Fox demon: Carry my piano music with me forever

They didn't even have time to be surprised or despair, as they were wiped out from this world amid waves of shouts and screams.

The dragon flames raged for about half a minute, and green crystals were burned on the surface of the earth. The pungent smell of burnt rust filled the air.

The Lion Demon King seemed to have not yet recovered from the attack. He lost his mind in an instant and stood there blankly, staring at the roaring and rushing army of Wanshou Ridge in front of him.

In a trance, the Lion Demon King suddenly caught a glimpse of his own shadow on the ground.

It was his own shadow, but at this moment, the shadow was missing half of its usual size.

He lowered his head with a dull look and found that half of his body had been burned to ashes the moment the dragon flame touched it. He could even smell the burnt smell of his organs and bones exposed to the air.

Looking back, there was no longer any army of hundreds of thousands, only scorched earth and flying sand that stretched as far as the eye could see, without even a trace of human remains.

"Are we so despicable..." The Lion Demon King had cracked corners of his mouth. In the last moment of his life, he couldn't help but lower his eyes and whispered softly.

......

"Pfft!"

"What the hell are these corpses?"

At the border of the southern kingdom, a demon king was slapped in the face by a demon corpse from the Ten Thousand Beasts Ridge, causing blood to fly everywhere. He couldn't help but curse.

He has practiced for more than a thousand years, and now he is considered a lord on the border of the Southern Kingdom. He has seen all kinds of geniuses and monsters. He even has some understanding of the mysterious creatures outside the circle and knows how powerful they are.

But now, these demon corpses from Wanshou Ridge have shattered his understanding of this world with their own hands.

Not only the Southern Demon King, but every border checkpoint along the entire border is experiencing such scenes.

They didn't know that the so-called creatures outside the circle were nothing more than low-level beasts in front of a behemoth like the Ten Thousand Beasts Ridge.

Now that Wanshou Ridge has invaded the circle, even the weakest demon corpse can defeat a hundred at once.

As for those demon corpses that were great demons from Wanshou Ridge when they were alive, even the Demon King would tremble in fear when he came, let alone others.

The evening of this day seemed particularly long.

In less than an hour, the border of the Southern Kingdom, which had remained unshakable for tens of thousands of years, fell.

Soon after, news of heavy casualties in Beishan and Xixiyu came one after another, and even the Third Young Master had no choice but to retreat from Nanwan.

Some people looked at the western sky that was dyed red by the dusk, as if blood was spreading across the sky, and they couldn't help but stare in a daze.

"Uncle, what are you daydreaming about? If you don't run faster, you'll be dead!"

A young man next to him cursed at him and grabbed him to evacuate out of the city gate.

Looking up, he saw an endless stream of people from Beishan migrating. The Lord of Destruction issued an order to move the capital and evacuate.

After only exchanging a glance with a great monster from the army of Wanshou Ridge from a distance, Shi Kuan turned around and announced the evacuation of the Northern Kingdom's imperial capital without any hesitation!

In the past, when such foreign invasions occurred, Beishan's philosophy has always been to fight rather than surrender. Anyone who uttered words of surrender or cowardice would be condemned by the public.

But this time, Shi Kuan used his iron-blooded tactics to directly behead anyone who obstructed the evacuation of the people! Even the demon kings under Shi Kuan dared not disobey.

Shi Kuan knew very well that for Beishan, or for the entire border, this was not a war, nor was it an invasion or man-made disaster.

It was a natural disaster.

If God wants to kill you, you can only compromise and give in.

Lord Destruction and the Demon King of Beishan can die on the border to protect their homes, but the people of Beishan cannot.

Life like theirs is like straw in a wheat field, which will fall down when the wind blows. Even if there is no wind, they may fall down for no apparent reason.

And now, the wind is coming.

"Your Highness, where are you taking us?"

"Go...Tu, Tushan. Find Tushan Honghong. She will protect you."

Fan Yunfei simply gave a few instructions and then plunged into the sand and rocks again, running towards the Sand City.

"Your Highness! Where are you going again!?"

"I... will go check if there is anything left out. We haven't evacuated yet."

"Your Majesty, where should we retreat to?"

In the Southern Kingdom’s imperial capital, Huandu Qingtian was also organizing the evacuation of the city’s residents.

He glanced at the crowd of southern people outside the city gate. They all looked terrified and wanted to escape, but they couldn't help but turn back to look at the imperial capital.

"Let's go to Tushan." Huandu Qingtian took a deep puff from the pipe in his hand and blew out smoke rings.

He looked at the land under his feet that he had guarded for more than ten thousand years, his eyes a little dazed, and no one knew what he was thinking.

Huan Du Qingtian's old face, which was already full of wrinkles, now looked even more decadent.

After a while, Huan Du Qingtian took out a space ring shining with purple halo from his sleeve and handed it to the accompanying servant.

"When we get to Tushan, give this to Tushan Honghong."

"Your Majesty! This, this is not possible! This is our Southern Country..." The servant just took a look and almost dropped his jaw in shock.

Before he could finish, Huan Du Qingtian sighed and waved his hand, indicating that he should take the ring and leave.

"...Your Majesty, what about you?"

Huan Du Qingtian held the cigarette holder in his mouth and took a deep puff. The smoke rings he exhaled made his eyes a little red, and the blood-red morning glow in the sky became more and more blurred.

"I'll stay here and take another look."

Chapter 172: That one? Which one?

Human world, Daotian City.

