Lin Long was still standing at the bow of the ship, like a boulder, not moving.

The flames of the one hundred and twenty ships destroyed the vanguard of the demon army like a whirlwind of clouds. Obviously, it was not a very wise move for the demon army to rush to pursue and approach Zhongzhou this time.

But the fall of Qulian County has become an irrevocable fact. Of about 150,000 soldiers and civilians, less than 30,000 escaped in the end.

The flesh and blood of more than 100,000 people in his fiefdom have undoubtedly become food for the demon army. Although Lin Long's face was as cold as a bronze cast, there were also monstrous waves in his heart, but he couldn't show anything.

Under heavy pressure, his every expression was enough to determine the inner defense line of millions of soldiers and civilians behind him. If he behaves like he loses his bearings now, the entire human kingdom will also collapse.

The demon army occupied Qulian County, in addition to uprooting an impregnable fortress, what was even more terrifying was to obtain a spiritual treasure where mountains, rivers, heaven and earth converge. The demons will soon refine the Heaven Covering Demon Cloud there.

The Heaven Covering Demon Cloud is not like a demon locust that can turn people into corpse demons, it is no different from ordinary dark clouds, it looks harmless to humans and animals, but it is Lin Long's biggest worry. Because it can block the sun, it will not disperse for thousands of years!

Dongzhou was also a thriving place for the human race. Ever since it was shrouded in the clouds that covered the sky, it has become a hell for humans and a paradise for demons.

Once the Demon Cloud is refined, Qulian County will forever become the territory of the Demon Clan. The rivers and mountains have overturned, and it is difficult to return them.

This place will become the vanguard of the demon army's attack on Zhongzhou City.

The most correct strategy at the moment is to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the demon army, gamble on one hundred and twenty ships, sweep Qulian County, and expel the demon army from Zhongzhou in one fell swoop.

Lin Long held the herald jade slip in his hand, there was no expression on the surface, but his palms were sweaty, and he still couldn't give an order for a long time. It's not that the strategy is right, he can decide. In the Jingli Dynasty, every general was tied up by five flowers.

A gray-robed soldier came over and whispered to Lin Long: "Lin Shuai, the Privy Council has asked for the third time, do you want to reply?"

The herald jade slip in Lin Long's hand finally had a glimmer of light. He said coldly: "Transmission Privy Council: The demon army has retreated, the general order has been transmitted, the whole army turned around and returned to the Zhongzhou Sky Camp." ”

This soldier hurriedly knelt down on one knee and hugged his fists: "The subordinate officer will receive the order." ”

Then he looked up again and whispered, "Childe has found it." His life is fine, but his injuries are not light, and now he is being treated by military doctors. Would you like Lin Shuai to go and see it?"

No matter the priority of things, all public before private, this is Lin Shuai's rule.

Lin Long snorted coldly and said, "I don't have time to pay attention to him." It's good for him to suffer a little bit of this useless waste. But there was a flash of relief in his eyes.

Although this son is extremely incompetent and has lost all the land of his ancestors, he still has a great fate, and he is still alive after all. His Lin family is also considered to be a peerless.

Lin Long lowered his head, and a trace of worry passed through his heart. The loss of the town is such a big mistake, as the main general of the city guard, according to the law, there is no doubt about it. I don't know how much favor it will take to keep him from dying this time. He couldn't help frowning and asked:

"How did the Qulian Mountain River Moat Array break?"

The gray-clothed soldier whispered: "The subordinate has asked the young marshal about this matter. It is said that yesterday the young marshal married his wife, and the master of the Chongxuan Guanguan Huang Lu was a spy of the demon clan. The bride of Chongxuanguan and the demon clan should join forces inside and outside, and broke the big protective array. ”

"Chongxuanguan?" This answer was beyond Lin Long's expectations.

Lin Shihu wanted to marry a family member who had already reported to him in a letter. In his early years, he had several relationships with Huang Qi, the master of Chongxuan Guanguan, and he was quite deed. Therefore, when he heard that the two families were going to get married, he almost didn't think about it and replied to the book for approval. Chongxuanguan, who has been guarding the border for decades, will collude with the demon army?

