Heartless Phoenix Queen - C224

However, when Zi Ling discovered that Ye Cang was only a general when he arrived at Eternal Abyss, she became slightly disheartened. Thus, she decided to pester Violet Garden when they left the city and set off with the army.

The Violet Garden naturally rejected her, but when she noticed a ten-year old little girl following closely behind the Violet Garden, she curiously asked who the child was.

“It’s my disciple. Come, Shuangshuang, this is you, um, call me auntie.” Violet Garden didn’t know how to teach Shuangshuang how to address this little sister of hers who was only a few years older than her.

Qu Shuangshuang called her auntie and then ignored Zi Ling. After Zi Ling touched the wall, she reluctantly returned to Ye Lan Cang’s side. Ye Indigo was in a great mood as he held the little girl in his arms. He also promised that if there was a war, she would definitely fight. At this moment, Zi Ling’s expression darkened.

After Zi Ling left, the Violet Garden was very curious as to why Qu Shuangshuang was so cold to Zi Ling, but she directly asked her. The child said without thinking, “I just don’t like her.”

Seeing that she couldn’t get any answers out of him, Zi Yuan didn’t pursue the matter.

After the transfer between the Helian Army and the Ye Clan’s army was completed, Helian and Zi Yuan led the great army and continued on their journey westward. The small town in the western part of the city was quickly overrun by the North Vietnamese army, which had high morale. What the Violet Garden didn’t know was that the villagers in these small cities and surrounding villages all secretly received news from Murong Xiu. After their hometown had been flattened by the Northern Desert Steel Cavalry, these people left their hometown and rushed to Furong Mountain.

During the Spring Festival, Helian Jun went to the west of the fortress, Mei An City. They reorganized the army in Mian’an for the Spring Festival. Helian Lie happily calculated that it would only take two months to nibble away the land of Xidao to the capital. At that time, it would be equivalent to completely conquering Xidong by force.

The Violet Garden also looked forward to the future, but she still felt uneasy about Murong Xiu’s escape. From her understanding of Murong Xiu, she knew that this man hadn’t made any movements since he had escaped. He must have been hiding somewhere and plotting a new power. However, the intelligence network of the Northern Yue was not strong enough to detect good information. She wanted to hear more about it from Feng Lingxue, but Feng Lingxue had also disappeared without a trace recently.

Although Mian City was also a stronghold city, its military status was not as important as the Flamedoor City. As a result, the Northern Yue Army left a small group of soldiers to guard the river and advanced forward. However, they encountered a sniper in front of them who was crossing the river.

The Mian River was very wide and swift, but it only had a pontoon bridge and a wooden bridge. Perhaps it was because Mian City wasn’t rich enough, but it didn’t have a stone bridge. He didn’t know if the wooden bridge had been destroyed by the Western Alliance, but the Northern Yue’s vanguard had discovered that the wooden bridge had been broken in half, and couldn’t leave at all. Therefore, the entire army could only cross the river from the pontoon bridge. When they crossed the pontoon bridge, the “water ghost” would continuously spew out from the Mei An river and pull the Northern Desert Army into the water. All the northern Yue soldiers who had poor kung fu skills or were unable to swim died in quick succession.

Seeing this, Helian Lie had no choice but to call for reinforcements and set up camp by the river. Although Helian’s reaction was fast, he still lost several thousand troops. It was night when the Helian camp was ambushed. A group of “water ghosts” crawled out of the Meian River and broke into the camp, hacking at anyone who saw them, killing them as soon as they saw them. Following that, “water ghosts” continued to rush into the northern army, forcing them to retreat step by step. Helian had to return to the city of Mian’an.

Helian Jun’s attack was strongly blocked by Liu Dan. After receiving the news, Murong Xiu immediately gathered the twenty thousand men from the Mt. Hibiscus to launch an attack on the city.

Murong Xiu’s attack had taken place during the night. As soon as Night Blue had finished warming up with his wife, he had heard of the military emergency report. The two of them quickly changed into their military uniforms and climbed up the city wall. Soon, they saw a sea of flames outside the city. Murong Xiu’s soldiers continued to charge forward as if they wanted to die. The rocket launchers had no effect on a portion of them. Ye Blueheaven reckoned that that part was the legendary Celestial Armored Soldiers. He pulled himself together and commanded the Murong Army outside of the Ye Family’s city gates to launch a long-range attack.

Murong Xiu reckoned that Night Blue had come out to command the fight, so he gave the order. Under the operation of several people, Mu Rong Xiu’s construction truck became a huge catapult. The catapult accurately threw flint at the city, burning a group of archers to death.

When the city was in a stalemate, a commotion broke out in the Hibiscus City. The West had started riots, attacking the North Vietnamese from within the city.

Inside the Ye Family’s city walls, they were being attacked from all sides. They were fighting passively. As for Murong Xiu’s siege equipment, they left him at a loss for what to do. Helpless, he made a decision. He brought along the elite forces of the Ye Family and Purple Ling. Opening the city gates, he abandoned the city and fled in the direction towards the direction in which Helian Jun was headed. He didn’t want himself and Zi Ling to fall into Murong Xiu’s hands. The matter of him being drugged by Murong Xiu had a huge impact on his mental state. The only plan he could come up with was to leave. Right now, preserving one’s strength was the most important.

Just like that, Murong Xiu easily took down Furong City and moved into the city. The citizens of Furong City were extremely happy as they welcomed the Regent. Tang Ao sat on his horse, tears once again appearing in the corner of his eyes. His heart, however, was filled with determination. He wanted to follow Murong Xiu for the rest of his life.

The Blue Night Blue Team brought their elite forces and fled to the west. They met up with the Helian Army, which could not advance, in Meishan City.

