Volume 3: Star Tower Chapter 17: Heavenly Secrets (I)
There are only a few short paragraphs in Huangfu Xuanluo's diary recording this battle, and it seems that this battle was not recorded in one go. It can be judged that she was not at the scene of this battle, because it takes a certain amount of time for the information to be transmitted back and forth.
Towards the second half of the diary, Huangfu Xuanluo wrote shorter and shorter. For a battle like this to be described with the same amount of ink and paper as she would write about a beautiful piece of clothing, it must have been a very big battle.
"Winter is coming, the battle report is wrong, the demon tribe is making a detour, and the Chessboard Canyon on the northern line is in danger."
"All the news sent back today is bad. We have lost two deputy commanders of the Silver Border Army, and the expeditionary force that went deep into the heart of the demon tribe did not send back news within the stipulated time. This also made many senior commanders feel that this winter might be difficult."
"We actually won? Ah Lin couldn't believe it. We actually won! Why? Why did Uncle Xiao Yi just happen to 'pass by' there? We won by sheer luck."
"Ah Lin often said that one Tianji Star Lord Du Xiaoyi was worth hundreds of thousands of troops, but I privately felt that he still underestimated Uncle Xiaoyi."
"Last night I began to master the rules of the sun. I also want to be able to take on hundreds of thousands of troops!"
There are only five sentences in total, and only three of them are actually related to the battle situation.
The Chessboard Canyon was probably the later Qiluo Valley. Tang Zheng was able to judge where he was based on a different place name and three simple sentences about the battle situation, and he was quite impressed with himself.
Passing by... passing by...
Tang Zheng just wants to say now: I am almost heartbroken.
What the hell!
As a dual star relative of the Sun and the Moon, after meeting the Sun Star Lord, the second place he walked into was not the star eye range of the Moon, but seemed to pass by the Tianji Star Eye!
Yes, it’s not Taiyin, it’s Tianji!
It was really difficult for him. He was still looking for the figure of the Moon Lord in the mirage above his head, playing the game of "Find the Differences" hard.
Huangfu Xuanluo's record of this battle consisted of just a few simple sentences: emergency, bad news, and the final reversal. However, the specific details of how the battle turned around were replayed right above Tang Zheng's head!
Combining the mirage above his head with Huangfu Xuanluo's diary, he was able to almost restore the situation of the war that had taken place tens of millions of years ago and that had no records...
Before that battle, the appearance of the Great Demon Emperor, three purple-gold demon kings, and seventeen silver demon kings on the eastern front shifted the focus of the entire battle to the eastern front. However, just one month later, hundreds of thousands of troops led by a purple-gold demon king appeared in Bukong’s Chessboard Canyon. They crossed the border easily... By the time the news got back to the eastern front, it was already two hours later.
And in just these two hours, the demon clan pushed the battle line all the way into the human territory for more than 300 miles, destroyed two fortresses and 19 auxiliary cities, and two deputy commanders were killed. The brave resistance of the border troops also caused the battle situation to fall into a certain stalemate. As a result, at this moment, a demon king-level strongman took action.
A Silver Demon King is equivalent to an eight-star human, while a Purple-Gold Demon King is equivalent to a nine-star human. However, no information about their existence has been leaked, so there are no strong men of the same level in the two fortresses!
At that time, it can be said that the mood of everyone who saw the battle report fell into an ice cellar.
But who knew that when the battle reports were sent back one by one, a big reversal occurred... Du Xiaoyi, the Lord of Tianji Star, just happened to "pass by" the Chessboard Canyon!
I guess at that time, the demon tribe was really screwed collectively.
Even the Great Demon God Emperor showed up in person to empty a chessboard canyon. It was thought that the battle would go on smoothly and half of the country would be conquered.
As a result, the whole thing was ruined by a passerby.
It would be fine if he was just an ordinary passerby, but this passerby was very strong.
It would be fine if this passerby was just generally strong, but this passerby is a star lord who has already mastered the laws of heaven!
It would have been fine if the Star Lord of Tianji was just passing by, but when he passed by, he raised his hand, covered it with his hand, and put down the maze!
How could the maze set up by the Star Lord of Tianji be as simple as just messing up the formation?
Tang Zheng looked up at the mirage. The monsters in the maze would encounter a dilemma when they came across a dead end. Among every three monsters that encountered a dilemma, one would die in it.
For example, the one Tang Zhenggang saw took the wrong road for the first time and found a dead end in front of him. He seemed to have remembered something unpleasant and desperately banged his head against the wall. There was another demon who did the same thing as him. Not long after, he woke up, but the demon committed suicide next to him.
When the surviving demon saw a dead end for the second time, a figure exactly the same as the demon who had just died next to him appeared in front of him. Before he could react, he saw the other party slapping him with a claw, and he died immediately.
The demon that Tang Zheng saw died after hitting the second dead end. Compared with others, it was already pretty good.
In the maze set up by the Lord of Tianji, there seem to be ways to survive everywhere, but there may also be dead ends everywhere.
Tang Zheng also saw a demon with a green face and fangs, with four demonic fires rising behind him!
The maze arranged by the Star Lord of Tianji has nothing to do with strength - the Star Lord is equivalent to the rules, what difference does it make whether it is one star or four stars? Although it was lucky to walk the right way for a long time, it still died in front of the first dead end it encountered.
It has a pair of wings on its back, and it could have flown, but it was blocked by the clouds above the maze!
Looking at the maze that the Star Lord of Tianji had set up for the demon clan, Tang Zheng looked more and more carefully, his eyes moving rapidly across the maze. Soon, he couldn't help but complain aloud, "This maze actually has four exits! Moreover, this, this, and this... Every position where the demon clan stands actually has a route to the exit... What is he thinking?"
Tang Zheng has walked through at least eight hundred mazes, including dynamic mazes and multi-layered mazes. In terms of absolute structure, they are much more complicated than this maze.
Why do we have to go through life and death like this, with a way to live and a way to die?
If we don't leave any exit and add a few more dead ends, can't we completely wipe out this group of monsters?
"You're not going to tell me that you're a vegetarian and don't want to kill more animals?" Tang Zheng could only think of this ridiculous possibility.
The mirage in the sky gradually dissipated.
In this battle, the demon clan lost a purple-gold demon king, several silver demon kings, and hundreds of thousands of troops. It can be said to be the biggest turning point in the entire Star War.
When all the mirages in the sky have disappeared, the sky will be clear and blue.
However, before the warriors could react after watching the "CG", a scene that seemed very familiar appeared in front of them - the soft clouds in the sky changed their positions, just like what they had stuck on the computer in the CG just now!
Then, a sound that seemed both light and heavy was heard, and then, walls on the ground rose out of thin air...
A maze is taking shape!
"No! What...what's going on?"
"We are not demons, we are here to ask about the stars!"
Having witnessed the tragic situation of the monsters trapped in the maze in CG just now, the terrified cries of several warriors not far away rang in Tang Zheng's ears.