"Your Majesty, disasters are raging on the border. According to the messenger, the Tianmen Gate guarding the border of the Yiqi Dao League was breached yesterday."

"Your Majesty, please issue an order immediately to relocate the people of the four northern counties!"

"Ridiculous! Do you know how many people there are in the four northern counties? With so many people migrating together, how can they be accommodated? And where can we find enough people to manage them? I'm afraid some will flee or die on the way!"

"So let those people stay in the north and die?!"

"Your Majesty has just ascended the throne, and you are saying such irresponsible words. What is your intention?"

"raving!"

In the court, the ministers were arguing fiercely. Wushuang, who was sitting on the throne, was clutching the dragon robe tightly with both hands, his eyes solemn.

"Since the establishment of the imperial court nearly a hundred years ago, the annual allocation to the Yiqi Dao League for border defense expenses is no less than one million taels of silver. There are countless iron and steel weapons, cloth and people. How could it be conquered so quickly?!"

Wushuang's face looked grim, and blood had begun to seep from his bitten lips.

He had just ascended the throne and needed to establish his prestige and make achievements to convince his subjects, but he happened to encounter the biggest change in thousands of years.

Even a moment of carelessness may lead to the destruction of the century-old foundation established by our ancestors.

The ministers in the court who usually disliked the Yiqi Daomeng immediately spoke out in ridicule:

"I've said it before, the people of Yiqi Daomeng are all a bunch of good-for-nothings, dead wood and weeds! They just take the money but don't do anything."

"I think the silver and other things that the imperial court has allocated to the Dao League over the years have probably all gone into the private vaults of those old guys in the Dao League. Now that the country is in crisis, there is no one available, and they have all become deserters!"

As soon as these words were spoken, not only the ministers, but even Wushuang on the dragon throne looked at Zhang Xi, the representative of the Taoist Alliance who was standing at the head of the ministers, with displeasure.

Even though Zhang Xi had a thousand urges to raise his hand and slap these people to death, he had to keep a straight face and endure it.

Damn it, the demon tribe was beaten so badly that they couldn’t even recognize themselves when the war just started. It was just a matter of how fast they surrendered.

Can this be blamed on the Yiqidao League?

But Zhang Xi really couldn't refute the questions raised by the ministers, because most of what they said were actually true.

Firstly, the border guards sent by the Yiqidao League to guard the border were indeed beaten without any chance to fight back. From resistance to attack in the opposite direction, it probably took only a cup of tea. It's really not a good thing to say.

Secondly, a large portion of the funds allocated by the imperial court to the border guards of the Yiqi Dao League over the years was indeed embezzled by a few black sheep in the top leadership of the Dao League.

After all, with the Third Young Master's circle around them, they didn't actually need to do anything, and that's why they had the courage to embezzle and amass wealth on a large scale.

But now that the emperor has just ascended the throne and such a disaster has occurred, even if the Yiqidao League does not take the imperial court seriously, it has to arrest a few people to take the blame in order to appease the emperor's anger.

"Fuck, if I had known this, I wouldn't have come to do this job." Zhang Xi couldn't help but curse in his heart.

He had just taken over the position of a senior from the Taoist Alliance and came to the court. He thought that he could rely on his cultivation to make the emperor and his ministers treat him politely, but now he ended up in such an embarrassing situation.

Just as Zhang Xi lowered his head to think about how to make the new emperor not blame the Taoist Alliance, a minor official suddenly came up to him and whispered something in his ear.

"Ok?"

After hearing the clerk's whisper, Zhang Xi's eyes suddenly widened in disbelief.

But before he could judge whether the news was true or not, he looked up and met Tianzi Wushuang's cold eyes.

"Lord Zhang, the imperial court has always entrusted the affairs of the border to the Taoist Alliance. Don't you have anything to say?"

But Zhang Xi took a deep breath, and when he opened his eyes again, his body stood straight.

"Your Majesty"

"The enemy on the border is invading. This is a disaster unprecedented in the history of the human and demon worlds. Your Majesty, you may not know that yesterday evening, the borders of the three major demon kingdoms, the Beishan Demon Kingdom, the Western Region, and the Shuzhongnan Kingdom, were all lost, and their demon kings have ordered the people to migrate and flee."

"Although the border guards of our Yiqi Dao League fought desperately, they were too powerful to contend with. We had no choice but to temporarily retreat."

Hearing this, Wushuang's face turned even darker, but Zhang Xi's next sentence made his eyebrows suddenly raise.

"However, the ministers' criticism of me just now for not having anyone available in the Yiqi Dao League is just nonsense."

"There is still one person in my Dao League!"

Zhang Xi's words were so powerful that not only the ministers, but Wushuang was also stunned.

"What do you mean?"

"Master Zhang, are you saying that the border has not been completely lost?"

"Lord Zhang just said it himself. Even the demon kings of the demon race who could cover the sky with one hand could not do anything about the disaster. Are you deliberately making up this story to deceive the emperor in order to defend the Yiqi Dao League?"

In fact, after saying this, Zhang Xi himself felt a little unsure.

But the clerk just now, who was also the messenger from the Taoist Alliance, told him personally that there was a new situation at the border.

A man in plain clothes and white hair appeared at the human border without any warning. The sword energy surged for thousands of miles, sweeping across the northern border. He single-handedly stopped the disaster outside the circle that even the Demon Emperor was terrified.

Although the news sounded too unbelievable, Zhang Xi had no choice but to continue speaking.