Chapter 116: Fighting Magic Also Requires Brains (Seeking Monthly Votes)

The moonlight outlines the gentle curve of the hills, reflects the shape of the dead tree's branches, and also illuminates the cold shadows of the fox group and the three armored bean soldiers opposite.

That sword light that cut off the tree branch not only scared the old fox on the tree, but also startled this group of yaoguai foxes, whether human-shaped or original form.

"Actually moved first!"

"Annoying! I'll eat him later!"

"Let's charge together!"

Just as the old fox on the tree gave a shout—

Many yaoguai foxes immediately squeezed and pressed forward, at first their steps were a bit slow and alert, but after the large number of yaoguai foxes formed a charge formation, they all ran forward crazily, their momentum like a rainbow.

The two armored soldiers opposite also lowered their upper bodies and stepped forward to run, looking slower, but always ensuring they were at the center of gravity most suitable for exerting force to hack, their steps heavy and hard to block.

Both sides soon collided.

It is hard to say whether the tide of the fox group surrounded the two armored soldiers, or the two armored soldiers rushed into the fox group; in short, both sides suddenly fought together.

It was all the sound of hacking and the collision of weapons.

Fox yaoguai are good at changing and confusing, so many foxes immediately spat out smoke, but after finding that it didn't work on these two armored soldiers, they rushed up to bite. However, the inside of the armored soldiers is Dan fruit wood, and its hardness is three points better than ordinary steel, and the outside is iron armor, so these foxes couldn't bite at all.

On the contrary, the two armored soldiers stepped with heavy steps among the many foxes, hacking and slashing wantonly with their long sabers and wooden shields, truly having infinite strength, like cold light constantly flashing under the moon, and foxes constantly colliding.

Once hacked, if not dead, then arms and legs are broken.

Once bumped, at least they have to retreat a few steps.

Among the fox yaoguai, many turned into human form, also holding human swords, hacking with the bean soldiers.

It's just that foxes are inherently weak, and swords are ordinary weapons; even if they hack on the bean soldiers, it often only splashes some sparks, with a clanging sound.

On the contrary, when a bean soldier hacked with a saber, in their eyes, it truly seemed to have the momentum to split a mountain!

If they blocked it, their swords would be knocked away immediately, or they would be hacked away along with their swords; if they didn't block it, they would be hacked into black smoke and exploded, and on the ground would be two halves of a fox corpse!

Soon arrows shot over again.

It was the fox yaoguai holding a bow and arrow standing behind, constantly nocking arrows and pulling the bow, shooting at the two bean soldiers.

And there were foxes with higher cultivation rushing in front of the bean soldiers, opening their mouths to spit, actually spitting out flames, exploding groups of firelight on the battlefield under the moon, outlining the bean soldiers' body contours and armor shapes.

"Swish!"

The fire-spitting fox had only spat fire a few times, and just as it wanted to open its mouth to spit the next mouthful, its neck was pierced by an arrow from nowhere.

Even after the arrow shot through it, it could still pierce another fox.

Yes, there was also an archer among the bean soldiers!

The long bow was also made of Dan fruit wood. Lin Jue had only been refining bean soldiers for more than half a year, the bean soldiers' strength was not enough, but the Dan fruit wood was too hard; if there was a shortcoming, it was that it couldn't pull the bow quickly to shoot arrows continuously, but the advantage was that every arrow shot out had enough strength to pierce armor at a hundred paces.

Each arrow was like a death warrant.

This archer also shot accurately.

The fire-spitting foxes were soon all dead, and the archer aimed at the foxes shooting arrows behind; these foxes couldn't shoot him, but he could easily point-kill them one by one.

The only way for foxes to win was by quantity.

Many foxes and fox yaoguai rushed past the two bean soldiers in front, wanting to help the old fox in the back and bite the two Daoists, when they saw the female Daoist coming with the Seven-Star Steps, her long sword dancing, piercing flowers and stirring leaves.

And her body method and thoughts were very flexible, her steps only picked gaps to go, never falling into heavy encirclement!

When waving the sword, her left hand also waved out a great wind and flames; whether it was foxes or human-shaped fox yaoguai, it was difficult to resist her.