"Chongxuanguan has been operating in Chongbian Town for hundreds of years. This year, the Privy Council suddenly decided to abandon Chongbian Town, causing the Chongxuanguan Dojo to fall into the hands of the demons. Xia Guan dared to guess that everyone in Chongxuan was dissatisfied with this, so he voted for the demon clan, and suddenly became difficult to marry his son. As long as conclusive evidence is found in this matter, the culprit of Qu Lian's loss is Chongxuanguan, and the son is not a big deal. ”

The gray-clothed scribe has been following Lin Long for a long time, and of course he understands that the coach is most anxious about how to clear his son of the crime of losing the city, and he has prepared this set of rhetoric in advance.

As long as you can catch a few living people who worship the metaphysical temple, there is a way to make them confess. It's really not okay, and it's not impossible to use dead people to fill the numbers.

"Put eyeliner everywhere, all those who worship Xuanguan will be taken down and sent to the skyscraper camp for my inquiry, and they must be caught alive!" Lin Shuai hated Chongxuanguan in his heart, his fists were clenched, and his finger bones rang out.

"Yes!" the man clenched his fists and retreated. The matter of arresting the remnants of Chongxuanguan, he had already secretly asked someone to start doing it.

Although the night was extremely long, the first rays of dawn finally descended on heaven and earth. The sky gradually turned blue, and the east was reflected in the fiery red of the newborn sun.

In the sky above Qulian County, a gray haze still persists. On the way to Zhongzhou, it became green again. On the clumps of red clay hills, there were many mutilated corpses and corpse demons that were no longer moving.

These corpses are all black, with a layer of hard black armor on their bodies, which seems to have spawned naturally. Their faces were hideous and weird, and some of them were holding weapons of similar material to the black armor in their hands. But when all this came to the sun, it was like a pile of lit black charcoal, burning slowly, and finally turning into a pile of scattered white ash.

Wood with hundreds of soldiers piled up the remnants of the corpses, piled them with firewood, and then burned them with a fire. The fire was blazing, like a big hot hand caressing everyone's faces. In the tumbling orange firelight, everything turned to ashes.

There are so many dead that it is impossible to bury them one by one. If you throw it away, you will turn into a corpse demon at night. The Flying Cloud Fleet had already turned around, and they had been left behind to clean up the corpses in the area.

Overnight, Chongxuanguan seemed to have become a famous person, and Huang Lu and Gouzhu also became celebrities. Their "heroic deeds" have been circulated among all the fleeing outcasts and the soldiers who went around cleaning up the corpses and remnants of the demon army.

The legendary stunning girl does not hesitate to use herself as bait, ** Lin Shihu, and goes deep into the cave to steal the main center of the big array. In order to take revenge on the Lin clan and save the girl, a young monk rode a giant eagle, detonated the entire array, and led the demon army to slaughter the city, etc., painting and coloring, making the grumpy Huang Lu so angry that he almost vomited blood to death.

The wandering Feiyun Army scouts even painted the images of Hook Pig and Huang Lu into portraits, patrolling everywhere to arrest them.

Fortunately, Mu had already prepared, and the three of them were all dressed in the gray robes of the Feiyun Army, with copper scale armor, and helmets, looking no different from soldiers. It's hard to tell at first glance.

Wood carried his trademark bow and a quiver, as well as a conspicuous black axe. The handle of the axe was slender, three feet long, and at the end, one left and one right were like double-leaf grass, and there were two sharp axe blades. It was originally his dark iron and wood sword, but it was fused with a spirit seed that he didn't even know the name of to become this strange look.

In fact, his luck was worse than that of the hook pig, and he just happened to fall in the middle of a battlefield between the Feiyun Army and the Demon Army.

But with his innate wooden body, which was almost invincible in brute strength and defense, plus a big axe and a strong bow, and his precise and brave archery skills, this former hunter almost single-handedly saved the battle and immediately won Lin Long's favor.

In this way, he not only joined the Feiyun Army, but also rose to the top, only a few days, and he was already a hundred households with six products.

"What about Song Ruhai?" asked Gouzhu.

"Senior Brother Song, he'...... He appeared in the city of Zhongzhou...... I don't know what chance I get, I suddenly inherited the assets of a big family and became a huge rich!"

Hook Pig secretly thought that when he came to the third continent, he was alone, just a nineteenth, and the two of them could only go to beg for food. And these two senior brothers, one is on the rise, the other is rich and noble, and sure enough, their destiny is very different.

But this third continent is only a detachment after all, not the present world. Even if they enjoy the prosperity here, what is the use of automatically kicking out of the immortal tree after a month and a half? The most important thing is to obtain this layer of formation inheritance, so that it can be considered worthwhile.

