Chapter 455: Stupid Tiger is Not Stupid
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"How long will it take you to break the formation?" On the cloud boat, Qiu Huahua looked at the black dragon and white tiger standing on the barrier of the Daojian Sect's mountain protection formation, and asked Elder Lin behind him.
"Three hundred and sixty array-breaking nails are specially made for Daojian Sect's mountain-protecting array. All you need to do is drive these array-breaking nails into the formed barrier by the mountain-protecting array, then cast a spell to activate the array-breaking nails, and connect them together to destroy the basic array pattern of the mountain-protecting array..."
Elder Lin replied, "I need 360 cultivators to nail the formation-breaking nails. Foundation-building cultivators are not enough, so we need Golden Core cultivators. I also need 12 cultivators who understand formations, each responsible for 30 formation-breaking nails. I will then break the formation..."
Qiu Huahua interrupted him directly and said, "Let me ask you, how long will it take!"
Elder Lin paused, made a brief estimate, and said, "It will take about three days."
"Okay!" Qiu Huahua nodded, "I'll have someone buy you three days!
"Go down and prepare."
Elder Lin responded and turned to look for a qualified formation master.
Qiu Huahua found eight powerful Nascent Soul cultivators, took out a scroll and introduced it to them, "This is the Eight Immortals Subduing Demons Scroll. When used by eight cultivators, it can summon an ancient sword immortal whose strength is one realm higher than yours. I want you to hold the scroll and hold back the black dragon."
The eight Nascent Soul cultivators agreed, took the scrolls and left.
Qiu Huahua went to find five powerful Nascent Soul cultivators, gave each of them a talisman, and introduced: "This is the ancient immortal demon-breaking talisman, which can restrict the cultivation and actions of demons. I give it to you, and you can use it to subdue the Xuanming Spirit Tiger."
She glanced at the five people and said, "That Xuanming Spirit Tiger is not yet an adult... Whoever subdues it will own it."
The five Nascent Soul cultivators responded excitedly and hurried away with the talismans.
Qiu Huahua found Sun Yichen again and asked him to take one hundred Jindan cultivators and five hundred foundation-building cultivators to attack the formation in order to confuse the enemy.
Sun Yichen agreed and turned around to look for suitable Jindan cultivators and foundation-building cultivators.
Not long after, the five Nascent Soul cultivators holding the ancient immortal's demon-breaking talisman flew out of the cloud boat and flew to the right side of the Daojian Sect's mountain protection formation. They stopped in front of the white tiger and did not take any action, quietly waiting for something.
Sun Yicheng flew up from the cloud boat and stopped in midair. Then, one by one, cultivators flew up from the cloud boat or from the cultivators under the cloud boat. Almost a thousand cultivators stopped behind him. They lined up roughly like an army.
The two teams waited for a while, and then a strong and sharp aura rose from the cloud boat. The aura was both immortal and ancient, as if it was from a real ancient sword immortal.
A figure over ten feet tall, in white clothes and holding a sword, appeared from the cloud boat. His figure was like a mixture of light and shadow, blurry and hard to see clearly.
As soon as he appeared, he swung the swords in his hands into sword flowers and attacked the black dragon on the left side of the Daojian Sect's mountain protection formation.
The other two teams were waiting for him. When he moved, they followed.
Five Nascent Soul cultivators, holding demon-breaking talismans in their hands, attacked Zhuifeng; the thousand cultivators led by Sun Yichen also attacked the Daojian Sect's mountain protection formation.
(Sun Yicheng's one thousand cultivators, one hundred golden elixirs, five hundred foundation-building cultivators, and three hundred and sixty formation-breaking golden elixirs.)
Five hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators, four hundred and ninety Golden Core cultivators, five Nascent Soul cultivators, and an ancient swordsman who was comparable to a god attacked together. The scene was quite shocking and horrifying.
