Chapter 688 – Dark Compulsion Department

Pine Mountain County, in the urn.

Xu New Year let out a silent breath as he listened to the casualty report from the Vice General:

“Go down and tell the generals to keep their eyes peeled and not give the enemy’s masters a chance to attack during the night.”

After the two sieges, the elite of the enemy army was well preserved, and those who died were miscellaneous troops made up of stragglers.

The main general of the Yunzhou army was a smart man who knew how to use the lives of the stragglers to consume the artillery shells and crossbows of the defending army. In addition, they also let their experts mix in with the miscellaneous army, waiting for the opportunity to climb up the city wall to make a big kill, destroying the defending city’s bed crossbows and artillery.

“The enemy’s main general is a smart man, but the night attack was extraordinarily stupid.”

Xu Erlang glanced at Miao Youfang beside him and said:

“There’s something strange.”

Miao Youfang was completely clueless and shrugged, “What’s so strange about it, I think he’s a smart guy who knows to sneak in at night when he’s not prepared.”

“The disadvantages of attacking the city at night, as I told you just now, a mature general would not venture this far. Unless he has a timeframe in which he must capture Songshan County in a short period of time.”

Xu New Year calmly analyzed.

“Anyway, I’m only responsible for killing the enemy, I’ll never get involved in things that use my brain.”

Miao Youfang made his position clear first and then began to brag:

“I may not have told you, but that day in the 100,000 Mountains of the Southern Border, this warrior assisted Xu Yinluo, killed the Buddhist Sect’s major land, the Nanfa Temple, and fought to the death with all the Buddhist monks.

“In the end, I was able to thwart the second-ranked Asura of the Buddha Sect, laying the cornerstone for the rise of the Southern Demon. With me assisting you today, you can put a hundred hearts at ease.”

Xu New Year glanced at him and slowly said:

“When I was in Qingzhou City, I met Protector Yuan, and he spoke with me in detail about the Hundred Thousand Mountains.”

The expression of Miao Youfang, whose cowhide had been poked and prodded, stiffened, and then he showed his teeth:

“That’s an obnoxious monkey demon.”

To this, Xu Xinxin heartily agrees:

“A gentleman sees things the same way.”

The two of them slanted a glance at each other in silent agreement, as if to say:

It looks like you’ve experienced embarrassing scenes as well.

At that moment, a soldier hurried in and reported loudly:

“Lord Xu, the enemy army shot a letter of arrows.”

Xu New Year’s gaze flickered slightly as he calmed himself:

“Present.”

Miao Youfang immediately got up, took the book of arrows from the soldier, and handed it to Xu New Year.

The latter unwrapped it and read it, and laughed coldly.

“What does it say?”

Miao Youfang asked busily.

Erlang Xu said indifferently, “The enemy’s main general is a man named Zhuo Haoran, who said that he would break through the city within three days and behead me to give to my big brother as a meeting gift.”

………..

Ten miles away from the East City Gate, Yunzhou Jun’s tent.

Campfires blazed, tents were silent, soldiers went to bed early, and armor-clad soldiers patrolled back and forth.

There are scouts patrolling the more peripheral areas.

Outside the army tent, Zhuo Haoran, who was covered in armor and had a sturdy physique, personally beheaded the captured Da Bong Army scout.

He licked the back of his blood-stained blade and laughed harshly:

“I can’t imagine that the one in charge of guarding Songshan County is Xu Qi’an’s cousin. When I break through Songshan County and behead that guy, I’ll be sure to keep it well and send someone to send it to Surname Xu.”

Vice General Zhao Tian said in a deep voice:

“According to this scout’s account, that Xu New Year is a disciple of Zhang Shen from Yunlu Academy, and is well-versed in the art of war, so we must not be careless.”

He knew Zhuo Haoran’s domineering nature and immediately added:

“However, with the general’s divine bravery, breaking the city is just around the corner. If the Great General knows that you beheaded Xu New Year, he will surely reward you.”

Zhuo Haoran nodded:

“Pass down the order that whoever beheads Xu New Year will be rewarded with a thousand taels of silver and a hundred households.”

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The next day, Xu Qi’an woke up from his meditation and saw a woman who was like a lilac flower, knotted with sorrow.

As beautiful as she is, her mournful demeanor manages to make people overlook her beauty, making them want to step inside and listen to her sorrow.

“Xu Lang, you’re awake.”

Luo Yu Heng softly said.

It’s you, little sadness ………. Xu Qi’an breathed a sigh of relief, among the seven emotions, the most difficult are the three personalities of “desire”, “anger” and “evil”.

The anger personality is relatively good, just a little short-tempered, losing his temper at the drop of a hat and hitting people.

The Lust Personality was Xu Qi’an’s greatest fear, which meant he was in motion mode 24 hours a day and extremely expendable.

The Evil Personality has not experienced it, and last time the Evil Personality was the last one to appear, Luo Yu Heng got rid of him early.

Based on her sister-in-law’s scornful behavior like this, Xu Qi’an surmised that the evil personality was in a palace drama, a vicious queen or something like that.

