Tian Yuan Xian Ji

Chapter 1661 Ambush

As expected, after the demon army captured Ning'an County, they only rested for a few days before heading towards Weiping County.

After so many years of construction, Weiping County has long been built into an iron-clad defense position. Every city and even every pavilion city has corresponding defense fortifications, and magic arrays are connected one after another.

In addition, Weiping County also has a large number of soldiers and generals at this moment.

All the coalition forces in Ning'an County have retreated here. The entire Weiping County has nearly eight legions, and basically every city has a legion stationed.

Daily battle reports flew to Tang Ning like snowflakes. The demons had a hard time since they invaded Weiping County. Their total strength was not as large as the coalition forces, and they did not understand the art of formation. Every time they captured a city, the number of casualties far exceeded that of the coalition forces.

After several months of stalemate, the demon army failed to capture even the outermost city of Weiping County. The demon army leaders seemed to have become angry and they no longer advanced step by step.

The main force of the central army stationed in the rear was dispatched, with a large number of elite troops serving as the vanguard, and even some Mahayana monks took action personally.

Although the cities in Weiping County were tightly deployed and the defense lines were linked together by magic arrays, they were still unable to withstand the offensive of the Mahayana monks.

The demon army advanced at an unstoppable rate, and in less than a year, they had captured three outer cities.

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Weiping County, Tianhuo City, inside the main hall, Kong Rui sat in the inner room, listening to the report on the battle at the front line.

"The demon army's vanguard has captured the city's second line of defense and is heading toward the city. It is expected that in a month, they will capture the third line of defense and arrive at the city."

"The Sixth Army Commander Jiang Jian sent someone to report that when the demon army was attacking the second line of defense, a demon army Mahayana monk entered the formation. They requested the coalition to send Mahayana monks to reinforce, otherwise the formation they have now will not be able to stop the demon army's vanguard."

"The remnants of the second line of defense have joined the Seventh Army. The number of casualties is currently unknown. Inspector Xu Hui of the Seventh Army requests the coalition forces to provide immediate support."

Inside the hall, messengers were constantly coming and going, reporting on the battle situation on the front lines and the movements of the demon army.

At this moment, several figures strode in from outside. The leader was Tang Ning, followed by a group of Mahayana monks.

"Fellow Daoist Tang, why are you here?" Kong Rui was overjoyed to see everyone arriving and quickly stood up to greet them.

"I heard that the demon army has stepped up its offensive and is almost reaching the city of Skyfire. I am worried that you and Fellow Daoist Zhu may not be able to defeat the demon army, so I am leading all the other Daoists to come and help." Tang Ning said, and waved his hand: "Please take a seat, fellow Daoists!"

Everyone took their seats, and Kong Rui naturally sat down near the bottom, giving the main seat to Tang Ning.

"Great! I was just about to send someone to report to you. The demon army's attack is very fierce. Without support, I'm afraid we won't be able to defend this city."

Kong Rui's previously frowned brows had now relaxed. He was at a loss as to what to do. He was mentally prepared that if Tang Ning did not send reinforcements, he would abandon the city and return to Weiping County when the demon army attacked the city.

"Where is Daoist Zhu? Where is he now?"

"The demon army will soon attack this city, and he has gone to the city to supervise the deployment of the defense team."

"The demon army is eager to advance, so we decided to catch them off guard in Tianhuo City. The goal is to annihilate the two great demons in the demon army's vanguard team and deal them a heavy blow."

"Good. It should have been done long ago." Kong Rui slammed the table and said, "The demons are too arrogant. They have always treated the coalition army as nothing. The two great demons who led the demon army's vanguard did whatever they wanted. Our first and second lines of defense were unable to withstand them because they personally entered the battle formation."

"Where is the demon army's vanguard now?"

"We are approaching the third line of defense of the city and heading towards Yuanqingting."

"Now that we are here, we don't need to wait for the demons to attack Tianhuo City. Let's go to Yuanqing Pavilion and kill the Mahayana demon who leads the elite vanguard of the demon army."

"This is even better. If the demon army is at the gates of the city, they may be afraid of the city walls covered by this high-level formation and dare not attack, or seek support from the rear. We ambush them at Yuan Qingting. They will definitely not expect it, and we will definitely catch them off guard." Kong Rui immediately agreed, and then looked at Feng Jingxing and Gan Yuan: "Aren't you two Taoist friends stationed in Huaxing City? Why are you here too? Has Huaxing City been lost?"

Feng Jingxing replied, "We received a message from Fellow Daoist Tang, asking us to temporarily ignore Huaxing City and come here to help you defend Tianhuo City first."

"The battle in Huaxing City is not severe. There has been no Mahayana-level monsters personally attacking the city. The coalition forces stationed there are sufficient to resist. I speculate that the demon army should focus on attacking Tianhuo City, so I called on Fellow Daoist Feng and Fellow Daoist Gan to defend the city." Tang Ning explained. He had learned about the demon army's specific plan through a captured fusion-level monster, so he made such an arrangement.

