Chapter 39: Retreat Again
The attack of the Lintian Heavenly Camp approached again almost in a second. When the six hundred Outer Gate Nine Rank Peak Masters used the same technique suitable for large-scale joint attacks to launch a combined array attack, even if Zhang Fan only relied on his original combat strength to cultivate, he could only retreat.
Of course, Zhang Fan also had a rough estimate in his heart before breaking out of the Qiankun Shield: the strength of the ordinary inner door three-rank master is equivalent to the twelve grades of the outer gate, considering the extreme realm of the outer gate, it is equivalent to the fourteenth grade of the outer gate; the spiritual power that exceeds the conventional eleven levels as high as twenty-one ranks brings a bonus of about five and a half grades, the bonus of exercise experience brought by Zhang Ruzhen in the previous life is equivalent to two grades, and the defense of the Qiankun shield is one grade, so his strength advantage compared with the ordinary outer gate nine-rank peak master is thirteen grades.
Two and a half times the thirteenth power is about 149,000 times the single strength advantage, and at most it is impossible to fight against the top perfect square law advantage formation of three hundred and eighty-six people, and it is impossible to attack against the combination of six or seven hundred masters equivalent to the peak of the nine grades of the outer gate, without relying on some prepared pressure box bottoms and even some unique means.
Fortunately, after his spiritual power reached the twenty-first level, Zhang Fan's ability to respond to opportunities and even choose attack methods was no longer what it used to be, and he quickly thought of a general attack method.
If you use your own cultivation to fight against the combined formation of these hundreds of masters at a distance of about 100 steps, I am afraid that you will not be able to get any bargains. Sonic exercises can't do much damage at such a distance, and it is impossible to ignite the incendiary material that is controlled by internal force. And the effect of the hundred-step white-bladed shadowless needle technique on the distance beyond a hundred steps for prepared masters will also be greatly reduced. And even at a distance of one hundred and twenty steps, in the face of the group of hidden weapons that seemed to have a certain tracking ability that continued to attack one after another, Zhang Fan had to dodge with all his strength to defuse the opponent's attack.
However, during the interval of the opponent's attacks, Zhang Fan was still able to skillfully use the internal force manipulation technique to combine the poisonous gas he had accumulated and controlled before and even the charcoal gas in the Qiankun shield, and quietly approached a place not far from the vicinity of those outer gate masters' large arrays, and through more than a dozen rounds of continuous manipulation and adjustment, he made these combustible gases quietly approach to a distance of at least hundreds of targets.
Although you can't ignite gas with sound waves at this distance, it's completely different when you use a flying needle that burns red with alcohol as a firestarter.
In this way, after continuously resisting more than 20 rounds of joint attacks from the Lintian Heavenly Camp from a distance, Zhang Fan instantly controlled the flying needle with the light of fire to fly to the empty space near the hundreds of targets.
"That's not right! Why is that master's attack so inaccurate? It seems that he will not be hit by the fire needle at all?"
Just when people were a little surprised, a series of violent explosions erupted, and the fire gas accompanied by the poisonous gas completely lost the combat effectiveness of seventy or eighty outer masters in a very short period of time.
Although the personnel were only reduced by one-eighth or nineth, the combat effectiveness and strength of the combined array were reduced to seven or eight percent of the original number. This finally gave Zhang Fan a chance to take advantage of the interval between attacks to approach a distance of about 100 steps, manipulate the poisonous gas absorbed from the previous Tianluo Net, and directly attack the opponent with the cover of the sonic exercises, which began to make more and more people lose their combat effectiveness. The situation of confrontation is also changing in favor of Zhang Fan.
There is no doubt that with the ability to use external objects, Zhang Fan's advantage over the opponent's average strength obviously exceeds the advantage of the fourteenth grade, and he finally began to have the ability to overwhelm the formation of hundreds of people at the same time.
In the course of the confrontation, Zhang Fan's side was also continuously shot by several ordinary soldiers with nine-stone crossbows and even six-stone strong bows. It's just that the internal strength brought by his own internal strength is now equivalent to the inner door five rank realm, and the defense power of his body itself is not what it used to be, and the bow and crossbow that is comparable to the energy of a carbine or a long-distance modern rifle only leaves a few flesh wounds like the invisible weapon of an untrained ordinary person throwing light darts after penetrating the stainless steel armor he wears, and now under the control of his own spiritual power and the bloodline under the influence of internal force, although he sees red, there is not much blood flowing out.
The average strength of the ordinary officers and soldiers of the Great Xia Dynasty in Shanyang City is a little more than that of the Four Nations Alliance, but the strength of the troops is obviously small, but the average strength of more than 30,000 is only the outer gate and the three grades of the martial army, in just a stick of incense time, hundreds of hundred steps, hundred blades, shadowless needle strength of the attack, basically lost its combat effectiveness. After the defeat, the Lintian Tianying no longer dared to fight, and withdrew in the direction of Lintian City as quickly as possible.
Zhang Fan planned to start a pursuit battle at the beginning, or a strong offensive battle, after all, with his current cultivation, the marching speed would definitely exceed that of the Lintian Heavenly Battalion, even if the other party could rest with the carriage relay, it should not be able to catch up with him, or at least on a journey of six thousand miles, he could use a year or so to try to raise his spiritual power to the level of the twenty-second order, and improve his own cultivation to the fourth rank of the inner gate, which is equivalent to the level of the sixth rank of the inner gate? If this is the case, he should be able to easily win against those remnants of the Lintian Heavenly Battalion.
However, somehow, when he remembered that the simulations in the shield were often huge, going one way at a time, changing different Lintian Palaces, Zhang Fan was still a little vigilant at this time. This feeling made Zhang Fan think that maybe there was indeed some crisis and danger in the Lintian Emperor's Palace that even a master of the peak level of martial arts could not deal with?
And at this time, Zhang Fan also felt that when he got out of the trap of the iron-making furnace and even a series of big battles before, he did not let the slightest poisonous gas invade his body, and it seemed that there were still some hidden dangers in his body now, and he needed to spend a few hours to completely resolve them.
If it is calculated in this way, it seems that he will not be able to catch up in time, and he should first improve some realms in the Qiankun Shield, so that his cultivation can reach the level of the peak of the nine grades of the inner gate, and return to the realm of Zhang Ruzhen in his previous life, and at the same time, let his spiritual power increase to the level of at least about the twenty-third order. If that's the case, he can say that he has the strength of a Metamorphosis Realm master or a junior immortal cultivator, so maybe whether it's going to the Heavenly Emperor's Palace, the True Martial Sect, the Yunshan Sect, or even the legendary very low-key and mysterious Phantom Girl Island, he will be more sure?
At the same time, Zhang Fan also thought of Xia Yumeng and the others, and somehow felt a little nervous in his heart. Because according to Zhang Fan's understanding, Xia Yumeng is only a woman with an ordinary heart at most at the upper middle level, not to mention that she is spotless and unearthly like Xiaolongnu, and it is difficult to say whether she can withstand this test.
Thinking of this, Zhang Fan raised enough supplies and even some other materials and left Shanyang City, leaving Shanyang for a long distance to find a place that seemed to be very hidden, and then sneaked into the shield again for what might be the last retreat in this low-martial world.