Chapter 45: Defending the Barrier
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Seeing Wang Zhiyuan, who was already waiting in the city, Bai Yuechen and his party pressed down the sword light, and after collecting the magic weapon, Bai Yuechen bowed to Wang Zhiyuan who was smiling and said, "I've seen uncle." ā
Everyone behind him then said in unison, "I've seen the Great Elder." ā
Wang Zhiyuan nodded, and when he saw Li Xueyang and Liang Wenyan behind Bai Yuechen, he smiled slightly and said, "Even the two of them were sent to you, it seems that the head of the family attaches great importance to your first battle." ā
When Li Xueyang and Liang Wenyan heard this, they bowed down and hugged their fists at the same time and said, "I've seen the marshal!"
Bai Yuechen looked at the two of them and asked, "Could it be that they also served under their uncle before?"
Wang Zhiyuan said with a smile: "Your father's four sword masters, but all of them were selected from me, but this is the first time I have seen Xue Yang wearing a Taoist robe, when she was here before, she had always worn armor. ā
Bai Yuechen looked at Li Xueyang, who was wearing a Dao robe and carrying a long box behind him, the secret Dao robe with a spear was indeed a bit nondescript.
At this time, just as Wang Zhiyuan was about to explain the current situation in Liyang City to Bai Yuechen, there was a sword roar of the imperial sword breaking through the sky above the city.
The next moment, a bloodstained long sword fell to the ground with a clatter, and a figure covered in blood fell in front of everyone.
"Marshal! The Montenegrin demon army raided our army's No. 2 stronghold, General Li was seriously wounded, and the stronghold was in danger......" Before the monk covered in blood could finish speaking, he vomited blood and fainted to the ground.
After waving his hand and letting his subordinates carry the fainted monk down to heal his wounds, Wang Zhiyuan's face was full of grimness.
"Uncle, has the battle situation changed?" Bai Yuechen asked aloud.
Wang Zhiyuan nodded, and said solemnly: "I thought that the demon clan catalyzed the demonization of the trees in the No. 1 stronghold in order to prepare for the subsequent attack, so I deployed thirty percent of the defensive force from the relatively safe No. 2 stronghold, but I didn't expect to hit them in the east. Judging from the words of the scout just now, since the subtle General Li was seriously injured, then the enemy must have dispatched more than two subtle demon generals. ā
"At present, the number of junior monks in Liyang City is just at a delicate number, and it is impossible to send them out of the city. ā
"So"
He looked at Bai Yuechen with a serious face, and said in a deep voice: "Yuechen, as soon as you arrived, you have something to do." ā
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Outside of Yang City, the second stronghold.
Like most out-of-town strongholds, the stronghold is made of a large number of simple giant wooden spikes and tents, and is no different from ordinary cottages except for the formation enchantment that is specially equipped to defend against the demon clan.
At this moment, the stronghold's exclusive Dao Technique Enchantment had been opened, and the semicircular shield formed by the pale yellow spiritual power firmly protected the entire stronghold.
Outside the pale yellow shield, countless demon beasts were red-eyed, frantically attacking the shield in front of them with a fierce beast roar, although each impact would leave a fierce burn on their demon body, but the number of demon beasts was still increasing.
And in the shield, only one meter away from the shield, due east, due south, due north, and due west in the four directions, eight congenitally consummate Dao Alliance monks were in groups of twos and twos, all of them churning with pale yellow spiritual power, holding charms with solemn colors, and maintaining the enchantment light shield that was constantly consumed by the demon clan.
In the big tent in the center of the stronghold, General Li, who was the supreme person in charge of the stronghold, suddenly woke up from meditation and pranayama, and opened his mouth to spit out a pool of black blood.
General Li's face was extremely pale, looking at the shocking pool of black blood on the ground, he clenched his fists tightly, gritted his teeth and said, "Damn, I actually took advantage of this time, if it wasn't poisoning." ā
As he spoke, he remembered the scene of being attacked by the enemy's demon general during the previous inspection.
In his anger, the voices of his subordinates came from outside the account.
"General, the senior brother in charge of maintaining the formation asked his subordinates to inform the general that the speed at which the barrier is being consumed is rising rapidly, and they can't hold it anymore. ā
General Li gritted his teeth and asked, "How long can it last?"
