Split the frozen lake with a sword, and there are countless ghost soldiers at your feet. This scene feels like the Lich King summoning the death army.
Long Chen looked at the ghost soldiers at the bottom of the lake and guessed that these were the remaining soldiers that had been preserved after the battle in the Black Forest.
The lake on the top of the mountain is huge, and the water below is turbulent. There are at least 50,000 soldiers and horses here.
Long Chen returned to the lake and said to Mo Lin: "Go back to the Black Forest immediately and get all the Demon Suppressing Stones."
Mo Lin knew that the matter was urgent. There were so many soldiers and horses hidden at the bottom of the lake, and they must all be dealt with.
This place is also close to the Hera Pass. There may be ghost soldiers secretly guarding and monitoring us, so we must take action immediately.
Mo Lin immediately flew down the mountain and ran towards the black forest.
Gan Xin looked at the cave across the lake and said, "Sir, there must be something in that cave."
If there is nothing in the cave, it is impossible for the ape to crawl in.
Long Chen thought for a while and said: "You keep watch here, I'll go in and take a look."
After saying that, Long Chen swept across the wide lake, occasionally tapping his feet on the ice floe, and quickly landed outside the entrance of the cave.
Standing outside the cave, a foul smell came out, which made Long Chen almost vomit on the spot.
After holding back a breath, Long Chen took out a luminous pearl and threw it in to explore the path, then walked slowly inward.
The cave is not small, about a hundred meters deep. The light of the luminous pearl illuminates the surroundings. You can see that the surrounding stone walls are frozen. There are caves on the stone walls with people sitting cross-legged on them.
This cave is also where the Martial Saint hides his troops, or generals. The person sitting in the cave should be a ghost general.
So, that ape was raised by a ghost general?
The owner was frozen here, and the ape stayed here for four hundred years?
A four-hundred-year-old ape...hasn't become a spirit yet?
Monkey Sun has only been under the Five Elements Mountain for five hundred years.
Long Chen's thoughts suddenly wandered a little.
After coming back to his senses, Long Chen kicked the luminous pearl on the ground. The light went back to the depths of the cave, and then a low roar came from it.
The cold light of the night pearl illuminated the injured ape. It lay on the ground and ate a ghost general. Its armor was torn open, its neck was twisted, and its frozen body was like frozen meat.
Seeing this scene, Long Chen overturned his previous guesses.
This ape is definitely not something raised by ghost generals. If it was raised by ghost generals, it would not be possible for it to eat the ghost generals in the cave.
This ape may be a nearby ape. In order to avoid the snowstorm, it hid in the cave and accidentally discovered the ghost general here.
There was too much wind and snow outside, and it had no food, so it ate the frozen ghost generals here, and then mutated and became huge.
After the wind and snow subsides, it goes outside to hunt and eat some fresh flesh and blood.
Therefore, Long Chen bumped into this ape.
There were more than one piece of armor fragments on the ground, and many of the ghost generals in the cave on the wall had been eaten.
The ape was still grinning and threatening. Long Chen ignored the ape and looked at the ghost general on the wall.
Starting from the middle and extending back to the bottom of the cave, there are more than fifty caves in total, with generals sitting inside.
More than fifty ghost generals...Wu Sheng actually hid so many.
There are no ghost soldiers to defend such an important place, and the ghost tribe doesn't care about it.
This mountain is very close to the Hera Pass, so it is not difficult to send troops to guard it.
Maybe the ghost tribe didn't care about the soldiers and horses under Wu Sheng at all. There were people guarding them at first, but then no one took care of them.
This is the most likely.
If someone were to guard it, it would be impossible for the ape to eat so many ghosts without being discovered.
Long Chen pulled out the skull sword, and the ape shrank into a ball in fear, and his voice became even deeper.
The ape thought Long Chen was going to kill it, so he grabbed the weapon on the ground and stabbed Long Chen.
Originally, Long Chen had no intention of attacking the ape, but seeing how annoying the ape was, Long Chen simply took action first, separating the weapons with a sword. Long Chen's figure flashed, and the skull sword penetrated the ape's huge head, killing it.
The ape lay down, and Long Chen drew his sword and beheaded all the ghost generals in the cave.
