Chapter 128: The First Battle of the Cultivators
The Queen set sail again, this time not toward the North-Zemlya Strait, but fifteen degrees away from the Arctic Ocean, thanks to the penguins.
At this time, the Kela Sea was calm, but the speed of the Queen could not be increased. Because on the road ahead, as the penguins say, there are more and more ice floes that are getting denser and denser.
Judging by the change in the density of the ice floe, the first mate Jimmy Tang is almost certain that the Northland Strait has been clogged with ice floe.
In the narrow fairway covered with ice floes, only the Eskimo manpower kayaks can pass. Or start a powerful icebreaker. The Queen, an ultra-luxurious cruise ship, don't even think about it. If you force your way through, you will only be stuck in the bottom of the ship by a huge ice floe.
Unless Sun Xiang Lao Immortal can also control the ice array with one hand, he can make the Queen sail on the ice, just like sailing on magma. It's a pity that although the Xuanmen spells have similar spells, they all temporarily exceed Sun Xiang's ability.
One can only hope for the secret passage of the Penguin Empire.
In the evening of the next day, the Queen arrived at the predetermined sea. According to the guidance of the dragon penguin, the skua nest is five nautical miles ahead.
At this time, the temperature on the sea surface drops, and there is a thin ice fog. Visibility is not high, and you can only barely see the pale blue outline of the distant island with a telescope.
It is said to be a nest of skuas, but in fact it is an island with a radius of several kilometers. However, there are no shallows for boats on this island, and the entire island is surrounded by steep cliffs up to 100 meters high. Only at the top of the cliff is it flat. During the very short summer months in the Kara Sea, green meadows grow on it like the warm south.
Such a lonely island is very common on the northern route. Because there is no human disturbance, it is usually a paradise for seabirds. During the breeding season, the entire island is crowded with a variety of seabirds, and aerial footage can be a shocking human being at the thriving of life.
Of course, after the revival of Reiki, the balance of nature is broken. This nameless island has become a nest for a group of demonized skuas. They attack passing ships in droves, and if there are no humans, they attack other populations of organisms.
It can be seen that the skua is cruel by nature, so it is more susceptible to the influence of demonic aura. Along the way, the crew was attacked by skuas countless times, including Ji Yuan's two friends who also died at the hands of skuas.
Other demonized species can't help but attack the Queen, but it's rare. Like penguins, they even came up with cooperation with humans. Demonization is just a phenomenon brought about by aura, and it doesn't mean that all youkai are hostile to humans. This point needs to be distinguished.
Because of the repeated sneak attacks of the skuas, the humans on the Queen also hated this group of snitches. Therefore, this detour to clear the nest of this skua did not arouse everyone's opposition. Instead, many people choose to stand with the penguins.
As the Queen continued to approach the island, the ice fog gradually dissipated, and dozens of skuas could be seen hovering on the top of the cliff, and more skuas were parked in their nests, squeaking and not knowing what they were communicating.
But to the shock, the bones of dozens of penguins were neatly hung on the cliffs.
Apparently, the skuas not only ate the dragon-descending penguins, but also hung their bones to show off.
The dragon's fins slammed against the Queen's metal railing, and the small black bean-like eyes glowed red with blood. Those were his loyal comrades-in-arms, but they were so insulted by the enemy.
Picasso stood beside the descending dragon, and he didn't know how to comfort him, he scratched his head and pulled another fish out of his pocket.
"Do you want to eat a fish?" he asked.
"Human, thank you. ”
The dragon penguin tilted its head and opened its mouth, swallowed a whole sardine, and finally felt better.
"I'll avenge everyone!
After making the vow, the dragon penguin pounced on the ground, kicked its two little feet, and glided away with its belly.
Penguins are not unable to walk on two feet, but they can glide faster on their bellies. Just now he saw that the sentry with a skua had spotted the Queen, and he had to inform Sun Xiang as soon as possible.
Of course, Sun Xiang also noticed the movement of the skua in the distance, but he was not worried, and he didn't even plan to make a move. If he needed to do everything himself, then why did he have to take a little time out every day to instruct the cultivators on the Queen.
Sun Xiang took advantage of these two days to teach everyone two more practical offensive techniques.
In this way, the cultivators of the Queen have successively learned the method of inducing qi to restore aura, the method of lightening the body to escape quickly, and now they have learned the method of attacking. Reply, dodge and attack are all already in use, according to the standards of the previous era, you are already a big child, you should learn to slay demons on your own.
