Chapter 234: Preparing for the Expedition
The Oriental Shuxuan Immortal Continent and the Central Thick Earth Continent, the Southern Huayan Divine Domain face each other across the vast sea, the waters are endless and all kinds of fierce sea beasts in the deep sea are rampant, and the northern Taichu Demon Plain and the Western Myoko Holy Land are connected by land, but to the north there are thousands of mountains and ravines, everywhere is blocked by the terrain is steep, the climate is harsh, and the west is bordered by a narrow and narrow, semi-submerged land block in the sea water, called the Long Island Devil's Land Bridge, which is also extremely difficult to cross.
It is said that tens of thousands of years ago, the overall level of cultivators on the five continents was higher than it is now, and a protracted war broke out, and the result was that all five were defeated, and the powerful fell countless times, and it also led to the disorder of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, and the drastic changes in the landform, causing the vitality of all parties to be greatly damaged, and then they all fell into silence, until now.
Due to historical and geographical reasons, Shuxuan Immortal Continent has always had little contact with the other four continents, and only super forces such as the Four Alliances and families engaged in cross-border trade such as merchants have jointly built a small number of ultra-long-range teleportation arrays for the transmission of a very small number of personnel, materials, and messages.
Because of this, ordinary sects know very little about the situation on other continents, only that their cultivation systems are not the same.
And within the Four Alliances, there is a lot more information in hand. This time, the problem lies in the Western Myoko Holy Land, specifically at the Devil's Land Bridge on Long Island.
In the original continental melee, the Myoko Holy Land was the most active party to promote and participate, and it was also the party that fought the most tragic and had the deepest grudge with Shuxuan Xianzhou.
This is because Myoko Sacred Land is the smallest and least populated, and the practitioners are basically meditative.
The meditation in the Myoko Holy Land is not the same as the cultivators in the Shuxuan Immortal Continent.
The method of meditation in Shu Xuan Xianzhou can still be classified in the Taoist cultivation system, while the meditation of the Myoko Holy Land, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth is only an auxiliary means, and the improvement of its cultivation not only needs to plunder the vitality of ordinary people, but also the death qi emitted by people when they are about to die and after death is a great supplement, among which the soul of the person who has just died is the most useful.
For this reason, the ordinary people in the sacred land of Myoko, as well as the animals and plants, are all "food" raised by the Cultivator Sect, and the purpose of people's existence is to sacrifice their own vitality and death before and after death.
Due to the limited population and barren resources, the total quantity and quality gradually became difficult to meet the growing cultivation needs over time, which is also the reason why the Myoko Holy Land is keen to launch foreign wars, and only large-scale killings and death qi on the battlefield can enable the high-ranking monks among them to achieve the goal of breaking through and ascending as soon as possible.
The Devil's Land Bridge on Long Island was originally a strange place that was formed somehow.
Here, from the ground to the sky, large and small spatial cracks will appear at any time, and they are full of arbitrary and wanton meta-magnetic storms. No matter how high you cultivate, there is no guarantee that you will not be caught up and torn.
In addition, at the end of the last war, the powers of both sides joined forces to lay many layers of sealing barriers, and it can be said that this place has almost become a forbidden area for life, and it has also become a natural barrier to separate the two sides.
Recently, however, this barrier has gone awry.
After all these years, the Meditation Sect of Myoko Holy Land thought that they had found some way to transport people to the side of Shuxuan Immortal Continent.
As soon as these invaders came, they launched a large-scale slaughter in the ordinary realm of Xianzhou. The cultivation of outsiders is not too high, but with the power of meditation, the army of the mortal country cannot resist it, and in a short period of time, nearly 100,000 soldiers and civilians have been killed, and people have fled inland, and the border between the two states has now become a no-man's land.
After learning the news, the Four Alliances quickly sent people over to investigate, and summarized a few
First, most of these invaders are not strictly human, but mostly strange creatures that have been transformed by secret methods in the Myoko Holy Land. Their bodies are sturdy and powerful, and they can also use low-level spells that mortal soldiers often have to pay hundreds of men to destroy one.
