Chapter 172: Terrible Physical Body!

On the city wall of the Northern Territory, there is a great city-protecting array ordered by the Great Xia Ancestral Emperor a thousand years ago, which requires the command arrow in the hands of the Zhenbei Army to activate.

Those inside cannot go out, and those outside cannot easily attack.

Originally, this small team escorting the command arrow was supposed to arrive here first to wait for them, but because the war came too suddenly, it disrupted the rhythm of the army and held back their pace.

So a cup of tea time ago, the message from the army just arrived, saying that the army escorting the command arrow was on the way.

At this time, those Immortal Sect prodigies also landed from the city wall one after another, their expressions appearing somewhat grim.

Barbarian warriors are very strong, very sturdy, and very tough.

This was the first impression they had of the barbarians when they were watching the battle on the city wall just now, exactly the same as Ji You's judgment.

This race is composed of countless different human races, intermarrying and giving birth, and later gradually evolved into the same race.

And each ethnic group of the different human races initially possessed unique talents, and in these thousands of years, they have also been merging with each other, becoming so powerful that they can no longer be ignored.

In fact, the human race has had opportunities to annihilate the barbarians, even many times.

Especially after the founding of Great Xia, those Immortal Sect noble families had already become incomparably strong by eating the offerings of the ten thousand people, and immortals who could move mountains and fill seas were everywhere.

If they had not chosen to sit alone in the deep mountains to pursue the immortal Dao at that time, but had swarmed up, the barbarians might have long since ceased to exist.

But they didn't.

In the current historical records and books, the reason why the human race didn't do so is not written, but one can think of it just by thinking about it.

Either the human race also hoped to recuperate after the chaotic wars between countries, or they felt that the cowardly and war-fearing barbarians at that time were not worth fearing at all.

And a more important reason is that the human race knew that the Heavenly Dao had added luck to themselves.

Just like what is often circulated among the people, how the barbarians attacked the Cold Iron Pass with the strength of the whole race, but suddenly encountered a blizzard and almost the entire army was wiped out, showing that the human race is the master chosen by heaven.

In this atmosphere of being chosen by heaven, the human race also got better.

But what was exchanged was the struggle of the Immortal Sects, the struggle of the noble families, and Great Xia becoming a tool for cultivators to rule the ten thousand people, with constant secret confrontation and gradually dissipating hearts.

By now, all the immortal families have their own ghosts, internal discord, and external strife.

Some even feel that since I can cultivate and ascend, what does the territory of the race have to do with me.

Thus, if the upper beam is not straight, the lower beam will inevitably be crooked.

If you want them to share a common hatred and face the outside world together, unless it is really attacking the foot of the mountain and hitting the face.

And conversely, the barbarians need to huddle together for warmth in the harsh environment, and instead become stronger and stronger due to unity, gradually becoming impossible to ignore.

It is also fortunate that the barrier of the Northern Territory city wall, coupled with the Qingyun Immortal Rules allowing the Zhenbei Army to cultivate, has prevented the barbarians from succeeding until now.

Until the Qiling incident occurred, when the ancestor of the Zheng family ascended to immortality with evil arts, it was like announcing to the world that the Heavenly Dao was abnormal.

Thus, the Demon race also began to have thoughts, which made the balance begin to tilt little by little.

"Immortal elders, envoys, this trip out of the pass is full of crises. To deal with the unknown, we must divide into three teams at the pass gate."

"The delegation will stay in the middle of the team, while the immortals will be divided into the two wings of the delegation. The three teams will be within five miles of each other and enter the Northern Territory in a 'chuan' shape."

"On this trip, if you encounter scattered barbarian soldiers, prioritize avoidance, do not get entangled in battle, and ensure the speed of travel!"

The person responsible for this mission is the Deputy Supervisor of the Immortal Supervision Bureau, named Peng Dongyang, who is currently giving instructions and arrangements for leaving the pass.

Ji You was assigned to the right wing, in a team with his fellow disciple Xiao Hanyan, Jiang Chenfeng and Jiang Yan of the Ask Dao Sect, and Brother Brother Gongshu Chou and Yan Qiubai of the Spirit Sword Mountain.

