Chongming Xianzong

Chapter 215 A sudden turn of events
"Senior Fire Dragon." When Sect Leader Kang saw the newcomer, he sighed inwardly that it was fate that played tricks on him, and then he bowed respectfully.

Following Taoist Fire Dragon into the formation, there were seven or eight cultivators in the late stage of Qi training. Kang Dabao couldn't recognize any of them. They should not have come out of Chongming Market with the Taoist.

"Hey, why are you still going through all this formality at this time?" Taoist Huolong was very pleased to see Kang Dabao being so respectful. He smiled slightly, but still said something polite, with an admiring look in his eyes:

"People in the state often talk about you, the Pingrong County Lieutenant, who is good at fighting and is a top-notch general in the state. In the past, I thought they were exaggerating, using your praise of Sima Fei for his ability to judge people, but after seeing you today, I find that your reputation is well-deserved."

"Thank you for your compliment, senior." Sect Leader Kang had no time to care about Taoist Fire Dragon's compliments at the moment. How could this Taoist not understand the time? Seeing that the cultivators from Qingyun League were approaching, why was he still talking nonsense?

Taoist Huolong cannot be considered a direct descendant of the provincial court. At this critical moment, and Jiazixuhao is such a crucial place, why would the provincial court send him?
Chongming Market was built with great efforts of the provincial government. After listening to Deng Baichuan's daily chatter, the two Simas even wanted to advise Nan'an Earl to build Chongming Market into the most prominent large market in Yunjiao Province, second only to Hancheng and Xuanwei City.

Fire Dragon Taoist could be deployed to such a critical place? Was it because Sima Gun was so busy suppressing the rebellion that he couldn't spare any more manpower?

What is particularly suspicious is that Taoist Huolong is really so loyal and righteous? He actually risked his life to come to the rescue despite the enemy's heavy troops.
What on earth did the state government promise him, a poor black gangster? Why did he risk his life to do something that would kill him if he made a mistake?

When Kang Dabao was wondering, he heard Taoist Huolong say, "Sima Gun had just pacified the Five Green Alliance in Wang County and was going to return to help, but the Mo family in Hong County rebelled halfway. He had to change his route to Hong County and was unable to get away for the time being, so he went to Wenfang Market and asked me and Governor Huo Bing to bring his thirty Qigong cultivators to help you.

On the way here, Governor Huo and I were chased and killed by two foundation-building masters from the Qingyun League, so in the end, we were the only ones who were able to gather here."

Taoist Huolong spoke clearly and concisely, but Kang Dabao became even more worried after hearing what he said.

"The head of the Mo family in Hong County just died in battle for the state court, and the cultivators left behind in his clan land are rebelling again?

Did the Mo family cultivators in the state court know about this news? Would they also stir up trouble and rebel?

After a long siege on Ruijin Gate, morale was already low. Now that something unexpected has happened, if the Ruijin Gate party spreads the news, will the monks from other big families in the state court also become restless? "

Even though Kang Dabao felt that none of the news brought by Taoist Fire Dragon was good, he felt even more awkward to fight side by side with this former enemy.

But when the other cultivators in the formation saw that the Foundation Establishment cultivators were coming to help, their morale soared more than before.

Don't look at the fact that Master Kang had previously been injured by a crossbow in building his foundation and had given kind advice, the effect was not even half as good as if Taoist Fire Dragon had entered the formation.

It was true that the morale of the cultivators in the formation was boosted, and at this moment, the inspired cultivators of the Qingyun League outside the formation were also not relaxing at all.

Even some of the cultivators who had been content with the status quo and had no hope of building a foundation, after hearing about rewards such as "foundation building pill" and "fake pill disciple", began to ignite some ambition, and they gathered all their strength and started fighting.

Don’t think that ordinary fake pills are like pigs and dogs in the eyes of genuine golden pills, and look down on them.

More than 90% of the cultivators in Yunjiao Province have never seen a fake pill maker in their entire lives.

The two major local tyrants in the south and north of Yunjiaozhou, the Yue family of Hancheng and the Niu family of Dingnan, each of them only had one fake Dan alive, but they were already favored by the Liangyi Sect and divided Yunjiaozhou under its command for hundreds of years.

For 99% of the cultivators in this world, Jiadan is already a god-like figure in the clouds.

If one really has the opportunity to become a disciple of a fake elixir master, then the entire family or sect may have the opportunity to change their destiny and rise to prominence.

The bounty offered by the Qingyun League was truly mouth-watering, and the enemy's morale instantly became as strong as steel and iron, making it difficult to shake.

In addition, the formation set up on the Jiazixu hill where Sect Leader Kang was stationed was really hastily arranged. The second-level formation master sent by the provincial court had only been there for three days before he was withdrawn by the chief secretary to the provincial court's main formation outside Ruijin Gate.

This means that the Hunyuan Eight Pillars Formation formed by a second-level formation master is not only of the first-level top grade, but also has only defensive capabilities and is unable to defend against the enemy.

Faced with the Taoist magic, talismans, magical instruments and tools that swarmed in from the monks of Qingyun League, the monks of Zhongzhou Ting were unable to use the formation to fight back and could only rely on their own abilities to fend off the enemy.

