Chapter 172: War breaks out, spirits and gods fight, fish in troubled waters (172K) In Jiangcheng Prefecture, Shen Yinggao and other high-ranking officials in the city stood side by side on the wall. In the square of the outer city and on the surrounding walls, there were the city troops with flags flying like the sea. The number of troops had increased to 20,000 by recruiting refugees. Regardless of the fighting power of these people, at least their momentum is quite huge. However, at this moment, everyone had a serious look on their faces, staring at the troop movements on land and water not far away. On the Yangtze River opposite the city, more than a dozen giant ships were stationary above the surging waves. Two of the huge ships rowed towards the shore. "Hey"! Shouts came from the belly of the boat, in unison. The shouts of the twenty-eight people seemed to come from one person's mouth, and the twenty-eight oars were like the arms of a giant ship. On the bow of the ship, the flags of the Yellow Turban Sect, the Flying Tiger Clan, and the Beast Taming Sect were all flying. In the sky, huge exotic birds flew into the sky. On the backs of the birds, many disciples of the Beast Taming Sect were holding bows and arrows, staring at them eagerly.

The Yellow Turbans deployed more troops on a hill opposite Jiangcheng Prefecture, and even equipped them with a small number of cavalry and heavily equipped armored troops. After Chu Ge left the Yinshui Sect, he dressed in full armor and lurked here alone. He leaped onto the crown of a big tree and observed the magnificent scene of two armies fighting in the distance. For a moment, he couldn't help but sigh at the strength of the Yellow Turban Army. However, the Yellow Turban Army formed by the Yellow Turban Sect was composed of shield soldiers, archers, swordsmen and axemen, as well as fortification soldiers. They don't look like a mob or a ragtag army at all; they clearly look like a group of well-trained soldiers. Not only that, the Yellow Turban Army was also equipped with wooden beams, ladders, towers, and iron-plated vertical carts that were specifically designed to block arrows. These are all essential equipment for siege, which are simply not available to ordinary martial arts sects. Although the Yellow Turban Sect is powerful, they were able to obtain these equipments probably because they relied on the power of the Ji family behind them. "No wonder Shen Yinggao gave the order to abandon Jialin City a few days ago, took the initiative to show weakness and withdraw his forces to Jiangcheng Prefecture, and ordered all the masters of Jialin City to gather in Jiangcheng Prefecture and hand over Jialin City. This is a desperate battle." Chu Ge looked at the military situation over there. The sunlight made the weapons sparkle, adding to the murderous atmosphere, which was a bit shocking. The Longyuan City he built is still far behind these forces, both in terms of manpower and equipment. The Yellow Turbans were indeed a force that was vying for supremacy in the world. However, in this world of martial arts, the most important thing is the top combat power. The confrontation between many soldiers mainly plays the role of attacking and defending cities. The key factor that determines the outcome of a battle lies in the competition among top combat forces. But this does not mean that a large number of soldiers are useless against top masters. In war, with the help of large bows and crossbows, purple saltpeter divine thunder, or even Yuanli divine thunder, it is still possible to severely injure and kill strong people in the Condensation Realm and affect masters in the Spirit God Realm. At this moment, there was a movement in the forest.

