Chapter 167: Gun King Zhang Xiu! Wen Pin of the Wen Clan! The Test of Wancheng!

Wen Family, Deng Family, Han Family.

These are the three major families in Xinwan City.

They look different in age and appearance.

In fact, the heads of the three major families are already over a hundred years old.

When the world changes drastically and the abyss descends, the entire time and space are dragged into the abyss dream. Although all living beings endure endless disasters and sufferings, they also have the possibility of constantly improving their cultivation, prolonging their lifespans, and even achieving immortality.

In addition to cultivation, the abyss plane also has many ways and means as well as natural treasures that can prolong life and even keep youth forever. Living for hundreds of years is not a problem at all.

Of course, living too long is not necessarily a good thing.

Because the longer you live, the easier it is to sense the will of the abyss. If you don’t have enough Qi to protect your body, you will inevitably fall and twist into evil, or even more terrifying and crazy monsters in the whispers of the abyss will.

"Brother Deng, Brother Wen, I haven't seen you for a long time. How are you doing?"

The old man with white hair and beard holding a bone staff, with a pair of deep eyes, swept over the middle-aged elder carrying a big bow and the strong man in armor, and greeted them in a calm and gentle tone.

The old man with the bone staff is called Han Ji.

He is the patriarch of Fangcheng Han family.

The Fangcheng Han family has a long history and profound heritage, and is a famous family in Nanyang County.

His ancestor is Han Xin, one of the princes of different surnames in the Western Han Dynasty. Of course, this Han Xin is not Han Xin, the military fairy. There were two Han Xins in the early Western Han Dynasty. One is Han Xin, the Marquis of Huaiyin, who is also known as the military fairy Han Xin by people in later generations, and the other is Han Wangxin, the ancestor of Fangcheng Han family, who is not so famous.

Han Wangxin can be traced back to the grandson of Han Cang, the King of Han Xiang.

This shows how profound the Han family's heritage is, and it can be regarded as the descendant of a king.

With the protection of his family's strong luck, Han Ji not only learned many wonderful methods and secrets from the abyss, but also led his family to continue to grow after many twists and turns. Now it has become one of the three major families.

The other two families are not inferior.

The two people in front of Han Ji at this moment are not inferior to Han Ji in terms of personal strength, and are even stronger than him.

For example, the middle-aged elder carrying a large bow.

He is Deng Zhi, the patriarch of the Deng family in Xinye.

The Deng family's historical heritage is naturally not as deep as the Han family, but it is not a small family. The ancestor is Deng Yu, one of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai at the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It can be said to be a family of generals. For hundreds of years, generals have emerged.

Deng Zhi bowed slightly to Han Ji and then said: "Hey, what's good or bad? At our age, the influence of the abyss is getting deeper and deeper. It's just barely surviving. Brother Wen's aura is getting stronger and stronger. I'm afraid his strength will be even better!"

Han Ji and Deng Zhi's eyes.

Finally, they all fell on the armored man.

The armored man is Wen Pin, the head of the Wen family, one of the three major families.

Although the Wen family was a prestigious family in the old times, Nanyang County was home to many talented people and noble families. Compared with families like the Han family and the Deng family, the Wen family was only a second- or third-rate family at the beginning.

But because of this extremely lucky Wen Pin.

The Wen family has become the leader of the new Wancheng family.

Wen Pin's strength has increased very quickly. Now he is recognized as the strongest among the three major families. There are even rumors that Wen Pin's personal strength is enough to match Zhang Xiu, the city lord, and he has become a representative of the family power in the new Wancheng.

"Meet the city lord first!"

Wen Pin's whole body was covered in heavy armor, so his expression and appearance could not be seen clearly. Only a powerful voice could be heard from it, which made the others present feel pressured unconsciously.

"Okay!"

Wen Pin walked in front, Deng Zhi and Han Ji slightly pulled away half a body, and as for the other family members and followers, they were all waiting outside the gate of the city lord's mansion.

Walk into the city lord's mansion.

A row of soldiers stood on both sides.

Each of these soldiers wore black armor with a texture of asphalt, held a blood-red tiger-head spear, and wore a black iron mask on his face. Each of them exuded a violent breath and a sense of oppression, like a tied-up wild beast that might go out of control and go crazy at any time.

These are the soldiers of the Blood Spear Battalion!

