Chapter 392 Ziyun County
“Swoosh…”
More arrows were shot from the other side, at a very fast speed, no less than that of ordinary archers in the army.
The huge five-tailed white fox directly blocked the two Taoists.
Now its body has grown a little taller, and its shoulder height alone is almost the same as Lin Jue's. It is much taller than an ordinary buffalo, and it blocked the two of them tightly.
"Puff puff……"
Several arrows hit its body and pierced into its hair.
The fox just shook, and the arrow fell.
There are three pieces of Bamiyan in total, one grass stem and one branch.
The fox sees clearly—
There were straw men made in the surrounding reed bushes. There were also straw men made of branches and weeds in other bushes and trees. They all stood straight and neatly arranged. They looked like dummies made by ordinary people and placed here to scare away birds, or like soldiers hidden in the dark night and guarding outside the city.
The next moment, a silver light flew out from behind the fox, circling its body from left and right, spinning to receive the moonlight, four feet off the ground, and dispersing into many moon disks, sweeping away.
All I saw was a whimper in the air, followed by a hissing sound.
In an instant, all the Bamao were cut off, and the straw man was cut neatly in half from the chest and abdomen.
The moon disk scattered in all directions, and wherever it passed, the grass and trees all bowed their heads. In just a few breaths, the grass and trees on this mountain plain became much shorter and more orderly. Then the moon disk quickly flew back from all directions, transformed into a rotating flying sword, and gathered back into the Taoist's sleeve.
Lin Jue took the last flying sword and looked at it.
The flying sword cut through the grass and trees, but left no pulp or residue, still as clean as new, clearly reflecting the residual light.
There was no pulp left because Lin Jue had discovered that although there were some plants left here, they had all dried up and died. Some of them might have naturally flourished and withered due to the arrival of spring, but some shrubs and bushes that were not annual plants had also died. Only the grass was full of vitality and was still green.
It’s probably the ability of the Queen Mother of the East.
Since it has long been dead, there is naturally no juice or water.
Leaving no residue behind is the skill of the flying sword.
These flying swords were made of the finest spiritual gold, which was the fragment of a great emperor's alchemy furnace. After that, they were added with high-quality gold essence and refined by him for a long time. They were already extraordinary. Last year in the northwest, I don't know how many goblins and ghosts I killed, including a demon king with great Taoism.
The sword of an ordinary hero is ordinary, but after being used to kill demons and ghosts, it becomes extraordinary.
Luo Gong was a man of righteousness. When he first saw the sword in his hand, he killed dozens of monsters, and then his spiritual energy accumulated and he became very evil.
And Lin Jue was originally a cultivator, with magical powers and a mysterious mind. In just one battle in the northwest, the number of demons and ghosts he slew exceeded what Luo Gong had accumulated over the years. Naturally, these flying swords also developed spiritual charm.
Just as Lin Jue thought at the beginning——
He is not afraid that recasting will cause them to lose their spirit, as there will be more powerful monsters coming to help him in the future.
Nowadays, these flying swords and long swords feel cold to the touch, and frost forms when they land on the ground. They are not only extremely sharp, but also free of any filth or blood stains. If they are used to slay ghosts, even if the ghosts are illusory, no magic power is needed, and an ordinary person can cut and kill the ghost with them. If they are used to slay demons and monsters, they can destroy their spiritual charm.
That's it.
Lin Jue turned his head and looked. Under the moonlight, there were many straw men with half of their upper bodies cut off. Smoke was coming out of their bodies. All the life was gone, but it did add a layer of spiritual charm to the flying sword.
"Brother, how come your object control skills are so powerful?"
"Without him, only hands are familiar."
"Are these things guarding here and not allowing anyone to go in or out?" The junior sister looked around.
