Chapter 534: Forcing Ning Zhuo to Hand Over

Swordsmanship——Light Lotus!

The two guards were suspended in the air, brandishing their weapons and swords in their hands. Within a few breaths, they emitted rays of sword light.

The sword light briefly stagnated in mid-air and then formed the shape of a lotus.

The sword light lotus covered a ginseng dragon whisker, and the next moment, it suddenly exploded, and the sword light flew everywhere.

The ginseng dragon's beard was hit by dozens of sword lights in succession. It was covered with wounds and could no longer hold on, and was broken into two halves at the waist.

Shuang Jing fell to the ground, his knees softened, and he half-knelt down.

The Jindan deputy general on the side immediately took over and slapped out a large number of sealing talismans to quickly seal the two sections of ginseng dragon whiskers.

Another deputy cleared a small platform on the rubble, quickly prepared tea and cakes, and then helped Shuang Jing up: "General, it's time to rest."

"Yeah." Shuang Jing stood up, came to the small platform and sat down, drinking tea and eating spiritual food to rest.

Even on the battlefield, he retained the style of a son of a noble family.

"General, this is the latest intelligence." A subordinate handed over a jade slip.

Shuang Jing projected his spiritual consciousness in and frowned slightly: "Why is Liu Er still at the top of the list? He has never come down since he took the first place yesterday."

"In order to squeeze him out, I have gone all out and mobilized almost all of my lieutenants to harvest the dragon's whiskers together."

"But now it seems that it still doesn't work?"

"There must be something fishy going on here!"

Double net needs the top spot.

Not only him, many military generals aspired for a higher ranking.

The battle merit list is updated every half a day and can be viewed by the entire army, so it has become the focus of competition among the soldiers.

The higher the ranking of a general in an army, the more recognition he will naturally receive, and the higher the morale of the army will be.

"The soldiers removed the iron armor from their bodies. After a few days of rest, their combat power is almost fully restored."

"Collecting the spoils is just the foreplay. The next highlight is the front-line camp. The various armies will take turns to attack and sweep away the strongholds and forces!"

"Morale is very important. The higher the morale, the greater the combat power of our army."

Shuang Jing had led the troops for so many days, and had experienced ambushes, iron-flown charges, etc. He had also gained a lot of command experience and had a deep understanding of morale.

"The most important thing is that I need to demonstrate my own value through the Battle Merit List."

"The higher my ranking, the more support I can get from the noble families in the capital."

Compared with his military talent, Shuang Jing is more astute and experienced in politics.

He knew very well that if he could maintain his position at the top of the battle merit list for a long time, he would definitely be able to obtain more funding. This funding included not only spiritual stones and magic weapons, but also soldiers and helpers.

Therefore, Shuang Jing personally went out to harvest the ginseng dragon's beard and repeatedly launched an attack on the top position.

But now it seems that all his efforts have only made him rank second, and the first place will always belong to Liu Er.

"Come here, investigate for me, what's going on with Liu Er from the Third General Battalion?"

As soon as Shuang Jing gave the order, another order was delivered to him via Feixun.

It’s the clever princess Shuangling.

It turned out that Shuangling had also paid attention to the situation on the Battle Merit List, and directly ordered Shuang Jing to investigate it personally.

"I'm going to find out who will harvest the dragon's whiskers. I may lose my second place."

Shuang Jing was reluctant, but there was no other way, Shuang Ling was his aunt. Although they were both Nascent Soul cultivators, Shuang Ling was known as the Princess of Mechanical Skill, and her status was much higher than his.

Shuang Jing had no choice but to hold his nose, take two or three people with him, hide and secretly come to Liu Er and Zhang Hei.

"Where is Ning Zhuo?" Shuang Jing was a little surprised. He only found two Jindan cultivators, Liu and Zhang.

Guan Hong is not here, and Shuang Jing can guess the reason.

The Three Generals' Camp cannot be left without a commander, and the soldiers are already able to move around, so in order to ensure their combat effectiveness, they have to conduct low-intensity training.

