Chapter 148 The decisive battle in Bianliang
In the end, all the belongings of Qi Zhong, the true disciple of Qianyun Pavilion, were counted and divided by Lin Shan and Black Skull Demon Lord.
There are more than 20,000 spiritual stones in total, hundreds of low-level magic tools, more than ten mid-level magic tools, four high-level magic tools left, a mess of classics, techniques, etc.
The most important thing is that they also found more than a dozen bottles of the cultivation elixir that is helpful in the foundation-building period, Qianyun Pavilion's special "Izumo Pill".
The effect is equivalent to the "Bi Luo Dan" of the Black Lotus Sect. One pill is as good as half a month of practice for a monk in the early stage of foundation building. It is a benefit for top sects to their own sect disciples. It is passed down from within but not to outsiders.
Lin Shan was overjoyed and brought him a pillow because he was really sleepy. What he needs most is this kind of elixir to improve his cultivation. The more the better.
The true techniques of Qianyun Pavilion have not been found. It is obvious that the techniques of most sects are passed down by word of mouth or by divine knowledge. Even if you search for souls, you may not be able to find them. There should be contracts and oaths in advance to restrict self-destruction, also to prevent the inheritance from leaking out.
The remaining items contained a lot of artifact refining classics and experiences, which showed that Qi Zhong had put a lot of effort into this, but Lin Shan was not interested in these.
He took away the four high-level magical artifacts, namely the jade ring, the tea cup, the finger ring, and the exquisite pagoda. These magical artifacts were captured by his tree demons before Qi Zhong escaped.
In addition to being destroyed by Luan Chun's sentry arrows, other high-level magic weapons were all smashed to pieces by the concentrated fire of "Bean Soldiers" and "Rune Ballista".
More than a dozen mid-level magic weapons were given to the Black Skeleton Demon Lord, who was preparing to arm his own skeleton army.
Lin Shan was thoughtful when he saw this method. It seemed that he could also play the legion style and use some magic weapons on the "Water Bear Leader" and "Spreading Beans into Soldiers".
It's just that his own proficiency in controlling his spiritual consciousness is simply not comparable to that of the Black Skeleton Demon Lord. He can control his mind when he is distracted, just like he can command with his arm. If he is still distracted during the fight, he might as well let his subordinates perform freely.
He took fifteen thousand of the remaining spirit stones and gave five thousand to the Black Skeleton Demon Lord.
Finally, after thinking about it, I decided to give it some space of its own. After all, it was considered an important combat force on my side.
The donkey's spiritual pet was captured by Luan Chun just after it regained freedom because its owner died. This little witch would not sign a "spiritual beast contract" like a righteous monk, but directly forcibly planted a "master-servant contract".
The "Spiritual Beast Contract" is simply to work for the master, and the righteous monk can pass it on to the next generation of disciples after he has passed away.
The "master-servant contract" is overbearing. When the master dies, the spiritual pet must also die. This is generally a common method used by demonic monks.
When dealing with Qi Zhong just now, Luan Chun used the Whistle Arrow killer weapon, so it was appropriate to give her a spiritual pet. Lin Shan didn't say much, but it was a pity for those three high-level defensive magic weapons.
As for Princess Guo's storage bag, Lin Shan looked at it and found that there was no particularly needed treasure. It was incomparable to his current worth, so he simply gave it to Luan Chun. If Protector Yan asks where the whistle arrows are used in the future, he will barely have an explanation.
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The materials for the two formations were recovered, and the shouts of killing outside had stopped.
The entire righteous camp has been breached, and the demonic monks are plundering everywhere in the camp, stuffing everything they see into their storage bags. It's like locusts passing through, leaving no grass growing.
It wasn't until dark that Yan Yuanchun flew back from a distance. Only then did Lin Shan and others learn that she seriously injured the Cangxuan Sect's Golden Core Stage monk who was guarding the place, but was eventually run away.
At the same time, she also heard the news that just three days ago, the demonic army had breached Dongmen Pass. The army arrived at Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty, one day ago, and now there has probably been a fierce battle there all day and night.
