Jun Wuxie returned to the border town and put away the Blood-maned Lion Dog Beast King in the mountains near the border town.
Riding the Beast King on the road is to rush for time.
Compared to Lanlan, the consequences of being exposed as the Blood-Maned Lion Dog Beast King are not that serious.
After all, it is close to a border town and there are many people and too many eyes on this city.
Although the Beast King was exposed sooner or later, he still did not ride it directly into the city.
It is estimated that after Qingyun received his talisman letter, the entire sect should have already set off to rush here.
Qingyun is a long way from the border town, and there are thousands of rivers and mountains. I just hope that the journey will be smooth and there will be no accidents.
He secretly used his soul mark to give orders to the pass coaches, asking them to pay attention to Qingyun all the time.
If you see Qingyun people, you are not allowed to intercept them. If Qingyun people are in danger, you must take action to protect them and let them go to the border town smoothly.
He didn't know if people from the sect would pass through the area where the three major pass cities were located, but it was necessary to warn them, just in case.
Returning to the City Lord's Mansion, when they saw Prince Ning and An Ning, their expressions were full of shock.
There was an indescribable admiration in An Ning's eyes, while Prince Ning's eyes were complicated.
They have received the news and received a letter from the reinforcements coach.
It is incredible that this young man was able to clear the three major passes in such a short period of time, allowing the three reinforcements to successfully march to the border town.
What surprised King Ning the most was that the letters from the three coaches actually mentioned that Yue Wuxie had taken all the military commanders inside and outside the three major pass cities as slaves.
Prince Ning still can't believe it. This kind of thing sounds fantastic, even ridiculous.
The young cultivator at the Saint King realm, within a few days, took over a hundred people in total, including the commanders at the Half-step Overlord realm and the senior generals at the Great Sage realm, as slaves.
If the three major coaches hadn't said this, he would have thought that the person who said this had a brain problem or was insane.
But all three coaches said so, and with the pass wide open and reinforcements indeed on their way, he had no choice but to believe what Fu Xin said.
"I have sent a talisman letter to Qingyun, asking them to come to the border town. They should be on the way now. An Ning, please make arrangements when you have time. Hundreds of thousands of people in Qingyun have come here, and they must have a place to settle. The current border town is not If there is no peace, there will inevitably be hidden undercurrents, and we need to ensure the safety of the people of our sect."
"Okay, the cleanest place in the border city is the area around the city lord's palace. When the time comes, we will arrange for Qingyun's people to temporarily stay nearby. I will send an additional Fu Jia Army for twelve hours to strengthen patrols in this area."
"You asked the whole Qingyun clan to come down to the border town?" King Ning looked a little unnatural. "You did this. It seems that Qingyun is in danger. Could it be that the prince wants to take action against Qingyun? But it seems that he shouldn't."
"We will take action soon. If the war breaks out in the border town, the blood-maned lion dog beast king will be exposed. By then, the people in the imperial city will know that I am the Talisman Master in Liuyun Forest. The Emperor once had a meeting with that Talisman Master 'We have an agreement to ask the 'talisman master' to come out and deal with you."
"Yue Wuxie, I have to say, you are so insidious, you are actually planning both sides! So, in the Royal Academy, those senior officials kneeled to send you out of the academy because you used your identity as a talisman master to threaten the emperor and issue an imperial edict? But you were in the academy at the time, how could you be separated?"
"I only attack those who want to deal with me, unlike you who harm others for your own selfish desires."
Jun Wuxie's tone was very calm, but it was full of chill, causing the temperature of the whole room to drop suddenly.
The muscles on Prince Ning's face twitched, and he couldn't help but look embarrassed. He didn't know how to respond to such sharp and straightforward words.
Because this topic is related to the fate of him and his daughter.
The air suddenly became quiet and the atmosphere became tense.
An Ning's mind was tense, her eyes were anxious, and she hesitated to speak several times.
"I'm sorry. I'm deeply sorry for what happened to Zhenwu Peak. I made a mistake and brought harm and pain to Zhenwu Peak that lasted for hundreds of years..."
