Chapter 53: Plan to defeat Xigu Mountain
After Qingshi and Hu Yulai talked for nearly half an hour, he came over with satisfaction and said to Xiang An and Zheng Fanyi: "Okay, I have mastered the situation of the two magic circles, and I can start with Xigu Mountain."
After saying that, the three people called Teng Shouqian and began to discuss the details of how to break the formation. They said they were discussing, but in fact they were still listening to Qingshi's arrangements. The other three only added a little bit of details.
After finishing the discussion, Qingshi came to the bottom of the lake where the water had dried up and made some adjustments to the magic circle he had set up. The original function of this magic circle was to confuse the people in Xigu Mountain and Sunjiaping, making the people in Sunjiaping think that the earth veins were connected. It was not broken, which made people in Xigu Mountain think that more than half of the connection was broken and needed to be repaired.
At this time, after Qingshi made some adjustments, the earth vein hub was connected, but it was controlled by Qingshi and could be cut off at any time.
After setting up the array to control the ground veins at the bottom of the lake, Qingshi went to the east and west banks of the pond to collect all the array barriers facing Sunjiaping and Xigu Mountain, and then used the seventy-two array sticks to set up an array that covered the entire pond. Inside, there is a psychedelic array based on trees and rocks to the east and north of the pond.
Qingshi activated the formation, and a thick white mist immediately began to rise from the psychedelic formation.
Qingshi was busy setting up the formation, and Teng Shouqian followed Qingshi and kept smiling and nodding. Zheng Fanyi originally wanted Xiao Ji to stay and protect Qingshi, but Teng Shouqian volunteered to stay. It turned out that Teng Shouqian also had the three attributes of earth, metal and wood. Although he was a martial arts cultivator, he also practiced the formation method, just like Qingshi's weapon cultivation method. , just practice without taking exams. Based on his level, it would be no problem for him to pass the exam to become a Level 2 Mystic Formation Master.
He and Xiao Ji changed their duties, just to see how Qingshi set up the formation. Qingshi didn't hide it from him and let him watch and learn.
Except for Qingshi and Teng Shouqian, the others, led by Zheng Fanyi, took Hu Yulai up the mountain. Everyone was wearing the clothes of the Sun Family Guards and surrounded Hu Yulai in front.
But Li Xiu had another ability. I don’t know how he manipulated Sun Shengzhi. Sun Shengzhi could be controlled by him to walk freely beside Hu Yulai like a zombie, but his eyes were blank and his mouth could not speak. Li Xiu Follow him and put your right hand on his vest for control.
Everyone quickly came to the mountainside and approached the array gate. This array gate was also the mountain gate for entering and exiting the village. It was built with masonry and huge wooden blocks.
From a long distance away, Wang Ting shouted in a loud voice: "Mr. Hu has returned from repairing the Earth Meridian Array. Please open the array door quickly."
On the top of Xigu Mountain, Sun Zhongyu had discovered that the damaged Earth Line Array had been repaired, and reported it to Sun Guozhi. Sun Ying, who was guarding the mountain gate, was naturally notified. At this time, when he saw Sun Shengzhi and Hu Yulai coming back with about ten people, Sun Ying The door will open immediately. Unexpectedly, one person shouted: "Wait a minute, open the door, it's a scam!"
The person who came to stop him was none other than the skinny Sun Mengfu. He was always attentive. Although he saw that the ground veins had been repaired, the fact that the two teams of Sun Mengxian and Sun Menghai had not come back after chasing them down the mountain for so long really worried him.
He had been guarding the formation gate since Sun Sheng came down the mountain. Seeing Sun Shengzhi and Hu Yulai coming back together, Sun Mengfu was overjoyed at first, and then realized something was wrong: first of all, the old man Sun Shengzhi's demeanor was a little different from usual; secondly, there were forty people in this team. There were many people, but only about a dozen came back; in the end, except for Sun Shengzhi and Hu Yulai, everyone else lowered their heads.
Sun Mengfu ran close to the formation gate and took a closer look outside. He immediately discovered that the people behind Sun Shengzhi and Hu Yulai were all unfamiliar faces, and he felt bad, so he stopped immediately.
Here Zheng Fangyi and others discovered that their plan to deceive the other party into opening the door was shattered. Zheng Fanyi immediately sent a message to Qingshi to inform him that the deception had failed. Qingshi immediately activated the lake bottom magic circle.
At the bottom of the lake, the spiritual power of Xigu Mountain's earth veins and the underground spiritual power of Sunjiaping were suddenly pulled towards each other by the bluestone array. The two energies collided and caused an explosion.
There was a loud noise, and a large hole opened in the earth connection hub. The energy to maintain the Xigu Mountain array suddenly dropped by more than 70%, and the energy of Sunjiaping's array also suddenly plummeted by more than 30%.
There was a loud noise, and Hu Yulai immediately pointed out the key nodes of the six formation gates according to the second plan.
