Chapter 184: Sneaking into Fire Dragon Pass, why are you so experienced? (8K)

"Lu Yuanwei's Divine Thunder Army has already broken through the Fire Demon tribe's 'Red Swallow Pass'; this is the first line of defense set up by the Fire Demon tribe in the west."

"Now the Fire Demon tribe has no choice but to retreat to the second line of defense, Daoqin Pass."

"It's only been a month, damn it, they've retreated three thousand li; Yang Qilin is truly a piece of trash!"

In the council hall, Liao Rulong was indignant.

Long Xiao, sandwiched between Chen Shijie and Zhao Xing, looked left and right and asked in a low voice: "Who is he scolding? Why does it sound like a Great Zhou general? Isn't he talking about Lu Yuanwei?"

Chen Shijie shook his head: "I tell you to read more books, but you haven't listened to a word."

Zhao Xing explained to Long Xiao: "The Commandant is scolding a tribal leader of the Fire Demon tribe. As for why an alien leader has a Great Zhou name? It's purely because of Great Zhou's cultural invasion."

"During the reign of Emperor Wen, there was no war between Great Zhou and the Southern Wilderness, and there were even exchanges in commerce and culture."

"The author who wrote the 'Records of Southern Barbarian Wonders' was once invited to visit the Southern Barbarians, and even went inside majestic passes like Fire Dragon Pass."

"Many alien races were granted surnames and courtesy names by Emperor Wen back then."

"The Fire Demon tribe also had a tribal chieftain who was granted the Ji surname by Emperor Wen."

Long Xiao was puzzled: "Then why is he called Yang Qilin?"

Chen Shijie took over: "The Emperor continued Emperor Wen's governing strategy during the Cheng'an and Yong'an years, and also granted surnames to the Fire Demon tribe's tribes."

"However, the Emperor looked down on the Fire Demon tribe."

"Mere barbarians, how are they worthy of using the national surname?"

"So by the Cheng'an years, this tribe changed their surname to Yang again."

"The name Yang Qilin was a political product of that year."

"Back then, he was still in the womb, and his tribal name hadn't been decided yet, so this Great Zhou name was set first."

Long Xiao suddenly realized.

"Yang Qilin grew up receiving martial education among the barbarians, and was also nurtured by the Zhou ritual culture of the Central Plains."

"He once traveled to Anping Prefecture and Datong Prefecture, studied in the Dao Academy, and was granted the title of Barbarian General at the age of seven."

"However, starting from the Dingxin year, Great Zhou used force against the Southern Barbarians, and everything from before was naturally voided."

"With this voiding, Yang Qilin, who was originally a proper Fifth-Rank Upper, was demoted to the Seventh Rank, and he hasn't fully recovered to this day, only at the late stage of the Tiangang Realm."

Zhao Xing knew why Liao Rulong was angry.

Although Yang Qilin had fallen in realm, his knowledge, vision, military ability, and personal ability were all top-tier among barbarian generals.

Before the Great War of Pacifying the Barbarians began, he was always considered by the various Great Zhou armies to be a rather difficult general to deal with.

The Red Swallow Pass he guarded in the west was naturally also considered a tough nut to crack.

Yet how long had it been?

He had been broken through the first line of defense by Lu Yuanwei; no wonder Liao Rulong was cursing.

"A reputation-seeking fraud!" Liao Rulong said. "The east and north sides haven't officially started fighting yet, and he already lost a big one on his side."

"If I had known this guy was so incompetent, I could have done it myself!"

This was bad news.

Lu Yuanwei was fighting too fast; if he took his team and took down the Qinggang mining area by himself, then the armies on the northeast sides would only be left to pick up scraps.

The Qinggang mining area was a piece of fat that all armies wanted to eat. Liao Rulong originally didn't have such great ambition, but after the Wolf God tribe was successfully taken down, he felt he also had a chance to reach this piece of meat.

Plus what Zhao Xing said earlier, which made him feel that the difficulty of attacking Fire Dragon Pass had decreased, Liao Rulong was also obsessed with the Qinggang mining area.

However, Zhao Xing knew that it wasn't that Yang Qilin was weak, but that Lu Yuanwei was indeed a genius-level general.

