Chapter 11

Jianmen Pass.

One of the eight passes in the North.

Located among the mountains, with cliffs and precipices on both sides, straight into the clouds; the peaks lean against the sky like swords, the cliffs are cut off, and the two walls face each other, their shape like a gate, hence it is called "Jianmen".

It enjoys the reputation of "Jianmen is the most dangerous in the world".

Looking at this towering and majestic pass fortress from afar, one suddenly feels small.

Since killing the Earth Walker and scaring off Ai Haike, Seeing Dou Changsheng galloped his horse, and the journey was smooth; now he has rushed to the outside of Jianmen Pass.

Now that the majestic pass is in sight, Seeing Dou Changsheng is not relaxed but even more alert.

Throughout history, countless heroes and heroes have fallen at this last step of impending success.

Especially the commander of Jianmen Pass, whose attitude is currently unclear; this struggle in the North arose because of this commander of Jianmen Pass.

This is the center of the storm, with the Great Jin Prime Minister, the Grand General of the North, and the Hu Ren wrestling with each other.

Drawn into this vortex, with his small stature, he could easily be torn to pieces.

Seeing Dou Changsheng sat on the horse's back, stopped for a long time, and then turned over and dismounted, leading the horse, and began to walk toward Jianmen Pass.

Jianmen Pass had been under martial law for some time, cutting off the inside and outside, and no longer allowing people to leave the pass; now the heavy city gate was tightly closed, and on it, one could clearly see wavy lines carved, forming unknown patterns together, and faintly one could see a stream of light constantly flowing among the lines.

When Seeing Dou Changsheng approached, a group of armored soldiers immediately appeared on the city wall.

Bows were already pulled into full moons, and arrows were aimed at Seeing Dou Changsheng; a commander pressed one hand on the saber hilt at his waist, looked down from a high position, and said in a deep voice: "Jianmen Pass has been closed, and idlers are not allowed to approach."

"If you want to go out of the fortress, please take other roads."

Eyes stared at Seeing Dou Changsheng, their gaze mainly looking at Seeing Dou Changsheng's sword sheath.

Those who carry swords are all martial artists.

In this world, martial artists are naturally a special class.

They can break many rules; if it were ordinary common people, the commander naturally wouldn't talk nonsense and would shoot an arrow down directly to warn the other party not to advance.

But martial artists are different; no one knows the strength of this martial artist.

If he offended him, he might have hit an iron plate.

Seeing Dou Changsheng took out a token from his bosom, then raised it high and shouted loudly: "By the order of the Shogunate."

"Delivering military pay to the border army!"

The commander's eyes condensed, and he began to look carefully; looking at the patterns on the token, he finally waved his hand and said: "Open the pass!"

"Invite the Shogunate envoy to enter!"

With a creak.

The heavy and thick gate slowly opened.

The commander was wearing heavy armor, like a monster cast from steel; it looked like his weight and height combined were definitely no less than a thousand jin, but Seeing Dou Changsheng noticed that every step the commander took, no footprints were left on the ground, and this heavy armor seemed as if it were made of paper.

The commander walked over with big strides, with a team of armored soldiers standing behind him; they were wearing armor and holding long spears.

Their eyes were cold, looking at Seeing Dou Changsheng as if looking at a dead person; most importantly, Seeing Dou Changsheng could not feel their individual aura; facing one of them was like facing everyone.

The commander came to three steps in front of Seeing Dou Changsheng, stopped moving, and said calmly: "The Shogunate has finally sent someone."

"I thought the people from the Shogunate would never arrive."

After the commander finished speaking, he turned and walked toward the inside of the pass. Seeing Dou Changsheng frowned; he had traveled thousands of miles, not knowing how many difficulties and obstacles he had encountered, and finally arrived at Jianmen Pass, only to be unloved by the grandmother and unloved by the uncle.

The atmosphere at Jianmen Pass is not right.

Seeing Dou Changsheng followed the commander into the pass, his heart already alert.

The Grand General of the North, Yu Yun, has been sitting in the North for more than ten years, establishing his own government and system; the Shogunate manages the North, and officials at the level of the commander are basically appointed by the Shogunate.

If the Shogunate did not have this kind of control over the North, the current Grand General of the North would not have been imprisoned.

That's right.

If the atmosphere at Jianmen Pass were not wrong, just by relying on a commander of Jianmen Pass, how could he offer up the majestic pass? He would have been killed by his subordinates long ago.

The attitude of the commander of Jianmen Pass is not necessarily his own, but the border army is full of complaints.

The commander of Jianmen Pass was just pushed out by the border army to be the leader.

This time the military pay was delivered so timely, and the Pure Yang Grandmaster did not hesitate to consume his own essence and blood, just to appease the border army.

The gate closed again, and Seeing Dou Changsheng's heart also rose to his throat, fearing that the other party would go back on his word at this time and order his capture and killing.

With his ability, he doesn't have the ability to break through the pass.

Catching a turtle in a jar, unable to escape with wings; a series of idioms are all very suitable for him.

