Five Formations (Wishing Everyone a Happy New Year!!!)
Twenty days have passed in the blink of an eye, and March has arrived.
Over the past twenty days, Ling Yunxi, Ling Yunqian, Ling Rufan, and other members of the Ling Clan clan who possess flying Spirit Beast have been traveling to various places. The Ling Clan needs to go on an expedition to exterminate demons. The thirty Qi Refining cultivators who were originally working outside have all been summoned back home to refine the high-level Law Artifact distributed free of charge by the Lineage.
On this day, the thirty clansmen in the middle and late Qi Refining were all summoned by the Great Elder Ling Ruda to the outside of the Lineage's Affairs Hall.
Standing in the crowd, Ling Pengyun looked around at the clansmen who were also participating in the battle. He noticed that among these clansmen, there were not only three elders of the "Ru" Ru Generation who were nearly a hundred years old and whose lifespans were about to run out, but also many young clansmen of the Peng Generation. His brows furrowed immediately.
This kind of piecemeal approach, piecing together numbers from four generations of Lineage, is not a good thing.
"The drawback of the Lineage's manpower shortage has been magnified a lot during this recruitment by the Hundred Spirits Sect. I wonder how the Lineage will solve the manpower shortage in the future."
Just as Ling Pengyun was lost in thought, Great Elder Ling Ruda, who was standing outside the gate of the Affairs Hall, saw that all thirty clansmen who were to participate in the extermination of demons had arrived, and then spoke up.
"Please be quiet, everyone. Among the thirty clansmen who are going on this expedition, there is one Qi Training Completion, seven Qi Training Late Stage cultivators, and twenty-two Qi Training Middle Stage cultivators. Considering that the Demon Extermination War is too chaotic and individual battles may result in casualties, the Lineage recently purchased three formations from the Falling Dusk Luo Clan. Combined with the two formations stored in the Clan Repository over the years, there are a total of five formations available."
"The clan will distribute these five sets of formations to you to ensure your safety when fighting against Demon Beast."
"These five formations are the First Rank Middle Grade Trapping Array Binding Demon Array, the Defense Array Earthen Soil Transformation Curtain Formation, the offensive formations Blazing Fire Array and Golden Needle Array, and the First-Tier Superior-Grade Azure Wood Binding Demon Array."
"Although these formations are not set up on Spirit Vein, but are maintained by your own spiritual power, they can only exert 70% of their full power. However, this is still better than you fighting alone. This time, you will not be facing just a few or a dozen Demon Beast, but hundreds or thousands of Demon Beast."
"The array plates for the First Rank Middle Grade -grade arrays among these five arrays—Binding Demon, Golden Needle, Wu Earth Transformation Curtain, and Blazing Fire—are being held by Peng Yun, Peng Xing, Peng Lin, and Xiao Hua."
"Peng Yun and Peng Xing both have Qi Training Late Stage. Although Peng Lin's cultivation is not strong, he is one of the few Array Formation Master in the clan and can use array techniques to enhance the power of arrays. Xiao Hua is only one step away from the Qi Training Seventh Layer and his strength is also quite outstanding. Everyone, please do not have any ulterior motives because of your mastery of the array plate."
"As for the only First-Tier Superior-Grade array, the array plate of the Azure Wood Binding Demon Array, it was carried by Yun Qian, the Qi Refining clansman with the highest Qi Refining among those who went on this expedition."
"Each of the four First Rank Middle Grade formations only has six formation flags. Apart from the four Peng Yun who control the formation plates each controlling one flag, the remaining twenty formation flags will be controlled by the twenty clansmen with Qi Training Middle Stage Refining cultivation who are going on this expedition. You can choose to form a group with people who are on good terms with each other, with six people in each group. Once you have formed your teams, let me know and I will give you the formation flags that each group needs to set up."
"As for the Azure Wood Binding Demon Array, which is of a high First-Tier Superior-Grade, it requires a lot of spiritual power to activate. The nine array flags of this array are controlled by Yun Qian and the other five Qi Training Late Stage clansmen who went on this expedition."
