noffsinger Chapter 176: The City Falls
Chapter 176: The City Falls
"If the enemy doesn't see any members of the Li family escaping from other directions, they will become suspicious, so we need to make more arrangements for the evacuation."
Yang Jiuli said.
"I understand!" Li Yourong understood. People still needed to be sent in several directions so that the enemy would not discover the true intentions of the Li family. However, the real main force was to move towards the underground caves in the southwestern mountain region.
In addition, they need to hide in batches to avoid being caught all at once.
It can be said.
This crisis is full of uncertainties, and the Li family's cultivators must come up with many ways to survive.
"This matter should be determined immediately; most likely, demonic beasts have already begun to infiltrate the city from underground," Yang Jiuli said.
"Okay!" Li Yourong said, "You wait here for a moment, I'll be right back."
After saying this, Li Yourong immediately flew away to discuss the matter with the clan elders.
Yang Jiuli nodded.
The danger facing Blackwind City is far more perilous than the Li family imagined.
However, he wasn't in a hurry.
He has now entered the ninth level of Qi Refining, and the "Taiyin Evolution Divine Technique" has reached the second level. His divine sense is stronger than that of the early Foundation Establishment stage. In his storage bag, the bodies of "Yan Jiuming", "Zhang Maoheng", and the second-tier Flame Rat are frozen.
In this way, he would have three Foundation Establishment level combatants by his side.
Once the city falls, he can immediately escape.
Even if they encounter one or two Foundation Establishment cultivators chasing them, they can handle it with ease.
The price is having your identity exposed.
Compared to life and death, the exposure of one's identity is insignificant!
Moreover.
If he were to infiltrate underground and hide, the probability of him being exposed would not be high.
……
A short while later, Li Yourong arrived.
The Li family adopted Li Yourong's suggestion.
And arrangements were made.
Some elderly cultivators, as well as those willing to take risks and earn family contribution points, were sent to the northern and eastern regions.
Many cultivators didn't take this seriously and didn't think there was any difference between evacuating separately.
These two areas also offer contribution points, which can be exchanged for elixirs, making them even more desirable.
Many monks even eagerly signed up.
As for heading to the southwestern region.
Only a few monks who sought stability and obedience to their family arrangements went there.
"The clan will arrange several routes to the southwestern region, and I request to escort you and Master Huang Cheng," Li Yourong said with a smile. "Of course, if you are traveling with Master Yang, then you might be the one escorting Yourong!" She smiled sweetly at the end.
Although she had already reached the tenth level of Qi Refining, she knew that Master Yang's methods were far beyond her own.
Hence this saying.
"I wonder if Master Yang agrees with this proposal."
She blinked her beautiful eyes and looked at Yang Jiuli.
Two months ago, Li Wannian returned to the Li family of Yunmeng Lake under the pretext of recuperating from his injuries, so he is not here.
Clearly, he also knew that Li Ruoyu had finished collecting the medicinal materials.
Blackwind City was merely a bait to divert the attention of various races, and they had no intention of staying there.
"Of course!" Yang Jiuli replied, cupping his hands in greeting. "To have such a beautiful woman by my side is something I could never ask for!"
"This, Ninth Brother, Master Li...aren't Xiao Hu and I redundant?" Huang Cheng scratched his head and chuckled awkwardly.
Judging from their appearance, the two people in front of them are clearly a couple.
Yang Jiuli and Li Yourong exchanged a knowing smile.
"What, you don't want to come with us?" Yang Jiuli asked Huang Cheng with a smile.
"Of course I want to... I can't rest easy without following Ninth Brother!" Huang Cheng said with a smile.
"I also want to follow Uncle!" Liu Hu said, his face firm.
He grew up hearing about this uncle's reputation.
His father often mentioned that Ninth Brother was calm, far-sighted, and insightful.
Last time Yang Jiuli and Li Yourong went out, they were attacked by rogue cultivators, but they hid in the ley lines for several days and eventually returned safely.
This matter spread throughout the Li family.
