When Xu Qingzhi issued the order to prepare for war with all his strength.
All members of the ‘Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect’, whether they are practitioners from Penglai or Penglai, or ordinary people in the ‘Tai Chi Circle’, are all functioning.
Today, the 'Xiantian Yiqi South Sect' has 171 Yuanshen True Monarchs, more than 23,300 Jindan Masters, more than 2 million Xiantian disciples, and ordinary people in the 'Tai Chi Circle' Island Lian.
About 1.7 billion.
But this is only the figure reported by Penglai Daily and other newspapers.
In fact, Zhang Ke has become a Dao Lord, and 220 of the 7,200 'Dharma Protectors' have been promoted to the Yuanshen Realm. Among the remaining 'Dharma Protectors', 60% have been promoted to the Golden Core Realm, and only 30% have been promoted to the Golden Core Realm.
More than a thousand third-level 'Dharma Protectors' have been limited to the priesthood but have never made a breakthrough.
In addition, the ‘Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect’ also has many hidden secret hands.
The small sects and families who have taken refuge in the sect, the casual cultivators recruited privately, the hundreds of thousands of practitioners employed by the chamber of commerce, and the ‘Twelve Yuan Chen Dharma Soldiers’ secretly cultivated by the sect, etc.
If we really want to calculate all of them, even if we don't count the combat power of Zhang Ke, the Dao Lord, the power of the 'Xiantian Yiqi Nanzong' can be more than doubled on the basis of the apparent strength.
Since it is a trump card and a secret hand, it can only be effective at critical moments if it is hidden in the dark. Once it is known, it will inevitably be counted when targeting it, and it will not be able to reverse the situation.
This special power is possessed by every sect and will not be used easily unless the sect is in a life-or-death crisis.
Over the ‘Tai Chi Circle’.
There are a large number of high-level practitioners hidden within the space of thousands of miles, including many Taoist monarchs.
Most of them were sent by various sects to investigate the war between the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect' and the 'King Kong Sect'.
But there are also some people with ulterior motives who are waiting for opportunities.
Yutai from the Tianya Hai Pavilion, Jiangyun from the Hidden Moon Sect, Mao Yuan from the Yunyan Sect in the Southern Territory, and more than a dozen True Lords of the Soul gathered on a white cloud while looking down and chatting.
Since Mao Yuan witnessed the tremendous changes brought to the Eastern Region by the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect' more than 400 years ago, he has been stationed in the 'Tai Chi Circle' island chain for a long time.
Every few years, some of the knowledge, systems, strategies and new things seen here will be compiled into a book, and the various resources acquired will be sent back to the disciples of the sect.
Relying on this one measure alone, the various developments of the 'Yunyan Sect' have advanced by leaps and bounds in the past two hundred years, and the overall strength has increased by more than 20%.
This time, because the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect' was going to fight against the 'King Kong Sect', the Yuanshen realm practitioners who were stranded in the territory of the 'Southern Sect' were temporarily persuaded to leave.
‘Dong~~dong~~dong~~’
The thunderous sound of bells resounded across the sky.
The many practitioners hidden in the clouds were no longer chatting, but were using their magical powers to look down one by one.
As the bell rang, dense and thick lead-gray clouds quickly gathered over the 'Tai Chi Circle', soon covering the entire 'Tai Chi Circle' island chain.
Mao Yuan's eyes flashed with spiritual light and he looked down, discovering that the leaden gray clouds were able to block the exploration of spiritual thoughts and sight.
It's just that his eyesight is somewhat special, and he has the ability to see through the fog, and he can see some blurry scenes below as if through multiple layers of gauze.
Mao Yuan could vaguely see some buildings changing throughout the 'Tai Chi Circle' island chain.
In addition, there were as many black spots as birds flying rapidly from the island chain below.
He tried to touch the leaden gray clouds with his spiritual thoughts, but he felt that there seemed to be signs of formations operating in them.
He was not prepared to conflict with the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect', at least not now, so he did not forcefully break the fog with his spiritual thoughts, but only observed with his sight.
He turned around and said to the people who were also observing below:
"Fellow Taoists, do you know what kind of formation this 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect' has set up?"
