Chapter 352: Lu Yang

Only by entering the main building can one be considered a true Dongling person.

It is no wonder that such a saying circulates within the Dongling outpost. Just by observing the people entering and leaving the main building, one can see the clues.

Either they are at the limit of the Earth-Digging Realm or in the Cold-Resisting Realm, and they basically wear iron armor, or they are carrying Cold Beasts back from outside. Compared with people in other areas of the outpost, they are not only high in cultivation but also clearly carry thick evil spirits, which shows that they are often out hunting.

Anyone who came from White Pine, looking up at the main building, would more or less show some yearning, although under Lu Yang's leadership, their life today is already worlds apart from the past.

But people always want to raise their status. The only way to improve status in Dongling today is to obtain the qualification to enter and leave the main building.

While everyone was looking at the main building with envy, they didn't know that Lu Yang, the leader they respected, had given up the main seat at this moment and was bowing to another person sitting on the main seat with an excited face.

"This subordinate pays respects to the Lord!"

Of course, not just Lu Yang.

Zhao Hu, Zhu Shun, Wang Tao, Lin Fan, He Ning, He Xing, and the officials of the other six divisions were also present, bowing and saluting with him.

He Ning and He Xing did not look excited because they knew Xia Hong had come last night; Zhao Hu and the other four were different. Their expressions were similar to Lu Yang's, clearly not expecting Xia Hong to come to Dongling.

"You did a good job in Zhu Ridge last night. Lu Yang, you have really grown a lot in Dongling in these three years, which surprised me a bit."

"Lu Yang thanks the Lord for the praise!"

Realizing that what he did in Zhu Ridge last night was seen by Xia Hong, Lu Yang's expression vibrated slightly, and a trace of joy rose in his heart.

"What plan do you have for the eight families of North Mountain next? Tell me!"

Hearing the question Xia Hong raised, Lu Yang pondered for a moment, and then continued to bow and say: "This subordinate already used the betting matter last night to let the five leaders send hostages to Dongling. Currently, only the Yanggu outpost is missing. Yang Quan will personally send his youngest son, Yang Shan, over tomorrow night.

And not just these five hostages, in order to bear less debt, they will also send more descendants of the Cold-Resisting Realm as hostages.

With these hostages, the five Zhu Ridge families will definitely be much more honest in the future, and I can let go of my hands and feet to place our Great Xia people in all outposts along the North Mountain line.

I plan to control all outposts along the North Mountain line first, and then take advantage of these hostages to gradually infiltrate the seven village-level outposts. The ideal state is to build the entire North Mountain line into an iron bucket, and then gradually extend the tentacles to the entire Jingxi jurisdiction.

In fact, my original plan was not like this. If the Jingxi jurisdiction continued to be managed by Gu Tianxiong, I would really be unable to let go of my hands and feet. That Gu Tianxiong is very strong and has quite a lot of connections among the high-level North Shuo. It is not easy to handle him, but now that a Zhu Yang has been changed, it couldn't be better."

Lu Yang paused here, his expression becoming more and more excited, and continued: "Zhu Yang is old, and his strength is not good. He has gradually lost power in Beishuocheng. It is very easy to deal with him. I have confidence that in less than a year, I can control the entire North Mountain line.

As for whether to infiltrate the Jingxi jurisdiction quickly later, it specifically depends on the Lord, when you plan to take action against North Shuo!"

Speaking of this, Lu Yang looked at Xia Hong, and a flash of excitement flashed in his eyes.

He didn't forget that the core reason for him to set up an outpost in Dongling was to pave the way for Great Xia's eastward expansion in advance.

"No, no, no, no..."

Hearing the words "take action against North Shuo," Xia Hong immediately waved his hands repeatedly, and found that not only Lu Yang, but the six people behind him were all excited, so he shook his head and chuckled.

"I just came back from Beishuocheng and have already fought with Yang Fa. The situation in the nine towns is far more complicated than imagined. The situation you have personally understood in the past three years should be more than mine. The situation of the nine towns where one hair affects the whole body, other methods are useless, unless swept with the momentum of thunder. But Great Xia currently clearly does not have such strength.

