Jiang Yao and Li Xi did not bring any guards from the Imperial Prefect's Palace, but only a coachman driving a double chariot.
No one would have thought that the new Imperial Master's first trip would be so low-key. But this is not surprising, because every time the old Imperial Master Qin Yu travels, he does not bring any guards with him and is often alone.
Jiang Yao and Li Xi both lost their cultivation. What they didn't know was that Gu Zhong, the Grand Prime Minister of Chu, had already sent a group of minions to follow them.
One day later, the chariots and horses had left the royal city five hundred miles and arrived at a dense jungle.
According to the existing route, this place is called Black Crow Forest, which is a very desolate place and is also the only way to go north to Hawksbill Mountain.
Jiang Yao opened the curtain and saw the dangerous mountains and forests around him, and couldn't help but feel a little more vigilant.
This is a good place for thieves to cut corners and robbers to kill people.
Why do you think?
But see:
On both sides, black crows fluttered their wings, calling out ominous omens for whom I don’t know;
The vast old forests everywhere are covered with vines. Why do they cover up evil deeds?
If they are not fishermen, woodcutter, herders and hunters, they are home to jackals, tigers and leopards.
Since ancient times, travelers have been sad, but now strangers are separated and resentful.
However, it was said that Imperial Master Zhongda saw this dangerous place, put up a pergola and looked around, and said to Fairy Xi: "The mountains and forests here are lush, covering the surrounding areas, and the evil spirit is dim...not good!"
Just as Jiang Yao finished speaking, he suddenly heard arrows shooting through the air in the surrounding forest, bowstrings ringing rapidly, accompanied by the sound of sharp swords penetrating into bones and the screams of men and horses.
"Whoosh!" "Puff! Puff!"
Almost at the same time, the driver and the two horses were shot out like hedgehogs.
The carriage that lost control suddenly overturned. Li Xi was caught off guard and hit his head on the wall of the carriage with a "Ah!" and his whole body fell out of the carriage. The wound opened and blood suddenly stained his chest.
Jiang Yao jumped out of the carriage and helped Li Xi up.
The next moment, a large group of well-dressed men rushed out of the forest and surrounded the two of them.
They all had their swords out of their sheaths, arrows on strings, and looked at Jiang Yao with murderous intent, their eyes very cold.
These people were obviously not dressed as bandits, but as well-trained soldiers.
Jiang Yaofeng glanced at everyone calmly, and the old god said calmly: "You dare to attack our master, which is the crime of beheading and ransacking your home. Your master is looking for death."
These people were definitely not robbers, they must be from the royal city. However, Jiang Yao couldn't guess who they belonged to.
But he knew very well that he couldn't resist rashly at the moment. It was difficult for him and an injured Li Xi to deal with hundreds of elite dead soldiers.
Not to mention other things, there are dozens of strong bows and hard crossbows that are triggered but not fired. How can he fight back? With his cultivation level sealed, even if his physical body is far superior to that of a mortal, he cannot withstand the fire of strong bows and hard crossbows.
"Beheadings and confiscating homes?" A middle-aged man with an elegant face, Shi Shiran, walked out of the forest. He separated from the encirclement and walked up to Jiang Yao. "How many days do you think the State of Chu can survive?"
He pointed to the north, "The Blood Clan army is in the desert to the north. If the national army goes north, wouldn't it be possible to join the Vampire Clan as well?"
Jiang Yao nodded: "Your master has taken refuge with the Blood Demon, right? Are you preventing me from finding something to save the country, just to trap the Chu Kingdom in a place where it will never be restored?"
"Do you know the consequences of taking refuge in the Blood Demon?"
The middle-aged man put his hands behind his hands and said: "This is the only way to survive. What does the National Master think? The Chu State will never survive the attack of the blood demon army. Although the old National Master Qin Yu allowed the Chu State to survive for an extra hundred years,
Is this a good thing to anger the vampire big shots even more?"
"Therefore, the Imperial Preceptor cannot help the Chu State continue to hold on like the old Imperial Preceptor did. The Chu State will be destroyed sooner or later, sooner rather than later. If it is later, the patience of the vampire big shots will be exhausted, and the last way to survive will be
It will be blocked.”
