Chapter 263: Fighting a Strong Enemy
Although Zhang Fan chose to play this time, it was obvious that he had no intention of encountering the opponent on a large scale. Of course, what the other party worries about the most is the 30,000 Sea Dragon Clan's large array dominated by the strength of the combined powerhouse, and the opponent who can pose a great threat to him can also hide among these 30,000 enemies at any time and launch a fatal blow at any time. The strength of joining forces is far greater than dealing with one of them.
But there is no doubt that he is not without an advantage, that is, the average power of his puppet is around the level of the early stage of Mahayana, and the maneuver speed is obviously superior to the opponent's overall maneuvering ability. If the opponent does not plan to rely on only a few pioneers to chase them to death, it is very suitable for kite tactics to weaken the number of cannon fodder of the opponent to a safe level first. It's like an adult man who doesn't know martial arts and is not proficient in fighting, or who has a spear but no armor, and is besieged by a hundred junior elementary school students with sharp blades, or an ordinary sanda athlete who is besieged by dozens of ordinary people. Mage tactics are also clearly different from deliberate evasion.
Therefore, after Zhang Fan flashed out of the Qiankun Shield, he quickly began to use the energy in the Qiankun Shield to cast an unusual phantom thunder technique, on the one hand, like hundreds of puppets around him, he launched a physical attack against the target with two or three percent of the energy and even a unique hidden weapon, and at the same time, he also launched a combined array attack of the phantom thunder technique. In this way, Zhang Fan was able to use the recoil to quickly retreat while launching an attack.
Zhang Fan and even the puppets around him stepped into the Mahayana realm, even at a speed of hundreds of thousands of times the speed of sound, overcoming that air resistance with a unique spiritual power rune would not consume much energy at all. The targets of the five or six hundred puppets and even Zhang Fan himself were also placed on some of the strongest people of the Mahayana early stage level who were closest to him.
It seemed to feel that although the number of puppets around Zhang Fan and even the surrounding ones was small, they had a huge advantage in terms of joint strength, so after just breaking free from the illusion, the three major dragon formations of the entire Sea Dragon Clan gradually gathered together, ready to jointly launch an overwhelming attack. Under the attack of countless water knives and arrows, Zhang Fan and even the heavy puppets around him had to flee to an altitude of about seventy or eighty miles.
The attack sent out by the 10,000 dragon formation was already like the attack of a Mahayana powerhouse, and it seemed that it could still approach dozens of miles in the blink of an eye from within the sea surface like light radiation in a very short period of time. At this time, of course, Zhang Fan didn't care, a thousandth of a second or even a ten-thousandth of a second was enough to deal with it by himself, but many puppets in the early Mahayana period were a little worse, and under the fierce attack of the opponent, there were soon twenty or thirty puppets in the early stage of Mahayana who lost one after another in the fierce attack.
Zhang Fan also seemed to realize at this time that the other party, as a sub-top-level powerhouse of this plane, would certainly not have encountered the guerrilla tactics of Mahayana powerhouses in the past. It seems that the way you use the puppet is obviously a bit backward...
But fortunately, Zhang Fan at this moment was of course also prepared for this, and in the blink of an eye: the more than five hundred Mahayana early stage puppets around Zhang Fan were combined in a very short period of time like Transformers, and wrapped themselves in a special position, forming a giant about ten meters high.
During this period, the 10,000 people of the Sea Dragon Clan who were chasing after each other launched a fierce attack again. Arrows of water that radiated like light struck in an instant. However, at this moment, Zhang Fan was able to gather the energy of more than 500 Mahayana early level puppets to perform illusions and even defense together with his own energy.
Although with the opponent's powerful combined array attack, even if he made such a response, if he was really hit, it was still very likely that he would suffer a heavy blow, but at this moment, Zhang Fan's ability to defend against illusions still exceeded his own expectations to a certain extent. Although the ability to disguise the true location of these puppets has been reduced after merging with themselves, it has also misjudged the strong man who commanded the Sea Dragon Clan's formation to a certain extent by shaping a form that is not equal to the real one, and only about two percent of the energy hits, and was resisted by the spiritual defense spell of the powerhouse that Zhang Fan gathered that was comparable to the twelve grades of Mahayana.