Zhang Xiu was originally from Xiliang, not from Nanyang!

The reason why he could continue to dominate this place in the Abyss Age and let the major local families worship him as the city lord was far from enough to rely on the reputation of "Northern Spear King" and personal strength.

He can sit firmly on the throne of the city lord of Xinwan City, and there are currently two main reliances.

First, Jia Xu.

Jia Xu is a fellow countryman of Zhang Xiu, but he is not as rough as other Xiliang people. Instead, he is wise and has a plan. In the old days, he was Zhang Xiu's military advisor, who gave him advice to dominate Wancheng and become a warlord emperor.

After the abyss descended, Jia Xu's strength advanced by leaps and bounds, and he even founded a sect to create the Extreme Yin Dao. It was the six-sided fortune formation he laid that protected this piece of pure land.

Otherwise, the new Wancheng could not be built.

It was even more impossible for people to stop Dian Wei, who was like a demon god who destroyed the world.

Although Mr. Jia has become more and more mysterious in the past two or three decades, he has rarely appeared in person, and there are rumors that he has gone crazy and is on the verge of losing control because of excessive theft of knowledge from the abyss, but as long as he is still there, other families dare not easily destroy the current power structure of Wancheng.

Second, the Blood Spear Camp.

Zhang Xiu can sit firmly on the throne of the city lord.

Not only because Jia Xu is behind the scenes.

He himself has also created a terrifying army, which he calls the Blood Spear Camp.

The soldiers of the Blood Spear Battalion each wore magic armor and held big blood-colored spears. Zhang Xiu personally taught them marksmanship, and they were able to fight one against ten or even one against a hundred. They were absolutely loyal to Zhang Xiu, enough to intimidate other families.

You can say that.

The forces in the Xinwan City area can be roughly divided into two camps.

One is the alliance of local wealthy families represented by Wen, Deng, and Han.

One is a non-family alliance composed of Jiyin Sect and Blood Spear Battalion.

The heads of the three major families were welcomed into the hall.

Soon Zhang Xiu appeared with two of his subordinates.

The famous spear king of the North does not look tall and majestic in person. Instead, he is an old man with white hair and a thin body. Not only is he not powerful, he even looks a little sickly. But his eyes are piercing, as sharp and sinister as an eagle.

All these years.

Many families have questioned Zhang Xiu's ability.

There are many people who think they are superior and try to challenge this gun king's status.

In the end, the old gun king told the world through bloody lessons again and again that he had never really aged. Not only did his strength not decline, but it continued to progress and grow.

Zhang Xiu was accompanied by two subordinates, one was his trusted general Hu Che'er, and the other was his confidant nephew Zhang Hong.

Hu Che'er is nearly ten feet tall, with muscles all over his body and veins popping out. His skin is a strange bright red. His weapon is a giant mace. He wears a beast-like muzzle and exudes a violent aura.

This is the number one warrior under the gun king Zhang Xiu!

Over the past hundred years, Hu Che'er has been under the influence of the abyss. His sanity has been reduced and his body has undergone changes. However, his loyalty to Zhang Xiu has never wavered. He is definitely a terrifying existence that makes people fear.

Zhang Hong is nine feet tall and is the leader of the Blood Spear Battalion, so he is dressed similarly to other Blood Spear soldiers. He wears a black iron mask and black asphalt-like armor, and holds a majestic tiger-headed gun.

His mother is Zou, the widow of Zhang Xiu's uncle. He has now become the leader of the Blood Spear Battalion. Zhang Xiu raised him as his biological son and heir, and taught him a set of Hundred Birds Phoenix Spear without any reservation.

Zhang Hong is now known as the Little Gun King, and he is 100% loyal to Zhang Xiu. He can be described as the right-hand man of the city lord.

"Meet the City Lord!"

No matter what the three patriarchs think in their hearts.

When facing the old gun king in front of him, he was also respectful.

"Brother Wen, Brother Han, Brother Deng, why should we brothers be so polite to each other?"

Zhang Xiu sat in the main seat with Hu Che'er and Zhang Hongli behind him. He continued: "Without the help of the three major families, I can't be the city lord, let alone stop the evil Dian Wei's attack!"

Wenpin said: "We are here today just for the extremely dark day that will begin in a few days. Although we don't know whether Dianwei will come in person this time, we must not be careless and must be prepared."