Chu Ge quickly entered the demonic state of a hidden spirit body. A cold breath of blood and two wisps of strange power flowed through his body, even emitting wisps of mist that covered all his clothes. Under the influence of the strange power and blood, his skin all over his body instantly condensed into strange fish scales. The mist refracted the light, concealed part of the body's odor, and quickly blended in with the surrounding environment. In a static state, he suddenly seemed completely invisible. "Whoosh-" Several strange birds flew low over the top of the woods, but their sharp eyes did not notice Chu Ge's presence. "Puff puff--" At this time, a group of ugly monsters with wrinkled skin came running from the other end of the forest and quickly reached the edge of the forest near Chu Ge. On the backs of some of the strange monsters, there were actually several disciples of the Beast Taming Sect sitting. "Roar--" The leading monster, a larger one, stomped the ground with its sharp claws, looked around, twitched its nose a few times, and glanced suspiciously at the direction where Chu Ge was. Finding nothing, it turned its calf-like head again. Chu Ge quietly observed the strange monsters that suddenly filled the forest, and could feel their powerful physiques and murderous aura. Especially the strange monster in the lead, which was a full meter long, was actually a monster in the Condensation Realm, and it almost discovered him when he was in the Hidden Spirit State. "The Beast Taming Sect is really going to get serious this time." Chu Ge observed calmly and did not act rashly. Invisibility is only a low-level talent, and its best effect is when in a stationary state. The only consolation is that the power of blood can drive the strange power to create a strange mist that sprays out from the pores. This fog can refract light to form an illusory mirage, making everything within a half-meter radius around the body invisible at the same time, further enhancing the invisibility effect. However, a few days ago Chu Ge tried several demon bodies together, and unfortunately found that the hidden spirit body could not be used together with the other two demon body states. This is because when in the hidden spiritual state, the blood temperature of the whole body will drop to a certain degree, and the person prefers quietness to movement. The other two types of demon bodies require boiling blood, high-speed blood flow, and bursting breath, which are in great conflict with the hidden spiritual body. However, although the hidden spirit body cannot be used together with the other two demon bodies, the manta ray spirit body can be used together with the golden crocodile spirit body. Even in the state of the golden crocodile spirit body, Chu Ge's body size became larger, and his body muscles became stronger after being transformed by the strange power and bloodline power. Therefore, more muscles in the whole body can be compressed into thin muscle sheets, forming a super manta ray electric body covered with 180,000 muscle sheets, which can unleash extremely terrifying electric current to kill. Therefore, after Chu Ge tried to use these two demonic bodies together, his combat power has reached an extremely astonishing level. However, he has never tried to fight against a strong person. He was not sure how strong it was or whether it could pose a threat to the strong ones in the Spirit God Realm.

At this moment, a deep, powerful and pleasant voice suddenly came from the top of the city wall of Jiangcheng Prefecture opposite, spreading in all directions and could be heard from miles away. "Brother Gongye, I have heard that you preach that the Yellow Turbans are a righteous army that upholds justice. I wonder if it is justified for you to lead a large army to attack the city today? The lives and livelihoods of nearly 100,000 people in Jiangcheng Prefecture all depend on your thoughts!" As soon as these words were spoken, there was an immediate commotion inside and outside the city. This is a heart-piercing statement, which condemns the so-called righteous army of the Yellow Turbans from a moral level. In fact, they are great and glorious, but they don't care about the lives and property of the people in the city. How can they talk about doing justice? "Hahahaha, Brother Shen, don't flatter me like that!" At this time, a voice was also heard from the huge ship opposite. But a tall and handsome man wearing a black robe embroidered with dragons walked out of the boat. He had a thick beard and a sturdy and majestic figure. Although he stood with his hands behind his back, he gave people a sense of extraordinary bearing, as if he were a towering mountain, and had the style of a hero and a tyrant. At this time he looked up and smiled, "The chaos in the world did not arise in a moment, but was the result of a hundred poisons forming sores, and the accumulated poisons forming tumors. If you want to remove the poisons and eliminate the sores, you have to remove the sores and tumors. A short pain is worse than a long one. Brother Shen, since you don't want the people in the city to suffer, why don't you open the city gates and let me, the Yellow Turbans, manage the city. I, Gongye