Mountain Patrol Military Officer-Chapter 1014 - 670: Leave None Alive for Me to Kill (Part 2)
He always kept this past event in his heart, reluctant to speak of it once due to a trace of pride when facing disparity. Later, the experiences of life and death transformed it into a precious ordeal, buried deep within him.
Now, he held nothing but admiration for Chen Yuan, who had ascended from a Colonel to a Martial Saint.
His friends fell silent upon hearing this.
The General, as rumored, had resigned from his official post, having fallen out with the Court. The Ninth Mountain remained, yet he no longer ventured to the frontline.
The news was first suppressed by an order from Yunding Mountain. However, Chen Yuan’s resignation involved many officials present, and word inevitably leaked.
Amidst the silence, a man dressed in blue tough clothes, with a black short beard, around thirty, rose and spoke softly:
"The hour is near; we must leave the city before the gates close. My wife and daughter await at the gate; I can only bid farewell here!"
"Once I have settled, I will write to you brothers. We will have another chance to drink together!"
With that, he raised a fist in salute, his eyes turning red. He swept his gaze over the friends at the table, speaking solemnly,
"Goodbye!"
Everyone stood up, seriously cupping their fists, the air filled with reluctance,
"Take care, Brother Yue!"
"Safe travels!"
"...."
Amidst farewells, the chivalrous man surnamed Yue left the room, heading downstairs.
By the street, a carriage awaited, from whose curtain gap he could see a woman with a young girl, carrying luggage inside.
At that moment, the broad street wasn’t unique to this carriage; several carriages carried people and luggage toward the Northern City Gate, mingling with the sounds of horse neighs, rolling wheels, and urgent voices.
The man surnamed Yue walked to the carriage front, then looked back toward the second-floor room, where figures stood at the open window. He bowed towards them, then entered the carriage with the melancholy of one leaving home.
As the driver raised the whip, the shouted commands and rolling wheels blended into the street’s flow of traffic.
From the second-floor window, a line of friends watched him depart, their gaze following the street northward where a long procession of horses and carriages stretched toward the distant Northern City Gate. Many, like Brother Yue, planned to leave Jingguan City to seek refuge early.
Initially, this city attracted countless refugees. Now, the tables had turned. Many capable individuals and factions realized that once the situation destabilized, Jingguan City would bear the brunt; after receiving the news, they began to arrange evacuations.
As the sunset illuminated the departure procession, the once immensely prosperous city resembled an elderly figure in twilight years!
"Alas!"
"Let’s leave too!"
Inside the room, the parting atmosphere turned poignant as the crowd dispersed.
Gongsun Wuji bade farewell to friends, moving against the northward flow of people leaving the city. His empty sleeve swayed in the breeze, his solitary figure cutting a bleak silhouette against the twilight’s afterglow.
.......
Three days later, news spread again: after the Western Pass Dasan Pass fell to the Beiliang Iron Cavalry, the enemy advanced eastward, seizing a city. The Court-dispatched Heavenly Army was ordered to defend the city, but under the command of a Three Dao Patrol Angel, they failed, and the Patrol Angel was captured alive.
Meanwhile, on the night this news arrived.
Outside Youmen Pass, amidst the Dark Night Forest, demonic shadows loomed with fierce figures emerging under the sparse moonlight in the forest!
Demon Soldiers and Demons, who had retreated deep into the Ten Thousand Mountains, began to appear on this periphery, probing the situation of the outer mountains.
These were scouts of the Devil Race!
Inside Youmen Pass, in a terrifying Blood Pool, the White Bone Monarch Luo Cheng, who used Demon Blood Essence to heal his chest wound, opened his blood-red, frightening eyes.
In the next moment, he leapt out of the dense, terrifying Blood Pool, shooting skyward, his blood-soaked hair trailing fierce murderous intent, his blood-red eyes gazing at the southern forest.
Soon, a tall undead creature, covered in blood as if skinned, with eagle wings on its back, flew rapidly from outside the city, gripping something in skeletal claws sticking with a layer of skin!
As this undead creature halted before King Luo Cheng, it threw the object it held forward, then kneeled on one knee, its mountain-high form bowing down,
"Heavenly Monarch, the demon materials inside the Ten Thousand Mountains have begun to stir, captured a messenger." The undead creature’s surface was covered in large patches of flesh, but its tongue hadn’t yet formed. Its voice caused the air to tremble, resonating with a metallic clang.
King Luo Cheng cast his blood-red pupils at the tossed item, revealing a humanoid demon!
The face was sharp and pale, with two deep bone ridges on the forehead, narrow slitted pupils, irises dark silver, and eyes angled upwards, their whites filled with fine blood vessels. The lips curled back, exposing sharp canine teeth, while deep grooves extended from each corner of the mouth to the chin bones, with one silver wing on its back where a gruesome wound marked the place where the other wing had been ripped off by some terrifying force.
The humanoid demon’s aura was unmistakably that of a Great Demon Gu Diao, yet confronting King Luo Cheng’s scarlet gaze, it trembled as though death loomed any moment, stripped of all Great Demon power like a cowering chick, lacking even the courage to speak out.
"It seems you Ten Thousand Mountains can no longer restrain yourselves. Are you planning to attack my city?" King Luo Cheng’s voice brimmed with malice.
The Great Demon Gu Diao knelt, not daring to lift its head, "King... please calm your anger. The Holy Clan’s King sent me with a message. Past grievances are tangled, reborn as we are, the past should... return to dust, the Holy Clan wishes to consult with the Seven Kings, remake this Universe, aiding you in ascending back to the Heavenly Realm."
King Luo Cheng’s scarlet eyes blinked slightly,
"Oh, it seems you Holy Clan indeed have some ancient ones aware of our identities?"
"Yes, the Holy Clan’s King awoke from slumber on the Holy Mountain." The Great Demon Gu Diao nodded hastily, head lowered.
"Finished speaking?" King Luo Cheng remarked idly.
"Ah... finished!" The Great Demon Gu Diao responded dully, not comprehending.
"Throw it into the Blood Pool." Luo Cheng casually, indifferently directed.
The Dragon Tiger Realm undead creature’s eyes flared with growing green flames, its pale sharp claws reaching for the Great Demon Gu Diao.
As death’s threat loomed, the once-cowering Gu Diao shrieked piercingly, its body bursting with blinding silver light.
"Shoo, shoo, shoo!"
A cascade of sharp whistling arrow sounds erupted abruptly.
Dark silver arrows shot forth from the brilliant silver light like a torrential rain, the demon vanishing without a trace.
The Dragon Tiger Realm undead creature had no fear of the sharp arrows, its claw crushing them effortlessly. Then, its green eye flames sharply whipped toward the descending dark silver arrow, its massive form shifting across the void, claws seizing the arrow.
Soon, a grisly wail.
A dark silver bird was pierced from the void by skeletal claws, and then it was torn apart by the undead creature, blood raining from the sky.
The demon’s body was cast into the extraordinarily crimson malevolent Blood Pool below, becoming its nourishment!
At this moment, King Luo Cheng’s scarlet pupils and blood-colored hair washed away like a tide, turning jet-black, his garments shifting to white.
Luo Cheng watched the demonic shadows in the distant forest, murmuring to himself.
"The world plunges into chaos, demon scourge rampant, I am merely the rebirth of past flesh and bone, yet the memory of death remains."
"There’s no helping it; my hands are already stained with demon blood, soaked to the bone, seemingly irremovable."
Whispering to himself, a gleam of coldness flickered in his dark eyes, ordering,
"Go, leave none of the demon materials outside alive!"
Then, a surge of bloodthirsty energy leapt forth from within
