[Dear player Niu Bu, you are currently performing a special mission and cannot be resurrected for the time being. Please wait patiently for the resurrection notification.]

A black screen occupied his field of vision. After using the sword-dragging tactic to kill the enemy general of Qi Jiajing, Niu Bu, who was completely exhausted, could not withstand the attack of the second Qi Jiajing.

He was split into two halves by the sudden giant axe, and his vision slowly faded into darkness.

Niu Bu had become accustomed to death. When he was preparing to resurrect, a message popped up telling Niu Bu that he was performing a special mission and could not be resurrected for the time being.

“Special missions cannot be resurrected for the time being?
This shouldn't be the case. This mission assigned by the NPC must be a 100% suicide mission. Could there be some other tricks?"

Niu Bu was a little confused. Instead of waiting foolishly on the login UI interface, he quit the game and came to the forum.

The forum was very lively. Players who were carrying out special missions were chatting and gossiping in the forum, and players who stayed in Yancheng were also chatting and gossiping in the forum.

Niu Bu took a look around the forum and found that the dead players were posting questions, asking why they could not be resurrected.

"Oh, no one can be resurrected, that's fine!"

Niu Bu felt relieved when he saw that he was not the only one who could not be resurrected. He was bored and chatted with the dead players. After seeing that Niu Bu could not be resurrected either, these dead players were no longer in a hurry.

Niu Bu, who ranked first among the three lists, couldn't even be resurrected, so why were they in such a hurry?

"Brother Niu, Brother Niu, did you kill that enemy from the Qi family in the end?"

"Brother Niu, you've also been defeated. How's your mission? Did you stop those barbarians?"

"Brother Niu, how is the battle going on your side? If you are all dead, it feels like you have been wiped out!"

"Kill him! How can a small Qi family resist my trick of dragging the knife? But after I killed one Qi family, another Qi family appeared in Beiting and chopped me down directly!"

"Ileimeow, how are things going over there?"

"I definitely can't stop them. I can only delay them for a while. Qi Jiajing is too damn strong. If they just force their way in, even if I use my [Loyal Blazing Flame] ability, I can only slightly injure Qi Jiajing."

"Fuck, Brother Niu can now kill people in the Qi family realm? Does this mean that Brother Niu has been promoted to the Qi family realm?"

"What are you thinking? I'm just taking advantage of the situation. It will take me two or three months to be promoted to the Qi Family Realm!"

"That's pretty awesome, he's at the Qi Family Realm. The Iltsk Oasis dungeon boss that tormented us for over a month was only at the Qi Family Realm!"

"The Qi family is considered to be of medium strength in this game!"

In the forum, players began to chat and exchange information, while Chu Zhongxing, who had broken through the stone formation pass, led the new army and the Zhenbei Army and continued to move south quickly.

Chu Zhongxing divided 80 of the remaining one hundred players and left them in the Stone Array Pass to block possible enemy forces. Chu Zhongxing took the other seventy players and the Zhenbei Army and continued to move southward towards the Shanhan Pass.

The Stonehenge Pass is not too far from the Shanhan Pass. When the sun rose and the sunlight penetrated the dark clouds and shone on the slightly yellow land, Chu Zhongxing led the army and saw the Shanhan Pass.

Strictly speaking, the Stonehenge Pass cannot be considered a real pass. The biggest function of the Stonehenge Pass is to serve as a barrier to prevent a large number of cavalry from easily breaking through the defense line.

The Shanhan Pass is an impregnable pass that is easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The middle of the towering Altun Mountains seems to be split open by a sword, and the Shanhan Pass is built in the middle of this narrow gap.

The walls of Shanhan Pass are more than 50 meters high, and are regularly and evenly coated with tree oil, which has been refined by disciples of Taoist or medical schools.

The city wall coated with tree oil was extremely smooth. Not only could the flying claws made by Niu Bu not hit it, but even the siege ladders could not play a very good role.

There are only two ways to break through the Shanhan Pass.

The first is to attack by force, using flesh and blood to forcibly capture the Shanhan Pass.

Another way is to climb the towering Altun Mountains, jump off the top of the Altun Mountains, or attack downwards and attack the Shanhan Corridor from top to bottom.

"The horn of the Stone Formation has put these barbarians on guard. They have already tightly closed the city gates. As long as they hold on to the Shanhan Pass and wait for the reinforcements from Beiting and Shicheng to arrive, we will surely die!"

Looking at the well-fortified Shanhan Pass, Guo Xiaoding, riding on a warhorse, spoke softly. When he talked about the certain death, his expression and tone did not fluctuate at all, as if he was asking you if you have eaten.

"So we have to move as fast as possible. We only have half a day at most. If we fail to break through in half a day, we will be forced to enter the Altun Mountains."

