"The wrath of the wild sky, the ultimate human realm!"
Outside Cockcrow City, in Luo Fengling, Jiang Li's figure was like the wind. The energy and blood in his body surged and was instantly incinerated. His fist was as thick as a mountain and struck the mountain.
The terrifying power gathered in one place, constantly spinning and destroying, and the gravel and dust exploded. He directly blasted a large crater with a diameter of nearly a hundred meters in the cross-section of the mountain ridge hundreds of meters away, and even more power penetrated it, reaching hundreds of meters away. Inside the mountain.
"There are three levels of Wrath of the Wild Sky. The first level can increase the strength of the physical body by twice. It can also be superimposed with the increase of other martial art techniques, allowing the martial artist to instantly explode with combat power several times his own.
The duration depends on the depth of Qi and blood in the warrior's body. There are also special methods of repairing and accumulating Qi and blood, which can greatly reduce the impact on the physical body caused by the use of Wild Sky Fury. This is the essence of this technique! "
Jiang Li closed his fist and recalled all the secrets of "The Wrath of the Wild Sky".
In this world, there are not a few techniques that can make a martial artist burst out with the ultimate strength of his body in an instant.
But this comes at the expense of the warrior's physical body and overdraft potential, and the damage is difficult to reverse.
But "Wrath of the Wild Sky" is different. Not only is the increase greater, but it also contains special methods that can protect the vital parts and organs of the physical body from being depleted of qi and blood, and reduce damage to the physical body's foundation.
It even accumulates Qi and blood in some special meridians and organs in the body in advance, so that it can be incinerated when necessary and transformed into the explosive power of the physical body.
"Flaming Bird Feather Transformation Technique" is a secret method created by Taizu Taizu of the Great Zhou Dynasty after trying to figure out the movements and movement of the Nine Nether Flame Bird. While tempering the physical body, it also has a certain effect on repairing the damage to the meridians and physical body.
Jiang Li mastered the two most powerful body-training techniques at the time, the "Yi Jin Marrow Cleansing Sutra" and "Taiyan Ancient Demon Body Training Chapter". There was no need to practice the "Flame Bird Feathering Technique" in its entirety. He only excerpted its special features. Adopting it and supplementing the shortcomings of the previous exercises has also gained something.
"General, there is a message from Liangzhou Camp!"
At the foot of Luofengling Mountain, the sound of iron hoofs suddenly sounded, and a rooster crow guarding the city's general banner quickly walked into the forest with several soldiers and reported to Jiang Li.
"Linghe Castle is destroyed!"
"Marquis Zhenwu has searched for half of the "Overlord Crane Picture" and handed it over to Emperor Jing!"
"All three thousand one hundred and twenty members of Linghe Fort were killed, and no one was left out?"
"..."
Jiang Li opened the lacquered letter and read it, his eyes slightly focused.
The battle report was quite satisfactory. Jiang Shirong, the Marquis of Zhenwu, was so powerful that it was easy to suppress the top masters of Linghe Fort. Naturally, there would be no mistakes.
But for some reason, Jiang Li always felt that there was something wrong with this information, but he couldn't explain why!
"Go back to the barrier city and summon all the thousands of households in the city to gather at the military office!"
Jiang Li put away the letter and walked quickly down the mountain, returning to the Jimingzhan City Military Office.
He ordered Zhao Tiehe to temporarily take charge of the military affairs in the city, and took ten generals from Qianhu to train new and old soldiers with Old Man Tu.
He, Shangguan Qingyan, Big Black Dog, Fox Demon Hongling and everyone from the Zhenwei Escort left Jimingzhan City and headed towards the Liangzhou Camp.
After Linghe Fort was destroyed, it was time for him to go to the Tufal Country to meet the surviving members of the former Wei Dynasty.
"Jiang Li, these ten are martial arts and Taoist masters from Shengjing City. This time they will go deep into the Uighurs. They will follow the escort team. I have sent 500 elite Zhou Dynasty troops to break into pieces and enter the Uighurs in advance. Arrangements to deal with all possible dangers!”
In the main tent of the Liangzhou camp, the fourth prince Sima Ye introduced to Jiang Li the masters sent by Emperor Jing.
Among the eight martial arts masters, six came from the military and were in the middle or late stages of the Yiwu realm. They all wore black armor and their faces could not be seen clearly.
Sima Ye was very secretive about the guards they belonged to and deliberately avoided it. He only said that these six people had participated in the siege of Linghe Fort and were under the jurisdiction of the pro-military Governor's Mansion. They were an armed force directly under the royal family.
The other two martial arts masters were from Da Nei. Like the martial arts guards who appeared around Sima Ye, they were all eunuchs and were in the early stages of the divine transformation realm.
In addition, there are two Taoist masters accompanying them, one male and one female. They are about forty years old. They are immortal and Taoist. They are the supreme elders of the Invisible Sect, one of the ten major sects in the Great Zhou Dynasty. They are in the early stage of seizing the body. .
