Mei Qi is worthy of being a master who is dedicated to the study of the spirit array, although she is also very tempted by those treasures that can almost lose people's hearts, but she quickly came back to her senses, and saw that Old Ghost Yin had a tendency to pounce immediately, so she hurriedly grabbed his arm and shouted: "You calm down, although the treasure is tempting, it must be guarded by a powerful formation, we have to explore it first, otherwise it will definitely fall short!" ”

Her voice failed to wake up the old ghost Yin who was almost in a state of madness, but instead made his mood more irritable, but fortunately the old ancestor Yin and Shang Taijun next to him woke up, Yin old ancestor didn't say much, just the thumb of his right hand lightly touched the jade pillow point of the old ghost Yin, and the old ghost Yin fainted with a muffled snort, and at the same time, Shang Taijun also used the method of sound transmission to wake up the rest of the people.

Slightly relieved, Shang Taijun said: "Meiqi girl, you can find out, there is no powerful formation guard here." ”

Mei Qi nodded, closed her eyes and slowly released her divine thoughts to investigate carefully, while the rest of the people pretended to be ordinary disciples gathered to chat, for a long time, Mei Qi suddenly snorted, her whole body was shocked, she took a few steps back, and held her head in her hands to suppress the sound and roared.

Everyone was startled when they saw this, and when they were about to step forward to ask, they heard Mei Qi say intermittently: "Hurry up, let's go quickly, it's too late to explain, now, go back to Lu Yuan's residence first!" ”

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Dingfeng City, the Linghua army here has passed five days of letters, and when the sixth day has just passed, its sharp horn sound sounded over the whole city, which is the alarm of the enemy attack.

Suddenly, the city of Dingfeng was like a machine full of horsepower to run quickly, the ordinary people who went out returned home as quickly as possible, the shops that had just opened the door and were ready to open immediately closed the door, but it was only half a burnt incense, and the city was already closed, and every house was closed, and there was a dead silence.

And all the troops are orderly on the tall and thick city wall, standing on the head of the city in rows, staring coldly at the merchant army slowly approaching the city wall in the distance, one by one the crossbows have been wound, the catapults have been filled, the light blue hemispherical light mask of the city protection array has also been opened, and the battle is about to break out.

"Report ~~~ General, the enemy army has besieged the city on all sides, and it seems that the total strength of the siege has probably reached two million!" A scout quickly came to Dongfang Tianxiao to report.

Dongfang Tianxiao was not surprised when he heard this, and nodded calmly: "How are the preparations of the other three city walls?" ”

"It's all ready, and several generals say that it won't be a problem to hold the city!" Scout said.

Dongfang Tianxiao lightly ordered, "Everything is according to plan", then waved off the scouts, and cast his eyes on the merchant army in the distance.

Compared with the last two times, this time the merchant army is much stronger, perhaps because they know the difference in strength between the enemy and us, and the reason why they are full of confidence in their hearts, they are all majestic and high-spirited, as if the one million enemy troops in the ruins of Dingfeng City are already meat on the chopping block.

Five miles away from the city, at a command, all the merchant troops stopped in a neat sound, and then the formation was lined up in a hula-la, and three rows of thirty catapults were revealed, and the four walls were like this!

In the middle of the military formation, five towers stood out, almost the same height as the walls of Dingfeng City, and on each tower stood two columns of archers, a full twenty of them, and a number of shield bearers in between.

In addition, the siege equipment such as storming chariots, ramming vehicles, and personnel carriers were lined up, and the light and heavy infantry arrays were tightly organized, making a look of attacking the city at any time, Long Tianyue rode a horse and slowly came to the front of the military formation, and shouted towards the city: "Listen to the defenders of the city, you have been surrounded by our two million army regiments, and now this commander will give you a chance, as long as you open the city and surrender, this commander swears with the honor of a soldier that he will not kill any of them, otherwise, when the city is broken, it will be the day when all of you die!" ”

"Roar~~ Surrender and don't kill, surrender and don't kill, surrender and don't kill!" The millions of troops shouted in unison, and the momentum did have a deafening feeling.

At this time, a young man's hearty laughter sounded in the city: "Haha, Long Tianyue, after two defeats, you are still so ashamed, even if you give you two million troops, with your command ability, it is already very good not to bury all these two million brothers here, I advise you to go back early, fight thieves in the nameless wasteland in the north, that is your job." ”

As soon as these words were finished, there was a burst of laughter in Dingfeng City, and then all kinds of ridiculous language also sounded, and suddenly, Long Tianyue was half angry, and then remembered the insults and provocations of the enemy army in front of the battle these days, and the anger suddenly jumped up, and the soldiers under him were even more angry The three corpse gods jumped violently, and some of the irritable ones even scolded back.