Yan Yuanchun took inventory and found that there were still more than 200 people under his command, and everyone was exhausted. Simply let everyone take a short break for two days, the intention is self-evident.
This cannon fodder advance detachment not only completed its mission and crossed the Dirty Poison Grand Canyon, but also captured a large camp here. It can be said to be a great achievement. There is no need to rush to the battlefield of the Imperial Capital to die. .
Here is a small battle involving thousands of people, and over there is a decisive battle involving tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands! No one can guarantee that they will survive if they go in.
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After nightfall, everyone gathered around the bonfire and celebrated in the camp.
Luan Chun walked his newly acquired donkey around the fire to show off. The thin donkey did not have the dignity of a foundation-building spiritual beast. During the day, it was beaten by the water bear leader until all its teeth fell out, and it had to be paraded in public at night.
What is surprising is that at some point, Old Man Zhong actually walked out of the evil wind and phantom miasma.
At this time, he was getting together with the Black Skull Demon Lord. The two were holding hands and laughing sinisterly and obscenely. The other boys also had smiles on their faces, and it was obvious that they had looted a lot of supplies from the camp during the day.
As the saying goes, if you don't open for three years, you will eat for three years if you open.
What can come faster than a robbery?
Lin Shan leaned aside alone, the firelight next to him dancing strangely on his face, concealing his restless mood.
Before Princess Guo died during the day, her inexplicable smile replayed in her mind, especially the two sentences she left behind.
—"That expert is right, it seems that you are the calamity of my life"
- "I hope that next time we meet, we can end all this." "Expert"? That so-called saint? Can he predict her future fate in advance?
What's important is the confident and determined look on her face before she died. It seemed that everything would be over if we met again next time. Why was she so crazy? Just because of that talisman and jade pendant? What kind of incredible opportunity does this thing hide that needs to be unlocked, which makes her so confident?
What's more, when did he encounter her and didn't he suppress her and hit her? Even the true disciple of Qianyun Pavilion who came to help today, without the help of Luan Chun and the Black Skull Demon Lord, he could still kill that person by slowly consuming it. There are hundreds of thousands of spiritual stones left by the turtle master in the storage bracelet. Qi Zhong is only a fraction of him!
The more Lin Shan thought about it, the harder it became to understand. Did Princess Guo really receive some extraordinary inheritance during her lifetime? Or maybe she just can't fully dig it now, but she believes that as long as she continues to grow, she will be able to stabilize Lin Shan.
There is also the "saint" from the Maiden Palace who specially left the teleportation disk to recover the "talisman and jade pendant", which shows that Princess Guo's cauldron must be very important and not as light as she said.
What "dead is dead". If it really wasn't important, she would deliberately speculate on the fate and place the great opportunity and the split soul on Princess Guo.
Or.
The talisman and jade pendant was originally an ownerless thing. After being obtained by Princess Guo, it escaped the control of the saint. Only after she dies can the saint behind her appear and take away the opportunity?
Lin Shan made random guesses. He couldn't figure out the suspicion behind it and could only put it aside for the time being.
If you don’t discuss the present, just think about the future.
Lin Shan is more confident than anyone else. With regard to chance, no matter how strong you are, can you still be stronger than my enhanced panel?
As he thought about it, he thought about Gu Yun again, and he didn't know who would end up with the giant black lotus Buddha statue in the capital after the war in the imperial capital.
The campground echoed with laughter and thoughts throughout the night.
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Two days later, Yan Yuanchun led the remaining people to Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty.
The group of people flew more than a thousand miles westward and arrived at their destination. It was already late at night.
The flames soaring into the sky illuminated a radius of hundreds of miles. This thousand-year-old capital had been burned by the flames of war for three days and three nights.
Three pairs of extremely shining superstars hang high in the night sky. They are six Nascent Soul stage great masters fighting each other in a duel.
There are hundreds of slightly smaller light groups around it, among which hundreds of golden elixir stage masters come and go, and the power of various magic weapons is huge.
