Longevity begins with slaying demons and eliminating demons

Chapter 539 Confrontation between the two armies

During the days when Gu Xu was in seclusion, Emperor Tianxing was dispatching troops and generals in Luojing, and Zhao Yan was also waiting in Liangzhou City.

A few days later, when the Daqi monks gathered in large numbers on the northwest frontier, she strictly followed Gu Xu's instructions and did not attack rashly. Instead, she opened a large formation, contracted the defense line, and tried to delay time.

She knew that in this world with extraordinary power, the outcome of a war was often decided by the top practitioners.

The strong saints can usually only be checked and balanced by the strong saints. When they face ordinary monks and mortal armies, they are often massacred one-sidedly.

Of course, ordinary armies are not useless.

Just like modern warfare, although it has missiles and nuclear weapons, it also needs to rely on the army to complete the occupation of the region.

Conquering the city, maintaining the city defense formation, and providing logistics... also need to be completed by a large number of middle and low-level monks and ordinary people.

Especially when the saints on both sides do not take action, the practitioners of middle and low realms play a decisive role.

Zhao Yan had many years of experience in the border guarding army of the Daqi Dynasty. She had led the team deep into the wilderness many times and fought fiercely with the northwest barbarians. She had made many military exploits and had rich experience in commanding operations.

Under her order, the monks quickly formed a queue, and their true energy gathered together, like a trickle converging into a surging river, and then poured into the city defense formation.

Liangzhou, Linqiang, Zhaowu, Zhangye... Each of the six northwest cities has a beam of light rising into the sky, reaching straight into the sky, and then spreading in all directions, merging into an overwhelming golden light curtain, covering the six northwest cities like a bubble. , like a golden sun floating on the surface of the earth.

The troops sent by the Daqi Dynasty were blocked.

But they weren't surprised. In their daily training, they had rehearsed this kind of siege situation countless times.

I saw the Qi army also marching out in formation. The true energy of the monks and the energy and blood of the mortal soldiers gathered together in the air, turning into a golden dragon with teeth and claws. It spread out its majestic posture and moved toward the northwest six menacingly. The golden light shield of the city slammed away.

The six northwest cities have just emerged, and their background is far inferior to that of Daqi. Although there are more than one saint and true king, the number of middle and low-level monks and troops is far less than that of Daqi.

Normally speaking, this city defense formation would never be able to withstand the full blow of the siege formation.

But the strange thing is that today, the five-clawed golden dragon phantom hit the city defense formation several times. The city defense formation only became slightly dimmer, and did not collapse instantly as expected.

"There is something wrong with the rebel formation," a young man in a brocade robe from the Daqi army frowned slightly and said, "Gu Ni must have made some unreasonable changes to it."

This young man is Xiao Shangyuan, the eldest prince of the Daqi Dynasty. In this campaign against the northwest rebels, he took the initiative to serve as the commander-in-chief of Da Qi's vanguard army.

A few months ago, just as the Luoshui Conference ended, Gu Xu went from being the leader of the conference that everyone was looking for to a traitor wanted by the whole country. At that time, Xiao Shangyuan was ordered to go to Qingyao Mountain to capture Gu Xu.

He originally thought that it was a sure thing for him in the fifth realm to cooperate with Fan Cheng, the worshiper in the sixth realm, to arrest Gu Xu, who was in the fourth realm.

Unexpectedly, monks wearing opera masks from the "Qing Ming" organization suddenly appeared and rescued Gu Xu.

The prey he got just slipped away from his eyes.

Xiao Shangyuan was very worried about this.

Now that his father is out of seclusion and the whole country is revolting, he desperately hopes to seize this opportunity to prove his ability in front of his father and the "Tai'a Sword" and become the successor to the throne. "Your Highness, Gu Ni used some cunning tricks to connect this city defense formation with the Avenue of Heaven and Earth. Now that we are commanding the army to attack the formation, it is almost equivalent to fighting against the law of heaven."

After hearing Xiao Shangyuan's words, the gray-haired old man Fan Cheng opened his mouth to explain.

"Related to the way of heaven?" Xiao Shangyuan looked a little surprised, "He is a sixth-level monk, but he has such great ability?"

In Xiao Shangyuan's understanding, the power that ordinary monks can use is often limited to themselves; even sixth-level monks can only use the power of the great avenue indirectly through the Dharma; only those who reach the realm of saints and above can Really use the power of heaven and earth for your own use. This is also the reason why a strong saint can usually easily crush the monks in the sixth realm.

"If it weren't for the fact that he can do things that ordinary people can't do," Fan Cheng sighed, "his subordinates wouldn't tout him as a reincarnated god every day."

In the recent period, in order to prevent people's hearts from being shaken, the Daqi court issued many official documents to "refute the rumors", claiming that "Gu Xu is the reincarnation of Emperor Ziwei" is a nonsense told by the rebels, "Tai Shang Haotian and Zi Wei" The statement that the emperor is a mortal enemy" is even more nonsense and nonsense.

Qi Ting repeatedly emphasized that since the beginning of heaven and earth and the founding of heaven and earth, Taishang Haotian and Emperor Ziwei have always been two-sided and indivisible wholes, representing day and night, being aloof and untouchable by mortals.

How could it be possible to transform into a mortal and be born into a troubled world?

Those rebels are blaspheming!

As the most trusted confidant around the eldest prince, Fan Cheng naturally believed unswervingly in the court's statement.

But when he flipped through the official documents and saw all kinds of unreasonable things that frequently happened to Gu Xu, his belief would always be faintly shaken unconsciously, and he couldn't help but wonder whether Gu Xu would really be with Zi Zi. What does it have to do with Emperor Wei?

Especially after the identity of Luochuan, the head of the Exorcism Department, was revealed.

After all, Luo Chuan masters the art of divine deduction and claims to "know everything about the world and have a thorough understanding of the past and present." People will always wonder if the reason why he chooses to follow Gu Xu is because he really knows some unknown secrets.

"Mr. Fan, do you have any solution?" Xiao Shangyuan asked again.

Fan Cheng narrowed his eyes and stared at the formation for a while, then shook his head and said: "The true energy flow of this formation is very complicated and beyond my understanding. We can only choose violent methods and use numbers to twice the force to forcefully break it. Well, or you can choose another method——"

"——What method?" Xiao Shangyuan asked urgently.

"Please ask the Imperial Master to take action." Fan Cheng replied.

At this moment, Wang Jian, the Imperial Advisor of Da Qi, was also in the army.

Three of the five saints of Daqi followed Gu Xu, so it was naturally impossible for the imperial court of Daqi not to send their own saints to compete with them.

It's just that now the two sides are in a stage of testing each other.

The rebel saints and strong men did not take action for the time being, and the Da Qi Imperial Preceptor naturally did not act rashly.

If a saint's true energy is consumed in large amounts in the city defense formation and military battle formation, then the saint on the opposite side will definitely be happy from the bottom of his heart.

(End of this chapter)