Among all the Sixth-Rank generals in the five great grotto-heavens this time, Lu Yuanwei was the strongest in terms of luck, strength, and military command ability.

Zhao Xing thought for a moment and comforted him: "Lu Yuanwei is good at using blitzkrieg; he was able to break through the first line of defense by taking advantage of Yang Qilin's unstable footing. Speaking of which, it was still the aftermath of his fight with Prince Ha'er."

"Yang Qilin is cleaning up Prince Ha'er's mess; it's not necessarily that he is weak."

"Moreover, the depth of the Fire Demon tribe is completely different from the previous territory. The Divine Thunder Army won't be able to break through the second line of defense so quickly, Commandant, please rest assured."

Pu Zhong also agreed with Zhao Xing's opinion: "Lu Yuanwei is brave, but the number of people he commands now has also increased. Once a person gets fat, it becomes difficult to move flexibly and quickly."

"Lu Yuanwei is a genius, that's true, but in this kind of straightforward battle, he might not necessarily continue to perform brilliantly."

Zhao Xing remained silent.

In fact, Lu Yuanwei was indeed a rare commander-level talent who was good at both orthodox and unorthodox tactics. If nothing unexpected happened, Yang Qilin wouldn't be able to stop Lu Yuanwei for long.

On his own side, he still had to hurry up and finish off Fire Dragon Pass.

Once Fire Dragon Pass was settled, the Shenwei Army would reach the Qinggang mining area even faster.

On the day Zhao Xing and Chen Shijie arrived at Zhiyou City, Liao Rulong ordered the vanguard troops in front to launch several probing attacks on Fire Dragon Pass, with Wen Shaoyang's unit acting as coordination, continuously harassing the defenders of Fire Dragon Pass.

It was impossible to actually take it down, and the attacks didn't have much effect.

But the point was to keep these barbarians on edge.

They kept at it for half a month before stopping.

Outside Zhiyou City, Zhao Xing and Chen Shijie were watching the returning troops and chatting.

"The harassment basically had no major effect. Fire Dragon Pass is worthy of being a majestic pass; we lost dozens of our own people these days."

"The barbarian side only lost six people, and they were killed by Pu Zhong and Wang Shilin."

Wang Shilin was the strategist beside Wen Shaoyang.

Zhao Xing couldn't help but be speechless.

Liao Rulong said it was a probing attack, but he had done it properly; he had pulled over the one or two thousand newly replenished troops.

Besides testing the strength of Fire Dragon Pass, he also had the idea of grinding these newly taken-over soldiers.

There was one time they actually fought.

But the effect was particularly poor.

In the end, it was the two strategists, Pu Zhong and Wang Shilin, who stood above the tower ship and threw two "Alienation" spells, making several barbarian commanders on the city wall go crazy and kill their own people, which kept their kill count from being zero.

Wen Shaoyang and Liao Rulong both retreated a thousand li to build a city.

However, this retreat was also within the plan.

"After half a month of continuous harassment, our main army retreated back to the border between the Wolf God tribe and the Fire Demon tribe."

"This retreat was relatively far, looking like a real retreat after failing to attack."

"Now is the best time for us to move."

Zhao Xing nodded: "Let's go, get on the flying boat."

Just as the main army returned, a small flying boat headed toward Fire Dragon Pass.

There were one hundred people on the small flying boat.

Just sneaking in to steal something didn't require too many people.

These one hundred people were divided into five groups.

When they flew to a hundred li from Fire Dragon Pass, the flying boat landed, and everyone touched the ground.

Zhang Ying, commander of the Earth-element sorcerer battalion of the first group, and Xu Quan, commander of the Fire-element sorcerer battalion, each took their subordinates and began to escort the remaining sixty people to travel underground.

The barbarians also had spell-masters, and there were even people patrolling underground.

To save the physical strength of the infiltration team, Zhang Ying and Xu Quan were responsible for covering their entry.

The two led the team to sneak for fifty li.

They dug a hole underground, stopped advancing, and rested for half an hour.

Another group of members, led by "Min Changhui," set off first, sneaking toward the south side of Fire Dragon Pass.

There were multiple places where the Earth Fire Lotus was planted; Min Changhui's group was the backup group.

Half an hour later, Zhang Ying and Xu Quan continued to escort the remaining people and advanced another twenty li.

