Chapter 172 The Profound Sword Demonstrates Prestige
Zhao Shu was originally intoxicated in a mysterious artistic conception, but a sudden change woke him up.
"That's...the Horned Snake Cave over there? Not good!"
With an exclamation, Zhao Shu flew towards the east without having time to say anything.
"Number of days." Lu Wangji sighed softly, and had no choice but to pick up the Yao Qin, abandon the quiet mountains and rivers, and jump up to fly.
Zhao Mo gathered his true energy and rushed back to Jianjia Pass against the wind, while earth-shattering impacts came from the direction of Jiaohui Cave from time to time.
Looking up at the sky, clouds were flowing out like a tide. Even though Jiaoxiao Cave was far out of sight, Zhao Shu could feel a terrifying pressure coming towards him.
Although he had known for a long time that the seal of Jiaohui Cave would be broken down, Zhao Shui had never heard from experts such as Liang Tao or Zhang Duanjing when exactly it would happen. Since Liang Tao had been in Jianjia Pass before, Zhao Shui guessed the day when the seal of Jiaohui Cave would be broken.
nearly.
However, until Zhao Shu came to the altar to practice Dharma and treat the plague, and even major events such as the falling star happened, there was no movement in the Jiaohui Cave.
Over time, Zhao Shu himself also forgot about it. After all, once the demon king Jiao Hu was born, it would not be Zhao Shu's turn to deal with it.
However, now that Zhao Shui is stationed at Jianjia Pass instead of General Wei, it is still unknown whether the surrounding settlements will be affected after the Jiaohui Cave is broken.
Unfortunately, almost all the elite troops in Jianjia Pass are present now, and the three heads of palaces who came to help are all absent. There are less than 5,000 soldiers and horses available in the city, and most of them are prisoners.
Zhao Mo had an uneasy feeling in his heart. Today's Jiangjia Pass can be regarded as the emptiest time since the war between the two countries. If the masters of the Jiuli Kingdom abandon their army and risk everything to attack Jiangjia Pass and Jiaohao Cave, the consequences will be disastrous!
When Zhao Shu returned to Jianjia Pass, many people were running around in the city, and the soldiers stationed in the city were also slightly panicked. The military officers were looking for Zhao Shu inside and outside the palace, like headless flies.
"People are going home, don't stay outside!" Seeing this situation, Zhao Shu stood up in the air and raised his Qi fiercely. He let out a sound like thunder and spread it all over Guancheng: "The soldiers of each battalion went to the city to garrison in accordance with the regulations. Those who escaped indiscriminately,
Immediately behead without mercy!"
After returning to Jianjia Pass, Zhao Shu gave up his desire to escape from the world and live in seclusion. He immediately showed the magnanimity of a military general and issued orders without hesitation.
All the soldiers and civilians in the city looked up and saw Zhao Shu appearing, as if witnessing the arrival of a god, and their hearts suddenly settled. The people packed their things and hid in their homes, closing their doors tightly. The soldiers of each battalion quickly distributed weapons and armor and climbed onto the city wall.
Looking at the tower, the flags were fluttering and the momentum was like a rainbow.
"Zhao Changshi, what happened?"
When Zhao Miao landed in the courtyard, he immediately summoned all the military officers and monks in the city to come over. Some people couldn't wait to ask.
"There is unexpected movement in the direction of Jiaofei Cave. I'm worried that someone from the Jiuli Kingdom is sending people to attack." Zhao Miao said while packing up the ritual objects.
Zheng Siyuan was surprised and asked: "Jiaohu Cave? Isn't there a seal and restriction there?"
After thinking for a while, Zhao Miao decided that it was better to be honest at such a critical moment: "The seal of Jiaohui Cave will not last long. I am worried that the current changes are a sign of the birth of the Demon King."
Although everyone present was shocked, almost all of them had never experienced the years when the shaman Zhucao of Jiuli State invaded the snakes and insects. The seal of Jiaohui Cave has been formed for a long time, and for the soldiers and civilians in Jianjia Pass, they only knew that there was such a thing.
There are only a few old people everywhere who still remember the situation when snakes and insects were everywhere.
