xymnovel Chapter 45 Thank you all for your hard work
Chapter 45 Thank you all for your hard work
Wen Chou killed countless people in his life and never feared anything.
But this scene, which defied common sense, still made him feel a chill run down his spine.
Yan Liang stood there dumbfounded, staring at the scene, feeling as if his brain had stopped working.
I racked my brains but still couldn't figure out how Li Zhao did it.
Just when the five hundred assassins were terrified and at a loss.
A clear voice suddenly rang out above them.
"Thank you all for coming from afar, you must be tired."
Everyone looked up abruptly.
Two figures appeared on a tall tower next to the granary, seemingly out of nowhere.
The man dressed in a blue robe, with a refined and scholarly air, was none other than Li Zhao.
Another figure with a feather fan and silk turban was Xu Shu.
A tea table sat in front of them, on which a pot of tea was brewing and steaming.
They looked relaxed, without the slightest tension, as if they were just sitting there watching a play. There was no panic in their eyes, only leisure and indifference.
"Li Zhao!"
Yan Liang gritted his teeth and shouted at Li Zhao, "Was this your doing?!"
Li Zhao picked up his teacup, gently blew on the floating leaves, took a sip, swallowed, and then said loudly:
"General Yan is mistaken."
"I kindly opened the door and invited you in to warm yourselves by the fire. How can you say I'm up to no good?"
He pointed to the pile of grain below that seemed endlessly burnable.
"How's it going? Is the fire keeping you warm?"
"you……"
Yan Liang was so angry that he trembled all over.
He finally understood.
This is not some kind of empty city stratagem.
This is a trap.
A trap specifically prepared for them, designed to humiliate them and destroy their will.
"You're playing tricks!" Wen Chou roared. "I'll kill you!"
He took the powerful bow from his back, nocked a wolf-tooth arrow, and aimed it at Li Zhao on the tower.
"collapse!"
The arrow shot out like a meteor, heading straight for Li Zhao's face.
Li Zhao didn't even lift his eyelids.
Just as the arrow was about to hit him.
A flash of silver light.
"clang!"
The wolf-tooth arrow was deflected by a bright silver spear.
Zhao Yun, dressed in white robes and silver armor, appeared at the foot of the tower like a god descending to earth.
Immediately afterwards, deafening shouts of battle erupted all around.
Countless torches lit up the area, illuminating the entire Woniugang Hill as if it were daytime.
Taishi Ci led three thousand soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, armed with repeating crossbows, and surrounded five hundred elite warriors.
Those who surrender will not be killed!
Taishi Ci shouted loudly.
Although the five hundred elite soldiers were brave and fierce, they were now terrified by the endless supply of burning grain.
Furthermore, they were surrounded, with the Shenji Battalion's crossbow bolts aimed directly at them.
Their psychological defenses completely collapsed.
Clang!
It's unclear who threw away their weapon first.
Immediately afterwards, there was a series of sounds of weapons hitting the ground.
Most of the suicide squad members knelt down and surrendered.
Only Yan Liang and Wen Chou, relying on their superior martial arts skills, tried to put up a stubborn resistance.
"Zilong, Ziyi."
Li Zhao gave the instructions calmly from the tower.
"Capture them alive."
"promise!"
Zhao Yun and Taishi Ci exchanged a glance and charged at Yan Liang and Wen Chou simultaneously.
A battle with no suspense whatsoever.
Although Yan Liang and Wen Chou were brave, they were still a notch below top-tier generals like Zhao Yun and Taishi Ci.
Not to mention it's two against two.
After only a few dozen rounds, the two were knocked out of their weapons, pinned to the ground, and tied up.
"Li Zhao! Kill me or torture me, it's all up to you! If I even flinch, I'm no hero!"
Wen Chou was still stubbornly shouting and cursing.
Li Zhao smiled and ignored him.
He slowly walked down from the tower and came to Yan Liang and Wen Chou, who were being escorted.
He ignored the two men and walked toward the nearest burning granary.
The flickering firelight reflected off his face.
