Chapter 65: Sky Fox Worships the Moon and Stars Burn the City
"General Deng?"
"He still has a breath left."
Deng Yu said, "I'll help you keep an eye on it. You can search for whatever you want."
"That's daring."
Zhao Wumian had no more scruples, he dodged over and began to perform the Nine Palaces Soul Transfer Technique.
This technique was learned from "Xuanwu" Qi Shizhou when he was in the imperial prison and was tracking down the remnants of the White Lotus Sect in the capital.
The Nine Palace Soul Transfer Technique is very difficult. One has to condense the yin and yang energies in the body into threads, which are then inserted into the back of the enemy's head to explore his related memories.
The higher the personal spirituality and cultivation, the more thorough the control and the more content one can see.
Zhao Wumian pinched his fingers and cast a spell. The energy in his palm turned purple, quickly changing and condensing into a thread that pierced into the back of Monk's head.
All kinds of memories flowed into his brain along the silk thread like a kaleidoscope.
Zhao Wumian saw flashes of light and shadows before his eyes, and he understood the whole story.
A month ago, when Prince of Liang Ba Zawalmi received the news that the army was marching south and Puding had fallen, he began to seek help from various parties. Internally, he formed an alliance with the Duan family of Dali, Liu Mingrui of the White Lotus Sect, and Yin Mo Ming Benren, a rebellious force of the Five Poison Sect. Externally, he sought support from the Northern Yuan Dynasty's royal tent.
Half a month ago, the Northern Yuan Dynasty secretly dispatched five masters of the "Thirteen Wings" to escort Surge to Yunnan to begin preparations for praying to the sky, ready to cooperate with the main force to swallow up the 100,000 vanguard troops of the Ming Dynasty in one bite. At the same time, they secretly plotted to assassinate the prince with Zawal, intending to cause civil strife and destabilize the Ming Dynasty court.
In this way, even if Yunnan was defeated and the kings of the Ming Dynasty fought each other, it would be beneficial for the Northern Yuan Dynasty to invade the south and retake Dadu.
In order to ensure the smooth progress of the prayer, Zawalmi and others were sent out to become poison masters from the Luogui and Xianshu tribes, in an attempt to use poison and witchcraft to harass the central army, forcing the main army to deal with the remaining Puding troops first and attract attention, so as to buy time for Su Rige's prayer.
Among the five masters, Monk is the direct disciple of "Narison", the contemporary Mongolian archery god, and also the guard of the royal tent.
So know more information.
For example, the spirit of the celestial fox in Su Rige's body, and the magic she was going to use this time...
Su Rige's magic this time is not a herd of elks. Elks alone cannot defeat the 100,000 troops led by Deng Yu. Moreover, there are not many pastures in the southwest, and there are not so many elks nearby. To defeat the will of the Ming army in one go, a more powerful and mysterious magic is needed!
Just like the Sky Fox's magical power - [Sparks Burning the City]!
Zhao Wumian has read the history of this world, and this technique has appeared many times in history.
The most famous of these was the Battle of Kunyang led by Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu.
The historical records recorded the battle situation: "At night, a meteor fell into the camp. During the day, a cloud appeared like a broken mountain. It fell on the camp and scattered before it reached the ground. The officers and soldiers were all exhausted and lay down. After the fierce fire, heavy rain poured down. The water became a river and the Fen River overflowed. The two lords and their people were in chaos. Tens of thousands of people rushed into the water and drowned. The Fen River stopped flowing."
The power of this technique is unparalleled!
But it is also extremely demanding to activate the magic.
The celestial fox still has to worship the moon for seven days to draw on the power of the stars and the moon, and after the operation he will have to suffer ten years of divine punishment.
It was even more difficult for Su Rige, who was only a spirit, to perform the spell. In addition to three hundred human sacrifices, he had to worship on the fifteenth day of the month. Moreover, the power of the spell was far from comparable to that of the Liu Xiu period.
With the help of the Heavenly Fox, Liu Xiu destroyed the main force of Wang Mang's 420,000 new troops in one fell swoop. Even if Suruge succeeded, he might not be able to kill the 100,000-strong army, and he still needed to take advantage of the chaos to attack Zawalmi's camp.
