Chapter 250 The
Since General Wu is a disciple of the Flame and Blood Demon Sect, he may have the information they want.
Searching General Wu's soul directly may help them complete the task ahead of time, which can save a lot of trouble.
They don't have to hide their identities here, they can just kill and leave.
After listening to Li Xiuchang's proposal, Mo Tu was silent.
Is he a demon cultivator, or is Li Xiuchang a demon cultivator?
As a serious disciple of the righteous path, Li Xiuchang always talks about the demon method of soul searching, and seems to be very eager to kill.
Mo Tu often wondered if Li Xiuchang had practiced magic with him in the past, would his achievements be higher than now?
Although this was a good opportunity, Mo Tu finally rejected Li Xiuchang's proposal.
He analyzed: "Replacing the Flame Blood Demon Sect with the Xianchen Sect, both are dominant forces in the world. Do you think the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Xianchen Sect can know how many supreme elders there are in the sect and what their strength is?"
Li Xiuchang had to admit that what Brother Motu said made sense. In such a dominant force, the Nascent Soul cultivators were barely middle-level and had no right to know the core information of the sect.
The two could only give up the idea of catching General Wu and searching his soul.
Soon, the two came to General Wu's military tent.
General Wu was a middle-aged man with two small mustaches. When he saw Li Xiuchang and the others, he stood up and walked forward, smiling and asked:
"Are you satisfied with the witch concubines that this general arranged for you?"
"Thank you for the reward, general." Li Xiuchang and Motu clasped their fists in thanks.
General Wu's mustache trembled, and he said with appreciation: "You two are brave on the battlefield, have made great achievements, and now you have been promoted to the foundation-building stage. I have decided to promote you two to centurions."
"Thank you, General." Li Xiuchang and the others still clasped their fists.
General Wu raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked jokingly: "Why didn't you two kneel when you saw me? Do you blame me for treating you badly?"
Motu said calmly: "A man's knees are made of gold."
Li Xiuchang also echoed: "A real man only kneels to heaven and earth and parents."
Little Yuanying, I'm afraid you can't bear it if you really kneel...
General Wu's face was normal, and he praised: "Well, you are worthy of being a good man in my army, you have ambition!"
Then he began to see them off: "You two go down and rest first."
Li Xiuchang and Motu left the military tent, but General Wu's face became gloomy after the two left.
Li Xiuchang and the others knew that they must have offended General Wu, but it didn't matter.
Just a Nascent Soul, don't take it too seriously.
Even Senior Brother Motu said that they should be severely offended!
General Wu obviously saw that the two of them had some potential and wanted to win them over. This was a rare opportunity for other foundation-building demon cultivators.
After all, not just any foundation-building demon cultivator could be favored by General Wu, who was in the Nascent Soul stage.
If it were any other foundation-building demon cultivator in the army, they would have bowed down to General Wu in the military tent just now.
But Li Xiuchang and Motu would definitely not do this, and once they accepted General Wu's enticement and became "one of their own", they would probably not be sent to fight in all dangerous battles in the future.
How many good opportunities to slaughter demon cultivators would they miss?
On the contrary, if they offended General Wu, they would probably have more opportunities to go to the battlefield in the future, which would make it easier to accumulate military merits.
…
Li Xiuchang returned to his military tent and found that the witch in the tent was gone.
"General Wu is too narrow-minded."
Li Xiuchang shook his head. He had just offended General Wu, and then he took away the witch he had been rewarded with. This was a warning to him.
But it didn't matter. With the witch away, it would be more convenient for him to act.
After setting up a formation in the military tent, Li Xiuchang began to practice the skills of cultivating immortals.
The main focus was still on refining equipment. Both the skills of spiritual plants and spiritual kitchens were already at the fourth level, and the skill of refining equipment was close to the fourth level. Li Xiuchang planned to work harder and strive to become a fourth-level refiner.
After studying in Donggeng District before, and his own hard work, his three skills of controlling souls, formations, and immortal wine all reached the third-level advanced level.
Only the two ways of talismans and alchemy remained at the second level.
Since he was assigned to the battlefield on the first day of arriving at the military camp, Li Xiuchang thought that there would be intensive fighting later.
