Fearing being killed for his overwhelming merits, the empress decided to marry him.

Wanyan Wo's eyes gradually became uneasy, as if he had seen a demon, especially the deep part of his pupils, as if he were in an endless abyss of fear.

Shen Lang frowned slightly. Just from Wanyan Wo's eyes, he could tell that things in Yizhou were unusual.

The Jurchens were inherently cruel. How could the massacre of a city, especially one belonging to another country, cause such a change in their eyes?

"And then what happened? After the barbarian wolves conquered Yizhou and massacred the soldiers and civilians, what else happened?"

Shen Lang tentatively asked a follow-up question.

Unexpectedly, upon hearing this question, Wanyan Wo unconsciously tightened his fur coat.

"Duke Zhenguo, do you believe in the existence of people who have died and come back to life?"

The strange question left Shen Lang unsure how to answer.

Wanyan Wo took a deep breath, tried to calm himself down, and then slowly recounted what had happened next.

"When Yizhou fell, 80,000 soldiers and civilians were brutally slaughtered by 20,000 barbarian wolves. For four days and three nights, the entire city of Yizhou was reduced to a dead city under the barbarian wolves' blades."

"However, no one expected that all of this was a premeditated scheme."

Wanyan Wo poured Shen Lang a cup of tea, sighed, and said, "After learning of the fall of Yizhou, my father immediately sent someone to Wang Yanjing to inquire whether our Jin people needed to send troops to help."

After all, the survival of Yizhou City was crucial to the existence of our Jin tribe in the Far East. Nobody wanted those savages, more ferocious than wolves, to invade.

However, less than two days after the people sent by the King to Yanjing left the capital, new news arrived from the Yan Kingdom.

Murong Ba has already recaptured Yizhou, beheading 20,000 wolf tribe members in a single battle, instantly establishing his formidable reputation in the Far East.

Shen Lang: "Isn't this a good thing? I imagine the wolf clan has suffered a great loss of strength after this battle and will not invade the border again."

Wanyan Wo shook his head: "Duke Zhenguo, things are not that simple. You are also a veteran general. Think carefully about what exactly is the problem?"

Upon hearing this, Shen Lang closed his eyes and fell into deep thought.

Indeed, after listening to Yan Gan's description of the Battle of Yizhou, he felt that something was amiss.

After Yizhou fell, a massacre lasting four days and three nights turned the city into a ghost town. However, within a few days of the fall of Yizhou, Murong Ba annihilated the Wolf Barbarian army and successfully recaptured Yizhou.

This is the general order.

The biggest question is, why did Murong Ba appear out of nowhere? Was it a surprise attack?

But Shen Lang quickly dismissed this possibility.

Inside Yizhou City, the Wolf Barbarians numbered 20,000. To launch a surprise attack on a fortified city, they would need at least five times that number of troops, or 100,000.

But if 100,000 people launch a surprise attack, then it doesn't count as a surprise attack.

Moreover, the Sirius clan lives in harsh environments year-round and has an extremely keen sense of danger.

Furthermore, the wolf clan couldn't possibly remain completely unaware of the movements of the 100,000-strong army.

Moreover, according to the analysis, the timing doesn't match up. Murong Ba led his army to attack right after Yizhou City was captured, and successfully recaptured Yizhou.

This indicates that Murong Ba was nearby the whole time, so why were the soldiers of the Tianlang Kingdom completely unaware of this? This makes no sense at all.

Thinking of this, Shen Lang shook his head: "Indeed, there are too many illogical points, completely contrary to military common sense, unless there is another army lying in ambush inside Yizhou City."

Otherwise, even with the Chu army's artillery forces pressing in, it would have been impossible to recapture Yizhou in such a short time.

However, no sooner had he finished speaking than Wanyan Wo replied with absolute certainty: "Duke Zhenguo, you are right! Yizhou City was indeed recaptured from within!"

Shen Lang frowned: "This is completely illogical!"

