frightfiction Chapter 220 Bloodstained Heart-Refining City (2)
Chapter 220 Bloodstained Heart-Refining City (2)
Chapter 220 Bloodstained Heart-Refining City (Part Two)
It must be said that the pills Ximen Feng took out were not given away for nothing. They were indeed very effective in treating injuries caused by Yuan Qi, and were not much worse than the pills Xiao Chong gave to Sheng Chunshui, except that there were only one pill.
Grandmaster Wang also knew the value of this pill. After taking it, he immediately sat cross-legged and began to practice his internal energy. An hour passed quickly.
"Thank you, Brother Ximen. My injuries have fully recovered. I feel like I can eat, no, kill a cow now. I can attack the city with you at any time."
Grandmaster Wang stretched his limbs, leaped to his feet, and once again expressed his gratitude to Ximen Feng for his generous act of donating medicine, while also conveying his loyalty.
“Alright, this time the three of us will work together. I will hold off that old bastard Sheng Chunshui, while Brother Wang and Brother Zhang will seize the opportunity to storm into the city.”
Ximen Feng assigned tasks to the three men and then ordered his deputy, "After the city falls, you will lead the rest of the men into the city and make sure to kill them all."
Remember, after this battle, I don't want to see a single living creature in Refining Heart City!
"Yes, sir!" The deputy was startled and quickly went to relay the order.
In a short while, seeing that all his men had assembled, Ximen Feng took the lead, followed closely by Grandmasters Zhang and Wang, and led five hundred martial artists to attack the top of Lianxin City.
Seeing the entire Wu Lao Hui team mobilized, with three Grandmasters personally taking to the field, Sheng Chunshui's expression turned somewhat grim.
He knew very well that with the help of Xiao Chong's pills, he could manage to fight one Grandmaster with his cultivation level, but he would be no match for two of them. If three Grandmasters attacked at the same time, he would likely be blasted into dust.
"This is bad! Where is Xu Mingyang? Without the protection of the city's defensive formation, we have no chance of survival."
Seeing the Martial Arts Association's procession getting closer and closer outside the city with an impressive momentum, Sheng Chunshui whispered to Xiao Chong.
"Let's wait a little longer. Maybe the teacher is making some preparations." Xiao Chong also felt that Master Xu was a bit unreliable, but there was no use in being anxious, so he could only comfort Sheng Chunshui.
Just then, someone shouted excitedly, "He's here! He's here! Master Xu is here!"
Sheng Chunshui and Xiao Chong were overjoyed and quickly looked back in the direction the man was pointing.
The crowd below the city walls parted to make way for an old man who hurried over – it was Xu Mingyang.
Xu Mingyang was already old and his cultivation was not deep, so he should have been slow to move and couldn't have run so fast.
But after taking the pills that Xiao Chong specially prepared for him, he suddenly became radiant and agile, showing no signs of his former old age.
Whoosh!
With several feet still between him and the city wall, Xu Mingyang leaped up with incredible speed, appearing perfectly capable of living another hundred or eighty years without any problem.
"Why are you only arriving now, Master? If we had been any later, the Wu Elders would have stormed in!" Xiao Chong asked anxiously.
"There are still a few parts of the formation theory you gave me a few days ago that I don't understand. I was so engrossed in studying them that I forgot the time."
Xu Mingyang showed absolutely no sign of anxiety.
Well, your rigorous academic approach is admirable, but are you sure this is a good time to delve into scholarship?
Xiao Chong's eyebrows twitched, and he was so choked that he couldn't say a word.
"Please, Master Xu, activate the city's protective formation! It will be too late if we delay any longer!"
Seeing that the master and disciple still intended to continue, Sheng Chunshui quickly urged them on.
"Don't worry, Sheng Chunshui, I'll activate the formation right away."
Even though the Wu Lao Hui's forces were about to reach the city, Xu Mingyang remained unhurried and composed.
Ximen Feng had already led his men to the city gate, with Grandmasters Zhang and Wang on his left and right, and five hundred martial artists behind them, all eager to fight and full of momentum.
"Follow me into the city! All spoils of war are yours to keep, no need to hand them over!" Ximen Feng shouted.
"kill!"
Upon hearing this order, the martial artists behind him seemed to be injected with adrenaline, and their speed suddenly increased. Some of the more ambitious ones even outpaced the three grandmasters and rushed to the front of the group.
Just then, the city walls of Lianxin City suddenly lit up, and a dazzling beam of light stretched across the city.
The intense light was divided into five colors, like a five-colored light curtain that enveloped Lianxin City, blocking the path of the attacking forces.
"what!"
The fastest-charging martial artist couldn't stop and crashed headfirst into the light barrier, being thrown back and spitting blood. Several martial artists with slightly weaker cultivation were directly burned to black ash by the light barrier.
The remaining troops' advance on the city came to an abrupt halt.
"Brother Ximen, what kind of formation is this? How can it be so powerful?" Grandmasters Zhang and Wang looked at Ximen Feng in confusion and asked in unison.
Ximen Feng's face was ashen. He stared at the light screen for a long time and said resentfully, "Judging from the color of this light screen, it should be the Five Elements Formation."
"The Five Elements Grand Formation? I've heard of it, but it's just an ordinary formation. When did it become so outrageous? Brother Ximen, are you sure you're not mistaken?"
