203 Suicide Attack Xianxia Edition
That scene, Bai Feng now recalled, felt terrible.
From the outside, you can't see the so-called "island" at all, but what you can see is a new island that is completely made up of people and is two sizes larger than the original island.
In the original world, cultivators never cared about space. Lack of a place, it's very simple, just find a big island, use a flying sword to cut a large stone, this is a ready-made cave. If a few people want to squeeze it, it's also simple, the flying sword makes a few more hits in it, and pulls out a space.
Although the island has very little space in the Ascension Realm, it has never been lacking, and no one thinks it will be lacking.
But in this disaster, everyone found that the originally inconspicuous place to settle down has become so rare.
First of all, the island itself has the greatest effect of reducing the necessary energy consumption in a gravity-free environment. This is not difficult to understand, even if they are immortals and do not need to eat and drink, they still need space for daily activities. It looks chic to float in the air completely, but in fact, it consumes a lot of physical strength and energy.
It's fine if you keep flying at a constant speed, but once you stop, you will inevitably have a small local shaking due to the fluctuation of the air - the body needs to balance this shaking naturally. Without the support of a massive object, any small action must be adjusted with pure electricity – just like in space, a satellite adjusts its attitude.
This subtle adjustment itself consumes more energy than normal survival.
The more serious problem is that in this state of life, human existence is completely devoid of dignity.
This is not the earth, on the earth, people who cannot afford to live in a house, at most, end up wandering on the streets. Those wanderers can find a bridge hole at random, or get a cardboard box on the side of the road, and there is no problem in completing normal physiological functions. Can walk, can sleep...... Of course, on a cultural level, they will be considered miserable, but on a physical level, they are actually not much different from people living in high-rise buildings, except that the conditions outside are a little worse, and there are no tiles on their heads to protect them from the wind and rain.
But in the Ascension Realm, the real poor people, they have nothing but themselves.
There is a story on the earth that says that when a bird crossed the sea, it had a branch in its mouth, and when it was tired of flying, it put the branch on the ocean, stood on it to rest, and then flew again.
For the flyers, the large and small, inconspicuous islands in the Ascension Territory are islands and branches of different sizes in the ocean. Normally, when these things exist, the birds don't feel that these things have any specific effect on their migration—because most of the journey still flies on their own two wings.
But when the branch was removed, the catastrophic consequences began to follow.
There is already a lack of energy, and a shelter without support needs to consume more energy. On one side, thousands of people, tens of thousands of people were crammed into a small space, huddling together like ants in a flood to keep warm, and on the other side, a large number of sects were idle because of the expulsion of disciples. Those islands are now full of open spaces, and the few remaining masters patrol the islands to protect the spirit stones accumulated in the sect.
Violent conflict is an inevitable consequence of this situation.
At the beginning, it was a few small sects that were on the outskirts of the Ascension Realm, and Bai Feng didn't see the details of the siege with his own eyes, he just heard the disciples sent out report back, saying that it was actually not very successful—in the eyes of the masters of the Qianyang Sect, it was even a complete failure.
Thousands of people went to attack a small sect guarded by only 8 people, and in the end more than 1,000 people died—in the end, almost everyone rushed into the storage area of this sect with the firepower of flying swords, and only after grabbing the spirit stone did they turn the tables and win.
Judging by the casualty ratio, it is simply miserable.
But for those "stoneless class", it was a huge victory.
The reason is very simple, what they lost was only more than a thousand burdens, but what they gained was hundreds of spirit stones from this small sect.
The actions of this team were almost immediately emulated throughout the All-Ascension Heaven Realm, and in just a few days, hundreds of large and small sects had encountered misfortunes, but those who had kept their sects and survived were also panicked one by one.
In order to protect their own interests, the small sect takes the initiative to defect to the big sect, and this process is like when the market situation is very bad, and small enterprises are merged by large enterprises - what will definitely be followed is more layoffs.
The disciples left behind by the Gate Party have higher qualifications requirements, and in this process, the spirit stones are further concentrated towards the Gate Sect, while the stoneless class that has lost the support of the sect has begun to increase more and more.
By this time, the contradiction was no longer the war caused by the lack of habitat of the stoneless class.
Through a series of robberies, the stoneless class also began to appear similar to sect-like organizations, but unlike sects, this kind of organization seems to have no coercive power at all. In a traditional sect, generally speaking, what the head of the sect says, the whole sect will carry out something. But what baffled Bai Feng about this new type of organization was that they didn't have a head at all - but the speed of their actions was even faster and more decisive than that of the nine major factions that had a head in charge.
