Amid cheers like a landslide and tsunami, the Luo family's private army soldiers formed a formation and followed Rama.
Wearing heavy armor, holding a heavy shield, and holding a long sword, Rama was surrounded by blood-colored mist, and a four-armed Dharma image rose behind him. He walked in front of the neatly-ordered army formation with his head held high.
The road leading to the Zhou Family Ancestral Hall has been forcibly opened. There is no need for any strategies or calculations. All they need to do is use the absolutely superior military force to crush them openly.
Even Rama and others no longer need the fence-sitters from the big families to take action.
With more than a dozen clan elders supporting them, it is a great opportunity to show off the Luo family's martial arts and heritage... As for those fence-sitters, haha, anyone who fled before, we will deal with them after today's matter is over.
Someone from the Zhou family drew his bow and shot arrows.
The arrow broke through the air and hit Rama.
Blood-colored mist lingered around Rama, transforming into a huge blood-colored vortex that protected the area around him. The metal arrowhead touched the blood-colored vortex slightly and exploded into pieces, unable to touch Rama's body at all.
Zhou Changgong and the others exclaimed in unison: "Tianshi!"
In this world, the evaluation of the level of cultivation is very simple: above the heavenly soldiers is the heavenly scholar, and above the heavenly scholar is the heavenly lieutenant!
To Lu Yi, this sounded more like a military rank promotion system!
However, there is a huge gap in strength between the heavenly soldiers and the heavenly scholars. The biggest difference is that the heavenly scholars can already release their "magic power" and condense it into Dharma images, forming all kinds of incredible magical effects.
What about being invulnerable to swords and guns, and being able to kill people from a distance of several feet.
One celestial warrior can at least crush ten of the strongest celestial soldiers on the front battlefield!
Listening to Zhou Laodao's explanation, Lu Yi couldn't help but shake his head repeatedly - so, are the leaders of these big families and big forces all crazy? They could have taken matters into their own hands and solved the problem quickly, but they had to let the little minions below them do the fueling tactics one after another, causing their own casualties to suffer heavy losses!
Tsk!
What's up with this brain?
Just behind Rama and others, a dozen elders of the Luo family were properly protected and carefully supported by a group of filial sons and grandsons, and they moved forward quickly with the large group of people.
All of these family elders have successfully awakened their spirits. Although their bodies are weak, they possess extraordinary combat power.
Just now, the member of the Zhou family hid in a high place and shot an arrow, which failed to hurt Rama at all. However, it gave the one-armed old man following Rama an opportunity. He raised his head slightly, with a flash of blood between his eyebrows, and a blood-red fireball as big as a water tank came with a dull roar and blasted straight towards the fortress where the member of the Zhou family was hiding.
There was a sharp sound of "chi" that broke through the air, and Zhou Changgong let out a long whistle, and a long arrow flew out fiercely.
On the arrow, a white cold light was spurting out, which was more than a foot long. This was the result of Zhou Changgong's successful awakening of his spiritual power, mobilizing the spiritual energy of the surrounding heaven and earth, and transforming it into a ray of Xinjin power, which was attached to the arrow.
The breeze wrapped around the arrow, and the arrow flew at an extremely fast speed, more than three times faster than the arrow Zhou Changgong had fired with all his strength before. As the power of Xin Jin, which was about a foot long, was absorbed and discharged, the speed of the arrow's rotation and the penetration power it contained increased by more than ten times out of thin air.
The arrow was several times faster than the blood-red fireball. It flew through the air and accurately hit the core of the fireball.
With a loud bang, the fireball exploded, and Zhou Changgong's arrow was wrapped in a layer of flames, leaving a long trail of flames, and slammed towards the Luo family elder.
With a "clang" sound, a steward of the Luo family holding a heavy shield accurately blocked the arrow.
Sparks flew, flames burst out, and the arrow was firmly "attached" to the heavy shield with cold light flowing, spinning rapidly, like a drill bit, madly spinning and penetrating the shield. With the ear-piercing sound of metal friction, in the blink of an eye, the heavy shield was forcibly broken by this arrow, and the arrow penetrated the heavy shield and hit the Luo family deacon holding the shield.
The steward of the Luo family, who was over nine feet tall and had a handsome and upright figure, opened his eyes wide and roared hoarsely. He had no time to dodge and could only watch as the arrow pierced his neck fiercely.
