Chapter 719 483: Guzi Pass
Guzi Pass, known as the greatest heroic pass in the north of Daji, is built along the mountain range. It is called a heroic pass not because the mountains are tall, but because they are long.
The wonder lies in the mountain's stone material, which contains a mysterious power that can weaken nature's spiritual energy, causing the whole range to be dry and pale, devoid of life and greenery.
The entire mountain range and its walls resemble a pale, petrified dragon lying across the land.
The reason it can serve as a heroic pass against Beiyuan's Qi cultivators entering the Dragon Abyss interior is due to the gate city's walls, constructed from this 'Swallowing Spirit Stone'.
This results in the spells and mana of the Qi cultivators striking the walls but fails to create any breaches, as the walls absorb the spell's power, making them even sturdier.
Thus, the strategy reverts to the most traditional siege methods.
At this moment...
Outside Guzi Pass's Martial Temple, suddenly, a dazzling golden light flickered, and from within, three to five dozen young people emerged.
"So this is the heroic pass of Guzi Pass, which has stopped the Beiyuan Qi cultivators for half a year!"
One young person, upon emerging from the Martial Temple, instinctively noticed the gray-white mountain wall at the horizon's end, seemingly reaching the clouds.
"Wait, why is the sky outside the wall golden?" Suddenly, he shouted out.
"Are you the young military officers graduating from the Divine Martial Mountain?" At this moment, a scholar, followed by a group of soldiers, approached from not far from the Martial Temple. The middle-aged scholar smiled and stepped forward, saying, "I am Cui Gu, the Governor and Marshal's military chronicler, ordered to await the officers here. May I know which one of you is Major General Chen?"
"This is our Junior Brother Chen!" Immediately, the students stepped back, revealing a delicate young man.
"I am Chen Ku, greetings to Cui Changshi." Chen Ku cupped his hands and said, "We have come under the Imperial Court's command to report to the Governor's Army, please lead the way."
After Chen Ku spoke, the dozens of students behind him also bowed in salute.
They were fellow graduates reporting to Guzi Pass with Chen Ku, but unlike him, Chen Ku was conferred as Longyuan Major General, a third-rank title, and became the Right Army Vanguard General in the military.
Most of them were at most Thousand Commanders or Deputy Generals, grassroots officers cultivated by Divine Martial Academy for the toughest frontlines.
"Greetings, Major General Chen." Cui Gu immediately stepped forward to salute.
A third-rank major general ranked among the top five in the Marshal's whole camp, let alone a court-appointed right road vanguard general.
"Thank you." Chen Ku cupped his hands, then looked at the golden sky outside the city, asking, "I also have the same question as just now, why is the sky outside the wall..."
Hearing this, Cui Gu's expression became solemn, turning to look at the golden sky outside the city, he said:
"That is the leader of the Yuan Country Qi cultivators attacking our Guzi Pass... the Master of Lotus Temple!"
"What! That..."
The students behind Chen Ku immediately turned pale:
"So, is he attacking the city now?"
Even Chen Ku's face was grave, watching the golden light, spanning hundreds of miles, like a golden ocean, consistently surging against the Heavenly Dome on their side.
But it never crosses the invisible barrier of the city walls.
Chen Ku's gaze focused, spanning dozens of miles, vaguely seeing a tiny black dot on their side of the Heavenly Dome, like a human figure.
Before he could continue to enhance his eye power, he heard Cui Gu say:
"It's been half a month since the attack started, the siege master is the Master of Lotus Temple, the owner of one of the Yuan Country's top ten cultivation holy lands, Lotus Cave Heaven, a true Fourteenth Realm Ascender."
Upon hearing this, Chen Ku and his companions turned even paler.
Fourteenth Realm Ascender!
"Even a Fourteenth Realm Ascender couldn't breach Guzi Pass?"
The students gained newfound respect for the power of the Absolute Spirit Stones at Guzi Pass.
"It's not the Absolute Spirit Stones, but someone holding them off."
Cui Gu sighed and said:
"A Fourteenth Realm Ascender can manipulate space with a flick of a finger, breaking the city is not difficult. The reason Guzi Pass remains unbroken is entirely due to Marshal Li single-handedly holding back the Master of Lotus Temple, stalemating to this day."
Marshal Li...
"That figure, is it the Mountain Master?" At this point, Chen Ku pushed his eye power to the limit, just barely seeing that beneath the golden ocean spanning hundreds of miles, the tiny human figure was indeed their Divine Martial Mountain's Mountain Master, also the Governor of Dragon Abyss and Taiyue Provinces, Li Shentong.
"It's the Governor!"
"The Governor holding off a Fourteenth Realm Ascender by himself?"
The group exchanged glances, all looking towards that side.
Chen Ku immediately asked, "Mountain Master, at the Thirteenth Realm against the Fourteenth Realm, actually..."
Cui Gu seemed to understand what Chen Ku wanted to say.
After all, that was the Holy Land's Master.
Li Shentong was able to forcibly block despite being one layer down in realm.
"The Marshal holds a 'Emperor's Divine Armor' granted by the Grand Ancestor, a Fourteenth Realm Divine Spirit conjured by the Ancient Emperor, wearing it allows him to possess Fourteenth Realm power, but over time, it cannot last."
Cui Gu's eyes showed a trace of worry:
"And the Marshal needing to go, is entirely due to the sudden attack from the Master of Lotus Temple, and the reason relates to Divine Martial Mountain..."
"It was that examination day..."
Chen Ku and all others wore serious expressions.
They all recalled when those several Twelfth Realm death warrior Qi cultivators spoke, Li Shentong was captured by their Fourteenth Realm Qi cultivators.
It all started from that day.
"Then who is currently in charge inside the pass?" Chen Ku asked.
"The strategist."
Cui Gu said:
"It was the strategist who sent me to welcome the generals. Now please follow me to the Marshal's camp to register your names."
"Please!"
Immediately, Chen Ku and the dozens of others were led by this military chronicler towards the main camp.
On the way, they also heard about the origin and name of the current in-charge strategist of the city.
Xie Xuanji, a direct disciple of the Ghost Chess Valley, one of Daji's seven martial arts holy lands, thirty-seventh generation, apprenticed under the reclusive Elder Tianshu, mastering "Seven Techniques of the Hidden Talisman" and "Zongheng Baihe Strategy."
With the Star Track Inference Method, he can observe Ziwei's number at night, predicting the Beiyuan Qi cultivators' southward route with an error margin of only Thirty Li.
Before long, the young students and Chen Ku, under Cui Gu's guidance, arrived outside a grand hall.
They were about to enter.
But at this moment...
Woo~~~
Woo~~~
Suddenly, the sound of war drums and horns came from outside the city.
The next moment,
Voices resonated from the sky:
"Report to the Marshal's camp, enemy reinforcements have arrived, the one coming claims to be Yuan Wutian, challenging at Peak No. 131!"
Yuan Wutian?
Is he the one who defeated the Five-clawed Dragon King Xiang Kunlun of the Three Star Cave Holy Land?