Chapter 862: First Failure

Ye Linglong took advantage of this opportunity and quietly retreated, trying to find a chance to escape. However, before she took a few steps, she felt a strong pressure coming down on her, making her unable to move.

"Want to escape? It's not that easy!" The Demon Lord's voice sounded in her ears, bone-chillingly cold.

Ye Linglong closed her eyes in despair. Am I really going to die here today?

At this moment, a sudden change occurred!

The Demon Lord, who was fighting fiercely with Gu Jiuchen, suddenly let out a scream, covered his right wrist, and fell to the ground in pain.

"What's going on?" Everyone was stunned and looked at this scene without knowing why.

I saw the black mark on the Demon Lord's right wrist, which was emitting a dazzling light at the moment, as if it was about to swallow him whole.

"Ah!" Demon Lord roared in pain, and his body began to tremble violently.

"Opportunity!" When Gu Jiuchen saw this, his eyes flashed. He knew that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

He swung his sword and stabbed the Demon Lord in the heart without hesitation. However, just when the tip of his sword was about to touch the Demon Lord's clothes, the Demon Lord suddenly disappeared.

"Where are the people?" Everyone looked at each other, not understanding what happened.

"The game has just begun..." A cold voice echoed in the air, making people shudder.

After the Demon Lord disappeared, the suffocating pressure also dissipated. Before everyone could take a breath, the mutation regenerated. The originally calm sky suddenly became cloudy, the wind roared, and black lightning streaked across the sky, as if the end was coming.

"No, the power of the barrier is increasing!" Xuanfeng's face changed drastically, and he could clearly feel a strong

Huge power is pouring out from the barrier, and this power is far stronger than they imagined.

"At this moment, attack with all your strength!" Gu Jiuchen gave the order and took the lead in slashing at the barrier with his sword.

Others also tried their best, and the lights of various colors intertwined together, like meteors, hitting the barrier hard. However, what made them despair was that their attack landed on the barrier, just like a mud cow entering the sea, without making a single ripple.

What's even more frightening is that the barrier seemed to be angered by their attacks. The originally calm surface suddenly surged with a powerful counterattack force, reflecting all their attacks back.

"ah!"

"careful!"

Caught off guard, many righteous disciples were hit by their own attacks, screaming and falling from the air.

"Linglong, get out of the way!" From the corner of his eye, Gu Jiuchen caught sight of Ye Linglong being hit by a counter-shock force. His eyes were splitting, and he rushed over desperately to protect her in his arms.

"boom!"

With a loud noise, Gu Jiuchen was knocked away by the powerful force, and a mouthful of blood sprayed into the air, staining Ye Linglong's clothes red.

"Jiuchen!" Ye Linglong exclaimed and wanted to step forward to check, but was held back by Xuan Yu.

"Don't go there, he needs treatment now!" Xuan Yu's face was solemn. In order to protect Ye Linglong, Gu Jiuchen withstood the blow from the barrier. The injury was definitely not serious.

"Let's go!" Xuanfeng made a decision immediately. Knowing that now was not the time to fight, he grabbed Gu Jiuchen, and together with Xuan Yu, they quickly evacuated the battlefield with the injured disciples.

Ye Linglong was surrounded by the crowd and wanted to turn around.

He took a look, but was pulled tightly by the bright moon. He could only watch Gu Jiuchen's figure disappear into the night, and his heart was filled with worry and uneasiness...

Mingyue held Ye Linglong's hand tightly, as if grasping the last straw, and fled hastily with the flow of people. Under the night, there was still lightning and thunder in the sky, as if mocking their embarrassment. Returning to the temporary camp, looking around, there were wounded people and wailings one after another. The once high-spirited and righteous elites were now as dejected as eggplants beaten by frost.

"How could this happen...how could we lose so miserably..." A young disciple muttered to himself, covering his injured arm, his eyes full of confusion and fear.

"It's all Gu Jiuchen! If he hadn't insisted on breaking through the barrier forcefully, we wouldn't have suffered such heavy losses!" Among the crowd, someone was the first to voice doubts.

"Yes! If he hadn't been distracted by fighting against the barrier's backlash in order to protect Ye Linglong, maybe we would still have a chance!" Another voice echoed.

The questioning voices were like sparks, quickly spreading among the crowd, and finally gathered into raging flames, pointing the finger directly at Gu Jiuchen. Mingyue listened to the increasingly harsh accusations around her, with mixed emotions in her heart. She wanted to defend Gu Jiuchen, but was unable to refute. After all, the failure of this operation was obvious to all.

Ye Linglong ignored the comments around her. She walked straight to Xuan Yu, who was healing Gu Jiuchen, and asked anxiously: "Senior Xuan Yu, how is Jiuchen?"

Xuan Yu looked solemn, shook his head, and said in a serious tone: "There is no optimism. The backlash of the barrier is too strong and hurts his body."

The heart pulse takes a long time to recover. "

Hearing this, Ye Linglong's heart seemed to be tightly grasped by an invisible hand, and the pain was unbearable. She walked to Gu Jiuchen silently, looking at his pale face, her heart was filled with self-blame and distress.

"It's all my fault... If it wasn't for protecting me, you wouldn't..." Ye Linglong held Gu Jiuchen's hand and murmured in a low voice, tears falling silently.

At this time, Xuanfeng walked in front of everyone with a gloomy face, and the powerful pressure made the originally noisy camp instantly quiet. He looked around with burning eyes and said in a deep voice: "I know everyone is sad and angry, but now is not the time to blame each other! If the devil is not eliminated, there will never be peace in the world! What we have to do is to find Find out the reasons for failure, unite and attack again!”

However, Xuanfeng's words did not have the expected effect. Everyone remained silent, their eyes full of doubt and confusion. After experiencing this fiasco, they were full of fear for the future and wavered in Gu Jiuchen's leadership ability.

At this moment, a black figure quietly appeared outside the camp. He was hidden in the darkness, with a pair of cold eyes, coldly watching everything in the camp, and a cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"The right way... huh, that's all..."

Dark night enveloped the earth, and the cold wind howled, as if whispering a sad elegy. In the temporary camp, the depressive atmosphere was even stronger than the night.

Ye Linglong stayed by Gu Jiuchen's side, delivering spiritual power to him over and over again. Looking at her lover's pale face, her heart hurt like a knife.

. In order not to disturb Xuan Yu's healing, she held back tears and buried all her worries and self-blame in her heart.

"There must be a way... there must be a way..." Ye Linglong told herself over and over again in her heart. She flipped through the ancient books brought from the Tianxian Sect, trying to find a way to break the barrier. However, as the pages turned, hope was shattered little by little. What is recorded in these ancient books are all conventional methods to crack the formation. There is absolutely no way to deal with this strange barrier set up by the Demon Lord.

At the same time, Xuanfeng is trying his best to stabilize the morale of the army. He summoned the heads and elders of various factions and tried to re-formulate an attack plan. However, this tragic defeat left an indelible shadow in everyone's hearts, and the original confidence and fighting spirit were gone.

"Senior Xuanfeng, we can't go on like this! If Sect Master Gu insists on doing this, our faction has no choice but to withdraw!" an elder said angrily, his tone full of dissatisfaction and despair.

"Yes, we can no longer place our hopes on Sect Master Gu and Miss Ye! They have no ability to lead us to defeat the Demon Lord!" Another sect leader also agreed.

Xuanfeng felt extremely anxious when he heard these questions and accusations, but was unable to refute them. He knew that this failure had caused a rift within the Righteous Alliance. If it was not repaired in time, the consequences would be disastrous.