"Bang!"
The eyes of the Luo family patriarch, who was protected behind him by the heavy shield he held, suddenly lit up. Around the pupil in the center of his head, countless fine blood lines expanded and became engorged. In front of the Luo family deacon, a blood-red fire shield with a diameter of about one foot and a thickness of three inches appeared out of thin air.
The fire shield was spinning rapidly, emitting suffocating heat.
When the arrow hit the fire shield, it was like a punch hitting a tough, sticky, and resilient piece of taffy. The arrow's rotation speed and penetrating power were decomposed and peeled off layer by layer by the high-temperature flames. The heavy and sharp arrow was burned red all over by the high-temperature fire shield and gradually became soft. Then, after just a snap of the fingers, the arrow only penetrated an inch of the fire shield, and the entire arrow was melted into a ball of juice.
All the Luo family members around witnessed this scene.
This was the first time that Zhou Changgong's arrow was truly blocked since last night!
And it was clear that Zhou Changgong's arrows posed no threat at all to the fire shield of the Luo family's patriarch!
"Victory!" Rama, Luo Bo and other senior members of the Luo family raised their swords and cheered!
In all directions, the morale of countless Luo family's private army soldiers suddenly became increasingly high, and they roared like crazy. Their blood was boiling, their strength was surging, and their steps on the ground became particularly heavy and powerful, as if a group of sturdy bison were marching forward in neat steps, and their footsteps made the ground tremble slightly.
In the ancestral hall, Zhou Laodao sneered: "Come on, let's stop hiding it... Brother Fahai, what do you think?"
Lu Yu smiled and nodded. He stood up and lightly tapped his right hand. An auxiliary minor magical power from the Liangyi Tian Buddhist Sect, called "The Magical Power of the Heavenly King to Subdue Demons", turned into wisps of golden red Buddha light and quietly merged into the bodies of Zhou Laodao and others.
This minor magical power is specially used by young Buddhist practitioners who have just entered the Liangyi Tian Buddhist sect and have no background, no foundation, and no backing. They use it to protect their way and establish themselves when they are walking in the wilderness or opening caves in poor mountains and bad waters.
It has auxiliary effects such as 'enlightenment', 'huge strength', 'body of diamond', 'long-lasting blood', etc. Even an ordinary pastoral dog that can only guard the house, after being blessed by this "Heavenly King's Divine Power to Conquer Demons", can fight with small demon-level tigers, black bears and other small demon-level monsters with a certain level of cultivation.
The biggest feature of this minor magical power is that it does not have too many dazzling light and shadow effects. It only works on the body's blood and energy, and the consumption of the caster is extremely small.
At this moment, Lu Yi performed it casually, and in the entire ancestral hall, thousands of Zhou family's private army soldiers and thousands of able-bodied men were all blessed. Lu Yi only consumed about 30% of the magic power that had not yet recovered in his body.
Such a small cost brings about amazing results.
Then one could hear Zhou Laodao's heartbeat like a drum, his breathing became as hot as fire, blue veins bulged out from under his skin, and the muscles and bones in Zhou Laodao, who was originally seven or eight feet tall, made a creaking sound. His body suddenly grew a foot taller, becoming nearly ten feet tall, with muscles and tendons all over his body, like a ferocious tiger coming down the mountain, full of fierce murderous aura.
The same was true for the other members of the Zhou family. Their heights grew rapidly, and their bodies expanded by more than three times. Their physical strength became almost inexhaustible, their breathing was like thunder, their hearts were beating like drums, and their own strength increased several times out of thin air. The swords, spears, swords and halberds in their hands, which were originally quite heavy, suddenly became as light as straws.
The armor, which was originally quite loose, now seemed to be tight around his body, like a pair of shoes.
This tight sense of restraint made the Zhou family members feel that their blood and qi were swelling to an uncontrollable level... Either they rushed out now and made the murderous Luo family members outside bleed... Or they could not help but gasp and run to the ancestral hall to find their wives...
Ahem, it’s still bleeding, just in a different way!
"Go!" Lu Yi exhaled lightly: "You will win!"
When the word "must win" came out, Lu Yi's mind was slightly shaken, and he gave Zhou Laodao and others a blessing of "White Lotus Calming Mantra"...
