Journey to the head

The leader of the Jiuxian Sect, Hailiang Zhenren, felt that his family was very unlucky.

He was leading the sect's elite troops to Pinghu County to join the demon-killing army led by the Yunshan Sect. However, just as the army set out, he received news that his own Beichu County had been affected by the demon chaos in Qingzhou, and he was immediately shocked.

All sects knew that there were no walls or barriers between the prefectures. Although the demon disaster was raging in Qingzhou, it could move to the surrounding prefectures at any time, or new demons could break into Cangzhou directly from underground. So whether to attack and eliminate the demons or to sit back and guard the mountain gate naturally required careful consideration.

In addition to the subordinate sects of Yunshan that were recruited, the various sects that chose to follow the Yunshan Sect also made the decision after repeated weighing. How many people would come to obey orders and how many would stay at the mountain gate were all planned in advance and could not be easily regretted.

However, Hailiang Zhenren did not expect that the first to suffer would be his own family! Even though they had made plans and left two Jindan Zhenren in Beichu County for defense, they could not help but become anxious and asked Lu Qian to temporarily leave the army and return to the mountain gate first to wait for the arrival of the Yunshan army.

Seeing this, all the sects were alert and sent messages to strengthen their guards to prevent the monsters from attacking. Now the army has just set out and is still in Cangzhou. After entering Qingzhou, it will be difficult to rush back in time even if they are in danger.

Now, Hailiang Zhenren was commanding the defense of the mountain gate with a nervous expression. Wave after wave of monsters poured into the mountain protection formation, pressing the entire formation so hard that it creaked. Eight rays of light spread around, looking precarious.

The Jiuxian Sect's mountain protection formation is an Eight-Gate Golden Lock Formation derived from the Bagua Formation. It is divided into eight gates: Rest, Life, Injury, Stop, Scenery, Death, and Shock. Each of the eight gates has its own mystery.

After the enemy rushes in, they will be dispersed into the eight gates, and our side can send different forces to attack the different enemies in the eight gates, so as to achieve the effect of dividing and annihilating the enemy. In theory, this is a large formation suitable for defending against the attack of a large army.

But now, there are too many attacking enemies!
Although most of the overwhelming tide of monsters were ordinary underground beasts, the hundreds of thousands of beasts that kept rushing in brought a huge burden to the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation. There was no time to rotate and divide them, so they had to mobilize all the disciples to form a formation to meet the enemy head-on.

The corpses of monsters piled up high, spreading forward, and gradually piled up to the mountainside. Among them were the corpses of the Wine Immortal Sect disciples, and more and more corpses were mixed in. There were frequent bangs, and wine gourds exploded with huge flames, and various corpses flew into the sky and fell down with crackling sounds.

Another loud bang was heard, and among the eight light beams, one of them suddenly disappeared!

"Master, three enemy Jindan monsters are rushing in again!" The embarrassed disciple rushed in front of Hailiang Zhenren, "The base of the Dumen formation has been destroyed, Master, please rescue us quickly!"

Zhenren Hailiang raised his hand and gulped down a big gulp of the spirit wine. His face turned red in an instant, and the pores of his body were filled with the smell of wine like clouds, and there was a raging flame burning in the wine.

There were a total of four Jindan on the enemy side. When we attacked the mountain just now, they fought with three of our Jindan. One Jindan monster was killed, and the other three retreated. Our side was also seriously injured. We didn't expect that they would rush in again after just a pot of wine.

Master Lu, hasn't the army arrived yet?

"Two junior brothers, follow me to meet the enemy!"

There were voices of response from the mountain gate. One person poured the wine all over his body, and another person directly lifted up a wine jar that was taller than his body. The emerald green wine rolled and squirmed in it like a living thing.

"Turn the Death Gate!" Master Hailiang rushed forward with his two Jindan disciples, "I want to leave all three Jindan monsters here!"