The apes ate twenty-three, and there were still thirty-one left. Long Chen cut off the heads of all of them.
There are more than fifty ghost generals. If they were allowed to wake up, this battle would not have to be fought.
To be qualified to sit here, he must be a general favored by the Martial Saint, and his cultivation level may be above the True Realm.
Who can defeat more than fifty real ghost generals?
After killing the ghost general in the cave, Long Chen searched carefully again to make sure that no fish had slipped through the net. Then he sheathed his sword and stood at the entrance of the cave waiting for Mo Lin to come back.
At the foot of the mountain.
Mo Lin flew down the mountain. Feng He saw Mo Lin's hurried expression and quickly asked what was going on.
Mo Lin mounted his horse and urged: "Tens of thousands of ghost soldiers on the top of the mountain, go get the magic stone, hurry!"
When Feng He heard this, he didn't ask any more questions and immediately rode his horse to follow him towards the black forest.
Back at the entrance of the Black Forest, Yi He and Mu Zhen had already set up tents and were preparing to camp for the night.
"Where is your lord?"
Yi He didn't see Long Chen and thought he was encountering another fierce battle.
When they were fighting apes in the black forest just now, the deer rushed out of the black forest, shocking the two of them.
Mo Lin turned over and dismounted and said, "Let us change your horses."
Feng He put all the magic-suppressing stones on his horse, led another horse, and returned quickly with Mo Lin.
"They were running so fast, something happened again?"
Mu Zhen saw that Mo Lin and the two were in such a hurry and took the magic stone to leave, so he guessed that they had found a hiding place for soldiers.
Following Long Chen, the two of them learned a lot, and also knew the usefulness of the Demon Suppressing Stone.
Yi He said: "Let's hide in the black forest, maybe there will be a big war."
Mu Zhen was a little worried and said, "What if we enter the black forest and anger the Wolf God?"
Yi He said: "The Wolf God will protect us."
Mu Zhen thought about it and immediately packed up his tent and entered the black forest to escape.
When Mo Lin returned to the foot of the mountain, it was already getting dark.
After taking the baggage, Mo Lin carefully carried it on his shoulders. Feng He also carried a bag, and the two immediately went up the mountain.
Mo Lin had high cultivation and fast speed. After reaching the top of the mountain, Gan Xin immediately came over to help him, and Long Chen also flew over immediately.
"How many more?"
"Five bags."
Long Chen picked up the bag and flew to the middle of the lake. Holding the bag in his left hand, he gathered his true energy in his right hand and shattered the gradually freezing ice surface again.
He did not use the Skeleton Sword because it was too close to the Hera Pass and he was worried about being noticed by the ghosts.
The ice surface cracked and the magic stone powder poured down.
The black and red powder was sprinkled, fell into the blue water, and slowly sank to the bottom of the lake. The algae-covered ghost soldiers quickly melted after encountering the magic stone powder.
When he returned to the shore, Feng Hecai climbed up panting and threw the bag on the ground.
"I'm exhausted."
While Feng He was gasping for air, Gan Xin and Mo Lin had already brought up the remaining demon-suppressing stones.
Long Chen threw the remaining six bags into the lake in different directions. Feng He and the others watched the lake water change color, the ghost soldiers at the bottom of the lake gradually melted, and the lake water turned into a turbid gray.
"There are at least 50,000 soldiers and horses in this lake."
Feng He was a little excited and a little scared.
These many soldiers and horses are enough to flatten the Central Plains.
"There were more than fifty ghosts in the cave. The apes ate dozens of them and beheaded all the rest."
Long Chen breathed a sigh of relief and finally managed to kill these elite soldiers before dark.
In the battle in the Black Forest, both sides must have sent out their most elite soldiers. If the Martial Saint could hide them here, they must have been elite soldiers.
Eliminating these will save a lot of trouble.
Back then, the war between Wu Sheng and Long Yuan started from the grasslands in the north to Nanliang, and was burned from north to south.
Long Chen didn't want the people of the Central Plains to experience such a tragic war again. This war must be controlled north of Yanmen Pass and must not go even half a step beyond Yanmen Pass.
Therefore, it is necessary to eliminate as many ghost clans as possible before starting a full-scale war.
