But it is wishful thinking to want to escape from this predicament.

Ignoring them for the moment, Jiang Li looked towards other places on the battlefield.

Not far from him, two Jindan body cultivators from Cihang Temple were besieging an armored ogre.

Casserole-sized, golden fists rained down on the ogre.

The tough scales were broken, but the ogre seemed to be completely unaware of it and continued to attack without being affected at all.

And its attack pattern is completely different from the previous two ogres.

He was obviously much larger than other ogres, with a sharp horn that bent backwards on his head covered with a mask. Every time he gained a certain distance, he would use the horn to rush forward towards the enemy with unstoppable force.

If hit by that horn, even a mountain will have a hole in it.

Jiang Li discovered that these ogres, apart from the fact that they all had bone armor on their faces, their appearance, body shape, fighting style, habits and characteristics were all very different.

It's like they didn't evolve from the same species at all.

You have to know that intelligent creatures have a mechanism for identifying individual characteristics, and 90 percent of it is directed at their own kind.

Take humans as an example. Just when communicating across races, it is easy to develop face blindness, which makes it difficult to distinguish facial features.

Not to mention boasting about species.

If Jiang Li were to see a hundred scaled monsters, he would most likely think that these 100 scaled monsters looked almost exactly the same.

Because when humans perform cross-species recognition, they usually recognize racial characteristics first, rather than individual characteristics.

But this group of armor-faced ogre-like creatures gave the river a strange and bizarre visual feeling, as if they had evolved from completely different ancestors.

They grow in strange shapes and at will.

Before he could think about it, something strange happened again.

"Wait, what's that noise?"

Jiang Li was just about to quickly get rid of the two ogres and go to support his other companions.

Suddenly, from the direction of the distant coastline, there was a sound of liquid surging violently.

He stepped on the air several times, his body rose up a bit, and looked at the coastline in the distance.

In his field of vision, a white line was moving rapidly towards them.

"Damn it! It's a tsunami! They can actually cause a tsunami!"

"Everyone return to the city to defend!"

Jiang Li didn't believe that the tsunami was just a coincidence. It was just their first meeting, but this group of armor-faced ogre-like creatures had left such a deep impression on him.

He roared downwards. It would have been fine if it was just a tsunami, but along with the tsunami came countless ferocious sea beasts.

If they continue to fight outside the city, the lives of the Chongshan League monks will be lost in large numbers and meaninglessly at the hands of these damn sea beasts.

This was obviously something Jiang Li could not accept.

"Don't fight any more, our disciples can't defend the Mechanical City!"

After once again reminding the high-ranking officials who were hunting down the Armored Demon, Jiang Li dragged the Dragon Prison Chain Ball and landed on the wall of the Mechanical City.

"These damned ogres, no wonder so many Eastern Region sects were defeated by them. What a group of terrifying monsters!"

If they wanted to resist such a tsunami of sea beasts by relying solely on the monks present, they would all be exhausted to death.

I hope this mechanical city under my feet can be reliable.

Jiang Li flipped his palm, and a white spirit ball that outsiders could not see appeared in his hand.

Thousand Smart Balls, go!

Jiang Li took out Qianluo City’s original city core, the Qianji Spirit Ball, and then shot it directly into the core position of the Machinery City.

The Mechanical City, which originally required nine thousand Qimen monks to operate together to unleash its power, seemed to come alive in an instant after the Thousand Spirit Ball entered the core.

All defense mechanisms were automatically activated without the need for human control. After accurately aiming at the white wave, they launched a fierce long-range attack.

The Poseidon Fork, the Falling Dragon Thunder, the Spiritual Energy Bomb, every attack landed on the white waves, and a large area of ​​blood-red waves would appear at the landing point. This was because large groups of sea beasts were torn to pieces by the remote mechanism.

And after the tsunami line approached Blackreef Island fifty nautical miles away, a strange mechanism suddenly emerged on the muddy mudflat.

It was a simple mechanism that was shaped like a scallop and opened backwards at a forty-five-degree angle.

