At this moment, Yashan was just a Qi-Induction junior, there was no need for him to go up and fight the enemy desperately, just follow the elders and do some minor tasks.
However, the number of enemies who broke in exceeded everyone’s expectations. Originally thought that the formation would only bring enemies one by one, waiting for them to be harvested. Who would have thought that before one was completely dealt with, another cultivator would break in, or just when one was resolved, before they could catch their breath, someone else would be sent here, and eventually, two or three would come at once.
At this rate, if they couldn’t kill the enemies the moment they broke in, then more and more enemies would come later, and in the end, they would be outnumbered and beaten to death by the enemy.
But it’s extremely difficult to kill the enemies instantly. It’s okay if it’s just a Foundation Establishment cultivator who broke in; there’s a Golden Core cultivator in the team. But if a Golden Core cultivator comes, they can only rely on the advantage of the formation to slowly wear down the opponent.
Previously, they thought they could outnumber the enemy with the formation, but they didn’t expect to be in a situation where they were outnumbered from the beginning.
Now, Yashan’s “Moon-Three-Nine” team is facing a Golden Core cultivator. Yashan’s master, the only Golden Core cultivator in the team, is maneuvering against him under the cover of the mountain protection formation, trying to kill him.
Just at this moment, the mist surged in the distance, and another thin-faced cultivator broke in. Yashan and the others were startled, but upon careful examination, they found that he was only a Foundation Establishment cultivator, and they couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The two Foundation Establishment cultivators in the team immediately confronted the thin-faced cultivator.
For a moment, magical weapons flew, spiritual lights flickered, and the mist churned.
Yashan was hiding on the side, wondering whether to take advantage of the situation to make a sneak attack, when the mist surged again, and a tall Foundation Establishment cultivator came in.
The tall Foundation Establishment cultivator was covered in thick armor, his hands forming seals, ready to attack at any time. As soon as he came in and saw his teammates fighting the enemy, he immediately summoned his magical weapon and launched an attack.
Just then, Yashan, who was already prepared, clasped his fingers together, and a silver light rose beside him. Taking advantage of the other party’s inattention, he flicked his fingers.
The silver light burst out.
“Swish—”
“Pop!”
In the terrified eyes of the tall cultivator, the multiple layers of protection on his body shattered, and a huge hole appeared in his heart.
The tall cultivator was instantly pierced through the heart by Yashan’s magical weapon.
The heart is the core of a cultivator’s spiritual power. Once shattered, the spiritual power inside the body will instantly collapse and chaos, stiffening for five seconds, making it difficult to release any spells again, and then death follows as the blood runs out.
With the shield broken, Yashan immediately released an attacking spell.
“Silver Moon Spear”!
A silver light shot out, hitting the tall cultivator’s neck.
“Crack!”
The entire neck exploded, and the head flew off and fell to the side.
“!!?” Yashan’s master and senior uncle were shocked, looking at Yashan in horror, and at the small short sword beside Yashan.
What kind of magical weapon is this, so sharp, seemingly powerful shield, but it broke with just one poke.
The thin-faced cultivator was even more horrified, taking a step back under his feet, seemingly realizing the danger and wanting to run away immediately.
At this moment, another light blue cultivator came in, and the powerful aura emanating from him made Yashan and the others feel uneasy.
Golden Core cultivator!
The thin-faced cultivator was overjoyed.
Yashan and his master and senior uncle subconsciously turned their heads to look at the Golden Core realm master who was fighting fiercely on the side.
Yashan’s master and senior uncle thought to themselves, “Our lives are over!”
Seeing this, Yashan knew that he couldn’t rely on his master anymore, so he immediately took action, formed a seal with his fingers, and waved his hand, and a silver light flashed.
“Swish—”
“Bang!”
The confident expression on the light blue Golden Core cultivator’s face froze in place. In the moment when the silver light shattered his shield, he instinctively dodged to the side.
“Poof!”
His left arm was cut off by the silver light and fell aside.
Before he could recover, Yashan launched another silver flying shuttle from behind his body, which arrived in an instant.
However, the Golden Core cultivator had already reacted, his pupils shrinking, and he used a displacement technique to narrowly avoid being pierced by the silver shuttle.
“Poof!”
However, what the Golden Core cultivator didn’t expect was that the small flying sword behind him had already turned back and waited at the position where he dodged, beheading him with one strike.
With an expression of disbelief, his head flew off and fell to the ground, his headless body slowly collapsing heavily.
“Bang!”
It also fell heavily on everyone’s hearts.
Everyone present looked at the fifteen or sixteen-year-old teenager, the short-haired Qi-Induction junior, who looked arrogant with his fingers merged together, feeling a sense of absurdity in their hearts for a moment.
“The Golden Core realm cultivator just now was fake, right!”
The thin-faced cultivator’s face turned ashen!
Unfortunately, before they could be ‘shocked’, ‘unbelievable’, ‘Yue Ying is actually a divine-level genius’, ‘the magical weapon is so powerful’, ‘how did he do it’, ‘killing enemies like cutting vegetables’…
They saw the mist surging again, and two cultivators walked in, one in the Golden Core realm and the other in the Foundation Establishment realm.
