Chapter 234: Preparing for the Expedition
The eastern Shuxuan Xianzhou is from the central Thick Earth Continent, and the southern Huayan Divine Realm faces each other across the vast sea. The waters are endless and various ferocious sea beasts are rampant in the deep sea. They are connected to the northern Taichu Moyuan and the Western Miaogao Holy Land. However, to the north, thousands of mountains and valleys are blocked by natural barriers with steep terrain and harsh climates. To the west, it is bordered by a narrow, narrow land block that is half submerged in the sea. It is called the Changdao Devil Continent Bridge, which is also extremely difficult to cross.
It is said that tens of thousands of years ago, the overall level of the cultivators on the five continents was higher than that now. A long-lasting war broke out, but the result was that all the losses were lost, countless powerful people fell, and it also led to the disorder of the spiritual energy of the heaven and earth, and the drastic changes in the landform, causing the energy of all parties to be severely damaged. After that, they were all silent until now.
Due to historical and geographical reasons, Shuxuan Immortal Continent has never had much exchange with other four continents. Only super forces such as the Sibu Alliance and families engaged in cross-border trade such as merchants jointly built a small number of ultra-long-range teleportation arrays for the delivery of a very small number of personnel, materials and messages.
Because of this, ordinary sects know very little about the situation in other continents, only knowing that their practice systems are different.
And within the Four Bible Alliance, there is a lot more information to be mastered. This time the problem lies in the Western Miaogao Holy Land, specifically at the Devil Continent Bridge in Long Island.
In the original mainland melee, Miaogao Holy Land was the most active party to promote and participate, and also the most fierce battle with Shuxuan Xianzhou and the deepest grudges.
It is probably because the Miaogao Holy Land has the smallest area and the smallest population, and practitioners are basically all underworld practices.
The underworld cultivators in the Miaogao Holy Land are different from those in the Shuxuan Immortal Island.
The method of underworld cultivation in the Shuxuan Immortal Continent can still be classified into the Taoist cultivation system. The underworld cultivation in the Miaogao Holy Land is just an auxiliary means to absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. The improvement of its cultivation not only requires plundering the vitality of ordinary people, but also the death energy emitted when and after death is a great replenishment. Among them, the soul of the newly dying person is the most useful.
Because of this, the ordinary people in the Miaogao Holy Land, and so on, are all "foods" raised by the Xiuming Sect. The purpose of people's survival is to sacrifice their own vitality and death energy before and after death.
Due to the limited population and poor product, as time goes by, the total amount and quality gradually become difficult to meet the growing needs of cultivation. This is also the reason why the Miaogao Holy Land is keen on launching foreign wars. Only large-scale killings and death energy on the battlefield can enable the high-level monks to achieve the goal of breaking through and ascension as soon as possible.
The Long Island Devil Continent Bridge was originally a strange place that I didn’t know how to form.
Here, from the ground to the sky, there will be cracks of all sizes and spaces, and they will be filled with a storm of willless evil spirits. No matter how high your cultivation level is, you cannot guarantee that you will not be involved or torn.
In addition, at the end of the last war, the powerful forces of both sides jointly laid many layers of seal barriers, which can be said to have almost become a forbidden zone for life and a barrier that naturally separates the two sides from each other.
However, in recent times, this barrier has been made mistakes.
After years, the Nether Cultivation Sect in the Miaogao Holy Land has found a way to transport people to the side of the Shuxuan Immortal Continent.
As soon as these invaders came, they launched a large-scale killing in the ordinary country in Xianzhou. The cultivation level of the outsiders was not too high, but with the power of the underworld, the army of the mortal country could not resist it. In a short period of time, nearly 100,000 soldiers and people died, and people fled to the inland. The junction of the two states has now become an unmanned land.
After learning the news, the Fourth League quickly sent someone to investigate and summarized several items:
First, most of these invaders are strictly not humans, but are mostly strange creatures. They should have been transformed by the secret technique of the Miaogao Holy Land Ming Cultivation. Their bodies are strong and powerful, and they can also use the low-level magic of the Ming Cultivation. Ordinary soldiers often have to pay the price of hundreds of people to eliminate one.
