The entrance to Chang'an Secret Land is located at Hangu Pass.
'Hangu Pass' has a dangerous terrain and is the most important pass in the world. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. When the Six Kingdoms attacked Qin, Qin relied on the natural dangers of Hangu Pass, causing the troops of the six countries to lay down millions of corpses and blood flowed into rivers.
At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Mengde established Tongguan Pass in order to prevent military chaos in Guanxi, and at the same time abandoned Hangu Pass.
Tongguan and Hangu Pass are 80 kilometers apart. There is a steep ancient road winding through the mountains. Five card masters are riding horses on the way.
The leader of the team is a woman, riding a bay-red horse, with a heroic appearance and a pair of bright red and phoenix eyes.
Seven Stars of Central Continent, Pojun Star, Lu Lingqiu.
"Lord Po Junxing, Tongguan is ahead."
A male grandmaster rode forward and asked with some concern:
"This secret realm is so big, and the environment is so real... If we just go forward like this, can we really get through the secret realm?"
Lu Lingqiu said calmly: "We came in from Hangu Pass. If we want to go east to Chang'an, Tongguan is the only way to go."
She looked north to see the rolling waves of the Yellow River, then glanced at the towering Qinling Mountains to the south, and then said:
"Tongguan is bordered by the Yellow River to the north and the Qinling Mountains to the south. It was called the 'Key to the Three Qins' in ancient times. There is no way around it. Therefore, there is only one correct route to the secret realm, which is to go forward until Chang'an."
Two days ago, eyewitnesses reported seeing a terrifying monster with wings, like a red tiger, flying into the thick fog at Hangu Pass and disappearing.
Because the eyewitnesses' description of the monster looked very much like one of the four legendary evil spirits, Qiongqi.
Therefore, the Central Continent Alliance dispatched Lu Lingqiu, the ‘Broken Army Star’, to lead the card master to investigate this suspicious secret realm.
At the previous Hangu Pass, Lu Lingqiu and his party had already encountered a group of about 300 guerrillas, and Lu Lingqiu dealt with them neatly.
What made Lu Lingqiu a little concerned was that these soldiers were not like illusions in the secret realm. The screams and blood were extremely real.
But after all, she was a 'descendant of a military dynasty', so she quickly hardened her heart and continued to lead the team forward.
"Fortunately, this time the team is led by Master Po Junxing..."
Two card masters behind him whispered.
"Yes, the humanoid monsters in the secret realm are too real. I can't do anything about them at all."
"Don't be careless!"
Lu Lingqiu raised her voice, and there was a hint of solemnity between her brows:
"If the eyewitness reports are true, what we will eventually face may be the ferocious beast in the mythology of mountains and seas - Qiongqi!"
Qiongqi, one of the Four Evils of Central Continent, is said to be a descendant of Shaohao, the Emperor of Heaven in the West. He was exiled by Shun for breaking faith, being loyal, and advocating evil words.
According to the "Book of Mountains and Seas", Qiongqi looks like a tiger with a pair of wings, has a ferocious temperament and likes to eat people.
According to folklore, if two parties quarrel and one party is loyal and honest and the other commits evil, then Qiongqi will arrive, bite off the good person's nose and eat him, and then make friends with the evil person.
In later generations, Qiongqi was often compared to a treacherous person.
Qiongqi's power among the four evil spirits is inferior to that of the seven demon gods in the West who symbolize original sin. After awakening, he is only at the seventh level of strength.
But Qiongqi is like a tiger with wings, it can go to heaven and earth. If Qiongqi wants to escape, Lu Lingqiu cannot trap him.
Therefore, this in-depth investigation into the secret realm is mainly to confirm Qiongqi’s witness information.
If there is a crisis, Lu Lingqiu's first task is to lead the card masters to retreat, not to break through the secret realm.
Following Lu Lingqiu's scolding, the group did not dare to make any rash remarks and concentrated on their way.
A majestic pass appeared in front of us, located at the ferry of the Yellow River, adjacent to the Qinling Mountains, and the terrain was steep.
On the battlements of Tongguan, the soldiers guarding the city widened their eyes. When they saw that there were only five enemies coming, they felt ridiculous again.
