Chapter 487.
Sunset and dusk, Zhensha Pass.
The setting sun’s afterglow shone on the majestic barrier wall, the black rock bricks glistened with a metallic-like luster, and the True Seal Runes engraved on the surface quietly emerged, appearing to be metaphysical and incomparable.
Heavily-armed battle cultivators patrolled back and forth on the broad walls, vigilantly eyeing the Gobi Desert in front of them.
“What is that?”
Suddenly, a battle cultivator stopped in his tracks and his gaze coalesced at the end of the horizon.
Only to see that the connecting line between the sky and the desert seemed to be ablaze with blazing flames, as large, flaming clouds rose up and transmitted thousands of rays of light.
The burning clouds became more and more numerous, encroaching on a large portion of the sky in the blink of an eye.
And it rapidly approached towards Zhensha Pass!
Such a strange scene naturally caught the attention of the battle cultivators guarding the pass wall.
Everyone instinctively sensed the danger, and the runes on the surface of the wall then lit up one by one.
This was the characteristic of the opening of the city protection spell formation.
Under normal circumstances, in order to reduce the consumption of spirit veins and spirit stones, the core of the protective spell formation arranged underneath the Great Ying City is in a dormant state, with only a portion of the secondary formation remaining in operation at a low level.
However, once a danger arises, or attacked, this amazingly powerful large-scale spell formation will automatically open.
This highly spiritual defense mechanism was formed by the spell formation spirit and the battle cultivators guarding Zhensha Pass.
That is to say when a large number of battle cultivators sensed danger, without the need for the authority of the Arch Chancellor or the Chief Zhentian Master, the city protection spell formation would enter into a state of defense on its own.
And depending on the strength of the threat, it will be synchronized to increase!
The one who truly mastered the formation was actually the formation spirit!
As soon as the spell formation was opened, the battle cultivators felt safe, and everyone guarded their positions in their own way.
Ready to fight at any time.
But the expected attack didn’t appear, the burning clouds in the sky spread over a range of hundreds of miles before coming to a halt, and a single golden euphorbia flower drifted down in droves.
These euphorbia flowers were not real, but rather manifested by mana.
They fell noiselessly onto the barren and arid land, instantly disappearing into the mud and sand, and in the blink of an eye, spawning large swaths of green grass and wildflowers.
Since the Euphorbia were densely packed in extremely large numbers, they formed large swaths of green land.
The Gobi, which originally didn’t have much vitality, unexpectedly turned into a grassland!
At the same time, bursts of Sanskrit chants drifted around, reaching the ears of all the battle cultivators!
Tranquility, serenity, compassion, and mercy ……
The power contained in this sound made people want to put down the weapons in their hands and kneel on the ground in worship.
“Thieving vultures!”
Some battle cultivators with strong willpower disdainfully spat a few mouthfuls of phlegm out, going in with their left ear and out with their right ear, without any effect.
However, there were also a few battle cultivators who exuded a struggling look, and spots of cold sweat broke out on their foreheads.
Dang! Dang! Knock!
It was at this time that a deep and majestic drumbeat suddenly sounded from behind the city wall.
The sound of the drums was hallowed and righteous, making people’s blood surge as they listened.
It easily overpowered the Heavenly Brahma Singing!
Many battle cultivators who had almost been compelled came to their senses at once.
Grand Commander Kou Shihai appeared on the city wall.
He immediately rushed over as soon as he received the news, observing the apparition in the western sky under the escort of dozens of cultivators.
The scene in front of him caused this great cultivator of the eighth level of the Purple Mansion to frown.
There was no doubt that such an evil trick could only be pulled off by the Buddhist Sect of the Western Regions, and the Sand People were not capable of such a thing.
The problem was that the Western Region Buddhist Sect had always boasted of being uncontested with the world, ostensibly never getting involved in the war between the Sand Folk and the Great Ying City, putting on a compassionate face at all times.
Although we all know the virtues of Buddhism, but Kou Shihai can not figure out the other side in what reason, put up such a big useless gesture, could it be that the melon ate too much support?
Nonetheless, Kou Shihai still ordered the entire team to be on alert, and urgently deployed an elite Taoist soldier to the city wall.
Taoist soldiers are the disciples of the Taoist Sect, usually handpicked from the war cultivators, practicing battle formations and secret techniques, equipped with high-grade weapons and magic weapons, and specialized in fighting and killing.
If compared to an ordinary war cultivator, then a dao soldier could defeat three or four times the number of war cultivators of the same rank.
When a dao soldier formed a battle formation, it could even cross the border to kill the enemy!
Just as Kou Shihai was deploying his troops, a golden Yutang flower slowly floated down towards the city wall.
It was actually not blocked by the mana barrier of the city protection formation.
Kou Shihai’s gaze condensed as he probed his hand through the air and took the blossom into his palm.
The moment it entered his hand, the blossom transformed into a thin golden paper, on which the two red seal scripts of “life and death” and the swastika were imprinted!
Kou Shihai narrowed his eyes, his divine sense swept through the golden note, and immediately knew what was inside.
At this moment, the burning clouds that covered the sky quickly receded, and the green grass and wildflowers on the Gobi ground withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.
They turned into ashes when the wind blew.
The Brahma sounds and euphoniums floating down from the sky then all disappeared.
Kou Shihai waved his hand, signaling everyone to remain vigilant while communicating with the formation spirit to lower the alert level.
The Great Ying City’s protective spell formation was opened once, even at a low to medium level of defense strength, it would consume a large amount of spirit stones.
With the danger lifted, there was no need to be so wasteful.
In the next moment, this Grand Commander rose up into the air and turned into a stream of light flying towards the Seven Star Pavilion.
At the top of the Seven Star Pavilion, Kou Shihai met Wang Chen.
When the City Protector Formation was activated just now, Wang Dust was cultivating in the quiet room.
Sensing the warning signal transmitted by the formation spirit, he immediately stopped practicing and rushed to the top of the Seven Star Pavilion to sit down.
As a result, the enemy didn’t come, but Kou Shihai did.
“Senior brother Wang ……”
Without any nonsense, Kou Shihai directly handed Wang Duan a golden note and laughed, “You’ve pissed off those sand-eating guys.”
Wang Dust took the golden note and browsed through the contents before realizing what was going on!
During this recent period of time, he sat in the Seven Star Pavilion and practiced the Running Thunder Sword Technique day and night.
The Running Thunder Sword Technique had actually long been brushed to the level of great perfection by Wang Chuan, but he was now utilizing the power of the spell formation and the might of the Upper Qing Qiankun Mirror to display a terrifying lethality with this not-so-high-ranked sword art.
Those sand people who entered the 100-mile range of Zhensha Pass, as long as they were targeted by Wang Chen, they were all instantly killed by a single sword.
Moreover, as his mastery of the power of the spell formation and the precious mirror deepened, the range of the flying sword attack became larger and larger.
One hundred miles, one hundred and fifty miles, two hundred miles ……
Stirring the hearts of several sand people tribes, they all want to abandon their homes to migrate and run away!
The arrival of this golden note, or invitation to battle, showed that the Sand Folk hierarchy couldn’t sit still and wanted to deal with him as a scourge.
A life and death duel?
Wang Chen smiled, “Senior Brother Kou, can I refuse?”
Kou Shihai hesitated for a moment, then replied, “Of course!”
Wang Dust keenly sensed his reaction and couldn’t help but ask, “Is there a problem?”
Kou Shihai laughed bitterly, “There really is a bit.”