Jiang Yao looked at him with pity, as if he was looking at an idiot.
"If you take refuge in the blood demons, you can only become their blood food and slaves. Are you sure this is the way to survive?"
"Why not?" The middle-aged man showed a painful expression, "Even if you want to be raised in captivity like pigs and sheep, you can still survive after all. As long as the species is not exterminated, as long as you live, it is better than annihilation and annihilation, right?"
His expression became a little crazy, "Even if the Chu people die, our Gu family cannot die. There is hope while we are alive, and it is not necessarily impossible to integrate into the blood clan."
"Dedicating the Imperial Master to the Blood Clan is a good start for me, the Gu family, to gain a better foothold in the Blood Clan. If the Gu family can survive in the Blood Clan, it means that the people of Chu will not perish."
"And she." He pointed to Li Xi, who was pale, "If the peerless woman who has conquered the country and conquered the whole country now is dedicated to a big shot in the blood race, it would be a great achievement."
The reason why he spoke so unscrupulously was that he knew that the Tianmo Bridge was about to be completed. Within a few days, the blood demon army would cross the Tianmo Bridge and fight in from the desert.
Panchu has reached the last moment and must make a choice.
The Gu family must stand up openly and can no longer hide it. Only in this way can the important people of the blood clan see the role of the Gu family and see the Gu family's loyalty.
In other words, Gu's betrayal has become semi-public.
Since the Chu State must perish, then the destruction of the Chu State must be valuable, at least to the Gu family.
This is also Gu's only chance.
Coupled with the capture of the Imperial Master and the tribute of this woman, the Gu family's wealth may still be preserved.
Not everyone is qualified to be a slave!
Fortunately, Mr. Gu had planned ahead, had a long-term vision, and after years of planning, he finally had this qualification.
"Come here, please invite the national master to accompany you to the vampire camp as a guest!" the middle-aged man shouted.
Surrounded by hundreds of dead soldiers, Jiang Yao and Li Xi could not resist at all. They looked at each other and could only follow them temporarily.
Although Jiang Yao has a high-tech pistol hidden on his body, there are so many dead soldiers on the other side, and in full view of everyone, what can he do with a gun?
Moreover, Li Xi's vitality was severely injured and his wounds were broken, making it difficult for him to resist.
I can only hold back for a while.
When the middle-aged man saw that the two people did not resist, he did not force him too much. After all, Jiang Yao and his identity and Li Xi's beauty were all here.
He ordered the carriage to be hitched again, let Jiang Yao and Li Xi enter the carriage, and then escorted them north.
"Erlangjun, will the imperial master be restless in the car?" a guard captain asked.
The middle-aged man shook his head: "An old man and a woman cannot fly with wings. They are both empty-handed and don't even have a sword, so what can they do?"
It's not that he was careless, but that Jiang Yao and Li Xi didn't have weapons, so there was no danger in using force.
Even the old Imperial Master Qin Yu gave the impression to the people of Chu that he was an expert in medicine, good at divination, knowledgeable, and clever in his calculations. However, in terms of military force, the old Imperial Master had never shown any excellence.
This made everyone think that the new national division could not pose any threat in terms of force.
This middle-aged man is Gu Fang, the younger brother of Dazai Gu Zhong.
The Gu family secretly joined the vampire clan, and Gu Fang was mainly responsible for liaison.
When Gu Fang said this, he suddenly smiled and said, "What a pity."
pity?
The captain of the guard was stunned for a moment, then he understood, "Did Erlangjun mean that woman? It's really such a pity. Erlangjun was even willing to give her away, which shows how strong his will is, but..."
"But if Mr. Erlang wants to take the lead, it's not impossible. The big shots of the blood clan won't blame him."
Gu Fang's heart moved, thinking of Li Xi's peerless beauty, and finally couldn't help but said: "When we get to Tortoiseshell Mountain, there is Qin Yu's secret palace there, where we can stay and rest for two days."
What he meant was that he would have fun in the secret palace in the mountain left by Qin Yu, and taste the woman before giving it to the vampire clan.
