The twenty-four mountain defense lines include Zhenyang Prince's Palace, Imperial Border Army, Si Tianjian, the four major god-refining forces, tripod-making forces from all sides, and scattered monks from all over the country, working together to defend.
As for the Chengming Heavenly Master's Mansion, an elder of the God Refining Realm, several true disciples of the Digital Cauldron level, and many disciples dispersed into the Twenty-Four Mountains to assist in the defense.
As for the Seventh Mountain, after excluding the original more than 10,000 elites, only the Xuantianguan family came as reinforcements.
Obviously, the Zhenyang Palace completely handed over the Seventh Mountain to Xuantian Temple and did not send any additional personnel to assist.
In fact, according to normal classification, Xuantian Guan, as a god-refining force, should at least be responsible for the defense of the three mountains.
The Prince of Zhenyang probably considered the current situation of Xuantian Temple, so he only handed over the seventh mountain directly south of Kaiyang Mountain to Xuantian Temple.
As for the Sixth Mountain and the Eighth Mountain, which were originally supposed to be guarded by Xuantian Guan, they are currently guarded by a Ding-casting member from the Chengming Tianshi Mansion, each carrying more than ten Daoji Realm soldiers, plus some reinforcements from the imperial court. , as support.
"The Seventh Mountain City."
Lu Wan looked ahead.
He could detect that there was a gaze on the high platform above the mountain city, also looking this way.
That is a person in the realm of making a tripod.
The commander of the Seventh Mountain.
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The seventh mountain city is stationed with tens of thousands of border troops.
However, in recent years, it has gradually developed, business exchanges, and the number of people migrating from various places have reached nearly 100,000.
There are also many old, weak, women and children in the city. They often come from villages that were affected when the monsters from the southern mountains invaded in the past, and the remaining people were resettled here.
These people also gathered into a city.
There are doctors, tailors, barbers, cooks, actors, and even brothel girls, etc.
Unfortunately, because it was located in a remote area and on the border, it was always in danger of overturning, so the court did not provide strong support.
This is still a small town, and after all, it cannot become a prosperous town like Jinshan Town or Mata Town.
But with these people, they finally added a "life" color to the frontier troops stationed on the Seventh Mountain.
But there is one thing. The seventh mountain city is a town and is further back.
The Seventh Army is the military camp, on the real front line.
This time, Lu Wan and others were going to the military camp and stationed on the front line against the monsters in the south.
"The visitor from Xuantian Temple has arrived."
The commander-in-chief withdrew his gaze, looked at the soldiers beside him, and said calmly: "You can bring someone to respond."
Liang Jin responded yes.
But I heard the commander say: "There are too few people coming to Xuantian Temple. There are only a hundred people. Most of them are for Qi refining. I really feel helpless."
"clear."
Liang Jin withdrew, summoned a team of patrols, and went to the Seventh Mountain City to meet the people coming from Xuantian Temple.
This group of patrols was led by veterans who were in the upper levels of the Qi Refining Realm. They were nearly fifty years old and were already looking a little old.
The soldiers behind him still looked young.
Some of them were recruits that he had transferred from military camps in various regions by the Zhenyang Palace in recent years.
There are also some young people who grew up in the Seventh Mountain City. They are the children who survived the destruction of the village due to the invasion of demons in the past.
In the Seventh Mountain City, the reputation of Xuantian Temple is also extremely prominent.
Because three hundred miles north is Kaiyang Mountain.
This is the sect closest to the Seventh Mountain City and one of the four major god-refining forces in southern Daqian.
In the past ten years, whenever there was any movement in the southern mountains, the elders of Xuantian Temple would often lead a team to come to support.
"Didn't you say that in the past two years, Xuantian Temple was in civil strife and fell apart?"
"At first, Mr. Feng kept shouting that it was a rumor, but later it was confirmed that Mr. Feng cried for three days."
"Shut up!"
The veteran known as Master Feng had an expressionless face, but his eyes were a little excited.
He looked around and said in amusement, "You silly boys, you stay here all day long and don't know anything about the slightest movement! I'm pretty well-informed..."
"What's the meaning?"
These soldiers looked at each other in confusion.
Mr. Feng said proudly: "The new headmaster of Xuantian Temple is rumored to be a more powerful person than our prince!"
Everyone knows that Master Feng’s second brother was a disciple of Xuantian Temple, but he died in the melee ten years ago.
Master Feng's life was also saved by the deacon of Xuantian Temple.
Therefore, Mr. Feng was born with a favorable impression of Xuantian Guan.
"What are you talking nonsense about?"
