Chapter 849: Gathering the Generals, Xuanwei Arrives

Leaving the high pagoda, at this moment, the sunset was only slowly falling.

In the last trace of afterglow, the nine-story pagoda stood silently in Wuchuanzhen...

Li Zhong looked at the silhouette of the pagoda, truly unable to distinguish whether this moment was real or illusory, or if it was as his brother said, the Dao Dust Pearl's power to reverse truth and illusion was enough to turn everything that had happened in the entire space-time into illusion, or choose to turn everything that was originally illusory into reality.

"Just now it should have been brother using the power of the Dao Dust Pearl to see me..."

As one of the three treasures of the Supreme, possessing the ability to suppress and guard the True Person is natural, and having a friendship with the Kunlun Mirror is also common. Even the Four Spirits of Heaven, given its status, have to give it some face.

But the Dao Dust Pearl alone would never be used so painstakingly to pave the way for himself, and the various manifestations of that 'Dao Dust Pearl' were a bit too much like a person!

Li Zhong finally called out tentatively, but now he had some certainty in his heart.

That was indeed Li Er...

"Xiliang secret treasure?" Li Zhong muttered in a low voice, "This matter should indeed be resolved!"

"In the Battle of Gaopingling, Cao Wei collapsed. Finally, they invited the Xianbei to the west and broke through the pass to enter the Northern Lands, leading to the chaos of the Sixteen Kingdoms."

"And because they relied on the Hu people and slaughtered too heavily, the Heluo lineage among the Northern Lands clans would rather elevate the Bohai Gao clan, who had a deep blood feud with the Hu barbarians. The Guanlong clans could accept our Li clan, and even recommend Cui Hao of the Qinghe Cui clan in Hebei as the leader to check the Cao clan... The Cao clan was therefore wary of the various clans and Hu tribes that had established the Sixteen Kingdoms in the past, believing that we were secretly checking them, preventing the Cao clan from ever giving birth to a second Primordial Spirit!"

Li Zhong sighed to the sky, "Although the Northern Lands clans were indeed checking the Cao clan, what does this have to do with me, the last prince of Xiliang?"

"A mere small kingdom in the Western Region, also remote among the Sixteen Kingdoms, surely they wouldn't be wary of me restoring the kingdom, right?"

Casually sheathing the Great Xia Longque in his hand, Li Zhong prepared to return to the barracks. The military camp had a curfew and could not be entered or exited at will, but he was a hired soldier and still had a certain degree of freedom in the town.

Just as he was about to leave, suddenly the entire sky exploded with alerts, and countless military orders fell.

A roar came from within the military order containing the seal, "All soldiers, return to the camp immediately!"

The entire military town's great array opened instantly. Various markets were isolated by the array, spiritual light of seals flickered on the walls, and the Six-Ren Heavenly Machine Ball instantly locked onto the positions of all personnel in the military town. The residential quarters where civilians and townspeople lived were instantly locked down.

One by one, military cultivators, either tidying their robes or tying their bows and armor, rushed out from where they lived.

Li Zhong also followed the military order to the camp, and with the help of a partner, put on his talisman armor.

This talisman armor had layers upon layers of new and old talismans, and no one knew how long it had been passed down. The bottom-most armor plates were hammered from thousand-year cold iron, and the Flaming Red Gold was engraved with talismans on them. The whole thing was cast into thumb-sized armor plates, and the engraved talismans were a secret transmission called the "Broken Army Xuan Armor Tianfu Tianfu Zhenfu Book."

It is said that Chen Chong's ancestors purchased it from the Twelve-Story Tower overseas. It was a seamless whole, and each armor plate was enough to withstand the full-force strike of a cultivator in the Penetrating the Law realm.

However, on this talisman armor, only half of the original armor plates remained, and the rest were jujube-wood talismans purchased from various side-path paths, protective jade talismans issued by the military, and even the Three-Mountain Talismans issued by the Orthodox Daoist Sect, folded into talisman armors with restrained spiritual energy and filled in.

Don't look at this messy appearance, but because the "Broken Army Xuan Armor Tianfu Tianfu Zhenfu Book" was mysterious, each talisman could still be activated on its own in a crisis, and it could also receive the blessing of the entire talisman armor.

It was worth fifty thousand Three-Mountain Talismans and was a treasure that Chen Chong regarded as his life.

