Chapter Forty-Seven: The Burning Empire
Shi Xuan and the three of them all began to be silent, they had a lot of friends who knew each other, and they were all proud disciples of their respective masters, and this sudden disappearance would inevitably cause the sect to worry.
"Let's prepare for the next test of survival, the world is impermanent, this may be fate, just like the rough fate of the Lord of Disillusionment, how can our opportunities be smooth sailing?" Shi Xuan said.
"Yes, it's important for us to deal with the cruel living environment here, no one knows what will happen after this secret realm is closed?" Zhao Zhuo was a little worried.
"Have you noticed that the suppression of the formations in the secret realm is extremely strong now, and it feels completely different from when we enter?" Zhong Ling had some ominous premonitions.
"The array spirits here are killed a lot every year, but every year you enter, a lot of new powerful array spirits will be generated, maybe this is the power of the formation, right?" Shi Xuan said.
Shi Xuanshao and the three of them carefully explored vigilantly, they were ready to find the lake they had discovered before, which had water sources and ingredients that could guarantee the hope of survival.
In the secret realm covered with lead clouds, the powerful ancient formation constantly absorbs the energy of heaven and earth, and batches of new array spirits are born again, so as to make up for the number of kills every year, and this large array will automatically maintain balance.
There are still many powerful array spirits left in this, Shi Xuan and they have to face the threat of array spirits every day, and the battle is going on every day, this is the ultimate test of the King of Disillusionment.
More than a month has passed since the incident in the Great Secret Realm at this moment, and after the closure of the Great Secret Realm at that time, the news that Shi Xuan and a few people disappeared inside spread all over the Tianhua Sect, whether it was their respective division commanders or fellow brothers and sisters, they were all shocked, this time their Tianhua Sect lost several core disciples at once, and the losses of the three peaks of Lingji Hall, Luoxia Peak, and Tiankui Peak were huge.
Dai Tiande was also furious when he learned the news, and summoned several disciples who had formed a group with them many times to inquire about the situation, and when he learned that they had gone and had never returned, everyone's hopes were dashed.
Even a strong person like Dai Tiande had no way to forcibly open this secret realm to find them.
The Spirit Forging Hall is still forging in full swing, and there is a unique sound of beating everywhere in the back mountain, a thriving and prosperous scene, but in a large hall, Du Chunhua looks lonely, this time he has lost two powerful disciples, especially Shi Xuan, he is a talented young man who has created miracles over the years, but unfortunately he has stayed in the secret realm forever.
As a master, he didn't even have time to pass on all his forging skills to him, he was like a beautiful flash in the pan, and he was like a beautiful flash in the pan.
Du Qifeng walked into the hall and looked at his lonely father, he knew that his father was in a bad mood at the moment, "Father is still sad for Senior Brother Shi Xuan?"
Du Chunhua looked up at this son, "Maybe this is fate, God destined me not to have such a disciple in my life."
"It's all to blame for our disciples who didn't succeed and lived up to my father's expectations, but I still ask for Father's Day condolences," Du Qifeng said with concern.
"Don't talk about that, how has the sect's task list been completed?" Du Chunhua asked.
"We've been working hard these days, and it's almost now," Johnny To said.
"This time the continent is about to fall into war, the sect is going to send a group of new disciples to the surrounding areas of the Danyang Empire to carry out tasks, you also choose a few disciples with good strength to go, you have been staying by my side all these years, it is destined to be difficult to have a good development, go out and experience the experience, maybe it will be good for you", Du Chunhua said.
"What will happen to the daily disciple's training and forging after I leave?" Du Qifeng asked.
"I have my own arrangements for these things, so you can go with confidence," Du Chunhua said.
"Yes, Father". Du Qifeng worshiped his father and prepared to prepare.
"Child, you must come back alive, I have lost my best disciple, and I don't want to lose my only relative," Du Chunhua shouted.
Du Qifeng stopped, nodded, and then went to select a disciple to carry out the task.
Dai Tiande received news from the front line that the Danyang Empire had 100,000 troops preparing to launch an after-autumn offensive against the Tianyang Empire at the beginning of the season in the Shadow Moon Fortress, and their troops had already driven out of the Shadow Moon Valley and were ready to advance at any time.
