Chapter 503: Repeated Seesaw

After the great war, Qingming was already very busy, but suddenly all the high-level and Dao Foundation cultivators above the Earth level were summoned. Except for Sun Yu, Yu Zhizhuo, and other Dharma Forms who needed to control one side, everyone else, no matter what they were doing, had to put down the matters at hand and complete the assigned tasks first.

The cultivators of Qingming were fine, many Tai Chu Palace cultivators' main task was cultivation, often sitting in meditation for several days. Although the richness of Qingming's spiritual energy was not as good as the Tai Chu Palace mountain gate, it had other benefits.

Qingming was an Immortal Stone, growing very fast, so its characteristics were lively and changeable. The cultivation progress in Tai Chu Palace was faster, and although the cultivation progress in Qingming was slow, it was easy to be enlightened and easier to break through the bottlenecks in cultivation.

Many Tai Chu Palace cultivators were pulled out of closed-door cultivation, naturally full of dissatisfaction.

Several Tai Chu Palace disciples were divided into a group, and the leader was Ren Suxing. He had the highest cultivation, and this group of people was also led by him. Ren Suxing took everyone to the foot of a mountain, compared the map in his hand, compared the earth vein nodes, and said: "This is it. This work will take a whole day, everyone be quick."

Several disciples put down the boxes they were carrying, took out various formation materials and tools from them, and started to arrange the formation here.

A young disciple complained while working: "I was just called out of closed-door cultivation, and I was almost enlightened. Senior Brother Ren, what exactly are we doing?"

Ren Suxing snorted and said angrily: "We are here to practice, not to clear and cultivate. Do your work well! This is the Zhou Tian Star Dou Formation, with the function of monitoring heaven and earth. The first step is to build 36 nodes, and we are just one of them. The second step is 72 nodes, and the final step is to build all 360 nodes, and the formation can be considered truly completed."

Several young disciples were a bit surprised, not expecting such a big deal.

At this time, someone asked: "May I ask why this Zhou Tian Star Dou Formation is arranged?"

Ren Suxing looked up and saw that the visitors were two cultivators wearing felt hats, both with extraordinary bearing, one of whom was clearly a Dharma Form cultivator.

But Ren Suxing was full of anger now, and was even more angry when he saw idle cultivators, so he said angrily: "The Domain

The two cultivators were silent for a moment. The one in the Dharma Form stage bowed and said, "Many thanks for the information." Then the two walked toward the core of the Azure Void.

A young disciple of the Primordial Palace looked at the backs of the two cultivators and frowned, saying, "Why do these two look a bit suspicious?"

The other person also said, "I always feel like something is wrong, but I can't put my finger on it."

Ren Suxing glared at the two of them and said expressionlessly, "What does it have to do with you whether they are suspicious or not? How much salary have you received, or how much resources have you gained? Why worry about this! Just do your job well!"

The young disciples dared not retort, and also felt it made sense, so they buried their heads in their work.

The two cultivators walked a distance, and seeing no one around, the young Dao Foundation cultivator said, "Hmph, that barbarian is too bullying, actually scolding us!"

The cultivator beside him raised his head; it was none other than Peacock Buddha Mother, who smiled and said, "Let him scold if he wants. The more he scolds, the closer he is to my Buddha. As for you, the Shaman tribe is about to attack, are you ready?"

Little Monk Red Lotus revealed a somewhat strange and ferocious smile and said, "I've been waiting for a long time! Once I have liberated enough Shaman tribesmen, I will go find him to settle the score!"

In the blink of an eye, two days passed, and the first layer of the Zhou Tian Star Array was completed. The eye of the array was set in a stone hall under the main peak. As long as there were cultivators stationed at the array eye, they could monitor heaven and earth and keep track of every move within the Azure Void at all times.

Needless to say, the one stationed at the array eye was naturally Wei Yuan's Dharma Form warrior. Now, there was only one Dharma Form warrior with awakened wisdom in the Human World Fireworks, and it was deployed at the array eye.

Wei Yuan first checked every node of the array, confirmed that everything was correct, and then activated the great array. Surging spiritual energy was drawn from all parts of the Azure Void and gathered into the array. Subsequently, images appeared in Wei Yuan's consciousness, and finally, the entire Azure Void was under his sight.

With the Zhou Tian Star Array set up, ordinary concealment and stealth were useless. Moreover, Wei Yuan's luck was extremely high. By using his own Dharma Form warrior to preside over the array, it was easy for him to have a sudden inspiration and discover those veteran lurkers, those who secretly spoke ill of Wei Yuan behind his back, and those who did not look for reasons within themselves but always complained about the environment.

At this time, with the great array built, Wei Yuan suddenly thought of a scene described in Xu Wenwu's data, so he looked up Xu Wenwu's location to see what he was doing.

Xu Wenwu was lying on the bed, fast asleep, sleeping very sweetly. A little girl was lying on his belly, also in a deep sleep. The little girl looked about four or five years old, exceptionally cute and beautiful. The snoring of the big one and the small one rose and fell, which was exceptionally warm.

Wei Yuan was also stunned. It had been a while, and he didn't expect Xu Shiba to have grown so big. Her growth rate was five or six times that of an ordinary child. In this way, in another month or two, he might have to arrange for her to cultivate Body Forging. However, although her body had grown, had her soul and intelligence grown along with it?

Wei Yuan's figure flashed and appeared silently in Xu Wenwu's room. Xu Wenwu's Body Forging was now nearing completion, a speed that was absolutely shocking. The main reason he cultivated so fast was that he had been struck by the heavenly tribulation that day—that was the heavenly tribulation for advancing to the Dharma Form stage!

Besides that, he also relied on swallowing some luck and spiritual power from time to time. But Xu Wenwu himself could not control exactly when to swallow or how much to swallow; it was mainly based on fate.

