Chapter 278: The Sacred Beast of the Mountain [5K Subscription Request]
With the departure of the three supreme elders of Renshui Sect, Meng Nanfeng focused all his energy on this battle.
In this battle, the coalition forces want to defeat the Black Abyss Dragon Palace in one final blow, while the Black Abyss Dragon Palace will also fight desperately in order to defend this place.
If the coalition forces win this battle, they will be able to drive the Black Abyss Dragon Palace back to the South Region. If the Black Abyss Dragon Palace can hold on or turn defeat into victory, they will also be able to gain a firm foothold in the East Region.
Therefore, both sides have gathered almost all their forces and are determined to do their best to win this crucial war.
In this war, those ancestors above the false infant level confronted each other and would not easily intervene in the low-level war before the outcome was decided.
Therefore, these millions of coalition troops were handed over to Meng Nanfeng as the commander-in-chief.
At this time, after Meng Nanfeng had prepared his retreat, he began to deploy his troops, concentrating his elite and superior forces, and began to erode this vast sea area one by one.
This war lasted for three full years. As the army continued to capture islands, the encirclement was eventually shortened to an area of less than 100,000 miles of sea.
"The peripheral forces have basically been eroded, and only the Black Abyss Dragon Emperor's palace is left."
On this day, Meng Nanfeng stood on the treasure ship, looking at the vast sea, and a solemn look appeared in his eyes.
It was a sea area that was even smaller than the Tianxing Sea, filled with thousands of large islands, and each of these islands had a spiritual spring or spiritual pool to a greater or lesser extent.
In the center of these islands is a bottomless abyss, with a whirlpool swallowing everything like an abyss.
The vortex is where the Black Abyss Dragon Emperor's palace is located. It was originally a small fourth-order spirit vein, but under the cultivation of the Black Abyss Dragon Emperor, it has become a medium-sized fourth-order lower-grade spirit vein.
At this time, with this fourth-level spiritual vein as the core and thousands of spiritual springs and pools as the core of the formation, an array formation completely covered an area of tens of thousands of miles like an inverted glass bowl.
"The fourth-level formation should not be underestimated."
Meng Nanfeng's heart sank, and then he looked outside the sea.
Just in the vast sea, there are tens of thousands of huge treasure ships floating and sinking. These treasure ships are at least second-level treasure ships, and there are even more than 200 treasure ships of the third level or above.
On these treasure ships, there are millions of Qi-cultivating and foundation-building monks, who have obviously been ready to go for a long time.
"I don't know how many people can return from this battle."
Meng Nanfeng sighed in his heart, then waved his hand and said, "Pass the order down, advance in an orderly manner, and let the third-level treasure ship lead the way."
As Meng Nanfeng finished speaking, the army began to move forward quickly.
Countless treasure ships moved forward and began to attack the mountain protection formation.
Unfortunately, in front of this fourth-level formation, treasure ships below the third level are like ants trying to shake a tree. They cannot cause even the slightest ripple and their only function is to consume the spiritual energy within.
Only treasure ships of level three or above can stir up some waves and thus have some effect.
At this time, with tens of thousands of treasure ships shaking, millions of monks taking action, and countless sea beasts attacking from the bottom of the sea, the huge formation finally began to tremble.
After several days, seeing that the spiritual energy consumed to maintain the 100,000-mile formation was considerable, the Black Abyss Dragon Palace finally began to shrink the formation and abandon the spiritual springs and pools in the periphery that had run out of spiritual energy.
The army continued to advance in this way, and before they knew it, they had advanced tens of thousands of miles, compressing the mountain protection formation to an area of only ten thousand miles.
"Yin——"
At this moment, a dragon's roar was heard from the formation, and an illusory black dragon rose up, bringing with it tremendous divine power that shook the world and instantly reduced dozens of treasure ships to ashes.
The Qi-cultivating and foundation-building cultivators on the treasure ship were completely reduced to ashes without even a sound.
"It's a fourth-level killing array."
Meng Nanfeng's expression changed slightly, and he immediately looked at the elder of the Five Elements Sect beside him and said, "The other party has launched a fourth-level killing formation. If we continue to fight like this, I'm afraid we will suffer heavy losses. Can you please help resist?"
"No."
The elder shook his head and said solemnly: "All the True Lords and ancestors must maintain their peak condition to ensure that there will be no problems with the high-level combat power."
"Moreover, activating the killing formation consumes a lot of spiritual energy. These low-level cultivators are meant to consume the spiritual energy in the formation."
"This..." Meng Nanfeng's pupils wrinkled slightly, and a hint of hesitation suddenly appeared on his face.
