Chapter Twenty-Three: Abandonment
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There are no clouds in the starry night, and the light of the stars and the moon is as clear as water.
Chen Xun, Ji Lie, Chi Songzi and others flew to stand in the clouds, looking at the mouth of the demon ruins more than 200 miles away.
The black clouds above the mouth of the demon ruins rolled, revealing endless blood-devouring and ferocious aura, and hundreds of extremely powerful six-clawed winged demons were hovering above the black clouds, monitoring the movements of the surrounding hundreds of miles.
Seeing that the demonic black clouds at the mouth of the demon ruins gathered and did not disperse, Chen Xun knew that during the time they fought fiercely for a day and a night, the monsters, or the demon clan, were more suitable, and they also laid a powerful magic circle at the mouth of the demon ruins.
For the demon clan, the Demon Ruins Mouth is naturally an extremely powerful evil vein, which can endlessly directly attract a huge amount of demons from the Thousand Demon Realm.
The Protectorate of the Northwest Regions had planned to take advantage of the influx of monsters into Yunzhou and frantically attack the forward defense line, concentrate the powerhouses of Yuan Dan and Faxiang Realm, and directly kill a passage from the low-level monsters, enter the mouth of the demon ruins, and restrict the influx of more monsters into Yunzhou.
The Northwest Domain Protectorate plans to kill the monsters of the Thousand Demon Sand Sea, and then seal the Demon Ruins in one fell swoop to completely solve the trouble.
Obviously, in the first confrontation, the demon clan's strategy was obviously superior.
A year ago, Chang Xi cultivated into Yuan Dan and returned to the Northwest Regions from Longmen Sect, and learned that Chen Xun was ambushed and killed by Xia Xiangyi, so he broke into Nanling alone and killed Gu Yangzi, but was repelled by the Red Eyebrow Zhenjun who came out of the customs.
After that, Chang Xi went to Wushan, only to know that Chen Xun was trapped in the sea of flames, and his life was not in danger for the time being.
Then Tie Xintong, Gu Jianfeng and others led 10,000 elite brute warriors to enter the North Ridge with Chang Xi, and joined the disciples of the Shenxiao Haoran Sect, preparing to receive Chen Xun from the sea of flames.
The sea of flames suddenly exploded, and the magic array and defensive fortress built by the Shenxiao Haoran Sect and the Northwest Domain Protectorate along the first forward defense line were all defeated by this sudden change.
Zhao Chengen and Hu Taiyan's newly established forbidden magic circle according to the remnants of the fortress was extremely narrow, so in addition to Chang Xi and Gu Chengzhuo who led elite disciples to help, Tie Xintong and Gu Jianfeng led the brute force and continued to stick to the second defensive barrier two hundred miles away from the rear with Chi Songzi.
It is also where the mountain gate of the Shenxiao Haoran Sect is located.
In the end, the sea of flames that had not disappeared for fifty or sixty miles below also sensed a change in the fastest time after it suddenly exploded, and Canglong's Back, which was more than two thousand miles away, also sensed a change in the fastest time.
Chen Xun's divine soul imprint left in the Xuyuan Hall had not been extinguished, and Wushan naturally knew that after Chen Xunshun escaped from the sea of flames, he would inevitably join the Shenxiao Haoran Sect first.
Lei Wanhe, Su Tang, Su Lingyin, Jiang Bingyun and others led twelve Xuanlei chariots to set off directly from Canglongji, galloping to the aid of Shenxiao Haoran Sect and answering Chen Xun.
Ji Lie also led more than 100 disciples from Chifeng Castle to the aid of the Shenxiao Haoran Sect at about the same time.
After the two passers-by rushed to the Shenxiao Haoran Sect to converge, the strength of the rear could barely open a channel for reinforcements from the sea of hundreds of thousands of low-level monsters.
In the area between four and six hundred miles away from the mouth of the Demon Ruins, the Protectorate of the Northwest Regions also built more than a dozen fortifications, laid out a forbidden magic array, and stationed a large number of generals and monks recruited from the Northwest Regions, but they have always stood still, or when they saw Ji Lie and them reinforce the remnants from the north, several Dharma Realm powerhouses led thousands of monks to attack the Demon Ruins Mouth from the east, south, and west at the same time, snatching the remnants destroyed by the Blue Flame Flowing Fire, trying to reconstruct the first forward defense line......
The first group of monsters had already retreated, and hundreds of thousands of demonic properties had retreated to a range of sixty miles from the mouth of the demon ruins, which happened to be the edge area covered by the demonic magic circle.
"Although there were many remnants of the Thousand Demon Sect who sneaked into Yunzhou earlier, in the past ten years, blocked by the Sea of Flames, the Demon Clan was completely unaware of our deployment in the North Ridge of Tushan Mountain. I guess that the influx of demons into Yunzhou that we came into contact with before is just a tentative move of the demon clan, and the demon clan is just using this to detect our strength and avoid rashly investing elite troops and suffering heavy losses when the situation is unclear," Chen Xun frowned and said to Chi Songzi and Ji Lie, "If we think that the strength of the demon clan is only like this, then we are very wrong. ”
Ji Lie nodded, agreeing with Chen Xun's judgment.
