"The son's position, the four demons, thirty-five feet, three two one."
The command of True Person Zhou Heng fell as usual. It was clear and smooth, no different from the dozens of previous commands.
But the array plate in the sub-position did not light up, and the spell did not activate.
Han Tao's hands have left [Wind-Rending Strangulation Formation]'s control Spirit Rune. He did not activate the formation, but held the edges of both sides of the formation disk with both hands at the same time. With a sudden movement, the formation disk was completely reversed. The angle of the formation pattern that was originally aimed at the ice field outside the city was actually aimed at the position of Zhou Heng in mid-air.
Liu Cheng cooperated at the same time, holding down the groove of Spirit Stone with both hands, preparing to adjust the spiritual power output to the maximum. The cyan light on the array plate skyrocketed from a dim light ready to go into a dazzling blaze.
They did not go to see Qin Tiexin. Perhaps in their current understanding, this auxiliary monk of the Qi Refinement Realm did not pose any threat at all.
Qin Tiexin stood next to [Wind-Rending Strangulation Formation], and the handle of Edgeless Saber that he was holding tightly in his left hand was grasped by him almost at the same moment with a creak.
Ever since the broken arm warned Han Tao and Liu Cheng that there was a problem, he had been paying attention to their movements and reactions. When he noticed that their eyes suddenly turned pink, Qin Tiexin sensed something was wrong and kept his left hand tense, ready at any time.
At the moment when Han Tao changed the direction of the formation and Liu Cheng increased the spiritual power output, Qin Tiexin collapsed in one step, turning into a gray shadow and crashing into Han Tao's side.
Swinging the knife with one arm in his left hand, Edgeless cut into the right rib of Han Tao. The blade slashed upwards across the chest, cut off the spine, and emerged from the left shoulder.
Cut into two sections with one cut, without any unnecessary resistance.
Foundation Establishment Early Stage's protective body Gang Qi is not much stronger than the one made of paper when faced with the power of Qin Tiexin now.
Before Han Tao's body fell to the ground, Qin Tiexin had already twisted his waist and turned around with the force of a knife. His left arm dragged Edgeless to draw an arc, and his whole body crashed into Liu Cheng's arms.
Liu Cheng was still holding down the groove of Spirit Stone, and his face was splashed with Han Tao's blood. His eyes blinked briefly at that moment, and then he saw Qin Tiexin's heavy knife stabbing straight into his chest.
The blade penetrated the sternum, tore out the heart, and revealed a pitch-black tip from his back.
Liu Cheng's cough was muffled in his throat. He lowered his head and glanced at the blade that passed through his chest, and his fingers slipped from the groove of Spirit Stone.
Qin Tiexin pulled out the knife, Liu Cheng's body was limp beside the array plate, and blood flowed along the gaps between the city bricks.
The whole process took less than two breaths. When the monks in adjacent positions turned around when they heard the movement, they only saw Han Tao's body lying on the ground, Liu Cheng's body sliding along the city wall, and the tall young man standing between the two corpses, holding a heavy sword dripping with blood in his left hand.
Qin Tiexin did not lower his head to look at the faces of Han Tao and Liu Cheng.
Before burning a stick of incense, these two people were diligently introducing him to the operation method of Wind-Rending Strangulation Formation. They would also ask with concern, "Junior brother, are you okay" when he was pretending to be injured?
He knew that these two people were being controlled so much that they probably didn't know what they were doing, but he couldn't hesitate at this moment. The moment they aimed their formation at Zhou Heng, both of them would die.
Once Zhou Heng falls, the entire Wind and Snow Pass defense line will be dismantled in an instant. There is no room for hesitation in matters of urgency.
His right sleeve dangled empty, he had already picked up Edgeless, turned around and rushed towards the nearest position that had also changed its direction.
At the same time, more than a dozen figures appeared on the city wall at the same time.
Those were the Foundation Establishment Peak Stage disciples who were urgently transferred from the inner gate by the Ice and Snow Pavilion. They had just arrived and had been hiding in a dark position behind the crenel, with uniform white identification belts tied around their waists.
They are disciples who were temporarily transferred from the mountain. They can never be infiltrated and controlled by Devil Race. They were transferred by Ling Shuang just for this moment.
In addition, there are two Golden Core monks, Luo Ling and Yang Qingxue.
