Chapter 467: Bad News, Confidence and Invitation, Astonishing Guess and Chu Tianxu

Cai Qiu Calendar Year 297, December 27th, Daytime

On the west side of the Cai Qiu trial zone, the cold current had completely disappeared. Although the air was still filled with thin blood-colored miasma, the ice on the ground had gradually begun to melt. Trees, mountains, and everything that had been frozen around were obviously gradually recovering.

The most powerful proof was probably that there was already accumulated snow on the ground.

The cold current had really passed!

Bang...

The four Su Xing'er siblings and the five Cai Shiqin people who had just walked out of the cave heard the huge roar coming from the cave behind them, and strange expressions appeared on their faces.

Right now, only Ji Hong was still inside. This roar was clearly him deliberately destroying and shaking down the cave. The five were not stupid, and thinking of the many Chen Cang disciples Ji Hong had killed over the past forty-plus days, they reacted instantly.

He was destroying the evidence!

"Brother Ji must have some deep hatred with Chen Cang..."

Thinking of the month or so they had spent together, Ji Hong occasionally revealed his monstrous hatred for Chen Cang, and Su Xing'er's heart moved slightly.

She had also asked sideways, but Ji Hong chose to avoid answering. After doing so three or four times, worried about causing Ji Hong's resentment, she had to give up.

She was naturally a little uncomfortable in her heart with Ji Hong's behavior of luring and killing Chen Cang disciples due to her kind nature. However, firstly, Ji Hong had saved the lives of the five of them; secondly, Ji Hong also gifted them so many Blood Jade Beads; thirdly, Ji Hong obviously had a deep relationship with her master Hong Yu; and Ji Hong's words several times revealed his great hatred for Chen Cang, which also indicated that there must be hidden reasons.

With many factors superimposed, although Su Xing'er was somewhat afraid of Ji Hong's behavior, she really couldn't talk about resentment, and more of it was curiosity.

Thinking of this, her heart moved slightly. She turned her head to look at Cai Shiqin beside her and whispered: "Sister Shiqin, Cai Shiyan and the others..."

"Xing'er, Cai Shiyan, Cai Zizheng, Qifeng, Yuwan, they all brought it upon themselves. Don't worry, I won't talk nonsense!"

Cai Shiqin had a clever mind and was extremely smart. She saw what Su Xing'er was thinking instantly. Although she took the initiative to speak to resolve her worries, thinking of her two cousins, Cai Qifeng and Cai Yuwan, she couldn't help but sigh slightly.

"Alright, let's set off!"

Coincidentally, at this time, Ji Hong also walked out of the cave. He was still carrying three bags of Blood Jade Beads. He first looked deeply at Cai Shiqin, then threw the bags to Su Xing'er again and said with a smile: "The skin and flesh of the five of you are now perfect. Although these beads are useless to you, they can be sold for a lot of money."

Hearing Ji Hong's words, Cai Shiqin's expression froze, and her heart turned cold.

Ji Hong was clearly reminding her that for the past month and a half, not only the four Su Xing'er siblings, but she had also used a large batch of Blood Jade Beads, so theoretically, she also had a share in the deaths of those Chen Cang disciples.

No wonder when Su Xing'er was distributing Blood Jade Beads to her in the cave earlier, Ji Hong didn't stop her. So that was it. This person, what a poisonous mind!

Su Xing'er was not stupid either. Seeing Cai Shiqin's complexion beside her, she instantly heard Ji Hong's subtext, and her heart turned cold.

"Brother Ji, we used so many Blood Jade Beads earlier, and we don't know how to repay you. These three bags can be sold for a lot of money, we can't accept them..."

"If I tell you to take them, take them. I don't lack money. Let's set off first! I will go with you to the Zhenyuan Great Camp to visit the Lord... your master, Lord Hong Yu!"

Seeing that his tone was so firm, Su Xing'er didn't say anything more. After putting away the bags, the six people quickly swept toward the Zhenyuan Great Camp in the southeast direction.

Two days ago, when preparing to set off, Ji Hong had told them in advance that he would go with them to visit their master Hong Yu. The five had long seen that Ji Hong had a relationship with Hong Yu, so they naturally wouldn't refuse.

The trials of the two vassal towns this year had long been disrupted by this cold current. It is estimated that sixty or seventy percent of the disciples who came to participate in the trial had died. The five of them naturally had no intention of paying attention to the trial matters at this moment.

