There are four counties in West Qinzhou bordering the North Tianhen Mountains, three counties bordering on the Endless Desert, and a total of seven border counties.

In these seven border counties, the dynasty built a total of four fortresses to strictly guard the borders and resist the monsters.

These four fortresses are the front line of Western Qinzhou's defense against the demon clan. Tianhen Fortress in Xisha County is one of the four fortresses. It is also the smallest and weakest fortress among the four fortresses.

Of the remaining three fortresses, two are in the north of Tianhen Fortress to resist the Skyhen Demon Clan, and the remaining one is in the south of Tianhen Fortress to resist the Endless Sand Monster.

The fortress that resists the Endless Sand Monster is called Sand Sea Fortress. It is located in the middle of the three counties bordering the Endless Desert and West Qinzhou, making it easy to support the two neighboring counties at any time.

The strength of the Endless Sand Monster is not as good as that of the Skyhen Monster Clan. They will not launch a beast tide every few decades, and they may not see a beast tide break out in the Endless Desert for hundreds of years.

The last time the Sand Sea Fortress was attacked by a sand demon was more than two hundred years ago. The next wave of sand demon beasts may have to wait two to three hundred years.

Although the threat from the sand demon is not great, the Sand Sea Fortress needs to ensure the safety of the three counties, so its scale and strength cannot be too weak. Its overall strength ranks second among the four fortresses.

There are more than five Jindan Zhenren stationed in the Shahai Fortress at any time. If you encounter a powerful enemy that is difficult to resist, you can directly ask for help from Yuanying Zhenjun who is stationed in Jinyangfang City.

This third-ranked fortress is called Taihen Fortress. It borders the Tianhen Mountains to the west and the Taiqing Sect to the north. This is how the name Taihen comes from.

The Taihen Fortress must first resist the Tianhen Monster Clan, and secondly, beware of the Taiqing Sect. Naturally, its overall strength cannot be too weak, and there are four Jindan Daoist people stationed there all year round.

The strongest among these four fortresses is naturally the Western Qin Fortress built at the junction of the two counties. It is the frontline of the Daying Dynasty against the Skyhen Monster Clan, and it is also the strongest shield for the Daying Dynasty against the Skyhen Monster Clan.

In order to build the Western Qin Fortress, the Daying Dynasty spent a lot of resources to upgrade the fourth-level spiritual veins under the Western Qin Fortress to the fifth level, and now it has been cultivated to the fifth-level mid-level.

In order to resist the Skyhen Demon Clan, the dynasty set up a fifth-level mid-level defense array in the Western Qin Fortress, placed two fifth-level demon-killing bows on the fortress, and sent a mid-level Nascent Soul monk and more than ten

Jindan real person guards.

In addition, the Li family, one of the three kings and five princes, is near the Western Qin Fortress and can support the Western Qin Fortress at any time.

The royal family - the Li family has two Nascent Soul Lords and more than ten Jindan Lords, and its strength is in the middle among the three kings and five princes.

With the addition of the Western Qin Fortress and the royal Li family, even if five or six demon kings jointly launch a wave of beasts to attack the Western Qin Fortress, the Western Qin Fortress can still be securely defended.

As long as the West Qin Fortress is not broken, even if the Skyhen Monster Clan defeats both the Tianhen Fortress and the Taihen Fortress, the Skyhen Monster Clan will not dare to go deep into the West Qin State.

Since the founding of the Great Victory Dynasty, the Skyhen Monster Clan has launched a beast tide against the Dynasty every forty or fifty years.

Over the years, both Tianhen Fortress and Taihen Fortress have been breached by beast tides, but since the construction of the Western Qin Fortress, it has never been breached by the Skyhen Monster Clan.

The last time the Tianhen Fortress was breached by the Tianhen Monster Clan was more than 700 years ago. Xisha County was occupied by the Tianhen Monster Clan, and several surrounding counties were also captured by part of the territory.

The immortal cultivating family in Xisha County was destroyed, mortals suffered heavy losses, and the lives of all people were devastated. This describes Xisha County at that time.

