Lingzhang

Chapter 258: Selection Tournament Reform

When Yue Hanzhang actually saw this video.

It was time for him to ride in a chariot, driving across the flat wilderness, following the Taoist temple's huge convoy, galloping towards Jichuan and the entire Jichuan County.

What spread to the entire Qizhou earlier than this video was the news of the shocking changes in Jichuan County.

Just like the plans Luo Zhaoqing had made before.

The river sluice gates have been opened, and the ferocious monsters from the Xuanhai Sea have entered Jichuan, wreaking havoc in the wide and dense Jichuan water network.

Thus, the Jichuan River, which once nourished most of Qizhou, became a chasm for no reason.

A huge gap separating Jichuan County and Qizhou.

It also seemed as if the demon clan's troops were heading straight for Qizhou, relying on the natural terrain to build a bridgehead.

It's fate that plays tricks on us.

In the vast Qizhou, everyone from top to bottom originally thought that the situation would deteriorate first in the Nine Passes of Yanzhou and the large flat grassland in the north of Yanzhou.

They even came because of the tragedy that was about to happen in Yanzhou as a way to continue to erode the public power of the Taoist Alliance and compete with each other for those lucrative bargaining chips.

But no one expected it.

The last two of the nine levels are still barely holding up the shaky and leaky defense line.

Instead, Qizhou became the first county to be conquered on land, and it was destined to be recorded in history books in such a disastrous manner.

From the Tian family of Donghua, to the Jiang family of Shouyang, and to all the aristocratic families, big and small, throughout the state.

For them, this was like a bolt from the blue!

It is also a great shame and humiliation!
Perhaps because of this, as soon as the news came out, the various aristocratic families in the state capital responded most quickly.

Han Yue's army set out from the heart of Qizhou and headed straight for the east bank of Jichuan as soon as possible.

In a place where they could tear apart the demon clan's formation and forcibly build a ferry, they quickly dispatched a small group of elite troops to forcefully cross the river and explore the west of Jichuan, where Jichuan County was located, which had now become a blind spot for contact and communication.

The main force facing the main vein of Jichuan and several major branches will be stationed and defended along the river bank. They do not seek to recover Jichuan County as quickly as possible, but at least ensure that the Xuanhai demon clan will not be able to advance any further towards the heart of Qizhou!

The people in various families also know this.

At this moment, what they commanded was not the Zhenyuan and Tielin armies, which had years of experience in bloody battles, nor the Dengxuan Army, which had been stationed on the isolated Xingluo Island in the outer sea all year round and was small in size but extremely elite.

Han Yue's army has been stationed in the heart of Qizhou for many years, but it is too peaceful after all.

And it is completely controlled by the Ding family.

After all, the aristocratic families understand the intrigues of the aristocratic families best.

It was for this reason that, no matter how anxious the noble families were, they still decided on a strategy of building a strong camp, fighting a stupid battle, building a tortoise shell, and fighting for defense in the early stages of their battle to shake Yue's army.

Moreover, after the Han Yue Army took action, it was quickly announced that the remaining counties' troops would be stationed in the wilderness, and would be dispatched by the City Defense Division on the spot to replenish troops and supplies, and then transport the supplies to the Jichuan front.

After arriving, they were deployed and reorganized by the provincial city defense headquarters to become the reserve camps of the Yue Army in the true sense.

In action, the various aristocratic families directly deprived the Ding family of their direct control over the Wasteland Garrison Army and their indirect control over the Han Yue Army.

And in terms of anticipation, they were already prepared to inflict huge losses on Yue's army in advance.

And it was at this moment when shocking changes occurred one after another.

The Taoist temple and the Ministry of Education quickly reached an agreement.

Almost immediately afterwards, it was announced that the school selection competition for the Qianlong Competition would be officially restructured!
From now on, all students who are eligible for selection will rush to the Jichuan front together.

The veins extending from Jichuan's dense water network are neither straight lines nor smooth curves.

The wanton painting of nature brought great difficulties to Han Yue's army in defense.

They must also be stationed in an organized defense.

But a certain size means that the defense is not detailed enough.

The twisted and rampant water networks or swamps create numerous nooks and crannies on the defense line, which can easily become "ant holes" that cause the defense line to collapse.

Therefore, the students dispatched by the Taoist Academy will become supplementary forces stationed in the gaps between these defense lines.

Theoretically, the most powerful group of people in each class of these top Taoist academies in Qizhou will face the Xuanhai monster head-on and have a fierce battle with it!

Similarly, before departure, the academy allows students not to go, but not going is automatically equivalent to giving up the qualification for the school selection competition.

At the same time, the Taoist Academy encourages students who have already made achievements in the field of extraordinary Taoism to go with the Taoist Academy's motorcade even if they do not have the qualifications for the selection competition.

Before leaving, the Taoist temple distributed a blood jade-like chip to the departing students and asked them to embed it in the card slot of their arm armor.

The chip has only two functions.

One is to record the life and death of students remotely, and the other is that when students kill monsters, the unique smell of monster blood in a certain state of death will be captured by the blood jade chip.

This will ensure that every achievement of the students will be accurately recorded.

You can register your team in advance at the Taoist temple, then within a certain range, the combat performance value represented by the breath of demon blood captured by the blood jade chip will be divided equally among the team members.