Zhuifeng and Ao Yi, who were squatting on the barrier of the mountain protection formation and posing, saw this and looked at each other. They did not respond to the challenge at all and turned around and dived into the formation.
It doesn't match the arrogant temperament they had when they first appeared.
"We have formations as barriers and fortresses, so why should we fight them in hand-to-hand combat?" Qin Ran looked at the monks of the Hengduan Mountain Alliance who rushed over and crashed into the barrier of the mountain protection formation, smiled, and said to Gu Yueming, "To exchange as much victory as possible with the least cost, this is the art of war.
"To use the many to bully the few, the strong to bully the weak, this is the nature of war."
Seeing the monks of the Hengduan Mountain Alliance attacking the formation barrier incompetently and furiously, Gu Yueming somewhat understood their feelings.
After all, how could a cultivator in a world of cultivation not pursue immortality and power, but study military tactics and war?
Isn't there something wrong with a monk leading troops into battle?
He looked at Qin Ran and asked in surprise, "You are quite calculating, which is normal, but why do you also know military tactics?"
"It's not that I understand the art of war." Qin Ran shook his head. "I am in the mortal world, and I don't know as much about military tactics as a third-rate general. You think I understand the art of war, but it's because no one in the cultivation world understands it. They don't understand it at all."
As soon as he finished speaking, a white tiger suddenly rushed out from the middle of the barrier of the mountain protection formation. There were more than a dozen foundation-building monks from the Hengduan Mountains Alliance here.
How fast was the White Tiger? The Foundation Establishment cultivators had no time to react. The White Tiger struck them in a straight line, and immediately seven or eight Foundation Establishment cultivators were knocked away.
With the White Tiger's physical strength, the seven or eight foundation-building cultivators were either dead or disabled.
The white tiger turned around again, and using its claws and tail, sent four or five people who failed to escape in time to the underworld.
There were still three or four clever ones who had already run far away. Baihu did not chase them and plunged into the formation.
The Nascent Soul cultivator holding the talisman just came over, and before he could make a move, he only saw the white tiger's big butt.
While the white tiger was wreaking havoc among the foundation-building cultivators, the black dragon also emerged from the formation barrier, found the location of seven or eight Jindan cultivators, and rushed forward, taking away five Jindan cultivators in an instant.
Before the sword energy of the Ancient Sword Immortal arrived, he also returned to the formation.
"A great military strategist who is good at defeating the enemy with fewer troops once said a 16-character mantra, which is..." Qin Ran looked at this scene with great satisfaction and said with a smile, "When the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy stays, we harass; when the enemy tires, we attack; when the enemy retreats, we pursue."
"Isn't this a dirty and despicable mosquito-style of play?" Gu Yueming commented.
"We must support everything the enemy opposes..." Qin Ran smiled happily and nodded, "If the enemy thinks we are flies, annoying, disgusting, and dirty, then it means we are doing the right thing."
"But a fly is still a fly after all. Once the powerful enemy reacts, concentrates its strength and cheers up, this method of fighting will be useless." Gu Yueming said.
"What if they concentrate again?" Qin Ran said, "Our goals in this second phase are different.
"Their goal is to break the formation, enter Daojian Sect, and fight to destroy the sect; our goal is to kill as many of their living forces as possible.
“They want to break the formation, and we want to kill people.
"I don't care about the formation or anything like that. If he wants to break the formation, let him do it. As long as we kill enough people before breaking the formation, it will be fine."
Gu Yueming understood a little bit and asked, "Is this what you mean by exchanging time for space, or exchanging space for damage..."
While they were talking, Zhuifeng and Ao Yi had already moved to several places and killed several enemies.
At the same time, Liu Baiyun also led a team of Daojianmen disciples to use the same tactics, relying on the formation barrier to kill the enemy.
After two or three rounds of defensive attacks by Daojianmen, the Hengduan Mountain Alliance suffered nearly a hundred casualties.
"Retreat! Don't get close to the formation barrier!" Someone noticed the problem and shouted hurriedly, "Keep your distance, they don't dare to chase us out!!"
