Chapter 764: Border Battle (Part 2)

"It seems that more words are useless. You have no room for discussion at all. Then we can only fight a life-and-death battle. However, before that, let's conduct the gambling battle first. Let both sides send people to set up the restrictions! Regardless of how many we win or lose, as soon as the gambling battle ends, we will immediately let go and fight a great battle." The thin old man was quite straightforward and said directly.

He probably knew that at this point, trying to persuade the three great cultivators to soften was completely wishful thinking.

"Gambling battle is naturally fine, but what about the captives you promised! If we don't see the people, hehe..." The Hehuan Old Demon stared at the old man and snorted coldly.

Upon hearing the other party's words, the old man was startled, but after thinking for a while, he moved his lips and transmitted a few sentences to the rear.

Immediately, the Dharma Master team in the rear surged.

Over a thousand cultivators, empty-handed and with nothing but their clothes, were pushed out from the team.

As soon as these cultivators arrived at the front of the formation, their expressions were different; some were red-faced, and some were glaring at the many Dharma Masters.

And there was a slight stir in the cultivator army opposite.

These captured cultivators were naturally recognized by many of their sect members.

Supreme Master Brother Zhiyang and the others saw this, looked at each other, and nodded with slightly eased expressions.

"How is it? You have seen the people. Now you should be at ease, right? Hurry up and start the gambling battle!" The dwarf surnamed Bi among the Mulan Divine Masters became somewhat impatient.

"Why are you so anxious? Could it be that you intend to do something underhanded in this gambling battle?" Wei Wei Wuya said unexpectedly.

"If you don't dare to gamble, we will use these cultivators to sacrifice the flag

"Your Excellency is threatening us!" Wei Wei Wuya's eyes flashed with cold light as he said sternly.

"It cannot be called a threat. But if you are unwilling to participate in the gambling battle, these captives are of no use to us. Using them to sacrifice to the banners to boost morale is not impossible." The withered old man's expression did not change, but his voice became a few degrees more sinister.

"We can agree to the gambling battle. Release these captives first, and we will agree to the gambling battle." Upon hearing this, Master Brother Zhiyang's brows twitched a few times before he slowly said:

"Release them? Do you think we would do such a stupid thing?" the dwarf said unceremoniously.

"But we cannot trust you either! If the gambling battle ends and you do not keep your promise, what then?" Wei Wei Wuya said indifferently.

"Even so, we..."

"Enough. No need to say any more useless words. Before the gambling battle, we can release half of the captives first. The rest will depend on your win-loss situation. You have no objections to this, right! If this still won't do, you may return. We shall just start the war." Before the dwarf could say anything more, the old man's eyes flashed with a fierce light as he spoke first.

"Fine, let it be done! You release the people on your side, and we will begin setting up the barriers on our side." This time, Master Brother Zhiyang and the other two exchanged a few sound transmissions and decisively agreed.

This condition was the maximum extent to which the other side would concede. If they really broke off the negotiations, they would have no way to answer to the many cultivators behind them.

Having settled the conditions, the six of them returned to their respective camps and made arrangements.

Han Li had already left his original position and was hiding among a team of cultivators. Before the gambling battle began, he did not want to be noticed by the high-tier spell-casters on the opposite side.

As for the conversation between Master Brother Zhiyang and the others and the three great Mulan Divine Masters just now, with Han Li's powerful spiritual sense, he naturally heard it clearly.

As a result, after a faint smile appeared on the corner of Han Li's mouth, a portion of the cultivators who had been pushed out had their body seals removed by the spell-casters, and then they flew toward the opposite side with expressions full of surprise and joy.

However, Master Brother Zhiyang clearly had arrangements made long ago.

Before these cultivators could fly into the main army, hundreds of cultivators had already come out to meet them. They carefully inspected these rescued cultivators to confirm there were no spies among them and that no tricks had been played on their bodies, only then letting them enter the cultivator ranks with peace of mind.

"These fellows from Tiannan are truly cautious enough. It's fortunate that we didn't have these cultivators take the 'Heart-Losing Pill' back then, otherwise, it would have been hard to pass this hurdle." The dwarf surnamed Bi saw this scene from afar and snorted coldly in unwillingness.

"This is a matter of course! The three great cultivators of Tiannan are not easy characters. It is better not to use these little tricks. One must strike a snake at its seven inches! Otherwise, it becomes counterproductive." The Confucian scholar surnamed Zhong agreed.

The withered old man heard this, but his face had no expression at all. He only touched his sparse goat beard, looking at the cultivator army opposite, his figure motionless.

Under Han Li's distant gaze, a group of cultivators and spell-casters flew out from their respective camps, and then in the space between the two armies, they divided into ten locations and began to set up magic arrays.

These people were all array masters among the cultivators and spell-casters who were proficient in the way of arrays. Although the barrier arrays they were to set up were abnormally powerful, they were not obscure arrays. Therefore, with these people's attainments in arrays, if the other side played any tricks, it would naturally be clear at a glance.

Normally, such barriers would take a long time to set up, but with so many array masters acting at the same time, and sparing no precious materials and the assistance of various already-refined array disks and array flags, in just a quarter of an hour, ten small arrays faintly glowing with white light had taken shape.

