Chapter 64: Immortal technique duel

In fact, from the moment the Hunting Flag Immortal Kong Zan left his post and left the "Bagua Heavenly Blade formation," the Lieyang Marquis perceived the abnormality for the first time.

The authentic medieval Flag Gate Escape is only used for beheading generals.

Entering the interior of the Flag Gate Escape formation, the enemy's five senses and mind are all controlled by the Flag Gate Escape master, but to behead the enemy, the Flag Gate Escape master must personally swing the blade to slash.

Just like Kong Zan "invisibly" beheading Xiao Yu.

That move is the most authentic Flag Gate beheading technique.

Now the Hunting Flag Immortal has shrouded the entire Feixian Ferry with the Flag Gate Escape, and there are thousands of people in the formation; he cannot behead them one by one.

Moreover, the purpose of the Western Eight Immortals is "shooting the sun," assassinating the Lieyang Marquis.

Before breaking the Three Thousand Fire Crow Formation, how could Kong Zan dare to take a ghost-head blade and rush into the military camp to hack and kill soldiers who had lost their six senses?

Therefore, inside the Flag Gate Escape formation, a "Bagua Heavenly Blade formation" was nested, manipulating heaven and earth energy according to the Bagua orientation, and descending invisible blades on specified targets, which is the "Heavenly Blade."

Nesting formations within formations can also be considered the improvement of "ancient" Daoist techniques by today's cultivators.

The problem is, because Kong Zan is the Flag Gate Escape master, he can precisely control the Heavenly Blades to land on the soldiers whose six senses he has manipulated.

Once he leaves, even if the jade-faced Wenqu Dou Yilin temporarily takes over the Bagua Heavenly Blade formation, his six senses are also obscured.

Under his manipulation, the beheading rate of the Heavenly Blades is extremely low, completely depending on luck.

"Marquis, the Flag Gate Escape formation has a problem."

Fire Crow Army Military Commander Cai Fengnian reported with cupped hands outside the commander's tent.

The Lieyang Marquis was silent for a while and muttered, "Kong Zan left the Bagua Heavenly Blade formation..."

"Should be some change encountered by the Western Eight Immortals..." Sima Cai approached two steps, put his mouth to the gap in the door curtain, and lowered his voice, his tone a bit hesitant, "Should we call General Gao over?"

"Hmph, the Western Eight Immortals even know the news of the Human Emperor's passing; do you think Gao Xianjue's Wind-Following Ears haven't been exposed yet?" The Lieyang Marquis sneered.

Even Guan Huchen didn't know that the inconspicuous scout camp general possessed the divine ability of Wind-Following Ears.

This can be considered a trump card of the Lieyang Marquis in the West.

One cannot rely on Guan Huchen to explore everything.

Very few people know about this trump card, and the Daoist boy Qingsong happened to be one of them, which is why he borrowed the "Immortal Eye Tiger" from the Lieyang Marquis to search for the barbarian Xiao Yu.

—There is a mole in the Great Qin imperial court! The chaos of the Thirty-Six Countries in the West is probably not as simple as they see.

Sima Cai sighed in his heart, but said, "Whether they know or not, it doesn't affect General Gao's Immortal Ear divine ability. Now that they have suddenly encountered an accident, they are even more unable to defend against it."

"That also requires Gao Xianjue to be able to hear it." The Lieyang Marquis said.

Sima Cai retreated and found Gao Xianjue alone, asking, "Can the General hear the movement outside? What did Kong Zan encounter, why did he leave the Bagua Heavenly Blade formation?"

Gao Xianjue had a difficult-to-hide embarrassment and helplessness on his fat face, "We are now inside the Flag Gate Escape formation."

Sima Cai was a bit surprised, "The General's Immortal Ear also..."

Gao Xianjue sighed, "The Flag Gate Escape is not an ordinary divine ability technique. It is a top-level illusion formation created by ancient immortals, and even immortals will have their five senses and immortal consciousness obscured."

To put it more bluntly, during the Enthronement of Gods period, the Flag Gate Escape had a glorious record of beheading immortals.

"If the Flag Gate Escape formation could be broken directly, with the Marquis's temper, how could he let Kong Zan run wild?"

Finally, Gao Xianjue also dragged the Lieyang Marquis out to prove to Sima Cai that his Immortal Ear was not weak, and it was purely that the Flag Gate Escape was too restrictive to divine abilities of the six-sense type.

Although there was a suspicion of shirking responsibility, Gao Xianjue's words were not unreasonable.

