Chapter 268: Ascending the Heavy Tower

The long-ming bell was heavy and urgent, like the Yellow River water flowing from east to west, a rushing torrent that wouldn't stop.

Chen Ji stood in the courtyard, hearing the bell sound, and suddenly turned his head to look into the distance. He saw the large flag of the border army on the wall battlement slowly falling, as if the city wall itself was collapsing.

He waited for the bell sound, wanting to hear how many times it would ring this time.

But he waited a long time, and the bell sound never stopped, becoming more and more urgent!

Chen Ji's heart suddenly turned cold. He climbed the house eaves and then onto the roof. Standing on the roof ridge, he gazed towards the city gate. He saw that the previously tightly closed big door had opened at some unknown time, revealing the yellow soil and scorched black mountain range outside the door at a glance!

The next moment, countless black armored cavalry appeared on the horizon, like countless black Lei knives in a forest!

The person leading them wore heavy armor and rode a majestic war horse!

Opposite him, he held a swaying black banner in one hand, like a victorious general opening a flag!

The Jing Chao Tian Ce army.

Chen Ji's heart gradually sank to the bottom of a valley. He hadn't expected the moment of opening the gates and offering the city to come so quickly!

He looked around left and right, seeking a higher building to climb, wanting to see things more clearly!

As the wind blew the sand, he saw the black armored cavalry approaching like a torrent, getting closer and closer, finally rushing into the city unrestrained!

The border army standing on both sides of the road threw down their Lei halberds, Pu knives, and removed their rattan armor!

According to the agreement, as long as Hu Jun Xian offered Gu Yuan city, the Jing Chao Tian Ce army would no longer slaughter the city, and the pass leading to Ning Chao inland Tai Yuan Fu would no longer exist from now on!

Chen Ji watched silently for a long time. Hu Jun Xian had finally chosen to tarnish his name to preserve the common people of Gu Yuan.

He had to return to the Long Men guest inn as soon as possible to meet Xiao Man, Zhang Xia, and Zhang Zheng, and leave the Crown Prince and the Yu Lin army!

But just as Chen Ji was about to jump down from the roof, something unexpected happened!

The general holding the black flag stopped his horse and stood still. He shook the banner with one hand, then pointed it towards Gu Yuan city: "Kill."

A deputy general of the border army blocked in front of the banner, waving both hands and shouting something, but the general holding the banner rushed past without a care!

The Lei tip of the banner fiercely pierced the body of the border army deputy general. The Jing Chao general used the flag to lift the border army corpse and wave it in the sky, as if showing off, turning his horse on the spot: "White bones cover the wilderness, a thousand Li of red ground."

The other Jing Chao iron cavalry patted the heavy armor on their chests, emitting a rumbling sound: "White bones cover the wilderness, a thousand Li of red ground."

Instantly, all the Tian Ce army iron cavalry raised their Lei spears and charged towards the border army who had thrown down their weapons!

The last words of the first king of Jing Chao were true. The Tian Ce army had broken faith and abandoned justice, and would slaughter the city.

Gu Yuan was finished.

Seeing the border army falling in pieces, someone among the Jing Chao iron cavalry blew a loud horn!

The sound of the horn galloped, and more and more Jing Chao iron cavalry rushed into Gu Yuan city!

The Tian Ce army pulled iron chains between them. When they passed the earthen houses of Gu Yuan, the iron chains destroyed, pulled apart, and rotted, knocking down one civilian house after another, burying the common people under the rubble!

Some common people escaped from their houses, but were caught up by the Tian Ce army iron cavalry and stabbed to death with a spear.

Chen Ji looked everywhere. Where was White Dragon? Where was Hu Jun Xian? Where were the firearms?

At this moment, the surface of Tao Huai Fang street transmitted urgent footsteps. Chen Ji stood on the roof and looked down, suddenly seeing more than ten Yuan Cao Tang staff who had been deceived and sent to Duo Ku Fang earlier, holding knives and killing their way over!

Someone looked up and saw Chen Ji on the roof. Immediately, they raised their hand and pointed with a Pu knife: "That boy on the roof, kill him."

Chen Ji frowned and quickly jumped back into the courtyard!

He reached into his box and quickly felt over each branch of ginseng!

The swirl inside his Dantian had long since poured out the ice flow. Each branch of ginseng turned into a crystal clear bead, and Black Cloud in the box swallowed with a large mouth!

The huge ice flow obtained earlier from Jing Wang, Jing Fei, and Yun Ji had always been unable to dissolve. Now, finally, there was an opportunity...

This was the first time Chen Ji had obtained so much ginseng.

A grand and majestic melting flow feedback came, igniting furnace fires in his body!

One lamp, then another lamp, as if igniting a strip of hanging star river in his body, all of Chen Ji's blood seemed to burn up, his power like spraying thin fog, evaporating, evaporating, evaporating.

Inside Chen Ji's body, it was as if he hid one grain of stars, rolling hot, scorching hot.

With a boom, someone used a knife to chop open the door board of the grain and oil shop: "He's inside, don't let him run."

But in the broken wood chips, Chen Ji had already come before him!

The Yuan Cao Tang staff member chopped with a knife. Chen Ji bent down to avoid the knife edge and struck the inside of the opposite knee with one palm!

With a Ka sound, the staff member's left leg twisted irregularly, and his body fell to the left!

Before his body could fall to the ground, Chen Ji struck his temple with another fist!

