Chapter 533: Forcing Ning Zhuo to Hand Over

Sword Technique—Light Lotus!

Shuang Jing floated in mid-air, waving the weapon sword in his hand, and catalyzed 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 suddenly erupted, and the sword lights scattered everywhere.

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

Shuang Jing landed on the ground, his knees softened, and he knelt down on one knee 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 a small platform on the pile of broken stones, quickly prepared tea and pastries, and then helped Shuang Jing up: "General, it's time to rest."

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

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

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

Shuang Jing projected his spiritual sense into it, and his brows frowned: "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's still not working?"

"There must be something tricky in this!"

Shuang Jing needed the top position.

Not only him, many generals of the army craved a higher ranking.

The military merit list is updated every half day, and the whole army can watch it, so it has become the focus of competition and comparison among soldiers.

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

"The soldiers removed the Iron Skin Meat Armor from their bodies. After these days of rest, their combat effectiveness has almost fully recovered."

"Looting spoils of war is just a prelude. The next main event is to take the front camp as the center, and each army will take turns to attack, sweeping strongholds and forces!"

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

Shuang Jing led the army for so many days, experienced the ambush battle, the Iron Flow Flat Plain charge battle, 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."

"The higher the ranking, the more I can get the support of various high-ranking noble families in the Royal Capital."

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

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

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

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

"Someone, go and investigate carefully, what is going on with Liu Er of the Three Generals Camp?"

Shuang Jing had just issued the order when an order was transmitted to him through a flying letter.

It was Mechanical 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 personally.

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

Shuang Jing was not very willing, but there was no way, Shuang Ling was his aunt. Although both were cultivators at the Fang Yuan Infant level, Shuang Ling was known as the Mechanical Princess, and her status was much higher than his.

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

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

Generals Generals 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 in addition, the soldiers were already able to carry out activities, so to ensure combat effectiveness, they had to carry out low-intensity training.

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

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

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 by instinct, it treated the existence closest to it and with the strongest aura as an opponent.

Bang, bang, bang.

Every whip and hammer blow made the dull thunder sound, smoke and dust rolled, and soil and stones splashed.

Liu Er occasionally dodged, 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 on the side 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 ball-shaped mechanism is drawing a set of formations."

Wherever the ball cage rolled, it often left strands of electric marks.

These electric marks combined with each other, and not long after, formed a formation.

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

Countless electric lights condensed into needles, stabbing the ginseng dragon whisker.

The lethality of these electric lights was very weak, the ginseng dragon whisker ignored it, and still beat Liu Er.

However, the electric light continuously accumulated in the body of the ginseng dragon whisker, interfering with its every movement, and the effects of paralysis, movement deformation, 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 mechanical creation immediately drilled into the ground, quickly approaching the ginseng dragon whisker.

Zhang Hei released the Golden Scale Saw Snake again.

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

The Golden Scale Saw Snake was extremely agile, completely unlike the clumsiness of the Rooted Drilling Hammer, quickly approaching the ginseng dragon whisker.

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

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

On the hammer head, a small hole was exposed.

Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!

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 extremely fast shooting speed, and three kinds of talismans were drawn on the nail, making it very sharp.

The iron nails were nailed to the ginseng dragon whisker one after another, then drilled into the body, and wandered 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 strike of the ginseng dragon whisker was natural and flexible, and the whole body was like a snake and willow. But now, it was like being stuck, every joint was frozen, and the whole movement was paused.

The Golden Scale Saw Snake took the opportunity to wrap around the root.

Its scales stood upright, cutting continuously, and quickly went deep.

Shuang Jing used his spiritual sense to observe with surprise: The Golden Scale Saw Snake was as fast as a golden line, circling the root of the ginseng dragon whisker, and in a very short time, it turned more than a dozen circles in a row, 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 quickly 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 Golden Scale Saw Snake, it drilled into the deeper ground early, avoiding 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 exhaled a turbid breath, 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, Generals Generals Guan, and Zhang, on the contrary, he was a cultivator at the Fang Yuan Infant level, and his cultivation and combat power far exceeded Liu, Generals Generals Guan, and Zhang.

Unless the three of them borrowed the army to pry more combat power, this would be a fight.

The difficulty lies in the fact that Shuang Jing must 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 can get.

But Shuang Jing was at the Fang Yuan Infant level, and 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-ranking family child. Cleaning up the battlefield was actually a collection work, which was indeed difficult for him, he didn't do this 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 the three mechanical creations."

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

"Among the three mechanical creations, the best quality is the 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 machines 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 bit jealous.

He compared the battle in front of him 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, his magic power consumption was not much, but he couldn't hold on mentally, and could only drink tea and eat pastries to replenish his spiritual sense and boost his spirit.

These spiritual foods are all money.

The key is that the ginseng dragon whisker cut by sword qi is not as good 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 is like this, weak and very appropriate, simply just right!

Even, Liu Er didn't attack, just blindly beaten.

"Third brother, change you to come 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 practicing 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 blindly beaten.

However, according to the battle process designed by 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 rose in his heart again: "So, Liu and Zhang joined forces, but they just took turns acting as living targets."

"Liu, Generals Generals Guan, and Zhang are just three old rough guys, where would they understand mechanical arts?"

"It must be Ning Zhuo who made it!"

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

"Could it be that you specialize in mechanical arts?"

The blame is on Ning Zhuo's performance in five-element spells, which was too dazzling.

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

"With this kind of five-element attainment, what else to practice mechanical arts?"

Shuang Jing shook his head and left quietly.

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

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

Shuang Jing observed her words and expressions, and seeing his aunt rarely reveal a different 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 mechanical attainment, you can completely raise a large section on the basis of Ning Zhuo, to help me climb to 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 Fang Yuan Infant level, proficient in mechanical arts, and she was also arrogant, and it was extremely rare for her to admit her inadequacy.

Shuang Jing reacted and took a cold breath: "Could it be that Ning Zhuo is an unworldly genius. But in his youth, his mechanical attainment far exceeded your aunt's?"

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

"The real difficulty is not in the mechanism itself, but in 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 Ning Zhuo applied these three spells to the mechanical creations, forming mechanical arts."

Shuang Ling was the Mechanical Princess, and she was much older than Ning Zhuo. The mechanical attainment accumulated over such a long cultivation time was by no means comparable to Ning Zhuo at this moment.

She saw the essence at a glance.

Ning Zhuo's mechanical attainment, 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 mechanical sects, there was still quite a gap.

And the formations and talismans 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 can target the ginseng dragon whisker just right."

"He also has some ingenuity, can use mechanical arts, and cleverly gather the selected spells."

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

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

By this time, the spies sent by Shuang Jing's side had also inquired about many intelligence about Ning Zhuo and the Ning family.

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, then said: "I will go to Ning Zhuo and seek to buy his mechanical creations."

"Difficult." Shuang Ling shook her head, "Ning Zhuo is very young, and as you said before, he designed to frame General Mu Lan, and he publicly refuted you in the restaurant. At the auction, I also made things difficult for him."

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

A flash of light flashed in Shuang Jing's eyes: "Hehe, Aunt, I understand."

"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. If popularized, it can clear the battlefield faster, which is more beneficial to the overall situation. Let the quartermaster come forward to apply pressure, Ning Zhuo will inevitably have to hand it over."

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

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