"Sir, after leaving the border of the Great Wall of the North and entering the Tufal, just follow the plan. We will guard you in secret. Once you are in danger, we will immediately rescue you!"
Said a master of divine transformation with a white face and soft cheek lines.
"Thank you for your help!"
Jiang Li saluted and thanked them. These people were of extraordinary strength and could be in charge of any aristocratic family or sect.
"Jiang Li, half of the bodyguards of Zhenwei Bodyguard Bureau died in Lishan. Do you need me to select some sergeants who have been bodyguards in the army to supplement them?" Sima Ye asked.
"It is normal to encounter danger during the escort. According to the agreed time at Linghe Fort, we are already forty days late. If it appears intact, it will definitely increase the suspicion and vigilance of the survivors of the former Wei Dynasty!"
Jiang Li shook his head and refused. After bidding farewell to the fourth prince, he left the Liangzhou camp with the Zhenwei Escort team and walked toward Yumen Province.
Ten masters from Shengjing City also left the camp, each disguised themselves, and disappeared into the wilderness.
The Liangzhou camp is about six hundred miles away from the border pass of Yumen Province. Everyone is a martial artist and has a steady pace. They appeared on the official road more than fifty miles away from Yumen Pass in two days.
Along the way, the number of merchant horses and convoys gradually increased, and many merchants from the Western Regions who looked very different from those in China could be seen.
Most of these people wore scarves and their clothes were deliberately consistent with Dazhou's clothes. However, the exposed deep eye sockets and brown eyes made it possible to distinguish the racial differences between each other at a glance.
"Brother Jiang Li, what's going on with those alien girls locked in cages? They don't look like prisoners of war, why are they being trafficked!"
Lin Qingmu saw a group of merchants from the Western Regions driving a dozen carriages approaching from afar. In addition to being loaded with goods that were about to overflow, several of the carriages also contained many foreign girls who were silently crying.
They are as old as flowers, but there is no breath of life on their faces. They are lifeless. You can feel the despair lingering on them from a distance.
"Although the countries in the Western Region have formed an alliance, they are not monolithic with each other. Private plundering and slave trading often occur!"
Jiang Li glanced at the foreign convoy passing by and frowned slightly. When he was in the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion, he also deliberately learned some languages of the Western Regions. Although he was not proficient, he could understand some simple words. .
Amidst the low voices and chuckles of the foreign merchants, some harsh, vulgar, and unsavory words occasionally floated out, which made people feel sick to their stomachs.
Jiang Li grasped the handle of the long knife at his waist, but finally let go.
"Big black!"
"Woof!"
The big black dog glanced at the foreign trader's convoy, stretched out his nose and sniffed, then quietly withdrew from the team, gradually disappearing into the weeds of the wilderness.
It was not until more than half an hour later that the team arrived outside Yumen Pass, waiting to exit the customs, when a slight commotion suddenly broke out in the team behind them.
Accompanied by frightened exclamations, the calf-sized black dog walked out of the crowd calmly and rejoined the group.
"Brother Jiang Li!"
Lin Qingmu looked at the black dog, then at Jiang Li, and suddenly realized something. His beautiful eyes were shining brightly.
"Such things happen every day, how much can you control?" Shanggu Qingyan said calmly.
"I didn't think much about it. The world is like a sea of suffering, and it's difficult for mortals to survive. I don't have the ability to be a savior, and I have never thought about these things!"
Jiang Li pursed his lips and said, "It just doesn't look good, so I'll just take care of it to make myself feel better!"
"Is it that simple?" Shangguan Qingyan was a little surprised.
"if not?"
Jiang Li sighed, "Those alien girls were imprisoned in wooden cages, which is indeed pitiful, but it only represents our own perspective and position.
If you think about it from another angle, maybe their father and brother were the foreign cavalry who attacked Yumen Pass on horseback and carried swords more than ten years ago, and also plundered the Great Zhou Dynasty? Even in their hearts, they have always regarded the people around them as blood enemies? "
Shangguan Qingyan was stunned when she heard this, "Then you still care?"
"It doesn't look good!"
"Doesn't it look good to you?"
"Yeah!" Jiang Li nodded: "For example, if these girls were all captured by me, then I would probably be very happy!"
"rogue!"
Shangguan Qingyan raised her cold eyebrows slightly, immediately took a few steps away, and asked, "Do you still have this idea?"
"Why not? I'm not a saint!"
Jiang Li smiled: "I used to watch TV... and saw the evil young man leading a group of thugs teasing a pretty young lady on the street. I was filled with righteous indignation and wanted to step forward and kick them all to pieces. But sometimes I think about it the other way around, what if the villain were me? I seem to be quite happy too!"
"What kind of fallacy is this!" Shangguan Qingyan was noncommittal.
"Seven emotions and six desires are human nature. Everyone in the world has greed, but most people know what they should do and what they cannot do. Denying desires and greed is like denying your own existence!"
