Chapter 95: Frontier Demons
When Yang Qingyin said that she had never been out of Pangshan to kill demons and just wanted to stroll around, everyone thought she was talking and playing, just like those wise and foolish masters who pretended to be crazy and foolish to hide their super strength, but she quickly proved with facts that she said it was true.
A group of eight people took a break at the fairy fairy fairy, bought saddles and various daily necessities, and changed into ordinary people's clothes. The expenses were borne by the royal family of Xijie Kingdom. Mr. Pan San, who stayed in the inn, said nothing and took the money with great pleasure. However, Xin Youtao felt distressed and picked it up and tried to buy cheap goods.
It was already afternoon after the trivial matters, and Yang Qingyin insisted on setting off, "There is no problem to travel thousands of miles a day, just kill a few monsters. We will be back in two or three days."
Yang Qingyin's judgment was very wrong. The brocade-tailed horse, which was a lap taller than an ordinary horse, was indeed amazingly faster, but it could not last long. After only half an hour, he didn't want to run away again. He became even more irritable and restless when he was whipped. He even turned his head to go back to the valley where there were endless grass and familiar companions, which were more attractive than the unknown journey in the snow and ice.
The group had to slow down. Xiao Qingtao and her wild flowers finally coaxed the eight brocade-tailed horses to continue moving forward.
Fortunately, they had already run dozens of miles in the first half of the hour, and they could still catch up with the stay of the day and stay in a small town inn. Xiaoqiu's first thing was to buy the best forage and beans. If he didn't feed a few brocade horses, he would not be able to continue the trip the next day.
During dinner, Yang Qingyin and Xiao Qingtao were at the same table, and six other male disciples were at the same table. Zhou Ping took advantage of the noise and whispered to ask his classmates, "Don't you find it strange? We just left Pangshan like this, but no one came out to stop him. I thought we couldn't get out of the fairy fairy."
Guan Shenyue said indifferently: "I must have said hello in advance. She has been in contact with Zufeng, and most of the people in the Taiyuan know her."
Zhou Ping had nothing to say, and his face showed obvious disappointment.
Yang Qingyin on the table next to her was shouting and asking for wine and food. When the things were almost done, she asked the waiter who served the food, "Ask, where is the monster nearby?"
The waiter was stunned, then smiled and said, "Ceguan really likes to joke. Although our town is a little smaller, it is located on the main road. On the south is Baizhang City, one of the top Baizhang City in Xijie Country, and on the north is Pangshan where immortals live. How could there be monsters appear nearby?"
Xin Youtao curled his lips. Like everyone else, he was dressed up in an ordinary long journey and did not reveal his identity as a prince. "Baizhang City is one of the best, so why would Xijie City be ascended to the sky? It's just a small city, and Xijie Country is everywhere."
Yang Qingyin pressed her hands on the table, "Does it take to go to the place of monsters to kill monsters? That's far away and can't fly..."
The waiter smiled and said, "If you want to kill demons and eliminate demons, you don't have to run too far. The Xuanfu Army is recruiting people to go to the northwest border to eliminate demons, there must be one there."
"Okay, let's go to the northwest border." Yang Qingyin slapped the table, frightening Xiao Qingtao, who was at the waiter and the deskmate, trembled. She poured herself a bowl of wine, took a sip and spit it out, "What's the thing? Is this really wine?"
The inn was not big, and there were several tables of guests eating. When they saw Yang Qingyin's posture, they lowered their heads and sneer hurriedly said, "This is a famous soju in the town, and there is no drop of water. All the guests who have drunk it said it is OK."
Yang Qingyin waved his hand and asked the waiter to step down and tasted the dish without a single praise. He refused to lower his voice. The waiter's face changed color, and the shopkeeper shook his hand at him with a wry smile, saying that he would not cause trouble. The waiter had to pretend to be unable to hear it with a wry smile on his face.
After dinner and when they were about to go back to their room to rest, Xin Youtao grabbed Xiaoqiu and whispered: "Is it reliable? She seems... she doesn't understand anything."
"Don't worry, I have my own ideas, I think she's fine."
Xiaoqiu believed in Yang Qingyin and agreed from the bottom of his heart about this demon-killing operation. Almost all disciples who failed to practice have knots, and without exception, they are related to "not daring to think and not doing". This seemingly reckless action may make everyone brave. Of course, it would be better if Yang Qingyin was confident, but that would not train the disciples' courage.
Discovering that he could not get Xiaoqiu's support, Xin Youtao began to think of a solution by himself.
The next morning, Xin Youtao came to find Yang Qingyin. He was a prince and could not act too humble, but was afraid of me, so he made a stiff nod and said seriously: "I once led troops to garrison the northwest and were very familiar with it. It would be better for me to lead the way to a place with many monsters."
Yang Qingyin had no plans at all and nodded, "Okay, then you will lead the way, you will pay for it anyway." But—" She raised her right hand and said in a more serious tone: "We have to go to Baizhang City first, I have to see what the big city in Xijie Country looks like."
Baizhang City is truly worthy of its name - the low wall is as long as Baizhang, which is an ordinary small city. However, the intensive trading of commercial ports in the city is booming, but it is extremely prosperous and lively.
I wanted to show that she, the daughter of Taoism, had seen the world, and frowned and criticized: "It's so dirty, it doesn't look like a place for people to live in - huh?" Before she finished speaking, she rushed to the stall selling children's shoes, admired them one by one, and smiled.
Before the others could react, Yang Qingyin had disappeared from the crowd. She could hear her fussy calls from afar from a distance. As long as it was a mortal product, she would look at it again and again.
"I have an ominous premonition about this trip." I was not by my side, so Zhou Ping dared to tell the truth.
