Chapter 55: Spirit Beasts
Four days later, in the evening, the reinforcements of the Fengling Sect, the six Qi Refining Terminal Stage Cultivators, finally arrived on time as the Ma family intended, just like last time. The three sat on the drill rat, and the three sat on the golden feather crane. The Drill Sky Rat is a second-level spirit beast, about one zhang long and half a zhang high, which is equivalent to four to six layers of cultivation in the middle stage of qi refining. The Golden Feather Crane is a third-level spirit beast, about two zhang high, which is equivalent to a seventh-nine-level cultivation at the end of qi refining.
Spirit beasts are domesticated by monks, communicate with monks, and are controlled by monks, which is different from demon beasts that absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth on their own. When the monks of the Fengling Sect are fighting, their spirit beasts do not need to consume the master's mana, and they can help the main attack the enemy by themselves.
Compared with the beasts and monks who have comparable mana cultivation, the intelligence of beasts is not as good as that of monks, and the spells are generally inferior to monks, and there are no magic weapons, talismans, formations, etc. to help in battle. Therefore, a cultivator in the middle stage of Qi refining, as long as the spell is used correctly, can often kill the third-level spirit beast that has been cultivated at the end of Qi refining. But the beast always has one or two spells that surpass the monks of the same rank, and if it plays to its strengths, it can also defeat the monks.
The Drill Rat is an earth-based spirit beast, with a very fast speed on the ground, equivalent to a monk at the end of Qi refining, and in the underground, it can bite through hard rocks and hard soil, and its sense of smell is even more sensitive, especially good at tracking. The Golden Feather Crane is a wind-based spirit beast, and its speed in the air is faster than that of a monk at the end of Qi refining. The whole is white, with a tail with white feathers, and a little golden. At certain angles, it can reflect light and blind the enemy's eyes.
After the monk of Fenglingzong arrived, he sent a transmission note a few miles away from the city that night, but did not receive a reply. They sent Cao Xudong, the senior brother who domesticated spirit beasts, to ride the golden feather crane to investigate, and the other five waited outside the city for news.
The golden feather crane crossed the sky and rushed straight to the front of the Ma family's compound. Cao Xudong saw the siege array, and hit a wind spell on the array, the wind blade technique, and roughly judged that this was a medium-level magic array, and saw that there were no monks nearby, so he flew around Rongwan City and Shadow Pearl Mountain, and finally flew back to meet the other five people.
Zhu Renzhi also noticed Cao Xudong's movements, but there was nothing he could do. In the past, every time Feng Lingzong came to help the Ma family, he always rode a spirit beast suitable for long-distance attacks, either flying into the sky or running to the ground, and the speed was fast, and this time it was the same. This kind of saying will beat you up, but you can't beat his fighting method, which makes Baishamen have a headache every time.
Several times, with the help of Hua Tianzong, Baishamen originally had the upper hand, but they rushed to repel it. On other occasions, they helped the Ma family and attacked Baishamen, causing Baishamen to lose several monks. Fortunately, the Huatian Sect monks rushed to reinforce them, and when they saw that they couldn't take advantage, they slowly left.
Everyone in Fengling Sect listened to Cao Xudong talk about the situation of the Ma family, and unanimously believed that the Ma family was besieged by the formation. When Cao Xudong flew over the Lingtian just now, he didn't find any monks stationed, only a few mortal warriors were there, and the low-level forbidden array of the elixir field was still there.
This kind of unguarded wilderness prohibition array is like a treasure buried in a tomb, waiting for someone to steal and dig up. This shows that the Ma family has lost control of Lingtian. Without these sources of spirit stones, the Ma family would have no foundation, and the situation of the Ma family was not optimistic.
Moreover, the Ma family's forbidden array has always been set up within the wall, and now the wall and bluestone road are invisible, and the transmission notes have not responded, which shows that the Ma family is trapped in the new formation. However, Baishamen did not achieve victory, otherwise, there was no reason not to send monks to defend the formation, and send monks to control the Lingtian to prevent other forces from looting.
The Ma family was trapped in the formation, and the main monks of Baishamen were nowhere to be found. Although the forbidden array of Baishamen Mountain Gate cannot be seen through, Baishamen is hidden in the shadows of Rongwan City, and the likely surname of confrontation with the Ma family is the largest.
