The Evil Forces' New Tactics

Chapter 28: The Evil Forces' New Tactics. After suffering repeated setbacks in their attacks, the Black-Robed People did not give up. Instead, they secretly devised new methods of attack, hoping to break through the joint defensive system the families had built. In the Black-Robed People's secret camp, their leader summoned his trusted subordinates to discuss a new strategy inside a dimly lit tent. They knew full well that their previous methods could no longer prevail against the powerful joint defenses; they had to devise something more lethal and harder to detect. "Since those families joined forces, their defenses have become exceptionally strong. We can't keep attacking blindly," the leader of the Black-Robed People said in a low voice, a sinister gleam flickering in his eyes. A black-robed strategist stepped forward with a proposal. "My lord, I have a plan. We can try to undermine their defenses from within. I've discovered that although those families have united, there are still subtle differences in the attributes of their spiritual energy and the way it circulates. We can exploit those differences to create chaos." The leader of the Black-Robed People nodded slightly, signaling for him to continue. "We've developed a special Spiritual Energy Interference Device. It can emit mixed spiritual energy waves that disrupt the coordination between the different families' spiritual energies, creating gaps in their Defensive Formations," the black-robed strategist said smugly. The Black-Robed People then began secretly manufacturing these Spiritual Energy Interference Devices. Though compact, the devices contained complex structures of evil spiritual energy. Each device housed multiple spiritual energy cores, each infused with specially modified spiritual energy that imitated the attributes of the different families' spiritual energies but had been twisted and corrupted. Once everything was ready, the Black-Robed People launched their new operation. On a moonless night swept by