Chapter 99: Breaking the Barrier
Some of the building techniques and tools on the Boundless Continent are not as good as those of the West Sea, but because they were relatively rich and prosperous compared to most places in ancient China, even in these medium-sized cities with a population of three million, which are not too high-level, the central tower has a decent scale. It's much grander than similar Shanyang Castle. In the dark night, the entire pagoda is as high as 100 zhang, and the diameter close to the bottom is about 20 zhang, even in modern times, there may be only a few skyscrapers that can be compared. Moreover, Zhang Fan secretly investigated with his spiritual power, and many places in this pagoda were made of steel pillars and steel beams. Of course, Zhang Fan also knew the mechanism arranged.
The battlefield information advantage is extraordinary, this may be the biggest difference between immortal cultivators in the real sense and the Jianghu martial arts world, but since it is said that internal qi is not allowed to be released, Zhang Fan has no intention of breaking his word. Although he could see all the arrangements inside from the outside, Zhang Fan was still very bold to enter directly through the only "dead door" in the tower. There is no tunnel trap to deal with this kind of Jianghu warriors as before, and he directly "opens the door" from above like a tomb robber and digs directly into his henchmen.
In fact: it is not that in history, the martial arts people in this city who have not dealt with immortal cultivators know that in the face of real monks, ordinary organs and tunnels are useless. Therefore, the underground fortifications of the central tower are not distributed in a certain depth, but along the periphery of a radius of about 20 zhang to the distance of about 100 zhang underground, forming a three-dimensional cylindrical pattern like an iceberg in the underground position, and the four walls of the underground part seem to be inferior or medium military standard steel with a thickness of more than three feet. Although the grade of steel is not high, it is still somewhat surprising that it can estimate the use of hundreds of thousands of tons to form such a large cast body in this medium-sized city.
Zhang Fan browsed roughly with his spiritual power, and did not exceed his expectations too much: four Inner Gate peak masters were deployed at the top of the tower, and there were also at least ten Inner Gate peak masters between the fourth and seventh grades accompanying those four Inner Gate peak masters. Others, just some people at the peak level of the outer gate are deployed around each floor, obviously just some people who operate the mechanism, and the real combat power is not in those people but in the mechanism.
When Zhang Fan just entered from the door of death, he felt the dark and dense poisonous smoke and miasma in the air, there seemed to be some pathogenic gases that were different from the poison itself, and countless complex curtains from the sky arranged the space inside each layer like a complex labyrinth, making it difficult for ordinary people to find the ambushers who were a foot away from them. In many places, on the ground or on the roof, there are also hidden weapon mechanisms with the power level of bed crossbows.
All of this was almost no threat to Zhang Fan from the trench-like arrangement of ordinary Jianghu martial artists, and even if he didn't use the external internal qi to go out of the pores, those poisonous miasma and germs didn't seem to pose much of a threat.
In the face of those spears and arrows whose muzzle velocity limit is only half the speed of sound and bursts from a distance of less than a zhang or so, even if the body cannot completely dodge at such a close distance, it is often faced with an ambush of several bed crossbow level spears and arrows within one zhang at the same time, and can also calmly deal with it through the Qiankun shield and the short sword around him, and even twist the body.
At the same time, the position of the warriors in the concealed compartment could not escape Zhang Fan's perception at all, and in the face of the body technique that was not inferior to the speed of the top crossbow arrows, it was often solved one by one by one in just a second. Solving the arrangement of the organs in the first floor that is like a moat for ordinary masters of the rivers and lakes is only a few seconds or so for Zhang Fan at this time. In this way, in just a few minutes, more than 200 peak masters of the outer gate who were ambushed within the sixty floors were swept away by Zhang Fan. Even if the later people have a great geographical advantage to hold the exit of each layer, it seems to be useless, and some masters who have the speed of about half the speed of sound at the tip of the blade, Zhang Fan in the combat state at this time also seems to be like the speed of an ordinary old man practicing Tai Chi in the park, and it is very easy to be solved in a short time by the short sword. Even: many people can't even react effectively when Zhang Fan breaks out of the closed exit between the layers.
However, when he was approaching the top floor, he finally encountered some opponents who seemed to be barely decent, that is, the four inner gate peak masters at the top of the city under the masters of the Transformation Realm. These masters don't even bother to use standard swords when they fight with people on the rivers and lakes in their daily battles. But when faced with a master of the transformation realm who is likely to be much stronger than himself, he still has no taboo to use hidden weapon methods, and even fully armed slats and two-handed swords, and he has no demeanor at all as a top Jianghu master.
When Zhang Fan had just broken out of the lid and appeared in the center of the hall with a radius of about ten zhang on the top floor, the fierce fire dragon spewed out from the top of the sky and even from at least three directions around, forming a range of cross flame flamethrower fire array. As the saying goes, "Immortals are hard to beat" is obvious: for the masters of the transformation realm, the people in this city no longer have any reservations to open the fire array.