Han Ji: "Yes, the effect of the Six Directions Luck Array set up by Mr. Jia has weakened!"

Deng Zhi asked at this time: "Speaking of it, Mr. Jia has not appeared in person for a long time, and rumors have spread frequently among the military and civilians to confuse people's hearts. Why not directly ask Mr. Jia to help calm the people's hearts this time against the abyss."

Zhang Xiu shook his head: "Sir is in seclusion to comprehend the great road. Unless it is a life-or-death moment, there is no need to disturb him. This is not the first time that Dianwei and Abyss have invaded. With our strength and formation, we can completely deal with it."

The three masters have doubts in their hearts. There are often rumors in the city that Jia Xu, the ancestor of Jiyin, has gone crazy and is about to lose control, so he sealed himself. Is this true?

Without waiting for others to continue on this topic.

Zhang Xiu suddenly asked: "Is there any clue about the miracle doctor?"

Han Ji: "No one has seen the miracle doctor Zhang Zhongjing in the past four or five years!"

Zhang Xiu said in a deep voice: "If you want to see a person alive or see a corpse dead, the miracle doctor is very important to us. No matter where he is, we must find him as soon as possible!"

"We'll do our best!"

"But on this extremely dark day..."

The three masters are still afraid of the outbreak of the Extremely Dark Sun.

After all, once the Extreme Darkness breaks out, the first place to be attacked will be the local city where their respective families are stationed, so elite soldiers must be sent from Wancheng in time to prevent the family from suffering losses.

An extremely dark day occurs every two to three months.

Over the past hundred years, the outbreak of extremely dark days has long been a common occurrence and periodic natural disasters, and a tacit understanding has long been formed between the major forces.

Zhang Xiu looked calm: "It is not difficult for us to retreat from the enemy in the extremely dark day. What is difficult is how to eliminate the hidden dangers once and for all. Otherwise, no matter how powerful the formation is, it will eventually fail."

Wenpin immediately asked: "Could it be that the city lord already has a countermeasure?"

It's not that people haven't thought about completely eradicating the abyss.

But no matter how many times it is killed, the abyss creatures cannot be killed.

People cannot eliminate the creatures of the abyss, but the forces of the abyss continue to spread pollution in outbreaks again and again, causing more people to fall into the abyss and fall into madness, and eventually continue to grow and develop.

There really is a way to eradicate or suppress the pollution of the Abyss.

No matter how high the price is, it’s worth a try!

Zhang Xiu said: "According to the new information I have received, a force of star lords has descended on this world at this moment. Only the stars can completely purify and eliminate the pollution from the abyss."

"Stars..."

Although the forces in the Wancheng area have not had direct contact with the forces of the stars before, some of them will come into contact with the will of the abyss in the process of cultivation, and thus obtain forbidden and unknown knowledge from the chaos.

Some of them accidentally obtained information about the Star Lord.

Because of this, when they learned that the Star Lord appeared in this world, the heads of the three major families were not confused, but all showed excitement and even ecstasy.

"Really?!"

Zhang Xiu: "I have confirmed it with Mr. Jia."

Han Ji hurriedly asked: "Where is this lord now?"

Zhang Xiu replied: "According to what I have learned, it seems that a troop of the Star Lord has been active in the Death Wasteland in the west recently, and even fought with the local Thousand-legged Demon Dragon."

The Death Wasteland is the westernmost area of ​​Wancheng.

This wasteland is a terrain that appeared after the abyss descended, and it gave birth to a large number of high-level abyss creatures, so it has always been the situation of the military and civilians in Wancheng.

Han Ji said with a serious expression: "This lord is capable of leading troops to attack the thousand-legged dragon in the wasteland of death, which is enough to show that he and his troops are not weak."

Deng Zhi: "This is not a bad thing. After all, the strength of the star lord is strong enough to be used!"

Wen Pin said at this time: "If you are not of my race, your heart must be different. If this star lord is too strong, not only will he not be able to solve the dilemma we are facing, but he may become a new threat."

Hearing this.

Everyone at the scene frowned slightly.

The old Wancheng forces are in the eastern region.

Now the star forces have descended on the western region.

If these two forces are enemies with the new Wancheng area at the same time, the final result may be a two-sided attack. You must know that the outbreak of the Dark Day has been a few days.

