"Flat body."
A soft yet majestic voice slowly came out of the girl's mouth.
"Thank you, Your Highness."
The tiger demon took the lead, and all the demons stood up one after another, making a lot of noise.
The tiger demon looked at Yang Zhen next to Youyou, with some doubts in his eyes:
"Your Highness, is this the prisoner you captured? Do you want me to tie him up with a rope?"
He glanced at it indifferently, his silver-gray eyes showing no emotion or anger:
"Aoi, how are the casualties of the Qin people?"
"Back to Your Highness, there are thirty people in Qin's camp, including two from Zifu. We fought with them and killed fifteen people, including one from Zifu, and captured seven others alive. The rest escaped."
"You, thousands of people, besieged a mere thirty monks, and you actually let them escape?" Youyou asked, with anger in her tone.
Yang Zhen stared at all this in stunned silence. The girl in front of him was completely different from the girl who was trapped in the formation and eating and drinking in front of him half a quarter of an hour ago.
The girls trapped in the formation will be timid when seeing him, will get close to him, but are full of grievances, and will even nervously stutter when speaking, just like a wild child being sought by their parents. But now, this man stood out among the demons, with a majestic appearance, a face as cold as ice, and a voice that was low but clear and smooth, carrying an intimidating aura that had been at the top for a long time.
Is this still the Youyou he is familiar with?
"Go back to Your Highness," Aoi explained: "It's not that we are incompetent, it's that humans are too cunning. A team of only thirty people actually brought a teleportation talisman. They were inspired by a Zifu and took several people around them with them. Ran."
"Where is the outskirts?" Youyou asked: "The people of Qin are in a lonely camp. Don't they have any foreign aid?"
"Well," Aoi hesitated, "Yes, there is foreign aid, but they don't dare to come up when they see the powerful people like me."
"Pa!" The figure flashed and slapped the tiger demon hard on the face. Suddenly, the girl returned to her original position. Its speed was so fast that Yang Zhen didn't see it clearly for a moment.
"If this slap hits me..." He secretly speculated: "If I take precautions in advance, I might be able to avoid it. If it is unexpected, I will never be spared."
The evaluation of Youyou's strength in my heart was a little higher.
"Who told you to act in advance and expose your whereabouts?" Youyou scolded sternly.
"Little one, I am also afraid that His Highness will make a mistake..." Aoi plopped and knelt down on his forelimbs again: "I am incompetent and missed His Highness's arrangements. I hope, I am willing to be punished."
"Your fault will be dealt with after you return to the mountain." Youyou said expressionlessly: "Where are the prisoners and corpses of the Qin State? Where are they?"
The tiger demon stood up and gave some instructions behind him. Then he saw a group of demonic beasts escorting seven human prisoners forward and throwing a dozen corpses on the ground.
Yang Zhen raised her eyes and saw the old man in red clothes and gold trim at first sight. She saw that his eyes were wide open, there was a blood hole as big as a fist in his chest, and he had no breath at all!
He silently counted the corpses, and there were twelve corpses in total. Some of them were missing arms and legs, and they had obviously been bitten to death.
Just when I was wondering why the numbers didn't match up, I heard Youyou ask: "Are there three more?"
A black-bellied scaly snake more than two feet long squeezed forward and replied in a hoarse female voice: "Your Highness, the younger one swallowed them alive during the fight."
"Hand over their belongings and storage bags." Youyou said.
"yes."
The snake demon opened its bloody mouth and vomited forcefully, and a ball of clothes rolled out, along with a large ball of mucus. It was disgusting to see.
At this moment, someone among the prisoners suddenly shouted: "No, they didn't tell the truth! Junior Brother Zhang was eaten by several leopards after he was captured! Not during the battle, no!"
Standing next to the prisoner was a tall black-spotted snow leopard. Hearing this, he became furious and stretched out his forepaws to swing at the man. However, he heard a cold snort from Youyou and immediately froze, not daring to move rashly.
"Bai Kuan, is what this person said true?"
"This, this..." The leopard demon stammered: "The discipline of my subordinates is not strict, I wish, I wish..."
"Whoever did it, let them come out."
"Yes." The leopard demon responded, turned around and roared a few times, and not long after, three second-level black-spotted snow leopards came out from behind timidly.
"Kill." Youyou said indifferently.
"What!" The leopard demon raised his head in shock, suddenly fell to his knees on the ground, and begged: "Your Highness, I, the son of the Leopard Clan, have no offspring, please forgive me!"
You Huo remained silent, and a hint of sarcasm gradually appeared in the corner of his mouth.
"Bai Kuan!" Suddenly he heard a roar of filial piety, but it was Aoi who shouted: "The empress has strictly ordered that no beast clan is allowed to torture and kill human captives. How could you forget?"
"Little ones, little ones have not forgotten it, but a few of them are immature and ignorant. They don't know this!"