Zhengtai, can guarantee with my own head that I will not take a single needle or thread from the people when I enter the city, nor will I harm Brother Shen's life. I will also exempt the people in the city from the Great Zhou corvée and taxes. How do you think?" "This Gongye Zhengtai is also a good speaker" Chu Ge looked at the man who was talking eloquently on the huge ship in the distance. He focused his eyes and saw that the man had a strong and powerful nose, and his eyes were shining with a clear and wise light. It was obvious that he was a brave and resourceful man. At this time, Shen Yinggao naturally would not agree with Gongye Zhengtai's sarcasm of turning the tables. Gongye Zhengtai immediately suggested that the top masters of both sides should fight each other. The winner will be the king and the loser will abandon the city, and the winner will never stop them. As expected, this proposal was rejected by Shen Yinggao. After all, Gongye Zhengtai is a powerful warrior in the late stage of the Spirit God Realm, holding the Huangtian Bell, a mid-level innate divine weapon. Not to mention the two powerful men Feihu Bacheng and Ji Shichang. If we were to compete, we would lose if we only compared our strength on paper, so it would be better to just give in. The two sides were at odds with each other. Gongye Zhengtai didn't waste any words. He guessed that Shen Yinggao was still unwilling to give up at this juncture and must have something to rely on. But he was confident that his own strength was enough to sweep away Jiangcheng Mansion, and he was not afraid of the opponent's tricks, so he waved his hand immediately. Rumble- Many iron-plate vertical carts were first used to block the arrows, and then the siege vehicles were loaded with huge stones and began to attack the city. There were bursts of huge roars like rumbling thunder, accompanied by the shaking of the earth and mountains. "kill!!--" A large number of Yellow Turban disciples followed Shucha, braved the rain of arrows, rushed towards Jiangcheng Mansion, and climbed up the city wall with ladders.

Almost at the same time, in the mountains and forests on all sides, many strange monsters became restless, gnashing their teeth and claws, with ferocious eyes, ready to make a move. Seeing that the fight had started so quickly, Chu Ge immediately became interested. He leaned against a branch and continued to wait, watching the grand scene. It can be seen that the Yellow Turban Sect and the Flying Tiger Clan have already deployed their troops, and their elite troops and masters have begun to attack the city from several other directions. At the same time, many strange monsters in the forest below him quickly rushed out of the forest and rushed towards the city from the side. These strange monsters are extremely fast, have thick skin and tough flesh, and are not afraid of arrow attacks at all. It also has a strong climbing ability and can scale the city walls at an extremely fast speed, and together with the strange birds in the sky, it caused quite a commotion. Chu Ge saw that the scene was in chaos and had lost sight of the masters from these parties. From beginning to end, he didn't even see a hair of Feihu Bacheng. The main reason he went down the mountain this time was to find a suitable opportunity to try to launch a surprise attack on Feihu Bacheng and Shezhuang, so as to gain more living space for himself. This is to prevent the two sides from settling the issue peacefully after the competition, and forcing someone to settle the score with him afterwards. It was difficult to find anyone in the chaos of battle. He immediately moved away quickly. As he moved, he naturally exited his hidden spirit state and headed towards the kite points where he had previously released the clairvoyance kites. After a cup of tea. Chu Ge only found an undamaged kite flying spot in a grove in front of a village not far from Jiangcheng Prefecture. Except for this kite point, the kites at the other kite points had been destroyed or dismantled by spies from all sides. However, only he could activate and use this kind of unorthodox kite, and even if others dismantled it, they would not be able to see the trick. The village where he lives is now deserted. When many villagers heard about the coming war, they had already moved into the city a few days ago, or migrated to more distant villages and mountains for refuge. Recently, many refugees have rushed to Longyuan Mountain to settle down. Fortunately, the Yellow Turbans did not rob the poor, otherwise many civilians would have suffered. Even so, the normal lives of many people have been seriously affected. Leaving one's homeland means lack of a stable source of food and shelter. Even if killing can be avoided, hunger, cold and the invasion of wild beasts in the wild cannot be avoided. Chu Ge pasted the paper-cut nighthawk eyes on his forehead, and a faint light emitted. He held the kite string in his hand, poured all his strength into it and then let it go. Soon, the energy on the battlefield quickly rushed into Nighthawk's eyes and was observed by him. In such a chaotic battlefield, he was not worried that anyone would pay attention to the kite in the distant sky.

