There were fourteen people in Jiang Yuebai's group, and those from Tianyan Sect included her, Yun Shang, Xie Jingshan and He Wangchen.
Ge Yuchan and Song Zhiang were together when they came in, but they fled separately when they were fighting against the ice demon and got separated.
From Guiyuan Sword Sect, only Zhuo Qingfeng, Hua Yingshi, Zhao Kunling, Xu Qianjin and Xu Qiancheng were left with Ge Yuchan and the others.
The remaining ones were three monks in the middle stage of foundation building at the Vajra Platform. Jiang Yuebai thought they looked familiar, as if he had seen them before in the Cang Yan Land.
There are also four people from Linghe Sect, two men and two women, all of whom are in the middle stage of foundation building.
Everyone fought against the ice demon all the way, moving towards the ice pillar in the center of the Xuanming battlefield.
Logically speaking, they have a lot of people, so as long as they don't encounter a large number of ice demons, there won't be too many obstacles.
But they were unlucky. After walking for only half a day, they encountered more than a hundred ice demons lying in ambush in the ice cracks and attacked them.
He finally turned the tide and escaped by teleporting with ice clusters, but before he could even catch his breath, he was besieged by more than a hundred ice demons.
This situation happened one after another, which was unusual, as if someone was controlling it in the dark and was determined to kill them all.
After a whole day of bloody fighting, they were still halfway to the central ice pillar. Linghemen lost two people, Jingangtai lost one person, and Zhao Kunling was also eliminated while trying to protect Hua Yingshi.
Jiang Yuebai and He Wangchen found an open space in the crack of an ice cluster and worked together to set up an array, which temporarily confused the pursuing group of ice demons and gave them a chance to catch their breath.
"I can't walk anymore and don't want to walk anymore. I really can't hold on any longer. It's so cold here."
Yun Shang exhaled and rubbed her hands, and put all the spirit beasts into the spirit beast bag. The cold here was a demonic cold that was difficult to resist even for a foundation-building cultivator.
Xie Jingshan stuck his sword into the ground to ignite the spiritual fire, and squatted with He Wangchen to warm himself by the fire.
Zhuo Qingfeng and Hua Yingshi each sat cross-legged with a sword in their arms and adjusted their breathing. The two monks from the Vajra Platform were on guard at the first shift, and the two female practitioners from the Linghe Sect were treating each other's injuries.
Xie Jingshan said, "It's already so difficult for us, the brothers and sisters ahead of us may have it even harder."
He Wangchen nodded vigorously, "So we should not cause more trouble. It's good to just hide here."
"You coward! We are going to help, not to cause trouble. Even if we can't deal with those elites from the aristocratic families, we can still help our seniors to block the ice demon, right?" Xie Jingshan said unhappily.
He Wangchen put his warm hands on his frozen face, "Speaking of ice demons, it's really strange, aren't they not very intelligent? Why do they always ambush us on the road we must pass through?"
Hearing this, Yun Shang nodded and whispered secretly, "It's very strange, just like the queen ant controlling the ant colony."
Jiang Yuebai's eyes flashed slightly. If there was no other person with demonic energy here, then the only one who could do this would be Lu Nanzhi.
Jiang Yuebai pressed the boundary-breaking bead on his belt. Knowing that he couldn't kill anyone here, what was Lu Nanzhi going to do
Jiang Yuebai had a bad feeling in his heart, but he had no choice but to take out the jade slip given by Li Shenzhi and plan his next route.
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Deep in the ice field, the cold wind was howling.
Tang Weiman tried his best to hold up the formation. Thousands of ice demons with boundless demonic energy howled angrily and activated ice cones, which shot out like a storm.
boom!
The giant ice demon, ten feet tall and in human form, punched the top of the formation's barrier with a heavy punch.
Tang Weimian spat out a mouthful of blood, and the barrier shook and almost broke.
"Amitabha!"
Monk Hui En put his hands together, and the golden light of Buddhism turned into a giant palm, which smashed the giant ice demon into pieces. Eighteen prayer beads burst into golden light and flew out of the formation, continuously bombarding the ice demon.
Tang Weiman took a deep breath and stabilized the formation again.
