Chapter 85: The praying mantis catches the cicada, and the yellow finch follows
"We have received a reply from the sect, and it will not be long before a huge team will come to support our operation," Yin Qianxi said.
Lin Zixu and his entourage lit a bonfire outside the tent to discuss the next plan of action.
"In the next action, sensitive information is very important, Brother Han's ranger is far superior to us in terms of spying intelligence, maybe this will require Brother Han's support", Lin Zixu looked at the Han brothers and sisters.
"Senior Brother Lin is polite, we are allies, if there is anything you need to tell us, we will define it," Han Yunyi said.
In the desolate Beicang grassland, it is really such a group of hot-blooded young people who use their own practical actions to stop the ambition of the Danyang Empire's expansion, even if they are facing many dangers, they have never thought of giving up.
Under the stars and moon, another team also attacked overnight, in order to avoid the detection of the Danyang Empire, Shi Xuan and their countless disciples set off overnight under the leadership of the elders.
"Shi Xuan, I've never been to Beicang since I grew up so much, is it really desolate?" Zhao Zhuo asked Shi Xuan.
"In my opinion, this is not the case, there are still many grassland civilians who live and work in peace and contentment, they rely on nomadism to survive, they live in the vast grassland, they believe in ancient gods, they are pious, and the folk customs are simple", Shi Xuan remembered the previous Beicang operation.
"Then how can there be so many invasions of the Northern Cangyi to the south in history?"
"Where there are people, there will be ambitious people like Jiang Bingkun, in fact, not all the people of Beicang like war, and their low-level civilians are also tired of war, but no one can get rid of the ambitions of many high-level tribes," Shi Xuan said.
"I really hope that this expedition will wipe out the ambitions of the Danyang Empire in one fell swoop," Zhao Zhuo said.
"It's too early to say this, we can only do our best", the others rode dragon horses, only Shi Xuan rode the purple-winged mad lion, and quickly headed towards the north.
At this moment, in Beicang, countless armies are heading towards the north, and the Heavenly Eagle Royal Clan has replaced the Wild Lion Royal Clan as the leader of the Northern Cang battle, and the new High Priest Hulan Ruoyu is the right-hand man of the Heavenly Eagle King Ulu, and his strength is strong.
The Heavenly Eagle Clan has taken over the Allied forces, and now Hulan Ruoyu is in full swing to gather the warriors of the tribe to build a defense against Li Junxian's attack.
"High Priest, our spies have sent news from Danyang Kingdom that the Empire has sent a large army to the north again, this time they are serious, we must be fully prepared", said the subordinate.
"Now that the enemy has such a powerful weapon as the Arcane ** in his hands, we have no chance of winning a head-to-head confrontation with them, and we must succeed in the spirit saltpeter, and now our Uru King has already prepared a large number of shamans who are ready to practice the refining method of the arcane **, as long as we obtain the spirit saltpeter, we can master this secret weapon", the high priest said.
"You mean to plunder their transports?"
"Not only that, we can even consider taking the initiative to attack the mines in the Beicang Mountains, once we master the mines, we will continue to produce large quantities of weapons, here we occupy the right time and place, no one knows Beicang better than us, we are the masters here," Hulan Ruoyu said.
"But right now, the crisis is just around the corner, and it's hard to quench the thirst of the near with far water," the subordinate worried.
"The soldiers are not tired of deceit, although the other party has mastered the arcane **, but it also has shortcomings, their army is slow, too much baggage, we can launch multiple batches of midnight raids, at this time they must be tired and dare not dare, many attacks will definitely be able to disturb the morale of the army, their heavy weapons have not come in handy, we will retreat in a mobile way, I don't believe that they can always maintain the military formation and fight against us", Hulan Ruoyu said.
"I'll lead my subordinates to scout on them, looking for an opportunity to send cavalry to attack and harass," the general happily walked out of the tent.
In the following days, the Beicang army continued to dispatch multiple cavalry to launch a surprise attack at midnight, and Li Junxian's subordinates were tired for a while, and they wanted to embankment at any time to prevent these imminent raids.