Moreover, its defensive performance was not bad, and even on the arm position, there were attack talismans that Chen Chong had spent a lot of money to get, all of which were blessed by the signature spells of cultivators in the Penetrating the Law realm who had spent their whole lives refining them.

It was only because the talismans were too chaotic and their qi mechanisms conflicted that every time, he needed someone to help him don the armor and coordinate the military malevolent qi to suppress this piece of talisman armor.

"Brother Zhong!" Chen Chong's eyes lit up when he saw him, and he hurriedly called out, "Brother Zhong, help me out. My younger brother is stupid to death and can't suppress this talisman armor at all. He almost activated my Flaming Dragon Breaking Fate Talisman on my right hand!"

"Good heavens, he wants all the men of our Chen family to die in this military tent! Old Ma was scared to death and just went out!"

Beside him, the younger brother—Chen Shun—coldly looked up at Chen Chong and tightened the back rope of the talisman armor.

Li Zhong's heart moved, and the White Tiger Xin-Metal malevolent qi simulated the military malevolent qi and blessed it.

The Qi machines between the three of them connected, faintly forming a small Three-Talents Array, and the malevolent qi between them also superimposed.

Chen Chong only felt a sharp and peerless malevolent qi full of death and killing intent break through the conflicting spiritual light of his own talisman armor's layers, and with his own malevolent qi, instantly suppressed the hundreds of talismans, binding them firmly within the seal formed by the Xuan Armor Iron Talismans.

He was slightly surprised and looked up, "Brother Zhong, how come you seem to have made great progress in your cultivation in just one day?"

Li Zhong propped the broken blade on the desk, stepped on the low couch with one foot, bent over slightly, and said, "Someone came to my house! Brought news of my brother and some other things."

Chen Chong's eyes lit up. He looked left and right, lowered his voice, and said, "Brother Zhong, are you really from the Longxi Li clan?"

Li Zhong swept a glance at him and said calmly, "Who else has come to probe for information?"

"Hehe..." Chen Chong laughed, "Our Vanguard Camp is neither loved by the uncles nor the grandmothers. The only benefit is that it is freer. We recruit warriors and cultivators from the Northern Lands, give a little military pay on time, but when we fight, we have to rush to the front, provide our own armor, and be rewarded for military merit!"

"Inside, there are all kinds of monsters and ghosts, but Brother Zhong, you look like a decent person!"

"A decent person?" Li Zhong shook his head and smiled bitterly.

The Vanguard Camp where Li Zhong was located was not the direct lineage of the Liuzhen.

The direct lineage of the Liuzhen, the "Good Family Sons," refers to military aristocrats with backgrounds, families, and generations of service in the military garrisons, and garrison soldiers born and bred in the garrisons, passed down from generation to generation.

And the Vanguard Camp is a recruited army, recruiting various cultivators from the Northern Lands who want to venture into the Northern Frontier, giving a symbolic military pay. The main income is to be able to go out of the pass to plunder the Hu people, kill people to refine methods, collect spirit herbs, and even hunt monsters in the North.

So it is a mixed bag here, and they practice all kinds of magic.

There are even many practitioners who are not military cultivators mixed in it. To put it bluntly, they are mercenaries.

"You two brothers, aren't you also garrison-born Good Family Sons who can be selected into the regular army?" Li Zhong asked back, "Why are you also mixed in the Vanguard Camp?"

Chen Chong said carelessly, "It's free here! Relying on the military pay that the imperial court drags on day after day, we can't even afford to eat. Spirit grain is already eight talismans a dou! Not to mention my ancestral talisman armor, how much talisman money does it cost to repair it once? If I relied on military pay, I might as well sell the talisman armor and secretly run out of the Liuzhen to be a loose cultivator!"

"You dare!" Chen Shun said angrily, "This talisman armor, when Dad left, he said it, it's not something for you alone. If you die, it will be my turn to wear it..."

"Hahaha!" Li Zhong laughed, "Listen to what your brother says, Chen Chong, why haven't you died yet!"

"Go away..." Chen Chong pushed his brother, "I will find a woman to have a seed sooner or later, and even if I die, it won't be your turn."

He said indignantly, "Do you really think this is a good thing? I went deep into the Black Water Great Marsh in the Northern Frontier to hunt monsters. Even if I succeed nine times out of ten, as long as I escape back once, the money to repair this talisman armor is enough to pit eight times of my income."

