Su Moyu's praise could be regarded as sincere.
After traveling together for half a month, Zhou Qing's talent and hard work in cultivation really overturned her previous vague impression of Zhou Qing.
She even suspected that maybe Zhou Qing would reach the Qi Mansion realm before her and become an inner disciple!
It's not impossible.
After all, she had been trapped in the bottleneck of the Pulse Opening Realm for two or three years. It was difficult to make any progress in her cultivation, and she could not see the dawn of a breakthrough.
She felt that unless she suddenly became enlightened one day and understood Yunling-level spells, she would probably fall one step behind Zhou Qing.
"Senior sister is so complimentary."
Zhou Qing's tone was still humble, his posture was very low, and there was no hint of arrogance or complacency.
"Sister-in-law, it's ready."
Zhang Shunfei came over, patted the storage bag on his waist, and gestured:
"Still the old rule is to wait until after the fact?"
"Um."
Su Moyu nodded and said:
"It's not advisable to stay here for a long time. Let's leave as soon as possible and 'escort' Junior Brother Zhou and the group leader to meet up."
She was very particular about the word "escort". It was obvious that she wanted to vaccinate everyone in advance and have a unified approach.
"understand."
Zhang Shun, Zhou Xingcheng and others all had a tacit smile on their faces.
Who doesn’t want to slay demons? Not to mention that this major counterattack was a once-in-a-century large-scale operation by the Chunyang Immortal Sect against Luofu Daze.
After being voted into the team responsible for the headquarters at Motian Cliff in a high-level meeting, everyone was already feeling aggrieved and angry every day.
Now, I finally have an honest excuse to come to Luofu Daze, and I can't be driven away.
They had made up their minds in their hearts, no matter how much leader Zhang Zhenyu reprimanded and scolded them, they would have to stay shamelessly and would never be driven back to the mountain gate!
…………
"boom……"
The escaping light roared past, quickly passing through the dense forests, water veins and swamps below.
Escape all the way:
Zhou Qing, Su Moyu and his party saw many scenes of "internal strife" among the monsters. They also bumped into a patrol that went out to kill the monsters. The two sides said hello to each other and separated.
Hundreds of demon-slaying strongholds, large and small, once distributed in different areas outside Luofu Daze, were all destroyed by the monster craze.
Therefore, the temporary strongholds established this time are basically at the outermost level of the eastern front, and the deepest ones are no more than a thousand miles deep.
"Buzz!"
The compass in Su Moyu's hand vibrated slightly, and the pointer kept adjusting its direction.
Long-distance communication treasures are at least at the level of spiritual weapons, and the sensing weapon in Su Moyu's hand is considered a low-end beggar's version. It can only sense two-way within a certain range and cannot transmit messages.
Each team captain has such a sensing weapon in his hand, just to facilitate the team's joint operations.
"Coming!"
Su Moyu looked at the vibration amplitude of the compass pointer and gave a reminder.
In fact, there is no need for her to remind you:
Zhou Qing raised his eyes and saw that at the end of the sky in the distance, there was a very obvious open space with many palaces and pavilions standing there.
"What a rich man!"
As the distance got closer, Zhou Qing couldn't help but sigh after taking a closer look.
The open space in the dense forest was dozens of miles wide. The surrounding soil was charred black, and the trees, flowers and grass above were obviously burned by the flames.
And in the center of the open space:
One after another, palaces and attics are piled close to each other. They are obviously cave-type magic weapons. At a glance, there are at least dozens of them.
Above the open space, there are dozens of escaping lights patrolling around the attics of many palaces, intertwining with each other and wandering erratically.
"I'm afraid this is the command headquarters for this major counterattack!"
Su Moyu said in a positive tone.
The magical artifacts in the cave are all valuable treasures, and there are only a few in the treasure houses of the seven war groups.
This place can gather dozens of mobile caves, and there must be many inner disciples stationed there. There is a high probability that this is the headquarters of this operation.
"He who comes is stopped!"
Several rays of light flew from afar and stopped Zhou Qing, Su Moyu and others.
"I am Su Moyu, the captain of the Rainbow Battle Group and the Yanxing Battle Group."
Su Moyu showed his identity token neatly and said:
"We have something important to do and need to see the leader of our Rainbow Chapter."
"It turns out to be Captain Su."
The members of the patrol team opposite seemed to have heard of Su Moyu, or the name of the Flame Star Team, and their attitude softened a lot:
"Combat leaders and inner sect brothers and sisters, a meeting just ended. You can go directly to Captain Zhang."
"Okay, thank you very much."
Su Moyu nodded and asked Zhou Qing, Zhang Shun and others to follow her.
Soon, Zhou Qing followed Su Moyu and met the leader of the Tianhong Group, Zhang Zhenyu, in the Tianhong Group's mobile cave.
"Um?!"
Zhang Zhenyu was working hard at his desk, with many files beside him. He seemed to be sorting out information. When he saw Su Moyu come in, he was stunned:
"Moyu? Aren't you at the headquarters of Motian Cliff in Qingyang Mountain?"
He stood up suddenly and subconsciously realized:
"Could it be that the headquarters..."
Zhang Zhenyu's first reaction when he saw Su Moyu was that something was wrong, something happened to the headquarters!
But then he thought that it was not right. Behind the Rainbow Battle Group were the elders of the Demon Slayer Hall. What big thing could happen that would force Su Moyu to leave the mountain gate and come not far away to inform him?
If there was really any earth-shattering change, the elders behind the Rainbow Chapter would have plenty of ways to inform him so that they would not rush over in stupid ways.