As soon as their army fell into chaos, the Beicang army immediately seized the opportunity to attack, and during this time, the offensive of the imperial army was frustrated everywhere. Hulan's weak strategy of harassment began to pay off, and their main forces were always looking for opportunities to attack the Empire's transport forces, during which time they managed to intercept large quantities of spirit saltpeter. Although he was ambushed several times and suffered huge losses, the result still made Hulan Ruoyu satisfied.
The Celestial Eagle Clan's scouting skills are among the best among all the tribes, and their warhawks are constantly scouting the Empire's military operations.
The contest between the two sides was in full swing, although Li Junxian was facing a lot of pressure, but the army did not have the slightest intention of stagnating, all the way to the north, Hulan Ruoyu was about to face the embarrassing scene of no danger to defend, the environment of the grassland was only some low hills and valleys, such a terrain was simply difficult to stop the large-scale group army from advancing.
"High priest, they are getting closer and closer to our core territory, and we will have no danger to defend if we come down again", his subordinates were very worried.
"What's the alarm? You've forgotten the special circumstances here?" said the High Priest.
"You mean, the ancient battlefield here?" said the subordinate.
"That's right, there have been great wars here in history, and several dry bones and remains are buried here, isn't what our Aquila royal clan is good at is to summon ancient souls to join the war?
"But on a battlefield of this scale, our shamans are far from capable of summoning so many ancient souls."
"Of course, we can't rely on our ability alone, it's up to our Storm Altar to complete such a huge summoning ritual," the High Priest said.
"How many animals would have to be sacrificed to fully activate the Storm Altar?"
"Push everything we can muster, this time as long as we block their attack, it will be our turn, and they will no longer be able to launch a large-scale attack in the future", Hulan Ruoyu ordered all the generals to prepare the ancient Storm Altar to summon.
Outside of a wild place, this place is deserted, but no one underestimates here, because there was a shocking war here, when Mengtian Khan unified the Beicang, he wiped out the biggest opponent here, and since then the powerful Beicang Empire has been established, opening the infinite glory of the Beicang, and hundreds of thousands of dry bones have been left here.
Later, after Mongtien's death, his subordinates fell apart, and the Yak tribe once again established a powerful tribe.
This wild, for many years, the warriors of the northern canopy have regarded it as a dark place, and countless yin spirits sleeping here have formed a dark place, where many resentful spirits often appear, and the people dare not graze here.
As cultivators, Hulan Ruo was powerful in his own right, and had an ancient secret technique of controlling yin spirits, and the environment here was suitable for them to carry out a large-scale summoning sacrifice.
Even the High Priest himself could not have done it alone, and this sacrifice required many priests to work together to activate the Storm Altar and rely on the power of the altar to complete the summoning. For this summoning ceremony, they dispatched almost all the animals they could muster to make sacrifices.
After several days of arrangement, a huge altar stood atop a gloomy hill, and many shamans had detected the most of the bone-wreckage in the area through ancient secret methods, and they called it here to begin their ancient rituals.
The army of the Danyang Empire was pressing forward step by step, and the army was divided into many ways to surround them, trying to force them to have a decisive battle, they could no longer bear it, and the boundless attack and harassment wanted to annihilate their main force in one fell swoop.
The huge army with many huge catapults, heavy crossbow arrows, and a large number of arcane **, they surrounded them on the grassland, like a torrent of high-speed rail, and the well-equipped army made countless grassland civilians frightened to migrate everywhere to avoid the war, and almost no armor was left where the empire passed, and all the livestock raised by these herdsmen were plundered by them.
Lin Zixu and the others have sent Han Yunyi and other rangers to inquire about the news these days, in this vast grassland, it is extremely difficult to obtain information, but fortunately, Han Yunyi and his party are all powerful spirit masters, even if they are hunted down, they can deal with it calmly.
Han Yunyi took Han Yunxi and a few rangers to track a team of transport troops from the empire to the south to investigate the truth. Along the way, they followed behind the large army, trying to stealthily capture a few people to inquire about the situation, but soon the team was attacked by unknown forces.
