According to Ansha City, Tuzhou, Donghan Pharmaceutical Factory on the outskirts of the city, 20 floors underground.

This is the secret stronghold of the Holy See in Ansha, from the 9th floor to the 20th floor, but only the last floor is the real core of this stronghold. On the 20th floor underground, looking down from above, you will find that the entire first floor is a modern town, where thousands of people live.

It was early morning, and few people in the town were still active outdoors. Under the dim light, the town had a different kind of peace. However, among the few places where the lights were still flashing, there was one particularly dazzling, that was the pure white granite temple in the center of the town.

This temple is the secret stronghold and the core of the 20th floor underground - the Donghan branch of the Holy See of Light. The controller of this temple is Yan Cheng, a white-clothed bishop.

Yan Cheng was in his forties, but he was already at the peak of the Paladin and had already opened his meridians. Logically speaking, he should be very powerful. Even if he was not the leader, he would not be an ordinary white-clothed bishop in a dangerous place in the Qin Empire. In fact, there are many reasons in it. In just one sentence, it is that he is not scheming.

In this era when the spiritual energy was extremely reduced, the legal professions in the Holy See of Light had declined, either completely disappeared, or became a technician with no power.

The pastor, who had the largest number of people, died suddenly due to the defeat of the God of Light, and those who did not die became mortals. When they fell from the altar of the high, the demise of the pastor was destined to be unchanged. Now, the pastor is a pure missionary profession, only the lowest profession in the Holy See of Light.

In contrast to the priest, the knight profession that was originally looked down upon, the profession that focused on the body, became more and more prosperous in this era that seemed to the end of the Dharma. To this day, it can even be said that almost all the senior officials of the Holy See of Light were from knights.

However, even though they are so prosperous, there is still an invisible bond between heaven and earth. All knights will not be able to make progress when they reach the peak of Paladins. Then they are scheming and playing with power.

Yan Cheng would have joined these people, but because of his origins and his unluckyness to block the path of a senior descendant, he was sent to the insecure place of Donghan Branch Hall.

The knight professions are divided into: warriors, knights, great knights and paladins. There were originally two-winged battle angels and other divisions above the paladins, but that was already a legend. These ranks correspond to the solid stage, innate stage, Qi training stage and Foundation Establishment stage in the empire respectively.

Just like some people in the empire broke through the foundation-building period and fell back to reach the false pill stage; after reaching the peak of the Paladin, the knight can also accumulate Dou Qi by himself and cast a new back energy channel for himself, which is what is often called the back meridian. It is just that the probability of it is pitiful, one percent, or even lower.

Yan Cheng, who was exiled, was discouraged and began to try to cast meridians. He managed to succeed for a short section, which was 10 cm long. If he wanted to succeed completely, Yan Cheng would have to take at least ten times the length. He is working hard for this now.

Time flies, and it is almost 4 a.m. The Donghan Light Temple is still brightly lit, and there are priests wearing gray robes walking around in this huge and magnificent building from time to time.

When the bell rang at 4 o'clock, the temple that had just sounded like daylight suddenly turned completely dark. In an instant, the entire temple became chaotic, and shouts and screams from different places rose and fell one after another in the darkness.

"What's going on?" The noisy sound alarmed Yan Cheng in the practice room. Fortunately, he was accumulating Dou Qi at this time, rather than casting meridians. Otherwise, he might have lost control of Dou Qi and died next.

Yan Zhike opened his eyes, but there was no light in front of him. He immediately said "Broken"! It is extremely rare to have power outages in the Qin Empire, and they will definitely notify them in advance before that, but he has never received any news!

"It's leaked! The Imperial Army is coming to clear the Donghan Temple!" This thought flashed through Yan Cheng's mind, and his heart suddenly became cold. Before coming to the Donghan Temple, Yan Cheng had already thought about the empire's clearance one day in the future, but he didn't expect it to come so quickly, and just as he was confidently preparing to open his meridians.

"Oh my God! You are so ruthless!" Yan Cheng moaned in a low voice, but things didn't wait for anyone, Yan Cheng did not waste it on complaining about the world. He took a breath, whispered his fighting spirit, and shouted, "I am Yan Cheng, the person who listened to me, go and activate the backup power immediately!"

Because he poured the fighting spirit into his voice, everyone on the 20th floor underground heard it, and now they finally calmed down. However, the Donghan Temple is a secret stronghold of the Holy See of Light, and important facilities such as backup power supply are manually controlled, and there has been no power outage for a long time, and the believers did not react for a while.

After a few dozen seconds, the temple returned to light, but the light was a little yellow and dark, and it was flickering.

"Quick! Summon all the Templar Knights, we will organize the evacuation!" Yan Cheng rushed to the main hall of the temple and shouted at the gray-robed priest on duty.

