After Xu Huaigu returned home, he started cleaning. Although Xu Huaigu had never done any of these housework and was very unskilled, he had plenty of time to take his time and was not in a hurry.
Besides, when cleaning, he could always find some objects that brought back memories of his childhood from time to time, which was an unexpected surprise.
Xu Huaigu enjoyed doing this calmly. I kept cleaning from morning to night, and finally got the house clean.
There was only turbid rainwater in the water tank in the yard. Xu Huaigu stood up and fell over. He wanted to go to the well to get some clean water.
It was already night. The small village is not like a big city like Xingqing. It is still as noisy and lively at night as during the day. As soon as it gets dark, Qingling falls asleep early.
Walking on a familiar country road, the wind from Lingjiang River blew in my ears, bringing with it an intoxicating chill.
The water in Lingjiang River is cold and the wind is always cool. Xu Huaigu is very familiar with this wind. He pulled his collar down a little and let the wind flow in, which made his heart feel a little cold and very comfortable.
He was drawing water from the well, and a moon was reflected in the well. As soon as the barrel was put down, the moon was shattered.
It's just that it's broken and then rounded, and once it's round it's broken again. Xu Huaigu felt that he should stay in Qingling until the demon clan invaded. He would also go to the battlefield and kill as many as he could. If he couldn't defeat them, he would retreat to Xingqing City.
If we are still defeated, we can retreat north to Qingfeng Valley, Zixia Sect, and Fuyao Sect. There is no way to retreat until Fuyao Sect, which is the northernmost point of East Fuyao Continent. If Fuyao Sect falls, East Fuyao Continent will be gone.
Thinking of this, Xu Huaigu felt a twinge in his heart. But he knew that this would happen sooner or later. The demon invasion was unstoppable. It was still uncertain whether the entire Central Territory, let alone the East Fuyao Continent, could survive the war.
It's just that you can lose, but you can't surrender. You must show the integrity of the human race. When the time comes to go to the battlefield, just go to death.
It's been a day since I came to Qingling, but I haven't seen the old friends I wanted to see yet. Xu Huaigu returned too late. Little did he know that Zhang Xiaohe, Li Zi, and Bai Xiaoyu had actually met him secretly. It was just because Zhang Xiaohe and Li Zi were on the side of the human race, and Bai Xiaoyu was a disciple of the Demon Sect. Both parties were wary and neither wanted to expose themselves in front of the other party, so neither dared to meet Xu Huaigu rashly.
When Xu Huaigu was fetching water, he thought that he should go to Lingjiang tomorrow to have a look. He has very different emotions towards Lingjiang, which was his favorite place in childhood.
He hadn't been back for a long time, and he missed the wind in Lingjiang. So I decided to go to Lingjiang tomorrow.
...The night is as dark as water, especially on the high mountains. The dark night cast a veil over the mountain, and the Wujian Pavilion of the Fuyao Sect stood on a towering mountain peak, reaching into the clouds.
This is the place where Fuyao Sect disciples usually practice their swords. There is still a man holding a sword standing at the door of Wujian Pavilion. He is secretly looking around and taking a few puffs of cigarette when no one is seeing him.
It has been almost five years since Xu Huaigu left Fuyao Sect. He seemed to smoke endless cigarettes and endure endless punishments, yet he was still guarding the gate under Wujian Pavilion.
He puffed away the smoke with an intoxicated look on his face. Gray-white smoke rings were spit out from his mouth one after another, and then blown away by the wind.
The sound of someone coming downstairs was heard in Wujian Pavilion. The man holding the sword quickly put out his cigarette holder, fanned the air with his hand to blow away the white smoke, then cheered up and pretended to fulfill his duty of guarding the door seriously.
An elder walked down and glanced at him. Seeing his serious expression, he couldn't help laughing and said: "It's so rare to be so serious and stop smoking?" The man holding the sword happily laughed and said: "Elder Li was joking, quit smoking early. Yes." Elder Li raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile, "Really? I heard Elder Xing say last time that he caught you smoking just ten days ago. Is this a sign of quitting early?" Hug? The swordsman had no choice but to smile apologetically and stopped talking.
