Volume 4: The Game of the Gods Chapter 11: Leaving the City is Sad
Licheng, located in the southwest of the pentagram continent of the Xuming Realm, is an important border town between the Ruoye and Kongming tribes.
Licheng was originally the capital of a small border country called Ye. More than a hundred years ago, the Kongming tribe annexed the surrounding tribes and laid siege to the city. When the city was broken, the King of Ye committed suicide by slashing his throat toward the sky. The princes and nobles were either conscripted into the army or became slaves of the Kongming tribe. The city was then occupied by the Kongming tribe.
Later, in the great battle of Hengyue River more than ten years ago, the Kongming tribe was defeated by the Ruoye army. The two tribes roughly demarcated their sphere of influence with Hengyue River as the boundary. The Licheng naturally changed hands again, and the Ruoye tribe's dragon cavalry army has been stationed here ever since.
In Wei Xingying's memory, it seemed that he had been here when he traveled around more than 300 years ago. At that time, Licheng was still the capital of Ye State. This not-so-prosperous city left a very deep impression on Wei Xingying.
It does not have the heaviness and vicissitudes of Yonghui City, nor the majesty and grandeur of the Nanhai Imperial City, but it has a different kind of heroism!
As I recall, there was no city wall in Licheng. The entire city was just made up of countless urban buildings, stacked up one after another, standing quietly on the south bank of the Hengyue River.
It is said that this was the idea of the founding monarch of the State of Ye. When Licheng was first built, he stood on his horse with his sword drawn and said generously by the Hengyue River: "The chests of the men of my State of Ye are the walls of Licheng!" Wei Xingying was still a young man at the time. When he heard these words passed down from mouth to mouth and saw the heroic spirit of the men of Ye, he actually felt a surge of righteousness in his heart and was quite approving!
But more than three hundred years later, when Wei Xingying came to Licheng again, he was shocked by the devastation everywhere! Although Licheng had built a high wall at this time, the situation inside the city was very different from that day!
The smell of blood, the strong smell of blood filled the entire city!
This Licheng has become a Shura battlefield!
Corpses were everywhere, blood flowed like a river, and the whole place was in ruins!
Regardless of gender, age or status, they were all brutally beheaded and dismembered. Not a single head was left, and their bodies were thrown on the ground, leaving the entire city soaked with endless blood!
This is simply hell on earth!
What exactly happened here?
The three people who came hurriedly looked at each other, and were so shocked that they didn't know what to say.
The people who came were Wei Xingying, Ying Lili and Ze Ze, who was tied up on this pirate ship by them using both soft and hard means.
A few days ago, halfway between Yonghui City and the Nanhai Imperial City, the sudden incident ended up in an unexpected way.
It turned out that Long Yu's Shikigami pretended to be captured by Wei Xingying and Gong Lili in order to test their intelligence and determination. However, after seeing their strength and learning about their plans, he unexpectedly did not stop their whimsical and crazy actions.
But he didn't know whether his actions were instructed by Long Yu or he acted on his own initiative. Wei Xingying felt that the latter was more likely, although he couldn't imagine that this Shikigami who seemed to be loyal to Uncle Long Yu would do such a bold thing.
However, this Shikigami is not a mortal, and what is in his mind is not something that a mortal like Wei Xingying can guess.
"I'm still going to the South China Sea. As for you, I'll just pretend that you're still in this carriage." The shikigami looked at Yinglili for a long time, then said something that made Yinglili completely confused: "Girl, you're not the same as you were five hundred years ago."
Before Ping Lili could ponder the hidden meaning of this sentence, the shikigami and the carriage disappeared out of thin air! As if they had never appeared.
The three people who stayed behind followed their previous plan and used the earth escape technique to bypass Yonghui City and several cities controlled by the Ruoye tribe. They rushed here day and night, wanting to seek refuge with General Su Ye, the commander of the Dragon Cavalry who was originally stationed in Licheng. However, they did not expect to see such a tragic scene after arriving in Licheng.
After patrolling the city for a long time, they found even more horrific headless corpses. Some were piled together in twos and threes, as if they had been hacked to death; some were abandoned in the corners, as if they had been chased to a place with no way to retreat and were brutally killed. This city, which originally housed at least tens of thousands of people, was now littered with corpses. It was a horrific sight, and there was not even a single living person!
The further into the city they walked, the more the veins on Wei Xingying's face became exposed. He finally couldn't help but growled in a deep voice, "What on earth is going on?"
At this time, the pale-faced Yan Lili who had been following behind him was covering her mouth tightly, trying to hold back the stomach acid in her chest. Suddenly, she remembered the scene she saw in the underground stone chamber in Yonghui City that day. She suddenly realized that such cruel means could only be used by the Kongming tribe! Those disappeared heads were probably soaked in a blood-stained pool somewhere! At this time, the anger in Yan Lili's heart overwhelmed her fear. Her throat tightened, but she couldn't say a word.
The little boy next to Ping Lili, whose lips were trembling with fear, asked timidly: "Is this... a massacre?"