It's just that these people still seem to obviously underestimate Zhang Fan's reaction ability and speed, and even his ability to resist at this time. At this time, Zhang Fan's inner cultivation has reached the level equivalent to about thirty grades of the outer gate, although he has not yet entered the foundation building realm, but because of the previous two martial arts extreme realms, his strength is almost equal to that of the master who has just entered the foundation building realm. It has a minimum of resistance to ordinary flames and even high temperatures that can threaten steel. It's just that Zhang Fan is not willing to fully expose his ability in this area at this time.
The flames that erupted from above seemed to be approaching first than the other directions, and Zhang Fan was on top with the Qiankun shield, bouncing at an angle. It was easy to block the threat of the fire dragon sprayed from the top, and at the same time dodged the cross-attack brought by the fire dragon in the other three directions.
As soon as the firelight ended, and the air was still scorching, the four Inner Gate Peak Masters also unfolded their totals like lightning at this time. Before putting on the armor and holding the two-handed sword, a wave of hidden weapons that were manipulated by internal force were attacked, and dozens of metal light points began to attack from all directions. These people seem to understand very well: in the face of a master whose strength is likely to be much stronger than his own, rushing over rashly is just sending meat to the door, and there is a slight possibility of creating opportunities for the guerrilla in multiple directions. Of course, the distance should not be too far apart.
If it's just a master of the second or third grade of the transformation realm, without using the internal qi and external release, maybe he will really fight a lot of rounds with the peak masters of the inner gate who are good at combining four people. Of course, Zhang Fan has the ability to directly attack these people with sound waves, but in order not to expose his too high strength, he still reluctantly followed these people, and roughly tested the number of ways and tried to do his best.
After about a moment of effort, Zhang Fan's body speed increased slightly, and several people could no longer parry. When Zhang Fan suddenly approached one of them, even the others who were not far away had no time to rescue. And if they were gathered together, they would not be able to give full play to everyone's combat effectiveness at all, and they were quickly defeated by Zhang Fan one by one.
One of them recalled that Zhang Fan had easily fought on the top of the tower along the way to the top of the tower until now, and seemed to be tired at all, and seemed to realize something: "You are not a chemical at all... ”
It's just that before this person finished speaking, he fainted under Zhang Fan's direct attack. The other three people desperately fled to the three secret passages that escaped not far away, but they did not escape the sweep of the second sonic attack, and fell not far from the escape tunnels at the top of the tower.
"You haven't done too much for the time being, I'll spare you for the time being, just let you rest for a few days... Zhang Fan said with a smile.
Of course, Zhang Fan could also detect some underground conditions a mile away at the top of the hundred-zhang tower, and at this time, he did not hesitate to jump out of the window outside the hundred-zhang height, and flew down at a faster speed than ordinary people, just like a ballista that was thrown down. It was only when he was about to approach the ground that his speed suddenly decreased as if he had encountered an obstacle like a spring bed, and his body fell lightly to the ground, and he was transferred from a height of 100 zhang to the ground in a few seconds.
Zhang Fan was too lazy and time-consuming, and of course he planned to open the door and attack the core directly, so after diving down and easily drilling into the soil, he didn't have much time to approach the rock layer more than 20 meters underground. Even if the body strength is 9,000 to 10,000 times that of an ordinary person, it is somewhat inconvenient to sneak like a swim in the granite of more than 200 megapascals. But even so, the granite that looks like ordinary steel and even the three-foot-thick underground steel shell is just a little dry mud. In just half a minute, the three-foot steel arm was directly dug out of a big hole by Zhang Fan with both hands and flew in. i
Almost at the same time, the Inner City Transformation Realm Cultivator who seemed to be in the distance before, along with more than a dozen Inner Gate masters, also suddenly rushed from a distance to the position where Zhang Fan intended to break through. When Zhang Fan just revealed his figure, he encountered more than a dozen rune seals shot with special mysterious crossbow arrows.
From those crossbow arrows and even the body of the talisman seal, Zhang Fan felt some unusual spiritual power fluctuations. Under normal circumstances, monks who are not above the transformation realm cannot effectively urge even the minimum rune seals, and it is difficult to say whether they have this ability or not, and these people are undoubtedly through special treasures so that ordinary masters of the rivers and lakes can also use this kind of immortal method.
"No wonder I knew that I might be a third- or fourth-grade monk in the Transformation Realm before, and I was still so confident?" At this time, Zhang Fan no longer dared to slack off: If you borrow external power, or power that does not belong to your level, there is no need for me to stick to the agreement with you. A lightning bolt of thought appeared in the ears of the realm warrior, including the avatar, and then under the fierce internal qi transformation attack, the more than ten people were swept away in the blink of an eye. The talisman flying in the air approached Zhang Fan, and it seemed that the aura had dimmed a lot. The Yellow Soul Ring Warlock's level spell use ability, coupled with the spiritual power of the early Jindan realm, weakened a lot of energy when those talismans approached him. But even so, there were still four runes that flew into Zhang Fan's body, and Zhang Fan could only quickly condense the multiple lines of defense composed of his aura, internal qi, and spiritual power to resist.