Chapter 87: Poison Array Battle, hey, Poison Array Battle!
Chapter 87: Poison Array Battle, hey, Poison Array Battle!
Here it comes...
Well, finally it's here.
In the darkness, Li Changshou breathed a sigh of relief.
It's not that I'm afraid of thieves, but I'm afraid they'll be plotting something. These enemies have been elusive, which has put some pressure on Li Changshou.
Since half a year ago when he received the ring from Elder Wanlin Jun, Li Changshou began the third phase of his preparations for battle.
Now, it's time to see the results...
The enemy is likely to launch a surprise attack, swiftly approaching Du Xianmen from the ground or underground, then launching an assault.
This provides Li Changshou with a lot of room to maneuver.
The direction they're appearing from, this path...
I guessed right after all!
Although, just to be safe, Li Changshou also set up paper Daoist figures labeled "Earth" on five other possible paths.
And the enemy seems to be quite cooperative, choosing one of the three main paths Li Changshou set up.
The only thing that didn't go as planned for Li Changshou was the timing of the enemy's attack, which came two to three months earlier than expected...
In fact, Li Changshou even speculated at one point that it was possible they had given up on their plan to destroy Du Xianmen because he and Elder Wanlin Jun had thwarted them.
However...
Better late than never, the enemy finally arrived.
At this moment, the seven paper Daoist figures marked with "Sky" remain motionless, hiding outside the mountain gate, waiting silently.
Their role is still to flank from the rear after the big battle breaks out; this tactical approach hasn't changed.
As for the six paper Daoist figures marked with "Earth," they are spread out along the six paths Li Changshou identified in advance, where he spent two to three months setting up numerous simple poison arrays.
What is a poison array?
It's a formation combined with poisonous elixirs, naturally forming a poison array.
The difference is that the poison arrays Li Changshou set up prioritize concealment over entrapment, aiming to be difficult to detect; once someone enters the array, the poison powder or mist will instantly erupt, wasting no poison.
This is the true essence of what Li Changshou understands about poison arrays!
When Li Changshou set up these poison arrays, he never thought they would directly destroy the invading enemy.
The reason is simple: because the enemy daring to launch a surprise attack on Du Xianmen, where there's a Golden Immortal, must also have skilled Golden Immortals...
In fact, Li Changshou even considered the possibility of the enemy having a Da Luo Golden Immortal, and made corresponding arrangements.
Just relying on these "miraculous" paper Daoist figures he set up, even if the enemy's Golden Immortal is mediocre, they can easily disperse them.
So, these poison arrays can only be used as landmines, to achieve an instantaneous eruption effect.
Also, because there are at least two Golden Immortals on the enemy side, Li Changshou decided to only have the paper Daoist figures lurking around and didn't call for Elder Wanlin Jun.
—To prevent Elder Wanlin Jun from taking his copper-cane staff, shouting "For the sake of Daoism," and fighting the enemy's Golden Immortals to the death.
Disturb the enemy, trap the enemy, expose the enemy's whereabouts to warn the sect in time, and to some extent weaken the enemy's strength—these are the roles of the six paper Daoist figures marked with "Earth"!
Hiding in the tree trunk, the third paper Daoist figure marked with "Earth" swayed unsteadily, rapidly swelling in size and transforming into a handsome young immortal wearing a long robe.
His aura and appearance are completely different from Li Changshou's own.
At this moment, half of Li Changshou's attention is focused on this paper Daoist figure; relying on the "Tricepider" spider webs he previously arranged everywhere, he monitors the group of shadows approaching from two hundred miles away...
Li Changshou quickly discovered that there were dozens of figures moving underground.
These figures are following several large monsters that can tunnel through the ground, although each has hidden their aura fluctuations, their concealment is far inferior to earth travel.
Have true pangolins become enlightened?
But it doesn't matter; Li Changshou had also considered this beforehand.
Several of the arrays he set up are specifically buried deep and the main array bases are set up at an angle...
"Hmm? Something's not right."
