That night, dark clouds rolled in so thickly that it was impossible to see out of Hengshan Mountain. The air was heavy and heavy rain had been brewing all day and was about to fall.
Lao Jin and his group set up camp on a flat ground in Hengshan Mountain, built a bonfire, roasted the game they brought from the dense forest, sprinkled it with salt, and had dinner with a pot of strong wine.
"Damn, it's raining, isn't it?" someone in the team cursed.
Bai Ze mingled in the crowd, eating barbecue and watching the changes.
At Xu Shi, Bai Ze looked down from the heights of the camp and saw that another group of people had entered the mountain. There were many torches, and he saw that they were a group of elite troops.
"Go and find out." Lao Jin said to one of the men in black, "Let's see where that team came from. There are already people from the Du family in Heyang, and if another family comes, this spiritual deer will not be easy to catch."
The man in black left for two-quarters of an hour and came back and said, "He is from the City Lord's Mansion. He is wearing standard silver armor. The leader is Mu Qingling, Princess of Heyang."
"Damn!" Lao Jin cursed, "This is going to be a big melee!"
Bai Ze's eyes moved, and he thought that there was no place in his life where he would never meet again.
Mu Qingling's army of the City Lord's Mansion was stationed near Bai Ze's camp. Bai Ze saw a man walking over there, wearing a standard silver armor. He took a look at the camp and then turned back to resume his life.
Bai Ze obtained the Mountain Ghost Seal, and his soul gradually became in tune with the natural way of mountains and rivers. His eyes were able to see at night. When he saw the place where the City Lord's Mansion was stationed, Mu Qingling was dressed in red, wearing soft armor and carrying a sword. After being in the mountains for dozens of days, she still looked heroic. .
"Old Jin, the leader over there seems to be the youngest titled knight in the City Lord's Mansion, Silver Knight Lu Zheng." On the team's side, a man in his forties said with a heavy tone.
"Is that the eighteen-year-old Silver Knight who is already half-aware, Lu Zheng?" someone answered.
"Now that two years have passed, I'm afraid he has already entered Zhiwei." Lao Jin frowned and cursed, "How can the City Lord's Mansion and the Du family be included? Together, we are not enough for a Silver Knight. People see it.”
While he was talking, Bai Ze looked toward the city lord's mansion camp and saw a tall young knight standing next to Mu Qingling. He held a snow-silver spear in his hand, which made him look very majestic.
Sensing Bai Ze's gaze, Lu Zheng glanced sideways, glanced at Bai Ze, then turned around, leaned over and said something to Mu Qingling.
The firewood pile crackled and burned, and in the middle of the night, when everyone was sleeping with the sky as their blanket and clothes, there was a sudden thunder in the distance.
"boom!--"
On the Hengshan Mountain, Bai Ze and his party immediately woke up.
The electric light tore through the night, illuminating the deep forest in a terrifying and strange way. The big raindrops were broken by the dense leaves of the forest, dripped down in the gaps in the jungle, and hit everyone's faces.
"It's raining." Bai Ze murmured to himself.
Accompanied by bursts of thunder, Hengshan suddenly became commotion, and shouts broke out one after another.
"What's going on?" Lao Jin stood up, picked up the sword and looked around.
"It seems that someone is calling the Nine-Colored Spirit Deer?" Bai Ze's ears and eyesight were clear, and he heard someone shouting in the distance. But the more he listened, the more Bai Ze felt that something was wrong, "Why does it seem like someone is still screaming?" he thought in his mind. Confuse.
"Nine-colored deer? Where is it?" Lao Jin asked.
"There." Bai Ze pointed in the direction.
"Let's go and have a look!" Lao Jin waved his hand, and the accompanying team immediately followed him and headed straight in the direction pointed by Bai Ze.
Bai Ze hesitated for a moment and saw that Mu Qingling's side also started to move. Everyone packed their weapons and luggage, searched for the sound, and immediately stopped thinking about it, followed Lao Jin, and searched for it.
As we ran all the way, the rain became heavier and heavier, and the deep forest gradually became muddy, making walking difficult.
In less than half a quarter of an hour, two teams of people drove up the mountain and climbed over a low hill. Looking up, they saw a hundred feet away in the rich night, a nine-color deer with aura all over its body, standing with its head held high and its chest high. Looking down at everyone under a pine tree that is over a thousand years old.
"Nine-colored spirit deer!" Mu Qingling shouted softly, "Lu Zheng, catch it!"
"Take orders!" Silver Knight Lu Zheng was wearing silver armor, but the armor on his body was obviously different from that of the city lord's servants. It was more sophisticated and looked like leader's equipment.
The snow-silver spear dragged the ground, and Lu Zheng took the lead and ran towards the Nine-Colored Deer. The army of the city lord's palace protected Mu Qingling in the center and followed closely behind.
"Let's go too!" Lao Jin gritted his teeth, "When two tigers fight, one of them will be injured. We may not have no chance!"
Ten feet away, the Du family's troops also arrived. The young master of the Du family, Du Qian, was dressed in a smart outfit, carrying the Huangshan Spirit Sword on his back, and the man carrying an umbrella behind him looked like a ghost. Under the heavy rain, his figure seemed to blend into the heaven and earth, erratic.
There were shouts all over the mountains and plains. At a glance, Bai Ze saw that there were at least hundreds of people!
The Nine-Colored Spiritual Deer stood quietly on the hill, its body filled with aura, becoming even more dazzling in the darkness. It seemed to be arrogant among the others, but its eyes were staring at a certain place, as if waiting for something.
Bai Ze stood there without moving as the rain poured down. Apart from the sound of rain and faint shouts, there was no other sound in the dense forest.
