It doesn't matter what the lord is.

He paused and then said:

"...Although I really want to say this, I actually have other intentions. The Prime Minister of our family has deduced the situation in the world many times. If we give Yuxi City another year to develop, we will be qualified to participate in the multi-party melee, but this time is probably gone. The sudden death of the giants is an emergency. If the Lingwu Lord can get what she wants, she will lead her troops south after she returns, and the battle will start soon."

Lid stretched out his hand, wiped the blood from his nostrils, and said to Huang Yan:

"You know it very well. The war between the royal family and Lingwu is just the beginning. The highlight is who will win the war between Xiqin and Nanchu, and how much strength the winner will have left. But that is something no one can predict. As the lord of Yuxi City, I can only make plans early and find reliable teammates in advance to help us deal with future dangers."

He smiled at Huang Yan, and Huang Yan smiled back.

In fact, before the catastrophe arrives, there is no point in saying these things. Perhaps the next moment, the two people standing here will be reduced to ashes, and everything we are talking about now is just a bubble-like illusion. Yuxi City will fall apart, and the rebels will be silent. These are all possible situations.

Li De knew this, and Huang Yan knew it too.

But even so, Lid still stretched out his hand to Huang Yan and said:

"I once asked you if you were willing to come to Yuxi City, and your answer was no. It doesn't matter, I can understand this, because you are the leader of the Southern Rebellion, and this is a responsibility you cannot shirk once you take it. Now let me change the question, are you willing to represent the Southern Rebellion and form an alliance with our Yuxi City?"

Huang Yan closed her eyes, and after a moment she smiled, gently placed her jade-white hand on Lid's palm, and replied:

"I, Huang Yan, have only one principle since I can remember. I will be doubly good to those who are good to me; I will wipe out the entire family of those who insult me ​​in my lifetime. If you and I can survive today, and if I win the world in the end, I will give it to you as a birthday present for that year. If not, being able to die with my brothers in the end will be the happiest thing in my life."

97. I want to be with my brothers

The third heavenly calamity suddenly struck.

Then came the fourth and fifth.

Although the main function of the heavenly tribulation is "purification", the power contained in it should never be underestimated. The third heavenly tribulation almost chopped Lid's entire right arm into a bloody mess, and the charred hand was completely stuck to the black flame armor. Lid's blood seemed to stimulate the hand armor that had been passed down for hundreds of years, and black flames gushed out, blocking the magnificent power above his head from the human world.

The fourth lightning turned half of Lid's body into charcoal. His internal organs were dislocated, his five senses were lost, his brain seemed to have long been numb to the pain, and his nerves all over his body became disordered because of the lightning. Huang Yan wanted to hug him as he staggered, and let himself face this cruel fate, but Lid waved his hand and insisted on bearing the fifth heavenly tribulation.

The moment this calamity fell, Lid suddenly heard an icy, inorganic voice in his ears:

"I ask you, what am I?"

After a little thought, Lid realized that this was the divine thought mixed in with the thunder tribulation. Since this heavenly tribulation was the guillotine prepared by the old gods for Huang Yan, the one who spoke could only be the old gods sitting high in the sky.

Lid opened his mouth and responded in a dry voice:

"god."

That cold voice sounded again, this time with even greater momentum, echoing over and over again between heaven and earth:

“What is God?”

Lidd replied:

“God is everything.”

The questioner seemed to be satisfied with this answer. His voice became a little softer and he asked again:

"Everything... why?"

Lid showed a mocking smile on his face and said:

"In your eyes, aren't all things just dogs made of straw?"

If we treat people as people, then the one who rules over all living creatures in the world is God; if we treat people as dogs, then who is the one who rules over a group of dogs?

Those who are desperate and displaced do indeed keep bowing to God, holding their faith in their hands and offering it to the temple, begging the gods to grant them a little grace, because they can only pin their hopes on this, and can only pin their fate on these illusory things.

But after experiencing failure and pain again and again, is there really no resentment in their hearts?