Chu Zhongxing stared at the towering Altun Mountains. The Altun Mountains are one of the mountain ranges in the Shanhan Corridor that connects to the northern Xinjiang. There are not only various highly aggressive [monsters] and [beasts] in the mountains, but also poisonous gas and miasma that can instantly make people lose their combat effectiveness, as well as dangerous terrain such as swamps that can swallow you if you are not careful.

Moreover, the higher you go in the Altun Mountains, the thinner the spiritual energy becomes, and the lower the temperature becomes. At the top of the Altun Mountains, the extremely cold temperature is no weaker than the extreme cold brought by Bingyi Zhuying. Soldiers who are not in the realm of self-cultivation will inevitably be frozen to death!
Even Guo Xiaoding didn't dare to say that he could arrive safely back to the Imperial Shang Dynasty from the Altun Mountains.

"Half a day? That's almost impossible!"

Guo Xiaoding was very pessimistic: "Shanhan Pass is famous for being easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even if there is not a single Qijia Realm general in the entire Shanhan Corridor, it can definitely be breached in half a day."

"Even if all of us try our best, we may not be able to break through the Shanhan Pass. After all, we don't have any siege equipment!"

"Who said we don't have siege engines?"

Chu Zhongxing looked at He Ao, who was almost at the end of the team, and clapped his hands: "He Ao!"

"Wei Chen is here!"

He Ao from the Ministry of Works called himself a humble official. When he heard Chu Zhongxing calling him, He Ao was immediately cheered up and responded loudly.

After following the majority for four days and three nights, is it finally my turn?

"Please organize your siege equipment properly. Whether we can capture Shanhan Pass depends entirely on you!"

"promise!!"

Hearing that he was entrusted with an important task, He Ao became full of energy. He climbed down from the carriage and began to move the items down one by one.

Everyone's eyes were on He Ao. Guo Xiaoding looked at the pile of spare parts on the carriage with his one eye slightly narrowed, while the angel Su Mu frowned, not quite sure what He Ao was doing.

As a great scholar of the Gongyang School of Confucianism, Su Mu was quite familiar with Mohism, but he could not see what kind of Mohist mechanical techniques He Ao was tinkering with.

“He Ao, load the clothes on the carriage and leave them to me!”

Chu Zhongxing issued another order. He asked Guo Xiaoding and others to stay where they were, while he drove the carriage full of clothes towards the Altun Mountains.

At the foot of the Altun Mountains, several kilometers away from the Altun Mountains, Chu Zhongxing found a swamp-like terrain. He used energy to build a nest and built a brand new resurrection pool next to the swamp. "We can revive Niu Bu and the others."

Chu Zhongxing lifted the restrictions on the resurrection of Niu Bu and other dead players. He looked at the azure resurrection pool, his mind twitched, and he said thoughtfully: "Resurrect, my love!"

Figures crawled out of the resurrection pool one after another. Looking at the naked players, Chu Zhongxing felt that he needed to spend tens of thousands of ability points to strengthen Ability One several times.

After all, we can’t let players be naked every time they revive.

Although it is a loss to use tens of thousands of ability points to strengthen abilities instead of upgrading, there is nothing that can be done about it!
In the past, there were few players and no one cared about this. Later, when female players appeared in Yancheng, Chu Zhongxing divided the resurrection pool into [Male Resurrection Pool] and [Female Resurrection Pool]. At the same time, he built a small house for the resurrection pool. The house was filled with coarse linen clothes. Only after putting on the coarse linen clothes could one walk out of the resurrection pool.

Avoid conflicts or contradictions between the two sexes, or incidents such as molestation and XXN reporting.

One by one, the male players quickly climbed out of the resurrection pool, then nimbly picked up the bloody clothes on the carriage and put them on. After all the male players had dressed and started running towards Guo Xiaoding and others, Chu Zhongxing began to lift the restrictions on the resurrection of the female players.

There are only 7 female players in Yancheng’s new army. Except for Yileimiao and Yinyin, the rest of the female players are just there to make up the numbers.

Chu Zhongxing quietly stepped back to give space to the female players. After the female players finished dressing, he drove the carriage with the seven female players and returned to the army.

"Damn, the treatment of female players is so high? We go back on our own but they actually take a carriage?"

"Why can't the authorities allow both men and women to be resurrected together? I really want to feast my eyes!"

"You are so fucking disgusting. Can you please not have any dirty thoughts when playing a game? Don't you know that women will only hinder my sword-drawing speed?"

"The mindset of a man with a color in it is too narrow. He doesn't think about competing for supremacy in the Central Plains, becoming a noble or a prime minister, but about women.

When you have power, will you still be short of women?"

"Is the NPC not pretty enough, or is she not virtuous and gentle enough? She actually thinks of the female player. I admire her so much!"

"Hey, hey, hey, what do you mean? Are we female players so unbearable in your eyes?"

"you."

"Shut up!"

Seeing that the man and woman were about to quarrel, Chu Zhongxing shouted:

"You are all new soldiers of Yancheng. Have you forgotten the rules of Yancheng's new army?"