Shuang Jing's doubts were not resolved, and the next moment, his attention was attracted by the battle.

Liu Er and Zhang Hei faced a ginseng dragon whisker and launched an attack.

Liu Er held the Xuanhuang sword in his hand, cast all kinds of defensive spells, and rushed forward - and got beaten.

The ginseng dragon beard does not have much intelligence. It relies on instinct to target the being closest to it and with the most powerful aura.

Bang bang bang.

Every blow and hammering caused the sound of thunder, billowing smoke and dust, and flying dirt and rocks.

Liu Er dodged occasionally and often took the attack head-on. At this moment, he completely attracted the attention of Shen Longxu.

Taking advantage of this time, Zhang Hei took out a set of rolling electric ball cages from his storage belt.

The ball cages were nested one inside the other, of different sizes. When they flew into the air, they broke into seven pieces and rolled to the ground.

The ball cage flashed with electric light, and its speed became faster and faster, circling around the dragon's beard and moving around.

Shuang Jing's eyes flashed with a gleam of light, and he recognized it: "This spherical mechanism is drawing a set of magic arrays."

Wherever the ball cage rolls, it often leaves electric marks.

These electric traces combined with each other, and soon formed a magic circle.

The cages began to emit strong electric light, with the smallest and most flexible cage as the center of the formation, the other three smaller ones as the center of the formation, and the last three larger ones as the foot of the formation. Combined with the carved formation pattern, an electrostatic thorn formation was formed.

Countless electric lights condensed into thin needles and pierced the ginseng dragon's whiskers.

The killing power of these electric lights was very weak, but Shenlongxu ignored them and continued to hit Liu Er.

However, the electric light continued to accumulate in the body of the ginseng dragon, interfering with its every movement, causing paralysis, movement deformation and other effects that became increasingly obvious.

Liu Er's pressure suddenly dropped.

Zhang Hei took out the root drilling hammer and threw it on the ground.

This hammer-shaped mechanical device immediately drilled into the ground and quickly approached the ginseng dragon's beard.

Zhang Hei released the golden-scaled saw snake again.

The latter was extremely fast, like a dazzling golden thread, and if you weren't paying attention, it would also drill into the ground.

The golden-scaled saw snake was extremely agile and not at all as cumbersome as the ground-drilling hammer, and it quickly approached the ginseng dragon's beard.

The root drilling hammer was one zhang away from the dragon's beard and stopped halfway.

Several wooden poles emerged from the hammer body, extending a long distance and inserted into the surrounding rubble for fixation.

A small hole is exposed on the hammer head.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! The next moment, iron nails shot out from the small holes.

Each iron nail is as long and thick as an adult's finger, and is shot at a very fast speed. Three kinds of talismans are painted on the nails, making them very sharp.

The iron nails were pierced into the dragon's whiskers one after another, then drilled into the body and moved to a fixed position.

When the number of iron nails reaches more than fifty, the interference caused to the ginseng dragon's beard becomes visible to the naked eye.

Originally, every strike of Shenlongxu was natural and flexible, and the whole body was like a snake or a willow. But now, it seemed to be stuck, every joint was frozen, and the whole movement was jerky.

The golden-scaled saw snake took the opportunity to entangle itself around the roots.

Its scales stood upright, cutting continuously and penetrating rapidly.

Shuang Jing used his spiritual sense and observed in amazement: The golden-scaled saw snake was as fast as a golden thread, surrounding the root of the dragon's whisker. In a very short period of time, it rotated more than ten times in a row and easily sawed off a thick dragon's whisker! The dragon's whisker lost its support and immediately fell into the stone pestle with its violent movements.

At this moment, it fell into madness and no longer focused its fire on Liu Er, but attacked everyone who posed a threat to it.

The ground-drilling hammer was quickly destroyed, and five electric ball cages were also broken, leaving only the two smallest ones, which escaped the net.

As for the golden-scaled saw snake, it burrowed deeper underground and escaped the disaster.

