Witch Wind

Chapter 178: Yin Xin's Prayer (Part )

In October of that year, Hedong Province had already been completely controlled by Xing Tianli's army.

The officers and soldiers of the four provinces were at a loss, and suffered seven or eight consecutive defeats on the front battlefield, with heavy casualties. The capital of Hexi Province, Lingbi City, had also been captured by the White Lotus Army, and all the officials in the city were slaughtered. The land and assets of countless wealthy merchants, landlords, and large families were divided up by the White Lotus, who shouted the slogan of "fairness in the world".

After all, it is a makeshift team. Xiangliu Baiwei is good at fighting and killing, but in terms of the control over these refugees, he is obviously not comparable to Xing Tianli's control over his own subordinates.

Forty percent of the soldiers under Xing Tianli's command were Dongyun vassal troops. All of them were secretly controlled by him using "Liushang Voodoo". In addition, the people of Dongyun had a dog-like mentality of admiring the strong, so his orders were strictly followed and no one dared to cause trouble.

The remaining 55% of the main force were indigenous warriors from Black Borneo.

Xing Tianli repeatedly performed his "divine deity" in front of these natives, often lifting a mountain a hundred feet high and swinging it back and forth in the air. In the hearts of these natives of Black Borneo, he was the supreme god. Therefore, these native warriors fought bravely and fearlessly, and regarded any orders of Xing Tianli as golden words, without any compromise.

There was also a very small number of troops composed of good families from Jieshi County.

Among these good family children, a large number of Xingtian brothers were incorporated.

Xing Tianli was a well-educated man from a good family with sufficient moral standards. In addition, he was bound by strict military discipline. The tens of millions of troops under his command swept through the Hedong Province in just over a month. Except for more than 30,000 tough officers and soldiers who were beheaded, not a single civilian was killed innocently.

In the westernmost part of Hedong Province, there is Lingbao County City.

On the Wuding River, which is emerald green and appears to be calm but actually has turbulent currents and undercurrents, the huge ship rented by Xing Tianli sounded the whistle, and the huge flag of 'Xing Tian Dancing with Gan Qi' of the Jieshi Mansion danced wildly in the wind on the tall mast.

On the other side of the river is Lingbi City, the capital of Hexi Province.

Flags with white lotuses on red backgrounds were waving in the wind on top of the walls of Lingbi City. Outside the city, large groups of soldiers in white clothes and armor, with forehead bands with white lotuses on red backgrounds, were worshipping around the bonfires like crazy, singing loudly and enthusiastically.

Xing Tianli, who had just arrived here, stood on the top of Lingbao City. The whistling river wind blew from the west. He clearly heard the crying of a woman coming from the city. He also faintly heard the "crackling" sound of sharp steel knives cutting through muscles and bones coming from the city.

Obviously, something was happening in the city that made the White Lotus followers happy, but Xing Tianli couldn't bear to see it.

Xing Tianli patted Xing Tianren on the shoulder and said in a deep voice: "Brother Ren, take a few large ships and a group of people across the river to see who the leader of the White Lotus Sect is. Tell him clearly that he is not allowed to slaughter people wantonly. Whether it is an official who has committed many evil deeds, or a wealthy businessman or a wealthy family who is rich and unkind, they are strictly prohibited from killing people wantonly without trial and without the people coming forward to report it."

Xing Tianren frowned: "Brother, I'm afraid they won't listen to us."

Xing Tianli said calmly: "I will build a long bridge on the river in a moment. If they can understand human language, we will talk to them nicely. If they can't understand human language, then they should not be human beings."

"For Uncle Li's sake, I gave them food and fodder, and gave them arms, not to let them break through the city and harm the people. If it were those messy officials of the Great Yu Dynasty, and those wealthy families who have never accumulated virtue and done good deeds, they would be killed, but if they dare to harm the people, then I will harm them!"

"Xiangliu White Viper!"

Xing Tianli sneered: "Xiangliu clan? So great?"

Xing Tianren agreed and was about to lead his men across the river when he saw a dozen pitch-black heads crossing the water at an astonishing speed in the distance. Amid the shouting and fussing of the Yingji sailors on the giant ship, a dozen pitch-black dogs came up to the shore, panting and cursing.

As soon as the leading black dog came ashore, it shook its body quickly, spilling water and blood all over the ground.

This river bank was only seven or eight miles away from the western city wall of Lingbao County. A large group of Dongyun vassal soldiers, armed with old-style flintlock muskets and with long swords hanging from their waists, were patrolling nearby.