In this way, the arrival of the stars is both an opportunity and a risk.

Zhang Xiu said: "This is why I told you three about this. We should take the initiative to contact this star force. If it is strong enough, we should find a way to unite and win over and use them to fight against Dian Wei. If it is weak, we can control it by force or even get rid of it directly."

The abyss and the stars are not good things.

The star lord is not strong enough and loses to the natives.

In the end, it is not uncommon for the natives to control or even manipulate them.

The natives can also directly kill the star lord and seize the star heart of the star lord. In this way, with the blessing of the star heart, the natives will also have a certain degree of ability to purify the nightmare pollution source.

Because of this.

It is difficult for the abyss plane forces to have a trusting relationship with the star lord.

The star lord has a strong motivation to enslave, exploit, and even squeeze and massacre the natives to obtain resources or achieve the desired goals. The natives can also obtain the power of the stars by controlling or killing the lord.

In addition.

What makes the natives more worried is.

If the abyss forces kill the star lord.

If the heart of the stars is obtained by the core pollution source.

Then this will free the core pollution source from the constraints of the core pollution area, and it may even become a more special abyss lord, thus bringing more serious disasters to this plane area and even the whole world.

There are all kinds of suspicions and fears.

In addition, the star races are basically alien races.

How can the two coexist peacefully? The probability of fighting is very high!

Zhang Xiu glanced at the three people and asked: "I want to send an envoy to the star territory. I wonder if you three have a wise and brave candidate?"

"No need to bother!" Wen Pin stood up at this time and said: "I am willing to go there in person!"

Hearing him say this.

Deng Zhi and Han Ji's face changed.

Han Ji hurriedly persuaded: "Zhong Ye think twice. At present, we don't know the depth of the power of the stars. If we rashly contact them, it will be dangerous!"

Wen Pin said confidently: "Even if this lord is powerful and has a deep foundation, I can protect myself with my strength and negotiate with him. If this lord is weak and vulnerable, I will directly take the heart of the stars to prevent future troubles."

For such a result.

Zhang Xiu naturally wanted it.

Although the three heads of the family are all top masters.

The only one who may pose a threat is Wen Pin.

Now that he has taken the initiative to ask for contact with the Star Lord, it will not be bad for Zhang Xiu no matter the result is good or bad.

"Okay, Zhongye is indeed very righteous, so I'll leave it to you!"

Soon after.

The meeting was over.

Wen Pin rode his exclusive mount and galloped directly towards the Death Wasteland on the west side of Wancheng area, heading towards the main city of Luoshui.

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The action on the new Wancheng side.

Hang Yu naturally didn't know that he had successfully raised enough recruitment fees through the trading market at this time, and there was still more than half a day before the new round of recruits.

"Finally, there was no delay!"

Hang Yu was also relieved.

This batch of new recruits will cost a lot of energy resources to cultivate.

Now the territory reserves energy and energy are not much left.

The best solution is to let the veterans and high-level players suffer quickly.

The scale of Wancheng area is larger than the three maps combined. There must be many dangerous places like Centipede Valley. The death rate of high-level players in the process of opening up the wasteland is extremely high, at least four or five times higher than the daily leveling of monsters.

In this way, the source can continuously generate essence, and the essence can be used to assign tasks to new soldiers or to train production professionals, so that the production capacity of the territory can be improved as soon as possible.

That's it!

Start editing a new task.

[Task 1: Open up the wasteland map! ]

[Task content: The Wancheng map is huge, with a large number of unexplored map areas, which may contain potential dangers or mysterious adventures. ]

[Task goal: Please unlock as many unexplored map areas as possible within 7 days. Settlements will be made every 24 hours. Each settlement will generate rewards based on the area and quality of unknown maps newly explored by individuals or teams. ]

[Task rewards: 1000-50,000 spirit value, 1000-100,000 contribution points, which can be divided equally among participating team members! ]

[……]

[Task 2: Obtain a resurrection base in the Wancheng area! ]

[Task content: The Wancheng map is huge and the situation is very complicated. If you can take down a high-level blessing point as soon as possible, it will be of great help to the Scourge Legion to gain a foothold in the new area. ]

[Task goal: Please take down a town-level base within 7 days and activate the first high-level blessing point that can provide resurrection function. ]

[Task rewards: 200,000 spirit value, 300,000 contribution points, which can be divided equally among participating team members! ]

[……]

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Hang Yu issued two tasks.