Seeing this, the elder sighed and said, "Friend Meng, as the saying goes, a merciful man cannot command an army. This is not the time to be indecisive."
"If you are indecisive on this matter and fail to capture the Black Abyss Palace, wouldn't all our sacrifices be wasted?"
Meng Nanfeng was silent. He slowly closed his eyes, but finally clenched his fists and said, "Pass the order down, tell them to double the compensation, and have everyone launch a general attack at all costs."
"As ordered."
The elder immediately bowed, and then whispered to the herald, "Prepare the supervision team, and tell them that anyone who dares to retreat must be killed without mercy."
As this order was issued, tens of thousands of treasure ships rushed out and launched the final general attack on the Black Abyss Dragon Palace.
But the killing formation of the Black Abyss Dragon Palace is too powerful. Every time it is launched, it has the power to destroy the world. It can at least reduce a dozen second-level treasure ships to ashes in an instant.
The army was beaten back several times. Finally, the supervisory team killed several Jindan monks in the battle line, and then changed the tactics to let all the monks get off the boats and fight in dispersed places, which greatly reduced the casualties.
A large number of low-level cultivators were scattered across tens of thousands of miles of sea, and countless giant sea beasts were attacking the formation. The Dragon Palace killing formation attacked them like a cannon hitting a mosquito, and finally it gradually couldn't hold on.
After fighting for several months, seeing that the spiritual energy of the mountain protection formation was running out, Meng Nanfeng finally ordered the entire army to advance and blasted open the mountain protection formation with a salvo of hundreds of third-grade top-quality cannons.
"Finally broke through."
"Fight in."
As the formation was broken, the strongest people on top of the clouds finally couldn't bear it anymore.
The two demon kings of the Canghai Demon Crocodile clan were the first to attack. They charged directly into the deep sea with murderous intent. Following them were two Nascent Soul Demon Kings, a snake and a shark.
In addition, there were more than a dozen false demon kings flying into the air, all of them wanting to compete with the Dragon Palace.
Obviously, these deep-sea monsters felt extremely threatened by the invasion of Dragon Palace, so their resistance was the most active.
After all, at the beginning of the war, several pseudo-demon kings died at the hands of the Black Abyss Dragon Palace, and they were worried that they would follow in the same footsteps as their predecessors.
Apart from these deep-sea monsters, the only human clan that came was the Five Elements Taoist Sect.
But the Five Elements Taoist Sect is worthy of being the Nascent Soul Taoist Sect that has been passed down for thousands of years. This time, there came five false infant ancestors and two Nascent Soul True Lords.
The most important thing is that the Five Elements Taoist Sect also brought eight mountain-guarding spiritual beasts.
The eight guardian beasts of the Five Elements Taoist Sect have the lowest cultivation level at the False Infant stage, and there is even a guardian beast at the early Nascent Soul stage.
At the same time, the elder of the Five Elements Dao Sect saw the various mountain guardian beasts and couldn't help but smile and said, "This time, my Five Elements Dao Sect has used all its strengths, even the mountain guardian beasts have all been invited out."
"Even if Dragon Palace still has a trump card in this battle, I'm afraid it will be difficult to save the defeat."
"The sacred beast of the Five Elements Sect?"
Meng Nanfeng whispered slowly, raised his head and looked at the spiritual beasts guarding the mountains, a look of understanding appeared in his eyes.
The Five Elements Taoist Sect was not good at raising beasts, but they had mastered a fourth-level beast taming technique, so these mountain guardian beasts were basically not bred by them, but were royal blood monsters captured from the outside world.
It's just like the Black Water Mystic Snake King back then. If the Black Water Mystic Snake King had not been rescued by the Black Prison Prince, he would most likely have been brought back to the sect and his potential would have been squeezed to enable him to break through to the Nascent Soul stage.
By then, the Black Water Mystical Snake will most likely break through the False Infant realm, with a small probability of becoming a Nascent Soul Demon King, and will also become one of these mountain guardian beasts.
The reason for this is that the Five Elements Taoist Sect does not have too many resources and is unable to help these king-blooded beasts break through the Nascent Soul realm.
Secondly, in order to prevent them from getting out of control, the Five Elements Taoist Sect also wanted to help them break through the Nascent Soul stage.
Because they were forcibly captured from the outside world, the loyalty of these demon kings is ultimately limited. If their cultivation exceeds that of their masters, they may rebel with resentment.
At this time, all the True Lords of the Five Elements Taoist Sect took action one after another, and at the same time commanded the mountain guardian beasts to charge into the battlefield.
On the other side, facing the attack of the group of monsters, the Black Abyss Dragon Palace also rushed up into the sky.
