The Collection of The End

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Although it is not clear what "transmission" means, if understood from the literal meaning, it should mean "transmission" and "delivery".

However, Zhang Jiao didn't feel anything unusual. In just a blink of an eye, the scene in the luxurious manor's living room turned into a wasteland with sparse vegetation and mist. He discovered that his medicine basket had not been "teleported", and that the medicine basket on the other side had not been "teleported". The sharpened staff was still in his hand.

After a while, majestic and majestic voices sounded from all directions.

"[The content of the trial of the 'Taoist Book War' is now announced]," the voice said: "[In front is a dilapidated ancient city occupied by thieves. There are ten thousand defenders, but the thieves leader led six thousand of his men out. After looting, only more than 3,000 people were left behind.]"

The surrounding clouds and fog dispersed, and Zhang Jiao saw an earthen city high and far ahead that was surrounded by mountains and rivers. The terrain was excellent. However, many of the city walls and houses were collapsed and destroyed. The sky was shrouded in clouds, making it difficult to tell the direction.

If he is sitting north and facing south, he is in the south of the city, separated by a rushing river on the east side, and a towering cliff blocking his sight on the west side. Obviously, the two Taoist priests, one old and one young, who also participated in the trial, each occupied a place. .

The grand voice continued: "[After receiving the information about the attack on the lair, the bandit leader will return in an hour. Those who successfully break through the defense and reach the bandit treasure house before then will be deemed to have passed the trial, and will be selected according to the order of arrival. The order of the technical books.】"

Three thousand defenders are scattered on three sides. If they want to attack by force, they must have the legendary "True Unparalleled Strength", that is, the strength to defeat a thousand people head-on. However, the other two currently participating in the trial do not seem to have such abilities. Zhang Jiao nodded slightly in thought.

"[...In addition,]" the grand voice paused and added: "[Killing other testers will be regarded as a failure of the test.]"

This one is for protecting oneself, Zhang Jiao thought mockingly to himself. He is a talented person who accidentally learned some "unparalleled" combat skills. Not to mention the old Taoist, even a young Taoist would never win in a head-on confrontation with him. possible.

However, rashly proposing "how to obtain all three books" is not a foolish move. According to Zhang Jiao's observation, although the two Taoists appeared to be quite familiar with each other, they were at odds with each other.

Before, they probably only thought about how to pass the trial faster than their opponents and compete less with each other, but he gave them another way, that is, "let all opponents out, and you can win."

Although I don’t know what the skills of the two Taoists are, they must have been able to see at a glance that their own strength was low. They started a fight with words, but they were not qualified to participate in the fight. Therefore, when they did not trust each other, they knew that doing so would harm the third party. It is advantageous, but you can only choose to strike first.

This is the "two tigers competing for food" strategy.

At this time, Zhang Jiao heard the loud voice announcing: "[The trial begins!]"

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According to Zhang Jiao's plan, he will use his "phantom" ability to quietly stab some rebel scouts to death with a pointed stick, and then put on their costumes and sneak into the city. Although this kind of trickery will probably not work in the trial. Too far away, at least you can figure out the defensive configuration.

He guessed the beginning, but not the ending.

Not far from the city, Zhang Jiao successfully discovered a five-man team of scouts. They looked quite different from the Central Plains people. They were all powerful, tall and thick, and wore worn-out leather armor with no protection. Only that The scout captain wore an iron half-armor and a horned helmet.

Zhang Jiao left "Phantom" behind a rock, followed quietly with a pointed stick, and silently stabbed to death the last scout.

So far, so far, so good. Zhang Jiao was about to sneak back when he saw the scout captain suddenly turned around. After discovering that his men had been killed inexplicably, he did not try to search at all. He just shouted into the open space in a strange language: "Buddhist temple - —So big!”

Before Zhang Jiao understood the meaning of that strange saying,

His body flew out as if it had been hit by a battering ram, and he let out a heartbreaking cough in the air.

