Thousands of miles to the north of Kaiyang Lake is a continuous mountain range with undulating mountains, peaks reaching to the sky, steep walls and deep ravines, and towering mountains.
The undulating mountains appear and disappear in the swirling clouds and mist, like a black snake swimming on the earth.
In the mountain range, there is a thousand-blade peak rising from the ground, reaching up to the sky. The dangerous peak stands tall and daunting, and the Daomen Yaoguang Palace is located on it.
This mountain range borders the sea in the east and the desert in the west. There are many cliffs on the back of the mountain range, standing like a huge city wall in the northern border of China. With this as the boundary, the land of Shanyang is the Middle Earth, and the land of Shanyin is the Northern Wasteland.
At this time, in the Gobi wasteland only thirty or forty miles away from the northern mountains, a group of people were galloping northward under the cover of night. The leader was a female crown, none other than Kaiyang Palace Wenwen. At this time, she had both hands
Her eyebrows were slightly frowned, adding a bit of determination to her otherwise pretty appearance.
The fifteen people in the group were all silent. What was strange was that the hooves of more than a dozen horses struck the hard frozen soil, but they only made a gentle churning sound. It seemed that they had been cast a silencing spell. They moved forward again.
After traveling for four or five miles, Wenwen and the others slowed down and came to a valley. The surrounding mountains were only forty or fifty feet high. The trees on the mountains were low, bushes were thick, and the dry grass was withered and yellow, creating a desolate scene.
At this time, a person behind Wen Wen drove his horse forward and whispered: "Master Wenxian, it's just ahead."
Wen Wen nodded, gently pulled the reins to stop the horse, and raised her right hand to hold out a talisman. The talisman spontaneously ignited without fire and turned into a cloud of smoke. The smoke gathered without dissipating and condensed into a walnut-sized bird that flew towards
In the valley.
At this time, she had a palm-sized bronze mirror in her hand, and the scene that emerged on the mirror was exactly what the bird saw. Wen Wen first directed the bird to circle in the air several times, and after confirming that there was nothing abnormal on the surrounding hills,
The bird sat quietly on a dead tree higher on the mountain, overlooking the entire valley.
The valley is not big, only a hundred feet square. Inside the valley are seven or eight people dressed as barbarian shamans. They are dancing around a three-foot-thick and three- to four-foot-high stone pillar, which is the unique sacrificial ritual of the Northern Wilderness Barbarians - the Guifang Clan.
dance.
One of them seemed to be the leader, wearing a black feather cloak and a ferocious bronze mask. He was the man in the bronze mirror seen that day.
Wen Wen's eyes flashed and she whispered: "Is it him? I really can't find anything after running through iron shoes. I didn't expect to meet here."
Several bonfires were lit around the altar, and under the constantly beating firelight, the group of people looked like a group of demons dancing wildly. What was even weirder was that there were fifteen or six people tied up on the stone pillars on three levels, inside and outside. They were dressed in Chinese costumes, with ferocious, painful and dull expressions.
.Wisps of green energy overflowed from their mouths like threads, and slowly flowed into the blood-red skull on the top of the stone pillar.
Seeing this scene, an angry look appeared on Wen Wen's face, and she gritted her teeth and said to the person beside her: "Lead by Captain Li, we will attack in formation." After saying the trick, the magic was changed, and the mute spell was removed. Then he rushed into the valley with a clamp on the horse's belly.
Inside.
The sound of horse hooves suddenly resounded through the valley. The group of people in the valley heard the movement and stopped to look at the mouth of the valley. They saw a group of cavalry wearing black armor and holding halberds. Behind them was a man in white clothes like snow.
Under the leadership of the fluttering female crown, she rushed forward in the blink of an eye.
Wen Wen took the lead, pointed her right hand sword forward, and several arm-thick ice picks appeared out of thin air, shooting at the bronze mask of the Guifang Clan shaman. The man was caught off guard and was hit by the ice pick and flew several feet away.
It fell to the ground motionless like a torn bag, and it seemed that it would not survive.
The momentum of the cavalry behind Wen Wen continued unabated, and they raised their halberds and stabbed the astonished barbarians to the ground one by one. However, in an instant, the originally lively valley returned to calm, with only the few bonfires still beating.
A group of cavalry put away their halberds and dismounted to rescue the trapped villagers, while Wen Wen drove her horse forward and stopped in front of the stone pillar, looking at the blood-red skeleton in silence.
At this moment, the bronze mask, which was lying motionless on the ground, quietly hooked its fingers inward, and the bloody skull suddenly shot out a red light towards the female crown.
The incident happened suddenly, and she couldn't avoid it. In the flash of lightning, the pearl earring on Nu Guan's left ear flew out automatically, transforming into a white light shield to block the red light. Wen Wen also reacted immediately, raised her hand, and
The bronze mirror flew to the top of his head and cast a curtain of light to protect him. Then he pinched the Thunder Jue with his hand, and a bolt of lightning shot out from his palm, hitting the bloody skeleton.
There was a roar and explosion, and the stone pillar was broken by lightning. The stones flew away, leaving only less than a foot in length. However, the smoke and dust dispersed, but the bloody skeleton was nowhere to be seen.
Not far away, the bronze mask that had been knocked down had stood up, holding the bloody skull in its hand. The other barbarians who had been stabbed to the ground also revealed their original shapes, but they were just human figures carved from wood.
"Puppetry?" Seeing this scene, Wen Wen knew that she had fallen into a trap, but she did not panic. This place was only thirty or forty miles away from the Demon Suppression Pass. As long as a signal was sent, reinforcements would arrive quickly, and besides, the opponent
There was only one person, so there was nothing to be afraid of. After calming down, she asked sternly: "The Guifang clan and I, the Middle-earth clan, often do business with each other, and their relationship is quite harmonious. I wonder what your intention is? Do you want to provoke a war?
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Hearing this, the bronze mask let out a burst of hoarse laughter. The laughter was like two iron tools rubbing against each other, sharp and harsh: "Fairy Wen, I haven't seen you for a long time. Fairy, don't worry. I am the high priest of the Guifang clan, in the name of the clan leader.
, I just came here to invite the fairy to be a guest in my clan."
Wen Wen snorted coldly: "A guest? I'm afraid it's the Hongmen Banquet?"
"Kekeke, Fairy Wen is joking. I have known the name of the fairy for a long time, and I have admired it for a long time. Kekeke, how can you hold such a Hongmen Banquet?"
Wen Wen frowned, raised her hand and pointed at the rescued villagers next to her and said, "Is this your way of hospitality?"
The bronze mask still whispered softly: "Fairy Wen, please calm down. If you don't use this method, how can you easily see the fairy? Please also ask the fairy to follow me to see the clan leader, otherwise these soldiers and the villagers under your command will be killed."
You have suffered an unreasonable disaster, gurgling."
"Just you?" Wen Wen gritted her teeth and said.
The bronze mask didn't answer. He raised his hand and snapped his fingers, "Pa". The sound was not loud but it echoed slowly in the entire valley. In an instant, numerous ghost warriors appeared densely on the originally empty mountains, as many as three thousand.
There was a crowd, and behind the bronze mask, more than a hundred ghost warriors appeared vaguely, each with their bows and arrows drawn, aiming at the people in the valley.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Wen Wen hurriedly ordered: "Get into formation!"
After hearing the order, the dozen or so cavalry quickly gathered towards her, surrounding the villagers who had just been rescued. Wen Wen also casually played out four talismans. The talismans were attached to the protective light curtain, and the light curtain enveloped her.
The range instantly expanded, protecting everyone within it.
At this moment, arrows rained down from the mountains...