Prince Ning finally responded. He relented and was no longer the sharp-edged and unparalleled Prince Ning before.
"Don't apologize to me, what's the use of saying this. It's just a few words in your mouth, but for Zhenwu Peak, it's hundreds of years of suffering, and it's the pain that is inflicted on the body every day. !”
King Ning sighed and said nothing.
In the past, I only wanted to seek hegemony, but now that I think about it, for thousands of years, I have been paranoid and persistent, and I will do whatever it takes to achieve the goal.
His hands were stained with blood, and many innocent people became the bones of his pursuit of hegemony.
Now he discovered that everything was a mirror image. After experiencing ups and downs of emotions, his mentality changed and he came out of his obsession.
Only then did he realize that at some point, he had gone astray.
Why did you vow to seize the imperial power and become the supreme being of Daqian?
The original intention is to better protect the people we care about.
The death of his son, the almost death of himself and the princess, and being driven to a small remote city gave him new thoughts on life.
But now that I think about it, all the things he has done for the hegemony over the years have turned him into the person he once hated the most.
He also became the person who had pushed him to this point.
What an irony.
"How is the situation over there with the Wu'an army?"
Jun Wuxie broke the silence.
"Wu'an's reinforcements have been arriving one after another since yesterday and are now resting. It is estimated that they will not wait until all the reinforcements have arrived before attacking. After resting, it is very likely that a siege will be launched tomorrow!"
Speaking of the war, King Ning's expression immediately returned to normal and he adjusted his mentality, "Well, they sent a messenger yesterday, saying that as long as I give up my right to participate in the ancient tomb, they can cease the war. At that time, I Then he blasted it out.”
"Can the war cease?" Jun Wuxie sneered, "The so-called truce is just a truce during the time when their people have entered the ancient tomb but have not yet come out. Once they complete the exploration of the ancient tomb, they will immediately launch a war. The ancient tomb is just A small incidental purpose for Wu An to launch the war."
Having said this, Jun Wuxie stood up and said, "The exploration of the ancient tomb should be moved up the schedule and cannot be delayed any longer."
Prince Ning said: "Indeed, the entrance to the ancient tomb has appeared. No one knows whether the ancient tomb will change as time goes by and whether it will disappear one day. However, Wu'an wants to monopolize the ancient tomb. Now both sides The war is stalemate, and if a consensus cannot be reached, no one will be able to enter the tomb."
"Then they have to come to an agreement with us."
Jun Wuxie said and walked outside, all the way to the high platform built in the city lord's palace, and said: "Prince Ning, please find a time to send a message to Wu'an and tell them that we are willing to take out the ancient tomb and share it with anyone who is interested in exploring. Anyone who lives in the ancient tomb can enter. If they agree, they will send someone to negotiate."
"They will definitely not be willing." King Ning shook his head, "Reinforcements from Wu'an are arriving one after another, and together with the original army, the strength may reach tens of millions. Now, the originally low morale has also been lifted by the arrival of reinforcements. There has been a great improvement. It can be said that the current Wu'an army is just a group of tiger and wolf troops who have been beaten to death!"
"Chicken blood? He even gave duck blood to no avail."
Jun Wuxie said and walked in the air towards the northeast corner of the city.
Xu Yanning followed him closely, and Prince Ning and An Ning also followed him.
Not long after, Jun Wuxie landed on the north city wall, and Prince Ning and the others soon followed him.
The general guarding this section of the city wall hurriedly led his subordinates to kneel down.
"No courtesy, just go do your own thing."
Prince Ning asked them to step back, and then followed Jun Wuxie's gaze.
Outside the city wall is the battlefield, located in the northeast corner of the battlefield, close to the edge of the battlefield.
Their eyes fell on the edge of the battlefield, between the rolling mountains.
These mountains are all affiliated mountains at the foot of the Hengduan Mountain branch. The Hengduan Mountain branch constitutes the natural barrier of the border city. Only a canyon more than 100 meters wide can pass through, and the two ends connect the eastern and northern Hengduan Mountain main mountains.
