Hearing Shi Xuanming's roar, he turned around and saw that the only remaining Japanese pirate was throwing a pyrotechnic device shaped like a chicken egg to the ground, and then disappeared with the smoke produced by the weapon.

Although the opponent's figure was missing, Shi Xuanming knew that the enemy was nearby. Longwei whirled around and danced around, attacking in all directions.

Datou had already freed his hands at this time. Since the Dragon Power was much shorter than the Green Shen Spear, fearing that the invisible Japanese pirates would escape by chance, he immediately shrugged his shoulders and raised his arms. The Yin and Yang Wheels left his hands at the same time and flew out quickly, releasing Xuanming's dance.

The sword flower flies around in a circular motion.

Seeing that the Yin Chakra flying in the left-hand reverse direction was slightly delayed, Shi Xuanming immediately determined the position of his opponent, drew out his sword, reached out his arm and stabbed straight. With a scream of pain, the invisible Japanese pirate was hit by the knife in the chest and in the mouth.

While vomiting blood, his figure appeared.

At the same time that Da Tou retracted the Yin and Yang Wheels, Shi Xuanming also pulled out Long Wei. The Japanese pirate then fell backwards and fell to the ground, vomiting blood and died.

The Japanese pirates were all killed and the war was over.

Shi Xuanming threw Long Wei back with his backhand, turned around and walked towards the stone pile on the west side, where the green gun he had thrown earlier was stuck.

Fearing that some of the Japanese pirates might not be dead, Yu Yi held Hanyue in his hand and inspected them one by one.

While looking around vigilantly, Datou and Yang Kai began to search the bodies of the dead Japanese pirates. Gold and silver were the second most important thing, mainly because these Japanese pirates probably carried other important things with them.

Due to the decisive killing and tacit cooperation of the five people, the previous battle only lasted half the time of burning incense. At this time, the bonfire in the field was still burning, and the surrounding light was still sufficient.

The location of the Japanese pirates is a flat area on the mountainside. It must be the square of an abandoned ancient city. It is about ten feet square in size. There is a cave directly north of the square. To be precise, it is a stone chamber dug by humans. After looking around, nothing unusual was found.

, then walked into the stone chamber to the north.

The stone room was not big, and it was very empty inside. Except for the cold-warming bedding and some food that the Japanese pirates carried with them, there was nothing else.

After checking the Japanese pirate's bedding and walking out of the stone room, Datou and others surrounded him from all over. The Japanese pirate's belongings were also turned out, except for the other Japanese pirates.

There were hidden weapons and a small amount of gold and silver but nothing else. There were many things found on Mitsubishi Mori's body, including a compass for positioning and some magic tools needed for the technique. In addition, there was a map, and this map was exactly

It is what Yang Kai wants to find. If it were not for finding this possible map, he would not search the body with Datou.

Yang Kai walked up to him and handed him the map found on Mitsubishi Mori. Seeing Yang Kai frowning, he casually asked, "What's wrong?"

"They have been to other places before coming here." Yang Kai said.

Hearing this, he frowned suddenly and hurriedly took the map and spread it out to read. The map in his hand was indeed a copy of the Dragon Vein Continuation Map, exactly the same as the original. He was not surprised that the Japanese pirate had a copy of the Dragon Vein Map in his hand, but he was not surprised.

What comes to mind is that there are three areas on the map that have been circled with red pens. He is a Taoist priest and is no stranger to the color of cinnabar. The three red circles on the map are all circled with cinnabar, and Mitsubishi Mori is a mage.

Cinnabar is used in this technique. It can be seen that these three red circles were painted by Mitsubishi Mori.

The three red circles are Chenlong located in the east-southeast, Maotu located due east, and Chouniu located in the north-northeast where everyone is at this time.

When looking at the map, Datou and others were all nearby, and they all saw the three red circles on the map. They were all officials of the imperial court and knew that the red circles meant Goujue. The appearance of three red circles on the map probably meant

Mitsubishi Mori and others have visited these three places before.

Worried that he would be worried and anxious, Datou said, "The Earthly Branches here must still be there, but they also drew circles. This shows that they may have just visited these places and did not kill the Earthly Branches."