Shenlongxu's madness did not last long.

The iron nails and electric needles in its body continue to exert their power.

Not long after, the ginseng dragon was lying in the rubble, trembling all over and twitching continuously.

Liu Er exhaled a breath, walked forward, pasted a sealing talisman on it, and confiscated it.

"That's it?" Shuang Jing stared.

He recalled his battle with Shenlongxu, which was at least ten times more difficult.

This is not to say that Shuang Jing is not as strong as Liu Er and Zhang Hei. On the contrary, he is a cultivator at the Nascent Soul level, and his cultivation and combat power are far superior to Liu, Guan, and Zhang.

Unless the three of them use the army to leverage more combat power, there will be no chance of fighting.

The difficulty lies in the fact that Shuang Jing must preserve the quality of the ginseng dragon's beard as much as possible, rather than focusing on attacking it.

The better the quality of the ginseng dragon's beard, the more military merits he can obtain.

But Shuang Jing is at the Nascent Soul level, and although many of his moves are very powerful, they are not subtle, so he can only use swordsmanship to achieve this.

The search of the battlefield over the past two days had indeed given him a lot of training in his sword skills.

Shuang Jing was a child of a noble family. Cleaning the battlefield was actually a gathering job, which was really difficult for him, as he didn't usually do this.

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"Liu Er is only responsible for attracting firepower. Although he has the strongest cultivation, it is not important."

"The key role is played by those three mechanical creations."

"They work together, and each of them is very powerful against the Ginseng Dragon Beard. In actual combat, they have shown a strong restraining effect."

"Among the three mechanical creations, the one with the best quality is the golden snake. It is only at the golden elixir level."

"As for the ball cage and hammer, they are only at the foundation-building level."

Shuang Jing calculated the cost of Liu Er and Zhang Hei, which was pitifully small. After this battle, only six or seven foundation-building level organs were lost.

"Oh, the scales on the golden snake need to be replaced. They are badly worn out."

"Liu Er also consumed a lot of his magic power, and the weapon and sword in his hand were also worn out."

“This is too little!”

"Zhang Hei didn't even make a move, he just set up the trap."

Shuang Jing was a little jealous.

He compared the battle in front of him with his own.

He had to keep his mind tense at all times and control the sword light to a precise level so as not to damage the ginseng dragon's beard too much.

After several battles, he didn't consume much mana, but he couldn't hold on mentally. He could only drink tea and eat cakes to replenish his consciousness and boost his spirit.

These spiritual foods cost money.

The key point is that the ginseng dragon whisker cut off with sword energy is not as good as the one harvested by Liu Er in quality.

In this matter, the weaker the attack that knocks down the ginseng dragon, the better.

Liu Er and Zhang Hei's offensive was just like that, just weak enough, absolutely perfect!

Even Liu Er didn't attack, he just took the beating.

"Third brother, it's your turn next time." Liu Er grimaced in pain, his whole body covered with bruises. As he spoke, he cast a healing spell on himself.

Zhang Hei uttered an "oh" and felt depressed.

Compared with staying in the barracks to train troops, he actually preferred going out to fight.

But this way of fighting did not interest him at all - it was just getting beaten.

However, they benefited the most by following the battle process designed by Ning Zhuo! The top spot on the Battle Merit List was the best response.

Shuang Jing overheard the conversation between Liu and Zhang, and his heart was filled with ripples again: "So, Liu and Zhang's cooperation is just taking turns to act as live targets."

"Liu, Guan and Zhang are just three rough men. How can they understand mechanical engineering?"

"It must have been that Ning Zhuo who did this!"

"Okay, I underestimated you. Although I knew you were good at using mechanical puppets, I never thought you had such a clever idea for mechanical puppets."

"Could it be that your major is mechanical engineering?"

The problem is that Ning Zhuo’s performance in the Five Elements magic is too dazzling.

