Chapter 114 Two Martial Arts Masters [Thanks to the Silver Alliance for Making a Desperate Effort]
Yuncui Cave Mansion.
Liang Jingtang was leading four male disciples to hoe the land enthusiastically.
The requirements for ploughing spiritual fields are much higher than those for ordinary fields, and it is truly intensive cultivation.
The requirements for planting spiritual medicines are even higher.
As soon as Liu Qiaolian and Ji Wenyue returned to Licheng, Xia Daoming took the two beautiful experts to Yuncui Cave Mansion.
After their investigation and discussion, they decided to reclaim the two acres of land around the spiritual spring into a medicinal garden, and the remaining 22 acres into spiritual rice fields.
"Master, why are you in the fields again?" Xia Daoming saw Liang Jingtang also hoeing the land, and thought about enjoying the service of two beauties on it, and felt a little sorry.
"They work too roughly, and I can't stand it." Liang Jingtang said.
Yuchi Xiao and others wiped their sweat silently, and no one dared to refute.
I'm scared of being punished these days!
"Leave it here for now. Ma Tong is coming with a thousand elite soldiers from a long distance. It is estimated that they will arrive in Licheng in one or two hours." Xia Daoming said in a deep voice.
"What! Ma Tong dares to attack Licheng with a thousand elite soldiers!" Liang Jingtang and others immediately put down their hoes and said with excitement and expectation.
Looking at the excited and expectant master and senior brothers, Xia Daoming was speechless.
But as long as they are happy, it's fine.
Anyway, he just ate the big snake yesterday, and took some other supplements, completed the ninth-level meridian strengthening, and became a master of the tenth level with great momentum.
Now, except for the relatively limited change in the distance of his power transformation to kill people from a distance, which has only increased by a mere two feet to twelve feet, his power is so strong and his speed is so fast that even he feels a little scared.
Even if there are cultivators hiding in the other side, as long as they are not the kind of Qi Refining Perfection or even the Foundation Building Ancestor level, Xia Daoming is confident that it should be easy to deal with them with his horrible speed and explosive power.
As for the strength of Qi Refining Perfection and Foundation Building Ancestor, after all, even Ding Chushan has never seen it. He just heard people bragging about it at the bottom of the cultivation world. Xia Daoming has no way to compare it. He is afraid and dare not be confident that he can ignore Qi Refining Perfection or even Foundation Building Ancestor.
However, Foundation Building Ancestors are generally not allowed to participate in secular power struggles, and Qi Refining Perfection cultivators are basically busy with the Foundation Building Stage, and rarely personally participate in secular power struggles.
Besides, what is Licheng, and what level of army is Ma Tong, so how can such a high-ranking figure follow Ma Tong to join in the fun!
In fact, if Xia Daoming had not discovered Yuncui Cave Mansion in Licheng, he would have left Licheng soon and gone to a place with more opportunities to develop.
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The news that Ma Tong, with a thousand elite troops, had come a long way and would soon arrive in Licheng spread throughout the city.
The entire Licheng was suddenly plunged into an unprecedented panic.
"Run! The rebels are coming!"
"The butcher Ma is coming! They will definitely massacre the city!"
"Zhu'er, where are you? Go home quickly!"
People shouted, some ran to the streets to find their children and relatives, some ran home, took the property they could take away, and hurriedly gathered at the north gate, hoping to escape from the gate and flee to the north before the rebels attacked.
Some people also fled to the west gate.
Almost no one went to the southeast gate.
The crying of women and children, the shouting, and the rumbling of wheels intertwined together, and the streets leading to the gates of Licheng were bustling with people fleeing.
Some old, weak, sick and disabled people could not escape in time and could only burn incense and pray at home, hoping to survive.
But when the people fled to the city gate, they found that the city gate was closed.
In front of the city gate and on the city wall, soldiers wearing leather armor and holding the hilt of their swords stood upright.
"Let us out! Please, let us out, we don't want to die!" People cried when they saw the city gate closed.
Just as people were crying, Ji Yuanzhen appeared on the north tower.
"Grandpa Ji, please have mercy and let us go!"
"Grandpa Ji, open the city gate, we definitely can't defend the city!"
When people saw Ji Yuanzhen appear on the tower, they looked at him, shouting and begging.
"Who said we can't defend the city? If we really can't defend it, our Ji family will definitely escape. Are we going to stay here and die?" Ji Yuanzhen shouted.
"Grandpa Xu is gone, and the Lin family, the Ding family and the Badao Gate are gone too. What can we defend with?" someone shouted.
"Xu Zhiyuan is gone, but I am still here, and the owner of Liang Jingtang is still here! The Lin family, the Ding family, and the Badao Sect are gone, but the Ji family, Tenglong Martial Arts School, and all the martial arts masters are still here!" Ji Yuanzhen shouted.
"But we heard that Ma the Butcher is a martial arts master who can defeat a thousand people alone. Without Old Master Xu, who can..." As soon as Ji Yuanzhen finished speaking, there was a roar from below.
"Roar!"
At this moment, a mighty tiger roar sounded.
Ji Yuanzhen stood upright, his white hair flying, his white clothes fluttering, and he pointed his sword to the sky. The blade shot out sword rays in the sunset, and condensed into an extremely ferocious white tiger in the air.
The tiger stood in the air, exuding a monstrous killing intent.
The soldiers guarding the city gate and standing on the city wall and the children of the Ji family saw this scene again, and their eyes looking at Ji Yuanzhen were full of fanaticism and awe.
Ji Yuanzhen had already demonstrated this move to the soldiers defending the city and the children of the Ji family, so they could firmly guard the city gates and walls in the face of panicked people.
