Chapter 252: Listen to the show and suppress the demon
"Liangzhou?"
When the waiter heard Li Hao's inquiry, he was not impatient. Instead, his eyes suddenly lit up and he said with a smile: "Sir, are you from Liangzhou? Then you must have met that Major General Haotian." Bar?"
"Um?"
Li Hao was surprised and said: "You also know?"
"Look what you said, then who wouldn't know?"
The waiter couldn't help laughing: "Our Youzhou is not far from Liangzhou. The turmoil in Liangzhou a few months ago and the siege and attack by those damn monsters have long been spread throughout the states. I heard that our Xia family's divine general in Youzhou The old man from the government has even gone to reinforce us.”
He said, looking at Li Hao with curiosity and expectation:
"I heard that in that catastrophe, demons came out in full force. Countless demons swept across the country, and demon kings were flying all over the sky. There was a black sky, no color in the sky, no green on the ground. It was like locusts passing through, leaving no grass behind. At that time, Liangzhou was about to fall. Unexpectedly, a Major General Haotian appeared and suppressed all the demons. To the end, a battle flag could deter countless demons. Is this true? "
"..."
Li Hao did not expect that the incident in Liangzhou had spread so far that even the waiter in a town in Youzhou knew about it.
But it seems to be normal. After all, several months have passed, and the news has spread no matter how slow it is.
"Absolutely."
Li Hao asked: "What is the situation in Liangzhou now? Have the demons retreated, but is there still war?"
"It has been peaceful for a long time now. How can any monsters dare to go to Liangzhou? I heard that the royal family has sent troops to clean up and clean up the aftermath. Let alone monsters, even a wild dog has to put up a tag before entering the city. Then Bian has been very strict lately.”
The waiter said what he heard.
Li Hao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the people who were in charge of the battle in Liangzhou were the Zhuhuo Shen couple. The real power of Longmen and the Holy Palace was not gathered in Liangzhou.
But now, the biggest demon king who had attacked Liangzhou was standing behind him and had surrendered to him.
Thinking of this, Li Hao said nothing more. He went to the room and put on the simple clothes prepared by the waiter. He looked at the night outside. It was still early and there was noisy gongs and drums in the town.
Li Hao was in a good mood and said to Xi Yan, "I'll take you out for a walk."
"OK!"
Hearing this, Xi Yan immediately became lively. Her little red beard wrapped around Li Hao's wrist and rubbed it. At the same time, she curiously said: "The Major General Haotian that the man mentioned just now is you?"
"Um."
"Is Major General a position? There doesn't seem to be such a title in Dahuangtian."
When Xi Yan stayed in the Great Wild Sky, she got all the information from those who came to snatch the Dao Yun Blood Fruit. She knew little about the Great Wild Sky, and knew nothing about the human race of the Dayu Dynasty.
Li Hao smiled, Chuanyin patiently explained to her, and at the same time took her out with the Candle God.
As for Mrs. Yin, she stayed in Li Hao's world.
After previously healing Madam Yin and injecting a lot of power from heaven and earth, Madam Yin briefly merged with the God of Candle Fire. She seemed to have touched the threshold of the Tao realm and was in retreat.
In the night, Li Hao wandered around this rural town.
Although the town is dilapidated, the smell of firewood-fired meals wafting from each house is filled with the smell of fireworks.
Stone roads, old wooden piles, and gurgling rivers flow through thousands of homes.
There were lanterns hanging along the way, as if it was some kind of festival.
Following the sound of gongs and drums, Li Hao came to the center of the town. There was a stage here, and many people were standing outside the stage to listen to the play.
There were tables and chairs in the front row, and some well-known officials and squires from the town sat there eating melon seeds, drinking tea and listening to the opera.
Xiyan was like a curious baby, catching Li Hao asking questions and being curious about everything.
The Candle God is like the shadow of Li Hao, quiet and inseparable, but although his face is indifferent, he is also observing everything around him, and the picture of the human world is reflected in his eyes.
Children played and fought with paper sparrows outside the stage, and old people clapped their hands and praised the performance from time to time.
Li Hao walked forward, handed over a piece of silver, came to a tea table and sat down, and sat down to listen to the drama quietly.
In the wilderness at night, during a short break, I can only watch the stars and the moon and play music by myself to kill time, but it is rare to relax here.
But not long after, Li Hao's expression changed slightly, but he did not get up. He just grabbed the melon seeds on the table, lightly knocked a few of them, and threw the melon seed shells to the ground.
But the melon seed shells that had fallen to the ground suddenly flew up in the night, like a breeze, roaring into the sky above the town, and then rushed towards the hillside more than ten miles outside the town.
Here, a group of demon figures came in the night wind.
Staring at the thousands of lights of the small town ahead, as well as the lively gongs, drums and laughter, they had a ferocious smile on their faces.
But as soon as the leader of the demon said a word, suddenly, a melon seed shell fell from the sky, like a small black dot, and quickly passed by.