"Brother, this group of people doesn't look like barbarian soldiers, who are they? How dare they do anything about the supplies of the Danyang Empire?" Han Yunxi followed his brother's side.
"The news has already spread, it's no secret that things are going on here, the forces of the entire continent have joined in, who would worry about the Danyang Empire in this wild land," Han Yunyi said.
"Shall we inform Senior Brother Lin that they are coming?" asked Han Yunxi.
"It's not clear what they're transporting, wait?"
This raider is well-organized and fast-moving, and at first glance it is from some big forces.
Even if these defenders resisted stubbornly, they were all defeated by many enemies, and many chariots and horses were all taken by these people.
"Brother, it seems that this car is a real transport team, not an ambush," Han Yunxi said.
"Let someone inform Senior Brother Lin and let them come quickly," Han Yunyi said.
"Let's keep following them and see who they are?" they secretly followed the robbers into the distance.
A few hours later, unexpectedly, this group of robbers was also hunted down, to Han Yunyi's surprise, this group of people was actually also a spirit master unit, their actions were extremely fast, and these ordinary marauders were not opponents at all.
"What kind of people are these?" Han Yunyi didn't know.
"It's not good that they are moving so quickly, Senior Brother Lin, they probably won't be able to catch up at all", Han Yunxi looked at the group of people who were moving extremely fast.
"Forget it, it seems that we don't just want to be hunters here, let's give up this operation", Han Yunyi looked at the team that disappeared into the night, and could only turn back.
They informed Lin Zixu and the others of this experience, it was indeed difficult to catch up with the spirit master troops in the night, and Lin Zixu and they had to give up.
Under the stars and moon, Shi Xuan and his party had been on the road for several days in a row, and one morning, Shi Xuan, Zhao Zhuo and other core disciples were patrolling the front and around the team.
Found a sneaky, fast-moving transport team, he secretly followed, after some investigation can be determined to be from the Beicang spirit saltpeter, he after soul exploration, found that they are actually from the Canghai region of the blood ring sect, they also came here, and plundered this batch of spirit saltpeter.
Shi Xuan had a very bad impression of the Blood Ring Sect, and that mission in the Jingyue Sect allowed him to remove the Blood Ring Sect's dirty methods, and the blood refining method they practiced was extremely despicable and shameful.
"I didn't expect to run into you here, I can only blame you for your bad luck", Shi Xuan quickly turned back and found the elder to inform them of the information he had found.
"Shi Xuan, do you want to attack them?" the elder asked.
"The Blood Ring Sect is notorious and infamous in the rivers and lakes, and it is not a matter of disregard for morality for us to rob them," Shi Xuan said.
"Yes, I also approve of this operation," Zhao Zhuo said.
Su Cheng, Yun Yixuan, and several of them also agreed to take action, "Okay, you must carry out this operation quickly and cleanly, otherwise it will cause conflicts between the two sects", and the elder agreed to their action.
Shi Xuan led a large number of disciples to quickly chase after the fleeing Blood Ring Sect transport team.
Although the Blood Ring Sect is not as good as the super forces of Tianhua Sect and Divine Sword Valley, it is still famous on the mainland, and the limelight is not under the Jingyue Sect, but it has been despised by other forces on the mainland for many years.
The people of the Blood Ring Sect who were galloping on the grassland were full of triumph at the moment, they were very successful in catching cicadas with the praying mantis this time, and they achieved gratifying results, and they would inevitably get the reward of the sect after they returned.
However, there was the sound of rumbling horses' hooves across behind him, "Senior brother, it seems that there are chasing soldiers behind him?" said a disciple of the Blood Ring Sect to a strange man.
"It's ridiculous, there are still people in this world who dare to take us as prey? Everyone stop me, I want to see if they have leopard gall?" The man stopped the group and prepared to fight.
Shi Xuan's team of spirit masters led by them quickly surrounded them, "That sissy, acquaintance told your people to get out of here, and leave things behind, otherwise you will die, right?"