Otherwise, it was a matter of life and death. Many soldiers were recruited and trained recently, and they had already fled before the people.
The streets that were originally full of shouting suddenly became quiet.
"Master! Old Master Ji is a martial arts master!"
"Master! Master!"
After a long time, the crowd suddenly burst into excited cheers like a tsunami.
Having just experienced a disaster, the people of Licheng wanted to be safe.
If there was a little hope, who would be willing to travel a long distance to the north where the danger was uncertain and the environment was definitely worse?
Besides, the rebels were approaching, and if they fled in a hurry at this time, how many people would be able to escape the pursuit of the rebels in the end.
Ji Yuanzhen suddenly burst out with the cultivation of a master, which made the desperate people see hope!
"Roar!"
Another tiger roar sounded.
The street became quiet again.
People all looked up at Ji Yuanzhen expectantly.
"Licheng is not the only martial arts master like me, but Liang Jingtang, the master of Tenglong Martial Arts Hall, is also a martial arts master now!" Ji Yuanzhen said loudly.
"What? Master Liang is also a martial arts master. We have two martial arts masters in Licheng!"
"Licheng is saved!"
"We are saved!"
"The old, weak, women and children should go back first! The young and strong should stay with me to defend the city!"
"The young and strong should stay to defend the city!"
Ji Yuanzhen's words were like a stone that caused a thousand waves.
People's hope and confidence were completely ignited!
Then, the old men and women led their children back home one after another.
The same scene was also staged in Xicheng.
Liang Jingtang's performance was much more majestic and coquettish than Ji Yuanzhen.
He stood proudly on the West Gate Tower, his silver beard flying, and stabbed out with a spear. The power gushed out, the wind whistled, and a dragon condensed in the air.
The snake-like body is covered with glittering scales, with avian claws with scales under it, and a huge head with branch-like dragon horns like deer horns.
Majesty, domineering, vicissitudes, and the ancient atmosphere are exuding above the West Gate Tower at this moment.
Under the tower, the people on the street who were crying and shouting to leave suddenly became quiet, and soon someone knelt down.
Then, everyone knelt down one after another.
In this world, dragons also have a very transcendent and noble status in people's minds, representing supreme power and authority.
Liang Jingtang looked down at the black mass of heads below, and the whole person almost floated up.
Yuchi Xiao and Zhuo Xingji, who stood behind Liang Jingtang like two door gods, had their eyes drifting at this moment.
Because they thought that one day they would become masters!
At that time, just like his master, they pointed their spears and said, "Tsk tsk."
Just thinking about it, they felt that the whole person was about to float up.
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Night fell quietly, and the sky was full of stars.
Under the night, the city of Li, with its majestic walls and towering towers, was like a giant beast crouching quietly on a plain at the foot of the vast mountain, waiting for its prey to arrive.
Suddenly, the iron hooves broke the silence outside the city, and a cavalry of a thousand men was coming aggressively.
The hooves of the horses hit the ground, raising a cloud of dust, and under the starlight, they looked like a monster with bared fangs and claws.
The army stopped its advance outside the East City Gate.
Ma Tong was wearing black armor and holding a long-handled golden hammer in his hand. The golden hammer was as big as a winter melon, and it flashed a little golden light under the starlight. It looked extremely heavy at first glance, and it would be unstoppable if it came down with a hammer.
The twenty riders standing on horseback behind and beside Ma Tong, except for the gray-clothed old man who was still dressed in cloth, all wore fish-scale iron armor and ferocious iron helmets. Their horses were also covered with scale armor like them, with strong muscles, tall and strong.
These twenty riders were all muscular and tall, exuding extremely surging blood and energy. They were all great martial artists of the seventh and eighth ranks.
Among them, there were as many as six eighth-rank great martial artists, including the gray-clothed old man.
These were the nineteen iron-blooded guards that Ma Tong had spent a huge amount of money to carefully build. They were his trusted and elite soldiers in the army.
And the gray-clothed old man was a loyal servant of the Ma family who had taken care of him since he was a child, and was also his steward and military advisor.
"Interesting. With such a big commotion, Licheng wouldn't have not noticed it yet, right? The city gates were closed, there were no panicked civilians fleeing outside the city, and there seemed to be no movement inside the city either!" Ma Tong looked at the quiet Licheng under the night sky with interest.
"Something is wrong. Could it be that the Ji family, who now controls Licheng, is preparing to defend the city and fight us?" The gray-clothed old man showed a trace of serious thinking.
"The whole family only has one eighth-grade great martial artist. How can they have the confidence to fight us? Most likely they thought we would send someone to persuade them to surrender first, so they were ready to surrender.
But they certainly didn't expect that we didn't need them to surrender this time. We want to massacre the city and kill and rob everything!" Ma Tong raised a disdainful and cruel sneer at the corner of his mouth.
"That's possible." The gray-clothed old man nodded, then thought for a moment and said, "Since our sudden appearance did not cause any chaos in Li City, and the city gates are all closed, why don't you take advantage of their situation and send people to persuade them to surrender, so that they can open the city gates and let us in. The walls of Li City are tall and strong, and if we really want to attack, we will lose some men and horses."
"Hehe, this is better. They didn't expect to be slaughtered even after surrendering. The resentment of the ghosts must be even greater." As soon as the gray-clothed old man finished speaking, a sinister voice came from the cavalry behind them.
PS: This chapter is added for the Silver Alliance Wandering and Going All Out. Whether I can continue to add more chapters tomorrow depends on whether today's writing goes smoothly. That's all for today.