"Could it be that she ran away again and found an excuse to leave her post without permission?"
Zhang Zhenyu knew Su Moyu's character very well, and he guessed the truth of the matter at once.
"Su Moyu!"
He frowned, anger welling up in his heart, and he was about to scold him.
"Captain."
Su Moyu smiled brightly and stepped forward, pulling Zhou Qing who was beside him forward:
"This is the Zhou Qing you have been thinking about, Junior Brother Zhou!"
She deliberately raised her voice and spoke quickly, leaving no time for Zhang Zhenyu to ask questions:
"Captain, you don't know that Junior Brother Zhou has already broken through to the seventh level of Kai Mai!"
"Not only that, he stole the show in the Qingzhuyuan competition half a month ago..."
After her eloquent meal of "adding fuel and jealousy":
Zhang Zhenyu was also informed of Zhou Qing's performance in the Qingzhuyuan competition, and he was immediately moved.
"...It's amazing!"
He looked Zhou Qing up and down and sighed:
"It's true that the waves behind push the waves ahead, and the new generation is better than the old ones!"
"Compared to you, the disciples of the Twelve Academy of our generation are all old guys with great ambitions but little talent!"
"The leader is really ridiculous."
Zhou Qing’s attitude is still humble:
"Junior brother has only achieved a small amount, how can he be compared with all the senior brothers and sisters?"
"Okay, no need to be modest."
Zhang Zhenyu waved his hand and glared at Su Moyu again:
"You're lucky to have found this excuse to escort Junior Brother Zhou."
"I will write down the account of your absence without permission first, and I will settle it with you later!"
When Su Moyu heard this, he looked like a dead pig and was not afraid of boiling water, and he laughed and said:
"Captain, don't be so rigid."
"How important are Junior Brother Zhou and Chaori Palace? I must personally escort them, otherwise how can I rest assured?"
She spread her hands and said casually:
"No big deal, our Yanxing team will make up for it by killing a few more monsters this time!"
"Okay, this is what you said!"
Zhang Zhenyu squinted his eyes, picked up a file and threw it over:
"The No. 7 temporary stronghold is in emergency. The 'Xanthium Troop' belonging to the Sifang Chapter has escorted many junior brothers and sisters and has temporarily evacuated."
"Since you are eager to perform, this is a ready opportunity, go for it!"
"etc!"
Su Moyu took the file and couldn't help but said:
"Captain! We have just arrived! We don't know anything yet!"
"At the very least, you have to understand the current basic situation of Luofu Daze, as well as the current progress of operations, and..."
"alright!"
Zhang Zhenyu interrupted her and frowned slightly:
"I really should tell you about the progress of the operation, so I'll keep it short."
After hearing this, everyone's eyes were immediately fixed on Zhang Zhenyu.
"Um……"
Zhang Zhenyu pondered for a moment and then continued:
"Looking at the overall situation, we can now mobilize more than 3,000 people; there are thirty-six senior brothers and sisters in the inner sect Qifu realm."
"Among them, there are three from each of the seven major groups, one from each of the twelve large teams, and the three strongest medium-sized teams each have an inner disciple to participate in this operation."
"However, among the many senior brothers and sisters from the inner sect, very few have risen to the position of group leader, so they are just here to suppress the enemy."
"The specific command authority for this major counterattack is still in the hands of our regiment leaders, and the action strategy will be decided jointly by us and our senior brothers and sisters from the inner sect after discussion."
When he said this, he paused for a moment before continuing:
"At present, we have successively established more than fifty temporary strongholds in the eastern front area outside Daze."
"The headquarters has gathered hundreds of powerful disciples in the late stage of Kai Mai, and there are more than twenty top teams. Half of the inner sect brothers and sisters are here."
"In addition to the command headquarters, there are more than a dozen secondary strongholds, all located at the forefront of the scheduled combat zone. They watch and help each other, and each has a senior brother and sister from the inner sect in charge."
"Finally, there are relatively scattered small strongholds, which can be regarded as filling in the gaps of the secondary strongholds, sharing different strategic tasks, and at least one top team is in charge."
"Understood!"
Su Moyu showed a thoughtful look:
"So, the stronghold that we are asked to take over from the Xanthium Squadron of the Quartet Chapter to guard is a small stronghold?"
"right."
Zhang Zhenyu said crisply:
"The situation in Luofu Daze is different from what we originally expected."
"Although the monster craze is over, a considerable number of monsters are still gathered together. After preliminary reconnaissance, this group of monsters is quite strong. They can even be said to be the elite of the monsters outside Daze."
"The distribution of secondary strongholds in the scheduled battle area, as well as the strength gathered by the command headquarters, are all prepared for this group of elite monsters."
"As for the remaining demon clan, they are scattered in all directions, wandering throughout the peripheral area, and conflicts often break out with each other. The reasons behind it are still unclear."
"Although many small strongholds have different strategic tasks, they all have one thing in common, which is to be responsible for clearing the demon clan within the divergence range and try to reduce the pressure on the frontal battlefield after the war breaks out."
"Just a few hours ago, the 'Bingqi' stronghold in charge of the Xanthium team was attacked by a small-scale demon tribe and suffered heavy losses."
"Caught off guard, more than ten outer disciples died. Even Xanthium's team suffered one death and one serious injury. In the end, they could only manage to break out and protect the remaining people and retreat to the nearby Bingliu stronghold."
His tone paused for a moment, then he said in a deep voice:
"Your mission is to complete the handover with the Xanthium team, complete the reconnaissance operation on the Bingqi stronghold as quickly as possible, and try to reoccupy it!"