Rashly attacking, once frustrated, causing the nine towns to guard against it, it will be difficult for Great Xia to have another chance to go east.

Our eastward expansion has opportunities on the north and south lines.

On the south line, if it weren't for the Great Awakening Temple blocking the way, Xu Ning should be able to contact Jiangxia Town. I will solve the silver mine matter when I return to Xia City this time, and I will personally go to Wuyuan to see what the situation of the Great Awakening Temple is.

The north line will temporarily rely on your Dongling to operate. It may not be used in the short term, but it will definitely play a big role in the future. Everything depends on the efforts of you people!"

"Lu Yang will definitely do his best to lead Dongling to pave the way for Great Xia's eastward expansion and build a good outpost, not letting the Lord down!"

Lu Yang nodded in response with a solemn expression, and the six people including Zhu Shun and Wang Tao also hurriedly followed and said in a deep voice: "We will do our best to share the Lord's worries!"

Xia Hong pondered for a moment, remembered the short confrontation with Yang Fa outside Beishuocheng just now, and continued to exhort: "That Yang Fa is not simple. Remember to be hidden in your plan to control the North Mountain line. Once it is detected, it will inevitably cause North Shuo to guard against it. I don't ask you to be fast, I only ask you to be stable and maintain that dark path."

Hearing Xia Hong mention Yang Fa, Lu Yang nodded solemnly. He has entered Beishuocheng several times, and during that time, he has indeed heard many things about Yang Fa.

Xia Hong was just about to get up, but suddenly thought of something, showed a trace of curiosity, and asked Lu Yang with a smile: "That He Wuyang should have some handle in your hands, right?"

Xia Hong saw the scene where He Wuyang was scolded last night with his own eyes.

He Wuyang's strength is indeed not as good as Lu Yang and others, but he is a person from the North Shuo Inspectorate after all. Even if his strength is not as good as Lu Yang, he would not be scolded to the point of not daring to speak.

Even under normal circumstances, Lu Yang's act of scolding the North Shuo Inspector is clearly rebellious, because this damages North Shuo's majesty. If He Wuyang poked it to the Inspectorate, Lu Yang would probably have to peel off a layer of skin even if he didn't die.

The only explanation is that he has a handle in Lu Yang's hands.

The facts are exactly as Xia Hong expected.

Lu Yang laughed and said: "That He Wuyang, his courage is too big. The year before last, he actually united with a giant outpost along the North Mountain line to secretly steal the largest Meishan silver mine in the Jingxi territory. He dug a total of 1.47 million jin before and after. Later, the incident was exposed, and he even sent people to silence them.

Unfortunately, the people he sent were not clean, and coupled with the fact that Zhao Hu and I moved fast, we saved the leader of that outpost and some people, and now they are raised in the Dongling outpost.

The account book of He Wuyang's people stealing the silver mine, and the letters he contacted with the two persons in charge of the Meishan silver mine, are all in my hands now. Naturally, he dare not offend me.

For the first two years, Zhu Tong thought I was clinging to Gu Tianxiong, so I would be so arrogant. He never thought that He Wuyang had such a big handle in my hands, haha."

Speaking to the back, Lu Yang was a bit proud and started to laugh.

"1.47 million jin, He Wuyang, plus two silver mine persons in charge, don't have such big courage, right? There are other people in Beishuocheng who also participated, right?"

Xia Hong keenly sensed something unusual and asked softly. Seeing Lu Yang nod, he knew he had a count in his heart, so he didn't say much.

"Alright, you continue to be busy, I will go back to Xia City first!"

Hearing that Xia Hong was going back, Lu Yang hurriedly got up and walked to the middle of the main hall, opening the entrance to the passage.

The Dongling dark path is so important, he naturally wants to put it in the safest place. In the entire Dongling outpost, what position is safer than this main hall?

Xia Hong looked at the tunnel entrance and shook his head: "I won't take the dark path. This place is right in the North Ning Mountain territory. I will walk to the south and see directly above the Twin Dragon Valley. It will be much faster to go down from there."

