Chapter 533: Forcing Unlike Ning Zhuo to Hand Over

Sword technique—Light Lotus!

Shuang Jing hovered in mid-air, waving his weapon sword in his hand, and sent out sword lights within a few breaths.

The sword lights stagnated briefly in mid-air, combining into the form of a lotus flower.

The sword light lotus covered a ginseng dragon whisker, and the next moment, it burst out suddenly, and the sword lights flew everywhere.

The ginseng dragon whisker was hit by dozens of sword lights one after another, and it was covered in wounds, and could no longer support it, breaking into two halves from the waist.

Shuang Jing fell to the ground, his knees softened, and he knelt down directly.

And the Golden Core deputy general on the side immediately took over, patted out a large number of sealing talismans, and quickly sealed the two sections of the ginseng dragon whisker.

There were also assistants who opened up a small platform on the pile of broken stones, quickly prepared tea and snacks, and then helped Shuang Jing up: "General, it's time to rest."

"Hmm." Shuang Jing stood up, came to the small platform and sat down, drinking tea and eating spiritual food to recuperate.

Even on the battlefield, he retained the style of a high-gate child.

"General, this is the latest intelligence." The subordinate sent a jade slip.

Shuang Jing projected his spiritual sense into it, his brows frowned slightly: "Why is this top of the list still Liu Er? Since he occupied the first place yesterday, he has never come down."

"In order to squeeze him down, I have gone all out, mobilizing almost all the deputy generals to harvest ginseng dragon whiskers together."

"But looking at it now, it still doesn't work?"

"There must be something tricky in this!"

Shuang Jing needed the top position.

Not just him, many army generals were eager for higher rankings.

The military merit list was updated every half day, and the entire army could watch it, so it became the focus of competition and comparison among soldiers.

The higher the ranking of the generals in which army, the more it could be recognized, and the higher the morale of the army.

"The soldiers removed the Iron Skin Meat Armor from their bodies, and after these days of rest, their combat effectiveness is close to full recovery."

"Looting spoils of war is just a prelude, the next highlight is to use the front camp as the center, each army takes turns to attack, sweeping the strongholds and forces!"

"Morale is quite important. The higher the morale, the greater the combat power of our army."

Shuang Jing had led the army for so many days, experienced ambush battles, Iron Torrent charge battles, etc., and also had many command experiences, and had a deep feeling for morale.

"The most critical thing is that I need to show my own value through the military merit list."

"Only with a higher ranking can I get more investment from the high-gate clans in the royal capital."

Compared to military talent, Shuang Jing was more sensitive and experienced in politics.

He knew very well that if he could maintain the top of the military merit list for a long time, he would inevitably be able to obtain more funding. These funds included not only spirit stones and magic treasures, but also soldiers and helpers.

Therefore, Shuang Jing went down to the field himself, continuously harvesting ginseng dragon whiskers, and repeatedly launched impacts on the top position of the list.

But looking at it now, all the efforts he made only made him rank second, and the first position was always Liu Er's.

"Come here, investigate carefully, what is going on with this Liu Er of the Three Generals Camp?"

Shuang Jing had just issued the order, and an order was passed to him through a flying letter.

It was from the mechanism princess Shuang Ling.

It turned out that Shuang Ling also paid attention to the situation of the military merit list and directly ordered Shuang Jing to investigate it himself.

"I go to investigate, who will harvest the ginseng dragon whiskers? My second position is very likely to be unable to keep."

Shuang Jing was not very willing, but there was no way, Shuang Ling was his aunt after all. Although both were Soul Formation level cultivators, Shuang Ling was known as the mechanism princess, and her status was much higher than his.

Shuang Jing could only grit his teeth, took two or three people, hid his shape, and sneaked to the side of Liu Er and Zhang Hei.

"Where is Unlike Ning Zhuo?" Shuang Jing was a little strange, only found two Golden Core generals, Liu and Zhang.

Guan Hong was not there, Shuang Jing could guess the reason.

The Three Generals Camp could not be without someone to preside over it, and coupled with the fact that the soldiers could already carry out activities, to ensure combat effectiveness, they had to carry out low-intensity training.