"Anyway, it must have been set up by the Queen Mother of the East. It's hard to say whether anyone can get in or out. I guess it's to prevent reinforcements from the capital from entering, but if people in the city come out, it will be good for her." Lin Jue said, "It's not even daybreak yet, and I don't know what the situation is in the city. Anyway, since we are here to guard the city, we have to deal with these methods of the Queen Mother of the East. It's better to get rid of these things while she is entangled with the True Lord."
"Okay!"
The junior sister turned her head and took a look around.
The city in the distance was vaguely visible under the moonlight, and the city was surrounded by trees and grass. Since the Queen Mother of the East was a demon king who had achieved enlightenment, she must be a deity with boundless magical powers, just like the Corpse Tiger King. It was unknown how many such things there were in such a vast area.
It's like the firewood room in the Taoist temple that can never be filled, the endless dry firewood on Fuqiu Peak, and the endless mountain road leading to Xianyuan Temple.
This is really...
Just what she wanted!
Junior sister loves doing this kind of work the most!
It takes a certain amount of time but progress can be seen. It is somewhat difficult but does not require too much effort. For her, this is a kind of enjoyment.
"Don't worry, they are afraid of fire. I don't know if ordinary fire will work, but if it's Junior Sister's spiritual fire, it will definitely burn them all." Lin Jue said, "As long as you use fire, it will be eliminated quickly."
"knew!"
All things are interdependent and mutually exclusive, so you also have to use your brain.
I saw the junior sister put the whisk back on her back, holding the long sword in her right hand, and chanting a spell with her left hand.
"The vast sky, the boundless earth, the mighty mountains, able to defeat dragons and tigers, the mysterious and yellow spirits, all come out at this moment, transforming into mountain gods to help me!"
"Rumble..."
The earth suddenly trembled.
The terrain here is flat, with mostly grass and forests, only gravel but no big stones. But with her spell, the ground actually cracked into several cracks, and huge stones emerged from the ground, with fresh signs of fracture visible on some of the stones.
These stones rolled out of the ground, and then rolled together and piled up. The largest stone became the body, the smaller ones became the limbs, and the ones with more regular shapes became the head, forming the body frame.
A lot of gravel rolled up, filling the gaps and completing the details of the body frame.
Three stone giants suddenly appeared in the night.
Each one is two or three meters tall.
Is this the benefit of practicing the Five Elements Spiritual Technique?
Lin Jue stared and muttered to himself.
"Please help me get rid of the monster, mountain god!"
The junior sister bowed with her sword in her arms, then walked to the left with the sword in hand. Only her voice could be heard:
"Brother, you go that way, and I'll go this way. Let's go around and meet at the other side of Ziyun County. When we meet, we'll see who walks the larger half of the circle and who walks the smaller half."
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw her senior brother following her. "Okay..."
The junior sister is not obsessed either.
If you don't want to, forget it.
It has been a while since I fought side by side with my senior brother.
Then he pointed to the side.
A roar! The flames lit up the wasteland!
The two stone horses galloped wildly, running into the darkness under the moonlight, unstoppable.
Three stone giants took big strides and walked into the moonlight.
Some straw men were alarmed and started shooting arrows.
"Ding Ding!"
Arrows hit the galloping stone horse, and either slid to the left or right due to the curvature and hard stone body of the stone horse, or hit the galloping stone horse head-on and broke into pieces immediately.
Then the stone horse continued to march forward with a rumbling sound.
The grass was trampled and the straw man was knocked away.
Another arrow hit the stone giant.
But facing a stone giant that was two or three meters tall, a small arrow or a larger toothpick was no different. It hit the stone and bounced off the ground immediately.
Then the stone giant just strode forward, raised his foot, and stepped deeply into the ground, resisting these tickling attacks. If he encountered a bigger straw man, he would swing his arm and sweep it. Even if he swung the stone arm weighing thousands of pounds easily, how could the straw man be able to stop it?
Besides, they can't even run away.
Occasionally, some fish would slip through the net, but would be immediately hit by a blast of flames and burned to ashes.