In the underground space, the number of people had decreased a lot.

"We can only send you this far."

"If we go any further, we might be discovered," Zhang Ying and Xu Quan looked at Chen Shijie. "Ahead are the Earth Fire Arrays laid out by the barbarians; the underground caves and passageways are all guarded."

Their abilities were limited; leading people to sneak in, it was impossible not to alert the underground guards at all.

"Thank you for your hard work," Chen Shijie said. "You can wait here."

"Long Xiao, Zhao Xing, Yu Ziqi, let's go."

Yes, only four people actually sneaked in.

Long Xiao and Yu Ziqi were both sword cultivators, and also rare Seventh-Rank sword cultivators in the Shenwei Army.

Bringing them along was like buying insurance; Chen Shijie and Zhao Xing were both spell-masters, and if they encountered an encounter battle, it would be easy to get surrounded and not be able to run away.

If something really went wrong, Liao Rulong and Wen Shaoyang were also prepared to actually fight to cover their escape.

Zhao Xing took Long Xiao, and Chen Shijie took Yu Ziqi.

One person taking another, the evasion was much easier.

"Divine Movement Protection!"

Zhao Xing grabbed Long Xiao's shoulder, and then a faint white light shield appeared around him; the light shield was like an octagon cage, wrapping Long Xiao and himself inside.

"Departing Fire Evasion!"

Chen Shijie also cast a spell, and a faint red light appeared around him and Yu Ziqi; his evasion technique was different from Zhao Xing's.

This light on Yu Ziqi's body was effective even if he was ten li away from Chen Shijie, and he could travel underground.

But Zhao Xing's Divine Movement Protection—Long Xiao could only stay in this octagon cage; if he left, he would get stuck in the mud.

Both evasion techniques had their pros and cons.

Old Chen's evasion technique was more flexible; Departing Fire Evasion was a buff-type spell that could grant people the ability to travel underground.

Zhao Xing's Divine Movement Protection originated from that Ten-Thousand-Form Earth Palace; the Profound Earth technique was combined with the Earth Palace technique.

When traveling underground, it had strong defensive power and could also evade deeper.

Traveling underground, if there was no space, encountering the enemy's evasion technique would only result in staring blankly.

The octagon earth palace manifested by Divine Movement Protection made Zhao Xing equivalent to driving an "evasion truck," and one with a ramming horn at that; encountering enemies with the same evasion technique, just ramming was enough.

"Hum~"

Long Xiao and Zhao Xing walked into the stone wall, and their figures soon merged into it.

Chen Shijie and Yu Ziqi followed closely behind.

Just after walking five li, Zhao Xing stopped: "Detour, there are barbarian sorcerers ahead."

Chen Shijie nodded.

They could communicate underground; back in Gucheng, Old Chen set up the Fire Prison Earth Palace and had communicated with Zhao Xing underground.

By transmitting information through earth vein fluctuations, with the strength of the two, and being so close, it was very difficult to be detected.

The four people changed direction, detoured five li horizontally to the south, and then continued to advance.

But before walking three li, Zhao Xing stopped again.

"Detour."

Chen Shijie was puzzled: "There are no Southern Barbarian sorcerers ahead, just some barbarian soldiers; we're detouring for this?"

Zhao Xing could judge where people were through earth vein fluctuations; Chen Shijie would only be stronger than him, because Old Chen's own strength was already at the Sixth Rank, but his official rank hadn't arrived, so his luck, lifespan, etc., hadn't kept up.

Sneaking in from underground, the first hurdle was the sorcerers and barbarian soldiers guarding these arrays and underground passages.

"That's the 'Hidden Vein' in the Earth Fire Array. If there's a sorcerer inside, you and I won't be able to sense it. Trust me, detour."

"Hidden Vein?" Chen Shijie didn't understand, but he still trusted Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing actually didn't know if there was anyone inside.

But when he played the Fire Dragon Pass guide in his previous life, he could judge the location of the Earth Fire Array's Hidden Vein gate through the surrounding soil layer.

There were many Hidden Vein gates in this hurdle, and there was an eighty percent possibility that a powerful sorcerer was sitting in charge.

Elite boss, detour if you can; there's no need to lose health here.

