The Golden Scale Guards are one of the most famous corps of cultivators in Tianhe City. They are all composed of physical cultivators and possess unimaginable field combat capabilities.
This is an iron guard specially established by the human race for the Second Taoism-Demon War, and is one of the human race's war foundations.
The threshold to enter the Golden Scale Guard is the Eighth Realm.
In other words, these dozen Golden Scale Guards are a dozen or so eighth-realm cultivators, and they are also a dozen or so eighth-realm cultivators who are extremely good at field combat and have good coordination.
This is an extremely terrifying fighting force, which is never easily mobilized under normal circumstances.
This was because the resources required to form such an army of monks were simply too staggering and they could not afford to lose them.
You have to know that monks are unruly and used to being unrestrained.
This is especially true for cultivators who have cultivated to the level of transcending tribulation.
If you ask them to fight against the demons, they won't say anything.
But if you want to formulate various rules and regulations to restrict him, that is simply a pipe dream.
However, a well-organized corps of monks will indeed unleash more powerful combat power.
Just like in the mortal world, an army of ten people with good coordination, good training and strict military discipline is enough to kill a hundred scattered soldiers.
The same applies to monks.
The human race is obviously weaker than the demon race, so they need to make up for it in other aspects. Forming a corps of monks is undoubtedly an extremely appropriate direction.
After considering this, Tianhe City made a decision.
Since it is not realistic to ask the Eighth Realm monks to change their nature, why not train Eighth Realm monks who obey orders yourself!
Therefore, after discussion, the chief monks in Tianhe City began to issue conscription orders to all monks in the fourth and fifth realms, recruiting them into the army with generous conditions.
Compared to the cultivators in the Tribulation Realm whose personalities have become solidified, those in the Nascent Soul Realm and the Refining Void Realm naturally have more room for correction.
But the biggest problem is that an eighth-level cultivator cannot be created simply by resources and training. It depends more on the cultivator's own talent and character.
Therefore, even when recruiting soldiers, Tianhe City had already carried out strict screening, and those selected were young monks with strong talents and excellent character that they were optimistic about. After that, they did not hesitate to provide resources and equipped them with powerful monks to teach them.
But in the end, the probability of an eighth-level cultivator emerging among these people is still less than half.
With such a huge input-output ratio, in the world today, except for Tianhe City, there is no other sect or force that is capable of forming a corps of monks with the entry threshold being an eighth-level cultivator.
As the saying goes, good steel should be used on the blade. Since the Golden Scale Guard is so difficult to form, we have always adhered to the principle of maintaining troops for a thousand days and deploying them for a moment.
Normally, the Golden Scale Guards are the absolute treasures of Tianhe City. They will never be dispatched easily unless it is absolutely necessary.
This time, the reason why more than a dozen Golden Scale Guards left Tianhe City and lurked in Black Cloud Mountain was all due to the leadership of the Master of Shuiyue Temple.
Seeing that the war on the border was getting urgent and the traitor within the Huanling Sect had not been found out yet, the determination of the Master of Shuiyue Temple became more and more firm. He was determined to seize this opportunity and succeed in one fell swoop.
After all, if something unexpected happens this time, I don’t know how long I’ll have to wait to find so many clues next time.
Besides, in the current situation, she really didn't want to play the game of hide-and-seek and petty fighting with Huanling Sect anymore.
Therefore, the master of Shuiyue Temple directly asked for help from Tianhe City.
The Golden Scale Guards are indeed difficult to mobilize, but the chief cultivator of Tianhe City is the Tianhe Sword Immortal Chu Mushen, and below him is the abbot of their Tianji Temple, Qi Butian.
For the master of Tianji Temple, mobilizing a few Golden Scale Guards is indeed not a big deal.
Therefore, the master of Shuiyue Temple borrowed these dozen Golden Scale Guards very smoothly and quietly.
Whether from a strategic perspective or from a specific action perspective, the master of Shuiyue Temple has been extremely rigorous.
