Ling Yi stared blankly at the group of burly men around him.
The classic three questions kept echoing in my mind: Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
He should be sleeping in his Warmth bed at home right now, so why is he suddenly in this strange place?
Also, why is it so cold? Where did the snow under my feet come from? Isn't it Xia Tian?
He was shivering from the cold, even though he was only wearing a long robe and pajamas.
All around were... Caoyuan cavalrymen wearing felt hats, leather armor, carrying bows and arrows, with scimitars hanging from their sides, and riding tall Da Ma?
Are these the Caoyuan cavalry?
But that wasn't important. What was important was that he could clearly sense the hostility these cavalrymen, who were speaking a gibberish he couldn't understand, harbored towards him.
One of the cavalrymen had already drawn his scimitar and was saying something to Ling Yi, but unfortunately Ling Yi couldn't understand him.
"Who are you people?" Ling Yi asked warily.
However, as soon as Ling Yi said this, the people immediately started making a ruckus, and their hostility towards Ling Yi turned into murderous intent.
The cavalryman wielding the scimitar laughed loudly and uttered in broken Chinese, "Tang people, die!"
The surrounding cavalrymen brandished their scimitars and Howl.
Ling Yi felt like he was... going to die.
At this moment, Ling Yi had already guessed that he might have time-traveled, but he had no idea which dynasty he had traveled to.
He's a programmer, and his knowledge of history is limited to dynastic songs.
Right now, only three words were on Ling Yi's mind... What to do!
Is he destined to be an unlucky soul who dies the moment he transmigrates?
What's the point of him time-traveling then?
Just then, a piece of information suddenly appeared in his mind.
The information appeared out of thin air, just like his memories that had always been there.
The information is about Yu Jin.
But this cheat isn't some kind of system from those online novels; it's... Personal Space.
A Personal Space that recognizes him as its master.
It was the appearance of this Personal Space that led to his time travel.
As for why the Personal Space recognized him as its master, and what the Personal Space's true form was, no one knew.
In summary, the Personal Space has three attributes.
First, infinity.
Secondly, they are very obedient.
Third, domain-specific.
Infinity, that needs no explanation.
Being obedient means that he can give any command or make any setting to his Personal Space, and as long as it is reasonable, the Personal Space will execute it by default.
Some might ask, what commands and settings are needed for a Personal Space?
As a programmer, Ling Yi will tell you that this is very important; for Ling Yi, who is currently in Extremis, it is the key to getting out of trouble.
Ling Yi is currently making the settings.
Territoryization refers to the effective range of the Personal Space, a spherical area with a radius of five meters around Ling Yi as the center.
This is equally important to Ling Yi.
One more thing: you can't put living things in your Personal Space; any living thing that goes in will die.
At this moment, Ling Yi was having a frantic brainstorming session.
"Human reactions are limited; we need to establish a passive command..."
Passive commands can be set to active or dormant states...
"Activated state: Passively collects... This way, no attack will cause me any damage... It's like Invincible Defense, nice!"
Passive Skill 1: Passive Defense...
"Defense alone is not enough; we need to set up some offensive skills..."
"Skill 1: Teleport Deployment. Within a five-meter radius, objects within the space can be directly Teleport Deployment to any location, such as an enemy's brain, heart, etc..."
"Skill 2: Energy Storm, Since Infinite Space can devour any non-living thing, it must also be able to absorb energy... If enough energy is absorbed, such as thermal energy, and then released instantly..."
Just then, a cavalryman, a cruel smile on his face, raised his scimitar and slashed towards Ling Yi.
But at that very moment, Ling Yi suddenly raised his head.
The two were now very close.
Ling Yi could even see the freckles on the cavalryman's ferocious face...
But the next moment, the cavalrymen and their horses flickered and appeared mysteriously behind Ling Yi.
It directly knocked the cavalrymen behind Ling Yi off their feet.
"So, when it was launched, the inertial potential energy didn't disappear?" Ling Yi looked back and murmured.
Since living beings cannot be stored in the Personal Space, this cavalryman has become a corpse.
The difference is that Ling Yi deliberately left his scimitar, longbow, and arrows in the Infinite Space.
In addition, there is this cavalryman's... memories.
"They can even collect memories?"
This ability was something Ling Yi had never expected.
Isn't memory life? Well, it doesn't really count as life; strictly speaking, it's just data.
Within his Personal Space, Ling Yi easily accessed all of this person's memory data.
It felt like watching a movie from a first-person perspective.
The first thing to read is this person's language, followed by their general life experience.
He had no idea what kind of thing this Personal Space was, as it seemed that time could be accelerated infinitely within his Personal Space.
Logically speaking, a person's memory data is enormous, and the brain would definitely be unable to handle receiving so much data all at once.
In reality, it only happened in the blink of an eye, and he didn't feel any discomfort whatsoever.
" Eastern Turkic Khaganate... Jiali Khan, Great Tang, on the banks of the Wei River..."
