Chapter 212: Lu Yu’s Dilemma (2)
Pillars of fire shot up into the sky.
Mushroom clouds rose into the sky.
The large metal balls mixed in the flood peak have been consumed, and the flood has gradually subsided.
After all, it is water without a source.
After all, the width of the river next to Wuzhou City is limited.
The strange white-clothed youths stored a day's worth of floodwater, and the total amount barely flooded the area of several hundred miles around Wuzhou City. Around Wuzhou City, three rivers converge, and the waterways are intricate, with excellent water storage and discharge capabilities.
When Lu Yi stepped on the white clouds and rode the wind and rushed to Qi Li, the flood outside Wuzhou City had already disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.
The land was in a mess, and crops, forests, farmlands, and towns within hundreds of miles were completely destroyed.
On the ground, corpses could be seen scattered everywhere, in a mess.
There were also some mounts that were lucky enough and strong enough to survive the flood. They were now wailing and wandering slowly around, looking for their owners in a daze.
The world was bleak.
Qi Li was surrounded by a dozen disciples of the Heart Sword Sect, standing trembling in the mud.
“Lord Tianyang…” Qi Li clasped his hands together and bowed deeply to Lu Yi: “It is my fault… I was seduced by a traitor and did something wrong.”
Qi Li's tears rolled down. He ignored the thick mud on the ground and simply knelt down in front of Lu Yi.
"I respect the Queen Mother as if she were a goddess. I am loyal to the Emperor. I also respect the General. During every festival, I have never failed to give the General a gift."
Lu Yi coughed and said, "In your manifesto, you scolded the Queen Mother for being a hen crowing at dawn, the Emperor for being immoral, and the General for being a monopolistic relative of the emperor..."
Qi Li looked at Lu Yi with an unusually serious expression: "I know nothing about what Lord Tianyang said. It must be the group of cultural hypocrites under my command who misinterpreted my intentions and wrote such a treasonous manifesto. I have never seen this manifesto. They must have acted in my name."
Qi Li held out ten fingers and flipped them towards Lu Yi: "Two billion coins, please be merciful, Lord Tianyang. When I return to my own territory, I will definitely send the heads of those wicked scholars to Gaojing to apologize to the Queen Mother, the Emperor, and the General."
Lu Yi coughed lightly.
Qi Li was silent for a while, then sighed, "10 billion, no more. Lord Tianyang, even if I go to the emperor to buy my life, it will probably be this amount, what do you think?"
The light on Lu Yi's fingers flickered, and three flying swords, Silver Dragon, Radiant Light, and Dazzling Shadow, flew out, transforming into cold lights several feet long and rapidly spinning around him. Amid the subtle sound of breaking through the air, the ' buzzing ' sound of the swords made people's scalps numb and their whole bodies shiver.
Lu Yi looked at Qi Li and said calmly, "My Lord, why don't you come back with me to Haojing? Anyway, you have a way to avoid death. Isn't it just money? As long as you pay enough money, are you afraid that the emperor won't let you go home?"
Looking at Qi Li with narrowed eyes, Lu Yi said coldly: "The emperor has a very good reputation in this regard. He never slacks off when he gets paid. My Lord, prepare the money and everything will be easy for us."
"My Lord's life is actually safe."
"Even the Queen Mother and the General know that you are just a puppet. Who would really blame you? You just need to put aside your dignity and face, kowtow more, and apologize more. Then the matter will be settled."
"But everyone..."
Lu Yi looked at the dozen or so disciples of the Heart Sword Sect who had pale faces and sword lights flickering around them.
"Or, fellow Taoists..."
As soon as Lu Yi finished speaking, more than a dozen disciples of the Heart Sword Sect roared at the same time. Sword lights suddenly appeared and turned into a rainbow several feet long, stabbing towards Lu Yi fiercely.
Originally, they had dozens of fellow disciples, all in Qi Li's central military camp.
However, the huge metal balls that the group of young men in white placed in the flood exploded with too much power. Unfortunately, most of their fellow disciples were affected by the three metal balls and were directly blown to ashes.
They were also severely injured in the aftermath of the metal ball, and all their internal organs were damaged.
At this moment they were already like frightened birds. Before Lu Yi said how to deal with them, they had already taken the initiative to kill him.
The ancient bear monster was covered in heavy armor. Lu Yi stood in place and let the sword chop around. There was a constant "ding ding" sound and sparks flew everywhere. The heavy armor was not damaged at all. Flying swords kept bouncing off. More than a dozen Heart Sword Sect monks swayed and staggered backwards.
The spear in Lu Yi's hand made a sharp whistling sound.
The wind is surrounding me.
In the heavy armor, wisps of green wind patterns lit up.
The originally heavy armor and spear now became as light as a feather. Lu Yi's speed suddenly soared to a level faster than the sword lights of the Heart Sword Sect monks.
A large afterimage exploded, and Lu Yi, holding a spear, rushed in front of the disciples of the Heart Sword Sect in an instant. He shook the spear, and streams of light bloomed like the legendary red spider lily, with bulging stamens, piercing the opponent's throat.
In Qi Li's eyes, he only saw a flash of figures, and more than a dozen Heart Sword Sect monks, whom he worshipped as gods, fell to the ground bleeding, without even being able to utter a scream.
The figure flashed again, and Lu Yi stood steadily in front of him.
