Chapter 604 - The heaven and demon stones (3)

Chapter 604

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The long line of Li'angs for recruiting as new batches of soldiers is progressing smoothly. A particular female general who has a neat appearance sat gallantly at the back of her mount. She looks at the line with her sharp gaze and carefully scrutinized the 'volunteers'.

Her beautiful face made some of the Li'ang males shifted their gaze as they didn't want to offend her. However, some of them could not help but give a few glances in her direction.

General Hlo was assigned to this task as one of the generals who are in charge of rounding up wild Li'angs for recruitment.

At this moment, her emotion is mixed with anger and frustration. At the meeting last night, she wanted to be the one to assist the human named Qiong Ji. However, it seems that the queen has already read her mind and assigned another general for the task.

Upon thinking up to this point, she grabs the reign of the mount tightly.

"I… I just wanted a good seed…" she thought.

In fact, as a general, she is one of the Li'ang females who are in light to be a queen because she has passed through the 30 years lifespan. And this year she is already 31 years old and she has already buried her previous partner.

Unlike most female Li'ang, General Hlo only picked one male as her partner until that partner of her died last year. They had a son which made her a bit unhappy but still took good care of the boy.

"General, we have a problem." Suddenly a Li'ang male soldier said interrupting her train of thought.

"What?"

"It seems that…"

The human soldier is currently having cold sweat drenching his back as the one checking him squinted his brows. The sudden flick of the tail from that soldier made the man feel anxious but still controlled his reaction and shows no emotion on his face.

"Hmm… Okay, you go." The soldier said which made the man heaves a sigh of relief.

Suddenly a commotion erupted from the walls of the secluded town.

Bang! Bang!

The sound of walls and trees being broken could be heard and the shout coming from the household interrupted the whole proceeding.

A few Li'ang soldiers suddenly jump up in the air towards the walls. And from that height, they can see a large beast rampaging while three of their companions face against it.

Although the Li'angs has superhuman strength and agility, they are currently unable to overwhelm the large beast.

"Attack! Everyone, attack!" shouted one of the soldiers as the three simultaneously charges towards the creature.

However, with a swing of its tail, the three soldiers were sent flying. Two of them hit the wall and one unlucky Li'ang hit a broken tree branch that skewered his stomach.

This situation angered the other Li'ang soldiers who saw this and immediately charges without thinking towards the beast and began fighting.

When General Hlo saw this scene, she immediately jumped off from her mount and draws a gleaming iron sword from the scabbard on her h.i.p.s.

When the human soldiers saw the attacking beast and the way the Li'ang fought the creature they were a bit scared. They already expected the Li'ang to be fierce creatures, but they never expected them to not be afraid of death.

The soldiers that the kingdom of Yun sent to infiltrate Under City were all martial cultivators with the strength to boot. Each of them is able to fight against beasts, but not a beast of that size. In order to fight against that thing, they needed at least two or more powerful sect elders to defeat it.

Suddenly they saw a beautiful figure walking towards the beast with a long sword on her side. When they saw the sword, they knew that it was a weapon that came from the kingdom of Yun. Instead of being awed a lot of them who are mingling with the crowd of onlookers had a sneer on their faces. They knew of the strength of the iron weapons.

Against that huge monster, how could an iron sword be effective?

And so they continue watching with secret sneers on their faces.

General Hlo concentrated on the foe in front of her. The other soldiers have already stood aside and the monster even noticed her slim dainty figure walking confidently towards it.

Suddenly, her crimson eyes seem to glow a bit and with that, a burst of strength was release from her foot.

Swoosh!!!

The sound of air was heard and everyone saw her figure suddenly appearing in front of the beast.

The beast itself as a bit stunned but did not retreat. It suddenly swung its head to attack the woman with its horns.

Clang!

A loud sound reverberates through the air and everyone saw the figure of their female general flying high up in the air. But then suddenly, she seems to step on something in the air while somersaulting. With that invisible step above her, she pushed her body back to the ground directly going towards the body of the beast.