"Where did the yellow-haired boy come from?Do you know who we are, even our Blood Ring Sect dares to mess with us?" The man was like a white-faced little student, extremely demonic.
"Isn't it just a bunch of scum, what's the big deal?" Su Cheng stepped forward and said.
"It's really ridiculous, a person from the ninth order of the Ning Yuan Realm dares to speak to me like this?" The man saw the realm of Su Cheng and Shi Xuan at a glance.
"Shi Xuan, don't talk nonsense with them, send them on their way", Zhao Zhuo shouted.
Although Shi Xuan was confident, this man was absolutely dangerous, he had already reached the fifth order of the Heavenly Vein Realm, Shi Xuan was definitely not his opponent, for this reason, Shi Xuan, Su Cheng and Zhao Zhuo joined forces to besiege this white-faced little student.
"Do you think you can defeat me with more people? Ridiculous? Taste my Blood Soul Dafa" The man looked at the three people who had killed, and with Shi Xuan's order, everyone started a big battle.
The Blood Ring Sect was famous for its cruel Blood Soul Dafa, and the bloody and abnormal bright red aura instantly pierced out of his body, and the aura of the fifth order of the Heavenly Vein Realm made Shi Xuan and the three of them dare not be careless at all, and one after another the powerful aura training towards the three of them.
After the three of them came into contact with the blood soul, they felt that their blood was going to be attracted by his blood soul, and this kind of exercise was really terrifying.
Shi Xuan and the three of them had a low realm, and they didn't dare to be careless and showed their weapons to fight, Shi Xuan and Zhao Zhuo turned into two flame war gods, and Su Cheng's holy light possessed the light and shone brightly, and the war broke out in full swing for a while.
"The talent is good, it's a pity that you met me, your blood must be very delicious by then, right?" The man was bloodthirsty.
At this moment, the man also summoned his own weapons, two blood-red steel claws, which were very terrifying.
The man's terrifying claw technique was very domineering, surrounded by ruthless claws and three people stood in the big battle, Shi Xuan had no reservations, and the explosive flame slashed out a terrifying sword qi, and his claws were hard to collide, Zhao Zhuo's fire dragon sword was unparalleled and advanced and retreated.
With the power of the so-called Holy Light, a huge Holy Light War Hammer was thrown far away like a meteor and hit the man directly.
The man shook his right hand, and the terrifying blood aura formed a bloody hand, and the fist flew away from the commonly known Hammer of Holy Light.
Feeling that the strength of the three of them was not bad, the man summoned the blood aura to protect the body, and the thick aura easily defused the attacks of the three people, his claws were extremely sharp, and dozens of terrifying claw shadows were instantly released, filling the air.
Shi Xuan and Zhao Zhuo were instantly knocked away by the claw shadows in the sky, and the protective qi on their bodies instantly collapsed, and Shi Xuan felt that the blood in his body was boiling.
The man repelled the two with one blow, and the unforgiving person flew towards Shi Xuan in an instant, and a huge bloody hand shadow killed Shi Xuan, Shi Xuan shot out a wall of fire to block his progress, but it couldn't stop his weird body at all.
Seeing that he was about to reach his side, Su Cheng's dazzling holy light instantly exploded in front of the man's eyes, and his eyes were instantly blinded. Shi Xuan saw the opportunity to leap up and slash at his body, and the terrifying sword directly dispersed his protective blood qi.
The man finally broke free from blindness, he was completely angry, and it was another set of terrifying claw attacks, the diffuse claw shadow instantly disintegrated Su Cheng's powerful holy light barrier, and he was also knocked to the ground, Shi Xuan and Zhao Zhuo summoned terrifying flames to strike at him, the battlefield was full of walls of fire and flame storms, and the man summoned a shield again to resist, relying on a strange body to attack left and right.