If such a beautiful woman does not take the opportunity to enjoy it, it will be a great regret in life. She will regret it and be a man for nothing.
Thinking of this, Gu Fang could not wait to rush to Tortoiseshell Mountain immediately and fight for three hundred rounds.
But at this time, he could only look at his sister to quench his thirst.
He is not afraid that the vampires will blame her, because the other party will probably not blame her. No matter how beautiful the woman is, in the eyes of the vampires, she is just food, and she will still eat her when she gets tired of playing with her.
Inside the carriage, Jiang Yao took out a high-tech pistol and set the firing mode to group killing.
That's right, although the pistol fires one bullet each time, it has two firing states, one is single fire and the other is group fire.
A single shot of bullets does not separate and has huge lethality. Killing a mortal is too wasteful.
In a group killing, one bullet can be dispersed into eighteen bullets, and the energy of each bullet is enough to kill a powerful armored mortal.
However, Jiang Yao did not attack immediately, he was waiting for an opportunity.
Li Xi did not dare to speak and could only communicate with Jiang Yao with her eyes.
Half a day later, the team came to an ancient bridge.
Dozens of dead soldiers crowded on the bridge in front of them, densely packed.
There were dozens of other people behind the carriage, equally crowded.
Moreover, their vigilance has now relaxed a lot, and they do not take the two captives, one old and one young, seriously at all. It can be said that an arrow is put into a pot and a sword is returned to its sheath.
No one would think that the master and apprentice in the car could resist or escape under the escort of so many skilled soldiers.
The national preceptor is not a god.
Jiang Yao's face finally showed a ferocious murderous intent.
The opportunity finally came.
Jiang Yao opened the carriage in front of the carriage, took out his pistol, pointed it at the dense crowd on the bridge in front, and pulled the trigger without even taking aim.
Group shot!
With a flash of blue light, the capsule bullets instantly dispersed into eighteen bullets and scattered out.
The next moment, there was a "bang" gunshot.
Although the bullet is only the size of a capsule, its power is terrifying, equivalent to a blow from a martial monk. After being dispersed into eighteen bullets, it is still astonishingly lethal to mortals.
boom!
A handful of shotgun blasts hit the dense crowd in front, causing screams to erupt instantly, and terrifying large holes appeared in the bodies of more than a dozen dead soldiers.
"ah--"
"Ouch——"
"Bang bang bang!" Jiang Yao pulled the trigger one after another, and fired several shots in a blink of an eye.
Dozens of guards were shot dead before they could react or even scream.
The originally dense crowd in front of the carriage now had only a few people standing there dumbfounded.
The few survivors were stunned for a moment when they looked at the large pieces of fallen bodies around them, their bodies melting to create huge holes, or the fragmented corpses of their companions.
What is going on? What method is this?
Jiang Yao fired several shots in the blink of an eye, then opened the back curtain of the carriage, facing the crowd on the bridge behind the carriage, and continuously pulled the trigger.
Every time he clicked his fingers, he took away waves of lives with extreme ferocity. It was like harvesting human lives in a free blockbuster.
Those powerful dead soldiers of the Gu family, faced with such a powerful, ferocious, and swift dimensionality-reducing blow, did not resist at the first moment, but were confused.
The bridge was narrow and the crowd was dense. They were caught off guard and attacked by high-tech weapons. How could they organize a counterattack?
In the blink of an eye, the dead men of the Gu family were too late to draw their swords and shoot arrows, and suffered heavy casualties. Many people crowded together in panic and fell into the river under the bridge.
Gu Fang looked at the large number of fallen subordinates in disbelief, and was stunned on the spot.
He is so old that he is quite knowledgeable, but he has never seen such a weapon that sprays blue light, nor has he ever seen a weapon with such terrifying lethality.
No, this is not a weapon, this is a legendary magic weapon!
The national master has a magic weapon!
In fact, from the time Jiang Yao launched his attack to the time when most of Gu's dead soldiers were wiped out, it only took two breaths.
In the short time of these two breaths, Jiang Yao shot nine capsule bullets, using the terrain on the bridge to annihilate hundreds of Gu's dead soldiers.
