Chapter Twenty-Six: Tragedy
"The demon beast doesn't know when it will suddenly appear, it will catch people off guard, this cave was discovered by accident not long ago, used to hide, otherwise the five of us would not be able to hold on to it now. β
The man said weakly.
Honglian took a closer look at this cave, and it was indeed very hidden, and it was indeed a good place to recover her strength.
Everyone had a sympathetic look on their faces, and at this time Yuye seemed to remember something, and suddenly asked:
"I don't know how many disciples have seen our Jixuan Sect?"
At this time, these few people from the Jixuan Sect remembered it, and they all raised their heads and looked at these five people, expecting to get some information from these people's mouths.
The man thought for a moment and said:
"I've met a few people before, but they are all disciples in the Qi cultivation period, I heard them say that it was because they encountered powerful demon beasts, leaving a few senior brothers and sisters in the foundation building period to deal with, and a few of them were going back to the sect to report the news, and then the demon beasts gathered more and more, and we were forced to separate. β
After listening to this person's story, the disciples of the Jixuan Sect were a little disappointed, I am afraid that the disciples in the Qi cultivation period in the other party's mouth are the same people who returned to the sect last time to spread the message, so it seems that the other party is not very clear about the battle situation ahead.
There are several different paths to the battlefield this time, and it is difficult to meet people of the same sect in different directions, but the final destination is the same, that is, the Lost Forest, the center of the first outbreak of the beast tide. The sudden outbreak of the beast tide this time is very abnormal, and the play records that before the outbreak of the beast tide, there will be signs such as red clouds in the sky, hundreds of birds flying together, and hundreds of beasts singing, but this time there are no signs.
Yuye pondered for a moment, his eyes gradually becoming firm, as if he had made some decision, and he spoke:
"We're going to rest here for the night, it's getting dark and it's very dangerous to go out, maybe there are still a lot of survivors waiting for support, tomorrow after dawn, we'll continue to go deeper and support the front team. β
Everyone nodded, Yuye glanced at the five people again, signaling them to make a decision, the five people looked at each other, and then nodded together, and the person who had just spoken arched his hand and said sincerely:
"In the next knife, he is the temporary captain of this team, and now our relatives don't know whether they are dead or alive, and we are willing to go with you. β
Yuye smiled, looked at each other and nodded. Said:
"Okay, from now on, we will temporarily form a team, and I will be the captain, what do you think?"
Each squad can only have one captain, so that there can be a unified command and make the most efficient choices.
Dao Mo also felt that in today's situation, it was most suitable for Yu Ye to be the captain, and seeing that Yu Ye was not a hypocritical person, he readily agreed.
There is a time interval for each attack of demon beasts, they do not know how to strategy like humans, and each of their attacks is very regular.
Almost every five hours, a batch of demon beasts will appear, but the number of these demon beasts is not much, there are almost no high-level demon beasts, and generally a large number of demon beasts appear at noon, if they are lost at that time, then everything will be over.
Throughout the night, Honglian and the others went out in batches to hunt these low-level demon beasts that appeared in small quantities, and then returned to the cave to breathe and recover, so that they kept watch until dawn, and there were no casualties.
When the first rays of sunlight shone into the cave, more than a dozen people were already fully armed, and took advantage of the gap that the demon beast had just been cleared to collectively walk out of the cave and go deeper into the battlefield.
Along the way, they killed several groups of small groups of demon beasts, and successively received several squads of monks, although the number was not large, but now combined, their small team has also expanded to a medium-sized team of more than sixty people, compared to when Red Lotus and they first left the mountain gate, the situation is much better.
It wasn't until it was close to ten o'clock at noon that several people found a hiding place, regained their strength, and prepared to deal with the largest group of demon beasts at noon.
It didn't take long for more and more birds and beasts to fly up in the distant forest, and they were gradually approaching, the sound of the beast was terrifying, this was the first time that Red Lotus had encountered such a large-scale demon beast attack, they were all very nervous, if they couldn't deal with it, they would die here if they weren't careful.
Honglian tightened the double hammer in her hand, she pressed her mind to keep herself calm, she still has the last hole card, that is, to use sword qi to arm the attack of the double hammer, which she found by chance when she practiced sword qi in the sect, and when she fought with Lan Ruoxue, she also tried, and the power was not bad, and then she had been concentrating on research, and found that such an attack was extremely powerful, which was equivalent to the realm of the second layer of sword intent comprehended by the swordsman, and Honglian had been improving the speed of this exercise during that period of injury, and improved her more accurate operation of qi, and later she found that she didn't know why, every time she condensed her qi to the top of the double pendant, will be blocked by an inexplicable air current, unable to exert her usual level of qi control, but through repeated experiments and exercises, Red Lotus still got her wish to increase the speed of this vertical technique, almost the moment she sent it, the destructive power was generated. Honglian had to say that the sect master's vision of people was still very accurate, and the speed at which she comprehended the sword qi was indeed very fast, but when she acted, she did not use a sword, but a hammer. But this kind of attack would consume nearly half of her spiritual power if used once, so Honglian was not ready to use it until it was a critical moment. Besides, she escaped very quickly, if it weren't for that kind of natural flying demon beast, it would be difficult for ordinary demon beasts to catch up with her, and this was her last reliance.
