The Name of Eternity.

Chapter 169: Raising the Flag Five Thousand Miles Away

When the boy saw Li Hao reveal his identity at a glance, his face changed slightly.

He secretly glanced at the young man with a peaceful aura, and found it difficult to connect him with the fierce young man he had seen outside the pass in his mind before.

But he knew that if he was not careful at this moment, he would lose his life.

"Greetings, Major General."

He bowed respectfully, then said nervously:
"I am here under orders. When you were cleaning up outside the pass, you destroyed the palaces and caves of the three demon kings. They asked us from the Tianji Palace to come and ask, how does the Major General plan to compensate you?"

"compensate?"

Li Hao looked at him in surprise: "What compensation do they want?"

"They hope that you can apologize and promise not to invade again. They hope that you can keep your distance from each other. In this way, they can also ensure that Tianmen Pass will be peaceful and you can guard it smoothly for three years."

The boy said respectfully, but his voice trembled slightly.

Li Hao narrowed his eyes slightly and chuckled, "You actually knew that I would be here for three years. It seems that you know me well. In this case, tell them that the compensation is here. They can ask for whatever they want, but they have to come here in person to get it."

"This……"

The boy looked embarrassed and said, "Major General, we are discussing this. Please don't be angry. You can't stay in Tianmen Pass forever. I suggest you reconsider it."

"Ok?"

Li Hao looked at him, and his eyes suddenly seemed to contain tremendous power, pressing on the boy, scaring him so much that feathers emerged from his skin, almost revealing his true form.

And his body also bent down and knelt on the ground.

"Major General, please spare my life, Major General, please spare my life..."

The boy's protruding beak pleaded hastily.

Li Hao retracted his eyes and said calmly: "I have already said what I want. If you want compensation, let them come here in person. What kind of compensation do you want if you are so cowardly? Didn't you, Tianji Palace, tell them how I flattened their mountaintops?"

The boy said nervously: "We did, but they were very angry..."

Li Hao interrupted him and asked, "Could it be that the real purpose of your coming here is to test my patience, or to test something else?"

The boy's heart suddenly contracted, and he was so scared that he almost screamed, but he just forced a smile on his face and said:

"How could that be? Although we, the Tianji Palace, are a demonic force, we never participate in wars and have some cooperation with you humans. We are just helping to pass on the message."

"Oh, then tell me who among our human race you have cooperated with?"

"This, this I don't know, my cultivation is too low..." the boy trembled.

Li Hao was too lazy to play along with such a minor character and said coldly, "Go away."

"Yes, thank you, Major General, for sparing my life..."

The boy felt the oppressive force that was like a cold thorn in his back disappear. He hurriedly got up and was about to leave.

"and many more."

Li Hao stopped him and said coldly, "Are you going to leave empty-handed? Qianqian, give him my military flag."

Ren Qianqian was listening intently on the side. She was stunned when she heard the words, but she reacted quickly and pulled out a military flag from the side of the yard and threw it to the bird demon boy.

The bird demon boy caught it and looked at Li Hao nervously and puzzled.

"Take my flag and go back to your demonic territory. Plant my flag on the hilltop where I walked the farthest before. You in Tianji Palace should know which hilltop that is, right?"

Li Hao stared at the bird boy with cold eyes: "When I go on patrol next time, if you see my flag fall down or damaged, I will massacre the entire area outside the Great Wall again, and I will expand the scope!"

"Also, you guys in Tianji Palace should be careful when you see me in the future."

Feeling Li Hao's undisguised murderous aura, the boy bird demon was stunned and trembling with fear.

Let a demon like this help this young man plant the military flag?
Still can’t collapse or break?

You know, the distance Li Hao had previously swept across was five thousand miles outside the Great Wall, which was the heartland of the demons!
Now, this young man wants to raise his military flag under the eyes of those demons. This is a naked humiliation and intimidation!
Domineering, overbearing, and arrogant!

At this moment in its eyes, the peaceful and gentle young man from before had long disappeared, and instead, a young fighting god who looked down upon the world was sitting in front of it, making it tremble with fear!
"I, I know."

The boy bird demon was shocked, then tremblingly agreed.

