Chapter 3 Raising the Mountain

The troops of our guild and the troops from Heaven were mixed together and returned to the real Buddhist stronghold in the illusion of Xu Mi. Because most of the troops in our guild are heavenly soldiers bought from Heaven, there is basically no problem with coordination. However, both us and the heavenly soldiers in heaven have received an instruction - keep your breath. The players in this guild are picking up the bargains along the way, specializing in dealing the last blow to the dying enemies. This kind of leveling method is not common in ordinary times.

There are many Buddhist guardians, as well as some players, various novice monks, and Arhats. In short, there are not many combatants. The people on both sides fought fiercely at the edge of the Xu Mi Illusion. There was a stalemate for a while, and the battle line was actually stabilized at the entrance of the Xu Mi Illusion.

"Will there be too many casualties if we continue fighting like this?" Mr. Polaris asked us worriedly.

Erlang Shen didn't seem to care about the casualties of the heavenly soldiers. "Heavenly soldiers can be reincarnated at will. Death is just a matter of extra effort to run back from hell. What are you afraid of?"

I also said: "Buddhism is just unlucky now, but after all, they were a large force that was once on par with Heaven, and casualties are inevitable. Oh, by the way, why did we only see the Heavenly troops and horses today? Where are the Ghost troops and horses? ?" As soon as I finished asking, Polar Star Lord and Erlang Shen both looked at me with a rather strange expression, which made me feel hairy all over. "What are you looking at me doing?"

Erlang Shen asked me helplessly: "Are you really not aware or are you pretending not to know?"

"What do you know? You two, please don't make me guess. I really don't know! What is going on?"

North Star Lord said angrily: "After all, you are also the eleventh palace of Yama canonized by heaven, but you have really forgotten! When the ten palaces of Yama were there, the eleventh palace of Yama was the Yama who was responsible for communicating with heaven, and Now you have been promoted to the eleventh palace, so you have become the Yama who is responsible for communicating with the heaven. Of course we cannot forget about Yama's ghost troops for such a big thing as attacking Buddhism, but we think you should have informed us since you knew that you were going to attack Buddhism. The Oni soldiers and horses participated in the battle, but I didn’t expect you to forget about it! Yesterday, we thought you had prepared some plan to hide the Oni soldiers and horses in order to make a surprise attack!"

"Eh? Is this okay?" I'm so dizzy! No one has ever told me that I am a messenger between heaven and hell. Now he actually made such a big mistake! "You hold on here, I'll call someone."

"Go quickly, go quickly, we won't need you until the defense of Xu Mi Illusion is broken."

"Understood." I touched the teleportation ring and appeared directly in Essinger. When I ran to the door of the special teleportation room on the bottom floor of Essinger, a long and cold air was wafting out from inside. A deep circular well in the center of the room exudes green light, the bottom of which cannot be seen at a glance. I jumped in without hesitation. I didn't feel any falling, but stood directly on the ground on the other side. The smoky environment and bone-chilling low temperatures already indicate that this place is hell.

"Lord Hell. Why are you free to come to the underworld today?" A little ghost appeared near me. He is responsible for receiving people from above. I rarely come to this underworld, and because the temperature is too low, except for the undead, it is difficult for other races to stay here for a long time, so I can only draw a large number of undead from the NPCs in my guild to manage this place. things.

I didn’t say anything more to the kid, and directly ordered: “Send the judges from all walks of life with bull heads and horse faces, and Black and White Wuchang to come to the Yama Hall to discuss matters. In addition, send a few more quick legs and feet to immediately invite the other Ten Halls of Yama, saying that there are important instructions from the Heavenly Court. , extremely urgent."

"Understood." The kid turned around and disappeared. Even though the undead tribe is not very good in the human world, they are actually very powerful in the underworld. Brats like this. He has no other abilities except that he can run very fast and can teleport at will within the underworld. People often say that thoughts have no boundaries, and a kid is a spiritual body that is not even a soul. So wherever he wants, he can go. This is considered a natural skill of theirs.

All the ghosts were very fast, and I didn't have to wait long for them all to arrive. Looking at a hall full of monsters, ghosts, and snake gods, I really feel an evil feeling!

"Purple Sun Yama Lord, you came to us in such a hurry. What exactly is going on? Is it because of the Heavenly Court's plan to destroy the Buddha?" The person who asked the question was Yama from the Sixth Hall.

"you know?"

Yama of the Seventh Palace said: "Our ghost world is also under the human world after all. Ghost messengers come and go in the human world to capture wandering souls. Naturally everyone knows the news. We have always been wondering why the Heavenly Court didn't let us help in such a big thing this time. Woolen cloth!"