However, the worst situation did not appear; this commander had a bad attitude, but he was always very calm and personally led Seeing Dou Changsheng directly into the Captain's Mansion.

The commander of Jianmen Pass is the Captain of Breaking the Captives.

This is a military town; although there are also common people, no government office was established, and all civil and military affairs are under the control of the Captain of Breaking the Captives.

This is not the norm, but a military management implemented temporarily more than ten years ago when the Grand General of the North was entrusted by the late emperor to guard the North and resist the Hu Ren.

Outside the Captain's Mansion, Seeing Dou Changsheng waited for a while before being picked up by a long-bearded scholar.

Not long after, he arrived at the main hall.

The layout of the main hall was simple, which could be described as crude.

A fat figure was sitting on the ground, his fat palms grabbing a lamb leg, gnawing on it unscrupulously; oil stains could be clearly seen on his palms and corners of his mouth.

Eating meat in big mouthfuls, drinking wine in big mouthfuls.

When Seeing Dou Changsheng walked in, the Captain of Breaking the Captives didn't even lift his head, biting the lamb meat while speaking, his tone slightly blurred: "Where are the things?"

"Everyone says this time, it is Pure Yang blood."

"I have to see this thing myself."

"The gap between ordinary blood and essence blood is huge."

"It's not that the blood of a Pure Yang Grandmaster is Pure Yang blood."

Seeing Dou Changsheng personally untied the package he was carrying on his back, then handed it over with both hands, and at the same time said: "Since Junxian, I and the Black Hei Hei Ying Zunzhe have split into two paths; which path is true?"

"Which path is false?"

"I don't know either, so I ask the Captain to inspect it yourself."

The Captain of Breaking the Captives stretched out his greasy palms, not caring at all about the things that countless people were fighting and killing for this time, directly unwrapping them and looking at the gems scattered down.

Looking at the light permeating them, they were as brilliant as stars.

The Captain of Breaking the Captives sneered and said: "You are a direct descendant of the Xiangzhou Wang Clan."

"Some people say you are the Dao Seed of the Wang Clan, the next head of the family."

"With your status and martial power, where did the Black Hei Hei Ying Zunzhe, a mere Postnatal Realm martial artist, get the courage to dare to let you act as bait?"

"Tang He has been following you."

"Now he has arrived at Jianmen Pass one step ahead and has long passed the news over."

The Captain of Breaking the Captives reached out and wiped, and the color on it changed; blood light kept permeating, and finally evolved into scarlet, looking like red blood stones, constantly emitting a scorching feeling.

"For this thing, I don't know how many people have lost their lives."

"The Black Hei Hei Ying Zunzhe is a man in his seventies, half of his body is already in the soil, yet he still traveled thousands of miles for this, not hesitating to use his own body as temptation to buy time for you."

"Just to send this thing into Jianmen Pass to exchange for the morale of the border army."

The fat on the Captain of Breaking the Captives' face began to tremble, and a pair of eyes revealed cold light; he reached out and slapped, and the drops of Pure Yang blood instantly collapsed, disintegrated, and finally disappeared directly, being forcibly wiped away.

A cold voice sounded: "Knowing to appease people's hearts at this time."

"What were they doing earlier?"

"We guard the border, in order to protect our homes and defend our country, resist the Hu Ren, and fight bloody battles, with countless casualties."

"They sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labor, enjoying the peace we exchanged with our lives; originally this was nothing, having joined the army, one has the psychological preparation to die on the battlefield."

"But they shouldn't have, they shouldn't have touched our families."

"Then what is the meaning of our fighting against the Hu Ren here?"

"Dying in the hands of the Hu Ren is death; could it be that dying in their hands is not death?"

"Being bullied by them, is it not being bullied?"

"Yu Yun failed me, and also failed everyone in the North."

"We people in the North, in order to resist the Hu Ren, have spent money and people; in more than ten years of war, I don't know how many people have died, and countless families have been broken."

"The capital, the Liang land, they are drunk and dreaming of death; they would rather take money to feed dogs than send a single penny to the North to let us eat a mouthful of food."

"I just ask, why?"

"Resisting the Hu Ren, why is it the responsibility of us people in the North?"

"Yu Yun bears the hope of the North; the Shogunate has had people and money for more than ten years, but at the critical moment, it cannot fight for benefits for our North; the military pay just left the capital, and it was actually robbed and disappeared."

"What a huge joke!"

The Captain of Breaking the Captives laughed unscrupulously, laughing in a way that made people feel cold in their hearts.

"Yu Yun is not from the North, so in his heart, the people of the North are just pigs and dogs, not worth mentioning at all; he accepted an imperial edict from the imperial court and directly laid down his armor and went to prison."

"What he considered was that little bit of reputation and family, not caring about our lives at all."

"Old Master Yuan is also ridiculous; in order to fill the deficit of the gentlemen in the capital, he actually damaged his own essence and blood."

"Since the imperial court doesn't want the North and is unwilling to take the wealth of the Liang land and the capital to support us in resisting the Hu Ren, then why should we still resist the Hu Ren."