Tonight is the fifteenth day, the night of the full moon.
After midnight, the preliminary preparations will be completed and the magic will be activated, and the entire Jiaozi Mountain will be reduced to a sea of fire.
Zavalmi has ambushed 30,000 troops in Pu'an City, 300 miles away. It is very likely that they are about to arrive, just waiting for the meteors to fall from the sky and the fire to burn the city!
"not good!"
Zhao Wumian withdrew his magic, his face heavy, "We must stop Su Rige quickly!"
Deng Yu asked seriously: "What did you see?"
While Zhao Wumian was quickly picking up the spoils from Monk's body and putting his bow and arrows into his Qiankun bag, he quickly told Deng Yu what he knew.
Deng Yu was surprised and immediately looked towards Longtou Mountain: "Boerjijin Surig? She is praying to the heaven?!"
"Yes."
Zhao Wumian said, "She may have received the news. I have long felt that there is something wrong with the chief of the Luogui tribe. In addition to Monk, who is the spy, he also has the corpse poison of the Yin Demon, but he has retained his sanity! No wonder he watched his two sons die! Now that Monk is in trouble, they must have been prepared. It will be difficult to interfere with her. Today, Longtou Mountain not only has the Yin Demon Ming Benren, Liu Mingrui's junior brother Wu Daode, but also the five 'Thirteen Wings'!"
Deng Yu frowned in thought.
The Mongolian "Thirteen Wings" are the thirteen strongest masters who guard the Mongol Yuan royal court.
Each of them practiced the royal secret martial art "Changshengtian Shengong", and in addition, each had his own strengths. Since the time of Temujin, they have been passed down from generation to generation, determined to defend the glory of "Genghis Khan", and are called the Thirteen Wings.
There are five people around Su Rige now, at least in the fourth realm!
No wonder Emperor Tianyuan of Beiyuan asked this national treasure-level master to come and help.
If Fu Youde, Lan Yu, Mu Ying and others were also here, it would be possible to keep her, but now there are only four people in the fourth realm, Deng Yu, Mei Sizu, Zhao Yong and Zheng Yuchun, and Deng Yu is injured and can hardly fight for a long time.
If he is really beaten to death, he will most likely be the first to die.
We are outnumbered, so we can only interrupt and cannot fight head-on.
Zhao Wumian's mind raced, and he said, "This is not something that Lord Wei can accomplish alone. Anyway, the location has been found, and time is short. They don't have time to hide anymore! Leave the Prince Consort and half of the captains here to deal with the two tribes, and the others return to the camp to organize the army to evacuate while trying to stop them. This is the right way."
Deng Yu knew that this was the only way. The "other people" Zhao Wumian mentioned were mainly Zheng Yuchun who came with them.
There are only Mei Sizu and Zhao Yong in the camp now. If we assassinate them first while the camp is empty, the situation will be bad!
"go!"
Deng Yu said: "Let's go to their hiding place and look for them first!"
Zhao Wumian immediately used his Qinggong skills to return along the same route and fight his way to the entrance of the cave.
Mei Yin and his men also arrived and were already fighting with the Miao Man.
Deng Yu took a deep breath and shouted in a deep voice: "Generals, listen to my military order: Zheng Yuchun, the Marquis of Xingyang, and the fifty thousand commanders of the front army will follow me back to the camp. The rest of you will listen to the orders of the prince consort and subdue the two Miao tribes!"
"Yes!"
Military orders are like mountains.
Dozens of people immediately rushed out of the cave, and Deng Yu took the lead and led his men to attack the Jiaozishan camp.
Zhao Wumian found Mei Yin and said quickly, "Prince Consort Mei, Luogui Chieftain Tian Baoqing has been infected with a corpse poison. There is a demon behind him controlling him. You must be extra careful of his methods. In addition, Tian Baoqing's second son Tian Yingjue is now in the ice room. I pressed his acupoints. This man can be spared. He values friendship and loyalty. If he knew that his father was infected with a corpse poison and was only acting as a spy, he would never rely on the Beiyuan forces again. He might even help our army instead. Then Luogui will win without a fight!"
Having said that, the person disappeared.
