“Five years of self-isolation in a dream… ”
"If I concentrate enough, maybe time will pass faster in my body?"
In the dream, Qiao Mu raised his fist and attacked the Martial Saint.
... ..
The edge of the desert, Anxi Pass.
The soldiers on the city wall had incredible looks on their faces and were talking about what they had just noticed in the depths of the desert. There was a faint flash of lightning as bright as thunder.
Mrs. Bai, the armored guard, was also among them. She had a solemn expression on her face. She put down the monocular telescope in her hand, with deep surprise in her eyes.
Suddenly, she saw a collapsed lonely city in the depths of the desert
Wasn't that city destroyed in the alien war forty years ago, leaving not even a tile behind
In the past twenty years, she had tried countless times to use a telescope to look into the depths of the desert, but had never succeeded. Why did she see the lonely city today
Mrs. Bai was confused by all kinds of questions lingering in her mind, but suddenly she realized something and looked towards a corner of Anxi Pass.
Mrs. Bai practiced the original "Lingxi Jue", which enabled her to interact with practitioners of "Wu Sheng Lingxi Jue".
As he looked up, he saw an old man walking out from the corner. He walked in this important place of rest as if no one was around, with a blank look in his eyes.
"Stop! Who are you?" she shouted suddenly.
The old man was obviously startled, he looked up at Mrs. Bai, and then he suddenly realized:
“It turns out to be a real person.”
"My last name is Qiao, Qiao Shui." Qiao Mu said, his eyes calm.
"You should have seen the younger generations of my Qiao family. They are still young and have strong tempers. Now I am here to take them home."
The fiery-tempered Mu generation of the Qiao family has passed away.
The highest good is like water. Water benefits all things without contention.
From today on, Qiao Mu plans to be a gentle, rational, neutral and objective person, cherish life, stay away from jail, live in harmony with the world, and be gentle and happy.
Volume 3: No Dispute
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Chapter 218 The truth about the Immortal Army (4k
"Qiao Shui? A younger member of the Qiao family?"
Mrs. Bai pondered for a moment, and recalled Qiao Shuangsen who had entered the desert alone a month or two ago.
At that time, she didn't know Qiao Shuangsen's background, but after sending Qiao Shuangsen into the desert, she made some inquiries afterwards and found out that the Qiao family had already become famous in Zhongzhou, especially in the imperial capital of Zhongzhou.
"Is that kind of centenarian called a junior?" Mrs. Bai's thoughts fluctuated as she looked at the ruins of the lonely city in the distance:
"Could it be that the appearance of the Qiao family is related to the appearance of the lonely city in the desert?"
The Qiao family has become a widely spread anecdote in Zhongzhou recently. It is said that this mysterious and powerful martial arts family has many elders.
For ordinary martial artists, "young and strong people are better at fighting" is actually common sense.
No matter how talented a warrior is, when he gets old his energy and blood will decline and he will never be at his peak again.
But the Qiao family is different. They have many older elders, and each one is stronger than the other.
For the Qiao family, getting stronger as they get older is an objective fact.
The Qiao family’s older age means that they have more advanced martial arts skills and are more reliable.
If Qiao Shuangsen, the centenarian who entered the Baili Desert, could easily defeat her who had entered the third level of spirit refining, then how powerful was this old man in front of her who called himself Qiao Shui
No matter what, this mysterious man who called himself Qiao Shui gave Mrs. Bai a strong sense of danger. She just thought that this man might also enter the desert behind the Anxi Pass.
Since she took charge of guarding the Anxi Pass, she has only stopped those below the third rank. She had neither the intention nor the power to stop Qiao Shuangsen in the past or Qiao Shui now.
So no matter whether Qiao Shui wants to cross the Anxi Pass or not, she will not stop him.
While he was thinking, the soldiers on the city wall suddenly started to make a noise and shout.
Everyone looked incredulous, staring at the desert in front of Anxi Pass with their eyes wide open.
