Chapter 115: Chapter 114: So Go Against, So Retreat (Please Subscribe) Chapter 115: Chapter 114: So Go Against, So Retreat (Please Subscribe) Sword Pavilion Building, the fireworks burned intensely, under the fluctuating firelight of the night sky.
A na reverberated lingeringly.
The Pass Colonel gazed into the distant night, muttering this na under his breath.
“Chen Yuan”
Before long, a subordinate hurried over.
“My lord, isn’t that person from the Mountain-cutting Army?”
The subordinate could not help but speak in surprise, his eyes involuntarily following the direction of the disappearing figure, his heart trembling.
In the ti it takes to drink a cup of tea, one person had slain three Taoist Soldier Demons, arrived with a thunderclap that shook the sky, and after the deed, departed as if dusting off his robe.
An overbearing presence, his aura soared to the heavens!
The Pass Colonel shook his head.
There was no such person in the Mountain-cutting Army.
Nor was he heard of in Shu’s Martial World.
“Right, that passage?” At this mont, the Colonel’s eyes suddenly condensed, looking at the column of light penetrating heaven and earth outside the border, from which those demons erged.
After that passage appeared, their first reaction was to destroy it, yet they could not breach it and then it led to subsequent events.
Suddenly, at that mont, a loud rumbling noise ca from afar.
That thick golden column of light flashed suddenly, then disappeared.
…….
White Emperor City, the night was heavy, yet the city was brightly lit.
In a common household, a woman in a red skirt with a brown floral scarf hurriedly packed a blue bundle, extinguished the room’s lights, and led a young child out the door, closing it with a “squeak.”
At this ti, the young child with pigtails innocently asked, “Mom, why do we have to leave ho?”
The woman sighed, patted his head, “Because bad people are coming to our ho, and our family needs to hide.”
The child naively responded: “If there are bad people, dad will protect us, dad is very strong.
Right, dad?”
Saying this, the child turned his head, looking at the door at the man who seed as tall as a mountain to him.
The woman also turned her head, looking at her husband fraught with heavy thoughts at the door and softly said:
“Husband, let’s go!”
The man, dressed in a short fighting outfit and with a knife at his waist, was then looking towards the door, his gaze flickering.
At that mont, in front of the door in this lane, people from various households were closing doors, afterward dragging family mbers along with their belongings, rging into a stream of people flowing into the main street.
Hearing his wife’s call and his son’s tender voice, the man’s gaze flickered, eventually resulting in him saying,
“Let’s go!”
Subsequently, the man, leading his wife and child, followed the stream of people, exited the lane, and rged into the main street.
At that mont, viewing from above White Emperor City, one could see clusters of lights from streets and alleys converging into a stream of fire, entering the main street, then rushing towards the Southern City Gate of White Emperor City.
That’s the direction leading out of the city towards inside the border!
Hundreds of thousands of citizens, following the withdrawal order issued by the Prefecture, comnced evacuation.
But among them, so were shouting angrily, moving against the flow towards the Northern City.
“Cowards, fleeing at the drop of a hat!
It’s right for the old, weak, won, and children to evacuate, but what about the n of our Prefecture?
The Demon Cult’s Human Demons attacking the city scare you to wits?
Not only did the Prefecture issue a retreat order, there’s also a summoning order.
True n should arm themselves and fight those beasts to death!”
Among the crowd, so people found these words harsh to hear, and lacking the courage, could only make an excuse, reluctantly speaking to their companions,
“When the sky falls, there’s soone tall to bear it.
Those powerful families and Colonels in the city, things should be alright.
We ordinary folks, how can we handle these matters?
We should follow the order and evacuate, right?”
But just then, from behind in the queue, there was commotion among soldiers.
“Move aside!”
“Move aside!”
Soon, horses galloped from the rear, stirring chaos in the crowded street.
Teams of soldiers on horseback, dragging large carts filled with boxes, headed towards the southern city gate to exit the city.
Civilians who were disturbed along the way wanted to curse angrily, but seeing these people and the symbols on the carts, they could only swallow their rage.
After these troops left, people began to curse openly.
“Those from the Four Seas Gang are a bunch of villains, truly lawless.”
“Four Seas Gang, are they also preparing to leave with so many carts?” soone exclaid in surprise.
More were yet to leave, and soon, the populace saw troops from various prefecture powers departing.
The monks from Feilong Temple.
The Zhang Family from White Emperor City.
……..
“What’s happening?
With all these people gone, who will guard the prefecture?
Just relying on the Colonel and his Xuanjia Army, will it be enough?”
Seeing this, the citizens whispered among themselves; what was initially an orderly stream of people quickly turned chaotic, and they rushed towards the city gate.
Soon after, that man protected his wife and children out of the Southern City Gate.
Suddenly, he stopped.
“What’s wrong, dear?” his wife asked, as an intimate companion, she could sense her husband’s heavy heart all along the way.
The man turned his head, looking at his usually gentle wife, as if he had made a great decision.
“Little Sister Lian!”
“I plan to go back for a while; you take our child to Xia Guan County and wait for .
There are more people, everyone can look out for each other.” The man spoke softly.
“Are you preparing to answer the call to join the military?” the wife asked with a slight rush in her voice.
“How did you know?”
“I know you have always had the spirit of a gallant hero.
After you read that book two days ago, you were ecstatic, saying you wanted to be such a person.”
Hearing that, a determined look flickered in the man’s eyes, and his rough hands grasped his wife’s shoulders, “A true man should act this way, I have practiced martial arts for many years, now is the mont to use them.
Now that everyone is fleeing the city, it is when people are most needed, Little Sister Lian….”
He trailed off, unsure how to continue.
But then he saw his wife hugging him tightly, her head buried in his broad chest, she softly said, “No need to say more, when I married you, I knew my husband was a man of ttle.
I know I can’t stop you, but promise , you must co back whole.”
The man embraced his wife tenderly for a while, then let go, seeing the tears twinkling at the corner of her eyes, he wiped them away with his hand, and smiled,
“I am tough, don’t worry about !”
Then, glancing at his son who was still unaware of the situation, he squatted down, his large, rough hand caressed the child’s cheek, and he said with a smile,
“Son, Daddy is going to fight the villains, you listen to your mom, wait for to co back.”
The young child’s eyes brightened upon hearing this,
“Okay, Daddy fight the villains, Daddy will protect and mom!”
“Haha,” the man laughed loudly, lifting him up for a hug, then stood up and looked at his wife.
“I’m leaving!”
Saying this, he turned around, grabbed his sword, and without hesitation, briskly moved against the stream of people, re-entered the city.
He walked urgently through the streets, moving from the noisy Southern City to the starkly different atmosphere of the Northern City.
In the Northern City, the air was filled with a harrowing chill; squadrons of troops rushed about, urgent as raindrops.
At the Northern City gate, shouting could be heard.
“Qinghua Lane, Yang Biao!”
“East Market Street, Zhu Qing!”
“South Gate, Fu Shan!”
“……”
Following the sounds, the man reached the Northern City gate, where several martial artists were reporting their nas in front of a red list.
Below the list, armored soldiers were recording their nas.
The man stepped forward, raised his hand and called out.
“Chicken-calling Lane, Yue Dao!”
The recorder’s brush flew, then looking up,
“Armored!”
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