At the same time, on the other side of the Silver Moon Battleship, the black armor of the sword-wielding demon who was fighting Shi Mu was in dilapidated form.
Not far away from him, Shi Mu danced with a long black stick in his hand, flew up with a sway, and hit his head with the stick.
When the black-armored demon clan saw the attack from Shi Mu's long stick, he didn't even dodge it. The magic marks on his throat and face suddenly started to glow with golden light.
Immediately afterwards, his whole body turned into a golden color as if a layer of golden water had been poured on it.
The next moment, there was only a "dong" sound, and Ruyi's iron rod hit the black-armored demon clan's head.
Shi Mu only felt a huge force suddenly coming from the long stick in his hand. His whole arm was shaken to the point of numbness, and his body stagnated.
The black-armored demon just tilted his head, twisted his neck, then strode out, opened his big hand, and grabbed Shi Mu.
Before Shi Mu could retreat in time, his arm was grabbed by him, and he couldn't help but tremble in his heart.
"Human boy, go to hell!" The black-armored demon showed a cruel smile, and the force on his hand suddenly increased, trying to crush Shi Mu's arm directly.
However, when he pinched it, he could not hear the sound of bones breaking as he expected.
"How can it be!"
He looked down at Shi Mu's right arm in surprise, only to see that his exposed palm and wrist had already turned pitch black.
Before he could finish his surprise, Shi Mu's other palm turned a bright white color, and he suddenly reached out, grabbed the black-armored demon's neck, and squeezed it to the left.
"Crack!"
After a crisp sound, the black-armored demon's head tilted to one side weakly, the golden color on its body suddenly faded, and a ball of black mist demon soul faintly floated out from the skull orifice, heading towards Shi Mu's demon soul bag.
Fly away.
After throwing down the corpse in his hand, Shi Mu glanced around and saw that more than half of the invading Black Demon clan members had been killed by the alliance monks who were waiting sternly.
Relatively speaking, the alliance's losses were acceptable. In addition to a sun-level warlock who was seriously injured, several earth-level monks also died, and his team also lost one person.
Shi Mu glanced at Gu Yi, who was fighting fiercely on the other side, and then waved his fire wings again to kill the remaining Black Demons.
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Time flies by like a white horse, and seven years pass by in a flash.
In the middle of the Pumice Star Sea, around a dilapidated alliance stronghold, corpses lay everywhere and blood flowed into rivers. Judging from the appearance, except for some corpses of the Black Demon tribe, most of them were alliance monks.
Deep in the stronghold, at the entrance of a black stone hall, more than a dozen alliance monks covered in blood were leaning on each other with a look of despair in their eyes.
Not far in front of them, there stood a dense crowd of tall figures, surrounded by demonic aura. The leader was nearly five feet tall, with gnarled muscles and densely covered with demonic patterns. He had three heads and six arms.
The magic marks on this man's body flashed, and his two heads on the left and right and four arms were completely submerged in his body. He looked far away at the vast starry sky beyond the pumice star sea, and he didn't know what he was thinking.
"Commander Xiao Yao, what should we do with these people?" asked a black demon tribesman wearing black half-armor.
"Kill them all!"
"yes!"
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At the same time, in another Black Demon Clan stronghold hundreds of miles away, a huge white deer was vigorously shaking its head and removing the corpses of several powerful Black Demon Clan men hanging on its antlers.
Throw it down.
Immediately afterwards, his hind feet kicked the ground, and his body flew out like a white lightning, and a pair of white front hooves stepped heavily on a black building.
"Boom" a loud noise!
The seemingly indestructible black building collapsed immediately as soon as light flashed from its surface, turning into a pile of ruins.
The giant white deer fell to the ground in a flash, its whole body lit up with light, and its size began to shrink sharply. In the blink of an eye, it turned into a white-faced young man with the first antlers.
"Let's go to Stronghold No. 36!" He turned around expressionlessly and said to the dozens of alliance monks behind him.
Everyone responded, not daring to disobey him at all, and immediately followed him towards a small floating battleship.
…
I don't know when the Black Demons started to rapidly expand their territory from the initial fierce attack to the mode of using small groups of troops to raid, destroy strongholds and cut off transportation troops.
Due to some reasons, the three holy places were unwilling to deploy all their troops. As a result, the alliance was unable to organize a large-scale charge. It had to resort to tit-for-tat tactics, regaining lost ground while defending, and sneak attacks on the opponent's strongholds.
The war between the two sides gradually evolved into a back-and-forth battle for position, and the saint-level beings on both sides had a tacit understanding and did not directly participate in these small-scale battles.
However, this kind of tug-of-war does reduce casualties in the short term, but in the long term, it is not a good thing for the alliance.
In the past few years, many of the heavenly warriors and sun-level warlocks sent by the three holy places were seriously injured or even died. The earth-level warriors and moon-level warlocks who relied on the three holy places suffered even more heavy losses.
Although new disciples on duty are constantly being sent in the name of the Three Holy Lands, in most cases, they can only make up for the vacancies that were previously lost. Under the roundabout tactics of the Black Demon Clan, if they want to accumulate the strength for a large-scale charge,
After annihilating the Black Demon clan in one fell swoop and driving them out of the Miyang Star Territory, they are still outnumbered.