Taking a few deep breaths and forcibly suppressing the anger in his heart, Long Tianyue pointed forward with his spear and shouted, "Catapult, attack!" ”

His voice poured Zhen Yuan's shout, and the merchant troops on all sides naturally heard it, and suddenly, the catapults on all sides let out a roaring sound, and a large piece of rune stone roared and smashed into the blue hemispherical light shield outside Dingfeng City.

The next moment, the expected roar did not sound, but a series of dull pops were heard, and those rune stones smashed on the mask could only cause the mask to produce a circle of ripples, and the explosion of the rune stones did not shake the mask itself in the slightest, and everyone knew that the attack did not cause much damage to the large array itself at this time.

Long Tianyue also barely calmed down, turned his head to look at an old man beside him, and handed over an inquiring look, the old man was silent for a long time, signaled Long Tianyue to continue the attack, the order was issued, the second round of catapult attacks began, the angry roar of the rune stone sounded again, and the blue light mask was still rippling in circles, although it had endured the attack of more than two hundred rune stones, but the large array seemed to be fine, which made the officers and soldiers of these Shang countries a little difficult to understand.

Long Tianyue looked at the old man again, but the old man still bowed his head and was silent, after a while, the old man nodded at Long Tianyue, signaling to continue the attack, Long Tianyue took a deep breath and continued to order the attack, and the roar of the rune stone sounded two rounds in a row, but the light mask was still stable, but the ripples were slightly larger.

This time, without waiting for Long Tianyue to ask, the old man took the lead in speaking: "The ninth-level first-level blue wave immeasurable array, which also fuses an eighth-level unloading array and a seventh-level scattered spirit array, therefore, our four consecutive rounds of rune stone attacks have little effect, it is estimated that if we want to break the formation with force, with the attack power of our current catapult, even if it is ten days, it may not be broken." ”

"Master Gu, doesn't that mean that we can't break the formation, after all, Ling Huajun is not a fool, standing there to fight us, even if it is for us, where can we get so many rune stones." Long Tianyue said urgently.

Master Gu smiled and said, "Hehe, with my Spirit Array Master's level, it is impossible to break the formation with skill, but we can concentrate all the attacks together to break the surface, which is much easier." ”

Hearing this, Long Tianyue slapped his palms and said, "That's right, why didn't I expect it, the herald, all the catapults will concentrate on the front to attack!" ”

At the head of the city, the scout quickly ran to Dongfang Tianxiao and reported: "General, the catapults in the east, west, and south directions are showing signs of moving north!" ”

Dongfang Tianxiao waved his hand to signal the scout to probe again, and then smiled and said to several generals around him: "Hehe, that Long Tianyue is still not stupid, he knows that he has to concentrate his attacks in one place, I originally thought that he would have to waste at least five rounds of rune stones to think of this, but I didn't expect to underestimate him, haha." ”

Gao Xuan smiled with some hope: "It seems that the general has already had a way to deal with it, you might as well tell us about it." ”

"Hehe, in a hard-fought battle like this, there is no skill at all, it is simply a matter of hard work, and the reason why we only arrange the ninth-level primary-level city protection array here is to break through for them, it is just a matter of time, and there is the price they need to pay." Dongfang Tianxiao said.

Li Qing blinked and said, "But General, you still haven't said that there is any defense against their kind of attack, although we are not afraid of scattered attacks, but if we concentrate on attacking, I am afraid that our large array will not be able to withstand it for long." ”

Gao Xuan smiled and said first: "The general has made it clear just now, senior sister, you don't think that so many things such as the Tsunami Heaven-Covering Rune Array, the Small Thousand Rune Array, and the Great Thousand Rune Array sent down by the sect master are used to scare people, and also, our catapults and city-guarding crossbows have not moved, the purpose is to wait for them to get together, so that they can exert the greatest effect." ”

Dongfang Tianxiao nodded when he heard this, secretly gave Gao Xuan a thumbs up in his heart, and said secretly: "There are still many talents in the Linghua Sect, as long as they are cultivated for a period of time, there are really a lot of people who are in charge of themselves." ”

Everyone just watched the movement of the merchant army under the city so quietly, with a relaxed look on their faces, and from time to time someone provoked the merchant army under the city a little, looking at the other party's angry appearance, they couldn't help laughing.

