At dawn, the eastern sky and the dense forest line appear fish-belly white, and the dark red sunset glows continuously, with a few places where the clouds are thin, with dawn.
The gusts of wind brought with it a bone-chilling chill, making people shiver.
At the same time, a large snow-white city appeared in everyone's field of vision. The fields stretched into vast stretches. The buildings in the city were divided into districts and were orderly. Most of them were made of wood. Only the city walls and a bald pyramid in the center were made of stone.
They were twenty miles away, and the branches and leaves of the trees in the distance blocked their view. Several people lowered their bodies and hovered at the height of the forest canopy.
The breath of Mu De's spiritual veins can enhance the concealment technique, and the snow has not melted away, and the forest is white in color, making it easy to spot visually. It is better to use the cover of trees for cover.
Flying far around the city, circling inward and approaching.
Ye Qing looked up and felt the fluctuation of power below.
The light black air flow was circulating, and the pyramid was filled with blood red. There was a faint glow in the dawn light, and the Xuanyuan Sword whistled softly in the sword box, with longing.
Qianqian smiled slightly and whispered: "Clan spirit."
Liniang estimated that the distance was about ten miles. She had not yet left the dense forest, so she stopped and said, "We can't get any closer, as we will be easily detected. The three miles around the Bald Top Pyramid is the realm of the God of Desolation, and it has the power of a true immortal here."
"How to kill it?"
Ye Qing narrowed his eyes and stared at the deserted temple. Ever since he heard the oracle, he had not shown any anger, but the murderous intention had already been deeply rooted in his heart.
"I'm afraid it's not easy now. In the past, we either killed them in frontal battles during the winter defense counterattack, or after the counterattack was successful, the army surrounded the isolated city, burned the city and exterminated the tribe... The warriors and slaves of the foreign races fled or became extinct, and the Aragami lost the source of power.
With a Taoist bombardment by a group of magicians and an encirclement and annihilation by real people, it is the most reliable and unharmed."
Liniang talked about the past experience of killing gods in the sect, and reminded: "This kind of desolate god with multiple city-states has a sufficient source of divine power. It can only be killed by conquering all the cities. It is very difficult to deal with... In frontal field battles, the sect is at best
If you kill it for half of your life, the lost divine power can be replenished in another year, and most of the city-state's lost soldiers can be replenished. This means that our time is limited, but we can't rush it..."
Ye Qing nodded, followed her advice, and did not approach the enemy's domain.
pyramid
The main hall of the upper temple of the pyramid is several feet high and a hundred meters wide. In the innermost part is a high platform that climbs up step by step. On the high platform, there is a throne.
The throne is made of stone, simple and majestic, and the god of waste is sitting on it and sleeping.
Suddenly, the Aragami woke up and looked around him alertly. His eyes swept across the area, but there seemed to be no trace. There were only a group of priestesses in robes below, kneeling to pray, exercising their divine power, and waiting to serve the powerful Aragami at any time.
"strangeness……"
It grunted and fell asleep again...
For gods, sleeping can reduce consumption, and sleeping with a source of power can speed up recovery.
And the body of the wild beast makes it full of energy or even excessive. The wild beast always gets up and moves when it is full of sleep. The wild god often does this. There is no other entertainment here. He often grabs a priestess and presses it under him, which is the best way to distract his energy.
Something happened.
"It reacted just now, with the instinct of a beast..." Feeling a chill, Ye Qing let go of the hilt of the sword and turned to look at his wife: "Qianqian, what do you think?"
"It's already ten miles away, but it didn't really detect my approach, and it couldn't even see through the spells I set..." Qian Qian's eyebrows spread out, and she muttered: "It seems like this oracle's prediction is not its own ability.
.”
Ye Qing spoke calmly and said, "What new ideas do you have?"
"It's just a conjecture. Maybe when I communicated with the Dongzhou Qingmai source power, the source power itself reacted... There is no clear nominative pattern in the aggregation of earth veins, but this desolate god may be guided..." Qianqian guessed like this and paused.
For a moment: "To a certain extent, Huang Shen is the son of the Eastern Wilderness."
Ye Qing's heart sank, but he soon calmed down and said straightly: "When I heard it at first, I was a little surprised. After thinking about it carefully, if there are no accidents, this should be the case."
"We are invaders to this Eastern Wilderness Continent."
"Although it is impossible for heaven to exist, it has long been eliminated, but the instinct is still there, or it is possible."