Seeing these big black dogs coming ashore, a centurion Dongyun started shouting loudly.

After all, although these big black dogs looked like ordinary Eastern pastoral dog breeds, their physiques were a bit too big. Their bodies were at least three times the size of ordinary local dogs. The big black dog in the lead was five or six times larger than an ordinary local dog.

What was even more frightening was that the head of this big black dog didn't look like a dog at all, but rather had a human look. At first glance, his facial features vaguely showed human features, and coupled with his dog-like body, he looked like this, which inexplicably made the Dongyun people feel an instinctive fear.

This is the instinctive repression of the life class.

These Dongyun soldiers shouted in unison and subconsciously raised their flintlock rifles and started firing.

The sound of gunfire continued, and dense lead bullets flew straight to the dozen big black dogs that had landed. The leading black dog roared and yelled at the top of his voice: "A bunch of Dongyun dwarfs, I can't deal with those crazy people in Daxia, so why am I afraid of you?"

The black dog howled, and its body suddenly expanded. Then, you could see spots all over its body, and many of its hairs stood up. The black hairs were like steel needles. The hairs that were originally one inch long suddenly soared to more than one foot long. Countless hairs vibrated, making a "ding-ding" sound of metal colliding.

Seeing that he was covered in dog hair and was about to fly away, Xing Tianli had already recognized this guy.

"Yang Huanglong, you bastard, stop it. Look at your miserable state. Tsk tsk, how many knives and swords have you been hit by?"

Yang Huanglong, who was about to make a move, was stunned. He raised his head, narrowed his dark dog eyes, and saw Xing Tianli's appearance clearly from several miles away. He immediately exhaled a deep breath and his body quickly shriveled up.

Xing Tianli laughed and said, "Just now, I saw you briefly in Nanxun Town a few days ago. When I dealt with Zhang Qingshu and his gang of bastards, you guys actually took that old dog Yang Tianji with you, abandoned your Princess Yihe, and ran away without a trace."

"I really didn't expect that you would come to the four provinces of Shanhe to fight for your lives?"

"Is this, being beaten and disabled?"

Xing Tianli laughed out loud. He did not have much resentment towards this mean big dog. Instead, he had some friendship with him. After he had taken back the ancestral property of the Xingtian family, recovered the ancestral home of the Xingtian family, and brought the entire Jieshi County under his control, he wanted to find this guy to find out some clues about the ancestral land of the Dayu Dynasty.

Unexpectedly, just when Xing Tianli was busy copying homework, exempting agricultural taxes, providing welfare to the people in the territory, and opening public schools at all levels, Yang Tianji suddenly disappeared without a trace with a group of monsters and demons.

After all, Yang Tianji is a celestial being, and Xing Tianli did not stare at him deliberately. If he wanted to escape, Xing Tianren and others would not be able to keep an eye on him!

What I never expected was that I would actually meet Yang Huanglong in Lingbao County!

"How miserable!" Yang Huanglong and a dozen of his brothers staggered up the city wall of Lingbao County, and all of them collapsed to the ground, unable to move.

Xing Tianli swept a ray of consciousness over Yang Huanglong, and this guy was completely crushed, without any awareness. Xing Tianli couldn't help but marvel at it - in Yang Huanglong's Dantian, cough, near the lower abdomen, that strange acupoint, should be the dog's Dantian, right?

In his dantian, a semi-solid "demon pill" surrounded by black gas has actually condensed. No wonder his head has become so "human-like" and looks like a ghost. When his demon pill is officially condensed, he will probably transform into a human, right?

"That bastard Duoduo was sitting in Fentian City playing with his young wife. He took a few 'Three-Transformation Transformation Pills' and lured me and my brothers to fight him to the death." Yang Huanglong raised his head and looked at Xing Tianli with his dog eyes, tears welling up in his eyes and he almost cried.

"I thought that as long as we were not in Nanxun Town and did not fight against a ruthless and ruthless person like you who even killed that old ghost Aobai with one punch, who would I be afraid of?"

"I didn't expect it. It's so miserable, so miserable!" Yang Huanglong finally burst into tears. "Hey, those muskets and cannons, three or five people, thirty or fifty people, I didn't take them seriously, did I? I've played with those scum in the weaving department before, thirty or fifty guns and cannons, I was quick-witted and flew away, I couldn't hurt a hair at all."