Unexpectedly, it suddenly calmed down since then, and no new wars were launched.
But new soldiers were constantly sent to their military camp.
As a result, the number of soldiers in the barracks increased.
A month passed in a flash.
Li Xiuchang was not disturbed by anyone, so he practiced his skills in the tent for a month...
Until he suddenly felt something, and quickly controlled the Nascent Soul to drill out of the second Nascent Soul Dantian and return to his own Dantian.
Then he strengthened the formation in the military tent, and even sent a message to Brother Motu, asking him to protect him secretly.
Then he began to impact the middle stage of the Nascent Soul!
Calculating the time, it has been seven years and one month since he started practicing.
It has been exactly one year since he developed the double Nascent Soul cultivation method, and now it is considered a breakthrough as scheduled.
Li Xiuchang's foundation is too stable and his foundation is too deep, so it is not difficult for him to break through this small realm, and he completed the breakthrough without any danger.
His cultivation level was successfully improved to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul!
He removed the formation, and Brother Motu walked in.
"Thank you for protecting me."
"It's good that the breakthrough is successful." Motu waved his hand.
"Brother, have you found out why the war has not started for so long?" Li Xiuchang asked.
Motu pondered for a moment and said: "I asked other people in the army and learned that when wars were frequent in the past, there would be a fight every three or five days. Normally, it would not last more than ten days at most. Once there is no war for more than half a month, , that is a special situation.
"The longer the interval, the bigger and more brutal the next battle will be. This time it has been stopped for more than a month. People in the military camp are panicked. Many soldiers are looking for connections, hoping not to participate in the next battle. "
Li Xiuchang was a little excited: "So, the next battle will definitely be a big battle?"
Others fear him and he is greedy.
Military achievements are secondary, but mainly ghosts.
Killing those demon cultivators, especially the soul demon cultivators, will accumulate ghosts too quickly!
Not only the ghosts of the demon cultivators who died on the battlefield, but the soul demon cultivators of Huangji Soul Sect generally carried some ghosts with them.
Motu nodded and said: "In the last battle, the Flame-Blooded Demon Sect won a complete victory. It stands to reason that in the next battle, the Flame-Blooded Demon Sect will take some losses and let the Emperor Soul Sect make up for it.
"But it's still unusual for it to take so long. I'm afraid the two parties have reached some agreement. The number of new recruits coming to the military camp recently is obviously more than usual, which also illustrates some problems."
Li Xiuchang understood the meaning of Brother Motu's words: "Brother, are you saying that the Flame Blood Demon Sect deliberately arranged a large number of cannon fodder to be killed by the Emperor Soul Sect in the next battle?
"It looks like a big shot is coming from the Huangji Soul Sect!"
Giving away heads is essentially giving away resources. The Flame-Blooded Demon Sect arranged a bunch of cannon fodder to be killed by the Emperor's Soul Sect. The Emperor's Soul Sect must have exchanged benefits.
And the person who can make the Emperor Soul Sect achieve this step must not be an ordinary person, and must have a certain status and background.
What would happen if that man was killed on the battlefield?
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The leader of the Earth Demon Sect looked at the Foundation Establishment Elder below and praised: "You did a good job. The two new disciples you sent made great contributions as soon as they arrived on the border battlefield."
The person standing bowed below was the old man who had made the decision to send Li Xiuchang and Li Xiuchang to the border battlefield.
Li Xiuchang and Li Xiuchang are nominally disciples of the Earth Demon Sect. They have achieved military exploits and completed this year's military merit targets for the Earth Demon Sect. The Earth Demon Sect can even receive a certain percentage of "commission" and receive awards from their superiors.
The old man who built the foundation did not expect that his casual move would actually have an effect beyond imagination.
…
Li Xiuchang and his two men rested in the military tent for a full month and a half until they were summoned by General Wu again.
This time, General Wu's attitude was not as kind as before, and he said with a hint of threat: "Next time the war starts, I want you two to lead the army. What do you think?"
Combined with the current panic atmosphere in the military camp, everyone knows that the next battle will definitely be a brutal battle.
This is like asking: "I plan to let you two lead the way to death, do you agree?"