"Master Bai, there is someone... A living person walked out of the desert!" a non-commissioned officer shouted.
"A living person? Could it be the Qiao Shuangsen from before?" The thought flashed through Mrs. Bai's mind.
She didn't think too much about it, but connected the appearance of Qiao Shui with the amazingly powerful Qiao Shuangsen.
"This is a strange thing. A living person actually walked out of this hundred-mile desert... The Qiao family is really extraordinary. Perhaps we can ask Qiao Shuangsen about the secrets of this hundred-mile desert forbidden area."
However, the reaction of the soldiers at Anxi Pass was far beyond her expectations.
"Master Bai, there are more than one of them..."
Mrs. Bai paused for a moment, not even paying attention to Qiao Mu's existence. She turned her head and looked towards the desert in front of the pass.
A team slowly walked out from behind a sand dune.
This team consisted of not just one person, but two or three hundred people, which was far beyond their expectations.
This hundred-mile desert has always been a forbidden zone for life. Although there have been people who have tried to break through it and people who have accidentally gotten lost in it over the past forty years, even if all of them are added together, there cannot be as many as two or three hundred people. So where do these people come from
Mrs. Bai raised her telescope and looked carefully, only then could she see clearly the person coming from behind the sand dune.
That was a group of soldiers.
The armor on these soldiers was already old and worn out, and although everyone was armed with weapons, they looked tired, and only their eyes were still bright and determined.
"How could there be soldiers? Are there soldiers from Da Yan in the depths of the desert?"
"Isn't our Anxi Pass the front line of guarding this desert? Did the Great Yan court set up other checkpoints in the desert?"
Some soldiers were talking.
They did not connect these soldiers with the ruins of the isolated city that suddenly appeared in the depths of the desert.
After all, the ruins of the lonely city represent the alien war that happened forty years ago, which was a generation ago. How could it be connected with these soldiers from before
Only Mrs. Bai felt a shock in her heart, as if a thunderbolt suddenly exploded in her head.
She practiced Li Changge's "Lingxi Jue" and during the first twenty years of the alien war, she was able to remotely sense Li Changge's presence in the depths of the desert.
"Open the door!" she ordered suddenly.
The heavy gate of the checkpoint suddenly opened, and Mrs. Bai, wearing armor, led the crowd out, stepped into the desert outside the checkpoint, and waited there quietly.
And the soldiers from the depths of the desert finally arrived at the Parthian Pass.
"Stop, everyone. Where are you from? Why did you come out from the depths of the desert?" Madam Bai suppressed the throbbing in her heart and asked calmly.
In front of Anxi Pass, Captain Hai and other old soldiers finally stopped.
Although Taoist Qingzhuo had left, they did not let down their guard. After all, strange people were always cunning and had many tricks and schemes, so it was not uncommon for them to leave and come back.
Therefore, the old man in the armory released the three hundred old soldiers back from the Stone City.
Although they felt they were no match for Taoist Qingzhuo, they had fought for forty years, and even if the isolated city had collapsed, they would not surrender.
"We are the Great Yan's Western Expedition Army."
Captain Hai walked at the front of the old soldiers, licked his cracked lips, and answered in a rough voice.
The Western Expedition Army
This unfamiliar word startled the soldiers at Anxi Pass.
Since losing the war against aliens forty years ago, what army in Dayan can be called "Conquer the West" and conquer areas outside Dayan
Moreover, to the west of the Baili Desert is the location of the Da Dao Sect.
Since the Alien War, which army dared to use such a name? Who gave it the courage? Emperor Yonghe
Only Mrs. Bai looked terrified and was speechless for a moment.
For ordinary people, forty years is actually a very long time, a whole generation.
The Western Expedition was a thing of the past generation. Most of the current generation of Anxi Pass Dayan soldiers had never heard of it, and even if they had heard of it, they could not remember it for the time being.
But Mrs. Bai, who volunteered to guard Anxi Pass, naturally remembered it.
