As the army marched, the yellow sand from the northwestern border covered the sky.
Lin Qiye rode his horse, following the grain cart carrying Wuquan, and moved forward with the surrounding soldiers.
At this moment, Wuquan has been wrapped in a thick vine cocoon and is lying on the grain cart without any sound. According to the white-haired old man who possesses the healing power, his ability can accelerate Wuquan's recovery to the greatest extent. When the cocoon breaks, he will be cured.
Judging from the cracks gradually spreading on the surface of the cocoon, Wuquan is not far from waking up.
In addition to Wu Quan, there was another person lying on the grain cart. That was Gong Yangwan who was knocked unconscious by Lin Qiye. It had been more than half a day since she fainted, and there was still no sign of waking up, as if she was dead.
"My lord, that female prisoner..." The scholar Yan Zhong glanced at the grain cart and couldn't help but want to remind Huo Qubing.
"Don't worry about her." Huo Qubing said calmly while riding his horse, "Let her pretend. I want to see if she still has the fortitude to continue pretending when we reach the foot of Chang'an."
"You are worthy of being the Marquis. No matter how powerful this female prisoner is, she can't escape from the Marquis's grasp." Deputy General Zhan Yuwu said with emotion.
Yan Zhong frowned and looked into the distance, his expression gradually becoming serious:
"My Lord, the wind is getting stronger and stronger. It seems to be coming from the desert in the north... I'm afraid a sandstorm is coming soon."
"We are some distance away from the desert. Can the sandstorm reach here?" asked Zhan Yuwu.
"I don't know either, but to be safe, we should find a place to camp first. If the sandstorm is not too serious, we can set off again."
"No need to make such a fuss." Huo Qubing said calmly, "Let the army continue to move forward. Don't worry about the sandstorm."
Seeing Huo Qubing's calm expression, Yan Zhong and Zhan Yuwu looked at each other and said nothing more. Since the Marquis had spoken, he must have his own way.
As the army gradually moved forward, a gray sandstorm sky slowly approached here. The howling wind carried the broken sand on the ground, hitting everyone's faces and causing slight pain. Even the horses in the army became a little uneasy.
The scale of this sandstorm is not small. If it were to pass through the army head-on, it would probably cause a lot of damage.
All the soldiers turned their heads at the same time to look at the figure riding a warhorse, standing still in the hurricane. They gritted their teeth and walked forward bit by bit against the wind...
Unless the Marquis gives any order, they must follow military orders and continue to advance.
"My Lord." The strong wind made Yan Zhong's Confucian robe rustle. He turned to look at Huo Qubing and spoke with a worried look on his face.
Huo Qubing stared at the yellow sand storm that was getting closer and closer, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and terrifying mental power vented out from his body. As he slowly raised his palm, the clouds in the sky changed color!
At such a close distance, the aura emanating from Huo Qubing made the surrounding soldiers tremble involuntarily. It seemed as if the power that could control everything passed through a distance of several miles and surged directly into the sandstorm!
Huo Qubing raised his hand and suddenly clenched it!
The surging sandstorm was suddenly torn into two halves from the center, rushing in different directions, but the momentum was much smaller than before. The yellow sand in the sky even began to fall at a speed visible to the naked eye. In just a few seconds, this catastrophic sandstorm disappeared.
Seeing this miraculous scene, all the soldiers opened their mouths wide, with disbelief on their faces! Even Zhan Yuwu and Yan Zhong were no exception!
They knew that the Marquis was very powerful, but they didn't expect that he was this powerful... He could influence everything in the world with just a wave of his hand. How was this different from being a god?
On the grain cart, Gong Yangwan, who seemed to have fainted, suddenly had a tremor in her fingertips and her face turned pale.
Snap——
At the moment when Huo Qubing released his power, a crisp shattering sound came from the vine cocoon.
Lin Qiye turned his head and saw that the vine cocoon on the grain cart had suddenly split open in the middle, and an aura that was extremely similar to Huo Qubing's and had the same origin as Huo Qubing rose into the sky!
This was a fateful connection between the [Dominating Emperor] and the [Dominating Emperor]. Huo Qubing's move directly awakened Wang Xu in Wu Quan's body. A hand stretched out from the cocoon, and then Wu Quan's figure slowly climbed up...
He looked around blankly, then subconsciously looked in the direction of Huo Qubing, and the latter also looked at him at the same time.
The two were a hundred meters apart, staring at each other.
After a moment, Wu Quan frowned and looked away, looking at Lin Qiye beside him, his eyes full of confusion.
"Brother Qiye... where are we?"
Seeing Wuquan wake up and healed from his injuries, Lin Qiye felt relieved. He simply repeated what had happened, and the latter widened his eyes in shock.
"We, traveled through time?"
"right."
"What about Brother Qingzhu?"
"When the [Covenant] was activated, he was driving the boat, so he should not have been involved."
Wuquan nodded, but as a young boy, he still found it difficult to accept this bizarre fact... His eyes scanned the surroundings curiously, and finally fixed on the unconscious female prisoner beside him.
"This is……"
Before Wu Quan finished speaking, the female prisoner suddenly opened her eyes and shot up like a cannonball. The recoil force directly shattered the grain cart into pieces, and it turned into a stream of light and rushed into the distance!
Her movements were too fast, and the timing was extremely tricky. It happened that everyone's attention was on Wu Quan who had just awakened. Even most of the soldiers did not see clearly what flew over. Even when Lin Qiye tried to catch her, he only caught a residual shadow.
Lin Qiye frowned and was about to chase her when the latter's figure suddenly froze in mid-air!
A hundred meters away, Huo Qubing raised one hand in the air and gently hooked it, and Gong Yangwan couldn't control herself and flew backwards until her body was controlled by a huge force and she suddenly knelt down at the feet of Huo Qubing's horse!
"You want to leave now?" Huo Qubing asked calmly, "Could it be that you don't intend to fulfill your promise to me?"
Gong Yangwan gritted her teeth and stared at Huo Qubing, a hint of despair emerging in her eyes.
She had actually woken up a long time ago, and she had been pretending to be unconscious because she wanted to find a suitable opportunity to escape. After all, no one wanted to swallow the [Heart-Returning Gu]. But when she saw Huo Qubing's power with her own eyes just now, she began to panic...
Huo Qubing was too strong, much stronger than she had imagined. Even if she had not met Lin Qiye in Xue County, she would not have been able to escape from the city wall. From the very beginning, she was played around by the other party.
After realizing this, she immediately panicked and wanted to take this opportunity to leave, but she still couldn't escape from Huo Qubing's clutches.
"I... I just want to get up and move around. Who wants to leave?" Gong Yangwan said stiffly.
Huo Qubing raised his eyebrows, "Oh? That's the best... Since you are awake now, it's time to fulfill our agreement."
Huo Qubing snapped his fingers, and a tiny afterimage instantly flew out from nothingness and penetrated into Gong Yangwan's lips. The latter's pupils shrank slightly, and she bent over and began to dry heave violently. However, no matter how hard she tried, the [Heart-Returning Gu] showed no sign of coming out.
"Huo Qubing!!!" Gong Yangwan raised her head and roared at Huo Qubing.
Huo Qubing glanced at her calmly, then rode his horse forward slowly:
"From now on, you will call me Marquis, just like them."