Blue, Red and White Dark Abyss Cauldron

Chapter 344 A brief moment of tranquility

Jinglan said, "Yesterday afternoon, my father received a message from Uncle Xiao via eagle, saying that the army of the Chisha Nation was gathering in the area south of the Beast Mountain, and it looked like they were preparing to launch a large-scale attack on Humu Pass... Then what happened today..."

Ever since the Claw Clan's assassins raided Bicheng a few months ago, Chu Xiaomu knew that it was only a matter of time before the Red Sand Nation attacked Bicheng again, so he had been mentally prepared for this, but he did not expect it to happen at this time.

He nodded and said, "There is another important place now, which is the ancient black miasma road. From the general's tone, Yanzhua and the others came from this road. We must immediately send troops to defend there." He sighed again and thought to himself, I'm just a small scout of the Nanding Army with poor skills. What's the point of worrying so much?

Jinglan said, "From what Master said, this time there will be... a great disaster in Bicheng. He said... he said he has never seen such a chaotic phenomenon..."

When Chu Xiaomu heard her mention the word "Master", he couldn't help but ask, "Have you taken Huang Jieshi as your Master?"

Jinglan nodded.

"He said there would be a great disaster, what does that mean?" Chu Xiaomu's heart was pounding.

"Master said that Bicheng might not be safe this time..."

"No, Bicheng is such a big place, with more than 20,000 soldiers, nearly one million civilians, your father Zhou Zhongjun, Yang Luo and Yang Zhongjun, and the general... How could Bicheng not be defended? Maybe... maybe your master is wrong..." Chu Xiaomu was anxious and said a lot of words at once.

Jinglan said, "I have only been with Master for three months, and I admire him more and more." She pulled out the thin sword from her waist, which was less than two fingers wide. The sword light flowed, shimmering like water. It was a rare treasure.

Then he said, "This sword is called 'Qiu Ning'. My master said it suits my name very well, so he gave it to me. He asked me to take the sword and go into the city to save you early this morning. I didn't believe it at first. I thought... I thought you were so far away in Humu Pass, why would you come back to Bicheng at this time..."

Chu Xiaomu sighed and said, "It's a long story, but I'm no longer in Humu Pass. I'm now a sentinel at Gusong Ridge, not far from Dongzhong Army."

Jinglan hummed, and continued, "When I entered the city and saw the thick fog, I knew something was wrong. I raised my sword and used the method my master taught me, and I really broke the magic of the Sand Country people. It didn't take long for me to find you... Therefore, what my master said can't be wrong."

Chu Xiaomu thought, Huang Jieshi, as one of the three great men, could see the mysteries of heaven and earth and see things that ordinary people could not see. But he was not omniscient and omnipotent after all. It was not easy to conclude that "Bicheng was lost" was such a big thing just by looking at the changes in the sun, moon and stars, or calculating the laws of the operation of spiritual energy. Besides, Bicheng also had General Biye, the five major armies and tens of thousands of soldiers. How could the "three sects" of the Claw Clan of the Chisha Kingdom, the Flame Claw and the Tooth Clan, easily destroy Bicheng?

But what if Huang Jieshi’s speculation was correct... Chu Xiaomu didn’t dare to think further.

Both of them were preoccupied and stopped talking.

Yang Dou took out the dry biscuits he had on him, tore off half a piece for each of them and shared them.

Zhang Hou took two bites and said, "Adou, don't you have any mutton jerky with you? How can you have the strength to fight just by eating this?"

Yang Dou said: "No, I only eat this."

Zhang Hou saw that the package he was carrying was bulging with a lot of things inside, perhaps some delicious mutton dumplings or something, so he reached out to take it.

Yang Dou took the dry biscuit in his left hand and bit it, then turned out his right palm and gently pushed him. Zhang Hou was unsteady on his feet and rolled four or five somersaults before sitting on the ground. His head and face were covered with grass seeds and leaves, and even his mouth was filled with a bunch of weeds and dirt.

Everyone burst into laughter.

Zhang Hou spit out the grass and mud in his mouth and shouted, "Little Adou, you have grown up and are bullying your brother Houer, right?"

Yang Dou hesitated and said, "Why did you steal my bag?"

Zhang Hou said: "Who wants to snatch it? I saw your bag is beautiful, so I just wanted to touch it."

Yang Dou said, "That won't work either." Zhang Hou was speechless.

Zhou Weide said: "This kid Houpi'er likes to be too much of a jerk. That's how you should deal with him, Adou. Next time, use all your original force and make him fall a hundred somersaults!"

Yang Dou shook his head and said, "That won't work. He will die."

Lingweidou asked curiously, "Brother Dou'er, what level have you reached with your Force?"

Yang Dou said: "I don't know. The general didn't tell me."

Everyone knew that his heart disease had not yet fully recovered, and since they could not get to the bottom of it, they stopped asking any more questions.

After eating some dry food and resting for a while, it was almost afternoon.

Jinglan asked softly, "Brother Xiaomu, what are your plans next?"

Chu Xiaomu thought for a moment and said, "General Yang and Officer Zuo have arranged for us to stand sentry at the foot of Lonely Pine Ridge. The military order has not been withdrawn yet. I think... we still have to go back."

Zhou Weide heard what the two were saying and interrupted them loudly, "Why are we still going there? Ding Zhongjun is going to kill us, why are we still going to that damn place to work for them?!"

Chu Xiaomu remembered Jinglan's previous words like "Bicheng is not safe", and couldn't help but sighed and said, "If we don't go there, where else can we go?"

Zhou Weide said: "In my opinion, we should go to Yancheng together!"

Wu Sheng said disdainfully: "That's because you are from Yancheng. Think about it carefully, are there any Tai people in Yancheng who are as powerful and easy to talk to as the general? Are the gray-armored soldiers of Yancheng as majestic and easy to get along with as the silver-armored soldiers of Bicheng?" The lord of Yancheng was named Tai Juchuan. Chu Xiaomu had heard about it from them a long time ago.

Zhou Weide shouted, "So what? It's better than being tired and humiliated here!"

Chu Xiaomu ignored him. Everyone knew that Zhou Wei De had always been like this. He would always say a few words when he encountered something unpleasant, but he didn't dare to do it when he really made up his mind to do it.

Jinglan said, "Anyway, we can't go back to Bicheng..." After thinking for a while, she continued, "How about I go and talk to Master and ask you guys to go to Shisantai as well?" Before she finished speaking, her face had turned red.

Shisantai is where Mr. Huang Jieshi lives. Chu Xiaomu has been there once and has told the other eight people about it, so everyone knows it.

Zhang Hou said immediately, "Great! Let's go to Master Huang Jie and learn the art of astronomy from him. I don't think we need to activate the Force, as none of us seem to have the ability to do it, and even if we learn it, it won't be that great. Even though Ah Dou is so powerful, he still needs Miss Jinglan to save him in the end."

Yang Dou looked at him blankly, but was not angry.