It doesn't matter what the lord is.

Fires of this magnitude are rare in the world. The body of the sandworm is tens of thousands of meters long, which means that everything within the field of vision is filled with golden-red flames. Even if all human masters evacuated at full speed at the first opportunity, those who ran slowly or had bad luck still died in the fire.

Lid remembered that he had heard Bai Huang and He Yue mention Lingwu Lord several times, saying that she was not only a wise king who was proficient in internal affairs, military affairs, and supervision, but also had unrivaled strength in the same realm. Although she has not yet broken through the tenth realm, from the sword just now, she has the ability to kill the tenth realm. It seems that her record of killing the red copper giant alone last year was not exaggerated, and Lingwu Territory did not misappropriate other people's military achievements to her name.

Reed took a quick look at the Lingwu Lord.

The residual heat of the flame is still there, and a heat wave with embers is blowing in the face.

The layman looks at the excitement and the insider looks at the doorway.

Normally, even magic cannot do this, because the magic power in a person's body is limited. Unless it is a great magician of the tenth level, no one can summon a flame of this scale. When the magic power is exhausted, the flame magic will naturally die out.

But Reed could see that the sword of Lord Lingwu was different.

She directly ignited the powerful force flowing within the sandworm's body.

The swordsman uses sword energy, the magician consumes magic power, which is essentially a kind of power flowing in the meridians, which seems to be visible but invisible, and invisible but visible. The flame of the Lingwu Lord seems to be able to directly and unreasonably ignite the power in the opponent's body. The fuel of that golden flame does not essentially come from the Lingwu Lord, which is the most terrifying thing.

For example, if we compare creatures to war machines, a normal duel is a competition of whose firearms are fierce, whose combat skills are superior, and whose ammunition reserves are sufficient. Compared with the sandworms, although the Lingwu Lord was generally at a disadvantage, she turned around and blew up the opponent's gunpowder depot before the battle. She didn't even use her own ammunition reserves, so she could watch the opponent desperately die in the sea of ​​fire from afar.

Creatures like sandworms have a huge force that can tear the world apart, but they lack the skills to control the force and can only act recklessly. When the flames start, they don't know how to cut off the flow of force to avoid large-scale burns. They can only struggle desperately, so all the strength in their bodies is stimulated, which is like adding fuel to the fire. Naturally, they will not stop until there is not a drop left.

Under the gazes of everyone, the calm Lingwu Lord landed lightly on the ground with Zhan Mei in his arms, his toes lightly touching the ice and snow without leaving a trace.

The scarlet veil seemed to float upwards for a moment, but before others could get a full glimpse of her, the veil had already covered half of her peerless beauty, leaving only a pair of captivatingly beautiful eyes.

66. Advice before departure

Even if the mother sandworm is dead and buried in dust and ice, it still faces north.

When it just crawled out of the ground, it looked in that direction. Now that its body has turned into charcoal, it is still looking there.

In the last moments of its life, the mother sandworm tried its best to crawl towards the north, its chirping filled with despair and resentment. Unfortunately, it didn't crawl very far before it was burned to ashes.

As if they had sensed the death of their mother, countless young weeping night sandworms crawled out of the soil and scrambled to crawl to the side of their mother, which had turned into charcoal. Their tiny bodies trembled constantly as if they were crying.

Lingwu Lord handed the unconscious Zhan Mei to Zhan Gui, who quickly called the medical team and handed Zhan Mei over to them for treatment. The injured human masters were also helped or carried away with the medical team. When almost everyone left, the burly man knelt down on his knees and kowtowed deeply to Lingwu Lord, thanking her for saving his sister.

At the same time, apologize for your incompetence.

Lord Lingwu did not accept his thanks, nor did he respond to his apology. He just said "keep on your way" and turned away.

Lid stared at her back, and waited until the red figure disappeared from his sight before moving his eyes away. Perhaps to others, what happened just now was just that the Lingwu Lord made an exception and saved the dying Zhan Mei, but Lid knew very well that there was nothing so simple behind it.

Before Lid ran over here and tried to catch the falling Zhan Mei, Lingwu Lord did not move a step. Just like she had said to Zhan Gui before, this battle was all left to Zhan Gui and his men to solve. So even though Zhan Mei was about to die, she remained unmoved. At that time, she looked indifferent and did not even look at the Deputy General of Yuewei who fell from the sky from beginning to end.

