When the ceremony was more than halfway through, Ziye suddenly realized that something was wrong. Logically speaking, during the ceremony of worshiping the heavens, there should be many heavy soldiers guarding the foot of the mountain to prevent idlers from entering. Why was there no one at the foot of the mountain at this time? Could it be, those dark nights?

The army is all participating in the heaven-sacrifice ceremony together on the mountain?

After thinking about it for a while, Ziye was still a little worried, so he sent spies to continue to inquire. After a while, the spies came back and reported that there were only a dozen hall masters of the Dark Night Army and a few ordinary Dark Night Army present on the mountain.

After hearing this, Ziye became even more puzzled. They had clearly agreed to bring their respective armies to come together and reorganize. Before he came, even the basement for training the army in Longyue Kingdom was prepared. Why did he only bring thousands of troops?

Elite soldiers, but where is Duanmu Yun’s Dark Night Army?

Just when Ziye was puzzled, someone suddenly came to report, "The ceremony of worshiping the heaven is over. Young Master Duanmu invited General Ziye to come for a meeting."

"I know." Ziye replied lightly, with a pair of dark eyes shining with cold light. Although he had doubts at the moment, Duanmu Yun invited him to go up the mountain. How could he refuse? It seemed that he could only go up the mountain and ask.

Duanmu Yun, maybe Duanmu Yun's dark night army hasn't arrived yet.

Therefore, Ziye temporarily put aside his doubts and set out for the mountains with the three thousand elite soldiers he brought from Shuxing Kingdom.

By the time they reached the top of the mountain, the moon had already begun to set in the west. Duanmu Yun had just finished the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the sky and was walking down from the Temple of Heaven.

"General Ziye, you're fine." Duanmu Yun put his slender and white hands into the basin brought by the servant, washed them, wiped them clean with a dry towel, and said with a smile, without any smile on his face.

A touch of warmth.

"Young Master Duanmu is concerned about you. Everything is well in Ziye." Ziye smiled and replied lightly. But just a second after he said these words, his face was shocked. He had clearly never told Duanmu Yun.

Why does Duanmu Yun know his name?!

Duanmu Yun naturally saw the doubts in Ziye's heart, and glanced at Ziye's left hand. The eye-catching scar under the moonlight looked particularly scary. It seemed that the man really didn't lie to him.

Ziye raised his head and looked at Duanmuyun, and his eyes met Duanmuyun's sharp eyes. But after all, Ziye was a guard who had been lurking around the eldest prince Xiao Langtian for many years. He naturally knew how to respond to Duanmuyun's questioning eyes.

Duanmu Yun must proceed with caution before making his next move.

Seeing that Duanmu Yun was silent for a long time, Ziye suddenly smiled with relief and said, "Young Master Duanmu, Ziye has brought his three thousand elite soldiers, why don't you see your Dark Night Army?"

"Hehehe. General, don't worry, I'll let them out right now."

"Pa, pa, pa" Duan Muyun raised a cold smile at the corner of his mouth, clapped his hands three times, and saw many dark night troops suddenly appearing around him, surrounding Ziye and the others layer by layer.

"Duanmu Yun, why are you going back on your word!" Ziye drew out the sword in his hand, pointed at Duanmu Yun, and shouted angrily.

"Hmph! You have the nerve to ask me, then what are you and Xiao Langmo's intentions?" Duanmu Yun sneered, his cold smile and sharp eyes startled Ziye.

How could Duanmu Yun know about the prince's conspiracy?! Why could he set up an ambush here in advance? What on earth is going on?! No matter how many doubts Ziye had in his heart, it was too late, because next, he heard the message from the mountain

There were screams one after another.

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When they first arrived, there were already assassins ambushing them from the bottom of the mountain to the top?! No wonder, his spies came to report that there was no sign of the Night Army on the mountain. It turned out that they were ambushing them halfway up the mountain.

Ziye suddenly moved his hand, and stabbed Duanmuyun straight with a sharp sword. Seeing that Ziye was going to harm his young village master, the Dark Night Army who was blocking Duanmuyun quickly raised their swords to meet Ziye's attack, while the surrounding people

The other Dark Night Army also jumped up and attacked Ziye and the army he brought, and a fierce battle began.