Liang Jin finally couldn't stand listening anymore and shouted: "Feng Cheng, how dare you talk about the prince? Now the prince is sitting on the first mountain and commanding the entire army... If these words are spread, it will shake the morale of the army and will definitely kill you!" "
Master Feng raised his hand, said nothing, and looked forward. He felt that it was his honor to be able to greet the visitors from Xuantian Temple this time.
"Don't be too cheerful."
Liang Jin said coldly: "Xuan Tian Guan has long since fallen apart. Even if the leader of the God Refining Realm has restored its majesty... But it is almost in name only! This time, the Master Xuantian of the God Refining Realm, But he didn’t come!”
"did not come?"
The soldiers looked at each other in confusion. After a while, someone asked: "How many people came to Xuantian Temple? How many strong men are there?"
"You can see it for yourself later."
Liang Jin said slowly: "A sect with only the headmaster left, and the headmaster cannot come out, how many people do you think can come this time? It's just those crooked melons and cracked dates!"
"..."
Mr. Feng frowned slightly and said, "Liang Jin, Xuantian Guan is here to help after all. Don't speak too harshly."
"Help?"
Liang Jin sneered and said: "If it weren't for Xuantian Guan, maybe we would have true disciples of the Chengming Tianshi Mansion, strong men of the cauldron level, coming to help! But Xuantian Guan is a god-refining force on the surface after all... …”
He waved his sleeves slightly and said: "So the palace wants to give Xuantian Guan some face and cannot underestimate them! Therefore, the Seventh Mountain is completely handed over to Xuantian Guan!"
"It means..." Another soldier whispered: "Because of Xuantian Temple, we don't have any other reinforcements?"
"That's right." Liang Jin snorted coldly and said, "Since Xuantian Temple is here, it is not suitable to send reinforcements! However, Xuantian Temple only came with a young man as the leader of this trip!"
"A young man?" Master Feng was silent for a moment and asked, "What kind of cultivation level?"
"A month ago, he was still in the Qi Refining stage and had not yet reached perfection." Liang Jin chuckled and said, "Can you guess?"
"Then he can't reach perfection in refining his Qi?" The soldier just now couldn't help but exclaimed.
"The leader is just refining qi, is there really no one in Xuantian Temple?"
The other soldiers looked at each other one after another, and their previous joy turned into panic: "And because of the Xuantian Temple, we lost other reinforcements. Doesn't that mean that... we have to bear the tide of beasts behind us ourselves?"
In recent days, the beast tide comes every two or three days.
The border troops stationed here suffered nearly a thousand casualties.
People were panicking, so they waited for the reinforcements from Xuantian Temple to arrive, so they could breathe a sigh of relief.
Now that only so many people have come to Xuantian Temple, wouldn't it be bad if their expectations were completely disappointed?
"It's actually not that bad."
Liang Jin sighed and said: "I heard that this boy has a good fortune. He has been cultivated by Master Xuantian and has already built a Taoist platform! Moreover, among this group of people, there are many forces from the Ziyang Region. In total, there should be about ten Taoist bases. environment..."
"This situation isn't much better."
The soldier just now said hesitantly: "There are more and more monsters in the southern mountains, and their attacks are becoming more and more fierce. Even a dozen Daoji realms can't handle it! If there are hundreds of Daoji realms, they can be considered a group. Help!”
"Isn't there a cauldron?"
Mr. Feng hesitated and said: "The Commander-in-Chief, with his level of cauldron-making, asked the palace for help! Normally, even if Headmaster Xuantian does not come in person, there should be three cauldron-casting people!"
"Xuan Tian Guan now has no cauldron!"
Liang Jin sighed: "Under the recruitment order, Xuantian Guan sent a group of old, weak, sick and disabled abandoned sons, but they suffered a lot for us brothers. I am afraid that a large number of them will die in the battle."
As he said this, he summoned a group of patrol soldiers from the side to go together to greet the visitors from Xuantian Temple.
But when the two patrols gathered together, they mentioned what they had just said.
Later, the patrol team, led by a veteran who had also reached the Qi Refining Realm, immediately said angrily: "How many people have come to Xuantian Temple? Do we need so many people to greet them? Old Feng, you can go alone!"
He rolled his sleeves angrily and led his troops away.
It is conceivable that the content of this conversation will inevitably spread throughout the entire military camp and even the Seventh Mountain City today.
Liang Jin glanced at his back, a slight smile appeared on his lips, but it flashed away.
Instead, there was an angry look of being harmed by Xuantian Guan.
He took a deep breath, but still told the people behind him, "No matter what, after all, they are coming from the God Refining Force, and they can be considered as reinforcements. There are some things that we brothers can discuss in private, that's all! The visitors are guests. , don’t lose my face as a frontier soldier!”
