It doesn't matter what the lord is.

Lord Lingwu rode on a snow-white horse, standing on a high snow slope, watching the dark army marching south.

The imperial aura on her body has never been as high as it is today. The golden red robe cannot cover up her majesty. Her black hair is scattered in the wind, and it is still difficult for a snowflake to get close to her. If a fortune teller happens to look in her direction, he will find that there seems to be a red jade dragon hovering in the sky in the north, and the direction the dragon head is facing is where the Lingwu Lord is. The golden and red noble aura on her body goes straight up to the sky, and it is far away from the so-called "true dragon aura" that exists in the capital.

Of course, the so-called Qi is actually mostly an illusory thing. Just taking a look, there are several powerful forces in the entire Yongtian Kingdom. Huang Yan, who had just fought his way out of Qianlongyuan some time ago, seemed to have a bloody aura that wanted to swallow up the whole world. After being blocked by Xi Qin, his aura also dissipated a lot.

The white-robed ministers in the royal capital have set up the game plan for the world, and naturally all heroes have to follow suit.

But Lingwu Lord was not a man who followed the rules. Although Gu Ye's territory was not among the fifteen territories designated by Wu Mi, Lingwu Lord still went south at his own pace. When she came back from the giants, she ruthlessly demolished the "Northern Fortress" between Gu Ye and Lingwu. At that time, each territory basically understood her first target. So each family was not surprised by this result, but just sighed that what kind of deep hatred was worth a woman to risk the world's disapproval.

When Wu Mi received the news that Ling Wu was heading south, she was only slightly surprised, then nodded and said:

"She wants to kill us, so there's no need for her to follow our lead. Don't panic. Just wait and see how she makes her move, and then we can respond accordingly."

While he was talking, an old general was sitting in a rocking chair not far from him, fanning himself in the winter. As if he was not aware of the cold, he was only wearing a gray vest, brown shorts, and a pair of straw sandals. This outfit did not match the luxurious furniture around him at all, but the guards and maids who served him were all respectful and did not dare to look down on him.

Fan Qing, a veteran general of two dynasties, had been leading troops to fight since the last king was still in office. He was ranked third on the strategy list because Wu Mi deliberately suppressed him. If we really talk about leading troops to fight, he is an absolute senior. Ri Lun, the general of the Sun Guard of Lingwu, and Fang Shisan, the commander-in-chief of the army of Yunyang, all learned strategies and formations from his books to a certain extent. Even Jiang Yuesheng, the legendary general of Nanchu, had to show respect to him as a junior when he saw him.

Fan Qing now looked old, but his eyes were not cloudy, but clearer. He looked at the report in front of him, curled his lips, and then squinted his eyes leisurely, looking at the maids around him, secretly judging in his heart: Well, this girl has nice breasts, quite big; the one over there has a pretty face, but unfortunately there is a teardrop mole at the corner of the eye, probably a miserable person...

Fan Qing waved his fan. At his age, he naturally had no dirty thoughts about girls. He looked at beautiful women just to make himself happy.

"Tomorrow, I will lead 150,000 people north."

Without any context, Fan Qing suddenly stuck his fan into his belt and said these words.

Everyone else sitting in the room was surprised, and some asked if it was so urgent.

Fan Qing yawned, stood up slowly from his chair, put his hands behind his back, and said calmly:

"That little girl from Lingwu is quite capable. If we leave her alone now, she will be able to cross Luofeng Mountain in a week. Once she crosses the mountain, it will be difficult to deal with her."

Wu Mi bowed and said:

"Senior, if you need anything, just ask..."

Fan Qing turned around and looked at Wu Mi with a meaningful smile:

"I want peace in the capital. I'm old, and I don't want to fight to the death on the front line and have to worry about a fire at home."

Wu Mi nodded in agreement, but her face was embarrassed and she could only respond with a wry smile.

……

Yunyang.