Second, there are not many creatures, only three or four thousand, led by five or six hundred real meditative cultivators. The meditative cultivators' cultivation level is roughly equivalent to the Upper Dan realm, that is, at the level of the Four Symbols Yin and Yang realm. Moreover, there are no one among these meditative cultivators who are now dominating the three major sects of Miaogao Holy Land.
From this point of view, the number and level of Miaogao Holy Land can be sent to, and not all high-level monks can easily break through the limits of the Long Island Devil Continent Bridge. This is a good news in misfortune.
Third, these invaders paused their advancement to the depth after opening up the unmanned land. It is inferred that they waited for more follow-up teams to be transported in after the reduction of staff.
The population of the civilized world of Shuxuan Xianzhou exceeds tens of millions, and the loss of 100,000 people is the same thing. The problem is that the cultivation world of Xianzhou cannot ignore this.
The secular world is one of the sources of the disciples of cultivation. Although the invaders have stopped attacking, if they are allowed to slaughter in the future, it will not only cause large-scale panic and chain reactions, but will continue to increase in the losses, which will eventually affect the long-term development of the world of cultivation.
More importantly, although it was a temptation by the vanguard, it was equivalent to a tacit battle at the Western Miaogao Holy Land, which was a naked invasion.
If more and higher cultivation levels of the underworld can cross the boundary and enter, it means a full-scale war between the two continents and the cultivators, and the war is still within the Immortal Continent.
Therefore, a head-on attack must be given. Not only should the person who crosses the border be repelled or annihilated, but also to find out the reasons why the other party can send people over and take precautions, otherwise sooner or later the war will begin and spread.
Once you show weakness at this time or lose in subsequent battles, it is difficult to ensure that other continents will not intervene. Shuxuan Xianzhou still lacks the psychological and other preparations for an intercontinental war.
In view of this, considering that there was no recognized absolute authority in the Xianzhou at this time, the Four Leagues decided to issue a mobilization order and send people to fight.
The cunning place of Miaogao did not officially declare war on Shuxuan Immortal Continent, and even no one in the three major sects of the Underworld Cultivation appeared. If the masters of each sect were mobilized to crush them with absolute advantage, they might give the other party a verbal criticism, and they would also lose the demeanor of Shuxuan Immortal Continent and make people talk.
Faced with this situation, after repeated consideration and consideration of the invaders' strength, the Four Leagues came up with a good solution, which was to hold the Shuxuan Xianzhou Youth Disciples Elite Competition in advance.
The Sibo League set the location of the competition outside the Long Island Devil Continent Bridge, and used the name of the competition to require relevant sects and families to send people to participate. The results of the competition are not determined by the team's victory or defeat, but by the number and quality of the invaders being killed as the merit value, and a comprehensive judgment is made based on who can discover the secret of the other party's teleportation.
The competition originally scheduled to be held in half a year is early, but it was changed to start in three months!
During this period, the Sibumenghui sent people to monitor the invaders' movements and block their further invasion.
As soon as the news was released, the sects and families involved began to weigh the pros and cons and talk about it.
Originally, there were ten teams selected in the region from Xianzhou, each in the southeast, west, north and south to participate. In the end, some sects either cherished themselves or were afraid to fight, and did not want their disciples to risk their lives to fight and voluntarily withdrew from the competition. However, many sects volunteered to participate, and in the end there were 50 teams that agreed to play.
Of course, some of the sects cannot do their best to work, and only send some small disciples to make up for the numbers in order to gain a good reputation.
After emergency internal discussions, Zizai Vientiane Gate decided to send powerful players to participate.
This time, I was fighting with foreign enemies, and the risk of falling is much greater than that of ordinary competitions. But on the one hand, it is unavoidable to represent Xianzhou to fight against foreign invasions. It is also a good opportunity to train disciples and increase their knowledge. In addition, I also have to strive to surpass Ziyue Xianzong and Tu family in terms of merit.
