Mountain Patrol Military Officer
Chapter 295 - 257: Brothers, It’s Time to Go Home (Seeking Monthly Ticket)

Chapter 295: Chapter 257: Brothers, It’s Time to Go Home (Seeking Monthly Ticket)

Half a day later,

The setting sun was like blood.

Outside Weiyuan Pass, now reduced to ruins, stood a colossal black tree reaching a hundred zhang in height.

This was once a Black Nest Seed, catalyzed by the Extreme Dazzling Demon’s sacrifice of itself, and it was also the Feiyi Clan’s war fortress.

That day, accompanied by a shrill howl, a blood-red pillar of light soared into the sky, stirring the clouds and piercing the heavens and earth.

Within the pillar of light, a shadowy snake of dark light shot upwards, only to be grabbed by a thunderous giant hand surging up from below, seizing its tail.

The thunderous aura leapt upwards along the menacing snake shadow amid roaring sounds, instantly engulfing it.

A wretched shriek came from within the demonic shadow, shaking the void, and the entire blood-red pillar trembled violently, becoming highly unstable.

Above, where the bloody sun hung and the clouds were like blazing fires, a rolling fire cloud spun and formed a massive vortex.

Within the swirling vortex, several black demonic silhouettes appeared, glaring down from the clouds, their fierce Demon Eyes shooting out sharp and furious lights, looking towards the center of the blood-red pillar, roaring loudly.

"Old Jiu!"

Subsequently, Demonic Qi began to stir, ready to unleash Divine Skills.

But just as they were about to act, the blood-red pillar let out a trembling sound as if it were about to collapse, followed by a frenzied and exasperated shriek, "No, the transmission array is unstable, we cannot withstand any action." At this time, the dark light snake shadow within the pillar let out a piercing screech, quickly fracturing inch by inch in the thunder and lightning before vanishing completely.

The few demonic shadows above could only watch helplessly as Old Jiu dissipated, their Demon Eyes blazing with intense fury, fixated on the end below the pillar!

"Ninth Mountain’s Colonel Chen Yuan!"

"Where are our Sixth Elder and Eighth Elder?"

A supremely chilling voice emerged, and amidst the five enormous demonic shadows stood one with silvery triangular pupils flickering with a cold light, the aura exuding grave danger.

Following the cold light, standing under the blood-colored pillar was a figure in green clothes, who now lowered his hand and gazed at the five demonic silhouettes in the high sky.

Indeed, the foundation of the Ten Evils is formidable.

Facing each other, one in the sky, one on the ground, yet they were thousands of miles apart!

The figure in green clothes was Chen Yuan who, before departing, naturally had to settle the past grudges and destroy this branch of the Black Nest. Doing so meant that in the eastern battlefield dominated by the Feiyi Clan, extending four thousand li east from Weiyuan Pass, rapid advancement would be difficult.

This object was the Feiyi Clan’s war fortress, capable of long-distance transmission. At the early stage, they slaughtered wildly, feeding the Black Nest Seed with the flesh and blood of the common people, and then massively deployed Demon Soldiers, in a recurring cycle.

Those demons occupying cities all made similar moves.

They were preparing for a large-scale war that was yet to come.

As a participant in this war and after contact with several Great Martial Vault Demons that emerged into the world, Chen Yuan understood that their strength and Cultivation were still under some restrictions, and on the day their seals were truly broken, those real Great Demons would step out of the Ten Thousand Mountains.

"Dead!"

"I killed them!"

Chen Yuan’s eyes flickered with a faint golden radiance, and as he stretched out his hand, a Five-colored Pagoda spun out and grew in the wind as several roars emanated from within, with three lifelike demon relief sculptures surfacing.

The shattered Pagoda Dao Fruits, along with the Primordial Spirit which reassembled, the slain demons automatically imprinted their residual thoughts, becoming part of Chen Yuan’s journey toward enlightenment.

As for the previous demon imprints, they had blocked a True Thunder for him during the Five Thunders Tribulation, completely shattering in the process.

Seeing this, the blood-red pillar of light immediately trembled greatly, and demonic energy surged in the skies above.

"Damn it"

"You’ve gone too far!"

"When we and our ancestors in Stone Origin are unsealed, it will be your doom, and the entire Shu will accompany you in death."

The voice was frigid and filled with suppressed rage.

But upon hearing this, Chen Yuan burst into great laughter.

"Ha ha, truly honored by your attention."

As he spoke, he raised his hand, a spear in grasp, pointing it straight toward the demonic figures above the sky, his eyes filled with wild disdain,

"I am right here"

"Do you dare to come down and fight me?"

