Chapter 36 The battle between two realms (continued eight)
High in the sky, Lu Wenxiu and a group of five people drove five small flying boats passing by like the wind.
A strongman puppet guarded Lu Wenxiu's side, and three metal shields rotated back and forth around Lu Wenxiu under its guidance.
Lu Wenxiu holds a palm-sized white crystal ball. In this crystal ball, you can clearly see the surrounding mountains and rivers.
This is the sub-formation of the [Xumitian Eye Formation], one of the three thousand sub-formations of the [Xumitian Eye Formation] parent formation in the camp, which can monitor changes in vitality within a hundred miles.
This time the 'Heavenly Court' sent out troops, and a [Sumiru Heavenly Eye Formation] was set up in every camp.
Nowadays, the [Xumi Tian Eye Formation] in one thousand and twenty-four camps have been connected with each other to form a whole.
However, if this array wants to continuously feed back vitality fluctuation information, it cannot move, otherwise it will have to be rebuilt.
Therefore, in order to successfully encircle and suppress the spiritual monks in this world, the monks from each battalion of the Jidu Army were divided into groups, holding the [Xumi Tian Eye Formation] sub-formation, and conducted carpet searches according to their respective pre-determined combat areas.
Among them, those at the level of True Lord Yuanshen are responsible for pursuing monks of the same level in the spiritual world, while those at the level of True Lord Jindan are responsible for searching for the golden elixir in the spiritual world to encircle and suppress them.
Two months have passed since Nie Tianhe issued the order to kill the spirits.
Overall, the war situation is extremely favorable to the Heavenly Court.
There is a [Sound Transmission Platform] for coordination, a [Xumitian Eye Formation] for investigation, plus the assistance of countless puppets and the special effects of the 'Yuan Yuan Shield' and 'Disturbing Yuan Sword'.
As a result, although this world is the home of the spiritual world monks, and its numbers and strength far exceed those of the Jidu Army, it has always been in a passive situation of being beaten.
After more than two months of siege, the spiritual monks had suffered losses close to one million, among which nearly three thousand of the True Lord Yuanshen had fallen.
Among them, the largest casualty among the spiritual monks was caused by their wrong response in the early stages of the war.
At the beginning, the spiritual monks believed that they had the home field advantage, so they concentrated their forces and built fortresses of defense.
Tens of thousands of fortresses are connected to each other with the help of formations. By setting up teleportation formations, spiritual monks can easily travel between them.
When they thought about it, if the monks from the Azure Realm dared to invade any city fortress, through the teleportation formations between the fortresses, they could quickly gather together to coordinate and fight against the monks from the Azure Realm.
The spiritual monks gave this formation a name, calling it the 'Bunker Company Tactics'.
Unexpectedly, the Azure Realm does not talk about martial ethics.
After discovering the gathering place of spiritual monks through the [Xumitian Eye Formation], the six hundred giant divine soldiers immediately transformed into the formation and directly launched a saturation attack with an attack power equivalent to the Dao Lord realm.
That day, the sky of Jingjie Star shattered, the earth burst into pieces, and tens of thousands of miles away were dyed red.
The pillars of vitality of thousands of fallen True Monarchs are like epitaphs, showing the despair of countless monks in the spiritual world.
From that day on, the spirit world monks had their backs broken, and they no longer had the courage to confront the azure world monks head-on.
They are scattered like mice in every corner of the Jingjie Realm, relying on the vast world to avoid the encirclement and suppression by the monks of the Azure Realm.
Up to now, except for some spiritual monks with special abilities and magic weapons who can still communicate with each other, most of the other spiritual monks have fallen into a state of fighting on their own.
Lu Wenxiu poured a little bit of mana into the crystal ball and observed the changes in the vitality inside.
[Xumi Tian Eye Formation] belongs to the formation disk and can only be controlled by practitioners who are proficient in formation techniques.
In the eyes of other practitioners in Lu Wenxiu's group, there were only countless blue and red runes flashing in the crystal ball.
It's disorderly and chaotic, like a rapidly rotating kaleidoscope. Looking at it a few times will make you dizzy.