"Immediately send someone to deliver a letter to General Wei." Zhao Miao handed a handwritten letter to Zhang Liwei and said at the same time: "Almost all the monks in various schools have been transferred out of the city. At present, there is a shortage of manpower. I will personally go to the altar to practice the Dharma.
Be prepared for enemy attacks.
Zheng Siyuan, please take out all the talismans and charms that are available to you in case of urgent need. Fellow Taoist Lu, please guard the west of the city on your behalf. If there is an evil witch of unknown origin, just shoot it down without any nonsense.
"
Zhao Shu gave a few instructions, and everyone went away as ordered. He personally came to the altar beside the well.
Just when Zhao Shu was about to ascend the altar, Lingxiao suddenly said: "Are you still planning to ascend the altar?"
"At this moment, how can I be allowed to retreat?" Zhao Shu said, "Don't try to persuade me anymore, I have made up my mind!"
…
Wu Luo raised his left hand high and held it with five fingers, and listened to him praising loudly:
"The people are dancing to attract the rain, holding the golden sword to show their power. The fireflies are shining on the rotten valley, and the thunder is running and the drums are beating!"
After singing an ancient witch ballad, dark red lightning appeared in his hand out of thin air. As the witch threw it downwards with all his strength, the lightning struck directly into a dense mountain forest.
The mist dispersed and the trees disappeared. It turned out that the mountain scenery was just an illusion maintained by magic. After the magic was broken, a deep cave surrounded by mountains was revealed. Dark red lightning struck down quickly and struck hard.
A layer of sealing barrier.
However, the seal did not break in response. Instead, it quickly mobilized the pure energy of the immortal spirits and condensed it into a burst of light that soared into the sky. Wu Luo and others hurriedly retreated as expected, watching the soaring light destroy the clouds in the sky.
"Hmph! After all, the seal is just a dead thing. Even if you can fight back on your own, you don't know how to fight against the enemy!" Wu Luo pulled off his coir raincoat, revealing the right half of his body that was possessed by the flesh and blood of the demon god. The other five people accompanying him either had sarcomas growing or had green hair.
Covered body, in short, no one looks like a normal living person.
Wu Luo shouted in a deep voice: "We have touched the seal of Jiaohu Cave, and the masters of Huaxu Kingdom will arrive soon. Everyone will do their best to force the seal to run out of energy. After breaking it, immediately arrange the God Summoning Ceremony!"
As soon as the words were said, the six witches glowed with divine light, gathered together, and turned into the shadow of a cow's hoof in mid-air. The hoof's circumference was more than a mile in diameter, like a mountain pressing down on the top, falling heavily towards the seal of Jiaoxiao Cave.
The power of the gods appeared in the world, and the seal in the Horned Snake Cave moved on its own as if it was induced. The remaining pure air in the valley turned into a counterattack, erupting like a volcano, and faced off against the phantom of the cow's hoof.
Two unparalleled forces collided at the entrance of the narrow cave, immediately causing the surrounding mountains to shake and shake. The rock foundations squeezed each other, and for a moment landslides and rocks flowed. The earth seemed to turn into a piece of cloth that was easily lifted up and fluttered, and the impact quickly spread outward.
diffusion.
Fortunately, the dozens of miles around Jiao Hui Cave have been designated as forbidden areas by the Huaxu Kingdom, and there are no human settlements around it, so no people have been affected.
The seemingly strong and indestructible seal of the Horned Snake Cave has reached its end. Just two waves of counterattacks have completely exhausted the already thin fairy spirit. The entire forbidden seal collapsed like a broken cup, with a shocking power.
Pour out.
The towering peaks surrounding the entrance of the cave were instantly blown away and shattered by this force. Countless rubble fell in all directions, leaving the surrounding area in a mess.
Seeing that the seal was broken, the six people led by Wu Luo immediately rushed into the smoke regardless of the turmoil.
After a while, the shaking of the earth stopped, and a round light like a mirror suddenly appeared in mid-air. Liang Tao stepped out from it, wearing a purple robe and jade crown, tilted as he wished, with eagle eyebrows and sharp eyes, looking at the billowing dust waves below.