It knew that the only reason it could walk out of here alive was to complete this task for Li Hao, otherwise, it would not be able to step out of this courtyard.

When the bird demon boy left tremblingly, Ren Qianqian stepped forward, her face full of surprise, and said:

"Master, did you go outside the Great Wall and flatten the Demon King's lair?"

Li Hao nodded slightly. Seeing her surprised look, he smiled and said, "If you practice sword skills well, you will be able to do it in the future."

Ren Qianqian's heart skipped a beat and she smiled bitterly in her heart. All she had ever pursued was to surpass the Grandmaster.

The Demon King... that's a being at the Four Stages Realm.

However, Li Hao's words seemed to open a wider door in her heart.

Her eyes sparkled and she felt her motivation to practice doubled.

Just when she turned around and was about to practice sword-fighting, Li Hao stopped her and asked her to find some letter paper as he wanted a letter.

Ren Qianqian obediently went to the room to find the letter paper and asked in confusion: "Master, who is this letter sent to?"

"Give it to the Liangzhou military headquarters." Li Hao said.

"Ah?" Ren Qianqian was puzzled. Li Hao didn't seem to be familiar with that place.

"This demon from Tianji Palace coming here should be a test for me."

Li Hao wrote as he wrote, "What demon king is asking for compensation? If they have enough information, the demon king wouldn't even dare to mention it, let alone threaten me. I think this bird demon came here just to test my bottom line, or to test whether I will stay here for three years..."

Combined with the military report and instructions sent by his fifth uncle, he had some vague guesses in his mind, but maybe he was worrying too much, but it was always better to be on guard.

Ren Qianqian widened her eyes slightly. There was too much information in Li Hao's words and she couldn't digest it for a moment.

The only thing I caught was that the demon king didn't even have the courage to ask for compensation when facing Li Hao?

What exactly did Li Hao do outside the pass?
Soon, Li Hao finished writing the letter and gave it to Ren Qianqian, asking her to give it to Li Hongzhuang and send it to his fifth uncle, Li Xuanli.

After doing all this, Li Hao withdrew his thoughts and continued painting.

……

Under the watchful eyes of many warriors and soldiers, the boy bird demon flew out of the new border city tremblingly and then soared into the sky.

After flying into the clouds, it began to accelerate until it was about seven or eight hundred miles away, then it slowed down slightly. There were a few birds in front of it that were parked in the clouds, waiting for it to approach.

"Why did you steal a military flag?"

One of the red flying birds changed its shape and turned into a girl in a red dress. She recognized the military flag in the boy bird demon's hand as Li Hao's battle flag and could not help but speak speechlessly.

The boy bird demon almost choked when he heard this, steal?

I had nothing better to do than to steal that guy's military flag!
"Master Protector, I didn't steal it. That boy forced it on me." said the boy bird demon, calling the young man "boy".

"Ok?"

The girl in the red skirt was puzzled and asked, "Why did he give you the military flag?"

"Let me plant my flag on the hilltop he has flattened, and I can't let the battle flag be damaged, otherwise he will cause trouble for our Tianji Palace and massacre people outside the pass again." The boy bird demon said angrily.

The girl in the red dress and the three flying birds beside her were all stunned. Isn’t this too overbearing?
"What about the thing I told you to do? How about the test?"

The girl in the red dress glanced in the direction of Tianmenguan and then asked.

"That guy is too smart. I just mentioned it a little bit, but he almost noticed it."

The boy bird demon thought about what happened before, and the anger on his face turned into a trace of palpitations. He said: "From what he said, he really has no intention of leaving Tianmen Pass. The agreement is real."

The girl in the red dress frowned and asked him to tell her what happened in detail.

After listening to him, her brows furrowed even more tightly. "This young man is indeed a major concern for us. We should let Longmen and the Holy Palace know about this. If this hidden danger is not eliminated, there will be endless troubles in the future."

"good."

The boy-bird nodded in agreement.

"But judging from the situation, he will not easily leave Tianmen Pass and participate in the war in Liangzhou. When the time comes, we can just wait for the great elder of Longmen to come out and deal with him together."

The girl in the red skirt said, looking at the military flag in his hand, and said:

"Let's go. Go and plant this military flag. Just like sealing a mountain for him, send a message to the surrounding demons not to approach the mountain and stay out of the way for now."