Fortunately, the Zhouting side had some protection from a formation, so the casualties were less than those of the Qingyun League.

After Master Kang fired three crossbows in a row, he fired two more arrows. The first one was aimed at an old man in a red crown with a strong aura, but he narrowly avoided it with his body skills.

One shot was aimed at a sword-wielding monk, but a group of Qi-cultivating monks who were supporting him formed a circle and managed to take the attack after several people were killed and injured.

Even though Kang Dabao's spiritual power was stronger than those of his peers, he still had to take some pills and rest after five shots.

He put down the crossbow, and the crossbow operator of the Ya army who was waiting for his turn let him pass with admiration. He picked up the crossbow, charged the energy for a long time, and the crossbow string made a loud sound, but it missed.

Master Kang, who was guarding the side of the Shooting Star Crossbow, had no intention of blaming him. The Shooting Star Crossbow had the characteristics of being both powerful and difficult to hit.

Although the Zhou Tingya Army is elite, a single crossbow arrow like this requires a weapon worth sixty spirit stones. Normally, these crossbow operators rarely have the opportunity to practice, so it is understandable that their accuracy is somewhat poor.

After all, it is more reasonable that the military supplies allocated by the state court should be shared among several adults first.

The three star-shooting crossbows fired several rounds, killing and wounding dozens of Qingyun League monks, but still failed to extinguish the other monks' burning fighting spirit.

Sect Leader Kang was worried. Sima Fei initially thought that the provincial government had arrived with a large force, and that a mere Ruijin Sect, even if the Liangyi Sect sent out fake Dan to guard it, would be defeated in a few days like the Wuxiang Sect did back then.

After all, Fei Sima himself has been at the peak of foundation building for many years, and he is practicing the universe-level skills. As long as he can complete the theory of alchemy and prepare all the spiritual objects, he can try to form the elixir.

Facing ordinary fake pills, even if Sima Fei cannot win the battle, he can still protect himself.

In his opinion, Kang Dabao's position on the Jiazixu Hill looked dangerous, but Ruijinmen would certainly not be able to spare many troops to besiege Kang Dabao's detachment because its main formation was under fierce attack by the Zhouting army. As long as he was careful, he should be able to hold on.

According to Sima Fei, even if the Ruijin Gate became ruthless and selected its best soldiers and assigned a foundation-building soldier to lead the attack, the Jiazixuhao Hill could be defended as long as they survived the first few days, even if more people died.

Perhaps the provincial government could set an ambush to annihilate the elite troops of Ruijin Gate, or even take advantage of the enemy's division of forces to capture the main formation of Ruijin Gate in one fell swoop.

In this way, Master Kangda can also add a highlight to his own victory report.

It is true that Sima Fei wanted Master Kang to show his loyalty to the Earl of Nan'an by sacrificing his family property to help the king in times of difficulty, but he did not really want his legitimate son-in-law to die in the king's affairs.

This horse bone needs to be hung for a while. The current Fei family's Sheshan Hall cannot find a second legitimate daughter in the entire Yunjiaozhou.

However, Sima Fei had never imagined that the fake pill master sent by Liangyi Sect was now in trouble. Not only was he entangled by the other party and unable to escape, but more than half of the true foundation-building practitioners he brought with him would also have to be taken with him to fight the enemy.

This caused the Zhouting army to be divided twice, and even the core forces such as the foundation building were not dominant in various battlefields. What worried the head of Kang the most was that the Zhouting main formation, which was under the command of the color, had gone from being able to suppress the Ruijinmen to being slightly at a disadvantage in the current battle with the enemy.

This is obviously not a good sign. Although Bushe is already a powerful foundation-building cultivator, his personal strength is still far from being able to influence the battle situation between the two sides.

What's more, there is the danger of someone betraying our camp.

If you think about it carefully, it is true that the Jiazixu Hill is in danger, but the situation of the main camp of the state court is equally difficult.

Sima Fei can no longer escape for the time being. If Sima Gun gets stuck in the quagmire while suppressing the rebellion and cannot get out for a long time, then this time the provincial court will come in a grand manner, and he may return in defeat.

By then, it is still unknown how much of the situation and support that Kuang Liuting and his fellow villagers in the capital have managed to create over the past few years will be left.

As the horse bones hung up by the state court to win people's hearts, the fate of Kang Dazhang and his Chong Mingzong is...

The drums of Jinyi Foundation Building were beating louder and louder, pulling Kang Dabao back to his senses.

He turned his head and looked at the Qingyun League team, his eyes fixed on them.

The Qingyun League was considered a large alliance in Yunjiao Province in the past, formed by the connection of four foundation-building sects including the Ruijin Sect.

Before the Black-Shoe Taoist killed four foundation-building cultivators from the Ruijin Sect with his sword in one battle, the Qingyun League had as many as twenty true foundation-building cultivators. In Yunjiao Province, its influence was only slightly inferior to that of the Yue and Niu families. The Lianshui League, headed by the Shujian Sect, was overwhelmed by it.

The strength of the disciples under such a force is indeed not comparable to those vagrant cultivators that Master Kang had easily dealt with in the previous few times.