Shuang Jing's doubts were not resolved, and at the next moment, his attention was attracted by the battle.

Liu Er and Zhang Hei faced a ginseng dragon whisker and launched an attack.

Liu Er held the Xuanhuang Sword, blessed with various defensive spells, and rushed up—to be beaten.

The ginseng dragon whisker did not have much wisdom, and relied on instinct to treat the existence closest to it and with the strongest breath as an opponent.

Bang, bang, bang.

Every whip and beat sounded like dull thunder, smoke and dust rolled, and earth and stones splashed.

Liu Er dodged occasionally, and often took it hard. At this moment, he completely attracted the attention of the ginseng dragon whisker.

And taking advantage of this time, Zhang Hei took out a set of rolling electric ball cages from his storage belt.

The ball cages were nested one by one, of different sizes, and when they flew into mid-air, they dispersed into seven, rolling on the ground.

The ball cages flashed with electric light, moving faster and faster, wandering around the ginseng dragon whisker.

Shuang Jing's eyes flashed with a refined light, identifying: "This spherical mechanism is drawing a set of formations."

Wherever the ball cage rolled, it often left traces of electricity.

These electric traces combined, and in a short while, formed a formation.

The ball cages began to burst with strong electric light, with the smallest and most flexible ball cage as the formation center, the other three smaller ones as formation eyes, and the last three larger ones as formation feet. Combined with the engraved formation patterns, it formed a Static Electric Bristle Formation.

Countless electric lights condensed into needle-like shapes and pierced the ginseng dragon whisker.

The lethality of these electric lights was very weak, the ginseng dragon whisker didn't care, and still beat Liu Er.

However, the electric light accumulated continuously in the body of the ginseng dragon whisker, interfering with its every movement, and the effects of numbness, deformation of movements, etc., became more and more obvious.

Liu Er's pressure dropped sharply.

Zhang Hei took out the Rooted Drilling Hammer and threw it to the ground.

This hammer-shaped mechanism creation immediately drilled into the ground and approached the ginseng dragon whisker quickly.

Zhang Hei released the Jin Lin Saw-Tooth Snake again.

The latter was extremely fast, like a bright golden line, and without paying attention, it also drilled into the ground.

The Jin Lin Saw-Tooth Snake was extremely agile, completely without the clumsiness of the Rooted Drilling Hammer, and quickly approached the ginseng dragon whisker.

The Rooted Drilling Hammer was one zhang away from the ginseng dragon whisker and stopped halfway.

Multiple wooden poles emerged from the hammer body, extending for a long distance, inserting into the surrounding broken stones as fixation.

On the hammer head, a small hole was exposed.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

At the next moment, iron nails shot out from the small hole.

Each iron nail was as long and thick as an adult's finger, with a very fast shooting speed, and three types of talismans were depicted on the nail, making it very sharp.

The iron nails pierced into the ginseng dragon whisker one after another, then drilled into the body, and walked to the fixed position.

When the number of iron nails reached more than fifty, the interference caused to the ginseng dragon whisker was visible to the naked eye.

Originally, every blow of the ginseng dragon whisker was natural and flexible, and the whole body was like a snake and a willow. But now, it was as if it was stuck, and every joint was frozen, and the whole movement was jerky.

The Jin Lin Saw-Tooth Snake took the opportunity to entangle at the root.

Its scales stood upright, cutting continuously, and entering violently.

Shuang Jing used his spiritual sense to observe with surprise: The Jin Lin Saw-Tooth Snake was as fast as a golden line, circling around the root of the ginseng dragon whisker, and in a very short time, it turned more than ten circles continuously, and easily sawed off a thick ginseng dragon whisker!

The ginseng dragon whisker lost its support, and accompanied by its violent movements, it immediately tilted into the stone pile.

At this moment, it fell into madness, no longer concentrating fire on Liu Er, but attacking every existence that posed a threat to it.

The Rooted Drilling Hammer was soon destroyed, and the rolling electric ball cages were also broken, with only two smallest ones left, becoming fish that slipped through the net.