Well, this is not a serious method.
The so-called 'Calming Mantra' might be better called the 'Beast Blood Boiling Mantra'.
And this 'white lotus'... that is the kind of improper 'white lotus', which is what everyone can imagine, bewitching foolish men and women, making them worship and burn incense, donating all their property and assets, all their handsome boys and beautiful girls, and then loudly shouting the slogan 'invulnerable to swords and guns', madly attacking the regular army's formation, letting others kill one of them and cause a river of blood, and then getting promoted and getting rich, that kind of 'white lotus'!
Buddhism is vast and can accommodate all kinds of demons and monsters.
That’s why there is a saying that goes “ Put down the butcher knife and you Buddha instantly”.
Since it tolerates "demons and monsters", then the existence of the "White Lotus Calming Mantra" which can bewitch people and turn originally docile and good people into ruthless thugs is naturally reasonable, right?
The Zhou family members, whose blood was already boiling and who couldn't control the urge to pierce something, now had their eyes bulging out and turned red. What's worse, some of the young and strong men even had blood flowing from their noses.
Their minds were filled with fanaticism, and they completely forgot everything else. They followed Zhou Laodao, jumped out of the ancestral hall, and charged head-on at the mighty Luo family army that was attacking them.
A dozen Luo family elders smiled and said, "How dare you, an ant, compete with our Luo family for supremacy? "
Dozens of blood-red fireballs condensed out of thin air and slammed towards the Zhou family with a dull whistling sound.
Zhou Laodao raised his head, and dozens of Zhou family confidants behind him raised their heads at the same time. Like the dozen or so Luo family elders, the thin lines between their eyebrows suddenly cracked , revealing their radiant vertical eyes.
The blood relatives of Zhou Laodao all had platinum-colored eyes and eyebrows, shining brightly and coldly. The inspiration around them rolled and condensed into shiny white arrows, sharp sword beams the size of a palm, and even several inches long cow hair needles, which blasted towards the fireballs with sharp sounds.
As for those private soldiers who were adopted and trained by Zhou Laodao since childhood, when their eyebrows were erect and their eyes were open, they had all five elements.
His eyes were red and he spewed out fireballs and columns of fire.
His eyes were blue and he emitted wind blade lightning.
His eyes turned yellow and huge rocks fell from the sky.
Those eyes that are blue are the result of water jets rushing around.
Their eyes turned white, just like the blood relatives of the Zhou family, and they threw flying knives and scraps forward with sharp whistling sounds.
The acquired five elements power surged, and hundreds of Zhou family members successfully awakened their spirits. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth they mobilized far surpassed that of the dozen or so Luo family elders in both quantity and purity!
Lu Yi was certain in his heart - the people or things that awakened the spirits of these Luo family elders were obviously not as powerful as his own seal of the deputy governor of Loulan... Of course, this was difficult to estimate, because Lu Yi's seal of the deputy governor of Loulan was also blessed with the privilege of the Taimi Emperor Axe. There was no reference for the change in power, and Lu Yi was a little confused about the depth of it.
But in short, the power of the five elements surged, attacks came down from the sky, and dozens of "pitiful" blood-red fireballs suddenly became dim.
That feeling, that feeling...
It's like a senior lady standing on the roadside in an alley, dressed up in fancy clothes, waving her handkerchief triumphantly, trying to tease and provoke a young man who is passing by and has no experience in the world of love.
As a result, the two or three young men suddenly whistled, attracting hundreds of greasy middle-aged men who had been through many battles and had received many law enforcement punishments... These sturdy men who had no shame at all rushed forward with laughter... These senior and professional women who had originally been confident and thought they had these young men in their grasp suddenly let out a few mournful howls and were immediately completely drowned out!
Fireball, shattered.
Only the various attacks transformed by the acquired five elements' power were like a tide, pouring down madly.
Rama, who was rushing in the front, did not even have the chance to show his powerful cultivation at the level of a celestial being, and was the first to be hit and overwhelmed by the attacks from more than twenty subordinates of the Zhou family.
The heavenly soldier's shield in his hand was shattered.
The heavenly soldier's armor on his body was shattered.
The long sword that he was waving in his hand was also shattered.
