Chapter 118: Defense

Since this guy wasn't dead yet, they had to dig him out quickly. Wei Yuan pressed down and lifted with both hands, and several large stones were lifted by his Dao power and moved aside. Yun Feifei and Xu Waner also knew Xu Wenwu was below and joined in the digging. None of the three were ordinary Dao Foundation cultivators, and with the blessing of the Azure Void, their Dao power was abundant. After a short while, they dug through the ruins and rescued Xu Wenwu.

The underground secret chamber happened to be blocked by a collapsed crossbeam, so everything inside was intact, including Xu Wenwu.

Yun Feifei's gaze landed on the Azure Void, lingered for a breath, and then shifted elsewhere, pretending she had seen nothing.

At this moment, there was a strange sensation on the top of her foot, and she immediately knew someone was staring at her feet. Yun Feifei lowered her eyelids and saw that there were still a few spots of mud on her snow-white little feet, making the white appear even whiter. She inadvertently raised her head slightly, followed the gaze, and saw Xu Wenwu's infatuated face.

Yun Feifei swished her skirt and covered her feet.

She turned her head again and saw Wei Yuan circling the Azure Void, looking at it from top to bottom, not missing a single detail. If he could show even one percent of this focus on her legs, Yun Feifei would still feel like a woman.

The Azure Void had no problems and was operating well, showing no signs of being contaminated. Wei Yuan finally breathed a sigh of relief. He grabbed the dazed Xu Wenwu, shook him a few times, and seeing that all his parts were still there, he felt at ease.

"Let's go, to the secret treasury."

Yun Feifei and Xu Waner both soared into the air, while Wei Yuan strode along the ground carrying Xu Wenwu. However, Wei Yuan's running speed was no slower than the two women. Xu Wenwu kept twisting in Wei Yuan's hand, eagerly wanting to say something.

Seeing his strong desire, Wei Yuan released his Dao power. Xu Wenwu surprisingly lowered his voice and said quickly, "Such a good opportunity, look up! Remember to tell me what color you see."

As expected, he shouldn't have released the Dao power, Wei Yuan thought to himself.

This secret treasury of the Lan Shen Palace was built behind a mountain rock, surrounded by barren hills with no human presence, only traces of birds and beasts. The secret treasury was also concealed by incense and wish power, so the enemy subconsciously ignored this place when destroying the mountain gate. Fortunately, Yun Feifei knew the location of most of the sect's secret treasuries and had found this one now.

The entrance to the secret treasury was very simple, just covered with mountain rocks. After moving the rocks, three storerooms were revealed inside. One of them contained various raw ores, roughly seven or eight types, with the most being over ten thousand catties and the least being several hundred catties. There were no rare items inside; if there had been, they would have been searched out by the Dharma Form True Lords long ago.

The second room contained various magic treasure embryos, which were actually items that had been forged but lacked the final step of injecting Dao power for spiritualization. Magic treasure embryos were not valuable, so there were hundreds of flying swords, dozens of sabers, and hundreds of other weapons in this room, but only ten sets of armor. If they weren't going to the battlefield, many cultivators were unwilling to wear armor as it affected their demeanor.

These embryos were of average rank; even if forged into magic treasures, they would at most be middle-rank. Their only advantage was the decent quantity.

The third room contained processed grain, rice, and meat, similar to the military rations of the Tai Chu Palace, of slightly lower quality but with the advantage of sufficient quantity, totaling ten thousand catties. A cultivator who had reached the Body Forging Realm only needed one catty a day, enough for a thousand-man elite force to eat for ten days.

The three of them retrieved the supplies from the secret treasury and moved them all to the vicinity of the main hall. Then, Wei Yuan suddenly felt that the aura of the prisoners in the cell was wrong; that Third Senior Sister was much weaker than when she was locked in. He hurried to the cell, opened the door, and saw that several people were hanging upside down from the beams. The Third Senior Sister had an extra sword wound on her abdomen that went straight through to her back. Although she had tried her best to constrict the wound, blood was still slowly seeping out.