"Holy crap, have I traveled back to the Great Tang, and less than three months after the Xuanwu Gate Incident?"
Although he doesn't know much about history, he has watched a lot of movies, TV series, and read a lot of related online articles.
Although Ling Yi knew that none of it was official history, but rather fictionalized or even fabricated stories, it at least prevented Ling Yi from being completely ignorant about this dynasty.
"Chief Bale is dead! This Tang man killed Chief Bale!" a Göktürks soldier shouted from behind.
Ling Yi had received the Göktürks language, so he could naturally hear what they were saying.
"Kill this Tang man and avenge our clan chief!"
"Kill! Kill! Kill!"
Ling Yi ignored them and continued studying his Personal Space.
The passive setting has been activated. At this moment, anyone who enters his five-meter radius will be forcibly taken into his Personal Space, their soul and consciousness erased, and then thrown out. His Personal Space will retain their memories and weapons.
Then, a bizarre scene unfolded.
Any cavalryman who charged toward Ling Yi would instantly appear on the other side, then fall to the ground as corpses, horse and rider alike.
In the blink of an eye, dozens of cavalrymen died mysteriously, forming a circle of corpses centered on one of them.
Even the most brutal and mindless Göktürks soldiers felt fear at such a sight.
The surrounding soldiers hesitated, their eyes filled with fear as they looked at Ling Yi.
"Use bows and arrows! Use bows and arrows!" someone suddenly shouted.
These words instantly awakened everyone: if getting close means death, then they should stay away.
However, what happened next intensified the fear of the Göktürks soldiers.
Every arrow aimed at Ling Yi Ling Yi within five meters of him...
At this moment, on the Jingyang County Seat, Li Shimin, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Gao Shilian, Wei Zheng, Cheng Yaojin, Zhangsun Wuji all stared intently at the endless Göktürks army outside the city.
Once the army reaches tens of thousands, its limits become invisible.
This time, the Göktürks sent an army of 300,000.
Looking at it, it seemed as if the entire world had been occupied by these Göktürks soldiers, who resembled locusts.
Li Shimin took a deep breath; his hatred for these Göktürks had reached its peak.
They burned and killed their way through, and countless Han Chinese died at their hands. These were all subjects of the Great Tang.
What's even more infuriating is that these Göktürks bypassed Li Jing's border troops and fought their way into the heart of the Great Tang Dynasty.
Jingyang County is only forty kilometers away from Chang'an.
At this moment, the garrison in Jingyang numbered only six thousand...
Li Shimin had many thoughts on his mind. He knew why the Göktürks had raided the Great Tang.
Heavy snow fell on the plains, killing countless cattle and sheep, leaving the Göktürks with no way to survive.
He also knew that Jiali Khan's goal was not to fight a decisive battle with the Great Tang; their goal was simply food and supplies.
They dared not fight to the death. Li Jing still had hundreds of thousands of troops on the border. If the army returned to reinforce, he would not get away with it.
However, with Chang'an right behind him, he could never allow the Göktürks to invade Chang'an; that would be an unbearable disgrace for Li Shimin.
"I'm afraid Jiali Khan can't wait much longer, and he doesn't dare to wait too long. His 300,000-strong army is consuming a lot of resources every day, Your Majesty..." Du Ruhui said.
Li Shimin interrupted Du Ruhui, his gaze fixed on the Göktürks army ahead, his eyes Bing Han, his heart surging with murderous intent...
On the other side, Ling Yi, who had been passively taking the beating, suddenly burst into laughter.
"Haha, absorb heat, release heat, temperature balance... Success!"
Ling Yi fiddled around for a long time, all to set up a new passive function for his Personal Space... an air conditioner.
The weather was simply too cold. If this problem wasn't solved, he would either be killed by the Göktürks soldiers or freeze to death.
He glanced at the Göktürks soldiers, then at the circle of corpses around him, and smelled the pungent stench of blood. For some reason, Ling Yi didn't feel any discomfort.
At this moment, Ling Yi only wanted to get out of the Göktürks army and find a place to settle An Family.
With his Personal Space, surviving in this era would be easy for him.
So, Ling Yi started walking towards Chang'an.
This seemed to trigger a nerve among the surrounding Göktürks soldiers, and someone shouted, "Kill!"
The next moment, these Göktürks soldiers launched their Charge.
Ling Yi felt an instinctive aversion to these Göktürks, and also wanted to escape the battlefield as quickly as possible, so he activated his first attack skill.
The already frigid air seemed even colder at this moment, with the temperature dropping Rapid Speed at an unimaginable speed.
This is the Personal Space absorbing the surrounding heat energy.
The result was that a terrifyingly Bing Han aura spread rapidly outwards from Ling Yi's center.
The Göktürks soldiers who Charge were Freeze solid within ten meters of Ling Yi, and then shattered into dark red fragments by inertia.
And the area covered by this ice is still expanding, increasing—ten meters, a hundred meters, a thousand meters...