Chapter 585

The fierce battle on the river surface continued.

The Bone-Piercing Crocodiles charged continuously, banging into the sides and bottoms of the ships one after another. The advantage of the beast-taming faction was reflected here, because these demonic beasts lacked intelligence, and as long as their wild nature was slightly stimulated, they could be made to fight to the death.

The sacrifice of the Bone-Piercing Crocodile herd was effective.

The outermost red-wood warship was eventually rammed, creating a hole, and pitch-black river water gushed in, with the Bone-Piercing Crocodiles scrambling to drill through the hole to kill.

The cultivators inside the warship were suddenly panicked, but they quickly and actively fought to save it.

They had to face the demonic beasts covered in bone armor and ferocious barbs head-on, causing casualties to rise sharply.

The main reason was that the red-wood warship was damaged, causing the power of the defensive array to drop significantly, like a city wall having a corner breached.

Soon, the middle warship also creaked, and the ship's sides were on the verge of collapse in many places.

A Bone-Piercing Crocodile close to the Jin Dan level suddenly jumped from the stern of the ship onto the deck, charging left and right among the crew, causing huge casualties.

Yang Weida shouted: "Hold on, hold on for me!"

He wanted to cast spells with all his might, but the space on the ship was narrow, and he was worried about accidentally injuring his companions, feeling quite restricted.

"Damn it! I have been a merchant for many years and haven't made much money. I finally got an opportunity to become a superior person. Am I going to fall here?"

Yang Weida gritted his teeth secretly, his footsteps were slightly chaotic, and he retreated behind the crowd without a trace, gradually reaching the relatively safer bow of the ship.

He thought everyone was in a fierce battle and no one noticed his small movements, but in reality, the entire battlefield on the river surface was under the observation of the Sun and Ning duo.

The Sun and Ning duo had just participated in the great battle of the Two Note Kingdoms, and although this river battle was fierce and both sides were fighting to the death, in their eyes, it was nothing more than that.

Flying Bone Shield.

Sun Lingtong controlled a flying bone shield and slapped down a Bone-Piercing Crocodile that wanted to climb onto the ship's side.

Soul-Slaying Blade.

He turned around precisely, as if he had eyes in the back of his head, and with a flash of blade light, he directly beheaded a Bone-Piercing Crocodile behind him.

Although Sun Lingtong had just obtained these two magic tools, he used them quite decently at this moment and killed quite a few crocodiles.

"Be careful, I detected a hidden aura in the depths of the river." Sun Lingtong secretly transmitted his spiritual sense to Unlike Ning Zhuo.

He came from the Kong Sect Sect, and in terms of detection methods, he was much stronger than Unlike Ning Zhuo.

Unlike Ning Zhuo nodded in his heart: "Very reasonable. The Bone Crocodile Demon is quite familiar with Qing Yan, and daring to intercept this fleet naturally means he has a backup plan."

"They are all Jin Dan-level cultivators, and the one hiding is very likely another Jin Dan cultivator."

Saying this, Unlike Ning Zhuo threw the harpoon in his hand.

The harpoon magic tool belonged to Jiao Ma, and after Unlike Ning Zhuo picked up the corpse, he naturally refined it to use as a disguise.

After the harpoon was thrown, it immediately shot through a Bone-Piercing Crocodile, killing it on the spot.

Unlike Ning Zhuo reached out and grabbed, his spiritual sense connected, his magic power was consumed, and he retrieved the harpoon back into his hand.

This harpoon was a magic tool with the effect of throwing and retrieving. Weapons are usually held in the hand, and unless it is a crossbow or the like, they are not easily thrown out.

Sun Lingtong focused on defense, Unlike Ning Zhuo focused on offense, and even though the two had changed their identities, their cooperation was still very tacit.

Sun Lingtong had created his own blade technique, and at this moment, holding the big blade, he was full of vigor, killing back all the Bone-Piercing Crocodiles in the surrounding area.

Every time Unlike Ning Zhuo finished accumulating power, he would shoot out the harpoon, often gaining something, and often killing with one blow.