Qi Li screamed miserably, "Lord Tianyang, spare my life... I have to keep 20 billion yuan to buy my life from the emperor, so I can't give too much!"
Lu Yi looked down at Qi Li, grabbed his shoulders and laughed: "No problem, no problem. I am the emperor's confidant, so of course I have to do everything according to the emperor's wishes. As long as you give me money, everything will be fine."
As long as he meets the emperor and is willing to spend money, Qi Li will most likely be fine.
Lu Yi and Qi Li don't have any personal grudges, so why would they want to fight and kill each other?
It is 20 billion yuan, which is about 18 or 19 million strings of cash. This is a huge sum of money. With this money, Lu Yi can buy the best and most expensive high-end goods for the private army that Ah Hu is forming, including military equipment.
Qi Li laughed dryly and subconsciously raised his hands: "No problem, no problem. Lord Tianyang is young and promising. I feel like I've known him since I first met him... I will never default on the 20 billion yuan. I will send it to Lord Tianyang's mansion as quickly as possible."
After a slight pause, Qi Li looked around and his body stiffened.
His army!
His lineage of Dongqi Bo has accumulated almost 90% of its deer cavalry over the years, as well as other elite troops.
It only takes a moment!
The overwhelming flood, the terrifying metal ball in the flood...
Qi Li's voice became extremely distorted and suppressed: "Duke Tianyang, I wonder which general the emperor sent to lead the army besides you? This method is a bit too cruel... Why is it so? Why is it so?"
"Cruel?" Lu Yi said sarcastically, "My Lord's methods are not merciful. The more than 100,000 imperial guards in Wuzhou City died with their eyes open. How dare you say that they are cruel?"
"However, this great flood has nothing to do with the people sent by the Emperor..."
Lu Yi murmured, "The commander-in-chief who attacked Lord Bo was Lu Yu, the Duke of Tian'en. Logically, his Canglang Cavalry should be here soon. I wonder if he was swept away by the flood?"
It is one thousand five hundred miles away from Wuzhou City.
night.
Lu Yu was riding on the Wolf King, standing on a small hill, looking at the vast white fog around him with a stiff expression.
Something is wrong with the environment here.
There was a white mist rising from the sky and the ground, blocking the sky and the earth.
In all directions, as far as the naked eye can see, a faint white mist covered the entire area. The 800,000 Canglang Cavalry under Lu Yu's command and a million-strong elite Leopard Cavalry of the Eastern Expedition Corps were all shrouded in the white mist.
With Lu Yu's cultivation level of the Fiery Realm, he has ignited the furnace of his heart through practicing the "Dragon-Tiger Vajra Body" of the Great Vajra Temple. His eyesight can easily see thirty or forty miles even at night.
But under the white fog, there was still a little light leaking from the sky. He could only see a hundred feet in the fog and vaguely see the figures of soldiers and mounts in the fog. A little further away, he could only see the swaying figures and the vague shadows of the banners and military flags.
Two days.
It has been two full days.
It was only 1,500 miles away from Wuzhou City. With the speed of the Canglang Cavalry, it could be easily reached in just over an hour. However, Lu Yu and his army had already stayed here for two full days and two nights.
No matter day or night, there is always white fog all around.
He kept sending out scouts to explore the surroundings, but some of those scouts would circle in the white fog for a few times and then inexplicably rush back to the center of the army; some of the scouts would inexplicably just disappear.
In just two days, Lu Yu had lost thousands of cavalrymen, and he no longer dared to send anyone out.
He once ordered the main army, including the Wolf Cavalry and the Leopard Cavalry, to form neat and dense square formations, and set out in a mighty force to explore the surrounding areas.
But the army had just taken two steps when there was a howling cold wind and heavy snow in one direction, which made the soldiers, who were only wearing spring clothes, shiver. Two more steps, there was a deep snow in front of them. The ice and snow, and the cold wind forced the army to turn back.
The army changed direction and just after taking two steps, there was a large area of swamp quicksand in front of them. Some forward scouts were careless and were trapped in the swamp. If it were not for timely rescue, these scouts would have been swallowed up by the swamp quicksand.
Let’s go in another direction. There is a cliff in front of us that seems to have no end.
The cliffs were thousands of feet high and as smooth as a mirror, making it impossible for the army to pass through.
Lu Yu sent several expert generals to try to climb over the cliff, but huge rocks suddenly fell from the mountain, breaking bones and tendons of several generals who were exploring the way. They had to be rescued for emergency treatment.
There is another direction that is even more outrageous.
The army walked towards that direction, and there was only white fog over there, but as they walked, it started to rain knives from the sky!
It's really a knife.
Countless knives of all sizes, some several inches long, some more than a foot long, some two or three feet long, and some even ten feet long, seventy or eighty feet long, fell from the sky, whistling and slashing at the densely packed army camp, killing tens of thousands of soldiers on the spot, forcing Lu Yu to hurriedly lead his men back.
The situation was desperate in all four directions, and Lu Yu's army was trapped here for two full days.
"This... is a formation?" Lu Yu frowned and pondered for a long time on the hill with a sad face. Finally, he found the possible answer to the strange phenomenon in front of him from a book he had read in the Great Vajra Temple.
Formation!
A formation that enveloped an army of millions.
He and his army were trapped by an unknown entity using a formation.
However, with the spiritual power of heaven and earth shattered, it was impossible for any formation to appear in this world... not to mention, how powerful a method would it be to form a formation covering such a huge area?