They kowtowed and burned incense to the expressionless statues, and bowed to the priests and nuns who spoke in official language, but what they got in return was a poorer and more difficult life, as well as some empty promises such as "I will be blessed in my next life" and "I will be born into a rich family in my next life." In the sober and lonely nights, did they really never turn around and doubt the existence of God's grace?

People believe in gods only because they have no other choice.

It’s just because once their wishes are shattered, what awaits them will be a more cruel reality!

They can only hypnotize themselves constantly, forcing themselves to believe that God is always watching them, and that today's suffering will always be exchanged for tomorrow's happiness.

But this does not mean that they don’t understand, don’t feel resentful, don’t hate, and don’t resent.

Because happiness is an illusion, while suffering is tormenting them all the time. Comparing the two, it is clear which side is more real.

After the fifth thunderbolt, Lid's entire body turned as black as charcoal. As he fell backwards, he shouted with all his strength:

“Huang Yan!!”

Huang Yan clenched his teeth, his white hair fluttering in the wind.

At the moment Lid fell, she immediately stepped forward with a knife and stood in front of Lid. Her eyes, as bright as the starry sky, were bloodshot, and her pure white and beautiful face was full of resentment and anger. Beside her, the dark evil spirit turned into ghosts and skeletons hovering between heaven and earth, as powerful as a hundred ghosts parading at night. The ghosts wailed, and the heaven and earth trembled. Huang Yan took the initiative to swing the knife in her hand, and the evil spirit surged up, directly smashing the sixth thunder tribulation.

Look at these eight million gods who are ignorant of the sufferings of the world.

The resentment in the world is no longer what it used to be!

Lid was very satisfied with this. He liked Huang Yan's youthfulness, that is, her reckless bravery. She was able to cross the giants' defense line alone to save Lid, just because of the promise that "from now on we are brothers." No one knew what kind of dangers she had experienced and how many giants she had killed.

Not long ago, the two of them had just fought side by side against the joint encirclement of the Giants and the Lingwu. What if they joined forces to withstand another heavenly calamity?

Huang Yan is like a hero in an epic poem, and heroes usually need teammates to sacrifice themselves to create enough anger and sadness for them to truly grow. Lid played this role very well. After the fifth heavenly tribulation, Huang Yan's resentment and murderous intent suddenly surged, and his will to resist turned into a monstrous murderous aura. How dare a mortal body resist the world?

Faced with the vast evil spirit, Tianjie realized that he had chosen the wrong target before.

But it was too late. The storm above was slowly gathering. The calamity that had accumulated for eighteen years would eventually run out. He had wasted too much energy on Lid, just like a middle-aged man who was eager to do his best in preparation for exercise. When it came time for the main event, he naturally began to feel backache and weakness. When it was Huang Yan's turn to be afflicted by the calamity, the power of the calamity still changed the color of the world, but the feeling of lack of stamina had already begun to show.

After the seventh and eighth heavenly tribulations, the ninth one came especially late.

All the thunderstorms converged towards the center of the cyclone, where a huge golden lightning ball formed. Crackling sounds echoed everywhere, and the strong lightning was so bright that people couldn't open their eyes. If that thing fell to the ground, the surrounding dozens of miles of land would probably be directly evaporated. No living creature could survive such a strong thunderstorm.

Huang Yan looked back at Lid, the knife in his hand surrounded by black mist.

"I want to celebrate my eighteenth birthday. I want to experience the rest of my life. I want to lead the rebels to overthrow this damn dynasty. I want to be with my brothers from now on!"

This is the heartfelt wish of the girl named Huang Yan.

She turned around and glared at this last calamity.

If the god responded, she would stop, lower her brows and say thank you.

If the gods don’t respond, just snatch it from their hands!

Huang Yan pointed the blade upwards, and with one swing, the evil spirits surged toward the sky like a tide. The long-accumulated calamity also fell with a bang, and two completely opposite forces collided in mid-air, like the black and white in the Tai Chi diagram.

Tears of blood flowed from the corners of Huang Yan's eyes, and the hand holding the knife trembled slightly.