"You are all comrades, yet you dare to quarrel during the march. Everyone will be fined half a month's military pay. If you dare to stir up trouble among your comrades again, no matter how high or low your rank is, no matter how many soldiers you have, you will be expelled from the New Army and will never be employed again."

Wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and naturally there are grudges.

Chu Zhongxing didn't bother to care about the grudges between players, nor the various conflicts between men and women, but at this moment, the new army of Yancheng was about to attack Shanhan Pass. This was a matter of life and death, so Chu Zhongxing naturally wouldn't indulge the players.

If anyone dares to say one more word, Chu Zhongxing will have his account permanently banned.

After hearing Chu Zhongxing's furious words, all the players shut up instantly, not daring to say a word. They ran quickly and joined Yancheng Town's Beijun Army and others.

Seeing the more than 200 people who had died in the previous battle gathering together, Su Mu breathed a sigh of relief. He was quite afraid that the new army of Yancheng would be resurrected in Yancheng. From the current point of view, Chu Zhongxing could gather them around him at any time.

Guo Xiaoding looked at the more than 200 new soldiers behind Chu Zhongxing with his one eye, his expression was unusually calm. Chu Zhongxing's ability had long exceeded his expectations. Now even if Chu Zhongxing destroyed the Shanhan Pass single-handedly, Guo Xiaoding would not be surprised.

People who do not belong to this world naturally have abilities that are difficult for others to understand.

Guo Xiaoding, he just hopes that Chu Zhongxing will not bring disaster to the Di Shang Dynasty.

When the fallen players and the Zhenbei Army reunited, He Ao had already assembled four Mogong·Tianjiang.

Mo Gong: Skyfall, the name sounds very nice and domineering.

But to put it bluntly, it is just a modified howitzer.

The huge barrel can accommodate one person. Inside the barrel, He Ao has carved spiritual array patterns all over it. Its function is to unleash a huge propulsion force and send the person in the barrel into the sky.

Due to the rush to produce it and the fact that Yancheng's materials were not very complete, the Mo Gong Tian Jiang made by He Ao had a very high risk factor. When it was being tried out at the [Mojiaying Mechanical Engineering Test Field], the smell of meat could actually be smelled from the barrel.

The physical strength of the student realm is not enough to withstand the power of Mo Gong·Skyfall. Only players in the self-cultivation realm who have tempered their bodies with spiritual energy can withstand the power of the attack with their physical bodies.

But this ability to withstand the attack is not 100%. During the trial, only two people in the player group could easily withstand the power of the attack.

One is Niu Bu from the Bingqiao School, and the other is Zhang Xiaoti from the Gongyang School.

"Is it assembled?"

"Target Shanhan Pass, blast through this pass for me!"

Seeing the four Mogong·Tianjiang, Chu Zhongxing didn't waste any time. He pointed at the Shanhan Pass and gave the order to attack.

The four Mo Gong·Tian Jiang were slowly pushed to a place three kilometers away from Shanhan Pass. The barbarian soldiers on the city wall looked at Mo Gong·Tian Jiang, a little confused.

"Shoot, shoot at their Mohist mechanical arts with all your might, and don't let them unleash their power!"

The leader of Shanhan Pass did not know what the cannon barrel three kilometers away was used for, but he instinctively felt that something was wrong and immediately ordered his men to shoot at the cannon barrel.

"shock!"

Looking at the dense array of arrows, Chu Zhongxing was about to lead his army to resist. The great scholar Su Mu beside him suddenly burst out with a loud voice. Along with the sound of his thunder, a milky white wind visible to the naked eye instantly blew up from the flat ground. The wind blew the incoming arrows and blew some arrows shot by archers with insufficient arm strength to the ground.

Confucian supernatural power: [Haoran riding the wind]!
Hundreds of arrows were blocked by Su Mu, while others were blocked by other Qijiajing soldiers of the Zhenbei Army. Seeing that the opponent had no way to threaten Mo Gong·Tian Jiang, Niu Bu, Zhang Xiaoti, Yileimiao, and Zhuge Wangye were all stuffed into the barrel of Mo Gong·Tian Jiang.

boom!
The power of the cannonballs was enormous, and so was the human cannonball. Yile Miao and Zhuge Wangye could not withstand the power of Mo Gong · Tian Jiang and died instantly inside the cannon barrel. Only Niu Bu and Zhang Xiaoti, who were physically strong, successfully used Mo Gong · Tian Jiang's reasoning to fly towards the sky above Shanhan Pass.

"What kind of mechanical magic is this? It can actually send the enemy from the air?"

The leader of Shanhan Pass looked up at Niu Bu and Zhang Xiaoti flying over and was completely stunned. It was the first time he saw the Mohist mechanical technology that could make the enemy fly over!

Looking at the Shanhan Pass getting closer and closer, Niu Bu fell from the sky, and a line suddenly rang in his mind.

"Have you ever heard of a palm technique that falls from the sky?" (End of this chapter)