The front was soon filled with the smell of blood and burnt smell.

The back was not idle either.

As soon as Lin Jue landed, he bent his legs and turned to unload the force, and borrowing this turning force, he flicked his hand and sent out two life-chasing talismans.

The flying darts pierced the cold night in a straight line!

Seeing the old fox on the tree jumping to dodge, Lin Jue didn't stop, exerted force again and rushed toward the dead tree, having already aimed at the point to borrow force, wanting to rush to the tree in one step.

At the same time, Fuyao and him were left and right, aiming at the fox on the tree on the left and rushing over, their speed extremely fast, actually stepping on the tree trunk and going up, straight to the moon's tip.

But he didn't expect—

Just as Lin Jue took a few steps on the tree and was about to go up to the tree branch, the old fox on the tree widened its eyes, inhaled a mouthful of moon essence, and spat it out as it lowered its head.

"Whoosh~~"

A cold white gas under the moon.

Lin Jue's expression froze, he hurriedly stopped his rush, his upper body fell backward and downward, not forgetting to push forward with his left hand, pushing out a gale, both blowing toward the cold gas and letting himself fall backward and downward more quickly.

What was below? It was that ancient tree!

His figure instantly disappeared into the tree.

"Eh?"

In the old fox's eyes, it was that after the Daoist blew the gas, he fell backward, narrowly avoiding its mouthful of cold gas, and at the same time, the cold gas was blown back a little, confusing its eyes.

It couldn't help but blink.

When it opened its eyes again, the Daoist had disappeared.

"Where did he go?"

The old fox was suspicious, but not panicked, instead looking around calmly.

It was originally searching, but as its gaze swept past, it couldn't help but feel heartbroken.

Only seeing the bloody battlefield below, the closest was the female Daoist waving her sword and casting magic, entangled with its own children and grandchildren; if a few children and grandchildren could get close to her, they could probably defeat her, but they couldn't get close.

After finally getting close, a puff of flames hit them in the face.

This female Daoist was protecting the wooden armored soldier who kept nocking and shooting arrows; every arrow shot out was a child who had attained the Dao.

Beside the tree, the sound of fighting was constant.

This Daoist wanted to go up the tree, but was knocked down by it, while its white fox successfully went up the tree, not only stepping on the vertical tree trunk as if walking on flat ground, but also stepping on the thin dead branches as if walking on flat ground, even seeming to be more stable than itself and its old friend, and at this time it was already fighting with its old friend on the tree.

Occupying the convenience of body size, it was actually more fierce than its old friend.

The old fox didn't worry about its old friend and continued to search.

Its gaze couldn't help but aim at the intense fighting between the two armored soldiers further away and its own children and grandchildren; ordinary people wearing armor were already hard to kill, let alone these wooden men who didn't know pain.

The old fox gradually gritted its teeth.

It didn't find the Daoist's figure, but after just scanning it once, it felt heartbroken.

It simply took two steps forward, inhaled a mouthful of moon essence, lowered its head, and spat a mouthful of cold gas toward the bottom.

"Whoosh~~"

The female Daoist just blocked a saber from a fox yaoguai, borrowed the turning force to flick her left sleeve, and with a puff, true fire rushed out in a semicircle along the front, blowing away the broken leaves on the ground into fire.

The few children and grandchildren who had finally gotten close were hit by the flames and instantly had their transformation arts burned away, turning into their original forms, howling, turning their heads wanting to lick the burned parts, and their swords naturally fell to the ground.

But when this female Daoist looked up, she noticed.

In an instant, she jumped backward.

The cold gas rushed over, hitting where she had originally stood, swinging along the ground, actually extinguishing the spiritual fire on the ground.

After the fire was extinguished, a layer of ice formed.

"Ice magic?"

The junior sister lifted her left hand to look; it was only slightly grazed by the cold gas, but it was as if she had buried her hand in the snow for a long time in winter, and it was already frozen numb.

Squeezing her hand, exerting force, and with fire energy lingering, it finally recovered.

But the old fox didn't have time to look at her, but immediately spat another mouthful of cold gas toward the archer bean soldier.

The bean soldier didn't have time to dodge.

