Chapter 20: The Heavenly Volcano
The vanguard armor quickly reoccupied the ancient castle under the crater, and the armor soldiers who had stayed in the crater to watch the movements, as well as the disciples of the Heavenly Pavilion, also began to advance along the flanks of the ancient castle at this time, continuing to advance northward.
Under the bombardment of the flames and poisonous flames, thunder pillars, and sword qi shot by the soldiers of the Celestial Mansion and the disciples of the Heavenly Pavilion, the endless ghosts besieging from the two wings were like snow under the scorching sun, and large swaths of them quickly melted.
The vast majority of ghosts are just a phantom with a face, and there is a pale flame in the heart, which should be the soul fire of the remnant souls of the ancient gods and demons, but it is extremely weak, and the disciples of the True Yang Realm can easily destroy it with a Xuan Fu.
It's just that the number of ghosts is extremely large and endless, and the speed of the army and the disciples of the Heaven Filling Pavilion is delaying the speed of advancing northward.
After six days of advancing north, we reached the edge of the plateau, and then there was a long stone ridge, and the density of ghosts that rushed up to it decreased.
Chen Xun ordered the team to stop and rest in front of a stone ridge on the edge of the plateau, he took a ghost in the air to study, he put his hand into the body of the ghost, grabbed the soul fire, the tentacles were cold, and felt that the qi and blood in the body were like flowing water, and they were taken away a little by this cold.
The spiritual fire of the ghost in the palm of his hand, not only was it not extinguished, but after absorbing a little bit of qi and blood true yang in his body, it turned into a bright green and blue color, and there was an extremely excited will boiling and beating in the spiritual fire, wanting to drive the entire spiritual fire to Chen Xun's body, as if he knew that the qi and blood true yang in Chen Xun's body were their great tonic pills.
"These low-level ghosts have no spirituality, they are just driven by the will to devour the true yang of qi and blood, and they are no different from the lowest-level void demons and shadow demons in the Thousand Demon Realm. Bei Xuanjia observed the changes in the ghost fire in Chen Xun's palm and judged.
"Looking at the changes in this spiritual fire, it shows that the Heavenly Furnace Battlefield has the conditions to generate a large number of demons. Chen Xun frowned slightly and said.
"In the past, Cetianfu organized people to enter the Tianlu Battlefield, and only in some ancient battlefield ruins, a small number of demons were found, which should be related to the limited distance that Cetianfu advanced along the circular mountain range. Su Wuyang leaned over and said worriedly.
The three hundred armor guards behind them were the last of those in his hands, and he was more cautious than Chen Xun at this time, and the outpost fort that Cetianfu arranged for them to garrison was the farthest edge area from the crater mountain range, located in a mountain range called Heavenly Volcano.
Ce Tianfu had organized men to enter the Heavenly Furnace Battlefield several times before, and advanced as far north as the southern foot of the Heavenly Volcano, but was blocked by a large number of magma flames, and the situation north of the Heavenly Volcano was not very clear.
Even so, there were already some low-level demons at the southern foot of the Heavenly Volcano, so Su Wuyang couldn't be a little sloppy.
With Chen Xun's cultivation and status at this time, and with the help of Jiang Lan, the king of Qing, and the Su clan of Yuzhou, Chen Xun said that it would not harm his heart, but if he encountered an irresistible danger, Su Wuyang did not expect Chen Xun to take much risk to save them.
And Su Shousi stayed in Xuanjing City this time and did not enter the Heavenly Furnace Battlefield with them.
"The Heavenly Furnace Battlefield, although it is a piece of space fragments torn apart by the ancient gods and demons after the evil war, but it extends in all directions along the circular mountain range, I am afraid that there must be a distance of more than 100,000 miles, and the scope of the previous Tianfu organization is probably less than the entire Heavenly Furnace Battlefield Eleven, far from reaching the true core of the Heavenly Furnace Battlefield,"
Chen Xun didn't speculate about what Su Wuyang was thinking, he had a topographic map drawn by Ce Tianfu in his hand, which only marked the area around the crater mountain range for more than 10,000 miles, but this was far from the whole of the Heavenly Furnace Battlefield.