Li Hu admired his uncle even more!
Despite being a person of extremely high status, he did not care about empty fame and dared to hide in the ley lines in order to survive.
This is the proper way to behave.
After all, being alive is more important than anything else.
If you are traveling with others and the leader is not so careful, you might lose your life and then it will be too late to regret it!
"Then let's set off!" Li Yourong said.
"Okay!" Yang Jiuli said.
Then, Li Yourong flicked her hand, and a map appeared in her palm.
The text above indicates the various ley lines of the Black Wind Mountains.
The two eventually pinpointed an entrance to a ley line in the southwest.
The Thirty-Six Caves of Black Wind.
Inside that cave, there were countless passageways leading to various ley lines in the earth.
The Li family will arrange for people to evacuate through different passageways.
To prevent being caught in one fell swoop.
Yang Jiuli, Li Yourong, Huang Cheng, and Liu Hu soon entered the earth vein.
Not long after they left, monsters appeared in Black Maple City.
There are yellow-scaled snakes that are skilled in earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magical technique), and there are also earth-armored beasts.
They entered the city and quickly found the dead serpent, then relayed the news to the great demon outside the city.
Immediately, the two second-tier winged pythons were enraged and exerted all their strength to forcefully break the formation.
The winged python that had condensed its immortal foundation once again unleashed the immortal foundation phenomenon, "Flame in the Wind."
Under this burst of flames.
Finally, the formation trembled and a corner of it was shattered.
The three second-tier demons took advantage of the situation and flew into the city.
The remaining winged pythons swarmed in.
puff!
Li Jun coughed up blood due to the backlash from the formation.
The other four elders also coughed up blood, their faces pale.
"Gentlemen, the formation has been broken, and Black Wind City is no longer defensible!" Li Jun said to the four elders.
"You may escape Blackwind City through the secret passage and head to Cloud Dream Lake!"
He abandoned the defense of the city.
"In that case, we'll take our leave!"
"Take care, Elder!"
The four elders rose, bowed, and immediately affixed a 'Swiftness Talisman' to their robes, quickly disappearing from the location of the array chamber.
……
Far from the East Gate, nestled among misty mountains.
A spaceship is hidden in the clouds.
On the spaceship, Huang Jiangxing stood on the deck.
He was staring coldly at Blackwind City ahead.
Beside him stood a man in a blue robe, named Qin Weixi.
The Foundation Establishment cultivator that Yang Jiuli saw through the demonic python Yifeng was none other than Huang Jiangxing.
"Old Huang, the Black Wind City's formation has been broken!" Qin Weixing stared at the distant city. After watching the formation's light screen in the sky crumble little by little, he was excited. Then, his gaze shifted to Huang Jiangxing, who was standing against the wind beside him.
"With two late-stage second-tier demons exerting their full strength, they can naturally break this 'Black Wind Fiend Wolf Formation'... After all, there's only one Foundation Establishment cultivator in the city activating the formation, how long can they hold out?" Huang Jiangxing said coldly, having anticipated this.
Activating this quasi-third-order formation consumes a great deal of mana and spiritual energy.
A Foundation Establishment cultivator simply cannot maintain a formation for an extended period of time.
As for those Qi Refining cultivators, they couldn't even activate a single array to launch a counterattack.
"The cultivators in the city have already begun to retreat. Should we take this opportunity to storm into the city?" Qin Weixing said.
"Don't rush. Let those monsters rout the Li family first, then we can clean up the mess," Huang Jiangxing said.
Beside them, a spaceship, thirty-six feet long, slowly approached.
On this spaceship, there was also a man dressed in a black robe with gold patterns, named Zhang Jinshu, who was in the early stage of Foundation Establishment and served as an external affairs steward of the Golden Cloud Sect. This time, he was carrying out a secret order from within the sect to accompany Huang Jiangxing to wipe out the cultivators of the Li family in Black Wind City.
"Old Huang, if we don't act now, Li Jun will escape, and your nephew's revenge will be impossible!" Zhang Jinshu stroked his short beard, his face gentle and refined. He glanced at the city ahead and smiled at Huang Jiangxing beside him.