Wei Yuan didn't remember her having such a wound and looked at Xu Waner.

Xu Waner was a bit uneasy, lowered her head, and said softly, "You instructed that they couldn't be allowed to run away. The others were fine, but Third Sister has profound Dao power and many tricks, and she kept trying to break free. I really wasn't confident in stopping her, and I was afraid you might have a use for me, and what if she ran away while I was gone? So I... I added a sword strike to make her lose the strength to escape."

Third Senior Sister said angrily, "Don't call me Third Sister! I don't have a sister as vicious as you!"

Wei Yuan pulled open Third Senior Sister's clothes, looked at the wound, and then scanned the inside of her body with his spiritual sense, realizing that this sword strike was actually extremely sinister. The sword had grazed the Qi Sea in her lower abdomen and had already damaged it. If Third Senior Sister didn't want to damage her Dao Foundation, she had to use all her strength to seal the Qi Sea with Dao power, and then use her physical strength to seal the wound; otherwise, she could bleed to death. Finally, this sword strike had also injured her intestines, so she couldn't engage in strenuous exercise, or her intestines would immediately break into several pieces.

Even if Wei Yuan did it himself, he couldn't have done better than this sword strike.

This Xu Waner appeared gentle and pure, but when she struck, she didn't hesitate at all. These Western Regions were indeed fierce, and there were no easy targets.

However, to show that he was a cut above Xu Waner, Wei Yuan had to show off a bit. Fortunately, after ten years in the Tai Chu Palace, he had seen plenty of ready-made examples; for instance, he had learned many techniques from the Senior Sister...

Wei Yuan calmed his mind, cleared away all thoughts that shouldn't be there, and then looked through the others, casually finding some methods.

He pointed his hand, and two scorching sword qi shot out, sealing the two wounds on Third Senior Sister's lower abdomen and back, stopping the bleeding. Third Senior Sister let out a scream, her whole body trembling. Wei Yuan had experienced the taste of sword qi sealing a wound not long ago and had since learned the importance of respecting one's teacher and the Dao.

The sword qi sealing the wound also had a burning effect, immediately causing Third Senior Sister great pain, making it impossible for her to concentrate, and now she couldn't even cast the simplest Dao technique.

Having resolved the hidden danger of the captives and incidentally intimidated Yun Feifei and Xu Wenwu, Wei Yuan returned to the Azure Void.

Soon, Xu Wenwu also understood from the fragments of conversation that a great battle was coming, and that the enemy was powerful, a life-and-death struggle. He immediately became excited.

This was the first step taken by a Human King, the first battle of conquering the world. No matter how strong the enemy was, victory was certain! The more disparate the forces, the more glorious this battle would be, and everyone surrounding the Human King at this time would go down in history. However, one only had one life after all, so Xu Wenwu became uncharacteristically serious!

He racked his brains and finally thought of something, so he said, "In my world, there is a Sage of War named Sun Zi..."

Wei Yuan found it very strange; why was his mouth-sealing Dao technique so ineffective? The sealing time was getting shorter and shorter. However, Xu Wenwu seemed to want to say something this time, so Wei Yuan listened seriously.

As expected, Xu Wenwu said, "... He wrote a military book called 'The Art of War', which contains thirty-six stratagems, and they are not ordinary at all! Our ancestors relied on it to fight wars for thousands of years, and they were invincible!"

Wei Yuan finally became interested; this was exactly what was needed right now, so he asked, "What are the thirty-six stratagems?"

Xu Wenwu suddenly choked.

All he could remember with his own brain now was "running away is the best stratagem," and if pushed to the limit, "the best military policy is to attack the strategy." He had never even heard of the others, let alone remembered them.

Seeing him unable to say a word, Wei Yuan understood; this guy probably only knew that the book "The Art of War" existed.

