For Li Puzhi and many Qin monks who participated in this pioneering war, the shadow demon was like a nightmare.
She will suddenly appear by your side when you are sleeping, when you are practicing, when you are drinking water by the stream, when you are celebrating victory, at any time or place, and give you A fatal blow.
It's not until that pitch-black dagger penetrates your chest, until the fire of life is about to go out, that you suddenly realize that the shadow demon is here and you are dead.
"Not long after the founding of the Lu Kingdom, our Qin State, in accordance with the agreement between the two parties, sent thousands of captains and dozens of generals on the border that was thousands of miles long, and began to clean up the territory abandoned by the demon clan..."
"In just three months, our Qin State advanced five hundred miles into the mountains, capturing and killing more than twenty third-level demon commanders, more than three thousand second-level demon generals, and countless first-level and inferior demon beasts. , it can be said that we have achieved numerous results and are invincible. Everyone believes that our army will be able to completely conquer this thousand-mile land in at most one year. Countless soldiers are looking forward to the day when the victory is completed and the land is knighted. There are still many, many soldiers, because they have not received the I was sent to pioneer the land and regretted it endlessly.”
"At this moment, the shadow demon appeared..."
"It is impossible to verify who was the earliest soul killed by the Shadow Demon Sword. However, it is generally recognized that the first person she killed from the Purple Mansion was General Dou Feng. In fact, until General Dou Feng was killed, Shadow For the first time, the demon appeared in the sight of our army and became known to everyone..."
"General Dou Feng was stabbed in the heart by a short blade that suddenly appeared while he was resting in the tent, and he lost his life. However, the general was a fire-attribute monk, and his heart was much tougher than ordinary people. After being plotted, he did not act immediately. Instead of falling, she used a [Catching Fire to Start a Prairie Fire] to reveal her true form, but in the end she was allowed to escape..."
"Since then, our army has strengthened its defenses and set up formations in camps, caves, etc., but people were still killed one after another. So much so that later, Master Zifu did not dare to go out alone, often in groups of two or three. People protect each other, but despite this, some people were killed on the spot when she found an opportunity."
Li Puzhi let out a long sigh, feeling a cold feeling all over his body. To this day, he still remembers how he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar and was terrified when he received the order to ambush the shadow demon half a month ago.
"How much do you know about the shadow demon's strength?" Dandan asked.
"According to what General Dou Feng said before he died, the shadow demon's strength should be at the late second level, but its spiritual consciousness is different from ordinary people, its hiding skills are extremely clever, and its escape methods are also quite sophisticated. It cannot be treated as an ordinary second level demon. will be treated.”
"Dou Feng died three years ago, what happened next? Does anyone know the latest strength of the shadow demon?"
"No," Li Puzhi said in shock: "General Dou Feng was the only one who injured her and made her appear. Since then, no one has caught any trace of her."
"Do you know the identity of the shadow demon and her identity in the demon clan?" Dandan continued to ask calmly.
"I don't know, but since the shadow demon appeared, the battle between the demon clan and our Qin country has changed. Our army often advances hundreds of miles, but can't find a few decent demon beasts. After our army passes, But these monsters reappeared, attacking our lone captain and so on, causing a lot of losses."
"Our army's analysis shows that the shadow demon should have considerable influence among these monsters. However, this demon has always liked to act alone. In line with the principle of catching the thief first, our army specially sent three experienced generals this time. And thirty captains, ready to trap and kill the shadow demon, but..."
Li Puzhi said no more. He knew very well that since he had been sent for interrogation, the ambush would have failed in all likelihood.
…
Outside the cave
"I don't know this, I don't know that. I still want to ambush Youyou. What a wishful thinking!" Yiyi pouted, her little face full of contempt.
"Sister Yiyi, I heard from Xiao Shitou that Youyou is your best friend. Why don't you go out to see her?" Zhao Yuer asked curiously.
"No, no!" Yiyi's little head shook like a rattle: "She has always called me sister, and now... I won't go out to see her!"
"Phew! Haha!" The two girls Zhao and Zi couldn't help but laugh out loud when they looked at Xiao Xian Cao, a little boy with short legs and less than three feet tall.
"You are also laughing at me, you are all bad people!" Yiyi became even more angry, and flew up into the sky with a kick: "I'll go see Ji Ye and see if he has opened the ring."
The restrictions on the Zifu monk's ring could not be broken by Yang Zhen's cultivation in a short time, so he took the opportunity to check the storage bag and quietly threw the ring into the space and asked Ji Ye to help open it.