Shi Junhao of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, Huo Hong, the illegitimate son of the Mountain Sea Pavilion, as well as Jiang Yue rou, Tu Ri, Xie Chenyu, and others were in one team.

Among the six elders sent by the six major Immortal Sects, four were in the Realm of Responding to Heaven and two were in the Boundless Realm, so they followed the delegation carriage in the middle line to act according to circumstances.

After the distribution was finished, the carriages were arranged into three columns.

At this time, Ji You summoned the seven best-quality spirit swords from the fifty spirit swords in his storage gourd, and tied them to his body along with the scabbards, just like an old friend in A Chinese Ghost Story.

It's not very good-looking, but it's practical.

Because if it is really a life-and-death battle, even a moment of delay is fatal.

The barbarians will not leave him time to summon weapons from the gourd, so this approach is the safest.

At this time, the people assigned to the right wing turned to look at him, and seeing his peacock-like appearance, they couldn't help but discuss it.

"What is this for?"

"Brother Brother Gongshu Chou said earlier that he is used to using seven swords by himself."

Jiang Chenfeng watched him for a long time and couldn't help but shake his head: "If you divide the swords and control them without enough spiritual sense, you might even hurt yourself. If I had known this, I should have used him to exchange for Tu Xu."

The left and right wings are the guard teams, so naturally, they want to have a balanced strength, so their fellow junior brothers were assigned to the other side.

And in their view, this Ji You clearly has the temperament of cannon fodder. If they really encounter barbarians, they don't know whether to use him or not.

This is not a discussion between Immortal Sects where one stops at the limit; the strength of combat power represents vitality.

Brother Brother Gongshu Chou walked over slowly at this time, looking at Ji You with a faint expression.

"Carrying seven swords, heroic and compelling, truly the demeanor of a gentleman."

"?"

Ji You had just finished tying the swords at this time, and a trace of bewilderment appeared on his face.

He didn't know that Brother Brother Gongshu Chou had already created a theory that the more famous you are, the higher my gold content is.

From his perspective, he had once used the suppression of evil energy to almost kill Brother Brother Gongshu Chou. Logically speaking, there should be a life-and-death hatred between the two.

"You used a sneak attack to make me, a dignified practitioner in the Realm of Merging with the Dao, suffer heavy injuries and be ridiculed by the world. Today, either you die or I die!"

"Little practitioner in the Realm of Profound Understanding, without the suppression of evil energy in Qiling, I can pinch you to death with one finger!"

"Scream, even if you scream until your throat breaks now, no one will save you, hehehehehe!"

In short, according to the web novels he had read, Brother Brother Gongshu Chou's attitude toward him should be like this, and there should not be half a bit of kindness.

Now that he suddenly came over to praise him, he felt it was unbelievable.

I stabbed him one inch to the right of his heart in Qiling before, not one inch to the right of his head, right?

However, before he could think carefully, a neighing of warhorses suddenly came from afar. Ji You turned to look and saw dozens of people from the command escort team galloping over, then pulled the reins to make the horses stop.

On the leading warhorse was a general wearing armor, named Ding Ze, who looked very serious.

"Everyone, I just received a report that the barbarians are attacking today and have expanded the battle line. Now there are barbarian soldiers wandering within a radius of a thousand miles. I think they probably anticipated that the human race would have a delegation to visit the Snow Territory."

"They don't know your departure time, nor do they know your route, so they adopted this way of lengthening the battle line. The scouts responsible for monitoring are already all over the outside of the pass."

As the words fell, everyone in the delegation instantly frowned.

Ding Ze raised his hand to suppress the discussion that was about to rise: "However, please rest assured, the main force of the barbarians is still fighting our army at the Cold Iron Pass. The scouts responsible for monitoring are not fatal, but you must kill them all to avoid being reported, otherwise they will definitely attract a large force and pursue relentlessly."

Ji You stood on the left side, and upon hearing this, he thought to himself that he would be busy now.

Originally, he didn't want to encounter them and took a detour. Now it seems that not only will they encounter them, but they are also afraid that they will have to charge a wave of troops.

This note should be recorded for the Management Office, and more silver should be asked for when returning, because this is nakedly inconsistent with the pictures and objects.