"That's because you are not strict with me!" Aoi said bitterly: "Why are you still standing there in a daze? Do you want me to do it myself?"
Bai Kuan shuddered all over, with a ferocious look on his face. He roared and rushed forward, beating the three trembling leopard monsters to death one by one.
Yang Zhen watched all this in silence, becoming more and more confused in her heart, who was the empress? Why did she impose such restrictions on the beasts? What did she want from these human captives?
Suddenly, he had a thought in his mind, and with a flick of his fingers, he quietly threw the two spirit beast bags into the bluestone.
"Have all the Qin people's storage bags and rings been counted?" Youyou stopped paying attention to the whimpering leopard demon and continued to ask Aoi.
"Everything has been accounted for." Aoi replied, and asked the demon monkey next to him to present the things. He even took out the storage bag in the mucus, cleaned it, and handed it over together.
Youyou frowned, waved her hand and gave way.
At this moment, Yang Zhen suddenly said: "I want to open this ring and these storage bags."
He said this to Youyou through sound transmission.
Since the old man died, this ring is presumably his relic, and the sarcophagus inside the ring is something he must obtain.
In addition, Yang Zhen is also curious about how this serious Youyou will behave after hearing his request.
Without saying a word, Youyou reached forward with an almost transparent little hand, grabbed all the storage bags and rings, and handed them over casually.
"After reading it, I want it and give it back to me. The queen asked me to hand it over." She stammered, and in an instant she was back to the timid little black grass she was back then.
Yang Zhen reached out and took it, but she couldn't laugh or cry in her heart. His original intention was to find a time to quietly give it to me, but he didn't expect that Xiao Heicao would be so straightforward.
Sure enough, Youyou's actions immediately caused a commotion among the demons. Aoi completely forgot about the slap just now and asked blankly: "Your Highness, who is this human being? Do you like him?"
Youyou seemed to have not heard anything, holding her head up arrogantly, standing quietly on the spot in black clothes.
This stop took two quarters of an hour to pass.
…
At the same time, an interrogation was taking place in the bluestone space.
"boom!"
The red-robed monk fell out of the spirit beast bag. He was dizzy from the impact and looked at the dark stone walls around him in panic. Two tall red-bellied eagles with fiery red bodies on the left and right were staring at him sharply.
The man shuddered, and the memory before he was captured came back to his mind, and he said tremblingly: "Where is this?"
"I ask, you answer." Dandan said in a sharp voice. Having been a demon commander for more than half a year, there is an unquestionable majesty in his tone.
"Yes, yes, I will tell you everything I know." The red-robed monk nodded and bowed.
Just now, he used his spiritual consciousness to explore and found that his spiritual consciousness was limited to three feet inside the cave. He was probably trapped in a hidden formation.
Looking at this posture, if you don't cooperate honestly, your life may be lost quietly.
Of course he didn't know that just outside the stone wall, there were two women listening and guiding the two birds to ask questions!
"Name?" Dandan asked first.
"Li, Li Puzhi."
"Cultivation?"
"Sixth floor of foundation building."
"Where is your family name and what is your official position?"
"A native of Xizhou in the Great Qin Dynasty, he is currently the captain of Hengwu Military Academy."
"Why did you come to this million-dollar mountain?"
"Drive out the monsters."
"Expelling the monsters? Your Qin country is at war with the monsters from millions of mountains?"
"It's not a war, it's..." When Li Puzhi said this, he suddenly froze: "No one in the Million Mountains, no, in the Lu Kingdom, knows about this. Don't you know?"
"Lu State?" Dandan ignored his inquiry and asked curiously: "Where is Lu State? When did another country appear on the border of Qin State?"
"The Lu Kingdom is the original Million Mountains," Li Puzhi explained: "After the Panxi Mountain Incident, the demon clan established a country in the Million Mountains, and the country was named 'Lu'."
"Has the demon clan established a nation?" Dandan was surprised: "Why did the human race agree to the demon clan establishing a nation?"
"I don't know about this. I heard that it was the great demon named Qixia from the Monster Clan who convinced our True Ancestor from the Eastern Region. Of course, some people say that it was the ancestor who made his own decisions. They say that the Monster Clan The founding of a country will have the same rules and regulations as our human race, which can be constrained, and it will also facilitate communication between countries and exchange what they need, which will be beneficial to everyone."
The two birds looked at each other. Thinking about how difficult it was for the human race to establish a nation in the territory of the demon clan in the Mountain Domain, I didn’t expect that here in the Eastern Region, the human race would allow the demon clan to establish a nation.
Comparing the two, the spirit of the True Master from the Eastern Region appears to be much grander and brighter.
"What do you know about what happened in Panxi Mountain three years ago? Tell me about it." After a while, Zhu Zhu interjected.
Outside the stone wall, Zixue Zhao Yue'er looked solemn and listened.