Li Zhao stretched out one hand, palm up, and looked at these people as he slowly spoke:
"Didn't you want to burn my grain?"
"Then I'll show you just how much grain I have."
With a thought, he directly connected his mind to the system.
"receive!"
The next moment, under the horrified gazes of Zhao Yun, Taishi Ci, Xu Shu, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, and the five hundred prisoners.
Those dozens of huge, blazing grain piles vanished in an instant!
Along with the towering fire, it vanished without a trace.
All that remained were dozens of huge craters, and the lingering smell of burning in the air.
A deathly silence.
Everyone stared wide-eyed at the scene before them, speechless for a long time.
Is this even human?
Everyone looked at Li Zhao with incredulous eyes.
That look in his eyes is no different from looking at a deity.
"this……"
Wen Chou stared wide-eyed, his lips trembling, unable to utter a complete sentence as he looked at Li Zhao for a long time.
Yan Liang was ashen-faced, and looked at Li Zhao with such fervor that he wished he could kneel before him.
Vanish out of thin air!
Wen Chou and Yan Liang could tell that it had truly disappeared and was not some kind of illusion.
However, what happened next was even more devastating.
Li Zhao gently turned his palm over, and then gently pressed it down in front of everyone.
"put!"
"Splash—"
Suddenly, a "rain of grain" began to fall from the sky.
Countless golden millet grains appeared out of thin air and cascaded down like a waterfall.
They landed precisely in those dozens of empty pits.
In the blink of an eye, rows of brand-new grain mountains reappeared before everyone.
They're piled up even higher than before!
It needs to be full!
Moreover, there wasn't a single trace of burning!
This scene completely shattered everyone's spirits.
You have to understand, in this day and age, playing this trick is no different from just going up and slapping them in the face.
"Gods... immortals..."
One of the captured assassins could no longer withstand the shock; his eyes rolled back, and he fainted.
Immediately afterwards, a thud sounded as everyone knelt down.
"Gods, spare me! Gods, spare me!"
"We were blind! We have offended the gods!"
The five hundred prisoners kowtowed frantically, like pounding garlic, until their foreheads were bleeding, but they dared not stop.
In no time at all, blood was flowing like a river beneath these talismans.
In their eyes, Li Zhao was no longer human.
It's God!
It is a god who controls endless food and can manipulate all things at will!
Going against God is practically suicide, isn't it?
Yan Liang and Wen Chou were completely dumbfounded.
Their martial arts skills, which they were so proud of, and their so-called spirit of suicide warriors, were simply a joke in the face of these miraculous techniques.
They finally understood why Li Zhao dared to leave the gates open for them to burn.
Because they simply don't care!
No matter how much you burn, I can conjure up just as much!
This feeling of despair is more unbearable than killing them.
"I...I give up..."
Even the tough guy Wen Chou lowered his proud head at this moment.
His voice trembled, and his eyes were unfocused.
"Li... no, Immortal... I, Wen Chou... am convinced..."
Li Zhao watched this comical yet shocking scene without feeling a ripple in his heart.
He knew that from this day forward, the legend of his "divine" status would spread throughout the world.
No one dared to easily covet his granary anymore.
"Take him away."
Li Zhao waved his hand, turned around, and walked up the tower.
"Take good care of them, don't let them go hungry."
"After all, they are all top-notch laborers."
He still wanted to go back and finish that pot of tea with Xu Shu.
……
News of the miracle in Qingzhou spread like wildfire throughout the surrounding prefectures and counties.
Some people believed it, some doubted it, and most people just treated it as a joke.
After all, what kind of gods are there in this world?
Yanzhou, Taishan Commandery.
The area is characterized by rolling mountains and towering peaks, making it a perfect place for filth and corruption to hide.
The group entrenched here is an armed force called "Taishan Bandits".
Their leader was named Zang Ba, courtesy name Xuan Gao.
This man was generous and skilled in martial arts, and he had gathered more than 10,000 desperate men under his command.
They usually gathered in the mountains and forests, robbing and plundering, and the government couldn't do anything about them.