When a similar sound was heard, the monks of the Hengduan Mountain Alliance immediately understood what was going on, and hurriedly fought and retreated, leaving the battle and unanimously creating a space of about ten feet.
At a distance of ten feet, even if the black dragon and the white tiger came out to attack, the ancient immortals and Yuanying cultivators on their side would be able to react. Once the black dragon, the white tiger, Liu Baiyun and others were entangled, it would be difficult for them to escape from the battle easily.
This is why the monks of the Hengduan Mountains Alliance judged that they dared not chase them out.
The battle of the attack was the first contact, and after a short time, there were some bodies left on the ground, including those from the Hengduan Mountain Alliance and Daojian Sect.
...Ao Yi has a special relationship with the mountain protection formation and can enter and exit the formation freely; Zhuifeng not only understands the formation but can transform himself into darkness and can also enter and exit the formation easily; but the disciples of Daojianmen need to use their identity tokens when entering and exiting the formation, which is not as smooth as theirs, so casualties are inevitable.
After they pulled apart, the two sides entered a brief period of peace, staring at each other from a distance of ten feet.
After watching for a while, the Daojian Sect members saw that the Hengduan Mountain Alliance had no intention of attacking again, so they sneered a few times with disdain, and then retreated back into the formation with their identity tokens.
Seeing the Daojian Sect members retreating back into the formation, the people of the Hengduan Mountains Alliance looked at each other and fell into deep thought facing the empty formation barrier.
Does this mean the siege failed?
A Jindan cultivator holding a formation-breaking nail asked, "How do we break the formation?"
They also have the combat power of the God Transformation Realm. Their Nascent Soul cultivators are many times more than those of the opponents, and their Golden Core cultivators are many times more than those of the opponents, but their casualties are also many times more than those of the opponents.
They were even beaten back and scared away by the opponent!
"We are stronger than the other side!" Sun Yicheng stood up and said loudly, "They just know some tactics of hiding their heads and showing their tails. We just need to gather together and form a formation, and they will be helpless.
"As for breaking the formation, it's just a little slower."
"How do we set up a battle formation?" someone asked, "Does anyone know how to set up a battle formation?!"
No one answered.
Sun Yicheng shouted: "Why do we need to fight?!
"I just need the simplest group formation. The person who breaks the formation is in the middle, protected by other cultivators; the Nascent Soul cultivator is above, and the Ancient Sword Immortal is at the very top.
"Since we can't hammer the nails in at once, we'll just hammer them in one by one!"
As soon as this method was used, there were voices responding: "Elder Sun is right! Why don't you change your formation? When are you going to do it?!"
The monks immediately used their skills to surround the monk holding the formation-breaking nails, forming a rough and simple battle formation.
Someone else noticed the problem and asked, "Elder Sun, it's not convenient to move around in a battle formation. We need someone to command everything."
Sun Yicheng laughed and said, "How difficult is this?
"We need to break the formation, so we have to act according to the requirements of breaking the formation. And to act according to the requirements of breaking the formation, we need a formation master to command."
He called Elder Lin and said, "Let Elder Lin command the next battle!"
In fact, it would be best for him to be in command, but unfortunately he did not understand the formation and did not know what to do and when, so he had to give the command to Elder Lin.
However, Elder Lin was just a formation master, or in layman's terms, a science and technology geek. He had no management experience, nor did he have experience in commanding a war. Facing a battle formation of nearly a thousand people, looking at completely different and unfamiliar faces, he felt anxious and depressed.
Fortunately, he is a Nascent Soul cultivator after all, over a thousand years old. Although he has no experience, he is still able to keep his composure.
He looked at Daojian Sect's mountain protection formation, and after another simple measurement and careful thinking, he used magic to transmit sound to the cultivators in the entire battle formation: "Move forward to the first formation-breaking nail!"