If everything developed according to normal circumstances, Taoist Yunxuan and the monks of the Huanling Sect led by him, who came with the purpose of attacking the mountain and destroying the cross-domain teleportation array, would be immediately killed and eliminated by the human race in the name of maintaining domestic stability.
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The sound of the magic bombardment resounded throughout the world, and ripples appeared on the light curtain of the Black Cloud Mountain protective formation.
Dozens of Golden Scale Guard monks looked up at the Huanling Sect monks who launched the attack outside Black Cloud Mountain. They had calm expressions and were full of fighting spirit.
The tall and thin Taoist leader gave a soft order: "Take action!"
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Outside the Black Cloud Mountain, the monks of the Huanling Sect led by Taoist Yunxuan and a large group of monsters all released their pent-up attacks.
In an instant, the sky and the earth changed color, and countless lights flashed, condensing into heart-pounding waves, and then bombarded the Black Cloud Mountain's protective formation.
"This formation can't hold out for much longer!" Taoist Yunxuan looked at the precarious situation of the mountain protection formation under their continuous attacks, and his mood became more and more complacent.
Suddenly, dozens of dazzling golden lights came into his eyes.
Before Taoist Yunxuan could react to what was happening, dozens of terrifying aura fluctuations descended in an instant.
"Tianhe City Golden Scale Guard!" By the time he realized what the golden light was, the attack had already arrived.
The dozen or so Golden Scale Guard monks formed a battle formation, condensed their own strength into a ball, and transformed it into a beam of light, which rushed towards him directly with devastating force.
"Not good!" Faced with this terrifying attack, Taoist Yunxuan immediately used his escape technique. With a whoosh, he narrowly avoided the edge of the light column.
But he managed to escape, but the Huanling Sect monks around him were not so lucky.
boom!
A thick beam of light swept across, and immediately the body of a Huanling Sect cultivator in the First Tribulation Realm was shattered into pieces, exploding into a ball of blood mist.
"Wow, what a powerful attack!" Taoist Yunxuan, who had barely avoided the attack, looked at the miserable state of his companion, took a deep breath with lingering fear, and a trace of shock and anger flashed in his eyes.
If he had reacted a little slower and had taken the attack head-on, he would have been seriously injured even if he didn't die.
In mid-air, a dozen or so Golden Scale Guard monks who had just appeared stood suspended in the air, forming a battle formation, and a terrifying aura spread out.
At this time, none of them spoke, and they all looked silently at the tall and thin Taoist in front of them.
Taoist temple talent.
They are the commander-in-chief of this operation.
“Yun Xuan, you are actually the traitor of Huanling Sect…” Taoist Diancai looked at Taoist Yun Xuan from afar and said in a cold voice.
At this time, Black Cloud Mountain had not yet received the news of the fall of Longcheng Pass, and Taoist Diancai's intelligence was still at the point where several high-level monks in the Huanling Sect were secretly communicating with the demon clan.
He didn't know that the Huanling Sect had long since changed from a Taoist sect to a demonic sect.
Taoist Yunxuan is the elder of Huanling Sect and a cultivator at the Fourth Tribulation Realm. He is also a well-known figure in Huanling Sect, so Taoist Diancai naturally recognized him.
“Diancai, how come you and the Golden Scale Guard monks are here?” Taoist Yunxuan was also looking at Taoist Diancai. His original complacent expression had long disappeared, turning gloomy.
"Of course it's to deal with you." Taoist Diancai said coldly: "Shuiyue told me that there was a traitor in Huanling Sect. I didn't expect that you, Yunxuan, were one of the traitors."
"Shuiyue?" After being shocked at first, Taoist Yunxuan regained his composure quickly and sneered, "She's really impressive. She has only been in charge of Zhishou Tower for such a short time, and she has found out so many things?"
At this moment, he couldn't help feeling a little scared.
It had only been half a year since the master of Shuiyue Temple took over as the master of Zhishou Tower and personally visited Zhongling Territory, yet she even knew the news that their side was preparing to attack Heiyun Mountain.
