Chapter 579: Exhaustion of troops
Yudong Front.
A sword light came from the south, attracting the pale yellow qi of heaven and earth, and the vast and domineering will, bombarded the cyan array in front of him.
The big array faced the sword light and resisted hard for a while, but in the end it still couldn't hold it up, and a hole was broken.
"Kill me!"
Lu Yuan raised his head to the sky and let out a long roar, and then took the lead, his sword light galloped, and he smashed into the front formation.
Behind him, three immortal rays of light flickered, leading thousands of escapes, and followed closely and killed them.
Buzzing!
Lu Yuan waved the Taiping Immortal Sword in his hand, and thousands of sword qi flew out, rampage through the great array, and everything in his path was destroyed.
In the blink of an eye, dozens of evergreen disciples who had no time to escape were affected by the sword qi and took their lives in an instant.
"Taiping thief, Hugh is rampant!"
In the distance, a real person from the Evergreen Immortal Sect who was presiding over the Great Array, when he saw the scene of his own disciples being slaughtered at will, he couldn't help but blush, and his eyes erupted with fire.
With a roar, the power of the surrounding large array gathered towards him, instantly raising his cultivation to the level of an earth immortal.
The Great Array of Earth Immortals is known as being able to resist Earth Immortals, which is naturally extraordinary.
This kind of means of blessing one's body with the power of the formation, thereby increasing the combat power, is some of the magic of the use of the Earth Immortal Great Array.
temporarily increased his strength, and the evergreen real person in front of him also had the qualifications to fight with Lu Yuan.
But obviously.
How can this kind of external power be compared to the mana that others have cultivated in a down-to-earth manner?
This has only been more than a hundred rounds, and the two sides have passed dozens of magical powers, and the evergreen real person in front of him is a little unable to support it.
The mana on his body was scattered, and the realm where the formation was temporarily gathered began to slowly collapse because the formation was constantly destroyed.
This human immortal is also unable to control the power comparable to that of the earth immortal because of the lack of realm, and a large amount of mana is wasted in vain between fighting methods because it cannot be restrained.
"Two senior brothers help me!"
Seeing the crisis, this evergreen real person also flashed a trace of fear in his eyes, and couldn't help shouting loudly.
"Senior brother, don't panic, senior brother is here!"
"Lu Zhangjiao, eat my trick!"
At this time, in the two places of the big array, the two Evergreen Town Guards Immortals who were sitting in the other two countries, at this time, after dealing with some Taiping Dao disciples in the invasion array, also hurriedly rushed over and fought against the enemy with their own junior disciples.
In an instant, there were two more temporarily improved Earth Immortal combat power in the field, and Lu Yuan fell into the dilemma of one against three.
"Haha, it's a good time, I'm afraid that you won't succeed!"
Seeing this, Lu Yuan was not afraid at all, laughed loudly, and raised his sword to kill again.
He is now a cultivator in the middle stage of the Earth Immortal, and he will not have the slightest fear at all to deal with the three parallel goods who barely rely on the power of the formation to have the power of the Earth Immortal.
Don't talk about yourself, even the clones of Qingguanzi, even if the clones are parallel goods and immortals, but they are also parallel goods, and there is a difference between high and low.
Obviously.
The Dao Fruit Immortal Weapons of the clones are more than one step stronger than these Formation Earth Immortals who don't even have Dao Fruits.
The clones can abuse these parallel goods, and Lu Yuan abuses them, which is even more relaxed.
Not to mention that with one enemy and three, he will defeat the immortals in a row, and he will not be able to do anything at all.
However, Lu Yuan didn't have the idea of breaking through the defenses of the Evergreen Immortal Sect so quickly, and it would not be beneficial for him to break through the defense line of the domain east in front of him at this time.
Therefore, when he fought against these three Evergreen Immortal Sect formation hosts, he consciously retracted his strength and did not go all out.
It's just that he controls his mana and supernatural powers to the extent that he can barely fight with the three parallel earth immortals at the level of a newcomer who has just broken through the earth immortals.
In this way, in the eyes of outsiders, that is the scene where he and these three formation earth immortals have fought back and forth, and the two sides are evenly matched.
After fighting for nearly an hour, it is estimated that the other party should not be able to support it.
Lu Yuan's immortal sword flicked, and the sword light forced the three people in front of him to retreat, and then put the sword into the sheath, looked at the other party and said: "Today's battle is happy, but it's too late, I should go back to the evening class."