When he said this, he showed a demeanor that took the overall situation into consideration.
But except for Mr. Feng, the rest of them were young soldiers. They were young and passionate, and their emotions and anger were all displayed on their faces, but they were still unbearably angry.
And when Lu Wan and others arrived at the Seventh Mountain City and saw this team coming to meet the soldiers, they directly felt the anger and rejection of the other party.
"Liang Jin, who holds a humble position and is a personal soldier under the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Mountain, has met Master Lu!"
Liang Jin came forward, his tone was neither humble nor arrogant, he glanced at it and said, "The number of people coming from Xuantian Temple seems to be quite different from the number expected in the recruitment order?"
Lu Wan said nothing and looked at the other party quietly.
Yan Zhen, as the deacon of Xuantian Temple, took a step forward and said: "The Zhenyang Prince's Mansion is thinking of my Xuantian Temple. The chaos has begun and everything has not been settled, so the number of people to be recruited has not been decided!"
After saying this, he added: "We from Xuantian Temple will come in batches, and there will be reinforcements later."
"oh."
Liang Jin responded calmly and said, "Do you have a cast tripod?"
Yan Zhen's expression changed slightly and he looked at Lu Wan.
Lu Wan didn't speak, just glanced at Bai Yuan.
Then he saw the white ape pulling off the black robe outside him and stepping forward.
The three-foot-tall "boy" turned into a three- to five-foot-tall giant ape in an instant.
Looking down, it sounded like a loud bell.
"You are just practicing Qi, a little soldier, but you are worthy of questioning me, the master of Xuantian Temple?"
It had a ferocious face and roared angrily: "The imperial court summons me, Xuantian Guan, to assist the Seventh Mountain and guard the defense line here! Do you care whether the elders from Xuantian Guan come to build the tripod? As long as you hold on, it will be your turn. Are you pointing fingers?"
"..."
Liang Jin's expression changed, and he was vaguely angry.
But looking at this giant ape, I still feel a little scared.
He was about to continue speaking when he finally heard the voice of the person in charge of Xuantian Temple.
"This is the guardian demon of my Xuantian Temple. He is only eight years old. He is not polite and easily imitates others' speech."
Lu Wan smiled, slightly apologetic, and said, "Probably because he felt that the way Liang Junye spoke was exactly the style of the Seventh Mountain Frontier Army, so he imitated it and wanted to use this to get closer!"
He said this with a smile, but he was clearly mocking the other person.
Liang Jin's expression changed slightly, but before he spoke, he heard Lu Wan's voice coming again.
"I am Lu Wan, the true disciple of Xuantian Temple!"
"The leader of the team this time is the person in charge, assisting the Seventh Army and guarding the Seventh Mountain City."
"I am the person in charge. When I arrive here today, even if the commander of the Seventh Army is not here to greet me, the deputy commander should be here."
"Why is it a soldier's turn here?"
Lu Wan took two steps closer and sighed: "Is there no one in the Seventh Mountain?"
As soon as these words came out, everyone's expressions changed drastically.
But the next moment, Lu Wan stepped on his feet and rose up with a bang.
He jumped up to the top of the city, stood with his hands behind his back, and shouted: "Where is the Commander-in-Chief of the Seventh Mountain?"
In an instant, everyone is paying attention!
Both the soldiers in the military camp and the people in the city all raised their heads and looked at the young man who suddenly appeared at the top of the city.
The young man was seen with his hands on his back, a sword on his waist, and his loud voice could be heard in all directions.
——
At this moment, the commander-in-chief was in the military camp and could hear the noise outside.
It was the officers and soldiers of various ministries who were dissatisfied when they heard that Xuantian Temple only came to a group of "abandoned sons" with low skills and a small number of people.
I even heard that the imperial court did not send additional reinforcements because of Xuantian Guan's face.
This means that the main force against the demons in Nanshan is still the frontier troops who have been guarding it for ten years!
This reinforcement is equivalent to nothing!
Therefore, many soldiers were angry.
But just when this group was excited and had great hostility towards Xuantian Temple, they heard voices coming from outside, resounding from all directions.
"Where is the commander of the Seventh Mountain?"
Just this sound made the commander's face darken.
Then Lu Wan's voice was heard.
"You were ordered to guard the Seventh Mountain. Why did 246 iron-winged condors cross the border yesterday?"
"Since a monster crossed the border, why wasn't it pursued?"
"Do you know how many disasters the evildoers will cause if they enter the Daqian territory?"
"How many towns and villages will be destroyed? How many people will have their families destroyed?"
"If we, Xuantian Temple, hadn't intercepted them midway, killed these two hundred and forty-six iron-winged eagles, and beheaded the eagle king at the peak of Daoji... Yuan Li, what crime should you have committed?"