In just two days, these forces began to penetrate from the outermost periphery to the middle level, and the sects in this area are all of some forces, and the big ones are about three or five hundred people, even if they are small, they are all small and capable types, and it is not surprising that a sect has more than ten or twenty masters.
Don't look at these just a dozen or twenty masters, even if these people come to the Nine Great Sects, they are completely enough to meet the disciple screening standards of most of the sects. It's just that the life of the Nine Great Sects is not as comfortable as that of them in the small sects.
With the current strength of the Qianyang Sect, it is actually roughly consistent with the scale of these sects. At that time, Qianyangmen was still a member of the Nine Great Factions, and Bai Feng still held the position of nominal commander of the coalition forces - of course, there were only 400 people left under him. The Nine Great Sects also allocated him some spirit stones and asked him to go to the middle level to inspect the battlefield situation.
The Nine Great Factions have begun to pay attention to these forces. If they continue to develop in the core area, then the nine major factions will inevitably form a coalition to suppress it.
In fact, those middle-level sects have already begun to form small-scale military alliances.
But because these sects have been closed for a long time, and there is no such thing as Samadhi Zhenren before the Nine Great Sects, their military alliance formation is very different, and the problems encountered by Qianyangmen in the process of forming the Nine Major Faction Alliance, these large and small alliances have basically encountered all of them. Allies don't contribute to the spirit stone alone, and when they arrive at the battlefield, they will falsely report the attrition, and they will passively avoid the war in the war crisis......
When Bai Feng came, he happened to have the opportunity to see a coalition army in contact with the enemy.
The scene of the war...... It simply made Bai Feng's scalp tingle.
The personal battle mode of the Ascension Realm is like an air battle, with the two sides shuttling back and forth like butterflies, chasing each other, fighting lively, and watching exciting. And sectarian battles are, to a large extent, more like naval battles.
The most important feature of naval warfare is the accurate grasp of speed and distance.
The level of the coalition is obviously much higher, and when the battle is in the preparation stage, more than 80 people have already cleared the battlefield with flying swords - the rebels have "thrown" a large amount of garbage, mainly various stones and gravel, towards the target sect before the battle. This garbage has no other purpose, only two points, the first is to obscure the battlefield information - the main force of the rebel army usually hides behind these rocks and gravel, and the second is to say that the terrain of the entire battlefield has become complicated.
In terms of strength, the rebels are obviously inferior to the coalition army, although they have grabbed some spirit stones, but they are just the savings of some small sects, and these medium sects are still not comparable.
Their only, and most important, characteristic - Bai Feng obviously can't say that this is an advantage, it is that there are many people.
After the view of the battlefield was cleared, Bai Feng saw the whole picture of the entire rebel army.
It was a dark cloud, a dark cloud that completely obscured half of the sky.
There were no dark clouds in the Ascension Realm, and there were no flocks of birds, so Bai Feng couldn't describe the shocking feeling of seeing this kind of scene for the first time. But he really felt how small he was from the sight before him—even if he had never thought that more people would lead to victory.
But in the short half hour of preparation time before the start of the war, looking at the black and gloomy dark clouds, he was wavering in his own opinion.
If we use the analogy of naval warfare, the coalition forces are like an aircraft carrier, and the carrier-based aircraft will attack the enemy as soon as it detects it.
But the object of their attack this time is not even the lowest lifeboat, it is almost a whole sampan on the sea! Endless sampans! Crucially, these sampans also have their own jamming radar!
The forward's flying sword had just rushed into the formation, and when it was about to start killing, some people in the crowd did not get out of the way, but took the initiative to fly towards these flying swords! Then, the person controlling these flying swords found that they had opened the Soul Eater Array!
After the battle on Spirit Island, the people of the nine major factions all knew that the source of the spiritual energy of the Soul Devouring Array, like that of the cultivators, came from the spiritual veins. The spiritual veins were cut off, and although they couldn't get the replenishment of their spiritual energy, it was consoling that the Soul Devouring Array, which they feared the most, also lost its effect overnight.
But Bai Feng couldn't have imagined that after only a few days, he saw the shadow of the Soul Devouring Array again on the battlefield thousands of miles away from the Nine Great Sects of Principles!
Moreover, the use of the Soul Devouring Array this time scared him even more than what Bai Feng had seen before!
When Yan Xiu broke through the encirclement before, the method he used was to use the Soul Devouring Array as a disposable weapon and throw it out to form a shield to deter the opponent.
But this time, the rebels are using people to control the Soul Eater Circle—it's almost a desperate way of fighting.
The language of the Ascension Realm was rudimentary, and he didn't know how to describe this shameless and lifeless style of fighting—but on Earth, this type of combat has a familiar name - suicide attack.