The boats were lowered one after another, and seventy or eighty people quickly gathered beside each boat.
"Senior sister, what's wrong?" Quexian Palace Li Jiaojiao asked.
"Okay...it seems that some people need to return to Xilan." Xu Zhilin replied.
"What?!" Li Jiaojiao had a premonition that something was not good and subconsciously observed the surrounding terrain.
In the empty Gobi plateau, a Populus euphratica forest can be vaguely seen in the north, and mountains loom in the distance in the south.
The expeditionary force avoided mountains and valleys and traveled exclusively to open areas to reduce the risk of being ambushed.
"Return to Xilan? What happened to Xilan?" Li Jiaojiao asked.
"The Bears take a detour to attack Lanzhou!"
The fleet was launched again, with the dust billowing, and the four ships carrying more than a hundred people flew towards Xilan, twice as fast as when marching.
The chaos in the team has become unsystematic. The members of the casual cultivator group have learned about the fire in the backyard of the cult. They have been full of confidence and joyful expressions for days. Several deputy commanders shouted and barely maintained order.
After half an hour of tossing, they finally stabilized. The number of guards on the Hongtian Cannon was reduced to six, and the march speed accelerated significantly, advancing towards Kangjin Mountain.
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It was nearly dusk and the sky was getting dark.
Li Jiaojiao sat quietly in the car, and the spiritual elk and ox beast consciously followed the car in front and ran quickly.
She suddenly heard a faint whirring sound coming from the south. The sound quickly became louder, and the rumble sounded like an overwhelming herd of beasts approaching.
Li Jiaojiao jumped out of the car and was stunned by the scene in front of her.
Dozens of black spots are getting bigger and bigger, and a huge stone ball with a diameter of five feet is coming roaring!
"Boom, boom, boom!..."
Wails were heard one after another, and the low-level warriors could not dodge and were directly smashed into pulp. The stone balls hit the ground and exploded. Countless gravel and the sky filled with yellow dust and green mist instantly covered an area of several hundred feet.
In the mountains two hundred miles away, the mountain walls opened up, revealing twenty large holes, extremely large catapults, giant springs densely packed with mechanisms on the left and right, and steel wires thicker than human arms. A group of naked orcs pushed rolling stone balls into place. , the long arm of the catapult swung, and the boulder shot out again!
Eight hundred warriors of the Bear Tribe and more than a hundred giant bears with split heads swarmed out of the cave and rushed towards the Xuangu Divine Sect's crusade legion.
As he screamed in agony, dozens of people in the casual cultivator group had been shot through with rubble. Even if they were lucky enough to escape the rubble, once their skin was stained with the green mist, it would immediately burn, rot, and pus.
There were screams everywhere.
The chariot overturned and the dead lay everywhere. Hundreds of people howled and clawed wildly, turning themselves into bloody men. The poisonous powder brought out by the explosion of the stone ball was mixed with a variety of poisons, which made it painful and itchy.
Those with high magic power risked death by sitting on the spot, taking detoxifying elixirs urgently, and using their power to force out the poison.
A ray of light passed by Li Jiaojiao so fast that by the time he noticed it, he was already dozens of feet away.
Zou Shizhen soared to a height of a hundred feet and faced the roaring giant stone ball.
The stone ball fell extremely fast, and the fierce wind brought with it a piercing scream. Zou Shizhen's magic formula came out quickly, his hands drew an arc, and the cyan light beam stimulated from his palm hit the stone ball from the side, making a muffled sound.
The stone ball deflected and fell towards the outside of the crowd.
Zou Shizhen suffered a strong backlash, his body sank and he fell from the air.
A vast white light gathered in the palm of his hand and swayed outward. Wherever it passed, the poisonous mist was no longer green, turning into tiny particles of dust that drifted down.
He pointed a finger, and white light illuminated the grimace of a casual cultivator with pus and blood dripping from it. The bloody face immediately subsided at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the pus stopped flowing.
The howling warrior woke up from despair and laughed like a maniac.
"The number of stone balls is limited, the attack has stopped!" Zou Shizhen's voice spread to everyone's ears.