"Ha! Fang's oil!" The scout captain picked up a pair of short-handled axes from his waist and chased Zhang Jiao in the direction where he flew away.

"Hu?" "Watt?" "Wai'er?" The other three scouts stayed where they were, each using strange language to express doubts.

It's worthy of the Shura difficulty... Arranging trialists is a perfect strategy... Zhang Jiao thought quickly while rolling in the air: Different physiques and language barriers. If he wants to follow the original plan, he must assassinate a scout captain and use him The armor conceals the difference in physique and appearance, and the language problem is concealed by keeping silent. In this way, even if they can enter the city, they will not be able to get far.

boom! Zhang Jiao fell to the ground, the "phantom" disappeared, and he couldn't struggle for a while.

"Dai!" The scout captain strode over and slashed with his axe.

If you shout and admit defeat at this time, you will probably be teleported out of the trial scene, and the "three books alone" you boasted before will become a joke. You can only leave this fairy cave in despair and go back to do what you have never done before. The fallen scholar of that day...

I'll bet - that "Phantom of Death" is still available! Zhang Jue's eyes were sharp, and he stabbed the armored thief's unprotected throat with his pointed stick without any dodge.

Poof! When the thief struck Zhang Jue's head with two axes, the pointed staff stabbed by Zhang Jue also pierced his throat.

"Pa." A soft cracking sound came out, and the chopped "Zhang Jiao" was shattered into pieces and reappeared less than an arm's length away on the left. He was covered in cold sweat and his arms were shaking.

"Although I don't understand what you are talking about..." Zhang Jiao climbed up and looked at the scout captain whose throat was spurting with blood and his eyes widened. "But it's you who is wearing it this time, cough cough cough cough!"

Phew - the armored thief fell on his back, but the next moment a breeze turned into a cloud of golden dust and rolled back towards the sky, leaving only the armor and hatchet in place.

"[Kill one of the thieves' Captain, all his men will flee, and the trial evaluation will be improved]" That loud voice sounded in Zhang Jiao's ears.

Escape? Zhang Jiao looked at the three ordinary scouts who had stayed in place before, and sure enough, they had disappeared - although most of them had turned into dust, but since they were just fleeing, let's just treat them as fleeing.

Zhang Jiao thought about several conclusions while putting on the iron armor. First, his "substitute phantom" will gradually move away as time goes by. When the opponent moves quickly, it is useless when the distance is short; Secondly, the language of this kind of barbarian thieves is self-contained, and it has almost "unparalleled" combat skills that are displayed through loud shouts, which is difficult to penetrate; thirdly, killing the leader will cause his men to scatter, but killing ordinary thieves will cause Attention, boss.

It seems that there is something that can be exploited, but it still needs to be verified, and there are many dangers in the process... Heh, if you want to defeat two "immortals", how can you be afraid of dangers?

Zhang Jiao adjusted his clothes and armor, then put on his horn helmet to cover his face, took a deep breath, and walked towards Tucheng.

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This earth city occupied by thieves is divided into three floors inside and outside. The outer city is where ordinary thieves and lower-level leaders are stationed, and the inner city is where elite thieves and high-level leaders live.

While hanging around in the city, Zhang Jiao secretly killed another commander - the unlucky man who had lost his "corps", but the centurion who was higher up was unaware of this, and coupled with the head-on confrontation Being a "very long" person was already Zhang Jiao's limit, and eventually he turned to collecting intelligence in the city.

In terms of organizational structure, five people have one "corps" and ten people have one "shi". A ten-man team consists of a corps leader, a chief and eight ordinary thieves, but a hundred-man team has one hundred Eleven people, plus a centurion and ten personal guards directly under him. Similarly, a thousand-man general also has his own centurion, so the number of people under a thousand-man general is...

Zhang Jiao shook his head and decided to give up on such meaningless things as calculations.

As for the conclusion, killing ordinary thieves will attract at most one commander. If you want to attract the attention of the centurions and the thousand generals, you must kill their personal guards.

