1247, deteriorating to death
No one expected that Luming County City, which was still peaceful one day before, would end up like this.
Now, this small human city, which is famous for Ye Qingyu, has completely turned into a ruin, with broken bricks and tiles, and corpses everywhere. There are also ferocious beasts roaring and roaring in the distance. Some survivors are still fighting, but they are soon annihilated silently. There are still some formations in front that are barely blocking the ferocious beasts, but they can't resist them for too long.
Originally, Qin Ying hoped to survive until the empire reinforcements arrived, launch a counterattack, and recapture Luming County City.
However, by this time, reinforcements were not seen yet.
And they have no longer been able to hold on.
A final decision had been made in his heart.
"I guard the county city for Your Majesty. The Qin family has been treated with the royal family for generations. Such kindness has not been repayed. Now ferocious beasts have attacked the city, and countless people in the city have died and injured. The subjects have suffered this great disaster. As the city lord, I cannot shelter them. This is a serious crime. How can I abandon the city and escape?" Qin Ying looked at his grown son, then looked at the blood tribesmen of the Qin clan around him, smiled slightly, and said, "Since Your Majesty swept away the six-horse and unify the day of the desert. Since the Lord of the Light Palace Ye Qingyu clan opened a piece of sky for the Tianhuang Realm, there are only generals who died in battle and no escaped city lord. As the city lord, I should live and die with the county city."
"Father, you... can't, you..." Qin Wushuang became anxious.
Qin Ying waved his hand and told him not to speak, and continued, "This time the ferocious beasts attacked the city, and even the formation set up by Palace Master Ye was broken. Obviously, there must be a terrifying existence hidden in the ferocious beasts. I don't know why they came. You are all people who experienced the death battle last night, and they came out of the pile of dead people. I can't let you die with me anymore. You must go out alive and report to Your Majesty and Palace Master Ye. This is not an ordinary beast tide. It is very likely to be a disaster that will destroy the world. Tell the military, don't be careless."
He seemed to be arranging funeral.
Everyone around them also understood Qin Ying's decision.
The strongest men of the Qin clan were all very sad and angry.
Many pilgrimage powerhouses from the outside world couldn't help but feel awe of Qin Ying at this time.
Originally, they didn't care much about the human noble who guarded Luming County. After all, they were just a small saint. The Tianhuang Empire was famous, but the Qin clan was just a small nobleman of the Tianhuang Empire. They were like the hair of a cow. Many powerful people from the outside world came to Luming County to pilgrimage. They were polite to Qin Ying and other officials in the city before, but for the sake of the empire and Ye Qingyu, but now, they were really impressed by the integrity and character of the city lord in front of them.
Looking back, the reason why the Tianhuang Empire rose rapidly in such a short period of time was that in addition to the ruthless man like Ye Qingyu who suppressed all sides and the development of the imperial royal family, it was probably related to the millions of officials like Qin Ying in the empire with strong character.
"Apart from the Qin clan, everything is thorough. If anyone over a hundred years old is willing to stay and fight alongside me, he can stay. Those who are unwilling to leave with others... This is my last order and a request."
Qin Ying's voice was like a chorus of gold and iron, with unquestionable determination.
Everyone looked sad and angry.
Some figures stood up silently from the crowd, stood up without saying a word, and stood beside Qin Ying. They were all old men of the Qin clan. Luming County City was their homeland. They didn't want to leave their hometowns and left like this, especially many of them, with descendants and relatives who died in battle last night. They didn't want to survive anymore. They could only take revenge and wanted to fight with the patriarch Qin Ying for the last stop.
"I'll stay, too." Qin Wushuang roared and clenched the knife in his hand.
Qin Ying smiled and said, "If you want the Qin clan to completely perish, then you can stay. How much you have grown in the past few years of military hardship depends on your choice today. You can make your own decision."
"I..." Qin Wushuang felt that the blood in his body was burning.
However, in the end, he had to accept his father's painstaking arrangements and leave with some other young people from the Qin clan.
Watching Qin Wushuang and others leave, Qin Ying stood at the gate of the city lord's mansion, with an unprecedented calm expression.
To be fair, he is not a good person. When Ye Qingyu was not yet rising, he was sad with Ye Qingyu. As a nobleman of the empire, he rarely considered things from the perspective of a poor family. In recent years, the people of Luming County were rich and strong. This was just that he was fulfilling his duties as the city lord. Most of the decisions were made by the imperial government. And any decision was to safeguard the interests of the Qin clan and the aristocratic class. Including making such a left-behind decision, the Qin clan was also more considered. If he fled with all the elites of the Qin clan, he would have to bear the responsibility of the imperial law, but if he died here in battle, the empire might have to pay the pensions of Qin Wushuang and others.
He is using his last life to pave the way for his son.
As a nobleman and a political animal, this is his inevitable choice.
"Today, let's defend the glory of the Qin clan together."
In front, the last formation shattered, and then a ferocious beast like a black annihilation tide roared. Qin Ying laughed loudly, raised the long sword in his hand, and issued the last roar in his life. Around him, the old people of the Qin clan were all like moths flying into fire, frantically moving up the current and embarked on the final battle in life.