Khan, my headquarters told you that I forgot! "That... about this... he had some technical problems. But it's over now, so we won't think about it. What you have to do now is to gather the ghost troops immediately, and we have to go up together to help in the battle. .”

"Soldiers and horses can be summoned at any time, but the ghosts like us can't see the Golden Crow and Chiyang! It doesn't matter that we wait for the high-ranking officials such as Yama and the Bull-headed Horse Face to arrive, but the little ghosts under us can't stand it! Should we ask the Heavenly Court to prepare first? This has been done before It is the responsibility of Yama, the last palace."

Not being familiar with the business is really a waste of time! "Well, I'll get in touch right away. I'm new to the job and I don't understand many things yet. Please help me if I have any omissions. I'd like to thank you in advance."

"It's easy to say, everyone is working for the heaven!" Yama from the first hall immediately returned the greeting. "Then let's go and gather the troops. I just don't know where to gather them?"

"There is a Xiuyuan City at the foot of Wutai Mountain. It is my territory now. You can just come out from there and fight up the mountain."

"Understood, let's make arrangements right away. We'll be there in half an hour."

The ghost soldiers are really fast. It only takes thirty minutes to assemble an army. Judging from their athletic ability alone, the ghost soldiers are much more powerful than the heavenly soldiers!

After contacting the people here, I rushed back. These things should have been completed yesterday, but unfortunately I did it in a hurry because I didn't know the rules. I was really asking for trouble for myself! Rushing all the way to heaven, the Jade Emperor was very surprised when he saw me. "If you're not out front directing the battle, what are you doing here?"

"Well... I actually forgot about the Ghost Department. Fortunately, Erlang Zhenjun and Polaris Lord reminded me, so I just contacted the soldiers and horses over there. I just heard that the Ghost Department sent troops to block the sun, and there seemed to be something in heaven. Is there a department dedicated to this matter?"

The Jade Emperor called a divine general, whispered a few words to him, and then smiled and said to me: "You are so confused! Okay! Since the ghosts are participating in the war, then I will let the heavens The Immortal Treasure has taken action." As he said that, the divine general next to him had returned with an extra box in his hand. The Jade Emperor said: "Give this to Mr. Polaris. He knows how to use it."

"Then I'll go back first."

When I returned to Wutai Mountain, the fighting situation here had basically not changed, and both sides were still in a stalemate. It seems that there won't be any results for a while. Mr. Polaris took the box I handed over and took out a piece of rag like a rag from it, which made me look stupid. "The Jade Emperor asked me to bring you such a piece of rag from all the way?"

Mr. Polaris smiled and said, "Don't underestimate this piece of rag. Do you know its name?"

"It should be very cool."

"Indeed." Mr. Polar Star nodded, took the cloth in his hand, and then said: "It's called the Sky Covering Sail. How about it? Is it powerful enough?"

"Could it be that……?"

"That's right. This thing is the treasure that can prevent the Oni soldiers and horses from seeing the sun." Mr. Polaris said, recited a spell, and then threw the piece of cloth into the sky. The white cloth skyrocketed and became bigger and bigger. The entire hilltop was soon covered, and the piece of rag continued to expand, with no intention of stopping.

"What a big piece of cloth!"

Erlangshen pointed in the direction of Xiuyuan City. "Go quickly! The ghost tribe has arrived."

"arrive?"

North Star Lord confirmed: "The ghost spirit is so strong that the Eleventh Palace of Yama is missing you."

"Those two are busy. I'll go pick them up first."

Flying down from the clouds, we landed directly in Xiuyuan City, but at a glance, the city was empty, and we saw no one except people from our guild. "Damn! Erlang Shen is playing tricks on me!"

"The Purple Sun Lord of Hell has arrived?" Ten Lords of Hell suddenly appeared around me. It’s different from the previous meeting down below. These guys have all put on battle armor and hold a variety of weapons in their hands.

"Oh, it turns out that all the brothers are here! Where are your soldiers? Why did you come up by yourself?"

Ninth Palace Yama pointed to the sky: "The sky is not completely covered yet, and our people can't get out yet."

I looked up at the sky and saw that the huge rag was still stretched out. Although the sky has not been completely covered yet, the surrounding area is almost like dusk. Almost all the players in the city and nearby are looking up at the sky. You must know that it is after nine o'clock in the morning, when the sun is shining brightly. This sky-covering sail suddenly covered the sky. Of course, the people below would find it strange.

We were waiting for the sky-covering sail to be fully deployed when we suddenly heard a loud roar of a dragon coming from the east, followed by a roaring sound that shook the sky and the earth from the west. Before the two roars ended, a clear phoenix cry suddenly came from the south, followed by a dull dragon's roar from the north. The Yamas around me all hurriedly bowed in all directions. "It seems that the holy beasts from all directions have arrived!"