In General Wu's view, if Li Xiuchang and Li Xiuchang did not want to die, they should kneel down and kowtow to ask for his forgiveness, ask him to be magnanimous and let them go, and express his willingness to serve him for the rest of his life.
And he would graciously let things go and accept their allegiance.
For those with potential, he will be more patient and give them one more chance, but only one.
This was also the ultimatum he gave the two of them.
However, Li Xiuchang is obviously not a "hero" and is somewhat ignorant of current affairs.
Motu said calmly: "I will go there eventually."
Li Xiuchang raised his head and said: "Everything must be obeyed by the general's arrangements!"
"This..." General Wu choked them both and was speechless. He didn't know whether these two people were weak-minded or really not afraid of death.
After a long time, he said coldly: "Okay! I will help you, general!"
The day after General Wu summoned Li Xiuchang and the two men, the battle finally broke out again after a month and a half.
The scale of this battle was not unprecedented, but it was also considered rare on their small battlefield.
As the leading generals, Li Xiuchang and Motu each led a hundred Qi training cannon fodder.
There are a total of fifteen leading generals like them.
In other words, in this battle, the Flame-Blooded Demon Sect dispatched a total of fifteen foundation-building monks and 1,500 Qi-training cannon fodder!
With such a scale, it stands to reason that one or two Jindan monks should lead the team, but there just aren't any.
In addition, the troops sent by the Emperor Soul Sect were only half of those sent by the Flame-Blooded Demon Sect.
At first glance, it seems that the Flame-Blooded Demon Sect is more powerful.
This greatly boosted the morale of the soldiers of the Flame-Blooded Demon Sect. Although this kind of battle was tragic, the gains for the victor would be huge. Now it seemed that they had a greater chance of winning.
However, Li Xiuchang knew that without the intervention of him and Mo Tu, the Flame-Blooded Demon Sect would have been defeated!
Because he has noticed that there are two golden elixir demon cultivators hidden in the opponent's camp!
Those two golden elixir stages hid their cultivation and disguised themselves as Qi training cannon fodder. They were guarding a young general from the Huangji Soul Sect, one on the left and the other on the right.
The young general was just one of the many foundation-building generals dispatched by the Huangji Soul Sect this time. He looked inconspicuous, but Li Xiuchang could see that his cultivation had reached the peak of foundation-building and was about to form a pill!
It is not difficult to guess that today's battle was specially arranged for that young man to build a foundation.
There is only one possibility for such a cultivation level to have such energy, and that is that this young man has a strong background.
The battle had not officially started yet. Behind the battlefield on both sides, General Duan and General Wu, who were supervising the battle, looked at each other from a distance, with smiles on their faces at the same time.
In this battle, they both win!
General Duan made a promise to Elder Xi of the Huangji Soul Sect that he would help his beloved grandson Xi Hansong condense a top-grade golden elixir!
If this is successful, Elder Xi promised to transfer him back to the sect to take up an important position!
General Wu was also very happy. Although he sent a large number of cannon fodder, he also made General Duan promise a lot of benefits in private, and General Duan owed him a big favor.
This kind of thing is actually very common.
Disciples of the five major demon sects are usually not seen in the border battlefield. Once they appear, they are here to harvest souls or blood.
It can be said that the border battlefield is a resource library specially prepared by the five major demon sects for their own disciples.
On weekdays, small-scale battles are maintained continuously. Through continuous fighting and elimination, the best with potential in the cannon fodder are selected.
These people will have the opportunity to leave the border battlefield and get further training.
Most people can only serve as cannon fodder and become bargaining chips for the two major forces to exchange resources and interests.
As the person in charge of one battlefield, you can often get a lot of benefits from this exchange of interests.
...
The battle finally started.
Li Xiuchang and fifteen other foundation-building generals led the team to charge towards the soldiers of the Huangji Soul Sect.
They were outnumbered and fighting against a small number of people, so they were naturally not as cautious as usual.
Li Xiuchang and Motu deliberately avoided the team led by Xi Hansong.
Although the two did not intend to let Xi Hansong go, they did not intend to attack Xi Hansong right away.
Let Xi Hansong consume more of their own people.
