Chapter 252: Listening to Opera and Subduing Demons

"Liangzhou?"

The waiter was not impatient when he heard Li Hao's question. Instead, his eyes suddenly lit up and he smiled and said:

"Sir, are you from Liangzhou? Then you must have seen the young general Haotian?"

"Huh?"

Li Hao was surprised and said, "You know it too?"

"Look at what you said, who wouldn't know it!"

The waiter couldn't help laughing: "Our Youzhou is not far from Liangzhou. The turmoil in Liangzhou a few months ago and the siege and attack by those damn demons have long been spread to all states. I heard that the old man of the General's Mansion of the Xia Family in Youzhou also went there to reinforce. "

He said, looking at Li Hao with curiosity and expectation:

"I heard that in that catastrophe, the demons came out in full force, countless demons swept across, and the demon kings were flying all over the sky. It was so huge that the sky was colorless and the ground was green. It was like a swarm of locusts, leaving no grass behind. At that time, Liangzhou was about to fall. Who would have thought that a young general named Haotian would appear and suppress all those demons. In the end, a single battle flag could deter countless demons. Is this true? "

"..."

Li Hao didn't expect that the news of Liangzhou had spread here, and even a waiter in a town in Youzhou knew about it.

But it seems normal. After all, several months have passed, and the news has spread almost as fast as it can.

"That's about right."

Li Hao asked, "What's the situation in Liangzhou now? Have the demons retreated? Is there still war?"

"It's been peaceful for a long time now. How can any demon dare to go to Liangzhou? I heard that the royal family has sent troops to clean up and deal with the aftermath. Not to mention demons, even a stray dog ​​now has to hang a sign before entering the city. The control there has been very strict recently."

The waiter told what he heard.

Li Hao secretly breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that it was the Candle God and his wife who were in charge of the Liangzhou war at that time. The real power of Longmen and Shenggong was not gathered in Liangzhou.

And now, the biggest demon king who attacked Liangzhou at that time was standing behind him and had surrendered to him.

Thinking of this, Li Hao didn't say anything more. He went to the room to change into the simple clothes prepared by the waiter. He looked at the night outside. It was still early at this time, and there were noisy gongs and drums in the town.

Li Hao was in a good mood and said to Xi Yan, "I'll take you out for a walk."

"Okay!"

Xi Yan became lively when she heard this, and her little red beard rubbed around Li Hao's wrist, and she curiously transmitted her voice:

"The young general Haotian that person just mentioned, is it you?"

"Yes."

"Is young general a position? There doesn't seem to be such a title in the Great Wilderness."

Xi Yan stayed in the Great Wilderness, and the information she got was obtained from those who went to rob the Daoyun Blood Fruit. She knew only a little about the Great Wilderness, and knew nothing about the human race in the Dayu Divine Dynasty.

Li Hao smiled, patiently explained to her through voice transmission, and took her and the Candle Fire God out.

As for Madam Yin, she stayed in Li Hao's space of heaven and earth.

Previously, Madam Yin was healed and injected with a lot of heaven and earth power. Madam Yin also briefly merged with the Candle Fire God, and seemed to have touched the threshold of the Dao realm and was in seclusion.

In the night, Li Hao strolled around this country town.

Although the town is old and dilapidated, the smell of firewood and food from each family is wafting, and it is filled with the smell of fireworks.

Stone roads, old wooden piles, and gurgling streams flow through thousands of households.

Lanterns are hung along the way, as if it is a festival.

Following the sound of gongs and drums, Li Hao came to the center of the town, where there is a stage, and many people are standing outside the stage to listen to the opera.

There are tables and chairs in the front row, and some well-known officials and gentry in the town sit there eating melon seeds, drinking tea and listening to the opera.

Xiyan is like a curious baby, asking Li Hao questions and being curious about everything.

Candle Fire God is like Li Hao's shadow, quiet and inseparable, but although he looks indifferent, he is also observing everything around him, and his eyes reflect the picture of the world.

Children are playing outside the stage, fighting paper sparrows, and the old people applaud and praise the good opera from time to time.

Li Hao walked forward, handed over a silver ingot, came to a tea table and sat down, and also sat down and listened to the drama quietly.

In the night of the Great Wilderness, during a short rest, you can only look at the stars and the moon, and play music to kill time, but here it is rare to relax.

But not long after, Li Hao's expression changed slightly, but he did not get up, just casually grabbed the melon seeds on the table, cracked a few gently, and threw the melon seed shells to the ground.

The melon seed shells that fell to the ground suddenly flew up in the night, as if a breeze had risen, whistling over the town, and then rushed to the hillside more than ten miles outside the town.

Here, a group of demons came in the night wind.

Staring at the lights of the town ahead, as well as the lively gongs and drums and laughter, they showed a grim smile on their faces.

