Chapter 477 Conspiracy
Now, after the battle with the monsters began in the four major battlefields in the north of the entire Wei State, only Jinshanfang, where Song Qingming was, still had a little initiative on the battlefield.
After learning this not-so-good news, Song Qingming's face, which had just been relaxed, became a little solemn again. However, in order not to affect the overall morale of Jinshanfang, Song Qingming still did not inform all the cultivators under his command of this unfavorable news. Only the dozens of foundation-building cultivators knew some of the inside story.
After knowing the poor situation in other locations, Song Qingming also stepped up preparations for war. Although Jinshanfang had just received reinforcements from cultivators in Liuyang and Jiangling, there were now more than 2,000 cultivators defending in the market.
But in the past ten days, according to the news from the law enforcement team, there have been small groups of monsters moving south from the north, and the number of monsters gathering in Huangling Valley has increased every day, and the strength of the monsters is also slowly increasing.
Faced with this situation, although Jinshanfang won the first battle and gained a certain initiative, it was far from eliminating the threat of monsters in the north. Song Qingming could not take care of the situation in other places for a while, and could only continue to urge the rear areas to speed up the transportation of materials needed for the war to Jinshanfang.
Before the monster rebellion, the major immortal cultivation families in the north of Weiguo would prepare in advance and store a batch of spiritual talismans, elixirs, magic tools, spiritual rice and other strategic materials needed for the war.
After the war began, these immortal cultivation families would take the initiative to transport the stored spiritual objects to the front line for support. In addition to exchanging some valuable monster materials, they could also get a lot of sect merits, which was also something that the major foundation-building families were very happy to do.
With the order issued by Song Qingming, the Jindan ancestor, the major foundation-building families in Jiangling County took out the spiritual objects stored in their own treasuries and began to transport them to the front line of Jinshanfang in batches. These strong logistical support in the rear was also a huge reliance for the front-line cultivators of Jinshanfang to persist in fighting.
In order to prepare for the next upcoming war, Song Qingming also stepped up his retreat.
In the past few years after the Dan formation, Song Qingming spent most of his time on refining his life magic weapon "Five-color Divine Light Mirror". As for his own skills, because he switched to a new skill after the Dan formation, Song Qingming has just practiced the "Five Elements Xuan Gang Jue" to the late stage of foundation building. It is estimated that it will take another two or three years to break through to the Jindan stage. Now he uses several spells from the "Yuxuan Sutra" that he has been practicing before when facing the enemy.
This time, after ambushing the White Lion Demon King and trapping the Demon King with the "Phantom Array", Song Qingming was about to give it a fatal blow. Suddenly, he had an idea and tried to attach the "Invisible Escape Light Needle" that he had practiced for many years directly to the magic weapon Qingliu Sword.
Unexpectedly, after the "Invisible Escape Light Needle" covered the Qingliu Sword, it not only successfully concealed most of the breath of this magic weapon as Song Qingming expected, but also increased the power of the Qingliu Sword when facing the enemy.
Because of this, Song Qingming took advantage of the White Lion Demon King's lack of reaction and quietly controlled the Green Willow Sword to approach it silently, and immediately launched a surprise attack.
Unexpectedly, this sword not only successfully defeated the White Lion Demon King's protective Qi, but also the White Lion Demon King's powerful body was easily penetrated by the "Green Willow Sword" like tofu. If the White Lion Demon King had not controlled his own inner elixir in time to block the next attack of the "Green Willow Sword", Song Qingming might have had a chance to keep him.
When he was still in the foundation-building stage, after Song Qingming refined the "Invisible Escape Light Needle", he actually tried to cover it on his second-level flying sword, but after the successful covering, he failed to enhance the magic weapon he controlled, and even the effect of helping to hide the breath was not very obvious. Later, Song Qingming gave up this idea.
Song Qingming did not expect that after his "Invisible Light Needle" was cultivated to the peak, it would be covered on the third-level magic weapon to greatly increase its effect. Although he failed to kill the White Lion Demon King in this battle, Song Qingming still gained a lot in the battle.
After the situation in Jinshanfang stabilized, Song Qingming also took the time to retreat and began to practice the coordination of "Invisible Light Needle" and his own magic weapon Qingliu Sword. As long as he could improve his proficiency in this aspect, Song Qingming would be able to defeat the White Lion Demon King head-on in the next battle.
After all, the IQ of the third-level demon king is no different from that of ordinary people. Using the "psychedelic array" can only be used once at most. A high-level demon beast of the level of the White Lion Demon King would not be stupid enough to be easily fooled by Song Qingming for the second time.
However, Jinshanfang did not relax for too long. After repairing for more than a month, the White Lion Demon King regrouped and led his army of demon beasts to the outside of Jinshanfang.
Next, the monsters and the human cultivators fought a bloody battle outside Jinshanfang again. This time, because the cultivators on the Jinshanfang side were much stronger than before, the monsters' advantage was no longer so obvious, and the overall combat power of both sides was basically evenly matched.