So what was the reason that made Lord Lingwu finally choose to take action?

Perhaps she sensed a crisis, so she made the most appropriate choice at the moment. Last year in Yuxi City, the Ten Kings of Hell of Lingwu Hidden Guard would rather kill Xi Luo than let Xi Luo join Yuxi City. This was the judgment of the Hidden Guard and the judgment of the Lingwu Lord. To this day, in fact, the Lingwu Lord still does not fully understand why the emotionless Xi Luo betrayed the Hidden Guard in the first place, and even did not hesitate to become an enemy of the Hidden Guard.

But at that moment, Lord Lingwu suddenly felt a sense of crisis. If he continued to let this situation continue, would Zhan Mei, who was rescued by Lid, also follow him and leave Lingwu?

If Zhan Mei joined Yuxi City, would Lid's power begin to expand further? What kind of bad influence would the betrayal of Vice General Yuewei bring? Would he hunt her down like he hunted down Xi Luo? But what would Zhan Gui, the then General of Yuewei, think?

This is a bottomless pit. Zhan Mei can die in the war, but he cannot withdraw from the war in this way.

So before that, Lord Lingwu chose to take the initiative to rescue.

The reason why Lid stared at the back of Lingwu Lord was because he guessed the cause and effect of this matter, but even if he saw it, he would not say anything. Lingwu Lord saved Zhan Mei, which meant that Lid's strength was not exposed. This was actually a good ending for everyone.

Moreover, Lid felt that Zhan Gui and Zhan Mei should also understand the truth to some extent...if they really understood Lingwu Lord. This woman is not cold on the outside but warm on the inside, she is cold in her bones, so she can be above the emotionless hidden guards and command this group of killing machines; so she can defend against the invasion of the giant tribe, one of the six tribes in the north of Yongtian Kingdom while being enemies with the royal family.

She did not destroy emotions with external force like the hidden guard, but she also regarded emotions as useless dregs.

Alayya and Shiloh quickly rushed over here, and Reed stopped thinking about this matter.

Alayya stood beside Lid, carefully checking if Lid was injured, and asked:

"Master, are you okay?"

Lid coughed twice deliberately, pretending to be weak and frail. After Alaiya's hands touched him all over, he smiled and replied:

"I should be the one asking you this. Are you all right?"

Alaiya breathed a sigh of relief and replied:

"It's okay... I just didn't help much."

Lid reached out and rubbed Alayya and Shiloh's heads, half squatted down, thought for a while, and then asked:

"Well, let me ask you another question. Do you feel like you have grown this time?"

Alayya and Shiloh lowered their heads and uttered "hmm" softly.

Lid stood up, exhaled a breath of hot air, and said with a smile:

"That's enough."

For Alayya, although this experience of life and death cannot allow her to directly leap from the seventh level to the eighth level, this experience will be of great help to her in improving her realm as soon as possible. This is also the reason why Reed brought them here to gain experience.

Lid squinted his eyes and thought for a while. He felt that he needed to explain some things to them, because he might be separated from them soon, so it would be better to make it clear in advance:

"Alaiya, Xiluo, remember this. You are indeed dispensable in the battle just now. For this journey north, the power of Yuxi City is indeed insignificant. So don't set too high standards for yourselves. The fact that you survived the battle just now and were able to escape unscathed after fighting a behemoth of the tenth level is commendable in itself. Remember what you learned in times of crisis and continue to grow."

Alayya and Shiloh both nodded.

Because of the ground collapse, Lingwu's army decided to take a detour. A large number of weeping night sandworms have gathered around the mother body. It will be difficult to dig up weeping night sandworms to guide the direction during the march. Fortunately, this place is very close to the edge of the weeping night plain, and Lingwu's army can explore the rest of the way independently.

Before leaving, Reed found Shiloh standing silently in front of the burnt sandworm mother body.

Around the mother body, countless tiny sandworms stood up with their heads lowered, as if in mourning.

There was a rare hint of sadness in Shiloh's dull eyes.

Come to think of it, it seems that she rarely mentions her parents. Is she sad because of the past?