"Ah."

Several birds immediately flew away to a farther distance.

...Liangzhou, west.

A blood eagle flew into the military camp and landed on the arm of a deputy general's personal attendant. The deputy general took the letter wrapped in oil paper from the blood eagle's mouth, turned around and quickly handed it to Li Xuanli in the tent.

"A letter from my little sister?"

Li Xuanli was somewhat surprised when he heard the report from his deputy general's attendant. He had just sent a letter to Tianmen Pass when he received a reply.

Now is a special period, and close correspondence is not a good thing as it can be easily intercepted.

He opened the envelope and quickly flipped through it. Soon, his expression became solemn.

"Does the demon intend to attack Liangzhou?"

"How did Haoer know?"

When Li Xuanli saw that the letter was actually sent by that young man, he was surprised and a little suspicious.

The letter did not specify the reason, only saying it was a speculation, and asked him to keep an eye on the movements of the demon.

Combined with the previous retreat of foreign demons, Li Xuanli's heart suddenly trembled. Could it be that the demons' retreat was just a feint and they had no real intention of leaving Liangzhou?

He put away the letter, immediately called his deputy general and his entourage, asked them to keep a close eye on every tree and blade of grass outside the pass, and asked the original reconnaissance team to investigate in a more distant area.

……

……

time flies.

Tianmen Pass, Cangya City.

Not long after the bird demon boy left, Li Hao set out for the outside of the pass again. Along the way, he cleared the areas, and more demons roamed around like mushrooms after a rain, and he easily solved them.

When he arrived at the farthest hill, Li Hao saw the military flag he had raised. There were no monsters around, and it seemed to be blocked. He also saw birds secretly guarding it. Li Hao was satisfied and then made another inspection from east to west.

Wherever they passed, the Tianji Palace was like facing a great enemy, and they hurriedly and secretly notified the demons everywhere to take shelter.

These demons hastily abandoned their newly built caves and fled, only returning slowly after the young man had flown past.

But some demons were fed up with this kind of terrifying life and could not bear it anymore, so they chose to move away and look for another place.

Even if we squeeze in with the big monsters from other territories, we can avoid such unrest.

After peace was restored outside the Great Wall, Li Hao called his warriors and asked them to use their respective networks to spread some news and seek out various art masters who were good at painting and chess, and invite them to visit Cangya City.

During this period, Li Hao dismembered the ghost girl's corpse, along with other big demons, and cooked them every day to feed everyone.

The experience gained in the cooking path increases rapidly. After reaching the seventh level, the full experience level needs to be 50 to be upgraded to the eighth level.

A big demon in the fourth level realm can provide a huge amount of experience points of 30,000 to 40,000. For the original experience bar of 100,000, one demon is almost half a bar.

But now, it is less than one-tenth.

Even after all the other big monsters were cooked and dealt with, only a little more than 70,000 experience points were accumulated.

Fortunately, by depicting the corpses of these demons, Li Hao's painting experience has reached the sixth level. He only needs to paint with his soul to upgrade to the seventh level.

But before that, Li Hao planned to find an art first, to condense his mind and break the shackles of the third stage of his body movement. In this way, he could directly increase the points to the sixth stage, and his body movement would increase dramatically. Even some great demon kings in the fourth stage of the realm might not be able to escape from his clutches.

Li Hao took out various refining materials from the monster, along with the Long Xiao Sword, and had them sent to the Wanqi Building.

Leave his signature.

Perform secondary casting.

The Wanqi Tower was a semi-official force, and Li Hao was a major general at the frontier, so no one dared to embezzle his things.

Li Hao tried the magic circle constructed by the old man Xingxiu official twice and easily suppressed the five big demons each time.

The old Xingxiu official checked again and again but couldn't find out what the problem was. Finally, he suddenly realized and suggested letting Li Hongzhuang, a general at the peak of the Three Immortals, do the test.

As a result, Li Hongzhuang was beaten black and blue by five big demons outside the magic circle. After retreating in defeat, she was finally convinced that there was nothing wrong with the magic circle, but the problem was with Li Hao.