Even now, Shuang Jing guessed the truth and immediately fell into self-doubt: "It's unlikely... If Ning Zhuo majored in mechanical engineering, then how do we explain his five elements magic?"

"With such attainments in the Five Elements, why would you still need to learn mechanical arts?"

Shuang Jing shook his head and left quietly.

He quickly returned to the front-line camp and reported to Shuangling in person.

Shuang Ling held the jade slip in her hand, read the images on it, and then slowly opened her eyes.

Shuang Jing observed her expression and saw that her aunt showed a strange look, so she could not help but say, "Aunt, now I have discovered the secret of Liu Er's dominance on the top of the list. Then it will be easy to deal with it next."

"According to my aunt's knowledge of machinery, she can definitely improve Ning Zhuo's level by a large margin and help me to top the list."

But Shuangling shook her head and said calmly: "I can't do it."

Shuang Jing was stunned and looked at his aunt in disbelief. He knew very well that his aunt was one of the faces of the two countries at the Nascent Soul level, proficient in mechanical engineering, and she was also arrogant and proud, and it was extremely rare for her to admit her own shortcomings.

Shuang Jing reacted and took a breath, "Could it be that Ning Zhuo is a rare genius. However, when he was a teenager, his knowledge of mechanical devices far surpassed yours, aunt?"

"How is that possible?" Shuang Ling snorted coldly, "These three mechanical creations have simple structures, I can tell at a glance."

"The real difficulty lies not in the mechanism itself, but in the formations and talismans on them."

"These formations and talismans work together to create three types of magic: metal, fire, and earth."

"The reason why the three mechanisms can target the Shenlongxu is essentially because these three spells are very outstanding and can target the Shenlongxu."

"You didn't see the point because Ning Zhuo applied these three spells to mechanical creation and formed mechanical art."

Shuangling is the princess of mechanical skills, who is many years older than Ning Zhuo. The mechanical skills accumulated from such a long period of practice are definitely not comparable to what Ning Zhuo can achieve at this moment.

She saw the essence at a glance.

Ning Zhuo's attainments in mechanical arts made Shuang Ling feel that it was not bad for a cultivator of this age to be able to master this level. But compared with the outstanding disciples of those mechanical sects, there was still a big gap.

However, the formations and talismans that Ning Zhuo arranged in the mechanism made Shuangling secretly suspicious.

"It seems that this boy is extremely proficient in the Five Elements magic, and has learned a wide variety of Five Elements magic. Therefore, at this moment, he just picked out the magic that can target the Shenlongxu."

"He also has some ingenuity. He can use mechanical techniques to cleverly combine the selected spells."

"At his age, it is very unusual for him to have such attainments in Five Elements Magic. I guess he probably has some excellent talent that can help him master Five Elements Magic quickly."

Shuang Jing frowned: "But the Ning family is good at frost talismans."

At this time, the spies sent out by Shuang Jing also found out a lot of information about Ning Zhuo and the Ning family.

Shuangling shook her head: "This is not the point."

"I can't copy these three mechanisms, and I don't want to copy them."

"I have more important military duties to complete."

"So, do you know what to do?"

Shuang Jing was stunned for a moment, then said, "I will go find Ning Zhuo and ask him to buy his mechanical creations."

"It's difficult." Shuang Ling shook her head. "Ning Zhuo is a very young man with a lot of character. You also said that when you framed Mulan before, he refuted you in public in the restaurant. I also made things difficult for him at the auction."

"The chances of him agreeing to your request are slim."

Shuang Jing's eyes flashed: "Haha, aunt, I understand."

"Ning Zhuo and the three generals Liu, Guan and Zhang are all outsiders."

"But we have two surnames."

"I will go to the quartermaster right now and tell him that someone has made these three mechanisms. If they are popularized, our army will be able to clear the battlefield faster, which will be more beneficial to the overall situation. Let the quartermaster put pressure on Ning Zhuo, and he will have to hand it over."

Shuangling nodded with satisfaction and waved her hand: "Go ahead and do it yourself."

(End of this chapter)