191 Bad news
At the time of the explosion, Bai Feng was on the Spirit Island, as usual, commanding an army of three thousand to step up the encirclement and suppression of the Spirit Island.
He already knew the news of the accident that the senior brother had gone to the forbidden land, and the Samadhi Zhenren had actually discussed this matter with him before leaving, and Bai Feng also faithfully implemented the last suggestion that the senior brother left behind - whether he came back or not, the battle of the Spirit Island would continue in Bai Feng's hands.
If he succeeds, of course it is the best, then the Spirit Detection Island will fight according to the previous discussion, destroy all the Soul Devouring Arrays, and the Qianyang Sect is still the first sect in the Ascension Realm.
However, if the Samadhi Zhenren fail, the battle to encircle and suppress the Spirit Island will change. One of the most important differences is that the destruction of the Soul Eater Array has been changed to capture.
In order to achieve this goal, when he received a report from the sect that Yan Xiu appeared with the Samadhi True Person's Void Stone, Bai Feng almost immediately gave the order to attack.
This attack was no longer the same as before, just slowly "peeling" on the periphery, and he organized an elite team of 500 people, all carefully selected from 3,000 people. As soon as the battle began, these 500 men were thrown into battle. Their appearance turned the siege battle, which had been slow, into an almost one-sided assault battle.
Only half an hour after the battle began, these 500 people had already broken through to the core position of the Spirit Island. If it weren't for the desperate suicide counterattack launched by the people of Spirit Island, I'm afraid that this attack alone would have been completed.
Although the attack failed in the end, the encouragement to Bai Feng was quite great.
In this attack, for the first time, they adopted a cutting tactic - the Green faction of the nine major factions provided a special one for this battle, their own customized giant flying swords, each hundreds of meters long and several meters wide.
This flying sword requires a huge amount of aura to be used, but the effect is amazing - with just one sword, they can cut off a piece of the island like a cake, and then they split this small piece to separate the spiritless area from the entire defense system of the island.
Within half an hour, they had already cut a third of the Spirit Island into hundreds of pieces of different sizes, like digging up a fruit with a fruit knife, completely exposing the most core area of the Spirit Island.
After this, Bai Feng planned to spend an hour to get everyone to replenish their aura before launching a second attack. In the second attack, he was ready to commit 2,500 men at once - almost a full-scale attack.
Bai Feng believed that as long as this wave of offensive began, the Spirit Island would soon fall into his hands. After solving the trouble here as soon as possible, he still needs to take advantage of this victory to bring this army to Qianyangmen.
Let the people of the nine major factions fight a battle for the Qianyang Gate, it doesn't matter if they win or lose, to a large extent, these three thousand people will lose - the Qianyang finger of the senior brother of the way of nature, what is the power of the Void Stone. The important thing is that through this battle, the nine major factions can undoubtedly stand on the side of Qianyangmen.
According to the practice of the Ascension Realm, it has always been the respect of the strong.
Theoretically speaking, if Yan Xiu is like the original Samadhi Zhenren, destroy the Qianyang Gate, and set up his own portal on the basis of the Qianyang Gate, as long as his strength is recognized by others, it will not be long before this sect of Yan Xiu can soon become one of the nine major factions in the forbidden land - I am afraid that the Qianyang Gate will be kicked out at that time.
Rather than fall into passivity at that time, it is better to take advantage of the fact that this news has not yet spread, and preemptively stiffen the relationship between Yan Xiu and other sects.
Bai Feng's plan is not bad, when it comes to speculating on people's hearts, Bai Feng thinks that his level is one of the best in the entire Ascension Realm.
It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, just when Bai Feng inspected the troops to replenish aura, arrange tactics, run his mind at high speed, and plan to merge vertically and horizontally......
The explosion happened.
The location of the Lingling Island is thousands of miles away from the location of the Qianyang Gate, and it stands to reason that no matter what earth-shattering battles happen there, the battlefield of the Lingling Island will not be affected in the slightest.
Even if Yan Xiu personally rushed over from the Qianyang Gate, even if he hurried desperately at the expense of aura, it would take several hours to arrive at the earliest, but the reality was that they not only felt this huge movement, but were even completely confused by what happened next.
The so-called movement is actually mainly the wind.
In the Ascension Realm, although it is full of air, it is rare to encounter any strong winds.
The main cause of wind is the temperature difference in the air, and the essence is that the density of air at different temperatures is different, which will form a spontaneous flow.
On Earth, the main causes of temperature differences are often the distribution of the sun's energy, as well as the evaporation or condensation of water in large quantities.
In an environment where the air temperature is roughly equal, the temperature change is small in areas with more moisture, and the change is large in areas with less moisture, and the basis of most atmospheric movements is often between cold and hot.
But in the Ascension Realm, the cause of this wind is almost non-existent, the scarcity of water is secondary, and the key is that the temperature of the entire planet is very even—there is no equator here, and there is no unevenness in the distribution of sunlight energy.
Therefore, the weather in the Ascension Realm has always been sunny and windy, and occasionally there will be some clouds floating in the sky, but most of these clouds will only disperse in the end, and it is absolutely impossible for rain to fall - in a gravityless environment, even if it is rain, it is still a small water droplet in the air, and it will not fall in one direction.
However, a sudden storm suddenly disrupted the original preparations for war.