"..."
Mei Yin stood there in a daze, with a complicated expression.
The Yin Demon's methods were extremely strange and bizarre. If he didn't know about it, he might have been careless in his defense. Although he didn't know what had happened, looking at how hurried Deng Yu and Zhao Wumian were, it was probably that something big had happened in the camp. He felt a little ashamed that they had come to remind him at such a critical moment.
In fact, Zhao Wumian didn't want Tian Yingjue to die...
Everyone returned quickly.
The return journey is thirty miles, and Longtou Mountain is about twenty miles away from the camp. For experts, the time difference between these two sections of the journey is not much, so it is not a big problem.
As long as Zhao Yong and Mei Sizu are careful, it will not be so easy for those people to succeed in the assassination. Moreover, for the Thirteen Wings, guarding Su Rige is the top priority. As long as Su Rige may be in danger, they will not leave easily. The possibility of assassination is very low, and strengthening the defense of Longtou Mountain is more likely!
In Monk's memory, before Su Rige prayed to the sky, he also set up a strange formation on the mountain.
It's not easy to break through. ...
at the same time.
On the top of Longtou Mountain, a bleak green miasma lingers.
In this foggy miasma, a three-meter-high altar stands facing the wind.
There were four braziers at the four corners of the stage, with flames blazing. In the center was an altar, on which was placed a huge pottery bowl, with incantations and cloud characters engraved on the bowl, which was faintly flashing with silver light. There was clear white water in the bowl, like a bright moon.
On the altar, there was a man wearing a mask, a robe, and holding a staff, dancing alone towards the sky.
She was clearly a person, but in the drifting miasma, one could faintly see a shadow swaying around her, emitting infinite pressure. It was a fox with nine giant tails floating behind it!
As she moved, the Nine-tailed Fox's slender body twisted and shook continuously, with a strange rhythm and charm, as if it was connected to the sky!
The Sky Fox Clan, a dance to worship the heavens!
This person is none other than one of the two great magicians who protect the Northern Yuan Dynasty, a descendant of the Golden Family, Borjigin Surigge!
It was close to evening, or afternoon, with the sun high in the sky. It was not the time to cast a formal spell to absorb the power of the stars and the moon, but the moonlight in the bowl could not be lost. It still needed to be maintained with magical power, and the spell had to be cast every three hours.
That bright white water is the moonlight accumulated over the past fourteen days.
Tonight will be a full moon night.
When the moonlight flows into the bowl and reaches the same level as the edge, that is when the Sky Fox's magic [Sparks Burning the City] is activated!
There were five Mongolians standing in the audience with solemn expressions. Four of them were guarding the four directions, motionless as a clock. The remaining sturdy man was sitting on a rock not far away, with a Jade-clawed Saker Falcon standing on his arm.
The Saker Falcon is known as the "God of Ten Thousand Eagles" and is the king of birds.
Especially the jade-clawed gyrfalcon, which can sing loudly in the sky and command all the birds in the world.
Soon, the solo dance ended, and the "clear water" in the bowl became even whiter.
Su Rige sat cross-legged and closed his eyes to rest.
"National Master! Something bad has happened!"
Suddenly, two figures approached quickly with anxious looks.
One of them was dressed in white and wore a lotus hat, obvious attire of the White Lotus Sect. He was Liu Mingrui's junior fellow apprentice, his surname was Wu and his given name was Daode.
The other man was wearing Miao clothing, his face was as pale as a death, and his expression was gloomy. He was the former guardian of the Five Poisons Sect, the "Yin Demon" Ming Benren.
The sturdy man on the rock flashed and stopped the two men.
"National Division!"
Ming Benren was not surprised, and immediately clasped his fists towards the altar and said, "Something happened over at Coffin Mountain! A Jinyiwei disguised himself and sneaked into the cave, exposing the positions of the two Miao tribes. Monk was also attacked. The army is pouring in, and the battle has begun. The intelligence is likely to be leaked!"
"impossible!"
Defending the southwest corner of the stage, the Mongolian archery god, Narisong opened his eyes.