The wine of the Jiuxian Sect has comprehensive effects, and all methods are based on the wine. The most important thing is that when the body is paralyzed by the wine, even the pain is relieved a lot.

With a loud bang, the three golden elixirs of the Drunken Immortal Sect collided with the three golden elixirs of the Demon Clan. The green flame leaped up to the sky. The disciple who controlled the formation drank up the wine gourd and let out a sad and angry roar. The eight gates turned, and the death gate representing the fight to the death covered the six golden elixirs.

"Fight to the death! Fight to the death!" Under the stimulation of the leader's determination and alcohol, the eyes of the Jiuxian Sect disciples turned red, and they screamed and rushed back towards the beast tide without any fear of life or death. Layers of flames began to boil on this sacred mountain, and for a while they actually suppressed the beast tide and forced it to slowly retreat.

But the next moment, there was an earthquake and landslide, and the sacred mountain shook!
The corpses piled up high on the mountain collapsed and fell like a rainstorm, and violent roars came from underground!

A terrifying spiritual pressure surged up into the sky, and the drunkenness of the Jiuxian Sect disciples immediately faded, and most of their courage just now dissipated. Amid the loud noise of the landslide, a giant claw several dozen feet long suddenly stretched out from the ground, smashing the cliff with a bang.

Then came a slender, pointed head and a body covered with dark scales. When the long tail finally came out of the ground, all the monks present were stunned and their faces turned pale.

It was a giant Nascent Soul monster that was hundreds of feet long!
In front of it, human monks were like ants. The Nascent Soul Demon glanced around, and there was a thunderclap, and the surrounding mountains were shaking. Before anyone could react, its long tail had already hit the mountain protection formation hard, and in an instant, all eight gates were shattered, and the mountain protection formation collapsed directly!

The demons and Drunken Immortal Sect monks who were fighting fiercely were scattered like rubble, and the demons with larger numbers even suffered more serious damage, but this Nascent Soul demon didn't care at all. Its pointed upper and lower jaws suddenly opened, and then a flash of magical power appeared.

"Junior brother!" The Hailiang Zhenren who had just stabilized his body after being blown away roared, and saw a flash of pink light, which directly wrapped up one of his dizzy junior brothers. Then, without fear of the scorching flames of wine, he retracted it and chewed it to pieces in one bite!
A chilling chewing sound was heard, and the Nascent Soul Demon exhaled a breath of alcohol, and his loud laughter resounded throughout the mountain top.

"The wine-stained golden pill tastes good!"

This situation caused the morale of the Jiuxian Sect to collapse, and a large number of real people shouted in grief and anger: "Run, run!"

The disciples hurriedly fled to the mountain, but the giant monster only took a few steps before its huge body blocked their way.

"You guys are so thoughtful. You even knew to marinate yourself with wine to whet my appetite."

It laughed wildly and opened its mouth. Its long pink tongue stuck out like a giant python, and with one stroke it wrapped up hundreds of disciples and sent them into its mouth.

Hailiang Zhenren's eyes were bloodshot, and he and another Jindan Zhenren wanted to rush forward regardless of life and death, but they were stopped by the three Jindan monsters. They could only watch their disciple being sent into the giant monster's mouth with a heart-wrenching howl.

At this moment, the giant monster suddenly stopped moving and turned its head sharply!

But there were hundreds of blue and red meteors in the sky, which directly cut through the clouds and hit the giant monster hard!
There was an earth-shattering explosion, and a giant monster let out a cry of pain. All the Drunken Immortal Sect disciples who were being swallowed into its mouth were thrown out. Green lightning and purple-red flames flashed back and forth on its huge body, and there was a faint sound of scales breaking.

Then, a large number of real people heard the sharp sound of breaking through the air and slowly caught up. These hundreds of green and red meteors were actually approaching this point!
He looked up in great surprise and saw a huge ship emerging from the clouds. The silver-white ship glowed coldly in the moonlight and was shrouded in a layer of dreamy and hazy starlight. The huge horns were wrapped in starlight, like a spear of heavenly punishment pointing directly at the demon tide.