"So everyone is ready. I guess we have to kill the monsters by ourselves." Xiao Qiu was a little eager to try.
The other six people were not so excited and looked at each other. Even Guan Shenyue, who had been in the Five Elements Department for several years, was a little worried. He specialized in killing demons and eliminating demons. Although he could not condense the pill, he still understood the truth. "We have nothing, can we fight with monsters?"
"It seems that's it." Xiaoqiu let him go to the roadside. It was his first time to enter the city, but he didn't like the crowd here and was even less interested in the dazzling array of goods.
An hour later, Xiao Qingtao found Yang Qingyin back. Her arms were filled with all kinds of gadgets, and she couldn't stop smiling. She was not the same person as Zhiyong. "The things here are fun, beautiful and cheap. Everyone goes to buy them."
Everyone just laughed. This trip was too sudden. All the gold and silver were collected from the immortal god Pan Sanye, and there was not much in each person's hands. In front of Xin Youtao, no one was embarrassed to spend it.
"What is Baizhang City? The wealth of Xijie Country is among the top among the twelve vassal states. There is a bigger and more prosperous market ahead." Xin Youtao persuaded me to get on the horse, and then asked Xiaoqiu in a low voice: "Is the demon pill really valuable?"
"Look at the quality, the quality is very valuable." Xiaoqiu had five demon pills in his vine box, which were the relics of Li Yuechi. He had never asked anyone to check the quality, nor did he think about selling it.
Even if the demon pill was priceless, Xin Youtao didn't want to take this risk. Under his leadership, a group of eight people marched northwest. Every time she passed by a town, Yang Qingyin would be excited, but her curiosity was used up in a few days. When she passed by a village, she gave all the things she bought to the children in the village and began to rush to kill the demon.
Xin Youtao took everyone to Xiaoer Fort, "I have been stationed there. I heard that since all the residents of Yelin Town disappeared overnight, there have been demons."
"Really?" Yang Qingyin asked Xiaoqiu.
Xiaoqiu has been inquiring about the situation in the northwest these days, and has a little understanding of the situation in his hometown, so he nodded. "It's true, especially in the past year, demons have begun to appear throughout the northwest border."
"Didn't the demon army just suffered a crushing defeat last year? Why did the demons not decrease but increased instead?" Zhou Ping asked in confusion.
Xiao Qiu also found out about this matter. He was the only one in the entire team who had to talk to strangers around him wherever he rested. "That's right, although most of the demon army was wiped out, some of the defeated soldiers entered the northern country of sacrificial power. The little demon of the sacrificial power could not resist it, so he had to cross mountains and ridges to retreat to the south, which led to turmoil in several major vassal states on the frontier."
"The country of sacrifice is a country of half-demons, Xiao Qingtao, do you have any relatives there?" Xin Youtao asked with a smile.
Xiao Qingtao looked cold and said nothing. She came from a non-demon family. She had been out of relationship with the beast monster and half demon thousands of years ago.
Xiaoer Fort is a military town with a backed back to Gushan. It covers a small area, but it is an important part of the northwest defense line. The garrison officer is an experienced veteran of the Xuanfu Army. He has been stationed here for many years and has recognized His Royal Highness and warmly received the guests.
Xin Youtao finally regained a little old sense of dignity. Not long after, he turned his back, arranged residences for his partners, prepared banquets, and issued orders to the garrison officers and soldiers in the fort.
As usual, Xiaoqiu wandered around the fort alone and chatted with strangers. When he found that the soldiers talked about the prince, they respected him and called him "a guy with oil on his feet". They did not forget the old story a few years ago: His Highness the prince abandoned his subordinates and returned to the fort alone, and ten soldiers died in the mouth of the snake demon.
Xiao Lai also inquired about the surrounding situation and learned with pain that the rumors along the way were true. There were three small towns and six or seven villages north of Xiaoer Fort. Since Yelin Town was attacked, they have been harassed by demons, especially in recent times. There are only a few hundred soldiers stationed in the fort and cannot give up too much power to eliminate monsters. Now all three towns are abolished, and residents are moving south, leaving only people living in small villages that are relatively close to.
"This group of demons is different from the past." A white-haired veteran said that he had never experienced the battle of Taoist demons hundreds of years ago, but he had his own judgment standards. "They were driven over, full of fear, and would rather die in the hands of humans than turn back. There was no such thing in the past. Even in the oldest legend, monsters would not be afraid of being like this."
In the main hall of the castle, Xin Youtao was asking how many soldiers the garrison officer could send to remove the monsters with him. This was the real purpose of his must come to Xiaoer Fort - to be able to mobilize soldiers at will.
The garrison officer seemed very embarrassed, "Now the frontier is tight, half of the troops in the small fort have been transferred to the west, and only about 300 people are left. To guard the castle, there are still many people, so there are really no one to be assigned. You can allocate ten to twenty people to Your Highness."
Xin Youtao kept shook his head. His bottom line was one hundred people. He was about to use the prince's authority to force the garrison officer to send more soldiers. Yang Qingyin, who had been wandering around, came back. "A guide is enough. Pangshan disciples must use their own strength to kill the demons."
The garrison officer breathed a sigh of relief. His most important responsibility was to guard the small fort, rather than please the prince. So despite Xin Youtao's ugly face, he hurriedly said: "The guide is fine. I will send the most familiar hand with the road conditions. There is a village not far north. These days, it has been reported that a man, bear monster appears. If you can get rid of this monster, it will be a big help."
Xiaoqiu heard a lot of information in the fort, saying: "Isn't there a vampire in the forest? It has been entrenched here for many years, so we can also remove it."
The garrison officer's face darkened and he said coldly: "No, you can't kill the vampire."
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