Cai Shiqin was worried about the situation at the Cai Qiu Zhenyuan Great Camp; the four Su Xing'er siblings were worried about the safety of their master Hong Yu, so the six of them didn't go to the trial camp, but under Cai Shiqin's leadership, went straight to the location of the Zhenyuan Great Camp.

The Blood Miasma Plain area opened up by Cai Qiu totaled only 400 square kilometers. The location of the Zhenyuan Great Camp was in the very center. The cave they were in was located on the west edge of the trial zone, a total of only twelve or thirteen kilometers from there.

The six people were in an urgent mood and soon swept across five or six kilometers of the snowfield.

However, just halfway through, they were stopped by an old man.

The old man flew over in mid-air, wearing cyan brocade clothes in the style of Cai Qiu. After landing and seeing Cai Shiqin, his wrinkled old face was instantly full of ecstasy.

"Shiqin, you are still alive!"

"Grandfather!"

Cai Shiqin was only seventeen years old after all. It was probably because her nerves had been too tense during the time she was hiding in the cave. Seeing the old man, her eyes instantly turned red. Calling grandfather, she threw herself into the old man's arms and sobbed uncontrollably.

"It's good to be alive, it's good to be alive... I and your two uncles searched on the snowfield for more than half a month. If we can't find the body, there is hope. I knew it, I knew it, you are indeed still alive, hahaha..."

The old man's eyes were full of intense fatigue, which showed that he had indeed been searching on the snowfield for a long time. Seeing that Cai Shiqin was still alive, his emotions were extremely agitated, and he couldn't help but laugh out loud at the end.

Only in the laughter, there were clearly a few traces of pain...

"Grandfather, you know Xing'er and the others. This is Ji Hong from Chen Cang. This time I was able to be rescued, thanks to Brother Ji's help."

Su Xing'er had lived in the prefecture for half a year, so her grandfather knew her. Cai Shiqin skipped the introduction and focused on Ji Hong, then turned to Ji Hong and the others and continued: "Brother Ji, Xing'er, this is my grandfather, the Second Elder of the Sixth Branch of the Linchu Prefecture Mansion, Cai Yuheng."

"Greetings to Second Elder Yuheng!"

The Linchu prefecture lineage of the Cai clan had seven branches of disciples. The head of the seven branches was the seven most excellent sons of Prefect Cai Qiuyang. Each branch set up three elders, specifically to manage the disciples of their own lineage. Cai Yuheng could rank among the elders and rank second, naturally having some strength.

Although Cai Shiqin was young, her seniority was not low. She was a disciple of the eighth generation of the Cai clan. Cai Yuheng was her grandfather, so he was a disciple of the sixth generation. The head of the sixth branch was Cai Yunbo. Although this Cai Yuheng looked old and decrepit, strictly speaking, he was already the great-grandson of Cai Yunbo.

Although the four Su Xing'er siblings had never met Cai Yuheng, they had heard his name for a long time while living in the Prefect Mansion, so they hurriedly bowed and saluted him; knowing that the old man was a powerhouse of the Xianyang Realm, Ji Hong naturally followed suit and paid his respects.

"From Chen Cang..."

"Junior Ji Hong, a student of Chen Tianhong, the military advisor of Yan Ling Prefecture in Chen Cang!"

Seeing Cai Yuheng sizing him up, Ji Hong hurriedly reported his family background.

"A student of Chen Tianhong, indeed a famous teacher produces a great student. The old man has dealt with your master several times in his early years. Thank you, little brother, for saving Shiqin this time. The old man will definitely prepare a generous gift another day and visit you personally to thank you!"

Cai Yuheng's expression was extremely solemn, and he actually ignored the status of superior and inferior, bowed slightly to Ji Hong, and performed a virtual salute.

"Senior, absolutely not!"

A powerhouse of the Xianyang Realm bowing and saluting to him, this scared Ji Hong quite a bit. While waving his hands repeatedly to avoid it, his impression of the grandfather and granddaughter, Cai Yuheng and Cai Shiqin, became much better.

Cai Yuheng didn't care at all. After waving his hand, he thought of something and hurriedly asked Cai Shiqin: "Qin'er, I heard that you entered the young master's team. Qifeng, Yuwan, Zizheng, and Shiyan and the others..."