Only Lu Wenxiu and other people who are proficient in formations can use their minds and thoughts to analyze the contents of the formation plate layer by layer with the help of powerful soul power and secret codes.
This is also helpless.
At the beginning of the battle, the sub-array of the [Xumitian Eye Formation] has no secret spells and can clearly display the number and location of the monks from the two realms around it.
During the battle, many formation disks were captured by the spiritual monks. Not only could they easily escape from the encirclement through the formation disks, but they also set up traps to kill many Jidu Army monks.
Later, a secret spell was set on the [Xumitian Eye Formation], and only the array master who was familiar with the secret spell could analyze the contents of the array.
And for the sake of safety, the secret spell law will be changed every three months. Since then, the spiritual monks have not been able to crack the mystery of the [Xumitian Eye Formation].
At this time, Lu Wenxiu, who was observing the crystal ball, suddenly noticed that the vitality of heaven and earth was somewhat disordered, his eyes condensed, and he said in a deep voice:
"Stop!"
As soon as this sound came out, the other four people surrounding him in flight almost instantly caused the blue magpie flying boat under their feet to get closer to Lu Wenxiu, and at the same time cast the Yuan Gathering Shield spell.
Four circles of dark golden light curtains covered the five people in layers.
The five of them have been working together for several years, and they can understand each other's meaning with just one glance.
Bei Gongxiu was located on the left side of the five-person formation. He moved the ten fingers of his hands, and golden threads with talisman patterns danced and shuttled on the fingertips. In an instant, twelve chicken-sized 'fire thunders' floated in front of him.
The four people released their spiritual thoughts and cautiously explored the surroundings.
Lu Wenxiu raised his head, looked around a few times, and said softly:
"The magnetic power of the earth veins here is severely dissipated and the vitality is disordered. It may be difficult for the airship to continue flying or land!"
Lu Wenxiu is the corps leader and the formation master, so the other four naturally obey his orders.
The five people activated their magic power and guided the five blue magpie flying boats to fall to the ground.
Bei Gongxiu is also one of the five. After she was rescued by Lu Wenxiu in the void thirty years ago, she fell in love with him.
Later, he attacked the Thirteen Stars in the Spirit Realm, and with his powerful fire-based Taoism, he successfully applied to join Lu Wenxiu's group.
After landing on the ground, Bei Gongxiu looked around.
I discovered that there was a stone forest in front of me. It was unknown how deep it was, and its roots were several feet high, like a forest of thorns.
Looking at the stone forest that looked like spears thrust into the sky, Bei Gongxiu used his spiritual thoughts to explore.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After a moment, he frowned and said:
"I'm afraid this stone forest is dozens of miles in size. The vitality inside is chaotic and difficult to detect. How should we get past it?"
The other three people also used their own methods to investigate, and found that it was as difficult as Bei Gongxiu said.
This area was within the scope of exploration by him and his team. If he did not go in to find out what was going on, if something happened here in the future, several people would have a lot to do with it.
Lu Wenxiu thought for a moment and prepared to use the shock method to investigate.
The two worlds have been at war for a long time, and practitioners in the spiritual world have long understood the principle of the [Xumitian Eye Formation] to detect changes in vitality.
As long as you restrain your own vitality and do not cast spells rashly, without the change of vitality, it will be difficult for the [Xumi Tian Eye Formation] to be traced and investigated.
It is precisely because of this that monks from all battalions of Jidu Army need to launch a blanket search.
'Heaven' has other countermeasures for those who remain hidden.
Lu Wenxiu fixed the [Xumi Tian Eye Formation] sub-array disk on the ground, took out four [Infrasound Bells] and hung them from the four corners of the disk.
Bounce the four bells with your fingers in the order of east, west, north and south.
"Dingling bell~Dingling bell~~"
The four [infrasound bells] rang one after another, and the hanging bell swayed unsteadily. At first, there was a clear and crisp sound of bells, but after a few breaths, the bells swayed but no sound was heard.
Infrasound is a unique type of sound wave that is difficult for the human ear to hear.
After Lu Wenxiu rang the [Infrasound Bell], all his attention was focused on the crystal ball.
Countless red and blue runes flashed, and the peak of vitality fluctuated.