They walked another five li; this time Chen Shijie stopped and took the initiative to remind: "There is another powerful sorcerer ahead, and there is a cave nearby hiding many barbarian soldiers; let's detour."

"Wait." Zhao Xing called Old Chen to stop, then sensed carefully.

Waited for twenty breaths.

Zhao Xing said: "No need to detour, it's fake. A Four-Image Earth Vein Pearl was placed there, creating earth vein fluctuations to make people think there's an expert there."

"Sense carefully, look at the fire vein changes in the Kun and Kan positions, and compare them with the fire veins we've seen so far; you can tell."

Chen Shijie: "Sorry, I can't tell."

Old Chen was also experienced in hundreds of battles; what hadn't he seen?

But this, he really hadn't seen.

"Then look carefully at whether the Zhen and Li positions are hiding the three types of earth vein forces of gold, water, and wood, circulating in the three positions of Chongguang, Zhaoyang, and Shangzhang."

Chen Shijie: "……"

Seeing Chen Shijie didn't respond, Zhao Xing was surprised: "Brother, you didn't take the Engineer's array class?"

"Just keep walking!" Chen Shijie gritted his teeth.

Long Xiao covered his mouth and giggled.

Damn, you always say I don't read enough, now you're experiencing this feeling too, right?!

Heaven has reincarnation, who has Heaven spared!

So satisfying!

Yu Ziqi didn't know the conversation between Chen Shijie and Zhao Xing, because he was a martial artist, and Zhao Xing and Chen Shijie were communicating information through earth vein fluctuations.

But Long Xiao was standing in the octagon cage; when Zhao Xing transmitted information, he was used to speaking with his mouth as well.

Yu Ziqi only knew that Chen Shijie stopped and walked, completely following Zhao Xing's actions.

Is Old Chen the commander or is that kid the commander?

The four people walked straight ahead for three li; sure enough, there was no one there, and a crystal-clear pearl was placed in the cave.

In the cave nearby, there were some barbarian soldiers taking turns on duty, and there were underground passages extending in all directions.

Discovering that Zhao Xing was really right.

Chen Shijie began to doubt life.

How did it become that he was like a Seventh-Rank, and Zhao Xing was like a Sixth-Rank?

"Should I go back to the Ten-Sun Grotto-Heaven for a remake?" Chen Shijie thought to himself.

He, this military agricultural official, had never participated in the training in the Ten-Sun Grotto-Heaven.

Because when he became a military agricultural official, the Ten-Sun Grotto-Heaven hadn't opened yet; he completed his training outside.

The training courses were naturally not as detailed and complete as those in the Ten-Sun Grotto-Heaven.

Only thirty li of road, and the four Zhao Xing people actually walked for six hours underground.

The only flaw of Fire Dragon Pass was underground; both the sky and the ground had natural advantages.

So wanting to sneak in from underground, the difficulty was not ordinary.

The underground arrays and mazes were countless, and there were many Seventh-Rank, and even Sixth-Rank, guarding them.

They didn't care about things above ground.

Even if the sky turned upside down above, the people underground wouldn't move at all.

The battlefield was layered; they only cared about underground matters.

Zhao Xing found an abandoned underground cave, and the four gathered together in the cave.

"This underground line of defense outside Fire Dragon Pass, up to here, only has one last problem," Zhao Xing said. "That is the cave space below us."

"The layer above was paved with thirty meters of 'Sub-Infiltration Nails' by the craftsmen of Fire Dragon Pass. We are sneaking in the layer above; even if the High-Rank evasion technique reaches perfection, we will be discovered."

"With your and my evasion level, after passing through, our bodies will be full of nails, and we will be seriously injured if not dead."

"Speaking of which, this layout was helped by our Great Zhou craftsmen; now it's really..."

Chen Shijie didn't know what to say.

A part of the repairs of Fire Dragon Pass invited Great Zhou craftsmen; that was during the reign of Emperor Wen, when both sides were in a "friendly state," and there was no lack of support policies.

It was impossible to leave any secret doors in the Sub-Infiltration Nails; if you couldn't pass, you couldn't pass.

"Then we can only go through the middle of the underground cave," Yu Ziqi said: "We have to kill four Fire Demon tribe soldiers, and kill them silently, and then transform into their appearance, is that it?"