During the entire fight, Duanmu Yun did not move a finger. He just stood in the moonlight like a god and watched the bloody storm with cold eyes.

After a while, someone came from the bottom of the mountain to report that the elite soldiers brought by Midnight had been wiped out by their Dark Night Army and another army of killers on the way. Now only those on the mountain who were fighting to the death were left.

When Ziye heard the spy's report, he was slightly startled, "What?! Thousands of elite soldiers he brought all the way were ruined like this?! And there was another army of killers. Who was helping secretly?

Duanmu Yun?!"

Unexpectedly, because he was distracted for a moment, he was accidentally stabbed. Ziye suddenly became angry and like a beast, he launched a fierce attack on the Dark Night Army. After all, Ziye's martial arts were very strong, and within a short time, more than a dozen of the Dark Night Army fell to the ground.

Duanmu Yun looked at the corpses of the sacrificed Night Army, frowned slightly, and looked into the distance. He happened to see a group of killers in red clothes coming here. Only then did Duanmu Yun raise a smile on his face.

, asked the servants to take out the grand master's chair that he had already ordered, and sat there leisurely to drink tea.

Gradually, Ziye became a little outnumbered and had been injured in many places. Duanmuyun saw that the red shadow killers sent by Xiao Langtian had already surrounded the outer circle. He waved his command flag and all the Dark Night Army retreated. The next step was

Let’s see how sincere Xiao Langtian is.

Ziye used his sword to support his body, looked at the red-clothed killers around him, and immediately understood that all this was the eldest prince's conspiracy. Unfortunately, by the time he understood it, it was too late. Now, he had to take care of himself.

Of the 3,000 elite soldiers who came, only fifty remained. Even if they fought a last-ditch battle, they would not be able to retreat unscathed.

At this moment, an elite soldier next to Ziye whispered in Ziye's ear, "General, let's set up a formation!"

Midnight suddenly turned his head and glanced at the elite soldier who was speaking, and highlighted two words firmly: "No!"

Because he knows that once they form a phantom formation, although he can successfully escape in the middle of the night, all the remaining elite soldiers will be sacrificed. The biggest drawback of the phantom formation is that although the people in the middle can successfully escape from the enemy's sight while the phantom is moving,

, but the remaining people will be exhausted and die.

He can't be so selfish. They are all elites he has trained. How can he let them sacrifice for him? He can't do it.

"General, if we don't set up a formation and keep going like this, we will all die. It doesn't matter if we die. As long as the general comes back alive, he will have a chance to come back and avenge us. Only in this way will our death be considered unjust!"

"No, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, I will not give up. I will fight side by side with you!" Ziye replied firmly.

"General! Hey! Arrange the formation!" The soldier knew that Ziye would not listen to him, so he

With an order, the remaining elite soldiers were summoned to the White Phantom Formation.

When everyone heard the order, they naturally knew what it meant. They immediately gathered together, their bodies moved quickly, and their steps became faster and faster. Midnight saw that everyone had already formed a formation. If he didn't go in, the sacrifice of the soldiers would really be in vain. He had no choice but to do so.

So he had no choice but to jump into the center of the formation for the rest of his life.

Duanmu Yun watched them suddenly change their formation, and the formation was strange, with the people moving like phantoms. He didn't know what tricks Ziye was playing, so he just continued to watch from the side.

Several red shadow killers were approaching gradually and were about to launch an attack. Seeing that they had set up a formation in Midnight, they did not dare to approach. However, a few bolder ones took the initiative to rush forward. Unexpectedly, before they could get close, they were killed.

A powerful force ejected him dozens of meters away, and he was thrown heavily to the ground on the spot. He vomited blood and died.

Everyone present did not expect that this formation was so powerful, and they all stepped back, not daring to take another step closer, for fear of ending up with the same fate as the two people just now.

Everyone, including Duanmu Yun, was shocked. I wonder what kind of formation this formation is, and how powerful it is?!

Just when everyone was shocked, the phantom surrounded by fifty people suddenly jumped out to a height of five meters. It stayed high in the sky for a while, and then gradually slowed down, and the speed became slower and slower.

In the end, what shocked everyone even more was that the fifty soldiers suddenly fell from the sky like birds with broken wings, and fell heavily to the ground together, making a dull crashing sound.