As long as these three personalities didn’t appear, it didn’t matter if any of the other personalities Xu Qi’an had.

Ai is very sentimental and always feels a little melancholy that she is old enough to be her lover’s mom.

“Master of the State, you are then as beautiful and mesmerizing as the sunrise.”

Xu Qi’an nursed the fragile and sensitive Xiao Ai like a delicate flower.

Ai revealed a look of shame and joy and whispered:

“Lang Xu doesn’t need to call me State Master, just call me Yu Heng.”

Come Come, come, you come to social death again ……… Xu Qi an shivered, and said Why bother, turn around and wait for you to reply, and then think of lifting the sword to cut me.

………..

The outskirts of the Polar Abyss, the edge of the primeval forest.

With the Heavenly Compass Granny and the other Transcendent Leaders as their leaders, the fourth-grade experts of the seven divisions gathered at the fringe of the primordial forest.

The hearts of the Compassion Clan’s crowd were heavy, a large blowout of the Compassion God’s power often meant that a Compassion Beast of the Transcendent Realm might be born.

A deformed monster with deranged sanity and in the Transcendent Realm, what it symbolized was killing and destruction. In the history of the Compassion Race, there were not many chiefs who died from Transcendent Compass Beasts.

It could be said that the Transcendent Compulsive Beasts were disposed of by the leaders of the Compulsive Clan who put their lives on the line.

“The power of the Compassionate God is several times thicker compared to usual.”

The one who spoke was a Fourth Grade Elder of the Corpse Compass Ministry, and he was accompanied by three Walking Corpse Puppets with thick breaths.

“Not to mention the birth of a Transcendent, the number of Compassionate Beasts and Compassionate Insects at the Fourth Grade level will skyrocket in a short period of time, and if we’re negligent, we’ll likely be at risk of falling.”

When the Elder of the Poisonous Compulsion Ministry said these words, he was looking at the six Elders of the Force Compulsion Ministry.

The Grand Elder cursed:

“What are you looking at, I’ve killed more compulsion beasts than you’ve eaten meat.”

With his mouth unconvinced, Big Old Zhang’s frown never loosened and was always tightly furrowed.

The power of the Compassionate God had erupted not many times, they had only experienced it twice in their lives, and none of them could compare to yesterday’s commotion.

After a night of absorption and digestion, the Compulsive Bugs and Compulsive Beasts in the vicinity of the Extreme Abyss had, I’m afraid, initially metamorphosed.

Being powerful wasn’t the key, the main thing was that the primordial forest around the Extreme Abyss was vast and sprawling, it was difficult to do a carpet search, and once there was an oversight, it might give the future Transcendent Compasses room to breathe.

“Fortunately, we have Xu Yinluo to help us out, he is a martial artist and specializes in killing, having him to assist us is like a tiger with wings.”

The second elder of the Force Compulsion Department said.

The elders of the various ministries nodded their heads slightly, even if they disliked the poisonous, necromantic and love-compassionate ministries of the Central Plains people, they still had to admit that what the second elder had said was true.

“It would be nice to have the help of a warlock, shelling the Extreme Abyss would save a lot of work. Or, a system like the Daoist Human Sect that can harness sword formations.”

Beside Granny Sky Compass, a middle-aged man said.

As they were discussing, the crowd saw a golden light coming on the wind, it was Xu Yinluo with a ring of fire burning behind his head.

And beside him, there was a woman flying on a sword, with her feet on a flying sword, wearing a feathered coat and holding a duster in her hand, and the vermilion sand on her brow was especially striking.

The moment they saw the woman with the imperial sword, the men of the Companions were all stunned, and then they showed the color of infatuation; reason told them that this was a white and clean woman from the Central Plains, but their eyes told them that this was the most beautiful woman in the world.

They see the one they love in this woman.

Xu Qi’an landed on the ground and nodded his head towards Grandmother Celestial Compass and the others, saying:

“This is the head of the Human Sect Dao, Da Bong Guo Shi.”

The head of the Human Sect Dao ……… In addition to the Heavenly Compass Granny, everyone was surprised and stared at Luo Yuheng, remembering correctly, the current head of the Human Sect Dao, is a second grade powerhouse.

“I specifically asked to come along to clean up the compost beasts.”

Xu Qi’an added.

With the participation of human sect sword cultivators, it will be much easier to clean up the parasites and parasitic beasts ……… The eyes of the elders of the several tribes of force parasites, heart parasites, sky parasites, and dark parasites lit up with heartfelt delight.

As for the elders of the three tribes, the Poison Compass Love Compass and Corpse Compass, they were either silent or embarrassed, because within their hearts, they were hostile to Xu Qi’an.

Because he represents the Daebong dynasty.

Why should we treat our enemies with courtesy? This is a common thread in their minds.

But now that he had seen Xu Qi’an, in order to help the Compulsion Clan clean up the Compulsion Beasts, he had even invited the Head of the Human Sect Dao, who was far away from the capital of the Great Feng Country, to come over.

This sincerity and goodwill made them unable to speak harshly no matter what.

To be able to invite the Grand Bong Master to the Southern Border, I think it must have consumed a heavenly favor ………. The elders of the three divisions thought to themselves.

