I picked up skill fragments in the demon world

#535 - goodbye

Chapter 532 Reunited

"This general will emphasize one last time, if any of you dare to charge the checkpoint, then the arrows will have no eyes. If you die under the arrows, don't blame this general for being heartless." The general stood on the city wall, clad in golden armor, looking down at the commoners below, as if he were a god standing proudly in the heavens, completely oblivious to the suffering of the world.

"This person possesses the power of bloodline, but I don't know what his bloodline power is." Zhang Chen, who has mastered blood control, could feel the powerful bloodline power contained in the general's body, but he could not sense the other party's strength.

Moving his gaze away from the soldier, Zhang Chen turned to look at the ragged, dirty refugees in the distance. The little bit of hope in their numb eyes seemed to be gradually extinguished, causing Zhang Chen's Dao heart to fluctuate slightly.

"I should take care of this matter, both morally and rationally," Zhang Chen muttered.

Since it was a process of proving the Dao, managing all the injustices in the world, then he should naturally put it into practice.

Moreover, his own family was also blocked outside the city wall, so how could he sit idly by?

"However, there are different ways to manage it. If these people have the will to resist and take the initiative to resist the shackles of fate, it would be fine for me to help them break the shackles and lend a helping hand. But if you ask me to be a nanny, that won't do!" Zhang Chen thought to himself, "I must find a way to mobilize the power of the masses, otherwise, it will be difficult for me to break through the Tiger Soul Pass alone."

This place belonged to the Northern Territory and was guarded by a strategic pass. Even if Zhang Chen mastered the Art of Combining Sand, he would not be able to carry his family to climb the city tower.

"Brother, the Tiger Soul Pass has been blocked by King Pingbian's people. What should we do?" At this moment, Zhang Tuo poked his head out of the carriage, a trace of worry on his face.

"You don't have to worry, just set up camp and wait patiently. I will find a way to take you across the strategic pass." Zhang Chen said, his eyes flashing as he looked at the crowd in the distance. He actually saw a figure that seemed familiar. Then, he quickly jumped out of the carriage and said to Zhang Fei, "Unload the carriage, rest!"

Upon hearing this, Zhang Fei obediently jumped out of the carriage to rest. Zhang Chen loosened the reins and walked towards the crowd in the distance. At this time, he sighed in his heart, "If there was a large amount of river water here, or a large number of monsters gathered, it would be much easier."

Unfortunately, there was nothing!

Zhang Chen tracked the figure, passing through the refugee crowd. Seeing the skinny, sallow-faced refugees, he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart. If he hadn't seen it, it would have been fine. It would have just been a short sentence in history books, or two lines in an article, or a story told by someone else. But when you really see the refugees, you can't help but be moved.

Zhang Chen's eyes swept across the crowd. Suddenly, a sob came. He saw a family of three crying around a child. The sound was very low. If Zhang Chen's hearing wasn't so sharp, he would probably not have heard it.

Zhang Chen followed the sound and saw a middle-aged man with a weathered face, a white-haired, skinny woman, and the child who had already starved to death.

The woman was crying, and the middle-aged man was just sitting there blankly, looking at the corpse, not knowing what he was thinking.

Seeing the corpse of the child, Zhang Chen couldn't help but stop. But he just sighed softly, without saying anything more. His eyes swept across the crowd, but he had already lost track of the familiar figure. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "Could I have seen it wrong? Is it an illusion?"

Seeing that he had lost track of the other party, Zhang Chen could only return. He saw that his younger brother and sister had already set up camp. The so-called camp was just a few pieces of leather set up under the carriage after it was unloaded, forming a simple camp.

When Zhang Chen returned, Zhang Shi was cooking. Seeing Zhang Chen return, she asked, "Have you found an opportunity?"

"There are more young and strong people here, and fewer women and children! If everyone can rise up and resist, there may be a chance to break through the strategic pass," Zhang Chen replied.

Just as the two were talking, a playful sound suddenly came from a distance. A loud whistle broke the silence. Zhang Chen followed the whistle and saw a burly man, surrounded by the power of Qi and blood, obviously a master of martial arts. At this time, he was holding a stick in his hand, with a line hanging from the stick, and a piece of meat tied to the line. The meat block swung back and forth, and under the meat block was a man, who was crawling on the ground, chasing after the meat block.

