My son A Fei has the appearance of a sword master

"This is the situation, but this is only superficial information. Afeng has deeper information. Do you know why the leader of the Demon Cult decided to set the duel location in Tianshan Mountain?"

In the conference room of Fenyang Yuelai Inn, Zhu Youtang, Li Ling'er, Li Mubai, and Jing Wuming were having a small meeting while drinking tea.

Yan Nantian and Tang Xiaoqian are still practicing on the rooftop. Fan Ji is responsible for serving them tea and water. There are some things that they should not know yet.

Jing Wuming said: "The demon sect has a huge sphere of influence. They have influence in Guandong, the desert, beyond the Great Wall, and in the Western Region."

"Shen Sword Hall and Ten Thousand Horses Hall join forces to dominate Guandong, and even have to stabilize the Demon Sect. In order to prevent unexpected events, the leader of the Demon Sect naturally does not dare to duel with Bai Baiyu in Kantong."

"There are iron-blooded bannermen entrenched in the desert, and there are many strange knights outside the Great Wall, which are also very detrimental to the Demon Sect. Only in the Western Region, the Demon Sect is the most powerful, which is the birthplace of the Demon Sect."

Zhu Youtang nodded and said: "What Brother Jing said is indeed an important reason, but it is not the main reason."

"The main reason is that two hundred years ago there was an invincible person named Tianchi Weixia."

"This is a more legendary figure than the Invincible Monk, and the unique knowledge he left behind far exceeds the "Invincible Treasure Book"."

"The leader of the Demon Sect doesn't know where he got the news. The secret skill of Tianchi's strange knight who can run rampant in the world is hidden in the Tianchi area."

Jing Wuming and Li Mubai suddenly understood, and Li Mubai responded: "It just so happened that Bai Tianyu came to arrange a fight at this time, so the leader of the Demon Cult followed suit and decided that the duel would be held at Tianshan Mountain."

"Firstly, we can have a foolproof strategy. Even if we lose in the duel, the foundation of the Demon Sect will not be endangered. Secondly, we can secretly search for the peerless magical skills left by the Tianchi Weixia."

"And the reason for the duel can just cover up their purpose of searching for magical powers."

Zhu Youtang said: "That's right. Bai Tianyu's actions can be regarded as unintentional. The top leaders of the Demon Sect leave the Demon Palace and lose the geographical advantage. The elimination will be more foolproof and the casualties can be greatly reduced."

Li Mubai nodded and said: "Indeed, the Demon Palace, as the home of the Demon Cult, must be heavily guarded and have many institutions."

"And the Demonic Palace is located in the middle of the mountain. The army's aircraft and artillery can't defeat them. If you want to destroy the Demonic Palace, I'm afraid you will have to pay a heavy price in casualties."

Li Ling'er smiled and said: "It's better now. They gave up their mouse holes and directly exposed themselves to the bright side."

"We only need to send out a few armed helicopters to gain the upper hand, and we no longer need to worry about being attacked by the Demon Cult thieves who take advantage of their familiarity with the terrain."

Several people showed a knowing smile, and then together they decided that Zhu Youtang and Li Mubai would lead the high-end combat power of Renyi Villa and go to the Western Region with a Qianhusuo iron cavalry.

High-end combat forces went to the Tianshan Mountains to set up an ambush, and with the help of armed helicopters, they wiped out the high-ranking demon sects who were dispatched. Guo Songyang led the iron cavalry to Qianhu Station and fifty villa guests to eliminate the demon sect thieves in the Western Regions.

Jing Wuming and Su Hexiang led an iron cavalry force of thousands of households and a hundred second-generation disciples of the Feixian Sect to the Guandong Demon Palace, killing all the demon sect thieves who stayed in the demon palace and burning the demon sect's classics.

If necessary, the Army Aviation Regiment of the Northeast Military Region can be mobilized to dispatch armed helicopters to assist in operations.

Mr. Iron Flute Ma Zhaoming led an iron cavalry force of 1,000 households and fifty villa guests to go to the outside of the Great Wall in Ningxia, Gansu Province to eliminate the demon sect thieves entrenched outside the Great Wall.

Xu Ruoyu will lead an iron cavalry force of 1,000 households and fifty villa guests to go to the desert to exterminate the traitors of the Demon Cult in the desert. If necessary, they can go to Daqimen to ask Tie Zhongtang for help.

As the leader of the desert, Daqimen knows the local terrain and environment very well. With their help, we can get twice the result with half the effort.

The remaining one thousand households are responsible for guarding the house and do not need to go out to participate in the "war to exterminate demons".

While they are taking action, the Banking Regulatory Bureau will immediately freeze all demon sect accounts. Xichang Fanzi will cooperate with Renyi Villa branches to eliminate the demon sect thieves dormant in the Ming Dynasty.