It had just nocked a new arrow and raised it above its head, which was the method of borrowing back strength to pull the bow. But before the bow and arrow could be put down, it was shrouded in cold gas, and the movement of putting down the bow and arrow became slower and slower, until it stopped.

Just at this time, the old fox didn't expect that a sword tip would extend from the dead tree it was stepping on.

"Clang!"

This dog Daoist is so insidious!

The old fox widened its eyes, but it was too late when it realized.

Unable to dodge, it was pierced instantly.

"Despicable!"

The old fox ignored its injury and hurriedly ran to the tree branch beside it.

After finally leaving with blood, before it had time to gather its breath and spit cold gas, it saw a hand reaching out from the tree trunk, the palm pushing, and it was a ball of true fire.

The flames seemed to explode, fast and fierce, and half of the tree branch was under the burning of the flames.

When the true fire extinguished, what fell was the old fox, pierced in the hind leg and scorched black all over, which turned into an old man with a puff, holding a short saber, and hurriedly blocking upward.

"Despicable!"

"Clang!"

The Daoist holding the sword jumped out from the tree and slashed down with one sword.

How can a person's strength be compared to a fox's? Not to mention that this Daoist's strength is better than ordinary people, and he borrowed the momentum of falling! And the fox's leg was injured!

With a thud! The old fox knelt on the ground instantly.

Looking up, it saw that the sword the Daoist had just slashed down was actually raised above its head again, not giving it any chance to catch its breath.

"Despicable! Dare you fight me fairly?"

"You fight with many against few! Aren't you despicable?"

Both were words spoken through gritted teeth, because between speaking, neither the man nor the fox stopped, and the sword and saber collided nearly ten times, the sound almost breaking the night sky.

And such hacking, how can a fox block it? Even fighting for its life won't work!

The old fox took a gap, decided decisively, immediately dropped the short saber, turned into a black shadow, and flashed to the side.

Swish! The long sword reflected the moonlight and reached the ground instantly.

The sword edge cut into the ground, leaving a piece of tail.

"Is that all the skill you have?"

Lin Jue raised his sword and was about to pursue, when he suddenly saw a white shadow fall from the tree on the left side of the road.

It was his own fox!

Lin Jue couldn't help but be startled—

Just now, although he had two breaths of time to enter the tree, and it only took a flash of lightning to come out of the tree, he had also distracted himself to look at the battle situation on the tree over there. At that time, Fuyao was clearly more fierce than that old fox!

And until now, it was at most a few breaths of time, how could it be defeated?

But he saw Fuyao land, seeming to hit very heavily, with a lot of movement, and there was an extra pit on the ground. And it struggled to stand up, but couldn't, its fur was just messy, and there were no other injuries.

Lin Jue naturally gave up the pursuit and immediately wanted to go up to check.

But he suddenly felt a strange feeling.

"Hmph..."

Couldn't help but let out a muffled groan!

Lin Jue only felt that he had gained three or four hundred jin of weight for no reason, and his legs bent downward, and the muddy ground under his feet sank slightly, almost pressing him to the ground.

If it weren't for his fingers exerting force in a hurry, I fear the long sword would have been dropped too.

The good news is that this three or four hundred jin of weight is evenly distributed over the whole body, so after adapting, with his physique of often chopping wood and fetching water on the mountain and eating Giant Spirit Pills, he can still hold on. The bad news is that his hands and neck are also weighted, he can't even lift his sword, and turning his head is difficult, his cervical spine hurts extremely.

The sound of chanting came from above.

"Not good!"

Gritting his teeth with difficulty, he lifted his head—

Only seeing the old fox on the tree on the left becoming like a person but not like a person, sitting cross-legged on the tree branch, chanting incantations, reaching out and pointing downward.

The junior sister was also hit by this spell instantly.

And she was fighting with the fox, turning and moving, caught off guard, she gained several hundred jin of weight, and couldn't react at all, falling to the ground instantly, and her long sword also fell to the ground.

"Junior sister!"

Lin Jue was startled instantly.

Fortunately, she was smart, and the moment she fell, she turned into a stone statue.