"Yes!" The priest who was held by Yan Cheng covered his ears in pain, answered in grievance, and quickly pressed the alarm bell to summon the knights.

When Yan Cheng came, more than a dozen knights on duty had gathered in the hall. They also realized the crisis of the matter, but one of them still took a step forward and asked Yan Cheng: "But... sir, what about these believers doing this?"

"Oh..." Yan Cheng's face filled with guilt, and he choked and said, "This time I only have a glimmer of life... I can only take you combat-capable people to try to break through, but the believers are alive!"

"I'm sorry to them! They still believe me so much..." Yan Cheng didn't continue and just stood quietly.

All the knights present were silent. They all knew clearly that as long as they encountered the encirclement of the empire, they would basically be sentenced to death. However, facing these believers who were as close as their parents and brothers, they still could not bear to abandon them.

"If you want to stay, stay here!" After more than a hundred knights gathered in the hall, Yan Cheng finally gritted his teeth and said.

Soon, more than a dozen knights were separated, and they solemnly gave Yan Cheng a knight's greeting and silently left the hall.

"Woo woo woo woo woo..." Suddenly, a harsh alarm sounded throughout the base. Just now, the gray-robed priest ran to Yan Cheng with a panic expression and said in a mournful voice: "Sir, sir! No! The Imperial soldiers are here!"

“So many…”

While the gray robe was talking, Yan Cheng had guessed the result. The empire had broken through the secret stronghold and was advancing quickly towards them.

"Let's go, let's rush up!" Yan Cheng ordered, and set out to run towards the entrance of the 19th floor underground. Nearly two hundred knights who came one after another followed Yan Cheng in silence.

After Yan Cheng walked for a while, he suddenly turned his head and gave the last order to the gray robe: "Open the underground escape passage..." After that, Yan Chengju never turned around.

"Underground passage? That's not..." The gray-robed priest was stunned and murmured to himself.

Although the underground escape passage has the name of escape, it is definitely alive and dead! In the past century, the underground of the empire has become increasingly unstable, and even their official underground passages often collapse. The authentic technology of the Holy See is 100,800 miles worse than that of the empire. After several profound lessons, no one dares to try this kind of self-digging escape.

Gray Robe was stunned for five or six minutes, and finally sighed and comforted herself: "At least we can choose how to die... If we are caught by the Empire, it will be..."

Gray Robe also knew that for the Illuminati, the most terrifying thing was being captured by the Empire - there was no law in the Empire to protect cultists, and the Empire also had tens of millions of ways to fabricate and exploit them.

"Open it! Open it..." Gray Robe suddenly shouted wildly and stumbled towards the main control room, "It's better everyone destroy it together...hahaha..."

It is obvious that the gray-robed priest is already crazy! Fortunately, the secret stronghold does not have a powerful self-destruct device, otherwise Mei Daoling and the others would have sacrificed their lives for the country.

Underground in Donghan Pharmaceutical Factory, Yun Yongbai and Kong Yuanhan were advancing very smoothly. Their battle can almost be described as "cutting vegetables and cutting melons". For the elite special forces, the enemies they encountered this time were really not good, but they could not organize and resist effectively.

In fact, this fundamentally means that the special forces are unilaterally massacring. In terms of number of people, strength, weapons, situation, etc., the special forces have the advantage. If it still struggles, it would be strange!

Just as they were driving out the enemies they had captured, a group of hundreds of people of Light Cultists rushed up from below, Yun Yongbai immediately rushed forward excitedly. According to his later words, "I can't miss a decent resistance."

Yan Cheng had just arrived at the 16th floor underground when he saw an imperial army like an officer rushing over. He flashed his anger, snorted coldly, drew his sword to meet him.

"Bang!"

As a result, as expected, when swords and swords attacked each other, Yan Cheng, who was at the peak of the Paladin, cut off the sword sword at once. The remaining sword energy hit Yun Yongbai's chest, cutting a huge wound, and the pale sternum was exposed.

"Let's go! Don't bother!" Yan Cheng ordered decisively. He glanced at Yun Yongbo, who had been swept away by the sword energy for more than ten meters, and finally gave up the idea of ​​going forward and ending this person. They were breaking through and they could not tolerate wasting time.

After saying that, he took the lead and rushed upstairs.

"Old Yun!" Kong Yuanhan rushed to the dying Yun Yongbai. Ma Shan stabilized his injuries, but the sword energy in his body was too stubborn, so Kong Yuanhan had to suppress it tightly.

"Attention for each team! Attention for each team! There is a team of enemy troops with about 200 people, extremely strong! Please lead to Major Mei on the ground..."
Chapter completed!