When Luo Ling emerged from the darkness, the red giant hammer in his hand was already swinging with full force, and the Spirit Rune on the hammer's surface burst out with Scorching Heat's red light.
The two controlled monks who were activating the formation turned their heads at the same time when they heard the sound of wind behind them, but Luo Ling didn't give them any time to react. The giant hammer swept across and knocked them off the city wall together.
Their bodies flipped several times in mid-air and then crashed under the city wall, crushing several Demon Beast corpses. They were trampled by Horned Demon who came after them, and they didn't know whether they were alive or dead.
Yang Qingxue burst out from the other side.
The black leggings Spirit Rune under her feet quickly lit up and went out with each step on the ground, and the whole person showed an irregular speed of folding lines between positions.
She didn't use weapons, she punched and palmed, and each blow landed accurately on the back of the controlled monk's neck.
A monk who was trying to activate the formation plate had just pressed his finger on Spirit Rune, and Yang Qingxue's palm knife had already struck his carotid artery. The force was controlled just right, just enough to knock him unconscious, and he casually threw him to a disciple who was following him.
"Tie it up." Yang Qingxue was already moving to the next position as he spoke.
After being notified by Qin Tiexin and Luo Ling, everyone reacted quickly as expected. More than 90% of the controlled monks were found out, knocked unconscious or even killed immediately. However, there were also some places where the controlled monks responded faster.
A Foundation Establishment Middle Stage monk in his early thirties activated the formation without hesitation as soon as pink light flashed in his eyes. Before the Ice and Snow Pavilion disciples arrived, his formation shot out a crimson fire dragon, dragging a long tail flame towards Zhou Heng in mid-air.
Another formation activated the Wind Blade formation almost at the same time. The cyan Wind Blade cut through the air and made a sharp whistling sound. The third formation followed closely, and several ice picks shot towards Zhou Heng with a sound of breaking through the air.
Nangong Yao is standing next to Zhou Heng, learning scheduling from him.
The moment the scream of Wind Blade reached her ears, her pupils shrank suddenly, her body instinctively took a step forward, her palms were raised, and the aura of Cloud Gauze Handkerchief shone slightly from her fingers.
Then she hit a layer of light golden shield.
[Golden Thread Ice Silk Shield], intermediate Law Treasure level protection Law Artifact, can block a full blow from Nascent Soul Middle Stage.
The shield expanded silently the moment several formation attacks came into contact, covering Zhou Heng and the several Foundation Establishment monks surrounding him.
Wind Blade, fire dragon, and ice pick hit the shield, causing only very faint golden ripples and not even a single crack.
Golden Thread Ice Silk Shield was personally given to Zhou Heng by the master of the Ice and Snow Pavilion, just to ensure that he would not be attacked by a sneak attack under any circumstances. The grade is higher than Yang Qingxue's [Mystic Shadow Golden Bell].
Zhou Heng didn't even interrupt his explanation.
There was no change in his tone. "Divine Sense The first step in scheduling is to confirm the enemy's position. The second step is to confirm our available resources. If it is found that some positions are unavailable, then redeploy them from the available positions."
While the shield was on, he glanced down.
That glance was short, but it captured all the information he needed to confirm: which positions had rebelled, which positions had been controlled by Luo Ling and Yang Qingxue, and how many were left.
This information quickly returned to place in his mind like a bead, and a new scheduling plan was formed within a few breaths.
"In the thirty-sixth formation, move two spaces toward Hai and attack. In the twelveth formation, adjust the range to the maximum and withstand it first."
On the city wall, Qin Tiexin has rushed to the second rebel position.
The controlling monk in this position has just activated the formation, and the formation disk is emitting a dazzling red light.
That was Rogue Cultivator, who was in his forties. His eyes were very pink, and there was a stiff arc at the corner of his mouth. He didn't even notice anyone approaching from behind.
Edgeless's blade struck accurately between the monk's shoulder and the formation disk, sending both the man and the formation disk flying away.
The monk's arm made a clear bone cracking sound at the moment the blade came into contact, and his whole body was knocked out by an irresistible Great Strength, and his back hit the crenel.
The array disk exploded in his hand, and the backlash of spiritual power shook his whole body to the point of convulsions, and he passed out.
