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In West Qinzhou, four counties border the Beitianhen Mountains, three counties border the endless desert, and there are a total of seven border counties.

In these seven border counties, the dynasty built a total of four fortresses to strictly guard the border and resist the monster race.

These four fortresses are the front line of West Qinzhou's defense against the demon clan. The Tianhen Fortress in Xisha County is one of the four fortresses, and it is also the smallest and weakest fortress among the four fortresses.

Of the remaining three fortresses, two of them are in the north of the Skyline Fortress against the Skyline Monster Race, and the remaining one is in the south of the Skyline Fortress against the Endless Sand Demon.

The fortress that defends against the endless sand demon is called the Sand Sea Fortress. It is located in the middle of the three counties bordering the endless desert and West Qinzhou, so it is convenient to support the two neighboring counties at any time.

The strength of the Endless Sand Demon is not comparable to that of the Skyscar Monster Clan, and they will not launch a beast tide every few decades, and it may not be possible to see a beast tide erupting in the Endless Desert in hundreds of years.

The last time the Sand Sea Fortress was attacked by sand monsters was more than 200 years ago, and the next wave of sand monsters may have to wait two to three hundred years.

Although the threat from the Sand Demon is not great, the Sand Sea Fortress needs to ensure the safety of the three counties. Naturally, its scale and strength cannot be too weak, and its comprehensive strength ranks second among the four fortresses.

There are more than five Jindan real people sitting in the Shahai Fortress at any time. If you encounter a strong enemy that is difficult to resist, you can directly ask for help from the Yuanying Zhenjun who is in Jinyangfang City.

The third-ranked fortress is called Taihen Fortress. It borders the Tianhen Mountains in the west and Taiqingzong in the north. That's how the name Taihen came about.

Firstly, Taihen Fortress must defend against the Skymark Monster Clan, and secondly, guard against Taiqingzong. Naturally, its overall strength should not be too weak, and there are four Jindan real people sitting in the fortress all year round.

The strongest of these four fortresses is naturally the Xiqin Fortress built at the junction of the two counties. It is the front line of the Daying Dynasty against the Skymark Monster Race, and it is also the strongest shield of the Daying Dynasty against the Skymark Monster Race.

In order to build the Western Qin Fortress, the Daying Dynasty spent a lot of resources to upgrade the fourth-order spiritual veins below the Western Qin Fortress to the fifth-order, and now it has cultivated to the fifth-order middle-grade.

In order to defend against the Tianhen demon clan, the Dynasty set up a fifth-tier middle-grade defensive formation in the West Qin Fortress, placed two fifth-tier Demon Extinguishing Bows on the fortress, and sent a middle-stage Nascent Soul cultivator and more than ten Jindan real person guards.

In addition, the Li family, one of the three kings and five lords, is near the West Qin Fortress and can support the West Qin Fortress at any time.

The royal family—the Li family has two Yuanying Zhenjun and more than ten Jindan Zhenren, and their strength is in the middle among the three kings and five princes.

With the West Qin Fortress and the Li family of the royal family, even if five or six monster kings jointly launch a beast horde to attack the West Qin Fortress, the West Qin Fortress can still be firmly defended.

As long as the West Qin Fortress is not broken, even if the Skymark Monster Clan breaks down both the Skymark Fortress and the Taihen Fortress, the Skymark Monster Clan will not dare to go deep into West Qin Prefecture.

Since the founding of the Great Winning Dynasty, the Skymark Monster Clan will launch a beast tide against the Dynasty every four to fifty years.

Over the years, both the Skymark Fortress and the Taihen Fortress have been breached by beast tides, but the West Qin Fortress has never been breached by the Skymark Monster Clan since its construction.

The last time the Skymark Fortress was breached by the Skymark Monster Race was more than 700 years ago. Xisha County was occupied by the Skymark Monster Race, and several surrounding counties were also captured.

The Xiuxian family in Xisha County was destroyed, and the mortals suffered heavy losses. The loss of life is to describe Xisha County at that time.

Not long after Xisha County was captured, all the families in West Qin Prefecture, under the organization of Zhou Mu, together with the dynasty's reinforcements recovered the Skymark Monster Clan that had been captured by the Skymark Monster Clan.

The ancestor of the Chen family——Chen Qingxuan was in that recovery operation. Chen Qingxuan made a lot of contributions in the recovery operation, and after donating a fourth-order alchemy inheritance, the dynasty assigned the two counties of Qingyuan and Qinglan to Chen Qingxuan as the family The site, the Qingxian Chen family was also established.

In the hall of the West Qin Fortress, an old man with white hair and a childlike face sat at the head, and below were eight Jindan real people, both young and old.

The old man sitting at the top is a Yuanying Zhenjun from the Qin family of the royal family. He has a cultivation base of the middle stage of Yuanying, and his honorific name is Zhenyuan Zhenjun. .