"Little Zhuo, let me give you something exciting." Sun Lingtong reminded him with his spiritual sense, his body tilted, pretending to be exhausted, and was broken through by a Bone-Piercing Crocodile.

Then, Sun Lingtong knelt halfway on the deck and shouted: "Master, be careful!"

Unlike Ning Zhuo let out a cold snort, directly retracted the harpoon he was holding high, turned his wrist, shifted his footsteps, turned his whole body in a circle, and also took the harpoon to spin around his waist with a whoosh.

After this movement of accumulating power, the harpoon's force increased sharply, and it lashed fiercely on the belly of the Bone-Piercing Crocodile, knocking the latter directly back into the river.

Sun Lingtong transmitted his spiritual sense: "Hehe, Little Zhuo, your skills are handsome."

Unlike Ning Zhuo had practiced diligently in the Wan Yao Sect before, making up for his shortcomings in close combat. After experiencing the great battle of the Two Note Kingdoms, he further increased his close combat ability, and the most critical thing was that he had the demeanor and was not panicked in the face of danger.

Unlike Ning Zhuo replied with a cold snort, knowing that Sun Lingtong was joking with him, clearly resentful of his status as a servant.

He immediately scolded: "You iron-block slave, get up and fight quickly, don't lose face for me!"

Sun Lingtong stared, gritted his teeth, and stood up: "Tie Tuo obeys!"

Both were Foundation Establishment cultivators with extraordinary combat power, and although they were disguised and only showed three or four points of their strength, they had already guarded the bow of the ship steadily.

"These two are powerful; no wonder they are valued by Leader Qing Yan!" Yang Weida had already retreated to the bow of the ship, glanced at the Sun and Ning duo, his heart moved, and he moved a few steps closer to them.

Just at this moment, a sinister laugh came out.

Subsequently, Qing Yan's exclamation and scolding also came: "Who is being sneaky?!"

"Old man Xie Sichao, is a Ghost cultivator, and should be sneaky. Leader Qing Yan's praise is well-deserved." The sinister voice from before continued to speak.

Along with his answer, the Jin Dan-level aura was also revealed without doubt, no longer hidden.

The enemy was still hiding a second Jin Dan cultivator!

Everyone on the ship lost color, panicked for a moment, and their fighting spirit dropped significantly.

"It's here, it's the Water Ghost!" Sun Lingtong's eyes contained spiritual light, and after getting the investigation result, he immediately notified Unlike Ning Zhuo secretly.

The next moment, the Bone-Piercing Crocodile herd retreated rapidly, and countless ghosts emerged from the bottom of the river, floating leisurely to the surface of the river, launching a siege on the three red-wood warships.

Hundreds of water ghosts were covered in tattered black armor, with blue ghost fire jumping in their eye sockets, wielding hooked claws or curved blades, continuously ramming the red-wood warships.

Everyone fought hard, a large wave of spells bombarded first, followed by various magic tools flying out in a mess, hitting the water ghosts so that their offensive stopped, and more than fifty water ghosts perished on the spot.

"Hahaha, nothing more than this!"

"I wiped out a water ghost when I was three years old."

"In this area of ours, who isn't familiar with water ghosts!"

Everyone's morale was greatly boosted.

The Sun and Ning duo frowned at the same time: "These water ghosts are not quite right."

The next moment, Xie Sichao used his means.

Art of War — Speed is the essence of war.

Art of War — Clad in armor!

In an instant, the water ghosts' defense soared several times, their speed soared several times, and they withstood the offensive of spells and magic tools, snapped the ship's sides, and killed their way into the ships one after another.

The stalemate that had been maintained before was overturned in an instant.

The situation on the village side turned sharply, on the verge of collapse!

In all fairness, the combat power of a water ghost was less than 60% of that of a Bone-Piercing Crocodile, but after being blessed by the art of war, their combat power soared immediately, leaving the Bone-Piercing Crocodile herd far behind.

Qing Yan broke through the river surface, flew into the air, and cast two defensive spells to bless the three warships, which then thrillingly pulled the situation back temporarily.

"Yin soldiers! Is your Excellency from that part of the underworld?" Qing Yan's face was full of gravity at this moment, "Is the underworld going to forcibly interfere with the mortal world again?"

