Chapter 1 The Chill

Suddenly,

Zheng Fan felt a chill begin to spread rapidly from the bottom of his heart, as if in that instant, he had been thrown into an icy pool.

Accompanying it were intense negative auras of disaster, curse, plague, hardship, and more.

Zheng Fan had felt this before, when he was eating hotpot with Shatuo Queshi.

However, at that time, Shatuo Queshi directly suppressed this strong and terrifying omen.

But obviously, the noblewoman in front of him didn't have that kind of gravitas, nor that kind of strength!

The previous floating, feverish, and unreal feeling was quickly replaced by a bone-chilling cold.

Just as the noblewoman raised Zheng Fan's long saber,

In Zheng Fan's eyes, black flames suddenly began to rise.

"Buzz!"

Before the noblewoman could point the blade at Zheng Fan's neck, Zheng Fan had already grabbed her neck with his hand!

Then,

Zheng Fan rose directly from his lying position,

Stiffly,

Quickly,

Forcefully,

Like a compass drawing a line,

"Bang!"

The noblewoman was slammed to the ground,

While Zheng Fan squatted down, his right hand still gripping her neck.

The noblewoman's eyes were filled with disbelief. She had clearly confirmed that the man in front of her was definitely affected!

This movement instantly alarmed the barbarian soldiers nearby. Earlier, they thought there would be a good show,

Everyone tactfully looked away, thinking that listening to the sounds would be quite enjoyable.

But when such a loud noise came, everyone quickly sobered up. Things were not that simple.

Zheng Fan lowered his head slightly, looking at the noblewoman he was controlling on the ground, tilted his head gently, and a childish laughter came from his throat:

"Heh... hehe..."

You want to kill my dad, I can pretend I didn't see it, but you want to be my mom, then I'm not sleepy anymore!

The originally crisp childish voice should have been like heavenly music, but at this time, it was like a devil's whisper.

The barbarian soldiers who came running at the sound subconsciously took a few steps back, looking at their master in front of them with horrified eyes.

In fact, because of Blind Man Bei's repeated brainwashing, they had a subconscious fear of Zheng Fan himself, but now, that subconscious fear seemed to have been brought into reality.

If the environment allowed it, if they were in Cui Liu Fort at this time, they would subconsciously kneel down and worship him.

Unlike the civilization of the Four Eastern Nations, the barbarian gods are actually very singular. The supreme barbarian god is the only one in their hearts, and there is no second god. Therefore, other transformed "god" images are actually negative "devil" images.

In short, the mythological story of the barbarians is that a single "barbarian god" confronts the devils in the sky alone, which actually extends the barbarian's worship of devils.

Zheng Fan's eyes were sometimes clear and sometimes gloomy, as if constantly switching.

"Demon Pill!" (Mo Wan)

Liang Cheng walked over at this time, and behind him, the girl was bound and kneeling on the ground.

This was actually not Zheng Fan and Liang Cheng's negligence, because no one would have thought that the noble mother and daughter who were randomly plundered would have such means.

The probability of this is so small that it is equivalent to winning the lottery after buying hundreds of tickets. It is almost impossible.

Zheng Fan turned his head and looked at Liang Cheng,

Smiled,

Said:

"You... a... waste..."

"..." Liang Cheng.

This was a child's voice, and Liang Cheng knew that it was the Demon Pill's contempt.

Although, among the Seven Demon Kings, the Demon Pill was the laziest and the least active, but his position was the most detached.

This was not only because the Demon Pill was Zheng Fan's own creation, but the real reason was that the Demon Pill itself was an extremely twisted and perverted product created by Zheng Fan's perverted way of thinking!

Zheng Fan lowered his head and looked at the noblewoman under him again.

Wisps of black mist began to emanate from his palm, and the noblewoman's face immediately showed a look of horror, followed by violent tremors all over her body.

"Ah!"

Zheng Fan opened his mouth and roared at her, as if he was enjoying the pleasure of this torment.

Suddenly,

Zheng Fan's body trembled,

And the aura on his body also fell into chaos.

Liang Cheng, who was standing on the side, knew that Zheng Fan was beginning to regain control of his body.

However, what surprised Liang Cheng was that after a brief "chaos," the aura on Zheng Fan's body was once again filled with intense negative attributes.

