Chapter 606 - 350: West Mountain Demon Sealing

The second stop is the Sealing Demon Land on West Mountain, where we need to check if the ropes sealing the path are intact. We also have to pluck leaves from the old locust tree by the roadside as proof.

However, Lingwu’s Domain Army Eagle Patrols are all elite experts in Refining Gang Fist, charging into battle fully armored is just a warm-up, they don’t need to rest. Also, everyone is rushing to grab first prize in Fireworks Alley, naturally speeding up the pace to march towards West Mountain. The journey is swift and fiery.

Perhaps after showing some skills, I’ve piqued the interest of these seasoned soldiers, and two of them, chatterboxes, decided to chat with Huangfu Yi.

"Brother Bai, judging from your accent, you are also from Genzhou, which makes you one of us.

I’m Guo Aman, and he is Sun Tiezhu. We’re just lacking someone who can draw a bow, are you interested in teaming up?"

"Teaming up?"

Huangfu Yi noticed that these two seemed to be around his age, well, close to thirty at least, not like the old man Mr. Feng Sr.

Guo Aman is bald with a scarred face, sturdy and strong, carrying a round shield, wielding a copper hammer, and has a horizontal knife on his waist. In a wolf fur robe, he’s dressed like a brute. Earlier, he took a hit from a tiger, brushed off his pants, and was fine.

Sun Tiezhu, on the other hand, is tall with long arms, dark-skinned, with prominent temples, holding a step spear over four meters long, wearing full iron armor weighing twenty to thirty pounds, seems like an honest and simple farmer, but earlier, he silently sneaked behind and stabbed the tiger’s rear.

Huangfu Yi glanced over and saw Mr. Feng Sr. didn’t care about this side, evidently indifferent, so he asked,

"Aren’t we already teamed up now?"

Guo Aman said,

"Oh, well, it doesn’t always rotate to you. Patrolling the Sealing Demon Land is a tough job, rotating every seven days. Usually, Eagle Patrols are scattered to hunt.

The three of us could team up to hunt demons, we act as vanguard, split the money when the caravan comes by at the end of the month."

Upon hearing this, Huangfu Yi knew this guy was not being honest.

His words sounded fair, like everyone was taking similar risks, hunting demons together, naturally splitting the gains. But in fact, he claimed to be the vanguard, yet he can hide behind a shield the whole time, demons aren’t foolish, would they focus solely on him? Instead, the archer is certainly targeted, not to mention arrows cost money?

As for Sun Tiezhu, he was not simple either, although looking honest and quiet, Sun Tiezhu discreetly collected the blood clothes the tiger shed during chaos; now was it to be split fairly?

"Alright, I’ve just arrived. Please take care of me, Brother Guo and Brother Sun!"

However, Huangfu Yi still agreed readily, no big deal, he plans to leave within two days anyway.

Guo Aman beamed with joy,

"Good brother, quite straightforward, I see you have such skills at a young age and look like a promising talent, surely you’re not a fish in a small pond. When you succeed, remember to lend us a hand!"

"Brother, you’re joking. Bai Yi is just a rustic, doesn’t know the rules, afraid of offending others, surely needs to learn from you two."

Guo Aman felt this youngster knew his place well, and patted his chest boasting,

"No problem, if there’s anything you don’t understand, feel free to ask, I’ve traveled extensively in my days, haven’t seen it all!"

Huangfu Yi’s eyes lit up,

"Oh? Have you been to the Three Constellations? Seen the Capital? How big are the twenty-eight constellations?"

Guo Aman, "Uh... no."

Huangfu Yi thought for a moment,

"Then have you been to Ye Capital? Are there a lot of people there?"

Guo Aman, "What’s good about that place..."

Sun Tiezhu muttered,

"You want to go to Ye Capital?"

Huangfu Yi said,

"My dad seems to have fled north from Ye Capital, if there’s a chance, of course, I’d like to take a look."

Sun Tiezhu made an "oh" and closed his mouth again.

Guo Aman shook his head and said,

"Brother Bai, not to dampen your spirits, but ever since the Heavenly King Army reached Henan, now stuck in the Capital in a tough battle, unable to look north, Genzhou is already a mess.

Nominally, everyone follows the Heavenly King’s decree, adhering to his orders, but realistically, it’s the vassals acting independently, attacking each other. Everywhere there’s rampant demon chaos, the evil cult causing havoc, Demon Sect’s evil people running wild, doing as they please, no longer the world Immortal Palace once established.

Our Lingwu Town stands at the forefront of resisting the Demon Tide, seems dangerous, but in truth, it’s quite alright. This place has nothing but demon monsters, other vassals won’t be foolish enough to stab us in the rear.

The yearly Demon Tide invades in autumn and winter, only attacks when the weather is cold. Even if a Great Demon appears, we only need to hold on temporarily, Sword Immortals will descend from the skies to aid us.

But that’s not the case in the south, those military leaders fight every year, attack every month, waging war, creating mountains of corpses and seas of blood, white bones cover the fields, Ye Capital has been slaughtered countless times; you arrive there, what can be done? No one left there.

I think it’s better to hide safely here in Lingwu."

Huangfu Yi heard that even in Lingwu, where death is commonplace, it’s considered stable, he was speechless for a moment, then pursued further,

"I heard that Heavenly King Stone Dragon once had tens of thousands of soldiers from Kan Country, swept the Northern Land, charging into the Central Plains. How has he been stuck in Henan for so many years?"

Seeing the youngster truly curious, genuinely asking, Guo Aman also laughed,

"You are indeed from the mountains, inexperienced, haven’t even heard about the blood battle in Suiyang back then?"