The Bone Crocodile Demon floated to the surface of the water. He had many scars all over his body, his bone armor was more than half shattered, and the crocodile he was riding under him had already been replaced by another one.

The Crocodile Demon pointed at Qing Yan: "Which part of the underworld it is, even if I tell you, what can you do? The strength of our City-Overturning Alliance is much deeper than you imagine!"

"Qing Yan, if you kneel and beg for mercy now, I might be able to spare your life."

Xie Sichao still did not show himself, but refuted in a leisurely manner: "We naturally understand the rules of the separation of Yin and Yang. We don't want to occupy the mortal world completely and repeat the old war. It's just that this place, the Yin Soul Black Swamp, is very similar to the environment of the underworld. It is equivalent to a small window; is it not allowed for us cultivators of the underworld to breathe through this window?"

Qing Yan had a grave expression and glared at the Crocodile Demon: "You mortal cultivators are actually colluding with underworld forces; it is extremely shameful!"

"Shameful?" The Crocodile Demon snorted, full of killing intent, "For the sake of freedom and the purity of this region, our City-Overturning Alliance must make sacrifices. The sacrifice of reputation is just a part of it. This is our determination!"

"Qing Yan, today you and your subordinates will all die here!"

After saying this, the Crocodile Demon launched an attack again.

This time the situation was very different from before.

Although the Crocodile Demon himself was not Qing Yan's opponent, Xie Sichao's assistance allowed the former to firmly occupy the upper hand.

Qing Yan immediately ordered the three warships to withdraw.

He fought against two Jin Dan cultivators with his own strength, while also having to protect his subordinates on the three warships, so he had to block left and right, his situation was difficult, and he soon added many wounds, on the verge of defeat.

Once Qing Yan was defeated and fled, the fate of the cultivators on the three warships could be imagined.

"Boss, how should we act later?" Unlike Ning Zhuo transmitted his spiritual sense to Sun Lingtong.

Sun Lingtong glanced at Unlike Ning Zhuo and smiled secretly.

If it were in the Fire Persimmon Immortal City, Unlike Ning Zhuo would definitely choose to avoid it and continue to endure. After all, it was easy to escape with the help of the Ten Thousand Mile Swimming Dragon.

But now, Unlike Ning Zhuo carried the heroic spirit of the battlefield, but did not take the initiative to retreat, but was thinking of doing a big job!

This undoubtedly suited Sun Lingtong's appetite better.

He immediately responded with his spiritual sense: "I can't see the situation at the bottom of the river clearly, and I don't know where Xie Sichao is hiding. So there is only one target, and that is the Jin Dan who is sitting on the back of the crocodile, the guy who is always showing off and talking endlessly!"

"Good!" Unlike Ning Zhuo agreed in one breath.

Although both were only Foundation Establishment, they did not hesitate at all to plot against a Jin Dan.

In the great battle of the Two Note Kingdoms, they had even beheaded Nascent Soul cultivators! With this experience, their courage was naturally different.

However, just as the two were disguising their fighting while plotting, suddenly another Jin Dan aura came across the sky.

A middle-aged scholar flew over out of thin air.

He held a brush and wrote in the air, and within a few breaths, he wrote a legal prohibition of the "Book of Rites".

The legal prohibition turned into countless characters, rushed into the battlefield, and shot accurately into the bodies of the water ghost Yin soldiers.

Then, everyone was surprised to see that these water ghost Yin soldiers put down their weapons one after another, slapped their own cheeks wildly, or knelt down to confess their sins, and many also bowed and cupped their fists, performing various etiquette.

The Yin soldiers, who were fierce and evil a moment ago, had all become friends who understood etiquette and valued etiquette at this moment.

Then, they were slaughtered by the village cultivators who reacted, killing and routing more than a hundred water ghosts.

"It's Lord Wen Ruanyu!"

"We are saved!!!"

Everyone cheered, and their morale was greatly boosted.

Qing Yan hurriedly stated his identity and informed Wen Ruanyu of what had happened.