The personal guards of three thousand-man generals were guarding near the three gates of the inner city. As for themselves, they were nowhere to be seen. Perhaps they were drinking and having fun somewhere, and they would not appear until the personal guards were attacked.

Compared with the unnamed captains, captains and centurions, these three thousand-man generals have names. They are called "Farkas", "Wells" and "Wilkas" respectively. Zhang Jiao After reading it a few times and getting confused, I refused to think about their names anymore.

In addition, although there are natural roadblocks separating the outside of the city, the inside of the city is interconnected. Possible mutual frame-ups must also occur here. When Zhang Jiao went to observe the city walls on the west and east of the city, he saw Lao Dao holding a whisk. , lightning flashed, and countless golden powders symbolizing being killed were scattered everywhere, while the young Taoist named Zuo was throwing talismans everywhere, the yellow wind was rolling, and from time to time, thieves were blown into the sky without falling.

A cursory look showed that several centurions had already died in their hands.

Even though he was wearing a horned helmet, Zhang Jiao couldn't help sweating on his forehead. If there hadn't been the rule that "if you kill the tester, you will fail", he would have been attacked by these two men long ago.

What happened next was not what he expected. After the two Taoists fought their way into the outer city gate, they did not attack the inner city gate. Instead, they rushed towards the south gate that Zhang Jiao was supposed to attack. Of course, over there, The defenders were almost completely unscathed and faced the two of them directly.

The two were not afraid at all. They kept a vigilant distance from each other while fighting, and at the same time they were still communicating: "Humph, he is just a guy who wants to fish in troubled waters, and he dares to say that he has collected all three books." "If you are not afraid of what he can do, Why did you come here immediately after entering the city?" "Aren't you here too?" "..."

The two of them were tacitly pulling away from each other and preparing to return to the direction of their main attack. However, they saw a carriage coming from the edge of the battlefield. After destroying it at the same time, they discovered that there seemed to be three elite thieves lying inside.

Ouch - along with angry roars, three figures with black bodies, like giant wolves, rushed out of the inner city, leading a group of personal guards to attack the two Taoists, leaving them stunned.

Zhang Jue, who was watching the battle from a distance, retreated quietly and slipped in through the opened inner city gate.

It is true that the status of the mere commander is not high, even lower than the ordinary guards of the thousand-man general, but this does not prevent Zhang Jiao from searching for wine and treating them to drinks. Just "carve" and "com".

It has to be said that they can get drunk with such a light wine, which proves that this barbarian tribe generally has a poor drinking capacity.

"I have seen... an immortal." In front of the treasure house in the inner city, Zhang Jiao saw an old man wearing loose and gorgeous Taoist robes, with a childish face and white beard and hair. I don't know if he had preconceived ideas. He felt that this old Taoist was more pleasing to the eye than the Taoist named Yu. Much more.

"[It's been a hard journey all the way]," the old Taoist said in a voice that was almost the same as the loud voice before: "[But it's a bit reckless and too clever.]"

"I am not strong enough, I have to do this," Zhang Jiao replied: "Please ask the immortal to give me a book."

"[Yu Ji and Zuo Ci have not yet been defeated,]" the old Taoist flicked his robe sleeves, and the fierce battle at the entrance to the outer city appeared in the air: "[You can choose to wait for the battle to end, or accept an extremely difficult test. If you pass, you will be forced to They are defeated, even if you fail this assessment, it will not have any impact.】"

"I am willing to accept it!" Zhang Jiao responded.

The formal test has ended and no further intervention is possible. If there are additional opportunities at this time, it is natural to seize them.

"[So...]" The old Taoist flicked his robe sleeves, the image disappeared, and there was another person beside him.

I saw that he was born with a majestic and majestic appearance, with a golden crown on his head, a hundred-flower war robe, Tang Ni armor, and a lion belt. He had a bay-red horse on his hip, holding a Fang Tian painted halberd, and glared at Zhang Jiao. He shouted:

"[Who dares to fight with me, Lu Fengxian!]"