Bringing the farm to another world

Chapter 15671 Heart-killing
Qingxuan and the others looked extremely grim. They never expected that their plan, which they thought was foolproof, had already been discovered by Zhao Hai, who then used the runes they had crafted to deal with them. This truly made them feel like they had trapped themselves.

Looking at them, Zhao Hai's expression gradually calmed down. He looked at Qingxuan and the others, then said, "Qingxuan, I'm giving you a chance. If you surrender, I'll spare your lives. If you don't surrender, don't blame me for being ruthless. I know you outnumber me, but I can kill you all eventually. After killing you, I can destroy your sects. What do you say? Will you surrender or not?"

Upon hearing Zhao Hai's words, Qingxuan and the others' expressions turned even uglier. Of course, they did not want to surrender. They were all among the strongest people in the Meteorite Domain, so how could they possibly surrender?

Qingxuan stared intently at Zhao Hai, then said in a deep voice, "You think you can make the people of our Meteorite Domain surrender to you? Absolutely not. Forget about it. Everyone, attack the formation together. Destroy the formation symbols first, then we'll fight our way out."

After saying that, Qingxuan immediately summoned his flying sword and slashed at a rune next to him.

Qingxuan was prepared that his longsword would be blocked, but to his surprise, his longsword struck the rune with a single strike, and the rune was directly cut in half. What surprised him even more was that the rune let out a scream when it was cut in half, and blood spurted out.

This caused Qingxuan's expression to change. He didn't know what was going on, so his movements slowed down. But at that moment, he suddenly felt a gust of wind slashing towards him. He didn't have time to react and instinctively dodged to the side. The next moment, he felt a gust of wind brush past him and discovered that a corner of his clothes had been cut off.

Upon seeing this, his expression changed. He glanced at the rune again, then realized something and immediately shouted, "Everyone, listen up! Stop attacking the rune! We're under an illusion. That rune might be one of our own. Turn around and charge outwards immediately! We must break through their magic array!"

He didn't know if the others heard him, but he turned around and his flying sword appeared in front of him. He then rushed forward, but as soon as he flew out of the clouds, he felt as if his flying sword had pierced a wall. He heard a muffled thud, and then his flying sword stopped moving.

Instead of being frightened, Qingxuan was overjoyed. He immediately shouted, "Vibrate!" As he spoke, his flying sword vibrated, and the feeling of being bound disappeared. Qingxuan made a hand seal and launched the sword, shouting, "Hurry!" As he shouted, red light suddenly appeared on the flying sword, and it shot forward like a rocket, rushing about ten feet before a muffled thud was heard. He then felt his flying sword loosen, and there was nothing blocking his way anymore. Overjoyed, he followed suit.

Once he finally broke free, he immediately looked around and saw that many royal-level experts had emerged. Qingxuan was even happier and immediately shouted, "To the base!" He knew very well that they had to leave now; it was too unsafe here, and Zhao Hai could attack them again at any moment, so they had to leave.

The other royal-level experts all responded to Qingxuan's words, and then they flew straight towards the Meteorite Domain's base.

Just then, he suddenly heard Zhao Hai's voice, who laughed loudly, "I have to thank you all! If you had attacked me with all your might just now, I might be dead. Now, hahaha, thank you for sending us so many royal-level experts." The voice grew fainter and fainter until it disappeared completely.

Qingxuan was stunned for a moment, then he immediately turned his head to look, only to find that the magic array was now completely gone, without a trace of aura. The people there, including Zhao Hai, had all disappeared.

Qingxuan paused, then stopped. He stared at the spot, his face alternating between pale and flushed. He glanced around and saw that the other royal-level experts had also stopped, their expressions equally grim. Qingxuan counted and realized that about two-thirds of the royal-level experts had appeared, while nearly a third had not. His expression darkened considerably.

Then Qingxuan said, "Go back to the camp first, and then immediately have the large magical artifacts there leave, as they are being monitored." Upon hearing this, everyone immediately understood his meaning, and their expressions all changed. They all flew towards the camp.

