Chapter 41 Reinforcements arrive late
To help breakout monks retreat to Jinchen Castle, Chen Xun and others also fought and retreated to ensure that the demons could not encircle the two wings.
The range of hundreds of miles away from Jinchen Castle is also the limit attack range of the forbidden magic array. The hundred-foot spiritual dragon gathered by the spiritual energy also gives everyone great support.
The closer it is to Jinchen Fort, the more solid and powerful the spiritual dragon becomes. If it retreats within 30 or 40 miles, the spiritual dragon can resist a Rakshasa demon general alone; this is also the power that the top-level forbidden magic array should have.
At this time, the demons also stopped chasing and did not retreat to the Demon Ruins. Instead, they crossed the mountains and ridges to the west and rushed directly to Laolongtan to the south.
Although Jinchen Castle is only more than 600 miles away from Laolongtan, there are millions of monsters in the valleys south of Jinchen Castle and the mountains on both sides.
The connection between Chen Xun and the others and the Lao Longtan side was completely cut off. Unless someone could pass through the numerous blockades of the demons, they could know the progress of the war in the Lao Longtan side.
The next night, a few monks broke through from the south and fled into Jinchen Fort, bringing news that the True Lord Ku'an was severely injured and the old dragon pond was destroyed.
These monks were able to escape to Jinchen Castle for a lifetime, and they were not very clear about the details of the collapse of Lao Longtan.
The main force of the demon clan captured Lao Longtan and did not divide his troops to head north. In fact, reinforcements from Cetian Mansion had entered Tushan.
Half a day later, more than a hundred flying boats crossed the mountains on the east side and entered the Thousand Demon Sand Sea.
The reinforcements from Cetian Mansion finally arrived, but they were half a beat late and failed to save Lao Longtan's defeat.
Three two hundred feet long Yuxu floating boats flew directly to the valley entrance to the north of Jinchen Castle. Wind and clouds of hundreds of miles were swept, and fish-scale lead-colored clouds quickly merged from the surrounding area, layer by layer, several wind pillars were released first, landslides collapsed and the earth was broken, and the giant trees several feet thick were also squeezed in their eyes.
The next moment, the snow and ice in the sky was like thousands of swords covering a hundred miles of radius, devouring tens of thousands of monsters monitoring the movements of Jinchen Castle outside the valley entrance. Hundreds of powerful sword cultivators emerged from the Yuxu floating boat and turned into magnificent shadow sword rainbows, inserted into the blizzard, killing the demons fleeing south.
Seeing dozens of people headed by Jiang Mingtai, the lord of Cetian Prefecture, stepping down from three Yuxu flying boats, Jinchen Castle also opened the ban on the banned magic circle to welcome Jiang Mingtai and others into Jinchen Castle.
The Jinfeng Taoist, Jiang Bin and others who fled to Tiesong Castle the day before yesterday also rushed to Jinchen Castle and met with Jiang Mingtai, the lord of Cetian Prefecture.
"We have not been able to provide assistance to Lao Longtan in time, so we ask the Lord of the Mansion to ask for the crime!" After breaking through the siege, Fan Jindao, the ancestor of the Fan family who had been staying in Jinchen Castle for rest, went up to apologize to Jiang Mingtai.
Chen Xunze and Chang Xi, Song Xuanyi, Zhao Weichu and others stood in the queue of disciples, watching all this.
At this time, they already knew more detailed news about the defeat of Lao Longtan.
Millions of monsters poured into Laolong Pond, and surrounded Laolong Pond with a cover of the sky and the sun. The Soul-Suppressing Mountains and Rivers Formation was removed. In a hurry, the Protectorate had only two thirty-two-pillar mountain and river ban arrays, and a sixty-four-pillar mountain and river ban arrays could temporarily lay on the three spiritual veins on the periphery.
Although the two days and two nights of battle were extremely heavy, there were Zhenjun Ku'an and more than 20 powerful people in the Dharma Realm in Laolongtan, so the situation could be barely maintained and not collapsed.
The situation suddenly took a deterioration. When he knew that reinforcements from Cetian Mansion were coming, True Lord Ku'an was negligent in defense and was assassinated while protecting the formation master to set up the Soul-Suppressing Mountain and River Formation.
The assassin was not someone else, but the demon fox Tiande, who was captured from Tushan Dongling more than ten years ago by the Shenxiao Sect, and has since been imprisoned in Tianxing Peak.