"But how can it be so scary when there are hundreds of thousands of people on the battlefield and thousands of artillery pieces are firing at the same time?"

Yang Huanglong and a dozen black dogs all showed expressions of extreme fear.

"In the early days, the White Lotus Sect had limited artillery, maybe only three to five hundred? If they were scattered across the battlefield, their lethality to us would be limited. Xiong Da and his men could wear heavy armor and rush forward to overturn a few artillery pieces."

"But more than a month ago, we were in terrible trouble. It was a ghost. Where did they get thousands of cannons? And they were all explosive cannons. The cannon fire..." Yang Huanglong shuddered and cried, "It's so tragic, so tragic. Xiong Da and his friends, Hu Da and his friends, and a few old fox ladies, hey, hey, especially the old fox ladies, they are almost immortal."

"Thousands of artillery fire, including some 150mm and 203mm cannons, and some 360mm coastal defense cannons... Old Lady Fox and her friends were severely injured by the artillery fire, and when they were about to escape, they were killed by a group of vicious people."

Yang Huanglong's pupils shrank, and he was obviously extremely frightened. "This is so inhumane, it's simply inhuman."

"They actually skinned people on the battlefield... bear skins, tiger skins, fox skins... they even didn't spare dog skins!"

"Bearskin cloaks, tigerskin cushions, foxeskin scarves, these are all good things."

"What can you do with dog skin?"

"What can dog skin do?"

Xing Tianli coughed and said, "I heard that dog-skin boots are also very good for keeping warm... Ahem, anyway, you ran away from Nanxun Town, ran back to Fentian City, and were forced to join the war in the four provinces of Shanhe, and then, suffered heavy casualties?"

He looked at Yang Huanglong with a bit of regret.

Yes, why did the firepower of the White Lotus Sect suddenly increase to such a terrifying level that it could even seriously injure a nearly immortal Yuanshen-level demon?
Cough!

It's true, the world is so tragic.

Xing Tianli's throat was itchy. He coughed hard for a while before asking, "You mean the murderer? Who is he?"

Yang Huanglong's crying stopped abruptly.

He raised his head and looked at Xing Tianli very seriously, solemnly, and even grimly: "Brother, we have some friendship after all. I just want to ask you, are you the Jiazi Walker of this generation of Daxia? Are you going to violate the covenant signed by the ancestors of each family and fight for the world of the East Kingdom?"

Xing Tianli frowned slightly: "Hmm? Who did you meet?"

While Yang Huanglong was crying to Xing Tianli on the top of the city wall, in the northwest corner of Lingbao County, there was a prison made of huge stones, which was heavily guarded and overcrowded.

The Jieshi Duke's army advanced too fast. The garrison commanders in Lingbao County received 70% of their salaries in vain, and the remaining 30% of the soldiers were old, weak, sick and disabled. They only had drills once every six months on average, and most of their weapons had been sold out long ago. With such a weak force, they didn't even fight, but simply opened the city gates and surrendered.

As a result, all the officials and masters in the city were captured by the army of Jieshi Mansion without a single one escaping.

No matter what their status was before, now they were all crowded in this prison. Low, damp, and suffocatingly hot, each of the narrow cells, about ten feet square, had more than a dozen people crammed in, showing how bad the environment here was.

Suddenly, in a cell, the governor of Lingbao County, the magistrate of Lingbao County, and a group of the highest-ranking officials started punching and kicking a fat and big-eared official.

"Kill this bastard."

"You are such a scoundrel. You rely on your sister being Wei Wuya's concubine to ask for money from the county governor's office every six months, and from the county government office every six months. This happens every year... Every time you say you want to expand the prison and improve the living conditions of the prisoners."

"Where's the money?"

"Where is the money allocated to you for prison expansion over the years?"

"Look at this floor, look at this ceiling, look at these walls, look at the size of this cell. Is this where people live?"

The fat man who was beaten cried out: "My Lords, I was wrong, wrong... If I had known that one day I would be locked up in this shabby place, I would have reformed myself according to the standards of the inn. Who could have thought that the world of the Great Jade Dynasty could actually change?"

A group of officials covered the guy's mouth together.

Lingbao County Magistrate cursed in a low voice: "You bastard, if you want to die, don't drag us down. What do you mean the world of the Great Yu Dynasty has changed? The emperor is still here, the old empress dowager is still here, the millions of troops of the country are still here, trillions of people are still here... The world of the Great Yu Dynasty cannot change!"

Lingbao City is located in the westernmost part of Hedong Province. To the north is Daxing Mountain, where there are jade mines.