At this time, the Tianyang Empire was already fully prepared for war, and the Great War was about to break out, and the Tianhua Sect mobilized a large number of elite disciples to assist the Tianyang Empire in military defense.
At this moment, within the Tianyang Empire, a million troops are ready to go to the border, preparing to declare war on Tianyang, Tianheng and other four countries.
On the star-picking platform of the Moon Worship Sect, Yi Zhouyang looked down at the world, and saw that it was a vast sea of stars, the stars were shining, and a group of young men and women were bound on the altar on the huge altar, and he was standing in front of the altar at the moment observing the unpredictable stars.
His hands quickly sealed, and one after another mysterious spiritual techniques activated the huge altar, and the ancient runes shone, emitting a vast spiritual light from the altar and rushing directly towards the vast sea of stars.
The stars are unpredictable, and a huge divine projection appears in the sky, "Our humble servants meet the greatest gods, your pious servants have sent you the most delicious offerings, may my lord reign in the world as soon as possible", Yi Zhouyang said reverently projection to the gods.
The god who appeared among the stars exuded terrifying starlight all over his body, his eyes were like the sun and the moon, as if he could penetrate the heavens and the earth, and he raised his hands and feet like the lord of heaven and earth.
"Delicious offerings, I want more", hundreds of handsome men and women with special personalities on the altar turned into a ray of spiritual light and flew towards the distant sea of stars under the powerful starlight.
"Please also ask the great gods to bestow on you the power of your humble servants, so that I can offer you more delicious sacrifices," Yi Zhouyang begged.
A starlight power fell from among the stars and fell on him, Yi Zhouyang's eyes suddenly emitted the light of the stars, and he was bathed in the powerful starlight.
At this moment, a vast star power in his heavenly spirit gathered rapidly, the heavenly spirit cave lit up instantly, and the vast spiritual power shot out from his eyes, he finally broke the shackles of the end of the law era, and became the first strong man in this world to break the shackles of the heavenly spirit cave.
At this time, the mysterious old man on the star-picking platform came here, "Congratulations to the sect master, who broke the era of the end of the law and moved to a higher level."
"Hahaha, after all, it didn't disappoint me, after so many years of planning, it finally paid off, this time it was rewarded," Yi Zhouyang said.
"Tell the Sect Master, the Danyang Empire has finally been dispatched, the army has left for the border, the army of the Shadow Moon Fortress has entered the Tianyang Realm, and our plan is in full swing", the old man said to Yi Zhouyang.
"We lost a lot of disciples in the first few actions, and the next batch of disciples should be sent out", Yi Zhouyang looked at the changing stars, everything was under control.
The Tianyang Empire was the first to fall into a bitter battle at this moment, the army of the Shadow Moon Fortress began to advance, and many cities of the Tianyang Empire began to fall, and the army pointed directly at the Dark Moon City, which is the core area of the Tianyang Empire, and it must not be lost.
In the occupied area, many ordinary people were displaced, refugees frantically poured into other countries on the mainland, and the poor army of the Tianyang Empire was weak and difficult to resist the attack of the Danyang Empire's army.
If it weren't for the steep terrain of Tianyang Country, there were many passes that were easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it would be difficult for them to resist.
Under Jiang Bingkun's instructions, the army of the Danyang Empire carried out a bloody suppression and looting of the occupied area, and the land was suddenly bleeding and drifting, and the place where it passed was like locusts crossing the border, burning, killing and looting everything, before their grain and grass ordnance were attacked by a lot of raids, Jiang Bingkun decided to fight to feed the war, and scavenged supplies on the spot.
On a big hill in the occupied area, a group of people looked down at the burning village and town, this village had just been looted by the imperial army, the village had fallen into a sea of fire, and Jiang Heng, who was the leader of the mountain, would have been killed if he hadn't been pulled by his junior disciples at this moment.
"Are you just watching them bloodied the villages and towns and do nothing?" Jiang Heng roared angrily.
"How can we fight against thousands of hoplites? They are the elite troops of the Shadow Moon King, and even if we are all killed, we won't be able to hurt their fur?" said a junior brother helplessly.