After the turbulent current rushed through, the angle of the scallop mechanism was forced to close under the strong pressure of the current.

The closed mechanical scallop automatically opens under the action of the elastic device, and then closes again under the action of the ocean current.

Such mechanisms are distributed everywhere within this fifty-nautical-mile area. If you look down from the sky, you can only see countless scallops opening and closing at once.

These mechanisms have no offensive capabilities and no defensive effects.

But under the influence of these scallops, the speed of the tsunami entering this range slowed down significantly, and the waves became smaller and smaller, until it approached Black Reef Island, when the tsunami was reduced to only small waves of more than ten meters, hitting the hard reef.

That kind of mechanical scallop is actually called a tidal accumulator. It is a basic device that can use the power of tides to store energy for the entire mechanical city.

As the mechanical scallop opened and closed, every time the tsunami advanced a foot, its energy would be absorbed a little. After crossing fifty nautical miles, the waves hitting Black Reef Island no longer posed any threat.

This is a magical mechanism created by Mozi, the previous generation of Momen, who had a flash of inspiration when he was in this tidal flat terrain and unable to borrow the power of the earth veins.

It can be used to store energy in normal times, and in critical moments, it can also be used to resist tsunamis like it is now.

The Mechanical City, which had accumulated a large amount of energy, roared violently at those who were swept nearby by the waves.

However, there were still too many sea beasts rushing in like a wave. The high-ranking officials of Chongshan League who were fighting in the air had no choice but to put down their opponents and release large-scale lethal spells towards the group of sea beasts below to relieve the pressure on the Machinery City.

But this also gave the armored ogres a chance to catch their breath. They did not fight and instead dived into the sea, escaping without a trace.

Obviously, this tsunami of beasts was created by the armor-faced ogre hiding in the distance to help his companions escape.

The Chongshan League, which was trapped in the city by the tide of sea beasts, did not dare to pursue. If they were lured away from the mountain again, their base, which was not yet warm, and the Chongshan League's vanguard would really be finished.

Fortunately, the armor-faced ogre has some limits in controlling the beast tide.

After an hour, the sea beasts were no longer as determined and fearless as they were before.

After three hours, this group of sea beasts that could easily devour an entire country dispersed on their own.

After a long time, the top leaders of the Chongshan League who had been out pursuing the enemy finally arrived.

After learning what happened later, they were terrified and apologized to Jiang Li and others.

"Don't blame yourselves, the difficulty of the armored ogre is far beyond our imagination."

"In the days ahead, you must be extremely careful. Don't take it lightly."

"I have moved the core of Qianluo City here. The defense capability of the Mechanical City has been greatly improved. For the time being, we will guard the stronghold and then plan for the future."

Now that they had just arrived, they didn't know much about the armored ogre, let alone the situation of the surrounding territory. To attack rashly at this time would simply be courting death.

"So what should we do next? The armored ogres have the ability to control sea beasts on a large scale. Even if the mechanical city is strong, we will be killed by those sea beasts sooner or later."

The attitudes of other senior executives are obviously still relatively negative.

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After all, this sudden encounter caused heavy losses to the Chongshan League. But in terms of the results of the battle, apart from a large amount of smelly and useless sea beast meat, they only killed 17 armor-faced ogres and two ogres captured by Jiang Li.

You have to know that they still need 270,000 armored ogre monsters to reach one million merits. If they continue like this, when will it end? At this moment, they also deeply felt the helplessness of other sects struggling on this battlefield.

If the opponent continues to use the method of controlling sea beasts to attack in order to consume them, the situation will become very passive.

"Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be defeated. Let's study these monsters first."

For now, they can only look for a breakthrough among these armor-faced ogres.

If we can discover some fatal weakness of this race, or if we can get their ethnic gathering place through torture, it will be considered a major breakthrough.

In the alliance, a rare ice-attributed monk cast a spell to freeze a patch of sea mud next to Black Reef Island, turning it into a flat, solid piece of frozen soil.