The mammoths, elks, and oxen were frightened and ran wildly, roaring, and even collided with each other. Fortunately, the cannon truck was not hit by the stone balls. The six people guarding the sky-blasting cannon formed a protective light net to block the poisonous mist of gravel.
Six people drove the mammoth to turn the muzzle of the gun, unfold the gun mount, shake the handle, lower the angle, and aim at the direction of the incoming ball. One of them stuffed several fist-sized blue spiritual stones into the hidden slot of the gun base, and the other put a A shiny black cannonball was loaded into the barrel.
"A pyroblast bomb with a diameter of nine feet, with an explosive force tens of thousands of times that of an ordinary bomb."
The four acquired warriors closed their eyes and recited the incantation, put their hands together, and dots of red light gathered in their palms. Suddenly, the red light swayed on the black cannon barrel. The cannon body lit up, golden light flowed, and hundreds of people jumped up and down. Thousand gold runes.
"Lie down and plug your ears!" the warrior next to the artillery cart shouted.
He shouted three times in a row, then lay down first and covered his ears.
The two people who fired the cannon roared, and with a wave of their hands, a red light hit the ancient golden pattern emerging from the bottom of the cannon barrel.
The barrel of the gun lit up slightly and turned red instantly!
As if from the ground, and as if in the ears, an earth-shaking loud noise exploded!
Boom! There was a flash of fire, the ground shook, and smoke swept past!
Li Jiaojiao lay prone on the ground. Even though she covered her ears tightly, her head was buzzing and she couldn't hear anything.
After a while, fire and smoke rose from the mountains in the distance, and a mountain peak suddenly collapsed. A few breaths later, a dull rumble came from the distant horizon.
Zou Shizhen ordered: "Clean the battlefield and rescue the wounded!"
All three sects of the divine sect suffered casualties, and the lowest-ranked casual cultivator suffered the worst, with nearly half of them dead and injured. Some of the injured were too seriously injured, and they were poisoned.
Zou Shizhen sniffed the smell of the poisoned person and stuck some poisoned blood on yellow paper. The yellow paper printed with green ripple-like patterns. Zou Shizhen frowned and burned the paper to ashes with a pinch of his fingers.
He carefully put the paper ash into the jade box and dropped three drops of transparent liquid. The gray-white paper ash melted in, and shallow blood-like stripes rippled and bubbled. Zou Shizhen lightly fanned his hand and smelled the smell.
"What did Zou Hujiao see?" Yang Dong asked.
"The poison is mixed with the venom of the alien snake. It is not difficult to deal with other centipede, scorpion poisons."
"The Jie Yi snake is an unusual poisonous poison from the aphids. The catapult is launched from the Eryin Mountain at the junction of the two tribes of rock aphids. The aphids have united with the bears."
Zou Shizhen's eyes flashed coldly, "Quickly set up your formation and continue firing!"
The injured were carried onto the elk, ox and beast carts and pulled to the north of the team. A large number of warriors gathered on the south and east and west flanks, forming a tight formation to prevent a surprise attack.
Zou Shizhen, Yang Dong, and Wu Daxiao discussed urgently and ordered the team to quickly move to the hinterland of Yanbei, and be on high alert in the direction of Mount Eyin due south.
The three people had a premonition that the Xiong Fei coalition would not launch just one round of attacks, and that subsequent attacks would most likely be carried out in the dark. They calculated that the time was approaching.
Zou Shizhen ordered the seven members of the divine sect to take a fleet of ships to look out thirty miles south, while he himself shuttled back and forth on the outside of the team to patrol.
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Seventy miles away, the dark bear army stopped advancing. The leader blew a clear whistle, and the sixteen catapults from the rear drove to the front of the formation and took up their posture.
The orc mechanics are extremely ingenious, and their talents and methods of making large-scale combat equipment are unparalleled by humans. Among them, the Bear tribe is the most outstanding, which is also the main support for them to be the strongest tribe.
Ji Lieqi, the chief of the Bear Tribe, had an acquired peak-level ground-breaking bear on his crotch. He tightened the thick leather ring around the bear's neck and kept chattering.
"We have reached the line of sight of the human race ships, so we are temporarily suspending our march."
"The slings continued to fire and stopped after twenty rounds. After the first round of slinging, the entire army rushed towards the enemy's formation. They vowed to fight to the death and kill everyone on sight!"
