Chapter 12: The Passage of the Underworld

By this time, it was most of the night.

 Not far away came the sound of a fight.

 The four of them, Lin Xianglan, walked forward and lay down in the grass to peek.

 The fight was between two groups of soldiers, but the clothes on both sides were clearly different.

 There were about five hundred men on one side, and the generals and soldiers were dressed in the same form, the upper part of their clothes being black, and the lower part of their pants of small mouths; the soldiers had their legs wrapped in rows of wrappers, and their feet in boots, which were all tied with straps at the instep and ankles, and their uniforms were girded at the waist.

 There were only three hundred men on the other side, but they all looked brave and fierce. Most of the generals and soldiers had beards, their clothes were earthy yellow, their armor was made of cowhide and threaded with yellow ropes, and each held a bronze sword in his hand.

 Both sides fought hard.

 But after a while, something strange happened.

 The soldiers who had just died came to life, their broken arms and legs were automatically attached, their wounds healed on their own, and as if nothing had happened, they began to smoke black and yellow, and returned to their respective ranks, and the two sides began to fight again.

 In this way more and more people died, and more soldiers appeared with black and yellow smoke.

 Suddenly, a very large centipede appeared on the ground, and Lin Xianglan and Xue Yi Yi moved to the side.

 Just then, soldiers from both sides spotted Lin Xianglan and the others.

 The soldiers were like ghosts, instantly surrounding the four.

 A black-clad soldier said angrily, "They are spies! Kill--"

 Soldiers from both sides rushed up in unison.

 Lin Xianglan fought hard to kill, countless short wooden arrows, overlapping and piercing into the soldiers' bodies, causing them to wail in pain.

 Rong Fang You quickly raised his hand, snapping his fingers, a powerful wave of light quickly spread out in all directions, the force was ruthless, with a bang, the wave of light collided with the soldiers, some of the soldiers fell to the ground and died, some of them spat out blood from their mouths.

 Luo Bin began to swing his fists, and with each swing, countless fist shadows appeared in the air, and when they hit the opponent, the fist shadows turned into solid sand and stone, causing the opponent to suffer serious injuries.

 Xue Yi Yi stood in mid-air, she drew a big snowflake in the air, a piercing cold wind suddenly blew around her, Xue Yi Yi pushed with her hand, countless snowflakes rotated at high speed, wherever they passed, the soldiers were frozen into ice, even Lin Xiang Lan's eyelashes had frost on them.

 The four thought they had the situation under control, but who would have thought that it wouldn't take long for the soldiers to heal themselves.

 Frozen soldiers broke free of the ice, and those who had died smoldered and came back to life.

 The soldiers lunged at the four again.

 After a while like that, the four were a bit overwhelmed.

 Lin Xianglan held up the Hundred Flowers Divine Umbrella, and Xue Yi Yi used a spherical water screen to protect everyone.

 Xue Yi Yi said somewhat weakly, "Everyone, think of something."

 Luo Bin had a plan in mind as he struck the gong that Rong Fangyou had conjured up.

 Finally, the soldiers on both sides stopped.

 Luo Bin shouted, "Everyone! We have no ill intentions, we came here by chance in search of the immortal medicine for the plague."

 The general in black said, "Are you not spies?"

 "We're not spies, we did come here to look for immortal pills, we've alarmed you all!"

 The yellow-clothed general said with a big grin, "In that case, I guess we were wrong about you, brothers, put down your weapons!"

 Soldiers on both sides dropped their guard.

 Luo Bin asked sincerely, "General, there's one thing I don't understand, I don't know if I should ask?"

 "Ask! It's okay."

 "Why does your army look a little strange?"

 The yellow-clothed general shook his head helplessly and said, "I am Huang Jinghan, little brother, there is no harm in telling you."

 Several years ago, when the two armies were at war, two of our teams accidentally trespassed here.

 At that time the battle was scorched, our two teams, from the afternoon until the evening, both sides were killed and wounded, and for a while it was difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat.

 After we chimed in, strange things began to happen.

 Brothers who had died in battle came to life, and those who were wounded and had broken arms and legs were healed at once.

 We were all afraid of being ambushed by the enemy, so no one evacuated the place.

 Only camped nearby.

 However, after our truce, both sides wandered around the valley for most of the day, and would have come back here anyway.

 Then later, we came to an agreement and decided to find a way out together.

 No matter how much we looked, we were in the same place.

 Slowly, some of the brothers began to go crazy and self-harm.

 Then the rations broke down.

 And I wonder how long it will be before we no longer need to eat or drink, and people will not grow old.

 Every night, both of us began to kill each other uncontrollably, and when we died, we lived, and when we lived, we began to kill again.

 Whenever it was almost dawn, everyone was pulled back to their campsite by an invisible force, unable to move as if they were immobilized.

 And so it went on for a long, long time.

 The black-clothed General Jiang Yuxuan sighed helplessly: ''Later, we also realized: we have actually died, just when will such days end? We can't go out, we can't go into the ground, do we have to kill forever like this? In the future, if you know, if there is any way to free us, please help us! We are really tired. I, Jiang, would like to thank you all here first!"

 They all looked at the four of them, Lin Xianglan, with expectant eyes.

 Just then, they were pulled away by an invisible force.

 General Huang Jinghan stretched his voice: "You must save us!"

 Within moments, they disappeared.

 Lin Xianglan's four people had mixed feelings.

 After that, the four of them returned to Liangyu Zhuang.