Chapter 851: Soul Refining Array
"That black flag is the Soul Refining Banner, right? The white triangles on the two sides look like a pair of eyes. I have a deep impression of it. It should be correct!" An officer in his forties walked to the screen, looked at it again and again, and said.
"Reporting from Squad 17 at position 3 on the front of the fourth line of defense, our melee shield is intact. Three soldiers suddenly developed severe headaches and confusion. They have been sent to the medical station. Please give instructions!" The captain of Squad 17's voice on the communication station was a little anxious. If an emergency occurs during combat, you can report directly to the general command room.
"Send someone over to take over the defense line immediately. Team 17, try to maintain the melee shield as stable as possible!"
"Wushuang, lead your team to take over the defense line of Team 17. All members must wear soul-fixing crystals, carry soul-catching bells, and soul-testing instruments!" After President Jingyuan finished speaking, a man in a hooded black windbreaker appeared from the corner, clasped his fists towards President Jingyuan, and left the meeting room.
"Will the Soul Catching Bell work?"
"Not necessarily, let's take a look first!"
"According to the records in the classics, the Soul Refining Banner is made by sacrificing the spirits of countless powerful beasts above level seven. It is extremely powerful. Once activated, the souls formed by the spirits of the beasts will attack all living souls. The level of the Soul Refining Banner is related to the number of spirits of the beasts sacrificed. I wonder what level this Soul Refining Banner is?"
While the command center was talking, Wushuang, dressed in black, had already led his men to the defense line where Team 17 was located. At this time, the number of people in Team 17 who were attacked by the Soul Refining Banner had increased from three to eight.
The team members led by Wushuang are all high-level practitioners. Not only do they wear soul-fixing crystals, they also carry soul-catching bells. As soon as they arrive at the position, they set up the soul detectors and are on guard.
Not long after, someone in Wushuang's team was attacked by the soul demon.
"The Soul Catching Bell cannot capture the Soul Demon, and the Soul Detector cannot detect any abnormalities! Practitioners in the Concentration Realm can resist the attacks of the Soul Demon. Those below the Concentration Realm have a low chance of being able to withstand it." Wushuang was also attacked, but he quickly resolved the attack.
"President, there are so many Soul Refining Banners!" Yan Zishu's face turned pale.
The people at the command center looked at the scene on the surveillance camera and their faces changed drastically.
"Retreat, except for the regiments maintaining battlefield defense, all other units retreat!"
The speed at which the command was issued was decisive and swift, however, it was still a step too late.
Under the control of the enemy monks, the black Soul Refining Banner appeared behind the battlefield, completely blocking the area from land to the air, and obstructing the retreat!
Dense bullets hit the black flag like raindrops, but did not cause any damage to the flag!
"Soul Refining Formation! When did they get around behind us?" Yan Cheng looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief.
"They should have used some magic weapon like a teleportation array!" In the past, the military had obtained many teleportation talismans and teleportation array plates from the outside monks they had killed. Because these magic weapons required spiritual energy to activate, these outside monks would be unable to use them once they were trapped in the forbidden spiritual array.
In today's game, we failed to trap the invader in the Forbidden Spirit Formation in the first place, and we have been in a passive state since then.
"Did the Ninth Regiment escape?" asked President Jingyuan.
"One third of them are trapped, and the situation of those who escaped is currently unknown. This formation seems to be able to block the transmission of signals, and the signal in our battlefield area has also been weakened a lot!" said the general from the communications department.
"Everyone has seen the current situation. There is no way to retreat. We can only... fight to the death!" President Jingyuan did not expect that today's situation would be so tragic. There is no way to retreat and we can only fight to the death. However, the opponent is too powerful. The Fifth Legion is destined to be defeated here today.
"Qingming, where is the guy in your staff who is more proficient in battle formations now? Ask him to come over quickly and ask him if he has any ideas to break the formation. Let's work together to find out what everyone thinks!"
"The Soul Refining Formation is a vicious and insidious formation. It is only briefly introduced in the formation manuals! On the one hand, this formation requires a large number of Soul Refining Banners, which is difficult for one or two sects to gather. On the other hand, cultivators seek immortality and value the soul. This method of extracting souls and refining spirits is very likely to arouse public anger. Therefore, there are very few related records!"
"Hello, President, Chief of Staff, and all the leaders!" A young man in a Taoist robe outside the door greeted them with a fist.
"Tianming, come and see, do you have a way to break this soul refining formation?" Wen Qingming stood up immediately when he saw the person coming and looked at him expectantly. He had contributed a lot to the development of the soul-forbidden formation.
"Even if there is a way to break it, we can't do it! I just saw outside that the person holding the banner at the northwest corner of the formation is a seventh-level cultivator. I don't know what method he used to suppress him to the state of concentration. If the other formation centers are also guarded by seventh-level cultivators, then our current strike force will not be able to eliminate them at all!" Deng Tianming looked indifferent, as if he didn't care about the current dilemma.
"Even a seventh-level cultivator is still subject to the restrictions of the interface rules. How can you know if you don't try?"
"There are several points in this formation. Even if we can't break it, at least we can tear a hole in it!"
Just as the command was busy deploying the battle plan, bad news kept coming from the battlefield. More and more soldiers showed symptoms of losing their souls, black souls were flying around the battlefield, artillery fire was flying, and smoke was everywhere. The enemy's soul refining banners rose and fell, but the core of the formation remained standing. As guns and ammunition became less and less, communication on the battlefield gradually became problematic.
It was not known whether the flying artillery fire destroyed the communication magnetic field, or the operation of the soul refining formation affected the signal transmission. In short, the command center's control over the various combat units was gradually getting out of control.
"President, leave this to me. You leave here first!" Looking at the display screen in front of him that had no signal, Yan Cheng said to President Jingyuan.
"This teleportation array can only be used by thirty people. The positioning point is at the Jincheng military headquarters. It is one-way. You take Zishu, Deng Tianming, and the others back! I won't leave!" Jing Yuan knew that without the Fifth Legion, there would be no point in him returning to Jincheng.
"I'm not leaving!" Someone in the row of young people behind Jingyuan couldn't help but speak.
"If the president doesn't leave, I won't leave either!" Wushuang, who had just been recalled from the battlefield, also spoke up.
The young people that President Jingyuan intends to send away are all talented and good seedlings with a cultivation level above the Life Fire Realm.
"Nonsense, what time is it? Follow the order!" Ever since the world changed drastically and the invaders were discovered, Jingyuan has always been a tough fighter, that is to eliminate all invaders. In the past eight years, they have always held an absolute advantage and almost annihilated all the invaders at the landing site.
However, after this battle, the situation reversed. If those fence-sitters could continue their race, then he was willing to be buried here.
(End of this chapter)
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