And around it, patches of light lit up one after another, and hundreds of airships were lined up one after another, and countless spiritual light cannons emitted a faint orange-red glow as they stored energy.

It was the central army led by Xinghuan Weiyuan Shenzhou! In front of the central army, four Feiji Zhengyuan Shenzhous had already burst into full speed, with densely packed talismans flashing on the ship's armor, sails bulging, and with ferocious spikes all over their bodies, they rushed towards the monster tide.

This is the vanguard army led by Gu Nishang. After receiving Lu Qian's message, they have returned to join the central army and advance.

"It's Master Lu! The army is here!" Master Hailiang shouted wildly as if he had been saved from a desperate situation. He used all his strength to repel the golden elixir monster in front of him, and regardless of the fact that his disciples were already scattered and disorganized, he shouted loudly, "Counterattack! Counterattack!"

"Xinghuan main guns, second round of salvos!" Lin Le's order rang out, and on the Weiyuan Shenzhou, the three hundred large-caliber, ultra-long-range main guns once again emitted blue and red light.

Now the two sides were still far away, and only the Xinghuan main gun, which had an attack range far exceeding that of ordinary Yuanying, could directly strike the enemy. Thanks to the huge body of this Yuanying giant monster, the previous round of volleys basically hit the target, which gave great confidence to the Yunshan disciples who were controlling the Weiyuan Shenzhou for the first time.

The giant monster was shocked and angry. The scales on its body were extremely hard, comparable to magic weapons, but they were slightly cracked under the bombardment of humans. Looking at the hundreds of airships and the large army of wind-controlling beasts in the sky, it suddenly felt something was wrong. It spun around and broke through the mountain with its long claws, ready to escape downwards.

“Where are you escaping to!” The cry of the Golden Crow resounded through the sky. Purple fire burst out, and a huge Golden Crow with a wingspan of hundreds of feet rose up from the direction of the four Zhengyuan divine ships and exploded out in the rolling fire cloud. At the moment when the giant monster sank into the mountain, its claws pierced through the clouds and grabbed its long tail.

The exploding purple fire of the Golden Crow burned the scales on the giant monster's tail, causing them to crack and soften rapidly. Gu Nishang's Golden Crow pseudo-body burst out with tremendous force and forcibly dragged it out!
The giant monster roared in pain, opened its long snout and bit the Golden Crow, but the Golden Crow showed no weakness and grabbed its upper and lower jaws with its claws, pouring gushing purple flames directly into its throat.

The giant monster used his innate magical powers, and a long tongue shot out as fast as lightning, immune to wind and fire. It pierced directly out of the purple fire and penetrated deeply into the Golden Crow's fake body!
It became ruthless and knew it had to kill Gu Nishang first before it could escape.

Rumble!
Under Lin Le's command, the main gun of Weiyuan Shenzhou turned its angle to avoid the giant monster that was fighting with Gu Nishang. When the muzzle exploded again, three hundred green and red lightning balls slammed directly into the layers of monsters.

Twelve red mushroom clouds of surging lava suddenly rose in the center of the beast tide, and thousands of monsters with charred scales were turned into ashes by the power comparable to that of a Nascent Soul attack.

At this moment, the earth shook violently and loud noises came from far away. The disciples of the Drunken Immortal Sect looked from the top of the mountain and saw that under the moonlight, from the east and west, dark waves were engulfing the earth and rapidly approaching their own defense line!

"Master!" They shouted in panic, but Master Hailiang relaxed. He poured out the remaining wine in the gourd on his waist, forming a huge wall of flames a hundred feet high, temporarily blocking the tide of beasts out.

"Don't panic, new friendly forces have arrived."