"Yes, yes," Li Puzhi nodded quickly, while thinking carefully: "Where should I start talking about this?"
"Let's start after the collapse of Panxi Mountain."
"Yes. Panxi Mountain was destroyed, and all countries suffered extremely heavy losses." Li Puzhi said with a dark expression: "More than 60% of the thousand elite monks died. Seven of the top ten in the Eastern Region Competition died. Especially our country, Qin, Among the one hundred and fifty people, less than thirty came back intact in the end!"
"It was later discovered that the beast tide that appeared in Pandi Mountain and its final destruction were all the work of Cang Min, the demon king of the Million Mountains at that time. For the treasures in Pandi Mountain, this beast acted arbitrarily and caused this catastrophe. It’s so unforgivable!”
The more Li Puzhi spoke, the more sad and angry he became. Suddenly his heart skipped a beat. He remembered that the two people in front of him were monsters. Will his words offend them?
"It's over!" He secretly regretted it and broke into cold sweat all over his body. He raised his eyes and took a peek, only to see that the two birds looked as usual. Dandan urged: "Why did you stop? Keep talking!"
"Not long after, all the countries in the Eastern Territory gathered at Million Mountains," Li Puzhi quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead and continued: "They all demanded that Million Mountains hand over Cangmin, otherwise they would level the place. I heard that later, even our people in the East The true ancestor of the domain also appeared. Cang Min had no choice but to come out to accept the crime. In the end, everyone decided to kill him on the spot!"
"Okay, okay, good kill!" Dandan said happily: "Well, keep talking."
Li Puzhi became more and more curious about the other party's identity, but he did not dare to pause:
"In addition, the Yaozu also handed over a large amount of spiritual grass, spiritual stones, treasures, mineral materials, etc. as compensation, and agreed to release thousands of miles of territory in the east and west directions for conquest by the two countries of Xu and Qin. These two countries provided Corresponding spiritual stone instruments to compensate other countries..."
"So, where we are now is a thousand miles away from Qin?" Dandan suddenly realized.
"exactly."
"Since the demon clan agreed to cede this territory, why do you still conflict with them?"
"The demon clan just agreed to let go, but did not completely abandon these two territories. What they really moved away were only the fourth-level demon kings and a small number of third-level demon commanders," Li Puzhi said, "Below the third level, especially those with the second-level first level The monsters of this level have been living in this forest for a long time, and their spiritual wisdom has not yet been developed and they are stubborn, so it is impossible to move them all."
"Besides, the monster tribe's habit since ancient times is to occupy its own territory and occupy the mountains as kings. Even if those monsters want to move to the mountains, there will be no extra places to choose from. Instead, they will conflict with their original owners."
"So, although these places have been assigned to our Qin State, there are actually still a lot of monsters there. It still needs a hard campaign to drive out and kill these monsters before they can be completely captured."
"Kill them all?" Dandan muttered: "Now that the demon tribe has established a country, these monsters are all citizens of the country. Is Demon Emperor Qixia just sitting idly by and letting you destroy its people? Aren't you worried? , did she secretly take the Demon King under her to attack and kill you?"
"She doesn't dare!" Li Puzhi said flatly: "Qixia made a solemn oath in front of all the countries in the Eastern Region. Unless it is to protect herself, she will never attack any human race within a hundred years, let alone kill a human race with her own hands! This is One of the conditions required by all parties after Panxi Mountain was that the old man Zhenzun promised to establish a country for the demon clan, and Qixia would never dare to disobey it!"
"Being kind to human captives is one of them, right?" Zhu Zhu suddenly asked.
"Yes." Li Puzhi nodded, but he was confused in his heart. These two demon birds didn't know many things, how could they only know this one thing?
"Not only can Qixia not take action, but the demon kings under her are also not allowed to take action," he continued: "Of course, on the human side, monks above the Golden Core are not allowed to participate. Both sides send out monks below the Zi Mansion and demons below the third level. Beasts, attack each other until one party can no longer bear it and gives up completely."
"Give up completely?" Dandan pondered: "In your opinion, which side will win in the end?"
"Of course it's the human race! My human race's cultivation inheritance has a long history and has its own system. How can it be competed by those monsters who rely on their talents?"
Li Puzhi said while observing the two birds' faces. By now, he was certain that these two demon birds must be the spiritual pets of the foundation-building monk named Liu Yun, so there was no need to worry about the consequences of praising the human race in front of them.
"My human race is proficient in alchemy talismans and is good at borrowing foreign objects. Even the foundation-building monks have killed third-level monsters." He became more and more proud and smiled: "On the contrary, the second-level monster killed Zi Has anyone heard about the affairs of the people in the house?"
Sure enough, Erniao's expression was normal, and he even nodded frequently. But what Zhu Zhu said next made his smile freeze on his face:
"What is the cultivation level of the shadow demon you are talking about?"