Lid walked to her side, stood side by side with her, and comforted her:

"This is the end of the Overlord. The sandworms that roamed the northern border thousands of years ago are also doomed to become weak and old. Judging from what happened just now, this may be the last mother sandworm in the world. The environment of the Weeping Night Plain is already harsh and unsuitable for living things to survive. From now on, I'm afraid even creatures like the Weeping Night Sandworm will slowly become extinct, and eventually the entire tundra will be completely reduced to a dead place. All living things have spirits, and these little guys must have sensed their own end, which is why they are so sad."

Shiloh said nothing, biting her lip gently.

Reed patted her on the back and said:

"This is the disadvantage of large creatures. Even though it didn't seem to target us from the beginning, it is too big and can easily cause great harm to the surrounding area. Lingwu's strategy is correct. If we let it continue to cause trouble, most of the army will be destroyed here. Killing and being killed are the choices that must be made. Their end has been doomed since the moment Kungu created the giants."

Shiloh let out a small sigh.

Lid knew that she was still a little sad, so he stood there with her, looking at the corpse of the sandworm until the wind blew out the last trace of flame and all the smoke and dust drifted away. Only then did Shiloh open his mouth and whispered:

"if……"

She paused, with a hint of regret in her tone:

"It would be so delicious if the fire wasn't so big."

67. Everyone has their own dreams and they are all wonderful.

As Reed expected, the appearance of the sandworm mother was just the beginning, and a new crisis was about to come.

Just after leaving the Weeping Night Plain, seven territories jointly put pressure on the Lord of Lingwu, demanding that Lid be expelled from the team.

The reason they gave was simple: under his suggestion, everyone chose to go to the Weeping Night Plain, but then they encountered a giant mother sandworm. If the giant worm was not so old, or there were more of them, I'm afraid everyone would die in the Weeping Night Plain. Come to think of it, in so many territories, no one had ever heard of the existence of the Weeping Night Sandworm, but Lid, who was traveling north for the first time, knew everything about it...

All signs indicate that he may have wanted to lead everyone to death from the very beginning.

As for his motives for doing so, no one could tell, but who knew that he had no deal with the giants? If these people really died in the Weeping Night Plain, then for the giants it would be like killing three birds with one stone: severely damaging the sandworm, the original overlord thousands of years ago, preserving the giant army assembled in the Cold Abyss Corridor, and cleaning up the main hostile force heading north.

Of course, these are just excuses put forward publicly.

There are many real reasons behind this. For example, many masters from each territory died in this battle. Although most of them were the weakest, they were all the hard work of each territory. Someone has to take the blame for this matter. Lingwu certainly can't take the blame, so the only person who proposed the plan can be held accountable.

For example, when Garberd leaned on a sword and forced their masters to fight, the Lingwu army survived intact. Although this seemed reasonable at the time, it was essentially the Lingwu lord forcing their people to charge in the front through force. If they did not protest now, if she did the same thing again when fighting the Golden Giant, I'm afraid that not many people in other territories would be able to return alive.

Therefore, it is most appropriate to bombard Lid at this point in time. On the one hand, Lid himself is a public enemy, and other territories generally believe that he is a useless burden; on the other hand, Lord Lingwu does seem to have a subtle concern for him, and using him as a warning can be a good way to test Lord Lingwu's attitude.

It was unknown who initiated the pressure this time, and the "Rebate Alliance" was also involved. The leader was a young man from an unknown family, who looked quite capable, but unfortunately he was still three inches shorter than the Lingwu Lord. His voice was somewhat unconfident, and it took him a long time to put forward his demands: Let Lid go, otherwise he would withdraw from the Northward Journey.

The Lingwu Lord was wearing a veil, so no one could see her expression, but Reed vaguely felt that she smiled.

The temperature around suddenly became a little colder.

The people from the seven territories held their heads high and refused to retreat. This was related to the interests of each family, and no one was willing to retreat at this time. Although they were not the core members of each family, since they were sent to the north, they were definitely not good-for-nothings. Even if Li Neng was relatively smart among the young masters of Yunyang, he was just too self-centered.

Lingwu Lord did not speak, which formed a sharp contrast with the young masters who kept speaking. But the more people spoke, the more panicked they tended to be. The Lingwu Lord who did not speak a word was the source of pressure.

The emperor was furious and millions of people were killed and blood flowed for thousands of miles. These few people were not enough to kill them. It was just that they believed that the Lingwu Lord would not kill them at this time, so they dared to do this and frantically test the edge of death.

The atmosphere instantly became tense.

At this moment, Reed, the person involved, slowly walked forward, came to the leading young man, said nothing, asked nothing, and kicked him on the knee.