Soon, an hour passed, and the other three catapults were all transferred, and under the command of the generals, soon one hundred and twenty catapults lined up in array, and under the order of Long Tianyue, they launched the first round of attacks towards the area designated by Master Gu.

The black pressed a large piece of boulder and roared towards the big array, but Gao Xuan took a step forward and shouted: "First team, the tsunami covers the sky, rise!" ”

Nine hundred and ninety-nine spells were lit up, and a mysterious pattern was arranged in the air, and in a flash, it reached the outside of the light mask, and a huge wave was formed in front of those booming boulders, and when those rune stones with explosive effects smashed on the waves, they all made a plopping, fluttering sound of falling into the water, and there was also a sound of water and fire meeting, as more and more rune stones fell into it, the waves were rapidly getting smaller, and finally disappeared at the same time as the last rune stone.

Looking at the situation in front of him, Master Gu showed a smile on his face, and said lightly: "Our method is right, this kind of concentrated attack on the weakness of the formation method is indeed what the other party is worried about, otherwise, they will not use a talisman formation like a tsunami to resist it, marshal, I have two options for you to choose from, one may have a large loss, but it can speed up the speed of our formation, one loss is smaller, but the speed of breaking the formation is much slower, I don't know which one the marshal will choose?" ”

"Oh! Master Gu, tell me what are the two methods. Long Tianyue couldn't wait.

"First, the army continues to advance, close to the large array of light cover three miles, in this way, our siege ballista can play its due role, and in the case of heavy infantry cluster charge, it will inevitably make a large number of troops rush to the city, and when the time comes, coupled with the air attack of the strong men, it will definitely greatly consume the energy of the large array, saving us a lot of time to break the formation." Speaking of which, Master Gu did not continue.

Long Tianyue lowered her head and pondered when she heard this, and only said after a while: "This method is not appropriate, after all, the other party is a ninth-level large array, and Fang Lin's formation level is extremely high, I am afraid that breaking through the large array is not a matter of a moment and a half, I am only afraid that in the end, even if we break the truth, the remaining forces will not be able to attack the city, Ling Huazong's talisman and talisman array are not a joke." ”

Master Gu thought about it for a while and agreed with Long Tianyue's statement, and continued to speak: "The second word is to continue to fight a war of attrition with the other party, but if the catapult carries out a targeted attack under my guidance, the effect is much better, but..."

"Just what?" Long Tianyue asked eagerly.

"It's just that the nodes of the big array are not fixed, so the old man needs to stop and calculate at any time, and the grade of this big array is slightly beyond the old man's ability, so it will take a long time, hehe, but the old man very much hopes that you can choose this method, because through the induction and research of this big array, the old man is likely to break through the bottleneck in front of him!" Master Gu laughed.

When Long Tianyue heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she was overjoyed: "Oh! Wouldn't that be a good thing, it proves that the imperial court did not give us a specific time limit, since it is good for the master, then do what the master says, I believe, even if His Majesty knows it, he will be very happy. ”

Master Gu nodded, smiled with satisfaction, and was no longer hypocritical, and after ordering two more rounds of attacks, he sat down cross-legged, released his divine thoughts, and began to investigate.

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Three days later, in the residence of the inner disciple of the Linghua Sect, Mei Qi woke up slowly, looked at her in private with a blank look, and then couldn't help but sigh, Pei Shan, who was asleep at the head of her bed, immediately jumped up, looked at Mei Qi, who was still a little confused, and said happily: "You finally woke up, it's been three days, you scared us all to death, several ancestors have to come to see you almost every day, now it's okay, we can finally rest assured." ”

After a while, Meiqi's somewhat weak voice sounded: "Pei Shan, have you taken care of me for the past three days, thank you so much." She was going to do it.

