Arriving at the Barbarian Tribe's Holy City
The wind has stopped, the snow has ceased, and the glacier cliffs are bottomless.
"Rustling."
As the graceful figure in a red robe descended downwards, several clumps of snow on the cliff edge drifted down into the darkness below.
As Li Qingyan's figure disappeared into the darkness, Xu Yuan's eyes flashed with a bloodthirsty light, and his gaze followed her with a hint of curiosity as she descended to the bottom of the glacial cliff canyon.
According to the princess with the bound breast, there seem to be marks left by the Beifeng Army at the bottom of this canyon.
The eternal darkness and extreme cold have created a thick layer of ice thousands of feet deep in this Utterdark Lands.
Therefore, deep glacial canyons like this, hundreds of feet deep, are actually quite common on this boundless ice plain.
When some wild giants hidden deep underground break through the soil, they can create many rift valleys on this glacier.
However, the rift valley in front of us is clearly man-made.
It was tens of feet wide and hundreds of feet deep, a long, narrow crack with a neat and smooth cut, just like a sword mark made by a hundred-meter-long giant sword.
The Mortal Shedding body of the Strange Ghost and the new Spirit Sight perception allowed Xu Yuan to observe many things that a Soul Condensation expert could not see.
This rift valley bears heavy traces of magic, and even retains some lingering fluctuations of Source Qi.
The illusory images of divine soldiers solidified into a military formation.
With these thoughts in mind, Xu Yuan's gaze followed Li Qingyan's figure to the bottom of the glacial rift valley.
Upon seeing the scene at the bottom of the rift valley, his brows furrowed slightly involuntarily.
corpse
The rift valley is full of corpses!
At the bottom of the glacial rift valley lay countless Barbarian Tribe corpses, severed limbs piled upon each other, the blue ice forever freezing the despair in the eyes of these Barbarian Tribe women and children.
massacre
Looking at the scene below, Xu Yuan subconsciously glanced around.
Beside the glacial rift valley lies a flat snow-covered surface, where the traces of past battles have been completely buried. However, Xu Yuan can still imagine what happened here a month or so ago.
Amidst the cries of countless Barbarian Tribe women and children, the Beifeng Army, clad in white armor, carried out their massacre in an orderly and disciplined manner.
After the slaughter, the tens of thousands of corpses were pushed directly down the ravine, rolling and tumbling.
"Kid, is your dynasty at war with the Barbarian Tribe?"
Luo Xiran suddenly spoke up, her gaze calmly fixed on the corpses below. "And judging from the looks of it, the Barbarian Tribe is on the verge of extinction."
Xu Yuan didn't hide anything and casually explained:
"You've seen what this Utterdark Lands looks like. Living in such a godforsaken place, the Barbarian Tribe will definitely want to move south, but we, the Great Yan, will certainly not let them. War is inevitable."
"Inevitable?"
Luo Xiran glanced at Xu Yuan, having already grasped the general situation, and said:
"So it seems that the power struggles within your Great Yan Dynasty are quite severe?"
"If there hadn't been internal strife, the Barbarian King wouldn't have dared to take such a gamble."
Xu Yuan knew that hiding the truth was pointless for a smart man, so he smiled leisurely and said, "Unfortunately, the Barbarian King lost his gamble this time."
As he spoke,
Xu Yuan pointed indifferently to the bottom of the rift:
"And since he lost, he has to hand over all the chips he had at the table."
Luo Xiran silently looked down at the sea of corpses, her expression suddenly becoming somewhat complicated:
"Is the bargaining chip genocide?"
Seeing her strange expression and eyes, Xu Yuan asked with a smile:
"Hey, Xiran, you wouldn't happen to have taken pity on these foreign women and children, would you?"
"A heart full of compassion?"
Luo Xiran smiled charmingly, but when she turned her head, her eyes held a deep, unsettling look.
"Kid, I've seen more dead people than you've seen living people."
"I was just thinking that if our human race had lost the bet ten thousand years ago, our fate would probably have been no different from that of these Barbarian Tribe."