As for the Jin Lin Saw-Tooth Snake, it drilled into the deeper ground early, escaping this disaster.

The madness of the ginseng dragon whisker did not last long.

The iron nails and electric needles in its body continued to exert power.

Not long after, the whole body of the ginseng dragon whisker trembled, lying in the pile of broken stones, twitching continuously. Liu Er spat out a mouthful of turbid air, walked up, pasted sealing talismans, and collected it.

"Just like this?" Shuang Jing stared.

He recalled his battle with the ginseng dragon whisker, which was at least ten times more difficult.

This was not because Shuang Jing's strength was inferior to Liu, Guan, and Zhang, on the contrary, he was a Soul Formation level cultivator, and his cultivation and combat power were far superior to Liu, Guan, and Zhang.

Unless the three of them borrowed the army to pry more combat power, it would be fightable.

The difficulty was that Shuang Jing had to preserve the quality of the ginseng dragon whisker as much as possible, rather than attacking with all his heart.

The better the quality of the ginseng dragon whisker, the more military merit he could obtain.

But Shuang Jing was at the Soul Formation level, many moves, although very powerful, could not be subtle, so he could only use sword techniques to achieve this.

This day or two of looting the battlefield did indeed give his sword skills a lot of training.

Shuang Jing was a high-gate child. Cleaning up the battlefield was actually a collection work, which was indeed difficult for him, he didn't do these things on weekdays.

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"Liu Er is only responsible for attracting firepower, although he has the strongest cultivation, he is not important."

"The key role is played by those three mechanism creations."

"They cooperate with each other, and each tool's power is very targeted at the ginseng dragon whisker. In actual combat, it reflects a strong restraining effect."

"Among the three mechanism creations, the best quality is that golden snake. That is only at the Golden Core level."

"As for that cage and hammer, they are only at the Foundation Establishment level."

Shuang Jing calculated this, and suddenly calculated the cost consumption of Liu Er and Zhang Hei, which was pitifully small. After this battle, only six or seven Foundation Establishment level mechanisms were lost.

"Oh, the scales on the golden snake need to be replaced, they are worn out very severely."

"Liu Er also consumed a lot of magic power, and the weapon sword in his hand also had wear and tear."

"This is too little!"

"Zhang Hei didn't even take action, just released the mechanism."

Shuang Jing was a little jealous.

He took the battle in front of him and compared it with himself.

He had to keep his spirit tight at all times, controlling the sword light to reach a fine degree, so as not to over-destroy the ginseng dragon whisker.

After a few battles, he didn't consume much magic power, but he couldn't hold on mentally, so he could only drink tea and eat snacks to supplement his spiritual sense and invigorate his spirit.

These spiritual foods were all money.

The key was that the ginseng dragon whisker cut by sword qi was not as excellent as the one harvested by Liu Er in quality.

In this kind of thing, the attack that knocks down the ginseng dragon whisker is the weaker the better.

Liu Er and Zhang Hei's offensive was like this, weak and in place, simply just right!

Even Liu Er didn't attack, just kept being beaten.

"Third brother, it's your turn next." Liu Er grinned in pain, his whole body was blue and purple, and while saying, he cast healing spells on himself.

Zhang Hei said 'oh', his mood was low.

Compared with training troops in the military camp, he originally preferred to fight outside.

But this way of fighting made him unable to raise any interest at all—just being beaten.

However, following the battle process designed by Unlike Ning Zhuo, their gains were the greatest!

The top of the military merit list was the best response.

Shuang Jing overheard the conversation between Liu and Zhang, and ripples appeared in his heart again: "So, Liu and Zhang joined forces, just taking turns to act as live targets."

"Liu, Guan, and Zhang are just three old rough guys, how can they understand mechanism techniques?"

"It must be that Unlike Ning Zhuo did it!"

"Good, I underestimated you. Although I knew you were good at using mechanism puppets before, I really didn't expect you to have such mechanism ingenuity."

"Could it be that you specialize in mechanism techniques?"

It was Unlike Ning Zhuo's performance in five-element spells that was too dazzling.