In the Daojian Sect's mountain protection formation, Zhuifeng looked at the cultivators of the Hengduan Mountain Alliance who were flying towards them in formation, and asked Ao Yi, "Brother, they have gathered together, what should we do?"
Ao Yi thought for a moment and asked, "Can you defeat a Nascent Soul cultivator?"
"I can, but I can only win. I can't kill him right away." Zhuifeng told the truth.
Ao Yi looked at him with disdain and said, "Trash! All the magical powers I taught you were in vain!"
Zhuifeng hurriedly defended himself: "Brother, I am still young, I am only six years old."
"When I was six years old, I could already kill a Spiritualization cultivator!" Ao Yi said, "If you can't beat a Nascent Soul cultivator today, you can stop calling me Big Brother!"
Your situation is special, isn't it? Are you a normal-growing dragon? Zhuifeng opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything.
He was just being mean in his heart: "If you don't want to call me big brother, then don't call me big brother! From now on, you are the little brother!"
"I'll rush out later and hold back that sword fairy phantom..." Ao Yi and Zhui Feng ordered, "You continue to follow your father's instructions and do your best to kill them. You can start from the edge and kill quietly inwards!"
"Brother, I am a tiger and I know how to hunt." Zhuifeng curled his lips in a very human way with his tiger face.
Then, he thought about it and suggested, "Brother, I think your plan is not good. I should be the one to attract the firepower."
"My plan is not good?" Ao Yi glared at him and asked, "You attract firepower, can you beat that sword fairy phantom?"
"I can't beat him!" Zhuifeng shook his head honestly.
"Then what the hell are you talking about? You'll be killed as soon as you get out."
Zhuifeng and Ao Yi elaborated on their plan: "Although I can't win, I can escape. I know many magical powers to escape. That sword fairy phantom is only at the level of a spirit. He can't kill me in a short time."
He further said, "If it is that sword fairy who comes to deal with me, then you, big brother, can wait for an opportunity to launch a sneak attack, and the effect will be much better than mine.
“If it’s a Nascent Soul cultivator who comes to deal with me, then you can help me, big brother. After I lead the Nascent Soul cultivator to a certain distance, we brothers will join forces and kill him as quickly as possible.
“If it’s a Jindan cultivator who comes to control me, big brother, you can ask Liu Baiyun to help me, and we will kill the Jindan cultivator first.
"If they don't care about me, then you can let me hunt from the edge and you can do the scavenging for me."
"Huh?" Ao Yi listened to Zhuifeng's words, looked up and down at this fool, and was surprised to find that this was a fool with brains!
“You have been corrupted by Qin Ran!” he said, “You have lost the heart of a demon beast.”
"An?" Zhuifeng blinked his big eyes, looking innocent.
"Okay!" Ao Yi nodded, approving Zhuifeng's proposal, "You go out first, I'll help you clear the battlefield!"
On Danfeng Mountain, Gu Yueming saw that the outsiders had indeed gathered in a group. He watched them attack in a regular pattern and asked Qin Ran, "What will they do?"
Qin Ran said: "The formation can actually be divided into three parts. Ao Yi, Zhui Feng and Liu Baiyun lead more than a hundred disciples. They will have seven ways to attack in different combinations. The three parts can attack separately, in pairs or together.
"Among the worst options, there are two: Liu Baiyun leads his troops to attack, which is a pure plan; Ao Yi attacks alone, which is the plan the enemy wants, because we can no longer expand our victory...
"The middle strategy is: Ao Yi and Liu Baiyun attack together, and Zhui Feng waits for an opportunity to hunt down the Jindan cultivator...
"The best strategy is: Zhuifeng attacks alone, Ao Yi raids the formation, and Liu Baiyun waits for an opportunity to act..."
He had just finished speaking when, on the other side of the formation, a huge white tiger suddenly rushed out from the barrier of the formation, as ferocious as a tiger, and charged straight towards the battle formation of the Hengduan Mountains Alliance.