They had received information that they were going to come and kill these plundering troops, but they never thought that this was a powerful heavy cavalry, and they could only watch the town be washed in blood.
"At night, they must repair on the hill in front, you follow me to raid at night, I must make them pay", Jiang Heng said with a red color, these days they don't know how many raiders of the Danyang Empire they have killed, and now they are all covered with the blood of slaughter.
There was no cover and support during the day, and if they forced their attack, it would be tantamount to looking for death, and at night they still had a few chances to escape.
On a hill, this cavalry has been looting for a day, and I don't know how many villages and towns have been burned, at this moment they have captured a large amount of grain, and they are repairing on the hill at the moment, and they are preparing to send the grain to the front tomorrow.
Under the stars and moon, more than thirty elite disciples of the Tianhua Sect were ambushing near the hill, all of them were fully equipped with spirit armor, and the weakest ones had reached the fifth order of the Ning Yuan Realm, Jiang Heng, as the first disciple of the Tianhua Sect, had reached the seventh order of the Tianmai Realm, and he was a real master, except for the elders, there were no disciples in the sect who could compare with him.
Jiang Heng assigned tasks to them in an orderly manner, "The two of you are responsible for attacking and killing these mobile sentry posts from the intersection, Zhao Tianhu, you lead the three of you to kill the secret sentry on the wooden tower, and the rest of the fire spirit masters, you directly kill their food vehicles, and be sure to burn them all, the five of you are ready to take over a few of their fire spirit masters at any time, and the rest of the people will follow me to raid their generals' military tents, move quickly, and evacuate immediately after completing the task."
Everyone listened carefully to Jiang Heng's command, and then slowly approached under the cover of night.
The two men in charge of attacking and killing the mobile sentry were their elite disciples, powerful assassins, and they seized the opportunity to strike quickly, and a small group of sentry posts fell silently in the shadows.
"It's your turn, Zhao Tianhu", Jiang Heng said.
"Understood", Zhao Tianhu took a few remote spirit masters, quietly sneaked in to kill the secret sentinel on the wooden tower, at this time a passage into the camp opened, the assassin was upright in the middle of the night, except for the sentry post, everyone else fell asleep one after another.
Several fire-based spirit masters frantically came to the vicinity of a large number of grain and grass vehicles, and then a large area of fire rushed up, and the sergeant in charge of guarding the grain and grass was instantly surrounded by a sea of fire. After setting fire to the grain and grass, they quickly evacuated with the help of others.
At this moment, Jiang Heng and a few people quickly came to the general's military tent, and several people instantly killed the sleeping general.
"The goal is achieved, evacuate quickly", Jiang Heng kicked the general's head away, he was extremely resentful.
The huge fire attracted the attention of the soldiers, all the soldiers were woken up, and they killed frantically, Jiang Heng and they fought all the way, his heavy sword was like a meat grinder, and everyone began to break through.
The fire spirit master frantically set fire to many military tents, and countless sergeants died in the flames. Under the cover of night, they broke through to the place they had set before, and the ordinary sergeants were quickly sent away by them, but there seemed to be more than a dozen figures behind Jiang Heng who couldn't get rid of.
"They are not ordinary soldiers, but powerful spirit masters, ready to fight," Jiang Heng said.
Everyone steadied themselves to face the battle, "If you are allowed to leave like this, how will the old man explain to the general, you will die," said an old man who chased after him.
"I didn't want to fight, since I'm here, let's stay", Jiang Heng's heavy sword flew out, and the three heads fell off in an instant.
The old man saw that he was the mastermind and began to fight him, and the rest of the disciples also fought.
This old man's realm is even higher than Jiang Heng's, he has reached the ninth order of the Heavenly Vein Realm, his strength is not weak, and he is a tricky spirit master.
Jiang Heng doesn't want to fight, after a long time, the army will chase after him, and then it will be troublesome.
As soon as he made a move, the heavy rock armor of the whole body was indestructible, and the old man's thousands of wind blades were difficult to break through his defenses, and the old man also found that his defense was amazing and powerful, so he had no chance of winning in this fight.
