After leaving, Xue Huan handed over a storage bag filled with various foods. "Keep these as snacks. Next time we meet, I'll treat you to hot pot or barbecue."
As early as when he was watching the process in the illusion, Huang Tian had been drooling over the hot pot and barbecue made by Xue Huan. When he heard about it, his mouth immediately watered and he couldn't wait for the next meeting.
"Let's go. Goodbye." Xue Huan waved at him, summoned the dragon bone flying boat that had already recognized its master, installed the spirit stone in the groove of the bow, sat on it with Pei Ji, started the flying boat, and flew away in a whoosh.
Huang Tian stood there and watched the two of them go away.
"These two little kids are not simple!"
*
Demon-controlling city.
A great war is unfolding between humans and demonic insects.
This time, the one leading the army of demon insects is the eldest princess of the insect tribe, who is also the crown princess and the next successor to the Insect King.
The Zerg is a matriarchal society, with female Zergs having a much higher status than male Zergs. Every Zerg King is a princess from the royal family.
This time, the Insect King sent the princess here, which shows his determination to invade the Water Spirit Realm.
The Zerg army came with great momentum, continuously attacking the protective shield of the Demon City without regard for casualties.
The hemispherical shield was covered with dense swarms of Zerg, a sight that made one's scalp tingle. Under the Zerg's constant attacks, cracks appeared in the shield. The Zerg seized the opportunity and poured in through the gaps like a black tide.
Immediately afterwards, more cracks appeared on the protective shield, as dense as a spider web. Before it could recover, the Zerg took advantage of it.
"Retreat! Retreat into the inner city!" Li Shuoxue, the city lord, gave a loud order.
The outer city can no longer be defended. Instead of making a futile resistance, it is better to retreat to the inner city and fight for a chance of survival.
"kill!"
A giant millipede-like demon insect with wings was suspended in the air. A heroic woman in black armor stood on the insect's head. She was the eldest princess of the Zerg tribe. When the outer protective shield of the Demon City was completely broken, she slashed with the sword in her hand and gave orders loudly.
The demonic insects poured into the city from all directions, bringing with them a shocking despair.
In the inner city, Li Shuoxue took out the four soul-breaking incense sticks that Xue Huan had given him before she left, and had them light them in the four directions of east, south, west, and north. "As long as the incense is there, the person lives. If the incense is gone, the person dies! Protect the soul-breaking incense well!"
"Yes, sir!"
The three people in the inner circle held the incense burner and surrounded the Soul-Breaking Incense, protecting it tightly. There were six people in the middle circle and twelve people on the outer circle, all of them holding weapons and looking ready to die.
"Soldiers, hold on! I've already sent a message to the prince, he'll be here soon! We absolutely cannot let these beasts get through today! Otherwise, the people behind us will suffer! Think about your wives and children, think about your parents and brothers!"
After saying this, Li Shuoxue used benefits to motivate the soldiers: "Kill a bug and you'll be rewarded with ten taels of gold! Kill ten and you'll be promoted one level! Whether you can get promoted and make a fortune in the future depends on how many bugs you can kill! Kill them for me——"
Li Shuoxue led the charge, rushed forward, chopped down a demon insect with one knife, and then killed another with the other hand.
Under the effect of the Soul-Breaking Incense, all the approaching demon insects lay down. However, as soon as the ones in front lay down, more reinforcements came from behind, and wave after wave rushed towards the location of the Soul-Breaking Incense without fear of death.
"Fuck! These beasts want to crush us to death!" Huge Zergs piled up like a pile of Arhats, higher than a hill, and the soldiers guarding the Soul-Breaking Incense were all buried in it.
"Quick, move over there!" The soldiers had to move.
However, there were too many demon insects. Although they were knocked unconscious by the Soul-Breaking Incense, the soldiers had no time to move them away, so the unconscious demon insects became roadblocks, leaving the soldiers with nowhere to step.
They hid and hid, but finally there was nowhere to hide, and all their escape routes were blocked by the evil insects.
Bang!
A demon insect fell from a great height and hit the three soldiers who were holding incense burners. They subconsciously stretched out a hand to block the soul-breaking incense. Even though their bodies were hit by the heavy demon insect, they stood still like steel without moving.
Since there is no way to hide, then don't hide!
The three soldiers put their heads together and used their flesh and blood to build a wall to protect the Soul-Breaking Incense.
The soldiers who were still alive on the periphery simply gave up resistance and gathered around, becoming part of this wall of flesh and blood.
A stick of soul-breaking incense can burn for a quarter of an hour. A quarter of an hour is very short and also very long. With every second that passes, the soldiers' hearts become heavier.
Looking at the endless demonic insects and their comrades falling around them, everyone was determined to die. But before they died, they had to kill as many demonic insects as possible! To delay them for a longer time!
The Zerg Princess originally wanted to compete with Pei Ji, but when she didn't see him come out, she lost her patience and waited any longer, so she swung her sword and attacked Li Shuoxue.
Li Shuoxue was already exhausted, his face and body were covered in blood, as if he had just fished out of it, but his eyes were surprisingly bright. He knew that he could not hold out for long under the hands of the Zerg Princess, and might even be defeated in one blow, but there was no fear on his face.
He fiercely pulled the long sword out of the body of a demon insect, and then used his backhand to meet the sword swung by the insect princess.
Snap!
His sword-holding hand was broken by the crushing, his face turned purple due to congestion, and his legs were pressed so hard that they collapsed the ground a little.
The Zerg princess raised her eyebrows in surprise. She had already reached the fourth level (equivalent to the Nascent Soul stage of human cultivators). Even if she only used 10% of her strength in this sword, she was no match for this human cultivator who was only in the initial stage of Qi training. Logically, after she swung the sword, this human cultivator should have no power to resist and should have died on the spot.
Now he actually blocked it.
But that was the end of it, she wasn't going to play with these people anymore.
Then she retracted her sword, and a flying sword came from the sky like lightning. If she had not dodged quickly, her head would have been chopped off.
Even so, a bloody mark was left on her face by the sharp sword energy.
The princess immediately put Li Shuoxue out of her mind and looked coldly in the direction where the flying sword came from.
After the flying sword missed its target, it flew back and happened to fall into the hands of Pei Ji who was rushing over.
He stood in the air, took a step forward, and a long trail of shadows was left behind him. In an instant, he arrived in front of the princess and attacked her with his sword like thunder.
Princess: "Ha, you're just in time! I thought you were a coward, afraid to come out and fight—"
Before she finished saying the word "war", her expression suddenly froze on her face, and a circle of blood appeared on her neck.
The entire head had been chopped off by Pei Ji.
"You talk too much." Pei Ji said coldly, and slashed with his sword. The demon insect under the princess was cut into two pieces and fell from the air with the princess's body.
The princess probably never understood until her death why her strength, which was comparable to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator, was defeated by Pei Ji, who was only in the Golden Core stage.
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