Only after seeing it with their own eyes and experiencing it firsthand did these cultivators truly understand the gap between themselves and the Nascent Soul. It was like the comparison between a toddler and an ancient ferocious beast. The power that they had always been proud of seemed so useless in front of the other party.
After a while, when the stone rain in the sky became gradually sparse, a cold voice without any emotion sounded in the hearts of the demon cultivators and South China Sea cultivators who had retreated three hundred miles away.
"Kill all the remaining monks in Tongguiling!"
A cruel light flashed in the eyes of each demon soldier, but they had received more information and orders than the monks from the South China Sea. The demon leader who was supervising the battle three thousand miles away in the rear would also arrive soon.
Today they want to take over Fengliang Mountain in one fell swoop, so they ask that they don't need to be stingy and keep this group of South China Sea monks anymore, they can let go and fully activate the restrictions on them, completely make them lose their minds, and turn them into puppets who only know how to kill.
After receiving these orders, the demon soldiers' eyes flashed with ferocity and blood. Orderly commands urged them on. The monks from the South China Sea regained their numbness and indifference again. Then, rows of them rose into the air and roared away. What would greet them was death and endless pain.
Just as the demon cultivators were rushing towards "Tonggui Ridge" again, the fierce battle at the defensive points on both sides of "Tonggui Ridge" broke out again after a brief pause. It was obvious that the demon cultivators would not give them a chance to come out to reinforce "Tonggui Ridge".
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The "Yin Yang Boundary River Formation" was broken and collapsed. The "Tonggui Ridge" with a radius of nearly 100 miles had already become a pile of rubble and earth. The peaks that once towered into the clouds disappeared.
A large cloud of dust and fog filled the space between the sky and the earth. A few breaths after the mountain collapsed, rays of light of various colors flashed through the cracks in the rubble in many places.
Then the pile of stones that had just settled made a rumbling sound again, and in the smoke and dust, pieces of stones, large and small, shook again and shot to the sides or to the sky.
One after another, human figures staggered out into the sky.
Li Yan felt the blood in his body churning violently. He was buried in a pile of rubble. At the moment the mountain collapsed, he was deep in the cave and could not leave immediately.
The whole person was pressed directly into the deepest part of the mountain. The "Big Dragon Elephant Formation" outside of him collapsed after being affected by the white light for two breaths.
Li Yan remained relatively calm. He had originally planned to withstand the aftermath of the white light column with his physical body, but it was also the first time he encountered an attack of such great power. In fact, he had no idea whether he would be able to achieve "Nirvana" again like last time, or even die directly.
However, the little purple dragon elephant might have revived the memory of the battle with the demon cultivator engraved in its bones, and its reaction was actually a little faster than his. In an instant, it moved the "Big Dragon Elephant Formation" from the entire cave to one of his people.
At this time, Li Yan's skin was glowing with silver light, which was brighter than a month ago. After the "Big Dragon Elephant Formation" took the first impact of the collapse of the core formation, Li Yan also defended against the white light behind it with his physical body.
Li Yan swept his spiritual sense and found that the spiritual power shield outside his body was shattered. Apart from the discomfort of the surging blood and energy, the circulation of his spiritual power was relatively smooth. The last attack just now did not cause fatal damage to him.
With a wave of his hand, a small purple flag shot out from a pile of rubble into Li Yan's hand. His spiritual consciousness quickly sank into it. The shadow of the small purple dragon elephant soul in the flag had turned translucent. The consumption was so huge that it was the first time Li Yan had seen such a situation.
Li Yan felt a pang of pain in his heart. Although the little purple dragon elephant had not fallen into a coma at this moment, its cultivation had dropped to the level of a first-level monster. This was also its biggest flaw, as it had no physical support.
After sensing the familiar divine consciousness coming, the little purple dragon elephant weakly raised its eyelids, but Li Yan ignored everything else and moved his divine consciousness, and a large number of fire-type fierce souls appeared in front of it. Then, Li Yan's divine consciousness left without saying much.
Deep at the bottom of the mountain, Li Yan collected the small purple flag and used the "Earth Escape Technique" to escape to the ground. The first thing he saw was smoke, dust, and a mountain of rubble.
At the same time, there were continuous sounds of breaking through the air in the distance. Li Yan saw many members of the Qing Sixteenth Team at just one glance.
He was relieved a little bit at this point. This was consistent with his judgment. He and the five monks' final mad efforts to maintain the white light column finally allowed the "Yin Yang Boundary River Formation" to play a key role.
Not only did it withstand the second wave of attacks, but it also weakened the power of the third wave of attacks to the lowest level, at least to the point where some foundation-building monks could defend against the infiltration force attacks.
"What a pity!" Li Yan was thinking about the result of searching the five cultivators with his spiritual sense underground. None of the five cultivators survived. What was supposed to be the safest place in the entire "Tonggui Ridge" turned out to be the most dangerous place. While the core of the formation took on the opponent's attacks, it also bore most of the attack force.
Apart from some limbs and pieces of flesh of the five people, Li Yan only sensed that the spirits of two of them were rapidly dissipating with unwillingness and fear.
Li Yan was not good at protecting souls. It was said that in addition to advanced spells and magic power, one also needed corresponding magic weapons to protect the soul. Therefore, Li Yan could only watch helplessly as the spirits of the two people disappeared.