Puff puff puff!
Under the coercion of the power of controlling objects, it quickly penetrated through their bodies.
More than a dozen demons were killed on the spot, without even seeing how they died.
There was only one melon seed shell left, which fell next to the corpse of the last demon.
In the small town, the opera continued as usual, but outside the small town, the moonlight was quiet, covering the corpses of these monsters.
"good."
When Li Hao heard the highlight, he followed the crowd around him and applauded together.
After the opera ended, the crowd dispersed in front of the stage, and Li Hao followed the crowd, taking Xi Yan and Zhuhuo Shen back to the inn and fell asleep.
Since the Great Desolate Day, I haven't slept well and peacefully for several days.
At dawn the next day, the sun rose and shone on the monsters outside the town. I don’t know who saw the corpses of these monsters in the light of the morning light. They were so frightened that they screamed and fled to the town in panic. Si ran.
The dilapidated door of the Demon Suppression Department was only ajar. The two Demon Suppression Envoys had not yet put on their clothes and were sleepy-eyed. After hearing the news, they rushed to the hillside in shock and uncertainty. When they saw the corpses of the demons clearly, they were all shocked. ,stunned.
The news that there was a demon corpse outside the town spread quickly, causing everyone in the town to be shocked and panicked. However, at dawn, Li Hao asked the waiter for the direction of Liyang City, and took a candle with him. Vulcan rushed over.
Now that I'm here, I'll take a look. Liyang City is in trouble. The Xia family is also the residence of the divine general. They rushed to Liangzhou to help. Li Hao didn't turn a blind eye and leave directly. After all, he is also a human race.
Along the official road, he passed two cities. When entering the city, Li Hao quietly covered Xi Yan's body with his Dao domain, while the Candle Fire God relied on his own Dao domain to cover up his aura. Although there was no demon's customs clearance ultimatum. , but also escaped the detection of the magic circle on the city.
The magic circle can only detect the monsters in the secret realm, but it has no way to deal with the demons in the Taiping realm who control the Tao realm.
Unless it is the capital of a large state or the land of an imperial city, there are special magical weapons that can be sensed even by monsters in the Taiping Dao realm.
But there are very few of them, and ordinary cities can only rely on magic formations.
Those two cities were also heavily guarded. Obviously, there were demon attacks, but they were not as serious as Liyang City.
When Li Hao passed by, he also helped them deal with the monsters lurking dozens of miles outside the city.
To him, it was just a matter of thought.
Liyang City.
The border town in the northwest of Youzhou is surrounded by towering mountains, like a natural barrier, so Liyang City becomes the biggest obstacle here.
And this is also the main road in the northwest of Youzhou. The Xia family has sent heavy troops to guard it all year round. Losing Liyang City is equivalent to losing the northwest border of Youzhou. It will also lead to the loss of more than a dozen other cities. At this moment, dozens of miles outside the city, there were numerous corpses piled up, including demons and Xia family soldiers, as well as broken battle flags covering the corpses.
In the city lord's palace and the meeting hall, three staff officers and seven generals are here. Several of them are young major generals from the Xia family. Their faces are red at the moment and they are holding back their anger.
"These damn beasts, they have cut off the supply of food and grass and plan to trap us here alive!"
"If you want to capture us at the lowest cost, these monsters will try their best!"
"Should we ask for help from the family? There are two demons in the third level of immortality among the demons. I don't know if there are any hidden ones. If we didn't rely on the magic circle, we would have lost it a long time ago. There is no need to hold on."
"Asking for help? The demons in Gluttony Valley are waiting for us to ask for help. Once the family sends people over, they may have ambushed them in advance, intercepted and killed them, and planned to use us as bait!"
"Yes, the family is not optimistic either. The owner of the Gluttony Valley just went to make a big fuss half a month ago. We still don't know where he is hiding."
"Now we are guarding Liyang City. We can't rely on the family to help us with everything. We have to solve this problem ourselves. Otherwise, we can follow the example of Duke Xingwu of the Li family in Yanbei and spread the news to all parties. Is the family coming for reinforcements?”
"The situation is different. Yanbei is not defended by those aristocratic families' troops, it is just a smaller part of the help."
"Smallness is strength, and it can always make those aristocratic families bleed. They only know how to make money, eat and drink, and exploit the people. When the demons come to kill them, they will just move and shrink to a deeper place. They have no sense of responsibility. Now is the time for them to contribute!"
"It's difficult. We don't have much time to appeal now. I have a suggestion."
"What?"
Everyone looked at one of the staff officers.
The middle-aged staff officer looked around, especially looking at several Xia family major generals, and whispered: "How about we change the battle flag?"
"Change the battle flag?"
"Yes, you all know what happened in Liangzhou. Why don't we try to send an elite force, change their armor, hang up the battle flag of Major General Haotian of Liangzhou, and pretend to be reinforcements from the pass?"