Even now, Shuang Jing guessed the truth, and immediately fell into self-doubt: "Not very likely... If Unlike Ning Zhuo specializes in mechanism techniques, how should his five-element spells be explained?"

"With such five-element attainments, what mechanism techniques are there to practice?"

Shuang Jing shook his head and left quietly.

He quickly returned to the front camp and reported to Shuang Ling in person.

Shuang Ling held the jade slip, read the images inside, and slowly opened her eyes.

Shuang Jing observed her expression, and seeing his aunt rarely reveal a strange color, he couldn't help but say: "Aunt, now, the secret of Liu Er occupying the top of the list has been investigated by me. Then it will be easy to handle."

"According to aunt's mechanism attainments, you can completely raise a large section on the basis of Unlike Ning Zhuo, to help me board the top of the list."

But Shuang Ling shook her head, her expression calm: "I can't do it."

Shuang Jing was stunned and looked at his aunt incredibly. He knew very well that his aunt was one of the facades of the Liangzhu Kingdom at the Soul Formation level, proficient in mechanism techniques, and she was also arrogant, and it was extremely rare for her to admit her own shortcomings.

Shuang Jing reacted and took a cold breath: "Could it be that Unlike Ning Zhuo is an unprecedented genius. But in his youth, his mechanism attainments far exceeded yours, aunt?"

"How is it possible?" Shuang Ling snorted coldly, "The structure of these three mechanism creations is simple, I know it at a glance."

"The real difficulty is not the mechanism itself, but the formations and talismans on them."

"These formations and talismans cooperate with each other to construct three types of spells: metal element, fire element, and earth element."

"The reason why the three mechanisms can target the ginseng dragon whisker is essentially that these three spells are very outstanding and target the ginseng dragon whisker."

"You didn't see the doorway, because Unlike Ning Zhuo applied these three spells to the mechanism creations, forming mechanism techniques."

Shuang Ling was the mechanism princess, and she was much older than Unlike Ning Zhuo. The mechanism attainments accumulated over such a long period of cultivation were by no means comparable to Unlike Ning Zhuo at this moment.

She saw the essence at a glance.

Unlike Ning Zhuo's mechanism attainments at most made Shuang Ling feel that a cultivator of this age could master it to this extent, which was considered good. But compared with the excellent disciples of those mechanism sects, there was still a lot of gap.

And the formations and talismans Unlike Ning Zhuo arranged in the mechanism made Shuang Ling secretly surprised.

"It seems that this son is extremely proficient in five-element spells and has learned a wide variety of five-element spells. Therefore, at this moment, he chose the spells that could target the ginseng dragon whisker just right."

"He also has some ingenuity, and can use mechanism techniques to cleverly gather the selected spells together."

"At his age, having such five-element spell attainments is very unusual. I guess he is likely to possess some excellent talent that can help him quickly master five-element spells."

Shuang Jing frowned: "However, what the Ning family specializes in is ice frost talismans."

By this time, the intelligence about Unlike Ning Zhuo and the Ning family sent out by Shuang Jing's side had also been investigated.

Shuang Ling shook her head: "This is not the point."

"I can't imitate these three types of mechanisms, and I don't have the heart to imitate them."

"I have more important military affairs to complete."

"So, do you know what to do?"

Shuang Jing was stunned, and then said: "I will go to Unlike Ning Zhuo and buy his mechanism creations."

"Difficult." Shuang Ling shook her head, "Unlike Ning Zhuo's son has a strong youthful temperament, as you said before, he designed to frame Mu Lan, and he refuted you in public in the restaurant. I also made things difficult for him at the auction."

"The possibility of him promising you is very small."

Shuang Jing's eyes flashed: "Hehe, aunt, I understand."

"Unlike Ning Zhuo and the Three Generals are all outsiders."

"And we are the Shuang surname."

"I will go to the quartermaster and tell him that someone has made these three types of mechanisms, and if they are popularized, they can clean up the battlefield faster, which is more beneficial to the overall situation. Let the quartermaster come forward to apply pressure, Unlike Ning Zhuo will inevitably have to hand them over."

Shuang Ling nodded with satisfaction and waved her hand: "You do it yourself."

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 534 =====