"Correct," Zhao Xing nodded. "Killing soldiers isn't enough; they have to be commander-level, because only by disguising as Fire Demon tribe commanders do we have a certain degree of mobility."

There were some places only commander-level people could go.

Disguising as barbarian soldiers and running around—there would be problems without even thinking.

This area below had all been hollowed out by the Fire Demon tribe; you couldn't sneak even if you wanted to.

"Leave it to Ziqi, my movement is too big," Long Xiao said.

When it comes to killing, sword cultivators are the fastest and cleanest.

However, Long Xiao was good at extremely fierce sword techniques, and the movement of the Sword-Controlling Style was also big; he used a great sword.

And Yu Ziqi opened the sword box in his arms, inside which were all pocket-sized small swords less than a foot long.

He flicked his fingers lightly, and four small swords flew out, swimming around his body.

"When to kill, who to kill?"

Chen Shijie said: "Wait until they are about to change shifts before killing, so as not to stay below for too long and reveal flaws."

Zhao Xing nodded: "Not bad. Also, after killing, we have to destroy the bodies and erase the traces. Is there a way to do that?"

Yu Ziqi looked at Chen Shijie, who immediately understood and reached out to wipe the four swords.

The gray-black small swords were coated with a touch of dark red.

"As long as it pierces into the body, the physical body will surely turn into ashes," Chen Shijie explained.

Long Xiao and Yu Ziqi were accustomed to it; clearly, they often borrowed fire from Old Chen.

Being able to kill people, destroying the bodies and erasing traces was simple.

The four stayed in this position for six hours, during which Zhao Xing and Chen Shijie scouted for replaceable targets and observed their every word and action.

In the end, they selected four unlucky guys.

"It's these four: Power-Warrior Commander Loba, Sorcerer Commander Lahe, Sorcerer Commander Xuba, and Power-Warrior Commander Huowei."

"When you act later, don't speak if you don't have to. These four people are a shift group that changes shifts together. If there are any parts that need communication, leave it to me and Old Chen."

Chen Shijie said gloomily: "You do it, I only know the common language, the 'Nanhe language' spoken by the Fire Demon tribe."

Really need to take some advanced studies when I go back.

Chen Shijie thought to himself.

It's also because he doesn't usually do this kind of work; as a Nine-Section Agricultural Official, when would he have thought of doing this kind of thing?

Naturally not as comprehensive as Zhao Xing.

In the cave space, in a cave, there was a large jade bed placed in the center of the cave.

Around it were planted some flowers and plants, and there was a fountain outside the bed.

As a Power-Warrior Commander, Loba's conditions underground were not too hard.

What he ate and used was okay; it was just a bit boring.

No entertainment activities, and no fragrant women.

"Almost over."

Loba rolled off the bed and stretched.

Loba's schedule today was no different from usual: punch in for work, lie down and sleep; punch out, go find a woman.

Simple, dull, and unadorned.

The other commanders were basically the same, even though they were fighting Great Zhou now.

But what did this have to do with Fire Dragon Pass?

This majestic pass had never been broken.

History had proven it many times.

The commander positions at Fire Dragon Pass now had become fat jobs—lots of money, little work, and no need to worry.

Wouldn't trade it for a general position!

"Who should I find to play with today?"

Loba finished stretching, touched his crotch, picked his nose, turned around, and bent down to pick up the bag on the bed.

The next second.

His movements stiffened.

A flat small hole appeared on his forehead.

Loba watched his vision gradually blur, everything went black before his eyes, and his consciousness vanished.

"Ssh~"

Before Loba's body fell, the small hole on his forehead erupted with flames, and then he turned into ashes.

From the wall, Zhao Xing, Long Xiao, Yu Ziqi, and Chen Shijie walked out.

"Long Xiao, you transform into Loba, quickly."

"Received."

Long Xiao immediately touched his ears, then transformed into the appearance of Loba.

They had long since used the Thousand-Machine Transformation mask to store the appearances of the four Fire Demon tribesmen.

Transforming now was also quite easy.

"Now, I am Loba," Long Xiao grinned, with quite a bit of Loba's demeanor.

"Go."