That said, Ye Qing would not be careless about anything that related to her. He thought about it for a moment and revealed a ruthless expression: "Cao Cao is improving the government in the rear, and it has achieved some results. Once the Northern and Southern armies are trained, they can be destroyed."
This country, torture this desolate god... Before the truth is confirmed, Qianqian, don't break through to the immortal position to prevent other accidents.
"Um……"
Qianqian had no objection. She stopped at a treetop, closed her eyes and began to absorb the breath of the ground. Every time she reached a spiritual vein node where the enemy's lair was, she could get a trace of green vein source power, and the seeds in her body became stronger and fuller.
The best is to completely occupy the nodes, establish a magic circle, and absorb them all in one go. However, under the control of the enemy, the absorption is very slow. It will take several days to complete depending on the depth.
Ye Qing was not in a hurry and just accompanied his wife to protect her safety while absorbing the source of power.
Although Liniang and Bingmei didn't know the purpose of staying here, they admired Ye Qing and Qianqian's strength, so they didn't care at all and only guarded and protected.
In the next three days, when he was free, Ye Qing observed the customs of this foreign city-state outside the city. Sichuan Lin's notes recorded and analyzed the shining points of its civilization one by one. No matter how hostile it was, the strengths that could be learned were analyzed and digested.
It's not bad.
Pengyu City·The third day
Just a few days have passed, and Qianqian has been absorbing the power of Qingmai as quickly as possible, but it was not completed until today. She is finishing the work, and Ye Qing is guarding her while observing various activities in the city.
The city gate has a moat, a bridge runs through it, and there are two gate towers at the city gate. Ye Qing looked like a caravan happened to be entering, but was intercepted and questioned, and a fee was charged.
There are residential areas, commercial areas, and temple areas in the city. Looking at Ye Qing's slightly awe-inspiring look, this city's civilization is quite good, but it is really a thorn in his side.
"Hey, is there any new news from the east?" After entering the city, he first entered the city lord's mansion. Not long after he came out, someone asked.
"It's still the same as before. The Fantasy Forest moved in the middle realm and swallowed up a few more caravans... It's really hard to make money." The caravan owner sighed, counting the money in his hands without raising his eyelids: "I heard that the most
To the east, new land has appeared on the sea. It is not big at the moment, but it seems that it will gradually become larger in the future..."
The real large-scale trade has actually been completed with the city lord's palace exchange. They are making some extra money on the street, displaying strange and weird things. Many wealthy free people and even nobles are surrounding the caravan, looking for suitable items to exchange. Many of them are
This kind of trade is not limited to money.
In fact, there is no other common currency on this land except gold. Even copper shells are not recognized by some city-states. This is also the long-distance intercity caravans that traffic goods, always carrying large amounts of gold.
Because trading opportunities are rare, most city-states have a favorable attitude toward caravans and will not plunder. This is OK, but the fate of a few city-states is that the caravans take warning and do not go there. In the end, strategic supplies are scarce, leaving the enemy with
The city-state was destroyed.
However, the savage tribes are basically stronger if they can rob them, and some wild beasts are interested in spiritual stones. To guard against these dangers, the caravan will hire many warriors every time it goes to a city, and take them to the next city, and at the same time, they will take them to the previous city.
Soldiers stay, this kind of mercenary exchange sometimes brings unexpected joy...
"Our buffalo warriors are the best cavalry... Do you know about cavalry?" A big man riding a buffalo looked down at everyone, and the three hundred buffalo cavalry behind him were all very proud.
Several nobles came out of the city lord's palace. They saw the situation and came over with interest. They surrounded Zhong Yuanyan. Looking at these oxen cavalry, their eyes shone brightly: "I hire you...what's your name? Please make conditions."
"Just keep me fed... Oh, my name is tripe, and I will share half of the spoils of war."
It's really tripe... I just know how to eat it.
The nobles looked at each other and wondered where this poor guy came from. He must have been tricked by the passing caravans, but they did not expose it and pretended to come forward to bargain.
Yuan Yan frowned and said, "How can you treat a warrior badly? Come here, bring the gold and give this warrior a beauty."
Tripe touched his head and looked very happy, while the faces of several nobles fell...
Yuan Yan turned a blind eye, but he had asked the survivors of the Battle in detail, and they all described how the troops charging on horseback could not be stopped on the ground...
In other words, horses cannot enter the woods, but depending on the enemy's power, won't they attack the city one day, and how will they defend it then?
"This is our homeland. Land, food, population, and weapons are our wealth. What's a little gold?" He spoke very philosophically, smiling with his teeth exposed: "With warriors, gold and
Women can be snatched anywhere.”