Of course, with Yiyi's control over space, no matter where Ji Ye is, she can know the other party's movements immediately. The so-called rushing over to take a look was just that I was a little embarrassed by the laughter of the two women and felt embarrassed to stay there any longer.
But a moment later, the little fairy grass flew back and shouted in mid-air: "The ring is opened, there is no sarcophagus inside!"
…
outside space
Dozens of third-level monsters glared at Yang Zhen, but no one dared to break out on the spot.
Youyou stood there and didn't move, and they didn't dare to leave.
The reason why Youyou didn't leave was because she was waiting for the young man to finish reading the storage bag.
The monsters were unruly. In the two-quarters of an hour they had been waiting, hundreds of first- and second-order monsters had been yelled at, beaten violently, and suppressed by the leader of the monsters because they were restless, roaring and moving around.
So it's strange that their attitude towards Yang Zhen is so good!
Finally, Yang Zhen pretended to finish reading these storage bags.
Glancing at the densely packed but generally motionless team of monster beasts, he couldn't help but feel secretly frightened.
Youyou's status among these monsters cannot be achieved just by being a princess. This should be the prestige she gradually accumulated through her own strength and achievements in the previous battles with the Qin people.
He took out the ring, along with all the storage bags, and handed them back to Youyou.
"Come with me!" Looking at the girl's pale face, Yang Zhen said via voice transmission: "You haven't met your sister Yiyi, right? She misses you very much! Also, our space has changed very, very much now. There are a lot of people inside, there are mountains, rivers, and market towns, and it’s very lively. There are also many, many delicious things and new things there, don’t you want to go and see them?”
The faint gray eyes were filled with brilliance, but in the end they dimmed.
"No!" She shook her head resolutely: "I can't go in, my queen, I will, I will know. Grasshopper... Grasshopper, you, you go!"
Yang Zhen suddenly realized.
He stretched out his hand and gently smoothed the girl's gray-black hair, and nodded: "Then I'm leaving. Take care of yourself. A few people from Qin have escaped, and your strength will be known to them. All kinds of methods in the world of cultivating immortals They are emerging one after another, so don’t be careless. Try to use stabbings as little as possible in the future.”
"Yes." Youyou responded obediently, a teardrop quietly falling from her eyes.
…
The mountains and forests are silent.
A spring thunder sounded across the ground, the bright moon disappeared, the stars dimmed, and on the horizon in the distance, the black clouds seemed like a surging black tide, carrying the heavy feeling of an approaching storm and a heavy sadness.
Raindrops fell with the sound of thunder, soaking the fallen leaves and broken branches in the jungle. The rain and dust turned into layers of mud, and trickled down the mountains.
Yang Zhen was wearing a raincoat, holding a stick in her hand, and kept pulling away the vegetation and thorns in front of her, and walked forward step by step.
It's not that he can't fly, but he's on a battlefield where humans and monsters are fighting, so it's safer to walk slowly.
He is heading west.
Returning to Xu Kingdom, heading east over the Million Mountains, it seems like a shorter journey, but it requires passing through the territory of several demon kings. You have to be stealthy along the way, which actually takes a long time.
On the contrary, if you head west, you can quickly reach Qin State, and then use the teleportation array to get home in a few days.
Therefore, he neither handed over nor released the three prisoners of Qin to Youyou. It might be useful to keep them in his hands for the time being.
The further they went, the stronger the wind and rain became. Yang Zhen stopped and looked around, intending to find a sheltered place to rest for a while.
"Yiyi." He called softly.
There was no reply from Little Ambrosia.
In the midst of wonder, my heart suddenly shuddered, and the hair all over my body stood on end!
It was as if someone was observing him in the dark, and it was like a thorn in his back, so he didn't dare to move rashly.
Yang Zhen took a few steps forward with difficulty. The wind and rain were like darkness, and a woman in colorful clothes stood on the edge of the cliff in front of her!
This woman is petite, and the colorful clothes on her body emit a dazzling light, like a neon light in the dark night, blocking out all the rain.
The woman's back was turned to Yang Zhen, like a statue looking at the vast mountains in front of her. She seemed not to notice anyone behind her.
However, Yang Zhen's heart was like a mirror. This woman appeared here just to wait for him.
He couldn't avoid it, and he couldn't escape. The other party's cultivation was far beyond what he could look up to as a small person.