After wandering outside for a long time, the little slime finally returned to the Yunyang Lord's Mansion.

When it left Huang Yan, it didn't know that Lid had moved the main city from Yuxi City to Lingyun City, so it asked Huang Yan to take it back to Yuxi City. Along the way, it was afraid of being discovered, so it locked itself in the carriage and refused to go out. As a result, when it arrived at the Yuxi City Lord's Mansion, it was stunned: the building was empty, the cold wind was bleak, and a fallen leaf slowly fell, just like the little slime's heart fell to the freezing point.

That bastard Reed didn’t even tell it that he was moving!

The little slime stood solemnly in front of the city lord's mansion for a long time, like a statue waiting for her husband to marry. After a long time, tears began to fall from her eyes.

The carriage that brought it here returned the same way after that. The little slime couldn't enter the city lord's mansion again, so it could only wander outside. Fortunately, it was promoted to the ninth level by Huang Yan, and now it can freely transform into the creatures it has eaten, so it turned into an inconspicuous cat, crying while looking for Lid's whereabouts everywhere, and finally found Lingyun City and returned to the lord's mansion.

——"Beep, beep... That little bastard Lid caused me so much trouble. I must remember this account book well..."

Just as it was thinking this, a chubby little hand suddenly grabbed its tail and lifted it upside down.

The little slime looked back and almost fainted: a baby girl with tentacles on her back was happily swinging it around. As a weapon of the Age of Gods, it had some vision. This baby girl was not a human at all. She was clearly Clenus, one of the Twelve Pillars of Kungu!

For Lid, the journey north was divided into the first half and the second half. Fighting the giants was the first half, and going to the bottom of the sea with the spirit warrior lord was the second half. The poor little slime only participated in the first half and knew nothing about what happened in the second half. When he saw Clenus, his first reaction was, Lid, I fuck your ancestors. I told you not to provoke this thing, but you didn't listen. Now the other party knows it and is here to find me. I am in great danger if I follow you.

Chocolate reached out to grab the little slime with an innocent smile on his face:

"Ride a cat~"

The little slime swallowed his tears and thought to himself that he would sacrifice himself this time and make the child happy, maybe he could avoid death. So the little slime ran with Chocolate on his back for a whole afternoon, and finally returned home exhausted. As soon as he got home, he saw Chocolate flying into a woman's arms, and then He Yue's group gathered together and praised Chocolate for being so lively and cute that he could even tame a wild cat.

The little slime then realized that Clenus had "surrendered to the enemy" and was so angry that he planned to settle the score with Reed.

As soon as he entered the room, the little slime was dumbfounded: Damn, he's not home.

The bastard Lid ran away with his little maid!!

From that day on, the little slime hid in this house, just to rebel against Lid when he came back one day.

6. Old Friends

The little slime looked forward to it day and night, and finally saw Lid returning to the lord's mansion.

It lurked on the beams, secretly observing Lid's every move. At first, the little slime had the idea of ​​playing an infinite prank, and secretly drew several marks in the lord's mansion, trying to create an atmosphere of the arrival of a strange thief. As a result, Lid ate and drank as he pleased, went to bed early and got up late every day, and didn't take it seriously at all.

As time went on, the little slime's desire for revenge suddenly disappeared, and all that was left was grievance.

When a child is away from home, his mother worries about him. When Lid went out, it worried whether the little bastard had been killed. Now Lid has returned safely, but he didn't notice its existence at all. The little slime felt sour in his heart, wondering if it was because of the excessive secretion of decomposition fluid. When the sun rose, it lay on the beam and looked at the sky. It felt that the world was so big and it was so small. If it was covered with a monk's robe at this time, it could go to the temple to chant sutras.

"Biji... If I had known this, I would not have come back..."

The little slime recalled his happy life with Huang Yan melancholy, sighed silently, turned around, and planned to continue basking in the sun.

At this moment, a familiar voice suddenly sounded:

"You can't not come back. Huang Yan's family assets are reserved for rebellion. I can't let you take them all."