Qin Tiexin He turned around and drew the knife, his eyes already locked on the next abnormal position.
The battle high above the city walls continues.
The remaining eight Devil Marshal, including Musa, Helisi, were suppressed by Ling Shuang's sword net in the airspace fifty feet away from the city wall. Not only were they unable to gain any advantage, some Devil Marshal even began to have their vitals cut by Sword Qi.
Musa glanced across the city wall from the corner of his eye, and saw that the positions that were supposed to be turned around and fired at Zhou Heng were being cleared one by one by several fast-moving figures.
Luo Ling's red hammer light, Yang Qingxue's afterimage kicks, a dozen female cultivators in white, and the one-armed young man holding a black heavy knife in one hand and running over the formation like a bull.
The inner city was cleared, and the original plan to bombard the city gates from the inner city was aborted.
He turned his head and glanced in the direction of Black Stone Fortress, opened his mouth, and wanted to say something, but in the end he just let out a low, unwilling growl from his throat.
The commotion on the city walls went away as quickly as it came.
Luo Ling's giant hammer smashed the formation plate of the last rebel position, Spirit Rune's fragments and rubble flew away together.
Yang Qingxue pressed the last controlled monk who was still struggling to the ground, pressed his knees on the opponent's lumbar spine, took out the sealing talisman from his arms and slapped it on the opponent's forehead. The pink light in the monk's eyes quickly faded under the suppression of the sealing talisman, and the whole person fell to the ground as if a thread had been broken.
In less than half a cup of tea, dozens of rebellious positions were wiped out.
Zhou Heng's voice resounded in everyone's sea of consciousness without any gap.
The crisis is over, now we only need to replenish the monks who can create formations.
Just when everyone breathed a sigh of relief, a sharp trembling sound suddenly came from the Spirit Stone pile in one formation.
A palm-sized pink Primordial Spirit Jade fragment was placed in the Spirit Stone pile supplying the formation at some point. At this time, Primordial Spirit Jade was shaking violently in the Spirit Stone pile, and dense cracks appeared on the surface of the jade piece.
An extremely dazzling pink light emerged from the depths of the crack, and then the same light also lit up in the Spirit Stone pile in another adjacent position.
There was no time to react. Among the Spirit Stone piles in different positions, the Primordial Spirit Jade fragments that had long become inconspicuous mixed with the ordinary Spirit Stone exploded at the same moment. The pink light even reflected the surrounding formation walls with strange colors.
The Primordial Spirit Jade fragments already contain concentrated spiritual power that exceeds that of ordinary Spirit Stone. Coupled with the Charm Devil magic power infused by Sheng Xiao'er, the power of the explosion far exceeds that of the Foundation Establishment level talisman.
More than a dozen positions were blown to pieces almost at the same moment, and the array plates, Spirit Stone boxes, crenels, and weapon racks were all affected. The shock wave swept across the city wall wrapped in rubble and broken wood, and pink smoke billowed over the city wall.
Qin Tiexin had just recovered from the third impact, and he was less than five feet away from the nearest explosion point.
A violent shock came from the city wall under his feet and he almost fell down. Then the formation disk behind him was blown away by the shock wave, the Spirit Stone box exploded into pieces, and the Edgeless blade was covered with a thin layer of stone powder.
He was knocked to the ground by the shock wave coming from the side, and gravel and dust crackled on his back.
He stood up with Edgeless supported by his left hand, shook the gravel powder out of his hair, and looked up. Between the third and sixth sections of the east city wall, more than a dozen attack positions were all muted, and the Spirit Rune light net on the city wall dimmed a large area.
The ruins of the broken array disk were still emitting light pink smoke, Spirit Stone fragments were scattered on the ground, and the broken Spirit Rune flickered on the city bricks for a few times before being completely extinguished.
The array coverage in this area has expired.
Qin Tiexin walked to the edge of the gap and looked down through the smoke.
Horned Demon's heavy footsteps came from below the city wall, and Devil Race had discovered that the attacks in this area had stopped. Several Horned Demon were raising their heads from the rubble at the foot of the city wall, with a dark red liquid that could not be seen to be blood or something dripping from their horns, and they were speeding towards this direction.
Further away, more Devil Race are turning in this direction. They are looming in the smoke and dust, getting closer and closer.