It was very clear that Da Tou's words were mostly comforting, so he shook his head and said, "We can't deceive ourselves. We know what the red circles mean. We need to know the difference between these dozen places."

It's so far away that even walking in a circle would take a long time, and it's unlikely that they'll be able to come back."

After saying that, Yang Kai spoke up, "What the prince said is indeed true, but what Big Tou said is not entirely unreasonable. You must know that the earthly branches are deeply cultivated. Unless you take advantage of them when they are at their weakest, it will be difficult to harm them.

"

After Yang Kai finished speaking, Yu Yi said, "No matter how high the Earthly Branch's cultivation level is, they are not immortal after all. If there are only these seven Japanese pirates in front of you, they will definitely not be the opponents of the Earthly Branches. If several big families who later arrived in Middle-earth came together, they would not be immortal."

It's hard to say whether the Earthly Branches can hold it up. And have you discovered that the southeast direction where Chen Long is located is in the Jianghuai area controlled by Sun Ru, and the due east direction where Mao Rabbit is located is within Zhu Quanzhong's sphere of influence. This shows that they

It was probably searched from bottom to top, all the way to the north."

"What Yu Yi said makes sense," nodded and said, "That day we robbed the ship and headed eastward to the sea to bring the tiger back to the mountain. It didn't take long for the seven major families of the Japanese pirates to return to the rescue by boat. Judging from the time, the seven major families of the Japanese pirates were at the time of the incident.

The big family is not far from Jianghuai. If they were scattered in various places, they would not be able to come back so quickly."

"My lord, what do you mean?" Datou raised his head and asked.

Said, "What I mean is that the Seven Great Families and Mitsubishi Mori probably traveled together before. We once fought against one of the families in Shuzhou. We fought so hard in that battle, and we were able to win by a narrow margin. If

The remaining seven major families, together with Mitsubishi Mori and others, besieged Dizhi, and Dizhi may not be able to withstand it."

After saying this, no one answered. Although no one wanted to believe that two of the Earthly Branches had been destroyed by the Japanese pirates, the facts were before their eyes and no one was allowed to deceive themselves.

After a moment of silence, the big head pointed at the map and said, "Your Majesty, between the Rabbit and the Chou Ox due east, there is a Yin Tiger. How did they jump over this Earthly Branch?"

Only after being reminded by Datou did I notice this detail. Everyone's current location is north-northeast, while Yinhu's location is east-northeast.

, the earthly branch Mitsubishi Sen here is not circled in red.

"Is the journey too long?" Yu Yi said casually.

There was no answer. Yinhu's location was indeed extremely remote. It had left the territory of the Tang Dynasty and was located in Silla on the northeastern peninsula. Silla was a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty. However, with the decline of the Tang Dynasty's national power in recent years, Silla has

No more paying tribute.

After pondering, he said, "They may want to kill Yin Hu when they come back."

Everyone didn't understand why and looked at him one after another.

Pointing to the map, he said, "At this time, the seven major families are returning to support their country. They may want to make a short detour on the way back and go to Silla by sea."

After hearing the words and looking at the map location, everyone suddenly understood and nodded.

"Your Majesty, if several earthly branches are lost, will it have any impact on the fate of the Tang Dynasty?" Datou asked.

"There must be," he said, "I have met Youji in the desert of the Western Regions before and had a brief conversation with him. According to it, the earthly branches themselves cannot determine the destiny of the country. They need to sense the people's hearts to influence the destiny of the country. In fact, they really determine the destiny of the country.

The fate of the country still depends on the people's will, but if the Earthly Branches are gone, no matter how much the people in that area support the imperial court, the fate of the country cannot be prolonged."

Datou nodded repeatedly when he heard this, "Sun Ru and Zhu Quanzhong probably also know what you said, so they took the lead in removing the earthly branches on their own territory."

Said, "It may also be that their rebellion caused the people within the territory to be at odds with the imperial court, which greatly reduced the strength of the earthly branches and made them tired and weak, so the Japanese pirates had an opportunity to take advantage of them."

After saying this, no one answered. After the silence, Big Head asked, "Your Majesty, what should we do now? Judging from the time, they should be on their way back now. Should we rush to Silla to protect Yin Hu?"
Chapter completed!