Chapter 649: Show your cards

Nine bells ring?

Looking up at the ripples in the city defense sky, the thinking in Xu Yuan's eyes was laced with hesitation.

On the border of Great Yan, there are extremely strict laws and regulations on how many times the bell is rung when encountering an enemy.

Three bell ringings represent a small group of enemy attacks, six bell ringings represent the whole city being on alert, and nine bells ringing means a large army is approaching. When high-level cultivators attack the city, according to the law, they should only ring seven bells.

"Third Young Master, please follow me to the government office immediately."

While he was thinking about it, Si Zijing's voice suddenly came from the side. At some point, the Black Scale Guard Gyeonggi Director had walked out of the wine shop and was staring at him with a serious face:

"Zhenxi Fucheng is now a rear town, and a sudden attack on the city may cause a series of chaos."

Xu Yuan frowned slightly and glanced at the deserted street:

"Isn't everything in the city already under military control?"

Under the organization of the Zhenxi Army, most of the streets along the way to Xu Yuanlai's wine shop had been cleared.

Si Zijing spoke very quickly:

"Not enough, not enough time. They came too fast. Even if the army intervened forcibly, it only took half a day to clear out the lowest level of common people. There was no time to do more, not to mention that the entire Zhenxi Fucheng was only nominally united to the princess. , there are also detailed sects and a large number of wall-riding factions.”

Speaking of this, Si Zijing paused for a moment, and his voice was filled with a hint of urgency:

"You have now revealed your identity. In this most chaotic period, it is very likely that someone will want to do harm to you."

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There are people who want to do harm to him, and Xu Yuan certainly knows that.

After all, in the eyes of some people, Li Junwu and Jia Yi bundled together may not be as important as Xu Yuan alone, so wandering around the city alone might not be fishing.

After all, it is unlikely that the sect would send strong men to lurk in Xifu City, which is already under martial law, to assassinate him. If they want to do it, they will have to use the high-level experts in the Zhenxi Army.

If you dare to assassinate, let Tianye handle it smoothly.

However, looking at the serious face of the feminine man in front of him, Xu Yuan also knew that the risk of continuing to use his own body to make a nest was almost out of control.

after all,

Those important city defense weapons that can seriously injure or even kill mortals have been activated at this moment.

Even if Tianye was there to protect him, a blow from the front would probably be enough.

With his thoughts at this point, Xu Yuan looked at the towering city wall at the end of his field of vision and uttered one word:

"Walk."

As soon as the words fell,

Si Zijing bowed his hands, hugged Xu Yuan and rushed towards the safest government office in Zhenxi Fucheng.

The sudden ringing of the bell disturbed the common people in the city and disturbed the aristocratic families, but it did not disturb the garrison on duty on the city wall.

The Second Town of the Zhenxi Army is not a second-line force permanently stationed in the rear, but an elite force that has been rotated from the front line of the Monan Metropolitan Government.

On the distant horizon, a huge cloud of smoke and dust was rolling towards Zhenxi Fucheng like an ancient beast.

But on the city wall, many veterans among the defenders were even talking and laughing.

"Old Liu, didn't it say that the attacker was a high-level cultivator? Why did the government office ring nine bells?"

A military commander took turns tapping the battlements with his armor-wrapped fingers, and asked a little strangely: "Look at the posture of this smoke, it doesn't look like a high-level cultivator, but more like a beast tide."

The territory of Xizezhou is long and narrow, bordered by the desert to the north and the Wanxing Mountains to the south. The enemy of the Suppressing Western Army is not only Tachao. When the military situation is urgent, some troops will be sent south to the Wanxing Mountains to help fight against Guyuan, and in the desert While patrolling in the middle range, they would occasionally encounter attacks from wolves or insect swarms.

The general surnamed Liu next to the general was staring at the smoke and dust coming from the distance through the canopy of the city protection, and his tone was serious:

"On a clear day, the city defense array can detect a hundred miles in radius. The ringing of nine bells must be a wave of beasts. It is probably lured out by those saints."

The general touched his chin and said with a chuckle:

"That's good. If only saints attacked the city, the achievements would probably have nothing to do with us big soldiers. Now that monsters are attacking, it just makes up for it."

General Liu frowned visibly and lowered his voice:

"Li Mazi, are you really not afraid of death? Do you know what a saint represents?"

After hearing this, the general said without thinking:

"Didn't everyone above say that we also have saints here to help us? After the fight, just focus on luck."

"You are so innocent"

"Why am I so naive?"

"Use your brain and think about it carefully. We all know the power of military formations and city defense formations. Don't those saint-level adults know? If the other side dares to come, then they will definitely be able to break the city!"

"oh."

"oh?!"