But the demon in the lead had just said a word, and suddenly, a melon seed shell that fell from the sky, like a small black dot, quickly passed by.

Puff puff puff!

Under the power of controlling objects, it quickly penetrated their bodies.

More than a dozen demons were killed on the spot, and they didn't even see how they died.

Only a melon seed shell was left, falling beside the body of the last demon.

In the town, the opera was still going on. Outside the town, the moonlight was quiet, covering the bodies of these demons.

"Good."

When Li Hao heard the wonderful part, he also followed the crowd around him and applauded.

After the opera was over, the people in front of the stage dispersed, and Li Hao followed the crowd, took Xiyan and Zhuhuo Shen back to the inn, and fell asleep.

Since coming to the Great Wilderness, it has been a long time since I slept well.

At dawn the next day, the sun rose and shone on the monsters outside the town. I don’t know who saw the corpses of these monsters in the light of the morning light. They were so frightened that they screamed and fled to the town in panic. Si ran.

The dilapidated door of the Demon Suppression Department was only ajar. The two Demon Suppression Envoys had not yet put on their clothes and were sleepy-eyed. After hearing the news, they rushed to the hillside in shock and uncertainty. When they saw the corpses of the monsters, they were all frightened. ,stunned.

The news about the corpse of a demon outside the town spread quickly, causing everyone in the town to be shocked and panicked. However, at dawn, Li Hao asked the waiter for the direction of Liyang City, and took a candle with him. Vulcan rushed over.

Now that I'm here, I'll take a look. Liyang City is in trouble. The Xia family is also the residence of the divine general. They rushed to help Liangzhou. Li Hao didn't turn a blind eye and leave directly. After all, he is also a human race.

Along the official road, he passed two cities. When entering the city, Li Hao quietly covered Xiyan's body with his Dao domain, while the Candlefire God relied on his own Dao domain to cover up his aura. Although there was no demon's customs clearance ultimatum. , but also escaped the detection of the magic circle on the city.

The magic circle can only detect the monsters in the Ultimate Learning Realm, but there is nothing that can be done against the demons in the Taiping Realm who control the Dao Realm.

Unless it is the capital of a large state or the land of an imperial city, there are special magic weapons that can be sensed even by monsters in the Taiping Dao realm.

But there are very few of these, and ordinary cities can only rely on magic formations.

Those two cities were also heavily guarded. Obviously, there were demon attacks, but they were not as serious as Liyang City.

When Li Hao passed by, he also helped them deal with the monsters lurking dozens of miles outside the city.

To him, it was just a matter of thought.

Liyang City.

The border town in the northwest of Youzhou is surrounded by towering mountains, like a natural barrier, so Liyang City becomes the biggest obstacle here.

And this is also the main road in the northwest of Youzhou. The Xia family has sent heavy troops to guard it all year round. Losing Liyang City is equivalent to losing the northwest border of Youzhou, which will also lead to the loss of more than a dozen other cities.

At this moment, dozens of miles outside the city, there were numerous corpses piled up, including demons and Xia family soldiers, as well as broken battle flags covering the corpses.

In the city lord's palace and the meeting hall, three staff officers and seven generals are here. Several of them are young major generals from the Xia family. Their faces are red at the moment and they are holding back their anger.

"These damn beasts, they have cut off the supply of food and grass, and plan to trap us here to death!"

"If you want to capture us at the minimum cost, these monsters will try their best!"

"Should we ask for help from the family? There are two demons in the third level of immortality among the demons. I don't know if there are any hidden ones. If we hadn't relied on the magic circle, we would have lost it a long time ago. There is no need to hold on."

"Asking for help? The demons in Gluttony Valley are waiting for us to ask for help. Once the family sends people over, they may have ambushed them in advance, intercepted and killed them, and planned to use us as bait!"

"Yes, the family is not optimistic either. The owner of the Gluttony Valley just went to make a big fuss half a month ago. We still don't know where he is hiding."

"Now we are guarding Liyang City. We can't rely on the family to help us with everything. We have to solve this problem ourselves. Otherwise, we can follow the method of Duke Xingwu of the Li family in Yanbei and spread the news to all parties. Is the family coming for reinforcements?”

"The situation is different. Yanbei is not defended by those aristocratic families' troops, it is just a smaller part of the help."

"Smallness is power, and it can always make those aristocratic families bleed. They only know how to make money, eat and drink, and exploit the people. When the demons come to kill them, they will just move and shrink to a deeper place. They have no sense of responsibility. Now is the time for them to contribute!"

"It's difficult. We don't have much time to appeal now. I have a suggestion."

"What?"

Everyone looked at one of the staff officers.

The middle-aged staff officer looked around, especially looking at several Xia family major generals, and whispered:

"How about we change the battle flag?"

"Change the battle flag?"

"That's right, you all know what happened in Liangzhou. Why don't we try to send an elite force, change their armor, hang up the battle flag of Major General Haotian of Liangzhou, and pretend to be reinforcements from the pass?"

