When the sixth grade students of Nantianyuan Tianjian were still going up the river, a wilderness on the border of the Southern Dynasty had just been plowed by fire.
Weeds and some miscellaneous trees were burned to scorched earth in the man-made fires. When rain falls in a few days, the fire can be removed and the seeds can be sown.
Standing in the black open fields, even if your eyes can easily reach farther places, you always feel that the night will come early.
A sergeant from the Southern Dynasties was sitting on a grassy slope that was not engulfed by the flames, slowly stroking a silver bracelet in his hand.
This is just an ordinary silver bracelet, not something for spiritual practice. This soldier from the Southern Dynasties is not a spiritual practitioner either. This bracelet was secretly given to him by his fiancée when he left home.
At the time, he felt it was a little too childish, but as he got further and further away from home, he began to feel more and more important about it.
In the army, he had also seen countless gifts collected by veteran soldiers. Some of them even carried sachets with them, which contained nothing but soil from their hometown.
However, nothing matters, these things can only express their emotions and remind them of the beauty of their hometown.
The sky was getting dusk, and the wasteland under the sky in the north turned into a blurry black line, which seemed to be gradually disappearing from the soldier's eyes.
However, at this moment, he felt the ground shake.
The sergeant stood up.
He saw some fast-moving black spots crossing the blurry black line, bringing up flying smoke and dust.
This is the cavalry army of the Northern Wei Dynasty.
He was shocked.
In the past few dozen days, there have been dozens of battles on the northwest border between the Southern Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty, with both sides winning and losing. Even a low-ranking sergeant like him could often hear about the deaths of certain generals and practitioners.
information.
But this is the junction of Luojian and Huai River. According to all their past intelligence, the Northern Wei Dynasty's military forces are all mobilizing to the northwest. How could the Northern Wei cavalry cross the border here?
His shock was quickly replaced by the shock that followed.
That group of fast-moving ones were obviously behind the Northern Wei Jingqi, and there were more fast-moving black spots.
Then, a black ocean formed in his sight.
The ground shook.
He saw the black fly ash break away from the ground and jump uneasily a few inches above the ground.
What went wrong?
The sergeant could not imagine how an army of at least hundreds of thousands could appear here, but he understood that his time had come.
This will replace the northwest border as the main battlefield between the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Wei Dynasty.
And he himself will be the first batch of Southern Dynasty soldiers to die here.
He kissed the silver bracelet in his hand extremely tenderly, just like kissing a distant lover, and then he shot a loud arrow into the sky.
As the sharp whistling sound of the loud arrow sounded, a thunder appeared in the sky.
A spear fell from the sky, piercing his body and nailing him to the scorched earth.
I wonder what kind of practitioner he is who can throw a spear from such a distance and kill him.
However, before he coughed up blood and died, the sergeant still pulled out his long knife and pointed it forward.
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Even practitioners who are above divine confusion can only sense what happens within the range of perception, and cannot even predict changes dozens of miles away, let alone thousands of miles away.
Lin Yi and his party had no idea that starting from that night, the war between the Southern Dynasty and the Northern Wei Dynasty had undergone fundamental changes - from the beginning, the small-scale harassment and battles against some fortresses by both sides suddenly turned into an alarming number of
The armies fought and captured the city.
The Northern Wei Dynasty, with Wang Yuanying of Zhongshan as its commander-in-chief, led an army of hundreds of thousands, and invaded Luokou of Nanliang in one day and night. On the other hand, the Southern Dynasty, with Linchuan Wang Xiaohong as its general marshal, supervised the army to fight.
Within a few days, the combined military strength assembled by both sides in the Qingxu area of the Southern Dynasty soon exceeded one million.
The real battle concerning the life and death of the two dynasties has begun.
In the past few days, the things Lin Yi was worried about did not appear.
His "inner breath" still happened from time to time, and he discovered a strange phenomenon.
His strength didn't seem to be growing as fast as before, but his perception was growing very quickly.
Some warriors rely solely on physical training. Those with strong strength can also lift hundreds of kilograms of heavy stones. This kind of strength is also close to that of life palace practitioners, but their perception is only slightly sharper than ordinary people and will not be as strong as practitioners.
There is no limit to the growth as your cultivation level grows.
Lin Yi now feels that his power is slightly better than that of Black Snake King, a practitioner who has just passed the Life Palace realm.
According to the knowledge he had previously learned at Qitian Academy, including some records in the classics he had read, the perception of practitioners in the Ming Palace realm was that the sound of flies could be heard within three feet.
The sound of flies does not refer to the buzzing sound when flies fly, but the subtle sound that ordinary people cannot hear when flies rise and fall.
He felt that his current perception seemed to be that he could definitely hear the sound of flies within more than three feet.
In the dead of night, even with the sound of water, he seemed to be able to hear the sounds of insects moving about ten feet away, and he could even smell the unique smell of many plants ten feet away.
This kind of perception is at least a perception that only practitioners at the pinnacle of the Life Palace can possess.
Could it be that this kind of Da Jura cultivation method can be ahead of the Zhenyuan method in terms of perception?
As they get closer and closer to Meishan, most of the Nantianyuan freshmen are a little uneasy. On the one hand, they hope that they will have great luck and be able to make a big splash, but on the other hand, they are worried that they will fall into Meishan. Compared with luck, it seems realistic.
Even more worrying.
Everyone knows that in any era, the truly lucky ones are always only a very small number of people.
But Lin Yi felt an inexplicable sense of impatience.
He had too many cultivation problems to deal with, to try, and to obtain answers. Moreover, his cultivation progress was constantly increasing, but he was stuck in the boat, feeling an indescribable feeling of depression, just like a wild horse trapped in a boat.
in a cage.
After several days of increasing anxiety, they finally entered Huairen County. At the end of the rolling Meishan Mountains, they crossed the border of the Southern Dynasties and penetrated deep into the territory of Dangxiang. They appeared in front of their eyes like a long eyebrow between heaven and earth in the distance.
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Meishan is at this end of Huairen County, but most of the peaks are higher than the section within Dangxiang.
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Huairen County, Qingyi River.
In a dense forest along the river, there is a stilted building. This place used to be a silver mine, but a few months ago, it was requisitioned by the Nanliang military and the silver mine was closed. This stilted building has been turned into a camp area.
The waterway below where small mining ships used to travel has been slightly repaired and widened, turning it into a larger dock.
Near noon, a young officer sat on a wooden stake tied to a rope on the pier. His armor was polished until it shined. Looking at some rotten wood floating in the river on one side, he frowned and said angrily:
"I really don't know what the generals above are thinking. We have been waiting here for half a month, just waiting for those fresh students. What use can they do?"
"It's not a matter of usefulness or not."
An old general beside him smiled sarcastically, "These Nantianyuan students are all the nephews of the powerful men of the day. This is a matter of interest groups dividing their interests. The military camp is the most class-conscious place, so don't complain too much.
Any military order is centered around how interest groups can obtain greater benefits. Do you think the lives of an elite army are more important than the improvement of the cultivation level of a powerful nephew?"
"For us, we can't think about these issues. We can only think about winning this battle while executing all these military orders."
The old general smiled. His smile looked a little lonely and old in the sunlight. "Whether we are satisfied or not is not a question we should think about."
After saying this, he raised his head slightly and looked towards a river bend in front of him.
There was a strange sound of water.
A small iron-clad wooden boat appeared in his sight.
Then came more.
The students from Nantianyuan they were waiting for finally arrived. (To be continued)