Li Ke perked up and smiled. "Every time I kill a bastard, he will face less danger in the future. I'll kill as many as I can."

"It doesn't matter. There aren't that many bastards to kill recently. Xiao Yu and I can handle it." Pei Min urged, "Get out of here and stop getting in my way."

Li Ke didn't move: "Wait a few more days, I always feel that the recent silence is not right..."

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The forty-fourth year of Zhenguan.

A huge energy fluctuation erupted in Uttarakuru, the earth turned into molten magma, and the sky and the earth changed color.

Pingtian Army General Pei Min, Deputy General Li Ke, and Military Advisor Xiao Yu were ordered to go.

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25. The Northern Change

In the distance, columns of hot magma are constantly spewing into the sky from the center of Uttarakuru, accompanied by choking black smoke falling to every corner of Uttarakuru.

The earth was divided into isolated islands by lava.

Most of the residents of Uttarakuru seemed to have been frightened silly. They just hid on the rocks tremblingly, and then watched the rocks melt little by little, become shorter, and finally be soaked in the magma along with themselves.

If they were monks, it would be fine, but since the war, the proportion of monks in the population of China is not high.

Many of those trapped on the isolated island are mortals who have no ability to practice spiritual cultivation.

"Li Ke, you lead the soldiers to rescue people first. Xiao Yu and I will go to the eruption site to investigate." Pei Min said.

"Be careful. There is no warning sign for such a large-scale outbreak. There must be something fishy going on." Li Ke said solemnly.

"You should be careful too, this eruption may not be over yet." Xiao Yu threw away the novel that was ignited by the high temperature and sighed softly, "The ancients said that the entire Northern Continent is a huge crater... I didn't expect it to be true."

As a continent covering one quarter of the area of ​​the mainland, if Uttarakuru becomes a volcanic crater and erupts completely, the entire China will certainly be submerged in magma.

By then, no one knows how many more casualties will occur in Shenzhou.

Fortunately, after that battle, the relationship between monks and mortals underwent tremendous changes.

Today's monks are more like an ordinary profession, just like soldiers with weapons.

Although he possesses military power, he does not think himself superior to others. Instead, he will take the initiative to risk his life to rescue trapped mortals.

Of course, this is also due to the efforts of the Mingzhou tribe and the imperial examination system.

Ming Ling passed on the knowledge she learned from Jiang Ke'er widely, allowing ordinary people to have impressive productivity and the high-level positions that they must hold.

The value of knowledge and technology has never been inferior to power, and it is not something that can be taken away by putting a knife to your neck.

During the forty-three years, knowledge developed and spread rapidly in the mortal world, producing batch after batch of outstanding talents.

The monks focus their energy on cultivation and have no extra time to learn knowledge.

But the opposite is true for mortals.

The two sides help and complement each other. Mortals create matter, and monks transform matter into power. Each is indispensable.

——If you want to be respected, you must first have value.

The mortals understood this truth, and the monks also gladly accepted this subtle change.

Therefore, although Uttarakuru has become a tragic scene like hell on earth, the number of casualties is not exaggerated.

Thanks to the quick response of the local monks, they united to prevent the spread of magma, and then transported the mortals away in batches in an orderly manner...so only the casualties at the center of the outbreak were heavy, and the casualties in other places were close to zero.

——Looking at the casualties reported, General Pei finally breathed a sigh of relief.

For many years, Shenzhou has been working hard to change for the future "battle against the immortals", and the results of these changes have been remarkable.

Recalling the scene forty-three years ago when his master took him around to study but encountered setbacks, Pei Min felt like a dream when he saw the scene now.

If Master comes back... he will definitely be pleased with the current state of Shenzhou, right?

But why haven't you come back yet?

"Everyone, temporarily ease the suppression of the volcanic crater eruption, retreat little by little, and relax the suppression."

At this time, the monks of Beijuluzhou formed a circle and formed a huge formation to suppress the eruption of the crater. Pei Min walked to the group of monks from Beijuluzhou and said in a deep voice.

"Ah! It's General Pei! General Pei is here!"

Seeing this familiar figure, the monks from the surrounding Uttarakuru instantly felt at ease and cheered as if they had been encouraged.

"I will need your help from now on. I hope you can step back little by little and relax the pressure," Pei Min raised his hand and said, "The internal pressure has been increasing. If we don't release some of it, it is likely to cause a large-scale collapse around it. By then, the situation will be even more difficult to contain... Besides, we can't go in under this high pressure."

"As ordered!"

General Pei’s words are like an imperial edict, and may even be more effective than an imperial edict.

The emperor would be constrained by the situation in the court and have many restrictions and concerns, but General Pei would not.

He is a reckless and brutal soldier who will only kill to protect the people.

Just as Pei Min said, the surrounding ground was already showing signs of cracking. If the internal pressure was not relaxed, the entire Uttarakuru would become a horrible bomb!

Even if the suppression is relaxed, it still cannot keep up with the trend of increasing internal pressure.

"We really have to go in?" Xiao Yu felt his scalp tingling as he looked at the orange-yellow beam of light. "It's too dangerous. How about calling some more people to help?"

"No one can help, and there is not enough time... Let's go."