He communicated with the messengers with "wow, wah, wah," and then blew the horn. The sound of the horn echoed endlessly between the mountains and the Yellow River.
"That's weird." The male grandmaster wondered: "How come the phantom soldiers here are the same as real people?"
Lu Lingqiu's face was serious and his eyes flashed slightly, remembering the half-joking teasing made by the descendant of Marquis Wu before setting off for the expedition.
"Lord Po Junxing." Zhuge Qian cupped his hands and said, "When you conquer the secret realm, please don't have any worries."
"Because death, many times, will be a relief."
When he said the second half of the sentence, the cynicism in the tall young man's eyes disappeared, leaving only seriousness.
Lu Lingqiu whispered: "The person we killed...may be a real person."
Boom!
The gate of Tongguan City was lowered and stood across the city's protective ditch. A warrior general with about fourth-level human strength rode out, followed by a group of sergeants watching the fun.
The general glanced at Lu Lingqiu, with a contemptuous smile on his face, raised his spear and said a lot of "wow, wah, wah,".
A card master from behind whispered: "This warrior is an elite monster!"
"I guess I'm going to have a one-on-one challenge with Mr. Po Junxing. The two armies are lined up and the two pairs will fight - I think this is what is written in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms!"
Bah!
The cold light swept across, like a strong wind passing over the hills, and the chilling atmosphere of the battle exploded over the Qinling Mountains with a muffled thunder like the roar of a giant dragon.
Blood splattered everywhere, and heads rolled off his neck. When he was about to die, the general's face was still full of surprise and disbelief.
The sergeants were in disbelief, their bodies trembling, and their pupils reflected Lu Lingqiu, who was rushing towards the moat single-handedly, like a ghost.
How is that possible? I couldn't even see her move clearly!
How on earth did this weak woman defeat the general with one blow?!
Lu Lingqiu was holding Fang Tian's painted halberd, with a loud-sounding fire phoenix hovering on the halberd, flapping its dazzling fire wings.
The fire phoenix fluttered its gorgeous tail feathers bathed in fire, and the fire increased steadily. Finally, with Lu Lingqiu's clear shout, it dived out with the force of the halberd!
"Phoenix dance - start a prairie fire!!"
boom!!
The finishing move of the seventh-level powerhouse turned into a swooping flaming phoenix, flying towards Tongguan City.
For a moment, the fire in Tongguan City soared into the sky, and screams continued.
Standing in front of the burning Tongguan City, Lu Lingqiu turned his head against the halberd. There was a cold light in Danfeng's eyes, and he slowly said:
"Keep going until you break through the secret realm or find Qiongqi!"
Fellow card masters swallowed their saliva and said in unison: "Understood!"
*
The secret realm of Chang'an is filled with flames.
The people were crying and shouting in the city, and the soldiers who looked like wolves and tigers laughed ferociously and trampled on paper umbrellas, kicked over stalls, and tore off women's obscene clothes.
There are old people crying bitterly, complaining that the sky has no eyes, and their lust makes their minds dim;
There were also Confucian scholars who scolded the Hu people for their lack of moral integrity, raising armies and rebelling, and being no different from animals.
Cut it down with a big sword.
The Confucian scholar's head rolled down and he glared angrily. The blood soaked the Confucian scholar's green clothes.
In the fourteenth year of Tianbao, in Anlu Mountain, Shi Siming rebelled and took Chang'an from outside Tongguan.
Known in history as the Anshi Rebellion.
In the twelfth month of the fourteenth year of Tianbao, two famous generals named Changqing and Gao Xianzhi took a defensive position and held Tongguan.
Xuanzong listened to the eunuch's slander, killed Feng Gao and others, and appointed Ge Shuhan to lead an army of 200,000 to guard Tongguan.
In the fifth month of Tianbao's fifteenth year, Xuanzong sent special envoys to urge Ge Shuhan to go out to Tongguan to fight. Ge Shuhan knew that he would be defeated, so he cried bitterly.
On the fourth day of June, Ge Shuhan led his troops to fight, but was ambushed. Less than 8,000 of the 200,000 troops fled back to Tongguan.
In June of the same year, An Lushan broke through Tongguan and took Chang'an directly, burning, killing and looting, and agitating the ground.