When the little slime turned around, he saw Lid sitting on the eaves and was immediately furious:

"You still remember to look for me!"

Lid yawned:

"I see you're feeling quite comfortable, aren't you? You stay on the eaves every day, looking detached from the world, eating when you're full and sleeping when you're full, and occasionally sighing about life. Isn't this a life like a god's?"

The little slime bounced a few times on the spot and said dissatisfiedly:

"You think everyone is like you. I have a deep hatred for you and I want to fight to the death with those winged guys. How can I sit here and do nothing until my great cause is accomplished?"

Having said that, it didn't seem to want to run away.

When it was locked up, it was so majestic, and it kept shouting that it wanted to run away; when it really ran away, it wanted to come back every day. Lide glanced at the little slime and found that the little slime's realm had reached the middle of the ninth level. There should be no one else in the lord's mansion who could beat it. However, the little slime still stayed here weakly, waiting for Lide to come back.

Reed looked at the little slime, and the little slime was also secretly looking at Reed.

After seeing Lid in person, the little slime couldn't help but feel curious. It had eaten countless lava tribes in the Great Wilderness Mountain, and its realm had finally made a new leap. As soon as it saw Lid's mean face, the little slime couldn't help but recall the scenes of being bullied by him in the past. The thought of "dare you fight me" quickly appeared in its clever little head.

The little slime deliberately knocked down a tile, and while Lid was distracted, he appeared behind Lid like a Japanese ninja, opened his mouth and pretended to eat him. But at this moment, the little slime's eyes blurred, and he felt that Lid looked a little strange - a white thing came out from his neck.

At that moment, all the ghost stories that he had heard from Reed came flooding back to his mind. The little slime screamed and almost rolled off the roof. He barely managed to grab onto the eaves and slowly climbed up.

The little ghost held a sign, yawned, looked at the little slime, smacked his lips, and said lazily:

"What looks so familiar... [(??o｀?)]"

Before she finished speaking, she blinked her eyes fiercely and instantly moved in front of the little slime:

“Fuck, a weapon of the Age of Gods?? The one who almost wiped out the demons, are you really still alive?? [Σ(っ°Д °;)っ]”

The little slime finally climbed back to the roof. The look in his eyes when he looked at the little ghost showed that he could not remember who the other party was. However, he still said:

"That's right. I didn't expect you to have some insight... But who are you and why did you come out of the body of my servant?"

The little ghost held a sign, walked around it, and said:

"Don't you remember me? I was the one who watched you eat up all those demons. Not long after I left, I heard that you were backstabbed by the Old Gods and died without leaving any trace. But I have no right to say anything about you. Not long after you died, I was captured and imprisoned at the bottom of the sea. I just escaped successfully not long ago. [_(:τ」∠)_]"

The little slime stared at the ghost in front of him for a long time, as if he remembered something, but still seemed confused. After a long time, he tentatively called out a name:

"Disaster?"

The little ghost retreated to Lid's side, and his tone was like a mockery:

"When you were at your peak, you were almost as big as the entire human territory. How did you become so small in the blink of an eye? You could barely squeeze into one of the Five Calamities back then, but now you look so pitiful, like... pfft, jellyfish skin. [(? `▽??)]"

The little slime snorted and said unwillingly:

"You are almost the same. You used to claim that wherever you went, no grass would grow and that your presence would block out the sun like a sandstorm. Now you have to parasitize on my servants to survive, like a...sergey...big white flea."

The little ghost suddenly became angry and planned to use the sign in his hand to hit the slime in front of him.

Lid looked at the two people... or to be more precise, the two mysterious creatures fighting each other, and he didn't know whether their relationship was good or bad. Then the little ghost explained to Lid that a long time ago, there were five creatures wandering in the world that would bring great disasters, collectively known as the Five Disasters.