"Enough, three insects are killed, the grip of blood", the man is the blood soul Dafa in the battle, Zhao Zhuo was like a chicken and was pulled to his side by his bloody hand, "Don't struggle, I will make good use of your blood", Zhao Zhuo's body at this moment was extremely painful, as if the eight veins of the Qi Jing were boiling, and the essence blood of the whole body seemed to be about to be withdrawn from his body.
"Ah, damn it", Zhao Zhuo urged the aura with all his strength to resist the other party's blood grip, but the essence blood was pulled by the other party as if it was uncontrollable.
Shi Xuan saw that Zhao Zhuo was being raided, he broke out in full force at this moment, the Heavenly Dragon Bo Heaven Decisive erupted tenfold, and the huge flame hand that had been terrifying instantly held the man, Shi Xuan launched a ruthless calcination, trying to pull him to his side.
The two started a contest of strength, the man relied on the grip of blood to pull Zhao Zhuo, and Shi Xuan used the flame giant hand to hold the man, and the two sides started a fight.
Even though Shi Xuan had a tenfold strength bonus, the strength of the other party's Heavenly Vein Realm could not be underestimated, and the two could not hold on.
Su Chengyuan's holy light war hammer flew in and hit the man's body fiercely, the terrifying outburst directly knocked him away, and a mouthful of blood spit out, commonly known as this hammer, directly interrupted his blood grip, Zhao Zhuo finally broke free from his blood soul Dafa, his face was pale at this moment, and the blood veins in his whole body were agitated, and even the spiritual skills were difficult to control.
Shi Xuan saw the man who fell to the ground, and instantly killed him with a burst of flames, and the flames slashed wildly towards the man, and the man's body protection qi was broken, and he could only rely on the hard claws to defend.
Shi Xuan instantly unleashed the aura of dragon swimming, and with a terrifying outburst, he cut off one of his claws with a sword, kicking him away with one kick.
Su Cheng took the opportunity to hit the ball of holy light, hanging on the man's head like the sun, and the terrifying power of the holy light ruthlessly calcined his spiritual power, while Shi Xuan and the three of them were bathed in the holy light, and received the feedback of the holy light, and obtained a steady stream of spiritual energy bonuses.
Shi Xuan and Su Cheng charged again to deal a fatal blow to him, the two of them had excellent melee ability, and the opponent's claw was only one, and it was difficult to resist the attack of the two of them.
Shi Xuan's flame slash was attached to the terrifying dragon breath, his chest was cut by Shi Xuan, the terrifying dragon breath entered his body, the man seemed to have the eight veins of the strange meridians of his body were calcined by the terrifying dragon breath, and fell into madness, and the commonly known ball of holy light kept burning his aura, and with the depletion of the aura, the man was calcined into ashes by Shi Xuan's dragon breath.
Looking at the dead man, Shi Xuan and the others came to Zhao Zhuo's side, "How is your body?" Shi Xuan looked at Zhao Zhuo, who was pale, and said.
"What a terrifying Blood Soul Dafa, my blood was almost plundered by him, fortunately, you interrupted his spell casting, otherwise I would have died", Zhao Zhuo was shocked.
There were also many other spirit masters who were injured by the Blood Ring Sect's weird Blood Soul Dafa, but fortunately, they were well prepared this time, and they relied on more people to agree to this battle.
For a scum like the Blood Ring Sect, there is no need to be moral with them, and it is most appropriate to solve them in the safest way.
This batch of spirit saltpeter, which was not small, eventually became Shi Xuan's trophies, and they left a group of spirit masters to escort these trophies to continue south, while they continued to go north.
Shi Xuan and the three of them still have lingering fears about this battle, if it is a battle at the same level, he is not afraid at all, but the other party's realm is too much higher than them, fortunately, the three of them are the top masters of the sect, and they cooperate tightly, but the other party's blood refining method is indeed terrifying and domineering, this blood refining method, the two peaks can ignore the enemy's defense, and directly pull the enemy's essence blood for their own use, which is extremely domineering.
Whoever is killed by the Blood Soul Dafa will be turned into dried corpses that have been sucked dry, and they will be able to obtain a steady stream of energy from the essence blood of their enemies, which is extremely cruel.