Blackwind City is very large.
Although the demonic python has breached the city, it is still some distance from the array chamber.
Li Jun had ample time to escape.
"Li Jun can't escape!" Huang Jiangxing said coldly, his eyes narrowing as he looked at Black Wind City ahead.
"Oh?" Zhang Jinshu's gaze sharpened as he looked towards Black Wind City ahead.
But then, a demonic aura suddenly rose from the east gate of Black Wind City, and a giant emerald-scaled python with vertical pupils flew into the city on the wind.
"This is my 'Three-Eyed Jade-Scaled Python' from the Foreign Affairs Office!" Upon seeing this, Zhang Jinshu's gaze sharpened, revealing a look of shock. He then looked away and turned to Huang Jiangxing.
"Indeed, it is the 'Three-Eyed Azure-Scaled Python'..." Huang Jiangxing stroked his beard, revealing a smug look on his face.
"I never expected that Elder Jin would even have you bring this demonic python!" Zhang Jinshu said, taking a deep breath.
However, he soon realized something.
"After the failure of the last operation, Elder Jin must be eager to avenge his defeat!" Zhang Jinshu thought to himself, but dared not say it out loud. Jin Yaowen was the head of their Foreign Affairs Hall, in charge of many affairs of the Foreign Affairs Hall, and was also deeply rooted in the Jinxia Sect, holding a very high position.
At this moment, the "Three-Eyed Jade-Scaled Python" flew into the city, locked onto a direction, and flew there at top speed.
There was a cultivator flying rapidly in that direction, piloting a flying boat.
That cultivator was none other than Li Jun.
After withdrawing from the formation, Li Jun immediately summoned his second-tier flying boat, the "Wind Spirit Boat," and flew rapidly towards the East City.
They planned to flee to Yunmeng Lake.
As an elder of the Li family, he naturally understood that although Black Wind City was important, it had clearly already completed its mission.
Now that he is facing a life-threatening crisis, he has abandoned the city and fled, and his family will not say anything.
After all, a living Foundation Establishment cultivator is more important to the Li family of Yunmeng Lake.
Unexpectedly, just as he flew 1,800 meters, a burst of emerald flames suddenly rushed towards him.
Li Jun immediately activated the defensive formation of the flying boat, creating a light shield, and then flew three zhang to the side.
boom!
The fiery shockwave blasted through the air.
Before Li Jun's flying boat could fly far away, the "Three-Eyed Azure Scale Python" seemed to have predicted Li Jun's flight path and followed him.
Furthermore, it was shrouded in demonic energy, with emerald flames rising and writhing in the air, condensing into countless 'emerald flame arrows'.
Those 'Azure Flame Arrows' hurtled towards Li Jun's flying boat like a meteor shower, striking the light shield that had been created.
Bang, bang!
Instantly, the light shield on the airship trembled, and was struck by a powerful force, causing it to stop flying.
The airship was jolted and swayed in the air, looking like a small boat being battered by waves on a vast ocean, about to capsize at any moment.
"It's a mid-stage second-tier demonic python!" On the flying boat, Li Jun's eyes flashed. "What's going on... How could there be a second-tier demonic python lying in ambush in the East City?" He felt a chill in his heart. If it was true that the group of demonic pythons had bypassed this place a long time ago, he felt that it was a bit of a coincidence.
As Li Jun felt a chill run down his spine, the 'Three-Eyed Azure Python' once again spewed forth flames, sending a shockwave hurtling out at breakneck speed.
This momentary hesitation caused the airship to be hit solidly again, and the protective light shield was directly dented.
The airship was thrown backward by the immense force.
"You beast... don't be so arrogant..." Li Jun's eyes turned cold, and with a flick of his hand, a second-tier 'Thunderous Talisman' appeared in his palm. It then passed directly through the protective light shield of the flying boat and flew rapidly towards the 'Three-Eyed Azure Scale Python' outside.