As for the later courses, such as building a foundation, stabilizing the mind, and reciting the high-level content of the text, let's wait for them to talk about it after they actually fight. Cultivation is a university question that combines theory with practice, and it cannot be achieved by hiding in a hole and meditating. Practitioners need not only to learn, but also to experience.
Having said all this, in fact, Sun Da's teaching of cultivation methods is not without selfishness. He instinctively felt that the situation on the coastal side might be bad. If you can bring out dozens of disciples who can take advantage of you all the way, it will be of great use when you want to reach your destination.
The dragon slid his belly to Sun Xiang's feet and stood up to inform the skua of his imminent attack. Of course, the head of Sun Da saw it, but he stopped the penguin who was about to meet the enemy in person. The little demon with low strength like the skua should be left to the cultivators on the ship to practice.
More than 300 cultivators stood on the front line of the deck with confidence, silently reciting the mantra of the attack technique. Originally, there were only more than 200 cultivators in the Donggui fleet, but under the inspiration of Sun Xiang's personal preaching, more than 100 civilians awakened the ability to use aura. The combat power of the entire fleet has increased by a large margin.
In addition to the cultivators, there were nearly 500 civilians with guns in reserve, ready to support the cultivators in battle. The damage of the bullets to the demonized skua is limited, and the accuracy of the guns against the air is also quite worrying. But the accumulation of so many automatic fires can also bring a lot of casualties to the skua flock.
Besides, there are four 1150 close defense guns, and when it is really dangerous, the close defense guns fire for ten seconds, and what kind of bird monster is also blown up. But because it's an experience, it's a knife to kill chickens, and the cannonballs on the Queen are not infinite. Save a little if you can.
In the watchful and expectant eyes of everyone, the vanguard of the Skua flock has flown to the Queen. They fly at an altitude of more than 200 meters, and there are about 500 of them. In fact, there may be nearly 10,000 skuas on the island from a distance, but they have not flown for the time being.
It may be that according to past experience, more than 500 ships are more than enough to deal with one human ship.
The flock of skumas in the sky rattled strangely, causing the humans below to frown. At this moment, one of the largest skuas flew in the middle, and suddenly raised its neck and let out another high-pitched call.
It was supposed to be the little leader of the flock of strange birds, and with this chirp, all the skua stopped quacking. They folded their wings behind them, their sharp beaks pointed straight at the people aboard the Queen.
This is a swarm charge tactic of the skua gull, with its wings folded and streamlined body, which minimizes the resistance of the air, and the area of attack by bullets will be greatly reduced. The vicious long beak that shimmers with a reddish light is strengthened to the extreme by demonic energy, and even steel plates can be pierced. When they fall from the sky like bolts, there are few human defenses capable of stopping them.
The skuas in this nest must have had experience fighting humans, but today they are facing more than just mortals with guns.
When the skua swoop swooped less than a hundred meters above the Queen, the cultivators on the deck turned over their hands one after another, and blasted the condensed power of the technique in their bodies towards the skuas.
The action is not uniform, and the visual effects are not as shocking as when the army fires a salvo. The monasticism of the Chinese kingdom emphasizes freedom and freedom, and it is difficult to enforce prohibitions like the army.
But it works very well.
What the cultivators threw out was a fist-sized transparent air mass, and the speed was not fast. But when these air masses flew into the flock of skua gulls, they exploded violently.
This is one of the offensive techniques that Sun Xiang has taught in the past few days, called the Qi Explosion Technique. Cultivators can compress the aura into a ball and throw it out, and control the timing of the explosion of this air mass by themselves. It sounds a bit like a hand grenade, but the air blast technique is much better than a hand renail.
Because it has almost no weight, it can throw far, long distances, and the timing of the explosion can be controlled by itself. What's more, as long as the cultivator still has aura in his body, he can attack almost endlessly. But in the case of Hand Ray, a person can only carry a few at most.
This is one aspect where cultivation has an advantage over technology.
Hundreds of airblast bombs erupted in the flock of skuas, and the powerful shock wave pierced through the skuas' hard feathers, damaging their relatively fragile internal organs. Many skuas were shocked and bled on the spot, and fell crookedly into the sea.
This cluster impact naturally collapsed on the spot.