All of this is caused by many factors.
In addition to the misjudgment of the situation of the Huanling Sect, there is another very important point, that is, the giant demon clan has led a large army and launched a three-month siege on Yanlan Pass in the battlefield outside the domain.
Although the demons have not yet reached the point where their entire army is attacking with all their might, the demon army hovering outside the pass has indeed brought a great sense of crisis to Daxia and Tianji Temple.
Because no one knows when the giant demons will suddenly launch a full-scale attack.
Maybe it will be a long time later, maybe it will be tomorrow.
But in this kind of thing, you can never leave any room for luck.
Moreover, in a direct comparison of strength, the human race is much weaker than the demon race.
The weaker party is instead dividing its forces to other places?
The human race is not so arrogant, nor does it dare to be so arrogant.
Therefore, Daxia almost concentrated all its energy and strength on Yanlan Pass.
The biggest dilemma facing the human race right now is that there is no one available.
Even the cultivators who were being withdrawn now to ambush the "traitors from the Huanling Sect" reported by the master of Shuiyue Temple were already some of the strength that Daxia had squeezed out from between its fingers.
In addition, mobilizing monks on a large scale can easily attract attention and would actually alert the enemy.
How did the master of Shuiyue Temple discover the plan of Huanling Sect?
Isn’t it because of the Huanling Sect’s large-scale recall of the monks from Longcheng Pass?
Since the master of Shuiyue Temple could discover the actions of Huanling Sect, how could it be possible that if Daxia mobilized a large number of cultivators from Yanlan Pass to "ambush" in Zhongling Territory without being noticed by the traitors of Huanling Sect?
Besides, facing a cultivator from the Huanling Sect whose strength was at the first calamity realm according to intelligence, Da Xia's use of the power of the second calamity realm to catch him in the trap was a sure thing and could not be said to be imprudent.
In fact, for an entity of Daxia's magnitude, decisions and deployments are all made from a rational and objective perspective, and there are strict system rules that need to be followed.
Male against male, king against king.
If we play against each other across levels, with the king playing against the duke, then when the other side plays the king, what can we play?
As for the enemy's king who is already snoring on his bed, it is completely unreasonable for us to send our own king to another place just to deal with the enemy's prince, and then put the most important front battlefield in danger.
However, the appearance of an eighth-grade late-stage beast pet that was comparable to the third calamity realm did indeed shatter all of Da Xia's preparations.
Just as it was almost certain for Da Xia to use the second-tribulation-level cultivators to ambush the first-tribulation-level cultivators, it was also easy for the eighth-grade late-stage monster to break through the ambush of the second-tribulation-level cultivators.
——After reaching the Tribulation Realm, every time a cultivator passes through a tribulation, the increase in strength will be extremely terrifying, increasing exponentially.
A cultivator in the First Tribulation Realm is merely entering the Eighth Realm.
A cultivator in the Third Tribulation Realm can already try to find his own path in the universe, merge with the Dao, and advance to the Ninth Realm.
The gap is self-evident.
But no matter what, Daxia's response was at least correct in terms of process. It was the most correct decision based on all the intelligence and the current situation.
Even if someone in the future looks back on this period of history and offers his own opinions and criticisms on the decision made by Daxia at this time, saying something like "those in power in Daxia are too stupid and should send more people", it would be nothing more than pointing fingers at the country from a God's perspective.
Who doesn’t know how to make a hindsight comment?
The human race had no one available and "why use a butcher knife to kill a chicken?", while the Huanling Sect monks "played pigs to eat the tiger", which led to the situation that Daxia was prepared, but not enough.
But can this be said to be because the demons are too lucky?
Absolutely not.
The fact that no one is available on the Daxia side is not because the demons are lucky, but because the Heart Demon Clan specially joined forces with the Giant Demon Clan of the Tianmen Domain for this battle and made them prepare for a fighting stance in the front to divert the attention of the human race. This is the situation they have created.
As for the Huanling Sect monks' "playing pigs and eating tigers", it was even more of their elaborate preparation.
All I can say is that in this game of chess in the Central Spirit Realm, the Heart Demon Clan has the upper hand.
The lurking and preparation that began in the Chang'an year finally came to fruition today.
According to common sense, the Heart Demon Clan has already made every possible plan this time, and there is absolutely no possibility of failure.
However, at the end of Chang'an, a butterfly that did not belong to this world quietly arrived and had already flapped its wings many times.
Therefore, some things that would not have happened have already happened, and they have become the so-called variables.
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Black Cloud Mountain.
Taoist Yunxuan, or rather the "soul" of a certain inner demon from the inner demon clan, was gazing at the not-so-lofty defensive formation set up by the Tianji Temple in the Black Cloud Mountain, with a hint of excitement in his heart.