Meng Nanfeng looked up and found that there were seven Demon Kings flying into the air. Among them, in addition to the Black Abyss Dragon Palace in the middle Nascent Soul stage, there were also four Demon King Princes in the early Nascent Soul stage.
There are two Demon Kings left, one is a black evil dragon. This Demon King is the legitimate Taoist partner of the Black Abyss Dragon King, and is also the biological mother of the Black Prison Prince and other six dragon princes.
The other one was a Blazing Sky Flame Python, the biological mother of the Black Flame Prince. At this time, the seven Dragon Kings soared into the sky, and more than a dozen pseudo-demon kings of the Jiao clan rushed out, bringing the battle to a climax.
The Black Abyss Dragon King was extremely powerful and he suppressed the four Deep Sea Demon Kings by himself.
Seeing his ferocious rage rising to the sky, Master Chongyuan decisively summoned an ancient tripod and rushed towards the Black Abyss Dragon Emperor with the power to suppress everything.
"Ancient spiritual treasure, the Ancient Cauldron of the Sea."
The moment he saw the ancient tripod, the Black Abyss Dragon Emperor immediately looked solemn and activated a halberd to fight against it.
At the same time, Ye Linyuan, who was tens of thousands of miles away, showed an extremely fearful look for the first time.
The so-called ancient spiritual treasures refer to the spiritual treasures left over from ancient times. Such spiritual treasures not only possess tremendous power, but most importantly, they often contain the souls of instruments that existed in ancient times.
Yes, weapon souls are similar to sword souls. In essence, they are powerful warriors from ancient times who are at the Nascent Soul stage or above and are sleeping in them.
When future generations sign a contract with a spiritual treasure and embark on the road of contracting treasures, they will provide magic power and feed the soul of the instrument, thereby enabling it to achieve a kind of alternative immortality.
In this case, once the contracted person's cultivation breaks through the Nascent Soul stage, and after becoming a Daoist, all of the Dao essence is swallowed up by the spiritual treasure, then the strength of the ancient spiritual treasure will be restored to the Nascent Soul stage.
As for the extent of recovery, it depends on the cultivation level of the person who signed the contract when he or she transforms into Tao.
But no matter what, the soul of the ancient spiritual treasure can maintain its active period for thousands of years after recovering its Nascent Soul realm strength.
During these thousands of years, the weapon soul will possess some of the strength and abilities it had in life, and will also be able to refine spiritual energy to restore its own magic power, which is almost equivalent to an alternative Nascent Soul True Lord.
In this way, they will not fall into deep sleep again until the Dao essence left by the person who made the contract is exhausted.
The ancient spiritual treasure Canghai Ancient Cauldron in front of you is like this. It should be a top-grade spiritual treasure, and it can still exert a strength comparable to that of the middle stage of the Nascent Soul.
Based on this inference, the cultivation level of the weapon soul in its lifetime was at least not lower than the late Nascent Soul stage.
At this time, the Black Abyss Dragon Emperor blocked the ancient tripod and said with an extremely cold expression: "You old immortal from the ancient times, why don't you just continue to sleep peacefully and dare to interfere in my war?"
"Hahaha."
A loud laugh came from the ancient tripod, and then it suppressed it with boundless power, and said with a sneer: "King Blood Dragon, if it were in the ancient times, you might have a chance to step into the realm of Yuanshen."
"Unfortunately, in this era, you are just a junior in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul."
"court death!"
The Black Abyss Dragon Emperor spoke coldly, and immediately urged his halberd to open it, trying to avoid the Canghai Ancient Cauldron to support the main battlefield.
But Canghai Ancient Cauldron suppressed it with a bang, and said calmly: "I made a deal with someone, and promised him that I would stop you for an hour."
"boom--"
At the same time, the battle in the ocean became more and more intense.
The four deep-sea demon kings, two Yuanying Zhenjuns, and a mountain-guarding sacred beast attacked together and engaged in a fierce battle with the six dragon demon kings.
The fight between more than thirty pseudo-demon kings and fake infant ancestors also overturned the sky.
Facing the siege from two major forces, the Black Abyss Dragon Palace was clearly at an absolute disadvantage. If the fight continued, it would probably be defeated and flee in no time.
"kill--"
Among the crowd, Tiancang Sword Master was at the forefront.
As a fake infant sword cultivator who is famous for his combat power, the attack power of the genius sword master is almost comparable to that of the Yuanying True Lord. At this moment, he burst out with all his strength, suppressing the fake demon king in front of him from beginning to end.
Seeing that the dragon demon king was about to collapse, the two mountain-guarding spirit beasts of the Five Elements Sect said, "Sword Master, we are here to help you!"
