Chapter 101: Ghost Soldiers Borrowing the Path
Leaving the Ice Valley, passing the White Star Lake, entering the Ice Web Valley, and then walking about two hundred kilometers more, you will reach the control area of the Dispersed Immortal Garden.
The key locations on this journey are the White Star Lake and the Ice Web Valley.
According to the map, the Ice Web Valley is a dangerous area, and caution is needed when entering.
If you don't go through the Ice Web Valley, you can choose to take a detour, but that will take six more hours on the road.
However, the map clearly indicates that the road through the Ice Web Valley is not easy to navigate.
The reason this mountain path is called Ice Web Valley is that the paths in this valley are ever-changing, like a giant web. If you don't know the way, you might get trapped inside for ten days or half a month.
So, when determining the current location, Gu Xi also checked the time.
When destroying the White Star Lake, Gu Xi didn't stay to observe the lake's final state.
This bought Gu Xi some time.
Now, there is about one day and seven or eight hours left until the task's deadline.
If he chooses to take a detour, six hours will be gone, and with the distance of over two hundred kilometers, time will be very tight for him.
But if he doesn't take a detour and enters the Ice Web Valley directly, Gu Xi isn't sure if he can make it out smoothly.
After all, just standing in front of the Ice Web Valley, he saw many large and small ice paths.
These ice paths are like spider webs; no one knows where they lead once you enter. If the journey is smooth, based on the map, it should take about an hour to walk out of the Ice Web Valley, as long as you don't take a wrong turn or encounter trouble.
But if it isn't smooth, Gu Xi might be one of those who get trapped inside the Ice Web Valley for ten days or half a month.
If he wasn't in a hurry, Gu Xi wouldn't mind spending time here, but now there's less than a day and a half left to complete the task.
At such moments, Gu Xi is less likely to gamble.
Rolling up the map, Gu Xi stood up straight and looked along the mountain edge, finally finding the snow line.
"Go from there, take the detour."
At Gu Xi's command, the stopped Evil Coffin started running again.
As an undead mount, the Evil Coffin doesn't need to rest; as long as Gu Xi can endure, the Evil Coffin can keep running.
Gu Xi knew that when he made his choice, he had already wasted six hours. To ensure timely arrival, he couldn't stop along the way.
So, Gu Xi wrapped himself tighter in the blanket and lay down a bit more.
"Full speed ahead, no stops on the way."
Upon receiving Gu Xi's command, the Evil Coffin significantly increased its speed. Gu Xi felt everything around him retreating, passing by in an instant.
Sometimes he didn't even have time to react before making a turn, sometimes even brushing against the mountain wall.
At first, Gu Xi was worried that this route wouldn't save time.
Unexpectedly, the Evil Coffin gave Gu Xi a surprise.
This Evil Coffin claimed to move at a speed of eighty kilometers per hour, and it really maintained that speed, even on such winding mountain paths.
Although it couldn't run faster, it could run more thrillingly.
It was almost like mountain racing.
Even a three-meter-wide cliff gap, the Evil Coffin didn't ask Gu Xi a word and jumped over directly.
This showed the Evil Coffin was running excitedly; now Gu Xi didn't need to say much, just lie there.
After running like this for more than three hours, Gu Xi only felt his face frozen stiff by the cold wind, barely able to speak.
The Evil Coffin's speed then gradually slowed down.
Propping himself up, Gu Xi looked around.
"Are we there?"
The Evil Coffin didn't respond; its speed slowed more and finally stopped on the road.
Gu Xi, puzzled, raised his hand, and the gate of Aridowei City appeared behind him, standing in the gate, waiting for attack orders.
At the same time, the ten ghosts that had been following Gu Xi also caught up.
The Evil Coffin ran too fast, and they hurried to catch up with Gu Xi's team.
Seeing his subordinates in place, Gu Xi's gaze sharpened.
He looked around and decisively shouted:
"Come out!"
As Gu Xi's voice fell, a sound came from the road ahead.
"Go back."
Gu Xi looked up and saw a strong undead army ahead, with a ten-meter-tall flag in the center, bearing the words "Ghost Soldiers Borrowing the Path, Gods and Ghosts Avoid!"
Looking closely at this undead army, it numbered about four thousand five hundred, mostly ghost soldiers in bronze armor, holding large knives and covered in arrows.
Beside the flag stood a white-faced, bearded man in blue cloth, with bulging muscles on his exposed arms and blood-stained meat in his grinning mouth.
Around his waist, he wore a white baboon skin, but he seemed to dislike it, tying it casually without much care.
Behind him lay a beast, half blood-red and half gray-white, looking like a gorilla, lying down but as tall as a normal person, with only one eye on its not-so-large head.
Just by looking at the eye, you could tell this beast had been dead for many years.
Seeing Gu Xi looking over, the bearded man flipped onto the beast's back, pointing at Gu Xi and saying.
"I occupy this road; take another path."
With just a glance at the white baboon skin around the bearded man's waist, Gu Xi knew this battle was inevitable. As soon as the bearded man spoke, Gu Xi waved his hand, and the main force charged out from Aridowei City's gate.
This time Gu Xi also realized that the enemy's strength exceeded his imagination; his small force couldn't match them.
So without a word, Gu Xi used the command of five thousand five hundred soldiers.
The powerful force of five thousand five hundred soldiers immediately charged out from behind the gate.
These troops locked onto the enemy's four thousand five hundred ghost soldiers instantly, without Gu Xi needing to explain the situation; they acted on their own.
The Sunlight Bone Squad's skeleton soldiers were the first to confront the enemy, while the Light Shooters raised their longbows.
As for the remaining three squads, they didn't move yet, just watching.
Seeing the battlefield situation, Gu Xi's eyes turned, and he commanded.
"Attack, all skeleton soldiers attack, fight them to the end."
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