Many fox soldiers surrounded her, holding kitchen knives and firewood knives, but only hacked out a piece of clanging sound.

That old fox on the tree was still chanting.

This time, I fear it was preparing to point at the two bean soldiers.

"Clatter..."

Four flying darts fell to the ground.

Accompanied by another string of incantations from the Daoist.

"Swish, swish..."

The flying darts flashed with spiritual light, as if controlled by someone, instantly rushing into the night sky, stabbing at the old fox on the tree under the moon.

The old fox's incantation paused.

The fox is nimble, actually turning over backward on the tree.

A few flying darts all entered the firmament.

"Kill this one!"

The old fox above shouted.

The fox soldiers who were still crazily hacking at the stone statue junior sister heard this, immediately turned around, and rushed toward Lin Jue.

Lin Jue only aimed at them with his peripheral vision, not in a hurry, and then moved his gaze across the ground, and then stepped back with heavy steps, just avoiding the cold gas spat at him by another injured old fox.

"Heroes, protect me!"

The two bean soldiers who were fighting in the front heard this, one hacked open the fox soldiers in front with a saber, one bumped open with a shield, and both turned to come behind him.

Lin Jue retreated three steps, his back feeling a touch.

Harmony with things—

The Daoist's figure instantly disappeared into the dead tree.

The heroes returned, just in time to protect the junior sister and Fuyao.

The old fox frowned, continued to sit cross-legged on the treetop and chant, intending to trap these two bean soldiers first.

However, the dead tree where Lin Jue was hiding had a hole, and chanting sounds also came from the tree hole.

The four flying darts that had flown into the sky earlier had already fallen into the forest, and as the incantation sounded in the tree hole on the right, the flying darts moved again, turning into fast black electricity, shooting toward the tree opposite.

The old fox's incantation was interrupted, and he felt a bit annoyed, yet he knew that he must not be hasty at this moment. He stepped on the thin branches of a withered tree, turned sideways to dodge one, flipped backward to dodge another, and could feel the wind stirred up by the darts as they grazed past him; yet, he was not in the least bit flustered and continued to dodge the remaining two.

But it didn't expect that there were two more flying darts on the ground.

Two flying darts, one long sword, one sword scabbard.

And the moonlight on the ground formed shadows.

The flying darts, long sword, and sword hilt didn't shoot toward the tree, but shuttled and flew in the darker forest, hitting the ground.

The ground was snow-white, like a layer of frost, and the frost reflected both the branches of the dead tree and the old fox on the tree.

"Puff!"

I don't know where the attack came from, the force was not great, but the old fox's attention was all on dodging the four flying darts, and caught off guard, it was almost knocked down, even the dead branches under it swayed.

"What is it?"

"Puff!"

The old man hadn't stood firm, and another hit.

This one hit the vital point.

"Ah, my eyes!

"Despicable!!"

Then two more hits on the head!

The old fox's body was unstable, almost knocked down, knowing that what was waiting for it below was mostly the steel big hacking sabers of the two bean soldiers, it just closed its eyes and scrambled, crazily grabbing the tree branches, but didn't notice that the four flying darts it had dodged had already returned two, and had already reached behind it.

"Ah!"

The old fox gave a scream and fell from the tree immediately.

Lin Jue also felt that the spell on him was gone.

Just at this moment—

The senior brother and junior sister were very tacit, one came out from the top of the tree, one changed back from a stone statue, one used the high place so that all the fox soldiers around him couldn't attack, one rolled and waved her sword to avoid and block the fox soldiers' attacks.

The junior sister was closest to the old fox that fell from the tree, and immediately rolled over and gave it a sword, the old fox had just landed, injured, and hadn't stood firm, when it was pierced through by the long sword.

"Desp..."

Another bean soldier stepped over, slashed down with a long saber, and hacked it into two sections, the saber tip deep into the underground mud.

Lin Jue was controlling the flying darts with incantations; that old fox that had been injured earlier wanted to save it, but seeing it couldn't be saved, wanted to run, but how could it run faster than the flying darts after being injured?

It was also hit by a few darts instantly and couldn't run anymore.

The bright moon left the branches, and the tree was finally clean. ===== CHAPTER 117 =====