The Counterattack of the Villains

"Stone bullet, hide quickly."

"Be careful, stone bullets are coming."

After repelling this wave of siege, the Bai Miao warriors had no time to rejoice, as hoarse reminders sounded on the city wall.

Without thinking too much, everyone reflexively leaned down on the wall. This was the best way to deal with the stone bomb attack.

The power of the barbarian trebuchets is not great, and they only throw stone projectiles the size of human heads. They are incomparable to the Mongolian return cannons, which are known as "boulder cannons" and their projectiles can reach the size of millstones.

Although being hit directly would result in serious injuries, either death or serious injury, its destructive power on the city wall would not be that significant. At most, some bricks would be broken off when it hit the raised parapet.

Therefore, as long as you hide under a wall or under a wall, stone bullets will basically not hit anyone.

But this time, the Bai Miao warriors escaped from loneliness.

Because no stone bullet can fall on the city wall.

After Fenglong hid under the wall, he saw the self-proclaimed high priest friend, carrying a square heavenly halberd, named Jiang Ming, who was so embarrassed that he was still standing carelessly on the city wall, and couldn't help shouting : "Brother, please stay away for a while. It's not worth fighting against the stone bullets."

Li Mu turned to him and smiled, and with a "swish" sound, the Heavenly Dragon Slash unfolded behind him.

The pair of steel wings that shone dazzlingly in the sun left a deep impression on Fenglong.

The moment Tianlong Zhan appeared, the flying knives that were feathers flew out dozens of times with a "whoosh whoosh".

Fenglong heard the "Peng Peng Peng" explosions in the air, got up and looked towards the sky.

Then he saw the flying knives flying out from Li Mutie's wings scattering in mid-air. Each one accurately hit a stone bullet, smashing it into rubble in mid-air and falling to the ground.

Fenglong was determined. With Li Mu's move, the enemy's trebuchet was basically useless.

After shattering the stone bullets, the flying knives turned around and flew back towards Li Mu, each returning to their original positions.

The next moment, Li Mu flapped his wings and flew directly out of the city wall, shooting towards the trebuchet position a hundred feet away.

Arriving above the trebuchet formation, Li Mu levitated in the air. The lightning-exploding halberd in his palm suddenly stabbed the sky. A pillar of thunder fell from the sky and hit the tip of the halberd.

After two breaths, the Thunder Pillar disappeared, and all the power of the thunder was sucked into the halberd and transformed into the power of Fang Tianji.

"boom"

Li Mu landed with a bang, just in front of the trebuchet position. He held the back end of the halberd pole with his left hand and swept across the trebuchet position.

The violent thunder spirit power turned into a terrifying shock wave, blasting out in front of Li Mu in a fan shape.

The reason why he must first use the power of thunder to charge the Fangtian Halberd every time before opening Wushuang is because this operation can save his own strength.

If he is in a fierce battle where he has no time to absorb the power of the sky thunder, he can only use his own strength to activate Wushuang, which will greatly shorten Li Mu's endurance.

Therefore, if it is not necessary, he will basically not use his own strength to activate Wushuang.

This in itself is a top-notch magic weapon like the Thunder-Exploding Fang Tianji. Why not make full use of the extra combat power it brings to him?

Everyone on the city wall saw a scene that stunned them.

After Li Mu swept out the halberd, dozens of trebuchets instantly shattered into a pile of firewood and flew diagonally upward into the air.

The more than three hundred barbarian soldiers who controlled the trebuchet were also spraying blood and were wrapped in the pile of rotten wood and thrown backward.

What's more, even three feet of the ground was scraped off, turning into dust that filled the sky and poured into the distant sky.

It can be seen from the twisted bodies of the barbarian soldiers that all their bones were shattered the moment the halberd was swept out.

After taking out the trebuchet position, Li Mu turned his attention to the barbarian array, and instinctively showed a Lu Bu-like grin on his face.

At this moment, the God of War reappeared.

The barbarian soldiers and the black Miao warriors were all frightened by the scene just now. When they saw Li Mu looking at them, they couldn't help but retreat.

Li Mu raised his halberd to stab the sky again, and the thunder pillar reappeared. This time he absorbed the power of the thunder for a full five breaths of time.

Not only was Fang Tianji entangled with dazzling lightning, but Li Mu also had countless electric snakes jumping and shining.

The next moment, Li Mu suddenly jumped up and turned into a parabola, falling towards the place where the barbarian soldiers were the densest.