Li Xiuchang and Motu madly slaughtered the Qi training cannon fodder on the opposite side. It was natural for the two foundation-building period to bully the Qi training period.
There were foundation-building generals from the Huangji Soul Sect who rushed up to stop them, but the number of their foundation-building generals was not as good as that of the Yanxue Demon Sect, and they could not defend against them even in a one-on-one defense.
Li Xiuchang and Motu joined forces to surround and kill a foundation-building general, once again showing their fearless fighting style, and killed an enemy foundation-building general in an unreasonable but reasonable way.
On the other side, Xi Hansong was also slaughtering the Qi training cannon fodder on the Yanxue Demon Sect.
As a soul demon cultivator, he frantically extracted the souls of these Qi training cannon fodders, preparing to accumulate strength for the next Dan formation.
At the same time, he did not forget to collect the ghosts of other dead soldiers on the battlefield for himself to absorb.
But he soon discovered that someone was competing with him for these ghosts!
As soon as a large number of ghosts appeared, they were detained by the other party. The key is that he couldn't snatch them from the other party.
Xi Hansong's eyes flashed cold, and he stared at Li Xiuchang, who was holding a gourd magic weapon in the crowd.
He immediately sent a voice message, signaling one of his Jindan guards to stop Li Xiuchang.
But before the Jindan guard approached, Li Xiuchang left the original place as if unintentionally.
The Jindan guard had to speed up and chase Li Xiuchang.
Li Xiuchang didn't seem to notice the other party, but just kept killing the enemy and kept rushing to the next enemy, so as to keep the distance from the Jindan guard.
At the same time, he didn't forget to collect ghosts along the way.
This made Xi Hansong furious. Li Xiuchang robbed him of many ghosts, which were all precious medicines he used to impact the Jindan!
If Li Xiuchang's behavior is not stopped, it may affect the quality of his final pill!
Xi Hansong immediately sent a message and ordered the Jindan guard to kill Li Xiuchang at all costs!
The Jindan guard didn't care about much at this time, and suddenly sped up again. The speed at this time was far beyond his Qi training.
Li Xiuchang seemed to have noticed it, and raised his hand to shoot a dark mana arrow at the Jindan guard.
The arrow was powerful, and the Jindan guard immediately protected his body with mana and blocked the arrow. At the same time, he kept his pace and approached Li Xiuchang at a high speed.
"Jindan cultivator!"
A cry spread across the battlefield, like thunder, falling into the ears of every soldier on the battlefield.
Li Xiuchang pointed at the Jindan guard and shouted so loudly that everyone in the audience heard it and attracted everyone's attention.
He didn't plan to deal with Xi Hansong so early, but the other party actually took the initiative to trouble him, so he had to expose the other party's identity in advance.
The Jindan guard couldn't help but stagnate.
"Shameless! The Imperial Soul Sect actually mixed in a Jindan cultivator! No martial ethics!" Li Xiuchang cursed.
The soldiers of the Flame Blood Demon Sect all changed their faces, full of shock and fear.
The people on the Imperial Soul Sect side were also stunned.
Apparently, they didn't know that there was a Jindan cultivator hidden on their side.
Some people on the Flame Blood Demon Sect side were already preparing to run away.
No one wanted to continue fighting a battle that they knew they would lose or die.
"Run!"
Motu took the lead in retreating, and immediately led everyone.
The Flame Blood Demon Sect lost all their fighting spirit, and they ran back with all their might.
Whoever wants to fight this battle can fight it, they won't fight anymore!
This sudden change made some people anxious.
For example, General Duan, his palms were sweating at this moment.
For example, General Wu clenched his fists and stared at Li Xiuchang.
This Pang Yuanfu ruined his good fortune!
If he had known this, he shouldn't have sent him to the battlefield!
But if he is not sent to the battlefield, how can he be killed?
He could not have anticipated the current situation.
He wanted to order all soldiers to fight to the death, but he also knew that his order was useless at this time.
He could only follow the situation and order all soldiers to evacuate quickly.
Xi Hansong was even more anxious, leading his two Jindan guards to chase and kill the fleeing Yanxue Demon Sect soldiers.
"Damn it, two Jindan monks sneaked in!"