Then another flash of her crimson red eyes happened and the sword on her hand began to glow.

Twang!

The beast shifted its huge body and tried to stand up to reach the woman in the air. But suddenly her figure flew like a bullet and then appears behind the beast.

Crimson blood slowly drips down the iron sword on her hand which now looks a bit dull with many jagged teeth on its blade.

Then the large beast fell to the ground lifeless, while General Hlo lets go of the iron sword and walked back to her mount nonchalantly.

Those who saw this scene especially the soldiers from her battalion just gave a knowing smile. They all knew that their general is one of the most powerful generals in the colony. In fact, she is actually hiding her strength and is rumored to be on par with the queen.

However, she didn't want the attention and just wanted to focus on her son. Hence she would only display her skills when needed.

In contrast to the reaction of the Li'ang soldiers, the human spy and wild Li'angs showed fear in their eyes. Who would have thought that such a powerful beast would be easily killed in the hands of that female general?

The human spies didn't want to look anymore and continue lining up.

Soon almost all of the spies and the other wild Li'angs were taken in the carriage and the army left the village.

Those spies, who were not taken by the caravan, left the village and ran back to the hidden army. They reported what they saw to the higher-ups.

When the human generals heard the report they were all a bit worried.

"A single Li'ang general is that powerful? This is a really hard mission that the king has given us. How should we proceed with this?" one of the generals asked.

"We just have to be careful. We must make sure to capture the entrance of the cave. Once we do that then the Under City would be ours for the taking."

"What if the Li'ang has other ways or paths?"

"Haha… we already did our assignments with that. Our troops have already located those small entrances and once the attack happened. We would proceed in blocking those paths as well."

"Then we could only rely on the martial cultivator army to stop them while the main army would directly poor in from the main entrance with the leaders of the sects."

As the generals and leaders of the large army planned, the caravan has already traveled down the road towards the main entrance cave of the Under City.

Meanwhile, deep within the caverns of the mines of the Under City, a figure could be seen roaming around the mining area while checking the rocks.

Shin Jiao did not waste his time and was able to analyze the components of the rocks. And what he discovered thoroughly surprised him.

This is because the rocks are actually not from this planet. And from the pattern of the rocks, it is clear that it came from outer space. It seems that there is an invisible line of patterns that is hard for him to discover for now unless he is able to see the location of the other black and white rocks.

Then from the woman, he learned that the Li'angs called these stones the heaven and demon stones. According to the legend left by them by their ancestors from a very long time ago, this large piece of land that spans for millions of kilometers was once a part of a huge continent.

However, a 'deity' descended on this place and activated the heaven and demon stones. Shin Jiao even saw the book that the female was talking about. Though he could not read it, the woman told him the story.

And with that, plus the map from the book, he is sure that he is still in the Cultivation land. In particular, he is in the kingdom of San. Where in the kingdom? That he didn't know.

Assign from that he also discovers that these stones actually belong to another plane. It is a place he once heard of from those demons and other immortal beings her met the Immortal plane.

As he checked the large stones using his suit and his contact lenses, he did not discover anything. All he noticed is the invisible barrier that is protecting the stones.

"These stones are affecting the other rocks around it and with time, everything was turned into something like it. It seems that these gigantic black and white stones are the same as the small stones being mined." He muttered to himself upon compiling the data he has gathered for two days.

Right now he is already satisfied with his research and has already acclimated himself to the surroundings.

He touches the array on his left shoulder and the armor protecting his body was removed. Once the armor left his body, he could feel that oppressing and powerful suction. But then he quickly balances and revolves his energy inside his body.

"Ah, this is the right wavelength. I guess, even if I go to space now, I would not be affected." He muttered to himself.

Although he is not sure about this, this is only his conjecture according to his research.

As he basks in his delight, he soon heard the Li'ang shouting. Then he noticed the woman who stood not far from him showed a panic expression on her face.