Xiang An seemed to know these key points clearly, and he immediately took action with all his strength after giving Hu Yulai some pointers. Zheng Fangyi and others also followed him and attacked fiercely.
The defensive energy of the gate dropped by 70%, and it was attacked to the most vulnerable key node. It suddenly couldn't withstand the full force of everyone's blows, and collapsed backward with a loud bang, and the beams and pillars collapsed and rocks flew. Sun Ying, Sun Mengfu and others inside the door were overwhelmed by four or five before they could escape in time.
When Zheng Fangyi and others saw that the strongest defensive array gate on the outside of Xigu Mountain was broken with one blow, they immediately rushed towards the top of the mountain with full energy.
Li Xiu did not hesitate to stab Sun Shengzhi, who was like a walking corpse, through him with one knife, and then chased everyone. But the previous head of the Lingsun family, a master of the ninth level of Qi Condensation Realm, fell like this, and in Li Xiu's eyes, he was not even better. How important are the other Sun family members?
As for the other prisoners, they had already been solved by the Li brothers.
After Qingshi blew up the ground veins, he began to pay attention to the movement in the direction of Sunjiaping.
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In Sunjiaping, Sun Ba, dressed in black like an iron tower, stood on a small platform near the main entrance of the East. He had been paying attention to the movements of the officers and soldiers outside the moat.
There are quite a few of these officers and soldiers, and they are densely arranged on the other side of the moat. From time to time, a spaceship in mid-air fired an energy cannon to bombard Sunjiaping's energy shield. Seven or eight trebuchets on the ground also threw smokey fireballs or boulders towards Sunjiaping from time to time.
The big fireball hit the energy shield and splashed a large amount of sparks, then rolled all the way down into the moat and was drowned.
A large number of armored officers and soldiers were neatly lined up on the east bank of the moat holding shields and sharp blades. From time to time, they slapped their shields with their knives and made loud noises. At the same time, they shouted several times together: Kill! kill! kill! The momentum was overwhelming.
Sun Ba looked at these officers and soldiers expressionlessly, thinking that with your attack method, it would never be possible to break through my Sun family's magic circle.
This is also true. Nearly three hours have passed since the attack started in the morning. Sunjiaping's defensive array has no flaws and the energy consumption is minimal.
The officers and soldiers didn't seem to be in a hurry, and just continued the attack tepidly.
As time went by, Sun Ba's originally somewhat disdainful mind gradually began to have some doubts. The officers and soldiers' tepid and unhurried attacks seemed to be simply not doing their job well enough.
Sun Ba thought to himself, could it be that they knew that even if they went all out, they would not be able to break through Sunjiaping, so they were just pretending? Or is there another agenda to divert attention?
Sun Ba sent three teams to check the other three directions, especially the west, and they all reported that no unusual movement was found.
Sun Ba listened to the reports one after another, and after thinking about it, he asked a few people around him: "I think the attack by the officers and soldiers was just a pretense, and seemed to be an attempt to divert attention. What do you think? Guoming also reported that we and Xigu The mountain’s connection with the earth’s veins seemed to have been interrupted for a few moments and then restored, is there any problem with this?”
"Aside from bullying ordinary people, Wu Zheng's soldiers have no ability to fight with us!" A long-bearded old man said proudly, "The master is right, they are just pretending, Wu Zheng still has some self-awareness. As for the disconnection and automatic recovery of the earth veins, it is simply unreasonable. It is probably because Guoming is in a daze."
"I'm sorry that Wu Zheng doesn't have the guts or ability to shake my family's magic circle," another person said. "That guy has always been cunning. If he attacked so painlessly for a day, he would naturally withdraw his troops and go back to the top of the mountain in the evening. He said Maybe it was Palace Master Huang Qian who asked him to show off like this. Don't worry about the earth line, Elder Hua didn't even say there was a problem."
Sun Ba looked at a young man in his mid-twenties and said, "Feng'er, tell me."
"Second Uncle's worries are reasonable," Sun Feng said, "But we have deployed people to keep an eye on other directions, especially Xigu Mountain and the Holy Lake. There is indeed nothing unusual. I know what Second Uncle is worried about. In fact, it was this spaceship that came in the morning. But if they really want to attack us, how many people can such a ship carry? How useful will it be? So I think they are mostly here to test the reality. Didn't they just come here to test the situation in the morning? Did he defeat the defense of our magic circle? He obviously gave up on the difficulty. Even if he really wanted to fight, he couldn't really take action after only a few hours. He would have to spend two or three days touching our magic circle. The layout and strength. As for Commander Wu being so noisy, he is just pretending to show off in front of the officials coming from above."
"Well, not bad!" The long-bearded old man who spoke just now continued, "Brother Feng analyzed it thoroughly."
"Alas!" Sun Ba sighed and said slowly, "Feng'er is full of intelligence and talent. If there is another chance in the future, he should go out and practice more like me and your uncle, so as to broaden his horizons. OK."
Everyone didn't know whether Sun Ba was praising Sun Feng or criticizing him. They felt a little uncomfortable listening to him speak, and they didn't dare to speak for a while.