These words made the people around them nod their heads. Nobles, free people, merchants, and mercenaries all showed expressions of deep approval. Niu Tripe was even more delighted: "If you are a hero, we will follow you."
A divine consciousness wandered nearby, stopping to pay attention to this scene. At this time, the temple door of the Bald Pyramid opened, and a group of female priests came out. This divine consciousness instantly shrank back to the outside of the city...
The wife of the city lord... or rather the high priest, was dressed in a snow-white priestly robe, surrounded by sisters, which highlighted her nobility and beauty. At this time, she stopped at the foot of the steps and turned her head to look behind her in confusion. There was no ripple in the air... probably
Is it another alien slave spying on her?
She frowned for a moment. Although she was the woman of the Aragami, she was also the woman of the city lord. She was even the lover of some big nobles. Other sisters had the status of wives and daughters of nobles. Serving the gods was an honor. This had been the tradition for hundreds of years. They had
They are used to it, but this does not mean that foreign slaves can spy on their bodies... Goddess is noble and holy and cannot be defiled.
"Go back and ask someone to clean up the slaves... kill all the dishonest ones." She said to a noble and walked back to the city lord's mansion.
"As you wish, noble lady." The nobleman agreed, staring at the graceful curves of her back.
There was a sudden commotion, and several savages in ragged clothes, shackled all over, were pressed in from the city gate, passing through this street to the slave market, attracting the attention of the city lord's wife. She was a little careless and asked casually: "Are they runaway slaves?"
"Yes, they were fleeing in a nearby village, saying that a foreign high priest destroyed the village and killed the respectable priestess..."
The city lord's wife's careless expression changed, her brows furrowed, and her eyes stared: "The village was destroyed?"
"Indeed, I am about to report to the city lord." The person in charge of escorting him bowed respectfully, not daring to look at the rumored noble lady. There is a big gap between nobles and warriors. Such a noble woman is not like him.
Little warriors can get involved.
"You go and report it."
The wife of the city lord waved her hand, thought for a while, and turned back to the Temple of the Wild God: "They are sisters after all. Even if they are not good, they are still the concubines of the god... They were harmed. The murderer is a foreigner. These murderers must be punished."
Death...or worse punishment"
"Yes, High Priest." All the other female priests responded, expressing their respect and yearning for this first lady with both divine and royal power.
In the woods ten miles outside the city, Ye Qing put away his consciousness and looked through the information about the White Jade Bookstore in Sichuan Forest Notes. After comparing, he couldn't find many of them, and he was thoughtful for a moment.
Ye Qing remembered something, rubbed his cheeks, and asked Liniang sideways: "Are there any desolate gods with more than three cities?"
"True Lord... are you worried that a true god like a dragon will appear?"
Liniang was startled for a moment, and immediately understood the meaning of the inquiry, and said: "I have never seen this before. At least the annexation period on the Western Front is still short. There are only a handful of foreign races in more than two city-states. There are no more than three alien races that have been observed so far.
, this kind of people are leaders whenever they appear in the winter defense counterattack... and the war on the Eastern Front is not as fierce as the Western Front, so the possibility of super merger will be even smaller, Zhenjun need not worry."
"That's it..." Ye Qing nodded, staring into the deep darkness in the east, silent for a moment.
Due to the different sources of meteorites, there are basically no identical meteorites. The Bahuang land is always unpredictable. There are some historical experiences that can be used as a reference, but most of them are beyond the records.
Strange civilization, strange resources, strange treasures, strange creatures, and also strange dangers.
This is the Eight Wildernesses. No one of them is exactly the same. They are dangerous and full of charm, just like the virgin land under thorns and roses.
According to the Qingmai principle, the impact of any small-probability event cannot be judged by its probability. This is the case for Qianlong and the Bahuang region.
"It is better to complete the project within five years, otherwise if such a large piece of the project is left out of control, it may become an Aragami in more than ten years..." He thought to himself, but did not say it out loud.
In the past few days, with Liniang and Bingmei by their side, nothing happened. The priestesses of each village were instantly killed, and the beacon towers were not lit. The savage slaves fled and did not dare to return. However, it was already the third day, and Ye Qing estimated that the enemy would discover the territory.
The situation in the village was over, so I didn't want to stay any longer and took the three of them on their way home.
Less than fifty miles away, an angry beast roar came from Pengyu City behind, and then, a blood-red divine light rose up, like a tide, rushing towards the east.