Neither Daqian nor Wu'an dared to let their troops cross the mountains, and could only choose the long canyon of more than 100 meters.
Hengduan Mountain is very scary, even its branches are full of dangers.
If you want to cross the mountains, you need to pass through the backbone of the mountains. Even the strong men in the Tyrant Saint realm may not be able to come back alive.
The mountains where Jun Wuxie and Prince Ning were looking were relatively low compared to the mountains here, but they were still hundreds of kilometers high.
They flew up into the sky and came to a higher position for easier observation.
There is a rather special area between the mountains.
It was different from other places, with a light mist lingering there, adding a bit of mystery.
In the mountains, such an area, such an environment, and the relatively dim light make people feel a bit eerie.
This is a scene that everyone can see and an atmosphere that can be felt.
In addition to these, Jun Wuxie's Fu Dao Eye Technique saw the natural field there.
That kind of field is not capable of killing, but it has a strange operating pattern, which is beyond the limits of what his current attainments in Talisman Dao can see through and deduce.
Follow a relatively wide ravine there and look towards the end.
There is a mountain at the end. The mountain is oval and covered with not very tall but very lush vegetation.
The growth and distribution of those vegetation may not be abnormal in the eyes of others, but it is very problematic in Jun Wuxie's eyes.
No, it shouldn't be said that there is a problem, it should be said that it is magical.
They seem to be distributed in some kind of profound array, and the vegetation is quite extraordinary and contains the power of the field.
"It seems to have the effect of condensing some special energy between heaven and earth..."
Jun Wuxie was not so sure. The field was too profound and looked like a natural field, not man-made.
The oval-shaped mountain looks like an enlarged version of a tomb from a distance.
Below the mountain, at the end of the wide ravine, there are two huge stone doors, tightly closed.
There are vague patterns carved on the stone door, which have an ancient charm. There are magic circle runes hidden in those patterns.
The two heavy stone doors were covered with the dust of time and thick mud. The edges were even covered with creeping plants. At first glance, they looked like snakes crawling on them.
"This ancient tomb is not simple. I am afraid it is not the tomb of a powerful person in the realm of Tyrant Saint as you think. It is at least a tomb of Saint Emperor level..."
Jun Wuxie is now certain that it is impossible for a strong person in the realm of Overlord to leave such ancient tombs. Judging from the natural field of the place he chose, it is not something that Overlord can do.
It can even be said that it is impossible for most Holy Emperors to do it. Only the Holy Emperor with super strong soul perception can understand such a field.
Ancient tombs are usually discovered accidentally, or they appear due to huge changes in the natural environment.
But this is not the case with this ancient tomb.
According to what Jun Wuxie knew, nothing happened in this area.
That ancient tomb slowly emerged on its own.
This is very interesting, as if the owner of the ancient tomb had set the ending in advance when he buried himself.
Normally, a person's tomb is a place where one's body is buried. Not many people want to be disturbed for a certain period of time after their death. The tomb is made into a mess, and even the bones are dug out. .
But this tomb is more likely to have been left behind by the owner of the tomb. Otherwise, how could it have appeared in the eyes of the world inexplicably.
If the owner of the tomb did it deliberately, then the purpose is either to leave something to future generations, or to hope that future generations can bring him some help after entering the tomb, or there are other unknown reasons.
Of course, it cannot be ruled out that the tombs were unearthed because there was something inside that touched the unknown cause and effect. There were two hands of order pushing all of this, making it appear in the golden age for people in the prosperous age to compete for opportunities. .
"Tomb of the Holy Emperor?"
Prince Ning's eyelids twitched fiercely, "If it is the tomb of the Holy Emperor, the things left in it will be unimaginable! If this is the case, why should we share it with others? When reinforcements arrive, we can send the army out of the city , guard the entrance of the canyon and forcefully block Wu'an's army from outside! At that time, you can enter the tomb alone to hunt for treasures. No one will compete with you, and all the opportunities inside will fall into your hands."
