diskusbooks Chapter 1822 Destroyed in both body and soul!
Chapter 1822 Destroyed in both body and soul!
"The destiny of the Moon Shadow Palace Master of Dragon Roar Temple?"
Ye Yan stepped forward, a half-smile on his face. His gaze swept across the heavily armored giant at the head of the group, and then across the seemingly magnificent mountain-shaped array in the air.
"When did that cowardly Yue Hanying start making such a big show of himself? In this godforsaken place, the Lost Desert, he set up such a grand display just to capture a few spies from the Spirit Realm?"
He deliberately emphasized the words "capture" and "spy," making no attempt to hide the sarcasm in his tone.
The heavily armored giant's face darkened, and his voice boomed like thunder: "Insolence! How dare you insult the name of the Moon Shadow Palace Master! You have trespassed into the Holy Domain, your whereabouts are suspicious, you are either thieves or criminals! Surrender immediately, or you may be spared a whole corpse!"
"Pfft-"
Crimson Flame Fox burst out laughing. He crossed his arms and looked at the other party with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot: "Leave a whole corpse? With your bunch of deformed freaks and this useless broken formation?"
He pointed to the phantom of the giant mountain seal in the air and curled his lip: "It's only good for fooling those who haven't seen the world. The real Mountain Moving and Mountain Suppressing Formation requires an earth-type divine object or the essence blood of a cultivator at least at the Nascent Soul stage as the core of the formation to mobilize the power of the earth veins within a hundred miles. Once activated, it will truly feel like a mountain pressing down and time and space will freeze."
"This thing of yours... has the form but lacks spiritual energy, and there are three obvious blockages at the connection points of the array patterns. Is it because the materials are insufficient, or because the person who set up the array is not skilled enough?"
As expected of a master of fire-based weapon crafting, the Crimson Flame Fox saw through the true nature of the formation at a glance.
The Blue-Faced Fox spoke gently, but her voice clearly reached everyone's ears: "Fellow Daoists, although you have deliberately simulated some of the aura of the Moonflower lineage of the Dragon Roar Temple, your foundations are mixed, and your vigorous blood and qi carry the unique dryness and bloodlust of the desert. You are more like sand bandits or mercenaries who have been mingling here for many years."
"Although your positions seem to fit the formation, there are many discords in the resonance of your auras, which shows that you are not well-trained Dragon Roar Observation Guards."
Master Lingxu was even more straightforward. He didn't even bother to speak, but simply raised his eyes slightly and glanced at the illusory image of the giant mountain seal in the air.
Om-!
The enormous phantom of the seal trembled violently, and the earthy yellow light flowing on its surface became chaotic. The entire array became dim and uncertain, as if it might collapse at any moment!
The heavily armored giant's expression changed drastically, and the Core Formation and Nascent Soul cultivators behind him also fluctuated, their eyes flashing with horror!
A single glance was enough to nearly shake the grand formation they had painstakingly set up?!
Just how powerful is this old man?!
"What? You've been exposed and can't keep up the act anymore?" Mingchuan's voice rang out calmly. He stepped forward and stood shoulder to shoulder with Lingxu Zhenren, his gaze as cold as lightning locking onto the heavily armored giant.
"Who instructed you to impersonate the Dragon Roar Temple and set up this ambush? Tell us who's behind it, and you might still have a way out."
The heavily armored giant's forehead veins throbbed, and his eyes flashed with a fierce light. He was clearly enraged and knew that his disguise had been completely exposed.
"Hmph! Who cares if we're real or fake! Once we get to Yangtong Mountain, even dragons have to coil up and tigers have to lie low!"
He suddenly raised his giant axe high and roared, "Brothers! So what if they saw through us? There are only five of them: an old man, a fire-wielding idiot, a woman, a kid, and a useless fellow! Kill them, and their treasures will be enough for us to live a carefree life for a hundred years! Activate the great formation and crush them for me!"
"Roar--!"
The surrounding hundreds of cultivators echoed in unison. Although they were somewhat guilty for having their origins exposed, their greed ultimately overcame their fear, thanks to their numbers and the support of the formation.
The giant mountain seal array in the air stabilized once more, and its light shone even brighter. A heavy pressure spread out, covering an area of several miles, and the sand and gravel on the ground began to slowly sink.
At the same time, the Core Formation and Nascent Soul cultivators each used their magic weapons and spells, and beams of spiritual light shot into the sky, attacking Mingchuan and his group of five from all directions!
"Stubborn."
Master Lingxu uttered four words calmly, without holding back any longer.
He took a small step forward.
This step felt as if it were on the very pulse of the entire world.
"town."
Words become law, and laws respond!
Centered on his feet, an invisible and intangible force, yet a million times heavier than the mountain seal, suddenly spread out!
Click!Click!Click!
The seemingly enormous phantom of a mountain seal in the air, like glass struck by a heavy hammer, couldn't even withstand a moment before it was covered in spiderweb-like cracks, and then, to everyone's disbelief—
It exploded with a bang! It turned into countless points of light and vanished!
"puff--!"
All the cultivators connected to the formation, regardless of their cultivation level, coughed up a mouthful of blood, their auras instantly weakened, and their eyes were filled with boundless fear!
Their crucial defensive formation was shattered in a single step by the enemy?!
How to fight this? !
"Not good! We've kicked a hornet's nest! Retreat!" A quick-reacting Nascent Soul leader shouted hoarsely, turning around to try and escape into the sand.
"Want to leave now? It's too late."
The Crimson Flame Fox sneered and vanished from its spot.
The next moment, he appeared behind the Nascent Soul leader who was trying to escape as if by teleportation, and his palm, covered with crimson-gold flames, lightly pressed against the back of his head.
"burn."
The Nascent Soul leader didn't even have time to scream before his protective aura shattered like paper. His entire body was instantly engulfed in crimson flames from the inside out, turning to ashes in the blink of an eye. Even his Nascent Soul couldn't escape!
Swift and clean, utterly and completely destroyed!
This ruthless and decisive kill completely shattered the fighting spirit of the remaining bandits.
"Spare me! Senior, spare me!"
"We're just doing this for money! It was the Black Viper Mercenary Group from Shaquanji who took the job!"
"Yes, yes, yes! It was Boss Black Viper who ordered us to disguise ourselves as people from the Dragon Roar Temple and ambush high-level cultivators who might come out of the desert. He said... he said the Holy Domain has been rather unsettled lately, and there are some easy targets!"
Cries for mercy and pleas for betrayal rose and fell. The hundreds of cultivators who had been fierce and menacing just moments before were now like a flock of frightened sheep, in complete disarray, with no will to fight left.
Seeing the situation was dire, the heavily armored giant roared and frantically poured all his spiritual power into the giant axe in his hand, slashing fiercely at Ye Yan, who looked the weakest, in an attempt to create an opening to escape.
"court death."
Ye Yan snorted coldly, neither dodging nor avoiding, and threw out his right fist flatly without any fancy moves.
Fists and axes clashed!
clang--!
A deafening explosion!
That seemingly extraordinary giant axe was actually bent and cracked by Ye Yan's fist!
The heavily armored giant's tiger's mouth exploded, and the bones in his arms made a cracking sound as he was unable to bear the weight. He was sent flying like a broken sack, crashing heavily into the mountain wall and sinking deep inside, his fate unknown.
The battle lasted only a few breaths from start to finish.
On one side were well-trained, well-coordinated elite ambush troops, numbering over a hundred.
The other side only had five people, and most of them didn't even actually make a move.
The result was an overwhelming defeat!