True Lord Jiangyun replied casually:
“In the past, when the ‘Xiantian Yiqi Nan Sect’ had just established ‘Penglai Island’, it was destroyed by the ‘Tiandao Sect’ and Daojun cut the island in half with one palm, from which the twin islands of Penglai and Big Penglai were derived.
At that time, Zhenjun Ruyi felt deeply that the sect’s protective capabilities were weak, so he designed an internal and external defense system called the ‘Hunyuan Umbrella’.”
Seeing the look of surprise in Mao Yuan's eyes, True Lord Jiangyun smiled and said:
"This incident was regarded as a shame by the Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect and was included in the school's 'warning list'. All children over the age of seven are aware of this incident."
Mao Yuan's breathing stagnated slightly. From this incident alone, we can see the ambition of the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect'.
"Knowing shame and then being brave, the 'Nan Zong' has great ambitions!"
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The dull and distant sound of the 'warning bell' beats like a heavy drum in the heart of every disciple of the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect'.
In the large and small Penglai Islands that suppress the two sea eyes, cracks in the ground trembled and cracked, and bridges with metal skeletons rose from these cracks.
The rising positions of these countless bridges range from high to low, ranging from hundreds of feet high to several meters low. Some are long and short. The long ones are several miles long. The width can accommodate ten carriages running parallelly. The short ones are only dozens of feet long.
It can only accommodate three to five people.
After rising out of the crack, the connection began quickly under the control of a famous Nanzong disciple.
But you can see bridges connected together in an orderly manner, eventually forming an inverted bowl-shaped hollow frame.
And in this hollow frame, metal bridges intersect and intersect with each other like a dense spider web.
Under the influence of [Yunwufan], countless Nanzong disciples flew freely in these frames like birds, correcting the connection points of the bridge bit by bit.
In two hours, the hollow frames in Penglai and Penglai were successfully laid out.
Two spiritual lights burst out from the spiritual veins connecting the two hollow frames to the ground.
Countless streams of blue-white particles sprang up from bottom to top along the two bridges with hollow frames, like countless spiritual snakes.
In just two minutes, the two hollow frames have turned into two inverted bowl-shaped light shields glowing with blue and white fragments of light, protecting the large and small Penglai inside.
The mask of Big Penglai Island slowly rotates clockwise, while the mask of Little Penglai Island begins to rotate counterclockwise.
Looking down from the sky, I saw the two yin and yang eyes of the 'Tai Chi Circle' slowly rotating in a certain rhythm.
Every time it rotates, the blue-white light on the two light masks becomes brighter.
Innate Qi Nanzong Mountain Protection Formation: Yin-Yang Disk
This formation has three major functions: defense, attack, and energy storage.
Among them, energy accumulation is the foundation. Through the flow of yin and yang, the energy absorbed from the "Tai Chi Circle" earth veins and the energy dispersed from the heaven and earth are gathered together in one place to provide energy for the "defense" and "attack" of this array.
‘Defense’ and ‘attack’ refer to the flow of blue and white particles that fill the two inverted bowls.
These 'Yin-Yang Pan' mountain-protecting formations were set up by Zhang Ke himself, with their own 'Innate Hunyuan Yiqi Method' as the core, and each required 64,800 disciples of the same sect as nodes.
Relying on the formation that is closely connected to the earth's veins, the spiritual energy is guided to form a light mask.
Moreover, the mask formed by these nodes is not a whole, but blocks are attached in a stacked scale. Even if the nodes in some areas are scattered, it will not affect the defense effect of other blocks.
The entire Yin-Yang Formation is divided into 360 blocks, and each block is divided into groups of 360 people, composed of disciples with different cultivation levels.
In Zhang Ke's idea, these 360 blocks should be controlled by Yuanshen True Lord, but now the sect cannot gather 360 Yuanshen True Lords who practice the 'Innate Hunyuan Yiqi Method'
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In principle, as long as all the disciples guarding each node do not die, the defense constructed by this formation can withstand all attacks outside the formation.
And because this formation is guided by the ‘Innate Hunyuan Yiqi Dharma’, the Taoist magic performed by the Southern Sect disciples living in the formation will not be affected.
Since there were too many people involved in the formation, Zhang Ke decided to set up the formation as a fool-like formation when deriving the formation.
Disciples of the Southern Sect only need to enter each node to guide the magic power, and do not need to participate in the operation of the formation changes.