The white tiger looked like a hungry tiger coming down the mountain, extremely ferocious, as if it was going to kill everyone.
Seeing this scene, a smile appeared on Qin Ran's face.
"You are worthy of being my great son!"
Outside the mountain protection formation, the people of the Hengduan Mountain Alliance rushed to the formation barrier, and the Jindan cultivators inside followed the formation master's instructions to launch the formation-breaking nails, ready to nail them into the formation.
At this moment, the white tiger pounced on them again, with such terrifying momentum that they subconsciously wanted to retreat.
"Hold on!"
Sun Yicheng quickly transmitted the message and said, "Nascent Soul cultivators, take action! Five of them, kill him!"
The Hengduan Mountain Alliance's formation was divided into three layers. The barrier of the largest formation was nailed with formation spikes, in the middle were the Nascent Soul cultivators guarding them, and at the top was the Ancient Sword Immortal who was on guard against the black dragon.
As soon as Sun Yichen finished speaking, the five Nascent Soul cultivators in the middle flew out, holding demon-breaking talismans, and were about to attack Zhui Feng.
They were the five Nascent Soul cultivators who were originally assigned to deal with Zhuifeng.
But before they could cast the talismans in their hands, Zhuifeng, who was pouncing on his prey like a hungry tiger, suddenly braked, turned around and ran to the other side.
This tiger boy's first wave of attack was not a feint at all. He just wanted to see who would come from the Hengduan Mountains Alliance to deal with him.
He learned a lot of tricks from his father and is very sinister.
When he saw that it was the Nascent Soul cultivators who attacked him, he immediately knew that what he needed to do was to lure them to a suitable position and kill them.
Seeing the white tiger turn around and run, not in the direction of the mountain protection formation, but away from the mountain protection formation, a Yuanying cultivator's eyes lit up and shouted: "This beast is panicking and running in the wrong direction!"
Immediately afterwards, a Nascent Soul cultivator shouted, "Quick, kill it!"
The five Nascent Soul cultivators held talismans in one hand and magic tools in the other, and used their skills to chase after the white tiger.
Seeing this, Sun Yicheng subconsciously felt that something was wrong, and quickly sent a message to stop them: "Be careful, don't chase them too far!"
But they were five Nascent Soul cultivators, not just random people. How could the high-ranking Nascent Soul cultivators obey his orders? They believed in their own judgment more.
They looked at each other and decisively ignored Sun Yichen's words.
The white tiger was extremely fast. It ran in the opposite direction of the mountain protection formation for only a few breaths and jumped several hundred feet away. It only then realized that it was running in the wrong direction, and quickly braked and turned around to run back into the mountain protection formation.
The five Nascent Soul cultivators were immediately excited. Most of the doubts in their hearts disappeared, and they were convinced that Baihu had really run in the wrong direction in panic.
"Quick, grab it!" one of them shouted.
They used all their strength to display their skills, and their speed suddenly increased a lot, closing the distance with the white tiger.
A man took up his magic weapon and attacked the white tiger.
Seeing this, Baihu became even more panicked and did not dare to run towards the mountain protection formation. Instead, he circled the formation and ran away.
"Haha, this Xuanming Spirit Tiger is mine!" Someone increased his speed suddenly, used a secret skill, and closed the distance with the white tiger with a sword in hand.
As he got closer, he cast a spell with his left hand, and an ancient immortal's demon-breaking talisman was thrown out, hitting the white tiger accurately.
In an instant, the white tiger's speed clearly slowed down.
"Hahahaha..." He laughed wildly. The seventh-level monster mount was right in front of him.
When the four Nascent Soul cultivators at the back saw that the White Tiger was hit by the talisman, they no longer had any doubts in their hearts. They knew that the White Tiger must have run in the wrong direction, so they all used their magic to speed up and chase after it.
The white tiger was moving very fast, and the one chasing behind was a Nascent Soul cultivator, who was also moving very fast. In just a few breaths, they bypassed the Daojian Sect's mountain protection formation and ran to the other side.