After hearing the words of the middle-aged staff officer, everyone was stunned, but the eyes of several Liyang City guards lit up, feeling that it was a good idea.

But the three young major generals of the Xia family had ugly expressions. One of them was thinking deeply, while the other said angrily:

"Impossible! This is Youzhou, the place where our Xia family belongs. We are not dead yet, yet we are actually flying the battle flag of an outsider?!"

The middle-aged staff officer also expected that there would be opposition, and quickly said: "Now is a special period. As long as it can save the people, as long as it can be effective and save many casualties of soldiers, this is real."

"no!"

The young major general said angrily: "In this Youzhou, there can only be one kind of battle flag, and that is the battle flag of my Xia family! This is the headquarters of our Xia family!"

"This is just a temporary measure..." The middle-aged staff officer wanted to persuade him again.

"What if hanging that human battle flag didn't scare away these monsters?"

Another person interrupted him and asked: "That person has disappeared a long time ago. His battle flag has been studied by demons in the past few months. How can it still have such a great deterrent effect? ​​Now people are taking his flag everywhere." The battle flag is trying to intimidate the demons, and the demons have already seen through this, so the battle flag’s intimidating power is no longer that great.”

"As generals, we can't be like those stupid people. Listening to the mythical legend, we really regard a teenager as a god. No matter how strong he is, he has been missing in the Dead River for so long, and his battle flag has long lost its deterrent power!"

"That's right."

The young major general said: "Don't pin your hopes on outsiders. Let's think about how to attract one of the three immortal demon kings and try to send it into the magic circle with the formation order. We will beat the fallen dog."

The middle-aged staff officer couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he heard it. He knew that these young men of the Xia family valued and cared too much about the honor of the Xia family, which led to such a thoughtless rejection.

In fact, he felt that it would have some effect. If he was lucky, he could even break a gap and bring hope.

When they discussed again, a vibration sound suddenly came.

Everyone in the meeting room was startled, and several generals rushed out.

The magic circle outside Liyang City appeared, with golden runes flashing, and a middle-aged figure in the air outside the city was waving his sickle-like arms and bombarding the magic circle.

"Stop!"

A young major general of the Xia family took off and shouted angrily.

"I thought you were sleeping, so I'll wake you up."

The middle-aged figure chuckled, but did not stop. Instead, he continued to attack the magic circle a few more times: "Don't let your guard down, we will attack at any time."

His swaggering attitude made the young major general's face red with anger, knowing that the other party wanted them to stay tense at all times and not give them a chance to relax and rest.

They can still adjust and adapt, but the troops in the city are inevitably panicked, and they don't have such good physical and mental support.

"If you mess with my Xia family, you will pay the price sooner or later in Gluttony Valley!"

The young major general said angrily.

"Oh? What price? I'm here now, come out and let me see?" The middle-aged figure said with a sneer.

Several other generals also flew over and told the young major general not to be impulsive. One of the veterans stepped out, exuding the aura of the Three Immortal Realms.

The middle-aged figure saw this and immediately stopped and retreated hundreds of meters, sneering: "I will come again tomorrow."

After that, he was about to leave.

The veteran rushed out directly and roared: "This is not a place where you can come and go as you please!"

He rushed out of the magic circle and burst out with power to kill.

The middle-aged figure retreated rapidly, and the two chased all the way, but when they were thousands of meters away, the veteran could only stop in anger. He saw that there were dense demons in front of him, and if he continued to chase, he would be ambushed.

"Heh."

Seeing that the other party did not fall into the trap, the middle-aged figure did not care, chuckled, and immediately called the demon army in the distance to prepare to retreat.

But at this moment, a figure rode a horse on the official road in the distance.

The crisp sound of horse hooves trampled on the official road and came slowly.

"Hmm?"

"There are still some who are not afraid of death. They dare to walk on this official road. Do they also want to kill monsters and win fame?"

The middle-aged figure saw the young man riding on the official road, and his eyebrows slightly raised, but he ignored him. This kind of young master from aristocratic family in the human race is very stupid. Many people have died here recently.

He turned and flew straight away, but he didn't fly far. After only a few hundred meters, he suddenly stopped.

It was because he felt that the demon tide occupying both sides of the official road behind him was rapidly decreasing.

He suddenly turned around and saw a strange scene.

The young man rode on horseback, and the horse's hooves were not in a hurry, but where he stepped, the demon tide outside the official road that was ready to attack the young man and share him quickly fell stiffly like a withered wheat field, losing the breath of life.

When the middle-aged figure turned his head to look, the young man also raised his head slightly and saw him.

The moment their eyes met, the middle-aged figure felt his heart contract violently, and then, an indescribable aura suddenly enveloped him.

Bang!

His body exploded in mid-air.