Hearing this, Lu Yang remembered that Xia Hong could already fly, unlike them mortals, so he nodded and sent Xia Hong away with the other six.

Xia Hong walked out of the hall, waved his hand to signal everyone not to send him, and flew straight toward the depths of North Ning Mountain in the south.

Dongling is 15 kilometers deep on the north side of North Ning Mountain, and only 20 kilometers from the Twin Longshan wall on the west side. After Xia Hong flew south for a while, he changed his route to the west and flew all the way to the Twin Longshan wall.

The Twin Longshan wall is over 2,000 meters high. It doesn't feel high when looking up from below, but looking down from the cliff at this moment, it is completely different.

Clouds are the place where snowflakes are bred. Large-scale deep clouds are the best conditions for breeding large-scale snowfall. In an environment like the Ice Abyss, which is extremely cold and snowy all year round, the thickness of the clouds is far beyond ordinary people's imagination.

Xia Hong was standing on the edge of the cliff at this moment, and the clouds were under his feet. He could even clearly feel the extremely low temperature in the clouds.

The clouds had thickened into another gray color, which was very similar to the ground in the snowfield area, giving people the illusion that they could step on them with their feet.

Xia Hong stared at the clouds for a moment, and a trace of different color flashed in his eyes.

"The Twin Dragon Valley where Great Xia is located, corresponding to above the mountain wall, should be in the middle of North Ning Mountain, which is almost the deepest area of North Ning Mountain. Just go and see, there should be no problem."

Xia Hong wanted to go to that position to see, and there was another reason, which was that Xia City could often hear huge roars above the mountain wall. He wanted to figure out what the roar was.

If it is some very powerful Cold Beast, then he must prepare in advance. After all, Xia City is below. It would be bad if the Cold Beast fell from the mountain wall one day.

Xia Hong did not continue to fly in the sky, but landed on the ground and galloped south along the west cliff.

There are many flying Cold Beasts in North Ning Mountain, including many beast king-level raptors. Flying in the sky rashly will cause unnecessary trouble, and it is too deep here. Who knows if stronger Cold Beasts will pop out.

The north-south span of North Ning Mountain is more than 150 kilometers. The middle section is 75 kilometers. Plus the 15-kilometer depth of Dongling, he walked 60 kilometers south, and he just arrived.

"The density of high-level Cold Beasts is not small, and there are beast kings, but they are all more than five or six kilometers away from the cliff. Even if a battle breaks out, the movement should not be transmitted below. Where did the roar heard by Xia City come from?"

Xia Hong sensed the distribution of Cold Beasts in the area along the cliff, pondered for a moment, and turned to look at the clouds under the west mountain wall.

Could it be flying Cold Beasts living between the mountain walls?

His expression condensed, and finally he didn't hesitate. His body slowly rose into the air, jumped into the clouds, and fell slowly toward the bottom.

Whoosh…………

The moment his body entered the clouds, a chill instantly invaded his bone marrow. Xia Hong didn't hesitate at all, immediately mobilized the bone marrow power, let his body temperature rise, and quickly evaporated the surrounding clouds.

"This chill, I am afraid that the Cold-Resisting Realm people can't stop it. I originally thought that breaking through the Cold-Resisting Realm would allow me to climb up along the mountain wall. Now thinking about it, it is too naive. Not to mention climbing up, even if the Cold-Resisting Realm people jump down from the cliff, I guess they will be frozen into ice cubes before landing."

A trace of solemnity flashed in Xia Hong's eyes. He originally wanted to see if there were flying Cold Beasts living in the crevices of the mountain wall, but after feeling this terrifying low temperature, he immediately denied his guess.

This temperature, even a beast king-level Cold Beast can barely survive. Which Cold Beast would be so stupid to settle in such a place?

"It seems that I can't find the reason. Forget it, let's go back to Xia City first!"

Xia Hong shook his head slightly and accelerated the speed of falling. The mountain wall was only two thousand meters high, and he soon saw the outline of Xia City from high altitude.