Wen Ruanyu nodded slightly at him, occupied the high altitude, looked down from above, and shook countless characters from his brush.

The characters were like a torrential rain, hitting the water ghost Yin soldiers so that their morale was low, and then they were beaten back steadily by the village cultivators.

"This should be a Confucian cultivator, right?" Unlike Ning Zhuo opened his eyes wide; it was his first time seeing a Confucian cultivator in reality.

Sun Lingtong nodded: "There is abundant literary aura in this, as well as national power; it should be a Confucian cultivator."

Confucian cultivators are rarely seen in the Southern Bean Kingdom; in fact, they are rarely seen in the North Wind Kingdom and the Two Note Kingdoms.

The holy land for Confucian cultivation is the Huazhang Kingdom; it is said that that cultivation kingdom governs the country with Confucianism, almost abolishing all other schools of thought and respecting only Confucianism.

Since Confucian cultivators can become the pillar force of a cultivation kingdom, they naturally have their own foundation and means.

Wen Ruanyu skillfully used national power to cast Confucian arts, directly suppressing the water ghost Yin soldiers.

"Jin Dan peak, excellent master, this person is definitely not an ordinary cultivator." The Sun and Ning duo continued to watch the battle and soon reached a consensus in secret.

Confucian Art — Cultivating Literature and Stopping Martial Arts!

Wen Ruanyu occupied the high altitude, with literary aura surging around him, never stopping.

Under the reflection of the Confucian arts, no matter what means both sides used, the effects dropped by several percent. The intensity of the battlefield fell to the lowest point in an instant.

"Military Advisor Xie, this person is the right-hand man of the White Paper City Lord; we had better retreat!" The Bone Crocodile Demon, who had been clamoring just now, had no fighting spirit at all in the face of Wen Ruanyu.

"Hmph, so be it." Xie Sichao's voice came out, and he immediately withdrew his troops.

Wen Ruanyu did not pursue, only protecting the warships.

Qing Yan wanted to pursue, but was stopped by his advice of "do not pursue a desperate enemy."

Wen Ruanyu: "I still have important matters and cannot stay long. Fellow Daoist Qing Yan, please continue to escort them to White Paper City."

"If the enemy finds their way back, you just need to crush this jade pendant, and I will be able to sense it."

Saying this, Wen Ruanyu tossed a token to Qing Yan, who hurriedly thanked him.

Wen Ruanyu nodded slightly and continued to fly to the due north.

Who knew that after flying hundreds of steps away, he turned back: "By the way, is there any outsider among you?"

He looked down at the cultivators on the ship.

Everyone looked at each other, and finally their gazes fixed on Yang Weida.

"There really is one?" Wen Ruanyu's heart moved slightly, "What do you have on you? Take it out and let me see."

"Ah?" Yang Weida was confused.

The other cultivators surrounded him secretly, their gazes unkind.

Qing Yan stared at Yang Weida: "Just do as Lord Wen tells you."

Yang Weida's heart tightened, and he hurriedly waved his hand: "I am not an inside traitor!"

In his panic, he hurriedly took out all his belongings for Wen Ruanyu to check.

Wen Ruanyu did not see any candle fire, but saw a few wicks of the Soul-Crossing Lamp, and his heart moved slightly again: "Lord Youling took care of me and asked me to pay attention to matters related to candle fire. Does this wick count?"

"Never mind, take him with me first."

It turned out that Wen Ruanyu was normally on duty in White Paper City, handling important matters. But after Funeral Music Youling's divination, she ordered him to set out immediately, go straight north from White Paper City, and search for key figures.

Wen Ruanyu flew for a long time and happened to run into this fierce battle on the river. He recognized at a glance that Qing Yan was a local leader recognized by White Paper City, and with the enemy and himself clearly distinguished, he immediately took action to rescue them.

"You come with me for now." Wen Ruanyu discovered Yang Weida but was not sure, so he just took Yang Weida with him for the time being and continued to search for a while to see the subsequent situation.

Thus, Wen Ruanyu carried the uneasy Yang Weida and flew away.

Qing Yan led his subordinates, and after a short rest, they immediately set off to White Paper City.