Just at this moment, Ding Ze suddenly held the command arrow in his hand high. In an instant, a dazzling spiritual light pierced the sky like a sharp arrow, and in the blink of an eye, it accurately hit the city wall of the Falling Moon Pass.

In an instant, a layer of dark blue array patterns slowly emerged on the wall like ink, and in just a moment, it retreated to the left and right with the city gate as the center like a receding tide.

At the same time, that incomparably heavy black iron door slowly opened amidst a sharp friction sound that made one's teeth ache and a deafening rumbling vibration.

At this moment, the sound of war outside the pass became clearer, and the air pouring in from outside the city also carried a bit of blood.

Thus, everyone stepped onto the carriage and drove out of the Falling Moon Pass along the smoke drifting from afar.

Looking into the distance, what was in front was a barren land overgrown with weeds, which was even worse than the barren Fengzhou.

There are no roads here, and the further you go, the more savage it becomes. Even sitting in the carriage, you can feel the muddiness under the wheels, and a sense of killing seems to be able to penetrate the carriage.

According to the Immortal Supervision Bureau manual, the land outside the Northern Territory is extremely unsuitable for crop growth, and only this kind of grass with thin and dense fibrous roots, flat stems, and flat dark green leaves can grow.

And this kind of grass is mostly highly poisonous.

So the fact that the barbarians must return to the nine continents is also understandable.

This place is really not suitable for long-term residence.

At this time, the carriage train was constantly galloping on the wilderness outside the Northern Plains. Amidst the whistling of spiritual energy, the magic treasure that isolated the fluctuation of breath was also constantly operating...

In the following days, the news that the barbarians had launched another offensive when the delegation set out gradually spread back to the nine continents.

Hearing this news, most people appeared calm as usual. After all, the war outside the Cold Iron Pass was constant, and one more time did not touch their nerves much.

And the enthusiasm of the ten thousand people when the delegation set out seemed to have only the meaning of joining in the fun.

For example, in the outer courtyard of the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan, even the discussion was not stirred up. The focus of everyone's attention was still on who could enter the inner courtyard.

Pu Yangxing was already beginning to condense the second ray of mysterious light, and Lu Hanyan was catching up, already having the same progress as him.

As for Fang Jincheng, he decided to completely give up sensing the Little Little Tian Shu at this moment.

Relying on family relationships, his great-grandfather sent almost all the inner courtyard disciples of the Longevity Hall who had sensed the Little Little Tian Shu.

After several tosses, the hanging heart finally died.

Cannot sense it, and even has no clue.

Thus, in the first year of Taichu, no one among the outer courtyard disciples could sense the Little Little Tian Shu.

But there were also a small number of people who were concerned about the border pass, or rather, concerned about the people going to the border pass, appearing particularly uneasy among the calm crowd.

For example, Cao Jingsong, Ban Yangshu, and Wen Zhengxin, as well as Pei Ruyi and Qiu Zhong in the Ji Village, were almost living their days with their hearts clenched, sometimes worried, sometimes regretful.

Ji You said earlier that if the Cold Iron Pass is broken, Fengzhou will inevitably be lost, so he wants to go, and they expressed understanding.

But after he really left, they felt that no matter what he said at the time, they shouldn't have agreed.

Because even if this mission to the Snow Territory succeeds in preventing the Barbarian-Demon alliance, if he dies, Fengzhou will definitely not be much better off.

After all, with him as a warning, those outside immortal manors will no longer allow any Immortal Sect disciples to appear in Fengzhou.

Then the tax and tribute will rise again, and the people will be even more miserable.

In addition, the daughter of the Prime Minister's mansion had not been out for many days, only staying at home, looking north, regardless of the rotation of stars and moons, day after day.

And the scholar she was thinking of was currently inside the Cold Iron Pass, standing in the garrison camp of the Zhenbei Army.

The war outside the pass was tight, and the sky was filled with arrogant energy whistling constantly. The collision caused a sudden gale, so that the yellow earth on the city wall surged, and after falling, it covered a layer on his body, but he couldn't care about washing up.

"General Ding, it's the fifth day, is there any news from outside the pass?"

"Sorry, Tisi Master, there is no news from them today."

Ding Ze, who opened the Falling Moon Pass for the delegation that day, returned from the city wall at this time and bowed to inform him after hearing the inquiry.