Let's stop the war first, and fight again in the next day. ”
As he spoke, he didn't continue to attack, but just watched the three people in front of him to prevent them from sneaking up.
However, the real people of the three Evergreen Immortal Sects on the opposite side had indeed reached the end of the strong crossbow at this time.
If they continue to fight, they will run out of divine thoughts, and they will no longer be able to control the power of the great array.
At that time, let alone fighting with Lu Yuan in front of him, I am afraid that just the formation counterattack can kill them.
At this time, hearing Lu Yuan say that they should stop fighting, the three of them were really relieved in their hearts, they really couldn't fight.
However, although they were secretly lucky in their hearts, they didn't show it on their faces, and still said strongly: "Let you go today, then you go back and recover your mana, lest outsiders say that we are bullying more and less." If you want to fight in the coming day, then you will come to fight, and I will wait. ”
Lu Yuan looked at the three people who were still bluffing, and he was a little funny in his heart, but he didn't expose them, he nodded solemnly, and seemed to agree.
The two sides confronted each other for a moment, and then looked at the Taiping Dao disciples who entered with him during the battle, and they had almost withdrawn at this time.
He didn't continue to force it to stay, and waved his sleeve robe and said, "Three Taoist friends, don't pass it first!" ”
As soon as the words fell, the person turned into a sword light, flew away in the sky, and left the formation.
As soon as Lu Yuan left, the expressions on the faces of the three Evergreen Immortal Sect real people who were originally tough instantly collapsed, and they came down and turned into solemnity.
"Senior brother, this Lu Yuan's swordsmanship has become more and more powerful in recent days. I'm afraid that this person didn't use us as a sharpening stone to hone his own kendo, and we all used him as a foil. ”
"I've also observed this, but in the current situation, the other party is willing to use us as a sharpening stone, which is already a good thing.
You didn't realize that every time we fought with him, Lu Yuan kept his hand and didn't do his best, and every time he felt unfinished.
If this person really goes all out, I'm afraid that even if we have the help of the formation, we won't be able to stop the other party.
Now he wants to use us to hone his swordsmanship, so he didn't break through the big formation immediately, and we can hold on to this front line for a little longer before we are immediately defeated.
This is a good thing for us, although it is unwilling. ”
"I'm afraid that this Lu Yuan not only wants to use us as a sword grinding stone, but also wants to use my Evergreen Immortal Sect to kill those remnants of the Nine Spirits.
After all, compared to our sect and those remnants of the Nine Spirits, although there are also three earth immortals in this Taiping Dao, compared to us, hum, it is still inferior to this one.
We and the remnants of the Nine Spirits all have the existence of the middle stage of the Earth Immortals, but the three Earth Immortals of the Taiping Dao are all wandering in the early stage.
Among the combat power of the earth immortals, Taiping Dao is the weakest.
If this point is not resolved, even if those thieves win this battle, in the face of the two Earth Immortals of the Nine Spirits, Taiping Dao can only succumb to the other party and give up most of the results of this battle.
If we and the remnants of the Nine Spirits are not weakened, the Taiping Dao will break the defense line on this side.
But in addition to attracting the main force of our sect and fighting with him, what good is this?
What the other party thought was that he was waiting for the sect leader to divide the victory or defeat with those remnants of the Nine Spirits.
As long as the Sect Leader can take it away, those Nine Spirit Remnants will be in the middle stage of an Earth Immortal, and the balance of power between the Taiping Dao and the Nine Spirits Remnants will be able to be reached in an instant.
If you can take away the two Earth Immortals of the Nine Spirits, then it will be the Taiping Dao Dominant Alliance in the future.
With such a good thing in front of him, it is not surprising that Taiping Dao moved his mind. ”
Among the three, the eldest real person couldn't help but sneer.
Now, it is the tenth year since the start of the war between the three sects.
Over the years, the three immortal sects have invested heavily in the frontline battlefield, and all of them have been killed.
Let's take the Yudong Theater here.
In the past ten years, 15,000 disciples have been invested in Taiping Dao, and 5,000 people have died directly on the frontline battlefield.
It's not just ordinary disciples.
The immortals on the battlefield here in Taiping Dao have also died two in the past two years.
I don't know if it's deliberately targeted, or it's a coincidence, the two immortals who died in Taiping Dao happened to be Yu Shipeng, and another real person with an evergreen background.
These two Evergreen Immortal Sects spent a lot of money, and they finally supported the cultivated real people, but before they could contribute much in return, they were already consumed on the battlefield because of the cruel war.