He then snuffed out the ghost fire in his palm, and saw that the spirit fire turned into a wave of will, quickly disappearing into the void, and sighed in his heart, Ce Tianfu's previous description of some monsters on the Heavenly Furnace Battlefield was not very accurate, and said to Su Wuyang,
"These ghosts are actually not transformed by the remnants of gods and demons, more precisely, they are just the remnants of the will of some ancient monsters to devour qi and blood, but there are really countless gods and demons buried in the Heavenly Furnace Battlefield, and the fragments of the souls of those gods and demons and the remains of the bodies of gods and demons are far more fierce than imagined. β
Chihai looked at Bei Xuanjia and smiled, the original god of Bei Xuanjia was transformed by the remnant soul of the Beidou Immortal, if he hadn't lured Bei Xuanjia into the Void Yuan Bead at the beginning, I don't know how to clean up the mess at that time?
Compared to the eager disciples of the Heavenly Pavilion, Chihai and Snake Wuxin were much quieter.
"If there are really powerful monsters in the Heavenly Furnace Battlefield, why are we all safe until now?" Su Fuchen poked his head over and asked.
Chen Xun glanced sideways at Su Zaichen, who was already an old dragon bell, and said: "This needs to be close to the ruins of the real ancient battlefield to figure it out, but we were ordered to garrison the sentry fort at the southern foot of the Heavenly Volcano, and entering the Heavenly Volcano may encounter some demons, but probably there is no chance to advance to the farther area." β
"Then we'd better stay at the Heavenly Volcano Outpost Fort to be safer. Su Fuchen smiled, his snow-white long eyebrows jumped slightly, and he leaned back behind Su Wuyang.
When the White Wolf River broke, Su Fuchen surrounded Su Wuyang Beitou Yuanwuhou Mansion, although their group of people were able to protect themselves wisely, and they did not suffer much heavy losses in the battle of Laolongtan, but in the past fifty or sixty years, not only did their clansmen not get any development, but even Su Wuyang, Su Fuchen and other personal cultivation did not improve at all.
Su Wuyang, as the pride of the sky of the Canglan Su clan, his cultivation qualifications are even slightly better than Su Tang, but in the early years, the Su clan was able to devote all the strength of the whole clan to cultivate him and Su Tang and others, and his cultivation was naturally fast, and he became one of the few young powerhouses in the Northwest Regions at a young age, no worse than the true and descendant disciples of the great sects.
But after the White Wolf River broke up, Su Wuyang was embraced to become the suzerain of his clan, and in the following decades, his main energy was to maintain the survival of the clan, and a small amount of resources were used for the cultivation of the children of the clan, and his personal cultivation was delayed, and fifty years later, he was still stagnant in the realm of the early stage of the Tianyuan Realm.
Su Fuchen was originally an elder of the Canglan Academy, and his qualifications were not much worse than Su Lingyin and Su Junyuan, but Su Junyuan and Su Lingyin had already cultivated into Yuan Dan, and even had a great chance of cultivating the true body in the future, but Su Fuchen's cultivation was always stagnant in the late stage of the rebirth realm.
At this time, he has also reached the limit of returning to the fetal realm, and his cultivation has degraded a lot, and he can't live for three or five years.
Who would have thought that after the White Wolf River rupture, the situation in the Northwest Regions would undergo such earth-shattering upheavals, and who would have thought that the four sects would rise in Tushan and faintly become the heads of the new Northwest Regions Sects?
Even if Chen Xun had no intention of dwelling on old grievances, Su Wuyang and Su Fuchen were so humble in front of him that they couldn't raise their heads, and the monstrous resentment and hostility accumulated before didn't know when they would come to naught.
What qualifications do they have to harbor resentment and hostility towards Wushan and Chen Xun?
In the past, the Yuanwu Marquis Mansion still regarded them as chips and chess pieces to suppress the vicissitudes of life, but now they don't even have the qualifications to be chips and chess pieces.
"Chen Xun, you are slow, when will you be able to reach the Tianhuo Mountain Range?" Jiang Yunxian drove the blue-eyed green scales to the front, and saw Chen Xun, Su Wuyang and the others standing slowly in front of a cliff to look at the nearby terrain, and urged impatiently.
Chen Xun glanced back, led by Jiang Yunxian and the others, and there were more than three hundred disciples in the Heaven Filling Pavilion who were walking with them.