As soon as he finished speaking, two pseudo-Demon King-level mountain-guarding spirit beasts gathered their strength and were about to attack the Dragon Demon King.
Tiancang Sword Master exhaled slightly and was about to say something, but his expression suddenly changed and he fled into the distance.
Unfortunately, it was too late. The two mountain guardian spirit beasts suddenly attacked, launching a long-accumulated attack towards Tiancang Sword Master.
Tiancang Sword Master was caught off guard. At this moment, he had no way to avoid it and could only choose to take the opponent's move head-on.
However, as a sword cultivator, Tiancang Sword Master's defense was not strong. He lost the initiative and was attacked by surprise. He had no time to react and his body exploded on the spot.
At the critical moment, Tiancang Jianzun hurriedly escaped from his Nascent Soul to escape, but he saw that the Dragon Demon King sacrificed a small furnace in the air, and then a huge force sucked his Nascent Soul on the spot.
"Soul-catching furnace!"
Tiancang Sword Master's eyes were bloodshot. Before his Nascent Soul was taken away, he looked in all directions and found that the seven mountain guardian spirit beasts and the mountain guardian holy beast had all turned against him.
Two of the five false infant ancestors of the Five Elements Taoist Sect were killed in a surprise attack at just one encounter. Even the True Lord Chongyuan above the sky was severely injured by a surprise attack from the sacred beast guarding the mountain.
The deep-sea demon clan was not having a good time either. They were caught off guard and two pseudo-demon kings were killed and seriously injured.
"This battle is over."
Tiancang Sword Master’s last thought emerged, and before he had time to think about anything else, he was sucked into the Soul-Capture Furnace.
"impossible!"
At the same time, seeing the situation on the battlefield suddenly change drastically, Master Chongyuan showed an expression of disbelief.
But he was seen suppressing his injuries on one hand, and decisively activating the secret method of taming beasts on the other, wanting to control the life and death of these mountain guardian beasts through the secret technique of soul and blood, but the mountain guardian beasts did not react at all.
"Old dog, your soul-blood beast-controlling secret technique has long been solved by us."
The six-tailed green fox, the sacred beast that guards the mountain, kept attacking, using all kinds of magical powers to attack True Lord Qingzhu.
Chong Yuan Zhen Jun fought and retreated, saying in disbelief: "Impossible, your Soul Blood Secret Curse must be resolved by the fourth-level Soul Purifying Liquid."
“Even if I have the Soul Purifying Liquid of Death, there are only a handful of people in my Five Elements Sect who are qualified to have access to you.”
"Yeah, not many people can get in touch with us."
The six-tailed green fox sneered, then looked at him and said dimly: "Then guess who lifted the soul blood curse for us?"
Upon hearing this, Master Chongyuan's expression suddenly changed. He immediately looked at Master Qingzhu who was flying over and stepped back to create some distance between him and Master.
The True Lord Qingzhu was about to come to help him, but at this moment he paused for a moment, his expression suddenly changed and he said, "Junior Brother, do you doubt me?"
Master Chongyuan did not answer. He took a look at the devastating battlefield and then fled away decisively.
Almost in an instant, the situation on the scene was reversed. The Yuanying Zhenjuns of the human and demon races fled in all directions, and the Yuanying Zhenjuns of the dragon race also chased after them, wanting to further expand the results of the battle.
However, several fake infant demon kings stayed behind and took this opportunity to start a massacre in order to clear out the human race's Nascent Soul seeds.
"Run."
In an instant, seeing the Nascent Soul ancestors being defeated, the human cultivators on the battlefield showed expressions of despair.
Millions of monks fled in panic. Some of the faster ones were able to get away first, while others who were slower were quickly overwhelmed by the monsters.
There were also a large number of monks scattered in the deep sea. They were abandoned before they could even get on board the ship and were buried in despair in the deep sea.
"This battle is completely over."
Looking at the chaotic battlefield, Ye Yingxu sighed.
He then decisively activated the Sky Whale, bringing out the maximum power of the Nine-Leaf Spirit Sail, and then activated several formations continuously, fleeing towards the distant sea.
Fortunately, at this time, the pseudo-demon king and top golden elixirs of the dragon clan were mainly aiming to hunt down the Nascent Soul seeds of the human and demon clans like Meng Nanfeng, and did not focus their main attention on them.
In addition, they had made preparations in advance and followed the escape route given by Ye Linyuan, perfectly avoiding almost all the movements of the Pseudo Demon King, so they quickly escaped from this sea area.
Compared to them, others are more unlucky.
(End of this chapter)