At this time, after a loud "boom", the whole world seemed to be quiet. Everyone at the scene was shocked and shocked, because they saw that except for Midnight, all the fifty soldiers were dead.

A breeze blew, and a strong smell of blood rushed towards him. Duanmu Yun looked at the body lying on the ground, and covered his mouth and nose with his long sleeves in disgust.

"Young Master Duanmu, how sincere is our eldest prince?" At this time, a masked man in black robes walked out of the darkness.

"See Lord Black Spirit!" the red shadow killers said in unison.

"Your sincerity is good, but it's a pity that Ziye escaped." Duanmu Yun said with a faint smile,

Although he lost more than a dozen Dark Night Army, his losses should be nothing compared to the Red Shadow Army, right?

"Young Master Duanmu, don't worry, even if you let Zi Ye escape, sooner or later he and Xiao Langmo will die in our hands!" Hei Ling clenched the fist in his hand tightly and said fiercely.

"Then I'll wait and see." Duanmu Yun smiled lightly, then turned around and left.

When the morning star was still hanging high in the sky, Xiao Langmo had already put on the prince's uniform and was about to go to Ganquan Palace to meet his father. Zhanfeng followed Xiao Langmo closely. This time he and Xiao

Lang Mo was equally nervous because they didn't know whether Xiao Huang's current body could withstand such a blow.

But seeing that the day of war is approaching, the matter of mobilizing troops and generals is also urgent. Although Xiao Langmo now holds the entire military power of Shuxing Kingdom and half of the Tiger Talisman, he can only mobilize half of it without his father's other half of the Tiger Talisman.

He could not reach the army, but based on the current situation, he was a little worried that he would not have enough troops, so he had no choice but to ask his father for the other half of the Tiger Talisman. If necessary, he could mobilize the entire army.

However, since then, the eldest prince Xiao Langmo couldn't hide the fact that he started the war from his father. Before that, he had asked the imperial doctor about his father's condition, and finally learned from the imperial doctor that his father's old illness was

If the new injuries occur together, I'm afraid I won't survive for a year. If I find out about this again now, I don't know how serious the consequences will be.

"Eunuch Su, please let me know. I have something important to report to my father." Xiao Langmo said softly to the eunuch guarding the door, his tone kind.

"Your Highness, the Emperor just drank the medicine and is asleep now. You'd better come back later." Eunuch Su slowly saluted and replied with a smile.

"Then I'll wait here. When father wakes up, please let me know again." Xiao Langmo looked at the closed palace door and sighed secretly.

"Who is outside? Is it the prince?" At this moment, an old man came from inside the dormitory.

And the weak voice

"Yes, Your Majesty, it's the prince who wants to see you for something!" Eunuch Su responded quickly.

"Announce him to come in." This time, there was a hint of joy in the old voice.

Xiao Langmo couldn't help but feel a little guilty. He was busy with things in the military camp these days and didn't have time to see his father. He didn't know if his father's illness was getting better.

"My son, please see my father!" Xiao Langmo knelt down and bowed deeply.

"Get up quickly and let me take a good look at you. You haven't been to your father's palace for the past two days. What are you busy with?" Although Emperor Xiao was ill, his tone of voice when speaking to Xiao Langmo was still the same as before, full of excitement.

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"It's a good thing to train soldiers, why are you hesitant to speak?" Xiao Huang looked at the majestic Xiao Langmo with a look of fondness on his face. Seeing him so attentive, Xiao Huang felt very comforted in his heart.

"Yes, it's nothing. It's just that I haven't seen my father for a while and I'm afraid that he will blame me, so I'm a little nervous." Xiao Langmo couldn't bear to say it in the end, so he just found an excuse to excuse himself.

But knowing a son is more like a father. When Xiao Langmo first came in, he could already tell that something was wrong with the look on his heart and face, and he was just sleeping lightly. When he heard Xiao Langmo say that he had something important to report,

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"Your Majesty, if you have anything to say, just say it. My father is old and has never experienced any ups and downs. Just say it!"

Xiao Huang leaned on the bed, tried his best to appear energetic, and comforted him with a smile.

Xiao Langmo looked at Xiao Huang's haggard look. Although his father had a smile on his face, it could not hide the traces of years of hardship and illness left on his face.

After a long while, Xiao Langmo finally spoke,
Chapter completed!