Volume 8: Demon Suppression Chapter 26: Hundred Illusion Butterflies
"Since we all know that we are playing into the hands of the demons, why don't we give up those small city gates and instead hold our ground?" Someone asked the most core question, which was also the question in the minds of most of the cultivators present.
" Because we can't give up. The human race must have small city gates to provide a place for the monks to recuperate," the scarred male cultivator sighed, "If we give up all the small city gates, the monks will be truly isolated when they reach the battlefield outside the domain."
"Lonely army" is never a good word, and burning the boats can only be a temporary measure and cannot be regarded as the norm.
"There are two choices. One is to abandon all the small city gates. But you can imagine how miserable our human cultivators will be in the outer battlefield at that time. Especially for you young cultivators, without the city gates as your rear barrier and as your logistical support, your casualty rate in the outer battlefield will be ten or a hundred times higher than it is now."
"Or we can follow the demons' wishes and hold on to those dozens of city gates," the scarred male cultivator said with deep eyes, gazing at the bloody land. "We chose the latter, because you young cultivators are the hope for the future of the human race. If most of you are killed in the battlefield outside the domain and cannot grow up, the human race will be broken. If we wait for a few thousand more years, until the great cultivators of the human race are about to die of old age, our human race will be finished."
“The sky is full of clouds. Unless one has reached the level of Xia Daozu, it is impossible for just a few people to defend it.” The scarred male cultivator shook his head and sighed.
It is obvious that the demons are using their power to pressure others, and this is an open conspiracy.
The underworld is a conspiracy of the demons.
There are both conspiracies and overt plots, this is the cruelty of the demons.
Faced with this situation, the human race can only use the lives of the elderly in exchange for space for the growth of newcomers.
The war of races is so cruel. There is no way to have the best of both worlds. There are only choices and sacrifices, and it is bloody.
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"Let's not talk about this for now, let's go." The scarred male cultivator regained his spirits and led the newcomers out of the city wall and walked towards Yumen Pass.
Inside the city gate, there is a square closest to the towering city wall.
The square covers a very large area, with array patterns engraved on the ground.
If human cultivators want to leave or enter Yumen Pass, they must undergo a second test of the magic circle here to ensure the safety of Yumen Pass.
A wide avenue extends from the square to the depths of Yumen Pass. From afar , one can see ancient palaces standing on both sides of the road.
The scarred male cultivator led a thousand new recruits and went deeper along the avenue.
Along the way, you can see monks wearing black armor or Taoist robes flying everywhere, and flying magic boats are parked in rows on both sides of the road, the number of which is so large that it makes people's scalp tingle.
The giant palaces standing on both sides of the road are of different styles. Some are so old that they seem to have existed since ancient times. They are hidden in the formations and appear hazy and unclear.
"These huge palaces are the places of seclusion for the great cultivators of our human race. Most of these predecessors stay in Yumen Pass all year round and never go out. Some of the great cultivators even came to Yumen Pass ten thousand years ago and have never left." The scarred male cultivator introduced to the newcomers.
The area inside Yumen Pass is unimaginably large.
After the group had flown for an hour, a huge hall appeared before their eyes.
Beacon Hall.
"This is your last stop, the Beacon Fire Hall. You will learn more in this hall, and you can go in by yourselves from now on." The scarred male cultivator turned around, looked at the newcomers in front of him, and said with a smile: "I hope that I can see you again a hundred years later. By then, I will definitely explain everything ."
The new monks all raised their hands and clasped their fists, bowing to the scarred man to express their gratitude - all the new monks could clearly feel the care and concern the other party had shown along the way.
This is a very sincere and simple concern from the elderly to the newcomers.
Under the gaze of the scarred male cultivator, everyone walked towards the Beacon Hall.
There was a cultivator standing at the entrance of the Beacon Hall, handing out a jade slip to every newcomer who walked by.
Lu Qingshan also received a jade slip.
The jade slips record in detail all the demons that the human cultivators have encountered on the battlefield outside Yumen Pass, as well as their unique abilities, weaknesses, strengths and other information.
In addition, there is also an introduction to the battlefield outside Yumen Pass, pointing out which areas are dangerous places where countless human cultivators have been killed and injured, and which areas are relatively safe...
This is all the information that the human cultivators have risked their lives to find out.
Obviously, these are very important things that monks must remember if they want to survive in the cruel battlefield outside the domain.
However, the process of distributing the jade slips seemed a bit understated and too casual. Even the monks who distributed the jade slips did not emphasize the importance of the information in the jade slips to the newcomers.
