Journey to the head

Just as the nine northwestern counties were attacking Tiger Head Mountain, in front of a narrow valley in the southeast of the Sikong family's territory, beasts were roaring and birds were howling, and a team from the Spirit Beast Sect was attacking this place.

"Uncle Chongshan, with your level of cultivation, shouldn't it be easy for you to take over this place?" A Foundation Establishment cultivator was flattering the team leader, Jindan.

Another foundation-building master came up and said, "It is believed that there is only one Jindan master in this valley. With Master Chongshan's Jindan Perfection cultivation, if he were to attack the spirit beast together, wouldn't that be like using a butcher knife to kill a chicken?"

Another foundation-building cultivator stood behind him, very happy: "Master, once we successfully capture this place, we can support other places and gain more military merits. In this way, the sect will definitely allocate resources to you, and the next person to achieve the Nascent Soul Lord position will definitely be you."

Master Chongshan looked pleased, but he said, "Don't be arrogant! It is so difficult to overcome the inner demon catastrophe. Even among the elites of my sect, only one out of ten can succeed."

"Over the past few decades, Senior Brother Lieyu failed in his tribulation and died, and Xue Peng was so loyal that he committed suicide to follow him. And Senior Brother Zhuofu was even more unfortunate... His Jade Mantis passed the tribulation first, and even the Grand Elder thought it had succeeded."

"Who knew that the mantis had been possessed by evil spirits, and took advantage of Senior Brother Zhuofu's meditation to suddenly attack and cruelly devour its master, and also caused a great disturbance at the mountain gate, causing huge losses."

"Fortunately, Junior Brother Xichan succeeded in the end, otherwise the Grand Elder and the Sect Leader would have been displeased from then on."

"It is obvious how difficult it is to achieve Nascent Soul. You must never be arrogant."

As he was speaking, the mountain protection formation in the valley began to glow. There were sounds of explosions, whistles, roars, shouts, and cries for help. It was obvious that the enemy's resistance was also very stubborn, and the disciples of the Spirit Beast Sect were engaged in a tough battle.

Master Chongshan snorted and waved his hand. A roar resounded through the night sky. The snow-white spirit beast that was originally curled up beside him suddenly enlarged to a height of fifty feet, and its body shook with a rumbling sound.

It was a goat of a foreign species, its entire body was snow-white, but its limbs were covered with long green hair. There was lightning in its eyes, and there was a rumbling sound of thunder between its breaths. When it opened its mouth, it was full of sharp fangs.

But at a whistle from Master Chongshan, the goat lowered its head, and its two horns on its head stood like towering mountains, with plasma flowing in the spiral patterns. Its body sank, and its four hooves stepped on thunder, like a mountain moving sideways, and it suddenly rushed towards the mountain protection formation in the valley, plowing a deep gully on the ground.

With a loud bang, the mountain protection formation was smashed to pieces by the goat spirit beast, and the disciples of the Spirit Beast Sect cheered. The goat kept running, rushing into the valley with unstoppable momentum. Master Chongshan flew up and rushed into the valley with the spirit goat.

Seeing this momentum, several foundation-building cultivators were filled with envy, and immediately controlled their spiritual weapons and followed him into the valley.

No sooner said than done, there were a few loud noises, and even the valley shook!
As they looked on in horror, the gigantic goat paused, as if it had hit something extremely hard, and then with a scream, its entire body staggered backwards.

Taoist Chongshan cried out in surprise and helped the spirit beast to stabilize its body. Then he looked up and saw that four Sikong martial artists of different shapes and sizes had surrounded them. The rolling aura from these martial artists rushed up like flames, like four beams of light shooting into the night sky.

Four Sikong high-level golden elixirs!
It's an ambush!
Master Chongshan's face suddenly changed.

Didn't they say there was only one Jindan here? Shouldn't this be the place where I could earn merits?

"you--"

The four Sikong Jindan didn't say a word, and the strong wind exploded and attacked instantly!

In the northeast of Sikong Territory, the army led by Qinglian Zhenzong has also begun a fierce attack on the ten spiritual veins.

The bright light cut through the sky, and the Nascent Soul's spiritual pressure diffused in the air.

Lord Lianyi fell from the sky, raised his hand and attacked the mountain protection formation of the spiritual vein below, using his innate magical power, Horizontal Wave!
With a humming sound, the rapidly vibrating water waves were enough to cut through everything, and spurted out from between his palms like a long silver-white silk thread, carrying an astonishingly sharp aura as it passed heavily across the mountain protection formation.

This Jindan-level mountain protection formation was instantly cut in half!

Lord Lianyi landed on the top of the mountain and raised one palm. In an instant, a light blue ripple swept out in all directions with him as the center, like a shallow wave, covering the entire mountain.

Secret Technique: Water Mirroring Horizontal Waves.

This is his sensing technique, and he wants to use it to find out the locations of all the golden elixirs in the mountain.

He had received intelligence in advance that this place was a key guarded spot among the ten spiritual veins in the northeast of the Sikong family. There were three Golden Cores in total, so he took action personally.

But the moment the light blue ripples enveloped the spirit vein, Lord Lianli Lingjun suddenly opened his eyes.