The voice outside the account replied, "Two quarters of an hour at most." ā
General Li was silent for a while, and then said loudly: "Tell them, how valuable the charms and pills are all for me to use, the demon clan also has a subtle-level bat demon general, even if the sword is in the air, we can't escape, the only way now is to defend to the death, the person sent out to deliver the message is confirmed to be alive, the marshal must have received the news, and the reinforcements must be on the way." ā
After a pause, he continued: "And once the No. 2 stronghold is lost, the roots of the Black Mountain Demon Army will spread farther away from Yang City, and this kind of thing must not be allowed to happen!
Hearing the sound of the general in the tent almost roaring, the monk outside the tent replied, "Yes, General!"
The monks who received the order began to prolong the duration of the barrier in disguise by swallowing pills and rotating shifts.
The atmosphere in the stronghold was extremely heavy, and every minute and second seemed to pass extremely slowly, but everyone's spiritual power was being consumed at an astonishing speed.
Looking at the terrifying corpses of demon beasts outside the barrier, and the suicidal attacks that did not abate in the slightest, every monk's face was full of grimness, and the same question was in their minds: When will reinforcements arrive?
Finally, all the monks had already been rotated once, and except for the eight people who had just been replaced, all of them had no spiritual power.
At this moment, an exceptionally high-pitched wolf howl came from outside the barrier, and it spread throughout the battlefield in an instant.
"Oh no! it's that subtle demon wolf!" all the monks present changed their faces at the same time.
And General Li, who struggled to stand up as soon as he heard the whistle, spit out a mouthful of blood again, his face was extremely pale, and his eyes were full of unwillingness.
Finally, did you get out of the way? ā
At the same time as hearing the whistling, all the demon beasts present stopped attacking, and the pressure on the monks who were responsible for maintaining the enchantment was relaxed, but everyone's spirit did not relax in the slightest.
They were already familiar with the combat methods of this group of demon clans, and they understood that the next step was the most dangerous time.
Sure enough, after a moment of calm, the eyes of the demon beasts outside the enchantment instantly lit up with a strange red light, and while the roars of various beasts became more high-pitched, the intensity of the attack doubled for a while, and the spiritual power consumption of the monks in the enchantment also became intense.
Suddenly, due west, a monk who had exhausted his spiritual power suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted to the ground.
And the other monk who was in charge of maintaining the Western Barrier with him suddenly received double the pressure, and when it was too much to bear, he vomited blood and fainted.
Although the two monks who had been paying close attention next to him changed up as soon as possible to complete the enchantment, at the moment when there was a gap in the western enchantment just now, more than a dozen demon beasts still took the opportunity to rush in.
"Kill these beasts!" a monk shouted with a long sword in his hand, his face pale, and he raised his sword and cut off the head of a black wolf, splashing demon blood all over him.
The nearby monks all rushed over when they heard the sound, and killed the demon beasts that came in in a short time, but in this short period of time, the five monks who had exhausted all their spiritual power were also directly bitten to death by the demon beasts.
An inexplicable atmosphere suddenly appeared among the monks, and the smell of fear permeated the entire stronghold.
'Poof~' A monk vomited blood again and fainted, but no one came to replace him at this time.
After a gap appeared, the entire enchantment was under the onslaught of the demon beast, and a crack appeared in the anti-guard shield from the gap in an instant, and spread to the entire enchantment in an instant, and finally with the roar of the demon beast, the enchantment was declared broken.
"Is it over?"
A monk closest to the enchantment looked at the big mouth of the demon beast close at hand, as if he could still feel the fishy smell in the mouth of the demon beast, and his face was full of despair and ready to close his eyes and wait for death.
Then, he suddenly heard a terrible demon beast wail, 'Woo~'.
He opened his eyes and saw that the black wolf that was about to pounce was nailed to the ground from top to bottom by an ice-blue spear, and just as the demon beast behind him continued to rush forward with a howl, a yellow long-sleeved wave in front of the monk's eyes, and stretched out a white jade hand to grab the ice-blue spear.
In an instant, ice-blue spiritual power soared into the sky, and the spear slashed forward from the bottom up.
"Ice slash!"
Just listen to a coquettish shout.
A three-meter-tall slash carried a rich ice-blue cold aura, and instantly flashed through the group of demon beasts.
In an instant, the originally fierce and vicious demon beast group within fifty meters in front of them instantly turned into lifelike ice sculptures, showing a strange beauty in the bursts of cold air that was constantly emanating.