Shen was one of them. His masterpiece was that one day when he passed by the desert, he quietly sent the rulers of the entire desert civilization into a fantasy world, and quietly turned the magnificent country into a dead city. There is no need to say more about the little slime. At the beginning, it was considered to be an existence that swallowed the entire demon clan into its belly. Naturally, this process could not accurately eat only the demon clan, and many innocent creatures were involved.

Even though the two people are fighting on the eaves now, they were both disasters that could destroy the whole world.

No, even now, they still retain the potential to destroy the world and are Reed's key surveillance targets.

When the little slime was eating the demons, Shen, who had been wandering in the north, heard about it and ran over to eat melons for a while. The two had a brief exchange at the time, but their tempers did not match each other at that time - they were both capable of destroying the world with one move, and neither of them had a good temper. If the little slime had not had a mission to complete at the time, the two would probably have fought on the spot.

Strictly speaking, it was just a one-time encounter.

However, the two had not had a good time during this period, and most of the people they knew a thousand years ago had died, so when they met again, they felt like old friends reuniting. But after calming down, the little slime was immediately furious at Lid for "betraying" her and finding a new pet. She jumped twice and rushed towards the little ghost, but the little ghost waved a sign, and the little slime immediately immersed in the illusion and rushed into the pond in the yard, and instantly ate half of the red carp that Shiloh had carefully fed.

Frost, who was passing by, was splashed with water, and her veil was wet, but she still bent down very politely and said to Lid, who was sitting on the eaves:

"My Lord, I'm sorry to bother you... I have a few letters sent from the capital."

7. Blood shed on Tianyue Mountain

Instead of calling the little ghost back, Reed left it outside to play with the little slime.

Logically speaking, these two guys were also old monsters older than Yongtian Kingdom, but for some reason, Lid felt like he was sending a child to kindergarten. He stretched his legs and flipped down from the roof, took the letters sent by Shuang, read them at a very fast speed, and then handed them back to Shuang.

"The royal family is interesting too. They haven't contacted us for eight hundred years, but now they want to ask us for things when they have to go to war."

Lid pointed to the top letter and motioned Shuang to open it and read it, then said:

"When the war started, Lingwu asked us for iron, and the royal family asked us for food. Wumi asked us if we could deliver the seeds for next year's spring plowing in time... Damn it, isn't it the soldiers, iron and food that are needed for war? If a batch is withdrawn, only Yunyang can hold on. If it were other territories, no matter how rich their assets were, they would be emptied out."

Frost asked:

"What does the Lord mean?"

Lid thought for a while and replied:

"Let's give each of us a 50% discount. Anyway, the Lingwu Lord has already headed south, and her first target will definitely be the royal family. After that, neither side will have the energy to settle accounts with us. We just captured Zhaochen, and we still have to save some things for Zhaochen's people and soldiers... Shuang, do you have enough manpower in the Anbu in Zhaochen?"

Frost replied:

"Before, many of our people sacrificed their lives for 'that matter'. This led to the failure to suppress the public opinion of differential treatment some time ago, which caused a lot of trouble for Filin and Selaginella. After that, we recruited a lot of locals in Zhaochen according to the previous methods and re-expanded the Anbu organization. I can assure the Lord that such things will never happen again."

Lid nodded and said with a smile:

"I believe you."

For Li De, Zhaochen is like an examination room. He had suppressed many of Yunyang's problems with his personal ability, but while suppressing these problems, he also left behind a set of related systems. Now that Zhaochen has no second Li De, the development of Zhaochen can be used to measure whether these systems can operate smoothly.

At present, everything is going smoothly, which makes Li De feel relieved. According to the normal process, he should go to Zhaochen to work overtime to eliminate the accumulated problems and establish prestige, and the working time should be at least half a year to a year. But now that this time is saved, Li De can use it to spend a comfortable time and solve his own problems.

He currently has three tasks left.