In addition to the low-level monsters and cultivators below, the White Lion Demon King, whose injuries had almost recovered, also fought another battle with Song Qingming outside the market.
In this battle, Song Qingming, who had already skillfully used the "Invisible Light Needle" to bless the power of magic weapons, was able to gain the upper hand in the direct confrontation with the White Lion Demon King. In the end, the White Lion Demon King relied on the help of several powerful late-stage foundation-building demon beasts under his command to barely tie with Song Qingming.
In the end, the two sides slowly ended the battle after mutual damage, and left hundreds of corpses outside Jinshanfang. Because the human cultivators were defending at home, with the Jinshanfang mountain protection formation behind them, their overall losses were much less than those of the demon beasts.
After seeing the power of Song Qingming and the very strong defensive force in Jinshanfang, the White Lion Demon King did not rashly drive the demon beast army to directly attack Jinshanfang, but commanded the demon beast army to concentrate on the east side of Jinshanfang and confronted the Jinshanfang cultivators.
After the war, although the monsters still had the advantage in numbers, the human cultivators had the support of several mountain protection formations in Jinshanfang, and could borrow the second-level "Flying Cloud Crossbow" and a steady stream of various spiritual objects to help. The gap in strength between the two sides was not much different now, and it was no longer possible for the monsters to break through Jinshanfang head-on.
After half a month of confrontation between Jinshanfang and the cultivators, the White Lion Demon King attacked the market several times head-on, but still could not find a chance to bite off the hard bone of Jinshanfang.
After several battles, the monsters suffered a lot of losses and lost many low-level monsters because of the forced attack, and even more than a dozen second-level monsters were killed by Jinshanfang.
Seeing that there was no hope of attacking Jinshanfang head-on, the White Lion Demon King slowly changed his original strategy of attacking Jinshanfang. He began to order some of his monsters to secretly bypass Jinshanfang and enter Pingyang County, attacking the spiritual mountains near Jinshanfang.
The White Lion Demon King himself led the demon beast army to continue to stay outside Jinshanfang, and began to command these demon beasts to attack the market in small-scale harassment in turn, attracting the attention of all the cultivators in Jinshanfang.
After the news that several surrounding sacred mountains were breached by demon beasts reached Jinshanfang, many Pingyang County cultivators in the market suddenly became a little panicked. Although they were in the market, their relatives and friends were still in their homes in Pingyang County in the south, and they naturally began to worry about their own safety.
The purpose of the White Lion Demon King's move was to force the Jinshanfang cultivators to take the initiative to fight him. As long as they left the market without the mountain protection formation and those tricky "Flying Cloud Crossbows", the Jinshanfang cultivators would inevitably find it difficult to defeat the demon beast army in the wild.
Facing the White Lion Demon King's conspiracy, Song Qingming and other high-level Jinshanfang cultivators also knew it well and did not fall for it. They immediately went out of the city to fight the demon beasts.
If they choose to take the initiative to come out of Jinshanfang and fight the monster army, it will definitely play into the hands of the White Lion Monster King, and the human cultivators will definitely suffer.
But if they completely ignore the monsters and let them wreak havoc in Pingyang County, once most of Pingyang County falls into the hands of the monsters, it will inevitably shake the morale of the army over time.
In order to appease the many Pingyang County cultivators in Jinshanfang, Song Qingming immediately ordered the many immortal cultivation families in the north of Pingyang County to resolutely implement the tactics of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields, and take the initiative to abandon those difficult-to-defend spiritual mountains, save their strength and gather in Huoyun Mountain in the south, and organize forces to jointly resist the monster army heading south.
Then Song Qingming quickly sent several foundation-building cultivators headed by Cao Rongxue, leading a group of more elite Qi-refining cultivators to quickly rush to Huoyun Mountain, and divide their troops to support the cultivators who stayed in the south of Pingyang County. In order to facilitate their quick action, Song Qingming even lent his second-level flying boat to Cao Rongxue.
After Cao Rongxue and others arrived at Huoyun Mountain first and joined many cultivators gathered there, the cultivators of Pingyang County quickly used the method of luring the enemy deep into the mountain, severely damaging part of the demon beast army heading south at the foot of Huoyun Mountain, and blocked them in front of Huoyun Mountain.
Although many places in the north of Pingyang County temporarily fell into the hands of demon beasts, because Song Qingming issued the retreat order early, except for the first few Qi Refining families who did not evacuate in time and suffered relatively large losses, other immortal cultivation families quickly gave up their own sacred mountains and retreated directly to Huoyun Mountain after receiving the order.
In the last demon beast chaos, because the White Lion Demon King suddenly broke through Jinshanfang, the sacred mountains of the major immortal cultivation families in the north of Pingyang County were swept by the demon beast army, causing them to suffer huge losses, and many of the immortal cultivation families have since perished.
After all, every failure is a lesson learned. To be on the safe side, many of the immortal cultivation families that had suffered losses had already sent some mortals to the south of Pingyang County long before the monster riot.
Although the monster army that marched southward broke through many sacred mountains, the human race lost a small number of mortals, and the overall loss of cultivators was not great.