"Crack!"

Zheng Fan twisted the noblewoman's neck and then stood up.

The previous tormenting process was forcibly shortened.

"Mother..."

Seeing this scene, the girl was just about to shout out when she was hit on the back of the head with the handle of a knife by a barbarian soldier next to her and passed out directly.

Zheng Fan twisted his neck, stretched out his arms, and then slowly lowered them. His legs also seemed a little uncoordinated, and he walked towards Liang Cheng with a strange pigeon-toed gait.

He seemed to be adapting to this body, like a child, familiarizing himself with his new toy.

Finally,

He walked up to Liang Cheng.

Liang Cheng looked at Zheng Fan very seriously,

And said:

"Get out of the lord's body!"

Zheng Fan grinned,

As if smiling,

At the same time,

A vibrato came from his throat:

"Waste..."

Liang Cheng's fingernails began to grow slowly,

Okay,

I give you an inch, and you want a mile, huh?

They were all Demon Kings, all arrogant masters. Did he really think he was the absolute and supreme one?

In any company, ordinary employees look down on employees with connections to the leadership, no matter how flattering they are on the surface.

Just then,

The ink-black color in Zheng Fan's eyes began to fade,

And the aura on his body also trembled suddenly.

Liang Cheng paused,

And thought: Here we go again?

"A'Cheng, I trust him."

Zheng Fan said.

This time, it was Zheng Fan's voice.

Liang Cheng frowned slightly. The previous voice showed that Zheng Fan could actually regain control of his body, but did nothing.

Trust him,

Trust him with what?

The next moment,

Zheng Fan's eyes were once again swallowed by black,

In Zheng Fan's field of vision,

It was gray and white at this time,

Like the perspective of a black and white photo,

The scenery inside, the people inside, and even the wind inside, all carried a sense of decay. In his perspective, the world was not worth missing at all.

The eyes are the windows to the soul, and this is actually the true presentation of the Demon Pill's heart.

Zheng Fan raised his trembling hand slowly,

Pointing at Liang Cheng,

The fingertip was almost touching Liang Cheng's nose.

At the same time,

The childish voice in his throat sounded again:

"Waste..."

This time, Liang Cheng looked at Zheng Fan very calmly,

Without anger,

Just said:

"Then, prove it to me."

Zheng Fan's mouth split open again, reaching a degree that was at the limit of what a normal person could bear.

His hands began to droop down, hanging on either side of his body.

His knees began to bend slightly.

Then.

"Shua!"

His body turned to the side,

Facing south,

Then,

His legs suddenly kicked off the ground!

"Bang!"

Like an arrow leaving the string, he shot straight south!

After rushing for two hundred meters,

Zheng Fan suddenly stopped, and at the same time, his whole body bounced up from the ground,

His right arm swung in a half-circle mechanically like a puppet,

Finally,

His fist smashed into the ground.

"Bang!"

A muffled sound came,

A pit was smashed out of the ground,

And what splashed out together was not only dirt,

But also a large area of... blood mist!

When he saw the blood mist, Liang Cheng's face suddenly changed, and he immediately shouted:

"Everyone, get on your horses!"

Someone had been watching them and had been lurking nearby, but even though they had deployed scouts and sentries, they had not noticed at all!

Beside the pit,

Zheng Fan's lonely figure stood there,

His arms still hanging down,

Tilting his head,

Looking behind him,

Behind him, Liang Cheng and the other barbarian soldiers all mounted their horses.

Zheng Fan grinned,

And mouthed silently in an exaggerated way:

"Waste..."

This time, Liang Cheng was not only not angry, but even a little scared.

He had always prided himself on knowing how to lead troops. Among the Seven Demon Kings, he was the only one who really had experience in leading troops.

Xue San was a lone assassin, A'Ming was a vampire who only cared about having fun himself, Fan Li was a simpleton, etc., but this time, he had made a mistake in the place where he could least afford to make a mistake.

The other party could actually hide in the soil, definitely using special means, but he had not been able to detect it, which was his fault.

He should have known that this was... a special world.

But when he was deploying, he had completely copied his previous experience.

He really was a waste.

However, now was not the time to feel sorry for himself. Liang Cheng looked at Zheng Fan, or rather, at the Demon Pill who was currently occupying Zheng Fan's body.