The first thing was the issue of advancing to the tenth level. Lide had been stuck at the ninth level of perfection for a long time. It wasn't that he couldn't advance, but he always had a vague feeling that there would be some problem with the tenth level. He couldn't tell what the problem was, but the tenth level was like a handful of rice under a bird trap for him, which he could reach with a stick, but the premonition of danger in his heart reminded him not to do so all the time.

When heading north, he almost had to attract the thunder to the tenth level, but Huang Yan saved him. Later, he talked with Merlin, who said that the upper limit of the tenth level of human beings may come from several places: physical strength, the national defense formation, and the tenth level of thunder tribulation. Merlin personally guessed that the problem was with the national defense formation, so he was promoted in a place other than human beings, but the upper limit was still stuck at the tenth level, which was a matter of experience for Lid.

Lide was a cautious person, he was not willing to take any risks, so he thought that these three problems should be solved first. However, after heading north, Lide put the idea of ​​reaching the tenth level on the agenda. After all, if he really encountered the middle six tribes and the upper three tribes that could fight in the future, he might be crushed by them without any chance to say anything if he was not strong enough.

But the problem is, improving physical strength and avoiding the national defense formation are both easy to solve, but what about the heavenly tribulation? As long as he wants to reach the tenth level, the heavenly tribulation will definitely come. Could he have said hello to his brother in charge of thunder in advance and asked him to strike off the right path?

The hit rate of the heavenly calamity is quite high, even lightning rods are useless.

The second thing was that Lid needed to find a way to heal his right hand. As he expected, he blocked the sharp stab of Nalus when he was at the upper tenth level with one hand, but the injury has never recovered. His right hand is still wrapped in thick bandages, and the bone fragments, flesh and meridians inside are still messy. Human bones have a weak ability to regenerate. Even if a tenth-level boss has an arm cut off, it will become disabled if it cannot be reattached in time, not to mention Lid's broken bones.

He was optimistic. Anyway, it was already like this, so he would just take it one step at a time. He didn't have to risk his life to become a hero. He could only do what he could. At worst, he could banish the Right Queen to the cold palace and favor the Left Imperial Concubine more often.

He heard from Shuang that there was some news from Yunhai that Nalus would never reach the tenth level in his lifetime. Lid was not surprised. He just thought Nalus was a bit of a hindrance and slapped him away. But for Nalus, it should be a painful memory like a nightmare: just when he had wings and felt that the world was wide open for him to fly, he was slapped into the dust by someone. I am afraid that such a person will not even have the courage to look directly at the sky in the future.

The third thing was to check his own life experience and Alayya's life experience. The matter of selecting the gods had made some progress in the sea of ​​clouds, but it was not enough. Lid only knew that Alayya had stayed with the old gods for a period of time, but he didn't know her identity at the time, nor did he know who had chopped her, and what secrets were involved behind this.

These three things have a sequence.

Lid planned to find a way to deal with his right hand first to see if it could be cured, and strengthen his body at the same time, just like he had taken a bath in dragon blood before. The upper three tribes left almost no evidence behind, and the opportunity to investigate the upper three tribes was rare. If he could completely unlock the restrictions on Linglan, he might be able to get more information.

Speaking of dragon blood...

Reed took out one of the letters in Frost's hand, which was also the strangest one of all.

The letter was sent by someone Lide didn't know. There wasn't much on it, just a few lines of crooked writing, which basically told Lide to be careful, because the Dragon Clan had already set their sights on Yunyang. At the end of the letter, he apologized, saying that he didn't mean to betray Lide, and that he was forced to do so.

Reed read it twice and didn't know if it was a prank, so he asked Shuang to keep an eye on it to see if he could find the sender.

The dragon clan's movements are not good news.

They had just withdrawn from the elves, collected a large amount of food and treasures, and were also planning the next war. Their dream of ruling the Eternal Heaven Kingdom was shattered, and a son of the Dragon King died in Tianyue Mountain. These were all reasons for the dragons to start a war.