Chapter 114

Yuncui Cave Dwelling.

Liang Jingtang was leading four male disciples to hoe and turn the soil in full swing.

The requirements for plowing spiritual fields are much higher than those for ordinary fields; it is true intensive cultivation.

The requirements for planting spiritual herbs are even higher.

As soon as Liu Qiaolian and Ji Wenyue returned to Li Cheng, Xia Daoming took these two beautiful experts to the Yuncui Cave Dwelling.

After their survey and discussion, they decided to reclaim the two acres of land around the spiritual spring into a medicinal garden, and the remaining twenty-two acres into spiritual rice fields.

"Master, why are you hoeing the fields yourself again?" Seeing Liang Jingtang also hoeing, Xia Daoming felt a little uneasy thinking about himself enjoying the services of two beauties above.

"Their work is too rough, and I can't stand to watch it," Liang Jingtang said.

Yuchi Xiao and the others wiped their sweat silently, and no one dared to speak back.

They had been disciplined too much these past few days!

"Leave it here for now. Ma Tong is bringing a thousand-man elite force and is rushing toward Li Cheng. It is estimated that they will arrive in an hour or two," Xia Daoming said in a deep voice.

"What! Ma Tong dares to attack Li Cheng with a thousand-man elite force!" Liang Jingtang and the others put down their hoes immediately upon hearing this, looking excited and expectant.

Looking at his master and fellow disciples who were excited and expectant, Xia Daoming was speechless for a while.

But as long as they were happy, it was fine.

Anyway, he had just finished eating that big snake yesterday and supplemented it with other things, completing the ninth-level meridian strengthening and becoming a tenth-rank Grandmaster with irresistible force.

Now, except for the relatively limited change in the distance of his force shaping and killing from a distance, which only increased by a mere two zhang to reach twelve zhang, the strength of his force and the speed of his explosiveness made even he himself feel a little scared.

Even if there were cultivators hidden on the other side, as long as it wasn't that kind of Qi Refinement perfection or some Foundation Establishment ancestor level, with intentional calculation against unintentional, plus his terrifying speed and explosive power, Xia Daoming felt that it would be relatively easy to deal with them.

Who the hell is the cultivator here?

However, Foundation Establishment ancestors generally cannot participate in secular power struggles, and cultivators at the perfection of Qi Refinement are basically busy impacting the Foundation Establishment stage, and it is extremely rare for them to personally participate in secular power struggles.

Moreover, what kind of place is Li Cheng, and what level of army is Ma Tong? How could such high and mighty figures specifically run here with Ma Tong to join in the fun!

In fact, if Xia Daoming hadn't discovered the Yuncui Cave Dwelling in Li Cheng, he estimated that he would soon leave Li Cheng to go to places with more opportunities to venture and develop.

——

The news that Ma Tong was bringing a thousand-man elite force and rushing from afar to kill Li Cheng spread throughout the city.

The entire Li Cheng suddenly fell into an unprecedented panic.

"Run quickly! The rebel army is coming to kill!"

"Ma the Butcher is here! They will definitely slaughter the city!"

"Zhu'er, where are you? Come home quickly!"

People shouted, some ran to the street to find children and relatives, some ran home to bring whatever property they could take, and hurried to gather at the Beicheng Gate, hoping to escape the city gate and flee to the North before the rebel army attacked.

Some people also fled to the Xicheng Gate.

Almost no one went to the Southeast City Gates.

The crying of women and children, the shouting, and the rumbling of wheels were intertwined, and the streets leading to the city gates of Li Cheng were bustling and crowded with people fleeing.

Some old, weak, sick, and disabled people could not escape in time and could only burn incense and pray at home, hoping to be spared.

But when the common people fled to the city gate, they found that the city gate had already been closed.

In front of the city gate and on the city wall, soldiers wearing leather armor and hands on knife hilts stood straight.

"Let us out! Please,

let us out, we don't want to die!" Seeing the city gate closed, people cried out.

Just as people were crying, Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen appeared on the Beicheng Tower.

"Old Master Ji, please have mercy and let us go!"

"Old Master Ji, open the city gate, we definitely can't hold the city!"

Seeing Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen appear on the city tower, people looked at him, shouting and begging.

"Who said we can't hold the city? If we really couldn't hold it, our Ji family would definitely run away too. Do you think we would stay here to die?" Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen shouted.

"Old Master Xu is gone, and the Lin family, Ding family, and Badao Sect are all gone. What do we have to defend with?" someone shouted.

"Xu Zhiyuan is gone, but I am still here, and Master Liang Jingtang is still here! The Lin family, Ding family, and Eight-Blade Sect are gone, but the Ji family, Tenglong Martial Arts Hall, and all the martial arts heroes are still here!" Ji Yuanzhen shouted.

"But we heard that Ma the Butcher is a Martial Arts Grandmaster, one person can rival a thousand. Old Master Xu is gone, who can..." As soon as Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen finished speaking, there was a roar below.

"Roar!"

Just at this moment, a mighty tiger roar sounded.

Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen stood straight, his white hair flying, his white clothes fluttering, pointing his knife at the sky, and the blade shot out rays of light in the setting sun, condensing into an incomparably fierce white tiger in the air.

The tiger stood in the air, exuding a monstrous intent to kill.

The soldiers and Ji family disciples guarding the city gate and standing on the city wall saw this scene again, and their eyes looking at Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen were full of fanaticism and awe.

Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen had already shown this move to the soldiers and Ji family disciples guarding the city, so they could firmly guard the city gate and city wall in the face of the panicked common people.

Otherwise, when it comes to their lives, many soldiers were recruited and trained recently, and they would have run away before the common people.

