They rested for one night and set out again the next day.

According to Admiral Gwen, the farthest place the military district had explored was only 200 kilometers outside the defense line. Previously, the military district planned to build a garrison base every 100 kilometers to continuously push the marching route forward.

However, things did not go as planned. The further they went, the greater the resistance they encountered. The only time they reached 200 kilometers, they encountered an unprecedented fierce attack from evil spirits, and almost wiped out the entire army, which caused great damage to the military district. Only then did they change the plan and build three garrison bases at different locations of 100 kilometers.

The three bases support each other and help each other in offense and defense. It is not only for the purpose of going out, but also for adding an extra layer of insurance to the Feilong defense line.

For example, if the three bases had not discovered the problem in time, sent people back to warn, and tried their best to stop most of the evil spirits, I am afraid that the entire First Military District and the cities behind it would have been swallowed up by the evil spirit army.

It was precisely because of this large-scale invasion of evil spirits that all military districts saw the crisis and decided to go all out to support the actions of the First Military District.

If the 100 kilometers in front of the garrison base is just an appetizer, then the danger will increase exponentially with each step thereafter, and all of this is just to gamble on an unknown future.

News from the advance team kept coming, and with the news, there were also members who were constantly injured.

Those with serious injuries will be sent back to Solo Castle, but the rest cannot stop and must move forward.

Before going to Solo Castle, most of the soldiers were still very relaxed, and the guards could still comfort Gu Xingmian with a smile, but as time went on, they smiled less and less, and the atmosphere of the team became serious.

Although Gu Xingmian was protected in the crowd, he was inevitably anxious, for fear of hearing the news that Dai Baiyu and Ling Cang were injured.

He wanted to come out of his spiritual body several times to fight the enemy with them.

At least when facing evil spirits, he had an advantage over the card masters of the advance team, but he was rejected by Gwen.

Gwen's answer was extremely rational and cold: "This is a necessary sacrifice. You should save your ability for more critical times."

Gu Xingmian was silent.

He had only seen descriptions of war in books and movies before, but after experiencing it personally, he realized that the descriptions were far less than one percent of the facts.

The army marched in silence.

Dai Baiyu wiped the blood off his face, looked up at the lush ancient trees in front of him, and then lowered his head to compare with the map in his hand.

This is the hard work left by the predecessors, recording the evil spirits encountered along the way, and it is very precious information.

Although the evil spirits will move, the powerful evil spirits have their own domains and generally will not move easily, so these data are still very valuable for reference.

However, the evil spirits they encountered along the way, both in number and power, were more numerous and stronger than those recorded by their predecessors.

Dai Baiyu didn't know whether it was because there were too many people in their group and disturbed the evil spirits, or because the evil spirits themselves became stronger.

If it was the former, it would be fine, but if it was the latter, it would definitely be bad news for mankind.

However, these thoughts only flashed through Dai Baiyu's mind. For him now, the mission in front of him was the most important.

He carefully put away the map and said to the team members beside him: "Ahead is..."

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt something, his pupils shrank slightly, and the spirit Cangqingli that was originally patrolling in the air leaned over and rushed towards them.

"Enemy attack!"

Dai Baiyu shouted with all his might, and then a strange-looking evil spirit rushed into the crowd. A team member hurriedly drew out his auxiliary card, but before he could fight, a thin red line appeared on his neck. Then, with a terrified expression on his face, he fell backwards and was no longer breathing.

Dai Baiyu avoided the ghostly figure while pressing the communicator to report the news back.

At the same time, the main force was also attacked.

Xiao Qiong turned over and shot the steel rope in his hand towards a shadow under the tree. The steel rope straightened instantly, but then a strong force came from the other end of the steel rope, and Xiao Qiong was almost pulled over. Fortunately, he reacted in time.

An electric current passed along the steel rope, and the other side seemed to be frozen for a moment. During this moment, two auxiliary cards attacked like flying leaves. As they attacked, the shadow shook, and then the force at the other end of the steel rope loosened, and the rebound force made Xiao Qiong retreat half a step.

But he did not feel complacent because of this successful attack, but his expression became more solemn.

Gu Xingmian realized something: [Is it the Temple Knight?]

He did not sense the breath of evil spirits, but he could not think of anyone other than the Temple Knights who had such a ghostly method to break through the heavy protection of the army to attack them.

At this time, Gwen and others were also entangled and could not come to help Xiao Qiong for a while.

At this time, a strong wind hit, but Xiao Qiong reacted early, dodged it, and while dodging, he did not forget to take out the auxiliary cards, and three auxiliary cards rushed towards the direction of the attack.

However, Xiao Qiong only heard three "ding", "ding", and "ding" sounds, which were the sounds of the three auxiliary cards being shot down.

The three auxiliary cards were shot down by the opponent before they even had time to launch an attack. Only the Temple Knight could have such a speed. Two

auxiliary cards appeared in Xiao Qiong's hand again. One turned into a steel rope and took Xiao Qiong to a tree nearby, while the other was held in his palm.

Xiao Qiong jumped onto a branch like a light bird, but before the attack came, he jumped down and used the inertia of the steel rope to jump to another tree.

At this moment, he finally saw the appearance of the Temple Knight clearly.

He was also wearing a close-fitting black soft armor and a golden half mask. His figure looked stronger than the last Temple Knight.

He didn't seem to expect that Xiao Qiong could escape his attacks several times, and his attacks became more and more fierce.