"Hey, don't worry, I'll help you, you're still very weak, don't force it." Pei Shan hurriedly stepped forward to help her up, put a thick cushion on her back, and let her lean against the head of the bed before saying, "You rest first, I'll go get you a bowl of porridge, and by the way, I will also call the ancestors and them." ”

Meiqi smiled and nodded, and leaned on the head of the bed to close her eyes and rest for a quarter of an hour, which was a little relieved, and at this moment, Pei Shan pushed the door in, still holding a bowl of hot porridge in her hand, and a faint medicinal fragrance wafting out, obviously adding some medicinal materials that are currently good for Meiqi, came to the bed and sat down, and said with a smile: "Eat, this is specially made for you, this Ling Huazong is really wealthy, I used the contribution points of the guy I replaced to exchange for some god-nourishing medicinal materials, That's all high-grade good things, guess what, people just deducted contribution points, and didn't even ask, you know, if those medicinal materials are in our royal family, they don't have a comparable identity but they don't even have the qualifications to exchange. ”

Mei Qi smiled slightly, gently drank the small spoonful of fragrant medicinal porridge handed to her, her eyes widened suddenly, and she said in surprise: "Six-leaf requiem grass, it seems that there is also the taste of nourishing spirit dew, these are all rare things, how can they be directly exchanged for contribution points in Linghua Sect!?" ”

Pei Shan nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, I'm also quite surprised, and the cost is only 30,000 contribution points, which shows how valuable the contribution points of the Linghua Sect are, no wonder the cultivation of the disciples of the Linghua Sect has advanced so quickly in recent years, I have a feeling that if we fight for money, even our royal family will not be able to compare to this Linghua Sect!" ”

They also knew that these genius earth treasures that were impossible to artificially cultivate in the eyes of ordinary people had already been cultivated by a group of disciples of the Ling Hua Sect five or six years ago, and now the Ling Hua Sect had secretly opened up a large number of medicinal fields, and although the annual output was not high, these things were not rare.

After drinking a bowl of porridge, Meiqi's spirit was much better, and at this time, Yin Laozu and his party walked in, Shang Taijun sat directly next to Meiqi, took her hand and said kindly: "Girl, are you better?" ”

Meiqi's eyes were slightly red, and she said, "Thank you Taijun for your concern, Meiqi is much better." ”

Yin Lao Zu opened his mouth and said, "Girl, tell us what you encountered, how did you suffer such a great trauma to your soul." ”

Old Ghost Yin said eagerly: "Could it be that there is an old monster sitting there in that sect, and it was he who attacked your divine soul?" ”

Mei Qi sniffed lightly, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and said: "No, it's the guardian array there, I didn't expect that Fang Lin's formation attainment is much stronger than mine, and besides, he will actually arrange rare divine soul blocking formations and attack formations, my divine thoughts probed into the sect treasury unhindered at the beginning, and I have already discovered a ninth-level formation on the periphery, but as soon as I touched the big array inside, my divine thoughts were blocked, and the attack formation was launched immediately, following my divine thoughts to directly attack my divine soul, Fortunately, my divine soul power is much stronger than that of normal martial artists, so I forcibly cut off those previous divine thoughts at the last moment and broke away from that attack, otherwise, I would have become an idiot even if I didn't die. ”

"What, Ling Hua Sect is really too insidious, there is still such a method of arranging the formation, if we rashly use our divine thoughts to investigate, I'm afraid, we will all die unjustly on this!" Long Yuzhen said indignantly.

"By the way, I was attacked, and Ling Huazong must have received an alert, why, didn't they conduct a big search?" Maggie asked curiously.

"Hehe, those guys from the Linghua Sect don't know what they are thinking about in their minds, they actually thought that their disciples accidentally probed their divine thoughts into the big array, and gathered the disciples of the entire sect together and gave a solemn warning, and it just passed, you say, are they living too comfortably, and they are no longer vigilant." The green-robed old man said.

Shang Taijun frowned and said: "The old body always has a bad premonition, according to Mei Qi's description just now, it confirms the old body's idea, I'm afraid that Ling Huazong has already discovered our existence, just to not startle the snake, so he suppressed the matter." ”

"But, why did they do this, if they had discovered our existence a long time ago, wouldn't it be enough to immediately dispatch a strong man to arrest us, why should they suppress the matter!" Old Ghost Yin said with a disapprehensive face.

Hearing this, everyone not only frowned, but after a while, Pei Shan said tentatively: "I estimate that there are four possibilities, the first is that we have not been discovered at all, and Ling Hua Sect has had disciples who tried to probe the sect treasury with divine thoughts before and were attacked, so it is not surprising; Second, we were discovered, and the reason why they didn't move us was because their current strength was not enough, and they wanted to drag us with a delaying tactic and wait for the return of the strong men of the sect; Third, they don't move us, it's because they want to know our specific purpose, so they simply want to get away with it, and when we show our true purpose, that is, when the other party's strong person appears; Fourth, the rat bogey, after all, at this time in the Linghua Sect, and the strength of our people can be said to be quite strong, even if their strong people are sure to defeat or repel us, but there is no guarantee that this place will not be destroyed, so they will suppress the matter, and only wait for us to leave when they launch a fatal blow. ”