"The kid has two hits, but as long as the old man drags you for a quarter of an hour, the army will be able to surround you, and it will be impossible to escape when the time comes", the old man cast a whirlwind and began to besiege Jiang Heng, he was delaying time.
"You guys are quick to decide, the army is coming", Jiang Heng shouted.
The others are also fighting with all their might, not daring to slack off, they are all elite disciples, these people are not their opponents, but it is difficult to get rid of them for a while.
Hearing the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, Jiang Heng began to explode with all his strength, and the terrifying aura of the dark mage in his body jumped dozens of feet, jumped out of his whirlwind whirlpool, and came directly to the old man's side, fighting with him.
The old man had palpitations, he was known for his speed, he didn't expect this kid's explosive speed to be so terrifying.
The old man rolled up the hurricane protector, raised his sword and fought with him, and after dozens of rounds, his sword was directly cut off by Jiang Heng.
"Ah, what a terrifying power", the old man's protective aura was scattered, he turned around and fled, as fast as a hurricane, but a giant sword flew behind him, directly piercing his chest, and Jiang Heng's heavy sword directly killed him.
Seeing the anxious juniors and disciples, he frantically jumped into the battlefield, chopping melons and chopping vegetables, and after a while, countless stumps and broken bodies were left on the ground, and blood flowed all over the ground, which was terrifying, this is the horror of the heavy swordsman, and the wind and clouds were swept everywhere he passed.
By the time a large number of sergeants arrived here, Jiang Heng and his party had long since disappeared.
In a cave deep in the mountains, this is where their camp is located, Jiang Heng took a group of disciples to rush back here by moonlight, this operation has been very successful, not only killed their leader, but also burned a large number of supplies, but when he came back to count the number of people, he found that six more junior disciples failed to come back.
Even if they are all some powerful spirit masters, it is very dangerous to fall into a powerful military formation, and there are a lot of powerful military equipment that can deal with them, which is also the reason why these secular empires are not afraid of these powerful sects, no matter how strong the spirit masters are, but after all, the number is scarce, and the huge army is often hundreds of thousands, even the heads of the five major sects are difficult to escape in a million army.
Jiang Heng's camp is not small, all the sect disciples in this fallen area are under his charge, there are hundreds of them, they are rooted in the deep mountains and haunt the surrounding areas of the Shadow Moon Valley at any time, intercepting and killing the important targets of the Danyang Empire.
Although they paid a heavy price during this time, the results were amazing, and their actions effectively supported the war defense of the Dark City ahead.
Night City has long been closed at this moment, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Danyang Empire are stationed ten miles outside the city wall, and they have been unable to attack here for a long time, and they have been in a stalemate for a long time, and the strong fortifications of Night City are not in vain.
In the military tent of the Shadow Moon army in Danyang City, a deputy general knelt in front of the great general Shadow Moon King, "General, our army was originally full of harvest, and was stationed in the mountain hill for one night, preparing to deliver the food today, but at night it was suddenly attacked by a group of powerful spirit masters, General Wang died tragically on the spot, and many military rations were also burned by thieves.
"Come on, drag out of the tent and behead the public, two thousand heavily armed cavalry can't even catch such a few thieves, what do you want", the Shadow Moon King was furious.
"The general is angry, spare his life", the adjutant general cried loudly.
Several sergeants took him out and beheaded him.
"What do you think about this?" the general looked at the group.
"The mountains around the Shadow Moon Valley are steep, very suitable for these spirit masters, our heavy cavalry has no room to play, if we want to completely destroy them, we can only send elite spirit masters to them," said the general's staff officer.
"Tell the Great General, the Empire has sent a group of elite disciples of the Moon Worship Sect to help, and this is the right time to come in handy," one said.
"Song Yue, this matter will be left to you, we must destroy this group of thieves within ten days to ensure the smooth arrival of our next batch of supplies, if it fails, come to see me", the general looked at one of his spiritual masters and said.
"Obey the general's orders," Song Yue replied.
The Shadow Moon King was ready to continue the siege of Night City, but the food and grass passages of his hundreds of thousands of troops were often disturbed, which made him very angry.
