Chapter 172 The Lei Family Is Attacked
The three families joined forces to ensure their safety. If Maple Leaf Square divided its troops to attack them, they would not be able to break the formation. If they pressed all of them, the Lei family would be able to hold out for a few days. The support of the Wang and Li families would arrive soon. The destructive power of war is huge. No one wants a war to happen at their doorstep. This is the situation Wang Hao wants to see.
On the other side, Ji Shuguang led 18 foundation-building cultivators and a total of 800 Qi-training cultivators from the four families, crossing the border in a mighty force and heading directly for the Lei family.
They had planned well before, dividing into three teams to attack the three families respectively.
But now the power is not enough to support them to do so. Moreover, the news has been leaked. All the families in Qingniu Square are taking strict precautions. Even at this moment, they have seen spirit beasts and birds spying on their whereabouts several times!
They also have spies. After the last lesson of the Ye family, the spies are much more careful. They also learned about the movements of the Zhao and Cheng families in advance. Even if they can plunder some resources from these two families, it is not meaningful anymore.
Ji Shuguang was originally standing from the perspective of the sect, and only wanted to complete the tasks assigned by the sect. As for the income of Maple Leaf Square, he didn't care, so he directly ordered the army to press on and attack the Lei family with all his strength.
He also called it revenge for the Gu family and the Si family. Gu Lizhan was naturally happy. The other families complained at first, but Gu Lizhan promised that as long as the Gu family found their own things, all the others would belong to them, and they all kept silent.
Qingyuan Gate still did not move. The Burning Heaven Sect attacked more than Qingniu Square, and other families were also attacked. Qingyuan Gate's attitude made everyone no longer have any hope.
Some small families knew that they could not defend themselves, and they began to retreat with their families. Some went to unite with other families, and some went to Qingyuan Square City. For the families who came to seek refuge, Qingyuan Gate accepted them all and arranged their residences. After all, the war was imminent, and Qingyuan Gate was also short of manpower. More strength meant more protection.
The Wang family would naturally not retreat to Qingyuan Square City, at least not for now. Once you are tied to the chariot of Qingyuan Sect, your fate is no longer in your own hands.
Qingyuan Sect did not force an order, but in order to deal with the crisis, they have begun to spend a lot of money to hire some casual cultivators.
Knowing that they would be cannon fodder, many casual cultivators still join Qingyuan Sect. After all, as long as they join, Qingyuan Sect will provide them with the skills and elixirs that they usually don’t get. For these casual cultivators, it is difficult to resist the temptation.
A few days later, Ji Shuguang and the Maple Leaf Square monks finally came to the Leiming Mountain of Lei’s family. Under the command of several monks who are proficient in battle formations, the Qi training monks were divided into eight teams, each with 100 people, and they attacked a formation together. The foundation-building monks were on the side to suppress the formation and prepare to contain Lei Liheng and other foundation-building monks.
Leiming Mountain is a second-grade upper-grade spiritual mountain. The Lei family has a second-grade upper-grade five-element four-image formation defense, with a total of nine formation eyes. Attacking one point will attract nine points of joint attack. If you want to break the formation, there is no better way. You can only attack from multiple points on all sides at the same time, so that the formation cannot take care of the head and tail.
Under Ji Shuguang's urging.
Eight hundred Qi-training monks lined up in a tight formation and came forward, using various magic weapons to continuously attack the protective shield of the formation.
Although no foundation-building monks took action, the noise caused by so many Qi-training monks attacking together was also very loud. For a time, Leiming Mountain was shaking. If there was no protection from the formation, the top of the mountain would probably be flattened by them.
In the formation, Lei Liheng's face did not show panic. The opponent's foundation-building monks were twice as many as theirs, and the number of Qi-training monks was more than three times, but with the blessing of the formation and the various trump cards they prepared in advance, they were still confident in defending. Besides, it was only a group of Qi-training monks attacking now, and it was not the time to be nervous.
Gu Lizhan and others saw that the Qi-training monks could not pose a threat to the war, so they could only take action themselves. Unfortunately, as long as they took action, Lei Liheng and others would intervene, leaving them no chance to break the formation.
There are spiritual veins in the formation, and the Maple Leaf Square monks outside the formation can only rely on spiritual pills to restore spiritual power. Although the Thunder Mountain spiritual veins can hardly support the consumption of the three families of Lei, Zhao and Cheng, it is still more economical than the people of Maple Leaf Square.
This took half a month, and Ye Jingshan and others tried their best but still couldn't break the formation. Once they even used the formation-breaking talisman to open a gap, but they didn't expect that there was a small formation in the Thunder Mountain formation. Before they broke the small formation, the big formation had been repaired. After such a long time, the people of Maple Leaf Square were already a little overwhelmed.
They came to rob money, not to waste it here.
Although they may be the winner in the end, how much money can the Thunder Mountain monks, who have run out of ammunition and food, have? This is not the result they want.
"Elder Ji, this won't work. Can you give us a definite answer on when the sect will start?" Ye Jingshan asked with a bitter face. Their Ye family sent the most people this time, and naturally the consumption was also the greatest. The Ye family's fifty years of wealth had been filled in. If there was no gain, the Ye family might not be able to train a foundation-building cultivator in the next few decades.
Ji Shuguang was also confused. The sect's Jindan ancestor took action at the same time as he told him. He really didn't know what the situation was now. He could only prevaricate: "The sect has its own considerations. You can take down Qingniufang. Even if the damage is greater, you can earn back in a few years if you manage these sacred mountains well. You must know that Qingniufang and Duanyuan Mountain are the closest, and there are the most independent cultivators. Any business you do will earn several times more than Maple Leaf Square!"
At first, everyone believed Ji Shuguang's big pie, but now, haha, although Qingniufang is good, it must be taken down.
He Junyi said: "Currently, there are three monks from Qingniufang gathered in Thunder Mountain. If we want to defeat them, the price we need to pay is too high!"
Xu Minglang frowned and said, "Yeah, who would have thought that the Zhao Cheng family would be so decisive that they could even give up their own spiritual mountain and the mortals of the family!"
"What's the use of talking about this now? Are you going to give up? Then these half a month of time and resources have been wasted?" Gu Lizhan said dissatisfied.
Ye Jingshan narrowed his eyes and said: "Brother Gu, don't worry, we must fight Qingniufang, but fighting head-on is not the way to go, we should use outsmarting!"
Everyone looked at Ji Shuguang, and it was he who made the final decision, who was the elder of the sect.
Ji Shuguang felt guilty and could not force them to continue attacking Thunder Mountain. He said apologetically: "I am not a person who doesn't know how to adapt. If you have a good strategy, you can tell me!"
Seeing Ji Shuguang's attitude, everyone also started chatting and started discussing each other.
Xu Minglang groaned: "Since the Lei family is difficult to win, we might as well try to attack the Wang family or the Li family!"
Seeing everyone's eyes turned towards him, he chuckled and analyzed: "The three families of Lei, Zhao and Cheng have been able to gather together to resist us for such a long time, but the Wang and Li families did not show up, which shows that there is also something dirty between them. If we then attack the Wang and Li families, the monks from these three families will probably not support us. It will be much easier to fight against those two families than together!"