Only the people in charge of their respective areas need to learn the many operations of the formation.
And because now there is a ‘sound-transmitting bell’ that can be dispatched from the center, the operation of the formation has become simpler.
The ‘Yin Yang Disk’ mountain protection array has never been tested since it was successfully deployed.
This was a good time. In order to prevent unexpected events, Xu Qingzhi assigned three disciples to each of the 64,800 nodes, who could be rotated at any time.
But this formation is only one of the three layers of protection for the big and small Penglai.
In addition, there are 3,600 stone towers tens of feet high rising from the ground all over Penglai, large and small.
The stone pagoda has nine floors in total. Each floor of the hexagonal stone pagoda has six windows. Each window has a different number of honeycomb-shaped "ruyi shuttles" standing there. There is also a three-foot-long stone on the top of the tower.
Huge muzzle.
Channels of blue electric light flowed and converged like snakes in the formations engraved on the stone tower.
These stone towers are laid out based on the Great Zhoutian Formation, which can absorb the power of the earth's veins and condense the spiritual energy.
You can use the 'Ruyi Shuttle' on the ninth floor to carry out a covering attack after the target enters the area, or you can condense the power of the earth veins to a certain extent and then gather the 'Evil-killing God Thunder' to carry out a super long-distance strike from the muzzle on the top of the tower.
The most important thing is that each hundred of these 3,600 stone towers can gather the 'Evil-killing Divine Thunder' into one place for attack.
According to Zhang Ke's estimation, the power of this combined 'Evil-killing Divine Thunder' would mean that even if Dao Lord was hit by one, he would be either dead or injured.
It's just that the front-end formation of this thunder gathers too slowly, and the speed of the lightning attack is not very fast. It is difficult for Daojun to hit it with his sense of crisis.
Zhang Ke even thought about condensing the power of 3,600 'Thunder Light Evil Killing Towers' together, but the energy gathered together was too terrifying, and the power of the stone towers alone could not bear it. In the end, he could only use one hundred towers as one
attack sequence.
In addition to the 'Yin Yang Disk' and the 'Thunder Light Evil Killing Tower', the two Penglai Islands also have many means of warfare, but these only play a supporting role and do not need to be discussed in detail.
At this time, it was a different scene in the 'Tai Chi Circle' island chain.
Residents in the island chain have long been informed that a powerful enemy will attack, and have conducted hundreds of rehearsals in the past thirty years.
After the 'warning bell' sounded, most residents, in units of squares, entered various underground palaces for disaster relief in an orderly manner under the guidance of officials at all levels and the 'Dharma Protectors'.
Disaster avoidance underground palaces are generally built underground and have a complete daily living system.
Zhang Ke only put forward two requirements when establishing:
Safety!
Life!
The former is easy to understand. The so-called "life" refers to being able to live normally in the underground palace for at least three years.
However, the number of residents in the 'Tai Chi Circle' island chain has been growing, and the construction of underground palaces for disaster relief has also continued. This cost is very high, and it is also very difficult to build.
After all, islands are different from land. If the underground is destroyed too seriously, in the event of a major disaster, the islands may collapse due to geological damage.
Therefore, the location of the underground palace requires careful planning, which also results in the underground palaces being built varying in size.
In addition, there is a safety issue.
If the people of the 'Tai Chi Circle' are forced to hide in the underground palace, then the attacking enemy must be extraordinary.
Generally speaking, it is difficult for ordinary people to fight against enemies of this level.
Therefore, in terms of security, the first priority is defense, followed by counterattack.
This results in every disaster-evading underground palace, no matter how big or small, to have layers upon layers of densely packed defenses of various types.
Especially the 'Great Vajra Pan Talisman Array', basically every piece of cement masonry has been burned multiple times.
This project was extremely expensive, and even Xu Qingzhi once suggested to Zhang Ke that it should be scrapped.
But Zhang Ke thought again and again and gritted his teeth and persisted.
At this moment, when encountering irresistible danger, these disaster-avoiding underground palaces immediately played an important role.
The living conditions in the underground palace are naturally much worse than those on the ground. Without seeing the sun for a long time, once the depression reaches the extreme, riots may occur.
Only by establishing normal order, allowing people to move, and letting people feel the existence of hope can people's hearts be stabilized.