At the same time, with the help of the unique recoil of the opponent's attack, Zhang Fan finally pulled the distance between him and the other party to a relatively safe distance, and it seemed to be within a just right range: although the opponent's continuous attacks could threaten him and consume his own energy, they could not form a hazard to himself at a distance of about 20,000 miles.
However, his illusion thunder attack was different: Zhang Fan only felt at this time that after his years of research on the exercises in the Qiankun Shield, and even the auxiliary effect with the help of super intelligent civilization, the attack mode of the illusion thunder technique at this time had reached an almost incomparable level: even if the opponent formed a 10,000-person array, as long as the strength was not obviously overwhelming, he would still be able to penetrate the opponent's combined array defense and focus on attacking the few people whose strength was relatively poor.
In this case, the effect of a single attack does not seem to be obvious, and the use of it can only kill and injure the opponent's combined powerhouses ranging from a dozen to dozens of them, or in other words: either severely damage the opponent, or make the opponent not recover in the predictable battle time.
In this way, the battle between the two sides became a very rare war of attrition within the Mahayana level of strength, rather than a quick decisive battle in seconds. It seemed that the two sides were like a group of lower-level cultivators refining qi or building foundations, and only launched a decisive attack every one or two seconds to a few seconds or so. The distance between the two sides fluctuated from far and near, but Zhang Fan, with his super calculation and control ability, skillfully made the distance between the two sides not close to 15,000 miles, and the farthest was not far from 23,000 miles. After hundreds of rounds of confrontation, more than 2,000 Sea Dragons of the Sea Dragon Clan's Ten Thousand Dragons Array had lost their combat effectiveness. Although this may not seem like a small number compared to the tens of thousands, this type of engagement seems to be somewhat disadvantageous to us in modern times. Although the casualties didn't seem to be many for a while, the energy consumed by a Mahayana-level powerhouse in a hundred or so attacks or so was huge, even if there were three Ten Thousand Dragon Formations that were consumed in turn.
At this time, the mysterious Mahayana powerhouse who was hiding in the Sea Dragon Clan's large array and was ready to deal with Zhang Fan seemed to have sensed the hesitation of the entire Sea Dragon Clan at this time, and began to cast unique mental spells to affect the key Sea Dragon Clan leaders. There was a huge difference in the cultivation of the two sides, and because the Sea Dragon Clan was focused on Zhang Fan's body, they didn't take into account that they had been infiltrated unconsciously, and they really had some subtle influences.
"I remember: I've heard some news about this Terran monk, and it is said that this person has such a powerful cultivation in just one or two hundred years, and it is said that there is a mysterious treasure on his body. Able to quickly improve their cultivation strength. If the Sea Dragon Clan can get such a treasure, even if it is about half of the cost of the loss, it will be worth it, hurry! We have consumed a lot of energy, and there shouldn't be much of the energy left of the Terran monk... ”
In this case, it is obviously inappropriate to use it as a morale boost in the human organization. Humans who have evolved and competed tend to have some sense and selfishness, and they will not be happy to hear that the leader treats him as cannon fodder, even if he is cannon fodder that can be sacrificed casually. However, the Sea Dragon Clan is a kind of collective thinking creature that is different from the human race, and it will regard the interests of the whole clan as its own interests, so when such ideas are transmitted, they don't feel much inappropriate, so they also stepped up their overdraft and pursuit at this time.
In order to be able to increase the critical speed, some of the Dragon Returning Clans who cultivated underground even took the initiative to leave the team regardless of the risk of casualties and losses. About half of these Sea Dragon Clans were killed or severely injured by Zhang Fan as soon as they broke away from the big array. In this way, it seems that the strength advantage of the Sea Dragon Clan is not negligible. But obviously: in exchange for huge benefits, the pursuit speed of the Ten Thousand Dragons Array was significantly increased at this time.
Zhang Fan didn't feel too worried about this, since the other party chose this way, Zhang Fan also let some puppets enter the Qiankun Shield from the inside, and the speed of the giant puppets that he controlled with spiritual power and spiritual power was also increased by equal proportions. In this way, although Zhang Fan's attack seemed to be a little weaker than before, it still had the ability to break through the defense of the opponent's Ten Thousand Dragons Array and cause damage.
