I just reached the maximum level, and you want me to be a puppet emperor?

Chapter 108 The mantis stalks the cicada and the oriole follows behind!

The Manghuang Mountains are located in the north of the imperial capital.

It is like a sleeping giant python, winding and circling, spanning between heaven and earth.

If you want to reach this mysterious area, if you take the official road, you will need to pass through several towns that are both prosperous and desolate before you can reach the entrance.

The practitioners are good at running and are very brave, so they basically walk along the cliffs.

"Mahei, your tracking skills are amazing. I have to learn from you."

Xu Zifeng highly praised his teammates' abilities.

But this road is really difficult to walk on, especially those steep cliffs, you can easily fall down if you are not careful.

In addition, you must always be on guard against attacks from monsters and poisonous insects around you.

There are many dangerous places hidden in the wild mountains. In some places, there is poisonous fog, which can kill anyone who touches it.

If Xu Zifeng wasn’t strong enough, he might not have been able to reach this place.

Now he was covered in dust and his clothes were torn.

In order to deal with the second prince, he still had no complaints.

"Your Highness, thank you for the compliment. Our Holy Land of Witchcraft is located in the Shiwan Mountains. I grew up in such a place. No one knows mountains better than me. If Your Highness wants to learn, I can teach you a few tricks."

Ma Hei is not bragging, this is his profession and he can tell where there is danger at a glance.

He can tell where there are powerful monsters by looking at their feces.

Moreover, the other side has not noticed at all that they have been following the Second Prince's team until now.

Ma Hei didn't even need to see the opposite side, he could judge the route taken by the second prince through some subtle clues.

According to Xu Zifeng's judgment, the second prince should have taken a detour to ambush the emperor on the road he had to take during his spring hunt.

Because during the spring hunt, there were many people traveling with the emperor, and everyone was hunting on horseback, so they would definitely take the official road.

Then there might be spies near the official road, and if the Second Prince doesn't want to be noticed, he needs to avoid them.

Chunsou's team began hunting near "Little Rock City", and the hunting location was the edge area of ​​​​the Manghuang Mountains.

Even if we enter the mountains, we will only enter the sections that are easier to travel.

Those areas must have been explored in advance by masters serving in various departments of the imperial capital, and then several routes were rationally planned for the emperor to choose from when the time comes.

It is not certain which path the emperor will choose at that time.

But as long as we figure out the route, we can set up ambushes at these sections of the road.

At this stage, the route planning has definitely been completed.

With the Second Prince's abilities, he must have people in the court, and he must have received information about most of these routes.

Xu Zifeng only needs to follow the second prince to solve the problem once and for all.

"It's strange. Why do I feel like there's someone following the Second Prince besides us?"

Ma Hei stopped and was checking the traces on the ground.

He even pulled off his mask and picked up broken branches from the ground and smelled them.

According to his judgment, this trace most likely did not belong to the team that the Second Prince was in. If it was someone from the Second Prince's team, it would not be possible for them to be so far away.

His words made Xu Zifeng start to become alert.

This is the Wild Mountains. If we fight with the Second Prince's team, we will be at a disadvantage.

However, Ma Hei told Xu Zifeng not to worry, because with his tracking skills, the other party would not be able to discover him.

Even if he was discovered, he still had the ability to help Xu Zifeng escape.

In other words, he can fight if you want to, and he can also run away if you want to.

Of course, at this stage Xu Zifeng didn’t know that the Second Prince’s master had appeared.

But the other person who was following the second prince knew it, and that was Xiao Ming.

Xiao Ming arrived at the Jiaofangsi early in the morning and waited there. This was Lin Yue'e's commission, and he had to do his best to do it no matter what.

This made the remnant soul of the saint feel helpless. He felt that Lin Yue'e would be the next Chu Ruoyan.

Xiao Ming himself has a lot of experience in survival in the wild, and with the guidance of the saint's remnant soul, he has been following until now.

The remnant soul of the saint has been emphasizing one thing over and over again: once the Second Prince's master appears, stop tracking him, because a strong man of that level is not something he can deal with.

Xiao Ming also understood his own weight and followed silently.

His whereabouts were also noticed by Ma Hei who was following behind him.

A very strange phenomenon occurs here.

The second prince led a team and set a trap on the road that the emperor had to take.

Xiao Ming, who was behind him, marked the locations of these traps on his map.

Xu Zifeng and Ma Hei, who were behind Xiao Ming, also set traps near these traps, which could not only resist the traps of the Second Prince, but also unleash terrifying power.

On the other side, Li Chen and Lin Yue'e came to Xiaoshi City, and they took the official road.

Walking out of Little Rock City, there are vast and boundless mountains outside, which seem to have no end.

At a glance, you can see undulating mountains, one after another, with steep mountains and cliffs like swords piercing the sky.

The steep cliffs are covered with jagged rocks and severely weathered, as if they would collapse at any time and swallow people.

These places are naturally not where Li Chen wants to hunt. He hunts just for fun, not to cause trouble.

Li Chen took out a map with three planned routes on it. Any powerful monsters along these routes had been marked.

Lin Yue'e was giving serious advice beside him.

In the end, Li Chen chose the route on the far left, not for any other reason but simply because it was easier to walk on.