"You are right, this is indeed feasible, but it will cause heavy casualties to our soldiers, so we cannot do this."
Jun Wuxie said, if the war can be postponed, then postpone it as much as possible. Don't fight unnecessary wars. The longer the time is delayed, the more beneficial it will be for the border town. If we fight again later, the casualties will be smaller.
"How do you understand this?"
King Ning didn't quite understand what he meant, why the time was delayed, and if there was another battle, the casualties would be smaller.
The Wu'an Dynasty was supported by Qishalou, and there were even people from Juehun Valley and Ten Thousand Poison Sect who went to Wu'an Imperial City, probably hoping to achieve their goals through Wu'an.
In that case, as time goes by, Wu'an's army will only get stronger and stronger, the pressure on the border towns will also increase, and the battle casualties will only increase sharply. Why will it decrease instead?
"Because I need time to become stronger, our Fu Jia army will also become stronger as time goes by. If you think that the Wu'an army is supported by the top sects in Hanzhou, their strength will only increase faster than ours. According to that Logically, we can abandon the city and surrender now."
"Okay, then I'll do as you say. However, if all parties participate in the exploration of the ancient tomb, aren't you worried that the many opportunities inside will be taken away by others?"
"What is an opportunity? When you have an opportunity, you must have the ability to grasp it before it can be called an opportunity. Otherwise, it is not called an opportunity, but someone else's opportunity. Things in tombs are not just placed there and just reach out and take them. Besides, , I have never been afraid of competition, am I still unable to compete with them?"
Jun Wuxie is very confident, firstly because of his own good luck, secondly because of his confidence in his own strength, and thirdly because the ancient tomb was built in a deep place. It is definitely not simple inside the ancient tomb. If you want to obtain the things in the tomb, , is that that simple?
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Returning to the City Lord's Mansion, Jun Wuxie and Xu Yanning entered the independent courtyard.
It was very early at this time, just after noon.
Jun Wuxie sat under the tree in the yard, drinking tea and drawing with her fingers.
In the void, countless traces of runes are intertwined and constantly evolving.
The carving speed of his fingers seemed slow, but every time he waved, a finger light would differentiate into tens of thousands of rune traces, arranged at different angles and positions.
Xu Yanning sat next to him, holding her chin in her hands, staring at his side face with bright eyes.
He focuses on the research of war talismans and is so serious.
Her eyes were shining with brilliance, and her gaze was a little obsessed, but she still didn't forget to fill his teacup with hot tea at the right time.
Every time Jun Wuxie carves the traces of runes, he will activate the Talisman Eye Technique and carefully stare at the intertwined and evolving runes in the void in front of him.
During this process, he remembered the most critical points in the evolution of the Rune Traces in his mind, then closed his eyes and made deductions in the Universe Cave.
With repeated deductions, he quickly found ways to simplify and improve.
However, there are too many evolutionary points involved in the complete talisman array diagram. It will take a lot of time to simplify and improve all the points to enhance its power.
He was completely immersed in it and lost track of time.
He studied from afternoon until dark, into late night and early morning, and then again at dawn.
He didn't stop until there was a glimmer of light in the sky, only to find that Xu Yanning had been sitting here with him all night.
"Why don't you go rest?"
Jun Wuxie shook her head helplessly, then sat cross-legged on a stool, closed her eyes and adjusted her breathing.
Studying the art of talisman armor consumes quite a lot of energy and makes him feel mentally exhausted.
You must know that he has the soul state of the peak of the Great Sage.
If it were another Holy Talisman Master at the pinnacle of the first level, let alone whether he could understand these Talisman Arts, even if he could understand them, his mental strength would probably not last for a while and he would collapse.
He must now restore his spirit to its peak as soon as possible, because the Wu'an army is very likely to launch an siege today.
If you want to enter the ancient tomb as soon as possible, you must get Wu'an to agree to the proposal of sharing the ancient tomb.
If Wu An agreed, he would have to give them a severe blow on the battlefield, causing them psychological pressure and forcing them to reconsider and make a different choice.