The evil spirit of the ghost was completely consumed first, and the remaining heavenly calamity struck Huang Yan.

The knife in her hand fell to the ground, and lightning surged all over her body. Huang Yan clutched her clothes on her chest, and a look of pain appeared on her face. The feeling of the heavenly tribulation striking her was completely different from that of striking Lid. In addition to Huang Yan's skin being burned by electricity, the blood in her body was surging, and the aura of heaven's disgust kept colliding in her body and pouring out of her body.

Fortunately, the calamity was already at its last gasp.

The heavenly calamity ultimately failed to completely purify the Heavenly Aversion Energy in Huang Yan's body, but the black energy that surged out of his body began to quietly gather towards the north.

98. Blow away

Above the sky, there is a pure white palace.

The tall dark blue seats house the moving stars.

The water pond in the center of the hall reflected the scenery of the human world. The old man with a white beard sitting on a chair propped up his head and said to the woman in a white robe standing by the water pond:

"That's not what you promised me six years ago."

The woman in white robes did not raise her head. Her eyes were as clear as autumn water as she stared at the two people lying on the ground in the pool. She replied calmly:

"He is not an ordinary chess piece. Since we want to use him to do something unprecedented, we have to allow him to grow exceptionally... Moreover, what would happen if we killed Tian Yan in that place? The territory of the giants is not a place we can interfere with. I am afraid that the heavenly tribulation will not have enough time to purify the evil spirit. The guys who have been planning for a long time under the sea will not just stand there and watch..."

The woman in white robes stared at the white-haired old man on the throne and said coldly:

"You should be thankful that my chess piece helped you avoid this calamity. Otherwise, if Clenus were to resurrect, dusk would come again."

The old man sneered, pointed at his head with a shriveled finger, and said:

"I'm not confused yet! The evil spirit is flowing to the North Sea, and the resurrection of Clenus is a foregone conclusion. This time, not only did he stumble in the contest with Kungu, but he also made an exception and let the Son of Tianyan save his life. Did you see those eyes? They are full of hatred for us. How dare a mere ant look at me like that!"

He clenched his fist on the armrest, and the muscles in his bony hand suddenly swelled, creating countless cracks on the armrest. The woman in white robe looked normal, and spoke slowly:

"If you called me here just to let me listen to these boring complaints, then you can just shut up. I don't have time to care about your feelings. Who is alive and who is dead in this world has nothing to do with me. If you are angry, you can send someone to assassinate him like you did six years ago - just be careful not to become his maid again."

After the woman in white robe finished speaking, she turned and left without even looking at the old man sitting on the seat.

No mercy at all.

Behind her, the old man sitting on the chair was shaking with anger. He smashed the back of the chair with one punch and threw the broken part directly into the pool. The splashing water fell on the surrounding stone slabs. He sat on the chair, his skinny chest rising and falling, looking at the place where the white-robed woman disappeared, his eyes full of gloom.

……

……

……

Huang Yan lay on the cold ground, and first he let out a hoarse laugh like a madman. As he laughed, tears suddenly began to flow down his face.

The dark clouds in the sky gradually dissipated, and the thunderstorm was gone.

Without a doubt, this was her victory, and the victory of mankind. Although this victory seemed so insignificant, it only allowed her to go from a situation where she was doomed to die to a situation where she could continue to live, but for Huang Yan, this was the result she had been looking forward to for eighteen years, and she finally took control of her destiny again.

Even though now she couldn't even move her fingers.

If a giant passed by now, she and Lid would die without a doubt. But fortunately, it was safe here. Because of the natural disaster, there were no living creatures within a hundred miles, not even a mosquito. The wind seemed unwilling to blow here, and there was only deathly silence on the dead land.

Huang Yan opened his mouth, his tongue was already somewhat out of control, and he asked incoherently:

"Are you still alive, brother?"

After a while, a sentence came from the side:

"He is madly testing the brink of death...but he is still alive for now."

Lid was not exaggerating at all. He looked like a human now. There were only a few intact parts of his body. Most of his body was bloody and looked like a piece of charcoal from a distance.