After speaking, Ling Ruda took out the array plates and flags of the five arrays from his Storage Bag, and handed the array plates of the five arrays to Ling Pengyun, Ling Pengxing, Ling Penglin, Ling Xiaohua, and Ling Yunqian.
Ling Xiaohua is Ling Pengliang's father. He is the sixth in the Xiao Generation and has reached the Qi Training Sixth Layer. He has some talent in weapon crafting. In his early years, the Lineage spent a lot of money on him, but without much success. His success rate in crafting Law Artifact artifacts was extremely low. In recent years, he has been working alongside the Lineage's Artifact Refiner, Ling Yun'an, refining ores.
Ling Yunqian is the Sixth Elder of the Lineage, the eighth in the Yun Generation, and the only Qi Training Completion cultivator among the thirty family members who went on this expedition.
Although the clan has four Qi Training Completion cultivators— Great Elder Ling Ruda, Second Elder Ling Ruxian, Third Elder Ling Yunfeng, and Sixth Elder Ling Yunqian —the first three are all occupied with official duties.
Ling Ruda is in charge of all kinds of affairs in the Lineage, big and small. Once he leaves, all the affairs of the family will fall into chaos.
Ling Ruxian needs to be stationed at the important Mystic Water Iron Mine, and it is difficult for him to leave for a long time.
Ling Yunfeng is a small gold mine for the Ling Clan. He is the only First Rank High Grade Spirit Talisman Master in the Lineage and needs to refine Spirit Talisman Cave to earn Spirit Stone for the Lineage.
After the thirty clansmen who were going on this expedition had all divided into teams, Ling Ruda distributed the array flags for each array. Then he called on the thirty clansmen who were going on this expedition to refine the array flags and organize everyone to practice the array in order to prepare for the upcoming Demon Extermination War.
Time flew by, and the three-month deadline for the Hundred Spirits Sect to call upon cultivators to gather was drawing ever closer.
In mid-April.
On this day, the thirty Qi Refining cultivators in the Qi Refining and late stages who had gone on this Ling Clan were all summoned to the Affairs Hall. They each received five First Rank Middle Grade attack and Defensive Spirit Talisman, one First-Tier Superior-Grade Offensive Spirit Talisman, thirty Grain Avoidance Pill that could sustain them for three days, five bottles of First Rank Low Grade healing Returning Spring Powder, three First Rank Middle Grade Healing Pill, Spirit Moon Pill, three First Rank Middle Grade Qi Recovery Pill, and three First-Tier Superior-Grade Qi Recovery Pill.
After all thirty members of the Ling Clan who had gone on this expedition had received a large number of spiritual items supported by the Lineage, they followed their Clan Head, Ling Yunhong, and left Lingxiao Mountain, each using Flying Magical Item and flying Spirit Beast to travel to Huai River Market Town, thousands of miles away.
Because of the large number of people and the lack of time, it took the Ling Clan's group five days to reach Huai River Market Town.
Although the Hundred Spirits Sect organized its forces to gather in Huai River County in preparation for attacking the Serpent Dragon Lake area, the Huai River Market Town still adhered to its previous practices. Every cultivator entering the city still had to use the Demon Mirror to check their appearance in order to prevent Devil Cultivator from infiltrating the crowd.
This resulted in long lines of people at all four city gate entrances of Huai River Market Town.
The Ling Clan family members waited in line for nearly half a day before finally entering the market.
Upon entering the market, Ling Pengyun witnessed an extremely magnificent scene.
The vast market street was packed with people, with each cultivator walking side by side without a single gap.
The shops selling spiritual items within the market were also full of cultivators.
The number of such cultivators is several times greater than that at the Huai River Little Meet.
Seeing this, Ling Pengyun swallowed hard and muttered to himself.
"Judging from this, the number of Qi Refining mid-to-late stage cultivators gathered by the Hundred Spirits Sect this time is probably in the tens of thousands. I wonder how massive the upcoming Demon Extermination War will be."
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