In just a few breaths, countless demon beasts rushed out of the forest, and the roar was all over the sky, and the momentum was violent, and they came straight to this side.
"Get up!" Yuye gave an order, only to see a large thick earthen wall suddenly appear in front of the demon beast herd, lined up layer by layer, and the earthen wall soared into the sky, intercepting them. The group of demon beasts seemed to see the target of the attack, and rushed towards the wall fiercely, all kinds of attacks continued for a while, seeing that the earth wall was about to be unable to support, and another order was issued on a rainy night, only to see countless vines emerging from the ground, the vines grew rapidly, the longer and taller, the longer and thicker, and countless vines immediately entangled one demon beast after another, and then tightened. The terrifying screams of those attacked monsters made people shudder.
At the same time, on the earthen walls that were originally only used to intercept, golden thorns grew at some point, and the golden thorns stretched and shrank, stabbing at the group of demon beasts that pounced on them.
Some powerful monsters dodged the golden thorns and broke free from the vines, but the next wave of attacks was a fire, weaving a large fiery red net along the ground, and all the monsters that fell from the sky were burned to ashes by this fire.
This kind of collective cooperative attack was produced in many previous battles, these people cooperated very closely, and this time it was also planned in advance, all the monks of the same attribute cooperated together, using the same most basic attack spell, not only increased the power but also responded in an orderly manner when attacking, and these people were divided into two teams, the first batch of attacks came down and the second group was connected, and then the monks who withdrew were restored for pranayama, so that it was repeated and lasted for a long time, and it could save a lot of spiritual power, and the monks were not so tiredγ
Seeing that this attack worked, everyone was in high spirits, leaving behind all the fears caused by the appearance of the horde of demon beasts just now, and they cheered and shouted......
However, at this moment, everyone didn't expect that there were five fourth-order demon beasts mixed in this group of demon beasts, and these five demon beasts suddenly gathered together and sent a fierce attack to a point of the earth wall, they seemed to have wisdom, especially the huge blue magpie that took the lead, and after just a few breaths of exercise, it came out from the other side of the earth wall, and then countless low-level demon beasts rushed out of the hole, one after another......
The monks here were shocked when they saw this scene, and they were instantly confused. It was a fourth-order demon beast, and there were five of them, and there were only four monks in the foundation building period here, and the rest were all disciples in the qi cultivation period.
The five demon beasts came straight here, and the powerful coercion made everyone confused, and in just a few moments, in front of them, one by one, the same door fell, and the previous formation completely collapsed.
The rainy night shouted not to mess up, not to mess up, but in the face of danger, no one could keep calm, they only cared about running for their lives and attacking desperately......
In the face of this crushing power, these people feel powerless and deeply afraid, they are only disciples in the Qi cultivation period, they have not experienced the test of the demons in their hearts, and their mood is not high......
Because Red Lotus's state of mind is not different from that of these disciples in the Qi cultivation period, her state of mind has not decreased because of rebirth, to be precise, now she can face these disasters calmly like a foundation building period monk. So she was able to keep a little calmer than these people.
Now that the disciples of the foundation building period are dealing with the fourth-order demon beasts, Red Lotus can't help, she is not ready to die in vain, her life is of greater value. Honglian looked at the situation around her, since she couldn't kill the high-level demon beasts, then she had to hunt the rest of the low-level demon beasts that rushed out, Honglian held a double hammer in her hand, and smashed the demon beasts in front of her desperately, one by one the low-level demon beasts seemed to not be able to fight back, and were smashed to death by Honglian with a sledgehammer one after another, many disciples saw her behavior and the dead demon beasts, and instantly sobered up, it was just a group of low-level demon beasts with a little more number, I don't know who shouted "kill"!
For a while, many monks reflected, they all followed behind the red lotus, desperately began to desperately kill the low-level demon beasts, gradually, more and more people saw such a scene, and felt the hope of living, as if they saw the light, so they were not confused, their eyes became clear, they were not hopeless, these low-level demon beasts were not a threat to them, they were naturally willing to help, and maybe they could win. Everyone began to fight back, and all of a sudden, there were more and more corpses on the ground, some monsters and some monks.