There is no Sikong Jindan here at all, only some small soldiers and crab generals!
The information is wrong!

Then where did Sikong Jindan go?
His heart sank suddenly, and the telescope in his arms vibrated. He took it out and saw that the sect's golden elixir was shouting in panic.

"Master, save me. There are three enemy Jindan here!"

Lianyi Lingjun agreed, and just as he flew up, his arms shook again, and messages for help came from several places at the same time.

At this moment, his face looked extremely ugly.

Another person who stood there in a daze with a drastic change of expression was Yi Chen Lingjun of the Xuanwei Sect.

At this time, he received a signal for help from Woniu Mountain.

Intelligence says that this place is just bluffing and deliberately creating confusion, but there is actually no golden elixir here.

The Sikong family wants to defend the entire territory. Even though they have developed rapidly in recent years and have the support of all kinds of incredible spiritual objects in the Corpse Prison Wasteland, they can only have forty or fifty Jindan at most, right?

In the first round, there are forty-three spiritual veins on the outside to guard, as well as other spiritual veins in the territory and the core of the clan, the "Musashi Mountains". It is impossible to leave Jindan Zhenren everywhere, so they can only use both real and fake tactics and focus on defense.

The intelligence statement was very logical. In addition, a real life-and-death battle was imminent. On weekdays, the informants inside the Sikong family would sell insignificant intelligence, but at this moment they would still be loyal to the family. Some of the intelligence was inconsistent with that of the external spies, which proved that the intelligence provided by the external spies was correct.

But why, why is it like this!

There are currently three Jindan on Woniu Mountain, who suddenly attacked. One of his Jindan was seriously injured after just one encounter, and he hurriedly asked for help!
Is it just that the spies of this sacred mountain happened to make a mistake in their findings?

Thinking so, Yichen Lingjun flew forward to provide support, but in a flash, all the requests for help and inquiries made him confused and filled with chills.

The intelligence reported that the Sikong Lingmai was heavily guarded and had many golden elixirs, but at this moment there was basically no golden elixir to guard it, and the heavy troops were in vain.

However, according to intelligence, the spiritual vein had poor defense and was unmanned, so the one or two Jindan sent out by our side were immediately ambushed and suffered heavy losses!

The enemy's Nascent Soul has also joined the battle, and we urgently need our own Nascent Soul to fight back. Now there are fires everywhere, how can we put them out in time?

When Lord Yichen was extremely anxious, Lord Qiancheng's message came through.

Now Xuanwei Sect has only mobilized two Nascent Souls, namely Yichen Lingjun and Qiancheng Lingjun. Lingxuan Lingjun and Qingyuan Sanren stayed in the territory to guard the rear.

"Yichen! What are you doing, 'house-born son'? The intelligence is all wrong!" Qiancheng Lingjun cursed, "Now the crisis is everywhere, you are responsible!" Yichen Lingjun's face flushed, and he lost his voice in an instant. He was anxious and angry. When he was about to curse loudly, he heard Qiancheng Lingjun slow down his tone and said loudly: "But things have come to this point. Everything will be discussed after the war. Now let's work together to clear up the situation!"

Yichen Lingjun nodded quickly.

"Listen, calm down. I have integrated the battlefield situation. For some reason, there are only three enemy Yuanyings on the battlefield. Two of them are attacking from the Spirit Beast Sect and the Qinglian True Sect, and one is in my main attack direction. It's Sikong Shengji!"

"No matter what happened to the enemy, this is a good opportunity! I will fight Sikong Shengji, and you rush to rescue everywhere from near to far! The same is true for the Spirit Beast Sect. Taoist Xichan is fighting fiercely with the enemy's Nascent Soul, and Yuanxu Lingjun has also withdrawn his hands. The situation is not yet irreversible!"

"Now let's issue a joint order to mobilize all the teams that failed to attack to support our fellow disciples who were ambushed!"

"Also, send a message to Tian Yuanzi and ask him to quickly capture Tiger Head Mountain and rescue the left and right!"

The flames on Hushou Mountain were blazing, dyeing the night sky red.

All the golden elixirs rushed forward, and Sikong Fuli, who was directly submerged by layer after layer of magical powers, shouted in despair: "You have no martial ethics, you are extremely shameless, and you will definitely be punished!"

What he got in return was a scolding from Wu Xi Zhenren of the Chi Jin Sect: "Old man, you are living a dog's life at your age! You said you want a duel, so who do you think you are! How can you be so shameless? You are just practicing martial arts, right!"

Sikong Fuzhi almost vomited blood, but all his curses were swallowed up by the heavy attacks.

Magical weapons, secret techniques, and supernatural powers, the overwhelming attacks directly overwhelmed the one-armed old man.

His body, which had been honed through hundreds of years of martial arts, could not last a single breath, and his supernatural powers were only like a flash of firefly that was extinguished in a moment.

After the rumbling explosions, Hushou Mountain was conquered, and the army of the nine northwestern counties completed the first step of the mission.

Lu Qian frowned. He knew that Master Wuxi was trying hard to perform just to join the Chongming Alliance as soon as possible and seek better development for the Chijin Sect. Therefore, he did not care about Master Wuxi's rude words.