Hearing this, Xiang Kuangcheng's brow furrowed slightly, and the fist hidden under his sleeve couldn't help but clench.

After parting with Ji You in the northwest of Fengzhou, he came here.

The human race has reconnaissance troops active outside the city, monitoring the movements of the barbarians, and occasionally can send back news about the delegation.

For example, when they were ten miles away from the city, they encountered barbarian scouts, secretly annihilated them, and fifty miles away from the city, they avoided the barbarian main force and took a detour, but in the following days, there was no such news at all.

Ding Ze patted his shoulder at this time: "Our reconnaissance team cannot go deep into the wilderness, so not getting news is a good thing. This shows that their speed is not slow, and they are almost about to leave the battle zone. But at the same time, there will be no more news sent back later."

"Have they already gone so far..."

Ding Ze nodded and said again: "Does Tisi Master have friends in the delegation?"

Xiang Kuangcheng nodded: "I have a close friend, and I am very worried about his safety."

"Master doesn't need to worry too much. The Immortal Sect has sent many experts this time, moving in a 'chuan' shape, and the envoys will be well protected. Moreover, although the barbarians have strong bodies and innate talents, they are not close to the Heavenly Dao, and only a very few can cultivate."

"So, although it is dangerous to go out of the pass in the Realm of Merging with the Dao, being cautious will not cost one's life. In my opinion, the only one who will die in this delegation is that practitioner in the Realm of Profound Understanding who tied himself up like a peacock opening its screen."

Ding Ze chuckled a few times to comfort Xiang Kuangcheng, but saw the scholar turn to look at him, his gaze sharp, and he didn't laugh.

And a hundred miles away from this, on a mountain ridge deep in the wilderness.

A barbarian soldier with dense hair and a sturdy figure was looking at the sword-wielding man walking toward him, a murderous intent rising in his eyes.

His name is Lang Da, the leader of the third group of the patrol squadron.

The day before yesterday, he received an order from the patriarch, saying that the human race might have a delegation going to the Snow Territory recently, and they should keep a close eye on it and leave no one behind.

He didn't take it too seriously, but who knew that in the following days, the soldiers under his command began to lose contact one after another, so he had a premonition that the human race should have entered, and it was in his direction, so he specifically came here to patrol, and didn't expect to really encounter one.

Great, I'm going to make a contribution!

Lang Da got off his horse holding a steel knife, revealing a bloodthirsty and cruel expression, his strong arms constantly bulging, and the power hidden within was incomparably manic.

Hum!

The sound of breaking through the air rang out suddenly, like thunder.

Lang Da slashed wildly with his iron knife, and saw a sword light whistling into the sky in front of him!

With a clang, the knife and sword collided. Lang Da's pupils shrank suddenly, and he immediately held the knife in front of his chest, re-examining the human in front of him, a flash of incredulity appearing in his eyes.

Their barbarian race is a race higher than the human race, innately possessing peerless divine power, far from what the human race can compare to.

But today, between the collision of the blades, he actually felt a giant force like a mountain, which made him suddenly begin to be vigilant, and his thick nostrils began to breathe frantically.

This is not a sign of exhaustion, but a kind of excitement!

Lang Da held the knife with both hands, looked at this thin human in front of him, and rushed over when a cruel smile rose!

Horizontal slash!

Straight slash!

Circular cut!

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The barbarian Lang Da, whose Qi and strength were overwhelming, swung his blade like a gale, hacking forward fiercely. He saw the human before him draw his sword with an expressionless face, his posture drifting yet swift, as sword light erupted before his eyes, clashing violently against his own iron saber.

At this time, the sun began to sink to the west, and yellow sand rose on the earth.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of collisions between knife and sword had already resounded, and sparks flew everywhere!

Lang Da stomped his feet and jumped fiercely, the iron knife fell straight down, and his whole body's fighting spirit was stimulated, because he found that this human in front of him was like the warriors of their barbarian race, and his strength was also very great!

He had participated in the vanguard team before and killed many human soldiers, feeling that they were as soft as noodles, almost shattering with one slash.

And their barbarian race does not allow fighting among the same race, which makes him feel very unhappy!

Now it's good, he actually met a human who can make him use all his strength!