As he spoke,
Luo Xiran let out a soft breath, then suddenly reminded him:
"There are at least 100,000 corpses here. Instead of dealing with them, you've just left them here. Aren't you afraid they'll generate Ghost Mist? Yingui are, in some ways, more terrifying than Strange Ghost."
"This is not within the territory of the Great Yan."
Before Xu Yuan could answer, a voice came from below the rift.
It's Li Qingyan.
Li Qingyan leaped back to the three of them, looked at Luo Xiran, and said calmly:
"If this mass grave can truly generate Ghost Mist, the Barbarian Tribe will find it difficult to deal with it given their current strength."
"Although low-level Yingui lack intelligence, they need to devour living beings. As long as we create more Ghost Mist to compete with the remaining Barbarian Tribe for living space, the Northern Border will be safe for hundreds of years."
Xu Yuan also chuckled and replied:
"The Utterdark Lands are the Barbarian Tribe homeland. What we need to do is shatter their racial backbone once and for all, completely destroying their war potential."
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Luo Xiran slight surprise, seemingly not expecting to hear such words from him. However, her gentle voice quickly turned into a warning smile:
"Your plan to wipe out your family line is clever, but it's also a recipe for disaster."
Li Qingyan's phoenix eyes remained calm as he said:
"There's no need for you to worry about that, Senior. Our Great Yan Dynasty has its own considerations."
If the Yingui were to truly replace the Barbarian Tribe and thrive in this Utterdark Lands, eventually turning the entire Utterdark Lands Ghost Domain, then this threat would indeed be far greater than that of the Barbarian Tribe.
However, there are priorities, and the Great Yan Dynasty needs a stable Northern Border border that can last for a century.
The emperor's critical illness caused the internal conflicts within the Great Yan Dynasty to escalate to a point where they could no longer be transferred to the outside world.
"Ha, it seems I, this old relic, have overstepped my bounds."
Luo Xiran quite nonchalant, and smiled gently, "Your Highness, did you find anything on this trip? Judging from the time of death of these corpses, we should be catching up soon?"
"The intricate pattern below has been there for a month, and its content is quite simple."
As she spoke, Li Qingyan raised her phoenix eyes and looked towards the northwest, her voice low and melancholic:
"Seven hundred li from here lies the Holy City of the Barbarian Tribe. Upon seeing this, all tribes should dismantle their camps and assemble on their own."
An eternal Long Night hangs over the glacier.
Less than a day after the four of them flew through the air, a figure suddenly appeared on the frozen rift valley.
His figure was tall and imposing, and his pair of cold, deep blue eyes stared silently at the corpses of his compatriots below.
In the days since escaping the Underground Palace, Chi Feng has already visited the settlements of several large tribes of the Holy Clan.
But without exception,
They all disappeared.
Those women and children who had bustled and made a ruckus to see him off when he moved south with his entire tribe all became part of the tribe's settlement.
Their remains were either cruelly piled up into mountains by humans, carelessly thrown into pits, or dismembered and cast into Jingguan.
Just like the mass grave in front of us.
Looking at the despair frozen forever in the eyes of his people below the rift, Chi Feng's gaze remained calm, so calm that it was utterly desolate.
Because this place is very close to the Holy City.
In other words,
The Great Yan War God has already discovered the Holy City.
In other words,
The Holy City has fallen.
In other words,
The hundreds of thousands of people who had just escaped the bitter cold and entered the Holy City had been slaughtered by those humans.
Snowflakes fall, the air is cold and desolate.
Looking up towards the Holy City, Chi Feng stood silently, like a dead statue.
Suddenly,
Without any words,
The imposing figure standing beside the rift valley vanished, just as abruptly as he had arrived.
A few breaths after the figure disappeared, the glacier shattered as if struck by a mighty force of heaven and earth. The ancient, hard, thousand-foot-long glacier instantly crumbled and collapsed like tofu, completely burying the Barbarian Tribe corpses below.
at the same time,
Above the dark sky, a streak of pale blue light, like a shooting star, quietly appeared, heading northwest.
Temporarily only one update
The Northern Border will be over in the next day or two.