Immediately, the array masters of both sides jointly activated the arrays, and ten white light shields covering seventy or eighty zhang appeared between the two camps.

After these array masters re-inspected them and believed there were no problems, they withdrew one after another. Ten Core Formation stage cultivators and spell-casters walked up at the same time to replace them.

It happened that one cultivator and one spell-caster were jointly supervising the operation of each array.

One of the Tiannan cultivators was the woman surnamed Song from the Falling Cloud Sect. She walked in white clothes fluttering to the second-to-last array at one end.

Seeing this scene, no expression of surprise appeared on Han Li's face.

Since this woman walked to that array, it meant that he would be participating in the gambling battle at that array. After all, only disciples of one's own sect could make these old monsters participating in the war feel greatly at ease.

Otherwise, if the dispatched cultivator happened to be a disciple of some hostile sect, and they did not act to save them when encountering danger, or were unwilling to put in their full effort, that would be a great misfortune.

Therefore, the appearance of the woman surnamed Song was actually proposed by Han Li himself. After all, he did not know much about the other Falling Cloud Sect disciples.

The great arrays were formed, so naturally, the gambling battle participants from both sides appeared together.

In the spell-caster camp opposite, ten people covered in black robes flew out first. These people were all filled with yin energy, and their demonic energy was astonishing.

"Demonic cultivators!"

Han Li's pupils shrank, and he muttered in a low voice. But a flash of green light appeared on his body, and he transformed into a green rainbow, flying out of the cultivator camp.

Doing the same as him were nine other Nascent Soul old monsters. Han Li had already seen most of them, with only two or three having unfamiliar faces.

True Person Master Suihun, Old Demon Yunlu, and the woman surnamed Bai were all among them.

These people flew to the arrays they had identified and slowly stopped in the air.

Once Han Li arrived above the light shield, he first nodded to the woman surnamed Song who was operating the array below. Then, he looked calmly at the black-robed person opposite.

"A bit strange! How can the demonic energy on his body be so violent? Could it be that he took some overbearing pill like the 'Sha-Returning Pill' beforehand?" Han Li remained calm on the surface, but he pondered inwardly.

If it were only this, he would not fear anything.

The black-robed person opposite had an ordinary build, but his eyes flashed with green cold light, and he stared at Han Li without blinking.

Although he could not see the other party's face clearly, it was indeed a Nascent Soul cultivator, and his cultivation base was at the peak of the early Nascent Soul stage, not yet having advanced to the mid-stage.

After finishing his observation, Han Li's gaze shifted, and he glanced sideways at the other black-robed demonic cultivators nearby; they all seemed to be about the same as his opponent. Even if there were differences, they were not far apart.

Han Li's heart stirred, and his vigilance rose greatly.

It seems this gambling battle really has some problems. These demonic cultivators actually do not have a single mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator! But it does not matter; as long as the other party uses demonic cultivation techniques, he will immediately unleash the Evil-Warding Divine Thunder to instantly kill the other party. No matter what tricks the other party has, it will be of no use.

In the blink of an eye, Han Li's killing intent rose, and he had already made his plan in his heart.

Just at this moment, the black-robed cultivator opposite suddenly took out a storage pouch from his waist, and then looked at Han Li without any emotion.

Han Li smiled slightly and similarly took off a storage pouch filled with gambling materials.

The materials in the pouch were gathered together by the four great powers of Tiannan. Their value was so great that even Han Li felt a bit envious when he saw them.

The black-robed person opposite raised his hand and threw the storage pouch directly over.

Han Li narrowed his eyes and also threw out the storage pouch in his hand, exchanging them with each other.

The materials in the other party's storage pouch did not have as many varieties as the materials in his storage pouch, but in terms of rare value, they were slightly superior. This was about the same as what was stated in their challenge letter. There was nothing inappropriate.

Han Li nodded and did not return the materials. He directly tucked the storage pouch into his waist.

The black-robed person opposite did the same.

Seeing this, the woman surnamed Song below and the spell-casters opposite simultaneously chanted incantations and kept pinching magic seals with both hands.

After each cast a magic technique onto the array, the white light shield above it flickered a few times and then suddenly disappeared.

Han Li and the black-robed person moved almost equally fast; after a flicker of their figures, both appeared in the array at the same time.

This caused both of them to look at each other with some surprise.

And the white, misty shield wall appeared once again, isolating the two of them from everything outside.

And the other cultivators and black-robed people also entered the light shields in pairs.

For a time, the army of cultivators and spell-casters watching from afar was silent, everyone holding their breath, looking somewhat nervously at the ten pairs of somewhat blurry figures inside the light shields.

Having entered the light shield, Han Li no longer paid attention to the battles of the others, only looking calmly at the black-robed person opposite, his figure motionless. However, the green light on his body flowed more intensely, and the flying swords within his body also trembled on their own, ready to fly out and injure the enemy at any moment.

Of course, facing the most lethal magic treasure against demonic cultivators, the Evil-Warding Divine Thunder had already gathered into a fist-sized golden light ball, held smilingly in the hands of his Nascent Soul at his dantian, ready to make a world-shattering strike at any time.

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