"Although I expected that you would attack the Horned Cave at all costs, I didn't expect that in order to break the seal with one blow, you would actually let the old Kui Niu inhabit the body to prolong your life." Liang Tao sneered and pointed his finger: "I'm not afraid that he will take the opportunity to swallow it.
Do you want to steal your immortal soul to strengthen yourself?"
Then Liang Tao clicked his finger and made a false flick, and a little cold star flew down, forcing the dust waves away, revealing the dilapidated Jiaohao Cave.
At this time, at the bottom of the deep cave, there was a giant snake spinning on the ground. Its scales, which were stronger than fine steel, were red and black. It had a pair of fleshy wings on its back, and a single horn on its head was as sharp as rock.
"How does it feel to be a slave and be trapped for many years with hundreds of thousands of your fellow clansmen and masters?" Liang Tao said with a calm smile: "Looking like this, it is not as vigorous as in the early years."
The horned viper demon king was well versed in human affairs, but he never spoke a word. His huge head slowly raised towards the sky, flames spurted out from his mouth, and dripped to the ground with poisonous saliva. Even hard rocks could not withstand corrosion.
"What? There are only six of you left among the ten witches of Fengju?" Liang Tao looked at the six people standing around Jiao Hui, and asked with a sneer: "With a strike from the star, the mixed pool turned into scorched earth, and the plague followed King Chiwen.
Those who were sent to Qiwen were probably beaten to the point of losing their flesh and blood?"
"Liang Tao, do you think you will win without a doubt?" Wu Luo tried his best to support the ceremony, but his body's energy and blood continued to drain away, and his face gradually turned pale.
"Do you really think I don't know your little thoughts?" Liang Tao raised his hand in vain. The Great Ming Mirror hung high in the sky, and when the mirror shined down, twenty-four beams of light shrouded the deep cave, and the power of wind, thunder, water and fire gradually accumulated.
"I just think it's ridiculous." Liang Tao was running the formation while still having time to laugh: "The candle is just a wisp of darkness between heaven and earth, the natural law of the rotation of yin and yang. You Fengju ten witches don't worship the sun and the moon, but you only
It is really a waste of time to focus on the trivial details. It is sad and lamentable that the immortal soul is wasted in such a place!"
After these words were finalized, the great weather formation in the sky was filled with immortal power, and thousands of wind knives suddenly fell like rain.
And the Demon King Horned Snake was well prepared. He circled up with his body of a hundred feet, relying on his body of iron and stone to block countless wind knives for the six Wu Luo people. Each wind blade was enough to decapitate and pierce the heart, making the Horned Snake's whole body explode.
A spark from the starting point.
The Demon King's scales cracked and shattered, like the tiles falling off an abandoned palace after a night of strong winds.
Liang Tao slightly raised his eagle eyebrows. He could see that the demon king Jiao Hui was a little weak, so he no longer held back the temptation and took out the cloud pattern Ruyi in his hand and submerged it into the bright mirror above.
The light in the mirror turned, and a snow-maned cloud beast appeared. It opened its mouth wide and roared fiercely, triggering avalanches of frost and snow, enough to topple the mountain peaks and freeze the rivers.
Although the Demon King Horned Snake is powerful, he does not dare to be careless in the face of the overwhelming pressure, and spits out blazing poisonous fire from his mouth.
The intersection of ice and fire suddenly exploded into a large area of scalding hot mist, filling the deep cave in an instant. Anyone standing in it would probably be scalded immediately.
Liang Tao's Qi Forbidden Power also flowed into the cave along with the hot mist, trying to seal off Wu Luo and others so that they had nowhere to hide.
But at the same time, divine power descended from the sky, and the Great Ming Mirror was actually covered with a layer of darkness. Outside the twenty-four weather formations around the sky, it was shrouded by another force.
"The sky-wide iron barrier? That's not right." Liang Tao immediately noticed something strange. All kinds of energy in the surrounding sky and earth were quickly sucked out, and the light and shadow scenery in the distance became dim and unclear.