“To be able to invite the head of the Human Sect Dao here, he must have used a heavenly favor.”

The Grand Elder lamented.

Other tribesmen would keep their doubts to themselves, but the people of the Rikugo tribe have always been “straight talkers”.

Xu Qi’an glanced at Luo Yuheng and let out an ‘oh’:

“There’s no harm in it, the State Master is my daoist.”

As these words were spoken, Xu Qi’an saw the twenty-odd people present, their expressions instantly turning odd.

The head of the Human Sect Dao is his bishop ……….

God damned, such a stunning beauty was arched by this vulgar martial artist ……….

Xu Yinluo is worthy of being the first martial artist of the Dafeng ah, the depth in the Central Plains is deeper than we think ………

Heck, steal my man ……….

Various thoughts flashed through the minds of the crowd.

Grandmother Heavenly Compass nodded towards Luo Yu Heng and said:

“Let’s go.”

…………

With Luo Yu Heng’s assistance, the action of clearing the parasitic beasts became easy and fast.

A sword cultivator who was about to cross the threshold of the tribulation, she was able to explode with a killing power that impressed the crowd of the Companions.

By dusk, Xu Qi’an and the Companions exited the Extreme Abyss and returned to the clan.

He didn’t return to the Force Compass Ministry with Long Tu, and caught up with the Heavenly Compass Granny, saying:

“Granny, let me borrow a step.”

Granny Tian Companion leaned on her crutches and walked side by side with him for a while as the old man asked with a kind brow:

“About asking for reinforcements?”

Xu Qi’an nodded.

Grandmother Heavenly Compass slowly walked forward and murmured:

“Love compulsion, poisonous compulsion even if, the two tribes to the big Feng’s stereotypes are too deep, not overnight can change. On the contrary, the corpse compulsion department can fight for it, Wei Yuan has a father’s murderous hatred for You Corpse, and his clan doesn’t hate Dafeng that much.

“The dark compulsion division is only slightly better than the force compulsion division because of its habits, but it also lacks material money and food and lives in poverty, so you can start with that.”

The reason for the habit? Are they playing hide and seek all day long ………. Xu Qi’an held back and didn’t spit.

“The Heart Compulsion tribe is more rational, and Chunyan seems to be quite fond of you, so it will not be too difficult to negotiate. The force compulsion tribe can be promised food, the tribe is good at fighting, not afraid of sacrifice. The Heavenly Compulsion Department is not good at fighting, the art of observing the stars and elephants is also available to the magicians, so there is no need to think about us.”

“Thanks, Granny.”

Xu Qi’an arched his hand.

After asking for the addresses of the various ministries, he and Luo Yu Heng returned to the Force Compass Ministry, and the first thing the State Master did after entering the room was to put talismans on the doors and windows to isolate the inside and outside.

And Xu Qi’an sends Xu Suoyin to Lina’s room.

“Snap …….”

In the candle-lit dimly lit room, the southern border climate was hot and mosquitoes were annoying, Xu Qi’an swatted mosquitoes on behalf of the State Master until late at night.

……….

The next day, the sun had just risen, and Xu Qi’an took advantage of the fact that the State Master had not yet woken up to head to the Shadow Ministry.

The Shadow Ministry was situated on the southwestern edge of the Extreme Abyss, a fairly sizable town with a three-meter-high earthen wall surrounding the town, backed by mountains, and a small river gurgling outside the town.

The town has a population of about seven thousand.

This was certainly not the entire population of the Shadow Ministry, the Companions had flourished in the Southern Border for thousands of years, developing many, many small tribes, and around this large town, there were many small villages scattered.

The sunrise was already high in the sky when Xu Qi’an jumped all the way through the shadows and arrived at the Ministry of Shadows.

The river outside the town is tinted a magnificent golden red and flows quietly.

The town was silent, like a township obviously full of living people, suddenly the population disappeared en masse, eerie in its dead silence.

He turned his head to look around and saw a child in southern border garb sitting on the doorstep of his house nibbling on a nest.

“Where are the adults in the family?”

Xu Qi’an leaned over.

As he spoke, he scrutinized the little boy, plainly dressed, the nest in his hand seeming to be his morning meal.

The little boy looked at him blankly, obviously not understanding the official language of the Central Plains.

At that moment, a young man crawled out of the shadows by the water tank at the doorway, dressed in a green and blue costume, his face pale, with a green cloth scarf wrapped around his head.

“Is it Xu Yinluo?”

The young man said respectfully.

“You’re his father?”

Xu Qi’an asked rhetorically.

“I’m from the patrol, we noticed you as soon as you entered the town. The chief has explained that if Xu Yinluo visits, he will take you to him.”

The young man finished and looked at the child:

“His parents are in hiding and won’t come out for less than two hours.”

Said my addiction is also guilty, I can t help but want to hide it ……… Xu Qi an nodded his head, and his tone was calm:

“Lead the way.”

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PS: I’ve been adjusting my routine lately, making sure I’m in bed by 12:00 every day, so I’ve been stabilizing two shifts for the time being. I’ll be back with more when I get my routine back in order.