Hearing this, Old Ancestor Yin pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "What Pei Shan said is not bad, it is probably these four situations, but which one is it, this is quite important to us." ”

Long Yuzhen pondered and said: "The first situation can be ruled out, the reason is very simple, what Mei Qi said, the attack power of that formation is quite strong, even she has suffered a big loss, and even us, I am afraid that even if we don't die, we will have to shed our skin, then, these disciples of the inner door will definitely not be able to bear it, but they did not find the corpse, but they pressed the matter down, the so-called abnormal thing must have a demon, so, we must have been discovered." ”

Shang Taijun nodded when he heard this: "What you say is reasonable, we must not have any illusions, it is always good to make more preparations." ”

Long Yuzhen continued: "As for the second case, I also think it is impossible, a sect must have a strong person in charge at any time, think about it, if even the strong person in the town is not there, how big of a thing should the sect encounter?" But judging from Ling Huazong's performance now, it doesn't look like something big has happened at all. ”

Long Yuzhen didn't give others a chance to interject, and continued: "The third and fourth are the most likely, after all, our army has already fought with the Ling Hua Army, and at this time, so many of our strong people have touched the inside of other people's sects, they must have a big plan, if they don't figure this out, they won't be able to do it, after all, they don't know if we have any backs, and if people of our level are desperate to fight here, I'm afraid that the sweat of Ling Hua Sect for many years will come to naught." ”

After listening to his analysis, this time even the old ghost Yin, who had always been against him, nodded, and the green-robed old man said: "In this way, we are already under the surveillance of others now, so what should we do next?" ”

"Why don't we find a way to get out first? After all, our plan is impossible. The only man in the quasi-life and death realm spoke.

"Stupid, since everyone has already monitored us, how can they not know our actions, once we leave the range of Linghua Sect, we will inevitably be hit by a strong blow from the other party, and the first person to die at that time will definitely be you." Old Ghost Yin scolded viciously.

"That's right, we must not be able to do anything next, we can only temporarily lie dormant and wait for the opportunity, and find a way to contact the five people left behind in the city of Victory, so that they can pass on the situation here first, and let the court help think of a way." Yin Old Ancestor said lightly.

"At present, it seems that it can only be like this, hey, it's just a pity that the two chess pieces of Lu Yuan and Liu Yi were finally inserted into the inner gate of the Linghua Sect, and they were exposed like this." Long Yu Zhendao.

"Hmph, this time we launched an extermination operation against the Linghua Sect, and by then the Linghua Sect has been destroyed, what is the use of the inner disciples of this area?" Old Ghost Yin struck disdainfully.

When Long Yuzhen heard this, he just shook his head, and said lightly to Old Ghost Yin, "Idiot", and then turned his head away and ignored him, which made Old Ghost Yin furious.

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In the dense willow forest of the Huanhua Wetland, a figure flashed rapidly, the figure was extremely flexible, and it didn't even hit a willow branch, and suddenly, the figure stopped in a slightly larger clearing, revealing its true body.

It was a tall and thin man, dressed in a black suit, with a black scarf on his face, and even one of his hands was wearing black gloves, and on his left chest, a small man who was running quickly with a string of afterimages was embroidered with gold thread, which was the symbol of the Shadow Guard of the Yeyue Empire!

The man stood still and whistled rhythmically, but after a moment's effort, five black shadows rushed out of nowhere, all of them in black suits, black scarves and masks, except that the mark on their left chest was embroidered with white silk thread.

"I've seen the Commander!" Five people knelt on one knee at the same time.

The commander didn't speak, but raised his hand slightly, and asked lightly, "Why didn't the sixth and seventh come?" ”

"One of them strayed into the poisonous area, and the other fell into the mud pool, and they all died." One of them said lightly, as if the death of his companion had nothing to do with him.

"And what about the results of your investigation?" The Commander's voice was equally flat, as if he didn't care at all about the deaths of the two men.

"The five of us have found three safe paths that can travel a hundred miles." The man from earlier took out a simple map and handed it to the Commander.

The commander looked at the map and said dissatisfiedly: "Why did you find out the distance of a hundred miles, this is not like your style." ”

The man in black immediately defended: "My lord, it's not that we don't want to continue the investigation, but we found something strange, so we stopped the investigation!" ”

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