Seeing the dimness on his granddaughter's face, Cai Yuheng didn't continue to ask, and he had the answer in his heart, and sighed heavily.

"I expected it. At the beginning of the month, the Prefect personally led people to beat back the old monster of Profound Ice. The four major prefecture mansions sent twenty Xianyang Realm experts to search continuously in this area. They searched for half a month and only found more than a hundred people; it was about the same in Chen Cang, and only more than a hundred survived.

This trial, the two vassal towns, can be considered a huge loss..."

Hearing Cai Yuheng's words, the expressions of the six people froze slightly.

For the past month or so, they had already had a premonition that many people must have died in this trial, but at that time they thought it was at most sixty or seventy percent. Now hearing Cai Yuheng's meaning, it was more than eighty percent dead, which is more than eight hundred people?

These eight hundred people were not cabbages on the side of the road; they were all the most talented batch of disciples from the seven branches of the four prefectures and three cities of the Cai clan, plus the six major families of Cai Qiu.

Even if they didn't know the situation in Chen Cang, it was estimated that it wouldn't be much different.

Right now, they were all buried in this inexplicable cold current!

This is more than a huge loss; the top geniuses of the two vassal towns of Cai Qiu and Chen Cang have almost directly broken a generation...

Cai Shiqin first showed a trace of sorrow, but turning her head to see Su Xing'er full of worry, she immediately asked: "Grandfather, how is the situation at the Zhenyuan Great Camp?"

Her father, Cai Tianzheng, was a captain of the Silver Scale Army, so for this period of time, not only Su Xing'er was worried about the situation at the Zhenyuan Great Camp, but she was the same.

Hearing this question, a trace of sorrow appeared on Cai Yuheng's face.

Seeing her grandfather's expression, Cai Shiqin understood instantly. Thinking that her grandfather only said he was looking for her with two uncles, her face turned pale instantly.

"The monsters in the Blood Miasma Plain fully counterattacked outward this year. Both vassal towns were caught in their schemes. On the third day, the army on the periphery of the miasma zone and the Zhenyuan Great Camp were attacked by the beast tide at the same time. The 50,000-strong army in the trial camp went to rescue Zhenyuan at the first opportunity, so no one cared about you trial disciples.

The two waves of beast tides at the Zhenyuan Great Camp and the periphery of the miasma zone were too large and endless. It was too slow to mobilize troops from the vassal towns, so we had no choice but to ask Chen Cang for reinforcements..."

As Cai Yuheng narrated, all the things that happened in the past month and a half were clear to Cai Shiqin, the four Su Xing'er siblings, and even Ji Hong.

Monsters were behind the beast tide. Based on the principle that if the lips are gone, the teeth are cold, knowing that the two waves of the Cai Qiu army were surrounded, Chen Cang immediately sent reinforcements.

But as soon as the reinforcements moved, they happened to fall into the monster's trap.

The part of the area controlled by Chen Cang on the periphery of the Blood Miasma Plain also set up a Tuoyuan Great Camp. The army stationed in the camp was equivalent to Cai Qiu, only 200,000, and sending 100,000 to aid Cai Qiu, they only had half left.

Chen Cang's 100,000 reinforcements arrived at Zhenyuan, and the beast tide on the Cai Qiu side immediately began to retreat. Then, the Tuoyuan Great Camp was immediately surrounded by the beast tide, and the scale of the beast tide surrounding them was even more terrifying than what Cai Qiu encountered, with a total of more than 30,000.

Only then did the two vassal towns suddenly realize that the monster's true target was actually Chen Cang. When they learned that the trial zone was invaded by the cold current, both vassal towns had no time to take care of it. Both sides sent five Xianyang Realm experts, and everyone else was fully rescuing Chen Cang's Tuoyuan Great Camp.

This counterattack by the monsters of the Blood Miasma Plain lasted for a total of 37 days from the third day of the eleventh month until the tenth day of the twelfth month when the Tuoyuan Great Camp was relieved.

Cai Qiulinchu Prefect Cai Qiuyang, Qingcang Prefect Cai Qiuning; Chen Cang Yan Ling Prefect Chu Tianxu, Donglin Prefect Chen Tiandong, the four top powerhouses of the Tribulation Body Realm of the two vassal towns all came out, plus more than two hundred Xianyang Realm experts, and a total of 400,000 troops including 70,000 Red Dragon Army of Chen Cang and 50,000 Silver Scale Army of Cai Qiu.

