In just sixteen days, the Chu Ninth Army, which had disappeared for half a year, was like a disaster, sweeping across the country of Qin and destroying thirty-eight counties and cities in the Qin Empire.
For a moment, the whole country was panicked!
But what is frustrating is that even if Emperor Tuoba Wuwei mobilizes the troops from across the country and mobilizes all the warriors in the country, he still cannot find the whereabouts of the Chu Ninth Army, let alone destroy it.
At the same time, the city was burned down, causing countless property losses and making tens of millions of city residents homeless, becoming refugees that caused a headache for the empire.
This news was brought back to the country by the spies of the Dayun Kingdom who were lurking in the country of Great Qin. Emperor Dayun announced it to the world. For a while, Yanli's reputation increased again, and many people even privately called him the "God of War".
There are also many storytellers who compiled Yan Li's deeds into books and talked about them in great detail, making his reputation far higher than that of several princes today and only weaker than Emperor Dayun.
After seven months of rest and recuperation, Wang Yuanshan once again formed a million-strong army based on the 100,000-strong Qinglong Army. Seizing the opportunity, he led a million-strong army to attack Taihao City.
Since most of the "Iron-Blooded" Legion's troops were transferred back to the country by the Emperor of Qin to encircle and suppress the Ninth Army, the number of "Iron-Blooded" Legion stationed in Taihao City was no more than 100,000.
After three days and three nights of bloody battles, the Qinglong Legion, which made a comeback, finally recaptured Taihao City. The news spread back to the country, and the people celebrated. Many people even suggested taking advantage of the victory to pursue and enter the country of Great Qin.
However, Wang Yuanshan was not dazzled by the victory. He only set up a tight defense line in the Taihao City area to prevent the Qin Kingdom and the Barbarian Kingdom from attacking.
The Black Savage Swamp is a natural barrier between the Great Qin Empire and the Barbarian Kingdom. It is shrouded in highly toxic marsh gas all year round. Therefore, even those who are strong in the secret realm will not easily step into it.
However, today, ten meters above the looming swamp, there was a slender figure flying in the air.
"call out!"
A gray shadow soared into the sky from the swamp and shot toward the figure in the air.
Chi groan!
The sword light flashed away, and the gray shadow was cut into two pieces, but it was a swamp snake, picking up a monster core and putting it into the storage ring. Yan Li continued on his way.
This was the second day he entered this swamp. There were many high-level monsters in the swamp. Therefore, he deliberately lowered his flying altitude, waiting for those monsters to attack, and finally seizing their monster cores.
The three major Qi, Blood Demon Qi and Qing Lei Qi have all advanced to the fourth level of the Secret Realm, but Hunyuan Qi is still at the First Level of the Secret Realm.
Just like this, he discovered that there were many monsters in the swamp, and he decided to hunt them down and seize their cores.
Three days later, Yan Li successfully passed through the Black Savage Swamp. This time, he gained a lot. He hunted a thousand level six monsters, 600 level seven monsters, 200 level eight monsters, and eight level nine monsters. Twelve heads.
So many monster cores should be enough for him to upgrade Hunyuan Qi to the second level of the secret realm.
On the other side of the swamp is the barbarian country. Because of the natural barrier of the black barbarian swamp, the barbarian tribe did not send troops to guard it.
He found a nearby cave where ordinary monsters lived and hunted it. Then Yan Li entered the Hunyuan space and began to absorb Hunyuan particles.
The three secret realms of Tanzhong, Lingquan, and Chongling have been opened. As long as he accumulates enough Hunyuan Qi, he can advance the Hunyuan Qi to the second level of the secret realm.
One day later, Yan Li walked out of the cave with a vague expression of disappointment. Unexpectedly, so many monster cores still did not allow the Hunyuan Qi to be raised to the second level of the secret realm.
You should hunt three or five more ninth-level monsters before you can be promoted to the second level of the secret realm.
Before coming to the barbarian country, Yan Li spent several days studying their information. Unlike the human race, the barbarian people generally did not have the habit of building cities and usually lived in villages.
The number of barbarians in large villages can reach three to five thousand, while in small villages, there are only one or two hundred people.
The barbarians are natural warriors. Even if they do not practice martial arts, the combat effectiveness of the adult barbarians can be compared to that of the Yuan realm warriors of the human race.
"Swish swish"
Dozens of figures appeared out of thin air, it was Fan Dongliu and the special forces team, a total of thirty-five people, all composed of secret realm masters.
"See Prince Li."
Fan Dongliu and others quickly bowed and saluted.
Yan Li waved his hand and signaled them to stand up. Fan Dongliu was indeed a talent. Not only was he extraordinary in cultivation, he was also quite outstanding in strategy. He was able to destroy thirty-eight counties and cities in a row some time ago, which had a lot to do with him.
"No need to be polite, just get up and head eastward. Before dark, I want a map of the distribution of barbarian villages within a thousand miles."
"yes!"
Fan Dongliu stood up, nodded heavily, and quickly disappeared with his special team.
Three hours later.
As the sky grew dark, the special forces sent out returned one after another. Fan Dongliu handed Yan Li a simple map of the distribution of villages.
He also explained, “There are three barbarian villages within a thousand miles radius. Among them, the mountain village five hundred miles to the northwest has a population of 1,500 adult barbarians and 800 young barbarians.
The Black Snake Village, seven hundred miles away from here east to west, has a total of 300 adult barbarians and 100 child barbarians.