Why didn't Lu Yuan care about these spies in the first place?
It's not because he knows that as long as there is a big war together, then life and death are up to anyone.
If you dare to disobey a military order, you will be decided.
If you don't dare to disobey orders, then obediently obey, and then keep running to the hardest, most tiring, and most dangerous battlefields.
If you use these people as cattle and horses a few times, you will basically die.
Yu Shipeng, the spy leaders, was slowly cleaned up by this method.
Not only did they not cause much damage to the Taiping Dao, but they also used their lives to make great achievements for the birth and death of the sect.
In ten years, Taiping Dao not only killed 5,000 disciples and two real people on the eastern side of the domain, but also laid down a country and expanded another land to the north.
Now in the eastern region, the Taiping Dao has occupied the land of the Three Kingdoms, and one-third of the eastern region has been controlled by Lu Yuan.
Affected by this.
The Earth Immortal Formation of Taiping Dao has been directly cultivated in the eastern region, completely breaking away from the southern region in the rear, and moving the entire battlefield to the front line.
These are the gains of the past ten years of hard work.
Not only in the eastern region of the domain, but also on the battlefield in the domain, clones such as Qingguanzi have also gained greatly.
Regardless of the vassals' casualties, Qingguanzi and Yidancheng were simply using the disciples of the three sects of Jintimumen, Bihu Palace, and Xuangui Mountain as cannon fodder.
Wherever there is danger, the disciples of the three sects are driven to go.
In addition, the immortals under his command are all real people of the three sects, so the generals who lead the troops can only be Ouyang Yuan, Zhu Zhenghe and others.
Every time they enter the large array in the region of the domain, Qingguanzi and Yidancheng are earth immortals, and both of them are Lu Yuan's clones, so they have a tacit understanding, and with each other's cooperation, there is naturally not much risk.
When he met Zhang Xiuzhu, who had increased his strength to the middle stage of the Earth Immortal with the help of the power of the Great Array, even if he was not the opponent's opponent, after fighting for a while, he could retreat with his whole body.
But Ouyang Yuan and the other people of the three sects, in the face of those evergreen disciples who were full of hatred and killed in anger, they were not so lucky.
In the past ten years, the two sides have fought more than 100 times in the middle of the domain.
Almost every month, you have to attack the opponent's defensive formation.
After the previous wars, the monks of the three vassals of Taiping Dao almost died cleanly.
At the beginning, 5,000 vassal disciples were sent to the front line, and now there are less than 300 people still alive.
The real people of the three sects are now only two people left.
That is, Ouyang Yuan, and a young real person in Bihu Palace, Qiu Mingzheng.
As for the other new true person of the Golden Fetal Gate, as well as Zhu Zhenghe, the head of Xuangui Mountain, and the old head of Bihu Palace, they all died on the battlefield.
And not just those vassals.
Even the descendants of the Taiping Dao, there are 2,000 people who have died on the battlefield in the domain over the years.
Even Qingguanzi and Yi Dancheng were slightly injured because of the constant fighting, and their state was not at their peak.
Arguably.
In the two battlefields in the east and middle of the domain, Taiping Dao is definitely out of the dead force, and he is not fooling.
The 12,000 dead monks and five real people are the best proof of this.
This kind of casualty, even if the last decisive battle between the Kyushu Immortal Sect and the Evergreen Immortal Sect was nothing more than that.
You know, it's only been ten years now.
It is really hard to imagine what it will be like to wait for the war to be fought for another few decades, or even a hundred years, and drag on to the decisive battle in the later stage.
If you want to come to the warring three sides, you won't be able to bear it.
In fact, on the side of Taiping Road, it is already a little unbearable.
Originally, in Lu Yuan's hands, there were only ten immortals.
Now that half of them are dead all at once, there are only five immortals left on the front line, and the real people who lead the troops to fight have suddenly become scarce.
The lack of real generals, reflected on the battlefield, is the attack of Taiping Dao, which is becoming more and more powerless.
With each breakthrough on the battlefield, it gets smaller and smaller.
Gradually, I couldn't move.
Therefore, after capturing a country in the east of the domain and a country in the middle of the domain, Lu Yuan slowly had to slow down the pace of his attack.
It's no longer the same as it was in the early days, and it's desperate to attack.
And for this kind of move of Taiping Dao, Kyushu, even if he sees it, it is difficult to say anything.
After all, Taiping Dao is only an emerging sect after all, and its strength is indeed poor.
