Chapter 541: Triumphant Return

Chapter 541: Triumphant Return

Chapter 541: Triumphant Return
Compared with the normal snake puppet, the white phosphorus snake monster transformed by the Queen of Jingjue is undoubtedly more powerful.

Even after she pulled out the arrow stuck in her forehead with her hands, a scarlet eyeball grew out of the bloody hole on her forehead.

And when she joined the battle with Huo Qubing and others, the team, which was already under tremendous pressure, undoubtedly became even more difficult.

Because the snake monster transformed by the Queen of Jingjue is not only extremely powerful and agile, but also has mastered strange magic and can spit out purple poisonous mist when it opens its mouth.

One soldier was unfortunately touched and immediately screamed and wailed in pain on the ground, eventually rolling off the stone beam into the bottomless "ghost cave".

"General, retreat!" Li Gan shouted at Huo Qubing.

And it seemed that because of the appearance of the white snake puppet transformed by the Queen of Jingjue, dozens of snake puppet monsters also crawled out from somewhere on the ground, making excited hissing sounds and attacking the elite cavalry, completely overwhelming these Han soldiers.

Even at Yumen Pass, thousands of miles away, the snake puppets that followed the Huns in besieging the city woke up from their hibernation and became agitated as if they had been injected with chicken blood. Without distinguishing between friend and foe, they rushed out of the Huns' camp and launched a suicidal attack on Yumen Pass.

"Can't retreat!"

Huo Qubing looked at the two snake puppet monsters, one black and one white, approaching him and others. Although he was under great pressure, he was still holding on.

He knew that if he and his companions formed a battle formation on the stone beam, they could still protect themselves. If they really turned around and fled, given the complexity of the first cave, the other party's understanding of the place, and the serpent monster's agility and powerful strength, they would definitely not be able to escape.

And for some reason, as the youngest general of the Han Dynasty, his intuition was trying to tell him that something was wrong.

What was wrong? What had he missed?
Huo Qubing looked straight ahead with his tiger eyes, and met the eyes of the snake monster transformed by the Queen of Jingjue.

The vertical snake pupils were filled with cruelty and viciousness, making people feel as if they were being targeted by their natural enemy just by taking a glance at them.

Snake pupils? Eyes!
Huo Qubing's mind moved and he finally figured out the problem. Since the Queen of Jingjue possessed magic eyes that could make people disappear out of thin air, why was it ineffective now?

So he bit the tip of his tongue, and due to the severe pain, the scene in front of him suddenly became distorted.

"No, don't be fooled by the illusion!"

Huo Qubing shouted loudly, pulled out a sachet from his waist, put it to his nose and took a deep breath.

The stimulating aroma rushed into his nasal cavity, and after a violent sneeze, the distorted scene in front of Huo Qubing's eyes finally stabilized.

It was not until then that he realized that there was no battle at all. They had been standing in front of the stone beam without taking a single step forward.

As for the Queen of Jingjue, she was standing in front of the alien spaceship, pressing her bloody left hand on the surface of the spaceship.

The metal hull of the spacecraft seemed to be activated by the blood of the Queen of Jingjue, and dark red scaly patterns appeared on it, wriggling as if with life, revealing a two-meter-high hole.

In the cave, the snake puppet monster was being driven by Queen Jingjue to move a huge piece of wood onto the stone beam.

The wood was more than two meters in diameter, and looked like a section of a large tree that had been cut off. The branches and bark on the trunk were still there, and there were even green leaves growing on it, without any processing.

What’s even more peculiar is that there is a huge green flower growing on this piece of wood.

The flower was as big as a water tank, with petals curled up in layers, bright green in color, and roots as black as ink, firmly clinging to the piece of wood.

"Han people, taste the divine flower!"

When the Queen of Jingjue saw that Huo Qubing and the cavalry soldiers were awake, she was not worried. After shouting in her unfluent Chinese, she slapped the wood hard.

Along with a hissing sound, a crack appeared on the wood, and the lid slowly rose up, revealing a space inside that was filled with green transparent liquid.

The Queen of Jingjue simply lay down in the liquid inside the wood with her clothes on. The next second, the wooden lid began to close slowly and automatically.

It turns out that this piece of wood is nothing else but the trunk of the legendary Kunlun sacred tree.

This kind of wood has only been recorded in ancient books. It is the best wood for making coffins besides the heartwood of sunken wood, and can be called a divine product.

Ancient books say that this tree is as old as the Kunlun Mountains. Even if its roots and branches are cut off and it is separated from the sunlight, soil and water, it will not dry up and decay, but will always maintain its original state.

If the corpse is stored in the Kunlun sacred tree, it can be guaranteed to be immortal for ten thousand years.