Fang Yuxing was full of vigor and swung his sword, causing a thunderous roar to shake the sky. The shrill roar echoed among the group of ice demons along with the thunder and lightning.
Not far behind him, Chu Yunwei led the other four sword cultivators of Guiyuan Sword Sect to form a five-sided sword formation, slashing out sword shadows all over the sky and crushing the ice demons that kept rushing forward.
Disciples from other sects also used their killing moves, and five-colored lights collided violently around the formation.
There were constant explosions and roars of the ice demon, and the intensity of the battle was unprecedented.
"We can't go on like this. We can't kill all these ice demons!"
Tang Weimian tightly grasped the spirit stone to replenish his spiritual energy. They had already held on here for two hours, but the ice demon kept killing more and more and became stronger and stronger.
Clearly, they were only a few dozen miles away from the central ice pillar, but they were trapped here by the ice demon. They hadn't even fought with the disciples of the aristocratic families yet, and their trump cards were almost used up.
If the disciples of the aristocratic families reached the ice pillar first and set up a large formation to defend as attack, it would be extremely difficult for them to win.
Moreover, we wasted too much time on the road this time, and there is less than a day left before the secret realm is closed.
“Look!”
A male cultivator from Baiyang Sect pointed in the direction of the ice pillar and shouted. Tang Weiman immediately turned around to look.
I saw lights of various colors flickering around the ice pillar, which was a sign that the disciples of the noble families were setting up formations in various places.
They're here!
Bang!
A huge ice cone suddenly burst out from under Tang Weimian's feet, and she was caught off guard and knocked over violently. The overwhelming demonic energy swept across the whole area, and the entire formation suddenly collapsed, blowing away everyone in the formation.
There were screams and the scene was in chaos, with ice demons rushing in from all directions.
"Arhat's golden body!"
At the critical moment, Monk Huien shouted loudly, and golden light suddenly burst out from his body, instantly forming the shadow of a ten-foot-tall golden body of an arhat.
The vast and sacred aura forced back the group of ice demons and protected everyone under the golden light. Monk Huien's body was shaking and his face was pale, and it was obvious that he could not hold on for long.
Just when everyone was at a loss, a group of people rushed out from the wind and snow.
"Take this fire thunder bead from me!"
A familiar voice was heard, and Tang Weiman and Fang Yuxing opened their eyes wide, and saw Xie Jingshan step into the air and smash three fiery red beads at the group of ice demons.
Thunder roared in the sky, and dark red evil fire exploded suddenly with lightning, instantly creating an uninhabited area among the group of ice demons.
At the same time, human figures flashed from all directions, throwing out fire thunder beads all over the sky, shining like stars.
Boom boom boom!
There were bursts of thunder, raging fire, and great power.
The Ice Demon howled miserably but was quickly defeated by numerous Fire Thunder Beads. The situation was reversed in an instant.
The wind and snow subsided, and the female nun in white began to play the flute, her sleeves fluttering. The melodious flute sound swept across everyone's body in the breeze, eliminating fatigue and healing wounds.
Everyone looked at Jiang Yuebai in surprise, looking at those young disciples who were not favored by everyone, stepping on the ice and coming against the wind and snow.
To save them from the water and fire makes people excited and their blood boils.
"Brother Huien!"
"Senior Sister Chu."
"Brother Fang, we are here."
A group of young disciples came to the old disciples and expressed their concern and condolences.
This scene made all the old disciples present feel deeply moved, and they all felt a sense of pride that their children had grown up.
"Senior Sister Tang, wuwuwu, I thought I would never see you again..."
He Wangchen rushed to Tang Weimian from the crowd with a crying voice. Tang Weimian's forehead twitched and he couldn't help but curse, "I'm not dead, shut up!"
The light under the icicle was still flickering. Tang Weimian didn't care about his own injuries. Seeing Jiang Yuebai, who was silent in the crowd and staring at the direction of the icicle, he rushed over and grabbed him.
"Junior Sister Jiang, we need your help right now!"
Jiang Yuebai regained his composure, "Senior Sister Tang, we are here to help you. Let's change places first. I remember that on the map given by Senior Uncle Li, there is an ice ditch nearby that is relatively safe."