If she were given more time, I don't know how much more she would reveal.
Fortunately, they have officially launched the war to seize souls, so it doesn’t matter whether these things are exposed or not.
Taoist Yun Xuan glanced at Dian Cai and the dozen or so Golden Scale Guards he led, and suddenly chuckled, "Is this the confidence you have to deal with me?"
"Unfortunately," he said with a grim smile, "this is far from enough!"
When Taoist Diancai saw Taoist Yunxuan's reaction, his heart suddenly jumped.
In fact, Taoist Yun Xuan was only at the fourth tribulation realm, while he was at the fifth tribulation realm. The dozen or so Golden Scale Guard monks he brought with him, the lowest of whom was at the second tribulation realm, formed a battle formation with the combat power of the fourth tribulation realm.
In addition, there are the monks from Tianji Temple who were originally stationed in Heiyun Mountain. Compared with this, it stands to reason that they should be almost certain to win this battle.
However, Taoist Yunxuan's strange behavior really gave Taoist Diancai a bad feeling.
“It seems that you still have some powerful killing moves that you haven’t used yet.” Taoist Diancai chuckled and tested at the same time.
"You'll know soon ." Taoist Yunxuan was still calm and composed, and even had the mind to tease.
An undisguised murderous intent flashed across Taoist Diancai's eyes , and he finally lost the patience to waste any more words with Taoist Yunxuan.
"Start!" he shouted.
Hundreds of monks who had been preparing for a long time suddenly appeared in all directions, holding formation flags and waving them vigorously.
Invisible secret patterns suddenly emerged and began to ripple in the surrounding space.
Under the influence of these secret patterns, the fluctuations in the entire space seemed to solidify and no longer flow.
"It's a space blockade. The preparations are extremely complete." Taoist Yunxuan murmured, recognizing that this was a formation to block space.
As for the purpose, it is obviously to catch the turtle in the jar and cut off their retreat.
"You can't escape!" Taoist Diancai shouted angrily, leading the Golden Scale Guard monks to charge forward with murderous intent.
"It's just... who told you I was going to escape..." Taoist Yun Xuan's eyes showed a glimmer of excitement. Sensing that the Golden Scale Guard monk was getting closer and closer to him, he suddenly smiled and said, "Very good, very good, you came at the right time!"
The next moment, he slapped the spirit beast bag embroidered with golden patterns on his waist.
With a humming sound, a golden light shot up into the sky and instantly filled the sky.
What followed was an overwhelming and terrifying pressure, which caused the space that had just solidified to begin to tremble.
It was a giant golden bird with its wings spread high into the sky. It was released by Taoist Yunxuan and appeared in everyone's sight, like a golden deity, looking down at all the Golden Scale Guards in front of it. The golden feathers on its body shone brighter than their Taoist armor.
It looks around with disdain, and its aura is terrifying.
“Ninth-grade… Ninth-grade demon beast!” The moment the golden giant bird appeared, Taoist Diancai stopped abruptly, his eyes filled with horror, “How is this possible?!”
It is impossible for a beast cultivator's pet to surpass the cultivation level of the beast cultivator himself in terms of realm.
This is the iron rule of beast cultivation.
But the Taoist Yunxuan in front of him broke this iron rule and owned a ninth-grade pet beast with the eighth-level cultivation.
This incident shocked Taoist Diancai even more than the ninth-grade monster itself.
If the reason behind this can be replicated, it will bring about an unprecedented revolution to beast cultivators, greatly improving their combat power.
Taoist Diancai's heart immediately became hot - the power of the beast cultivators is the power of the human race!
Then he calmed down, felt a chill in his heart as fear arose.
Now is not the time to think about these things. The problem now is that this is a ninth-grade demon beast, and there is not a ninth-level cultivator among them at the moment. How can they fight? !
The giant golden bird let out a long cry towards the sky without hesitation, and swooped down towards Taoist Diancai and the Golden Scale Guard monks.
