Chapter 2656 - 213: Nine City Inspection, Diligence and Eagerness to Learn_3

The two chatted and joked around. They spoke some nonsense, speculated a bit about the future, drank for a while, and then patted each other’s shoulders, drunkenly parting ways.

This was such a peaceful day in Gaoling City.

These were also such ordinary human warriors.

In front of the tavern’s banner, the two men, who had faced off against the demon clan on the battlefield, each went their separate ways, scattering to opposite ends of the long street.

One walked slowly, the other was more unsteady.

But once they turned away, Qiao Jingzong’s eyes turned cold.

And Chu Zicheng’s eyes shone frighteningly bright.

...

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Today marks the seventh day of delving into the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

Jiang Wang gradually felt that something was amiss...

The situation in the mountains was becoming increasingly strange.

From a few days ago, there were already many organized groups of demon soldiers entering the mountains. They swept through as squads, felling trees in large swaths, slaughtering evil beasts, and clearing miasma.

Did anything happen over at Frost Wind Valley? — Jiang Wang only realized this belatedly.

It must be mentioned, the demon clan’s language is exceedingly difficult to learn, its complexity comparable to Historical Sword Engraving Sea.

The demon clan has too many groups and species, almost a thousand sects and categories. Although they clearly possess a unified language system, the innate influences brought by their various species are fundamentally irreducible.

For instance, the Feather Tribe demons generally have a sharp voice, and Pig Demons always grunt while speaking... Their myriad strange accents often cause distortions in their language.

These little demons have no problem communicating amongst themselves, but for a scholar starting from scratch to learn demon language, it’s quite a torment...

Of all the little demons he encountered these days, not a single one had the same accent!

This resulted in Someone Jiang, despite being diligent and eager to learn, studying hard for so many days but still failing to grasp the basics. He only barely understood a few simple phrases.

For example...

"Trash," "Go die," "Kill you," "Get lost."

Learning any language begins with mastering its curse words — Marquis Jiang considers this a discovery in linguistics.

However, despite not yet comprehending the language fully, Jiang Wang is still able to make his own judgment on the current situation.

If the earlier little demons entering the mountains seemed more like they were executing some task in a free capacity — he’s ninety percent sure that the target of these little demons should be those rare and strange bugs in the mountains.

Then these newly-arrived demon soldiers are clearly engaged in clearing the environment, eliminating threats, expelling idle demons, gathering war supplies — this smooth series of war preparations is something he’s all too familiar with as a battlefield-tested military marquis.

His war instincts have been alerted.

The non-soldier little demons being driven to more distant mountain forests precisely indicates that a war is about to break out in this region encompassing Frost Wind Valley!

And it’s definitely not the small-scale elite skirmishes that occurred earlier in Frost Wind Valley.

Near the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, who else can the demon clan fight against?

The answer is self-evident.

In other words, the silent period in Frost Wind Valley may have ended prematurely due to some accident! Just like how it started early under the influence of that mysterious person...

Making this judgment, Jiang Wang felt an indescribable sense of emotion in his heart.

He understood that if a racial war indeed breaks out in this area, there must be some connection to him.

Is the Qi Army coming to rescue him?

Is it the will of the Great Qi Emperor?

Or perhaps the grand move of the entire Civilization Basin?

Currently, he cannot know the specifics, nor can he capture any demon tribe soldiers to interrogate for information, because the disappearance of army soldiers is the easiest to notice. Which army, which unit, which squad is missing a soldier, would be discovered by the evening at the latest. Afterward, tracing it back slightly, he would be hard-pressed to hide.

His injuries are also far from healed at this moment. These days of treatment have only resolved some superficial wounds — and for a Godly cultivator who rarely gets injured, any wound requires consuming a lot of precious medicine to heal. The healing herbs he carries are only for this purpose. Given the severity of his injuries now, quick recovery would require laying in the Imperial Medical Bureau, using specialized techniques and professional medical Dao arts to treat, needing someone like Imperial Physician Order, a True Man of the Age, to administer needles.

Currently, there are many conditions that are lacking.

But he still made a bold decision —

He decided to sneak back near Frost Wind Valley, to see the situation there with his own eyes, and find an opportunity to stealthily return to the Civilization Basin!