Soon after Xisha County was captured, all the families in West Qinzhou, under the organization of Zhou Mu, together with the reinforcements of the dynasty, recovered the Tianhen Monster Clan that had been captured by the Tianhen Monster Clan.

The ancestor of the Chen family - Chen Qingqian was in that recovery operation. Chen Qingqian made a lot of contributions in the recovery operation. After he also presented a fourth-level alchemy inheritance, the dynasty assigned Qingqian and Qinglan counties to Chen Qingqian's family.

This is how the Qingqian Chen family established its territory.

In the hall of the Western Qin Fortress, an old man with gray hair and a childish face sat at the head of the table. Below him were eight Jindan masters, both young and old.

The old man sitting in the first place is a Yuanying True Lord from the royal Qin family. He has a cultivation level in the middle stage of Yuanying. His honorific title is Zhenyuan Zhenjun. He is a fifth-level mid-level formation master who focuses on the study of earth formations.

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A fifth-level mid-level formation master is in charge of the fifth-level mid-level defensive formation of the Western Qin Fortress. Even if three or four demon kings attack the Western Qin Fortress, it is impossible to capture it in a short time.

The atmosphere in the hall of the Western Qin Fortress was very heavy, and no one of the eight Jindan practitioners present dared to take a deep breath.

After a while, Zhenyuan Zhenjun, who was still sitting in the first place, spoke.

"What do you think of this?"

The eight Jindan Masters below looked at me and I looked at you. No one answered Zhenyuan Master's question, and they all remained silent.

The thing is like this, every once in a while, the Western Qin Fortress will send a team to the Skyhen Mountains to find out information about the Skyhen Monster Clan, and grasp the general trends of the Skyhen Monster Clan so that they can respond in advance.

Just two months ago, the soul lamp left by Jindan Zhenren, who led a team into the Tianhen Mountains to gather information in the Western Qin Fortress, went out.

The soul lamp of the Jindan Master was extinguished, but the soul lamps of some of the foundation-building monks he took out to inquire about the news were still on.

This made Zhenyuan Zhenjun think that the Jindan cultivator must have mistakenly entered the territory of a powerful fourth-level demon, and finally fell into the hands of that demon.

Although such things rarely happen, it is not unheard of. It happened once more than four hundred years ago.

Of course, it is also possible that the Demon King of the Tianhen Mountains did it, but if that was the case, it would be terrible.

No matter what the situation was, it was necessary to find out, so Zhenyuan Zhenjun sent two Jindan monks who were good at hiding and escaping to find out the situation, and at the same time ordered the Western Qin Fortress to enter a state of alert.

After the two golden elixir monks left the Western Qin Fortress, the soul lamps left by the foundation-building monks who had followed the fallen golden elixir monk out to inquire for information were extinguished one after another.

This change gave Zhenyuan Zhenjun a bad premonition, and then the two Jindan Zhenjun who were supposed to send back the news on time failed to send back the news and lost contact.

On the tenth day after the two golden elixir masters lost contact, one of the soul lamps they left in the fortress went out, and the other soul lamp was also in the mist.

After a few breaths, the soul lamp in the wind and rain also went out.

In just two months, the Western Qin Fortress lost three Jindan Masters, which caused a bad premonition in the hearts of Zhenyuan Zhenjun and the Jindan Masters who stayed behind at the Western Qin Fortress.

In the hall, Zhen Yuan Zhenjun, who had not received a reply for a long time, had already guessed the answer.

In just a few breaths, two Jindan real people fell one after another in the Tianhen Mountains. This is not something that the fourth-order demon can easily do. It is very likely that the demon king in the core area of ​​the Tianhen Mountains did it.

The Demon King left the core area of ​​the Tianhen Mountains and took action against the Jindan monks who were inquiring about the news. This meant that the Demon King of the Tianhen Mountains was about to attack Western Qinzhou.

Taking a deep breath, Zhenyuan Zhenjun opened his closed eyes, looked at the young monk sitting below and to his right and said.

"Tianjin, summon your father and tell him exactly what happened so that he can prepare in advance."

"Also, tell the Li family the news and let them prepare in advance."

