I picked up skill fragments in the demon world.

Chapter 459 Diversion
Looking at the young lady sitting on the ice boat opposite, she had a beautiful smile on her face, but the words she said were chilling.

Drowning millions of troops?
How cruel and ruthless it is.

Those are three million lives, not ants!
So Zhang Chen hesitated when he heard this, with a look of confusion in his eyes: "Isn't it too cruel?"

That's an army of millions. If they were all drowned, what a huge sin that would be!

"King Pingbian has tens of millions of troops in the north, and one million of them have been lost in the struggle to protect the Feng Shui formation. The three million I mentioned are cowards who were withdrawn from the Great Wall of Bones on the front line. They eat the salaries of the people, but do things that go against the people. They are deserters on the battlefield and should be beheaded!" Xie Lingyun's voice was filled with murderous intent.

Zhang Chen disagreed with Xie Lingyun's words. Those ordinary soldiers were controlled by their superiors. It was those superiors who should die, not the ordinary soldiers. If these millions of troops were used to fight against the monsters, it would definitely cause trouble for the monsters. It would be a pity if they died in the flood.

Xie Lingyun saw the hesitation in Zhang Chen's heart and thought to himself, "My little brother is good in everything except that he is too indecisive. He is hesitant and will never achieve anything great. He is a bit too soft-hearted."

"Don't forget, those are the troops under the command of Prince Pingbian. As long as Prince Pingbian gives the order, there will be millions of swords pointed at you..." Xie Lingyun said again.

Zhang Chen was shocked when he heard this: "Since it is against my sword, then there is no problem, I will die if I die!"

"I wonder where King Pingbian's three million troops who withdrew from the Great Wall of Bones are stationed?" Zhang Chen asked.

No matter what the matter is, what the reason is, or what compassion is involved, as long as it involves me, it is absolutely non-negotiable. All threats must be nipped in the bud.

"I know a key point, which is the intersection where the waterway must pass. You just need to make the waterway turn south at that intersection, and it will definitely flood the millions of troops of King Pingbian." Xie Lingyun stood on the ice boat and commanded: "Your ice boat goes upstream and follows my command."

Upon hearing this, Zhang Chen steered the ice boat and followed Xie Lingyun's command, going upstream all the way to a three-way intersection. He saw that the three-way intersection was connected to the main waterway, and one of the forks was slightly higher in terrain, so no flood flowed through it. The other fork took on all the water.

Xie Lingyun pointed to the fork in the road and said, "The fork that the water is flowing through now is the one that will flood our 50,000-strong army and the northern land. If the water flows through another fork, it will flow through another fork, which can flood the million-strong army of the Pingbian Palace, and even flood Goulan County and submerge the Pingbian Palace headquarters."

Zhang Chen stopped the ice boat at a cliff, and then Xie Lingyun climbed to a higher place with a tap of his toes as if he had mastered Qinggong. After a few jumps, he stood on the top of the cliff and said to Zhang Chen: "Little brother, it depends on your ability. If you can't bear it, then forget it!"

"There's nothing I'm sorry about. I have a blood feud with the Pingbian Palace. Now I'm using the power of heaven to make the Pingbian Palace suffer the consequences of its own actions. This is also the law of nature. But I changed the water course, and I don't know how many innocent lives have been implicated. I don't know how much karma will be attributed to me. I'm afraid that I have committed many sins, and I don't know if I will be struck by lightning when the time comes." Zhang Chen's voice was a little worried.

Xie Lingyun shook his head: "The flooding of the North is inevitable. You just changed the way and progress of the flooding. How can the karma be counted on you? Even if you didn't control the waterway, the place where the million-strong army was stationed would only be flooded a little later. Besides, you changed the waterway and saved the sentient beings on the other side, so your merits and demerits should be offset."

Zhang Chen listened to Xie Lingyun's sophistry and couldn't help but smile bitterly. King Pingbian dared to release the water, so he was naturally not afraid of his army being drowned. He was a cultivator, but he was most afraid of the theory of cause and effect.

However, he couldn't figure out cause and effect. Now that the immortal path was gone, did cause and effect still matter?

However, flooding the million-strong army of Prince Pingbian's Palace and severely damaging the Prince Pingbian's Palace was a complete benefit to him with no harm at all.

Zhang Chen's ice boat disappeared, the river water suddenly dried up, and then the ground began to shake. A 30-meter-thick earth wall suddenly rose up in the canyon, blocking the flood.

As a wall of earth and stone rose on one side, the flood in the middle could not be discharged and the water level began to rise rapidly. Zhang Chen hurried to the fork in the road on the other side, and then he saw the obstacle mountain at the fork in the road drop, and it dropped fifty meters in a blink of an eye. Then the surging flood poured out and surged towards the distance.

The water flow that originally could not drown three million troops will change everything as the river changes course.

"Good water! Good water!" Xie Lingyun stood on the top of the mountain and looked at the rushing river and praised repeatedly: "My dear brother, you are very capable."

"I just hope that I don't cause too much trouble and just suffer the punishment from heaven." Zhang Chen controlled the flow of water and landed beside Xie Lingyun. Looking at the rushing flood, there was a hint of compassion in his eyes.