"Old Ni, you old dog, you're not doing so well. You're moving much slower than usual." The man shook the meat block in his hand, teasing the man crawling on the ground.

The man kneeling on the ground made a barking sound, imitating it vividly, constantly chasing after the meat block.

Because of his haste, his feet tripped and he fell to the ground, spitting blood from his mouth and nose, but he still ignored it and pounced on the meat block. Such a scene caused the thirty or so sturdy men beside the man to laugh, their laughter full of pride.

"Those people are too much!" Cheng Yu's eyes revealed a hint of murderous intent.

Zhang Chen heard this and remained silent, just watching quietly. After a long time, the man flicked the dried meat in his hand and it fell to the ground not far away. Before the man could pounce on it, it was swallowed by a big black dog.

"Old Ni, I gave you a chance, but you're useless." The burly man smiled coldly.

"Master, please give me something to eat…" Seeing this, Old Ni quickly pounced over, wanting to hug the man's thigh and beg, but the man kicked him away, directly kicking the man several meters away: "Get out of the way, don't disturb the master's peace."

After saying this, he turned around and walked to the campfire, slowly eating the grilled meat with the group of men.

Then, he saw Old Ni clutching his stomach, kneeling on the ground and shrinking into a ball. At this time, a little girl of about five or six years old, dirty and wearing ragged clothes, staggered over, kneeling beside the middle-aged man with tears on her face, and said in a hoarse voice: "Dad!"

"Don't cry! Don't cry! Dad's okay!" The disheveled man tried to suppress the pain, trembling as he stroked the little girl's head, his face firm.

Seeing this scene, Zhang Chen sighed softly. Cheng Yu suddenly stood up, but Zhang Chen reached out and pressed him down: "Don't interfere, I will naturally have a way to deal with him."

A drop of blood seeped out from under Zhang Chen's feet and disappeared without a trace, then directly pounced into the body of the man who fed the dog with meat.

So what if the man had cultivated Qi and blood? For the Blood God Son, it was still just food.

The man and the little girl came not far from Zhang Chen and the others, the father and daughter dependent on each other, shrinking in the shadows without saying a word.

At this time, Zhang Shi stewed the meat, and the family ate the stewed meat. Just at this moment, the man led the girl, his face pale, and walked over, his voice somewhat timid: "Madam, can you give my child a bowl of soup? My child hasn't eaten for three days…"

The man's voice was sobbing. He didn't cry when he was teased, and he didn't cry when he was injured, but his voice was sobbing at this time.

Zhang Chen looked at the dirty face and couldn't help but be stunned. Before, because the other party was dirty and the night was dark, he didn't recognize the other party's origin. At this time, as the other party approached, Zhang Chen finally recognized the other party's origin: Chen Ping!

Chen Ping, the young escort leader of the Dragon Tiger Escort Agency!

"Young escort leader!" Zhang Chen called out and quickly helped the other party up. As his arm touched the other party, Zhang Chen was shocked to feel the Qi in the other party's body. Not only was the other party seriously injured, but even the tendons of both hands had been severed.

At this time, Chen Ping was in a state of embarrassment. Where was the high-spirited look he had before?

A familiar shout of "Young escort leader" immediately made Chen Ping raise his head. Zhang Chen then realized that one of the other party's eyes was blind, and only one eye could still see.

"Brother Zhang!!!" Chen Ping's eyes turned red the moment he saw Zhang Chen.

"How did you end up like this?" Zhang Chen looked at Chen Ping, his eyes full of confusion.

"I… I… Can I eat first!" Chen Ping's eyes stared straight at the big pot, his eyes full of desire, his stomach rumbling.

Zhang Chen handed over a large bowl of meat: "Don't be polite, let's eat together."

"Ni, come and eat meat!" Chen Ping quickly beckoned the little girl over. The little girl obediently ran over, picked up the meat and fed it to her daughter, then devoured it herself.

The young girl was filthy, her hair disheveled, obscuring her face. Zhang Chen took a bite of the meat and asked the question in his heart, "Brother Chen, how did you end up in such a state? Do you have a feud with them?"