Along this road, trees tower into the sky, and towering trees are everywhere. Their lush branches and leaves block out the sun, and the sunlight shines through the dense leaves, casting mottled light and shadows, adding a bit of depth to this dangerous place.

Li Chen set up three formations at the starting point, middle and back sections of this road.

Lin Yue'e was very curious when she saw Li Chen setting up the formation.

Because during her studies at the Battle Academy, she also had a special formation course.

However, those courses taught that to set up an array, one needs to find the center of the array, place treasures in the center of the array first, and then arrange the array in series according to the Five Elements and Eight Trigrams. Every place and every area needs to be set up well without any deviation.

If it is more advanced, you will need to cover up the place where you set up the formation.

There are two types here. The first one is camouflage, hiding the formation and then opening it after the enemy enters.

The second method is to cover the formation with another one, that is, to use an ordinary formation to conceal the real large formation, so that the enemy will be careless and think that this formation is easy to break.

By the time he finally cracked the formation outside, he was already locked down by the real formation.

That's why, when she and Li Chen came out, she asked Li Chen if he needed help.

The larger the formation, the more people are needed to help.

If there are only two of us, it will be very busy.

If Li Chen doesn't need it, she thinks she will just have to work harder when the time comes.

They were all prepared to work hard, but Li Chen's method of setting up the formation was very simple. He just threw some props like "stones" down and then ignored them.

When Lin Yue'e saw this scene, she really wanted to ask, but she felt that it might be better if she didn't know.

Li Chen saw what she was thinking. This wasn't a big secret. In addition, this person was a true loyal minister and might help more in the future. So Li Chen began to explain: "This is the fully automatic formation stone I invented."

This sentence made Lin Yue'e a little confused. What does it mean to set up the formation stone automatically? Can this thing be automatic?

No, Li Chen is a relatively lazy practitioner and he doesn’t have the mind to follow the steps.

So he refined a lot of special stones and gave these stones simple "spirits", that is, they had a certain degree of wisdom.

Different 'array stones' have their own connections.

After throwing them down, they will judge by themselves where is suitable to set up the formation nearby, and then move to the appropriate position to form the formation that Li Chen wants.

The speed of setting up the formation is not very fast, but there is still some time before the day of the spring collection, which is enough time for the "formation stone" to be moved.

The reason why it is a formation stone and not something else is because no matter whether it is a human or a monster, no one would care much about an ordinary stone.

Li Chen had considered refining insects and small animals.

But there is no guarantee that these things will not be attacked.

Stone is still more reliable and has no other disadvantages except being slow.

Then we can see that to set up the same formation, other people need to spend a lot of effort, or even spend a long time, but Li Chen can do it easily.

"My formation can be automatically recycled and used multiple times."

Li Chen began to introduce the other benefits of his formation.

In order to improve Lin Yue'e's knowledge, Li Chen also briefly explained the effects of the formation.

The first one is the 'Sword Demon-Slaying Formation'.

This formation is a peerless killing formation created by integrating the supreme sword intent and the laws of heaven and earth.

Once activated, thousands of sword energies will crisscross each other. Each sword energy contains the power of heaven, and is extremely sharp, enough to cut off all things in the world.

The second one is the 'Dragon Roar Purple Sky Divine Array'.

This formation is a shocking formation set up by using Li Chen's own purple dragon energy as a guide.

After the formation was activated, giant dragon phantoms hovered in the air, spewing purple energy from their mouths, each of which contained the power to destroy the world.

The third one is called 'Void Shackle Realm Array'.

The reason why he set up this formation was that Li Chen took into consideration that some people possessed space props and could just run away if they couldn't defeat them.

The purpose of this formation is to block the surrounding space and make all spatial coordinates disappear.

You dare to attack me, and you still want to run away?
If someone accidentally enters this formation, they will be locked by the space chains.

This is the horror of the formation.

Those who want to deal with Li Chen will definitely set up a formation in advance, and then we will see whose formation is more powerful.

Li Chen's statements completely overturned Lin Yue'e's cognition.

The power of these formations was so terrifying that he had never seen them in the forbidden techniques of the Battle Academy.

That’s fine, but the automatic formation is even more unheard of.

Li Chen's strength filled her heart with endless admiration.

Li Chen also said that this is just the beginning, he still has many stones on his body, and each stone has different effects.

After arranging all these, Li Chen and Lin Yue'e returned to the nearby Little Rock City and tasted the local delicacies.

Moreover, those who wanted to cause trouble were struggling to eat dry food in the forest and were working hard to set up the formation.

Li Chen's thoughts were very direct. Since he had already determined that he was going to be attacked, he must make preparations.

No one knows whether these formations can be used when the time comes, but it is definitely right to be prepared.

While eating, Li Chen did not forget to encourage Lin Yue'e, "You practice well, I will teach you when I have time in the future."

Lin Yue'e replied excitedly: "I will definitely live up to your majesty's high expectations!"

It is a great honor to have the emperor of the saint realm to guide you personally.

Because he rode a fast horse on the official road, Li Chen and Lin Yue'e returned to the imperial capital before dark.

Judging from the progress of the Second Prince and his companions, they will probably have to stay in the Manghuang Mountains for a few more days.

(End of this chapter)