Bang... bang... bang...

However, the closer he got to Xia City, the faster his heartbeat became inexplicably. Until he was less than one kilometer from the ground, a thick smoke rushed into his nose. He stared down at the bottom, and his expression changed instantly.

Boom... boom...

Xia City under the mountain wall was actually on fire.

Not one or two places, but hundreds.

The whole city was filled with thick black smoke, and he couldn't see any situation on the ground at all, only the smell of thick smoke.

"What's the situation, Xia City was attacked!"

Xia Hong's face was suddenly changed, and he fell rapidly.

"Roar…………"

When he was still several hundred meters from the ground, a roar of a Cold Beast that could shake the soul suddenly entered his ears, making his expression stiffen.

"Help, help..."

"Where is the Lord, come and save us."

"How can there be such a big beast tide, how can it be, how can it be!"

"Save my child, please, he was taken away by the Cold Beast."

"Everyone retreat to the inner city, fast, retreat to the inner city."

"Long Wu, Yunjiao, Tulong three armies all go to the Zhaixing Hall, protect the Lady and the two Highnesses, fast fast fast."

"Chief Administrator, can't hold it, the inner city has also fallen, it's all Cold Beasts, it's all Cold Beasts, so many beast kings."

"Can't hold it, you have to hold it, the Lady and the Highnesses cannot be lost, go fast!"

"Extinguish the fire, quickly extinguish the fire of the Yangxu Cauldron, the Cold Beasts are all rushing to the main hall of the council, and the Zhaixing Hall is behind."

……………………

Bang!

Xia Hong, who broke through the thick smoke from the sky, had a flushed face, his two pupils instantly congested with blood. He drew the Long Que knife from his waist, killed two high-level White Luan in the air in the blink of an eye, looked at the thick smoke and corpses all over the city, and was stunned for a whole person. He roared and roared, while frantically slaughtering the Cold Beasts in front of him, rushing toward the inner city.

"What's the situation, how can there be a beast tide, where did the beast tide come from!"

The entire Xia City has been occupied by dense Cold Beasts!

The eight districts of the outer city had long become a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. The Cold Beasts were feasting on the broken limbs and arms all over the ground. Xia Hong just swept his eyes, and found at least hundreds of beast kings, tens of thousands of high-level Cold Beasts, and there were countless middle and low-level Cold Beasts, almost occupying every corner of Xia City.

He could hardly see a few living people in the outer city.

"Inner city, inner city, they all retreated to the inner city, there is still hope!"

Xia Hong's face was full of panic at this moment. The Xia City that he had painstakingly managed for nearly ten years was destroyed in one fell swoop, which had already made his heart bleed. If his wife and children and relatives in the inner city also had an accident, then he didn't know if he still had the courage to continue living in this ice purgatory.

Bang!

Xia Hong's strength was fully opened at this moment. The thousand-zhang dark red bone phantom behind him completely erupted. Cooperating with his forward posture, he swept all the high-level and even beast king-level murderers around him all the way, and rushed directly into the inner city.

"The Lord is back, the Lord is back."

"Lord, help, the Zhaixing Hall has been broken!"

"Too many, there are too many Cold Beasts, how can there be so many."

………………

Sure enough, there were still some people alive in the inner city, but at this moment they were all concentrated in the collapsed Zhaixing Hall. Long Wu, Yunjiao, Tulong, including the other four armies, all came back.

It's just that at this moment, the army is also in a situation where one in ten is left. Many soldiers are still under the leadership of Xia Chuan and Director Yu Wen Tao, resisting the Cold Beasts that are constantly rushing toward them from the outside.

There is also Li Ying Xuan Ling. She is holding the Tianhua sword, hysterically rushing into the left side of the beast tide. Seeing Xia Hong coming, she immediately called for help.

"Xia Hong, save Yu Yao, she was taken away by that Cold Beast."

Hearing Li Ying Xuan Ling's voice, Xia Hong, who was about to rush to the Zhaixing Hall, hurriedly looked up at the beast tide on the left.

