Vol 2 Chapter 1: Chifeng Fort

(The new volume has started, and the later storyline is unfolding, and serious ideas and repeated trade-offs are needed. Therefore, the update during this period will be a bit slow. Please forgive me...)
The Wuteng Desert lies between Tushan and the counties of Yuanwu and Shangyuan. It is long from north to south and narrow from east to west. It almost occupies most of the territory of the counties of Yuanwu and Shangyuan. Yunzhong County is located in the northeast of Wuteng Desert. Corner.
The gale screamed, and the sea of ​​sand under the setting sun looked like golden waves, slowly unfolding in front of my eyes, and the sky flames floating like purple clouds on the top of the Tushan Mountain were like the unreachable shore of the sand sea.
Looking at the rocky mountains in the vast sand sea like floating clouds, Chen Xun was not only emotional. He originally thought that after going out of Tushan, it was the fertile soil of the Xiwu Emperor's Xiwu dynasty, which was more desolate than Canglan. Nothing grows?
"Looking at me blindly, I don't want you to see the scenery if I let you grandchildren eat full meals!"
With a fierce shout, he sat on his horseback to supervise the slave servant, waved the whip in his hand towards Chen Xun, and made a crackle out of thin air, drawing a trace of spiritual energy to Chen Xun's chest. .
Chen Xun's heart felt like a knife was wringed, curled up on his knees like a cooked shrimp, unable to get it out of any strength, so he could only raise his head and show a pleading look at the person who berated him.
"It's a bunch of lazy people, don't show me some color, I don't know how the surname is written!" Wei Jia manager Zhao Tiangui cursed, seeing the bitter slave who was half kneeling in front of him, his eyes were docile Like a sheep, there is an indescribable satisfaction in my heart.
Although the people of Thousand Sword Sect were repelled, Chifeng Fort also collapsed in the fierce battle.
If you can't rush to repair Chifeng Fort before the reinforcements of Qian Jianzong arrive, it will be difficult to withstand the next wave of Qian Jianzong's strong attack with the incomplete formation.
The bitter slaves with three to five kilograms of strength on both arms are rare in Chifeng Fort, and they have to count on these bitter slaves to transport the mined iron core stone to Chifeng Fort a hundred miles away. Zhao Tiangui waved the whip in his hand. Two fresh blood stains were added to the back of the obedient slave in front of him, but he didn't use the power of the heart-warming talisman to torture him.
Chen Xun pulled the rope that was pulled deep into his shoulders, and looked back at the iron core stone as large as a shack behind him. Together with other slaves, he dragged the huge stone behind him and marched forward with difficulty.
Almost four days later, more than 800 bitter slaves dragged more than 20 boulders to Chifeng Fort, and by comparison, nearly a hundred bitter slaves fell to death or on the quarry.
Chen Xun took two wheat cakes, did not squeeze with the other slaves, but went to the stream and found a rock to sit down, tear the wheat cakes into small pieces and threw them in his mouth, chewing thirsty. Drink a sip of stream water.
Chifeng Fort, behind the maple forest on the west bank of Shixi, is smaller than Wumeng Shizhai, but it is made of iron core stone as strong as gold and iron. It shines with a dark glow in the setting sun, but the east side of the stone castle was half a month ago. In the battle, when a disciple of Qian Jianzong broke a corner, it was a tooth that was lost.
Chen Xun thought that the boulders they mined from hundreds of miles away this time should be enough to repair the collapsed corner of Chifeng Fort, otherwise he would have to toss the supervision monk again, it would be difficult for him to continue to hide...
The stone castle is easy to repair, but the incomplete formation is difficult to make up.
In front of powerful spells, even the iron core stone that is three to five feet thick and as strong as gold and iron will turn into dust in an instant. Only a powerful and complete formation that draws the aura of the earth veins is the greatest support against powerful enemies.
Chen Xun sat by the stream, swallowing all the wheat cakes into his stomach, and then walked to Chifeng Fort, which is opposite the stone stream.
On the Red Maple side, the guardian monk cut the boulder well, and then cast a spell to hang it on the gap, without the slaves, and arduously lift the boulder weighing tens of thousands of catties to a height of more than ten meters above the ground.
This is not for the monks to be sympathetic to the slaves, but for the slaves to see them repairing the stone fort formation.
There were more than eight hundred bitter slaves, although most of them were mortals, but there were also many True Yang Realm casual cultivators who were imprisoned in Chifeng Fort as hard labor.
After Chen Xun separated from Su Tang and Qianlan in the bamboo forest of Canglan South City, he sneaked through the secret road to a warehouse going to and from Yunzhou. He hid in a pile of fishy leather goods, and went through difficulties and dangers with the warehouse caravan. Tushan, enter Yunzhou Yuanwu County.
Compared with the Kuilong Tiantu that had been thrown away, Chen Xun knew that he was the biggest temptation to divert others' attention.
On the one hand, he has to leave some clues so that the interested people can track it down, believing that he is indeed carrying the treasure to escape; on the other hand, he has to escape from the place of right and wrong before being tracked down, so as to avoid falling into the hands of the caring people. Can’t survive, cannot die.
Over the past year or so, he has constantly changed his place and identity in Yuanwu, Shangyuan, and Yunzhong counties.
After almost confirming that Su Clan, Xuanhan Sect, Yishan Sect, and Qingyangzi who might be hiding in the dark, had completely turned their attention away from Yuzhu Peak, Chen Xun began to find a way to truly hide and find a place to practice. .
A year ago, Chen Xun ran into the villagers looting the village by Sand Bandit, and was deliberately captured by Sand Bandit, and then "weeded as a bandit" in the depths of the Wuteng Desert.