The Grandmaster Zhang's gaze was filled with surprise and doubt, yet also with a thirst for knowledge.
"I don't know either!" Ximen Feng's face was extremely ugly, clearly not wanting to dwell on this issue any further.
But the Grandmaster Zhang, driven by his thirst for knowledge, continued to press for answers: "Brother Ximen, take another look. Don't be mistaken. Perhaps this is a completely new formation?"
"Hmph!" Ximen Feng snorted coldly, refusing to answer, his face so gloomy it could drip water.
Receiving no response, the Grandmaster Zhang was somewhat embarrassed and muttered under his breath, "In my opinion, this is just a..."
"Who cares about any formation! As long as it blocks our way, we'll break it all." Seeing that Ximen Feng's anger was growing, Grandmaster Wang quickly interrupted Grandmaster Zhang.
Then he looked at Ximen Feng and said, "Brother Ximen, I don't understand formations, so I'll have to rely on you to make the decision. Just say the word, and I'll be at your beck and call."
Ximen Feng's expression softened slightly as he said, "I don't know much about the art of formations. I only know that the operation of all formations is inseparable from the support of the primordial energy between heaven and earth, and they all have a limit to the power they can withstand."
Therefore, I intend to break it with brute force. As long as we keep attacking it with external force, this great formation will eventually give way.
Grandmaster Wang said, "Very well, just do as Ximen Feng instructs, I will fully support you."
Ximen Feng said, "Then the three of us will give it a try first."
After saying that, he walked to the five-colored light screen and punched it.
The light screen trembled slightly, creating a ripple, before returning to normal as if nothing had happened.
"Let's do it again, this time we'll attack at the same time!"
Ximen Feng glanced at the two Grandmasters, Zhang and Wang, who had also followed him to the front of the formation, and said in a deep voice.
"Yes!" The two grandmasters nodded in unison.
boom!
Three fists struck the light screen simultaneously.
This time, the light screen trembled a little more, and the ripples on it spread out several more times, but it quickly returned to normal, without any change.
"What should we do? It doesn't seem to be working?" Grandmaster Wang asked Ximen Feng.
Ximen Feng did not answer immediately, but instead turned her head to the side and closed her eyes slightly, as if she was sensing something.
After a while, he opened his eyes and said, "It's not that there's no change at all; that attack just now did have some effect."
"How so?" asked the Grandmaster Wang with delight.
Ximen Feng explained, "Although the power we just released was easily neutralized by this great formation, I felt that the surrounding天地元气 (heaven and earth energy) seemed to be flowing towards this great formation and being absorbed by it."
In other words, as long as we keep attacking, the great formation will continuously absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Over time, this spiritual energy will become increasingly scarce, and eventually, it will break down.
Upon hearing Ximen Feng's explanation, the Grandmaster Zhang exclaimed in surprise, "According to Brother Ximen, there is so much primordial energy in the world, when will it ever end?"
"You don't want to? Then go back first!" Ximen Feng said angrily.
"No, I was just saying it casually, I didn't mean it that way at all." Seeing Ximen Feng's unfriendly expression, Grandmaster Zhang was startled and quickly changed his words.
"Let's begin! The three of us will take turns attacking this formation and make sure we break it!"
Ximen Feng glared at the Grandmaster Zhang, then turned and called over his deputy, instructing him, "Gather all the troops together and use the combined attack formation to attack this formation with me."
"Yes, my lord!"
The deputy agreed and left to carry out the order.
boom! boom! boom!
The three grandmasters faced the Five Elements Formation and relentlessly punched and kicked.
The light screen remained the same as before, first trembling slightly with ripples, then returning to calm.
However, after being reminded by Ximen Feng, Grandmasters Zhang and Wang paid attention this time, and sure enough, they felt that as the three attacked, the primordial energy of heaven and earth began to slowly gather towards the Five Elements Grand Array.
"If we keep fighting like this, I'm afraid we'll be exhausted before we even break the formation!"
Grandmaster Zhang threw punches with all his might, inwardly cursing as he did so. However, intimidated by Ximen Feng's tyranny, he dared not hold back a single ounce of strength, and instead exerted even more effort than Grandmaster Wang.
Under the command of Ximen Feng's deputy, the five hundred martial artists finally assembled and stood in a tower shape in front of the great formation, preparing to launch a combined attack on the Five Elements Great Formation.
The so-called military formation combined attack technique uses a secret method to allow all martial artists to act simultaneously, gathering everyone's power into one place. Then, a few highly skilled grandmasters at the front guide these different powers to form a single force, which is then used to launch a more effective and targeted attack on the target.
"Get ready, let go!"
Once everything was ready, the deputy swung his hand downwards sharply, issuing the attack order.
hum!
The combined force of five hundred martial artists attacking simultaneously was truly formidable, far surpassing the power of a grandmaster's attack.
It was as if a violently distorted channel had opened in the air, and a huge surge of elemental energy crashed into the light curtain.
boom!
After a deafening roar, the light screen was violently shaken by the impact of this Yuan energy, and the ripples on it spread rapidly in circles, like a large stone thrown into a lake.
After a moment, the light screen returned to normal, but all three grandmasters could feel that the surrounding spiritual energy was rapidly converging towards the Five Elements Grand Array.