This has been the dream of their Heart Demon Clan for 20,000 years, and the joint efforts of several generations.
Now, this dream is in their hands and is gradually becoming a reality.
Once these cross-domain teleportation arrays are completely destroyed by them, the Central Spiritual Domain will be isolated and helpless, becoming a prey to the Heart Demon Clan, and will be slowly eroded by them.
Their Heart Demon Clan will surely leap from being in the middle of the Eight Holy Demons in the Abyss in terms of overall strength to becoming the leader of the Eight Holy Demon Clans.
And he will become one of the heroes who expands the territory and achieves the eternal achievements of the Heart Demon Clan.
For this day, their Heart Demon Clan had made so much preparation and put in so much patience and hardship that others could hardly imagine.
But only they can do this. Even if the other seven holy demon clans have the same patience, they can only sigh in despair.
——There are many smart people in the human race. How can it be so easy to control a Taoist sect silently?
They also rely on their own bloodline supernatural powers to achieve what they have now.
In other words, although it was carefully planned, in the final analysis, it was all up to God.
The Heart Demon Clan has two great innate magical powers:
Control souls and control lives.
However, no one knows the specific abilities of these two innate magical powers.
Not to mention the human race, even the other demons in the abyss, except the heart demon clan, are also unclear about the specific effects of these two innate magical powers. They only know the name.
All of this is due to the fact that the Heart Demon Clan keeps their mouths shut and never reveals their abilities in front of outsiders.
As long as they don't show it or say it, others will never be able to pry any information out of them.
After all, they are the demons in your heart!
As for the extremely important chess piece of Huanling Sect, it was the situation they had achieved through their soul-controlling magical power.
The so-called soul-controlling, in simple terms, is actually a clone.
It’s just that the ability of their inner demon clan to clone themselves is extremely special.
First of all, the pure-blooded heart demon clan are born with three souls in one body.
Every soul can control a clone.
In other words, any inner demon can have three clones.
The method of clone cultivation practiced in the cultivation world can usually only produce one clone.
In terms of quantity, the Soul Control method is already far superior to the human cultivators' method of splitting themselves into multiple bodies.
In addition, the Soul Controlling Ability has another special and strange aspect, which is why they were able to control the Huanling Sect silently.
That is the way the Soul Controlling Ability creates a clone, which is similar to the "soul exchange" of possessing another's body!
The method used by human cultivators to split themselves into two bodies is usually to refine a physical body with their own hands, and then split a strand of their soul into this body.
However, the soul-controlling magical power can directly take over the physical body.
Regardless of the race, as long as it is a living being, the Heart Demon Clan can take over its body through the soul-controlling method.
Once they have seized the body of a living being through this method, the inner demons can inherit everything from that living being, including cultivation, magical instruments, physical realm, and so on.
Even the soul can be inherited!
In other words, nothing has changed except the soul.
Just from the aura and appearance, outsiders would definitely not be able to see any flaws.
Of course, this method is not without limitations.
First, the soul realm of the living being they want to change into cannot exceed that of the original body, otherwise the change of soul will never be successful.
In addition, the cultivation level of the three souls can never exceed that of the inner demon itself.
Secondly, even for the Heart Demon Clan, it is difficult to do two things at once, let alone three or even four things at once.
If they use one consciousness to control the three clones and the original body at the same time, their thinking will inevitably be confused.
Especially when the three clones are fighting, it is impossible to take care of them.
Therefore, most of the time, they cut off the connection between the main body and the three souls, a total of four consciousnesses, allowing each soul to act on its own based on its own consciousness.
Then, the main body will return to the soul every once in a while to understand what happened to the three souls during this period.
The third point, and the most fatal limitation, is that the relationship between the Heart Demon Clan and the three souls is like the relationship between the human heart and other organs.
Once the heart stops beating, other organs will stop functioning no matter how healthy they are.
For the Heart Demon Clan, the death of three souls will not cause any impact on the main body.
But as soon as the main body dies, the three souls will die immediately.
In other words, when fighting against the Inner Demon Clan, it may seem like you are fighting one against four in the worst case scenario, but in fact, you only need to determine where their real body is and then kill it.
What's even worse is that the Heart Demon Clan specializes in cultivating the Source God, so their bodies are abnormally weak compared to other demons.
In addition, since their bloodline magical powers are soul control and life control which have no amplifying effect on their own combat power, it is almost a common phenomenon among the Heart Demon Clan that the combat power of the soul is stronger than the body.
The most important body has the weakest combat power.
Once the body dies, the soul will die no matter how powerful it is.
How could the Heart Demon Clan dare to expose the effects of their bloodline abilities?