This elder surnamed Li is not strict. He always turns a blind eye to him. As long as he doesn't see him head-on, nothing will happen to him.
Mainly because of Elder Xing from the torture hall. He has been arrested dozens of times over the past few years, and yet he is still arrested and not allowed to smoke. I really don’t know what kind of rivalry he has with me.
Why is it that only drinking is allowed in the sect and no smoking is allowed? The man holding the sword was unhappy. Soon after Elder Li left, he lit up the cigarette again.
Not long after, footsteps came from Wujiang Pavilion again, but the man holding the sword ignored it and continued to smoke happily.
The footsteps were not threatening to him at first sight. Over the years of guarding Wujian Pavilion, he had learned nothing else, but he had listened to the footsteps of everyone in the Fuyao Sect.
Of course, this is so that he can smoke more conveniently. The footsteps gradually approached while I was reading, and it turned out that she was not an elder, but a beautiful-looking woman who came out.
The man holding the sword seemed to have known who she was for a long time. He just smoked and smiled at her: "Junior Sister Yu, you are finally out of seclusion. Have you successfully broken through? Congratulations." Yu Qin was in a good mood, so she also smiled. He replied: "Thank you, senior brother." It turns out that Yu Qin has been practicing in the Fuyao Sect for many years. At this time, he has just broken through the fifth level and can be regarded as a rising star in the Fuyao Sect.
The man holding the sword shook his head to show no thanks, but there was another person walking towards Wujian Pavilion. The man holding the sword looked there carefully and saw that it was Yin Zushi.
He chuckled, thinking that he was lucky and a careless person, so he raised his pipe and took another long puff, spitting out a large circle of white mist.
Yin Zizhi came to Wujian Pavilion and happened to meet Yu Qin at the door. Yin Zizhi saw that Yu Qin had just broken through, so he quickly stepped forward to congratulate him, and Yu Qin also thanked him.
Yu Qin said to him: "I happened to meet Senior Brother Yin here, and I just wanted to ask you for help. I want to leave the sect, but the atmosphere in the sect has been different recently, and I'm afraid the deacon hall won't allow it. I I know that Senior Brother Yin has a close relationship with the Deacon Hall, so I would like to ask you to say a few more good words for me." Yin Zushi asked: "Junior Sister Yu is going to find Xu Huaigu?" Yu Qin was a little surprised and asked: "You also know him Still alive? He also sent you a letter, right?" Yin Zushi replied: "Indeed, not only me, the great elder also received his letter. He must have arrived in Qingling by now. The great elder asked me to go south. Let's go down, firstly to inquire about the information from the south, and secondly, to meet him and see how he is doing. If Junior Sister Yu doesn't mind, we can go together, which will make it much easier to deal with the Deacon Hall." Yu Qin was overjoyed, and hurriedly cupped her hands in thanks, "That's great, thank you so much, Senior Brother Yin!" Yin Zizhi smiled and said, "It's just a small effort, you're welcome. Besides, I also hope to see you two reunited. When I got the news that Xu Huaigu was dead, , I don’t really believe it. Even if that kid goes to the underworld, the King of Hell will not accept him. How can he die so easily? Now that I see it, it is indeed the case." Yu Qin just gently touched the long braid on his chest, Lowered his head and smiled slightly.
The man holding the sword silently put out his cigarette at some point and looked blankly into the distance. ...The night of prosperity is the night of thousands of lights.
In those days of prosperity, if you look down from a high place, the lights in the city would be like the stars in the sky, twinkling brightly.
But now the scenery of Xingqing City is not as good as in previous years. It can only be regarded as a cloudy night, and sparse stars can be seen, but not many.
In the palace at the northernmost end of the city, Emperor Lin Hongzhi of the Dayu Kingdom was wearing a golden dragon robe and sitting on a dragon chair, with his eyebrows lowered and his forehead raised, seeming very disappointed.