Moreover, although Xu Wenwu's physical cultivation was progressing rapidly, his mental state was still far behind. Not to mention any Dao heart, all seven emotions and six desires—joy, anger, worry, thought, sorrow, fear, and desire—were all present, and he was greedy for life and afraid of death. Therefore, Wei Yuan had never dared to arrange for him to forge a foundation. Based on intuition, Wei Yuan felt that Xu Wenwu would likely face a heavenly tribulation when he forged his Dao Foundation. After Wei Yuan entered the room, Xu Wenwu was naturally completely unaware, but the little girl suddenly opened one eye and glanced at Wei Yuan.

Wei Yuan was greatly surprised, not expecting Xu Shiba's spiritual sense to be so sharp.

Seeing that it was Wei Yuan, the little girl's tense body immediately relaxed, and she continued to sleep on Xu Wenwu's soft belly.

Wei Yuan remembered the purpose of his visit, so he reached out and waved his hand, drawing a pair of firm and indifferent eyes on the room wall, and then sprayed a line of words below: Big Brother is watching you!

Wei Yuan looked at the spray painting and was very satisfied, hoping that this picture could help Xu Wenwu strengthen his Dao heart.

After doing this, Wei Yuan's figure disappeared, and he went to attend to official business.

Through the Zhou Tian Star Array, one could not only discover infiltrating enemies but also guide missiles. Moreover, the monitoring range of this array was currently 500 miles around, and when the whole array was built, the detection range would be 3,600 miles. That is to say, within the range of the array, the enemy would face missile attacks at any time and any place.

In the blink of an eye, seven days passed.

Although the Shaman tribe had retreated, the canal had been dug forward, advancing another 70 miles, and it was only more than 200 miles away from the Azure Void. With the return of Hongye, the Shaman tribe once again dispatched a million-strong army to attack the Azure Void.

And Wei Yuan, through a series of cumbersome and complex mobilizations, quietly transported many civilian troops to the front line and the second line of defense.

Ding'an City was not large and could not hold too many troops. Wei Yuan placed 100,000 civilians in the city and 100,000 outside the city, plus 20,000 city defense troops as the backbone.

The fortress area on the right wing of Ding'an City had already proven in the previous round of fighting that this was a meat grinder, and the Shaman tribe's casualties were comparable to those under Ding'an City. Therefore, Wei Yuan placed 200,000 civilians here, including 50,000 civilians from Zhao Guo, followed by 100,000 standing troops, and the Long Yi and Long Xiang armies were also placed here.

【Looking one by one】

The refugees from Zhao Guo had only barely learned how to light and fire muskets, and many of them were so physically weak that they would pant after putting on dozens of pounds of armor. They had not been in the Azure Void for long, and their bodies had not yet recovered.

Wei Yuan deployed them on the third line of defense. Many of them were secretly rejoicing, feeling that this battle was easy to deal with, and thus began to look forward to the prospect of becoming citizens of the Azure Void Realm after this battle.

On the left wing mountain area, which was naturally easy to defend, Li Zhi led the Zhenshan Army to defend it, and Wei Yuan supplemented it with 50,000 civilian troops and 20,000 standing troops.

As for the Xu family youths and the middle-rank and upper-rank human offerings, Wei Yuan placed them at the very back and did not intend to use them.

After the tragedy of Yong'an City in the previous battle, the civilians of the Azure Void already knew that hiding in the back was not safe either. Many people whose families had been wiped out took the initiative to request to go to the front line. In their view, there was no safe place in the world; only by killing all the Shaman tribesmen would there be true safety.

The battlefield was actually not large. With nearly two million troops deployed by both sides, it was already packed full. Although the Shaman army still had many troops in the rear, they could no longer be deployed. To attack from other directions, they would have to detour hundreds of miles, and they would be at risk of being ambushed by Wei Yuan at any time.

Therefore, Hongye still chose a frontal attack to exhaust Wei Yuan. There were only so many people in the Azure Void; more than 200,000 died in the last battle, and after a few more battles, there would be no one left in the Azure Void.

In this battle, Hongye moved the command area forward to 500 miles away, and then dispatched 300,000 troops to guard six huge altars and began to advance. These six altars were huge and extremely heavy, each pulled by tens of thousands of slave laborers, moving forward with great difficulty bit by bit.

On the first day, the Shaman tribe just deployed their army formation and then pushed the altars for a whole day.

Wei Yuan tried to fire a few missiles, but they were all intercepted. This time, there were many Great Shamans holding bows in the Shaman army, hitting the target 100% within a thousand zhang, and even high-speed moving missiles could not escape their lock.

Wei Yuan immediately changed his strategy, letting dozens of railguns begin to throw empty barrels, and even stones. Then Wei Yuan ordered people to fill some of the stones with gunpowder.

At first, the Great Shamans intercepted them one by one, but after discovering that what was thrown over were empty barrels or even rocks, they didn't take action much. However, empty barrels were fine, but stones falling into the formation would still kill people.

But the Great Shamans didn't care about the lives of the lowly civilian soldiers underneath, watching the stones fall to the ground, and instead laughed loudly. While laughing, suddenly a few stones exploded violently, leveling thousands of soldiers in one fell swoop, and the army's morale was immediately shaken.

It was a small matter that thousands of soldiers were blown to death, but it was a big matter that the army's morale was shaken. The Great Shamans and Shaman warriors had to continue to intercept, intercepting whatever was thrown over.

Wei Yuan, on the other hand, changed the cultivators of the railguns in batches. Anyway, the Azure Void didn't have much else now, just a lot of trash Dao Foundation cultivators.

Thus, the first day passed in repeated tug-of-war, and the magic power of the Great Shamans holding bows was consumed by more than half.

(End of chapter)