Because he was hit by a talisman, Baihu's speed slowed down, causing him to be hit by another talisman. As a result, his speed became slower and slower, and in a blink of an eye, he was caught up by the five Nascent Soul cultivators.
When it saw that it could not run away, it braked, turned around, wrinkled its lips, revealing four long fangs, and bared its teeth in a threatening manner.
But how can it threaten a Nascent Soul cultivator?
The five Yuanying cultivators each held a magical weapon and laughed at its bluffing threat. One of them said with a smile, "I'm in urgent need of a mount. I'm willing to exchange it with a treasure of equal value. Brothers, please don't fight with me, okay?"
Another person said: "I still need a spirit beast to guard the house, you should give it to me!"
"I've been thinking about your Taoist secret. If you let me comprehend the secret, I won't fight with you." Another person said.
They all thought that the Xuanming Spirit Tiger could no longer escape.
But at this time, someone saw that the Xuanming Spirit Tiger was no longer threatening with its bared teeth. It began to leisurely raise its paw to lick it. While licking its paw with its bright red tongue, its eyes occasionally looked in their direction, with disdain and contempt in their eyes, which was quite human.
He felt something was wrong, and the magic light in his hand lit up, but the spell was not released.
"Something seems wrong." He said aloud.
The other four stopped arguing and looked across.
After licking its paws, the white tiger shook its head and looked at them, as if worried about their IQ. Then it walked towards the Daojian Sect's mountain protection formation with a cat-like step and head held high.
"Beast, stop!"
The man cast a spell towards the white tiger.
But Baihu ignored him and didn't even look back at him.
When his magic was about to reach the white tiger, a vast and domineering sword energy slashed out from the formation and cut off the light of his magic.
"A trap?" someone asked in disbelief.
Setting such a crude and ridiculous trap for five Nascent Soul cultivators?
But at this time, three Nascent Soul cultivators walked out from the barrier of the mountain protection formation, with their swords unsheathed.
At the same time, a powerful, domineering and savage aura appeared behind them. They turned back in horror and saw the huge dragon that was as black as ink.
The five Nascent Soul cultivators suddenly realized that they had really walked into a trap.
And this trap really works for them.
They... were tricked by a tiger and were outsmarted by the tiger?!
"Is it fun?" The white tiger turned around and looked at them with a smile. He looked very much like the head of Danfeng.
The five Nascent Soul cultivators had sullen faces and did not answer. They just silently took out their own life-saving magic weapons. At the same time, they hoped that they could hold on until the Sword Immortal's phantom arrived here.
"Kill them all!"
The white tiger did not waste any more time. With a loud roar, it took the lead and stepped forward to hold down a Nascent Soul cultivator.
Liu Baiyun immediately took the other two Nascent Soul cultivators and dragged the three Nascent Soul cultivators.
They held back the four Nascent Soul cultivators, allowing Ao Yi to kill the fifth Nascent Soul cultivator as quickly as possible.
From the time the five men and the tiger disappeared from sight, to the time Sun Yicheng discovered that no fighting had broken out over there, to the time Sun Yicheng realized something was wrong and sent a message through the cloud boat to notify the eight Nascent Soul cultivators who controlled the ancient immortals, to the time the ancient sword immortal arrived here with a sword, the total time was perhaps less than five minutes.
But when the Ancient Sword Immortal arrived with his sword, he found that he was still too late and two Nascent Soul cultivators had already died.
He hurriedly used his sword to force back the dragon Ao Yi and saved a Nascent Soul cultivator.
"withdraw!"
Seeing him coming, the white tiger shouted decisively.
The five members of Daojianmen immediately retreated, withdrew from the battle, and returned to the mountain protection formation.
Ao Yi clenched his claws, but ultimately did not attack the Ancient Sword Immortal. He finally retreated back into the mountain protection formation.
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