"Drained our blood, why?"

"We in the North have suffered the invasion of the Hu Ren, so we must also let them taste this feeling."

"Let's see if these gentlemen can still say any empty words or big words."

"Trample the capital with horses, and see if their mouths are sharp or the Hu Ren's knives are sharp."

"The North is too bitter."

"What needs to be appeased and calmed is not just us, but the entire North."

"Even a rabbit will bite when it's anxious; I want to see how these gentlemen face the anger of the North."

The Captain of Breaking the Captives vented, finally wiped his mouth, wiped off the oil stains, the anger gradually dissipated, and he had calmed down, saying coldly: "You traveled thousands of miles to help, you are also a loyal and righteous person."

"Leave Jianmen Pass quickly, and you can still save your life."

"See the guest out!"

The Captain of Breaking the Captives didn't pay attention to Seeing Dou Changsheng at all; saying so much was just to vent the depression in his heart.

Seeing Dou Changsheng was directly kicked out of the door; standing outside the gate, he was also at a loss.

His mood was also relatively heavy; this storm in the North is more terrifying than imagined.

This is not the commander of Jianmen Pass having second thoughts, wanting to betray the imperial court and surrender to the Hu Ren; the other party is not because of power and wealth, but because the North is tired of war.

It's no wonder that the commander of Jianmen Pass was not killed by the strong men of the imperial court.

Killing cannot solve the problem at all.

The commander of Jianmen Pass does not represent himself, but countless people in the North.

The North is like a volcano, just missing a spark, and it is about to erupt.

The fuse of this incident was that the families of the border army at Jianmen Pass were harmed, but the root cause is that the people in the North don't want to fight anymore.

Having fought for more than ten years, they have paid too much, and they haven't seen any results; instead, they have to go from bad to worse and continue to send people and money.

No wonder Ai Haike, who is so loyal, has already had other thoughts; it is really because the North cannot hold on anymore.

Seeing Dou Changsheng was burdened with worries, not knowing what to do; suddenly he heard a call, looked up and saw it was Tang He, so he walked over; not long after, he arrived in a room.

Tang He sat down and sighed: "The Black Hei Hei Ying Zunzhe is now in danger, and I intend to save him."

"After saving him, I will leave the North."

"When I was young, I heard that the Grand General of the North, Yu Yun, led troops out of the fortress, broke the Hu Ren, achieved glorious military merits, and was famous all over the world."

"I yearned for this; a great man born in the world should leave his name in history."

"So after traveling the world and coming to the North, I joined the Shogunate directly, but after coming to Jianmen Pass this time, I discovered that the world is not what I thought."

"Once the war starts, I don't know how many people will die, and they all have families."

"Under the Grand General's glorious military achievements are countless white bones."

"The Grand General did not dare to violate the imperial court's edict and laid down his armor and went to prison; this is the duty of a subject, and there is nothing to blame."

"But he failed the North; the North paid so much for him to achieve his fame in history, but he could not fight for benefits for the North."

"That Wolf Lord outside the fortress understands human hearts well, and after many years of operation, it has already had results."

"Many people in the North are about to explode; I came to Jianmen Pass early, so I heard a sentence."

"Better to be a Hu Ren than a Jin person."

"There are countless heroes in the North; why fight to the death with the Hu Ren? It's better to carry a knife and ride a horse, go south and compete with the heroes of the Central Plains."

"The grassland Wolf Lord promised autonomy to the North, and among the kings of the Hu Ren royal court, another King of the North will be added."

Tang He smiled bitterly and said: "Many people in the North are moved, because all the Hu Ren tribes are autonomous, and the Wolf Lord's promise will not be violated."

"No wonder the Shogunate had so many obstacles in sending military pay this time, because the Shogunate can no longer control the North."

"The Demon Prime Minister, the Shogunate, the people of the North, the Hu Ren, it's too chaotic."

"I am willing to contribute to defeating the Hu Ren's conspiracy, but I am not willing to help or suppress the resistance of the people in the North who are being exploited and tired of war."

"The Wolf Lord unified the grassland, and it is difficult to govern; with the power of the North, if he leads his army south, the Great Jin is afraid it will perish."

"If you are not satisfied with your life in the North, you can come to the Great Chen to find me."

Seeing Dou Changsheng stood up and said: "I must also go to rescue the Black Hei Hei Ying Zunzhe."

"How can such a respectable old senior act as a sacrificial lamb for the struggle in the North."

Tang He smiled and said: "Sure enough, I didn't misjudge you."

"I knew you would definitely go."

"This time the enemy's strength is strong and there are many people; it requires a powerhouse like you with nine feet of sword Qi and Five Qi Morning Origin to win."

"At that time, I only saw more than one foot, and later I learned that the Earth Walker entered the ground eight feet and was actually killed by one sword; this must require zhang-length sword Qi."

Wait!

Nine feet of sword Qi?

What the hell?

Aren't you following me?

Are you blind!