A fifth-tier mid-tier formation master formed the fifth-tier mid-tier defense formation of the West Qin Fortress. Even if three or four demon kings attack the West Qin Fortress, it is impossible to capture it in a short time.

In the hall of the West Qin Fortress, the atmosphere was very heavy, and none of the eight Jindan real people present dared to take a big breath.

After a while, Zhenyuan Zhenjun, who was still sitting at the top, spoke.

"What do you think of this?"

The eight Jindan real people below look at me and I look at you. No one answered Zhenyuan Zhenjun's question, and they all remained silent.

The thing is like this, every once in a while, the West Qin Fortress will send a team to the Tianhen Mountains to inquire about the information of the Skymark Monster Clan, to grasp the general trend of the Skymark Monster Clan, so that they can respond in advance.

Just two months ago, the soul lamp left by Daoist Jindan, who led the team into the Tianhen Mountains to inquire about information, went out in the West Qin Fortress.

The soul lamp of the Jindan real person went out, but the soul lamps of some of the foundation cultivators he took out to inquire about the news were still on.

This made Zhenyuan Zhenjun think that the Golden Core cultivator should have stumbled into the territory of a powerful fourth-order monster by mistake, and finally fell into the hands of that monster.

Although such a thing rarely happens, it is not unheard of. It happened once more than 400 years ago.

Of course, it is also possible that the demon king of the Tianhen Mountains did it, but if this is the case, it would be terrible.

No matter what the situation is, it must be investigated clearly, so Zhenyuan Zhenjun sent two Jindan monks who are good at hiding and escaping to investigate the situation, and at the same time ordered the West Qin Fortress to be put on alert.

After the two Golden Core cultivators left the West Qin Fortress, the Soul Lamps left by the Foundation Establishment cultivator who followed the fallen Golden Core cultivator to inquire about information went out one after another.

This change gave Zhenyuan Zhenjun a bad premonition, and then the two Jindan real people who were supposed to send back messages at regular intervals failed to send back messages and lost contact.

On the tenth day after the two Jindan real people lost contact, one of the soul lamps they left in the fortress was extinguished, and the other soul lamp was also in the misty wind and rain.

After a few breaths, the soul lamp in the wind and rain was also extinguished.

In just two months, the West Qin Fortress had lost three Jindan Daoist, which made Zhenyuan Zhenjun and the Jindan Daoist who stayed behind in the West Qin Fortress have a bad feeling in their hearts.

In the hall, Zhenyuan Zhenjun, who hadn't received a reply for a long time, already guessed the answer.

In just a few breaths, two Jindan real people fell one after another in the Tianhen Mountains.This is not something that the Tier [-] demon can easily do. It is very likely that the demon king in the core area of ​​the Tianhen Mountains did it.

The demon king left the core area of ​​the Tianhen Mountains and attacked the Jindan cultivator who was inquiring about the news, which meant that the demon king of the Tianhen Mountains was going to attack West Qinzhou.

Taking a deep breath, Zhenyuan Zhenjun opened his closed eyes, looked at the young monk sitting below him and said.

"Tianjin, call your father and tell him what happened so that he can prepare in advance."

"Also, tell the news to the Li family and let them prepare in advance."

Tianjin, whose full name is Qin Tianjin, is a late Jindan cultivator. Shepherd of West Qinzhou—the son of Zhenyang Zhenjun Qin Fengyang, a direct descendant of the Qin family of the royal family.

At the same time, in a cave in the core area of ​​Tianhen Mountains, several powerful demon kings with human appearance gathered together.

The young woman in a white dress looked at the tall and thick man opposite, and said helplessly.

"Niu Dachu, didn't I tell you to keep alive, why did you kill those two people?"

When Niu Dahan was told by the woman in the white skirt, his whole body trembled, and he begged the nun in the white skirt.

"Sister Bai, Lao Niu forgets when he gets excited, you must help me to plead with my elder brother, otherwise Lao Niu will be miserable."

As soon as the big man finished speaking, a red figure walked in from the outside, and then sat on the top of the cave.

After the red figure sat down, the other people present immediately looked at that person, a young man with a well-proportioned figure in a red robe.

After the man in the red robe sat down, he first glanced at the woman in the white skirt on the left, and then at the trembling big man beside him.

Sensing the gaze of the man in red, the trembling man slowly raised his head, and when he was about to admit his mistake, the man in red had already withdrawn his gaze, and said to all the demon kings present.

"Bai Ling, is there any news from the Endless Demon Court?"

"The Sand King agreed to our proposal, but the Sand King said they would take time to prepare."

The red-robed man's face changed slightly when he heard the words, then he glanced at the big man Niu at the side, and asked without any emotion.

"how long?"

"At least three years, up to five years."