In the darkness, Li Changshou frowned, and in his mind, he quickly organized a series of overlapping images.
There's another group of attackers from the southwest!
The enemy is splitting into two groups!
But that's okay...
Li Changshou divides his attention into two, activating the fifth paper Daoist figure marked with "Earth"; with this figure, he pre-opens a series of poison arrays in the southwest direction and finds a pond for it to hide in.
After observing for a while, Li Changshou also smiled inwardly.
The current situation indeed exceeded his expectations, but it must be said that luck played a part...
The three main paths where he set up the poison arrays, they actually used two of them!
—The enemy really is considerate and thoughtful, afraid that his hard work will go to waste.
Soon, Li Changshou's two paper Daoist figures simultaneously felt the pressure from the Golden Immortals.
Two groups in the southwest, one in the northwest.
Three Golden Immortals?
Although Li Changshou sensed it at the first moment, the Taoist rhyme of these three Golden Immortals felt somewhat strange, but the pressure from the Golden Immortals was real.
Three Golden Immortals...
In the darkness, Li Changshou closed his eyes again and silently uttered, "Activate Paper Daoist Number 3!"
In the alchemy room of Xiaojiong Peak, the body of "Li Changshou" sitting in front of the pill furnace trembled, and his eyes gradually lit up; he immediately deactivated the surrounding array and sent a message to Ling E.
Ling E, who was practicing water and earth techniques on the lake surface, was stunned for a moment, then leaped into the air and rushed towards the grass hut by the lake.
"Master! Senior Brother fainted while refining pills in the alchemy room! Come take a look quickly!"
Hearing Ling E's anxious shout, Li Changshou's mind, however, was drawn to the group of enemies three thousand miles away in the northwest direction.
These formidable enemies began to enter the poison array...
They were flying close to the ground, concealing their figures, but ignoring reconnaissance ahead; More than ten figures in the front directly rushed into the first poison array in the northwest direction. The poison mist erupted, immediately knocking down two people!
But the numb expressions of the other ten-plus people remained unchanged, their reactions were also swift, emitting immortal light and demonic power around them, taking out detoxifying pills and stuffing them into their mouths, then immediately retreating to the rear...
Their formation was immediately thrown into chaos by the sudden attack.
"There's a formation!"
"It's a simple trap made of poison pills. They really are cautious, using magical power to blow away the formation!"
"Break it quickly! Don't miss the opportunity to regroup!"
Immediately, several celestial realm demons stepped forward, using their magical abilities to easily dispel the poison array.
In this short moment, the more than ten people who had previously rushed into the poison array again had four or five people spitting blood and wailing, their primordial spirits directly dispersing.
The quality of the Ten Thousand Plaque Poison Pills was excellent.
Current battle results: six true immortals, one celestial.
Following that, the group of "enemy forces" in the southwest also rushed into the first poison array in the forest there.
Li Changshou seized the opportunity to activate the poison array here, and amid the wafting green mist, the results increased by "five true immortals".
Another celestial was injured by poison and temporarily lost combat capability.
The tactic of harassing with poison arrays was yielding results!
Returning to the topic, Elder Wanlin's fondness for the color green was excessive, with the poison pills, poison mist, and poison powder all tinged with a strong green hue...
Li Changshou, on the other hand, was different. He pursued the ultimate in colorlessness and tastelessness.
These two paper Daoists, burdened with heavy responsibilities by Li Changshou, were integrated with the trees and water pools through his maintaining of the escape technique; Li Changshou continued to observe in secret, controlling the subsequent poison arrays through these two paper Daoists...
These assailants still hadn't realized what lay ahead of them, not changing their course at all, continuing to charge forward...
"After controlling their minds, these guys' thoughts have gone haywire."
Li Changshou sighed inwardly, taking a look at the situation inside the gate as well.
Hmm... Still quite peaceful.
The gate's scouts were arranged around the gate for defense, thousands of miles away. Because the sect leader and the elders believed that this distance was enough to detect enemies and respond in time.