"If I told you that the 80,000 soldiers and civilians who were massacred in the city were actually accomplices in an ambush, how would you feel?"

Shen Lang's pupils contracted: "What do you mean by this?"

Wanyan Wo: "After learning that Yizhou City had been lost and then recovered, my father also felt that many things did not make sense, so he secretly dispatched the palace's shadow guards to investigate."

After more than ten days of investigation, they finally learned from a Yan soldier who had gone insane that all the soldiers and civilians who had died in Yizhou City had suddenly come back to life overnight.

Moreover, they transformed into monsters, fearless of pain and death, and possessing immense strength, brutally slaughtering all the wolf soldiers.

Shen Lang clenched his fists: "How is this possible?"

Although he knew that there were fantastic and wondrous things in this world, such as techniques for prolonging life and cultivators who could fight against thousands.

But overall, it's more like a world where martial arts and the imperial court coexist.

But now, hearing such strange tales, he couldn't help but feel that he still knew quite little about this world.

"Absolutely true!" Wanyan Wo's lips paled slightly. "Twenty thousand wolf cavalry were slaughtered within Yizhou City by eighty thousand soldiers and civilians who had miraculously returned from the dead."

It is said that none of the dead wolf riders had intact corpses, and many had their internal organs completely devoured.

He took a sip of tea and continued, "After learning of this news, my father secretly sent people to investigate further before he found out the truth."

It turns out that all of this was secretly orchestrated by Murong Ke, the second prince of Yan, who sacrificed 80,000 men in Yizhou to slaughter 20,000 wolf cavalry.

This deterred the wolf riders from easily invading again, and his method of controlling the corpses was the inextinguishable fire.

"Not putting out the fire?"

Upon hearing this news again, Shen Lang fell into deep thought.

Wanyan Wu immediately took out a storage ring and handed it to Shen Lang: "Duke Zhenguo, there are seven Unextinguished Flames in this world. It is said that if you collect them all, you can become the ruler of the world."

Murong Ke now possesses five, and my Jin Kingdom has one. I now entrust it to you for safekeeping.

Just as Shen Lang was about to speak, Wanyan Wu raised his hand and said, "My Jurchen people also believed in this legend, and therefore our people have secretly guarded the undying fire for generations."

It had never been known to outsiders, and we had always thought it would bring a glorious and prosperous life to our people. But after learning about the changes in Yizhou,

Only then did I realize that leaving the fire unextinguished was a scourge, a scourge capable of destroying the world.

If one must turn people into monsters to gain control of the world, then does that world belong to the humans or the monsters?

My father entrusted it to you, and only the Duke of Zhenguo can safeguard it.

"Why did you choose me?" Shen Lang asked in return.

Wanyan Wo: "Because Murong Ke already knows about the news of the Unextinguished Flame in our Jin Kingdom, he will not give up the idea of ​​collecting all seven Unextinguished Flames and making the Yan Kingdom the ruler of the world."

Therefore, only by handing this inextinguishable fire over to the Duke of Zhenguo can the people of Jin be at ease. Let's accept it."

Shen Lang made no excuses and directly took the storage ring containing the Unextinguishable Flame.

"okay, I get it."

"Put away the fire that won't go out," Shen Lang asked again.

"After Yizhou City was recaptured, those soldiers and civilians who turned into monsters..."

"They're all dead..."

Wanyan Wo gave a bitter smile.

"Perhaps because the seven undying flames were not all gathered, those soldiers and civilians who turned into monsters only had three days to operate."

Three days later, they all vanished without a trace, turning into pus.

The mere thought of this scene caused Wanyan Wo's body to tremble uncontrollably.

Shen Lang also gasped.

If this is truly a living dead caused by an unextinguished fire, then wouldn't that mean...

A terrible thought arose in my mind.

"The fact that the fire isn't being extinguished... could it be because of what I heard in the system space..."

"Nanming Lihuo?"