Even though he knew that he would most likely be blamed for the consequences, Zhang Chen did not care. Those were the troops of the Pingbian Palace and belonged to the Pingbian Palace. Since he had a cause and effect relationship with the Pingbian Palace, they had to bear the consequences together.

"The army is the army of the Pingbian Palace, the people are the people of the Pingbian Palace, the Pingbian Palace is supported by the people, the army protects the Pingbian Palace, they are one, I have a cause and effect with the Pingbian Palace, they must also bear the cause and effect." Thinking of this, Zhang Chen's uneasiness disappeared. If this statement is true, then what he did is natural. The people of the north use their labor to support the Pingbian Palace, and the million-strong army protects the Pingbian Palace. They are one with the Pingbian Palace, how can they talk about innocence?
At this moment, Zhang Chen's thoughts changed, and the shackles and sense of guilt in his heart were all gone. Looking at the rushing flood, he once again used his magical powers to continuously widen the mountain waterways and increase the discharge of the flood.

Xie Lingyun noticed the change in Zhang Chen's spirit and looked at him in surprise: "What did you think of? How could you figure it out in an instant?"

Zhang Chen smiled faintly upon hearing this: "Everything has its own cause and effect, and I, Zhang Chen, have a clear conscience."

If the positions of both sides were reversed, and if the million-strong army received the order from King Pingbian to kill him, the other side would not hesitate or show mercy.

"I'm a little curious. If King Pingbian floods the north, what will happen to his million-strong army?" Zhang Chen turned his head and looked at Xie Lingyun.

"You guard my body, and I will leave my soul to check it out." Xie Lingyun said to Zhang Chen, and the next moment his soul left his body and disappeared between heaven and earth. It was only a moment later that he returned, and then his physical body opened its eyes: "King Pingbian has already prepared the big ship, and the navy has already taken advantage of the flood and is ready to start supporting the millions of troops."

"I see." Zhang Chen said, "So our plan to flood the three million troops has failed?"

"No! Before King Pingbian decided to release the flood, he must have observed the direction of the waterway. In his plan, the first thing to be submerged in the waterway was his navy, and then the navy would steer the large ships and follow the flood to rescue his three million troops. But because you changed the waterway, his one million troops were on the other side of the waterway, so he was destined to be one step behind the flood, and his rescue was too late, so the three million troops had to go with him."

Xie Lingyun's voice was full of pride. Now, he had dealt a heavy blow to the Prince of Pingbian's Palace in the blink of an eye. Who knows how much trouble this would save the court in the future.

As for whether it was merciful or not, that was not within Xie Lingyun's consideration. She only knew that King Pingbian was extremely treacherous. In order to drown her own 50,000 troops, he even asked his own 3 million troops to take risks together, and did not want her to notice anything. So all of this was caused by King Pingbian himself.

King Pingbian was a ruthless man. In order not to alert the 50,000 troops of the Inspection Office, his own 3 million troops were stationed in the waterway without moving. This shows how ruthless he was. You know, once the flood came, even with his navy to rescue, the 3 million troops would definitely suffer from the flood, which shows his character.

However, for King Pingbian, it was all worth it to use the lives of only five or six hundred thousand soldiers to exchange for the 50,000 troops of the Censorate.

That was the 50,000-strong army of the Censorate. Even if his ordinary soldiers were outnumbered by 1 to 50, they might not be able to defeat even one of them.

When Zhang Chen heard what Xie Lingyun said, he couldn't help but secretly smack his lips, feeling deeply that King Pingbian was so cruel and ruthless.

Just as the two were looking at the raging flood, flags suddenly fluttered in the distance, and from the side that was blocked by Zhang Chen's earth wall, a fleet of ships came in an endless stream.

The fleet was endless and they were all super fleets.

"This is the navy of Prince Pingbian's Palace. There are as many as 10,000 large ships, rushing to the rescue in a mighty manner." Xie Lingyun pointed to the navy army with flags covering the sky in the distance.

Zhang Chen looked at the overwhelming number of huge ships and was amazed that King Pingbian had been well prepared. The north was dry and had no access to the sea, but there were tens of thousands of large ships. King Pingbian must have already started planning for this day.

"If we could use this flood to drown the demon army, that would be the right way. What a pity..." Zhang Chen sighed as he stood on the top of the mountain.

Xie Lingyun looked disappointed, but didn't say much.

While the two were talking, the navy army approached the canyon and saw the Heavenly Punishment blocking the canyon from afar. The navy commander panicked and stared at the dead end in front of him with a suspicious look in his eyes: "Did I take the wrong path? Why is the road ahead blocked?"

"Bring me the map." The admiral shouted, and a soldier immediately brought the map. The admiral looked at the map in his hand, then at the earth wall in front of him, with a look of astonishment in his eyes: "This shouldn't be the case! I also followed the route marked on the map, how could I have gone wrong?"

"General, there is the sound of flooding ahead. There must be flooding on the other side of this 'mountain'. Let's climb up the mountain and take a look and we will know. Moreover, the mountain in front of us is straight and steep. It doesn't look like a natural scenery. It looks like it is man-made..." said a staff officer on the side.

(End of this chapter)