Helian Lie was furious when he saw that Ye Bluesilver had been defeated and fled to this place. The worry in her heart had finally appeared. This made her feel a lot more at ease. At the very least, she was now clear about Murong Xiu’s actions.

After a few days of observation, the Violet Garden discovered that most of the “water ghosts” were Heaven Armored Soldiers. Looking at the corpses of the water ghosts, Zi Yuan discovered that their clothing had excellent waterproof properties. They were probably made from a special type of plant found in Western Paradise. These waterproof properties of the clothing, the protection of the water ghost iron mechanism prosthesis will not be eroded by the water and rust first.

Helian Jun guarded Mei An City. With Mei An Mountain as his base, Liu Bao Jun was unable to completely take down Mei An City in a short period of time. Liu Chijun didn’t have a defensive mechanism as strong as Murong Xiu’s new army. Even if they did, it would be a huge problem for them to transport them from the other side of the Mian River.

As a result, the Northern Desert Army and the Western Alliance Army were currently in a stalemate in front of the Mei An River.

On this day, Zi Yuan, who was in a depressed mood, decided to take a stroll in Mei An mountain with his little disciple to relax by hunting. However, when Zi Ling heard this and wanted to follow, Qu Shuangshuang coldly snorted and stood beside Zi Yuan without saying a word. Hearing Qu Shuangshuang’s cold snort, Zi Ling was very dissatisfied. She walked over and pinched Qu Shuangshuang’s face: “Little girl, what are you doing?”

Qu Shuangshuang rolled her eyes and said, “It’s a burden.”

Zi Ling exploded, “How can I be a burden? I also know martial arts! ” As he spoke, he began to gesticulate. Even though Zi Ling’s martial arts had improved, in the eyes of Qu Shuangshuang, who had learned the skills of an assassin from the Violet Garden, these were just gaudy martial arts. Qu Shuangshuang didn’t even bother to attack her.

However, Zi Ling refused to forgive him. Qu Shuangshuang helplessly looked at her master, but Zi Yuan looked at her with a smile that was not a smile. Thus, she had no choice but to return the blow to Zi Ling and casually grabbed her wrist. With a shoulder throw, she threw the emaciated Zi Ling to the ground. The pain made Zi Ling curse incessantly, but she finally stopped hunting with Zi Yuan.

The Master and disciple duo went up the mountain lightly and fought a few rabbits in tacit understanding. The Violet Garden discovered that there was a place where the stone grew a little special. As she got closer, the metal sword in her hand seemed to be attracted over. An idea suddenly flashed through her mind. She ran over with great joy and took off all the iron parts on her body to test them. She discovered that this was indeed a magnetic ore mine!

“I have a brilliant plan!” Zi Yuan’s mood improved, and he immediately brought his disciple back to Mei An city. He gathered many laborers from the city and the nearby villages and towns and went into the mountains to mine the magnets.

It was also due to the lack of smelting that there were blacksmiths and blacksmiths in every city. Zi Yuan used his strength to make these civilians of Western Li listen to her commands. He refined the natural magnets into large U-shaped magnets.

After half a month of hard work, Zi Yuan produced five hundred magnets. Five hundred elite soldiers jumped out of the army, equipped with both water and martial arts skills, and wielding U-shaped magnets and weapons. Everyone looked at each other, at a loss. When Violet Garden secretly gathered these five hundred people and taught them how to use this weapon, the five hundred elite soldiers all began to rub their hands together. They all wanted to fight on the battlefield with the Heaven Armored Soldiers for a while.

Liu’s water ghost army crossed the Mian River once again, and when they came to harass them, Zi Yuan sent out three hundred magnets. The gravitational force of the magnet had dealt a devastating blow to the Heaven Armored Soldiers, who were equipped with a large amount of refined iron.

After the victory of the experimental battle, Zi Yuan ordered someone to make another three hundred magnets and gave them to Night Blue. After that, Helian Lie stayed behind to guard Mei An city, while Zi Yuan, after training three hundred magnets in the Night Army, rushed to Furong City together with Ye Lan Cang.

Murong Xiu hadn’t expected that Ye Blueheaven would return. What was even more unexpected was that the Northern Yue Army would actually possess a powerful weapon to deal with the Heaven Armored Soldiers. When he saw the face of Violet Garden in the crowd, he sighed to Tang Ao beside him, “This woman is my nemesis!”

Murong Xiu didn’t want to waste too much of his manpower, so he chose to abandon the city and flee, just like Azure Sky on that day and night. He had already made up his mind that if he lost the Orchid City again, he would take a detour to meet up with Liu Bao Jun and bring his newly developed siege car over to Liu Bai. He would combine his forces with Liu Bai’s to become an even stronger army and fight back against the frenzied assault from the North.

In addition, there was one more thing that he needed to resolve. That was, his young master who had previously imprisoned him. He was not a tolerant person. When his loyalty was tarnished by others and he created the suspicions of the young masters, he already had thoughts of revenge in his mind. When he was hibernating at the Hibiscus Mountains, he had not only planned how to take back Xi Li’s lost land, but he had also planned how to take revenge on the young master. Although he was previously a regent, he did not hold the emperor hostage to command the dukes. Instead, he thought for the young lord at all times and used his status as a subject to assist the young lord at all times. He hadn’t expected that after so many years of loyalty, he’d still be misunderstood and hated by the young master. Murong Xiu couldn’t take this lying down.

After Mu Rong Xiu had defeated the Hibiscus City, he used the complex terrain of the Hibiscus Mountains to escape the Northern Yue Army’s pursuit. With his remaining 10,000 troops, he headed east and then north, taking back a few small cities and villages along the way as well as expanding his army. A month later, he and forty thousand men and horses met up with Liu Dun, who had retreated from the other side of the Meian River to the Mt. Ming Lun.