After Shenxiao Mountain was destroyed by the demon dragon's bones, like tens of thousands of disciples, countless rare birds and beasts in the mountain and many monsters suppressed by the Shenxiao Sect over the years were all swallowed by the demon dragon. Everyone thought that the nine-tailed demon fox had long died.
Afterwards, Chen Xun and the others had a bad time with the True Lord of Red Eyebrows and Gu Yangzi, and they all went to look for clues.
No one expected that the nine-tailed demon fox escaped when Tianxing Peak was destroyed, and even transformed into a female disciple who had survived the disaster in Tianxing Peak, following the Red Eyebrow True Lord, Gu Yangzi and the others into Tushan Nanling.
The True Lord of Red Eyebrow was determined to restore his cultivation and was practicing in seclusion all the time, while Gu Yangzi and others could not see through the transformation technique of the Nine-tailed Demon Fox.
After arriving at Tushan Nanling, under Gu Yangzi's intentional indulgence, the female disciple transformed by the Nine-tailed Demon Fox married Jiang Bin as her concubine and has been staying in Laolongtan in recent years.
If the Nine-tailed Demon Fox had not attacked the assassination of True Lord Ku'an and was shot dead by True Lord Ku'an and revealed his true form, I'm afraid no one would have thought that the traitor who leaked his secrets would be the person next to the pillow of the electoral Marquis Jiang Bin.
Although the King Ku'an shot the nine-tailed demon fox to death, the nine-tailed demon fox actually had the strength of the peak of the Dharma Realm. He had the determination to assassinate the True Lord Ku'an. When the True Lord Ku'an was killed by it, he suffered severe damage at that time.
When the True Lord Ku'an was assassinated and the situation in Lao Longtan suddenly declined. Three banned magic arrays were torn apart one after another. Even nearly one-third of the Soul-Suppressing Mountain and River Array deployed in Lao Longtan was destroyed by the demons who were surging like a tide.
Only Fu Yan, Jiang Zuo, Chimei Zhenjun, Gu Yangzi and more than a hundred people, carried the residual parts of the Soul-Shengshan River Formation to protect the severely injured True Lord Ku'an Zhenjun from the siege and gathered with reinforcements from Cetian Mansion who had arrived at the Dongling Mountains.
However, tens of thousands of cultivators and tens of thousands of disciples in the Zhenyang realm were thrown into the Old Dragon Pond and became the great replenishment pills for millions of monsters. It is very likely that more than a hundred demon-level demon generals will use this to cultivate into the Demon Evil Blood Pill...
Jiang Xu and others went south with some reinforcements to return to Yuanwu New City to strengthen the defense there.
The lord of Cetian Palace Jiang Mingtai met with True Lord Ku'an, True Lord Chimei, Fu Yan and others. In a hurry, it was difficult to fight the decisive battle with the arrogant demon clan. He walked around from outside the Dongling Mountains and rushed to the Sea of Thousand Demons to see if the situation could be restored.
Jiang Mingtai wore a thundercloud crown and a python robe embroidered with four-clawed golden dragons. His face looked like iron, and his clear eyes glanced at everyone, saying, "You have sacrificed with great courage, conquered the evil formation, defended the Jinchen, Tiexing, and Tie Song Castles. The situation in the northwest region has not completely collapsed. You should be the first to be the result. The miserable defeat of Lao Longtan is not your fault, but it is really a step later."
At this time, there was also a powerful man from Ce Tian Ren Realm who went to Tushan with Jiang Mingtai. He was wearing a dark golden armor. The monstrous aura appeared on the body, like a ball of purple fireworks rolling in the void around him. However, after entering the hall, he sat on the jade pedestal carved by the jade, closing his eyes to nourish his energy, and seemed to be not interested in everything outside.
In addition to the face of True Lord Ku'an as gold paper, True Lord Red Eyebrow spent more than ten years of hard practice and finally recovered to the middle stage of the Dharma Realm, and suffered another severe damage this time.
However, Jiang Mingtai respected his status as the True Lord of Heaven and asked him to sit on the throne of the Qingyu Lotus Platform with the head of Ku'an. Gu Yangzi sat in the audience with a bleak face, and did not dare to look at Chen Xun and the others at this time.