In the dark night of Ziyun County, there were lightning and thunder in the distance, and sparks kept appearing nearby, some were orange and some were golden, burning and moving across the wasteland.
If these straw soldiers met an ordinary army, they might be able to fight off one or two, but if they met ordinary cultivators, they might be caught off guard and fall into their trap. Even Lin Jue a year or two ago might not have been able to block so many cold arrows if he had not had Luo Gong to protect him.
Unfortunately, the person who came today was none other than Lin Jue.
Lin Jue's Taoism skills are far beyond what they were before.
Not to mention the fox that practices the solar spiritual fire, even the junior sister who practices the five elements magic and is proficient in the five elements spiritual magic is not someone they can deal with.
Both the fire and the stone giants are restraining them.
The stone horse was tireless and galloped around Ziyun like thunder, crushing clumps of sedge and crushing straw soldiers one after another. The stone giant followed the flames and walked around Ziyun County.
The two men and the fox returned to the starting point.
At some point, the lightning and thunder in the distance stopped.
The sky gradually brightened.
"boom……"
The stone giant fell to the ground with a loud bang and shattered into stone.
"It should be cleared."
The junior sister made a sword flower, and with a "swish", the sword returned to the sheath.
"Thanks to Junior Sister."
Lin Jue said this and turned to look into the distance.
A city stands in the morning mist.
The battle at Modu Mountain in the rear has been suspended. No one knows why it stopped and no one knows what the situation is.
Lin Jue thought about it and took a step forward.
"Let's go. The fellow Taoists in the capital should not have set out yet. After we get to the city, we have to write a letter to remind them to be careful of the arrows in the grass and forest."
The two men and the fox walked towards the city.
……
In Ziyun City, the two sides are in confrontation.
One side was wearing uniform clothes, some even wearing armor, carrying swords and holding spears, drawing bows and arrows. They were obviously soldiers and officers of the imperial court. There were about several hundred of them, and there were also officials standing in the middle.
One side was mostly made up of ordinary people, wearing cloth clothes, holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, including sickles, hoes, machetes, spears, etc., but there were also officials and some constables in black clothes. There were more than a dozen people wearing official and soldier uniforms and even armor, and even a few people who didn't look like humans. Moreover, their number was much larger than the former.
They are called civilians, but they look more like another army.
Behind these miscellaneous soldiers, there were many civilians, tens of thousands of them, but these civilians seemed to be divided into two sides.
Some were pushing carts and carrying bags, seemingly wanting to leave on their own initiative, while others were coerced or even tied up. Except for this place, the entire city became a deserted one.
"Let's see who dares to leave the city!!"
A burly general drew his sword and shouted.
Standing opposite him was an old man, who was not afraid of him at all and was unwilling to show weakness:
"You bold warriors! How dare you stop me? The government is cruel, the emperor is cruel, and the imperial court is about to fall. Are you still working for them? I will give you one last chance. Quickly convert to the Changsheng Sect and worship the Queen Mother of the East. You can also go to Modu Mountain with me to gain immortality and enjoy bliss!"
"Damn Queen Mother of the East! She's a monster! You won't survive if you go there!"
"Don't be disrespectful to the Queen Mother! We don't want to cause more casualties, so get out of the way immediately. If you don't, you will die here today!"
"You can go, but you can't take other people with you!"
"Ridiculous! We are all from the same city, so we should go to Modu Mountain together to enjoy eternal bliss!" the old man shouted, "Even if you can stop us, can you stop the Queen Mother's messenger?"
"..."
The general was silent for a moment, looking at the opposite side with a cold face.
Actually, they were sent here to guard the place after the Queen Mother of the East preached extensively in Yunmeng County last year. Their number was not large to begin with, and some of them were lost in the subsequent battles. At present, the nearly two thousand young and strong men on the opposite side who were armed and fearless of death were enough to give them a hard time, not to mention the several messengers of the Queen Mother of the East.
He is said to be a messenger of God, but he is just a monster.
(End of this chapter)