Finally, all the students who are still alive will be ranked according to their performance, and the top 60 will get a place in the Qizhou Hidden Dragon Competition. In fact, because of the special circumstances this time, even if the students who did not qualify for the preliminary competition before, as long as they come to the Jichuan front line with the team and can make it into the top 60 with their performance, the Taoist Academy will make an exception and give them the same place in the competition.

The courage to face the ferocious monsters is their special ticket to admission!

Even those students who are ranked outside the top 60 will be rewarded with rich training supplies from the Taoist Academy’s logistics department.

As for death...

It is nothing more than the inevitable price to pay as the iron-blooded curtain of this chaotic world opens.

And it was at this moment.

When the video of the bloody battle of the Iron Scale Army's reserve battalion, which had in fact become an isolated force, was transmitted from Yanzhou to Wuzhou, and then from Wuzhou to the hinterland of Qizhou after a detour.

This is already the most untouchable part of such a corrupt situation.

At this moment, in the spacious carriage, Yue Hanzhang was the only one who was flipping through the video slices of the war from different angles.

Jiang Lingxiu was still curiously looking at the top-notch interior that could almost be called a luxury RV.

Such a chariot is naturally the work of Huang Zhishu.

Ever since the bloody battle on the long street that day, when the chariot they were riding in was forced to be "cut in half", Huang Zhishu felt the danger everywhere in the provincial capital. Later, relying on the channels of the Jiang family, she secretly purchased such a chariot with more powerful performance.

The vehicle body with heavy armored plates is made of "Stone Alloy", which is the most cost-effective and the worst conductor of extraordinary power among ordinary special alloys, but also the toughest and strongest.

The car is equipped with several automatic spray devices that can be used to spray different smoke concentrates to drive away wild animals and conceal body shapes and odors in different situations.

The front of the car is equipped with a ram that can easily tear ordinary steel plates. In the tiny gaps of the external heavy armored guard plates, there are three hideous chain saws that cover the entire body.

In a hidden corner is the monitoring equipment originally installed in the unmanned shuttle group, which is directly connected to the mysterious black jade screen inside the car.

Because of the fully automatic intelligent driving, the front of the car has actually been cancelled under the camouflage, but it actually hides a row of fully automatic crossbows, which can fire military seals and high-explosive crossbow arrows made from fire-attributed demon blood.

If necessary, these crossbow rifles can even be disassembled and held by people.

Yue Hanzhang had also seen this thing explode before. On the day when he first met Jiang Ziran, when Luo Zhaoqing blocked his way on the long street, Yue Hanzhang had witnessed with his own eyes the scene of the fire cloud in the sky after the explosion.

If necessary, this is a weapon that can injure or even kill extraordinary monks and monsters!

Although it is far less flexible than the extraordinary Taoism of the monks.

But if you are at your wit's end and have exhausted all your strength, this may be the key to turning defeat into victory and turning danger into safety!
To be honest, Yue Hanzhang had no idea what Huang Zhishu had in mind when purchasing this chariot.

Think of the safe house in the dark side of Base City in the past.

It seems that Huang Zhishu, who comes from a noble family, is extremely insecure on some level in her heart.

This lack of security is reflected in her excessive pursuit of a certain closed environment.

But all the preparation is worth it.

This steel beast, which truly had the aura of a "tank" in Yue Hanzhang's eyes, finally found its place in this sudden change.

This is also the reason why Jiang Lingxiu is always very curious about various details.

At the same time, Huang Zhishu sat upright on the sofa, quietly watching the ultra-high-definition light screen that popped up on the table made of a whole piece of mysterious black jade.

What is displayed on the screen is the image captured by the tank's external camera.

It was a group of raptors and monsters flying towards the east from the direction of Jichuan County. They were monks from the Zhuxiang School sent by the Han Yue Army for aerial reconnaissance.

But at this moment, the Raptors' formation was very scattered.

It would be more accurate to say that they were escaping rather than returning.

There were real monsters that flew into the sky, wrapped in thick clouds and mist and fell tightly behind them, occasionally engulfing a transformed bird of prey in the clouds.

As time went on, the entire cloud turned blood red.

Considering that the land monsters in the northern border were unable to attack Qizhou directly, the name "Nightmare Eagle" appeared in Yue Hanzhang's mind almost instantly.

Amphibious monsters are common. In fact, because of years of fighting with the Zhenyuan Army, this type of monster has almost become the mainstream in the Xuanhai waters.

However, there are very few amphibious monsters, or even triple-amphibious monsters. Almost ninety-nine percent of these monsters are mutants from the wild beast groups after the emergence of supernatural powers.

They are all top predators!
At this moment, a thick blood cloud was chasing the transformed bird of prey away.

However, its residual power remained in the minds of all the monks who were watching this scene, and it took a long time to dissipate.

Before they actually reached the Jichuan front line, the most tragic and bloody part of this bloody battle was presented in this way.

It is at this moment.

Suddenly.

Another page popped up on the light screen.

On the extremely detailed map, a standard route for the chariot's movement was outlined.

"Our destination has been determined. It is the northern part of Jichuan, which is relatively...close to the river sluice gate..."

(End of this chapter)