Am I the only one who didn't ascend?

In early summer in Mozhou, the spiritual veins became more and more restless and uneasy, with rainstorms, hurricanes, earthquakes, and skylights... There were constant strange phenomena between heaven and earth. The sky often showed a strange and sad blood color, while the earth was as crisp as puff pastry.

Often after a rapid downpour, accompanied by a mudslide, large pieces of rocks would shatter and collapse in a series of loud rumbling sounds. Then the entire mountain range and the entire hills would shake.

In the shaking, the earth would open up thousands of cracks, the cracks were bottomless, and like a giant beast, it would devour the rocks and plants that rolled into it mercilessly. It only took a very short time for those mountains that had stood in Kyushu for hundreds of thousands of years to quickly sink into the abyss like melting ice.

In early summer, Mozhou was like an isolated city at the end of the dynasty, under the pressure of a large army, wandering day by day and restless night by night.

This is certainly not the natural state of the local area. Although the summer in Mozhou has records of changeable weather as early as the prehistoric era, such a dramatic phenomenon of heaven and earth at present only began a few months ago. It began on the day when the Immortal Alliance Dinghuang City fell on the east bank of Fenghu Lake.

That day, Rongcheng was like a sharp sword, piercing into the heart of Mozhou in an almost extreme way, making the entire Mozhou bloody. And in Xinheng, Mingzhou, west of Mozhou, a sudden change occurred, and the Golden Immortal of Miaofa fell in public above Dongdu... The wound of this wasteland will never heal again, and it can only continue to rot faster, making everything irreversible.

On this day, Jinhu, located in the central part of Mozhou, more than a hundred miles south of the Blood River, was raining like a waterfall again.

As the place where the Blood Demon Sect, one of the three sects of the Demon Dao, originated in the old immortal calendar era, there is no colorless water within a hundred miles of Jinhu. Whether it is rain from the sky or the dark river flowing in the underground stone crevices, they are all scarlet like blood. This is because the Blood Demon Sect "buried" the successive sect leaders at the bottom of the lake, blending their flesh and blood into the spiritual veins, completely transforming the Feng Shui atmosphere of this place, making everything around it bloody.

Even during the years of the Heavenly Tribulation, the Heavenly Dao's transformation of the wasteland failed to affect the appearance of Jin Lake.

But at this moment, the rainstorm above Jin Lake was surprisingly clear and transparent. The clear rain continued to pour into Jin Lake, causing this sticky and solid lake to gradually melt and loosen like paste... and the rain continued, and soon the water level of Jin Lake overflowed the surrounding plains, and the mottled blood flowed everywhere. And in the places stained by this blood, all life will quickly wither, and even the soil and rock layers will be corroded and penetrated, constantly sinking downwards, as if sinking into the abyss.

Then, in the rainstorm, a deep male voice, with the help of a magic weapon, pierced through the rain curtain like Rongcheng piercing the blood plain, and echoed over Jin Lake.

"The ninth team of the Yishan Battalion of the Seventh Army of Dinghuang is now in place and is about to guide the empty city to land...Please pay attention to the members of each unit. The Yishan Battalion is about to guide the empty city to land. Please follow the instructions strictly!"

As soon as the voice fell, a wide rainbow came from the north, like a soft colored satin, and like a rapidly extending bridge. In a blink of an eye, one end of the rainbow was connected to the sky above Jin Lake, and under the shining light, the torrential rain that was like a broken river in the sky also slightly restrained its momentum.

After the rain curtain weakened a little, a team of warriors wearing black armor gradually became clearly visible in the air. There were a total of 30 of them, most of whom were in the middle and late stages of the Golden Core. Their individual strength was negligible in the wilderness. However, when they each held a special magic weapon and jointly supported a huge protective magic array, this large array surprisingly had a defensive ability comparable to that of a combined cultivator. Even in the dangerous place of Mozhou where the world is constantly changing, they can walk freely.

Only by relying on the selfless efforts of the soldiers of the Mountain Moving Camp can the Immortal Alliance accurately extend its vision to this place where the heaven is in disorder.

Then, a nail was driven down to calm the meridians and eliminate the disorder - the nail of civilization named Dinghuang Fortress.

In a blink of an eye, the black armored warriors of the Mountain Moving Camp in the air had landed on the surface of Jin Lake, with their feet almost close to the boiling lake water. At the same time, the warriors dispersed and formed a circle with a diameter of nearly a thousand meters. And their protective formation was extended to this point, which was already somewhat precarious.

But the warriors were fearless and did not even notice the risks. Everyone had been concentrating on putting their true essence and spiritual consciousness into the center of the circle.