Yama from the Seventh Palace asked me: "Purple Sun Yama Lord, are the four holy beasts in charge of our battlefield today?"

"Don't ask me, to be honest, today's battle was so rushed that I couldn't figure out what was going on. But Qinglong is probably here to help me. Before, the Jade Emperor said that if we fight Buddhism, he would let me command the holy beasts to join the battle. Yes, I just didn’t expect four of them to show up at once!”

It’s different from ours. Players in the nearby area did not know that the Four Sacred Beasts were coming. Most people just knew that today was a battle between Taoism and Buddhism, and did not expect that the commotion would be so big. When they saw the colorful clouds in the heaven last night, everyone just thought that the matter might be more serious than imagined. It was not until they saw the appearance of the sky-covering sail today that they really understood that today's matter would be serious, but still no one thought that the four holy beasts would arrive at the same time.

The speed of the four bosses was very frightening, almost reaching the sound of people. Four huge figures appeared around Wutai Mountain at the same time, oriented in the four directions of southeast, northwest, and completely surrounded Wutai Mountain in the middle. The surrounding players are almost excited. Everyone knows that there are four sacred beasts in China, but no one has actually seen them. Today, we actually saw four at once. It would be strange not to be excited!

"Brother Qinglong. Brother Qinglong, I'm here!" Xiuyuan City is just to the east of Shandong, and Qinglong is right above my head, but I don't know if they can hear my voice.

After shouting for a long time, Qinglong probably didn't hear him at all. He looked up at the sky, and then said in a voice like thunder: "Fighting here may hurt innocent people, why don't we go up and fight?"

Suzaku nodded. "Yes, come and help. Let's go up and fight."

After saying this, Suzaku's body suddenly lit up with a red light, Qinglong's side also lit up with a cyan light, White Tiger's side was white, and Xuanwu's was an earthy yellow light. Qinglong suddenly let out a dragon's chant: "The Law of the Universe - Sheng."

Just hearing a bang, there was a sudden violent earthquake under our feet, and then it continued to shake. The entire Wutai Mountain and the surrounding area with a radius of hundreds of miles shook violently. Everyone looked at their feet in horror and didn't know what was happening.

A hundred miles away from the mountain, a tearing sound suddenly came from the ground. Then a large crack suddenly opened in the entire ground, and quickly extended to both sides. This kind of big crack is not just one or two, but it exists all around the mountainous area. Some of them in the wilderness are not bad, but the key is that some cracks actually pass through the city, dividing the entire city or village into two. Many people walking on the street were unable to dodge and rolled into the large crack. The area near Wutai Mountain is completely in chaos. It's like the end of the world!

The four sacred beasts have been connected by light belts, forming a square that just frames the mountain and nearby areas. The cracks on the ground grew larger and larger, and finally widened to more than one meter. Then the ground actually slowly rose up amid the vibrations. It wasn't until this moment that I figured out what they were going to do. It turned out that the four holy beasts were going to raise the entire battle area to the sky.

The earthquake gradually began to calm down after lasting for nearly two minutes, but the entire mountain and the ground flew off the ground together. Neither tree roots nor roads could stop the entire land from taking off. The Mount Wutai in the game is much larger than the one in reality. Plus the surrounding land of a hundred miles, this area is completely a giant island. The Four Sacred Beasts actually pulled it away so hard. Ground, isn't this too barbaric?

As countless players and NPCs were stunned, the Mount Wutai plate finally slowly flew off the ground. And gradually began to accelerate upward, and soon flew to an altitude of more than a thousand meters above the ground. The players below could only look at the huge land in the sky in confusion, not knowing what to say at all.

Although the players and NPCs in the sky were affected by the vibration, they recovered quickly. Qinglong and the others were lifting the entire mountain and a large area around it. All the combatants were brought up as a group, so there was no chaos.

After the mountain flew up, the sky-covering sail finally completely blocked the sky, and the surrounding area fell into darkness. If it were an ordinary night, there would still be stars and moon that would give off some light. But the sky-covering sail blocked all the light. It turned out to be darker than night.

Now we are at the middle point of the covering range of this sky-shading sail, and we cannot see the edges on all sides. But if we saw it, we would probably be shocked again. Because it is not Mount Wutai that has become dark now, but most of Asia. The eastern part of the sky-covering sail has even been covered, the north has reached the Arctic Ocean coast, the west is almost to the border of Tibet and Xinjiang, and the south has even covered parts of Hainan Island and the Nansha Islands.