The low-level demons that came up first were the strongest equivalent to the peak martial cultivation of the Tianyuan Realm, and the weak were only equivalent to the peak martial cultivation of the True Yang Realm, and the number of hundreds of thousands was shocking.
If the monsters that poured into Yunzhou in the future were only of this level, things would be easier. The Northwest Domain Protectorate determined that it could organize hundreds of Yuan Dan and Faxiang Realm powerhouses to tear apart the army of monsters and directly enter the entrance of the demon ruins to block it.
And the monsters first blasted away the sea of flames, and then sent a large number of low-level monsters to test the deployment here, and then took advantage of the indecision of the capital to quickly lay down a powerful demonic magic circle at the mouth of the demon ruins......
That's the scariest thing.
They thought that the Thousand Demon Realms were all lowly monsters, and it was more appropriate to call them demons as they appeared, or to call them demons like Chen Xun.
At this time, there were three mountain and river chariots galloping towards this side from the northwest defensive base, the first Yuan Dan Zhenren, wearing emerald green spirit armor and carrying a huge red fire spirit sword, stopped outside Baizhang, and saluted towards this side: "Xuandu Sect under Yunzhou has seen Chen Zhenren, Ji Zhenren, Canglan Hou, Cuiwei Fairy, General Fu Yan wants to summon four to the old Longtan to discuss ......"
"Trick me into the past, so that some people can take the opportunity to kill me again?" Chen Xun sneered and said in a loud voice, "Please Yun Zhenren go back and tell General Fu Yan and Yuan Wuhou that unless they bring the heads of Red Eyebrow Zhenjun and Gu Yangzi, don't think that I will be in their evil deeds again." ”
Seeing that Ji Lie and Chi Songzi both looked indifferent, and the look on the face of Cuiwei Fairy Chang Xi looked as if they didn't know how to retreat, and they wouldn't mind killing them at all, Yun Zhou was also full of bitterness.
Yun Zhou had a stiff smile on his face and persuaded him: "At the moment of the great enemy, everyone should abandon their previous suspicions, and it is ...... to work together in the same boat."
"It's easy to get rid of the old suspicions, let the Red Eyebrows Zhenjun and Gu Yangzi come over and get rid of the old suspicions with us!" Chen Xun sneered.
Yun Zhou looked at the expressions of Chen Xun and the others, and knew that they would never be recruited by the Northwest Domain Protectorate again, but he was also helpless, he knew that Luo Yuze was unwilling to come over to be a lobbyist, so he expected to suffer such a fall.
Ten years ago, when General Fu Yan recruited Chen Xun to explore the enemy situation in the Flame Sea, Xia Xiangyi ambushed him. Afterwards, the Red Eyebrow True Monarch and Gu Yangzi took all the things down, insisting that Chen Xun was a rebel who deceived the teacher and destroyed the ancestors of the Shenxiao Sect, and everyone was punished for it, and Xia Xiangyi was killed on the spot by General Fu Yan, and the whole thing became a bad account, and Cetianfu symbolically reprimanded the Red Eyebrow Zhenjun and Gu Yangzi, and there was no substantive punishment.
Wushan's strength is weak, and he is not afraid that Wushan can turn over the sky, but who would have thought that Chen Xun was forced into the sea of flames by Xia Xiangyi, and after being trapped in the sea of flames for seven years, he could get out of trouble unharmed?
"Yun Zhenren went back and asked General Fu Yan to send someone to take over the defense here. We fought here for a day and a night, and we actually asked the Thousand Swords Sect, Mengshan Sect, and Wushan to rush to the aid from thousands of miles away, and General Fuyan was embarrassed to ask us wounded soldiers to guard this fortification...... "Chen Xun said.
Yun Zhou was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that the Shenxiao Haoran Sect would abandon the fortifications here, but he was powerless to refute it.
In the initial chaos, more than 1,000 disciples of the Shenxiao Haoran Sect, the Thousand Swords Sect, and the Mengshan Sect stayed here for a day and a night, attracting all the monsters that initially poured into Yunzhou, so that the Northwest Domain Protectorate could calm people's hearts and adjust their deployment in the north and west.
However, it wasn't until Ji Lie led the crowd from Chifeng Fort, three or four thousand miles away, that the Northwest Domain Protectorate sent troops to enter the Demon Ruins, to be honest, Yunzhou was ashamed to see Chi Songzi, Ji Lie, Chen Xun and others.
Seeing that Ji Lie, Chi Songzi, and Chen Xun had made up their minds to give up the fortifications here, Yun Zhou also knew that it was difficult to persuade them to abandon their previous suspicions, and although there were countless strong people in Cetianfu, at this critical time, they still had to count on Shenxiao Haoran Sect and Wushan to hold the northern defense line, and they could not forcefully pressure Chen Xun and others to bow their heads.
Yun Zhou asked people to bring down the boxes of pills that General Fu Yan had shown him, and he had no choice but to lead the defense back to the northwest.