When they arrived at their camp, Qingxuan went straight back into the Ruyi Eight Treasures Gourd. He saw Qingyu and Qingbo, but not Qingyun. Of the other seven Royal Palace-level experts in their sect, only seven had returned. They had lost nearly half of their Royal Palace-level experts in one fell swoop. Qingxuan's heart was bleeding. As soon as he and Qingyu returned to the Ruyi Eight Treasures Gourd, Qingxuan immediately said, "Activate the gourd and leave here immediately."

The disciples who remained inside the gourd dared not delay and immediately responded. They then activated the Ruyi Eight Treasures Gourd and flew straight into the distance. Qingxuan, however, remained standing in the command hall. They flew forward for nearly an hour before Qingxuan finally spoke, "Stop." The disciple immediately responded and stopped the Ruyi Eight Treasures Gourd. Qingxuan continued, "Send letters to the other sects and families, inviting them to a meeting."

A disciple immediately responded and went to inform them. Qingxuan, on the other hand, led Qingyu and the others directly to the conference room. From the time they returned to the Ruyi Eight Treasures Gourd until now, Qingyu and the others had not spoken. Qingxuan had only said a few words and had not said anything else. Now, the group of them were all sitting silently in the conference room.

Before long, representatives from various sects and clans arrived. The sects were fine, as almost all of them sent their sect leaders. However, some clans sent their royal-level elders, which clearly indicated that their royal-level experts were already dead.

Everyone remained silent, their faces grim. Once all the representatives from the sects and families had arrived, Qingxuan addressed them, saying, "We fell into Zhao Hai's trap. He did discover us long ago, and he devised this plan. He is indeed very powerful, but not powerful enough to kill us all by himself. However, he struck first, controlling our formation and then using it against us. This made us believe he could use the formation to kill us all. So, unknowingly, we fell into his trap. Instead of attacking him immediately, we tried to break his formation as quickly as possible." "But we didn't expect that we had fallen into his illusion array, which could actually transform our companions into runes. When we attacked those companions, they attacked us in return. And no one suspected that the runes could attack, so many people actually died at the hands of our own people. When I realized something was wrong, my first thought was to escape, not to turn around and attack Zhao Hai. That's how we fell into his trap again. If we had turned around and attacked Zhao Hai then, we might have been able to kill him." Qingxuan said this with immense self-reproach. He felt that his command failure had caused them such great losses, and he had let everyone down.

At this moment, a monk suddenly spoke up: "No."

Everyone looked at him and discovered that the speaker was none other than Master Jueyin, the sect leader of a Buddhist sect. Master Jueyin glanced at everyone, then turned to Qingxuan and said, "Sect Leader Qingxuan, I think you're wrong. You don't need to blame yourself so much. You must know that Zhao Hai has been lying to us from beginning to end. We can't believe what he says. We broke out of his magic array, which is why he said those things. He might be trying to make you blame yourself and affect your Dao heart. Don't forget how powerful his illusion array was; we didn't even notice it before we made our move." We fell for his trick, and I even suspect that the magic array wasn't just a simple illusion. If we hadn't rushed out and instead attacked Zhao Hai, it's possible that the Zhao Hai we attacked was a fake, and we weren't attacking Zhao Hai at all, but rather our own people. That's quite possible. If we hadn't rushed out early and had instead sunk deeper and deeper, we might never have gotten out, and we might all have died there. Zhao Hai said those things because he saw us rush out; he wanted to undermine our confidence. So I think you don't need to be afraid of blaming yourself; Zhao Hai might be deceiving us.”

Upon hearing this, Qingxuan was taken aback. He then glanced at the others, many of whom nodded in agreement, clearly acknowledging Master Jueyin's words. This made Qingxuan feel a little better.

At this moment, Master Jueyin spoke again: "Now, more than thirty of our families have lost all their royal-level experts, and other sects have also lost some royal-level experts. This is a huge blow to us. We must discuss what we should do in the future, instead of thinking about whose responsibility this is."

Everyone nodded again. Master Jueyin looked at everyone and said, "Now we only have two paths before us. First, we must concentrate all the power of all sects and families. This time, we won't play any tricks. We will directly mobilize all the experts and all the large magical artifacts to launch a strong attack on the Seven Realms and fight to the death with the people of the Seven Realms. Second, we must immediately ask for reinforcements. While asking for reinforcements, we must also prepare to meet the attack of the Blood Slaughter Sect. I think they will definitely not let us go so easily."