This sky-covering sail seems to cover a large area, but considering that this thing has no other function except blocking the sun, it is not a high-end treasure. However, having this thing in the undead army can add a lot of advantages for nothing, at least our guild feels so.

As the sky grew darker, the Buddhist territory became more conspicuous. The virtual illusion on the top of Mount Wutai is now like a big light bulb. The light it emits illuminates the surrounding area, but it is still slightly darker than the sunlight during the day.

The soldiers and horses of the Tianyi Black Ghost Division immediately began to take action. They emerged directly from the ground, flew into the sky, entered the scope of Mount Wutai, and began to assist our locals in the battle. Although the combat effectiveness of the ghost soldiers and horses is not as good as the heavenly soldiers, they are worse than the numbers of people, and the ghost soldiers and horses have many special attributes, such as an immortal fighting spirit and complete invulnerability, which is comparable to the Golden Bell of Buddhism.

"Brother Qinglong." From a distance, I saw Qinglong, who had returned to human form, suspended in mid-air, looking at the battlefield with his arms folded, but not looking like he wanted to participate in the battle.

"Oh, it's Ziri!" Qinglong turned around and said with a smile: "Thanks to you for reuniting our family this time."

"It's just a coincidence for me. By the way, where are Tianlong and Biling?"

"They have come over and are now living in my Qinglong Tower. But I suggest you don't let them touch you."

The last thing you expected happened happened! The method of giving the aphrodisiac was indeed a way to reconcile the two elders, but as a result, they unanimously announced that they wanted to have me operated on! Sure enough, you can never help a couple who is quarreling. If they end their quarrel today and make up tomorrow, the person who caused the quarrel is no longer a human being inside and outside! But there's nothing I can do about it. I can't complete my mission without pulling them over. Fortunately, I didn't get nothing at all. At least I got a silver snow. I have just been notified by Rose that the white jade unicorn Yinxue has officially joined our guild and become the full-time guardian beast of our guild.

According to Rose, this full-time guardian beast also has many restrictions, but the restriction I was most worried about did not appear. What I was most worried about was that the system would find various excuses to limit Yinxue's strength and downgrade her to an ordinary mythical beast, but I heard from Rose that Yinxue's strength had not changed at all. The restriction is only for the method of use, and does not limit Yinxue's combat effectiveness. Yinxue is restricted by the system to the fact that she can only be dispatched during an attack when a super beast appears among the enemy's participating troops. In other words, only when someone as powerful as Tianzhao or Yamata no Orochi appears can we send Yinxue up. . However, Yinxue can participate in the defensive battle unconditionally. Who calls her a guardian beast?

After telling Qinglong a few words about Biling and the others, I asked again: "Brother Qinglong, why did you bring the entire mountain to the sky? This seems unnecessary, right?"

"You can see what's going on on the mountain."

I looked at the situation on the mountain with confusion. The fighting was still going on, but the heavenly soldiers and the coalition forces of our guild seemed to have taken the initiative and were gradually reducing the scope of control of the Buddhist personnel. Through the light mist, we can see that the Buddhist personnel inside Xumi Illusion Realm are fighting in a panic, and they are almost unable to support themselves. Wait, mist? We couldn’t see what was going on inside Xu Mi’s illusion before? Also, our coalition forces have been on par with the Buddhists before, so why did they suddenly take the initiative?

Understood. I suddenly figured it out. energy. Qinglong and the others said before they lifted Mount Wutai to prevent unrelated people nearby from being implicated, but I didn’t believe it at first, and I don’t believe it even more now. In fact, Qinglong's intention is very obvious, which is to cut off the energy supply of Buddhism. Mount Wutai is not without reason one of the three major strongholds of Buddhism. The important reason why it became a stronghold is that it is located right on the ground. Both Buddhism and Taoism are good at setting up formations, and the strongest formations are those large formations supported by earth veins. As long as the earth veins continue, these formations can continue to operate. The combined forces of Heavenly Court and our guild have much stronger combat power than Buddhism. The reason why they have been unable to penetrate before is because of the role of this defensive formation. Now that the entire mountain has been uprooted and the earth's veins have completely separated from the mountain, the Buddhist defense array must have all failed, so it was suddenly unable to stop it. Qinglong and the others are indeed experts with rich combat experience, and they can think of such problems. But I have to say that their strength is indeed too terrifying. If I were to think of it, I wouldn’t be able to do it!

Qinglong knew that I had figured it out, and he pointed forward slightly. "Did you see the big hall in the center?"

"Well, I saw it."

"I will send you directly in with my own magic power. Although there are a few masters there, there are also a lot of good things. Even if I repay your kindness for helping me find my parents." After Qinglong finished speaking, he patted me on the back. The next second I appeared in the hall.