Rama let out an unbelievable scream, turned around, raised one leg, and tried to escape... Then, his body was submerged in a large area of ​​strong light. The current head of the Luoyi Luo family was beaten to pieces, without even a hair left!
There really wasn't a single hair left.
Because at the moment when the attack fell, the three white bone relics turned into a ray of white light, penetrated Rama's body, and swallowed up his flesh and blood essence. The hair of the "True Cultivator" at the level of a heavenly scholar contains a great deal of essence, so how could these three white bone relics be let go?
Rama disappeared.
Also disappearing were Luo Bo and other Luo family leaders who were at the forefront.
A dozen Luo family elders widened their eyes, looking in horror and despair at the hundreds of Zhou family members in front of them who also revealed the third eye between their eyebrows.
"us……"
The patriarch of the Luo family, who had the highest status and the oldest seniority, and had previously slapped Rama with his one arm and taught him a lesson in public, raised his one arm and wanted to surrender on behalf of the Luo family!
Lu Yi muttered, "To surrender, you have to raise both hands... You only raised one arm, which shows that your heart is not sincere!"
With a "puff" sound, a white bone relic pierced through the old man's forehead. His body suddenly collapsed inward, and his energy and spirit were instantly drained away by the white bone relic. Then a large ball of fire and lightning fell, submerging him in a large light.
The Zhou family members rushed up.
Their blood expanded, their strength soared, their defense, speed, reaction and other indicators were more than ten times higher than in normal times, and when they swung swords, spears, swords and halberds at will, they made a sharp sound of breaking through the air and left countless afterimages.
The Zhou family’s knife is faster.
A: The Zhou family’s is harder.
Among them, those of the Zhou family are stronger.
The Zhou family is even more crazy about the desire to fight.
Chop down with the sword, stab with the spear, chop and hook with the halberd, and even bombard with heavy hammers and flails. The armor plates shattered, the armor leaves cracked, the shields were smashed, and the swords, spears, swords and halberds left deep and shallow, long and short wounds on the flesh.
The spiritual energy of the world surged from all directions and was continuously injected into the bodies of Zhou family members.
All the wounds on their bodies healed in the blink of an eye.
As for the private soldiers of the Luo family, once they got wounds, they had to use up their mana to repair them... and how much mana could a Heavenly Soldier-level cultivator have? After fighting for more than a dozen times, their mana would be used up, and they would have to use up their Emperor Money to replenish it.
It takes time to absorb and digest the imperial money.
In battle, the most important thing is time.
He watched as members of the Zhou family were constantly injured and bleeding, yet immediately became full of energy, wielding all kinds of weapons to hack and kill indiscriminately, while he himself gradually became covered in wounds and blood, his physical strength and magic power were almost exhausted, and he lost limbs... Some of them were even blinded, and some had their chests pierced!
What was even more terrifying was that more than a dozen of his own elders had been killed by the other side's hundreds of awakened spirits, and the "magic" was whistling down from the sky, like thunderbolts descending to the world, reaping the lives of his own subordinates in large numbers.
Every time a 'spell' was cast, several or even dozens of Luo family's private soldiers were blown to pieces.
Moreover, there were slight sounds of breaking air in the air, and often a flash of white light. Some members of the Luo family who were only seriously injured and should not have died, their bodies suddenly shriveled and sunken, and turned into a pool of flying ash and drifted away.
It didn't take long for the Luo family's real elite leaders to be wiped out by the Zhou family's fierce and crazy elite members.
All around, the heads of the big and powerful families, who had seen the "terrifying strength" of the Luo family's patriarch and had run back happily, ready to hold the Luo family's stinky feet and kiss them a few more times, were all dumbfounded.
Luo family... is that it?
Even a fool can see that the Luo family has no chance of recovery!
Their clan elders, more than a dozen of them who were enough to sweep across the entire Luoyi and who had successfully awakened their spirits... were just killed like that?
The one who awakens the spirit is different from the one who enters the true practice of Taoism. The one who awakens the spirit needs to pay a huge price, consume extremely precious resources, and also needs the help of real big forces to successfully awaken the spirit.
After the successful awakening of the spirit, these awakeners will undoubtedly become the family's most valuable treasure, the real lifeline... But the price they pay is also heavy - the speed at which their lives are lost is ten thousand times, or even a hundred thousand times, that of the regular family members!