Not to mention others, Guan Huchen, who possessed the Thousand-Mile Eye, walked under the "Feixian Ferry" archway, and after that, he turned on his Immortal Eye several times to scan the enemy situation near the military camp, yet he still had no perception at all.

The Feixian Ferry archway is transformed from a large flag!

Gao Xianjue's current situation is even worse than Guan Huchen's back then; he is trapped inside the Flag Gate Escape formation.

"Sigh, I hope Kong Zan really encountered big trouble; if we keep consuming like this, it's too aggrieved." Sima Cai sighed.

Gao Xianjue said meaningfully, "Look at how calm the Marquis is; he is not only not panicked or aggrieved, but he is also playing a big game of chess, fishing for a big fish!"

"Oh, so that's how it is." Sima Cai was thoughtful.

Just now he was thinking, the Human Emperor just died, yet the Western Eight Immortals received the news faster than them; eight-tenths likely there is a mole in the imperial court, and there is someone behind the Eight Immortals... It seems the Marquis was prepared long ago.

"The truly troublesome ones are us... well, it's you, Sima Cai!" Gao Xianjue sighed with a worried face.

Sima Cai looked puzzled, "What trouble do I have?"

Gao Xianjue said indifferently, "Only two of the group of Luye Guards who carried Guan Huchen's corpse away returned."

Sima Cai's eyes flickered, "Song Changqing is Guan Huchen's deputy general, and although Wei Wu is from a good family, his grandfather was once a servant of the Guan family.

Both his father and he learned medicine in the Guan family pharmacy since childhood.

Later, he was recommended by Guan Huchen to enter the Luye Guards."

—These two are too deeply involved with the Guan family and might soften their hearts at critical moments and ruin things.

Gao Xianjue nodded lightly, "Sima Cai's arrangement is very proper, but it is not timely."

Sima Cai frowned.

Was the arrangement to take action in a hurry not because of the assassin's attack and the impending chaos?

If Guan Huchen were in the camp, it would be fine, but he left, and he is not doing well; he doesn't know where he died in some corner, and it's even more likely he was snatched away by the assassin first—

Sima Cai's heart moved, and an anxious expression also appeared, "General Gao, your meaning is, Kong Zan left the Bagua Heavenly Blade formation at such a critical moment to snatch Guan Huchen's Bone-Changing Pill?"

"I can't guess any other possibility." Gao Xianjue's expression was still calm, but his eyes were full of unwillingness and hatred.

In his heart, the Bone-Changing Pill had already become Kong Zan's possession.

"Sigh, it's my mistake; I didn't expect Feixian Ferry to be inside the Flag Gate Escape formation!" Military Commander Cai said annoyedly.

Gao Xianjue said indifferently, "It has nothing to do with you; the Western Eight Immortals know of my existence.

They deliberately let me hear a part of the plan to make the Marquis feel at ease, but hid the true killing move."

He had long known that the Western Human Immortals were colluding in secret and had even sworn an alliance to assassinate the Lieyang Marquis.

He heard it.

But he thought he had heard everything, when in fact it was what the Western Eight Immortals deliberately let him hear.

Sima Cai shook his spirit and said, "General Gao, it doesn't matter. The Marquis is confident; he is clearly one level higher than them. Once Kong Zan is beheaded, we can retake the Bone-Changing Pill.

By then, the Bone-Changing Pill can also be considered to have passed the bright road.

As a proper war trophy, outsiders can't say anything about right or wrong."

"I'm just afraid that the dog thief Kong Zan will eat the divine pill on the spot—eh!"

Gao Xianjue said halfway, his expression changed greatly, and he stood up abruptly; his two wind-catching ears expanded by a circle, and on the ear-rim, one could see tiny transparent ripples like water waves.

"Could it be that Kong Zan is dead? How is it possible, inside the Flag Gate Escape formation, who can kill him?!"

"What, Kong Zan is dead?" Sima Cai exclaimed.

"The Flag Gate Escape formation has lost its master; no one is controlling it, and the heaven and earth energy gathered is slowly dissipating.

My Immortal Ear divine ability has recovered more than half, and at this moment, I can vaguely hear Dou Yilin and the others' anxious shouts."

Sima Cai opened his mouth, intending to say something else, when a cold, low shout came, "Gao Xianjue, Cai Fengnian, you two come over."

The two ran nimbly to the door of the commander's tent.

The Lieyang Marquis had already lifted the door curtain and looked up toward the north.

"What did you hear?"

Gao Xianjue knew he was being asked, so he hurriedly said, "Others can't hear clearly, only Wind Lady is flying in the sky, able to lock onto the position."