Hum!

Under the ringing and trembling of the iron knife, Lang Da slashed horizontally again! Straight slash! Circular cut! Attempting to crush this thin human in front of him with his giant strength.

But just at this moment, he suddenly discovered that the sword in front of him shook suddenly, the sword light came like overlapping waves, and with a bang, it slashed on his knife body, and brought a strong force of energy to penetrate along his iron knife!

With a clang, the iron knife flew out of his hand, and Lang Da instantly widened his green pupils.

He couldn't understand the human Sword Dao, and after thinking for a long time, he couldn't figure out why his iron knife kept trembling and was difficult to master. His expression instantly became angry.

But just at this moment, his pupils shrank again, because after his iron knife landed, he discovered that the thin human opposite him also threw his sword to the side.

"Please transform."

"?"

"Transform, hurry up, otherwise you are not respecting me."

Lang Da hadn't understood yet, when he suddenly saw the other party spread his arms and lift them up, and then felt a scorching spirit rushing toward him, blowing his hair.

At this time, with the setting of the sun, the night gradually shrouded, covering this heaven and earth little by little.

And under this night, a mist was also quietly coming.

From the Shen hour to the You hour, one hour of time, the sky had completely darkened.

At this time, in the withered forest next to the black swamp on the west side of the mountain ridge.

The delegation's carriage train was currently resting in the forest, trying to keep quiet.

Spirit Sword Mountain disciple Yan Qiubai looked around in the forest, observing the wind and grass around her with spiritual sense, and saw a burst of spiritual energy flying in the air, blowing the grass to bend.

A moment later, Jiang Yan drifted over, holding a long-haired corpse in her hand, her long sword dripping with blood.

"Just one?"

"One is not enough. Perhaps my sister doesn't know, the further we go into the depths, the stronger the barbarians we encounter."

Jiang Yan threw down the corpse in her hand: "I don't know if the barbarians have a division of strength like ours. In short, this one today is much stronger than the previous few days, especially after transformation, both strength and speed are like two different people compared to before, and their bodies are truly incomparably sturdy, even more so after transformation."

They entered the wilderness five days ago, and now they are going deeper and deeper, and the barbarian scouts they encounter are becoming more and more numerous.

Perhaps because the territory that needs to be patrolled is too large, they don't have enough manpower to form groups, so they are basically scattered.

In order to ensure that their whereabouts are not discovered and attract pursuit, they have to act separately every time to clean up the surrounding barbarian scouts.

And they also have to bring the corpses back to deal with them, otherwise the barbarians who die along the way will expose their direction of travel.

And the barbarians encountered in these few days, just as Jiang Yan said, the deeper the scouts, the harder they are to deal with.

Yan Qiubai looked at the corpse on the ground: "The division of strength of the barbarian people was explained by the Zhenbei Army earlier. Because of years of war, they are divided by military rank, three soldier realms of upper, middle, and lower, and three general realms of upper, middle, and lower, and there are three king realms above that."

Jiang Yan frowned: "What about this one of mine?"

"Upper soldier realm, equivalent to the Upper Realm of Profound Understanding after transformation. Some barbarians master the ability of rapid recovery, and can even reach the level of the Initial Realm of Merging with the Dao."

"Their third realm is so strong?"

Yan Qiubai smiled lightly: "Sister Jiang Yan doesn't need to worry, because they are difficult to be close to the Heavenly Dao, so the three general realms are just improvements in physical body and talent, but the combat power is far from as much as our improvement."

Jiang Yan immediately understood that because of their innate strong physical bodies and talent abilities, their starting strength is very high.

But the combat power brought by the subsequent improvement of the realm is actually not as strong as the combat power brought by the improvement of the human realm.

Just at this moment, a whistling sound came from the night sky again, Jiang Chenfeng drifted over, landed in a burst of air waves, and threw out two corpses of the upper soldier realm with a faint gaze.

There is also a difference between the Realm of Merging with the Dao and the Realm of Merging with the Dao. Specifically, it depends on the Dao and spells they cultivate.

Although this Jiang Chenfeng is Jiang Yan's cousin, his strength is indeed higher. He killed two upper soldiers by himself, and only his hair crown was knocked crooked.