Looking at this, his eyes instantly congested with blood, and his whole aura withered a bit.

Behind the beast tide on the left, eldest daughter Yu Yao was being held in the mouth by a Fire Stone Tiger with a body length of no more than half a meter. That Fire Stone Tiger's body was pitifully small, smaller than a beast king, but the black and white pupils, and the layer of hair on its body that was as crystal clear as a ruby, all proved its strength, I am afraid it was far from being as simple as a beast king level.

"I will kill you, evil animal!"

Xia Hong roared hysterically, his reaction was even more intense than Li Ying Xuan Ling's.

Because the two arms of eldest daughter Yu Yao had already been bitten off by that Fire Stone Tiger at this moment, and she was crying painfully.

As a father, seeing his daughter being hurt like this, how could Xia Hong remain calm? His eyes were blood red, and he had no reason at all. He drew his knife and rushed into the beast tide.

Frost Wolf, Snow Mane, Demon Sheep, Frost Electric Ape, Spotted Tiger, Blue Moon Spirit, Cloud Mist Teng Jiao, Golden Armor Lei Kui... In an instant, dozens of beast king-level Cold Beasts covering more than a dozen varieties surrounded Xia Hong.

Roar…………

The beast king-level Demon Sheep is different from the high-level Demon Sheep. Its body is covered with tens of thousands of eyeballs, and the golden light shot from inside has almost no dead angle, and carries a sharp meaning that is indestructible;

The beast king-level Snow Mane is also the same. The hundreds of ice-ling long tongues in its mouth draw cold edges in the air, blocking Xia Hong outside and not letting him in, and always looking for opportunities to find Xia Hong's dead angle to attack;

The remaining Frost Electric Ape, Spotted Tiger, Blue Moon Spirit, Cloud Mist Teng Jiao, Golden Armor Lei Kui... these beast king-level fierce beasts all took out their housekeeping skills to fight with Xia Hong, just suppressing him to death and not letting him approach that Fire Stone Tiger.

"Wa... wa............ Daddy... save me..."

Xia Yu Yao, who had cried until she fainted and was almost unconscious, finally saw her father approaching her, and her crying became more and more miserable and painful.

The more she was like this, the more painful Xia Hong was in the middle of the beast tide.

Crack...

"Wa............"

That Fire Stone Tiger opened its mouth again and bit off Xia Yu Yao's two legs.

"Ah!!!"

Xia Hong's expression was approaching madness, and the thousand-zhang phantom behind him was crumbling, clearly his mind had a huge fluctuation. However, there were too many beast kings around him.

He couldn't move forward at all, even if he risked his body being injured.

"Ying Xuan Ling, Xia Chuan, come and help!"

Seeing that his eldest daughter was about to die under the tiger's mouth, Xia Hong finally couldn't help but speak to Li Ying Xuan Ling and Xia Chuan behind him.

Li Ying Xuan Ling's strength is second only to himself, and Xia Chuan's strength is also almost the strongest among everyone else. Except for calling these two people, he has no way.

The two rushed toward Xia Hong upon hearing this. The surrounding beast kings were all attracted by Xia Hong alone, so the two quickly approached.

"Big brother, give up, Yu Yao can't be saved."

"Husband, I..."

Compared with Xia Chuan's calmness, Li Ying Xuan Ling was clearly much more contradictory. On the one hand, she knew that eldest daughter could not be saved, but as a mother, how could she admit to giving up her daughter?

So she could only shed tears silently and look at Xia Hong, her face full of guilt.

"This beast tide, how did it come?"

Xia Chuan was stunned for a moment, clearly not expecting that Xia Hong would ask about the cause of the beast tide at this juncture, but soon answered: "It is..."

Swish!

Xia Chuan had only said one word when Xia Hong's Long Que knife was inserted directly into his brow. His face was full of astonishment and disbelief, and Xia Hong pulled out the Long Que knife and beheaded Li Ying Xuan Ling on the other side.

Crack!

"Big brother, you..." ===== CHAPTER 353 =====