In this way, the fierce battle in the pursuit lasted for a total of about a quarter of an hour, and a 10,000-strong dragon array with nearly 10,000 people had to temporarily withdraw its formation under this circumstance because of the loss of about 5,000 casualties, and it was assigned to 12,000 and 13,000 sea dragons, and two slightly larger 10,000 people really launched a pursuit against Zhang Fan.
After seemingly perceiving that the frequency of Zhang Fan's counterattack was slightly elongated by common sense, the mysterious Mahayana powerhouse who felt that he could roughly judge the true location of the target's center of gravity finally did not intend to continue to hide at this moment: any normal Mahayana monk, after launching three hundred attacks that were close to the full force of one blow, the remaining energy must have reached a dangerous situation, so he also felt that this was a good opportunity to make a move. Otherwise, if the other party feels too dangerous and really chooses to flee or fly a kite at a long pace, then I am afraid it will bring more unnecessary risks to themselves.
The Mahayana monk of the Hell Realm, who no longer cared about it, finally made a move at this moment. When he made a move, a thin black line composed of thousands of black needles tens of meters long shot out from the untraceable scale, and it was violently projected towards the center of gravity where Zhang Fan's puppet was located at a radiant speed. That silk thread seemed to be difficult to detect even in front of an ordinary merging monk, and it had a natural stealth attack ability.
Obviously: as a Mahayana level powerhouse, both magic weapons and exercises have been constantly evolving in the process of enlightenment and refinement, although it may not be as scientific as Zhang Fan's phantom thunder technique, but it is not comparable to the attack routines of many middle and low-level monks with more formalism. Even Zhang Fan's spiritual power at this time did not notice anything unusual when the radiant black thin line approached a distance of about 1,000 miles from the puppet's center of gravity. It's just that Zhang Fan's superintelligence assisted him with the help of the alarm, and he still judged an inexplicable danger at the first time.
Of course, Zhang Fan didn't hold it up, and after feeling the danger that seemed to be of the second highest level, he tried his best to dodge in a relatively safe direction of his consciousness, and faced the Qiankun shield to the front of his body. The reason why he didn't hide in the Qiankun Shield again this time was that Zhang Fan also realized that he couldn't rely too much on this method, otherwise it might have a rather adverse impact on his future cultivation process.
The imperceptible black light didn't seem to have much surface reaction when it hit the puppet giants about ten meters high, but in the time that only about a thousandth of a second had passed, the giants composed of the entire five hundred Mahayana early stage puppets were completely scattered at this moment, and the more than thirty puppets that were directly hit seemed to be swallowed up in an instant, and disappeared without a trace. There was no huge explosion light, but that kind of power seemed to show a completely different momentum from the early Mahayana monks, and Zhang Fan's position was completely exposed at this moment.
Of course, with such an obvious attack, Zhang Fan relied on his supercomputing power to pass on the reaction transmitted to him through different puppets, and he also locked the location of the mysterious powerhouse at the first time. At this moment, there was no hesitation, and he concentrated the power of more than four hundred puppets close to five hundred in the early stage of Mahayana with all his strength, together with his own spiritual power and spiritual power, to launch the illusion thunder technique to fight back as quickly as possible, and slightly adjusted some illusion content that was perfected at the fastest speed when attacking.
As early as when he was practicing in the illusion space within the Qiankun Shield, Zhang Fan understood that there should be different nature of illusion content for monks of different nature to achieve the best effect. Of course, under normal circumstances, it is often difficult to understand the psychology and even experience of an opponent with similar strength to oneself in a battle. Generally speaking, there are three common illusion scenarios that are most effective: for opponents who are weaker than you and scattered and fleeing, it is suitable for scenario misunderstandings, like a maze that makes the opponent feel like they are fleeing, but in fact they are getting closer to themselves or concentrating. For opponents whose strength is close or not too large, it is suitable for the Thunder Tribulation Illusion, and for the opponent whose cultivation is even likely to be stronger than his own strength, it is the illusion of defeating himself in the whole process, and it is best to combine it with other scenarios.
However, when Zhang Fan's illusory thunder technique attacked instantly, the mysterious Mahayana powerhouse seemed to have seen through Zhang Fan's illusion in an instant, and sensed the illusion. However, when he finally launched a counterattack, he found that he was facing not only the illusion of the scene, but also the illusion of displacement defense. In an instant, Zhang Fan seemed to be hidden in the loose puppet array again.
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