This is because the cultivators who can enter Yumen Pass, even if they are newcomers, are at least Nascent Soul cultivators. They are no longer children and know what is important.
As long as you are not blind, you can see that this information concerns everyone's life and property, and no one would be stupid enough to not take it seriously.
If there really is someone who is so broad-minded, others will have nothing to say - if you don't value your own life, what can others do to you?
After receiving the jade slip, everyone officially stepped into the gate of Beacon Hall.
There was a dark first, then a sudden bright light in front of my eyes.
The hall is full of magnificent atmosphere.
The first thing that caught their eyes was a huge gilded three-dimensional scroll suspended in the center of the hall.
The scenery on the scroll is so detailed and specific that it completely restores the mountains and rivers of the battlefield outside Yumen Pass.
But on the scroll, there are still large areas covered with fog.
This represents an area that humans have not yet explored, so it is best not to enter without permission.
In addition, there are 17 human city gates shrouded in yellow glow, and nearly 100 cities shrouded in scarlet blood light, representing the demon strongholds.
From this we can also see how huge the gap in strength is between the demons and the human race.
At the two ends of the scroll, one is the Yumen Pass of the human race, and the other is the space passage leading to the territory of the abyss soldiers and demons.
Lu Qingshan looked to the left and saw a huge jade tablet.
At the top of the jade stele, in the most conspicuous position, there are three large golden characters engraved in a dragon-like and phoenix-like style.
"Yumen Pass"!
Just below the three words "Yumen Pass", there is a line of slightly smaller words written in the same golden font - "I send my thoughts to the cold stars, and may they not notice. I will sacrifice my blood to the sky"!
"This is the calligraphy written personally by Senior Qingyun Sword Immortal of the Sword Sect." A cultivator in the crowd whispered.
Just from this line of poetry, everyone felt a bit of the so-called "Sword Immortal's demeanor".
Looking further down, there were many battle reports displayed on the jade stele.
These battle reports are constantly changing, updated at any time, and then arranged according to importance.
For example, right now, at the most important position of the jade tablet, the battle report that appeared was: [Traces of large-scale demon activities appeared near Luoyan Pass, and cultivators are urgently needed to support and suppress them! ]
This is an urgent war report, so it is placed at the most important position.
The next line of battle report was: [Xia Daoyun of the Sword Sect killed the Three-Eyed Demon Lord at Xiongshi Ridge! ]
Seeing the name of his master, Lu Qingshan couldn't help but take a closer look at the details of the battle report:
In the 19,977th year of Chang'an, Xia Daoyun, a member of the Sword Sect, was ambushed and killed by the Three-Eyed Demon Lord at the Xiongshi Ridge, a battlefield outside the domain. In the end, he successfully counterattacked with the help of the sword in his hand.
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This incident happened during the Chang'an period. It has been forty years since then, but it is still hanging high in the second most important position on the jade stele.
This shows how sensational it was to kill the Three-Eyed Demon Lord.
But if you think about it, you can understand it.
The demon lords are all eighth-grade beings, equivalent to the eighth-level cultivators of the human race.
The eighth-rank demon lord ambushed Xia Daoyun, but ended up killing himself. This kind of victory is indeed rare in a hundred years and is worth praising for a long time.
Lu Qingshan continued reading, and the battle report began to become more and more complicated.
However, any battle report that can be published on the jade tablet can definitely be considered a big event.
In addition, the human race does not have the concept of reporting good news but not bad news - although those great victories can indeed make many cultivators excited and boost morale, but in the end, the battle between the two races still depends on strength to decide the winner? What is the use of deceiving oneself and paralyzing oneself?
Therefore, Lu Qingshan soon saw some shocking battle reports:
[The great elder of Guangyu Sect, a great cultivator in the fusion stage, Kunde, was surrounded by the demons at Qixingpo and unfortunately died! ]
[Yude Pass suffered a surprise attack from the demons, and suffered heavy losses. The following monks were sacrificed...]
After quickly browsing through it, Lu Qingshan made a rough estimate that the battle report on the jade stele was not even a mixed bag of news, but was more like 30% for news and 70% for news.
The human race has always had a very difficult life.
Near the end of the jade tablet, Lu Qingshan saw a piece of news related to himself: [The latest batch of one thousand cultivators entered Yumen Pass today]
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Finally, on the left side of the main hall is a corridor leading to the side hall.
That is the place where the monks from Yumen Pass use their military merits to exchange for spiritual materials.