The thin-faced cultivator’s eyes were filled with tears of joy.
Yashan’s team members: “How come there are so many?”
“Swish—”
“Splish splish splish~”
“Ahhh~”
After experiencing confusion, extreme joy, despair, resurgence of hope, and feeling as if all hope was lost, the thin-faced cultivator couldn’t hold back any longer and immediately turned to Su Hao for help: “Damn! Boss Wei…”
After Su Hao understood the situation in detail, he couldn’t help but speculate: “Could it be that they want to focus on one area? That’s not a bad idea. Concentrating forces in one point for a breakthrough, if the sect doesn’t gather its strength for defense, it’s afraid it will soon be breached.
But Yashan is just too unlucky. The entire sect’s formation covers an unknown area, yet he happened to be under fierce attack.”
After thinking for a moment, Su Hao replied to Yashan: “Priority is to save your life. If support doesn’t arrive within one minute, then you should retreat first!”
Obviously, the elders of the Immortal Sect were not incompetent. After learning of the situation, they immediately manipulated the formation to divert the numerous enemy cultivators pouring into the southwest corner to both sides, alleviating the local pressure. They urgently mobilized the small reserve team to support the defense and also dispatched a small number of personnel from other areas to join the defense in the southwest corner.
However, even if including the lowest-level Qi-Induction cultivators in the Yunzhong Valley, there were only a little over a thousand of them. The numerical disadvantage could not be compensated for in any way.
The supporting cultivators were just a drop in the bucket.
It was precisely when the southwest corner was in imminent danger that the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Yunzhong Valley personally took action. Dozens of Nascent Soul cultivators swiftly roamed the southwest corner, clearing out a large number of enemies.
Only at this moment did the defending cultivators in the southwest corner breathe a sigh of relief.
In less than half an hour before and after the battle, a large number of cultivators died, including those from the Yunzhong Valley, but more were enemy cultivators.
The enemy cultivators killed by the formation eye squad were in the minority; most were indiscriminately harvested by the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Yunzhong Valley.
At this time, someone found a scroll of mission from the dead cultivators. After opening it, it read: “Kill all the cultivators of the Yunzhong Valley, leave none alive.”
The person took a cold breath and immediately reported the matter to the elders of the sect. After some discussion, the elders immediately collected a large number of scrolls and circulated them among all the sect’s cultivators.
More and more people found similar scrolls from the dead cultivators, and this news quickly spread. The cultivators of the Yunzhong Valley realized one thing: if the mountain gate was breached, no one would be spared. To survive, they must fight to the death and completely defeat the enemy.
At this point, everyone’s mentality changed. It was truly a fight to the death; there was nowhere to escape!
The slight sense of luck in their hearts was shattered thereafter!
“There’s no other way, only to fight to the death!”
Su Hao looked at the scroll in his hand and fell into thought: “What’s the meaning behind the enemy playing this hand?”
Then he let out a long sigh and murmured softly, “Seeing the Sect Master’s domineering and confident appearance, I originally thought that the Yunzhong Valley could rely on the formation to repel the enemy, but it seems that I was thinking too much.
It seems that the enemy’s assault has clearly decided to expel the Yunzhong Valley from the cultivation world!”
Su Hao counted the power he controlled and compared it with that of the combined cultivators, thinking to himself: “Now that I’m up against the Unity Realm cultivators, there shouldn’t be too much risk. In that case, I just need to find out all the Unity Realm cultivators on the enemy side and drive them away. However, by doing so, I’ll reveal my identity, and the Yunzhong Valley probably won’t stay much longer! Fortunately, I’ve already obtained the techniques I wanted. Leaving now wouldn’t be a pity.”
The six Nascent Soul cultivators still showed no signs of action, and it was unknown what they were plotting or whether they were still hoping for their support.
Since they believed that the “Crystal Thief” was in the Yunzhong Valley, then so be it.
“Yes, the Crystal Thief is indeed in the Yunzhong Valley, but so what?”
…
Suddenly, a Nascent Soul cultivator appeared behind Shan Huan and quickly said, “Hall Master, the items have been confirmed to be delivered to the cultivators of the Yunzhong Valley.”
Shan Huan nodded, pondered for a moment, and then said, “Give the Yunzhong Valley a quarter of an hour to react. After a quarter of an hour, send out the signal and begin the final attack.”
The Nascent Soul cultivator received the order and retreated.
Shan Huan stood alone on the peak, facing the fierce wind, murmuring to himself, “This is just the first move. I hope the Yunzhong Valley will give me a surprise.”
If this failed to arouse the Yunzhong Valley’s determination to resist to the death, thus consuming a large amount of the Eighteen Sects’ power, he still had a second move prepared, only waiting for the moment when the Yunzhong Valley’s mountain gate was breached…
Shan Huan chuckled, “Robbers fight tooth and nail to capture the enemy’s stronghold, only to find that what they obtained is not enough to fill the gap in their teeth. Then they suddenly discover a peerless treasure… For the sake of the peerless treasure, they turn against each other. Isn’t this the most common plot? Hehehe!”
Such plots are so common precisely because they are effective, hitting human desires directly.
Greed is hard to resist!