His speed was so fast that the barbarian soldiers had no time to disperse.

"boom"

The moment Li Mu landed, the head of the halberd hit the ground hard, and the power of the Thunder-Exploding Heavenly Halberd spread instantly using the ground as a medium.

The result was that with him as the center, more than a thousand barbarian soldiers within a radius of twenty feet were all blown into the air more than ten feet high.

Li Mu immediately jumped up, and when the barbarian soldiers reached their highest point, they paused, just at the center point of the same height as them.

Fang Tianji swept through thousands of troops with one stroke, and all the power of the thunder spirit burst out. More than a thousand barbarian soldiers who were still alive when they flew into the sky immediately turned into corpses.

It started to rain people from the sky. Li Mu landed on the ground before the corpses of the barbarians. He stood in the open space in the center and looked at the other barbarians. He was surrounded by the corpses of the barbarians falling down.

This scene was as terrifying as hell, causing the rebels who witnessed it to collapse almost instantly.

A huge rout occurred, and the barbarian soldiers and black Miao warriors let out a howl of terror, turned around and ran away, including Herth and the chiefs of the barbarian tribes.

This scene was so shocking to their senses that no one had the courage to face that demon-like figure.

Looking down from the city wall, the dark, almost endless crowd of people surged away from Dali City, disappearing behind the horizon.

In fact, this is the reason why Li Mu uses the unparalleled mowing mode to start the battle.

He has many means of large-scale attacks, whether it is the Sky Dragon Slashing Flying Knife, the Nanming Lihuo Jue, fire bullets washing the ground, or the Six Spirit Sword Jue, the Heaven-Destroying Juedi Sword Twenty-Two, sweeping away, all of them can be used in a short period of time. , easily slaughtering thousands of troops.

However, these methods lacked a shocking effect and could not frighten the rebels into immediate dispersion.

After all, he was not a murderous maniac, so he could not really kill hundreds of thousands of rebels.

If he really did this, I'm afraid Zixuan and the others would be afraid of him.

If even your friends and wife are afraid of you, what's the point of life?

Therefore, for the rebels, scaring them off is enough, and there is no need to go on a killing spree.

The two unparalleled ultimate moves just now seemed terrifying, but in fact they only killed 1,340 people. Compared to an army of hundreds of thousands, they were just a drop in the bucket, not even a fraction.

In a siege, more than this number of people would die within an hour.

In fact, from yesterday to now, the rebels have lost more than 15,000 people, and the Bai Miao have also suffered more than 3,000 casualties.

These thirteen or four hundred people are really nothing.

What is truly shocking and frightening from the bottom of one's heart is that these 1,340 people died in two blows in an instant.

On the city wall, although the war was considered a victory, none of the Bai Miao warriors cheered.

Everyone stared blankly at the figure standing among the large bodies of corpses.

At this time, Nuyuan, Zixuan, Lin Yeping, Shenggu, Fenglong and others had gathered together, and they all looked lost.

Lin Yeping murmured: "So he...is so scary."

Hearing his words, Nuyuan came back to her senses and subconsciously retorted: "No, he is not scary at all. As his friends, shouldn't you feel at ease?"

Nuyuan felt like a mirror in her heart, no matter how powerful or decisive he was, he was still her husband.

The stronger he is, the more sense of security he will bring to her, so she will not be afraid of him, but will only respect him more.

Zixuan also reacted and echoed: "You are right, having such a friend is really reassuring."

Fenglong also said loudly: "Yes, he slaughtered so many people to save us Bai Miao people. He is our hero."

"We only respect heroes. It is the enemies who should be afraid of them."

The surrounding Bai Miao warriors also realized that the terrifying being who killed more than a thousand people and scared off hundreds of thousands of rebels with two moves was one of their own, so what else should they be afraid of?

They should be happy!

As the Bai Miao warriors spread Fenglong's words, everyone's eyes changed when they looked at Li Mu, from fear to reverence.

Li Mu watched the rebels go away, took Fang Tianji and Tianlong Zhan back into his body, turned around and flew towards the city head lightly.

Even in mid-air, he could already feel the fanatical gazes on the city wall.

Fortunately, from Swordsman to the present, he has long been accustomed to this kind of gaze, and there is nothing special about it.

When he landed on the city wall, Nuyuan immediately greeted him with a flowery smile and eyes full of admiration.

