Mountain Patrol Military Officer
Chapter 124 - 120: Folks, Returning to the Hometown!

Chapter 124: Chapter 120: Folks, Returning to the Hometown!

Outside the border, the sun rises as usual.

Near a stretch of forest by the Nu River, the morning mist permeates.

Inside a cave hidden halfway up the mountain, a faint wailing sound can be heard.

The deep cavern twists and turns inward, where a glimmer of firelight can be vaguely seen.

Upon closer inspection, a fire is burning, with about a dozen pale-faced people gathered around it.

Most of them are elderly, children, and women, with few young and strong men among them.

These people, most with numb expressions, are staring at an old woman with graying temples who is clutching a bundle of clothes, rubbing it on her face while murmuring and crying.

The old woman’s son went hunting yesterday and hasn’t returned.

He was either eaten by the wild beasts in the mountains or encountered a demon.

There are many spirit monsters and fierce beasts in these mountains.

And to this, they have become numb.

Many who fled with them into the mountains have disappeared in such a manner.

Why do they prefer to hide in these mountains, haunted by wild beasts and spirit monsters rather than venture out?

Because outside, there are things even more terrifying than wild beasts and spirit monsters!

The suppressed sobs of the old woman linger in the cave, with everyone silently immersed in mute silence.

The air is filled with repression; in everyone’s eyes is a despair reminiscent of slowly waiting for death.

At this moment, faint echoes can be heard from outside the cave.

"Fellow villagers"

"Colonel’s order from White Emperor City"

"The calamity of the Demon Cult’s Human Demons has been completely eradicated"

"Everyone can return home now!"

"You can go back home now!"

"Return home!"

"..."

The voice echoes in the cave.

And it grows louder and louder.

As everyone clearly hears these words, their previously listless eyes are like a pond stirred by a thrown stone, suddenly rippling with waves.

Instantly, everyone gets up, their weak bodies, starved for a long time, burst with a strong energy upon hearing the word "fellow villagers," scrambling to rush towards the eastern side of the mountain.

They pour out of the cave and, following the direction of the voice, they look up from a height and see a fast horse galloping across the Nu River in the distance.

On it, an armored soldier is riding hard, wielding a whip, and shouting loudly in the local Shu dialect toward both banks of the river:

"Fellow villagers!"

"Time to go home!"

"Head home now!"

This is destined to be an unforgettable scene for this group of villagers!

Many watch, their eyes brimming with hot tears.

They can finally go home!

"Let’s go, head home!"

Meanwhile, in White Emperor City, fast horses and howling eagles are carrying garrison soldiers, who are rushing towards the lands outside the border with cries of command.

Soon after, amid the mountains, that same order starts to echo.

Return home!

For a moment, outside the border, in countless forests, those who hear the commotion emerge from all over.

Ravines, caves, volcanic craters, treetops, swamps...

They are the insignificant people of troubled times, but even weeds struggle desperately, striving and tenaciously clinging to life.

Soon, in this hilly and earthly expanse outside the border, tiny streams of people converge, eventually forming a vast flood moving forward in different directions.

In White Emperor City, located at the Sky Patrol Department’s headquarters.

At this moment, the garrison was practically empty, except for the sentries on duty, almost everyone else had been dispatched.

Some were sent to deliver messages, some to clean up the battlefield, others to track down any remnants of the Demon Cult that might still exist...

After a great battle, there were too many aspects that needed to be dealt with.

At the official residence of the Colonel from the Sky Patrol Department, in a room filled with an ancient aroma, Chen Yuan was sitting cross-legged in meditation.

A series of battles, especially the frequent use of the Magic Eye Golden Light, had left him somewhat spiritually drained, and coupled with physical injuries, his body needed to recuperate.

At this moment, his right shoulder, where he had been struck by the White Tiger, was covered by a layer of vibrant green Spirit Light, delivering a chilling coolness under his skin.

Chen Yuan could feel new flesh sprouting quickly, hastening the wound’s healing.

This was an elixir specially provided by Xiang Qingtian from the arsenal, the Clear Jade Pill.

Half an hour later, Chen Yuan opened his eyes, a flash of golden light fleeting across their depths.

After a moment of relaxation on his forehead, he raised a single hand,

A beam of black and cyan light rapidly condensed in his palm, quickly stretching into a Three-pointed Two-blade Spear.

Soon after, his Taoist Soldier materialized in his hand.

The shaft of the spear quivered.

The murderous aura was chilling.

The black and cyan shaft appeared even more substantial, and the bloody stripes on the spear’s three sharp points were thicker, giving Chen Yuan a chilling sensation of a blade’s edge upon him just by taking it out.

A Taoist Soldier needs to be nurtured.

It can be concealed within the flesh, refined through a practitioner’s True Meaning of Divine Power.

Or melted to incorporate stronger Geng Metal artifacts, to enhance its power.

His Taoist Soldier had fused with many Geng Metal artifacts, making it extremely sturdy and sharp, and with the forging of the Tao Seed from the Thirty-Six Mountains, it weighed more than ten thousand catties.

Through several battles, this Three-pointed Two-blade Spear had proven unbeatable.

Having slain several Heavenly Pass Demons, Chen Yuan could distinctly feel the growing might of this Taoist Soldier.

Killing enemies and drawing blood seemed to be the most straightforward and brutal way to enhance a Taoist Soldier!

He carefully touched the spear, his eyes flickering with satisfaction, and then put away the spear, which instantly turned into a beam of light and entered the center of his palm.

At this moment, his Mud Ball shuddered, and a thought crossed his mind.

"Chen Yuan: Colonel of the Ninth Mountain

Realm: Fourth Heavenly Barrier (Taoist Soldier Realm)

Luck Points: 753

Cultivation Techniques: Dragon Subduing Stance (Perfect), Devil Suppressing Fist (Perfect), Taoist Inner Scripture Map (Perfect), Earthly Fiendishness 72 Skills (3/72)

Magic Techniques: Beast Breeding, Devil Suppressing Fist

Divine Skills: Consume, Dharma Eye (can be cultivated), swordsmanship, Mountain Carrying, Demon Transformation (Mountain Lord, Bull Demon)

Taoist Soldier: Three-pointed Two-blade Spear"

The information flowing on the Tiger Talisman has already defaulted his identity as "Colonel of the Ninth Mountain"

Looking at the Luck Points, they amounted to over seven hundred.

Having killed so many demons and Human Demons along the way, Chen Yuan was not surprised.

Thinking of this, Chen Yuan waved his sleeve, several bundles of Spirit Light flew out and hovered in front of him, revealing the figures encapsulated within.

One, two, three, four, five, six...

There were no less than six groups, tightly wrapped in golden light.

They were all Essence of the Fourth Heavenly Barrier.

Zheng, Gu Diao, and Feiyi were real demons.

The latter three now were Human Demons.

For the first three demons, he had the Divine Skill Demon Transformation, which suited well for refinement. Moreover, he had sent the bodies of Zheng and Feiyi to Qingshan County.

Presumably, with the transformation of the Fourth Heavenly Barrier demons enhancing it, this skill would experience a qualitative improvement.

With this in mind, Chen Yuan’s eyes concentrated golden light into a single point, and then, two slender streams of golden light shot into the Essence of Feiyi and Gu Diao, erasing the consciousness of these two demons completely.

Following that, the golden light in his eyes retracted, and he took the three Demon Essences into his sleeve. Then his gaze turned stern as he looked toward the remaining three Human Demons’ Essences, his eyes shooting chilling glints.

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