"Chenfeng, how do you feel?"

"My left shoulder is slightly painful."

Jiang Chenfeng covered his shoulder: "Actually, the combat power of these two scouts is just average, but their physical bodies are indeed a bit heaven-defying, but as long as they are not approached, they are basically goods for us to slaughter."

Jiang Yan looked at his shoulder: "You were approached?"

"No harm, it's because I wanted to try the spells I realized during seclusion, so I let them take advantage of the loophole."

Just at this moment, there was a sound from the forest again.

The three of them turned to look and saw a figure walking out of the thick fog, gradually approaching.

Then they saw Ji You's face clearly, his expression thoughtful, not knowing what he was thinking, and he was dragging a dense-haired corpse in his hand.

Yan Qiubai saw this and opened her mouth: "Did any barbarians escape?"

Ji You threw down the corpse in his hand: "No, just this one."

"How do you feel?"

"The barbarians are indeed too fierce, not polite at all, and their bodies are terribly strong, especially the ones encountered in these two days, which completely exceeded my expectations."

After Ji You finished speaking, he couldn't help but cough twice.

From the first barbarian encountered after entering the pass to this one today, he killed five in total. Although yesterday's and today's were the strongest, the first three were not weak either.

It is said that the divine power and physique of the barbarians are innate, which means that the lowest combat power of the barbarians is almost much higher than that of the human race.

It's already so dangerous just after entering, perhaps this is the reason why it must be the Realm of Merging with the Dao to come.

Damn it, too fierce, need to add money.

Jiang Yan looked at him falling into thought because of the strong barbarian body, and couldn't help but smile in her heart.

Even they, who are in the Realm of Merging with the Dao, feel that the barbarian body is abnormally terrible, let alone him, this Realm of Profound Understanding.

Then Ji You bowed to them and parted, then found a corner and began to sit quietly to recover.

Until this moment, they discovered that Ji You's hair crown had cracked, and his clothes had also been torn with a big opening. The whole person seemed to be a bit exhausted, even sitting quietly, his coughing sound was constant, causing his chest to tremble slightly, far from being as drifting and dashing as Jiang Chenfeng.

Seeing this scene, Yan Qiubai and Jiang Yan couldn't help but look at each other.

In fact, since the first time they decided to clean up the scouts, Ji You had been sent out every night, and then he would drag a corpse back.

After all, the ones encountered at the beginning were just some lower soldier realms, which is the strength of the Initial Realm of Profound Understanding, which is nothing to him.

However, the speed of his victorious return was much slower than others, which might be the gap in his own strength.

And in these recent days, Ji You's return speed was obviously getting slower and slower. Judging from the degree of messiness of his clothes and appearance, it should be very dangerous to fight, and some people even feel that he might have suffered dark injuries, but was embarrassed to say so.

"With his strength, walking to now is almost at the limit."

Yan Qiubai came back to her senses and looked at Jiang Yan: "Now there is still more than half the distance to the Snow Territory. In the future, if he encounters barbarians in the general realm, he probably won't be able to come back like this again."

Jiang Yan also turned to look at Yan Qiubai: "This is still a good situation. At least those two from the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan still have a chance to save him. After all, they are fellow disciples."

"Is there a bad situation?"

"That is, some barbarians discovered us, and we didn't clean them up completely, or let go of the fish that slipped through the net, attracting more and stronger barbarian troops. At that time, everyone will definitely have to swarm up and protect the delegation to leave first."

Jiang Yan looked at Ji You, who was sitting cross-legged under the tree: "With our cultivation in the Realm of Merging with the Dao, even if we are injured in the rear, we can retreat completely, but this Realm of Profound Understanding of his will definitely die."

Yan Qiubai thought for a moment and then her red lips opened slightly: "Sister Jiang Yan said that if one is encountered, those two from the Heavenly Tian Shuyuan will save him. I don't think so."

"Hmm?"

"They sent a practitioner in the Realm of Profound Understanding here, clearly telling him to come to die."

Yan Qiubai said and walked to the right: "I'm going to call the senior brothers to come over to deal with the corpses and clear the traces."

Jiang Yan opened her mouth after hearing this: "Sink into the swamp?"

"Hmm, this is the fastest way to deal with it."