Wolf smoke fills the sky, the horns of despair are shocking, and the fire devours the scrolls of the prosperous age and the people together.
In the hell-like Chang'an City, a winged tiger squatted on the battlements, with a humane smile on Qiongqi's face.
The reason why the ‘Anshi Rebellion’ was recreated in the secret realm of Chang’an.
One is to use blood and killing energy as sacrifices in order to wake up the soldier leader as soon as possible.
Secondly, Qiongqi’s purpose is to select ‘treacherous people’ to join him in causing massacres in the real world of Central Continent.
Qiongqi's eyes reflected a figure as big as a hill.
The man suffered from an eye disease, looked down upon others, his face was full of sinister flesh, he had a knife in his waist, the sores on his neck were gushing pus, and his whole body was full of evil spirits like an evil ghost.
An Lushan, the founding emperor of the Pseudo-Yan Kingdom, was once an important minister of Xuanzong, and was the one Qiongqi chose for this trip.
"He is indeed a treacherous and murderous villain——"
Qiongqi smacked his lips, looked at An Lushan who was killing in the city, and said with dissatisfaction:
"But he's too ugly, I don't like it... and neither will my Lord."
My lord Chi You is, after all, one of the three ancestors of Zhongzhou.
His spokesperson in the real world must be a brave and capable God of War, and someone I Qiongqi admires.
The big winged tiger opened his mouth and yawned. He was a little tired of watching the killing scenes in Chang'an City, and said to himself:
"Let's change to another secret realm and choose other humans to try."
Suddenly, Qiongqi felt a sense of crisis in his heart, and heard the sound of arrows coming through the wind.
Qiongqi turned around, swung his sharp claws, and broke the arrows.
On the high cliff, a team of modern card masters stood ready.
Lu Lingqiu's eyes were sharp, he drew his bow and arrow, and stared at Qiong Qi:
"I found you——"
call out!
Lu Lingqiu's archery skills were astonishing, and three streams of light shot out, forming a phoenix of fire.
Qiongqi roared, as the saying goes, 'The wind follows the tiger, the clouds follow the dragon', and four tornadoes immediately gathered and formed, colliding with the fire phoenix, and the roar was deafening.
Putting away the big bow, Lu Lingqiu glanced at the crying Chang'an City, his eyes flashing slightly.
Although this is a scene in a secret realm, no different from an illusion, how can we just sit idly by and ignore it.
"The four of you, go to the city to help the people and stop the Hu army."
Lu Lingqiu's palm ignited with flames, and a Fangtian painted halberd with full of evil aura appeared, and he said coldly:
"Qiongqi, leave it to me."
"yes!"
The remaining four card masters naturally know that this is a duel between seventh levels, and staying here will only get in the way.
As Zhongzhou card masters, they developed empathy for the people in Chang'an City.
Although history cannot be changed, at this moment, I can fight with the generals who are still defending Chang'an City.
"You guys said, what will happen if An Lushan is killed?"
"Even after he dies, others will appear. In the final analysis, it is the internal conflicts in the prosperous Tang Dynasty that accumulated to..."
"Stop beeping, push pictures to explode the material!"
The four card masters rushed towards Chang'an City.
Qiongqi grinded his teeth and claws, flapped his wings, and rushed towards Lu Lingqiu.
Lu Lingqiu raised Fang Tian's painted halberd, and used his 'Qiang' to parry Qiongqi's sharp claws, forcing Qiongqi back while sweeping out the surging fire!
Qiongqi flapped his wings to avoid it and narrowed his eyes: "Your weapon..."
Fang Tian's painted halberd has extremely high requirements for its users. Various skills such as chopping, chopping, stabbing, and slashing can all be performed with one halberd.
The human's Fang Tian painted halberd in front of him has a sharp tip with unrivaled murderous intent, and there is a fire phoenix spirit at the pole, balancing it with cleansing fire.
This weapon was no small matter, and it made Qiongqi a little interested in the origin of this human being.
"What does it have to do with you?"
Lu Lingqiu scolded coldly, wearing a beast-faced head-swallowing chain armor on his body, his black cloak made a hunting sound, and he waved the weapons inherited from his ancestors.