"Bring my precious carving bow." The Lieyang Marquis said.

Gao Xianjue and Cai Fengnian didn't move; two other three-meter-tall Qin soldiers walked over, one holding the bow, the other holding the arrow quiver.

The bow body was charcoal black, hard to distinguish whether it was metal or wood, and had a rough texture; it also looked very old.

When the Lieyang Marquis placed the arrow tail on the bowstring, Gao Xianjue's body rose with a bright red light shadow in the shape of a flame.

As a member of the Three Thousand Fire Crow Formation, every soldier had a layer of "true qi coat" with varying brightness on their body surface.

This is not simply borrowing the soldiers' internal qi.

They are like cells contributing to the Fire Crow Formation, and the Fire Crow Formation is a brand-new life form.

Human martial artists' internal qi can move in the body, equivalent to an independent individual; the Fire Crow Formation also has an internal qi cycle.

Soldiers contribute power to the military formation, and the military formation also absorbs heaven and earth energy to feed back to every soldier.

As a cell of the military formation, the soldier's contribution to the military formation is not just the "internal qi grand cycle."

At this moment, Gao Xianjue became the ears of the military formation, and the brain of the military formation was the Lieyang Marquis.

Gao Xianjue listened to the sound and identified the position, locking onto Wind Lady.

The Lieyang Marquis, as if he possessed the Wind-Following Ears himself, also instantly listened to the sound and identified the position.

Without even aiming much, he raised the precious carving bow and shot an arrow toward the east.

When the four-foot-long arrow left the bowstring, it was already covered with a layer of firelight; when it flew out of the military formation, it was as if every soldier in the military formation had a flame dashed line connected to the arrow tail.

Every soldier felt in their heart that their own power was also added to that arrow.

"Boom boom boom!" By the time the arrow completely left the military formation range, it had already turned into a ten-foot-long fire dragon.

The fire dragon was as swift as a meteor; Wind Lady didn't have time to react before she disappeared into the exploding flames.

The Lieyang Marquis's action of shooting the arrow didn't stop.

After shooting the first arrow, he didn't even look at the result, and immediately changed direction, shooting more than forty arrows toward the north in succession.

It wasn't until the sky began to rain heavily that he turned his head and shouted, "Bao Shengshui!"

"The last general understands."

A ten-foot-tall giant walked out of the camp gate; he left the inner camp where the Qin people were stationed, came to the outer camp, walked to the east gate of the outer camp, faced the direction of Yunlai Inn, stood in a horse stance, and formed seals with both hands, shouting in a deep voice, "Water-Avoiding Technique!"

At first, the Western soldiers around didn't see anything.

No strange phenomena.

Until someone exclaimed, "Look, everyone, the raindrops are turning into a flood when they hit the ground!" 【6

Under normal circumstances, when raindrops fall to the ground, they either soak into the soil or form puddles.

The raindrops falling at this moment were as large as fava beans.

But once they hit the ground, the fava-bean-sized droplets immediately burst into large splashes of water, each with the volume of a bucket of water.

One drop of water turned into a bucket of water upon hitting the ground.

And at this moment, the sky was pouring rain like a waterfall.

It was almost visible to the naked eye how the flood formed; within seconds, the earth was covered by the floodwaters.

And it was no ordinary flood.

Just as the soldier's exclamation landed, a ten-meter-high giant wave rushed toward the camp.

The rain continued to fall, even more urgent and larger.

The giant wave was still rising at a speed visible to the naked eye.

In an instant, the valley where the Cloud-Coming Inn was located had been submerged by a hundred-meter-high flood wave.

"Immortal art, this is an immortal art!" the Western soldiers in the camp cried out in terror.

But their terror was quickly suppressed.

Because when the giant wave reached the front of the camp, it seemed to encounter an invisible reef, automatically splitting in three directions: left, right, and above.

The soldiers looked up at the sky and saw the flood wave washing over their heads, as if there were a layer of transparent glaze above.

"Bang~~ bang~~ bang~~~ hum~~ hum~~ hum~~"

There was much debris in the floodwater—wood, stones, the inn's pots and pans, pigs, sheep, and cattle from the pens, and the corpses of villagers and the shop assistant—all acting like cannonballs in the high-speed current, slamming fiercely against the invisible water membrane in front, sending out ripples of transparent waves.

Suddenly, "Bang~~"

A little girl wearing a goose-yellow skirt, like an octopus, was stuck tightly to the transparent water membrane.

"Bang bang bang!"

She was still pounding the transparent water membrane with her small fists.