He looked at the Nine-Colored Spirit Deer, but had a strange feeling, as if the psychic deer was also looking at him.
The trailblazer has reached the bottom of the hill where the Nine-Colored Spirit Deer is located. The hunting net is opened, with greedy eyes mixed with sinful swords, quietly stretched out on a thunderstorm night!
"Boom! -"
It wasn't the sky that thundered, but the earth that shook!
"What's going on?!" The vanguard troops couldn't stand firmly, fell down one after another, and rolled down the hill.
"Earthquake?" Before Bai Ze could make a move, he stood there and took a look. Suddenly, the coldness in his soles of his feet went straight to his mind.
The hill where the Nine-Colored Spiritual Deer is located has moved.
It's not an illusion, it's really moving! It seemed like something was waking up underground.
"What is this?!" someone exclaimed in the heavy rain, but the sound was covered by the rain and others could not hear it at all.
Mu Qingling and Du Qian also realized something was wrong, and hesitantly stopped to observe the situation.
"Chirp, chirp!" The nine-colored spirit deer stood on the hill, and the old pine tree coiled around the crouching dragon, like a huge beast silent in the darkness.
Immediately afterwards, the huge beast really became a beast, and Bai Ze watched the pine tree move!
At that moment, the whole mountain came alive.
The countless trees that could not be seen at a glance were like loose wild donkeys, pulling their roots out of the rocks and soil, running as fast as flying, running down the hill like a frenzy, and immediately engulfed all the horses and horses in front of them.
"Ahhhhhh!!" The team of people screamed pitifully, but the roots and branches of the trees crisscrossed them and quickly surrounded them and sealed them in.
It was like locusts passing through the border. Wherever the tree demon passed, it pushed everything in its way, leaving a mess and dead bodies everywhere.
"My... mother!" Lao Jin shouted, turned around and ran away, "Run!!"
"Protect the princess and retreat!" Silver Knight Lu Zheng shouted, firing a single gun, but instead of retreating, he advanced towards the charging tree demon.
Also acting at the same time as him was the mysterious master of the Du family who was carrying an umbrella. Except for these two people, everyone else was frightened when they saw the trees all over the mountains and plains coming to life, and hurriedly retreated.
The heavy rain was pouring down, and Bai Ze watched the dark frenzy galloping on the muddy mountain road despite the heavy rain. It was so powerful that it swallowed up all the people and horses who could not escape in time. The Nine-Colored Spirit Deer still stood proudly on the top of the hill, with its head held high and its feet stamped.
Bai Ze suddenly remembered a story that Xie Xuan told him while pointing at Dushan when he came to Heyang. He said that seventy years ago, at the border of Yan State, the Jin army launched a surprise attack and planned to cross the remaining mountains of Dushan and attack the southern border of Yan State. The first city is Heyang.
But the strange thing is that there was no news about the army led by the first general of Jin after they advanced into Dushan.
A month later, the King of Jin still heard no news about the army, so he sent scouts into Dushan to search. Finally, they found traces of the army deep in Dushan, sixty miles away from the marching route.
According to reports from the scouts, no one in the army survived and were all hanged in the woods, including the most famous general in the Jin Kingdom at that time, the man who was hailed as "a rare general in a century" by King Wu of the Great Zhou Dynasty in the north. First Zhen!
Seventy years ago, there was a war in the north. Due to the sudden death of King Li of Zhou Dynasty in the Great Zhou Dynasty, his successors were young, and his younger brother Zhou Gong assisted the government. He took over the power and dominated the seven kingdoms, triggering an all-out war in the north.
The first of the four famous generals who emerged during the national war was the Jin general Xian Zhen.
"The entire army was wiped out?" Bai Ze asked.
"Well." Xie Xuan said, "It was also because of the inexplicable death of the first general of the Jin State that the Jin State's national strength was greatly reduced and it was unable to fight anymore. It surrendered to the Zhou Dynasty and was willing to obey the leadership of the Zhou Dynasty as a minister. The war in the north gradually ended. The curtain comes down.”
"Are the trees in that forest all monsters?" Bai Ze asked.
"I'm afraid it's more terrifying than monsters." Xie Xuan looked at Dushan with a deep look, "Xianzhen led the troops on the expedition. His own cultivation level was also extraordinary and supreme. He died in Dushan for no reason. Most of them died in that forest. There is a demon king.”
…
The silver knight Lu Zheng and the mysterious umbrella bearer of the Du family rushed into the frenzy of tree demons and took the general's head like an army. The tree demons were shocked by the two people's strong body-protecting energy and retreated one after another.
The escaping troops found the two murderous men behind them, fighting back and forth in the tree tide. Not only were they not injured, but they also killed the tree demon to pieces. They immediately boosted their morale and everyone cheered, "This tree demon, It’s nothing special! In front of Zhiwei masters, why don’t you just let others take advantage of you?!”
Bai Ze looked down from the mountain. The two people were really like gods descending to earth. Lu Zheng held the snowy silver spear in his hand and swung it away. The approaching tree demons disintegrated one after another.
The man with the umbrella was even more weird. Not even a drop of rain touched his body. The rain all over the sky came close to him, and he was pulled into the rain by his sword energy. He slashed at will, cutting out a messy avenue in the dense tide of trees.
"Boom! -"
The hills trembled, and the thousand-year-old pine rushed down the hillside, heading straight for the two people in the center of the tree tide.
"The old tree demon has moved!" Lao Jin shouted, "I wonder if the Silver Knight and the man with the umbrella can stop it."
"Are you leaving?" Some people are still afraid after all. Once those two Zhiwei can't stop them, if they don't leave now, they may not be able to leave later!
"Wealth is sought in danger, wait!" Lao Jin shouted, with a stern look on his face.
