SWDnovel Chapter 84 Combat
Chapter 84 Combat
The other outer disciples weren't idle either; some were using Taoist magic to throw things into the distance, while others were taking out talismans from their pouches and scattering them outwards as if they were free...
The individual cultivators clearly had their own methods.
Like Duan Heisi and Miao Wuniang. Wuniang deftly took out a palm-sized array plate from her pouch, its grade being mid-level Fetal Breathing.
She made hand gestures and chanted an incantation:
"The essence of the moon shines brightly!"
The golden palace shines with brilliance, forging my walls. The banners flutter like snowflakes, and the ape's arm reaches for the sky—
"The 'Soldiers' Formation' is activated!"
After activating their fetal breathing, a pale green halo emerged from the array plate, enveloping the two of them. As the halo gradually contracted, it transformed into a protective aura, further enhancing their bodies. A light band resembling an umbilical cord also connected the two of them.
Both of them felt a sudden jolt.
"hold head high!!"
As Duan Heisi stretched his movements slightly, a series of cracking sounds rang out from his entire body.
This "Soldier's Body Formation," as a mid-grade first-tier formation, is one of Miao Wu Niang's most treasured formations.
Each has two mysterious functions.
One is "covered by walls and shields".
This profound method corresponds to the "Pleiades" constellation. The array plate borrows and seals the power of a star to generate a protective shield that can withstand the mid-stage of the embryonic breathing stage, and can protect up to two people.
The second is "Soldier's Seal and Monkey's Seal".
It contains the power of the star "Shenxiu", which can slightly enhance the recipient's physical strength, spiritual resilience, and the speed of fetal breathing recovery.
However, the array plate is extremely convenient to use, and it is ultimately a simple method.
In terms of quality and power, it is far inferior to the array arranged in the form of "array weapon".
There are time constraints and losses.
Similar to the altar Chen Bai set up when he was still a mortal and drawing talismans.
Feel the surging power within my body.
Duan Heisi chuckled and said, "Fifth Sister, this array plate of yours is really powerful. Every time I use it before a fight, it's like I'm on drugs..."
Miao Wuniang rolled her eyes at him and warned, "When the fight starts, don't stray too far apart, otherwise the protective mysteries of this formation won't work."
"become."
Duan Heisi nodded, putting aside his jokes, and silently shouldered the long sword in his hand. "Leave the rest to me."
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Chen Bai's gaze passed over a hundred meters away, landing on the dense swarm of monsters on the higher mountainside.
It was the entrance to a hidden mine.
The vegetation is lush and verdant, and the depths are unfathomable.
There seemed to be a faint, elusive aura lurking within, watching them from an invisible distance.
Chen Bai's spiritual awareness far surpassed that of others at the same level; that wisp of energy, amidst the chaotic demonic aura that filled the mountains and fields, was like a thin needle stuck in a pile of cotton.
Others couldn't feel it, but it made him clench his brow slightly.
However, just as his spiritual sense swept over it again, that faint aura suddenly disappeared, causing Chen Bai to feel a sense of vigilance.
Just then, a sharp screech suddenly came from the hillside.
The scream was high-pitched and piercing, like tearing silk, its long trailing sound echoing through the valley.
Before the first cry had even faded, the second cry exploded immediately, followed by the third and the fourth—hundreds and thousands of mandrills shrieked simultaneously, the sound waves overlapping and merging into a tooth-grinding surge that flooded the eardrums of everyone present.
"what……"
The two cultivators, whose spiritual consciousness was weak, groaned, their eyes bloodshot, and their bodies swaying precariously.
"Cough!"
The other person was halfway through using his Taoist arts when he was startled by the shrill and dizzying scream. His internal energy suddenly became disordered, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood mist.
The once-orderly formation began to loosen slightly, and a gap suddenly appeared.
The mandrills had been waiting for this moment.
A glint of almost human cunning flashed in his crimson eyes. The next instant, the shadowy figures covering the entire mountainside moved simultaneously.
Their way of running is different from that of humans or beasts. Each mandrill has only one leg, which grows backward from under the crotch, with the knee bent backward, making a very faint clicking sound when it leaps.
