Qizhou is a border state, surrounded by hundreds of thousands of barbarians on all sides.

Dozens of miles away from the Baimang River Fish Market are endless wild mountains and forests, where ferocious beasts and poisonous insects roam rampant, miasma-filled swamps are everywhere, dragons are hidden in the deep pools, and unicorns can be seen on the cliffs. According to legend, there are countless monsters hiding in there, making it one of the most dangerous places in the world.

Surrounded by several large mountains, in a small mountain basin, Lord Rat with shining silver hair was lying on a wooden stake in a proud manner, his long tail swaying happily.

"Get into action, kids! Master Rat hasn't come to visit you for a month. Have you been lazy?"

"Rat Lord" was shouting shrilly. In the basin, there were more than a dozen fat and strong yellow-haired marmots nearly three feet long, followed by more than fifty fat and round bamboo rats, and behind them were more than three hundred mountain rats about a foot long.

A group of rats stood up like human soldiers, their two hind legs firmly supporting their bodies, their two front paws protecting their chests, and formed a rather impressive square formation in front of Rat Lord.

Even though they were a bunch of rats, they formed a neat and tidy formation, forming a straight line horizontally and vertically. All the rats had their hair standing on end, and their little eyes had a hint of blood-seeking murderous aura.

There was no sign of human presence in the deep mountains and old forests. The square array formed by these tiny rats inexplicably made people feel a chill in their hearts.

What's even more frightening is that the chests and abdomens of these rats rise and fall rhythmically, and long breaths are constantly inhaling and exhaling. The dust around them is flying, and the grass around them is swaying gently as if blown by the breeze.

These rats not only know how to form a formation, but they are also practicing!

Not only were they practicing, but the breath they casually breathed could cause the grass leaves to sway, which was a sign that Wu Yuan's cultivation had reached a high level, with at least twenty to thirty years of experience.

Those mountain rats that are slightly smaller in size are fine, their qi is slightly weaker.

The dozen or so groundhogs had amazing auras. One of the largest groundhogs had a faint stream of white air coming out of his mouth three to five feet away during his breath, which shattered all the grass leaves along the way like the edge of a sword.

Grandpa Rat was so happy that his face was beaming with joy. He wagged his long tail and nodded repeatedly in praise: "Well done, kids! Well done! You have opened up your spiritual wisdom, understood the principle of hard work and progress, and also learned the cultivation method taught by Grandpa Rat!"

After a few squeaks, Rat Lord smiled at the group of rats and said seriously, "From now on, you are no longer ordinary mountain rats. You are rat demons, rat monsters. You are like God farting, extraordinary!"

A group of rats all lifted their tails and squeaked. They looked at Rat Lord with pure yet blazing eyes, as if the most devout fanatics had seen God!

Lord Rat laughed a few times, swung his long tail, and looked in the direction of the fish market.

"Last night, that little girl Lu Gu must have taken action! Damn, every time she shows up, Master Rat always has to retreat. I wonder if everything went well last night? Did the bunch of little brats not suffer any harm?"

As he was muttering softly, Rat Lord's body suddenly stiffened. His two ears twitched violently a few times, and his body shrank slightly. He held his long tail with his front paws, stuffed it into his mouth and took a big bite.

"Hehe, hehe, you came to my door?" Lord Rat laughed strangely, his silver hairs stood up like countless silver needles. An extremely dangerous aura flashed through him, and he was so excited that his body was twitching slightly, and his two scarlet eyes were almost spewing fire.

"Fun, fun is here! Hee, these idiots came to me on their own accord, which shows that Tian Geer did a great job last night!"

After a few squeaking sounds, Rat Lord flicked his long tail, and a group of rats hurriedly fled. Rat Lord chuckled a few times, and under a cliff in the distance, a shadow the size of a washbasin flew up lightly and silently, and soon flew in front of Rat Lord and lay down obediently.

This is a red-haired bat as big as a washbasin. It is the most famous vampire bat in the Ten Thousand Wilds and is extremely ferocious and vicious.

In front of Master Rat, the vampire bat was as obedient as a tamed dog. It lay obediently at Master Rat's feet and rubbed his belly affectionately with its head.

Lord Rat jumped onto the back of the vampire bat, and its long tail whipped his forehead like a whip. The vampire bat leaped into the air, carrying Lord Rat on its back and glided towards the distant mountains and forests according to his instructions.

Five or six miles away from the Baimang River Fish Market, on a small hill, more than thirty strong men in brocade clothes were divided into six distinct groups. They were standing in a depression and looking at the movements in the fish market from afar.

These men were dressed in brocade, but judging from the outlines of their clothes, they must have worn half-body soft armor or breastplates. The half-foot-wide belts around their waists were all made of rhinoceros or crocodile skin, and there were three or five bulging leather pockets hanging on the belts, and no one knew what was inside.

On the belts of many men, there is a row of buckles neatly nailed on them, on which hang either a row of small daggers, a row of throwing knives, or things like steel nails and triangular spikes.

There were more than thirty people, half of whom had swords on their waists, and the rest either had broadswords on their backs, or steel whips wrapped around their waists, or long weapons like long spears. In short, everyone was fully armed, and their bodies were filled with an indelible murderous aura.

After looking at the fish market town for a while, a big man with a curly beard suddenly laughed strangely: "I'm afraid you guys will be unhappy if we sneak in like this. I'm just a fishmonger, a pig or a dog, why should I be so careful?"

On the left chest of the bearded man, there was a thumb-sized word "Zhao" embroidered with red silk thread. It was obvious that he was Zhao Kuo's bodyguard.

As soon as the big man finished speaking, a guard with a golden "Li" embroidered on his chest, who was obviously sent by the Li Qian family, laughed sneerly: "Is it really like that? Did you see those corpses on the road just now? You guys are so inexperienced that you really thought those corpses were the bodies of merchants left behind by the bandits who robbed and killed people in Zhensanzhou. But what is the reality?"

Everyone looked at each other, revealing strange smiles that only old hands could understand.

The thousand or so corpses at Huyakou all had strong bones and muscles, and their body shapes were completely different from those of ordinary people. Many of them had scars on their bodies, all left by swords, spears, and halberds. Their ten fingers were even more thick and powerful, with thick calluses on their fingers, knuckles, and palms.

Although the armor was stripped off, there were only two types of clothing worn by so many corpses.

One was a standard linen uniform. Just looking at the style, you could tell that this was the uniform issued to the soldiers of Dajin Prefecture. At Huyakou, there were as many as six or seven hundred corpses wearing this linen uniform!