The rebels were secretly delighted to see Shen Gongbao exposed to their attack range without any precautions, and immediately unleashed a volley of arrows.
In an instant, arrows rained down on Shen Gongbao, as if trying to turn him into a hedgehog.
However, to everyone's astonishment, all the arrows suddenly and mysteriously stopped three zhang away from Shen Gongbao, as if they were blocked by an invisible force.
The arrows trembled in the air, seemingly wanting to continue forward, but they could never break through the invisible barrier.
Immediately afterwards, the arrows seemed to lose their support and turned into dust, scattering all over the ground.
The rebels were immediately shocked, and their formation was thrown into chaos in an instant.
Seeing this, a great demon with a single horn leaped out of the army formation, its fangs menacing, and said:
“Shen Gongbao, Yancheng is not a place that a Golden Immortal like you can defend. Today, out of consideration for our shared demon race, we will spare your life if you leave immediately.”
Faced with the threat of the great demon, Shen Gongbao seemed not to hear it, and simply tossed the Nine-Turn Golden Body Pill into his mouth without expression.
In an instant, a deafening roar resounded—"Boom!"
It was as if the whole world had been torn apart at that moment.
Immediately afterwards, the world suddenly darkened, as if night had fallen prematurely.
Above the clouds, nine purple-gold lightning pillars suddenly formed, centered on Shen Gongbao.
To the left and right of the lightning pillars, one could vaguely see lightning dragons churning and roaring, their figures appearing and disappearing, as if these nine lightning pillars had triggered some kind of dramatic change in the world.
Although the nine lightning pillars did not descend, they flashed with lightning, and any living being touched by the lightning screamed and turned into charred remains.
"Is this the Nine Revolutions Golden Body Tribulation?"
Upon seeing this, the unicorn demon retreated in horror.
The Nine Revolutions Golden Body Tribulation is a heavenly punishment that occurs when a cultivator's physical strength reaches a certain extreme. It is an extremely rare and incredibly powerful tribulation.
However, at this moment, Shen Gongbao actually used the power of the elixir to forcibly trigger this tribulation of lightning.
This is absolutely unbelievable!
The unicorn's eyes widened, its face filled with disbelief.
He simply couldn't understand how Shen Gongbao had managed to do that.
Just as the unicorn demon was in shock, Shen Gongbao suddenly moved.
With a flick of his hand, the defensive array patterns on the four walls of Yancheng, which had completely collapsed, suddenly reappeared.
As part of a formation, once the formation is broken, even if some of the formation patterns remain, it is impossible to form a formation again.
But at this moment, as Shen Gongbao activated his magic, the array patterns on the walls of Yan City suddenly began to flicker with a faint light, then intertwined and connected with each other. The next moment, a huge array covering the entire city of Yan City suddenly formed again.
Ao Bing looked at Shen Gongbao with disbelief:
"Fellow Daoist Shen, you actually repaired the defensive formation of Yan City again?"
Before this, Ao Lan insisted that Shen Gongbao's array formation skills were far superior to hers. Shen Gongbao thought that Ao Lan was being modest because of him. But now, seeing the almost miraculous rebirth of the array formation before him, Ao Bing realized that there was no modesty in Aunt Lan's previous evaluation of Shen Gongbao. To bring a completely collapsed array formation back to life was something that Aunt Lan could not do.
"If I had known you were this capable, I should have brought more men with me. We wouldn't be watching Yancheng fall like this now!"
Seeing Ao Bing's sentimental expression, Shen Gongbao smiled slightly and said softly:
"Don't worry, Yancheng won't fall anytime soon."
Can't fall in?
How is that possible?
After the initial shock, Ao Bing couldn't help but give a wry smile.
Shen Gongbao had previously told him that he had a way to defend Yancheng, but because Shen Gongbao was unwilling to say, Ao Bing was too embarrassed to ask further.
Unexpectedly, Shen Gongbao's last resort was to use an unknown method to trigger the defensive formation within Yan City once again by harnessing the power of lightning tribulation.
The existence of the city defense formation is indeed of great help in defending the city.
If Shen Gongbao had told him about this method earlier, and had allowed him to bring enough city-guarding cultivators before coming to Yancheng, there would have been a real chance that Yancheng could have been defended this time.
But now, it's too late for Shen Gongbao to reactivate the city's defensive formation.
Three of the four city gates of Yancheng have fallen, and the armies of the seventy-two rebellious lords have all entered Yancheng.
Under such circumstances, even if the city defense formation is reactivated, its effect is practically negligible.
As expected, he is a hermit from Jade Void Palace.
Despite his exceptional talent for cultivation, he knew very little about warfare between cultivators.
Surprisingly, Ao Bing found a sense of superiority in Shen Gongbao.
As the third prince of the East Sea Dragon Palace, he had participated in many missions of the Four Seas Treasure Pavilion, and he knew more about simple offensive and defensive strategies than Shen Gongbao.
In a better mood, Ao Bing became more tolerant of Shen Gongbao.
Although Shen Gongbao restarted the Yancheng defensive formation a little late, it wasn't entirely without effect.
Didn't you see the shocked expressions on the faces of those rebels around them?
Before they can react, we can still create an opportunity for ourselves to escape.
Thinking of this, Ao Bing hurriedly said:
"Fellow Daoist Shen, I have now seen your formation, and it is indeed magnificent. However, the fall of Yancheng is now a foregone conclusion, so we should..."
Before he could even utter the words "Let's go," Ao Bing froze, his gaze fixed on the rebel troops surrounding the defensive formation of Yan City.
What's going on?
Why are those rebels attacking the city's defensive formation?
"Shouldn't the defensive formations only target the outside of the city and not the inside? How come they were able to block the rebels' attacks?"
Amidst Ao Bing's utter shock, Shen Gongbao slowly spoke:
"Who told you I repaired Yancheng's original defensive formation? This is a trapping formation I set up in advance based on Yancheng's defensive formation. I've been in Yancheng for two days now, I can't just do nothing, can I?"
Upon hearing Shen Gongbao's words, Ao Bing swallowed back the words that were on the tip of his tongue.
Because he suddenly realized that he was the person Shen Gongbao had mentioned who had arrived in Yancheng two days early but hadn't done anything.
However, Shen Gongbao ignored Ao Bing at this moment.
The massive trapping formation that enveloped the entire city of Yan was merely a temporary measure set up by Shen Gongbao after arriving in Yancheng. Seeing that the rebel armies of the seventy-two lords of the northern border had not yet arrived, he did so to avoid wasting time.
The real gift Shen Gongbao prepared for them was not this predicament they were trapped in.
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