Thinking about it,

The Demon Pill's complete awakening this time was not entirely because the noblewoman wanted to attack Zheng Fan. In fact, according to what A'Ming said about the old incident in the Nanwang City Garrison Commander's Mansion, the Demon Pill could have used the stone body to smash the noblewoman's head in a short distance.

But he didn't choose to do that,

Because he had sensed a real danger,

A danger that could bury everyone here.

Because of his uselessness, he had to let his Demon Pill grandfather wake up from his sleep and laziness.

What was he if not a waste?

No wonder he had such a strong resentment.

The next moment,

Zheng Fan's body bounced up again, and he began to sprint south.

Liang Cheng raised his saber,

And shouted,

Said:

"Charge!"

Hundreds of barbarian cavalrymen began to gallop along the direction of Zheng Fan's sprint.

...

"Lieutenant, why haven't those soldiers arrived yet?"

"Don't worry, it should be a while longer."

A small chair with a slightly thin man sitting on it.

A small coffee table with a plate of Yunpian cake and a pot of cold tea on it.

The man was wearing silver light armor, which was very light and soft.

The Great Yan Dynasty valued black, while the Qian Dynasty valued red.

In fact, in the beginning, the armor of the Qian Dynasty was basically silver. The founding emperor of the Qian Dynasty was known as the Silver Armor General in the previous dynasty, and his subordinates were all silver armor. Therefore, after he seized the country, his imperial guards were naturally mainly silver armor.

Therefore, there was that disastrous defeat a hundred years ago,

And the poem left by the first Marquis of Zhenbei:

Whip and spur the horse to chase the silver waves, watch the peach blossoms in the clear and remote stream.

After that, gradually, the Qian Dynasty army no longer used silver armor as the main color. A later emperor of the Qian Dynasty said during ancestral worship that he had a dream that the Qian Dynasty should be dominated by the virtue of fire. In short, for various convoluted reasons, the Qian Dynasty army began to value red.

As for silver armor, only the emperor's own army in Shangjing still retained it, called the Silver Armor Guard.

Its role was actually similar to the Yan Dynasty's Secret Intelligence Division, infinitely close to the Embroidered Uniform Guard in the world Zheng Fan was familiar with.

"Lieutenant, we have made such a great contribution this time, there should be a reward from above, right?"

While pinching a piece of Yunpian cake and putting it into his mouth, Chu Fengjiu picked up the teapot and took a sip of cold tea, glancing unhappily at the young man standing next to him,

Said:

"I say, your father is the commander of our Silver Armor Guard, why are you more concerned about military merits than we commoners are?"

"It can't be helped, my father is my father, and I'm under a lot of pressure here, with so many eyes watching me. That's why I pulled strings to get to your command, Lieutenant, just to get some credit."

"Tsk, you kid is really honest, but you may be disappointed this time. Our Silver Armor Guard has been operating in the Silver Wave Prefecture of the Great Yan for twenty years, and has finally reached a tacit understanding with the garrison commander and prefect of Nanwang City, as well as a series of clan aristocrats.

Although it won't make them rise up and betray the Yan Dynasty and stand on our side, it can at least be a barrier for us.

The aristocratic families, what they care about is never the fate of a country, but the survival of their own families."

"Alas." Hearing this, the young man also sighed.

"But who would have thought that the Jingnan Marquis would go crazy and dare to lead his army to kill wantonly in the Silver Wave Prefecture, and spread the word that the garrison commander and prefect of Nanwang City were killed by spies of our Qian Dynasty, hehe."

"Lieutenant, does this mean that the Yan Dynasty really intends to start a war with our Great Qian?"

Chu Fengjiu shook his head and said, "The Zhenbei Marquis's Mansion has become a powerful vassal, and the Yan Emperor has already broken face with the Zhenbei Marquis's Mansion. The reason why the Jingnan Marquis did this is probably because the Yan Emperor is worried that our Great Qian will launch a northern expedition during their Yan Dynasty civil war."

"Lieutenant is wise."

"Wise my ass!"

Chu Fengjiu threw the Yunpian cake in his hand directly on the ground,

And cursed angrily:

"A few hundred Yan cavalrymen were able to break through my Mianzhou City and swaggered around the northern border of my Great Qian for two days, but the border army of my Great Qian was helpless.