What really made him feel bad was that Sikong Fuli was killed, but there was no second Jindan on Hushou Mountain.

In other words, the intelligence that there are three Jindan is wrong!

There was only one old Jindan on Hushou Mountain, who was obviously dying, had a disabled body and no way to become a Taoist. He appeared here just to use all his strength to delay the army of the nine counties in the northwest at the cost of his life.

Although Lu Qian was not fooled, this situation reflected a big problem.

Not only was there an error in the intelligence-gathering system of the Xuanwei Sect, but information about their own military deployment also seemed to have been leaked!
Before Lu Qian could continue to infer, Lin Le's face changed and he hurriedly reported: "Master, we have received rescue messages from all over the place!"

"And the Xuanwei Sect has ordered us to support Zuo Jin immediately!"

Lin Le explained the situation clearly in a few words, and Lu Qian was also shocked. This was no longer a "mistake" in their intelligence system. This was an intelligence system that was completely controlled by the enemy, who had set a trap for them and they had fallen into the trap!
How did they do that?
By the way, the enemy has monsters called the zombies. They are very sensitive to the breath of living people. Ordinary people cannot detect the spies hiding in the deep mountains and forests, but if the zombies take action, there will be no problem at all!

They can also transform captured spies into obedient zombie slaves!

This moment of speculation made Lu Qian smile bitterly. He was also blinded this time. He never thought that with the strength of Xuanwei Sect, they would suffer such a big setback in intelligence.

He took a deep breath and his eyes became sharp again.

The enemy does have good tactics, and now it’s my turn to make a move!

"Master Wudi, immediately rescue Dian Cang Gorge, which is five hundred miles away."

"Master Changji, Master Wudang, Taoist Liekong, immediately rescue Nuanyu Mountain, which is 350 miles away."

"Master Wuxi, Master Lianhua, Fairy Chunlin, immediately rescue Xiantao Mountain three hundred miles away."

"Lin Le, Yu Jiao, act together with Master Wei Ting. The Chishuizhou, four hundred miles away, is now in your hands!"

The various Jindans received the order loudly, set up their escape beams and sped away.

Lin Le said in surprise: "Master, you have sent all your strength to your side, this——"

Lu Qian shook his head: "Go quickly, the rescue battle situation is urgent."

Lin Le gritted his teeth and had to obey the order. The army of the nine northwestern counties under the jurisdiction of Yunshan Sect dispersed and rushed to various places to rescue the crisis.

"Brother Qing!" Sikong Yang's eyes sparkled and he shouted in a low voice.

"Brother, I saw it!" Sikong Qing responded with great joy, "Brother, your prediction is brilliant. If it is true, Shengji is really too cautious."

Sikong Yang chuckled, "When I became famous, this kid was still playing with urine and mud! But he reached the Nascent Soul stage first, so he rides on our brothers' heads, thinking that he is the best after Third Uncle. Bah, he is dreaming!"

"What kind of general is he? He uses chicken feathers as a token of authority, acts pretentiously all the time, and uses his third uncle to put pressure on me. Who does he think he is?"

Thinking about how his plan was completely denied by Sikong Shengji half a day ago and he was scolded for not following orders, Sikong Yang was furious.

"No, I don't agree. We can't take risks!" Sikong Shengji said loudly at that time, "The enemy is now in our trap. All we five Yuanyings need to do is show up on the battlefield as planned. The enemy's Yuanyings will have no choice but to come to fight us and will find it difficult to rescue them elsewhere. We will have the upper hand this round."

Sikong Yang was extremely dissatisfied and shouted, "Why bother to go far away? We already know that Lu Qian will lead his army to attack Hushou Mountain. As soon as the situation gets chaotic, he will definitely send his troops to support him. By then, he will be unable to support the team alone. We only need a surprise attack to take him down!"

Sikong Shengji's face darkened: "Lu Qian is a shrewd man, he is not a fool. Taking shortcuts is too risky! You must remember that our mission is to buy time for Third Uncle. Don't do anything else."

Before Sikong Yang could say anything, Sikong Shengji shouted coldly, "Sikong Yang, this is a military order!"

Military order, ha! Facts have proved that I was right!

I brought my brother Qing here, and everything was just as I expected!
Sikong Yang grinned, while Sikong Qing's eyes were already fixed on the sky above Hushou Mountain and on the Lingxu Zhenyuan Shenzhou with its flag flying.

That is Lu Qian’s flagship!

"Brother is right. Fortunately, I listened to your advice. If we capture Lu Qian this time, those corpse demons will bow their heads. We will definitely win this battle!"

“Go!” Sikong Yang roared, his internal energy burst out, and the mountains shook!
Two majestic beams of light tore through the night sky, and two Nascent Soul spiritual pressures suddenly erupted, causing the cultivators who remained above Hushou Mountain to turn pale and stagger and fall.

With a loud rumble, the several floating ships guarding the periphery were instantly smashed to pieces. Sikong Yang and Sikong Qing, the two Sikong Yuanying, were filled with murderous intent and pointed directly at Lu Qian! (End of this chapter)