Li Mu hesitated a little.
He was considering whether he should fly over this Heaven Gate from a high place or enter through the Taotie Gate in front of him.
Logically speaking, even the stone wall of the city gate, which was tens of thousands of meters high, could not stop the cultivators from flying over. But this city gate was a building in the Immortal Palace. Who knew whether there was a terrible restriction against flying?
If the Yellow Fairy was by his side, he could ask her about it.
After thinking for a while, Li Mu stepped forward and pushed the door behind him.
But before his fingers touched the door, a creaking sound like rotten wood was heard, and the door, which was covered with rivets with white Taotie stone patterns, opened automatically.
Li Mu was slightly shocked. The four golden chains of Broadsword Intent were already hanging around him, like four golden dragons, protecting him.
Li Mu didn't know whether it was his illusion or not, but he vaguely felt that the moment he opened the door, the densely packed Taotie statues on the stone door seemed to have opened their eyes. But when he took a closer look, he found nothing had happened.
Li Mu crossed the stone gate and walked in.
The stupid dog followed him.
It squinted and glanced at the Taotie stone patterns on the stone gate, drooling.
All of a sudden, those Taotie heads lost their vivid and lifelike spirit, becoming dim and lifeless.
"It seems to be a drill ground inside?"
After Li Mu came to the city wall, he saw a huge square.
On both sides of the square, there were more than a dozen two-story rock barracks and four-story weapon racks engraved with cloud patterns, on which were placed knives, spears, swords, halberds, axes, hooks, forks, and other weapons, which were all made of stone and as white as jade.
In addition, there were drums, trumpets, flagpoles, platforms, and so on.
It was clearly a drill ground of a military camp.
But most of the barracks had collapsed.
There were also dead bodies lying in disorder on the drill ground.
Some had become mummies, and some had decayed into skeletons. There were also broken limbs scattered everywhere. It could be seen that there had been a sudden attack at that time. The soldiers of the ancient Celestial Court in the entire camp had fought with the enemy and suffered heavy losses. At least thousands of people had died.
The warriors of the Ancient Heavenly Court were basically all humans, and the corpses they left behind were the same as human skeletons. However, although these invaders were also similar to humans, if one looked closely, there were still differences in their skeletons.
Li Mu noticed some clues.
But what kind of creature was this invader?
Li Mu was not sure.
Could it be the legendary Extraterrestrial Demons?
He remembered that before he entered the Immortal Palace, the people from the Immortal Sect had once said that there might still be extraterrestrial demons in the Immortal Palace that hadn't died yet.
The air was filled with killing intent that had yet to dissipate.
Gusts of strange, eerie wind swirled around the drill ground, as if there were ghosts marching.
Li Mu was on the alert.
They went all the way in.
In the innermost part of the drill ground, he saw a high platform that looked like an execution platform. It was made of white jade and was twenty meters high. On top of it, there was a half-damaged guillotine with the edge of the blade missing.
"What's that?"
Li Mu stepped onto the execution platform and was startled.
A man in rusty armor was nailed to the ground of the execution platform by a blood-colored spear in his chest. His hands were separated, and so were his feet. All of them were nailed to the ground by a dagger. His limbs were spread out, forming a Chinese character. It was obvious that he had been tortured to death here.
He was a general of the Ancient Heavenly Court.
What was strange was that, judging from the degree of decay of the armor, he should have been dead for a long time, but his body was preserved very well. His face was clear, and his skin was smooth. The bloodstains around his wounds were still shining with a faint radiance, as if they would flow out at any time. It was as if he had just died.
Li Mu cautiously approached him, for fear that he would suddenly come back to life.
But he was sure that he had lost his vitality and was as cold as a stone.
"He should be the supreme general of this camp, but he was tortured to death here."
Li Mu felt some sympathy for this dead man.
Standing on the execution platform, one could see the densely packed corpses of the Invaders piled up like a mountain of bones. One could imagine how the Invaders had frantically besieged this place, only to be killed by this dead general. However, in the end, the general had still been defeated and died.
"According to the description of the chief of the Yellow Dragon Clan, the original place of the Ten Thousand Beasts Ring is on this execution platform … Where could it be?"
Li Mu studied the execution platform again.
Soon, he noticed that there was a flying dragon carved on each of the stone pillars fixed to the guillotine on the execution platform. The Yang Seal Script was used to carve real dragons. In the mouth of the dragon on the left was a ring very similar to that of the Ten Thousand Beasts Ring, while the mouth of the dragon on the right was empty.
"There's a groove for the beast ring here. If I'm not mistaken, the Ten Thousand Beasts Ring of the Yellow Dragon Clan is embedded in the mouth of this flying dragon."
Li Mu guessed.
He took out the Ten Thousand Beasts Ring and slowly pressed it into the groove in the mouth of the flying dragon on the right.
"Crack!"
The sound of the ring fitting into the groove was heard.
Sure enough, the Ten Thousand Beasts Ring was embedded perfectly in the mouth of the flying dragon on the right.
