Chapter 476

That night, after the two Palace Masters of Administration and Penal Law left the County Capital for the Northern Battlefield, the one hundred thousand Sword Holders of the Sword Holder Palace, led by the Palace Master, set off in a mighty force.

These one hundred thousand people were the elite force accumulated by the entire Fenghai County over hundreds of years.

Any one of them had once been a leader in their respective states and had passed through layers of assessment to finally become a Sword Holder.

Each one had executed numerous missions, and whether it was killing or resilience, they had experienced many trials.

It could even be said that they were the core of Fenghai County and were also entrusted with the future!

But today, these one hundred thousand Sword Holders were mobilized.

Carrying determination, carrying a vow to die, and carrying the words and oaths recited in past ceremonies, they marched toward the Western Battlefield.

Xu Qing stood on a mountain peak outside the County Capital, concealing himself, gazing into the distance in the night at the direction the army was heading. In the cold wind, his sleeves were blown up, making a hunting sound, and his long hair fluttered and danced behind him.

Gazing silently, after a long time, Xu Qing's eyes revealed sharpness; he turned, flickered, merged into the darkness, and stepped onto the path to Zhaoxia State.

Like a lone wolf walking in the dark night.

"Zhaoxia State." In the darkness, Xu Qing, who was sprinting at full speed, also had waves in his heart under this vigilance and caution.

Because Zhaoxia Mountain was within Zhaoxia State.

And the thing he had most desired when he first came to the County Capital was to go to Zhaoxia Mountain; it was just that he never expected that he would complete it in this way now.

During this journey, Xu Qing took out the jade slip given by the Palace Master and held it in his hand to start checking.

Before the Palace Master departed, he had said a lot to him and also expressed his thoughts very clearly.

The sudden fall of the County Governor was full of strangeness, and anyone could be the culprit behind the scenes.

And the content in the jade slip also caused Xu Qing's footsteps to stop suddenly after a moment, his breathing slightly rapid.

"Upper Light Life Tribulation Elixir?"

Xu Qing murmured in his heart; having studied the Dao of Medicine deeply, he had never heard of this kind of elixir.

In the Palace Master's jade slip, this elixir was emphasized; it was a forbidden elixir that was strictly prohibited from being refined during the Xuanyou Ancient Emperor era, was uniformly destroyed, and had long been lost.

Even the ban on this elixir at the time received the response of ten thousand races; the high-level members of every clan deeply detested this elixir.

This Upper Light Life Tribulation Elixir had no effect on ordinary cultivators. But for the rulers of various clans, it was a tribulation elixir that could not be resolved and would lead to immediate death.

Because its principle was related to luck.

This elixir could detonate the power of luck on a person, causing them to die instantly, and the more luck one gathered, the greater its power would be.

Historically, this elixir was first created to resist the rule of the Ancient Spirit Clan, within the light before the sun set.

Later, in the Xuanyou Ancient Emperor era, this elixir appeared again, poisoning many people of the human race who gathered luck, and also poisoning many alien rulers; there were even three alien emperors who died at the hands of this elixir.

Whether it was the human race or an alien race, as long as one was on the Wanggu Continent, those in high positions would naturally gather the luck of their own clan.

This luck could allow one to possess a certain degree of destiny.

But at the same time, if this luck were to turn into a tribulation, its backlash power would also be terrifying and shocking.

The Sword Holder Palace Master, in his investigation over the past half month, had pointed all clues to this Upper Light Life Tribulation Elixir.

Xu Qing's pupils contracted, and the information left by the Palace Master in the jade slip appeared in his mind.

"According to my investigation during this period, the fall of the old County Governor had many possibilities. But among these many possibilities, only a few... could simultaneously affect the Prison Division guarded by Kong."

"What is suppressed within the Prison Division is the last avatar of the sleeping god in the Immortal Forbidden Land; the method of suppression is related to luck, turning into the power of forgetting, making the god avatar believe that it is the artifact spirit of the Prison Division."