A rainbow light that shot up into the sky was lit up, and the end of the light was connected and merged with the rainbow bridge in the sky, as if a painter holding a brush drew a beautiful and elegant turning trajectory. At the moment the trajectory was formed, the rain clouds on Jin Lake quickly retreated like small animals that sensed the approach of a beast, revealing a bleak clear sky.

The rainbow bridge coming from the north gradually became dazzling under the clear sky... but it was waves of rainbow light on the bridge, like a rushing torrent. The rainbow light first traveled in the sky, then over Jin Lake, and then fell like a waterfall along the vertical turning trajectory.

The moment the rainbow light fell on the lake, the light solidified, as if frozen by low temperature, and the self-flowing light turned into colorful bricks and stones.

Countless bricks and stones were quickly piled up under this rainbow waterfall, seemingly in disorder, but in a blink of an eye, a solemn castle appeared on the lake. The castle was gorgeously rainbow-colored, without a foundation, and suspended in the water, as if it was not bound by gravity. However, at the moment the castle was completed, everyone also felt its weight.

Below the castle, the boiling water froze in an instant. The surface of the huge lake became as calm as a mirror, and even the flood that overflowed all around stopped at this moment.

At the same time, all the phenomena of heaven and earth around him stopped at this moment. The castle that descended from the rainbow was like a spike that drove away evil spirits, completely nailing the chaos in Mozhou.

The Mozhou Rebellion is essentially the Rebellion of the Wasteland, or the endogenous chaos of the Wasteland in the face of the increasingly aggressive Immortal Alliance.

But now with the fall of the castle, Jinhu is no longer a wasteland territory.

Although strictly speaking, this place cannot be regarded as the territory of the Immortal Alliance - the Dinghuang barrier cannot be extended directly along Hongqiao and all the way from Rongcheng. However, a castle that possesses some of Ning Yuan Tu's magical powers can at least mark Jin Lake as the occupied area of ​​the Immortal Alliance and provide temporary shelter.

The Yishan Camp soldiers surrounding the fortress finally showed a relaxed expression. They all looked at each other, cheered in low voices, and then quickly gathered around the captain.

The captain couldn't hide the look of fatigue on his face, but he declined the elixir and spring dew offered by his comrades. Despite his fatigue, he immediately opened a magical talisman with a rainbow luster.

"The ninth team of the Yishan Camp is calling the headquarters. The ninth team has just guided the Dinghuang Fortress to land smoothly. Please ask for further instructions."

"here you go."

From the spiritual talisman, a weaker and tired voice came - if the fatigue of the captain of the ninth team was the fatigue accumulated from leading his comrades in the dangers and marching day and night, then the fatigue of the man on the other side of the spiritual talisman revealed a kind of fatigue. A sense of vanity when the oil is exhausted.

As the frontline captain who was temporarily transferred to Yishan Camp, and also the King of Soldiers, Chang Feiran naturally knew why that man was exhausted, and he couldn't bear it, so he started to say something arrogant.

However, before he could speak, another person's voice suddenly sounded from the talisman.

An old man's voice full of passion and vitality.

"Captain Chang, you have done a great job, very well! On behalf of the members of the expert team of Operation Tongming, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you! Really, thanks to you working day and night to arrive at Jinhu one day early, a city with tens of thousands of people. The ancient monuments of the Immortal Path have finally been preserved! Otherwise, this heavy rain may have completely destroyed the Jinhu structure, and the consequences would be unimaginable!”

Chang Feiran was stunned and could only say "uh huh".

But the man obviously didn't notice Chang Feiran's embarrassment at this time, and kept talking.

"Nowadays, many people, when it comes to establishing and opening up wasteland, their minds are full of killing and decisiveness, as if they want to kill all living creatures around Tianzhizuo, as if everything in Tianzhizuo is of no importance... This is simply ridiculous. ! Just over a thousand years ago, it was still called Kyushu together with the five states on the right side of the sky, and it belonged to our homeland! Even if the world is desolate and the creatures are distorted, there are still many priceless historical sites in the four states. Just the smooth road of pioneering Rongcheng will make us..."

Chang Feiran was about to speak but stopped.

He wanted to interrupt the other party's endless nonsense, but on the other hand, based on the respect in his heart, he couldn't speak.

The leader of this nonsensical expert team is a senior professor specially invited from Youcheng Academy by the front line. As a top scholar of Zhuwang, this person has been recognized by the hundreds of countries in the Immortal Alliance based on his pure academic attainments, and has received the A pure soul... And his area of ​​expertise lies in the civilization of the old world.

