Chapter 1519: All Plans Exhausted

The stone castle collapsed before everyone's eyes, turning into a pile of rubble.

In Ye Liuyun's mind, however, he had many questions:

"That dark force—is it actually an illusion?"

Why didn't the Ten Thousand Gods Command respond?

Could it be a Buddhist illusionary technique, even more powerful than the Ten Thousand Gods Command?"

"Is that monk actually a person, or was he originally just a statue?"

"Are those martial cultivators who turned to dust real, or merely part of that illusion?"

Could it be a metaphor that the monk said the human flesh body is merely a skin bag, destined to turn to dust?

Then if what we see are all illusions, what is the truth?

Can the soul endure forever?"

"In the end, I stared at that Buddha statue and listened to the chanting, and then I lost my senses?"

Where did the foreign tribe go?

And the dark power?

And how did I obtain so much Buddha Light Power?"

"Why did that monk give me the Buddha Light Power, not go exterminate the foreign tribe himself, but instead send me?"

The whole matter thus became a complete mystery in Ye Liuyun's heart.

Looking at the pile of stone that had collapsed into ruins before him, Ye Liuyun repeatedly scanned with his Golden Pupil and Divine Sense, but still could not find that wooden statue.

He didn't even find a single useful thing; it was all just broken stones.

A Ya was also just as bewildered as Ye Liuyun.

But she had gained a higher-level spell, so she was delighted and didn't care about those things anymore.

Only Ye Liuyun seemed preoccupied, continually thinking about what had happened before.

At this moment, Guo Da reminded Ye Liuyun: "You've been in the city for almost two days."

If we don't hurry up, we'll be caught up by Luo Tianming and his group!"

Ye Liuyun then came to his senses, and together with everyone mounted the fierce beasts and sped onward.

The further they went, the higher the temperature became.

When they passed a mountain pass, Meng Zhangxing proposed setting up some mechanical traps.

"Our speed isn't as fast as theirs; it's better to delay them here. If we all work together, we can at least take out some of the pursuers first!"

Ye Liuyun thought it over and also felt it was feasible.

They were now at most two days' distance from Luo Tianming, which was indeed rather close.

Originally Ye Liuyun planned to rely on the natural barrier of the Setting Sun Mountain Range to wipe out most of the people Luo Tianming brought.

But Luo Tianming hasn't gone exploring up to now; he's been chasing them all along, which is indeed a hassle.

Thus Meng Zhangxing and the others began to busy themselves.

Guo Da set up formations, Meng Zhangxing installed mechanisms, and Luo Yun provided various poisons and bewitching drugs, coordinating with their two setups.

Ye Liuyun, meanwhile, cooperated with Meng Zhangxing, refining metal into whatever shapes he needed to facilitate his mechanism-making.

A Ya also helped Meng Zhangxing dig pits and set up rolling stones on the cliff wall.

Meng Zhangxing mobilized everyone, keeping them busy enough.

Only after half a day did the entire arrangement finish.

At first, no one could see his overall design, and they thought making spears, arrows, and such tools was of little use to martial cultivators.

But after seeing one trap after another, they all felt they could at least take out some martial cultivators and slow down Luo Tianming's group's advance.

Ye Liuyun also decided to stay behind.

He also put on the Heaven-roaming Boots, making sure he could outrun the pursuers.

When the various mechanisms were triggered, he could also shoot arrows together with his clone.

Their two arrows could almost hit one target each; not taking the opportunity to ambush Luo Tianming, he felt it was a pity.

Thus the others left first.

Ye Liuyun could later rely on the Transmission Talisman to find their location.

Ye Liuyun first returned to the Xuan Kong Shi to cultivate; after one day, standing high on a cliff, he could also see Luo Tianming's troop in the distance.

Especially the two thousand soldiers at the rear, riding Dragon-Elephants, kicked up a cloud of dust that made the ground rumble loudly.

Ye Liuyun and his clone used the Shadow Concealment Technique to hide their forms in the darkness, so as not to be detected by them.

Luo Tianming's retired troops were numerous and mighty; they had not yet encountered an ambush by Ye Liuyun and company, so they were a bit careless and directly entered the valley's pre-set formation.

And the mechanisms Meng Zhangxing set up were also designed according to their numbers and formation.

Because the mountain pass was relatively narrow, the rear Dragon-Elephant army, before entering the valley, changed its formation from eight abreast to three abreast, preparing to pass through one by one.

At the very front of Luo Tianming's troop were a few Tianzun Realm martial cultivators leading the way, followed by a group of Earth Sovereign Realm martial cultivators, then more Tianzun Realm martial cultivators and Luo Tianming himself.

Until those few Tianzun Realm martial cultivators walking at the very front were about to walk out of the valley.

Only then did the rear Dragon-Elephant army fully enter the valley mouth.

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Ye Liuyun also secretly admired Meng Zhangxing's calculations in his heart.

The formations he set up were not activated immediately.

Rather, they depended on the leading martial cultivator.

Ye Liuyun watched his steps, seeing him enter the activated formation.

With a "Boom!", the thunder-fire elixirs buried around the formation exploded, blasting that martial cultivator so he couldn't even clap his hands in time, yet he wasn't killed.

This is the signal for all mechanisms to activate.

Immediately afterward, the rocks on the mountaintop all rolled downward.

Luotianming glanced at the falling stones, but he felt somewhat contemptuous.

"Trivial tricks, you think you can ambush us with this kind of trap?"

"Haha, they must have been driven desperate by our pursuit, they have no choice!"

Many Tianzun Realm Martial Cultivators around him also laughed along.

Afterwards, some Martial Cultivators struck out, blasting the falling rocks, turning those rocks into powder.

The confusion drug provided by Luo Yun also scattered with the powder, drifting with the wind throughout the whole valley.

Afterwards, the formations at various locations erupted one after another, slicing the entire force into segments.

The formations and mechanisms were combined ingeniously; some formations were gravity formations, but underground they protruded dense spears, with spear points thrusting upward.

This caused some unprepared Martial Cultivators to be struck down.

The sudden pressure made them all fall to the ground, being stabbed until their bodies were full of holes.

Some formations, when struck by a Martial Cultivator, immediately burst out black smoke, poisoning everyone inside.

None of the formations were especially large, lest too many people be trapped and they could break them all at once.

Some were linked formations, coordinating with the various mechanisms set up by Meng Zhangxing.

Many Martial Cultivators were affected by the confusion drug, their minds unclear, and many were killed by crossbow bolts.

Human shouts, the roars of dragon-elephants, the booming explosions of thunder-fire elixirs, and the sounds of rocks being blasted, all mingled chaotically in the valley.

The poisonous mist at the valley bottom also began to spread, growing thicker and thicker.

Multiple harms combined together, causing Luotianming's force to suffer heavy losses.

Especially the dragon-elephant army at the rear.

Their cultivation level was relatively low, and their ability to resist danger was slightly weaker.

Even some dragon-elephants were frightened, causing a stampede!