As newcomers, they all had zeros in their column of military merit, so there was naturally no need for them to get to know it in depth. They just knew a little about this place and then left.
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Shortly after Lu Qingshan entered Yumen Pass, in Tianshan, outside the Changfeng Formation.
Two beams of light suddenly appeared and then quickly stopped.
The figures of two male cultivators, one tall and one short, emerged from the escaping light and gradually became clearer.
They were suspended above the sky, looking at the water curtain covering the Tianshan Mountains not far away.
"Is it here?" asked the shorter male cultivator in a gloomy voice.
On his shoulder, there was a huge, translucent butterfly flapping its wings.
"That should be it. Baihuandie sensed his presence in the area ahead, which is the Tianshan Mountains."
The tall man looked at the water curtain in the distance, his eyes full of gloom, and nodded slowly, "I didn't expect that this beast would actually enter Yumen Pass. If we still spread a net to search for his traces in the Seven Realms as we prepared before, we won't be able to find him even if we turn the Seven Realms upside down, and it will be a waste of time. This sword cultivator is called a sword cultivator, but he is not a sword cultivator at all. He is so insidious that he wants to play with our underworld at will!"
"The higher the virtue, the higher the evil," the short male cultivator said grimly, "In the end, wasn't he still played around by us? What's the point of him hiding? Under the tracking ability of the Hundred Illusion Butterflies, isn't he still nowhere to hide?"
"The Hundred Illusion Butterfly is a strange monster that was accidentally bred by the headquarters. Once it smells the breath of a cultivator, it can lock onto that cultivator and track him for thousands of miles. It's a pity that the Hundred Illusion Butterfly can only use this innate ability once in its lifetime, and the headquarters has never been able to breed a second Hundred Illusion Butterfly. He is a cultivator in the fifth realm, and if he lets us use this only Hundred Illusion Butterfly, his life will not be in vain even if he dies." The tall cultivator said in a muffled voice.
"The ability of the Hundred Illusion Butterfly can be said to be useful, but also useless. It's not a waste to use it on him. It can only be said that it is just right. I just don't know how this guy knows so much information about our underworld. It's even more exaggerated than those old immortals in Tianji Temple." The short monk said hatefully.
"After this beast's disturbance, the rhythm of many of our plans has been disrupted... If he continues to make trouble like this, who knows what kind of trouble he will cause. You are right. As the saying goes, the longer the night, the more dreams you will have. It is definitely worth using the Hundred Illusion Butterflies on him."
"It's just that it's not easy for the two of us to sneak into Yumen Pass. We're too conspicuous..."
"Isn't this easy to solve? Find someone to take the Hundred Illusions Butterfly into Yumen Pass, and then hand the Hundred Illusions Butterfly over to the Demon Marshal, and report Lu Qingshan's situation to him in detail. We have to be cautious when we act in the human territory, but when we go to the battlefield outside the domain, we demons won't have so many concerns. In this case, how can Lu Qingshan not die?"
"That makes sense!"
The two people from the underworld came to a decision quickly after discussing it with each other, and then they disappeared in a flash and quickly left Tianshan.
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Lu Qingshan only stayed in Yumen Pass for less than half a day. While the monks who entered Yumen Pass with him were still getting familiar with the environment, he chose to leave the city.
This is not because he is arrogant, but because although he has never been to Yumen Pass in the Eastern Region in his previous life, he is very familiar with Zijing Pass in the Southern Region.
The two are almost identical in structure, with the biggest difference being that the geographical environment of the extraterritorial battlefield is different from the demons that one will encounter in it.
But in order to understand these things, one needs to become familiar with them through actual combat. There is not much point in staying in Yumen Pass.
After taking a trip to the Beacon Fire Palace, he decided which city gate to go to...
Luoyan Pass!
It is Luoyan Pass where large-scale demon activities have been seen recently.
He came to Yumen Pass to eliminate demons, so naturally he would go to where there were more demons.
As for danger, where is there no danger on the battlefield outside the domain?
Even within the human territory, there is no safety.
Escaping will never solve the problem.
He was not the only one who thought so. Just like those old men guarding the small city gates, wouldn't they be unaware of the danger?
But they still chose to defend the city.
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After being tested by the magic circle, he was enveloped by a flash of spiritual light, and the next moment, Lu Qingshan was teleported outside Yumen Pass.
"Set off."
With a whoosh, Peach Blossom flew out of the body.
Lu Qingshan's mind moved, and he flew up on his sword, turning into a sword light and flying quickly towards Luoyan Pass.