Precisely because she remembered, she found it more difficult than the other soldiers to believe what they saw.
"Forty years ago, the Great Yan's Western Expedition Army was completely wiped out in the Alien War. Which Western Expedition Army are you talking about?" Madam Bai asked in a trembling voice.
Captain Hai and other old soldiers were silent at first.
"No."
"The Western Expedition Army has always been here."
Captain Hai took off his helmet, revealing his gray hair underneath.
He was only twenty years old when he joined the Western Expedition Army. Now he is over sixty years old with gray hair.
Due to the shortage of food and water in the vast desert and the continuous wars over the years, Captain Hai now looks much older than his sixties and looks like a seventy-eight-year-old veteran.
It's not just him, either.
The old soldiers behind him were equally thin and old.
As Captain Hai took off his helmet, the three hundred veteran soldiers behind him also took off their helmets, revealing their faces full of wrinkles and letting their already white hair flutter in the wind.
The lonely city in the distance has collapsed halfway. Under the setting sun, it looks like an old beast, casting a huge shadow.
There is an isolated city within a hundred miles, and the whole city is filled with white-haired soldiers.
After forty years of fighting the enemy, the young man has now turned gray-haired.
Commander Hai led three hundred veterans in a salute and said, "All the Great Yan Western Expedition Army have reported in. After forty years, the city has survived without losing an inch of land. We have lived up to the Great Yan."
The sound echoed in front of Anxi Pass, leaving the soldiers there speechless for a long time, with only silent shock.
There are still survivors from the Alien War forty years ago
And from what they said, it seems that this isolated army has been resisting from forty years ago until now. From an army of one hundred thousand in the past to only three hundred old soldiers left
This hundred-mile desert has long been a forbidden zone for life, isolated from the inside and the outside. In other words, this isolated army actually managed to hold out in this forbidden zone for forty years while being isolated and without any help
Moreover, as the defenders of Anxi Pass, their duty was actually just to stay here and prevent ordinary people from entering the restricted desert. No one believed that there were still living people in the desert.
Not only this Anxi Pass, but the entire Zhongzhou, and even the entire Jiuzhou, I am afraid no one could have imagined that the remnants of the 100,000-strong army back then would still be holding on until now, forty years later!
Did this really happen
The soldiers at Anxi Pass could hardly imagine it.
Even though the fact is right before them now, they still find it hard to believe and feel it is unreasonable.
Only Madam Bai unconsciously took a step forward, carefully looking for a familiar figure among these old soldiers, and asked anxiously:
"Is General Li Changge still alive?"
No one answered.
An old man with only half of his face left walked out from behind the old soldiers. He was Li Changge's younger brother. At this moment, he stepped out from the crowd and stared at Madam Bai, the commander of Anxi Pass. He vaguely guessed something and said bluntly:
"My brother Li Changge died for his country 20 years ago. Before his death, he broke through the realm and killed the aliens by himself, allowing the remaining troops to survive and allowing us to continue to hold on in the desert."
Mrs. Bai's body trembled slightly.
In fact, she had already anticipated this answer twenty years ago when the Lingxi Jue lost its sensitivity.
But when the old soldiers walked out of the desert, she couldn't help but feel a sense of hope again.
But this lucky chance was ultimately in vain.
"In the vast desert, there is a mysterious formation set up by the Immortal Sect to isolate the inside and outside. The so-called life restricted area is actually deliberately set up by the Immortal Sect..."
"The aliens called this area 'Hundred Mile Desert'. It is one of the secret realms of the Da Dao Sect. After we die in battle, our heroic souls will also return to the hands of the aliens..." The old man in the armory chattered about the past years.
He has already learned the bloody truth of the matter from Lu Yanbei, and now he has told the outside world about it.
As he spoke, a small stone city in his hand suddenly grew larger, and from the suspended stone city, residents walked out one by one.
The residents in these cities are only women, children, the disabled and the elderly, and there are no young and strong people.