"Wait," Zhao Xing pointed to the flowers and plants nearby. "Instant Primordial, Detain-Soul Straw Man, rise!"

Those ordinary flowers and plants were instantly forcibly raised to the Third-Rank level by Zhao Xing.

Then they were quickly cut down, materials were harvested, and a straw man was raised.

Zhao Xing opened his Bright Eyes, searching for Loba's three souls.

After being killed by Yu Ziqi, his life soul was immediately in a wandering state.

"Detain!"

Loba's life soul was immediately collected into the straw man.

With the current Detain-Soul Straw Man, Zhao Xing could only manage to detain the life soul.

He couldn't manage the heavenly soul and the earthly soul.

But this was enough.

Because the sacrifices of the Southern Barbarians also found it difficult to summon a person's heavenly soul and earthly soul.

The heavenly soul is the afterlife soul; the earthly soul is the causal soul.

To be able to summon the afterlife and causal souls, one must be a First-Rank like the Star Lord of Life.

In the Southern Barbarians, that would have to be a Heavenly Shaman to be First-Rank.

However, the life soul was easy to summon.

Zhao Xing had to take away Loba's life soul; they didn't know how long it would take, so to be safe, after killing Loba, he had to collect his life soul.

In addition, after detaining the soul, Zhao Xing could also read the memories from this guy's life soul.

Long-term memories wouldn't work, but memory fragments from the last few days were no problem.

"Gurgle gurgle~"

The straw man was left under the hot spring in the cave, a hot spring about eight meters deep; if you didn't look carefully, it was hard to see.

"Now we can go."

Long Xiao walked out of the cave and, according to the previous instructions, went to find Sorcerer Commander Xuba.

Because this was his compatriot "brother," both of them worked at Fire Dragon Pass.

Their relationship was also very good.

"Xuba, off work!" Long Xiao came outside Xuba's cave and shouted.

The Southern Barbarians also popularized the term "off work," mainly learned from Great Zhou.

Officials above the Fifth Rank in Great Zhou are called "attending court," and those not qualified to participate in court discussions are called "working," because the place where they handle affairs is called a "work room."

The Southern Wilderness's Sacred Mountain Audience, Spring Festival Sacrifice, and many things were also copied from the Central Plains' luck dynasty.

"Brother, why is your voice so strange today?"

Xuba was a Sorcerer Commander.

His perception was relatively keen; when Long Xiao walked in, he was a bit suspicious.

After all, they were close, so it was easy to feel the abnormality.

"I'm not feeling well today," Long Xiao said, "We..."

"Ssh~"

Xuba also stiffened, then disappeared into flames.

It was Yu Ziqi who made the move.

"I wanted to extract some intelligence, but you killed him," Long Xiao muttered.

"With your clumsy acting, even your Nanhe language carries the Xier County dialect, and you still expect to extract intelligence?" Yu Ziqi sneered.

"Who the hell are you looking down on? It's like you can speak it!" Colleagues are enemies; Long Xiao and Yu Ziqi walked different paths and liked to bicker usually.

Chen Shijie said: "Alright, is now the time for chatting? Zhao Xing, hurry up and change your outfit."

"Hm."

Zhao Xing touched his earlobe, shook his body, and transformed into the appearance of Xuba.

"Now, I am Xuba."

"Now, I, I, am Xuba."

"Brother, why is your voice so strange today?"

The first two sentences were Zhao Xing adjusting his voice; by the third sentence, his demeanor, tone, and pitch had become completely consistent with Xuba's.

Even the feminine feeling unique to sorcerers came out.

"Like, too like!"

Long Xiao exclaimed.

"Does he often do this kind of thing?" Yu Ziqi looked at Chen Shijie in surprise.

"No, at least I haven't seen it." Chen Shijie shook his head.

"Then how is he so experienced?"

"Maybe it was taught by the Ten-Sun Grotto-Heaven."

"Times have really changed; the training of current military agricultural officials actually teaches these things..."

Yu Ziqi sighed.

Chen Shijie deeply agreed.

The subsequent Sorcerer Commander Lahe and Power-Warrior Commander Huowei were also successfully resolved.

Among them, Old Chen played Lahe, and Yu Ziqi played Huowei.