Fang Tian's painted halberd swirled around the fire, and with one strike, he released a fire phoenix flying high into the sky.
Mysterious meaning: Feng Xiang Jiutian.
boom!!
Qiongqi was unable to dodge, and his body of steel and iron bones was burned with scorch marks.
Lu Lingqiu is the most adept at attacking the 'Pojun Star' in Central Continent. They are both at the seventh level. Even Qiongqi cannot take advantage of him.
It flapped its wings and flew dozens of meters away. It looked at Lu Lingqiu's Fangtian Painted Halberd from a distance and grinned a strange smile.
"I want to thank you, human... for inspiring me."
"I don't know what to say."
Lu Lingqiu raised his eyebrows and raised his eyes, and his red phoenix eyes were extremely sharp. He waved the Fang Tian Painting Halberd with both hands, injecting all the energy from his body. The flames formed behind him into a fire phoenix that looked up to the sky and roared loudly, its roar resounding throughout the sky.
The finishing move: The phoenix dances and sets the prairie fire on fire!
With a loud roar, Lu Lingqiu swept out his dazzling halberd, and the fire phoenix swooped down with him, trying to burn Qiongqi to pieces.
However, Qiongqi quickly retreated and even flapped his wings to escape.
"We will meet again soon."
High in the sky, Qiongqi's strange laughter came:
"When the time comes, I won't be the one fighting you..."
The human god of war who was treacherous and worthy of being summoned by Chi You.
There was a hint of fierceness in Qiongqi's eyes.
After thousands of years, I don’t know how much shock ‘he’ will bring to the powerful people in this world.
…
Central Continent Alliance, Seven Star Conference.
Lu Lingqiu was reporting on this trip to the secret realm and said:
"The secret realm of Chang'an is based on the 'Anshi Rebellion'. After Qiongqi escaped from the secret realm, the secret realm of Chang'an automatically dissipated..."
"The Anshi Rebellion..." Legalist Han Li's eyes flashed slightly.
It seems that as Zhuge Pifu said, the four evil spirits used the secret realm to collect the "Qi of Killing" in order to revive Chi You.
"Qiongqi seems to be looking for something in the secret realm." Lu Lingqiu recalled with a frown, "But it doesn't look like a treasure, more like a specific person."
"No matter what Qiongqi is after, it is a great achievement for you to defeat Qiongqi." Jiang Shang encouraged.
Lu Lingqiu nodded and said respectfully: "Thank you Heavenly Master."
Han Li held up the frame of the mirror and said seriously: "Now it is certain that Qiongqi has appeared. The top priority is to find the whereabouts of Qiongqi's escape and gather strength to eliminate Qiongqi in one fell swoop."
On the conference round table, on the seat where the 'Mojia Moyao' nameplate was placed, a synthesized mechanical sound came from a mechanism box: "How to find Qiongqi?"
Han Li had a headache: "At this time..."
"At times like this, I need to appear, haha."
A clear voice came, Zhuge Qian pushed open the door and entered. He smiled and bowed his hands with everyone, saying:
"The stargazing method inherited from our ancestors can locate the general direction of disaster. Therefore, I have some experience in finding and locating objects."
Han Li complained in a low voice: "This is the way to appear again... Could it be that you have been eavesdropping outside the door..."
"Pindao also knows a thing or two about the art of divination." Jiang Shang smiled and said, "I will work with Mr. Zhuge to deduce Qiongqi's movements."
"Do you want to ask True Lord Golden Dragon to help?"
A descendant of Confucianism, Meng Liang, who is 1.95 meters tall, speaks like a bell.
"We can no longer let True Lord use his power."
Han Li mused: "Perhaps, letting him live a normal life is the best destination for him."
Everyone nodded.
"I can recommend a candidate to join the team to defeat Qiongqi." Jiang Shang said.
"Who?" Lu Lingqiu asked.
"The most powerful man in the world who defeated Emperor Augustus and traveled to Central Continent."
Jiang Shang's eyes showed some appreciation and expectation, and said:
"Epee man, Lin Xiao."
…
The Qiongqi chapter begins, and the plot is slowly laid out.
Because it is an invincible style, I have to write down the supporting roles and then use them as cushions...|ω`)