Chapter 1598: Demonic Assault (Part One)
However, if everyone was only controlled by demonic qi and did not fight with others, Mu Guyue’s consumption would be greatly reduced.
Therefore, Ren Yanyu had to fully activate the grand formation’s defense to assist Mu Guyue and the others according to the plan, and even to protect these people when they were at their weakest after the fact.
Although Mu Guyue could also cast “Casting the Demon” again in a short period of time, it would take at least two hours to recover, but the effect would be reduced to only twenty to thirty percent.
And the time would be even shorter, possibly less than ten breaths. After that, she would be unable to support a third battle. Then, she would have to rely entirely on Ren Yanyu alone to support and buy them at least a day of recovery time.
In fact, at that time, their side would basically be considered defeated, and the follow-up plans would just be plans.
If, after one round of “Casting the Demon” by Mu Guyue and the others, the Bright Flame Sect still retained two Spirit Transformation cultivators, Ren Yanyu estimated that even maintaining the grand formation would not last for too long.
“Boom boom boom…”
The grand formation’s light flowed, continuously exploding into balls of dazzling light. Ling Shan recognized the origin of this formation, so she was attacking the weak points of the restriction.
At the same time, the three Nascent Soul cultivators under her command also, according to Ling Shan’s instructions, gave her auxiliary attacks.
Eleven breaths later.
“Rumble!”
In a series of explosions, under the intense light of the grand formation in the dense fog, it actually collapsed with a bang.
“Hmm?”
Ling Shan and the three Nascent Soul cultivators immediately stopped their hands. Ling Shan held a green compass in her hand, her face vigilant as she looked into the grand formation.
Inside the grand formation, between the surging of the mist, her divine sense found a vast emptiness.
“Elder Ling, there’s no one inside. This seems to be a trap!” a Nascent Soul cultivator said, also with a vigilant expression.
In fact, he didn’t need to say it. Even the Golden Core cultivators a hundred zhang behind, as the grand formation shattered, also swept through with their divine sense, preparing to attack at any moment.
But, the result was that there was no one inside the grand formation. But everyone felt that this might be a trap.
“Senior, should we summon the other two teams over?” another Nascent Soul cultivator said.
Ling Shan stared at the dense fog in front of her, her divine sense repeatedly scanning. Then, her eyes narrowed slightly before her red lips parted.
“I will go in and see for myself. You all stay here. If the situation looks bad, immediately summon the other two teams!”
“Elder Ling…”
When the three Nascent Soul cultivators heard this, someone started to speak anxiously, but was waved away by Ling Shan.
Since the grand formation was already broken, they couldn’t just wait here for the others to come, right? At least she could investigate a little.
With a wave of her hand, Ling Shan’s figure flashed and entered the dense fog in front. The Bright Flame Sect cultivators behind could only watch cautiously.
Time passed quickly. Ling Shan, who had only advanced three or four li, suddenly, her expression changed. She suddenly sensed a strange aura, but it was not a magical power fluctuation.
“What is that?”
Ling Shan was startled. She felt that the aura that suddenly appeared was like spiritual power, but she felt that this aura was not right.
All of this happened in just a short breath.
Mu Guyue had already shot up from the child formation. The Crescent Moon Handguard Sabers were already spinning in her hand like a full moon, streaks of cold moonlight shooting up into the sky.
“Kill!”
With a thought, she transmitted the order into the mind of every disciple. Her whole person had already taken the lead and rushed into the dense fog in front.
In fact, in Mu Guyue’s original plan, there was another demonic clan art that could be used for group battles, but unfortunately, her cultivation was still too shallow.
And at the same time, she had to use “Casting the Demon” to control so many people. Thus, she could not perfectly use another group battle art.
But if she only controlled one Nascent Soul, or ten Golden Core cultivators, she could, while they were under the effect of “Casting the Demon,” also cast the demonic clan secret art “White-Bone Mottled Armor.”
This art, in fact, could also, with the infusion of demonic qi, help others to manifest a set of bone-spur armor on their bodies, which was absolutely a deadly weapon for close combat.
It was just that it required more demonic qi, and the other party needed to have a more tenacious will. Otherwise, the torture of the bone spurs protruding from the body might cause a cultivator to faint on the spot, let alone continue to fight afterwards.
Mu Guyue was now only at the initial-stage Spirit Transformation. After using the “Casting the Demon” art to control so many people, she no longer had the strength to cast “White-Bone Mottled Armor” for others.
Otherwise, not only would she be unable to participate in the battle herself, but even the control time of “Casting the Demon” might not even last ten breaths the first time.
Ling Shan, who had just been advancing, was investigating the situation of the grand formation.
Suddenly, in her divine sense, she saw streaks of figures rushing out of the dense fog. It was just that the aura on these black shadows was not magical power fluctuations, but was very strange.
This made her stunned for a moment. And in the moment of her stun, the person in the lead had already, with a wave of her hand, sent out more than ten strong winds.
“This… is this demonic qi!”
In the next moment, Ling Shan also reacted. Although they knew that Mu Guyue was from the Demon Clan, none of them had ever fought against the Demon Clan before.
So, they were not familiar with demonic qi. Even after she exclaimed, she was still not too sure.
And what Mu Guyue wanted was the moment the other party was stunned. The more than ten strong winds she had sent out first had already flashed into the dense fog and sped away.
With Mu Guyue attacking, besides Ling Shan who could still block, no one else could.
“Buzz!”
With an almost inaudible muffled sound, the group of Bright Flame Sect cultivators three or four li away had not yet reacted.
In the dense fog around them, an invisible barrier suddenly rose.