"A blood feud! A fight to the death!" Chen Ping's voice was full of coldness. While swallowing the meat, he said, "That day, a strange wind blew, and I was blown away directly. Thanks to this girl's parents for saving me, I was able to wake up. But I was also unlucky and ran into my enemies, and even implicated this girl's parents. So I adopted this girl as my own daughter and tried to live with humiliation and bear the burden."

"The reason he keeps my daughter and me is firstly to treat us as pets to be teased and vented on, and secondly to use us as bait in the wild, or when encountering monsters, to use our lives to attract the monsters." Chen Ping's voice was full of indifference, as if he was not talking about something that happened to him.

"What's this girl's name?" Zhang Chen asked.

"Her name is Wei Wei!" the little girl said timidly.

Zhang Chen picked up another piece of meat and handed it over, a hint of coldness in his eyes: "I will avenge you!"

"No need! You are just a mortal. They are all martial artists. You are not their opponent! Don't get involved! You must pretend not to know me!" At this point, Chen Ping gritted his teeth and said: "If you go to Jinling, please pass this letter to the Dragon Tiger Escort Agency. I, Chen Ping, will be grateful and will repay you as a cow or a horse in the next life!"

"I can't escape. Those people are already watching me. I can't implicate you. I just feel sorry for this girl…" Chen Ping's voice was full of calmness. He put down the meat in his hand, quickly tore off his clothes, cut his palm with a small knife used for cutting meat, and laboriously wrote a 'Dong' character, then solemnly handed it to Zhang Chen: "With this, my family will definitely offer a thousand acres of fertile land. If you have any requests, just go and tell my father. Chen Ping is grateful!"

Having said that, Chen Ping quickly said: "In addition, some people among the rioters have already begun to secretly organize manpower, preparing to launch a riot tomorrow, taking advantage of the chaos to attack the city and force a way out. If you want to pass through, remember to prepare in advance tomorrow and take the opportunity to rush out."

"Brother Zhang, let's say goodbye here."

Chen Ping was about to leave after speaking, but Zhang Chen grabbed him: "Good brother, old friends meet, why are you saying goodbye in such a hurry?"

"If I don't leave, I'm afraid I'll burden you!" Chen Ping's voice was low.

Zhang Chen sighed softly upon hearing this: "If you trust me, stay by my side. I believe there is still justice and fairness in this world."

He had already used the Blood God Seed to seize the body of that Qi and Blood Realm martial artist, so how could the other party come looking for trouble? He not only seized the leader, but also had two Blood God Seeds that had already taken the opportunity to attack, seizing two of them. These three Blood God Seed puppets would be useful to him in the future.

Hearing Zhang Chen's words, Chen Ping smiled bitterly and was about to refuse when he heard Zhang Chen say: "What if I could reconnect your meridians and restore the injuries in your body? Would you stay?"

Chen Ping was stunned when he heard this, staring blankly at Zhang Chen, his body trembling, his voice a little excited: "Really?"

Zhang Chen smiled, took out a pill from his sleeve. This pill was refined by Xu Erniu in the past, and he specifically left it for him to use when he went down the mountain during his time in Wuzhuang Temple.

"Take this pill, and you can restore the injuries in your body, but I can't do anything about your eyes being gouged out," Zhang Chen sighed faintly at this time.

Chen Ping looked at the white pill with some disbelief, and then said with a trembling voice: "Brother, don't tease me!"

Zhang Chen smiled and motioned for Chen Ping to swallow the pill. Chen Ping swallowed the pill in one gulp. As the pill entered his stomach, Chen Ping only felt a burst of itching in his arms, as if countless ants were crawling on him. The next moment, his clumsy arms actually regained their strength, and all the hidden injuries in his body were restored, and then he spat out a mouthful of black blood.

Along with the mouthful of black blood being spat out, Chen Ping's eyes were frighteningly bright, and he raised his arms with disbelief in his eyes: "I have actually recovered! I have actually recovered!"

Then, Chen Ping's knees softened and he knelt directly on the ground and kowtowed to Zhang Chen: "Brother Zhang, you have saved my second life. I, Chen Ping, owe you this lifetime! Don't worry, if I can return to the Chen family, I will definitely repay you for the loss of this pill."