But because they were led by the nose by the monsters throughout the process, the result was a complete defeat.

First, more than 1,600 of the 2,000 top geniuses who came to participate in the trial from the two vassal towns died. The geniuses were directly broken. Currently, there may be no changes, but the impact on the future will inevitably be great;

Secondly, 30% of Cai Qiu's 50,000 Silver Scale Army were damaged, and nearly half of the 150,000 Town Guard Army were killed, totaling more than 90,000 deaths; Chen Cang's Tuoyuan Great Camp was directly destroyed by the beast tide, nearly 80% of the 100,000 troops left behind were killed, and the 100,000 troops mobilized to support Cai Qiu had slightly less damage, totaling 20%. Therefore, the cumulative number of deaths was even more than Cai Qiu, close to half.

This was just the number of deaths in the army. According to Cai Yuheng, a total of 13 Xianyang Realm experts from Cai Qiu died, and 51 were missing; Chen Cang, as the main target of the monster counterattack, was even more miserable, with a full 53 deaths, which can be described as a serious injury.

Finally, it was the comprehensive counterattack of the miasma. Taking advantage of the serious injury of the two vassal towns, not long after the beast tide retreated, the blood-colored miasma actually expanded northward by another five or six kilometers, which made the previous years of operation of the two vassal towns instantly vanish into thin air. Now the two vassal towns are violently increasing troops to the Blood Miasma Plain to prevent the miasma from continuing to spread northward.

"When the 100,000-strong army was surrounded by the beast tide on the periphery of the miasma zone, Tianzheng fought at the forefront and unfortunately died in battle due to exhaustion..."

Although she had guessed it in her heart, hearing her grandfather say that her father died in battle, Cai Shiqin's already pale face added a few more traces of misery, her face was about to drip with tears, and bean-sized tears rolled down immediately.

Cai Yuheng hugged his granddaughter with heartache, then thought of something, turned to look at the four Su Xing'er siblings, and said solemnly: "Your master Hong Yu followed General Fan into the miasma zone before the battle. I just said that 51 Xianyang Realm experts from Cai Qiu are missing, which refers to General Fan's group of 51 people..."

"Master..."

This time, not only Cai Shiqin, but Su Xing'er's body also shook violently. If Su Jing and the other two hadn't caught her in time, she would have fallen instantly.

Although the three Su Jing brothers supported their sister, their faces were also full of anxiety, obviously also shocked by this bad news.

"The miasma expanded northward by five or six kilometers, so the area where General Fan and the others are is even deeper. The Blood Miasma Plain seems to have undergone major changes again this year. At the moment, no one dares to go in. We can only wait for the two Prefects to find time. Only they can go in personally to have hope of finding General Fan and the others."

Hearing Cai Yuheng's last sentence, a glimmer of hope rose on the faces of the four Su Xing'er siblings.

Cai Shiqin had a gentle personality but was not weak. Seeing Su Xing'er full of anxiety, she suppressed the sadness in her heart, stepped forward to hold Su Xing'er's hand, and persuaded softly: "Xing'er, don't worry. The Prefect Ancestor will not sit idly by and watch General Fan and the others suffer. He will definitely go in to find them later. Maybe your master will be back soon. Come with me to the Zhenyuan Great Camp and wait!"

The four Su Xing'er people naturally had no opinion and nodded immediately.

"I will go too!"

Ji Hong, who had been standing on the side with a somewhat anxious face, couldn't help but speak at this time, indicating that he would also go with them.

Su Xing'er and Cai Shiqin both nodded and did not refuse.

The group of six followed Cai Yuheng and soon arrived at the Zhenyuan Great Camp.

The moment they arrived at the Zhenyuan Great Camp, the six people deeply realized how much damage this monster counterattack had brought to Cai Qiu.

"Father, father, son hasn't had time to fulfill filial piety, why did you leave like this."

"Woo woo woo woo, master, master, wake up, wake up!"

"Father, I brought my second brother to pick you up, woo woo woo..."

"Husband, didn't you promise to watch our son grow up? Why did you leave like this, husband, wake up, wake up, woo woo woo woo..." ===== CHAPTER 468 =====