"Subsequent investigators can look through the files to check Ding Yisaner; regarding the Prison Division, Ding Yisaner is both a microcosm and a representative, and you can also ask my Secretary-Commandant Xu Qing. This child is the last Ding Yisaner guardian and is also one of the future successors I am preparing to cultivate; he is trustworthy."

【Missing text: "One of the future successors I am preparing to cultivate; he is trustworthy."】

"The Ding District 132 cell of the Prison Division is the formation of the outward dispersion of the suppression power; inside it is a finger of the god avatar, and even more so, a spirit formed by the luck of Fenghai County."

The power of the god avatar in the Immortal Forbidden Land is to make everyone who remembers her fall into endless misfortune; according to past records, this misfortune will be more terrifying each time, until death!

As for the role of the Ding Yisaner luck spirit, it is to erase the memories of those who see the god, making them forget, thereby severing cause and effect.

Therefore, normally, no matter what happened in the County Capital, even if the old County Governor fell, it would be impossible to affect the Prison Division, because the Prison Division had existed for too long and had experienced the inauguration and departure of many County Governors. And after I excluded the only few possibilities one by one, I finally set my target on the Upper Light Life Tribulation Elixir. As for why I associated it with this elixir, subsequent investigators can go check the secret character 19 file.

"However, all of this was investigated by me based on limited clues, and time waits for no one, and because the enemy is in the dark and I am in the light, I cannot expose my own suspicions, and now the war zone is in imminent danger, and the safety of Fenghai Capital is more important; it is difficult for me to investigate quietly."

"Thus, I will dispatch Secretary-Commandant Xu Qing to secretly investigate and verify a clue."

"That is the Zhaoxia Light."

"Because for the Upper Light Life Tribulation Elixir, to trigger it, a condition is needed, and that is the light before the sun sets, and the retention time of this kind of light is extremely short."

"As it happens, this light occasionally forms on Zhaoxia Mountain."

"But with the scheming and methods of the person who set the trap, this investigation will likely be ineffective, but it cannot be left uninvestigated. As for the result... if Kong dies in battle, please ask Xu Qing, subsequent investigators."

Xu Qing stood on the plain in the dark night, silently put away the jade slip, looked back at the direction of the Western Battlefield, and after a long while, his body flickered and he sprinted toward Zhaoxia State.

Just like that, several days passed.

When everyone thought he was still following the Palace Master and had already headed to the battlefield, Xu Qing opened the concealment jade slip given by the Immortal Zixuan all the way, and silently arrived at the state boundary between the County Capital and Zhaoxia State.

This state boundary area was not small, and occasionally a special kind of wind would blow between heaven and earth.

Wherever this wind passed, countless complex spatial cracks would appear in mid-air, making it difficult for people to fly, so they could only sprint on the ground, and this wind only targeted the sky and did not affect the earth.

Legend has it that this wind was formed by the sun setting in Zhaoxia State and affecting all directions, creating a unique climate, which was called the Solar Wind by the locals.

When this Solar Wind blew, unless one's cultivation was shockingly powerful, it would be difficult to resist.

Only by waiting for the wind to end could one fly.

And only by walking through this area could one be considered to have truly entered Zhaoxia State.

Here, Xu Qing sprinted all the way; when the wind rose, he landed, and when the wind dispersed, he rose into the air again. During this journey, he also saw the huge impact of the war on Fenghai County.

In every small human country, the hearts of the people were filled with panic.

In every village and town in the wilderness, it was becoming increasingly desolate.

On every person Xu Qing saw, there was fear of war and confusion about the future.

As for the alien races, although it was the same, Xu Qing, who had taken off his Sword Holder Dao robe and put on an ordinary long gown, could still see greed and ambition in the alien races he encountered.

It was imaginable that once the war zone in Fenghai County was lost and the Saint-Lan Clan army rushed in, these alien races within Fenghai County would probably immediately defect from the human race and take advantage of the chaos to loot everything.

The Palace Master's decree was correct; if the powerhouses within these alien races were not conscripted out, the danger would be even greater.