That's why they look so old!
Having paid such a heavy price, one can imagine the power these Spirit Awakeners possess... Any Spirit Awakener, on the front battlefield, if protected by enough elite soldiers, is enough to sweep away an elite army of hundreds of true Taoist practitioners!
More than a dozen awakeners!
The Luo family's background is so terrifying... and such a terrifying background was actually wiped out by the Zhou family!
Count carefully!
Count carefully!
As for the Zhou family, there was a thin line between their brows and there were spiritual awakeners with flashing eyes. There were actually a hundred of them!
God is above!
In the distance, there were low and rapid footsteps.
An elite team composed of veteran soldiers from the Qin and Lin families, along with their huge private armies and private armies from various households affiliated with them, poured out along the streets near the Big Knife Workshop like greedy black snakes.
Lin Qun and Qin Mi personally put on helmets and armor, rode on war horses, and charged at the front.
With their spears sweeping across, they beat several soldiers who were blocking the road and made them spit blood and fly, scaring the others to dodge to the sides of the road. However, the two men had no intention of showing mercy at all, relying on the extremely fast speed of their mounts, they fiercely pointed with their spears, and stabbed dozens of soldiers who had no time to dodge to the ground.
"Luoyi, the Luo family has suffered for a long time!" Qin Mi roared.
"The Luo family has done all kinds of evil and harmful things!" Lin Qun also shouted.
"Zhou Laodao is acting on behalf of heaven, and is helping Luoyi get rid of this major threat!" Qin Mi said in a hoarse voice, "What are you waiting for?"
"Work together to destroy the Luo family!" Lin Qi swung his spear with both hands, sweeping the heads of the two heads of medium-sized families high into the air. "I only ask for a new world for Luoyi... The gold, silver, jewelry, land and women of the Luo family, my Qin family and Lin family will not take a single thing!"
Qin Mi and Lin Yu have some little tricks up their sleeves here.
The two men shouted that they did not want any money left by the Luo family - from their perspective, this meant that they gave all the profits left after the Luo family's demise to the Zhou family. This was a gesture of goodwill to the Zhou family. Look, you are so powerful, and your Zhou family has replaced the Luo family. Our two families are sensible and we will not compete with you for any interests!
But in the eyes of some family heads who have been frightened to the point of being nearly crazy, and then blinded by greed - your Qin family and Lin family only want to overthrow the Luo family that is oppressing you, so the family property left by the Luo family will naturally belong to everyone!
And this 'everyone'!
Wow, the one with the bigger fist is ‘everyone’!
From all directions, at least hundreds of patriarchs of large families had bloodshot eyes and screamed loudly.
They raised their long swords, shouted loudly, and led their own soldiers and the young men from the families they had summoned, brandishing swords and sticks to surround the already disintegrating members of the Luo family.
The Luo family's private army soldiers are very elite, with strong individual combat power, and their armor and weapons are also very sophisticated.
However, they were completely frightened by the Zhou family's killing and had no will to fight. Faced with an army that was dozens of times larger than themselves and did not listen to reason at all, they were shot with a volley of arrows from behind, mixed with sudden attacks from heavy crossbows and other powerful weapons... The private army soldiers gathered here by the Luo family collapsed immediately.
Large amounts of blood splattered everywhere.
Countless broken limbs and arms were flying.
The Luo family's private soldiers were screaming, clashing, cursing, and roaring...
But no one knelt down and begged for mercy!
This is the rule of the wilderness. If you die, your whole family will die. Even if you kneel on the ground and lick someone's feet, they will wipe out your entire family cleanly and neatly, and will never leave you the slightest chance of 'rebirth'.
So, the second master of the Zhou family was so naive that he brought a group of his direct children to rebel against his family and join the Luo family... God knows what was in his head!
In the wilderness!
To annihilate a family, all the members of the family must be executed... Even if you marry out through an alliance, the daughters who are married off, the sons who marry into the family, and even their direct descendants, must all be killed!
The Luo family's private army resisted in desperation.
They gathered together, faced with being surrounded from all sides and facing a desperate situation with no possibility of escape, but they actually launched a small climax of counterattacks. In just a cup of tea, they killed thousands of the family coalition forces that had stabbed them in the back!
Tsk tsk!