Several eunuchs around were carrying several official documents and kneeling tremblingly on the ground in the lobby, not even daring to take a breath.
Anyone who lives in Dayu Country can see that the country's power has weakened greatly in recent years, and is no better than in previous years.
However, this cannot put all the blame on Lin Hongzhi. It was all because of the monster invasion.
In the past few years, Dayu has been expanding its military strength, and raising troops has always been the most expensive thing. As a result, Dayu's treasury was extremely empty.
There was also the matter of uniting the army, which also caused great harm to Dayu Country. The joint army was jointly negotiated by the four major countries in the East Fuyao Continent. Its original intention was to unite the secular forces of the entire East Fuyao Continent to jointly resist the invasion of the demon clan.
In addition to the Dayu Kingdom itself, the other three countries are also obliged to send troops to the borders to stop the demon clan as much as possible.
It's just that after these troops entered the Dayu Kingdom, they were restless and disturbed the people everywhere. Moreover, these armies are under the jurisdiction of their own generals, and the rest of the country has no control over them. These days, there are dozens of local officials' memorials to impeachment, which gives Lin Hongzhi a headache.
Many measures have been taken over the years, many concessions and compromises have been made, all in preparation for this upcoming war.
However, the trumpet has not yet sounded, but Dayu itself has gradually become disorganized. Are these decisions correct?
Lin Hongzhi had no answer in his heart. He would not know the outcome until the war actually started. Lin Hongzhi had already calculated the current combat power of Dayu Country countless times in his mind, so he naturally knew it very clearly.
The upper-level combat force includes two monks from the tenth realm and four monks from the ninth realm. Among the ten monks, one is Liang Chen, the leader of the Xingyue Sect, who is loyal and reliable; the other is the swordsman surnamed Yang who comes from the Central Plains and is stationed in Qingling.
It is said that his killing power is extremely high and he is considered to be the pinnacle of monks in the Ten Realms, but he does not obey the orders of Dayu Kingdom.
When he came to Qingling, he only told the court of Dayu that he would do everything possible to kill as many monsters as possible, by any means necessary.
After that, he didn't say a word. He once sent someone to discuss with the sword immortal, but was turned away directly.
Lin Hongzhi wanted to know more information about this person, but the people he sent to China to inquire about the information could not find anything, which made Lin Hongzhi quite annoyed.
Once this monk's cultivation reached a high level, he was extremely arrogant. The key was that Lin Hongzhi really had no choice but to let him go.
After the lower-level combat forces gathered the armies of the four countries, the military strength stationed in the south of Dayu Country has reached a terrifying five million.
However, Lin Hongzhi also knew in his heart that if there were too many troops and they were a mixed bag, their combat effectiveness would definitely not be as good as that of elite soldiers. However, the current situation was critical and he couldn't care about that. One more person would be enough.
But even with an army of five million, he was still not optimistic about how long they could resist the demon clan. He would be satisfied if he could hold the demon clan back for three months.
If it can be delayed longer, Dayu Country will probably become famous in the Central Region. But it can only go so far. There is no way to escape the fate of destruction, it can only be postponed.
Not only him, but every country and sect in East Fuyao Continent is like this. Lin Hongzhi was sitting on the dragon chair. He suddenly got angry and pushed the pile of memorials on the table down the hall. Suddenly the memorials were scattered all over the floor, frightening all the eunuchs to lie on the ground and trembling.
His face was furious and he swore sternly: "Suppress all the memorials to impeach the redundancy of the army! When the country is in crisis, if we don't rely on soldiers to save the country, how can we rely on a group of people like them who only know how to write and write? Pass on my message Order, from tomorrow onwards, if there is anyone who is going to give me a dismissal memorial, let him carry his head and roll to the border for me! If he can kill monsters, I will give him the seat of the emperor!" Read the eunuchs Cringing, he kept claiming that he was right, then picked up the memorials that Lin Hongzhi had thrown all over the floor, and took them all out.
Lin Hongzhi put his forehead with one hand and leaned on the armrest of the chair. He felt that he was in a dilemma and there was a deep pain in his head.