Li Xiu often curses in order to attract the attention of people around him.
The faces of the other foundation-building generals turned pale, and they felt that today was going to be a bad day.
The cannon fodder ran the slowest during the Qi training period, falling down in groups and dying in the hands of Xi Hansong and others.
Li Xiuchang and other foundation-building generals ran ahead, but nothing happened for a while.
But it's hard to say how long they can last. When the cannon fodder behind them are almost dead, it will be their turn.
After all, it is impossible to outrun two golden elixir guards during the foundation building stage.
Xi Hansong watched the large piece of qi training cannon fodder fall, but he felt even more anxious because he discovered that even when Li Xiuchang was escaping, he still wanted to snatch his ghost at the same time!
Seeing the soldiers running closer and closer, General Wu looked ugly. Logically speaking, it was more reasonable for him to end himself at this time and stop the Golden Core cultivator on the opposite side.
However, he did not do so immediately, but communicated with General Duan on the opposite side.
After a moment, General Wu flew up and rushed into the battlefield.
The foundation-building generals around Li Xiuchang were overjoyed when they saw this: "General Wu is here to save us!"
At this moment, they saw hope.
But at this moment, a figure flew from behind and intercepted General Wu!
It’s General Duan from the Huangji Soul Sect!
"Brothers!" Li Xiuchang sent a message to the foundation-building generals around him, "General Wu is being held back by the enemy, and there are two Jindan chasing behind him. If we just run away blindly, we will definitely have no way to survive. We need to save ourselves if we want to survive!"
"How to save yourself?" Motu sang a double act.
"We have more than ten foundation builders. We all work together to attack one place. Even if we can't kill Jindan, it is still enough to pose a threat!"
The foundation-building generals looked thoughtful, and what Li Xiuchang said made sense.
But some people also proposed a more rational plan: "We can run separately, and how many of us can survive. As for who lives and who dies, it depends on luck."
Li Xiuchang hated such brainy people. Just as he was thinking about how to refute, Motu sent a message:
"Those two golden elixirs are obviously protecting the young general who is at the peak of Foundation Establishment. Our joint attack may not be able to defeat the golden elixir monk, but we can definitely kill him with one blow against the peak of Foundation Establishment! Why not join forces to attack the peak of Foundation Establishment, no matter what Whether it succeeds or not, it won’t be too late to split up and run away.”
Motu's proposal was unanimously approved by everyone.
They thought that if they could kill the young man at the peak of Foundation Establishment with one blow, they would also be able to vent their evil anger.
It's no loss if they can't be killed, it won't affect their separate escape.
So, after a group of people silently counted one, two, three in their hearts, they turned their heads together, cast spells, threw magic weapons, and aimed at Xi Hansong with more than a dozen attacks!
Xi Hansong reacted quickly. As the beloved grandson of the elder, he had many defensive methods. Just as he was about to activate these methods to resist attacks, he suddenly fell into a trance.
It was as if something stung him, causing him to miss the opportunity to activate his defenses.
However, he still has a defensive magic weapon that is passively triggered, supporting a barrier.
But before the barrier could take shape, among the dozens of attacks directed at him, a "little drill bee" from Li Xiuchang pierced the barrier with its butt-tail needle.
At the same time, the two golden elixir guards on both sides were being attacked by hundreds of fierce ghosts released by Li Xiuchang.
These fierce ghosts are all at the first level and can be killed by the Golden Core cultivator with just a snap of his fingers.
But the key point is that with just a snap of his fingers, Xi Hansong had been hit by more than ten attacks and was cut into pieces on the spot.
To be precise, not even a few intact pieces of the body could be found. Faced with a blow from more than a dozen monks of the same level, he had no defense and almost melted him on the spot.
Only half of the head fell to the ground and rolled several times.
This change came too suddenly.
No one expected that the foundation-building generals who were focused on escaping would turn around and attack in such a tacit understanding.
I didn't expect that Xi Hansong would be killed with just one blow!
The soldiers of the Flame Blood Demon Sect were still running away, but the two Golden Core guards had no intention of chasing them.
In an instant, the two Jindan guards and General Duan all turned pale.
It’s over!
The "Prince" is dead!