In the mountains, there are several fast-flowing tributaries, which wash down a large amount of raw jade from the mountains all year round. Gradually, a large amount of top-quality jade has accumulated at the mouth of the Wuding River. These beautiful jades are of excellent quality and are tributes supervised by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Therefore, there were eunuchs stationed in Lingbao County, who were responsible for the collection and transportation of jade and other tributes.

At this moment, the highest-ranking eunuchs guarding the eunuch mansion were being held in the prison opposite the Lingbao County Magistrate and others. After all, these eunuchs were castrated and naturally weak. In this damp and hot prison, they had already collapsed, one by one, dying and could die at any time.

Just when the Lingbao County Magistrate said these four words, "The Emperor is still here", a young eunuch who was taking care of the chief eunuch in the prison suddenly shuddered.

A deep dark blue light surged in the eyes of the young eunuch, and his fair skin was suddenly covered with a layer of extremely sinister blue. He exhaled a wisp of cold air, slowly stood up, and laughed.

With a backhanded palm swing, a large amount of cold air wrapped in ice crystals spurted out with a "whoosh", freezing the iron bars of the cell into countless ice slags that were sprayed all over the floor. The little eunuch, whose aura had changed drastically and whose strength had become unpredictable, hummed the vile tune of "The Little Widow Going to the Grave", put his hands behind his back, and walked out of the prison with a desolate step of "The world is turbid, but I am the only one awake", stumbling.

There are tens of thousands of Dongyun servant troops stationed around this prison.

But wherever the young eunuch passed, the cold wind wrapped in ice crystals rushed everywhere, and the Dongyun dwarf squashes were frozen into ice sculptures before they could even scream. The terrifying cold air surged, and when the young eunuch walked out of the prison gate, the originally hot weather actually fell with wisps of tiny frost flowers.

On the city wall, Xing Tianli and Yang Huanglong, who was crying, raised their heads at the same time.

Xing Tianli frowned: "Such a terrible cold air, such a weird technique?"

Yang Huanglong narrowed his eyes and muttered in a low voice: "It's spooky, eh? This is not a proper method, is it? It's a bit like the feeling of those witches who performed shaman dances in the ancestral land when they were possessed by ghosts!"

Xing Tianli said in a deep voice: "Isn't it? He is possessed by a ghost. A small eunuch with no rank actually possesses the strength comparable to that of a human immortal. The price is that his soul is directly annihilated, and his life span and blood essence are constantly being burned... This is, the soul is traveling thousands of miles to cast a spell in the body!"

Xing Tianli was very curious.

In the Dharma Ending Age, it is difficult for serious cultivators to move freely in the outside world, let alone cast spells.

Even if this little eunuch burned his soul and sacrificed his essence, blood and lifespan, he was just an ordinary mortal. How could the person behind the scenes cast such an incredible spell through the body of this little eunuch?

Could it be that he has some rare treasure hidden on him?
"Let him come up, don't stop him!" Xing Tianli shouted softly, he raised the Tongtian Yuling Banner and shook it lightly. Suddenly, the evil cold air that almost permeated half of Lingbao County City suddenly dissipated and was directly dispersed by the Tongtian Yuling Banner.

The young eunuch exclaimed in surprise. He raised his head, glanced in the direction of Xing Tianli, and said with a smile, "It seems that we have found the real culprit."

With a shake of his body, the little eunuch turned into a wisp of cold air, spanning seven or eight miles and directly in front of Xing Tianli.

He stood in front of Xing Tianli, looked him up and down for a while, and nodded gently: "You have a good physique and a good appearance. Tsk tsk, if the Queen Mother sees you, you will definitely not be able to escape her clutches and will be mined by her."

The corner of Xing Tianli's eye twitched.

How old is the Queen Mother? Is she still so elegant?
"Excuse me, sir, what is your name?" Xing Tianli said in a deep voice, "You suddenly attacked and injured more than 10,000 of my servants, even though you didn't pay them and only provided them with food and drink. You are too rude."

The young eunuch smiled slightly, glanced at Yang Huanglong and others who had already stood up and were looking at him very vigilantly, and chuckled, "I am Yin Xin, the current emperor of the Dayu Dynasty... Are you Jieshi Gong Xing Tianli?"

"Well, of course it's you."

"Let's make a deal... South of the Yangtze River belongs to you, and North of the Yangtze River belongs to me. What do you think?"

(End of this chapter)