Sun Ba paused and continued: "The complete lack of movement in other directions is what worries me the most. If..."
Before Sun Ba could finish his words, he was interrupted by a dull explosion from the west.
Sun Ba said to Old Seventeen, "You are here to keep an eye on it," then he stretched out his body and ran to the west. Sun Feng and others quickly followed.
"Master," Sun Hua saw Sun Ba running towards him and shouted, "The explosion came from the Holy Lake. It's probably because the Holy Lake's land line exploded! Our connection with the Xigu Mountain Line is really broken." ”
Sun Ba didn't reply and flew up to the west observation tower.
A middle-aged man on the stage immediately panicked and said, "Master, the Xigu Mountain Formation seems to have been broken!"
Sun Ba raised his eyes and saw that the originally tall and conspicuous formation gate on the mountainside of Xigu Mountain had collapsed, and he could vaguely see a dozen figures chasing the Sun family soldiers towards the top of the mountain.
Sun Ba stared at the middle-aged man fiercely and said, "I just reported that there was no abnormal movement in the Holy Lake and Xigu Mountain. Why did it happen all of a sudden?"
"I, I don't know either!" The man was so frightened that he almost cried.
Sun Ba ignored him and stared at the Holy Lake and Xigu Mountain to the west for careful observation.
Behind him, Sun Feng and others had also crowded onto the observation deck to look to the west together.
After a few breaths, an old man said loudly: "Master, I think there are not many people attacking Xigu Mountain. They can break the magic circle, but they may not be able to attack the stronghold."
"Yes," another person said, "Although we don't have many people in Xigu Mountain, we are all elite masters. Plus the two Supreme Masters, the enemy may not get a good deal."
"There are not many people in Xigu Mountain, but there are more than 150," the old man with a long beard also said, "and I think they only have a dozen or so people attacking the mountain. In comparison, there are more of us. , Lao Xu is right, the enemy may not get a good deal, but if the old master wins, he will definitely lead our athletes to annihilate them all..."
"Everyone get out of here!" Sun Ba roared. Everyone had never seen Sun Ba so furious before. They all shut up and hurriedly walked off the stage. But Sun Ba called out again, "Sun Feng, please stay."
Sun Feng walked to Sun Ba and said softly: "Second uncle!"
"What do you think?" Sun Ba asked.
"I think we should quickly send people to support Xigu Mountain. Although there are few enemies, since they dare to attack Xigu Mountain, it means there are many masters among them. We cannot be careless." Sun Feng said.
"Yes," Sun Ba said, "Does having more people mean we will definitely have an advantage? Are there many officers and soldiers outside the door? Is it useful? These old guys are only deceiving themselves and others to embolden themselves. I have also thought about you talking about reinforcements, but can the other party just Don't you think we will reinforce you? Will they have an ambush?"
"There may be," Sun Feng said, "But what the Fourteenth Master just said makes sense. After all, having more people is still our advantage. My monks are still different from ordinary officers and soldiers. The most they can bring is that one spaceship can carry them." I think the number of people coming is only twenty or thirty at most, how many ambushes can there be."
"I think their number may be even smaller," Sun Ba said, "But since they were able to break the connection between our formations and break through the Xigu Mountain defensive formation, it means that there are masters of formations among them. If they give How about we set up an ambush formation?"
"This is impossible!" Sun Feng said, "I have seen Master Sheng set up a killing formation. He first had to check the terrain to find a suitable place, then he had to regulate his energy, follow the trend, plan and lay out, and finally he had to arrange the spiritual stones. As a source of power, sometimes they also have to ambush hidden weapons such as sharp blades and cones. They have only been here for more than three hours, and there is no way they can set up any killing array so quickly. Even if they could, they would be small in scale and have limited power."
"Your master's level of formation skills is limited, and Mr. Hu is not much better, otherwise the Xigu Mountain formation would not have been broken." Sun Ba shook his head and said, "There are many experts in this world. It is said that some formation masters have advanced formations. With Taoist magic weapons, there is no need to make preparations such as finding the ground, regulating Qi, and following the trend. You can just use the magic weapon to create momentum and form an array anywhere."
"Then, second uncle, do you mean not to rescue?" Sun Feng didn't quite believe Sun Ba's words, but she didn't dare to refute. She secretly thought about asking the master later, but she didn't know that the master Shengzhi had already been killed by the sword.
"No, save!" Sun Ba was nervously sorting out his thoughts while talking to Sun Feng. At this time, he had made up his mind, "Go and pass the order and ask your Fourteenth Master to take the lead with twenty people. Sun He and Sun Hu Lead their team of 100 people to march forward, remember, if the leader really falls into an ambush, tell Sun He and Sun Hu not to rescue, and to retreat to Pingzhai immediately."
Sun Feng loudly agreed and hurriedly went to arrange the arrangements. Sun Ba turned his head again and looked in the direction of Xigu Mountain and murmured: "You two old ladies, Xuan Lao Bing Lao, you have to resist!"