After countless people entered the underground palace, they were first registered and classified by family, and then placed in different positions according to their strengths.
A complete points system has been established.
Immediately afterwards, believers of the ‘Turning Church’ came out to comfort people, and guided people to pray, gathering their faith and will to fight against foreign enemies.
On the ground, ordinary people who have not entered the underground palace are basically elites selected from ordinary training.
After they show that they are different, the Nanzong disciples will train them in different categories.
At this moment, tens of millions of people have been mobilized.
Most of them will become auxiliary personnel, and when the war begins, they will provide support in various aspects such as logistics, treatment, and maintenance.
According to their respective strengths, countless equipment and materials are fully equipped, ranging from a group of five people to a team of a hundred people, taking various pulleys and heading to their designated locations under the leadership of Nanzong disciples.
Among the remaining ordinary people, there were first two million who were good at fighting. Under the leadership of the disciples of the 'Nan Sect' craftsmanship department, they went to secret warehouses and entered mechanical puppets like mechas, ready to fight at any time.
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The remaining millions of people were also taken by Nanzong disciples to various places to prepare, ready to take over the battle at any time.
This one-foot-tall mechanical puppet comes from the line of ‘craftsmen’ such as Zhenjun Fenghua.
Back then, Zhang Ke once told Lord Fenghua that if a mechanical puppet could be made that could be controlled by ordinary people, it would definitely play an important role in future wars.
This made the heart of Feng Hua, True Lord Lingyun, who was still in the ‘Mo Sect’ at that time very attractive.
But when the two tried to conduct research, they discovered that this system was simply a bottomless pit.
The two of them invested nearly 600,000 gold talismans in thirty years, but failed to even make a comeback.
When I applied for funds from Momen, I was ridiculed again, thinking that the two of them were just having their own whims.
Later, the reason why the two of them took the disciples of the 'Chang Sect' to defect to the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect' was not only the difference between the concepts of the 'Chang Sect' and the 'Mo Sect', this was also crucial.
After joining the 'Xiantian Yiqi South Sect', Zhang Ke was very interested in their ideas and gave him the greatest support in terms of money, resources, and manpower.
In recent hundreds of years, the countless mechanical puppets that have appeared in the ‘Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect’ are all accessories in the development process of this system.
One hundred and sixty years ago, Lord Fenghua and other disciples of the Craftsmanship Department finally developed a combat-type mechanical puppet that could be controlled by ordinary people.
In the following more than a hundred years, the mechanical puppet was further optimized, and now a complete system has been established.
This system can be divided into four levels of 'Heaven and Earth Xuanhuang' according to the strength of the mechanical puppet, corresponding to the cultivation realms of Tao Lord, Yuanshen, Jindan, Xiantian and so on.
However, ordinary people are limited to physical fitness and soul power and can only control the 'yellow level' puppets for the time being. The other three levels can only be controlled by practitioners.
Among them, only one 'Heaven-level' puppet has been refined so far. It is a composite puppet that requires 3,600 practitioners to control it.
It should be emphasized here that the so-called 'Heaven-level' puppet is equivalent to the Dao Lord, which only refers to its attack power and defense power. Just like the Zerg leader, it has obvious shortcomings.
The 'Heaven Level' puppet is best at attacking fixed areas, which can be regarded as a deterrent force.
In terms of shape, it can be divided into five types: human form, animal form, bird form, ant form, and alien form.
The ant shape does not refer to the shape of an ant, but refers to a group type similar to bees, ants, etc., which mostly consists of a mother body and several daughter bodies.
Alien shapes refer to special forms, such as fish, shrimps, insects and irregular types required in special environments.
The reason why there are now two million ordinary people equipped with various types of mechanical puppets to fight is not because there are only two million ordinary people who are good at fighting in the territory of the 'Tai Chi Circle'.
It's because there are only two million mechanical puppets that can only be controlled by ordinary people.
Ordinary people are very weak in terms of body and soul power. Even if they are supplemented by special exercises and dietary supplements, they are still much worse than those of practitioners.
Therefore, even if you can operate the 'Yellow Level' puppet, if the opponent sees the root of it, it will easily be harmed on a large scale by the special Taoist method that shakes the soul and body.