Jiang Li smiled and said: "The world hates true villains, but even more hates hypocrites. That's the reason. You want everything, but you pretend to be innocent and otherworldly. Are you tired?"
"Is this also a principle recognized by saints?"
Shangguan Qingyan's eyes flashed. Jiang Li's words were very different from the views of the secular world at that time, but they were somewhat similar to some of the behaviors of the demon clan.
"You mean this?"
Jiang Li slowly closed his eyes, and the literary saint's aura dormant deep in his body suddenly appeared.
In an instant, his whole temperament changed drastically, and his whole body was filled with the spiritual aura of the virtuous sages and sages who matched heaven and earth, the way of heaven was clear, the benevolence and the sage, and the harmony of the world.
Every word he speaks carries the aura of grandeur, justice, and great virtue.
It seems that every character is the ultimate truth of heaven and earth and cannot be refuted.
"..."
Shanggu Qingyan's eyes were straight and she was dumbfounded.
The vast literary energy imbued Jiang Li's physical body. Anyone who argued with him, no matter whether he was right or wrong, would first lose in terms of momentum.
"So, you agree with my point of view, right?"
The literary energy only appeared in an instant. Jiang Li restrained his literary energy, and all kinds of strange phenomena disappeared in an instant.
"snort!"
Shangguan Qingyan snorted coldly and chose to shut up knowingly.
Literary gangsters like Jiang Li really can't make any sense.
Just his aura of literary saint is enough to overwhelm ninety-nine percent of the Confucian scholars in the world.
Yumen Pass is the most important pass between the Great Zhou Dynasty and the countries in the Western Regions.
The military city and the pass were integrated into one, relying on each other. Jiang Li passed through the passage in the military city, walked out of the Wengcheng, and entered the vast territory of the Western Region.
Dozens of miles away in the distance, a yellow city stands on the ground. It is Tambu City, one of the seven important cities in the Tufal Kingdom. It is also the destination where Linghe Fort entrusts Zhenwei Escort to deliver the goods.
"The procedures for exiting customs are really cumbersome. I just lacked a seal from the county government, so I was almost not allowed to leave customs!"
"The news that we, Dazhou, are going to go to war with Beimang has long spread to the Western Regions. Recently, the prices of salt and tea have been rising day by day. We are afraid that we, Dazhou, will close the city gates during the war!"
"I tell you, when we get to Tambu City, we should stay put for a few days and spend a few good nights. Tambu's dancers have soft and slippery bellies, and your bones will be broken by how much they sway!"
“The price is really expensive!”
"It's not like those stupid young people are driving up prices!"
…
One after another, the Great Zhou caravans filed out of Yumen Pass, heading towards the cities in the Western Regions with the hope of making a lot of money.
Almost every caravan was loaded with various goods, but Jiang Li and others' team was a little special.
The escort team of nearly twenty people had neither goods nor horses. It was very conspicuous among the groups of traders, attracting many alert and wary eyes.
The countries in the Western Regions were in turmoil, and the number and scale of wandering bandits were far greater than those in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
There are also many bandits who can no longer live in the Great Zhou Dynasty and will take desperate measures to form teams among the countries in the Western Regions and rob the passing caravans.
"Hey, should I say it or not, this is the first time that the Zhenwei Escort Bureau has lost its escorts so completely!" Lin Jiuyun was a little ashamed.
When the surrounding bodyguards heard this, they all became dejected.
I thought I was getting a well-paid escort, but in the end I almost lost the entire escort agency.
When Jiang Li saw this, he didn't offer any comfort.
The more depressed and sad the escorts are, the safer they become.
For the bodyguard who travels all year round, the journey of dozens of miles is as simple as drinking water and eating. In less than an hour, everyone arrived outside the city.
Because it is a vassal state of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the inspection in Tambu City is obviously much looser than that at Yumen Pass.
Everyone showed the ultimatum, and the soldiers guarding the city just glanced at it casually and let them go.
Tambu City is one of the seven most important cities in the Tugu Kingdom, but its city size is not even comparable to that of ordinary county towns in the Great Zhou Dynasty.
The houses in the city are towering, but the roads are extremely narrow. Carriages, pedestrians, caravans, and livestock are crowded in the narrow streets, shoulder to shoulder, and the various temperatures are mixed together, creating a suffocating depression.
Following the route guidance on the map, everyone trudged through the city for a long time and finally arrived at the agreed-upon Lianggu Inn.
"Sorry for the guests who have come from afar, the entire inn has been booked by merchants from the west. Please find another place!"
A brown-haired Uighur man lay sleepily on the counter. When he saw Jiang Li and others walking in, he pointed listlessly at the fully booked sign beside him and spoke in half-baked Zhou dialect.
"Full house?"
Jiang Li turned around and looked at the empty lobby on the first floor of the inn, raising his eyebrows slightly.
(End of chapter)