However, only half a year has passed since Chen Xun’s career as an invader has just passed. With his brave "True Sun Realm Sixth Layer" cultivation base, Chen Xun has just become the little leader of the sand pirates. deep.
Wei Che slayed many big bosses of Sand Pirates, but failed to see through Chen Xun's disguise. He looted and escorted Chen Xun and hundreds of other Sand Pirates to Chifeng Fort as slaves.
Chifeng Fort is located in an oasis in the northeast corner of the sand sea desert. The oasis has springs gushing out to nourish the surrounding land in a radius of two to three miles without being eroded by the sand sea desert.
The oasis is nearly 2,000 miles away from Yunzhong County and 3,000 miles away from the sect of Qiyun Mountain. However, as the most important scale iron producing area in Yunzhong County, Qiyun Mountain built red maple here. Bao, tens of millions of catties of scaled iron ore are shipped to Yunzhong County for smelting every year.
For Chen Xun, a bitter slave with cultivation base, Qi Yunshan will not directly abolish their cultivation base, but will use a spell called the Heart Talisman to control it.
Whether it is going to digging or quarrying fortresses, Chen Xun, a casual slave who has three to five kilograms of strength, but does not pose a threat to the monk guarding the fort, is better than those scrawny mortal slaves. It's so much.
And the bitter slaves who have been subjected to servitude will resist a little bit, and only a few will die miserably, and more will not survive or die.
Whether it was the Soul Searching Technique of the Su Family, or the soul-locking seal refining secret technique taught by Lao Kui, they all had something in common with the Heart-Serving Technique. Although Chen Xun could refine the heart-warming charms cast on him by Qiyun Mountain brother at any time and leave quietly, there is really no better hiding place than Chifeng Fort.
Red Maple Valley is located in the desert of sand sea, except for the convoy that runs once a month to pull the ore away, no outsiders will walk into it.
In the eyes of the Qiyun Mountain disciples and the monk guarding the fort, he was just forced into the company after being struck by the sand robbers, and then captured by the Qiyun Mountain disciples as a bitter slave.
As for the six monks dispatched by Qiyun Mountain to Chifeng Fort, the highest cultivation level only returned to the middle stage of the womb. Since Chen Xun was worried that Xingzang would be seen through, and at the same time believed that he wanted to leave, no one at Chifeng Fort could stop him.
Another fundamental reason why Chen Xun was not in a hurry to get away from Chifeng Fort was that there was an earthquake near Chifeng Fort five years ago.
After the earthquake, the nearby Shiling ruptured and collapsed. At that time, the Qiyun Mountain sect was worried that the spring of Chifeng Fort would dry up-if there is no water source, the oasis will shrink and disappear, and the mortals will no longer be able to serve. The slave went to quarry.
In fact, Qiyun Mountain’s sect’s worries were unnecessary. After the ground fog, Chifeng Fort’s ground springs not only did not dry up, but also the spiritual energy poured in from the depths of the ground with the spring water, and ordinary ground springs became extremely rare. Lingquan.
The spiritual energy that circulated between heaven and earth is still thin after all, but most of the spiritual veins and spiritual acupoints in the world are called Zongmen Control.
Chen Xun does not leave, and can even quietly use the spiritual energy that overflows from the spiritual spring to cultivate and refine the spiritual veins at night; at the same time, he secretly researches the heart charm amulet cast by the Qiyun Mountain disciple in his body, and seals the soul. The method of system is mutually confirmed, so that he has a deeper understanding of the refining of Xuan Yan Jue and the organ puppet.
Just half a year after such a good day, it was broken by a surprise attack on Chifeng Fort by the disciples of Thousand Sword Sect.
The reason why the disciples of the Thousand Swords Sect raided Chifeng Fort was also because of the Lingquan incident.
After the earthquake, the ground spring did not dry up due to the fracture of the underground rock formations. Instead, it turned into a very rare spiritual spring, which means that the underground rock formations of Red Maple Fort may have a spiritual vein, at least a giant spiritual cave.
Chifeng Fort was originally located in the fuzzy area of ​​the border between Yunzhong and Gushan counties. In the past, Qiyun Mountain occupied the ore veins rich in scale iron. Qian Jianzong was full of opinions. Two disciples were killed and injured in the battle. Nearly a hundred people.
As for the news that there may be spiritual veins hidden under Chifeng Fort, Qian Jianzong naturally refused to give up, and the two swords were drawn to the point of breaking out.
In the end, Qian Jianzong took the lead. Half a month ago, he suddenly dispatched and attacked Qiyun Mountain's many industries in Yunzhong County. The attackers of Chifeng Fort were led by two strong men in the late stage of the return.
After discovering Lingquan, Qiyun Mountain quietly set up a defensive position in Chifeng Fort by Lingquan.
With the help of a defensive formation, the monk guarding the fort stayed for several days. In the end, it was a late-stage disciple of the Qianjian Sect, who sacrificed a bronze mirror-like magical weapon before blasting away a corner of Chifeng Fort.
Fortunately, the disciple of the Thousand Swords Sect was defeated by the battle, and the Thousand Swords Sect had to retreat temporarily, and Chifeng Castle won the opportunity to breathe and seek relief.
Chen Xun guessed that Qiyun Mountain’s disciples should get the enemy’s intelligence to know the mountain gate as quickly as possible, but I don’t know if Qiyun Mountain’s powerhouse was restrained by Qian Jianzong or other forces. In short, half a month passed, Chen Xun No reinforcements were sent by Qiyun Mountain.
He was worried for these fort guarding monks in his heart, and next time the disciples of Thousand Sword Sect attacked, how could Chifeng Fort not be broken? Z