They first moved out the seventeen armor-faced demon corpses and placed them on the ground, rowing them neatly.

Just like what Jiang Li had discovered before, these ogres all had very unique personalities, with different body shapes and features.

The dissections were performed by beastmasters who specialized in raising spiritual beasts, and it was discovered that there were considerable differences in the organs in their bodies.

From the perspective of organ physiological structure, some of these dozen or so man-eating monsters meet the characteristics of carnivores, some meet the characteristics of herbivores, and some even have the characteristics of aquatic animals.

If the armor was removed, no one would think that they were the same species. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they were completely unrelated.

It's really hard to imagine that they would be the same species.

Using a sharp rune knife, he cut around the joint below their visors. After a lot of effort, he finally removed the visor that represented the characteristics of the ogre.

Jiang Li took the mask in his hand and squeezed it. It was unexpectedly thick and hard.

He held the visor with his right hand and the head of the mask's owner with his left hand, slowly increasing the strength with both hands.

After a moment, there was a bang, and the head could not bear it first. After a few breaths, cracks finally appeared on the mask.

This mask is actually much harder and thicker than the skull.

The most humans can do is to be a little thick-skinned, but these armor-faced ogres have evolved their faces into the hardest part of their bodies.

No wonder this race is so powerful, it just proves the old saying: "If people don't have shame, then the world will be..."

"What did you feel when you fought these armor-faced monsters?"

Jiang Li observed the injuries on the armored monsters on the ground, and then asked the senior executives next to him.

"These monsters are very durable and not easy to kill."

After pondering for a moment, a senior executive came to this conclusion.

"Yes, his ability is very strange, and his injuries recover very quickly. He is very difficult to deal with."

Other senior executives had almost the same feeling.

Jiang Li sighed and nodded, it was indeed the case.

He noticed that the wounds on these ogre corpses often exceeded twenty, and the body damage rate was over fifty percent.

These monsters seemed to have no vital points, and would only die after more than half of their bodies were shattered.

In this situation, if a human cultivator of the same level collides with another, he will be at a huge disadvantage.

"Snakes have weak points and dragons have reverse scales. Everything has its weaknesses. This is the law of nature. I don't believe that this group of armored monsters can be an exception."

But how to effectively deal with the armored ogre? In this regard, the Temple of the Gods, which has been fighting against it for thousands of years, must have done a lot of research.

But the war situation changes rapidly, and the opponent is also a powerful race with extremely high intelligence. They will try every means to reduce and make up for any shortcomings.

If you really keep believing in some "special effects method", the only result will be to send yourself into the abyss. Therefore, the Temple of the Gods does not teach this kind of knowledge on paper.

Chongshan League can only explore the situation on their own.

Alliance Leader Jiang raised his hand and a black chain ball, which had shrunk to a diameter of only about two meters, flew over.

As the space shrank, the two ogres inside were forced to hunch their bodies, looking more like two wild beasts.

Jiang Li controlled the Dragon Prison Lock, enlarged one of the gaps in the chain, and waved to the clawed armor-faced monster inside.

"Come out and fight me one on one. If you can beat me, I'll let you go."

After hearing Jiang Li's words, the clawed armor-faced monster remained indifferent, but the other armor-faced monster with barrier ability obviously had some reaction.

The two completely black eyes under the mask turned around, made a strange sound, and actually began to translate to his companions.

This obviously spiritual armor-faced ogre understands human language.

After listening to his translation, the mouth under the mask of the Claw-armored Demon grinned into a long arc, revealing a row of fangs that were curved like eagle claws.

If in the world of armor-faced ogres, this upward arc also represents laughter, then this sharp-clawed armor-faced ogre is laughing at Jiang Li's arrogance.

He rushed out from the gap that Jiang Li had opened, stretching his burly body wantonly. How could a short, thin human who was not even as big as his paws be his opponent? 　The New Year is coming soon... How could time pass so quickly?

(End of this chapter)