Bei Gongxiu and others did not ignore it. They each summoned their own combat puppets, stood in the Bagua position, and carefully looked around.
After a few breaths, Lu Wenxiu loosened his hands and stopped sending mana to the array.
Feeling his movement, Bei Gongxiu turned his eyes with a questioning expression.
Lu Wenxiu said:
"The power of the magnetism here is too strong and the vitality is extremely disordered. No abnormalities have been detected."
Kitamiya Hideo:
"Then we need to go inside to investigate?"
Lu Wenxiu looked up at the huge, slightly dark and silent stone forest, feeling a sense of crisis in his heart.
After thinking for a while he said:
"I'll do one last high-frequency probe..."
While he was talking, he suddenly noticed that a red rune suddenly appeared in the formation disk and flashed rapidly.
'Um??'
Lu Wenxiu suddenly stopped talking, stretched out his hands to grab the crystal ball, and the majestic magic power suddenly penetrated into it.
Layers of secret spell patterns quickly combined and blended in his eyes.
After a few breaths, a geographical map of mountains and rivers materialized in his mind.
Among them, a faint red dot was caught by Lu Wenxiu. He was refreshed. Using the fluctuation of vitality of the red dot as a guide, he peeled off the cocoon and searched for traces. He instantly found six red dots emitting fluctuations of vitality.
After determining the location, Lu Wenxiu released his hands and smiled at Bei Gongxiu and others.
"Ten miles to the left, among the stone pillars, there are six people."
Beigong Xiu glanced at the position Lu Wenxiu mentioned.
"Captain, are there only six of us?"
Lu Wenxiu raised his eyes again and looked around, and said thoughtfully:
"The array can only monitor changes in vitality within a hundred miles, and these six people are monitoring the edge of the distance.
It is unknown whether there are any spiritual monks hiding among them."
A burly man beside him said:
"The enemy is in the dark, and we are in the light. If we stay here for a long time, we may have been discovered by them.
If that’s the case, then what are you waiting for?”
Lu Wenxiu nodded and ordered:
"Senior Sister Beigong reports, Senior Brother Peng Ze leads the way!"
‘Tianting’ is not a sect, and even though both of them are disciples of the ‘Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect’, they call each other by their names rather than by Taoist titles.
Bei Gongxiu stretched out his hand and pinched his earrings, using the 'sound transmission bell' to report to the camp.
"The 24th Group A of the 47th Battalion of Qingque discovered enemy traces in Dingwei District. There are six suspected targets. Please investigate!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a reply came from his earrings.
“Camp received!”
Whenever the Jidu Army patrol team encounters an enemy, it will report to the camp to which it belongs. First, it can mark the location of the monks in the spiritual world. Second, if it loses the enemy, it can also receive support from the camp.
After receiving the reply from the camp, Bei Gongxiu nodded to Lu Wenxiu.
Peng Ze was the big talker. His cultivator practiced the 'strong man' method and had the strongest defensive power. Therefore, Lu Wenxiu ordered him to be the vanguard.
"Huh~"
A huge shield half a man's height was held in Peng Ze's hand, and he raised his feet and moved forward quickly.
The vitality here is chaotic. If you want to control a floating flying boat, you need to constantly transform the vitality, and it is difficult to control flexibly in such violent vitality.
It is currently unknown how many spiritual monks are hiding in the stone forest, and the five of them do not want to become targets.
In the realm, it is not as restricted as in the void, but Jindan Zhenren's attack range is only about five miles.
The spiritual monks are ten miles away. If Lu Wenxiu and others want to engage with the enemy, they must move forward.
After entering the stone forest, gray-black stone pillars stand tall, blocking the sky.
Pushing Li Xu inward, the puppet was in a spirit-destroying state due to the influence of the power of magnetism. In desperation, the five people could only put the puppet away.
Without the puppet guardian, Lu Wenxiu didn't feel safe.
He took down a pennant flag from his back with his backhand, waved it briefly, and a green light burst out from the flag, forming a cloud of mist that enveloped the five people.
Under the shroud of green mist, the figures of the five people suddenly disappeared, but a few feet in front of them, five hazy figures suddenly appeared.
Formation: blinding method
The "Twelve Yuan Chen Contemplation Method" deduced by Zhang Ke has a total of twelve practice systems.