Soon, three cultivators appeared and flew towards Li Yan. They must have sensed Li Yan's aura nearby, so they flew over to take a look.
These three people were in a much more miserable state than Li Yan. The right side of one of them was covered in blood and flesh, his clothes were tattered, several ribs were clearly visible, and even the slightly beating organs inside could be seen.
At this moment, there was a talisman flashing green light on it. Li Yan could even see that as the green light flashed, the flesh and blood on the man's body was slowly squirming, and new flesh was slowly growing.
The other two also had disheveled hair and torn robes. One of them was still bleeding from his leg. There was a wound about half a foot long, from the thigh to the calf, like a long, cracked mouth, looking at Li Yan and laughing at him. This person was a monk from the Wuliang Sect. When he saw that it was Li Yan, he reluctantly nodded to Li Yan, with more confusion in his eyes, and he obviously had not yet recovered from the attack.
The other monk seemed to be in better condition, but his back was sunken. This was actually similar to the first monk's injury, and his internal organs might have been damaged. However, he had the least blood on his body, so he looked better than the other two.
"Friend Li, what just happened..."
Finally, the man took a deep breath. He had just swallowed a large amount of pills and now he urgently needed to find a place to heal his wounds. But in this situation, how could he dare to sit cross-legged in meditation? When he saw that it was Li Yan, he hurriedly wanted to ask the reason.
"I don't know the specific situation. Just now, the formation collapsed even though it was running at full power. Now the most urgent thing is to check the situation here. I also don't know if the opponent will attack us again like the one just now."
When Li Yan said this, his figure had already risen into the air. The three people were not satisfied with Li Yan's answer, but at this time, as Li Yan said, they should first figure out the situation here.
Moreover, after hearing Li Yan's next words, their expressions tensed up again. They had considered this matter just now, but several breaths had passed and no attacks came.
The most important thing is that they didn't know that the formation had completely collapsed just now, and they thought that the formation was just seriously broken. Now after hearing Li Yan say in person that the formation had collapsed, they actually wanted to fly away from here immediately.
Li Yan didn't have time to take care of all these at this moment. He spread out his spiritual sense instantly, and after a quick sweep, he felt relieved that there were no demon cultivators nearby.
In the smoke and dust that filled the air, more and more figures emerged from the ground, and the defensive shields were covered with dust. Among the shadowy figures, Li Yan looked at the three people around him and suddenly shouted.
"I'm here!"
The formation has been broken, and the next step is to discuss how to defend the "Tonggui Ridge" which no longer exists, but the first thing to do is to find out how many cultivators are still alive here.
As Li Yan shouted, the sounds of breaking air around him became more frequent. The first people he saw were the eight people led by Gong Yuantai, and then the figures of Wu Ye, Tan Tai Dongyue, and Wang Ning.
Among them, Bro was still alive, but he looked even more miserable than the people around him.
"These people all have their own life-saving trump cards. Many people who are weaker than them are still alive. It is not surprising that they are all safe and sound." Li Yan thought.
Soon, one hundred and forty-one people gathered around him. Li Yan's heart tightened. This was worse than he had expected. The casualties were so heavy. Almost half of them were killed in the previous wave of attacks.
Although the "Yin Yang Boundary River Formation" had amazing defenses, and the white light column at the core of the formation absorbed most of the external attack force, even the dispersed force killed nearly sixty cultivators in a short moment.
This killing efficiency was too astonishing. Dozens of cultivators who could fly into the sky and escape into the earth were killed in an instant. Even among the surviving cultivators, many were seriously injured. After being brought here, they immediately swallowed pills on the spot and started breathing, with no time to take care of anything else.
The dead monks were basically below the middle stage of foundation building. Of course, there were other reasons. The monks with high cultivation who died unexpectedly were like the nine monks at the core of the formation, five of whom had extremely strong cultivation.
After defending against the first two waves of attacks, no one was spared in the end. Although the "Big Dragon Elephant Formation" also secretly assisted in the first two waves of attacks, the core of the formation also borne the greatest force.
Li Yan glanced at the monks around him. They had different expressions. Some were terrified, some had wandering eyes, some were gritting their teeth, and a few had dull expressions. Even their flying was caused by their companions, as if their souls had left their bodies.
The opponent's attack was too sudden, and the destruction of "Tonggui Ridge" was like a child's play. It happened in an instant and everything changed.
"Fellow Daoist Wuye, please arrange ten people to investigate the area below the gravel mountain to see if there are other Daoists alive. Bring them out as soon as possible."
Wu Ye had no objection to Li Yan's arrangement, and he immediately discussed it in a low voice with some people.
Soon ten people sat down cross-legged on the spot. They were all monks who were not seriously injured and did not need to be healed. They just needed to release their spiritual sense.
Li Yan continued, "The formation here has completely collapsed. We no longer have any external defenses..."
As soon as Li Yang said this, the air around him seemed to stagnate, because the aura of the "Yin Yang Boundary River Formation" still existed in the sky. Originally, these people basically believed that the formation was severely damaged and should be repairing itself now.
Gong Yuantai, Wu Ye, Wang Ning and the others all looked at Li Yan with solemn or astonished expressions. Even the ten cultivators who were using their spiritual sense to scan the depths of the earth immediately stopped their investigation and looked at Li Yan with anger.
Li Yan actually gathered everyone together before explaining such important news. Is he trying to ruin everyone together