"Wait! I remember something else. Since we are going to fight a war, we must use guns!"

Wei Yuan reached out and grabbed a long spear that was twelve feet long.

Xu Wenwu shook his head. "Not this kind of gun. Your gun is too outdated, it's practically primitive! I'm talking about modern firearms, where the bullets fired can exceed the speed of sound."

Wei Yuan inquired about the definition of the speed of sound, which Xu Wenwu explained clearly; after all, the three words "supersonic speed" were right there. Wei Yuan pondered for a moment and said to Yun Feifei, "Go a hundred feet away and stab me with a sword."

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Yun Feifei's figure flickered, and in the blink of an eye, she was a hundred feet away. In Xu Wenwu's eyes, Yun Feifei had almost turned into a small dot. He saw Yun Feifei point a finger, and where the light flashed, a flying sword arrived in front of Wei Yuan!

Wei Yuan grabbed the flying sword casually, and only then did the whistling sound enter his ears. This was still a sound Yun Feifei had deliberately made; otherwise, most flying sword strikes were silent.

Xu Wenwu had just been shocked when his eyes blurred again, and Yun Feifei had returned to her original position. She didn't seem to be much slower than the whistling sound.

"This..." Xu Wenwu's mind went blank. Flying swords were also supersonic? It was truly a bit difficult to dominate this world!

Fortunately, his mind moved quite fast, and he hurriedly said, "There is another way: dig trenches!"

Wei Yuan asked in detail, but Xu Wenwu's concept of trenches stopped at the stage of barbed wire in front and a ditch dug behind. He could only remember there was barbed wire because he had watched too many war movies.

Wei Yuan had originally intended to seal his mouth again, but at this moment, the range of the Azure Void's transformation of heaven and earth finally exceeded one mile, and the first characteristic appeared: Jia Wood Gives Birth to Xuan.

Jia Wood Gives Birth to Xuan meant vigorous vitality, prosperity, and the growth of all wood, which was particularly beneficial for wood-type Dao techniques. In the Azure Void world, the growth rate of all wood was greatly increased, and many dying spiritual plants could grow again. At the same time, the recovery speed of Dao power was greatly improved, and injuries healed faster. At this moment, Wei Yuan could also concentrate the power of Xuan to a certain person or a certain spiritual plant, additionally increasing the speed of growth or recovery.

The Xuan power possessed by the Xuan Stone Wei Yuan saw in the Tai Chu Palace that day belonged to a function, while Jia Wood Gives Birth to Xuan was more powerful and had become a characteristic. Not only were the growth and recovery speeds improved, but there was also the power of all wood growth, and most importantly, it was possible to make dying spiritual wood regain its vitality.

Seeing the first characteristic of the Azure Void, Wei Yuan immediately had new ideas about trenches. He quickly sketched out the terrain map of the Lan Shen Palace and drew several arcs on the Wu Yu tribe's attack route, saying, "If trenches are built here, we can block the Wu tribe's army in the narrowest place!"

Xu Wenwu was overjoyed, feeling that Wei Yuan was indeed a rare talent scout in the world, and it was not in vain that he, this thousand-mile horse, had gone through hardships and crossed two worlds to join him.

But Yun Feifei immediately said, "If the Great Shaman casts a blood curse, what is the use of hiding in these trenches? If we don't come out, aren't we just waiting for death?"

Wei Yuan frowned and pondered, and Xu Wenwu's heart immediately rose to his throat. The trench in his understanding was just a ditch with a bit of an arc; he really hadn't thought about this problem.

Xu Waner also said, "If the enemy fires several flying swords to pierce along the trench, wouldn't hiding inside make us living targets?"

Every second Wei Yuan pondered, Xu Wenwu's heart rose a little more.

Finally, Wei Yuan erased the several arcs, changed them into several wavy lines in front and back, and then connected them with many vertical lines, finally turning them into a large net.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 119 =====