"This is not the power of Youzhu." Liang Tao judged: "Using divine power to demarcate boundaries, kill energy, and block the light of the sky is obviously just to deal with me."
"Not bad!" At this moment, Wu Luo shouted loudly from below and blew away the white mist. At this moment, his whole body was almost covered with squirming flesh and blood, leaving only a ferocious face. He looked up to the sky and smiled: "A cultivator like you,
If you want to perform magic, you must interact with the inside and outside, and connect the qi with the machine. If you eliminate the external qi and only rely on the power of your true qi without the ability to breathe in and out, how long can you last?!"
Liang Tao was silent for a while, and looked at Wu Luo with a little pity: "You Fengju ten witches have been thinking about it for so many years, and you just came up with such a way to deal with me?"
"Come on!" Wu Luo said nothing nonsense. The shapes of the six people changed drastically. At this moment, their bodies were covered with squirming flesh and blood. Their limbs were plump and strong, and some arms simply turned into sickles.
The six Wu Luo people and the demon king Jiao Hui did not hold on, but all approached Liang Tao, intending to fight at close range.
Liang Tao raised his hand to remove the Zhoutian Formation, and the Great Ming Mirror fell into his palm. He could be seen caressing the mirror surface, seemingly turning a blind eye to the powerful enemy approaching.
Wu Luo flew along the huge body of the Demon King Horned Snake, and the flesh and blood of his right arm was covered with a layer of iron color, and he hit Liang Tao like a sledgehammer.
Qiang——
But with the sound of a sword and a flash of blood, Wu Luo was forced back.
Looking closely, Liang Tao was holding a long sword, and the radiance of stars turned into runes and glyphs appeared on the sword body. At a glance, it was clear that it was extremely iron.
At this moment, Liang Tao's appearance also changed. Instead of his original graceful and luxurious purple robe, he was replaced by a black suit with arrow sleeves, reappearing the appearance of patrolling the country with a sword in the past.
"You are so lucky for the rest of your life." Liang Tao's eagle-browed eyes were more heroic and more unruly: "To be able to see the majesty of my black sword, today I will let all of you kill me here to prove the power of my sword!"
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With the help of the Lutan soldiers, Zhao Shu saw the fighting in the direction of Jiaohui Cave from a distance. However, the fierce fighting caused the Qi movement to be disordered and the yin and yang out of order, making it difficult for the Lutan soldiers to approach.
Zhao Shu could only barely see Liang Tao appear in the Jiao Hui Cave, and then a divine power descended from the sky, isolating the inside and outside of the Jiao Hui Cave, and frightened Zhao Shu into quickly withdrawing his troops.
"I didn't expect Jiuli Kingdom to actually take the initiative to attack Jiaohao Cave." Zhao Miao was shocked, but not too panicked.
Seeing Liang Tao come to Jiaohui Cave in person, Zhao Shu felt relieved. No matter how much he hated Liang Tao, he could not deny his immortal cultivation.
Even if he sensed that the Southern Gods might intervene again, based on Zhao Shu's understanding of Liang Tao, he knew that he had many back-up plans, and it was not his turn to worry about him.
It's just that this adventurous attack by Jiuli Kingdom made Zhao Shu puzzled - how crazy must these barbarians be before they abandon the army and go straight to a place like Jiaohu Cave alone?
Even an expert who could fly into the sky and escape from the earth could not be said to have no scruples. Moreover, compared to a direct confrontation, Zhao Shu felt that the opponent's method of spreading the plague was more difficult to deal with.
What's more, the Jiao Hui Cave is a fixed place. An expert like Liang Tao must be prepared in advance, just waiting for the masters from the Jiuli Kingdom to rush into the Jiao Hui Cave, and maybe take the opportunity to destroy them in a single battle.
The masters of the Jiuli Kingdom had no army to cover them, and no strong city walls as a retreat. They rushed straight into the Jiao Hui Cave alone, which was doomed to a dead end.
"If I were the commander-in-chief of the enemy army, I would not attack Jiaojia Cave alone. I might as well send experts to penetrate the empty Jianjia Pass..."
Before Zhao Miao finished speaking, he raised his eyes and saw a figure flying directly over the south of the city.