This time, the Immortal Alliance's "Operation Transparent" will start from the foot of Lingshan Mountain to build a road directly to Mingzhou. During the process, it will pass through Mingzhou and Mozhou. The terrain is complicated and time is relatively tight. Only experts who are familiar with the situation in the two places and participate in the preparations in advance can the frontline soldiers lead the way more safely and efficiently.

In fact, the expert team did make outstanding contributions in the process of opening the road to Yishan Camp.

Countless times when encountering unexpected dangers, Chang Feiran always relied on the plans deduced by experts to avert danger.

Of course, if the performance of the expert group stops here, Chang Feiran will only regard it as a cooperative relationship where each performs its duties and gets what it needs, so it will only maintain the most basic respect, but...

"Okay, the empty city has been settled. Everyone, hurry up and spread out the exploration and sampling. Jinhu Lake in Mozhou is an important historical heritage, so be careful!"

Just when Chang Feiran was hesitating, a group of well-armed scholars suddenly rushed out from the Dinghuang Fortress transformed by rainbow light. Like a gust of wind, they dispersed to various places around Jinhu in the blink of an eye and began to conduct serious surveys. . His actions were so fast and furious that the soldiers of Yishan Camp were too late to stop him.

The members of the expert team of Operation Transparency are mostly such a group of lunatics. In order to understand the scene as quickly and deeply as possible, they almost moved with the army. Many times they are so bold that they dare to walk in front of soldiers. That strong desire for knowledge can even defeat the basic desire to survive. As for the content of their knowledge, they certainly included curiosity about the wilderness itself and the exploration and protection of historical monuments... but more of it revolved around how to better help the frontline soldiers.

Therefore, thanks to this group of madmen who are not afraid of death, the advice given by the expert team to the front line is always tailored to local conditions, timely and effective. Effective advice can often save lives.

Therefore, in the eyes of many favored soldiers, these experts and scholars with no actual combat capabilities are clearly exchanging their lives for the lives of frontline soldiers.

Therefore, Chang Feiran couldn't even interrupt the old team leader's ramblings for a while - because as the team leader, the reason why that person was sitting in the rear at this time was because on the second day of Operation Tongming, he led the team to While exploring a collapsing mountain range, half of his body was accidentally corroded by poisonous gas sprayed from a crack in the ground... Although he was lucky enough to save his life afterwards, he would have to stay in bed to recuperate for decades to come. The results of that investigation allowed the expert team to calculate a safer and more transparent path, thus reducing the pressure on the front line by several percent.

Therefore, facing such a meritorious expert, Chang Feiran couldn't bear to interrupt.

Fortunately, some people have the patience.

"...To fix the desolate situation, to rule out chaos is to make sure. To turn chaos into rule, the first thing is to understand and recognize. As scholars, we should..."

The words stopped abruptly.

Instead, there was an indifferent girl's voice.

"Okay, I'll help you block the old man's magic talisman. You can continue talking about business."

Hearing this voice, Chang Feiran couldn't help but smile bitterly.

In this world, she was the only one who dared to be so disrespectful to the old professor, Guan Xiaohe.

Because she was a close disciple of the old professor, she also personally made a magical heart mirror for her mentor, which helped the old man survive the poisonous mist. In addition, Guan Xiaohe also participated in the research and development of the mechanism technique of pulling Hongqiao from Lingshan and turning Dinghuang Fortress into an empty city.

Of course, what's more important is that the person in charge of Operation Tongming now is Guan Xiaohe's brother, Guan Dingnan, who has recovered from serious injuries.

Regarding his sister's rough behavior, Guan Dingnan sighed and paid no attention to it, but solemnly warned the front line.

"After that, you will station yourself in the fortress and rest as soon as possible. Reinforcements from the rear will arrive along the Hongqiao soon. You should make a good handover and don't waste this day's hard-earned advance."

Chang Feiran nodded in agreement.

"In addition..." The voice in the talisman seemed a little hesitant, "In addition, there may be a Mingzhou person arriving in Jinhu in the near future. You may need to receive him."

Chang Feiran's eyes widened in shock, and he looked around subconsciously, and asked in a deep voice: "People from Mingzhou? Can people from Mingzhou already go out of the country?! Can they be trusted?"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a chuckle from behind him.

"It is indeed inconvenient to leave the country originally, but fortunately the envoy granted me the privilege. As for whether it is credible or not, I might as well witness it with my own eyes."

Chang Feiran suddenly turned around and saw a pretty woman coming behind him at some point.

"Hello, I am Nan Yingying from Xinheng San."