Now that so many people have died at once, it is a little too unkind to let the family rest for a while.
Because of this, there was also a scene before, where Lu Yuan and the three formation hosts of the Evergreen Immortal Sect fought peacefully and fought with each other.
It's not that both sides don't want to fight, it's just that both sides can't fight.
Taiping Dao suffered heavy casualties, and as a defender, the loss of the Evergreen Immortal Sect was not small.
Over the years, in the battle with Taiping Dao, they have successively killed five thousand disciples, and two human immortals have also died.
In the battle with the Kyushu Immortal Gate, six thousand disciples also died, and three immortals fell.
The Kyushu Immortal Gate lost a total of 10,000 monks and five immortals.
It can be said that the three parties are a little impressed.
Now on the battlefield, the three sides are conscious of each other, relax the rhythm of the attack, and begin to take a short break.
The Kyushu Xianmen has begun to urgently transfer disciples from the rear, and a group of new reinforcements of 5,000 people are rushing to the front line.
However, even if this batch of new reinforcements arrives, Kyushu's strength on the front line will only be 15,000 people.
Compared with the peak of 20,000 at the beginning of the war, it is obviously much inferior.
At the same time, the number of immortals is only ten.
Although the earth immortal did not lose, he fought for ten years, and in the face of the desperate Song Xiren, Huang Yuanxiu, who cultivated to the weakest Tianhe Sect, was severely injured by the other party in a battle.
At this time, he was already seriously injured, and his combat strength could only be exerted four or five tenths, and he had to return to the rear to retreat and recuperate, and he was temporarily incapable of going to the battlefield.
Faced with this situation, the eight immortal sects in Kyushu had to start urgently recruiting disciples in various places in the rear.
According to the news they received, it is expected that within three years, 10,000 new recruits will be urgently recruited.
And every year in the future, we will maintain the rhythm of recruiting 3,000 new people.
Besides.
They also selected fifteen True Transmission disciples from the front line who had cultivated enough and made great contributions, and arranged for them to return to the rear and begin to attack the True Immortal Realm.
Zhenxuan, the seed of the earth immortal, was also arranged in Kyushu, and arranged the land of the five countries for him, and did his best to help him achieve the earth immortal.
The land of the twenty-one countries of Kyushu Xianmen, except for the territory of one country that has just been captured by the front line, because during the war, it is too late to sort out and cannot provide resources.
Each of the remaining countries was full of people, and almost all resources were used.
Obviously, the tragic situation of five immortals killed in ten years on the front line has frightened the Kyushu Immortal Gate.
Whether it was for inheritance considerations or to make up for the lack of combat power at the top of the front, they had to start thinking of ways to make up for the loss of their own combat power.
Developing while fighting is the helpless choice they made.
Not only them, but the Evergreen Immortal Sect was also desperately trying to restore its strength.
The Evergreen Immortal Sect originally had 30,000 old disciples, but now 11,000 people were killed in battle at once, and the human immortals, like the other two opponents, also fell by five.
This kind of loss, even with the size of the Evergreen Immortal Sect, is gradually a little unbearable.
Fortunately, before the war began, Song Xiren urgently ordered that 10,000 new disciples be recruited in the sect to supplement the consumption of the front.
Now, ten years have passed, and these 10,000 newcomers have all entered the realm of cultivation and cohesion.
Although this realm is only an entry to the Immortal Dao, it is of no great use.
But that's just for now.
These people will be raised for another hundred years, and at any cost, they will be able to condense the three qi, and then they can be used on the front line.
Even at the extreme point, you don't need to condense the three qi, there is a cultivation of condensing the two qi, and if the number is stacked at the same time, it can actually be used reluctantly.
At the very least, it is possible to maintain the operation of the large array.
And as long as this can be done, it will be enough for the Evergreen Immortal Sect.
Therefore, in the face of the current situation of lack of troops, Song Xiren breathed a sigh of relief, and issued another edict to let the land of the twenty countries that he still controlled immediately begin to recruit new disciples.
In the future, according to the annual budget of 5,000 newcomers, the sect will continue to replenish new forces.
He no longer had the luxury of being able to train these new disciples.
We only want to be able to cultivate the most usable people in the shortest time.
Even if it's just condensing the two qi.
The attrition of this war is far greater than imagined.
The demand for cannon fodder is also increasing day by day.
For this reason, in order to survive, the Evergreen Immortal Sect had to adapt to survive, and repeatedly lowered its own standards for recruiting disciples.