Chapter 103: Spring-Returning Vine Wood Array

Under the arrangement of the Huang family cultivators, nearly two hundred Qi Refining cultivators were divided into two groups. The cultivators of the vassal families such as the Song family, under the leadership of several Huang family cultivators, each drew the area they were responsible for and quickly surrounded Chifeng Ridge.

The remaining Huang family and Qian family cultivators, under the leadership of three Foundation Establishment cultivators, killed their way up Chifeng Ridge from three directions. Besides Huang Shengxin and Qian Guangyao, the Huang family also sent an old-brand Foundation Establishment cultivator at the fifth layer of Foundation Establishment, Huang Chengliang, for this battle.

Besides the second-level middle-grade White Lion, there were hundreds of low-grade demonic beasts on Chifeng Ridge. The White Lion had occupied this place for several years and had basically subdued these demonic beasts.

The crowd had just surrounded the mountain for not long when they alarmed this White Lion. Seeing many cultivators coming down the mountain, the White Lion suddenly became fierce, brought more than a dozen demonic beasts, and came down from the top of the mountain.

The White Lion was the fastest and rushed to the front. Seeing dozens of cultivators rushing up below, the White Lion roared, the wind on its four hooves moved, flew into the air, opened its mouth wide at the many cultivators below, and spat out a fierce and violent wind.

"You beast, how dare you be so rampant."

Unexpectedly, the violent wind spat out by the White Lion was blocked by a green sword light halfway through the road. A Foundation Establishment cultivator holding a three-foot green sword, Qian Guangyao, flew out from the cultivators below and fought with the White Lion in the air. The Qi Refining cultivators below soon fought with the demonic beasts that followed the White Lion.

Qian Guangyao had not been in Foundation Establishment for long, and his cultivation level was only at the second layer of Foundation Establishment. He only had a second-level low-grade flying sword on his body. He also knew that his own strength was far inferior to this second-level middle-grade White Lion. Before the battle, he had already arranged for the Qi Refining cultivators below to send a request for help signal to the two Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Huang family.

The White Lion had several powerful divine abilities on its body. When it attacked the Huang family's fine iron mine a few months ago, it had a fierce battle with another Foundation Establishment ancestor of the Huang family, Huang Shengyue. The final result was that Huang Shengyue, who was at the third layer of Foundation Establishment, was slightly injured. Relying on a second-level middle-grade talisman in his hand, he barely repelled the White Lion.

Qian Guangyao's cultivation and divine ability were not as good as Huang Shengyue's, and he soon fell into a disadvantage. It was just that his task now was not to repel this demon, but to try his best to drag the White Lion. Foundation Establishment cultivators could fly with swords, and it would take at most the time of a stick of incense to support here. After the other two Huang family Foundation Establishment cultivators came to help, they would be able to turn defeat into victory.

Most of the Qi Refining cultivators brought by the Qi Refining cultivators below were also brought by him. Even if it was not for the Huang family's mission this time, he could only bite the bullet and block the White Lion's attack. Once this fierce beast broke through his line of defense, the fate of these Qi Refining cultivators below could only be handed over to the demonic beasts. It was estimated that after the battle, there would not be many left.

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At the same time, at the corner of a mountain ridge on the north side of the foot of Chifeng Ridge, two Qi Refining-stage red apes had just come down from the mountain. Unexpectedly, just as they walked to the flat ground, two green vines suddenly emerged from the ground and entangled the feet of these two Red Fire Apes.

The two Red Fire Apes were incredibly strong, picked up the green vines entangled on their feet with both hands and pulled them hard, soon tearing them into two sections.

It was just that before they could be happy, more green vines emerged from the ground, entangled the lower half of the Red Fire Apes along their feet. These green vines regenerated after being broken. No matter how the Red Fire Apes tore, they could not completely remove these vines.

The Red Fire Apes were angry at being trapped in the vines. At this time, four sword lights suddenly killed from not far away. The leader was the old family head of the Song family, Song Gushan.