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Yuan Qingting, a huge defensive light curtain covered an area of ​​a thousand miles.

In the distance, groups of demon soldiers came here. Following the order of the leader, teams of demon soldiers surrounded the entire light curtain.

All kinds of magic skills bloomed like a hundred flowers, and the demon army surrounding the formation used their magical powers to attack the defensive light curtain. Although they did not understand the mysteries of the formation, they could defeat skill with force, and they could break through the formation with brute force. It would just take a little more time.

This was how they had been doing all along, and this time was no exception. As time went on, the runes on the defensive light curtain shattered one by one. Under the attacks of many high-level demon monks, the light curtain gradually twisted and deformed, and finally shattered like a water curtain.

As the light curtain disappeared, gray smoke billowed out from inside, instantly covering the entire sky and earth.

The demon army had been attacking cities and strongholds along the way, which was already expected.

After breaking through the outer defensive light curtain, everyone retreated to their original team.

The next moment, two leading Mahayana monsters led a group of combined monsters and went straight into the gray smoke.

In the hall covered by the light curtain, Tang Ning and his companions had observed all of this through the formation. Seeing the two great demons leading a dozen combined demons into the formation, he stood up suddenly and said, "Everyone, this is a rare opportunity. Let's enter the formation together."

Everyone stood up, left the hall, came to the magic circle, passed through a huge light gate, and entered the internal space of the formation.

At that time, the two Mahayana monsters were leading a dozen fusion-level monsters and were attacking indiscriminately without any plan. The entire space inside the magic circle was shaking violently under their headless fly-like attacks, and it seemed that it would shatter at any time.

The two Mahayana demons, one was over ten feet tall, with muscles all over his body, and looked similar to humans. His pupils were dark red, and he had huge protruding teeth, which made him look very ferocious.

The other person was about the same size as an ordinary human monk, with purple-red skin, two extremely long and pointed ears, a mouse-like appearance, and scarlet eyes.

Both of them were in the early stage of Mahayana cultivation. Tang Ning entered the magic circle, took the lead, and rushed straight towards the rat-like Mahayana monster.

When those monsters saw a cultivator in the late Mahayana stage coming like a tiger, their expressions changed drastically and more than a dozen combined monsters scattered in panic.

Tang Ning's figure flashed and he soon arrived in front of the rat-brain monster.

The monster let out a long howl, and two blood-red rays of light flashed between its eyes.

Tang Ning clasped his hands together, and countless black lights emanated from his body, forming the shape of a giant bell. The dazzling black light covered the entire space.

The giant bell transformed from virtual to real, and the moment it solidified, the entire space was instantly frozen.

The two scarlet rays of light that shot out from the eyes of the rat-headed Mahayana demon were frozen in place, like a mural.

With a light click, the black pointer on the huge clock began to jump, turning clockwise from twelve o'clock. The hour hand ticked from twelve o'clock to one o'clock.

When the pointer completes one circle, it returns to the twelve o'clock direction.

The entire space collapsed, and the two red lights shattered like ice sculptures.

The rat-headed monster had a look of horror on its face and fear in its eyes. At the moment when the two rays of light shot out of its eyes shattered, a crack appeared in its eye sockets, and then cracks spread all over its body.

Countless black lights shot out from his body. The rat-headed man's mouth was slightly open, as if he wanted to roar or howl, but no sound came out.

The next moment, his body broke into pieces and turned into many pieces of flesh and blood falling down.

The fight between the two, especially the magical powers used by Tang Ning, was so powerful that the already shaky space inside the formation collapsed immediately.

It was like a huge curtain appeared and was cut open, revealing the true appearance behind the curtain.

The formation was shattered, the flags standing around it were broken one after another, and even the formation altar had countless cracks.

The independent space of the formation no longer existed, the barrier inside and outside the formation was lost, and the gray fog covering the sky and the earth dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Tang Ning flashed to the body of the rat-headed monster and took out the glittering magic crystal from its skull. With his current strength, killing a Mahayana early stage monster was not effortless, but at least it was easy.

In front of him, this early Mahayana demon had no power to resist at all.

At this time, another Mahayana monster and a dozen fusion-level monsters had already fled in all directions, and Yao Yuanqing and others also chased after them.

Tang Ning quickly put away the magic crystal and chased after the monster. His figure flashed and soon he caught up with Yao Yuanqing and the others.

At this moment, several figures came rushing over from a distance. When they looked closely, their faces changed drastically in an instant.

The figure galloping over was none other than other Mahayana monsters. The one leading him was more than ten feet tall, with skin as red as blood, a red face and fangs, and a long white horn in front of his forehead. He was in the late Mahayana stage of cultivation.

"They are Mahayana monks from the demon army. They had already calculated that we would set an ambush and deliberately lured us to leave the Weiping County formation and engage in a field battle with them." Yao Yuanqing's face looked grim and his voice was dull.