For this reason, the old Xingxiu official and his students were speechless. They had checked repeatedly before, and they had pulled their hair out, but they couldn't find the cause. It turned out that the cause was not with them at all.

This young man's strength is too outrageous.

Who could have thought that this fourteen-year-old boy had powers beyond those of an ordinary demon king?

The old man Xingxiuguan and others were both helpless and secretly excited. The existence of Li Hao, without a doubt, foreshadowed the future rise of Dayu Divine Dynasty. If this young man was given more time, Dayu would have a new god of war in the future, standing shoulder to shoulder with the real man from Qiandao Palace!

With his students, the old Xingxiu official said goodbye to Li Hao.

Before leaving, Xia Xianglan looked at Li Hao with some nostalgia and asked, "Will you stay here forever?"

"I will leave when no demon dares to invade here."

Li Hao smiled.

Xia Xianglan nodded, and then said: "I am from the Xia family. We are all from the Godly General's Mansion. If you are free, you are welcome to come to the Xia family anytime."

Li Hao shook his head slightly: "But I am not from the God General's Mansion family, I am just an individual."

"But you..."

Xia Xianglan wanted to say something but was stopped by the old Xingxiu official. The old Xingxiu official glanced at Li Hao, sighed in his heart, and told his student to leave.

Li Hao sent them out of Longguan Road before turning back.

Time flies by when I am idle.

This dangerous area outside the pass has rarely become quiet, and the construction inside the city has become more prosperous and lively.

The caravans and escort agencies that transported supplies from various cities went back and spread the news, letting people in each city know that Tianmen Pass was now a very solid fortress, and Cangya City was also an extremely prosperous and lively place.

With the gathering of caravans and passengers, people gradually settled down here, bought and rented houses, and did business here.

By eliminating the need for round-trip transportation, the items they sell are more expensive than those sold inland, but still cost-effective.

The world is bustling, and everyone is going there for the benefit of others.

More and more people are rushing to Cangya City. Where there is demand, there is supply. Then there are tourists, and many famous heroes who travel around the world also visit Cangya City, wanting to see the scenery outside the border.

Li Hao was sitting in a small fenced courtyard inside the city.

No one disturbs.

He selected melodies that touched his heart, played the piano and listened to the sounds every day. Occasionally, he would go outside the city, sit on a snowy mountain, and quietly listen to the sound of the arrival of spring - that was the sound of the snow melting.

Now, the snow outside the Great Wall is gradually melting, revealing large areas of black soil buried under the white snow.

The black soil gradually began to show signs of life again: green sprouts.

As Li Hao was learning music, some art masters, who were previously invited by his warriors through their connections, also came to visit Cangya City.

Li Hao invited them to his courtyard, where he played the piano and talked about paintings with them, played chess and tasted wine, just like a wealthy and carefree man enjoying himself.

But the warriors on the border all knew how talented this young man was, and apart from being curious about him, they had no other thoughts.

Li Hongzhuang was surprised to see that Li Hao did not practice cultivation, but instead had the leisure time to cultivate his sentiments all day long. However, she did not care too much about it. She focused on the results. No matter how Li Hao's practice process was, the results were already beyond the reach of others.

That is enough.

These art masters originally thought that Li Hao was just in a momentary mood and came mainly with the idea of ​​making friends.

After careful discussion, some art masters almost couldn't bear it. Some of the professional questions asked by Li Hao made it difficult for them to answer. While they were secretly surprised, they also respected the young man.

Although they are in awe of warriors, they are only in awe of their power. As for the fact that there are people with whom they can discuss what they have studied for many years, this respect is admiration, appreciation, as well as praise and joy.

Through these art masters, Li Hao searches for illustrations of famous works.

The result was an unexpected gain.

A master painter is willing to give away a famous painting that he has treasured for many years.

A chess master, who was known as the Little Chess Saint, gave Li Hao two chess manuals.

It’s a pity that one of the chess records is not considered a famous record and cannot be included.

In addition, they also mentioned some clues about other famous paintings and who collected them.

Li Hao wrote them down one by one, and planned to ask someone to visit the other party later to see if they were willing to transfer the property.

Time flies quietly, and in the blink of an eye, the snow melts.

It's spring next year.

(End of this chapter)