This time, if he was able to trap the Ma family with a formation, Baishamen would not let go of such a good opportunity and cowered inside the door. It should strike while the iron is hot and send reinforcements around the point. Cao Xudong's analysis, coupled with the supplements of other juniors and sisters, touched the real situation.
Several people were personally invited by the head of the Ma family to send a message, and they had no contact with Yunbeifang City. Now that the contact with the Ma family is broken, I don't know who to turn to, and in fact, I can't find anyone to discuss countermeasures, so I have to make my own ideas.
They decided not to enter the city for the time being, but to camp outside the city and wait and see what happened. They judged that the Ma family would not sit idly by, and would try to break through, and then they would just act when the opportunity came. They found a wild hill nearby, surrounded by low meadows within a radius of two or three miles, inaccessible to people, so as not to be attacked by surprise.
Five days later, he finally arrived at the Ma family, where he decided to attack the siege array. Early in the morning, all forces were inspecting their bags, sharpening their knives, and actively preparing for war.
Starting today, Wang Xian's strategy of breaking the formation and eradicating the Ma family will be tested. Wang Xian was still hiding in the small forbidden array in the corner of the granary, grinding his spear in battle, repeatedly grinding the description of the middle-level array and the low-level array on the "Formation Encyclopedia".
The jade plate of the forbidden array has the consciousness and mark of the person who arranged the array, plus the consciousness and mark of the monk who enters and exits or the mark of the mortal who enters and exits. The mortal mark is generally a fingerprint with a personal breath, and after the person who sets up the formation and enters and exits the divine sense mark into the jade card, no one can unilaterally copy or cancel the entry and exit of the jade card, and the function of copying or canceling the entry and exit of the jade card must be adjusted by the person who enters and exits the array.
When entering and exiting the large array, the monks must use their spiritual power to urge the jade plaque and row it to the location near the gate of the large array before the large array can be opened. If it is a mortal, the jade plate contains a trace of spiritual power stored by the person who arranged the array, and the mortal can open the large array by just identifying it by the imprint.
Many of the arrangements of the forbidden array are mastered by the person who arranges the array, and to adjust the settings, it is necessary to adjust the array plate with the jade card of the arranger.
Arrayers generally take advantage of the terrain to set up formation gates to enter and exit the formation, rather than entering and exiting everywhere. The gate will not be removed unless necessary. Moreover, there will be few gates to prevent access risks and facilitate guarding.
There will be disciples guarding behind the formation gate to prevent those who enter and exit from being held hostage and break the formation. And the risk of hijacking and breaking the formation is very high, either being discovered by the guards and blocking out of the formation, being chased and killed by the group, or being trapped in the formation and being besieged.
Depending on the situation, the arranger can make the formation only enter and not exit, or only go out and not enter, or not go out, or let the formation only attack from the outside or only from the inside or from the inside or inside and outside, and can also make the transmission of the formation to the transmission notes only from the inside to the outside, or only from the outside to the inside, or the inside and outside communication.
The use of the formation is wonderful, and it is in one mind. After Ma Ming found the enemy's traces in the courtyard last time, in order to prevent further accidents, the forbidden array of the courtyard has been changed from the original entry and exit to no entry and exit, which has cut off the possibility that Wang Xian can hold the monks in the courtyard hostage and enter and exit freely with entry and exit cards.
And Wang Xian, the use of the mid-level forbidden array as an internal siege array, is different from the use of the external defense array.
For example, the cancellation of "transmission of sound to the outside", the cancellation of "transmission of sound to the inside", the cancellation of the "divine consciousness to the outside", and the cancellation of the "divine consciousness to the inside" have cut off the interconnection and investigation between the Ma family and the outside world, exerted great pressure on the Ma family, and caused great inconvenience to the reinforcements.
In addition, the Ma family planned to concentrate more than twenty Qi Refining Stage cultivators to attack the mid-level forbidden array that was one level higher. The mid-level forbidden array, even if it is breached, will not collapse and disperse like the low-level forbidden array, but only open a hole and be passed through to escape. This provides convenience for Baishamen to concentrate its forces on blocking outside, just in case.