Even the strong ones in the Spirit God Realm were paying attention to each other. How could they stare at the kite outside the battlefield? Not long after, Chu Ge sensed several thick air columns fighting each other at the west wall of Jiangcheng Prefecture, about seven or eight miles away. By zooming in, one can vaguely see the faces of the people fighting on the city wall. Chu Ge only recognized two of them, they were Jiao Yongji, the leader of the Yellow Turban Sect's branch in Hengzhou, and Gan Rusu, the worshiper in the city. He continued to observe the surroundings, and suddenly noticed two weak air columns appearing not far behind him. Soon, two streams of murderous intent approached with sharp air currents. Whizzing-- Two sharp arrows pierced through the forest and leaves. Chu Ge suddenly burst into energy, and a ball of blazing electric arc burst out of his body, shattering the two incoming arrows with a "bang". Without looking back, he saw two figures appearing in the forest behind him through his Nighthawk eyes. They were two warriors wearing clothes with black tiger heads on their chests. The elite of the Flying Tigers! The two men seemed to have noticed that there was something wrong with the kite here, so they came to watch and secretly attacked with crossbows. At this moment, realizing Chu Ge's amazing strength, their expressions suddenly changed and they wanted to escape immediately. Chu Ge frowned slightly, suddenly took out the Red Dragon Bow behind him, quickly put an arrow on it and pulled the bow. "Swish swish" two arrows were shot out. "boom!--" The roar of two arrows breaking through the air and tearing through the trees resounded into one. Two elite members of the Flying Tiger clan who were fleeing were hit by arrows almost at the same time. A man's chest was instantly pierced by an arrow, and the strange power infused in the arrow instantly tore his internal organs apart. The other man's head was pierced directly by an arrow, and his body was nailed to a tree. His body twitched twice and he died on the spot. A faint light flickered between Chu Ge's brows. He looked around and did not find anyone else hiding. He quickly put away his bow and continued to observe the battlefield in the distance. It's tea time again. Suddenly, the clairvoyant kite observed two extremely thick and long air columns in the distance, rushing directly towards the scorching battlefield on the wall of Jiangcheng Prefecture. "Spirit God!" Chu Ge was cheered up. Looking closely, one can see that it was the short-bearded Gongye Zhengtai who appeared, and beside him was a dignified middle-aged man with a tall and sturdy figure holding a huge mace. "Flying Tiger dominates the city!!" Chu Ge's eyes lit up.

These two people seemed to have been dormant and blocked all the energy before, but suddenly they appeared and rushed directly towards the city wall. Instantly, the powerful energy was like smoke rising into the sky. "kill!!" "shoot!" Suddenly, on the top of the Jiangcheng City wall, a large number of bows and crossbows and many devices similar to small catapults were fired at Feihu Bacheng and Gongye Zhengtai. "Whoosh whoosh—" "Boom!" All of a sudden, thousands of arrows rained down like rain, and divine thunders of Yuanli were fired simultaneously, instantly covering the two spiritual gods. The entire battlefield was like a pot of boiling porridge. "Carrying out justice on behalf of heaven, the Yellow Turbans are invincible!" A thunderous roar suddenly drowned out all other sounds. A powerful abnormal force fluctuation and a terrifying bell sound that pierced people's hearts erupted from the Yellow Turban Sect leader Gongye Zhengtai. The sky seemed to suddenly darken, and even the sun became dim. next moment. A circle of terrifying sound waves swept across the entire place in an instant, even bursting out with dazzling strange light. "Puff puff--" A large number of arrows were shot at and shattered together. The Yuanli divine thunders exploded one by one in the air, like fireworks. The Qi force swept many soldiers off the city wall. Under the impact of this terrifying sound wave and spiritual power, more people's bodies exploded into bloody mist on the spot, or were directly wiped out at the spiritual level. Chu Ge watched this scene from a distance and felt his heart suddenly tighten with fear. Soon, a belated bell rang, making his heart tremble. But at this moment, there was a deafening noise. In an instant, a blood-red streak shot out from the city and rushed straight into the sky. The blood-red light seemed to penetrate the heaven and earth and went straight to Gongye Zhengtai, who seemed to have not yet regained his strength. "break!--" On the top of the city wall filled with thick smoke and bloody mist, Feihu Bacheng suddenly let out a roar like a tiger, took a leap and rushed out to protect Gongye Zhengtai. "roar!-- He held a huge mace in his hand, and in an instant his long hair began to fly, his burly figure grew suddenly, and his skin was covered with colorful tiger-like patterns, emitting a rich glow. “Kang!——” His mace was like a divine thunder, colliding with the blood-colored silk, making a loud bang like a bolt from the blue, which could make people deaf and could be heard in all directions for more than ten miles. A terrifying circular shock wave erupted from the point where the Tiger King Mace collided with the blood-colored silk, instantly sweeping across the surrounding crowd, and like a heavy artillery bombardment, it blew a large hole two or three feet wide on the top of the city. The city walls roared as if they could not bear the heavy weight and shook violently.

