Volume 10: Fuyao Chapter 139: Zhong Ling, forward!
One sword opens the formation.
What was opened was the great formation set up by Daozu.
After this sword strike, Xie Qingyun's eyes couldn't help but glance at the dragon bird in Lu Qingshan's hand.
The dragon bird is humming softly.
There was a strange look in Xie Qingyun's eyes.
In fact, when he decided to appoint Lu Qingshan as the Young Master of the Sword Sect, he had read Lu Qingshan's files many times.
This is to understand Lu Qingshan, to confirm whether Lu Qingshan is capable of the task, and to confirm Lu Qingshan's character.
But the file will not tell Xie Qingyun that Lu Qingshan’s four natal swords are the top-level configuration of three swords and one sword.
After a moment, Xie Qingyun's gaze finally fell on Lu Qingshan's handsome face.
He looked at Lu Qingshan quietly and said, "I am more and more convinced now that you are the next leader of my Sword Sect and the best candidate for the next Sword Master of Fuyao."
Lu Qingshan asked: "Why?"
Xie Qingyun said: "Because of your sword, I like you very much."
"And these," he fixed his eyes on the red sandalwood sword box that Lu Qingshan had been carrying behind him from the beginning to the end, and said softly, "They like you too."
The sword is in the box.
The sword will never lie.
After saying that, Xie Qingyun didn't say anything more. He turned around and disappeared, turning into an invisible light, sinking into the gap, and his figure quickly disappeared.
With the Mingyue formation in full swing, it would naturally no longer be a difficult task for a dignified swordsman to travel in fine clothes at night and pass through Longcheng Pass silently.
This will be the true counterattack of the human race, a fatal counterattack in desperation.
But for some reason, when Lu Qingshan looked at Xie Qingyun's receding back, he suddenly felt a sense of loss in his heart.
…
The counterattack is not limited to Xie Qingyun alone, it can even be said that the prelude has already begun.
Because in the Zhongling area, there was another battlefield that had already been in full swing.
One day ago.
In the tail current of the spiritual sea tide, on the human side.
The monks of the human coalition force from the three cities, who had evacuated first under the cover of the sword cultivators from the Sword Sect, gathered like tributaries outside the Spirit Sea Tide, formed a legion, and entered the tail stream of the Spirit Sea Tide together.
Now, this huge human coalition has temporarily stopped in the chaotic spiritual sea area, waiting solemnly.
Among them , there are monks from the local sects in Zhongling Domain, as well as independent cultivators gathered from various areas of Zhongling.
There are also forces coming to support from other domains, including Da Xia’s Yulin Guards, Chang’an Guards, most of the elite troops of the Zhulong Palace, and... a total of less than two hundred Sword Sect monks.
The Sword Sect chose to stay and buy time for the human monks' coalition forces to retreat.
Among them, because the leader of the demon army in Niujiao City was the most powerful Demon Lord Dongqi, all the sword cultivators including Ning Fengchen were wiped out and none of them came back.
Gu Qiu and Li Shiyi were much luckier, as the opponents they met were much weaker than the Demon Lord Dongqi.
So in the end, they each led nearly a hundred sword cultivators to successfully break through, and following the instructions left by the coalition of cultivators, they quickly caught up and joined up with the main force.
But they had no time to grieve or mourn.
Once the war starts, it cannot be stopped.
If you stop and see your lost fellow disciples around you, you will inevitably fall into the shadows.
"Master Haoran Peak, a small number of demon cultivators from the Demon Clan have already caught up with our coalition forces. I think their main force will arrive in a while." Great Venerable Jin Luo frowned and said to the middle-aged sword cultivator beside him, whose every move revealed a sharp temperament.
"Logically speaking, we have been ahead for a day. Even if they can catch up with us, they shouldn't be so fast."
"In the wake of the spiritual sea tide, there are constant gaps in space. If you are not careful, you will die. There are many dangers. The spiritual energy is so rampant that our spiritual sense cannot detect it. We can only cross the river by feeling the stones and move forward slowly. The reason why you, Peak Master, can catch up with us so quickly is because we left a route guide when we were moving forward. You just need to move forward according to the guide we left."
“But what basis do the demons have? No one has left them any guidance.” Lord Jin Luo looked very gloomy.
"It's very simple. As long as we are willing to sacrifice human lives, we can make up for the time gap." Li Shiyi looked solemn.
"We've used our lives to find a way out. If others follow this path , they'll naturally catch up with us soon."