The two Red Fire Apes had average strength and were only middle-grade demonic beasts, and they were restrained by the vines under their feet. Not long after, they screamed and unwillingly died in the hands of the Song family group.

"Changling, Qingrui, don't deal with these demonic beast corpses first, drag them to the side and hide them. Qingming, don't be distracted, concentrate on controlling the array."

"Yes! Family head."

The three major armies responsible for attacking the mountain had already started to fight lively on the mountain, and the many cultivators at the foot of the mountain were also constantly welcoming the impact of the demonic beasts.

This time, the Huang family gave strict orders to the major vassal families not to let go of any demonic beast on Chifeng Ridge, swearing to wipe out the demonic beasts of Chifeng in one go. Not only that.

Song Gushan's luck was average, and the defensive position he drew was an open flat ground. If his luck was bad, and more than a dozen demonic beasts attacked at the same time, the six cultivators of the Song family, even if they all fought with their lives, would be very difficult to guard this place.

In order to reduce their own defensive pressure, the Song family could only choose to set up an array in place to wait for work.

Since the Great Elder Song Gubai, the high-grade array master, passed away, Song Qingming had become the person with the highest array level in the Song family. Although his array level had also improved a lot over the years, it was still far from the Great Elder before he passed away.

After Song Qingming studied the mountain terrain here, he chose to set up a Spring-Returning Vine Wood Array here.

The Spring-Returning Vine Wood Array was a trap array. The attack power of this array was not strong, but its biggest advantage was that the range that the array could control was very large, covering a radius of a hundred zhang around at the farthest.

Fortunately, after surrounding the mountain for a long time, the demonic beasts fleeing from the mountain to the Song family's location had always been few. Relying on the power of the array, the Song family group guarded quite easily, and no one was injured.

However, not all positions were so lucky. Several Qi Refining families responsible for surrounding the east side fell into a bitter battle soon after the battle started.

What they had to face was not the demonic beasts fleeing down Chifeng Ridge, but a group of powerful demonic beasts that happened to be foraging at the foot of the mountain nearby. These families of cultivators had just arrived at the assigned position and had not yet prepared themselves when they were besieged by the demonic beasts. Fortunately, several Huang family cultivators patrolling nearby soon discovered this situation and came to support. Added to the few families that were prepared in the rear, they helped them stabilize the situation.

Although the overall strength of the demonic beasts on Chifeng Ridge was not as good as that of the Qinghe County cultivators, their number was no less than theirs. Although this method of encircling from all sides could achieve the purpose of annihilating the demonic beasts on the mountain, it also dispersed their own strength. Once the demonic beasts began to forcibly break through, it was inevitable that some cultivators would have to face enemies several times their own.

After a few fierce collisions in the air, Qian Guangyao, dressed in red, was knocked back more than ten zhang by a blue thunder light sprayed by the White Lion. There was also a pitch-black place on his shoulder. After fighting for only twenty or so rounds, facing this fierce White Lion, Qian Guangyao had already felt tremendous pressure, and a trace of scarlet color overflowed from the corner of his mouth.

Just after blocking a blow, the White Lion had another powerful divine ability, a triple wind blade, slashed over. Qian Guangyao, whose body was still unstable in the air, could only bite his teeth and release a purple bronze bell to meet it, wanting to sacrifice this magic tool to delay the speed of this wind blade attack and win time for himself to dodge.

Unexpectedly, this bronze bell magic tool had already been split into two and fell to the ground before it could even fully take the first wind blade, becoming a waste product. This magic tool had followed him for many years. Although it was not a second-level magic tool, its defensive ability was very outstanding. Unexpectedly, it had completely lost this magic tool less than a moment after it was taken out.

Seeing that the wind blade had reached his eyes and there was no way to avoid it, Qian Guangyao could only hold a yellow talisman in his hand. When the first wind blade was a few feet away from him, a yellow light shield suddenly appeared in front of him and blocked this wind blade.

Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, the other two wind blades had already slashed on the light shield. After a burst of sizzling sounds, these two wind blades completely disappeared in the air, and the yellow light shield in front of Qian Guangyao also suddenly became very dim and soon turned into a void.

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