The staff member's head smashed towards the ground. A bone-cracking sound transmitted, and his skull had already shattered into slag!

The more than ten staff members outside the door subconsciously retreated two steps. Human bone is hard. Barehanded bone cracking is something only innate realm officials can do.

One person composed his mind: "Form an array, even innate should be killed."

As the words fell, the Yuan Cao Tang staff formed a plum blossom array in pairs, with each pair being a flower petal, rotating and attacking Chen Ji!

Chen Ji retreated step by step, seeing that these people in front of him were no longer just small staff of Chen Cao Yao Tang, but clearly battle-hardened soldiers of Jing Chao, wearing armor and holding sharp weapons!

Chen Ji retreated while coldly observing. These soldiers' skills far exceeded those of ordinary people, but they still hadn't reached the innate level!

At this moment, the furnace people in his body were almost all ignited. Seven hundred eighteen lamps... seven hundred nineteen lamps... enough to break the array.

Just as he turned to meet the attack, the seven hundred twentieth lamp furnace fire in his body finally brightened!

Chen Ji's body reached an unprecedented peak, as if one punch could kill a cow!

However, just as Chen Ji was about to contact the knife array, the furnace fires in his body all extinguished!

The world was silent, heaven and earth were equally silent, then there was a crackling sound between his muscles and bones!

Instantly destroyed, and then instantly reshaped!

Chen Ji seemed never so weak before, becoming an ordinary person again!

The knife array in front was pushing forward like a meat grinder. He had originally planned to use a point to break the surface, first killing two people to break this plum blossom array, but his punches came out much slower than before, fundamentally unable to break the array.

What's wrong?

Why, after igniting the furnace fires throughout his body, would he instead lose power?

Chen Ji retreated hurriedly. In his stagger, the knife array almost swept past his abdomen, cutting a Lei-shaped mouth in the clothes below his ribs!

As he retreated, his entire body's muscles and bones exploded with a sound like thunder, provoking surprise and uncertainty among the Yuan Cao Tang staff in the knife array: "Ascend the heavy building!"

The next moment, a sharp pain transmitted between Chen Ji's ribs, as if something was growing out!

He retreated and lifted open the cut seam of his clothes to check. Under his rib bone, a strip of tiger-spot-like black pattern was growing out, fierce and hideous!

This tiger spot pattern grew from the spine and extended all the way to the abdomen, like a knife cutting open the skin and bone. All the rolling hot furnace fires gathered here!

Chen Ji hastily dodged a knife, fell messily, and rolled, flashing to the other side of the knife array!

Wait!

As Black Cloud continued to swallow the crystal beads, the first lamp of furnace fire ignited again...

The second lamp, the third lamp... the ninety-ninth lamp.

His previously fallen realm all returned, and instead became more prosperous.

So, cultivating to Mountain Lord means igniting the furnace fires throughout the body again and again, growing out the fierce worry like spot patterns to contain the power within?

But Chen Ji wanted to call out the power within the spot pattern, but he didn't have the method. It was as if the furnace fire melt flow was locked inside, solidifying into black mountain rocks!

Not right, the always silent sword seed suddenly drilled into the spot pattern and kept roaming inside.

Before Chen Ji could figure out what was happening, in the knife array, one staff member saw Chen Ji's dishevelled response and immediately shouted: "Dare to ascend the heavy building at this time! Take advantage of his illness and want his life!"

Chen Ji, with a gray head and dusty face, shouted: "Black Cloud, eat quickly."

One lamp after another of furnace fire reignited. Chen Ji's previously lost power returned to his body, although still not much... but enough to use.

In a flash of lightning, in the plum blossom knife array, there were two knives, one cutting from the left and one from the right. Chen Ji leaped lightly, his foot tip tapping on the body of the chopping knife. He actually leaped over the heads of the crowd and landed precisely within the 'flower core' of the plum blossom knife array!

The knife array was sharp outwards, but there was no defense inside. Chen Ji lifted his foot and kicked one person in the waist. With a Ka Cha sound, the kicked person's spine broke, and he flew out horizontally. The knife array was forcefully kicked open, creating a gap.

The Yuan Cao Tang staff were surprised and uncertain. Why could a newly ascended heavy building innate official instantly recultivate to this level?

They had never heard of it before.

One person lifted his knife to chop, but before the knife fell, Chen Ji had already caught his wrist and chopped towards another person!

The person whose wrist was caught by Chen Ji was like a leather puppet on a string. He only felt a clever strength transmitted from his wrist. The two knives collided, and the thick Pu knife in the other person's hand broke with a sound!

This person's pupils shrank. What was that clever strength on his wrist that had just broken the knife? Besides, how could this boy use clever strength through his own wrist to break another person's knife?

"You..."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Ji had already gripped his wrist and wiped it backhand. The staff member seemed to cut his own throat, and fresh blood sprayed out.

Chen Ji suddenly thought of something and shouted: "Black Cloud wait, don't eat."

After Black Cloud swallowed a mouthful of crystal beads, its mouth bulged, and it looked up blankly at Chen Ji from the wooden box. Sometimes it ate quickly, sometimes it didn't eat. Should it eat or not eat?

While it was thinking, the beads in its mouth had already turned into melt flow and entered its body. Chen Ji groaned. The furnace fires in his body all extinguished again, and a second black spot pattern grew out from the middle of his spine.