He was very clear about the action strategy of the demon tribe. "The demon tribe has an absolute numerical advantage. As they advance, they spread their forces in all directions. It is only a matter of time before they catch up with us."
"And it seems that they are quite lucky." Li Shiyi said word by word.
If one is unlucky, it will take at least one or two more days for the demons to encounter their people.
"The demons have too great an advantage. We must retreat back to Dixin City and use the city and formations to fight them."
"But we can't retreat blindly, otherwise we will be eaten away bit by bit by the demons' pursuers."
"We must fight and retreat, and we can only fight and retreat."
"Divide the troops into two groups. Send a small number of people to explore the way ahead, and most of the remaining monks stay behind to distract the demons' pursuers." Li Shiyi made quick arrangements.
"Be prepared to counterattack. They have the advantage in numbers. We must not wait for the demons to deploy troops and make strategic deployments. We must catch them off guard." Li Shiyi made the decision in an instant.
"The terrain of the wake of the Spirit Sea Tide is complex and cannot be detected by divine sense. This time we will not engage in a large-scale battle. Instead, we will break up into small-scale encounters and ambushes with the demons!"
Such a counterattack can minimize the numerical advantage of the demons and is also an application of the right time and place.
"Jin Luo, you are familiar with the people under you, so you will be responsible for how to divide the troops." Li Shiyi ordered.
After all, he is from the Eastern Region, and his understanding of middle-level spiritual cultivators is not as good as that of Jin Luo Dazun, a native middle-level spiritual cultivator.
Therefore, the overall strategy is determined by him, while the specific implementation is left to the Great Master Jin Luo.
Lord Jin Luo nodded and quickly took action to make the final arrangements for the battle.
Soon, the assignment of who would stay and who would explore the way was completed.
The monks in charge of exploring the way did not dare to waste time and immediately dispersed, their figures sinking into the tail current of the spiritual sea tide ahead.
They are the guarantee of the coalition of human monks. They must find a way out for the human monks as soon as possible in this turbulent spiritual sea tidal zone.
As for the monks who stayed behind, they all looked solemn.
"You can form your own teams, but the number of people in a team cannot exceed three."
"You must spread out the battlefield, the wider the better, so that the demons will be forced to separate, and this is how you can delay their time as much as possible." Li Shiyi looked at everyone gently and said slowly.
The eyes of those numerous human cultivators were filled with fighting spirit.
Mo Yan in the crowd couldn't help but lick his lips.
With his fighting ability, he naturally belongs to the team of monks who stayed behind.
Li Shiyi looked at the noisy human coalition. Although many people were nervous and uneasy, no one showed any fear.
Being able to arrive at the front line, they were already prepared to fight the demons.
The other thing is...
The human cultivators glanced at Li Shiyi, Gu Qiu, and the less than three hundred Sword Sect cultivators behind them.
The Sword Sect had three peak masters and more than 1,700 sword cultivators, but so far, only two peak masters and 300 sword cultivators have returned.
This is Zhongling, not the Eastern Region, and even the Sword Sect is willing to sacrifice its life for it.
Then what do these middle-level spiritual monks have to fear?
How dare I be afraid?
"My spiritual heart can be used." Great Venerable Jin Luo said softly.
“Regardless of territory, regardless of high or low status among cultivators, everyone has the responsibility to defend the land and eliminate the devil, and everyone should be determined to sacrifice everything.” His voice gradually became louder, accompanied by the raging spiritual tide.
"Zhongling, forward!"
The human cultivators were afraid of attracting the attention of the demon army, so they did not dare to respond loudly, so they released their spiritual consciousness and shouted together.
"Zhong Ling, move forward, forward!"
The next moment, hundreds of thousands of spiritual waves broke through the remnants of the still raging storm and dispersed in all directions.
The middle-level spiritual monk fights back in the desolate area!
They want to delay as much time as possible.
First, it takes time to find a way out in the wake of the Spirit Sea Tide.
Second, Xie Qingyun also needs time.
Because at this moment, two figures were flying from the Kawakami Plateau towards the Linghai tide zone.
They were moving very fast and were about to enter the spiritual sea tide.
They are the split souls of the two top demon lords, Soul Lord and Control Lord of the Heart Demon Clan, namely the Azure Dragon Lord and the White Tiger Lord.
The two of them were planning to launch a massive massacre of the human race in the spiritual sea tide.
This was the method they thought of to force Xie Qingyun to show up.
