Chapter 82: Heavenly Fire Messenger
Heavenly Fire Envoy, the second powerful team of the Blazing Yuan Sect. Unlike the Blazing Cavalry, this team is directly controlled by the Elders of the Heavenly Fire and belongs to the secret power of the Blazing Yuan Sect, which is rarely known to the outside world.
This team is complementary to the Blazing Cavalry, with the Blazing Cavalry excelling at charging and raiding, and the Skyfire Herald excelling at ranged output and attrition.
Like the Blazing Cavalry, all Skyfire Heralds are selected from among the younger generation, and when selected, they undergo special training. And the ability they master in the end will be infinitely close to the "heavenly fire".
As we all know, Hua Yang, the sect leader of the Blazing Yuan Sect, is a guy with an almost perverted thirst for power. Behind the scenes, people often call him "Fire Ghost Huayang", because his obsession with power is like a devil who has fallen into the abyss, and his desires are endless. Legend has it that he was willing to marry his young daughter to a flame wizard in the Demon Realm in order to get a book on flame manipulation in the Demon Realm.
Fire Ghost Huayang often hid in his Heavenly Fire Hall to study fire-based immortal arts and new types of armed immortal weapons, thus ignoring the affairs of the sect. Later, he simply established the Heavenly Fire Elders Council to manage the affairs of the Blazing Yuan Sect for him, while he himself devoted himself to the study of immortal arts and magic weapons. This is also the reason why his control over the Blazing Yuan Sect is getting smaller and smaller later.
However, he did have a great talent in the development of immortal arts and the manufacture of weapons. Whether it was the awakening furnace used by the disciples of the Blazing Yuan Sect to awaken, or the copper and steel armor worn by the blazing cavalry and the blazing spear they used, they were all invented by the fire ghost Huayang alone. Some sycophants even praised him as the reincarnation of the head of the Mo family, and his Blazing Yuan Organ Technique would far surpass the most developed Mo Technique in the past.
The Heavenly Fire Envoys were equipped with the new assembly that the Fire Ghost Huayang was most proud of.
It was also made of copper and steel, but it was mixed with a much higher proportion of iron than the armor of the blazing cavalry, and it glowed a dark red without being painted red. In terms of structure and style, the armor of the Skyfire Herald also adopts a new concept, they are very ostentatious, and they are stitched or spliced together with a single piece of copper and steel, although the flexibility is greatly reduced, but the defense power is extreme.
The Celestial Fire Envoys were equipped with a weapon similar to a cannon, which they held in their hands as if holding a cylindrical cylinder. This kind of long barrel is made of pure refined flame iron, which is extremely rich in fire attribute spiritual power. At the back of the long barrel there is an infusion device, which allows the user to easily infuse the true qi in his body into the long cylinder, and through the compression of the mechanism, finally spray a mass of flow inflammation at a higher speed.
The designer, the fire ghost Huayang, called this artillery device "sky artillery".
He had always been a genius in weapon design, and before him, the weapons used by immortal cultivators in the immortal realm were all specially made. They either used the materials on the immortal beasts to forge them, or they used their own true qi and ores to forge them, and the final immortal weapons they obtained were unique in the entire immortal world. Just like the immortal sword of every immortal cultivator has different attributes and different names.
However, after the appearance of the fire ghost Huayang, he began to promote the concept of "unified arms" within the Blazing Yuan Sect. He gave his design drawings to the craftsmen and let them make them uniformly. This practice of sharing the design drawings of immortal weapons was originally a major taboo in the immortal world, but it was called a large-scale measure to increase combat power by the fire ghost Huayang.
Soon, the large-scale unified armament was produced within the Blazing Yuan Sect and uniformly assembled on the disciples. Two teams such as the "Blazing Cavalry" and the "Skyfire Herald" were also born during this period. As the gatekeeper of the eastern and western continents, the Blazing Yuan Sect may face the attack of the Demon Sect at any time. However, the unified combat power brought by the fire ghost Huayang greatly strengthened the armament of the Blazing Yuan Sect, making it possible to win many victories under the attack of the Demon Sect.
It's been ten years since the last time the Demon Cult raised troops to attack on a large scale, and the Demon Sect has always stood still. But just after the Sect Master of the Sky Devouring Demon Sect obtained an extremely powerful magic weapon, the Sky Devouring Demon Sect swallowed up many other small demon sect gangs overnight, and now it has almost unified the entire Western Continent. After that, the Sky Devouring Demon Sect had been on the move, and finally made them wait for this day. They are bound to knock on the door of the Eastern Continent and bring their blood traditions to all corners of the Immortal Realm.