After a long flight of thousands of kilometers, most of the shock wave fragments produced by the explosion have been consumed on the various islands along the way, and according to Yan Xiu's investigation, these fragments have killed more than hundreds of thousands of people at the most conservative level, directly dealing a devastating blow to thousands of sects.
But because this world is still a "quasi-primitive society" in nature, although people can fly, the speed of information exchange is very slow, so Bai Feng at that time didn't know what was going on at all. But the wind in the air becomes stronger, which is the most obvious anomaly.
Based on the strength of the earth's wind, the wind at the beginning is about 7, or even close to the level of 8. But for a flyer, this level of wind is actually nothing - every flyer has experienced high-speed flight, and they can even fly at windward speeds of more than 10 degrees.
But even so, it still had some bad effects on the war - in order to maintain the encirclement of the Soul Island, they had to spend extra aura to keep the army in formation in such a wind.
But after the storm lasted more than ten minutes, and gradually subsided, something happened that almost broke everyone down.
The aura is gone.
No one knows when the aura started to disappear, and until it was gone, everything was as usual.
At that time, Bai Feng was still recycling and distributing spirit stones to several elders—recovering the ethereal spirit stones that had almost been used up, and allocating them to the spirit stones they were filling.
Out of habit, he will subconsciously check every batch of spirit stones that are distributed - not all spirit stones are completely filled, most of these spirit stones are converted by turning virtual stones on the spot, as long as the handler puts a little effort into his hands, he can get a lot of oil and water.
As the supreme commander of this military operation, supervising the spiritual energy content of these spirit stones is as important and necessary as the ancient general checking whether the soldiers' food is up to standard.
Every time he checked, he would habitually extract some aura from it. From the speed of extraction, it is easy to judge the degree of spiritual energy abundance of a spirit stone. But just as Bai Feng was examining one of them, he felt a little strange.
At first, he thought it was his own delusion, but soon, the same strange expression appeared on the face of the immortal Daoist who was right in front of him. They exchanged glances almost subconsciously – you feel it too!
And then there's validation.
Bai Feng almost immediately threw away the spirit stone in his hand, then closed his eyes and began to seriously perceive the aura, just like a person suddenly feeling dizzy and having symptoms of hypoxia, and subconsciously speeding up his breathing rate. But this time, he didn't feel anything—his divine consciousness searched the air, but he couldn't find even the slightest trace of the aura.
The other disciples of this army also immediately noticed this, and many of them began to talk to each other - they didn't think much about it for the time being, they just thought that this might be some side effect of the Soul Eater Array.
But Bai Feng and the Immortal Dao people, as well as the elders of other sects, clearly knew that this could not be a side effect.
For the research of the Soul Eater Array, they have done it very thoroughly, and the only function of the Soul Eater Array is only to shield the divine sense, and it will not have the slightest impact on the aura itself.
Moreover, the most important problem is that the divine consciousness is blocked, and they can understand it completely - the divine consciousness comes from everyone's mind, what is inside the ritual artifact, and their existence has a root.
It's like running water in the tap, if it's cut off, everyone will immediately think that something might be wrong with the waterworks.
But Reiki is different, this kind of thing, which can be perceived and used by them at any time for thousands of years, is like air, it is something that "absolutely exists", this existence has been natural, and they are completely unaware of the possibility that this thing does not exist.
But now, what can't not be there is gone. It's as if the water suddenly disappears for a fish.
Time passed minute by minute, and soon, everyone realized that the disappearance of this aura did not seem to be the effect of the Soul Eater Array. Some people flew dozens of miles away, but still did not feel any improvement.
These doubts quickly converged unconsciously, and in the end, they naturally converged to Bai Feng - everyone was asking Bai Feng: "What happened in Qianyangmen!" What the hell is going on here! What the hell happened to us! ”
Bai Feng couldn't answer any of these questions.
Two hours later, on the outer position of the Spirit Verification Island, Bai Feng saw the envoys of the other eight sects—from the mouths of these envoys, Bai Feng heard a news that shocked him incomparably, and this news was even more difficult for him to accept than the disappearance of the spiritual energy.
The Qianyang Gate is over, and the entire Qianyang Gate, the disciples who have survived now, are the more than 400 disciples he brought to the Spirit Inspection Island. Everyone else has disappeared.
"What does it mean to disappear! It's a death in battle! Or captured? Bai Feng grabbed the shirt of the messenger who reported to him and questioned him almost out of control.
"Nobody knows! Even Qianyang Island is now completely gone. It's not just the Qianyang Gate that has disappeared, the entire Ascension Realm has now fallen into a catastrophe! In addition to the bad news, the envoy also brought the latest opinions of the other eight heads of the sect - they temporarily admitted that Bai Feng was the head of the Qianyang Sect and wanted to discuss something with him.
"You say." Bai Feng's head was already blank at the moment, but after hearing what the envoy said next, he couldn't even feel the blankness, and the whole person had fallen into a stupor.
"You mean," Bai Feng asked rhetorically in disbelief, "the situation has gotten to this extent?" Are you looking for peace talks? What is the difference between peace talks and surrender now! Do you know what conditions Yan Xiu put forward in the last peace talks? ”
"Whatever the conditions," the messenger said aloud, "we will all agree." As long as he can recover his aura, it has been confirmed that from now on, the aura of the entire Ascension Realm has disappeared. Think about it, Master Bai, it won't take more than ten years for the entire Ascension Realm, all the cultivators, to be extinct. Now it's not a question of surrendering or not, it's a question of whether we can survive or not! ”