"Senior brother, the spies of the Danyang Empire have reported that in ten days, a large number of important materials will be delivered to the front line through the Shadow Moon Valley", a disciple in charge of liaison came to report.
"Is the news accurate?" Jiang Heng calmly looked at the disciples who came over.
"This matter was sent by Senior Sister Dai Mengli, and there must be no mistake."
"Got it, you go down and rest."
"Zhao Tianhu's other tasks have been temporarily stranded in the past few days, you count the people and get ready, this time it is a big fish", Jiang Heng said.
"Senior brother, did you discuss this operation with Senior Uncle Li Dufeng in advance, and let him send disciples to support?" Zhao Tianhu asked.
"Looking for junior disciples, Senior Uncle Li is on an important mission, and he can't transfer more disciples for the time being, he is too far away from here, and when they come, the opportunity has already passed, as long as we make serious deployments this time, even if we can't all succeed, we will inevitably let them suffer heavy losses," Jiang Heng said.
"But without reinforcements, are we too reckless?" Zhao Tianhu worried.
"There are some risks worth taking, I heard that the Shadow Moon King intends to continue the siege of Night City, if their supplies are cut off this time, their offensive will definitely fail, this is a huge opportunity", Jiang Heng insisted.
Jiang Heng led all his disciples to an important place suitable for raids in Shadow Moon Valley, and deployed in advance, this time he prepared several powerful spirit arrays, which were strategic weapons he brought from the sect, and only the key battles were willing to use.
The disciples of the Spirit Array Hall deployed the Spirit Array overnight under their cover, and they had been ambushed here for several days, waiting for the arrival of supplies from the Shadow Moon Fortress.
"This operation is very important, if we succeed in cutting off their supplies, it will definitely bring huge morale to the front line, and in the future, I will personally meet the Emperor of the Tianyang Empire to ask for battle merits for everyone," Jiang Heng said.
"Zhao Tianhu, you send two scouts to the front to reconnoiter the situation", Jiang Heng commanded all the nervous deployments.
In the place of the ambush position, a group of people were busy, "As soon as the battle starts, you cover the spirit masters who control the spirit array to ensure their safety", Jiang Heng commanded everyone.
"This time our task, give priority to burning the grain and grass and ordnance, killing the enemy is the second, everyone should not fall in love with the war, once the grain and grass are successfully burned, we will immediately retreat in an orderly manner, the day is not conducive to our retreat, and it will inevitably fall into a bitter battle at that time, your formation must be urged at the right time, otherwise it will be difficult for us to escape", Jiang Heng told the key to this mission.
The two scouts quickly reconnoitred from the distant mountains, "Report to Senior Brother, a large amount of grain and grass has been escorted in front of the Shadow Moon Valley Fortress, or they will arrive soon", the scout reported.
"How many men do they have?"
"At least three thousand," said the scout.
"Have you discovered the existence of a spirit master?"
"They are mixed together and cannot be determined".
Jiang Heng said to everyone: "Everyone get ready, listen to my orders, once they pass through here, all the fire spirit masters will burn the grain, grass and ordnance with all their might, and the others will take cover."
The grain and grass army quickly rushed to the front line under the strict guard of the escort troops, and at this moment, a pair of elite spirit masters of dozens of people from the Shadow Moon army rushed towards this side, they were the imperial spirit masters led by Song Yue, who came to intercept Jiang Heng and the others.
Everyone quietly hid on the edge of the valley and laid an ambush, and a mighty team in the place moved forward quickly, they were elite spirit masters who went to meet the grain and grass troops, and happened to pass through their ambush circle.
"Senior brother, there is a spirit master who has come to support, this mission is extremely dangerous, let's give up and look for the next opportunity", Zhao Tianhu looked at the spirit master who came to support and said.
"Although the danger has increased, but the arrow is on the Xuan, we have to send it, as long as the spirit array binds them for a while, we can successfully escape, this time the task of covering the spirit array master will be handed over to you to complete, I don't worry about the strength of the others", Jiang Heng still insisted on carrying out this mission.
Zhao Tianhu had no way to move Jiang Heng to change the plan, so he could only implement it.