The first task is to encourage players to take risks.

Only 1% of the Wancheng map has been explored, and the other 99% of the area is covered by a fog of war, so players need to go to dispel the fog of war.

This task effectively encourages players to take risks, increases the casualties of high-level players, and promotes income growth.

It can also realize map reconnaissance and accelerate land reclamation.

The environment and coordinates of these reclaimed maps will be automatically recorded by the territory. Even if there are no territory units present to illuminate the real-time vision, Hang Yu can quickly reach them through teleportation items such as teleportation staffs.

The second task is to encourage players to seize new strongholds as soon as possible.

Although the Scourge Army successfully captured a blessing point in Huangniu Township after entering Wancheng through the southern part of the White Tiger Mountain map, this is only a small blessing stronghold and cannot be used by players to revive.

And because ordinary blessing points cannot be teleported across regions.

The symbolic meaning of a single blessing point is actually greater than its actual value.

It would be different if a town like Shansang Ancient City could be captured in the Wancheng area.

Hang Yu will be able to set up a resurrection point for the Scourge in Wancheng. When you die while exploring Wancheng, you can directly resurrect in the map, which can save a lot of time running around and increase the efficiency of suffering, death, and monster spawning in Wancheng.

Of course, a town-level blessing point is not so easy to light up.

Hang Yu is looking forward to the players' next performance. He believes that as these two tasks are issued, players will soon take action, and he can add new tasks according to the development of the situation.

For example.

As the Scourge continues to accelerate its exploration of the Wancheng area.

By then, the number of various village-level blessing points will definitely increase.

The Scourge has only so many people in total. It is impossible for every stronghold to be comprehensive, and it is impossible for every stronghold to organize people to rush over to support in time when it encounters an attack.

Under this situation.

Corps tasks can be issued.

The task of protecting the stronghold will be subcontracted to the Corps.

The longer these corps defend the blessing points, the more casualties and battles they suffer, the higher the corps contribution value they generate. In this case, there is no need for Hang Yu to issue tasks. Each corps will spontaneously coordinate manpower and do its best to protect each blessing point.

"Almost done!"

"Just wait and see!"

The Scourge Corps is responsible for the development of the territory.

There is no need to worry about anything, and you can sleep in the main city every day.

Hang Yu suddenly thought of something: "Oh, I have to use the divination tortoise shell to check the location of Zhang Zhongjing!"

He took out the divination tortoise shell that he had exchanged from the trading market not long ago, and immediately used the tortoise shell to divine Zhang Zhongjing's name. When the tortoise shell's ability was activated, the entire tortoise shell immediately shattered into a pile of ashes.

[You have obtained the divination revelation! ]

The divination was successful!

Hang Yu opened the map.

I saw a highlighted mark in the northeastern area of ​​Wancheng. This is the revelation of the divination tortoise shell. The medical saint Zhang Zhongjing is probably in this place. Although the divination location is not very accurate, it should be enough.

Since it can be divined.

This means that Zhang Zhongjing is still alive.

This place is only a few hundred miles away from Huangniu Township.

Hang Yu does not plan to release new tasks specifically, so as not to waste too much manpower and affect the efficiency of other tasks.

After all, we don't know what Zhang Zhongjing is like now.

If it is confirmed that he has degenerated, it will not be too late to send a large army to encircle and suppress him.

It is estimated that a large number of natural disaster troops will enter Wancheng from the direction of Huangniu Township. At most one day, there will be players coming to this area to explore the map, and then the adventure tasks can be triggered for players nearby.

This not only saves manpower, but also adds randomness and adventure to the game, and this kind of surprise can also enhance the game experience.

Hang Yu did not continue to operate.

He will watch the development of the situation behind the scenes, while observing the exploration of the Wancheng area by the natural disaster troops, and respond to the actions of the Wancheng forces at any time. It has been almost three days since the new map was opened. If the major forces in the Wancheng map are sensitive enough, they must have begun to notice the arrival of the stars.

Once they notice it.

There will definitely be targeted actions.

Although Hang Yu does not know what actions they will take.

But with the current strength, he has the confidence to respond to changes with the same attitude.