At this time, the three Jindan monsters had been taken over by the five Jindan real people under Gu Nishang's command. He was finally able to drag his injured body and take his seriously injured junior brother to raise the flag again, reorganize and rescue the scattered disciples, and lead the disciples to retreat to the top of the mountain under the cover of Yunshan Sect's artillery fire.

He knew Lu Qian's plan before, and now he was comforting his disciples not to panic. When he looked again, he saw that there was a group of airships flashing in the east and west directions above the rushing tide of monsters, and spiritual light cannons were bombarding like rain.

It was the left army led by Taoist Xichan and the right army led by Lingxuan Lingjun, who drove the tide of monsters to converge in the center. Together with Lu Qian's front, middle and rear armies, they drove the tide of monsters in Beichu County to the plain in front of the mountain gate of Jiuxian Sect.

Wave after wave of monsters gathered together, their roars shook the heavens and earth, the fishy smell rushed straight into the night sky, and there were millions of monsters and beasts engulfing each other!

Standing on the top of the mountain, one could feel the mountain shaking violently, making one wonder whether this sacred mountain would collapse under the impact of the beast tide.

Under the horrified gaze of the Jiuxian Sect's disciples, the four Zhengyuan Shenzhous that advanced to the vicinity of the mountain gate opened fire fiercely, with plasma shells raining down like a rainstorm, completely blocking the road in front of the mountain gate in an instant.

The tide of monsters seemed to have hit a reef, and they split into two paths in front of the Drunken Immortal Sect's mountain gate, and went around it, making all the Drunken Immortal disciples breathe a sigh of relief.

On the other side, Lin Le had just commanded Weiyuan Shenzhou to launch the third round of artillery fire when a flying monster like a dark cloud rolled towards the central army.

"The bats are approaching!" The disciple in charge of lookout and detection shouted a warning.

Although the deep underground is vast, it has a rock dome above it, which restricts free flight. Therefore, although there are some flying monsters bred underground, they are not as rich and numerous as those on the surface.

These millions of monsters gathered together, and there were only a hundred thousand bats and strange birds in front of us. It must be said that this was very beneficial to the monks who were fighting in the airships and hanging high in the sky.

As long as we wipe out these bats, we can fire at them from a high position!

At this time, the airships of the independent Jindan sects around Weiyuan Shenzhou were attracted by the bat swarm and began to bombard without waiting for orders. Although the spiritual light cannons were dense, the ranges of each sect were different, and the bat demon swarms were flexible in gathering and dispersing, so they did not suffer much damage.

Lu Qian frowned and shouted, "Order all factions to control their firepower and wait for my orders. Do not attack blindly!"

As the communication came through, the eight Jindan of the Yunshan Sect who were scattered in the central army immediately shouted loudly, ordering all the sects to carry out the order.

The bat monsters kept approaching, and the sharp sound waves made the disciples' eardrums hurt. Lin Le estimated the distance and suddenly shouted: "Fire!"

Weiyuan Shenzhou vibrated, and thousands of side rapid-fire guns and close-in defense guns protruded from under the armor, opening fire fiercely in an instant, and flashes of lightning bloomed like a giant net!

The bat monsters were caught off guard and did not expect to be hit by a saturation attack all at once, so they broke apart and scattered. At this time, Lu Qian also gave a decisive order, and hundreds of airships were finally able to fire freely, harvesting the bat monsters in large numbers.

Even if a bat demon rushed forward, it would be attacked by the monks gathered on the airship and would not be able to make any progress.

After two rounds of attacks, the bat monsters were completely defeated and fled in all directions. Lu Qian was about to order his troops to pursue them when his face suddenly darkened.

But seeing that the million-strong tide of beasts had already rushed to the bottom of the central army, roaring and submerging the earth, all the sects and schools became restless, as if they saw countless points flashing before their eyes.

Dozens of airships dived down without waiting for orders, firing their cannons, and the monks charged, killing the beast tide. (End of this chapter)