The Juhu Village, two hundred miles southeast of here, has a population of 150 adult barbarians and 35 child barbarians. "
Looking at the map in his hand and Fan Dongliu's explanation, Yan Li had a rough distribution map in his mind.
Taking them back into the Hunyuan space, Yan Li spread out and headed straight for the nearest giant tiger village.
An hour later, Yan Li stood on a hilltop one mile away from Juhu Village, his eyes penetrated the darkness and landed on Juhu Village.
At this moment, the sun has set, and the whole world has entered infinite darkness. There is a small square in the middle of the village.
At this moment, a blazing bonfire was lit in the square, and hundreds of barbarian men and women were eating meat, drinking wine, singing and dancing around the bonfire.
At the same time, there were many barbarian children chasing each other around, making bursts of cheerful laughter, and the whole picture looked particularly peaceful.
Suddenly, a tall barbarian old man sitting in the crowd shouted twice in barbarian language. After a while, several barbarian warriors carrying swords escorted eight human men and women with shackles and handcuffs to the square.
The eight human men and women were dressed in rags. It was unknown whether they were citizens of Great Qin or Dayun. Feeling the wild beast-like looks from the surrounding barbarians, the eight men and women could not help but tremble slightly.
"Kurasika!"
The old barbarian man shouted again, and the barbarian children who were chasing and playing around gathered one after another, and a group of barbarian warriors gave each of them a sharp dagger.
"Hey Xu!"
The old barbarian man shouted softly at the seventy-eight-year-old barbarian boy. The boy, who originally had an innocent smile, suddenly flashed a fierce look in his eyes, and walked towards a human man holding a dagger.
"No! Don't come here!"
The human man seemed to have realized his fate, and struggled with fear on his face, but was firmly held down by two barbarian warriors.
"Pfft!"
The sword flashed, blood splashed onto the face of the barbarian boy, and with the human man's scream, an arm flew up.
"hey-hey!"
The boy let out a hearty laugh, stretched out his tongue and licked the blood around the corner of his mouth, and couldn't help laughing intoxicatedly.
"Drum!"
The surrounding barbarians smiled appreciatively at the barbarian boy.
"Hey Xu!"
The old barbarian man gave an order to another barbarian boy, and immediately, the second boy continued to walk towards the man.
"No! Please! No!"
One of the man's arms was cut off, the wound was bleeding profusely, and his dirty cheek became extremely pale.
"Pfft!"
Blood spattered and the man's other arm flew up.
"brute!"
A mile away, Yan Li saw this scene, and for some reason, a huge anger surged in his heart.
"Whoosh!"
His body flew up like a roc, and in a few breaths, he flew over the giant tiger square.
"die!"
"Pfft, pfft, pfft!"
Hundreds of solid blood-red sword energy suddenly erupted, shooting at all the barbarians present, regardless of gender, young or old.
"Ah! Ah!"
Screams came one after another, and nearly two hundred barbarians screamed to the ground. Most of them died, but a small number of stronger ones did not die and fell to the ground twitching.
"Kakaka!"
Yan Li's figure landed on the square, and he swung his sword to cut off the restraints on the eight human prisoners. They quickly knelt down and thanked him.
"Which country are you from?" Yan Li asked.
"Sir, the younger one is from Wu!"
"Sir, the little girl is from Dayun country!"
"Sir, I'm a master of the Qin Dynasty!"
… …
Eight people answered one after another, including two from the Qin Kingdom, three from the Dayun Kingdom, and three from some small countries.
"You all should go!" Yan Li said in a deep voice.
"Thank you for saving my life. I wonder if you can tell me my name so that I can set up a longevity tablet at home and worship it every day!" said one of the Qin men.
A playful smile appeared on the corner of Yan Li's mouth: "My name is Li Li!"
"Thank you, sir! Farewell!"
A few months later, the two Qin people finally returned to the Qin Kingdom after a lot of hardships. They were planning to find someone to build an immortal tablet for Yan Li, but they heard a legend circulating among the people.
That man's name was Li Li, he was only eighteen years old, and he was a young prince of the Dayun Kingdom. Within a few months, the Chu Ninth Army led by him appeared and disappeared, destroying dozens of cities, large and small, in the Great Qin Kingdom.
At this moment, he was stunned. Thinking of Yan Li's appearance, he was sure that the Li Li who was rumored to be the same person, how could he dare to set up a longevity tablet.
Back to the subject, after Yan Li waited for the human captives to leave, he struck back at the surviving human captives and prepared to set fire to the entire village.
Suddenly, a strange look appeared on his face, because he sensed that the Hunyuan particles around him became extremely dense.
Subconsciously running the "Hunyuan Sutra", a large number of Hunyuan particles were immediately absorbed into the body. At the same time, he discovered that those Hunyuan particles actually overflowed from the bodies of the dead barbarians.
"this… ?"
He never expected that there would be Hunyuan particles in the body of the barbarian people. However, he couldn't care so much because, after absorbing some of the Hunyuan particles, his Hunyuan Qi had reached the critical point. One step away from being promoted to the second level of the Secret Realm.
After a while, a strong momentum burst out from his body, but it was Hunyuan Qi that was successfully promoted to the second level of the secret realm.
Turning his eyes with Hunyuan Qi, he looked at the surrounding barbarian corpses and found that there were still many Hunyuan particles leaking out of their bodies.
The more powerful the barbarians were, the more Hunyuan particles they had. Thinking of this, he had a crazy idea in his heart - to kill all the barbarians.