Little Dingzi, tell me, if you were the Yan Emperor, what would you think if you knew about this?"

"This..." Ding Xiang dared not say.

"Don't dare to say it, right? I say, you're one of the Shangjing playboys, how can you be so timid? Don't always be so cautious, be more generous."

"Lieutenant's lesson is well received."

"This Yan army must not be allowed to leave. Once they return to the Yan Dynasty and report their actions in the past few days, let's just say that if I were that Yan Emperor, I would think that rather than worrying about whether my Great Qian would launch a northern expedition, I might as well just grit my teeth and launch a southern invasion!"

"Would he dare?"

"What wouldn't he dare? Face is earned by oneself. If you're useless, don't blame others for bullying you!"

Chu Fengjiu sighed,

Said:

"Therefore, for the sake of the border of my Great Qian, this Yan army must not be allowed to leave the territory of my Great Qian alive. This is also the reason why this lieutenant has deliberately stayed behind to assist the border army in encircling and suppressing them;

Otherwise, with the quality of our border army, it's really possible for this Yan cavalry to charge back to their country!"

"Lieutenant, I've always been curious, how can the lieutenant be sure of their location?"

"That Yan cavalry team robbed Meng Changqi, the Jiedushi of Liangzhen, of his wife and daughter."

"I know that, Meng Jiedushi is going crazy and has sent out Liangzhen cavalry to search for them."

"Meng Jiedushi's wife is a member of our Silver Armor Guard."

"..." Ding Xiang.

"In the court, many important civil and military officials have wives who are members of the Silver Armor Guard. Some of them know it themselves, but pretend not to know, and some of them really don't know at all."

"Then..."

"Don't worry, your mother isn't."

"..." Ding Xiang.

"Your mother really isn't one of us. Your father rose from a Bazong all the way to the position of commander. Your mother married your father at that time. No matter how many women there are in our Silver Armor Guard, it's not extravagant enough to send a girl even for a Bazong's wedding, right?

Of course, if your father takes a concubine or remarries..."

Chu Fengjiu thought about it for a moment, but still didn't say the word "remarries."

"So, your father never takes a concubine. After all, he's the commander of our Silver Armor Guard. Do you think he's really not interested in women?"

"I see."

"Hehe, so, along the way, we can actually find the marks she left behind. We just followed them and found them. It's just that we don't have enough manpower, so we can only stare at them first. We still have to wait for the border army to come and close the pocket before we can eat them in one bite."

As he spoke,

Chu Fengjiu picked up the teapot and stood up, walking forward as he said:

"This winter in the north is really uncomfortable. It is said that it is even colder in the Yan Dynasty. The Beifeng Prefecture near the desert is even colder than no man's land."

"I heard from the merchants that this is indeed the case." Ding Xiang echoed.

"Yeah, so, you have to think about how much the Yan people must like our Great Qian's beautiful country, hehe."

"Lieutenant, I think that if our Great Qian's border army continues like this, it will..."

"Don't, don't say these words to me, go talk to your father."

"Yes."

Chu Fengjiu walked up to Ding Xiang, reached out and patted him on the shoulder, and said:

"Little Dingzi, you're a good one. Young people should have these thoughts. I'm old, and I don't have that kind of thought anymore. I'll just muddle through if I can. The officials in the court aren't in a hurry, and our official isn't in a hurry, so why should we be in a hurry?"

"But..."

"Don't worry, I'm very gratified that you have these thoughts. Even if it's not for your father's sake, I will do my best for my Great Qian to protect young people like you, to protect you for a while, to protect you properly, and then push you up. In the future, my Great Qian will still have some hope."

"This subordinate thanks the lieutenant for his cultivation!"

"You're welcome, you're welcome. This is what I should..."

"Bang!"

Suddenly,

A figure burst out of the forest on the side,

And the terrifying killing intent rushed towards them like boiling hot oil!

Chu Fengjiu was shocked,

And the hand on Ding Xiang's shoulder exerted force,

Pushing the caught-off-guard Ding Xiang directly towards the black shadow,

While he pushed off the ground with both legs and retreated quickly!

The last two words of that sentence were still floating gently in the air:

"Do..."