Chapter 203: Facing the Enemy

"Master, please do not be in such a hurry to seal the Earth Cave with your own body. If you can hold on for just another day and a half, there might be a turning point," Meng Yifan said.

Zhang Sanfeng was a master of his generation, having lived from the Song Dynasty until the present. His cultivation had been attained step by step, and he had personally experienced and mastered how to break through every bottleneck; these were all precious treasures.

However, Meng Yifan's cultivation was raised directly by consuming Experience Value through the Game Panel. While this appeared very fast, it actually harbored hidden dangers.

It was like building a house; if the foundation was not laid firmly, it would easily collapse once it reached the upper levels.

The first three grades did not show any problems, but upon reaching the Fourth Grade realm, both Martial Artists and Immortal Cultivators were required to perceive Heaven and Earth.

Perceiving the ultimate principles of Heaven and Earth is also called Enlightenment; if one cannot achieve Enlightenment, their cultivation will stagnate.

The Game Panel could help Meng Yifan skip the process of accumulation through hard work, but Enlightenment still relied on his own realization.

Enlightenment can only be understood intuitively and cannot be expressed in words; it is mysterious and profound, existing within the movement of the sun, moon, and stars, and also within daily life.

The birth and destruction of the universe is the Dao; the rising and setting of the sun is the Dao; the waxing and waning of the moon is the Dao.

High mountains are the Dao, flowing water is the Dao, and the clear breeze is also the Dao.

An ordinary person's every breath is the Dao, putting on clothes is the Dao, walking is the Dao, and sleeping is also the Dao.

Enlightenment is said to be very difficult; many people get stuck at the stage of Enlightenment, unable to grasp it, and cannot break through for their entire lives.

Enlightenment is also said to be very simple; some people have a flash of inspiration while eating or drinking water, and naturally grasp the ultimate principles of Heaven and Earth.

Meng Yifan was about to break through to the Fourth Grade soon. At this time, if he had a teacher to guide him, it would be very helpful for his breakthrough. Therefore, for his own sake, he did not want to see Zhang Sanfeng perish.

Moreover, although Meng Yifan had not been in contact with Zhang Sanfeng for long, Zhang Sanfeng's character of sacrificing himself for others made Meng Yifan admire him greatly.

If Meng Yifan were in Zhang Sanfeng's position, he might have run away long ago.

To sacrifice one's own thousand years of cultivation for the sake of all living beings under Heaven is something only a Saint can do; Meng Yifan asked himself and knew he could not do it.

Ordinary mortals all have selfishness; in a moment of crisis, the first thought is to protect oneself—who cares whether the masses under Heaven live or die?

Meng Yifan could not be as great as Zhang Sanfeng, but if there was a chance to save Zhang Sanfeng, he was willing to make an effort.

While mobilizing his True Qi to suppress the riot in the Earth Cave, Zhang Sanfeng asked in confusion, "Hold on for another day and a half? What is the point of that?"

"Master, I beg you, please listen to your disciple. If after a day and a half there is still nothing that can be done, then Master can go and seal it with your body." Meng Yifan did not know how to explain it, so he could only plead bitterly.

Zhang Sanfeng was somewhat moved. He was currently a Fourth-grade Immortal Cultivator and had once been a Fifth-grade Immortal Cultivator, so his perception was very keen. He sensed Meng Yifan's care for him, just like a child who cannot bear to see their seriously ill parents pass away and would rather go bankrupt just to keep them for a few more days.

"Foolish child, I will listen to you. I will hold on for another day and a half. However, the demons beneath the Earth Cave are taking advantage of the foreign invasion to launch a riot, wanting to break the seal from the inside out. I can only exert my full strength to reinforce the seal."

"As for the enemies coming from outside, I will have no strength to resist them; they will all be left to you. That Onmyoji is already comparable to a Fourth Grade Lower-Level Martial Artist after transforming, and that Descending Head Master from the South Seas and the Western Demon Race are not simple either. Can you handle them?" Zhang Sanfeng asked.

"Master, leave the invaders to me, don't worry." Meng Yifan was full of confidence. His current Martial Artist and Immortal Cultivator realms were both Third Grade; if he were to confront the transformed Abe Seimei head-on, he might not necessarily win.