Although there were still five or six remaining dead soldiers of the Gu family, they were frightened to death by the "magic weapon" of the Imperial Master.
Gu Fang knelt down with a pop, kowtowing like pounding garlic.
"Master, have mercy on me, Master, have mercy on me! Brother, I have sent you so seriously that I dare not not come..."
How could the few remaining dead soldiers show any ferocious and cruel expressions at this moment? When they saw their master kneeling down to beg for mercy, they were so frightened that they knelt down to spare their lives.
Especially when they saw some corpses melting into a pool of pus, they were even more horrified, like a three-year-old child who had lost the protection of his parents.
Jiang Yao raised his pistol and said jokingly: "Do you know why I didn't take action before? Because you killed my horse and coachman, I simply asked you to send me north."
Li Xi also looked at Gu Fang and the others with a murderous sneer, and looked at Jiang Yao's pistol with some anticipation.
Jiang Yao handed the gun to Li Xi, "Try it."
Li Xi took the pistol, pointed it at Gu Fang and others like Jiang Yao, and pulled the trigger in the same manner.
"Spare my life--" Gu Fang let out a shrill scream. He looked at the black muzzle of the gun and was frightened out of his soul.
There was a flash of blue light, followed by a roar, and Gu Fang's begging for mercy stopped abruptly.
Several people were all killed by this shot.
The dead cannot die again.
After ten shots, the enemy was wiped out.
"I feel much better after killing someone." Li Xi couldn't put it down and returned the pistol to Jiang Yao.
Jiang Yao put away the pistol and said with a smile: "You can give one to Senior Sister Li in the future."
Li Xi said: "I didn't expect that Gu Chong, who was named the Grand Prime Minister of the Chu Kingdom, was actually a treacherous minister who was in touch with foreign enemies."
Jiang Yaodao: "This may not be unknown to King Chu Panju. Perhaps Panju is helpless and pretends not to know."
Li Xi nodded: "I understand. Although Gu Zhong betrayed Chu, his method may be the only chance for Chu people to continue."
"Whether the country will be destroyed and the whole species will be destroyed, or whether it will be to live in captivity as pigs and sheep, it cannot be generalized. This choice is really too difficult."
Jiang Yao looked at the blood oozing out from Li Xi's chest, frowned and said, "Will your wound break, will it affect your journey? Or rest here for a day, and wait until your wound heals a little before leaving."
Li Xi shook his head, "I'm fine. I'm not going to die yet. It's better to go to Tortoiseshell Mountain as soon as possible. I'm afraid of long nights and many dreams."
Jiang Yao did not insist. He also knew that the vampire army might cross the bridge and attack Chu State at any time, and time was already very tight.
The two of them continued on their way. Jiang Yao let Li Xi sit in the car, and he drove the car himself, heading north under the stars.
Li Xi sat in the car with a pale face. When the car bumped violently, her heart felt like a knife twisting her head and she was covered in cold sweat.
Jiang Yao could only reduce his speed to catch up with the car. The speed of the two of them suddenly slowed down.
The next day, the two of them were blocked by a river.
Looking at the map, this is the Taihe River south of Tortoiseshell Mountain.
Jiang Yao abandoned his carriage and horses, found a small boat, and the two of them started rafting across the river.
Li Xi sat elegantly on the stern of the boat, looking into the water. Jiang Yao, with gray hair, was rowing at the bow of the boat. For those who didn't know, they thought Jiang Yao was a gray-faced boatman, while Li Xi was a passer-by on the boat.
Above the Taihe River, birds are flying and fish are leaping, the water is as green as blue, the clouds are shadowed by the water, and the waves are sparkling, just like a river of stars. It looks dim and deep, and the sky is relaxing.
Jiang Yao couldn't help but chant:
"The water is filled with merchants, the waves are clear, the scenery is bleak, and the time is vast."
"The clouds are dreamy and empty, the figures are illusive, the thoughts are lingering, and the stars are brilliant."
Li Xi was splashing in the water with her hands, listening to Jiang Yao's chanting, she couldn't help but smile and play with her little girl.
I thought to myself, this Jiang Zhongda is really different.