"Well, it does ......" Wood told his men to work hard, and he and Hook Pig cut a wild boar into pieces of meat, and burned a fire to roast it. After a while, the air was filled with the smell of barbecued meat.

"This layer of the master of the Gong Transmission Master, Senior Brother Song has already figured it out. ”

"Isn't it the god of the Human Demon Mountain?"

The human demon mountain, the heavenly god, and the wood shook their heads again and again. In order to find the master of the Gong Transmission, he also went to the Demon Mountain in Zhongzhou. It wasn't a mountain at all, let alone a god. It was just an ethereal and invisible mist, floating above the Jingli Palace, like an upside-down mountain.

No one knows why a cloud of energy is so fixed. It is said that some monks have used flying magic weapons to go to the high altitude to see it. But it was really an unfathomable cloud, and there was no other mystery.

Some people say that this is the intersection of the two worlds of man and demon, so it is called the mountain of man and demon. But if you want to go to the Demon Mountain to find the so-called heavenly gods to obtain the transmission of merit, it is simply impossible.

But at the foot of the Demon Mountain, in the Jingli Palace, there is a "Royal Array Courtyard", and the inheritance of the formation division here is the inheritance of the strongest formation division in Jingli Country.

All the Taoist temples with the emperor's imperial plaques can form a team of five people at a time and enter the royal array once every four years for assessment. You only need to pass the assessment to become a formation master of the Royal Array Academy.

Once he becomes a royal formation, he is directly equivalent to the royal status, and his status is extremely lofty, and he will no longer be subject to any control except for the emperor himself.

According to Song Ruhai's speculation, the formation inheritance of this royal array is likely to be the transmission of this layer of power transmission mages. Because there is a convention: if you are a visitor from outside the world, you can directly enter the array courtyard to receive the inheritance without assessment.

"Visitors from outside the sky?" Gou Zhu understood, "Isn't that us?" Among the rules of the Royal Array Courtyard, a group of five people corresponds to the Wu Courtyard of the Jade Palace, and the visitors from outside the Heaven refer to the disciples who come in the Jade Palace to practice. These rules were secretly designed to pass on the merits to the disciples of the Jade Palace.

Wood nodded, but he said the unfortunate news that this rule had been abolished half a month ago!

Half a month ago?Looking at this time, it was probably exactly two months before the ranking battle of the outer disciples of the Jade Palace. From this time onwards, the Transmission Pagoda was closed, and outer disciples were not allowed to enter again. The transmission of the third layer was also closed?

"Well, but the boss said that there is still ...... way"

"What's the solution?"

Mu Tou said that although they can no longer enter the Royal Array as visitors from outside the world to participate in the assessment, they can participate in the Royal Array Academy's quadrennial Royal Array Master Selection in another capacity, and if they pass the selection, they can enter the Array to receive the inheritance.

And the time of this assessment was exactly ten days later, that is, the first day of the last month before the Jade Palace Ranking War.

Hook Pig remembered the hard work along the way, but also gained a lot.

In the first layer, he learned to practice swordsmanship, improved his realm, and obtained the nineteenth powerful partner. On the second layer, he fused the spirit seed and obtained the spirit sword. If he learns the art of arranging the formation at the third layer, plus the realm that has now built a sixfold foundation, and returns to the outer courtyard, even against Tianjiao Tang Su, who has built a sevenfold foundation, he will no longer have the strength to fight!

"Damn, the Wu Courtyard surnamed Tang dares to slander the master is a thief's courtyard......" Gou Pig scolded hatefully in his heart, "Lord will beat you into a thief sooner or later!"

"But the selection of the royal formation division is not just a matter of wanting to participate......" Before the hook pig was excited, the wood poured a scoop of cold water on him again, "It has to be the emperor's family who has given the plaque, and it has to be a disciple who has a formation master card." ”

"This," Hook Pig thought to himself, and it seems that I have to show my skills again, to steal a few array master cards?

"The boss said that he has opened up the joints, and he spends money to buy a fake card, maybe he can get through the tricks, and if he can't pass, forget it, the third layer is a ......trip for nothing."

"No need!" Hook Pig heard the chain next to him click. Huang Lu, who had been sulking on the side with immortal shackles on his hands, suddenly raised his head, his eyes shot a trace of coldness, and he coldly spit out a few words in his mouth:

"I have the plaque, and I also have the plaque! When I see the emperor, I will see that I can't defeat your surname Lin!"