novelraw Chapter 2218 - 2217: The Spectacle in the Provincial City
Chapter 2218 - 2217: The Spectacle in the Provincial City
The hundred thousand strong army were all soldiers who participated in defending the city yesterday; many of them witnessed the battle scene between Long Fei and the Tiger King, and they worshiped Long Fei immensely.
Whatever Long Fei wants them to do, they don’t doubt it.
This place, with its mountains and waters, easily allows the power of the landscape to be used to set up an automatically deploying great formation.
Due to the formation flags, this formation may only withstand a dozen or so uses before it deteriorates if left unmaintained.
However, the Demonic Beast Army isn’t brainless; once they suffer losses here, they’ll move elsewhere and won’t stubbornly hold their ground.
Long Fei refined the Tiger King’s Comet Hammer he seized yesterday using Samadhi True Fire on the spot.
The Comet Hammer, refined from Azure Divine Bloodstone, although lacking the Immortal Patterns, cannot unleash True Immortal Level power.
Yet in terms of quality, it can rival True Immortal Level magical treasures.
The difference between True Immortal and Human Immortal magical treasures lies not in the quality of the weapon itself, but in the Mystic Patterns engraved on the weapon.
True Immortal Mystic Patterns can communicate with far more celestial energy than Human Immortal Mystic Patterns, hence their greater power when wielded.
Some members of the Demon Clan only cultivate their physical bodies, and even the finest magical treasures can only serve as firebrand staffs to them.
This Comet Hammer is gigantic; after being elongated and stretched, a total of three thousand six hundred formation flags each one meter long were refined.
The formation Long Fei wanted to set up is precisely the Heavenly Punishment Earth Rock Great Formation.
This formation primarily draws from the powers of water and earth, allowing them to merge into earth rock, invincibly solid.
The formation only requires the fluid essence from the river and the earthy essence from the mountains to be channeled around the city walls.
It splits into two parts: the guiding formation and the protective formation.
When the Demon Soldiers launch their attacks, the formation activates, forming invisible earth rock shields to continuously obstruct them.
By the time they reach the bottom of the city walls, more than half will have crashed and injured themselves.
The formation took an entire day to set up, with each formation flag hammered into the earth by Long Fei.
Even if a single point is broken, as long as the other formation flags remain, the formation can still exhibit its wondrous effects.
He left a gap in front of the city gate, entrusting the method of changing the formation to the City Lord for arrangement.
After all, the common folks need to come and go; normally, when not in use, stow away the formation flags, leaving a gap at the city gate.
If the Demon Soldiers arrive, block this gap, and the formation will remain intact.
The City Lord appeared a bit apprehensive after inspecting it.
He only saw Long Fei thrust several small flags into the ground and wasn’t aware of the small flags’ wonder, fearing they may not withstand the Demon Soldiers.
Long Fei discerned his thoughts, advising him to use war horses or oxen to test it out.
The City Lord, overjoyed, promptly summoned war horses to conduct a field test outside the city.
Under the command of a general, these war horses began charging the city walls.
A thousand meters away, they collided with the formation.
Initially, some war horses hit this invisible city wall and flipped hooves up in the air; those lucky enough not to hit the wall didn’t run far before getting impaled by stone pillars erupting from the ground, chilling their hearts.
The war horses wailed, the scene was quite bloody.
Wang Xiaoya couldn’t bear to watch and turned her head, shouting, "Enough, killing your own war horses proves nothing!"
The City Lord, thrilled beyond measure, hurriedly used Spiritual Energy to halt his men.
Those war horses were his treasures, and he was heartbroken to have killed them himself.
But compared to this mystical formation, the City Lord soon didn’t mind.
Realizing he encountered a sage, he thought he might have reasons to seek the sage’s help again someday.
Even if there’s nothing to request, this sage would surely accomplish notable deeds in Chang’an City, and befriending such a person could greatly benefit his future.
Whether or not Long Fei was willing, the City Lord insisted on gathering ten million Spirit Stones with the city’s gentry, along with three thousand jars of ten-thousand-year-old fine wine, and presented them to Long Fei.
This city is famed for its wine, and the City Lord has many wealthy merchants.
Some of them have stores spanning across the entire Shu State, even Chang’an City has branches.
The gentry merchants initially planned to invest heavily in defending the city; right now, a mere ten million Spirit Stones were collected, and each family only contributed a small share, which was truly insignificant.
Seeing this, Long Fei could only accept with a smile.
He bid farewell to Wang Xiaoya and the City Lord’s party, departing through the teleportation channel.
This teleportation channel only leads to the State City; traveling to Chang’an City still requires transit from the State City.
This unintentional passing led Jiangyang City to good fortune.
After the Demon Calamity erupted in Shu State, the entire West Shu was awash in blood, leaving ten rooms empty for every one filled.
All the various cities, big and small, suffered calamities, but only Jiangyang City was preserved.
City Lord Wenchang, due to this, was reused by the Imperial Court and promoted extraordinarily to a position in Chang’an City.
However, that is a tale for later.
Even Long Fei back then didn’t foresee how destructive a demon plague could be.
After arriving at the Shu State City, Long Fei and Wang Xiaoya first found an inn to stay, intending to inquire about Chu Feng’s whereabouts to see if these folks had arrived in the State City.
This is still a State City, its city walls are huge, much bigger than Jiangyang City.
The streets in the city are spacious, paved with bluestone.
The commerce is thriving; the sound of voices is rising.
Regardless of the number of people or the attire, everything is a level above Jiangyang City.
The teleportation channel here isn’t closed; it’s accessible by official families and ordinary people alike.
The teleportation channel resembles a bus station, with waiting halls outside.
After paying, you can enter the waiting hall and can travel to other places at any time from inside.
Long Fei originally thought that with the Demon Clan rampant, the Shu State City’s situation would be more cautious.
To his surprise, upon arriving here, everything in the city remains unchanged.
Even the soldiers on the city walls were lazy and carefree, lacking any sense of urgency.
It seems the official families aren’t concerned about this Demon Calamity at all.
After checking into the inn, while having a meal downstairs, they overheard a lively discussion.
Everyone in the inn was talking about a great show about to be staged on Qingcheng Mountains, not far from here.
It was said to be due to a contention over Daoist Orthodoxies, with the Mount Shu Sect sending disciples specifically to challenge the Qingcheng disciples.
The Qingcheng Sect follows the Supreme Shangqing, or Sky-reaching Hierarch of the Sect of Severance.
Mount Shu venerates the Saint Taiqing, the Supreme Saint of the Human Sect.
Following the Divine Enthronement battle, the Sect of Severance grew weak.
In this world, few orthodox Daoist sects endured.
In the Shu Region, only the Qingcheng Sect remains.
This sect has long contended with Mount Shu for dominance in this area, neither side willing to yield.
Now Mount Shu proposed a grand plan to become the leader of the Shu Region, thus the Qingcheng Sect naturally became their greatest rival.
The two sects have disputed for a long time, agreeing to duel every thousand years.
Competing between disciples, the winner becomes the respect of the Shu Region, the defeated submits to the winner and obeys their command, becoming a second-rate sect.
Such contests have occurred over a dozen times.
Every time ends in a draw.
This thousand-year term, it’s clear that Mount Shu has come prepared.
Furthermore, within this thousand years, Mount Shu’s third generation disciples have matured, completely overshadowing the Qingcheng Sect.
The Qingcheng Sect, however, faces dwindling talent; a thousand years have passed without producing any renowned disciples.
Rumors circulate that in this duel, the Qingcheng Sect will surely lose.