However, Li Xi also had some suspicions. This water must have had water demons and charms in the past. But now, it is very peaceful.
Once the true world becomes mortal, everything changes.
Half a day later, Jiang Yao and Li Xi crossed the Tao River and landed at Tortoiseshell Mountain.
Tortoiseshell Mountain is a famous mountain in the northern border of Chu State. It stretches for thousands of miles and has deep and secluded mountains and forests. In the eyes of monks, it is just a small mountain, but in the eyes of ordinary people, it is a big mountain.
The place that Qin Yu spent thousands of years to find is somewhere deep in the mountains. Tortoiseshell Mountain is so big that Jiang Yao would never have been able to find the specific location if he hadn't seen the suicide note left by Qin Yu.
Following the route in Qin Yu's suicide note, Jiang Yao led Li Xi through the mountains and forests, crossing dozens of valleys, and finally saw a building that was integrated into the mountains and forests.
The place where the building is located is shrouded in clouds and mist, and the leaves are as green as jade, which is obviously different from other places.
But this difference would be invisible even to non-monks.
Aura!
The spiritual energy there was very light and thin, but it was definitely the strongest spiritual energy the two of them had seen since they came to this world.
What does this mean?
This shows that the repressive power of the rules of heaven is the weakest in this place.
Therefore, it is also the weak point of the Heavenly Dao Seal.
"It's really not easy for Qin Yu to find this place." Jiang Yao said with a sense of joy.
Li Xi also said with a relaxed look: "It's a pity that he has completely transformed into a mortal, and there is no point in finding him here."
She pointed to the hidden building, "This building is deep in the mountain forest. It must be the Dongfu Mountain Hall that Qin Yu secretly built back then."
The two of them walked around twists and turns in the mountains for a while before arriving in front of the building in the valley.
The mountain hall was not abandoned yet. Apparently Qin Yu had been here not long ago. The two entered the mountain hall and found that it was very large and elegant. There were several monasteries and even a high platform.
It's like a palace in the mountains.
It was just silent and empty.
At this time, it was getting dark, and a full moon rose from the mountains of Qingdai.
Jiang Yao and Li Xi climbed onto the high platform and looked at the bright moon, their hearts filled with anticipation and nervousness.
"Junior Brother Jiang, are you ten today?" Li Xi suddenly asked.
Jiang Yao calculated and answered: "Fourteen."
Li Xi frowned, "In other words, you only have one day to refine a new elixir. Is it too late?"
Jiang Yao thought for a while and said: "It should be too late. I will refine the elixir now."
He did not dare to waste any time and immediately started preparing to refine the elixir.
When Jiang Yao and Li Xi were preparing to make elixirs, several fast horses galloped out of the mountain pass hundreds of miles away from here. The knights on the horses rushed south at a high speed without hesitation, looking panicked.
Almost at the same time, smoke erupted from the beacon tower not far away.
The Blood Demon has overcome the natural danger and headed south!
Soon after, a large number of blood demons appeared on the plateau thousands of miles north of Tortoiseshell Mountain, coming like a tide.
A bloody cross battle flag was raised high and unscrupulously, arrogantly.
An army of 100,000 blood demons is rolling in.
A violent and ferocious breath ascended to the sky and clouds.
After years of planning, the Blood Demon finally broke through the natural dangers of the desert and entered the land of Chu as he wished.
I don't know how many people from Chu fled south after hearing the news. Those who had horses rode, but most of the people without horses had no choice but to run south as hard as they could.
The man-eating vampire is coming, run!
Before the enemy troops arrived, a doomsday scene appeared in the north of the mountain.
The blood demon army moved very fast, traveling 500 miles a day, and approached Tortoiseshell Mountain the next day.
At this time, King Panbing of Chu, who had received the warning, had personally led 200,000 cavalry to the north!
The army stretched for hundreds of miles.
The Chu army's cavalry, one man and two horses, rolled northward, crossed the Tao River on a pontoon bridge, and came to Tortoiseshell Mountain.
King Panju of Chu decided to use Tortoiseshell Mountain as a new line of defense to prevent the blood demon army from continuing to move southward!