"Junior Liu Yun, I have met Empress Qixia." He clasped his hands and sang respectfully.
A chuckle came from the woman: "Are you Youyou's original owner?"
"yes."
"Youyou miss you very much!" the woman sighed.
"Youyou has a pure nature, knows well and values righteousness, and is a good child." Yang Zhen didn't know the other person's intention, so she answered cautiously.
"Good boy?" The woman chuckled and said, "Youyou is my daughter. If you call her a good boy, then what do you call me?"
The implication is, do you want to eat my tofu?
"I made a mistake," Yang Zhen said, neither humble nor overbearing: "I have always treated Youyou as my own sister."
"So they are brother and sister," the woman laughed so hard that her branches trembled. After a while, her voice suddenly became cold: "From now on, you are not allowed to disturb Youyou again."
"I'm sorry that I cannot agree to this," Yang Zhen replied: "If Youyou still remembers my brother in the future, I will naturally not forget it and come to visit her when I have time. If she has forgotten, I will not bother her again. .”
"Hahaha," the woman laughed loudly: "You are such a cunning little thief, do you think you can fool me with such an ambiguous answer? It's ridiculous!"
She snorted coldly: "Why don't I kill you now to completely eliminate any future troubles!"
After saying this, Caiyi's light shined brightly, expanding rapidly outwards, and in the blink of an eye it came to Yang Zhen, covering his whole body.
…
The high temperature, the scorching high temperature, seemed to be generated by the Dantian, and seemed to sweep in from the outside, attacking Yang Zhen's body from the inside out.
Big beads of sweat spread all over the body in an instant, and then turned into steaming heat, which evaporated and dispersed.
Yang Zhen felt like a duck in an oven. The skin and flesh were gradually browning, and the flesh and blood were gradually becoming tender. It seemed that there was only the last bit of heat left before it could be taken out of the oven and served to the banquet.
This is a kind of heat that is almost despairing. It is testing the endurance of your body and squeezing your last potential. Every time you grit your teeth and persist, and just get used to it a little, the temperature will rise by a hundred degrees again, making you feel sad again. Plunged into a molten hell.
"Ah——" He clenched his fists and roared to the sky!
"Sake an oath to your inner demons and cut yourself off from Youyou, and I will let you live." The woman persuaded you, her voice distant and cold, as if coming from the dusk sky.
"Dream!" Yang Zhen gritted her teeth and said word by word: "Do you really want to violate the oath that you made with your own lips?"
"Hey, I'm just killing a foundation. At the worst, I'll pay for some spiritual grass." The woman seemed nonchalant, but the hot and oppressive feeling quietly relaxed a little after all.
This made Yang Zhen feel like she was being pardoned, and while silently reciting the essence of the [Five Elements Body Training Technique], she must continue to endure hardship.
As time passed, gradually, a cool air came out of Dantian and slowly flowed throughout the body. Wherever it went, it was like rain coming after a long drought, and spring coming to dead trees, almost making the young man groan in comfort.
"Huh?" the woman exclaimed softly: "Sure enough, he has some skills, no wonder he can find a spiritual pet like Youyou!"
The colored light suddenly disappeared.
Yang Zhen gasped for air, letting the sudden rain hit her body, feeling extremely cool and refreshing.
"Thank you for not killing me." He cupped his hands.
"Oh? You don't hate me?" Qixia smiled.
"As long as the empress treats Youyou wholeheartedly and doesn't ask her to take risks like assassination, Liu Yun will only feel grateful and not resentful." Yang Zhen said sincerely.
"Well, it's rare to be neither resentful nor angry," Qixia slowly turned around. It seemed that only then did Yang Zhen finally come into her eyes and deserve her serious attention: "Don't worry, Youyou..."
Suddenly, her eyes lit up and she exclaimed, "It's you! It's actually you!"
Yang Zhen looked confused: "Do you know me, my queen?"
Speaking of which, he and the Qixia Empress in front of him had actually met before. Back then, in front of Panxi Mountain, Zixue used a talisman to kill a fourth-level tiger demon, but was pursued by her and Cang Min. However, the ancestor of Xiling and Zixue's sister arrived in time and saved them.
but……
He suddenly realized that after seeing Youyou, he returned to his original appearance and forgot to continue pretending.
However, even so, Qixia wouldn't be so surprised, right?
Could it be...
"Where is the remains of the immortal beast!"
Sure enough, Qixia arrived in an instant, grabbed his wrist, and asked him urgently what he had guessed.