After a day and a night of fierce fighting, the elixirs stored by the Shenxiao Haoran Sect were almost exhausted, more than 100 disciples were killed, and the potential of the other disciples was almost exhausted, and the spiritual veins and spiritual seas were somewhat concealed, and they had to hand over the fortifications here to the Northwest Domain Protectorate to pick them up, and they retreated to the Tianzhu Peak more than two hundred miles away.
The demons have not made any major changes for three consecutive days, and after the Northwest Domain Protectorate recaptured the forward defense line and set up a formation, it also continued to tentatively attack the Demon Ruins, but several battles were defeated and returned, and the results were not great.
The demonic magic circle set up by the demons at the mouth of the demon ruins is unimaginably powerful.
The Evil Array covers a range of nearly 100 miles, and it stands to reason that the defensive power allocated to each point will be diluted to the extreme, but Fu Yan and Jiang Wei gathered six True People of the Law Phase Realm to join forces to strike a single blow, and none of them could shake the Evil Array, indicating that even if this Evil Array did not reach the level of the Heaven and Earth Magic Array, it was not far behind.
Other than that, there has been no greater movement for three days.
The more this is the case, the deeper the dark clouds that are pressing on the hearts of Chen Xun and others.
Everyone knows that the longer the demons prepare, the more fierce the next offensive will be.
And the black clouds of demons in the evil array are rolling, and no one knows what the demons are preparing in the evil array.
"The demon clan is planning to fight a protracted war, and we must be prepared to fight a protracted war!"
The mountain gate of the Shenxiao Haoran Sect in Tianzhu Peak is extremely simple, and Chi Songzi, Hu Taiyan, Zhao Chengen and others have lived together with their disciples in the past ten years, and their lives are extremely simple.
Chen Xun and the others decided to leave the Northwest Domain Protectorate and start anew, and Tianzhu Peak has now become their base camp for gathering and deliberating.
In the grassland, Chen Xun persuaded Ji Lie and Gu Wentian to give up Mengshan and Gushan, and gather their limited forces to the northwest foot of Tushan.
The distance between the pillar mountain where the Shenxiao Haoran Sect Gate is located is only two thousand miles away from the Canglong Spine, and a defense line between the two can block the northwest foot of Tushan Mountain and the Huze Wasteland in the rear.
Chen Xun was clear about the distribution of the spiritual veins in Wushan, and in the past ten years, the Shenxiao Haoran Sect had a rough idea of the distribution of the spiritual veins in the north ridge of Tushan.
In the north ridge of Tushan extends to the east to Wushan, a large number of spiritual veins and spiritual points are distributed, the number is as much as three or four times that of Shenxiao Mountain, and there are many strange shapes of several veins converging, which is convenient for Mengshan Sect and Thousand Sword Sect to move into and rebuild the mountain gate.
In this way, in addition to concentrating their limited forces in one direction for defense, they can also lose the defenses of the south and east to the Northwest Protectorate, and they no longer have to worry about the Northwest Protectorate being able to attack behind their backs.
In order to fight a protracted war, it is necessary to have a long-term plan for the consideration of human and material supplies.
In the battle of the remnant base, although Chen Xun and the others finally defended the remnant base and repelled the monsters, more than 100 disciples died in battle, and most of them had cultivation above the rebirth realm.
At this time, the four sects combined, there were only 14,500 disciples above the rebirth realm, and more than 100 people were damaged in battle in one day. If this fierce battle lasts for more than half a year, the foundation that the four sects have accumulated with great difficulty will be completely exhausted.
Since the first demonic disaster, the population near Gushan and Mengshan has suffered extremely heavy losses, and in the last ten years, Cetianfu has arranged for the population of Gushan and Yunzhong counties to move eastward on a large scale.
Without a huge population base, where did the Thousand Swords Sect and the Mengshan Sect recruit disciples who were one in a million and had outstanding talents?
And when the existing disciples are exhausted in the continuous demon warfare, and there is no new force to come up in the future, the Shenxiao Haoran Sect, the Thousand Swords Sect, and the Mengshan Sect will soon be completely defeated.
Previously, Chen Xun and them held on to the remnants for a day and a night, and the Protectorate of the Northwest Regions did not move, just to see the strength of the Shenxiao Haoran Sect, the Thousand Sword Sect, the Mengshan Sect and the Wushan Sect be exhausted first.
At present, on both sides of Tushan, the only huge population resources are concentrated in Wushan.
The three thousand barbarian tribesmen retreated to the cities at the southern foot of Wushan at this time to avoid the demonic disaster.
Wushan not only gathered 100,000 barbarian martial arts, but the disciples of the Academy Palace also expanded to 20,000 within ten years.
As the ensuing war continued, 30 million barbarian tribesmen were forced to retreat to several cities to defend themselves, unable to go out of the city to engage in large-scale agricultural and animal husbandry production.
Only when the Mengshan Sect and the Thousand Swords Sect moved into the northwest ridge of Tushan, and the four sects joined forces to establish a strong defense line, Chen Xun was able to build a large number of cities in the northeast foot of Wushan, the northwest foot of Tushan, Huze Wasteland and other areas, evacuate 30 million barbarian tribesmen, and engage in agricultural and animal husbandry production around the city......