But Li Changshou thought that the sect leader and the elders...
Were a bit too confident.
Of course, he wouldn't come out and say this. He was just a "mediocre immortal seedling" on Xiaojiong Peak. All he could do was to secretly expand his surveillance range to three thousand five hundred miles away and focus on a few paths.
His mind continued to monitor the southwest and northwest directions; The two groups of shadows also showed quite some tacit understanding, almost simultaneously bypassing one of Li Changshou's hidden poison arrays, but rushing into another poison array's location.
The green mist erupted once again, several thousand miles apart, each enveloping seven or eight figures...
Li Changshou carefully searched with the spider web and once again captured the traces of the blood mosquitoes on these killed true immortals. This time, the blood mosquitoes quickly dissipated into blood gas.
This situation...
It's very likely that the "Mosquito Daoist" has already withdrawn from here, avoiding being targeted by the experts of the Taoist sect...
If that's the case, the odds of success for the Degree Immortal Gate have increased a bit more.
Adding up the two groups of assailants, there were a total of seventy-eight celestial realm demons, people, spirits, and three strange states of golden immortals, and over a thousand true immortals.
This force had significantly suppressed the Degree Immortal Gate.
And, Li Changshou wasn't sure if there were other assailants in the directions he couldn't check...
This had to be considered as well.
Looking at it this way, this was indeed a big calamity for the Degree Immortal Gate.
As for the gold immortals he knew inside the gate, there was only the sect leader, with just over fifty celestial realm elders, and a bunch of true and primordial immortals, the amount of combat power they could unleash was unknown.
On ordinary days, the Degree Immortal Gate was peaceful and idle, rarely practicing formations of a hundred or a thousand people.
If everyone spent half their time practicing "Fellowship" on practicing "Immortal Formations"...
Why would a junior like him have to endure such mental and physical exertion today!
The assailants from both directions were also stubborn, pushing forward for hundreds of miles, suffering three consecutive losses before slowing down and starting to probe the road ahead with magic treasures.
It was completely...
Do you think having more poison arrays is impressive? I'll use the lives of fellow daoists to resist!
With a light chuckle, Li Changshou stopped thinking further, focusing on controlling the two paper Daoists, determining the timing of opening the poison arrays...
Soon, the battle results increased to more than forty true immortals, three celestial realms, and four severely injured celestials; Although they hadn't crippled the enemy yet, they had slowed down their advance, giving Li Changshou more preparation time.
The effect of the poison arrays was not bad; they could focus more on researching them in the future...
Sensing that his master and junior sister were approaching the alchemy room, Li Changshou diverted a strand of his mind to the paper Daoist outside the alchemy room.
Because he had arranged too many paper Daoists this time, Li Changshou also made careful distinctions.
"Paper Daoists of the Heaven," responsible for surrounding and counter-encircling after the start of the battle. Each of them carried a large number of original paper people and poison powder, ensuring that their aura and appearance were completely different from Li Changshou's. They would appear after the outbreak of the big battle and disappear quickly after the battle was over.
"Paper Daoists of the Earth," responsible for warning and harming enemies before the battle, mainly used to control the poison arrays, and their aura and appearance were completely different from Li Changshou's as well. There were two paper Daoists of the Earth currently in action.
"Paper Daoists of the Human," responsible for protecting the junior sister and master, although their numbers were small, they were arranged near the master and junior sister. For example, the Paper Daoist Number 3, currently responsible for accompanying the junior sister and master later, pretending to be his true self, would accompany the junior sister to escape the Earth Veins...
Xiaojiong Peak's composite array, with subsequent Heavenly Daoists taking over, was also considered a "trap" capable of burying strong enemies. There were several sounds of "plop" from outside the alchemy room, which were several spiritual food jade frogs jumping into the pool...
Then Ling E and Senior Brother Qi Yuan shouted from outside: "Senior Brother!" "Changshou, what's wrong with you!"
Two figures rushed into the array outside the alchemy room in haste...