Second, the number of these creatures is not large, only three or four thousand, led by five or six hundred true meditation cultivators, and the cultivation of the leading meditation cultivators is roughly equivalent to the Huandan realm, that is, the level above and below the four elephant yin and yang realms, and there are no people among the three major sects that currently dominate the Myoko Holy Land in these meditation cultivations.
From this point of view, the number and level of what can be sent over by the Myoko Holy Land is still limited, and not all high-level monks can easily break through the restrictions of the Devil's Land Bridge on Long Island, which is good news in misfortune.
Third, the intruders paused their advance into depth after opening up no man's land, presumably awaiting more follow-up troops to be brought in after some attrition.
The population of the secular world of the Xuan Xuan Immortal Continent is more than 10 million, and the loss of 100,000 people is one thing, the problem is that the Immortal Continent Cultivation Realm cannot let this go.
The secular world is one of the sources of Xiuzhen disciples, and although the invaders have stopped their offensive at present, if they are allowed to slaughter in the future, it will not only cause a large-scale panic and chain reaction, but if the losses continue to increase, it will eventually affect the long-term development of the Xiuzhen world.
What's more, although it is a temptation of the vanguard, it is also tantamount to an undeclared war on the sacred land of Myoko in the West, and it is a naked invasion.
If we wait until more and higher cultivators can cross the boundary, it will mean that there will be an all-out war between the two continents and the cultivators, and the war will still be within the Immortal Continent.
Therefore, it is necessary to deal a head-on attack, not only to repel or annihilate those who cross the border, but also to find out why the other side can send people over and take preventive measures, otherwise sooner or later the war will start and spread.
Once it shows weakness at this time, or loses in the subsequent battle, it is difficult to guarantee that other continents will not intervene, and Shu Xuan Immortal Continent currently lacks the psychology and other preparations for an intercontinental war.
In view of this, considering that there was no recognized leading sect with absolute authority in Xianzhou at this time, the Four Alliances decided to issue a mobilization order and send people to fight back.
And the Myoko Holy Land is cunning, it is not officially declared war on the Xuan Xian Continent, and even no one among the three major factions of meditation has appeared, if the masters of each faction are mobilized to crush it with an absolute advantage, maybe the child will give the other party the truth to attack, and it will also lose the bearing of the Xuan Xian Continent, and it will fall into the handle.
Faced with this situation, after repeatedly deliberating and considering the strength of the invaders, the Four Alliances came up with a good solution, which was to hold the Shu Xuan Immortal Continent Young Disciple Elite Contest in advance.
The Four Alliances set the venue of the competition outside the Devil's Continental Bridge on Long Island, and used the name of the competition to ask relevant sects and families to send people to participate. The outcome of the tournament is not determined by the victory or defeat of the teams, but by the number and quality of the invaders killed, and by who can discover the secret of the opponent's teleportation.
The tournament, which was originally scheduled to take place in six months, has been brought forward and started three months later!
During this time, the Four Alliances will send people to monitor the movements of the invaders and block their further incursions.
As soon as the news was released, the sects and families involved began to weigh the pros and cons and start discussing.
Originally, there were ten teams selected in the southeast and northwest of Xianzhou to participate in the competition. In the end, some sects either cherished their feathers, or were cowardly, unwilling to risk their own disciples to fight to the death, and took the initiative to withdraw from the competition, but there were also many sects that volunteered to participate, and finally agreed to participate in a total of fifty teams.
Of course, some of these sects did not contribute to the work, and only sent some fish belly disciples to make up the number, in order to win a good reputation.
After urgent internal deliberations, it was decided to send strong players to participate in the competition.
This time it was a fight against a foreign enemy, and the risk of falling was much greater than that of a normal competition. But on the one hand, it is incumbent on representing Xianzhou to resist foreign invasion, and it is also a good opportunity to train disciples and increase their knowledge, and they must also strive to overpower Ziyue Immortal Sect and the Tu family in terms of merit points.