After hearing the words of the middle-aged staff officer, everyone was stunned, but the eyes of several Liyang City guards lit up, feeling that it was a good idea.
But the three young major generals of the Xia family had ugly expressions. One of them was thinking deeply, while the other said angrily:
"Impossible! This is Youzhou, the place where our Xia family belongs. We are not dead yet, yet we are actually flying the battle flag of an outsider?!"
The middle-aged staff officer also expected that there would be opposition, and said quickly: "Now is a special period. As long as it can save the people, as long as it can be effective and save many casualties of soldiers, this is real."
"no!"
The young major general said angrily: "In this Youzhou, you can only fly one kind of battle flag, and that is the battle flag of my Xia family! This is the headquarters of our Xia family!"
"This is just a temporary measure..." The middle-aged staff officer wanted to persuade him again.
"What if hanging that human battle flag didn't scare away these monsters?"
Another person interrupted him and asked: "That person has disappeared a long time ago. His battle flag has been studied by demons in the past few months. How can it still have such a great deterrent effect? Now people are taking his flag everywhere." The battle flag is trying to intimidate the demons, and the demons have already seen through this, so the battle flag’s intimidating effect has long since ceased.”
"As generals, we cannot be like those stupid people who listen to the deified legends and really regard a teenager as a god. No matter how strong he is, if he has been missing in the Minghe River for so long, his battle The flag has long since lost its power as a deterrent!”
"That's right."
The young major general from before said: "Don't place your hopes on outsiders. It's better to think about how to attract one of the three immortal demon kings. Try using the formation command to send it to the magic circle. Let's beat up the drowned dog."
When the middle-aged staff officer heard this, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, knowing that these young people of the Xia family valued and cared too much about the honor of the Xia family, which led to such an unthinking rejection.
In fact, he felt that it would have some effect, and if he was lucky, it could even break a gap and bring hope.
When they were discussing again, there was a sudden vibration.
Everyone in the meeting hall was suddenly shocked, and several generals rushed out.
I saw the magic circle emerging outside Liyang City, with golden runes flashing, but in the mid-air outside the city was a middle-aged figure, waving a sickle-like arm and bombarding the magic circle.
"stop!"
A young major general from the Xia family took off and shouted angrily.
"I thought you were sleeping, so I'm warning you."
The middle-aged figure chuckled lightly and did not stop. Instead, he continued to attack the magic circle a few more times: "Don't let your guard down, we will attack at any time."
His arrogant attitude made the young major general blush with anger, knowing that the other party was keeping them tense at all times and not giving them a chance to relax and rest.
They can still adjust and adapt, but the armies in the city are inevitably frightened and do not have such good physical and mental support.
"If you mess with my Xia family, you Gluttony Valley will pay the price sooner or later!"
The young major general said angrily.
"Oh? What's the price? I'm here now, why don't you come out and show me?" the middle-aged figure said sarcastically.
Several other generals also flew over to tell the young major general not to be impulsive. One of the veteran generals stepped out, exuding the aura of the Three Immortals Realm.
When the middle-aged figure saw this, he immediately stopped and retreated a few hundred meters, and sneered: "I will come back tomorrow."
After that, he was leaving.
But the veteran rushed out and roared: "This is not a place where you can come and leave whenever you want!"
He rushed out of the magic circle and exploded with strength to kill.
The middle-aged figure quickly retreated, and the two chased him all the way. However, when they were over a thousand meters away, the veteran could only endure his anger and stopped. He saw a dense mass of monsters in front of him, and he would be ambushed if he continued to pursue.
"Oh."
Seeing that the other party had not fallen into the trap, the middle-aged figure did not take it seriously. He chuckled and immediately called the demon army in the distance to prepare to retreat.
But at this moment, on the official road in the distance, a figure came on horseback.
The clear sound of horse hooves trampling on the official road came slowly.
"Um?"
"There are actually people who are not afraid of death. If they dare to take this official path, are they also trying to kill monsters and gain fame?"
The middle-aged figure raised his eyebrows slightly when he saw the young man coming on horseback on the official road, but ignored him. This kind of young master from a noble family in the human race is very stupid. Many people have died here recently.
He turned around and flew away, but he didn't fly very far and stopped suddenly after only a few hundred meters.
Just because he felt that the aura of the demon tide occupying both sides of the official road behind him was rapidly decreasing.
He suddenly turned around and saw a strange scene.
The young man came on horseback, and his horse's hooves were not in a hurry. However, where he stepped, the wave of demons outside the official road who were about to attack the young man and eat him quickly fell like a withered wheat field. Lost the breath of life.
When the middle-aged figure turned to look, the young man also raised his head slightly and saw him.
The moment their eyes met, the middle-aged figure felt that his heart seemed to contract violently, and then, an indescribable aura suddenly enveloped him.
Bang!
His body exploded in mid-air.
(End of chapter)