A jet of black light flickered faintly in the Ten Thousand Beasts Ring.
Li Mu took two or three steps back and slowly breathed a sigh of relief.
"All right, I've finally completed the task entrusted to me by the chief of the Yellow Dragon Clan."
"Things went more smoothly than expected."
"Rumble!"
All of a sudden, a loud noise came from the gate where they came from.
Li Mu and the silly dog immediately turned around to look.
The two gates with the Taotie's head suddenly slammed shut.
Without warning, the light in the military camp on the drill ground dimmed. The white clouds that were drifting leisurely in the sky almost instantly became shrouded in dark clouds.
"Swoosh!"
A chilly wind blew.
A strange rustling sound came from the ground.
It was as if an invisible army of ghosts was walking on the ground.
"Woof, why do I feel like I've entered a horror movie all of a sudden?" The silly dog sneezed and shivered all over.
A strange sound suddenly came from behind.
Li Mu looked back and his heart skipped a beat.
The two flying dragons carved on the stone pillars had come to life. They coiled around the stone pillars and twisted slowly. In particular, there was a divine light flashing in the eyes of the dragons, releasing a frightening energy.
"What's going on?"
"Is it because I just returned the Ten Thousand Beasts Ring?"
Li Mu found it hard to believe.
He gradually realized that the request from the chief of the Yellow Dragon Clan was not as simple as it seemed. There had to be a big change. Whether it was good or bad, he could not be sure for the time being.
The sky was overcast.
Li Mu could feel a terrible power of law pressing down on him, making it impossible for him to escape from the drill ground.
The wind whistled.
All of a sudden, one of the dragons raised its head and roared.
"Kill. General, I'm sorry. I woke up too late … "
A sorrowful voice echoed in the air, full of regret, remorse, and anger.
The voice came from the dragon on the left.
It flew up into the sky with the black ring in its mouth.
The black ring spun out from its mouth. The three huge characters engraved on the inside of the ring released a strange and mysterious power. It seemed to be twisting time and space, and even light began to distort in the black ring.
"Crack!"
A bolt of lightning fell from the sky, illuminating the dark space.
Li Mu's eyes lit up. He saw a figure walking on the drill ground. At that moment, Li Mu thought he was seeing things.
"Rumble!"
Bolts of lightning fell from the sky one after another.
They were densely packed.
The lightning swept across the entire drill ground.
Li Mu was dazzled by the lightning.
He rubbed his eyes.
Then, something even weirder happened.
The lightning, the Sea of Consciousness, the chilly wind, the low clouds … All of it disappeared the moment Li Mu rubbed his eyes. Suddenly, the sun was shining brightly in front of him. The dilapidated drill ground and the military camp became neat and tidy as if it had been newly built.
Battle cries came from the drill ground.
The soldiers in light armor were all young and youthful. They were all in their twenties. They were divided into two clans and were training each other. They were in full swing, practicing, and fighting.
The corpses of the invaders had long disappeared.
The war drums were beating.
In the distance, drummers and buglers were waving banners and directing the soldiers on the other side to get into formation.
"Haha, you did a good job."
An incomparably hearty and hearty laughter rang out.
When Li Mu looked back, he saw a general with a resolute face and a friendly smile, who was talking to him with a smile.
Wasn't this the corpse that he saw on the execution platform that had its limbs pinned to death and its chest pierced by a blood-red spear?
Li Mu was completely shocked.
"What the hell is going on?"
"The dead are all alive."
"Where are the invaders who destroyed this military camp now?"
"What are you waiting for? Brat, go and pass the order. We will set off in the afternoon and take you to the real battlefield … "The general in bright armor patted Li Mu on the shoulder very intimately.
The clear sensation on his shoulder told Li Mu that this was not an illusory formation, but a real one.
"Why is this happening?"
Li Mu could not figure it out no matter how hard he tried.
It seemed that in an instant, time had turned back, and everything went back to before the war.
But the question was, why did the general talk to Li Mu?
Even if time went back, Li Mu should not have appeared in the war thousands of years ago. The general seemed to have known Li Mu for a long time.
For a moment, Li Mu did not know what to say.
The general said, "Brat, what are you waiting for? You …"
Before his voice died away —
"Rumble!"
A loud noise was heard.
Then, outside the gate of the drill ground, there suddenly came the sound of fighting.
"Rumble!"
The gate of the drill ground was slammed open from the outside.
Countless black figures rushed in from the gate, waving their weapons that glinted with cold light, shouting and charging.
"Enemy attack!"
Some soldiers shouted.
The battle broke out in an instant when no one was prepared.
Li Mu saw that dozens of soldiers, caught off guard, were cut down on the spot and turned into minced meat.
The general on the execution platform changed his face dramatically, but he reacted quickly and roared, "Are they the extraterrestrial demons? They actually broke into the Imperial Palace? Prepare for war, prepare for war! Wang Dehu, Zhen Menglong, you two, go up and take back the gate … "
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