His laughter echoed in the high sky, causing the heavens to roar thunderously, and the several giant trolls howled in anger, yet not one dared to descend.

Should the Transmission Array shatter, spatial compression alone would be enough trouble for them.

They could only stomp in frustration, wishing they could tear Chen Yuan into thousands of pieces.

"Then, see you!"

Chen Yuan flashed a toothy grin, spun his spear, and thrust its tip fiercely into the Black Nest Wood below, as a sharp shriek echoed from inside.

That is the spirit intelligence of the Black Nest Wood, quite peculiar. Chen Yuan coldly snorted as blinding fiery light surged from the spearhead, swiftly plunging downwards from the split earth.

Meanwhile, the blood-colored pillar of light also immediately began to tremble and roar, on the verge of shattering. The Five Demons high above let out a furious roar and cast a sky full of Demon Light towards the pillar.

Chen Yuan looked on with disdain.

Then, under the unwilling gaze of the several demons, with a buzz, the blood-colored light pillar exploded with a bang. High in the sky, the shadow of the demon within the fire cloud vortex also vanished as the vortex collapsed.

Only the roar of anger and unwillingness echoed above.

Chen Yuan leaped back to the partially collapsed wall of the Southern City of Weiyuan Pass, ten-odd li away.

A few days ago, he had led the Ninth Mountain Troops in a great battle against the Six Mountain Demons here, where many soldiers lost their souls to this patch of heaven and earth.

Now, this place was swarming with Black Armor, searching high and low on the wall of the city, upon which laid bodies clad in broken Black Armor.

Some were still vaguely recognizable, while others were a blur of flesh and blood, completely turned into pieces of meat fused with the armor, indistinguishable.

Only a hundred or more were found.

The vast majority were gone without a trace, merged with the battlefield.

The soldiers removed their helmets, their soft weeping tentative, accompanied by the howling of wind sweeping up gunpowder smoke.

"Soul return here"

"Brothers"

"Return home!"

Chen Yuan sang out longingly, seeming to reach the high heavens and the Nine Netherworld, filled with desolation and sorrow.

At his command, the Ninth Mountain Soldiers began collecting bones for their brothers, some wrapped in horse hide, others carried on their backs, as the long neighing of horses resounded, "da-dong, da-dong," they trekked over the ruins, heading north on horseback, returning home.

Chen Yuan flew beyond the city walls that had stood for a thousand years, now turned into ruins, and shook his hands.

A thunderous rumble sounded.

Large boulders from the mountains on either side of the wall flew out, completely submerging the city walls that buried loyal souls.

As Chen Yuan worked his hands, a new mountain emerged!

Afterward, a golden light flew from Chen Yuan’s sleeve, growing in the wind and landed directly on the mountain summit.

A ten-zhang-tall flag with a Black Bottom Gold Edge fluttered in the wind!

The General Flag of the Ninth Mountain!

It swayed amidst the world.

After doing all this, Chen Yuan took one last deep look, then turned around, transforming into a streak of green light, catching up with the distant dust-covered, northward-fleeing troops.

.......

Two days later, night, a bright moon in the sky.

On the frontline battlefield, ten-odd li outside Chuanzhong Pass, corpses were strewn everywhere, and the moonlight was bleak.

"Caw"

"Caw"

The sound of crows lingered in this nocturnal scene, the pungent stench of blood and the surrounding mountains of bodies attracted these creatures.

On a pile of corpses mixed with humans and Demons, a black crow was pecking at rotting flesh, when suddenly, a hand shot out, grabbed the bird, and violently crushed it.

The nearby flock of crows took off in alarm, their wings flapping wildly.

From within the pile, that hand stirred, emitting a faint Spirit Light, and one could see, a hundred meters away on the ground, a sword hummed and flew up, landing in the hand with a swoosh.

The next second, the corpse pile burst open.

A black-clothed young man stood up from within, holding a sword with difficulty.

His name was Gongsun Wuji.

He left the pass and was shocked to hear the tragic news, coming here to avenge his friend.

Even though he was the Sword Tomb Inheritor from Shu, famous in the outside world, having finally broken through the Heavenly Pass after arduous Cultivation, he was still too weak amidst the great power of the Demons!

His sword was shattered.

And many people died here with passionate blood running through their veins.

Currently, on a hill due to severe injuries, his ears rang sharply, causing his head to spin, he struggled to use his sword to prop himself up and climb higher.

He saw the distant Chuanzhong City, where Demons were howling and light was bursting, with a massive Demon overlooking from above the clouds!

He spat out a mouthful of blood onto his last sword, the dim blade immediately hummed, lifted into the air.

Gongsun Wuji jumped onto it, and with that turned into a streak of sword light.