Further down in the low sky, thousands of foundation-building monks looked from a distance, like large fireflies, flying around in the low sky of the city in a chaotic manner.
Some of them chose opponents of the same level to fight with each other, some went directly to the city to burn, kill and loot, and some went to destroy the heavy magic weapons on the city tower.
Only on the ground can the cruelty of this decisive battle be more clearly demonstrated. Countless monks in the Qi training stage are like ants, attacking the tower one after another. Countless magic weapons catapults, ballistas, rams, and ladders engraved with runes were sent to the battlefield, and colorful streams of light fell into the city in parabolas.
In the darkness, there are strings of light spots coming from all directions in the distance. It is obviously the reinforcements of the demonic monks from other directions. Just like the troops led by Protector Yan, they accumulate into rivers and all rivers return to the sea.
At the same time, reinforcements from countless righteous sects also arrived. In this battle between good and evil, not only the three top sects of the righteous path, but also dozens of small and medium-sized sects and hundreds of cultivation families participated in the battle.
In the land to the west of the Song Dynasty, for countless years, under the propaganda of the right path, the demonic monks were extremely evil, slaughtering cities and destroying countries at every turn, and blood flowed thousands of miles away. As soon as they heard that a once-in-a-thousand-year evil calamity was coming again, many casual cultivators and even secluded sects responded to the call and came to resist.
This battle brought together all the combat forces in the central theater, led by the Black Lotus Sect and the Zixiao Sect. The number of troops on both sides soared to more than 200,000. The killing lasted for three days and three nights. Countless corpses were piled inside and outside the city wall, and countless broken magic weapons fell into the dust.
This thousand-year-old giant city, the ancient capital of the Song Dynasty, was also destroyed. Under the bombardment of countless rune siege weapons day and night, countless houses and pavilions in the city collapsed and burned, and millions of mortals were killed and injured.
The righteous sect never expected that the demonic sect could directly and forcefully break through the defense line of Luosong Mountains in just three days.
As soon as Dongmen Pass was lost, all the demonic monks' army rushed to the imperial capital without giving them any time to react. Not to mention evacuating ordinary people, even the troops to defend the imperial capital are stretched thin!
The conditions for the Zhengdao sect to recruit disciples are extremely demanding. They need to be brought back to the sect to train them since childhood, and their origins must be passed down from master to disciple. If you want to seek a teacher halfway through your practice, unless you have second-level spiritual talent or above, you will not be accepted at all.
The Demonic Sect is open to all rivers, and everyone can join at any time. If you come in, you will be cannon fodder. Even cannon fodder will give you a "minimum living allowance" income, using life money in exchange for your service.
Therefore, judging from the number of low-level monks alone, the righteous way is far less numerous than the demonic people, but there is not much difference between the two in terms of high-level monks.
But if the high-level combat power of the two sides is delicately balanced, the low-level monks will be the last straw that overwhelms the balance of war.
Although the quality of the low-level monks of the righteous path is high and all of them are elites, except for the true disciples, most of them cannot defeat one against four against five.
The overall situation of this battle has basically been decided by now. Except for the east city gate, which is still holding its ground, the north and south gates have been breached, and countless demonic monks have entered the city and started fighting in the streets!
At night, there are stars dotted in a radius of hundreds of miles, and the prairie fire is ablaze. Some magic fires are difficult to extinguish once they burn. The surrounding ecological environment is devastated and gradually degrades into a desert.
Reinforcements from both sides are still gathering in the distance, and some demonic troops have begun to encircle the points to provide reinforcements, step by step devouring the effective forces that are encroaching on the righteous path. Under the influence of the Taoist demon leader, the fall of the imperial capital of the Song Dynasty is basically a foregone conclusion.
When Protector Yan, Lin Shan and others came to this battlefield, they suddenly found that things were completely different from what they thought.
The battle for the Imperial City has not yet ended. Although the Demonic Path has not completely occupied the city, the most dangerous part of the siege has ended. The next step can be said to be a feast of hunting and looting in the city.
It’s not too early or too late, it’s just right!
(End of chapter)