The divine fire on its body was burning fiercely, and the golden light became even more dazzling.
The golden giant bird flapped its wings across the sky and suddenly a huge fire surged down. The red waves flooded towards the Taoist Diancai, and its divine power was astonishing.
"You all must die." Taoist Yunxuan looked on calmly from the side.
Indeed, it is impossible for a cultivator at the eighth level to own a ninth-level pet beast.
The human race's beast cultivation faction has been developing for so many years, and no one has been able to break this iron rule, let alone their inner demons.
The reason why Taoist Yun Xuan could summon a ninth-grade demon beast was because this golden giant bird was not actually his pet, but...
One of the three souls of his original body!
The true form of Taoist Yunxuan is a ninth-grade inner demon.
But for him, the human race's cultivation system was indeed too obscure.
In addition, Taoist Yuan Yunxuan's aptitude was not particularly outstanding, so after he seized Taoist Ling Yunxuan and cultivated to the fourth calamity realm, his cultivation stagnated.
Although his human soul had only reached the eighth level of cultivation, the cultivation of his other two souls was already equal to that of his original body, both having reached the ninth level.
This time he was ordered to conquer Black Cloud Mountain. In order to ensure that everything would go smoothly, he specially brought his own monster soul with him.
As a result, it was really used.
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The Golden Scale Guard monks formed a battle formation, were fearless and had invincible power, but they encountered the most powerful opponent.
The atmosphere between heaven and earth suddenly became turbulent.
The solidified and blocked void began to tremble.
From time to time, a Golden Scale Guard monk was knocked away and flew backwards, with scarlet blood flowing out from his Taoist armor that was shining with golden light.
This was indeed an ambush.
But it was no longer an ambush by the Golden Scale Guard monks on the traitor within the Huanling Sect.
Rather, it was an ambush of the Golden Scale Guards by a ninth-grade inner demon.
The Golden Scale Guards are known to be invincible in field battles.
But today, facing a terrifying monster that is one realm higher than them, how can they be invincible?
Taoist Diancai looked at the monks from the Tianji Temple who kept falling down beside him and the monks from the Jinlin Guard who were getting more and more seriously injured, and his voice was colder than the chill wind in deep winter.
He said: "Golden Scale Guards, there is only advancement and no retreat, there is only death and no life."
Therefore, the Golden Scale Guard monks continued to charge forward fearlessly.
I don’t know how much time passed.
The noisy sound suddenly stopped.
After a moment, there was another loud bang.
A shocking explosion was heard.
The sky was filled with spiritual light.
Black Cloud Mountain, Tianji Temple's cross-domain teleportation array was destroyed!
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The sky was filled with layers of dark clouds, which were so thick that they made the sky look like night.
Dozens of rays of light appeared outside Black Cloud Mountain.
A moment later, the escaping light landed on Black Cloud Mountain.
It can be seen that the once prosperous Black Cloud Mountain has now been bombarded with potholes and ruins, with traces of burnt objects everywhere.
In the escaping light, the figure of the master of Shuiyue Temple emerged.
She stepped on the ground and looked around.
The ground was covered with bloodstains that had turned dark purple or even black due to drying.
The bodies of hundreds of Tianji Temple monks, dozens of Jinlin Guards and Taoist Diancai lay in a pool of blood.
In addition, there were many monsters and corpses of "Huanling Sect monks" lying in a mess, all of them missing limbs.
The Taoist armor with layers of scales on the body of the Golden Scale Guard monk has become tattered, and the Taoist patterns engraved on it have been destroyed.
The blood stained the golden scales red.
One can imagine what a thrilling and bloody battle had taken place here before.
But no matter what, in the end, the Huanling Sect won and achieved its goal.
The master of Shuiyue Temple looked at the scene in front of him, clenched his hands tightly, and his knuckles turned slightly white.
A chilly wind blew by, bringing a bone-chilling chill.
But at this moment, everyone felt a chill in their hearts.