Due to the tight time, the selection of participating team members did not pass the competition, but instead formed the team members who participated in the Eastern Conference last time.
According to the requirements of the number and gender of the Four Leagues for personnel, as well as the matching of minors, the official team members include Hua Lanting, Lin Xianjing, Yi Liunian, Zhuge Yun, He Dayi, Qu Zhengze, Wang Genji, Yu Qi, Feng Qingjun and Yun Xiuchun. The substitutes include Yue Guanghan, Chao Tianque, Yuan Geng, Huo Huixiao, Dao Qiongsi, Zhang Hanyun, Wen Yin and Song Feifei.
In the next three months, the first two months are the time for the participating team members to accelerate their cultivation and martial arts under the guidance of their respective main and minor masters. In the next month, the candidates will practice together to further familiarize themselves with the running-in and practice the coordinated combat capabilities of different sizes. Finally, based on limited intelligence, targeted training on how to deal with the underworld and his magic.
After passing through the accuracy of the serry, all the team members were allowed to learn the Hibernate Dragon Sleeping Pill. With this weapon, the three-month training camp almost had the effect of practicing for half a year. Although no one except Hua Lanting was able to break through to the Five Qi Chaoyuan Realm, the rapid progress in cultivation made everyone feel full of confidence before leaving, and they were ready to try.
Hua Lanting himself was even more busy day and night, his feet were facing the sky, and his forehead was in a state of turmoil.
In order to seize his time in cultivation, Feng Huolun from Dongming Peak even made his way to Tianji Peak and had a fight with Yun Yiqi, saying that after entering the Five Qi Chaoyuan Realm, Hua Lanting was qualified to practice the Data Light Waterfall. He could not always give up the skill of refining the weapon that had been delayed in the past. In addition, he also had several special magic weapons to personally supervise Hua Lanting to cast, and even he had to teach the Qimen Dunjia Technique.
Yun Yiqi was not polite, and directly drove the other party to the peak. He told Feng Huolun that Hua Lanting’s primary task was to improve the skills of the Wuji Kung Fu, the Nine-Turn Great Return of the Alchemy and the Five Thunder Lightning Palm. Other cultivation contents must give way for this.
Hua Lanting was also amused and laughed at this. The sect had already announced the fact that he had taken the lead in reaching the Five Qi Chaoyuan Realm. While showing his glory, as the team's unanimous first person and main attacker, he felt that this trip was of great responsibility.
Both masters are for their own good, and they are not willing to favor one or the other, so he can only seize every time and race against time to practice.
In fact, in addition to the above, he still has many things to deepen his understanding and thinking about how to integrate them, such as the combination and use of golden wire and iron wire, the four-character formula of fast and slow, and other attack techniques, such as the trial of the remaining few effects of the twenty cups, such as how to play the best role in the stairs of a thousand miles, such as how the salted fish with salt and the chameleon lizard can drive to, and so on.
In addition, the door has given everyone a lot of magic weapons to protect their lives, and they also need to squeeze out time to get familiar with it. Everyone complains about their lack of skills in clones and lament that there is not enough time.
In the busy life, it was finally time to set off. It is said that the invaders of the Miaogao Holy Land had finished their renovation and were ready to advance inland in an organized manner. The Fourth League could not wait to ask all teams to assemble as soon as possible.
The day before leaving, others were allowed to let go of their practice and revitalize their energy. Only Hua Lanting and Lin Xianjing were called into the side hall by Zhou Xi. First, they told them that this time, the head of the Lei Fei Palace, Shou Yan Zhenren and several division commanders, would accompany them, and second, they would teach them face-to-face opportunities for possible dangers and response strategies.
Finally, Zhou Xi warned the two that in addition to facing the invader's open gun, he should also be more careful of hidden arrows that might be shot from within the Xianzhou or from the participating teams!
Chapter completed!