Due to the tight time, the selection of the participating team members was not carried out through the competition, but was composed of the people who participated in the Eastern Competition last time.
According to the requirements of the Four Alliances for the number of personnel and gender, as well as the matching of minor directions, the regular team members include Hua Lanting, Lin Xianjing, Yi Liunian, Zhuge Yun, He Dayi, Qu Zhengzheng, Wang Genji, Yu Qi, Feng Qingjun and Yun Zhichun, and the substitutes include Yue Guanghan, Chao Tianque, Yuan Geng, Huo Huixiao, Dao Jones, Zhang Hanyun, Wen Yin and Song Feifei.
In the next three months, the first two months are the time for the participating team members to accelerate their cultivation and martial arts skills under the guidance of their independent cultivators and minor masters, and in the second month, the main selection and candidate team members will conduct joint training to further familiarize themselves with the run-in and practice the cooperative combat ability with different numbers and scales, and finally conduct targeted training on how to deal with meditation and its techniques based on limited intelligence.
With Menli's special permission, all the members of the team were allowed to learn the Dragon Sleeping Pill Method. With this sharp weapon, the three-month intensive training almost had the effect of the usual small half a year of cultivation, although except for the accident of Hualan Ting, no one was able to break through to the Five Qi Dynasty Yuan Realm, but the rapid progress in cultivation made everyone full of confidence before leaving, and they were eager to try.
Hua Lanting himself is even more busy day and night, with all fours to the sky, and he is anxious.
In order to snatch his cultivation time, Dong Ming Peak's Feng Huo Lun teacher even broke all the way to Tianji Peak and quarreled with Yun Yiqi, bluntly saying that Hua Lan Ting had the qualifications to practice the Data Light Waterfall after entering the Five Qi Dynasty Yuan Realm, and the refining kung fu that had been delayed in the past could not always be left behind, in addition, he also had a few magic weapons to personally supervise Hua Lan Ting casting, and even Qi Men Dun Jia Technique He also had to teach a few hands.
And Yun Yiqi was not polite, and directly drove the other party down the peak, he told Feng Huolun that Hua Lan Ting's first task was to improve the skills in the Freedom Wuji Gong, the Nine Turns Great Returning Pill Method, and the Five Thunder Roaring Light palms, and the other cultivation contents had to make way for this.
Hua Lanting couldn't cry or laugh because of this, the door had already announced the fact that he was the first to ascend to the Five Qi Dynasty Yuan Realm, showing his glory, as the first and main attacker of the team, he felt that this trip was a great responsibility.
The two masters are all for their own good, and they are not good at favoring one over the other, so he can only seize all the time and race against time to cultivate.
In fact, in addition to the above, he also has a lot of things to deepen his understanding and ponder how to integrate them, such as the combination and application of the golden wire and the fast and slow four-character technique and other attack techniques, such as the trial of the few remaining effects in the twenty cups, such as how to play the best role in the inch-inch-and-thousand-mile body method, such as the salted fish with salt Dafa and how far the chameleon lizard can be driven at present, and so on.
In addition, the door also gave everyone a lot of magic weapons for self-defense and life-saving, and they also need to squeeze out time to familiarize themselves, and everyone shouts that they lack skills, lamenting that there is not enough time.
In the midst of the hustle and bustle, it was finally time to set off, and it was rumored that the invaders of the Myoko Holy Land had finished repairing and were about to start an organized advance inland, and the Four Alliances couldn't wait to ask all the warbands to assemble as soon as possible.
The day before leaving, everyone else was allowed to put down their cultivation and recuperate, only Hua Lanting and Lin Xian were called into the side hall by Zhou Xi, first, to tell them that this time they would be accompanied by the master of the Thunder Punishment Palace, Shou Yan Zhenren, and several division commanders, and second, they should be taught the possible dangers and coping strategies.
Finally, Zhou Xi warned the two that in addition to facing the open guns of the intruders, they should also be doubly vigilant against hidden arrows that may be shot from inside Xianzhou or from the participating teams!
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