The street, which was originally boiling with shouting, suddenly became quiet.

"Grandmaster! Old Master Ji is a Martial Arts Grandmaster!"

"Grandmaster! Grandmaster!"

After a long time, the crowd suddenly erupted into excited cheers like a tsunami.

Having just experienced a disaster, the people of Li Cheng all wanted peace.

As long as there is a little hope, who would be willing to travel long distances to the North, where the future is uncertain and the environment is definitely worse?

Moreover, the rebel army has already approached, and fleeing in a hurry at this time, how many people can eventually escape the pursuit of the rebel army.

Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen suddenly erupted with the cultivation of a Grandmaster, which immediately gave the desperate people hope!

"Roar!"

Another tiger roar sounded.

The street became quiet again.

People looked up at Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen with expectation.

"Li Cheng not only has me as a Martial Arts Grandmaster, but Master Liang Jingtang of Tenglong Martial Arts Hall is also a Martial Arts Grandmaster now!" Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen said loudly.

"What? Master Liang is also a Martial Arts Grandmaster, we have two Martial Arts Grandmasters in Li Cheng!"

"Li Cheng is saved!"

"We are saved!"

"The old, weak, women, and children go back first! The young and strong stay with me to defend the city!"

"The young and strong stay to defend the city!"

Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen's words were like a stone causing a thousand waves.

People's hope and confidence were completely ignited!

Then, the old people and women holding children began to return home.

The same scene was also staged at the Xicheng Gate.

Liang Jingtang's performance was much more mighty and flamboyant than Elder Ji Yuanzhen Yuanzhen's.

He stood proudly on the Xicheng Tower, his silver beard flying, a spear thrust out, force gushing, wind howling, and a dragon condensed in the air.

Its snake-like body was covered with shining scales, and it had bird-like claws with scales under its body, and branch-like dragon horns like deer horns on its huge head.

Dignity, dominance, vicissitudes, and ancient aura were exuding over the Xicheng Tower at this moment.

Below the city tower, on the street, the common people who were originally crying and wanting to leave became quiet instantly, and soon someone knelt down.

And then, everyone knelt down one after another.

In this world, dragons also have a very transcendent and noble status in people's minds, representing supreme power and authority.

Liang Jingtang looked down at the black mass of heads below, and he almost floated up.

Yuchi Xiao and Zhuo Xingji, who stood behind Liang Jingtang like two door gods, had their eyes drifting at this moment.

Because they thought that one day they would also become Grandmasters!

At that time, just like their master, with a spear pointing, tsk tsk.

Just thinking about it, they felt like they were going to float up.

——

Night fell quietly, and the stars filled the sky.

Under the night, Li Cheng, with its magnificent city walls and towering city towers, was like a giant beast quietly crouching on a plain at the foot of the Cangmang Mountains, waiting for the arrival of its prey.

Suddenly, iron hooves shattered the silence outside the city, and a thousand-man cavalry was coming aggressively.

The horse hooves hit the ground, kicking up rolling dust, like a monster with teeth and claws under the starlight.

The army stopped advancing outside the East City Gate.

Ma Tong wore black armor and held a long-handled golden hammer in his hand. The golden hammer was as big as a winter melon, flashing with golden light under the starlight, and it looked extremely heavy; one hammer blow would be irresistible.

The twenty riders standing behind and beside Ma Tong, except for the gray-clad old man who was still dressed in cloth, were all wearing fish-scale iron armor and ferocious iron helmets. The warhorses under their crotches were also covered in scales, with strong muscles, tall and robust.

These twenty riders were all muscular and tall, exuding an extremely surging and surging aura of blood and force, and they were all Great Martial Masters of the seventh and eighth-rank realm.

Among them, the eighth-rank Great Martial Masters, including the gray-clad old man, reached as many as six.

This was the nineteen Iron Blood Guards carefully built by Ma Tong at the cost of huge wealth, and they were his confidants and elites that he could truly rely on in the army.

And the gray-clad old man was the loyal servant of the Ma family who had taken care of him since he was a child, and he was also the housekeeper and military advisor by his side now.

"Interesting, with such a big movement, Li Cheng shouldn't have failed to discover it by now, right? The city gate is closed, there are no panicked common people fleeing outside the city, and there seems to be no movement in the city!" Ma Tong looked at Li Cheng, which was quiet under the night, with interest.

"Something is wrong. Could it be that the Ji family, who controls Li Cheng now, is preparing to defend the city and fight us?" the gray-clad old man said with a look of gravity and thought.

"The whole family only has one eighth-rank Great Wu Shi, where do they get the confidence to fight us? Most likely they think we will send someone to persuade them to surrender first, so they are ready to surrender.

But they definitely wouldn't expect that we don't need them to surrender this time; we want to slaughter the city, kill everyone, and grab everything!" Ma Tong's mouth hooked into a disdainful and cruel sneer.

"That's possible." The gray-clad old man nodded, then thought for a while and said: "Since our sudden appearance did not cause chaos in Li Cheng, and the city gates are all closed, Master, why not take advantage of the situation and send someone to persuade them to surrender, let them open the city gate and let us in. This Li Cheng city wall is tall and sturdy; if we really want to attack, we will lose some troops."

"Hehe, that's even better. They didn't expect that they would still be slaughtered after surrendering; the resentment of the ghosts must be even greater." As soon as the gray-clad old man finished speaking, an insidious voice came from the cavalry behind them.

PS: This chapter is an additional update for the Silver Great Alliance leader, Wandering Lone Bet. Whether I can continue to add updates tomorrow depends on whether the writing goes smoothly today. That's all for today.

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