During this period, the Geng 465 team led by Shi Mu had outstanding mission completion efficiency and record, becoming one of the few elite teams among all the teams in the Floating City Fortress. Naturally, Shi Mu also accumulated a lot of merit.
The people who came here with him, such as Gu Yi and Lujiao Youth, also made outstanding achievements and led the team to shine in the fortress. Even Xiong Tu was no exception.
Although Shi Mu had fought against the enemy side by side with him several times, his malice toward him had not diminished at all. He even deliberately provoked him and provoked several frictions, which led to the deepening of the conflict between the two.
It was only because of the tense war that the conflicts between the two sides did not intensify.
This situation lasted for another two or three years. When the ten-year term of Shi Mu's group of people who came to take turns expired, most of them couldn't wait to leave the fortress and return to the sect.
However, Shi Mu took the initiative to stay. He wanted to exchange the Bauhinia Dala Fruit and the fourth-turn formula of the Nine-turn Xuan Gong, but there was still a lot to be desired in terms of contribution points.
Apart from him, Xiong Tu also stayed behind for some unknown reason.
In the twelfth year after Shi Mu came to the Floating Fortress, something surprising happened.
Dugu Chuan, the demon elder who was on duty at the fortress, was transferred back to the Qinglan Holy Land. A holy elder from the Lichen Sect replaced him and became the new rotating elder.
Speaking of which, Dugu Chuan was not transferred back due to the expiration of his rotation, but because he was ambushed and attacked by three powerful Saint-level men from the Black Demon Tribe during an outing. He suffered heavy losses and had to be replaced.
As the saying goes, there are three things a new official needs to do when taking office.
As soon as the elder of the Lichen Sect took office, he changed his previous roundabout tactics, issued several instructions one after another, abandoned many strongholds, concentrated his forces and stepped up the offensive, and it seemed that he was going to drive the Black Demon Clan out of the Star Territory.
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half year later.
In a valley on a fragment of a certain continent, more than a dozen corpses of the Black Demon tribe were lying in random directions, and several figures were busy doing something among the corpses.
In a corner of the valley, on top of a huge rock, Shi Mu stood with his arms crossed.
He had just led his team to carry out an ambush mission. Because he knew the opponent's whereabouts in advance and killed the opponent's captain with lightning speed, the mission was carried out extremely smoothly and there were no casualties among his own members.
Suddenly, he raised his eyebrows and turned over his hand to take out a token, which was the Battle Alliance Order.
Light circulated on the surface of the token, and a line of small words appeared:
"Go back to the main hall quickly."
Seeing this, Shi Mu didn't say much, and gave an order to gather the team and start the return journey.
Half a day later, when Shi Mu and his party returned to the floating city fortress area, Shi Mu turned to a tall and thin young man behind him and said:
"Guo Shen, please take everyone back first and make some repairs. If the main palace comes to me this time, I'm afraid there will be some new mission."
After fighting in this pumice star sea for more than ten years, the actual casualties among the earth-level disciples in Shi Mu's initial team were not large. However, after the ten years were over, most of them chose to return. At that time, only Yuan Yujing and Guo Shen were the two.
Choose to stay.
Over the years, countless life and death experiences have already proven Shi Mu's strength and leadership. Guo Shen and Guo Shen no longer had their initial prejudice against him, but became very convinced.
Because they discovered that following Shi Mu, a powerful captain, not only could the risks be greatly reduced, but they could also earn a lot of merit.
However, in a stronghold battle two months ago, Yuan Yujing was seriously injured in the face of an army of black demons several times his own, so he evacuated the fortress and returned to the gate. Now only Guo Shen is left.
"Captain Shi, don't worry, I will make all arrangements." Guo Shen responded and led everyone down towards the camp mountain.
Shi Mu watched everyone leave, then turned around and flew down, landing on the square in front of the main hall.
Entering the main hall, Shi Mu saw dozens of figures already standing in the hall. Judging from their auras and the fluctuations of spiritual power on their bodies, these people were either heavenly warriors or sun-level warlocks. They should all be from various teams.
team leader.
Before he walked into the crowd, a voice rang in Shi Mu's ears:
"Shi Mu, you are too slow. There are so many people waiting for you."
There was a hint of contempt in his tone, it was Xiong Tu.
Shi Mu ignored it, walked straight through the crowd, came to a middle-aged man wearing a dark green robe, and saluted:
"Elder Mo, this disciple just completed his mission and came back a little late."
"Oh, how was the mission completed?" Elder Mo asked.
"Fortunately, one heavenly demon and seventeen earthly demons were all killed." Shi Mu said.
"Okay, let's join the queue." Elder Mo nodded and said with satisfaction.
Shi Mu walked back to the queue and looked at Elder Mo again.
This person is none other than Mo Linyu, the saint-level elder who took over from Duguchuan to garrison here.
He has black and green hair, meticulously tied on top of his head, and his monk's robe has no wrinkles at all. He looks very serious and neat, but his forehead and cheekbones are relatively prominent, making his face a bit gloomy.
Because this person acted too domineeringly and cunningly, Shi Mu was quite dissatisfied with his style of behavior. (To be continued.)