The four Detain-Soul Straw Men stayed in their original caves, both to prevent the life soul from being discovered and to leave a backup; maybe they would be useful.

Even if discovered, Zhao Xing would know when it was discovered.

Just when Chen Shijie and the others thought they would pass smoothly, there was a problem during the shift change.

The four commanders who came to change shifts didn't see anything, but during the handover, the communication token of Loba on Long Xiao's body rang.

"Loba, Dharma Protector Liu's message, why aren't you answering?" A Power-Warrior Commander said casually, "What are you stunned for?"

"My throat, cough, is a bit uncomfortable," Long Xiao seemed a bit unnatural.

Zhao Xing told him Loba's memories from the past few days, but although he knew who this Dharma Protector Liu was, his language skills were not up to par.

Talking would definitely reveal the truth.

"Hahaha, you have to serve Dharma Protector Liu well today; he wasn't happy about the place you took him last time."

"Let's go, Loba, remember to tell the brothers when you find a good place."

Long Xiao squeezed out a smile, pretending to pick up the token and connect the communication.

Watching the four commanders who changed shifts walk away.

Zhao Xing grabbed the token in Long Xiao's hand and connected the communication.

The Southern Barbarian communication token was also modeled after the Great Zhou's Thousand-Li Sound Transmission token.

"Hum~"

The token connected, and a cold voice came from inside.

"Loba, why did it take so long to answer?"

?￠o

"I, I, hiccup~ just woke up."

The other side paused and sneered: "Just woke up? I think you've been drinking. You bastard, how many times have I told you not to drink during working hours? Drink after work. Now there are enemy troops peeking outside Fire Dragon Pass, don't harm me!"

"Yes, yes," Zhao Xing nodded and bowed.

"The enemy troops retreated the day before yesterday; you can relax today. I'll wait for you at the old place."

"Yes."

Hanging up the communication, Long Xiao let out a long breath.

Looking at it, they had muddled through.

"Our speed must be accelerated," Zhao Xing whispered after hanging up. "Loba made an appointment with his recommender to have fun."

"I can muddle through across the token, but if it's face-to-face, I definitely won't be able to hide it."

Chen Shijie nodded: "Hm, this Dharma Protector surnamed Liu is also a Great Zhou expert; we can't meet him."

The Fire Dragon Pass intelligence provided by the Soldier Realm mentioned some important figures.

Those who could take Great Zhou surnames and hold important positions were basically from large clans; their understanding of Great Zhou was much clearer than ordinary people.

"Hurry up, once we pass this hurdle, it will be easier for us to sneak into the planting area of the underground magma river."

Inside Fire Dragon City, in a stone room.

"Creak~"

A minotaur opened the door and walked in.

Then he looked out twice and walked to the underground passage in the stone room.

The underground space was about one hundred square meters.

At this time, two Fire Demon tribesmen were vigilantly looking upward; seeing only the minotaur coming down, they immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's me," the minotaur said in a deep voice, "No one followed."

The two Fire Demon tribesmen immediately touched their earlobes and transformed back to their original appearance.

If Zhao Xing were here, he would surely be shocked, because these two were none other than Xia Jing and Guan Junyang!

Xia Jing stood up: "Brother Ye, how is the situation?"

The minotaur nodded: "The place the Heir wants to enter is guarded relatively strictly, but I have already been striving to be transferred to patrol there."

"The Heir can enter there by following me in a while."

"My position is not high, so I can bring you in, but if something happens, I won't have the ability to send you out. So the Heir must be careful and cautious, and never expose yourself."

Xia Jing said solemnly: "Brother Ye, rest assured. Once something happens, you should prioritize your own safety; if necessary, you can turn your blade toward me and Junyang."

The minotaur hurriedly said: "Heir, what are you saying? I, Ye Chongxian, have been lurking here for ten years under the Marquis's orders, isn't it for today's use? I have already put life and death aside; I'm just afraid of not completing the mission and delaying the Heir's important matters."

Had a good sleep, and my body finally feels a bit better today.

There will be an update tonight, maybe another big chapter; I'm not sure how late or how big.

In short, it will definitely be posted before twelve o'clock. From now on, everyone doesn't need to wait for updates past 12 o'clock.

I will also try my best not to stay up past 12 o'clock; my body can't take it.