The best thing is that Shen Feng, as a peerless master who was subdued by Lin Xian'er, was also ordered by the leader of the Demon Cult to be transferred to Tianshan to help.

As for Xiong Abao and his party, after receiving the news of the attack, they will immediately capture Lu Di and join forces with Yan Jinsong's Taiyuan branch to eliminate the demon sect thieves in Taiyuan Prefecture.

A dragnet has been opened against the Demon Sect, and when the time comes to activate it, this cancer that has existed in the land of China for hundreds of years will be completely eradicated.

And this will also be Zhu Youtang's greatest achievement and merit during his reign. He will leave a clean Ming Dynasty to his successors.

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The nearest big city to the Tianshan Mountains is a place called "Wei Lu Mu", which is also known as WLMQ in later generations.

This place originally belonged to the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, but in order to establish a bridgehead from the west to Europe in the Ming Dynasty, this country was destroyed a few years ago, and the entire Western Region was included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the Western Region Wulin still belongs to the old Wulin and the Ming Wulin did not interfere with it, it is administratively the territory of the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty has garrison and capital commanders here.

Chagatai's headquarters is located in the mother city of Veru, and there is a military base outside the city with a group army stationed with a total of 60,000 troops.

It includes an armored division, an artillery division and an army aviation regiment, equipped with more than 260 armored vehicles, more than 320 artillery pieces of various colors, and 30 armed helicopters.

In this era, the Ming army had no rivals, so it naturally did not need to equip tanks, which were heavy steel-consuming and overpowered weapons. Armored vehicles and self-propelled artillery were enough to overwhelm everything.

Let alone armored vehicles, in this era where the most powerful foreign firearms are nothing more than front-mounted smoothbore cannons and muskets, even ordinary trucks can be used for "blitzkrieg" and as rapid assault weapons.

The front-mounted smoothbore gun not only has low accuracy at short range, but also has an extremely slow rate of fire.

When the armored vehicle rushes into the opponent's firing range, it will only need to be bombarded by one round at most, and the opponent will have no chance to fire a second shot.

Because before the opponent's second round of artillery was loaded, the armored vehicle with a speed of more than 50 kilometers per hour had already passed the range of the front-loading smoothbore cannon.

What's more, even if a shell fired from a front-mounted smoothbore cannon hits an armored vehicle, it will only make a dent in the armor at most and has no armor-breaking ability at all.

All of the above is still based on the situation where the armored vehicle only charges and does not fire.

If the heavy machine gun on an armored vehicle fires, its range is even further than that of a front-loading smoothbore gun.

Before the enemy artillery could be fired, the metal storm created by the truck-mounted heavy machine gun had already covered the artillery position. Once the artillery was dead, the heavy artillery was nothing more than a pile of scrap metal.

Because of this, although Ming Dynasty has the ability to manufacture tanks, there is no need to waste that resource.

With this group army guarding the Western Region, it can be said to be impregnable.

Sixty or seventy kilometers northeast of Verumu and less than five kilometers from the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, there is a village called Quangquangou.

Quangquangou Village is small in size. Judging from the number of houses, there are about sixty or seventy households, most of whom are from the Western Regions and only a small number of Han people.

This place is relatively remote, inaccessible, and of little value. The imperial court will not spend manpower and material resources to build asphalt roads.

In order to facilitate travel, local wealthy households had to pool their own money to build a rural cement road with a width of just over four meters, just enough for two cars to miss each other.

However, because it is remote enough, there are few outsiders disturbing it, and the village is quiet and peaceful.

In a village dominated by Western Region-style buildings, the three-in-a-siheyuan-style building at the east end of the village is particularly unique.

Western-style houses are mostly built with rammed earth, and are square in shape with a flat roof. The three-in-one courtyard is obviously the residence of the Han people. However, although this courtyard covers a large area, the houses are actually very simple and not as refined as those in the Central Plains.

The owner of this courtyard house is a young man in his early twenties. He has a very funny personality and is very popular in the village.

But unlike other villagers who are just ordinary people, he is a martial artist.

On this day, a guest from the Central Plains came to his home. Because this courtyard house is really eye-catching in this village, the guest came straight here.

"Zhu? Your surname is Zhu? Wow, it's a royal surname. What's your relationship with the Ming Emperor?"

Although the Western Region is within the scope of the old martial arts, it does not prevent the inflow of various commodities from the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, the owner of the house was wearing a white T-shirt on his upper body, strong and wear-resistant jeans on his lower body, and a pair of hiking shoes on his feet, with a somewhat lazy smile on his face at all times.

Sitting in front of him was a handsome young man in his twenties, wearing a Ming Dynasty student uniform and looking upright.

If Li Mubai and others were here, they would be surprised to find that his appearance is very similar to Zhu Youtang.

After hearing the words of the house owner, a trace of undetectable pain flashed through the eyes of the young man named Zhu, but a sincere smile appeared on his face and he said: "How can you be so lucky? It's just that you happen to be named Zhu."