“Quick, break the formation!”
Ling Shan’s crisp voice immediately shot up into the sky.
While she was warning the elders and sect members under her command, a voice transmission talisman also shot up into the sky.
Her face was not good. She had been careful enough, but she had still fallen into the other party’s trap and was trapped in the grand formation by the Broken Army Sect.
In order not to arouse her suspicion, the other party had only revealed the one formation she had broken, and had not made any other moves.
With the Bright Flame Sect people investigating here together, even if she herself had made a mistake in her investigation, there were still three Nascent Soul cultivators assisting.
And sometimes those meticulous Golden Core cultivators were not useless.
Some of them were also very proficient in grand formations, but their ability to break formations was insufficient; some also had their own immortal fortunes, and might have some kind of detection treasure in their hands.
But just like that, during the investigation process, she and a group of cultivators had not found any more abnormalities.
Including the people who had suddenly appeared in front of her, she was actually mentally prepared for them. That was, the enemy would be lurking in a restriction or a child formation.
Although she had thought of all this, what Ling Shan had never thought of was the appearance of these people. They were simply not the Broken Army Sect cultivators she had seen before.
Instead, with one glance, their appearances had become extremely strange. In addition, the person in the lead had attacked, and the strong wind they brought out was simply not magical power.
The target was not her. Fortunately, Ling Shan was extremely experienced in dueling. Under this unprecedented situation, she still had an extremely brief moment of daze, judging whether that was an attack or something else.
But just this one daze made Ling Shan feel annoyed. The other party had taken the opportunity to send out formation flags. By the time she wanted to intercept, it was already too late.
The enemy had set up the formation in an instant. As Ling Shan sent out the voice transmission talisman, she herself had already quickly retreated.
“You’ve come, so don’t leave!”
Mu Guyue’s cold voice also rang out at almost the same time.
And the voice transmission talisman that flew out of Ling Shan’s hand exploded into a ball of yellow light in the instant it flew into the air.
That was the voice transmission talisman hitting an invisible light shield. The grand formation had already been instantly completed again.
Ren Yanyu had been waiting for this moment, so the timing of her attack was, of course, seamless.
She immediately controlled the formation flags that Mu Guyue had sent out and directly sealed this space.
The group of Broken Army Sect cultivators, with a sky-high killing aura, like a rolling sharp blade, instantly pierced through the dense fog. And one of the figures, with just a flicker, had already caught up with Ling Shan.
This surprised Ling Shan. Her retreat speed was already fast enough. The distance she had advanced was only three or four li, and retreating was just a matter of a thought.
But she had only flashed back a little over a li when that slender figure in the dense fog, while waving her hand to cast the formation flags, had already arrived in front of her.
Ling Shan didn’t have time to think much. She could only stop her flight. As the aura on her body surged, a red long whip had already appeared in her hand.
As soon as the red long whip appeared, a wave of scorching heat appeared around her.
And just as Mu Guyue caught up with Ling Shan, Yu Banjiang and the other dozens of people immediately whistled past her.
“Boom boom boom…”
A series of explosions had already sounded from the mist in front. The divine sense of the elders and disciples of the Bright Flame Sect had already scanned Elder Ling engaged in battle.
They also immediately attacked the formation. The three Nascent Soul elders also, in their fastest time, sent out voice transmission talismans.
But since the formation was already established, how could they break it?
In the formation eye of the grand formation, Ren Yanyu, in a red dress, was sitting cross-legged, her pair of snow-white hands constantly forming hand seals.
In the space around her, it was as if a rain of golden talismans was falling. Large and small, ancient golden talismans, while spinning rapidly, were like arrows, constantly shooting towards the surroundings.
Then these talismans, in an instant, sank into the grand formation and disappeared.
Ren Yanyu’s jade face was also solemn. Although there was only one Spirit Transformation cultivator on the other side at present, two of the Nascent Soul cultivators and six of the Golden Core cultivators under this person seemed to be very proficient in formations.
And what worried Ren Yanyu even more was that just as the sinister-looking middle-aged man and the others were attacking, she sensed another powerful aura rapidly approaching from outside the grand formation…
Somewhere inside the grand formation, Mu Guyue didn’t care about Ling Shan’s harsh words. With a circling motion, she flashed behind Ling Shan.
Just as Ling Shan’s voice fell, her heart jumped in surprise.
Mu Guyue, for the first time, did not entangle her, but had lost her trace. But she also instantly sensed a cold killing intent from behind.
And just at this moment, the voice of the sinister-looking middle-aged man and the sound of an attack came from outside the grand formation.
“Are you trying to end the fight as soon as possible?”
Ling Shan sneered in her heart. She knew that her voice could not be transmitted out of the grand formation, so she didn’t need to waste any more effort trying to send a voice transmission to her sect members.
Mu Guyue had sensed that her reinforcements had arrived outside the grand formation a step earlier and wanted to kill her as soon as possible, but that was a bit too naive.
Mu Guyue knew that Ren Yanyu, at the formation eye, was supporting the grand formation alone. She had to be even faster to finish off the person in front of her.
With a flash, she slid behind Ling Shan. At the same time, she had already leaped high into the air.
At the same time, her two Crescent Moon Handguard Sabers had already turned into two sharp glows. They were still in front of Ling Shan, one high and one low, attacking the other party’s face and dantian respectively.
She was completely sealing off the other party’s forward dodging momentum, while she herself was using her speed to be in the air behind her, already in a half-kneeling position, smashing down.
“Oof!”
With a muffled sound, Mu Guyue’s knees heavily knelt down on Ling Shan’s shoulders!