"Hahaha, the Tianding Divine Pool weapon, even if it is refined using evil methods, is only this good! It's not as good as my Tiger King Mace." Feihu Bacheng laughed wildly, his arrogance was high, his figure was 10 feet tall and holding a huge mace, his image was terrifying. "Demon Martial Arts?!" Chu Ge was surprised and looked immediately, and saw that the Yellow Turban leader Gongye Zhengtai and Feihu Bacheng had already jumped into the battlefield inside the city. These two men were like a red-hot blade piercing into butter, destroying everything in its path. Many soldiers in the city have not yet reacted. Either they were killed by the energetic impact created by the two men's speed, or they were killed spiritually by the spiritual impact emanating from them. "Gongye Zhengtai!! Don't bully the weak. Come and fight me if you have the guts!!" On the roof of the Evil Suppression Bureau, Shen Yinggao roared angrily, and his figure flashed and rushed to the back of the building. Gongye Zhengtai narrowed his eyes, sneered, held up a golden bell in his hand, and quickly disappeared. "kill!--" A chariot that released divine thunder of Yuanli in front of the gate of the Evil Suppression Bureau was turned around by several tiger guards. The huge figure of Feihu Bacheng, as big as a mountain, descended and rapidly enlarged. Then with a "boom", the chariot exploded like a fragile building block, and several tiger guards were turned into bloody mist on the spot, with no remains left. "Don't be so arrogant!——" A loud shout suddenly erupted from behind the blood mist, and then a few cold and eerie rays of light pierced towards Feihu Bacheng's waist at a cold and strange angle. "Snake Manor——" Chu Ge's eyes flickered when he saw a man who appeared again and fought fiercely with Feihu Bacheng. He quickly grasped a piece of strange power crystal in his hand, and used the Ziwei secret technique in conjunction with the auspicious hexagram to divine the thousand hexagrams. After this divination. He looked surprised. The mixed result of good and bad means that given the current complex and dangerous situation, it is difficult to predict the true outcome through divination. However, he had already made up his mind and without hesitation, he quickly jumped off the tree and used his skills to approach the battlefield. If it's half good, you can actually give it a try. At least it's not a completely bad sign. at the same time. As more and more people died on the battlefield, the ground was littered with broken limbs and blood. There were people screaming everywhere and people dying tragically at any time. Corpses were trampled by feet and pierced by weapons, and the smell of blood filled the city. At this time, a lot of blood gradually seeped into the cracks between the tiles and stones in the city and flowed down.

However, the flowing blood did not seep into the ground, but seemed to be attracted by a strange force, forming blood-colored patterns like intricate tree roots, and rushed straight to the depths of the underground of the Evil Suppression Bureau at an extremely fast speed. Deep underground, there was a pool of blood. In the bloody water, many corpses were floating with their empty eyes. One of the skeletons slowly floated to the bloody surface, revealing half of its face. It turned out to be Yun Ling, the second master of the Yun family. (End of this chapter)