With a beast-like light in his eyes, he picked up a large pot of strong liquor and drank it in one gulp.
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Xue Tong, who was deep in the cave, heard faint noises from the training room outside. He exhaled a breath of filthy air and pushed open the stone door.
The Bone Puppet sitting cross-legged was surrounded by a thick mist. Two dim yellow soul fires were beating in the mist. The Bone Puppet's skeleton was rattling. As the air mass rolled and rolled, the movement became louder and louder.
The bones exploded and crackled together, but the color of the thick white fog became dim. When the fog completely disappeared, the soul fire in the bone puppet's eye sockets increased, becoming more bright and moving.
A breath of martial arts mastery spread out and impacted Xue Tong's sea of fa.
The Yaksha Skeleton Ghost jumped up and struck the stone wall with a red sword light, splitting a five-foot deep groove.
"Don't mess around!"
Xue Tong confessed and closed the stone door. The sound of corpse claws whistling in the wind came from the next door.
He sighed secretly. Due to the limitations of the material, the bone puppet took more than seven years to reach completion under the stimulation of various treasures. If he had used a pair of acquired demon bear skeletons in the past, he would have been upgraded long ago. to the top.
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Sixteen stone balls were fired towards the north!
The stone ball is one foot in diameter and shines with a green-black luster.
Jilieqi roared loudly, and the Earth Splitting Bear roared wildly, leaping up and flying.
The eight hundred orcs divided into three groups and rushed out in unison.
Stone bombs exploded in the sky above the crusade, and rubble and poisonous mist shot out, immediately covering most of the team.
The Divine Religion Legion was ready, and the magical weapon was launched. The blazing fire cloud burned the poisonous mist into ashes, and the gravel caused almost no casualties.
Zou Shizhen waved his hand, and the troops formed a fan shape and headed south to fight.
He sighed secretly, the Xiong tribe had indeed planned an ambush, and the war broke out at a time when the religious army did not expect it. Thousands of people fought in a melee, and the casualties were incalculable. What's even more frightening is that Jing Yiqing, Yu Pai and dozens of others returned the day after tomorrow. The strength of the legion is probably inferior to that of the Xiong tribe!
He popped up a flare, and the fireball exploded three hundred feet in the air, strongly calling Iwabe for reinforcements.
The sky-blasting cannon quickly adjusted its angle and fired back with heavy artillery.
The earth trembled, a loud noise came from the direction where the stone ball flew, and a fire rose into the sky.
The two sides could already see in the distance, the Xiong troops were coming in like a tide, and their formations were still intact. It could be seen that the heavy artillery just launched had failed due to the Xiong troops' rapid maneuvers.
There was a row of crossbow carts in front of the Xiong Army formation, and the giant steel crossbows fired like rain, while the sixteen catapults continued to fire stone balls.
The shiny iron cylinder on the crossbow cart has eighteen round holes filled with steel crossbows. The steel crossbows are as thick as human arms. Four tall and muscular orcs turn the handles crazily and tighten the mechanism. At the moment of launch, the gunpowder at the bottom of the crossbow exploded, and the explosive force burst out together with the power of the crossbow string, and lightning shot out of the steel crossbow.
The divine sect Houtian on the outside of the crusade army fired talisman spells continuously, and stone shields and golden shields formed a shield net. The huge force of the steel crossbow hit the shield, and the shield shattered with a bang, but the giant crossbow also fell down.
There were the fewest Houtian warriors on the outside of the casual cultivator group, and the shield network was not dense enough. From time to time, giant crossbows penetrated and shot in. The casual cultivators with low magic power were unable to withstand such powerful crossbows. Nearly a hundred people were killed!
The orcs were still hundreds of feet away, beyond the reach of magic, and the sky-blasting cannon was too close and useless. Zou Shizhen ordered to charge at full speed, and he took the lead and rushed to the front.
There were thick clouds above Zou Shizhen's head. As he waved his hand, the red fire dragon came out of the clouds and pounced on the bear army directly in front.
The dragon swung its head left and right, spitting flames from its mouth. The ballista was damaged wherever it passed, and the charred corpses of the orcs flew out of the fire.