"What about your name?"

"I have been very courageous since I was a child. Everyone calls me Tiedan. You can call me Zhu Tiedan."

The owner of the house grinned, picked up the wine bowl on the table and said, "Okay, I, Gu Santong, will make you a friend, let's do it."

"Dry."

After they each took a sip of wine and put down their bowls, Zhu Tiedan asked: "Brother Gu, have you ever heard of 'Tianchi Weixia'?"

Gu Santong said helplessly: "I heard that these days, there are always people asking about this matter, wanting to get his martial arts secrets."

Zhu Tiedan said nervously: "Then has anyone found him?"

Gu Santong said with a bad smile: "Of course not, I cheated him away."

Zhu Tiedan's eyes flashed and he asked enthusiastically: "Do you know where he is?"

Gu Santong said proudly: "I know a little bit, I'm just guessing."

Zhu Tiedan asked in confusion: "Then why didn't you lie to me?"

Gu Santong said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "Because I like you, really. I do what I say. If one day I find the secret of Tianchi Weixia, I am willing to share it with you."

A look of emotion appeared on Zhu Tiedan's face, and he smiled and said, "Just because I taught you a set of Shaolin flower fingering techniques?"

Gu Santong smiled and said: "This is one of the reasons. I can't be stingy if you are generous, but the main reason is that I feel that we are more compatible."

Zhu Tiedan nodded repeatedly with approval and said happily: "Me too, that's why I am willing to share my martial arts with you."

Gu Santong patted him on the arm with a smile, picked up the wine bowl again and said, "Done."

"Dry."

The two drank the wine in the bowl in one gulp, and Zhu Tiedan continued the topic: "Then what do you know?"

Ancient Third Passage: "I found four verses, which are clues to the location of the secret book of Tianchi Weixia."

Zhu Tiedan asked calmly: "Can you tell me?"

Gu Santong didn't hesitate at all and said directly: "Water in the sky, fire in the water, ice in the fire, and martial arts in the ice."

Zhu Tiedan frowned and said, "It seems...impossible."

Gu Santong said seriously: "It's literally impossible, but I thought about it for a long time and I guessed half of it."

Zhu Tiedan asked: "What is it?"

Gu Santong said decisively: "Tianshan, Tianshan is extremely high. The water in the sky refers to the water in Tianshan. The water in Tianshan is of course Tianchi."

"Every few years, a strange sight will appear in Tianchi, that is, fire will come out of the water."

Zhu Tiedan wondered: "How could this happen?"

Ancient Three Channels: "I heard from the old man that there is Qi under the underworld. It was formed by the accumulation of coffins thousands of years ago and the high heat. When this Qi accumulates too much, it will burst out. Even water cannot suppress it. This Qi Qi naturally turns into fire, which is a metaphysical explanation.”

"However, according to the 'geology' in the 'science' created by the Sword God, the cause of Tianchi is that underground magma erupts along the pipes in the lithosphere. Pyroclastic materials and the erupted magma are flowing during the flow process. It accumulates in the middle, cools and solidifies, and gradually forms a volcanic cone."

"The outlet where underground magma rises up and erupts to the surface is the crater, and eventually Tianchi is formed. In other words, Tianchi is a crater lake."

Zhu Tiedan looked at Gu San Passage in surprise: "Have you ever studied geology?"

Gu Santong said complacently: "With a little knowledge, which one do you think is more reliable, the metaphysical explanation or the scientific explanation?"

Zhu Tiedan smiled and said: "Isn't this already obvious? Metaphysics is all illusory, invisible and intangible things, but science can clearly make people see it."

"The Sword God is truly a peerless genius who has not been born for thousands of years. He hardly even looks like a mortal. Even if a person spends his entire life learning so many subjects, he may not be able to finish them, but he seems to have known them since he was born."

Gu Santong also sighed: "That's why he is called a 'god'."

After Zhu Wuwang sighed with emotion, he brought the topic back: "You have cracked the water in the sky and the fire in the water. How do you explain the ice in the fire and the martial arts in the ice?"

Gu Santong shook his head and said: "Unexpectedly, I'm still waiting. The time is almost up. I'm planning to go see the wonders of Tianshan Mountain in the past few days. Are you going?"

Zhu Tiedan said decisively: "Of course I want to go. If I don't go, I will be a turtle."

The two looked at each other and smiled.

The leader of the Demon Cult probably never dreamed that the secret book he had been thinking about had already been remembered by a very smart person who knew the inside story.

When the two of them rushed into Tianchi and obtained the secret book from the hollow ice cave at the bottom of the pool, the Demon Cult and his party were still galloping on the Mongolian prairie.

A convoy transporting supplies for the Chagatai Dusi garrison also set out from the Northwest Military Region, but this time the convoy seemed to be larger than usual. (End of chapter)