"If you didn't have this talisman armor, you would have died outside long ago." Chen Shun said indignantly.

Chen Chong lowered his voice and said to Li Zhong, "Brother Zhong, be careful. Many people have been asking about you these past few days, and, there are outsiders!"

Li Zhong nodded slightly when he heard this.

But he heard the military soldiers being summoned outside. Two other partners in the tent also came. One was Old Ma, who had a crippled leg and walked with a limp. He was also an old soldier of Wuchuanzhen and joined the Vanguard Camp after being disabled.

The other was a left-path cultivator full of blood, holding a hundred-soul banner, named Hou Mo, who was a Xianbei person.

Their camp had also been through life and death several times, slaughtered miscellaneous Hu tribes, and hunted people from monster tribes in the Northern Frontier.

They greeted each other when they met, and then lined up to go to the drill ground!

On the drill ground, He Ba Du noticed Li Zhong, whom he had just met, and nodded slightly. The whole army lined up and waited. It was not just the Vanguard Camp; soldiers from eight battalions in Wuchuanzhen came, four battalions, while the other four battalions were on another drill ground, and some were on the city walls and guarding the military equipment and grain storage.

Li Zhong's ears moved slightly, and he heard someone speak slowly from the tent, "I came here, besides inspecting the generals and guarding against the north, I am also looking for someone!"

That person walked slowly out of the central military tent, and the Wuchuanzhen General and many great generals accompanied him on the side, their attitude very respectful.

But the person they surrounded looked only about twenty years old, in silver clothes and magnificent robes.

A white fox fur was draped over his body, and he stepped on small cowhide boots of the Great Strength Bull Demon clan. This person's body was covered in layers of magic treasure spiritual light, truly noble to the extreme.

Chen Chong lowered his voice and said to Li Zhong beside him, "Who is this? He doesn't look old, but his pomp is not small!"

"How majestic!" Old Ma and the two Chen brothers said with envy.

"How much malevolent qi!" It was Li Zhong and Hou Mo who said in unison.

The two looked at each other and knew that both had seen through some of the person's background. The white fox fur was peeled from the purest fox of the Qingqiu Fox clan and was also a complete magic treasure, combining the soul and skin bag of the Qingqiu Fox clan, a supreme treasure of illusion.

And the small cowhide boots were even more extraordinary, being the bloodline of the royal family of the Great Strength Bull Demon clan, with complete Dao patterns and their own great strength supernatural powers.

Every magic treasure on his body was a boutique, and most importantly, several of the magic treasures refined with monsters, the fur robes and leather boots, the resentment on them had not been refined, but were intimidated by people.

The one who intimidated those pure-blooded monsters was the owner of these fur robes and leather boots.

This shows that this object was not only hunted by him personally, but the ferocity of the monsters before they died was also intimidated, leaving only deep fear.

"Why hasn't the Guarding True Person arrived?"

That person asked gently.

"Reporting to the Crown Prince! The Guarding True Person is the Buddhist Tan Wuchen. He has always sat in the Buddha pagoda in the town, rarely asking about external affairs, and will not easily leave the pagoda." The Guarding General beside him reported respectfully, without half the value of a border general, as if he were that person's house slave.

"Crown Prince?" Li Zhong's heart instantly became heavy.

He looked up at the person, his eyes shining, "The Qilin Son of the Cao clan, known as the Dragon-Elephant Jade Tree in the south, and the Qilin Crown Prince in the north—Crown Prince Xuanwei?"

"Why would Crown Prince Xuanwei come to Wuchuan at this time?"

Li Zhong frowned. He hadn't forgotten the news his brother revealed. At this time, Wuchuanzhen was facing a great calamity, and even the Guarding True Person had been secretly harmed by a demon, who wanted to peel off his skin and replace his identity.

In Wuchuanzhen, the Yang Spirit True Person who sat in the center and guarded one side had secretly fallen.

It can be seen how dangerous this crisis is.

Why would this Crown Prince Xuanwei, the most promising person to achieve the Primordial Spirit in the Northern Wei Cao clan since Cao Lin, take risks and summon the generals with great fanfare, afraid that people wouldn't know the news of his arrival? ===== CHAPTER 850 =====