When these words were spoken, everyone was shocked. Wei Xingying was a man who had seen many storms. Although he was very angry, he quickly calmed down. Looking at the corpses all around him, he soon discovered that those who died seemed to be ordinary people, and there was no trace of the Ruoye soldiers.
It seems that what happened here was just a crazy massacre without any suspense or resistance, and the dragon cavalry that was supposed to be stationed in this out-of-town city mysteriously disappeared.
Although most of the people who left the city were native citizens of the former Ye Kingdom and not members of the Ruoye tribe, Wei Xingying still felt grief and indignation when he saw so many innocent people die in the war!
What on earth was General Su Ye thinking? Did he lead his dragon cavalry to abandon the city?
Born in the 'Anbu', he has been in the army for hundreds of years and has always been known for his courage and bravery. That's why he was entrusted with such an important task by Uncle Long Yu and was stationed on the front line of the border. Based on Wei Xingying's understanding of him, General Su Ye is definitely not a cowardly and incompetent person. Then, why did he do this?
Na Zeze had already walked to a male corpse that seemed to be about the same height as him. He leaned down and felt the broken neck, only to feel that the blood seemed to still be warm...
He stood up suddenly, bit his lower lip, and finally couldn't help but utter: "The corpse is still warm. Those beasts who massacred the city may not have gone far..."
As soon as these words came out, the other two looked at him in unison, and the three pairs of eyes met in an instant, and unexpectedly, they all revealed murderous intent at the same time!
Although these three people came from different races and had little connection or intersection with the innocent people who died tragically in Yecheng, the sympathy for the weak and the resentment towards those ruthless executioners hidden in human nature still prevailed at this time.
At this moment, they were only focused on seeking justice for these innocent people who died unjustly, and they even forgot, or perhaps actively forgot, that what they wanted to challenge was perhaps the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Kongming Clan!
"This justice must be sought!" Although the three of them were filled with murderous intent at this moment, it was Gong Lili who said this with gritted teeth!
It is understandable that when two armies fight, life and death are unpredictable. However, slaughtering these ordinary civilians , and even sparing innocent children, is outrageous to both humans and gods, and cannot be tolerated by heaven!
At this moment, Yinglili's heart was filled with unprecedented anger, and the murderous intent occupied her heart for the first time.
What about mercy and morality? All of them have gone to the wayside. What about forgiving others when you can? These are all hypocritical nonsense from those who talk without any concern! Blood debts must be paid with blood!
If killing those bad guys could save more innocent people, then even if she killed a thousand or ten thousand, Ping Lili felt that she would never hesitate again!
If he had not seen the tragic scene of leaving the city with his own eyes, he would never have had such an understanding in his life. But now, looking at the scene of blood flowing like a river, Pinglili suddenly understood the truth: being soft-hearted to the wicked is being cruel to the innocent!
Those Kongming tribe members are worse than beasts. If she doesn't kill them all without leaving a single one alive, she will never be able to get rid of the hatred in her heart!
The plan now is to quickly find out where these butchers are going! She closed her eyes slightly, pinched her fingers to perform the Life Skill, and after a while, she suddenly opened her eyes and said in a stern voice: "They made a huge blood pool five miles to the southwest, soaked the chopped heads in the blood pool, and surrounded it with green flags . It looks like they are going to hold some kind of ceremony!"
Zeze, who was standing by, suddenly widened his eyes and exclaimed in his already high-pitched and clear voice: "Blood Refining Burning Heaven? They are going to use the 'Blood Refining Burning Heaven' technique?"
As soon as these words came out, Wei Xingying's eyes were already filled with murderous intent. He had heard of the "Blood Refining and Burning Heaven". It was an extremely cruel and vicious curse that used human blood and heads to sacrifice to the sky, attracting countless undead souls as mediums, and killing people invisibly!
Thinking about how the Kongming tribe went to such great lengths to kill so many innocent people and collect so many undead souls, the one they were trying so hard to deal with was naturally the Ruoye tribe! It seemed that General Su Ye's dragon cavalry had not gone far! At least it was within the range of their spell attack!
But if they were really allowed to use the 'Blood Refining and Burning Heaven' technique, then who knows how many passionate men of his Ruoye clan would die unjustly!
How can Wei Xingying make them achieve their wish?
He asked coldly: "How many people?"
"There are probably over a hundred wizards near the blood pool. Their army seems to be camping ten miles away. It's too far to see clearly." Gong Lili was still practicing the Life Secret. Her golden-brown eyes seemed to be able to see clearly what was happening a few miles away. But the scene she saw at this moment made her confused.
“Then let’s go to the blood pond and kill him without leaving a single piece of armor!” Wei Xingying shouted angrily, exerting force on his feet. The blue bricks under his feet collapsed instantly with a loud bang. When he looked again, he had disappeared at the end of the newly built city wall…
Pinglili and Zeze looked at each other, their eyes full of determination! In the blink of an eye, Zeze disappeared from the ground without a trace. Pinglili knew that he had escaped underground again! She was not to be outdone, she tapped her toes lightly, and her whole body flew out silently like a ghost...