The formation master's practice system uses the body to form an formation, breaking through the boundaries of having to rely on external forces to set up an formation.
At this time, Lu Wenxiu used himself as the eye of the formation and controlled the formation with flags and streamers.
The "blind eye" formation has no attack power, but is good at hiding.
Driven by this formation, a ball of mist the size of a hundred feet was seen rolling forward silently.
...
Miles away.
Deep in the stone forest, three people, two monsters and one monster were hiding behind a stone pillar and quietly observing the outside.
The eyes of a real Jindan from the spiritual world flashed with golden light, staring into the stone forest from afar.
After a moment, the man turned his head and looked fiercely at the wolf monster beside him.
If this wolf monster hadn't killed an elk just now and used its demonic energy, how would those monks from the Azure Realm have noticed their movements?
'After this battle, we must part ways with these hairy and horned people.'
"Everyone, we have been discovered, prepare to fight!
After killing the enemy, we will disperse and run away. We will not contact you for the time being. When nothing happens, I will notify a few people to gather together using a secret method."
"yes!"
"Just follow what my senior brother says."
The two disciples of the Five Elements Sect beside him replied in turn.
The nine-foot-tall wolf demon swung its claws and tore open the elk's neck near its mouth, and blood flowed downwards from the corners of its mouth.
"Hey, humans are just timid.
The power of the magnetism here disrupts the vitality, and Jidu's army cannot use its puppets. How can it be our opponent?"
Next to him is a female snake demon.
Its lower body is a snake, its upper body is a human, and there are four arms between its two ribs.
Hearing the words of the wolf demon, he raised his hand to cover his mouth and chuckled, his forked snake tongue hesitating.
"Grrrr~~, what Brother Lang said is true. We have been fighting in this stone forest for many days and have killed no less than ten people, but no Jidu army has come to attack.
With Uncle Shan here, we can move forward and retreat freely. We are afraid of what he will do."
Uncle Shan in the mouth of the snake demon refers to a spirit.
Its original form is a pangolin. By chance, it swallowed a millennium-old "Huang Jingzhi" and became a spirit. It is good at earth-moving skills. The six people were able to escape the search of Jidu Army many times. In addition to the specialness of this place, it was because of this pangolin.
The method of escaping from the ground.
At this time, the pangolin showed its true form and was lying on the ground listening carefully.
After a few breaths, the pangolin stood up and spoke solemnly.
"We have indeed been discovered, and five Jidu troops are heading here exactly."
The senior brother with golden eyes said in a concentrated voice:
"action!"
After saying that, he casually threw six demon pills under a stone pillar.
Immediately afterwards, he leaned against a stone pillar in front of him, and his whole body instantly blended into the stone pillar.
One of the other two disciples of the Five Elements Sect trembled and turned into a red bird and flew to the top of a stone pillar on the left.
The other person took a few quick breaths, and his body swayed and expanded, turning into a huge tree more than ten feet high. Countless vines hung down from the tree and scattered around.
The snake demon smiled charmingly and climbed up the tree, stopping on a branch. Its four arms spread out two black long bows. The bowstrings were slowly opened, and two fanged arrows that were constantly flowing with venom were ready to go.
The pangolin, which was about ten feet long, plunged into the ground and disappeared, while the prostrate body of the wolf demon kept flashing behind the stone pillars.
After a few breaths, the faint silhouette of the wolf demon was everywhere.
The six demon pills expand and contract with red light like a heart, constantly emitting fluctuations of vitality outward.
A simple and effective encirclement is thus established.
Silence returned to the stone forest, and the murderous intention was not aroused.
A quarter of an hour later, when a group of green mist surged silently not far away from the six demon pills, the snake demon was the first to take action.
Looking at the five blurry figures among them, their four arms exerted force at the same time.
Fire your bow!
Archery!
"Whoosh!"
The two fang arrows hit the two figures in the blue mist as fast as lightning.
"Ahh~~"
Two screams came from the mist, and the snake demon revealed a sinister smile.
'Giggle~~Ji Dujun is nothing more than that!'
But the next second, a hurried warning from his companion suddenly came to his ears.