She hugged one of his arms and said with a smile: "It turns out that you are so powerful. You used to hide it so deeply that even I, the person next to your pillow, didn't know."

Li Mu looked at her, smiled, and said, "We haven't encountered any situations that required action before. Do I have to perform a mountain-breaking stunt for you if I have nothing to do?"

Zixuan and others who came up after Nuyuan could not help but smile knowingly when they heard his words. Only Lin Yeping frowned slightly and had no smile on his face.

After walking in front of Li Mu, Lin Yeping said: "Brother Jiang, if you take these two blows, you will kill more than a thousand people."

"Too much killing will always lead to Qian Tianhe, which will be detrimental to your practice. It is best to use such a unique killing move sparingly in the future."

Zixuan, who was a little worried when she saw his face, secretly breathed a sigh of relief after hearing his words.

She also thought that Lin Yeping was unhappy because Li Mu was so decisive in killing.

It turned out that he was worried that Li Mu would kill too much and hinder his practice. In the final analysis, he was thinking about Li Mu.

Li Mu nodded to Lin Yeping. This is a true friend. These words are what a friend should say. He was very satisfied with Lin Yeping in his heart.

"What Brother Lin said is absolutely true. I am not a murderous person, but today's situation is special. I used thunderous means to frighten the rebels and scare them back. In fact, it reduced many casualties."

"More than a thousand people are nothing compared to an army of hundreds of thousands, but if we can't scare them away, we will definitely have to kill more people to force them back."

Lin Yeping suddenly realized that this was indeed the case.

The Bai Miao warriors were at the end of their game, and they didn't have much fighting power left. Only the four of them were a viable force.

Since the Bai Miao warriors can no longer be defeated, they naturally have to rely on a few of them to repel the enemy.

Without Li Mu, facing hundreds of thousands of troops, even if their strength is exhausted, how many can they kill? How can we retreat from the enemy?

If Li Mu had not used this unique killing move, but had used other inefficient means, he might have killed more people in the end, and he would not be able to scare off the rebels, and the killing would be even greater.

Therefore, his two bursts killed more than a thousand people in an instant and directly scared off the rebels. Not only was it not cruel, but it was a kind of mercy.

A Bai Miao general behind Feng Long said angrily: "These rebellious officials and traitors showed no mercy at all when they killed my people."

"In this rebellion, our Bai Miao people suffered tens of thousands of casualties. Even if we kill them all, it is only natural. Killing only more than a thousand of them is already an advantage for them."

Li Mu shook his head and said to the man: "Brother, that's not the case. Although the essence of war is killing, killing is never the purpose of war."

"As long as the final goal can be achieved, it doesn't matter whether you kill more or less people."

"Just like this time, my purpose of killing people is to force the rebels to retreat and protect the Bai Miao friends in Dali City."

"Although I only killed more than a thousand people, my goal has been achieved, hasn't it?"

Lin Yeping, Zixuan Fenglong and others nodded, but the general remained silent.

He knew what Li Mu said was right, but after all, so many tribesmen were injured and killed. At this time, he hated the Heimiao and barbarian tribes to the bone.

If he had that ability, he would really want to kill them all.

Hearing Li Mu's words change, he continued: "But you are right, the clan members cannot die in vain, revenge must be avenged."

"But it doesn't mean that as many white Miao people died as many black Miao people must be killed to pay for their lives."

"What this does is weaken the overall national strength of Nanzhao. Don't forget that Tibet is watching from the side. We can't do this kind of thing that hurts relatives and makes enemies happy."

"As the saying goes, every wrongdoer has his own debtor. If we want revenge, we go directly to the culprit."

Fenglong said in admiration: "Everything Brother Jiang said makes sense. This rebellion was started by Zhao Maisi, an ambitious man."

"Both I, Bai Miao and Black Miao, suffered heavy casualties because of his selfish desires, so our real enemy is Zhao Maisi."

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Having said this, he turned back to look at the Bai Miao generals behind him and said solemnly: "When we regroup and take back the lost land of our Bai Miao tribe, we will try to kill Zhao Maisi and avenge the people who died in vain."

After listening to his words, all the generals clasped their fists and bowed: "The patriarch is wise."

…

After appeasing the generals, Li Mu and Zixuan worked together to treat the wounded but not dead Bai Miao warriors.

Nuyuan and Lin Yeping's Sacred Heart Technique skills are not deep enough and cannot be of much help.