Yan Qiubai shook her slender waist, and then called Brother Brother Gongshu Chou, Xie Chenyu, and others over.

They are all stay-behinds. In addition to monitoring the wind and grass around, they also need to deal with the corpses for those who go out to fight, which can be considered a reasonable division of labor.

Then Brother Brother Gongshu Chou and Xie Chenyu dragged all the killed barbarians to the edge of the swamp, sinking them one by one, and saw a few bubbles appearing on the mud, and then there was no trace.

At this time, Yan Qiubai went to drag the corpse that Ji You brought back, took it to the edge of the swamp, and specifically checked the inscription on the corpse's armor, finding that it was indeed an upper soldier.

The news from the Zhenbei Army said that the strength of most upper soldiers is equivalent to the Upper Realm of Profound Understanding.

A small part, because of their powerful innate talents, can barely reach the level of the Initial Realm of Merging with the Dao.

Yan Qiubai now also has some experience. From the shape and color of its hair, she can distinguish that this is not a barbarian with powerful innate talents.

That is to say, the strength of this barbarian should be considered a level of the Upper Realm of Profound Understanding.

It seems that rumors cannot be fully believed...

Yan Qiubai muttered under the night.

Senior Brother Brother Brother Gongshu said that Ji You once killed eighteen practitioners in the Realm of Profound Understanding in one night and also killed a practitioner in the Realm of Merging with the Dao across realms with a sword, which sounded truly majestic.

But now it seems that those in the Realm of Merging with the Dao who were tempered by time in the immortal manors really cannot be counted as true Realms of Merging with the Dao, and this Ji You is only at the level of the Upper Realm of Profound Understanding.

Upper, middle, and lower belong to three minor realms, not across realms, so the Middle Realm of Profound Understanding being able to defeat the Upper Realm of Profound Understanding seems particularly ordinary.

Yan Qiubai dragged the corpse to the mud swamp, intending to sink it, but when her gaze swept over it again, her brow couldn't help but wrinkle slightly.

"Qiubai, have you finished dealing with it?"

"Sister Yan, come over and take a look."

Jiang Yan walked over: "What's wrong?"

Yan Qiubai pursed her red lips and pointed to the corpse on the ground: "This is the corpse that Ji You brought back."

Jiang Yan lowered her head and took a look: "Looking at the hair color, it shouldn't be the one with extremely high innate talent, which is the level of the Upper Realm of Profound Understanding. It seems Chenfeng was right. Those in the Realm of Merging with the Dao in the immortal manors really cannot be counted as true Realms of Merging with the Dao, no wonder they would be beheaded by Ji You."

"I'm asking you to look at the wound. Have you discovered that there seems to be no sword wound on this corpse?"

"?"

Jiang Yan was slightly stunned and looked at the corpse again.

She knew that Ji You used a sword. On the day he left the pass, he even carried seven swords on his body in full view of everyone, attracting a lot of attention.

And the barbarian body is incomparably strong, far from what the human race can compare to, so even if it is the Realm of Merging with the Dao, it would take some effort to break their defense, so she felt that Ji You must have beheaded him with the strongest Sword Dao.

But the problem is that this barbarian corpse is indeed the same as what Yan Qiubai said, without any sword wounds.

Because whether it is stabbing or slashing, there will always be blood stains seeping out. Since this barbarian corpse carries hair, it would be very conspicuous, and they didn't see it at all.

And the only blood stain is the one overflowing from the eyes, ears, mouth, and nose of this barbarian, which has already dried up.

Yan Qiubai felt puzzled just now, actually because of the abnormality of this barbarian corpse.

"Overflowing blood from eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, could it be poison?"

Jiang Yan pondered for a long time and felt it was wrong: "I have never heard of any poison against barbarians, otherwise the Zhenbei Army wouldn't have been fighting so hard for so many years."

She was muttering, when she suddenly discovered that Yan Qiubai began to stare blankly at the heart of the barbarian scout. Before she could open her mouth to inquire, Yan Qiubai pulled out her sword and picked open his clothes, instantly stunned.

Because the heart of that barbarian had already collapsed into a big pit. Looking closely at the bottom of the pit, it was clearly the trace of a fist penetrating it.

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(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 173 =====