It is said that the First Emperor once wanted to find the Kunlun sacred tree to make a coffin, but to no avail.

They never thought that Huo Qubing and his companions would actually see such a magical object in the "ghost cave" in the Western Desert. If they could present it to the emperor, wealth and glory would be within their reach.

But the Queen of Jingjue is clearly still alive, so why is she lying in a coffin made of the Kunlun sacred tree?

Before Huo Qubing and the others had time to think about it, the coffin had already closed. Then the snake monster guarding outside did something that Huo Qubing and the others did not expect. It raised the steel knife in its hand and cut its own neck directly.

boom!
The body of the snake puppet monster fell to the side, and dark green blood immediately spurted out, pouring on the Kunlun sacred tree and the green flowers.

Even though they didn't know the other party's purpose at this time, Huo Qubing and others realized that something was wrong. As soon as they broke free from the illusion, they immediately rushed onto the stone beam, while not forgetting to shoot arrows at the coffin and flowers.

Anyway, they would definitely not let the enemy do what they wanted.

However, after being watered with the blood, the green flower suddenly came to life. The roots began to wriggle and extend, wrapping around the snake puppet's corpse. At the same time, the curled up flower trembled and opened its petals, revealing the white stamens that looked like sharp teeth.

Huo Qubing rushed forward, looked at the blooming flowers, and smelled a fragrance from afar. Then the next second, he and the soldiers all had hallucinations before their eyes again.

Some of them saw themselves lost in the desert of the Western Regions, with the scorching sun shining brightly above their heads; some saw countless monsters suddenly appearing around them, and they were entangled by giant snakes; others saw themselves killing the Queen of Jingjue and successfully returning to the Central Plains with the underground treasure, where they were received and praised by the current emperor, and from then on they had many wives and concubines and a prosperous family.

Huo Qubing didn't see all this, but as he was moving forward, he saw one of his men running in front suddenly turn around and swing his sword at his comrades behind him.

"Beware!"

Huo Qubing immediately shouted and raised his sword to help the soldiers who were being attacked.

Just the next second, a gust of cold wind suddenly blew beside him, as if a sinister object was approaching quickly. Swish!
Huo Qubing swung his sword back and slashed fiercely. The sound of sword entering flesh was heard. Looking closely, he saw that it was Li Gan who was holding the bow. Half of his neck was cut off, blood gushed out, and he fell to the ground with a thud, obviously dead.

"wrong!"

Huo Qubing reacted at this time and realized that he must have fallen into an illusion again. However, this time, no matter how he bit his tongue or sniffed the sachet, it had no effect at all.

And the illusion before his eyes continued to evolve. In a trance, he successfully led his subordinates to bring the Kunlun sacred tree and countless treasures out of the underground palace, and the Jingjue Kingdom above had been wiped out by the elite cavalry.

At this point, the thirty-six kingdoms in the Western Regions completely surrendered to the Han Dynasty. Huo Qubing returned to the court, presented the sacred Kunlun tree, and was commended by the emperor again. Afterwards, he personally led his troops to fight a decisive battle with the Huns in Mobei. He won battles in succession, made great military achievements, and was finally awarded the title of general.

When the emperor passed away and the young emperor came to power, he was in his prime. After marrying his daughter to the young emperor, he monopolized power in the court, second only to the emperor and above everyone else. He even coveted the throne...

Just as Huo Qubing was gradually sinking into this beautiful dream, he suddenly felt a heat on his waist. He reached into his waist pocket and held a jade ball with bloodshot veins and clear pupils in his hand.

As soon as the jade eyeball was taken in his hand, it immediately emitted a faint light. When Huo Qubing looked at it, the dragon throne that was originally so close to him immediately disappeared, and everything in front of him began to blur, revealing the real situation vaguely.

He saw several of his subordinates standing on the stone beam and waving their weapons like crazy. At the end of the stone beam in the distance, the strange flowers on the Kunlun sacred tree were blooming. The petals that were originally rolled together opened up, revealing the stamens in the middle, facing them.

It seems that the illusion they encountered was probably influenced by this strange flower.

But perhaps even the Queen of Jingjue did not expect that Huo Qubing would actually carry the jade eyeball on her throne with him, and this jade eyeball just happened to have a unique function, which could just restrain this fantasy flower.

It can be said that everything is God's will. Now that Huo Qubing has the jade eyeball in his hand, he strides towards the Kunlun sacred tree.

The Queen of Jingjue in the sacred wooden coffin seemed to be able to detect the movements outside. As Huo Qubing approached, she immediately became nervous and controlled the strange flower to form a hazy figure illusion in front of her, trying to persuade Huo Qubing to let her go by begging for mercy and surrendering.

But Huo Qubing ignored her, so the Queen of Jingjue started to threaten him again, but Huo Qubing remained unmoved.