With the order of Commander Yang, the Heavenly Fire Envoys lowered the Heavenly Artillery in their hands one after another, the powerful recoil generated by this artillery device when firing is unacceptable to ordinary people, and only the copper and steel armor dedicated to the Heavenly Fire Envoy can withstand it, otherwise it will be broken.
The blazing red light circulated on the infusion device at the back end of the Yan Iron Long Cylinder, and the Heavenly Fire Envoys injected the Fire Attribute True Qi in their dantian into the Heavenly Artillery, gradually condensing into a high-temperature Flowing Flame Mass. The Flame Iron Barrel began to turn red-hot until white smoke erupted from two steady-flow vents at its foremost section.
Dressed in black armor and armed with black swords and shields, Demon Cult soldiers had already rushed forward to the battle. The Shadow Devourers with purple scythes on their right hand are hidden among the soldiers, and if they find the right moment, they will leap out of the queue and attack the Skyfire Array from above. Because above is the blind spot for these hoplites.
Sect Leader Yang didn't see the dust devouring of those yellow-brown vipers on their hands, and he guessed that these insidious demon cultists might once again be lurking underground, lurking somewhere around, and when the disciples of the Blazing Yuan Sect came out, they would deal the heaviest blow. They are not good at attacking, but they are good at defending and protecting the retreat of large forces.
"Boom!" The dark red light flashed out at the muzzle of the cannon, and the Heavenly Fire Envoys opened fire one after another, and the hot flow flame group erupted from the long barrel and flew towards the black array of soldiers. The flames rolled in the air, dark red flames leaping between them. If the Fire Ghost Huayang was standing next to the Heavenly Fire Envoys at this moment, he would definitely shout excitedly. The color of those flames was extremely close to the color of the heavenly fire, and only that color represented absolute power. That was the "Blazing Heavenly Fire" he longed for the most.
The Flame Cluster exploded among the Demon Cult soldiers, and the flying explosives were like lava in the center of the earth, and anything that came into contact with them would surely dissolve. There was a wail among the Demon Cult soldiers, and the men were stained with the heat of the blood, their armor was useless, and their flesh was exposed, turning into black charcoal in the dark red flames.
The Shadow Eaters were ready to jump, and they couldn't wait for the Celestial Fire to fire again before attacking, as the explosion of the Flame Mass created a wave of air that severely affected their movements while wearing purple soft armor with a skin on it. The Shadow Devourers burst out of the queue, gliding through the air for a short distance with the inertia of their jump. As they leaped, they adjusted the angle of their barbed scythes to attack directly at the part where the helmets of the Celestial Fire Heralds connected to their armor, which was their necks.
However, they miscalculated, and the fire ghost Huayang took into account the problem of rate of fire when designing the sky artillery, and deliberately used knotted copper and steel pipes to create an infusion device. In this way, when instilling true qi, the energy in the copper and steel pipes will not be used up at one time, and the Heavenly Fire Envoys will be able to open a second fire immediately after opening a fire. At the same time as this second fire, the Skyfire Heralds can recharge the third and fourth fires. That is, at maximum load, the firing of the day artillery will be continuous.
The high-temperature flame mass flew out again, drawing perfect curves from the upturned mouth of the long barrel, just hitting the leaping shadows. The skin and purple soft armor on their bodies were ignited, and they turned into burning men and fell into the crowd. Dark red skyfire spread through the ranks of Demon Cult soldiers, and they were disorganized, stumbling, and colliding.
After the third shot by the Flame Heralds, the first charge of the Demon Cult soldiers was finally stopped.
The dark red flames burned the western gap of the Blazing Yuan Valley, and the black locust-like tide was blocked, gradually collapsing towards the surroundings. Regiment Leader Yang stood in the middle of the Heavenly Fire Envoys with a blazing spear, like a tall statue.
But at this moment, a huge explosion swept through the battlefield, and everyone stared blankly into the depths of the Blazing Yuan Valley. Their brains were all buzzing, and a huge black mushroom cloud rose from there, engulfing the clouds of smoke. Due to the high temperature near the Blazing Yuan Valley, the snowflakes in the sky would turn into mist before they reached the ground, but this time, they didn't even have a chance to turn into mist, and the mushroom cloud swallowed everything.
"It's the real Skyfire!" Someone shouted in horror.
"The Sect Master has lit the Heavenly Fire!" There was a tremor in someone's voice.
Then, everyone fell silent, and they stared silently into the center of the mushroom cloud.
There, the dark red sky fire burned into a piece, and a black shadow dozens of meters high appeared behind the light.