The young man fell to his knees without any reaction.

Lid put his hands in his sleeves and said with a smile:

"Hey, you mean to blame me for this? You are so shameless, how about you go walk through the Cold Abyss Corridor again and see if there are more dead people walking through the Weeping Night Plain? How dare you ask that? If I don't leave today, what can you do to me? Do you really dare to quit heading north now and go home by yourself? Can you go back?"

Lid crossed his arms and looked at the seven young masters present, sneering:

"And you guys, stop being so stubborn and complaining. If you have the ability, come and fight me. I'll do whatever I want and you'll be done. Let me tell you, if I want to stay here, no one can drive me away!"

As soon as the words fell, the seven young masters widened their eyes and raised their heads abruptly, not to look at Lid, but to look at Lord Lingwu.

The Lingwu Lord stared at Lid's back, narrowed his eyes slightly, and said in a cold voice:

"Are you making the decision for me?"

Lid seemed to be completely unaware of the coldness coming from behind him, and continued to speak nonsense to the sons of the seven territories:

"Hey, did you hear me? Don't mention any of you. Even if all of you quit the Northward Journey, I will not leave here even a step! Do you know why? This is called having three thousand beauties in the harem, and three thousand favors in the harem..."

Before Reed finished speaking, the air vibrated and a huge pressure suddenly made everyone present unable to move.

The princes of the seven territories knelt down on the ground in an instant. Reed frowned slightly, but still stood there without looking back.

Lingwu Lord said lightly:

"After the last hunt, I allowed you to enter the Lingwu upper echelons to travel with Zhan Gui and others. If you had stayed there honestly and kept your mouth shut today, I would have let you stay. But now it seems that you have become arrogant and don't know how to advance or retreat after I have given you a little trust. In this case, you should leave on your own."

Only then did Reed turn around and look at Lord Lingwu with his dark eyes. Lord Lingwu was also looking at him.

The two people looked at each other for a brief moment, and the world was silent at this moment.

The next moment, Lid's shrewd and strong aura instantly dissipated, and he suddenly fell to the feet of the Lingwu Lord and cried bitterly. While crying, he tried to hug her thighs and beg for mercy, but was kicked away by the Lingwu Lord. Alaiya and Xiluo drew their swords and stood in front of Lid and the Lingwu Lord, but were stopped by Lid himself.

He said to the Lingwu Lord:

"Okay, I'll leave. But my people, can they stay?"

Mu Risheng moved his mouth, wanting to take the opportunity to say a few words to ask Alayya and Shilo to follow Reed. After all, in this environment, one more person leaving would mean one more death, and cutting the grass at its roots was the best option.

But before he opened his mouth, he heard Lingwu Lord say:

"Your crime is disrespect, not theirs."

Mu Risheng shut his mouth instantly.

Lid got up from the ground and rubbed his chest that was hurt by the kick. Alayya and Shiloh cast worried glances at him. Lid turned his back to the people in other territories, shook his head gently at them, and then said to the Lingwu Lord:

"Thank you very much."

After he finished speaking, Reed turned around and walked into the snowstorm step by step.

People from other territories breathed a sigh of relief.

They thought today would be a more intense conflict, but they didn't expect Lid to kill himself with his actions, and voluntarily gave himself up. This made them lose a lot of sense of accomplishment, but it did make them feel a lot more relaxed. When they were against the Lingwu Lord just now, the feeling of having their blood frozen was simply not something that ordinary people could bear.

——But the Lord of Yuxi City is indeed a good-for-nothing.

He thought he could do whatever he wanted by holding onto the Lingwu Lord's thigh, but he didn't know that he was just a knife in someone else's hand at best. A knife cannot actively hurt people, otherwise it would be disrespectful to the owner. If it doesn't even give the owner face, it will be soon abandoned.

68. Tenth Level Henchman

"Idiot - idiot idiot idiot idiot! Why did you provoke her? You've put me in danger... Ah! You're the one who's disrespecting her, okay? I can still go back, right? Wuuuuu, I won't eat this useless Lacquer Moon Armor, please let me go back, please."

The little slime hugged Reed's chest and cried bitterly.

Reed looked at it with a smile and said:

"No, I'll drag you down with me if I die. We don't ask to be born on the same day, but we ask to die on the same day."

"Who wants to die on the same day as you?!"