Xu Qing's eyes revealed coldness. During this continued journey, he also saw places that were originally human sects, all of which had now activated their mountain-sealing formations, and the vast majority of cultivators within them had already been conscripted to the battlefield. Besides this,

Taboo magic treasures from great sects also appeared between heaven and earth, their rights taken over by the County Capital's taboo magic treasures, and they were deployed uniformly.

In these few days, the sky changed over a hundred times; each time, the heaven and earth changed color, the wind rose and clouds surged, and all directions roared.

Xu Qing knew that this was the transformation caused by the activation of the taboo magic treasures.

At this moment, at noon, the sky roared again. Xu Qing looked up and saw rays of brilliant light flowing rapidly from the great net, emitting astonishing pressure; they divided into two parts, heading to the west and the north.

There, the power formed by these taboo magic treasures from the human sects would erupt, forming huge lethality.

The roar of the sky that appeared every few moments constantly reminded Xu Qing that the war was proceeding tragically.

Xu Qing withdrew his gaze and continued forward.

Two more days passed.

On the edge, only one day's journey from Zhaoxia State, the evening of this day arrived, and when the Solar Wind appeared in the sky, Xu Qing, who was sprinting on the ground, saw a village.

This village was very wrong.

Everything inside was extremely unreasonable and completely different from the villages in his cognition.

For example, the trees in the village did not grow on the ground, but in mid-air.

There was also a flock of birds floating in the sky; although their wings were flapping, they could not move forward, as if they were restricted there.

Under the Solar Wind, they were gradually becoming incomplete.

And on the ground, it was even more grotesque; the houses in the village were actually built upside down. There were even many areas that occasionally disappeared and occasionally appeared, as if they were lagging.

At the entrance of the village, there was also a bald-haired earth dog with a human face, which was growling at Xu Qing.

As Xu Qing's gaze swept over, the evening glow dissipated at this moment, and night fell.

In an instant, everything here changed again; with the darkness, it actually returned to normal, becoming a very ordinary small mountain village.

As for the dog at the entrance of the village, it also turned into a tall, silly big guy, revealing black and yellow teeth at Xu Qing, constantly beckoning.

Xu Qing was expressionless; he had no time to waste here. At this moment, with a flicker, he bypassed the village and was about to go far away.

But just at this moment, the village behind him suddenly vibrated, and all the buildings grew long, thin legs, stood up from the ground, and chased after Xu Qing.

Xu Qing's footsteps paused, and when he turned to look, all the buildings in the village squatted down, and the silly big guy at the head of the village was still baring his yellow teeth, beckoning to Xu Qing.

While the smile was strange, the entire village also emitted a sense of malice.

Xu Qing took a look and walked over.

The shadow hidden in the dark night behind him transmitted excited emotional fluctuations, constantly spreading out, and there was even the sound of swallowing saliva echoing in this quiet night.

"Hungry... hungry..."

Hearing the sound of the shadow swallowing saliva, Xu Qing felt the shadow's emotional fluctuations and couldn't help but think that when they were in the Ancient Spirit Emperor's Great World, the shadow had endured the nausea all the way, eaten many evil souls, and finally vomited.

This expression of loyalty made Xu Qing feel that he should reward it, so his footsteps became faster. In a few instants, he arrived at the village that had taken the initiative to find him, and stood in front of the silly big guy who was revealing a strange smile at him at the entrance of the village. Seeing Xu Qing arrive, the silly big guy was just about to speak, but the shadow behind Xu Qing could no longer hold back and pounced out violently.

【Missing text: "revealing a strange smile at him at the entrance of the village. Seeing Xu Qing arrive, the silly big guy was just about to speak, but the shadow behind Xu Qing could no longer hold back and pounced out violently."】

As the black shadow enveloped it, the silly big guy disappeared.

Following the sound of chewing coming from the shadow, echoing throughout the village, all the buildings in this village trembled one after another.

Eyes grew out of these houses and trees, and when they looked at Xu Qing, they all contracted rapidly.

"Go eat." Xu Qing stood in place, expressionless, and spoke calmly.