The biggest responsibility for this failure lies with them and the Yuanwu Hou Mansion. At this time, the Lord of Ce Tian Mansion had no intention of holding him accountable, but Gu Yangzi knew that this handle might be grabbed and beaten to death at any time.
The territory under the jurisdiction of Emperor Xiwu Dynasty was hundreds of thousands of miles wide, and there were less than twenty powerful people in the Heavenly Man Realm. At this time, four people were concentrated. The imperial dynasty attached great importance to the situation in the Northwest Region, but Jiang Mingtai and others were still one step late.
The four true lords of the Heavenly Man suffered heavy damage. Jiang Mingtai and the Golden Armor generals had strong personal combat power, but they were traveling in a hurry. There were less than 10,000 cultivators gathered by hundreds of flying boats. After the fall of Laolongtan, they did not have a large magic circle to rely on, nor did they have the ability to fight to the death with millions of demon main forces.
The only blessing is that the disciples of the four sects broke through the evil formation with great sacrifice. In addition to being able to cut off the connection between millions of demons and the Thousand Demon Realms, Cetian Mansion reinforcements were able to temporarily gain a foothold in the Thousand Demon Sand Sea, so they would not even have a place to settle down after entering Tushan.
Chen Xun, Chang Xi and others sat with the monks of various sects, listened to Jiang Mingtai and others arranged the next battle in the hall.
The power gathered at this time is not enough to fight to the death with millions of demons. The so-called arrangement is that the disciples of the four sects retreat to Tianzhu Peak, give up the banned magic circles such as Jinchen Fort, Iron Star Fort, and garrison them with reinforcements from Cetian Prefecture.
At present, we can only temporarily take advantage of the spiritual vein magic array outside the Thousand Demons Sand Sea to temporarily establish a foothold, block the Demon Ruins, cut off the connection between the millions of Demons and the Thousand Demon Realm, and wait for Ce Tianfu to organize a second wave of reinforcements to enter the Northwest Domain...
Of course, Jiang Mingtai also took out a large number of magic weapons and elixirs to reward the disciples of the four sects for fighting hard to break through the evil formation.
Although Jiang Mingtai repeatedly emphasized it unintentionally, everyone understands how great the significance of breaking the evil formation is to have been to the disciples of the four sects for such great casualties.
Chen Xun stood up, followed Ji Lie, Chi Songzi said goodbye to the lord of Ce Tian Prefecture, Jiang Mingtai and others, and arranged for the withdrawal of the disciples of the four sects from Jinchen Castle early.
Jiang Mingtai looked at him with a divine look: "Chen Xun, how many green flame lotus arrows are left in Kuilong Pavilion?"
"In the past ten years, Kuilong Pavilion has refined 100,000 green flame lotus arrows, and consumed 3.6 million kilograms of Jiuyou Iron. All this battle was exhausted, leaving only more than 2,000 left. Otherwise, we would not have delayed until the last moment before, to help Prince Jiang, Taoist Jinfeng, and the Jindao master break through." Chen Xun said calmly, glanced at Jiang Bin sitting beside him.
When they heard that Kuilong Pavilion had spent more than three million kilograms of Jiuyou Iron in ten years to refine the green flame lotus arrow, everyone here took a breath and couldn't help looking at Luo Yuze. They all guessed that if the Dragon Gate Sect had no secret support, how could the four sects not move their voices and collected so many Jiuyou Iron from Yunzhou?
Luo Yuze smiled bitterly in his heart. Zhenjun Tao Jinghong did want him to take care of Wushan Yi and Er, but so many Jiuyou Irons were mostly secretly traded by Kuilong Pavilion and the Yunzhou weapon refining sects, which actually had nothing to do with Longmen Sect.
Even the Longmen Sect does not store so many Jiuyou Iron in the warehouse.
Although Jiuyou Iron is thousands of times rarer than Red Essence Copper, it is not as useful as Red Essence Copper, but it is not widely used in sword making and refining weapons, and has not received special attention before.
However, after this battle, regardless of whether other weapon refining sects have secret techniques to refine the Qingyan Lotus Arrow, the importance of Jiuyou Iron will inevitably increase significantly.
Jiang Mingtai nodded and signaled that Chen Xun could retreat. He thought to himself that he would probably have to strictly control all the ore veins that produce Jiuyou Iron in Yunzhou.
Chapter completed!