In order to make up for this shortcoming, all mechanical puppets controlled by ordinary people are made of special materials, which can protect them from all kinds of damage through the puppet to the greatest extent.
If calculated in terms of cost, the cost of a mechanical puppet controlled by an ordinary person is more than three times higher than that of a mechanical puppet controlled by an innate realm practitioner.
Because of the high cost of making "Huang Jie" puppets, this kind of puppets are also jokingly called "Golden Glazed Armor" within the Southern Sect.
‘Gold’ refers to the expensive cost, and ‘glazed’ refers to the fact that the inside is as easily broken as glass by ordinary people.
When the 'Huang Jie' puppet was first refined, it was criticized by Xu Qingzhi and most people in the sect, but Zhang Ke resisted all objections and insisted on continuing to develop and refine it.
You need to look at things from a long-term perspective. The number of ordinary people is a thousand or ten thousand times more than that of practitioners.
As long as research and development continues, the cost will eventually be reduced and the power will increase.
Zhang Ke hopes that one day, he can see practitioners leading countless ordinary people into the star field to fight.
While many ordinary people are becoming proficient in mechanical puppets, the 'Tai Chi Circle' has been undergoing changes.
First of all, there are countless large and small umbrellas opened in the "Tai Chi Circle" island chain. From above, they look like mushrooms popping up in the forest after the rain.
‘Hunyuan Umbrella’ internal defense system.
This system was established by Zhang Ketong after the Penglai Island was cut into two halves by the Taoist Master.
Initially, this system was only deployed on the large and small Penglai Islands, and was composed of one-yuan "Hunyuanzi Umbrellas".
You can usually use the 'Ju Yuan' formation to absorb the power of the sun and the earth's veins to accumulate energy.
Using a group of 360 umbrellas as a node, 360 "Ju Yuan" formations are established, which are linked to each other to form layers of peaks to resist external attacks.
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Later, after the sect was moved to the 'Tai Chi Circle', the original formation was no longer enough to cover the entire island chain, so a large number of additions were naturally needed.
Over hundreds of years, the number of "Hunyuanzi Umbrellas" deployed in the "Tai Chi Circle" has reached nearly ten million.
At this moment, after all the 'Hunyuanzi Umbrellas' were activated, a large amount of power in the earth veins was extracted, and continuous vibrations were generated from the entire island chain.
This vibration even spread to the surrounding sea through the island chain, and for a while, the sea waves surged.
Countless plants on each island quickly turned yellow and withered, and the vitality between heaven and earth became a little thinner, forming an illusory funnel faintly above the 'Tai Chi Circle'.
This funnel will not disappear until the external energy is filled in.
At the same time, the fog over the 'Tai Chi Circle' became thicker and thicker. The lead-gray fog turned into an ink-like blackness, and then gradually turned from black to light.
When the last veil-like mist dissipated, the 'Tai Chi Circle' island chain below, covering an area of tens of thousands of miles, disappeared, and only endless waves were seen surging on the sea.
After seeing this incredible scene, Mao Yuan's eyes widened instantly and he lost his voice:
"How is this possible? Even Tao Zun can't move tens of thousands of islands out of thin air, right?"
Then he came to his senses and said with a 'huh':
"So that's it. It seems that the 'Xiantian Yiqi Nanzong' is using an illusion to cover up the island chain, but what's the use of this?"
He was not allowed to ask questions.
If you are in a strange area, this illusion may be able to confuse others and make it difficult to find the target.
But everyone knows the location of the 'Tai Chi Circle' island chain. When the time comes, you can just attack according to the location. As Mao Yuan said, what's the use of this.
Lord Jiangyun on the side was silent for a moment before he spoke:
"In the past, when True Lord Ruyi was fighting against all, the 'Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect' also deployed this illusion barrier.
The True Lord of Yuanshen summoned the meteorite to fall, but it was like hitting a phantom and failed to cause any damage to Penglai Island.
According to my guess, this illusion barrier is probably not as simple as an illusion. I suspect it may be a formation that can switch between illusion and reality."
No need to say more, Mao Yuan immediately understood the meaning of Zhenjun Jiangyun's words. Looking at the empty sea below, he couldn't help but murmur to himself:
"Maybe this time the 'Vajra Sect' will be kicked onto the iron plate!"