They leap off the ground with one foot, covering a distance of several meters in a single bound. Upon landing, their three-toed claws grip the crevices of rocks or the roots of grass, using the force to spring up again, leaping as if flying.
From a distance, the entire hillside looked like it was covered with a rolling black tide, dotted with red caps, rising and falling, moving so fast it was dazzling.
Nearly.
The mandrill in the front row sprang out of the bushes, its thin, monkey-like body completely black, with a ring of green fur around its neck standing up slightly in the wind.
Their three-fingered claws stretched forward, their nails jet black and shiny, the tips still stained with dried flesh and blood torn from some unknown animal.
When they run, they don't howl or roar; only the rustling of their bare feet on the gravel and the cracking of their joints can be heard.
But it was even more chilling than a roar.
Yao Ye's face turned deathly pale, but he did not hesitate.
With a flick of his right hand, a streak of crimson-gold light flew out from his sleeve.
It was a bronze mirror the size of a palm, facing down, spinning in the air and suddenly expanding to a diameter of about ten feet.
The mirror shone with a dazzling crimson-gold light, and a beam of light as thick as an arm shot out from the mirror, blasting straight into the densest part of the mandrill swarm.
"boom--"
The crimson-gold beam of light landed, sending shards of rock flying.
A dozen or so mandrills that charged at the front were hit head-on by the beam of light. Before they could even utter a cry, their small bodies instantly vaporized in the light, leaving only a few charred remnants that were lifted into the air by the shockwave.
The beam of light exploded into a ring of crimson-gold fire where it landed, spreading outwards and sending more than twenty mountain demons flying backwards, their green fur burned and turning into curled, acrid ash.
"Chiyangjian".
A top-tier first-order magical artifact. This is one of Yao Ye's trump cards.
Before the flames had even subsided, seven or eight mandrills that had managed to dodge around the edge of the pillar of light pounced from the side.
Their figures moved with ghostly speed, their three-fingered claws aimed straight at the face of an outer disciple in the front row.
A bright, sharp blade flashed down diagonally.
Duan Heisi stepped forward, his long sword slashing up from the lower right, the blade precisely slicing into the neck of the leading mandrill, slicing its entire head off.
Black blood splattered, but he didn't even look at it. With a flick of his wrist, he slashed horizontally with his blade, cutting the second mountain demon in half.
The third one leaped up from the side, its three-fingered claw aimed at his eye socket. Duan Heisi dodged the claw's edge, clenched his left fist, and slammed it into the mountain demon's chest.
"Snap!"
After a sharp crack, the mandrill's chest cavity caved in completely.
Like a kite with a broken string, it flew backwards, crashed into the rock wall, and slid down.
It stopped moving in an instant.
"Come forth, you vile beasts!"
Duan Heisi stood with his sword drawn, the tip dripping with black blood, and roared like thunder.
Miao Wuniang was behind him, and the pale green halo on the array plate lit up again, enveloping the two of them.
Her fingers flew, and several beams of spiritual light struck Duan Heisi's back, making the protective light shield around him even more solid.
Yao Ye's "Red Sun Mirror" bought him a few moments to catch his breath.
Taking advantage of the moment when the front row of mountain demons was blasted away, the four outer disciples had already driven the other four jade cones into the four corners of the ground.
Invisible threads, glowing with a bloody light, were drawn from the cone, intertwining and instantly forming a semi-circular net barrier that protected everyone inside.
"Pulling silk threads to guide the formation."
Although this formation is only a mid-grade first-level formation, its advantage lies in its extremely fast deployment.
The fluttering silk threads, though seemingly delicate, are actually incredibly resilient. Dozens of mandrills followed closely behind, crashing into the net. The threads only dented slightly before bouncing back sharply.
The fine threads tightened and penetrated the skin and flesh.
Like slender, blood-sucking leeches, they drained the mandrills that stumbled into them, turning them into dried corpses.
But the mandrills kept coming, and more and more dark figures surged from behind, tearing with their claws, biting with their teeth, and ramming into them with their bodies...
The wire mesh hummed under the intense attack.
"Wang Yuan! Fang Zheng!" Yao Ye shouted.
Behind him, two people stepped forward in response.
They had just used the "exquisite jade pearl" bestowed by Yao Ye, and at this moment, their dantian was filled with perfect true qi.