On this day, Luming County City fell.
Hundreds of thousands of residents in the city, as well as about tens of thousands of warriors from the outside world, almost all died in battle, including strong men from the Saint Realm and the Great Saint Realm. The terrifying beast tide has put this human spiritual martial arts holy land that is famous in the world into ruins. A permanent army stationed in the city of the empire was all in the whole army, and the ruins of the county city were like Shura Purgatory.
Only the young city lord Qin Wushuang and thousands of the last elites in the city were able to escape under the desperate cover of the city lord Qin Ying.
However, before the city was broken, the Bailu Academy, the head of the ten major courtyards of the empire, had already arranged an evacuation. The dean Kong Kong Kong took the elites in the academy to leave early, avoiding the academy that cultivated the third deputy envoy of the human race, Ye Qingyu, and the great martial gods.
Later, the investigation found out that on the night the city was broken, Song Qingluo Chamber of Commerce, the president of the Qingluo Chamber of Commerce, was also in the city, and his whereabouts were unknown.
And Ye Qingyu's relatives in the Ye Mansion are also missing.
It was not until noon the next day that Qin Wushuang and others met the imperial army that came to pick them up.
The news came out and the world was shocked.
The world is shocked by it.
There is no doubt that this is the heaviest loss that the Tianhuang Empire has suffered since it rose to the world. What caused all this was not the enemy's sneak attack or the emergence of rebels, but the sudden tide of beasts, which surprised countless people. What kind of beasts was actually able to break through Luming County City. After all, there was a formation set up by Ye Qingyu himself.
For a moment, all parties were attracted by the attention of the world.
However, more shocking news soon came out.
The [Fire Snake Kiss] legion, one of the permanent troops of the Tianhuang Empire who went to support Luming County, not only could not defeat the beast tide and recover Luming County, but was defeated by the surging beast tide on the large plain thousands of miles away from Luming County. Nearly 100,000 elite imperial army was almost wiped out, and blood was bleed thousands of miles away on the large plain!
The beast tide was fierce, raging the vast plain, and its sharpness was straight up, pointing directly to the imperial capital Xuejing.
The news came out quickly and the world was shocked.
If the first time the Luming County City was broken, it only made many people feel unexpected and surprised, then the [Flame Tongue Kiss] legion was almost destroyed overnight, which made people feel shocked and unknown - because the [Flame Tongue Kiss] legion was prepared and had a large number of equipment and formations to kill ferocious beasts. In the army, six peak-level powerful men of the Great Saints were in charge. As a result, in one battle, all the six Great Saints fell, and none of them could escape.
All of this is enough for everyone to re-examine this beast tide.
Logically speaking, even if the strong men in the Great Sage realm are defeated, they can escape from the sky, but they are all killed in battle. This is already terrifying and terrifying to think about it. This shows that there are Beast King-level existences in this beast tide that can instantly kill the Great Sage. In this case, the entire Tianhuang Realm will be very dangerous.
The empire was shaken and the wind was surging.
Her Majesty the Empress of the Empire was furious. The Imperial Guard drew millions of giants, led by the commander Li Guangbi to the north to respond to the enemy. The demon king Yan, who was stationed in the snow demon court in the north, led his demon god army southward to cooperate with the Nanqing Legion, which was originally stationed outside Youyan Pass. The Youyan Army, commander of Youyan Pass, went south together. There were a total of two million elite imperial troops, who wanted to encircle and annihilate all the beast tides on the prairie.
The war begins rapidly in the fastest and most violent way.
The Tianhuang Empire operates in an orderly manner.
At the same time, the external allies of the Tianhuang Empire were ready to join the war at any time.
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It is about a million kilometers away from the imperial capital Xuejing from the Arrogant Plain.
There are not many towns on the Great Plain, especially in the depths of the grass sea, where local native ferocious beasts are entrenched. The wilderness is rarely visited and is considered a forbidden area for human race. Now the beast tide invades south, and the areas north of the [Mangcang River] in the center of the prairie are all occupied by the beast tide. The 100,000 army of the legion was defeated and destroyed on the north bank of the [Mangcang River]. For a long time, the river water of the [Mangcang River] was stained with blood.
The only good news is that after defeating the [Fire Tongue Kiss] Legion, the beast tide seemed to finally usher in the first downward tide of repair. It did not continue to go south, but instead took [Mang Cangjiang] as the boundary. The tide temporarily stayed, and only sent a small number of elite beasts to try to test south.
[Mangcang River] In the area tens of thousands of miles south of the sky, there are ferocious beasts like flying snakes, bone dragons, and bats flying low, as if they are looking for something.
The remaining troops of Luming County City headed by Qin Wushuang, the Qinglu Chamber of Commerce headed by Song Qingluo, the White Deer Academy teacher and students led by Kong Kong, and the Yefu team led by Qin Lan, Li Shizhen, Lang Yong and others, had a total of four teams hidden in the grass sea on the grassland, and walked carefully towards Xuejing in the south.
The only thing they have to do now is to avoid the investigation of the beast tide army and return to the imperial capital alive.
Except Kong Kong and blue sky.
Chapter completed!