Faced with such a situation, the Jingjue witch was completely desperate and used her final trick. Then, there was a rustling sound on the stone wall of the bottomless abyss in the darkness.

The sound was not loud, but sounded like some animals were crawling, and the number of them was immeasurable.

When Huo Qubing heard the sound, he immediately thought of those black-scaled monster snakes. He quickened his pace, rushed to the Kunlun sacred tree, cut it off with a sword, and threw it into the abyss of the "ghost cave".

Without this strange flower, the five remaining cavalrymen under his command immediately woke up. At this time, Huo Qubing kicked the Kunlun sacred tree again, wanting to kick it down into the "ghost cave" and completely eliminate future troubles.

However, he also underestimated the weight of the Kunlun sacred tree. Although it was just a wooden coffin, it was not light. Even though Huo Qubing was extremely powerful, his kick only made it roll a few times and crash into the huge shuttle-shaped spacecraft.

But with this collision, the shuttle-shaped spacecraft seemed to be just stuck on the rock wall, maintaining a fragile balance. After a little force was taken, it began to shake and tilt...

"General, hurry up!"

Behind him were the anxious shouts of his subordinates and the stone beam under his feet was shaking due to the shaking of the shuttle-shaped spacecraft. Huo Qubing had no time to think and immediately turned around and fled.

When he escaped from the stone beam, the shuttle-shaped spacecraft finally tilted and fell into the "ghost cave" amid the harsh friction with the rock wall.

among.

Boom! Boom!
The sounds of metal hitting and friction against rocks rang out one after another. As the spacecraft rolled down, it collided with the rock wall from time to time. Finally, accompanied by a loud noise, it seemed to be stuck in a certain section of the cave again.

However, Huo Qubing and his men were in no mood to observe these things at this time. They didn't even have the time to confirm the inverted Kunlun sacred wood coffin of the Jingjue Queen, and they just ran away.

Because behind them, the rustling sound was getting louder and louder.

During this process, a soldier couldn't help but look back. With the help of the torch light, he saw the black snakes rushing towards them like a tide.

Even on the rock walls around them, countless black forest snakes crawled out from the cracks and holes.

These strange snakes are big and small, and all have a black tumor on their heads, looking eerie and scary.

Even though they had already consumed a lot of physical strength in the battle, Huo Qubing and his companions still did not dare to stop for a moment and ran back the way they came.

When passing the thousand-pound gate, they even moved the huge rocks that were underneath it to trigger the mechanism, allowing the thousand-pound rocks to completely seal the entrance to the cave.

With the obstruction of this mechanism, they finally bought more time and successfully escaped from the Jingjue Underground Palace before being surrounded by the black snake wave.

But when they returned to the ground, they found that the city of Jingjue was in chaos.

It seemed that what they did in the "Ghost Cave" had achieved certain conditions, and a large number of black snakes poured out of it, so that the Jingjue City was full of these things.

Seeing this, Huo Qubing and others hurriedly mounted their horses and rushed back to their residence, only to find that the wedding procession was fighting with the black snake.

"go!"

At Huo Qubing's call, the wedding procession that had been prepared by Gumo State immediately followed him and rushed towards the battle area at the city gate.

During this process, the envoys from various countries in the Western Regions who came to congratulate the Queen of Jingjue on her wedding saw that the situation was not good and followed them. In addition, the Jingjue people who were threatened by the black snakes along the way, when they arrived near the city gate, they gathered a large group of people, which looked extremely shocking.

At this time, at the city gate, the guards of the Jingjue Kingdom and hundreds of elite cavalry were still fighting. Both sides suffered casualties, but because the guards of the Jingjue Kingdom had the help of the snake puppets, the elite cavalry were generally at a disadvantage.

However, with the arrival of a large army led by Huo Qubing, the situation reversed.

Huo Qubing first loudly announced the death of the Queen of Jingjue, and then began to persuade these Jingjue soldiers to surrender, telling them that a soldier's duty is to defend their country.

Now the city is overrun with black snakes, attacking indiscriminately without distinguishing between friend and foe. As soldiers, sons, fathers and husbands, what they should do is to quickly evacuate the people in the city.

This made a lot of sense. In addition, Jingjue was a matriarchal society where men had no status. The lower-level Jingjue soldiers soon rebelled, killed the female general who led them, and together with the elite cavalry, eliminated the snake puppets and began to rescue the surviving citizens in Jingjue City.

At the end of the story, Huo Qubing led the elite cavalry and the coalition forces of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions to launch an attack from behind, successfully defeated the Xiongnu coalition forces, and saved Yumen Pass, laying a solid foundation for the starting point of the Great Wall of China to stand on the Silk Road for a thousand years.

(End of this chapter)