Lu Wan's voice was loud and loud, and it echoed throughout the place in an instant.
In the large tent of the military camp, as the commander-in-chief, Yuan Li's expression became extremely gloomy.
The young man Xuantian Guan is younger, more passionate, and more rebellious than imagined!
It was he who asked Liang Jin to test Lu Wan.
Now it seems that, as he thought before, Lu Wancheng's mansion is not deep and he cannot bear it.
But he originally thought that Lu Wan would at most conflict with Liang Jin when he was angry!
This is a violation of military regulations!
This temptation of his was done casually, and if it didn't work, that would be it.
If everything goes well, he won't be too harsh. At most, he will just scold him a little and the matter will be over.
But the underlying meaning is quite different!
Because the person in charge of Xuantian Temple, in terms of status, will not be lower than him, the commander of the Seventh Mountain!
Even in previous years, Xuantian Temple's Zhuding Elder had a higher profile.
But this time, if he uses military regulations to suppress Lu Wan.
Then there will be priorities, and you can control this young man from now on!
And this young man has little knowledge, and may even think that the commander-in-chief did not impose severe punishments because he was full of good intentions.
This was what he originally thought, but he didn't expect that the young man named Lu Wan would react so violently!
Attack directly, spread the word to the Seventh Mountain, reach everywhere!
"..."
Yuan Li stood up, put on his helmet, and thought to himself: "I underestimated this kid."
Although Lu Wan's reaction was fierce and menacing.
But if you think about it carefully, it's not reckless!
First, the iron-winged condor was used to cross the border, and the serious consequences that were likely to result afterwards made the soldiers of the Seventh Mountain feel ashamed and afraid.
Then he mentioned that Xuantian's audience had completely destroyed the iron-winged condor.
This is a subtle message that Xuantianguan helped the soldiers of the Seventh Mountain to eliminate the hidden dangers of this matter!
What's more important is that the iron-winged eagles that the Seventh Mountain soldiers failed to kill were all killed by Xuantian Guan and his party.
Invisibly, it seemed that Xuantianguan and these people were stronger than the soldiers of the Seventh Mountain.
And in the end, it was not all the frontier soldiers of the Seventh Mountain whom Lu Wan was questioning, but only Yuan Li!
——
It was less than three breaths after Lu Wan's voice spread.
The people in the city and the soldiers in the military camp have not yet reacted.
Then he saw Commander Yuan transform into a rainbow light and soar into the sky.
Cast a series of cauldrons and walk in the air.
He is wearing armor, armor on his head, and a long sword hanging on his waist, and he is very powerful.
And he stood in the air, intentionally or unintentionally, slightly higher than the city.
It was higher than Lu Wan standing at the top of the city.
"Yuan Li, the commander-in-chief of the Seventh Mountain, has met Master Lu."
Commander Yuan Da laughed and said, "It was my commander who made a mistake yesterday, which caused the iron-winged condor to cross the border. I wanted to pursue it myself, but thinking that reinforcements from Xuantian Temple were already on the way, It was expected that Xuantian Guan's ability would be enough to destroy the iron-winged condor, so we did not pursue it."
He smiled and said, "This actually caused Venerable Lu to misunderstand."
His words made Lu Wan seem narrow-minded.
But before Lu Wan could respond, Commander Yuan suddenly sighed and said, "It is indeed my commander's lack of consideration..."
"I thought Xuantian Temple would be led by at least three cauldron builders, but I didn't expect that more than two hundred iron-winged eagles would cause casualties in Xuantian Temple!"
"Here, Yuan apologizes to Master Lu!"
He gave a salute, raised his head, and looked at Lu Wan, his eyes full of teasing.
But when Lu Wan saw this, he smiled again.
"In this case, Lu has misunderstood. Commander Yuan has left the entire matter of slaying the iron-winged condor to our Xuantian Temple."
"In this way, if we can completely annihilate the Iron-Winged Condor, we will be able to live up to our high expectations."
Then Lu Wan raised his hand and said: "The misunderstanding is solved, it's just a trivial matter. Commander Yuan doesn't have to stand in the air to apologize. He has wasted his mana. Come here, land at the top of the city, and keep your feet on the ground."
When he said this, his voice was calm and indifferent, but it spread throughout the Seventh Mountain.
"I came here for the first time, and I don't know how many places in this mountain are fortified. I would like to trouble Commander Yuan to report all the key points to me."
"My Xuantian Temple's formation is also very good. It just adds to the defensive power of the Seventh Mountain."
He looked at Yuan Li, expressionless, and said calmly: "Remember, don't miss anything."
(End of chapter)