However, Zhang Sanfeng had already handed him the Array Disk to control the Ancient Tomb Array. With the Array Disk, Meng Yifan could control the Ancient Tomb's Array, split the enemies up, defeat them one by one, and harvest Experience Value.

As long as he had enough Experience Value, Meng Yifan could raise his cultivation to the Third Grade Peak. By then, with his strength in both martial arts and cultivation, plus the reinforcement of the Array, he would have the strength to confront Abe Seimei.

"Good, disciple, let us master and apprentice join hands to face the enemy and fight a great battle." Zhang Sanfeng was not a hesitant person. Even though he might die in two days, he was still high-spirited. He formed seals with both hands, and strands of black and white Spirit Power merged into the seal, beating the demons inside the Earth Cave into retreat. As long as he had a breath left, those demons would not be able to break out of the seal.

Holding the Array Disk, Meng Yifan merged his Spiritual Power into it. It was like playing a game with full map vision; he knew exactly where every enemy who entered the Ancient Tomb was.

"Hehe! Shawang Suxi and Lansangkun are running quite fast; they have already entered the depths of the Ancient Tomb. Blood-Sucking Bats, come out and stop them."

With a thought from Meng Yifan, the bat army hanging upside down from the cave ceiling obeyed the order, flapping their wings and flying toward Shawang Suxi and the other.

"Damn, Carlisle is a bit powerful. This guy is a vampire, his speed is too fast, definitely supersonic; his body even left afterimages in the air."

Meng Yifan was secretly shocked. If he were to confront Carlisle head-on, he would only be able to barely keep up with Carlisle's speed if he used Lingbo Microsteps with all his might.

However, Meng Yifan had only truly learned four steps of Lingbo Microsteps: forward, backward, left shift, and right shift. Using them this way, although the speed was high, it was inevitably a bit stiff.

But Carlisle was not only fast, he was also very flexible in changing direction. If it came to a contest of speed, Meng Yifan would have to admit defeat.

"Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes, move out! Vampire versus Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes, let's see whose blood you suck!" Meng Yifan controlled the Array Disk, and all the strange creatures in the Ancient Tomb could obey his commands. Following his order, those thumb-sized Blood-Sucking Mosquitoes swarmed toward Carlisle and Guishou.

As for Abe Seimei and Oyama Masutatsu, Meng Yifan sent the Berserk Rats to block them head-on, while the Five-Colored Poisonous Snakes and Ghost-Faced Spiders launched sneak attacks from the shadows.

In an instant, strange beasts hissed throughout the entire tomb, attacking the invaders crazily.

Previously, the strange beasts in the Ancient Tomb each had their own defensive Domain; as long as Abe Seimei and the others did not trespass into their Domains, the beasts would not take the initiative to rush out and attack them.

But now, with Meng Yifan's deployment, the strange beasts in the Ancient Tomb all obeyed his orders and took the initiative to attack the invaders, making it impossible for the invaders to move an inch.

"Jiang Hailong, let's go. I'll take you out to find some heavy weapons," Meng Yifan said.

"Weapons? Isn't there a magnetic field in the tomb that makes it impossible to use any weapons?" Jiang Hailong asked.

"Haha, the magnetic field is aimed at the invaders. Now that I control the Ancient Tomb Array, neither of us will be affected by the magnetic field and can use thermal weapons."

Meng Yifan discovered that the Ancient Tomb Array Disk seemed to be more advanced than Zuo Moyan's. Zuo Moyan's Array Disk was mainly for illusion arrays and still required Spirit Stones to drive it.

But the Ancient Tomb Array Disk could be driven without Spirit Stones; it seemed the array in the Ancient Tomb was directly connected to the Earth Veins, using the Yin energy and baleful energy from underground as energy. As long as the Earth Veins did not dry up, the Array Disk could be used.

Zuo Moyan's Array Disk could be carried around and the array could be activated as long as there were Spirit Stones, while the Array Disk given by Zhang Sanfeng could only be used in the Ancient Tomb in coordination with the Earth Veins; both had their own advantages and disadvantages.

It was a pity that there was only Yin energy and baleful energy in the Earth Veins, but no Spirit Stone Mine that Meng Yifan dreamed of.

If there were a Spirit Stone Mine in the Earth Veins, Zhang Sanfeng could recover to the Fifth Grade realm, and in that case, suppressing the demons in the Earth Cave would be much easier.