Chapter 478: Don't know what a Demon is?

The answer of the Dingxi Marquis made Lin Chen and Yin Yue both have doubts in their eyes. The Dingxi Army guards the west, isn't it fighting against Demons?

The one who knows you best is always the opponent.

The Dingxi Army has existed in the west for three hundred years, and they don't even know their opponent?

If it weren't for being sure that the Dingxi Marquis couldn't be joking with him about this, and couldn't hide it from him, Lin Chen would almost think whether there was some secret involved here, and he wasn't qualified to know yet.

"Lord Lin, with your status, I will not have any concealment. Our Dingxi Army's duty is to defend against the invasion of Demons, and we have also fought against Demons. It's just that this way of fighting might be different from what Lord Lin thinks."

The Dingxi Marquis knew that if he said this, Lin Chen would definitely misunderstand. Not only Lin Chen, every soldier who came here couldn't understand it at first.

"On the day of the full moon every month, black mist will emerge from the abyss. These black mists pour in, and our Dingxi Army fights against these black mists."

Mentioning the black mist, the Dingxi Marquis's expression became serious: "There are Demons in the black mist, but what the Demons look like, even those who enter cannot say clearly. All martial artists who walk out of the black mist will forget their experiences in the black mist, and their bodies will become weak, needing a month of rest to recover. And those who fail to walk out have no trace left."

Lin Chen had a look of thought in his eyes: "Since this is the case, why enter the black mist? Can't you retreat and wait for the Demons in the black mist to come out?"

In the Western Wasteland, the desolate yellow sand alone is tens of thousands of miles long. The Dingxi Army can completely retreat thousands of miles.

"Lord Lin, the black mist will not dissipate actively, but will continue to move forward. And the further back you retreat, the more black mist emerges. And if you want the black mist to disappear, you can only send martial artists into it, relying on the number of martial artists to fill the black mist, so that the black mist will not grow anymore."

A side Zhang Hai added, and the Dingxi Marquis said to the personal guard beside him: "Move the sand table over."

The personal guard obeyed and turned to run towards the military camp. The Dingxi Marquis explained to Lin Chen: "Lord Lin, many people who come to the west for the first time like you don't understand it a bit. The successive Marquises made a sand table directly. When the time comes, Lord Lin will understand at a glance."

In less than a hundred breaths, several personal guards carried the sand table table back.

On the sand table, on the far left, there is an abyss, and the bottom of the abyss is covered with some kind of liquid.

"Lord Lin, please look."

The Dingxi Marquis ignited the liquid at the bottom of the abyss, and soon black smoke rose. Lin Chen knew from the smell that this liquid was kerosene.

The black smoke emerged from the abyss, and under the control of the momentum of the personal guards on the side, it began to spread to the right. In the middle of the sand table was the military camp where the Dingxi Army was located.

"If our Dingxi Army doesn't rush into the black smoke, the bottom of the abyss will continuously emerge black smoke. Even if it is a land of ten thousand miles of yellow sand, it is enough to be swallowed by the black smoke."

Lin Chen and Yin Yue also looked at the sand table. The black smoke rose very fast, and looking at the volume of kerosene in the abyss, it was far from the point of being finished.

When the black smoke was about to rush to the military camp position on the sand table, personal guards took out small balls similar to cotton. These small balls the size of fingernails were thrown into the black smoke, and soon the black smoke was adsorbed on them. The original pure white small balls all turned into black balls.

The white small balls adsorbed the black smoke. As the white small balls were continuously thrown in, the area where the black smoke spread began to shrink. When it shrank to a certain range, the Dingxi Marquis slapped out, and the palm wind made the black smoke on these small balls all surge back to the abyss, and several small balls were also carried by the palm wind and fell into the abyss.

"For three hundred years, according to our discovery, as long as the range of these black mists does not exceed one hundred miles from the abyss, when the moon falls, these black mists seem to be summoned by the abyss and will actively retreat. But if the range of the black mist exceeds one hundred miles, the abyss will continuously spit out black mist, regardless of the moon falling."

With the sand table and the Dingxi Marquis explaining on the side, Lin Chen and Yin Yue both understood and heard it. But precisely because they understood, the two felt even more puzzled in their hearts.

Why does the abyss continuously emerge black mist when the black mist exceeds one hundred miles, and shrink back when it is less than one hundred miles?

"For so many years, every martial artist who entered the black mist lost their memory in the black mist. Is there no exception?"

Hearing Lin Chen ask this, the Dingxi Marquis smiled bitterly: "No. I have entered the black mist dozens of times. Every time the black mist dissipated, I fell into a coma, and when I woke up, I only remembered what happened before being swallowed by the black mist."

"If you don't remember anything, how do you determine there are Demons? Instead of the black smoke itself being so strange?"

Yin Yue on the side spoke slowly. The Dingxi Marquis already knew Yin Yue's identity from Lin Chen's introduction. Of course, what he knew was the identity Lin Chen fabricated for Yin Yue to the outside world.

"Little girl, that's because there were records of black mist emerging from the yellow sand before. At that time, several cities were shrouded in black mist. After the black mist passed, the hearts of the people in these cities all disappeared. And according to some written records handed down from the previous dynasty and locally, there are Demons hiding in the black mist that eat

"Little girl, that is because there were records of black mist surging out of the yellow sand in the past. At that time, the people of several cities were enveloped by the black mist. When the black mist passed, the hearts of the people in these cities had all disappeared. According to some written records passed down from the previous dynasty and locally, there is a demon hidden in this black mist that eats human hearts, and the one in the abyss is the Demon Ancestor."

The term "demon" did not originate in Great Liang; it existed even earlier...

It can be traced back thousands of years or even longer. The previous dynasty called it this, and Great Liang has simply continued to use it.

Yin Yue did not ask again. Lin Chen saw Yin Yue lowering her head and knew that this little girl must be thinking. He immediately continued to ask: "Marquis, what is the reason those martial artists taken away by the black mist were taken? Is it because their strength is weak? The army should have studied this, right?"

"We have studied it."

The Marquis of Dingxi nodded: "These martial artists taken away by the black mist are not necessarily those with weaker strength. According to discoveries over the years, the army has also found common characteristics in these martial artists. The first is that their cultivation base had just broken through not long ago, and the second is that they were emotionally unstable. For this reason, every time before the black mist arrives, anyone whose cultivation base has not been broken through for three full months is arranged to be in the rear. At the same time, when the Dingxi Army selects people, besides strength, they look at temperament; those whose emotions fluctuate easily will not pass the selection of the Dingxi Army."