His sharp eyes swept towards Ming Benren: "Monk has been taught by me personally, how could he be attacked so easily? The pupil technique he has practiced is enough for him to see far away for miles, it is even more impossible for him not to see the Ming army pouring in!"
Ming Benren said solemnly: "I have already asked clearly. That Zhao Wumian first disguised himself as Tian Xingchen and sneaked into the cave. For some reason, he took the thousand-year-old ice silkworm, the treasure of the Luogui tribe. He then disguised himself as Tian Yingjue and pretended to release the ice silkworm, letting other Miao people cooperate in capturing it. He performed magic in front of Monk and controlled the ice silkworm. Lord Monk was careless and mistakenly believed him. After that, the other Miao people were sent away. It is not clear what happened specifically, but judging from the traces at the entrance of the cave, the two have already fought. Half a month ago, Zhao Wumian was still in the second realm, and he should be about the same now. Lord Monk kept dodging, most likely because he was poisoned by him..."
"This lackey of the imperial court is always insidious!"
Wu Daode clenched his fists and said coldly, "It was him who found the zombie Liu Shanyun. It was also him who found the secret hall of my sect and killed my daughter! I will make sure he dies a miserable death!"
Wu Xiuning, one of the three most beautiful courtesans in Hongxiuzhao and the one who helped the zombies hide, is his adopted daughter.
Ming Benren also had a grudge against Zhao Wumian for destroying the zombies, and both of them were filled with hatred and anger.
Na Risong's face darkened.
In that case, it is possible that Monk really fell into the trap!
Ming Benren continued, "Just now there was news that Deng Yu, who had already reached the hiding place of the two tribes, suddenly sent an order to urgently recall Zheng Yuchun and half of the thousand commanders to defend the main camp. They may have already known about it..."
Now everyone opened their eyes and looked at Su Rige.
Su Rige still sat on the altar and said in Mongolian: "Narisong, Hai Rigu, you take these two Han people to stop the enemy halfway, harass the surrounding areas and delay time."
"Yes."
Na Risong and the strong man who raised the Saker Falcon beat their chests with their hands and bowed their heads to receive the order.
"Daiqin, you take two hundred guards to form a formation to defend Longtou Mountain."
"Yes."
The man defending the southeast corner also stood up.
Su Rige waved his hand: "Go ahead."
Daiqin left first, Na Risong took out his bow and arrow, and disappeared in a flash.
"You throw him to me again..."
Hai Rigu watched Na Risong leave on his own, sighed, and said to the two people beside him: "The state teacher has ordered me to stop the enemy halfway. Tonight is the last night. As long as we can hold on until midnight, this 100,000-strong army will be defeated! I hope you two will do your best!"
The two immediately said: "This is a serious matter, we should do our best!"
"very good."
As soon as Hai Rigu raised his hand, the Saker Falcon on his arm flapped its wings and flew into the sky. Its body quickly expanded. In the blink of an eye, it transformed from a two-foot-tall snow-white gyrfalcon into a giant eagle with a wingspan of over eight meters, looking extremely majestic!
The jade-clawed Gaster Falcon opened its mouth and cried, its voice shaking the nine heavens.
Instantly, the sound waves spread, and when the birds within a radius of thirty miles heard it, all their bodies stiffened and spontaneously gathered from all directions.
All I heard was a burst of chirping birds, which became louder and louder, gradually covering the sky and the earth, as loud as thunder.
The two men looked stern and raised their heads to look at the sky, only to see four thick black clouds rushing towards Longtou Mountain at an extremely fast speed.
Looking closely, those were not clouds at all, but thousands of birds of all kinds coming from all directions!
Goshawk, kite, crow, magpie, peregrine falcon, night owl...
Under the sunlight, countless birds are like dark clouds in the sky, flying rapidly and majestically!
"We can't let these government troops withdraw."
Hai Rigu raised his hand and pointed to the east, saying, "Kill!"
The jade-clawed Gaster Falcon looked up to the sky.
"Wow!!!"
Another cry seemed to be able to pierce the clouds and break the rocks.
All the birds swooped down with a fearless attitude!
It was like an endless rain of arrows shooting straight at the camp, at Deng Yu and Zhao Wumian who had rushed back to support them...
(End of this chapter)