Lu Fu began to recite the mantras that could truly calm the mind and shock the spirit.
The members of the Zhou family, who had just been hacking and killing like crazy, were now like the dregs of medicine that had just been squeezed dry. They stood calmly and calmly on the ruins of their own stripped city walls, watching coldly the deadly battle between the coalition forces of the major families and the remnants of the Luo family.
Qin Mi and Lin Qun, with their two families' elite troops, also quietly retreated behind the coalition forces.
They also watched coldly as a group of mad dogs besieged a seriously injured beast in an ugly fight. Like the Zhou family, everyone remained silent, with a meaningful sneer on their faces.
Luoyi is big enough.
It is enough to accommodate many families to thrive here.
But... who would complain that their territory is too big, and who would complain that their profits are too high?
Luoyi is such a small place, it would be better if there were fewer people to share the food!
Lu Yi blended into the Zhou family's crowd without any hesitation. Under the protection of his minor magical power, the thirty-six white bone relics moved silently and invisible across the chaotic battlefield, devouring the unfortunate guys who fell to the ground one by one.
The thirty-six bone relics that were originally covered with cracks have now regained their dazzling brilliance and become flawless.
Having devoured the essence and blood of tens of thousands of 'celestial beings', and their huge lifespans and destinies, the thirty-six white bone relics not only restored their original source, but their strength was also enhanced a hundred times compared to when they were in the Yin-Yang period.
The thirty-six bone gods and demons were howling and roaring in joy. They continuously sent clear and powerful spiritual thoughts into Lu Yi's mind, venting their happiness and joy to Lu Yi.
Some strange changes are taking place inside their bodies.
Their method of viewing bones is rapidly transforming. As long as they are given a little bit of time and a little bit of essence and blood, they will transform into higher-level, more powerful and more terrifying beings.
The fierce battle lasted for a long time.
The members of the Luo family, who had developed a desperate heart, relied on their sophisticated armor and powerful individual strength, and almost turned the tables when the Zhou, Qin, and Lin families did not participate in the war.
In fact, if Lu Yi hadn't used a little trick to increase the combat power and fighting spirit of the surrounding family coalition forces... perhaps those family coalition forces would have been defeated by the remnants of the Luo family.
The days in this world are very long.
It started at noon when the Qin and Lin families officially led their armies to charge out and slashed the Luo family in the back. Then the allied forces suddenly rose up like crazy and besieged the remnants of the Luo family indiscriminately... When the last sound of swords and shields clashing on the battlefield stopped, the last deacon of the Luo family was spitting out blood and was beheaded by someone. The sun had slowly moved to the western horizon.
The setting sun was as red as blood, and the sky was filled with red clouds, making Luoyi look scarlet.
The ground was covered in blood, but there were not many intact corpses to be seen...Those who died in the battle were basically devoured by the thirty-six white bone relics. At least tens of thousands of people died on the battlefield, and there were countless armors and weapons lying on the ground in a mess, but the number of intact corpses that could be seen was less than three thousand in total!
The sparse family coalition forces stood limply in a pool of blood, looking around blankly and numbly.
At first glance, there were few familiar faces among the people still standing.
Many of the big shots who used to be well-known in Luoyi, the former heads of families, elders, deacons, etc., have long since died... Those who are still standing now are all lucky people!
The elite troops of the Luo family were completely wiped out here.
The hundreds of large families in Luoyi also suffered heavy losses, with eight out of ten of their elite members killed.
Qin Mi and Lin Yu dropped their weapons, took off their helmets, and walked carefully and cautiously towards Lu Yu and Zhou Laodao with a group of family leaders.
Lu Yu smiled and patted Zhou Laodao on the back gently: "Old Zhou, they are offering you a bargain. You should negotiate well. Can you be more willing? What do we have to be afraid of now?"
Lu Yi smiled, shook his head, turned and walked towards the Zhou family ancestral hall.
The dust has settled.
Unless Qin Mi and Lin Qun were out of their minds, it was impossible for them to have any friction or conflict with the Zhou family at this critical juncture.
It all depends on how much good things Zhou Laodao can bite off.
But there is no doubt that this will be a big piece of fat.
To the north of Luoyi, across the Luo River, there is also a vast wasteland, just like the wasteland that Zhou Laodao often went in and out of. In this wasteland, large and small family-centered enclosures are scattered everywhere, and bandits, horse thieves, and even famous bandits are harassing everywhere.