General Liu clenched his sword tightly: "Oh, you are so big!"

"No, why are you so excited? I know that your mind usually works very fast, but in the battle formation, it's better to think slowly."

Li Mazi grinned, then suddenly stopped smiling, and said meaningfully: "Brother, I just pretended that I didn't hear what I said just now. Old Liu, you should also know very well what the consequences of the morale of the army in the face of cholera are."

"." General Liu was silent.

Li Mazi took out a token from his waist, did some sensing, reached out and patted his friend in front of him, and laughed softly:

"The authority of the city defense formation has been delegated."

Before he finished speaking, Li Mazi's expression suddenly froze, and he ignored General Liu. He turned around and jumped to the giant crossbow on the tower.

Seeing this scene, General Liu subconsciously opened his mouth, but in the end, after sighing, he chose to turn around and head towards his defense area.

Heavy city defense weapons are used to deal with high-value targets such as high-level cultivators. However, the operator's cultivation level is generally not even able to see the hem of a high-level cultivator's clothes. Therefore, when facing a battle, some formation authority will be given to them for use. aim.

"clatter"

The city is noisy, but the walls are quiet, with footsteps echoing.

Step out of the few breaths,

General Liu's figure suddenly stopped.

He noticed that something seemed wrong.

Something was wrong with the sound.

The subtle clicking sound didn't seem to be his footsteps, but coming from behind.

A doubt arose in his heart, and General Liu subconsciously looked back at the tower.

Then,

The pupils shrank suddenly.

In his vision,

At this moment, Li Mazi had turned the heavy crossbow 180 degrees and aimed it at the city.

What's the meaning?

His brain, which had always been spinning very fast, suddenly shut down at this moment, but his body started to move subconsciously.

He broke out and rushed towards the top of the city tower at the fastest speed in his life.

He didn't know why Li Mazi turned the crossbow's muzzle, but he knew that such a heavy weapon could never be fired into the city!

The technique started to work,

The speed increased suddenly at this moment.

The sound of the wind and the hum of the recharged crossbow reached my ears together. The city tower was getting closer and closer in my field of vision, but everything seemed to be too late. And just at this moment,

A shadow of a figure that was so fast that he could barely see it suddenly passed him from under the city tower, and almost instantly arrived in front of the crossbow that was about to launch.

The next moment,

The jade sword is unsheathed.

"bass-"

A familiar head flew in front of General Liu's eyes, and landed with a "dong" sound. Gulu Gulu rolled to his feet, and the bright red blood drew an arc-shaped trajectory on the ground.

As if the stagnant time was flowing again at this moment, General Liu looked at Li Mazi's head and then at the ghostly figure.

Zhou Chen wiped the blood stains on the jade sword, glanced at the general below, and said indifferently:

"This man is a traitor to the country, and this is a warning."

After saying this, he quickly galloped towards the next location, leaving the general surnamed Liu to stay where he was.

After counting the interest,

The general surnamed Liu seemed to be waking up from a big dream, his eyes dropped, and he punched the battlements.

He didn't understand why Li Mazi betrayed him.

I don't understand why the high-level cultivator just now seemed to have known that Li Mazi would betray him.

But when he raised his eyes, he saw a scene that he would never forget.

The city tower stands on the stretching city wall, and at this moment, the light spots are shining like stars and forming a line.

Under the gaze of the general surnamed Liu, many bright spots of light quickly dimmed, but similarly, there were also many spots of light that shot into Zhenxi Fucheng at a speed that he could not see clearly.

As a military commander, he knew exactly what those light spots represented.

But as a military commander, he didn't know what Zhenxi Fucheng was going to face?

When something happened to the city wall, Xu Yuanzheng was being swept along low in the sky by Si Zijing, but almost at the same time, Si Zijing noticed something strange.

His extraordinary cultivation allowed him to clearly see everything happening on the tower, but the distance prevented him from processing it immediately.

Looking at everything over there, Si Zijing cursed subconsciously:

"What is that loser Huang Shiwei doing over there at the city wall?! Why don't you hurry up and kill those who are manipulating the crossbows!"

Hearing this, Xu Yuan also instantly looked at the city wall, his technique was running, and the moment a vaguely visible light spot entered his field of vision, his heart sank.

He had thought that the sect's elaborate operations in Fucheng would use heavy defense weapons to assassinate him, and he had made arrangements in advance, but he really did not expect to see most of the heavy weapons in Xi Fucheng aiming at him alone.

"Third Young Master Wen said that the entire Zhenxi Mansion belongs to us. Why are you fighting with me?"

As his mind was spinning, a gentle and smiling female voice suddenly sounded from the block below: "Do you feel satisfied with Mr. Wen's return gift?"