Tianjin, full name Qin Tianjin, a late-stage Jindan cultivator, the governor of West Qinzhou - the son of Zhenyang Zhenjun Qin Fengyang, a direct descendant of the royal Qin family.

At the same time, in a cave in the core area of ​​the Tianhen Mountains, several powerful demon kings in human form gathered together.

The young woman in a white dress looked at the tall and thick man opposite and said helplessly.

"Niu Dachou, I told you that I wanted to stay alive, so why did you kill those two people?"

When the young man in white skirt said this, his whole body trembled, and he quickly begged to the female cultivator in white skirt.

"Sister Bai, Lao Niu forgets when he gets excited. You must help me plead with eldest brother, otherwise Lao Niu I will be in misery."

As soon as the big man finished speaking, a red figure walked in from the outside and sat down in the upper seat of the cave.

After the red figure sat down, other people present immediately looked at that person, a young man with a well-proportioned figure wearing a red robe.

After the man in red robe sat down, he first glanced at the woman in white skirt on the left, and then looked at the trembling bull man beside him.

Feeling the gaze of the man in red robe, the already trembling bull man slowly raised his head. Just when he was about to admit his mistake, the man in red robe had already retracted his gaze and looked at all the demon kings present and said.

"Bai Ling, what's the news from the Endless Demon Court?"

"The Sand King agreed to our proposal, but the Sand King said they need time to prepare."

The red-robed man's face changed slightly when he heard this, then he glanced at the big man beside him, and then asked without any emotion.

"How long will it take?"

"At least three years, at most five years."

As soon as these words came out, all the demon kings present except the woman in the white dress were shocked. They looked at the female cultivator in the white dress in disbelief, as if asking him what he wanted to prepare, why it took so long.

However, none of them spoke. Instead, they looked at the man in red robe sitting at the head, waiting for his decision.

After thinking for a while, the man in red robe looked in the direction of West Qinzhou and said.

"Bai Ling, tell King Sand that I will give him five years and give him a warning."

"If the Endless Sand Demon fails to meet my requirements in five years, then there will be no need for the Endless Demon Court to exist."

Then, the man in red robe looked at all the demon kings present and spoke without any refusal.

"Now that things have come to this, let's wait for another five years. These five years will be just enough time for all races to be fully prepared."

Originally, the man in red robe planned to launch an attack before the Western Qin Fortress noticed it, capture the Western Qin Fortress as quickly as possible, and then use the Western Qin Fortress as a base to launch an attack on the entire Western Qin Prefecture.

Now that their movements have been noticed by the Great Victory Dynasty in advance, and there is something wrong with the Endless Demon Court, let's abandon the previous surprise attack plan and fight a well-prepared battle.

After listening to what the man in red robe said, you, the big man, couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. That incident should be over.

However, after the man in red robe left the cave, a loud voice came from outside, which was heard by all the demon kings present.

"Niu Dachou, your tribe will be the vanguard in five years."

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There is an unremarkable flat land at the border of the Nantianhen Mountains and the endless desert. Below this flat land is not compact soil, but a special valley spiritual land.

All the Tiangang Qi in the valley has been collected by Chen Zimo, leaving only an empty valley.

This natural spiritual place will draw down the Tiangang Qi from the top of the sky every ten years. According to the records left by Zijian Zhenjun, the next time it will draw down the Tiangang Qi will be four years later.

In other words, Chen Zimo still has four years to prepare for the pill formation to increase the probability of pill formation.

Forming an elixir is the same as building a foundation. It mainly depends on the monk's mana, physical body and spiritual consciousness. The stronger the monk in these three aspects, the greater the probability of forming an elixir.

Using Tiangang's energy to form elixirs requires a stronger body and more powerful spiritual consciousness than using other elixir-forming spiritual objects to form elixirs.

Chen Zimo's physical body was tempered by [Purple Shu Yang Lei]. Although it was not as good as the same level of physical cultivation, it was much stronger than the same level of monks.

After taking a lot of pills to enhance his spiritual consciousness, Chen Zimo's spiritual consciousness was much stronger than that of monks of the same level, and he initially met the conditions for using Tiangang's energy.
To be continued...