The duty of their team of armor guards is to enter the Heavenly Volcano Outpost Fort to organize defense, and Jiang Yunxian's part of the Heavenly Pavilion disciples will use the Heavenly Volcano Outpost Fort as a backup base to search and refine near the Heavenly Volcano.
According to the plan drawn up, Jiang Yunxian wanted to act synchronously with them.
"According to General Su's established plan, we should use about fifteen days to enter the Heavenly Volcano," Chen Xun said slowly, "Considering the possible changes on the way, we will speed up a little, and if it is smooth, it will take about twelve days to reach the destination, which should not delay the county lord's plan." β
"Why don't you start the Dragon Tooth Floating Boat?" Jiang Yunxian asked.
If it weren't for Songhe Zhenjun's strict order for them to advance and retreat with the armor of the Divine Guard Army, Jiang Yunxian and hundreds of disciples of the Heavenly Pavilion would have already left Chen Xun's team of armor behind.
The speed at which they want to speed up now can only force Chen Xun to speed up their journey.
If you start the dragon tooth pontoon, there is less than 10,000 miles left, and it only takes two or three days to arrive, and it depends on these slow scale horses, if there is any change on the way, who knows how long it will be delayed to enter the predetermined place?
"Near the Northern Plateau, the aura is sparse, and the aura stored in the pontoon formation prohibition is limited, which is only enough for everyone to retreat to the ancient castle when they encounter danger, and please calm down for a while. Chen Xun said indifferently.
The dragon tooth floating boat is the standard equipment of the camps of the Divine Guard, but on the plateau where the spiritual energy is sparse, it is difficult to play the spirit gathering array, and the dragon tooth floating boat formation is still in the West Ancestral Dragon Mountain to draw enough aura.
Start the Dragon's Tooth Floating Boat now, once he encounters any irresistible danger on the way, how can the hundreds of armor soldiers behind him withdraw?
Seeing Chen Xun's unhurried and impatient temperament, Jiang Yunxian also knew that no matter how much she urged, it would not have an effect, so she glared at him unhappily, and then turned around and left helplessly.
At this time, the air was filled with a scorching sulfur smell, and there were bone demons at the edge of the field of vision wandering among the hordes of ghosts.
Most of these bone demons were tall and short, with infinite strength, and the hollow eye sockets were flowing with blazing flames, and the bone scythes flickered with cold light.
These bone demons are already more powerful than the late stage martial arts of the Terran True Yang Realm, and there are still a few bone demons who are more flexible in advancing and retreating, and even have an extremely thin black membrane on the outer layer of the thick bones.
This layer of black bone clothing has not yet evolved to the Cheng dΓΉ of the magic armor, but it is already tougher than the hundred-year-old brute cow skin.
The disciples of Mending Heaven Pavilion had no choice but to sprinkle their grievances on the bodies of bone demons and ghosts, and hundreds of Mending Heaven Pavilion disciples were swordsmand, but it also saved Chen Xun their efforts to clear the way.
"Whew!"
A sharp howl pierced the lonely sky, and when Chen Xun looked up, he saw a black shadow leaping out of the stone ridge more than a hundred miles away, rushing towards the group of disciples of the Heaven Replenishing Pavilion who had rushed to the front.
It was a blue-faced and fanged devil, about two feet tall, naked and covered with black scales, watching this devil rush out, bringing up a large amount of mud and stones, it was obvious that this devil was hiding in the ground before, and only then did it escape the search of Chen Xun's divine sense.
The team of Heaven Replenishing Pavilion disciples was led by a Tian Yuan Realm Xuan Xiu, and their reaction was also extremely fast, and everyone slashed out more than a dozen sword lights at the first moment, but they failed to hurt this demon in the slightest.
At this time, there were even three-headed demon rays leaping out from behind the stone ridge, and soon fought with the disciples of the Mending Heaven Pavilion.
Jiang Yunxian and the others were not surprised, they walked slowly with Chen Xun for five or six days, and all they encountered were some low-level ghosts and bone demons, and finally saw a few devils, all of them were as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, and before Chen Xun could react, more than 100 people turned into Changhong and rushed towards the stone ridge in front of them.