Pei Min first swung his sword and performed several sword dances, creating a protective light shield around him, and then rushed into the hot lava first.

Xiao Yu's whole body transformed into lightning and he followed closely with crackling thunder.

"Mother Earth must have eaten several pounds of croton seeds to be so powerful." Xiao Yu felt the terrifying pressure of the lava impact and complained repeatedly.

"Silence."

Pei Min signaled Xiao Yu to be quiet... He had already noticed the abnormal fluctuations under the lava column.

There are traces of spiritual power, which is a regular rhythm.

Since there are rhythmic rules, there must be formations.

This huge eruption in Uttarakuru was indeed man-made.

To be able to pull off such a big move, the Jiexian Palace is most likely behind it, but... what is their purpose?

"call out--"

A transparent attack pierced through the magma. Pei Min dodged sideways and rushed to the place where the attack came from.

"Zi-"

The feeling of the sword tip piercing his flesh made Pei Min feel a little relieved. While the opponent was not able to escape, he quickly swung his sword upward again to destroy the attacker's sea of ​​consciousness to prevent him from reviving.

"careful!"

Xiao Yu leaned against Pei Min, and lightning flashed, sending four or five transparent needles flying.

After working side by side for many years, the two have already developed a tacit understanding of cooperation and quickly resolved the threats around them in no time.

"I'll go check the identity, you close the formation." Pei Min made a prompt decision.

He didn't know as much about the formation as Xiao Yu, so he didn't blindly and arrogantly survey the formation. Instead, he found a body that had not been burned by the high temperature and took the time to check their condition.

"That's it again."

All the attackers had their faces polished off.

Pei Min was able to tell from their tattoos that they were disciples of the Jiexian Palace... but this made him even more puzzled by these people's face-grinding behavior.

Since the identity cannot be concealed anyway, why cover the face?

The only possibility is that they can recognize their appearance themselves, and that is when they need to cover up.

But... he had already killed hundreds of these face-grinding disciples, and as far as he knew, there weren't so many familiar faces disappearing.

Then why...

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26. A powerful enemy beneath the earth's crust

Not only that, except for their faces being worn, these guys are exactly the same in height and body shape.

As if they were carved from the same mold.

"General, this is not good."

Xiao Yu's call came from the formation, and Pei Min hurried over to confirm the situation.

"These formations are spreading deeper and deeper, and are constantly increasing the pressure under the entire Northern Continent. We have to go deeper to blow up the formations... This is just a little bit of the exposed surface."

"Then get off."

Pei Min continued to rush deeper into the lava column without waiting for Xiao Yu to describe the danger.

Xiao Yu gritted his teeth and followed... He could feel the pressure around him becoming more and more outrageous, and the temperature rising higher and higher.

No one knew how thick the earth of Shenzhou was. He felt like he was about to penetrate Shenzhou and rush into the legendary underworld.

"General, I can't keep up," Xiao Yu said breathlessly, "The pressure here is too great. It's still about five miles deep from the core of the formation. I can't get there."

At this moment, Xiao Yu felt it was difficult to move forward. His lightning sword intent could no longer resist the high pressure around him.

"Then go back and help Li Ke first, in case someone is up there doing something bad."

Even the sound transmission was greatly affected, and Pei Min's voice was already intermittent when it reached Xiao Yu's ears.

"Understood... Then you should be careful. The core of the formation should be an energy stone," Xiao Yu explained the formation to Pei Min at the fastest speed before leaving. "After the energy stone is destroyed, the surrounding pressure will drop suddenly, and Shenzhou will undergo unpredictable changes... You must also leave quickly to avoid being trapped under the rock layer."

"Yeah." Pei Min responded, and then disappeared from Xiao Yu's spiritual perception range.

Xiao Yu didn't have time to worry, and quickly returned to the ground.

Pei Min gritted his teeth and continued to go deeper under the pressure.

His strength was indeed much stronger than Xiao Yu's, but as the pressure from below increased exponentially, even he felt that the spiritual energy in his body was being consumed like a basin with a hole in it.

It must be resolved as soon as possible.

But it is not easy to find the energy hub under such high pressure.

Besides...

"Ding--"

A sword blocked the flying needle.

This time the force of the needle was obviously much greater than before, and Pei Min was even knocked back dozens of meters by this needle.

With alarm bells ringing in his heart, Pei Min felt the crisis of life and death.

The other party must be very powerful to be able to stay here for a long time, and its overall strength is probably not weaker than mine... Besides, the other party occupies a powerful terrain at this time, and I will be at a great disadvantage if I go upstream.

"You arrived a little quicker than I thought."

The other party's voice came leisurely.

Pei Min could not forget the name of this voice no matter what. The disastrous defeat at that time still bothered him until now. He was afraid that he would reveal his master's secret because of his recklessness.

——Yuwen Qu!

The only disciple of the national teacher.

Damn, he actually guards this place personally... What on earth does he want to do?

The surrounding high temperature and high pressure seemed to have no effect on Yuwen Qu.

He swam in the lava torrent like a fish, sometimes left and sometimes right.

Pei Min knew that he could not catch up with him, so he attacked directly towards the core of the formation.