As soon as these words came out, all the demon kings present except for the woman in the white skirt were shocked. They looked at the nun in the white dress in disbelief, as if asking what the sand king was going to prepare, and it took so long.

However, none of them opened their mouths to speak, but looked at the man in the red robe sitting at the head, waiting for his decision.

After thinking for a while, the man in the red robe looked in the direction of West Qinzhou and said.

"Bai Ling, you tell King Sand, this king will give him five years and give him a warning."

"If the endless sand demon can't meet the requirements of this king in five years, then there will be no need for the endless demon court to exist."

Afterwards, the red-robed man looked at all the demon kings present, and said without rejection.

"The matter has come to this, let's wait another five years. These five years are also just enough for all ethnic groups to make complete preparations."

Originally, the man in red was planning to launch an attack before the West Qin Fortress was aware of it, to capture the West Qin Fortress as quickly as possible, and then use the West Qin Fortress as a base to launch an attack on the entire West Qin State.

Now that their movements have been detected in advance by the Daying Dynasty, and there is something wrong with the Endless Demon Court, they should abandon the previous surprise attack plan and fight a fully prepared battle.

After listening to the red-robed man's words, Niu Dahan couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, that should be over like this.

However, after the red-robed man left the cave, a loud voice came in from outside, which was heard by all the demon kings present.

"Niu Dachu, your tribe will be the vanguard in five years."

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There is an unremarkable flat land at the border of the Nantianhen Mountains and the endless desert. Below this flat land is not compact soil, but a special valley.

Chen Zimo had collected all the celestial qi in the valley, leaving only an empty valley.

This natural spiritual land will attract the Qi of Tiangang from the zenith every ten years, and according to the records left by Zhenjun Zijian, the next time the Qi of Tiangang will be drawn down should be four years later.

In other words, Chen Zimo still has four years to prepare for the alchemy and increase the probability of alchemy.

The formation of alchemy is the same as foundation establishment, it mainly depends on the monk's mana, physical body and spiritual consciousness. The stronger the monk in these three aspects, the greater the probability of alchemy formation.

Forming alchemy with the Qi of Tiangang requires a stronger physical body and a more powerful spiritual consciousness than using other alchemy spirits to form alchemy.

Chen Zimo's physical body was tempered by [Zishu Yanglei]. Although it was not as good as the same level of physical cultivation, it was much stronger than the same level of monks.

After taking a lot of pills to enhance the spiritual consciousness, Chen Zimo's spiritual consciousness was also much stronger than that of the monks of the same rank, and he initially met the conditions for using the Qi of Tiangang.

With Chen Zimo's current state, the probability of successfully forming an alchemy with the Qi of Tiangang is no less than [-]%, so he is qualified to take the risk.

Now there are still four years before the Qi of Tiangang will be drawn down, so Chen Zimo will have at least three years to make more preparations to increase the probability of successful alchemy.

As for the last year, it was left by Chen Zimo to adjust his status.

Three years passed in a flash, and Chen Zimo put away the purple arc on his body and began to adjust his state.

In the past three years, Chen Zimo has only done one thing, that is to continuously temper his body with [Zishu Yang Thunder] and [Zishu Gang Thunder], to make his body stronger.

After three years, Chen Zimo's physical body has improved a lot compared to three years ago, and it is already comparable to a third-tier middle-grade monster.

Spring goes and autumn comes, and a year passes quickly.

Chen Zimo sat cross-legged on the ground, his eyes slightly closed, and a dazzling purple light surrounded his body.After a while, Chen Zimo opened his eyes, and a gleam of light appeared in them.

Chen Zimo has cultivated on the spiritual land for a year, adjusted his state to the best, and can already try to hit the alchemy stage.

And today is the day when this natural spirit body guides the Qi of Tiangang, and as time goes by, it comes to noon.

A ray of golden light flew down from the zenith, and after increasing in size dozens of times, it burst into dazzling golden light. This golden light was the aura of the heavenly gang.

When the Qi of Tiangang was about to fall, Chen Zimo changed the formula in his hand, and a ray of spiritual light flew towards the Qi of Tiangang.

The speed of the celestial qi that merged with the spiritual light slowed down suddenly, and then divided into countless golden light spots, like golden raindrops, slowly falling towards Chen Zimo.

Chen Zimo took a deep breath, pinched the magic weapon in his hand, and his body suddenly glowed purple.

The golden light spots rushed towards Chen Zimo as if they were being guided by some kind.

A large number of golden light spots fell on Chen Zimo's body, and then slowly sank into his body.

As the amount of celestial qi inhaled into his body continued to increase, Chen Zimo's skin slowly turned red, his face flushed, and his veins were exposed.

After a while, Chen Zimo showed pain on his face, but the Qi of Tiangang he needed was still a little short, so he could only continue to grit his teeth and persevere.