Zhang Chen helped Chen Ping up upon hearing this: "Young Master is benevolent and heroic. It is right that you should meet me to resolve the calamity. This is the good fortune of your usual compassion."

Chen Ping stood up smoothly, looking at Zhang Chen solemnly: "Brother Zhang, I have another thing to ask of you. I am going to take revenge, and I will trouble you to send this girl to Jinling for me."

Zhang Chen shook his head: "You are not the opponent of those people. Going there is just a waste of life."

"I was severely injured at the time, so they had the opportunity to take advantage of me…" Chen Ping was a little unconvinced.

Zhang Chen couldn't bear to reject the other party's face, but pointed to the campfire in the distance: "You don't have to take revenge. If you don't believe me, look…"

The next moment, three of the strong men sitting around the campfire eating meat and drinking suddenly rose up, and in a short while, they had killed all their companions.

"This…" Chen Ping's eyelids twitched at this scene, and he was stunned.

"The remaining three people have already been hit by my methods and have become my puppets. After we pass the Tiger Soul Pass, I will naturally deal with them for you. Now you might as well tell me about the Tiger Soul Pass. How to pass the Tiger Soul Pass is the most important thing," Zhang Chen said.

Hearing Zhang Chen's words, Chen Ping came back to his senses, looking at Zhang Chen with a face full of shock: "It's no wonder my eyes are blind, I never recognized that you, my virtuous brother, have such abilities!"

"As for the Tiger Soul Pass, the reason why this strategic pass is difficult to pass is because the person guarding this strategic pass is a well-known and difficult figure in the Northern Territory, named Jin Dou. This person can transform into a body of steel, indestructible and indestructible, which is very difficult to deal with. Many romantic figures have been defeated by this person. The most important thing is that his martial arts cultivation has already ignited his Qi and Blood, and it is said that he has entered a higher level. He is a first-class master. After Xie Xuan proved the Yang God, he fought with Xie Xuan for hundreds of rounds without falling behind," Chen Ping said.

"So it's a lump of iron. This kind of bloodline is the most difficult to deal with. Even if the Yang God True Person wants to kill it, there is no good way. If you want to kill it, you can only start from the soul level," Zhang Chen said.

"Before, there were bloodline powerhouses and martial arts powerhouses who wanted to attack the Tiger Soul Pass by surprise, but they were all suppressed by Jin Dou. Now those people have secretly organized manpower, preparing to attack the Tiger Soul Pass again tomorrow, and then create chaos in the Tiger Soul Pass, and then find an opportunity to avoid Jin Dou and rush through," Chen Ping said: "If we want to pass the strategic pass, tomorrow will be the opportunity!"

Zhang Chen suddenly understood upon hearing this, and secretly said in his heart: 'In this way, it will save me a lot of trouble.'

At this moment, someone began to act in the dark night, and a shout came from afar: "Fellow folks, we are stuck under this strategic pass, and we are in a dilemma. Retreating means wolves, insects, tigers and leopards from the demon clan, and the rebels from the Pingbian Prince's Mansion. At that time, it will be a dead end. We can only move forward and break into the strategic pass to have a chance to kill a way out. Rather than waiting to die in vain under this city, why don't we organize ourselves and try to attack the city, and then fight for a way out?"

As soon as this statement came out, the atmosphere in the field changed for a while, and someone immediately said: "We want to attack the city, but we have no siege equipment, nor armor, swords, or guns. How should we attack the city?"

"There are always more solutions than difficulties! If we don't have siege equipment, we can build it on the spot. As for not having swords, guns, or armor, we have sticks and hoes in our hands. Use all the weapons we can use, it's better than waiting to die here," someone else echoed.

"That's right, if we continue to wait, we will only waste time in vain. It's better to fight to the death and kill a way out!"

"That's right, this dog thing, the Prince of Pingbian, won't give us a way out. We might as well kill a way out!"

"Let's fight them!"

"…"

There is always no shortage of people in this world who are willing to take risks and gamble, and there are many Jianghu heroes in the crowd. At this time, along with the agitation of thousands of people, the emotions of the people who have fallen into despair were suddenly mobilized, and they responded one after another.