…
Taoist Yunxuan shook his head and retracted his wandering thoughts.
There is still a tough battle ahead.
Because the Black Cloud Mountain in front of us is the territory of Tianji Temple.
Compared with the openness of Daxiazhou City, the cross-domain teleportation array of Tianji Temple is not open to outsiders, and Heiyun Mountain is even more closed, never allowing outsiders to enter.
Therefore, the monks of Huanling Sect could not sneak into the Black Cloud Mountain as they did in Daxiazhou City and wait for the opportunity to suddenly attack and destroy the magic circle.
They could only attack the mountain by force, killing all the monks of Tianji Temple in Heiyun Mountain in one fell swoop and destroy the magic formation at the same time.
…
The cross-domain teleportation array is indeed expensive, but in fact not many people would think too much about this kind of thing.
Just like everyone knows that high-speed rail is valuable, but I have never heard of robbers robbing high-speed rail. They usually rob banks.
Therefore, in the Central Spiritual Realm, the guarding force deployed by Tianji Temple at its own treasure vault has always been greater than that of Heiyun Mountain.
But no matter what, for such an important thing, even if Dao Zong’s guarding force is weak, how weak can it be?
Moreover, compared with Daxia's widespread deployment, which required the division of troops into multiple locations for defense, the cross-domain teleportation array set up by Tianji Temple in Zhongling Domain was unique, so the power was more concentrated.
But……
Taoist Yunxuan combined the information he got from secret channels within the sect and was completely certain that there were no ninth-level cultivators in Black Cloud Mountain.
In fact, there is no need to go to the trouble to confirm it.
——Who would let a ninth-level cultivator go to see a teleportation array?
Without the Ninth Realm monks guarding the Black Cloud Mountain, there would be no way to stop him and the monks he brought with him!
Taoist Yunxuan is extremely confident.
If you don't take what heaven gives you, you will suffer the consequences. The human race occupies such a good world, but is so weak and unworthy of its position. It is destined to suffer such an end.
Good things should be reserved for the strong.
Opportunities only favor those who are determined. For their Heart Demon Clan to be able to take the initiative before the other seven Holy Demon Clans, it requires extraordinary courage.
Because if any accident occurs in any link, they will have to face the encirclement and suppression of the seven regions of human race on the front battlefield, and in the rear, they are also likely to be attacked by the seven holy demons.
"Elder Yunxuan, the time has come." A short and fat male cultivator said to Taoist Yunxuan at this time.
Taoist Yunxuan’s position in Huanling Sect is elder.
Over such a long period of time, the Heart Demon Clan has long been accustomed to calling each other by the identities of humans, and even now when the true intentions are revealed, they have not changed their ways.
"Let's get started. We shouldn't waste too much time on this small Black Cloud Mountain." Elder Yun Xuan laughed.
He said it lightly, but in fact he never underestimated Black Cloud Mountain.
The inner demon clan always has a plan for everything.
"The time for attack has come. Everyone, try your best and work together. Don't make any mistakes or you will miss out on important things!" Elder Yunxuan shouted with a fierce light flashing in his eyes.
"We will follow the orders of Elder Yunxuan!" The other "Huanling Sect monks" brought by his men responded in unison.
On the first morning of the eighth year of Tianyuan, when the sun had just begun to shine, outside the Black Cloud Mountain, Elder Yunxuan and a group of monks launched an attack on the Black Cloud Mountain.
The attack was all-round. Under the command of Elder Yunxuan, the monks under his command and their respective pets formed a huge team, divided into multiple directions, and launched an attack on the Black Cloud Mountain protection formation at the same time.
Boom boom boom!
Suddenly, thunder roared and the earth shook.
In a quiet room in the Black Cloud Mountain, a tall and thin Taoist was sitting cross-legged on a cushion alone.
"Here they come," the tall and thin Taoist's eyes lit up when the vibration sounded, "The traitor from Huanling Sect has joined the game!"
Then, the tall and thin Taoist figure flashed, left the quiet room, and appeared in the outside world.
Appearing with him were a dozen monks wearing golden Taoist armor.
The Taoist armors worn by these monks were made up of numerous armor plates that were neatly arranged and overlapped, and were extremely thick.
In the dim light of the early morning, it sparkles with golden light, like golden scales.
This style of armor is called fish scale armor among ordinary people. It is a high-level armor that only officers can use.
In the world of cultivators, it certainly cannot be a simple armor, but is engraved with many patterns and has many magical powers.
But the same thing is that this Taoist armor is also a high-level Taoist armor that can only be used by monks of high levels.
This is the unified armor of Tianhe City’s Golden Scale Guards.
These monks are the Golden Scale Guards.