Suddenly, the black clothes on Reed moved, and a round creature limply crawled out from his collar.

When the calamity fell just now, the little slime showed its ability and swallowed a part of it directly into its stomach, thus protecting Lid's heart in disguise. If it hadn't helped to share the pressure, Lid probably wouldn't even have the strength to speak now.

The little slime fell to the ground, rolled over a few times, and hit Huang Yan's cheek. Its body sank inward, as if it had opened its mouth and burped, and a trace of lightning came out of its body. The little slime's originally linear eyes had now turned into circles, and its whole body was staggering as if it had drunk fake wine.

Digesting the calamity had helped it to some extent. The core that was scratched by the dagger in the hands of the Hidden Guard Commander had now returned to normal, and the power in its body was more refined than before. The only problem was that it had eaten too much in one go, and now it was feeling bloated and uncomfortable.

"My king... take a nap..."

It rubbed Huang Yan's cheek, leaned against her and fell into a deep sleep.

The two people and the slime lay on the ground like this. After a long time, Huang Yan finally felt that her body had regained some consciousness, but it was followed by great pain. Every joint in her body was crackling, and her skin, flesh, and meridians were constantly spasming. She raised her trembling hand and kept groping around, and finally placed it on Lid's right hand, which was already stuck to the black flame armor.

A smile appeared on Huang Yan's face, and then he lost consciousness in extreme pain.

Lid also felt his eyelids were heavy, but he held on and didn't dare faint. Huang Yan couldn't move because of the overdrawn body and the conflict between the Heavenly Tribulation and the Heavenly Disgust, but Lid was too seriously injured. He felt that he should not die, but he was not completely sure. Several meridians were broken, which made it impossible for him to circulate the energy in his body to check his injuries, and he didn't know what state he was in now.

Half asleep and half awake, Reed seemed to see the scenery in front of him gradually distorted.

The space began to peel off like glass, revealing a deep darkness.

Something flowed down and poured over Reed's body. It was warm and had a soothing effect.

No matter how reluctant Reed was, he could no longer stay awake. He could only slowly close his eyes, and everything in the outside world gradually faded away.

Lid, Huang Yan and the little slime lay here quietly. Then, in that dark space, an eye that examined the world opened again, and the eyeballs turned to the sky where the calamity was falling above their heads.

The clouds in the sky exploded without a trace in an instant.

The wind, thunder, rain, snow and lightning all disappeared, leaving only the clear blue sky. There was no longer any sense of oppression, the sun shone on the earth, and the thousand-year-old ice and snow began to slowly melt.

Then, the eye turned to the girl beside Lid, and the sight stayed on the hands of the two for a moment. Before returning to the void, the dark purple liquid that enveloped Lid briefly flowed to Huang Yan's body, helping her to heal the damage caused by the heavenly tribulation.

Then, the liquid returned to the void, the eyes slowly closed, and the broken space returned to its original state.

It's as if nothing had happened.

99. Withdrawal

When Xiao Hei and Xiao Bai arrived at the scene with the third team of the Northern Expedition, the war was already over.

The scene before my eyes was indescribable chaos. The ground seemed to have been washed by red rain, and there were piles of blood and flesh everywhere. Not even a complete corpse could be found, and the land was covered with pure chaos.

The soldiers who came to support were confused, and they couldn't even tell which side had won, the giants or the humans. Xiaobai searched the ruins and finally found a surviving human army in the distance. He rode his horse towards them almost immediately in silence.

Less than a hundred people survived. Except for some old soldiers with broken arms and legs, most of them were experts on the human side. Many people stared blankly at the ground in front of them, and many others were treating their wounds. For example, the boy named Honglian was biting gauze with his teeth to bandage the deep wound on his elbow, while looking at Xiaobai who passed by him.

Xiao Hei arrived later. He rode his horse around the scattered crowd and soon found a familiar figure in the crowd. General Plante of Tiance Mansion was sitting on the ground, testing the temperature of Lana's forehead with his hand. The little princess Lana was unconscious, with dust on her delicate hair.