The holy aunt and the priests really have no energy left. Their spiritual power has been depleted in the past two days and has not been restored much.

They are almost always on the verge of exhaustion and death.

Fortunately, the healing effect and efficiency of Li Mu's Sacred Heart Technique are not at all inferior to Zixuan's "Guanyin Curse". On the contrary, they are even better.

For seriously injured people, the Guanyin Mantra can only alleviate some injuries, and then they can be treated with medication and slowly recover.

If you want to recover quickly, you have to cast the "Five Qi Chao Yuan" or even the "Resurrection Curse".

However, these two spells consume a lot of spiritual power. Even with Zixuan's spiritual power, she can't cast them many times.

But Li Mu's Sacred Heart Technique was different. After he treated him with the Sacred Heart Technique, no matter how serious the injury was, even if he was seriously injured and dying, or even expired, he could become alive and kicking on the spot.

It's just a difference in the length of time, maybe one in one minute, one in three minutes, or five minutes.

Working until the moon was high, Li Mu rescued more than 300 seriously injured Bai Miao warriors, and all of them recovered immediately on the spot.

As a result, Li Mu was even more respected by the Bai Miao people, and his status in the hearts of the Bai Miao people was almost equal to that of their high priest Zixuan.

…

Zixuan's residence in Dali City is outside the Nuwa Temple, located in the northeast of Dali.

After the aftermath came to an end, Zixuan, the holy aunt and a dozen priests took Lin Yeping and Li Mu Nuyuan and his wife to the temple.

The road to the temple is a very desolate and remote path with no homes.

After walking for about half an hour, the outline of a huge white palace built of marble appeared faintly in front of everyone's eyes.

Although it was late at night, under the moonlight, the huge white palace shimmered faintly, and it was still very clear in the dark night.

On the left and right in front of the huge hall, there are two houses built of stone, which are the residences of the Bai Miao priests.

Zixuan asked Saint Aunt to arrange a stone house for Li Mu and Nuyuan, and then they went back to their rooms to rest.

Everyone is exhausted today. Zixuan spent a lot of time treating the injured. The holy aunt and other priests are close to exhaustion of spiritual power and urgently need a good rest to restore their spiritual power.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning Fenglong sent someone to invite Li Mu and his wife to the Dali Palace for a reunion.

Naturally, Lin Yeping, Zixuan and his wife will not be absent, while Shenggu and the others will stay at their residence and continue to meditate to restore their spiritual power.

Today's Dali Palace is far from as grand as that of later generations. It is even inferior to the buildings of the Shushan School, let alone the Tang Palace in Longshouyuan, Chang'an.

Many so-called palaces are actually an enlarged and high-end version of a stilted building.

When the group arrived at the palace, Fenglong had already prepared a banquet, and the Nanman queen and prince were all present.

Fenglong's son is called Longfa, a young boy of thirteen or fourteen years old.

The naming of the Southern Barbarian royal family is very unique. Fenglong's father was named Shifeng, and his grandfather was named Youshi.

That's right, the first character of the son's name must be the last character of the father's name, just like Solitaire.

It was only then that Li Mu learned that Fenglong was not named Feng, but Nanman, and his full name was Nanman Fenglong.

This is also the origin of the Southern Barbarian King. It does not mean that the Bai Miao people are barbarians.

Therefore, the name Nanban of Anu's mother Nanman does not refer to her identity as the Nanman King, but her surname.

Many people don’t know that Anu’s Nanman mother’s full name is actually Nanman Sanwei.

Therefore, Nanman’s mother is a descendant of Fenglong.

At the wine table, Fenglong was overjoyed when he heard that Li Mu said that he intended to settle in Nanzhao and establish a sect there.

This is truly a blessing from heaven. With a demon-like figure like Li Mu in charge of Nanzhao, who else dares to insult or rebel lightly?

Fenglong immediately stated that he wanted to make Li Mu the national master, whose status was still higher than that of Zixuan, the high priest of the Bai Miao tribe.

Because Zixuan's position as high priest only belongs to the Bai Miao people, not the entire Nanzhao people.

And Li Mu, the imperial advisor, was the imperial advisor of the entire Nanzhao Kingdom.

Li Mu did not refuse Fenglong's proposal, after all, it was also good for him.

If there is an entire country to support some of the resources he needs, even if it is just a small country, it will be better than scrounging around alone, and it will save him a lot of trouble.