Less than ten thousand miles to the north, there is a big city, which is slightly smaller in scale and population than Luoyi. It is called "Brown Peak". The name comes from a thousand-meter-high mountain on the east side of the city, which is brown in color and mainly made of magnetite.
When the sky was filled with blood-red sunset glow, a strange team was slowly approaching from the north of Brown Peak City.
Thousands of cavalrymen were stationed on the left and right. Their mounts were more than 15 feet tall, shaped like fine horses, but covered with leopard spots, full of fangs, and sturdy, exuding an imposing beastly aura. The mounts were covered in armor, three inches thick, with dense patterns on the surface, and were extremely fine. The grade of each horse armor was higher than that of the heavenly soldiers.
The heavily armored knight on the back of the mount was wearing three layers of armor inside and outside.
The innermost layer is animal skin, the middle layer is chain mail, and the outermost layer is dragon scale heavy armor. The total thickness of the three layers of armor is more than three inches, and its defense is terrifying.
Each heavily armored knight held a 10-foot-long lance in his hand, a heavy scimitar hung on his waist, and a quiver and heavy crossbow hung behind the saddle. They were extremely well-equipped and armed to the teeth.
Among these thousands of soldiers are large carriages with strange shapes.
These carts… I don’t know what kind of wood they are made of, they are 20 zhang wide, over 100 zhang long, and about 6 zhang high. The carts are divided into six levels, each with fences on all four sides, and they are densely packed with young men and women with faces full of panic, numbness, or despair.
Such a large vehicle, each floor is packed with people, people are squeezed together, the interior is extremely crowded, each floor is loaded with at least more than 10,000 people. And such a large vehicle, from beginning to end, there are actually more than 200!
If such a large vehicle is fully loaded, it may be able to carry tens of millions of people at most, right?
What was even more shocking was that these two hundred extremely large carts had no wheels, but were all suspended several feet above the ground. Each cart was being dragged forward by hundreds of fat and strong beasts that looked like giant elephants, but were more than ten times larger, and their bodies were covered with thick shells.
In a convoy of this size, at least half of the carriages were filled with people. However, when the team was moving, the men and women in the carriages made almost no sound.
Only at the front of the convoy, a team of more than a hundred well-equipped soldiers surrounded a dozen normal-sized, ornately decorated four-wheeled carriages. In these carriages, which were carved with dragons and phoenixes, made of precious wood, inlaid with gold, silver, gems, and various jades, and fluttering with silk and satin curtains and gauze curtains, there were faint sounds of men laughing, women grumbling, and even more indescribable sounds.
Suddenly, a scream was heard and the door of a carriage was slammed open. A girl with a sword in her chest was thrown out of the carriage with blood spurting out of the wound, howling in pain.
The girl's naked body rolled a few times on the mud. The soldiers gathered around the carriages turned a blind eye. The strange beasts under them trampled carelessly. Their huge hooves stepped hard on the girl's body, and she merged with the mud on the ground in just a few steps.
In the carriage, a greasy male voice sounded: "Hey, these women in the wilderness are still wild and exciting to play with... What city is ahead?"
An armored soldier lowered his head, approached the car window, and said in a deep voice: "Sir, it is Brown Peak City. According to the official document..."
The man interrupted the soldier and said, "What a bullshit document. Can you take the number on the document seriously? Tell the leader of Brown Peak City that I, the young master, want ten times the amount."
The soldier was stunned and said dryly, "Ten times? The previous cities only asked for three times!"
The man laughed so hard that he gasped for breath. He laughed for a long time before he said, "The cities ahead are too close. If we plunder too much, I'm afraid bad news will spread back and I'll be in trouble."
"This Brown Peak City, and the other cities behind it, are remote and poor, and there are no reliable connections to the upper reaches... If I don't give them a good beating, I've worked so hard to come here, sleeping in the open air, and working so hard, what am I doing this for?"
"This Brown Peak City is ten times that. The next city, whatever it's called, will be twenty times that!"
"Well, stop making noise. How long will it take to get to the city?"
"It will take another half a quarter of an hour?"
"Well, there's still time. Go pick out another young girl. When I'm done playing, I can go into the city!"