Although he was very fast and had strong attack power, Xiao Qiong still felt that his strength seemed to be slightly incompatible with this body.

This degree was too subtle, and most people probably couldn't feel it, but Xiao Qiong could keenly sense even the slightest disharmony in the battle state.

He was completely inferior to the temple knight who attacked them before.

I don't know why, after realizing this, Xiao Qiong actually breathed a sigh of relief.

He deliberately revealed a flaw, and the temple knight was fooled and rushed towards him.

At this moment, three auxiliary cards appeared in Xiao Qiong's hand.

The temple knight's eyes flashed with disdain. In his eyes, these auxiliary cards were too slow, and with his physical strength, it was nothing even if he could withstand the attacks of these auxiliary cards.

This kid really underestimated him. Did he think that these three auxiliary cards could stop him?

However, just when he broke through the three auxiliary cards and wanted to kill Xiao Qiong with one blow, he suddenly found another figure next to Xiao Qiong.

Gu Xingmian controlled the three auxiliary cards as soon as he left his spiritual body.

In empathy, time seemed to stop abruptly.

The auxiliary cards turned into star patterns, and were cleverly pulled and combined in his palm.

But in the eyes of outsiders, it was like a sudden ripple. A clear sound was heard in the blazing flames, and a fiery red phoenix spread its wings, with long flaming tail feathers, floating over the temple knight.

A piece of flame fell on his sword like a petal.

He didn't care at first, after all, the flame looked small and would be extinguished at any time in the wind.

But no one expected that the flame would fall on the sword and instantly melt the extremely hard long sword like ice and snow, and even burn him along the hilt.

The temple knight was shocked and quickly threw away the long sword in his hand.

Yuxi...

But the phoenix was still circling above his head, and pieces of flames fell down.

The Temple Knight no longer dared to underestimate these seemingly weak flames and dodged at an extremely fast speed.

But just as he dodged, the phoenix flapped its wings gently and a gust of wind came.

The wind helped the fire, and no matter how fast the Temple Knight was, he was not as fast as the wind. He was soon touched by the flames and screamed in pain.

His body was as hard as steel, and ordinary auxiliary cards could not break through it at all. However, in this small flame, it was like a burnt candle, and it was burned clean in an instant.

The other Temple Knights seemed to be shocked.

Those who can become temple knights have experienced countless hardships and pains. Their endurance and tolerance are much stronger than others. But even they still felt a chill when they saw their companions being burned to ashes by a small flame.

And the phoenix did not disappear. Under the control of Gu Xingmian, it was still circling in the sky.

The leader of this team of temple knights was named Hubert, and he was a die-hard fan of the high priest Douglas.

Douglas ordered them to stop the actions of the First Military District. They originally planned to lead them into the territory of several S-level evil spirits and then take advantage of the chaos to make up for it, but they didn't expect them to be so cautious. They planned to act directly only when they had no choice.

However, there were still some deviations in the plan, and it was discovered by Gwen.

It was obviously impossible to wipe out all the members of this team, so he could only temporarily choose the second plan, which was to kill Gwen and the UR card.

He had watched the video of the previous match between Xiao Qiong and Gu Xingmian. For a card master of his age, it was indeed very good. The skills of the UR card were also interesting. It was a pity that all of this was just so-so in the eyes of their temple knights.

In comparison, Gwen was more threatening.

However, they did not expect that not only did they fail to kill Gwen quickly, but they also failed to kill Xiao Qiong and the UR card.

Not only that, he even found that there was no panic on Gwen's face, as if he had known everything for a long time.

The surrounding soldiers had formed a siege against them under his command.

It was an ambush! !

It was not a deviation from the plan!

But they already knew about this plan...

Someone betrayed!!

There are actually temple knights who would betray the temple? !

Hubert was shocked and angry.

In fact, with his ability, if he wanted to escape, these card masters could not stop him at all, but more important than this life, he had to complete the mission.

His eyes were determined.

The long sword in his hand stabbed towards Gwen with an unstoppable momentum.

Just when everyone followed his attack to protect Gwen, he turned around and attacked Gu Xingmian through the gap in the crowd that he had pulled out.

Gwen reacted quickly, and his calm expression suddenly changed. He didn't care about his own safety and rushed towards Hubert.

However, Hubert's speed was too fast.

He burned his own life and raised his ability to the extreme.

Although Xiao Qiong reacted quickly, he only had time to block Hubert's attack. However, this one block caused his palm to crack and spurt blood.

It was too late to pull Gu Xingmian back to his spiritual body.

At that moment, Xiao Qiong had nothing in his mind.

He just stood in front of Gu Xingmian, and in his horrified eyes, he pushed him away with force. He

blocked Hubert's sword with his back.

The phoenix seemed to sense Gu Xingmian's emotions and rushed towards Hubert with a clear cry.

But Hubert was not afraid at all. The sword blade seemed to be sharper than the surrounding wind, cutting Xiao Qiong's clothes, leaving a trail of blood.

But just when the sword was about to cut off Xiao Qiong's back, it stopped.

"Clang!"

Hubert's invincible sword was knocked away by another sword.

Then, the sword pierced his chest without hesitation.

Hubert looked at the person opposite with bloodshot eyes, and blood spurted from the corner of his mouth: "Isaiah, traitor...it's you..."

But he was too late to retaliate.

The phoenix swooped down and wrapped him in a ball of flames.