Confucian scholar named Wen?

The moment he heard the voice, Xu Yuan subconsciously responded. At the end of the voice, an average-looking woman was looking up to the sky with a smile.

The cultivation level is not high, just condensing the soul.

Before she could speak again, a ray of energy shot out from Si Zijing's palm, and wisps of strange markings suddenly appeared on the woman's face.

The next moment,

The woman who made a sound slumped down like tofu and was taken in by Si Zijing from the air.

Seeing this scene, Xu Yuan's mind was spinning, and he said quickly without any hesitation:

"This is a clone, kill it directly."

"Bang!"

Splatters of blood and flesh hit the ground.

Almost at the same time as the woman died, the first giant crystal arrow from the city wall hit the two people speeding at low altitude.

Si Zijing was horizontal in the air, and a magic talisman condensed in the void, blocking the path of the giant arrow, but this only delayed the crystal giant arrow for a moment.

The heavy weapons of city defense kill high-level cultivators!

There is a magic-breaking array pattern engraved on the arrow's edge, and ordinary spells will collapse at the moment of contact.

Si Zijing knew this, and he condensed the talismans just for this moment of stagnation.

In the blink of an eye,

Threads of purple streaks were already clinging to his right hand, and he waved his hand toward the arrow's edge.

"boom-"

A strong shock wave spread from the sky, and just the aftermath leveled half of the city block below to the ground. At the cost, half of Si Zijing's forearm disappeared.

Si Zijing kept thinking about countermeasures, and the eagerness in his eyes was beyond words.

what to do?

Now Linlang is guarding the princess and the desert goddess in the government office, and he will not be able to catch up for a while.

Huang Shiwei was arranged in advance by the third son to go to the city wall to deal with possible traitors, but now it seems that almost all the generals in the city have rebelled, and they cannot be dealt with in a short time.

And he is a Dharma cultivator, and the skills he cultivates are even better at concealing assassinations. This kind of city defense weapon is almost a natural killer for him. Even if he opens the Dao Domain, the Dao Domain can be shot out by this crystal giant arrow.

The only thing that can be expected is probably that the princess in the government office discovers something happened on the city wall.

Although judging from the formation patterns, it was too late to take back the control rights of the rebellious generals, but they could control the city defense formations to help them block the bombardment of these heavy city defense weapons.

Si Zijing glanced at the sky with his peripheral vision, and layers of ripples slowly emerged on it.

It seems that the princess has already responded, but it will take time to use the city defense array to condense the shield, unless the city defense array is used to directly blow up those array pattern machine crossbows.

The government office and the military headquarters.

"Go away, Jin Shaoxiu, do you want to die?!"

Li Junwu's angry shouts resounded inside and outside, and he tried to shake off the opponent's grip on his wrist: "Those crossbows must be destroyed immediately, otherwise Xu Yuan will be in trouble!"

The veteran Jin not only did not let go of his palm, but used more force to disturb the source of Qi in the opponent's body, and also shouted loudly:

"Princess Princess, with such a temper, how can you afford the future of millions of people in Zhenxi Mansion?!

"Now that Zhan Xian'an and Lu Baizou are dead, there is no one in the city who has the cultivation level to command a whole town of soldiers and horses, and all the crossbow machines have been destroyed, what can we do to deal with the six saints who are attacking?!

"You have asked Linlang to go forward, and Mr. Xu must have other trump cards in his hand!"

"boom!!"

Another explosion sounded in the air, and this time Si Zijing's entire right arm was gone.

Xu Yuan, who was behind him, was also running his skills while running his brain rapidly.

However, he was not thinking about a way to break the situation, but the motivation of the Confucian scholar surnamed Wen.

The two separate attacks by giant crystal arrows also aroused doubts in his mind.

With the power of heavy city defense weapons, Si Zijing would not be able to withstand a salvo even if he died.

Moreover, if the Confucian scholar surnamed Wen chooses to activate this trump card at the same time, the number of traitorous generals that Huang Shiwei can deal with will be reduced to a negligible level.

At that time, the volleys of dozens of machine crossbows could create a sure-kill situation for Xu Yuan in almost an instant.

Si Zijing couldn't block it.

With this kind of quantity and power, even if Linlang comes, he still has to have a good drink.

Glancing at the cloned woman who had just been blown into **** water, Xu Yuan's thoughts finally completed the closed loop at this moment.

The Confucian scholar surnamed Wen did not do this to kill him from the beginning, but to force him to reveal one of his trump cards to save himself before the war.

Judging from the extremely short intervals of uninterrupted crystal crossbow arrows, the opponent should be targeting the Tianye Time Stop Dao Domain.

(End of chapter)