Among the four, Qiaogongbao is the most skilled in mechanical puppets.

His disciples practice the art of training their spiritual consciousness, and most of them are equipped with various mechanical puppets that suit their own level of cultivation, which gives them an advantage when fighting with their peers.

If it weren't for the low upper limit of the sect's fundamental skills, the difficulty for its disciples to build a foundation, and the scarcity of core combat power, there might not be a need for his family to form an alliance with the Ruijin Sect and other families.

From this rescue effort, it can be seen that the other two families are still able to send out Foundation Establishment cultivators, but his family only has one Foundation Establishment cultivator left to guard the house, so they can only send out Qi Condensation disciples to show their gratitude.

But even so, Jinyi Zhuji was in command, and he was afraid of the three star-shooting crossbows and dared not move lightly. The performance of the disciples from Qiaogong Fort at the front line of the battlefield was the most outstanding.

Several disciples of Qiaogong Fort who were in the late stage of Qi training found an inconspicuous place, disassembled their animal-shaped and human-shaped mechanical puppets, and used spiritual ink made from various colors of animal blood and mineral essence to paint spiritual patterns on the disassembled parts.

Not long after, several people whose spiritual power was greatly depleted and whose foreheads were covered with sweat assembled a cannon cart and stood outside the formation. They fired a violent spiritual power cannonball at the spiritual power shield of the Hunyuan Eight Pillars Formation.

With a loud "boom", the damage caused to the formation by this artillery vehicle formed by several Qi-cultivating monks was actually greater than the damage caused by the previous second-level star-shooting crossbow.

This was not because these Qi-cultivating monks could create spiritual tools comparable to the lower-grade second-level ones, but because the people in the main formation of the state court saw that the only star-shooting crossbow of the Qingyun League had been shattered, and they lost their vigilance, which led to the successful sneak attack by this team of monks from Qiaogongbao.

However, they did not end up in a good situation. After just one strike, the spiritual ink secret characters painted on the artillery carriage dimmed, the artillery carriage body suddenly collapsed, and the people in Qiaogongbao also lost their combat effectiveness.

Jin Yi Zhuji was watching from the side and secretly thought it was a pity. If there were more elite disciples like these people in Qiaogong Fort, it would be much easier for him to break through this turtle shell.

Jinyi Zhuji saw that after the bombardment of the state court's Hunyuan Eight Pillar Formation, one of the pillars supporting the formation actually cracked a foot long, and the spiritual power shield near the pillar became visibly thinner.

The one guarding this formation point was Luo Heng, the county lord who was pulled here by Sect Leader Kang to serve his country with all his heart. Upon seeing this situation, he was so frightened that his face turned pale, almost bloodless.

"Luo Heng, protect the formation!" Kang Dabao shouted loudly when he saw the situation. Luo Heng's hand holding the formation flag trembled slightly. He was only half a step away from the cracked formation pillar, but he couldn't move.

"Protect the formation! Protect the formation!" The urging voices came into his ears one after another. Thinking of the ruthless methods that Master Kang had used in the past in the county, Luo Heng knew that if he didn't obey orders, he would be dragged out and chopped to pieces by this guy. So he made up his mind, chewed his gums and bled, and took half a step forward.

As soon as he stood next to the formation pillar holding the formation flag, Luo Heng felt a huge pressure pouring down from the sky. His knees were half bent, his bones creaked, and he almost fell to the ground. He was so frightened that he hurriedly practiced the formation flag magic spell that he had memorized, and only then did he feel a little better.

Jin Yi Jian Jie, who had been carefully observing the people in the formation, naturally would not miss this opportunity. He handed the war drum in his hand to a close nephew, who beat it continuously. He himself took advantage of the fact that one of the formation pillars was damaged and Luo Heng was not yet stable, and led the cultivators outside the formation to launch a fierce attack. Even precious treasures such as the Sky Thunder Seeds were released, nearly twenty of them in this wave.

Jinyi's timing for building his foundation was just right. After this attack, three of the seven intact formation pillars were damaged.

Luo Heng's abdominal organs were directly shattered, and the fragments of his internal organs and a large amount of blood were spat out from his mouth. It was unknown whether he could still survive.

Fortunately, although the attack launched by Jinyi Zhuji was fierce, the Zhouting side still managed to block it after suffering minor casualties.

Things like Tianleizi are very expensive, and even the huge Qingyun League may not be able to afford much.

Taoist Huolong picked Luo Heng out and handed the formation flag to another small family leader in the late stage of Qi training for protection.

The latter certainly knew that this was a way to die, but in front of the foundation, how could he dare to say no.

He went in with a flag in frustration, but died on the spot not long after.

Taoist Fire Dragon was furious and was about to find another unlucky guy to fill the vacancy, when suddenly, he seemed to hear a slight sound of a shell breaking.

After this sound was heard, several loud noises followed.

The originally complete magic array shield collapsed in an instant. When Taoist Fire Dragon looked up, he saw that four of the eight array pillars had collapsed to the ground.

The stern face of Taoist Huolong turned into a look of panic.

The formation is broken!
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