The group moved quickly and went deeper into the ice ditch. Xie Jingshan and Zhuo Qingfeng took the initiative to take on the guard mission so that the other exhausted people could recover quickly.
Tang Weimian called Jiang Yuebai and He Wangchen together and was about to leave. Chu Yunwei and Monk Huien were also watching from the side.
Tang Weimian took out a specially made white jade chessboard and waved his hand across it. The surrounding terrain immediately appeared on the chessboard without any error.
Tang Weimian pointed at the central ice column and said, "Now the aristocratic family disciples have occupied the ice column and started to set up the formation. We don't have much time, and we have been exhausted by the ice demon. The chances of winning a head-on attack are not great. Right now there is only one way for us to have a chance of winning."
"What is the solution?"
"The big formation surrounds the small formation."
He Wangchen and Jiang Yuebai said in unison. Tang Weimian glanced at the silly He Wangchen and nodded to Jiang Yuebai.
"That's right. The only way to save time and effort is to use a larger formation to encircle and kill the disciples of the aristocratic families and swallow them up together with the formation. But the problem is that I don't have much left to set up the formation. I was injured just now and I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to stabilize the center of the formation."
"I'm also hesitant about which formation to choose. I'm worried that it won't be powerful enough, or too powerful to be set up. I'm even more afraid that the formation process will be too complicated and I'll be defeated before I can complete the formation. Whenever I have to make a choice like this, I get so conflicted..."
Tang Weiman was scratching his head in distress when he saw Jiang Yuebai suddenly take out a palm-thick book from his storage bracelet. The cover read "Fengyunhui Tactics Collection".
Jiang Yuebai was flipping through the pages. Tang Weimian had good eyesight and saw that the first third was filled with the names and moves of the elite disciples from various aristocratic families, as well as some ugly but still very lifelike portraits.
"What is this?" Tang Weimian asked.
Just as Fang was about to leave, Chu Yunwei and Monk Huien were also attracted by the booklet in Jiang Yuebai's hand and leaned over to take a look.
Jiang Yuebai searched carefully without even looking up, "I was afraid that my cultivation was too low and I couldn't hold on to the end, so I did a little homework in advance and sorted out and analyzed the intelligence of the Fengyun Club's elites. I thought of ten ways to deal with each person, and I also made fifty assumptions about the possible situations in the maze and hunting grounds."
"It's a pity that I only have the information about the Xuanming battlefield, otherwise I could analyze more. But my luck seems to be starting to change, and I really ran into the Xuanming battlefield. I have analyzed the tactic of a large formation surrounding a small formation, and listed 23 formations. I remember one that is particularly suitable..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the whole place fell silent. The eyes of the more than 30 sect disciples present all twitched, as if their hearts had been hit hard.
Since when did you need to do so much homework to attend a meeting? Still a little bit
Before they came in, they just took a look at "Records of Prodigies of Fengyunhui" and bought some talismans and magic tools for self-defense, without thinking too much about it.
Looking at the booklet in Jiang Yuebai's hand, everyone was impressed.
They are all geniuses, but the gap between them is too big. When the disciples of each sect look at their senior brothers and sisters who are the leaders of their own sect, they feel that the gap is too big and they look down on them to a certain extent.
Chu Yunwei from Guiyuan Sword Sect felt like she was on edge. She scratched her face uncomfortably and couldn't help but say to Jiang Yuebai, "Junior Sister Jiang, can you lend me a copy of your booklet after the Fengyun Conference is over?"
"Amitabha, I also want to..."
Before he could finish his words, Fang Yuxing raised his sword to stop him, saying righteously, "Don't even think about it. This is my Tianyan Sect's property and I will never lend it out!"
Seeing that everyone was about to fight for it, Xie Jingshan, who was guarding in the distance, snorted coldly, "Fortunately, I woke up early, otherwise if I continued to compete with her, I would never be able to beat her even if I killed myself."
"Everyone only sees her glory, but they don't know how much effort she put in behind the scenes. I have to work harder to catch up with her."
Zhuo Qingfeng's eyes were burning, and Hua Yingshi shook his head and sighed.
Xie Jingshan hit him mercilessly, "No, you can't catch up, don't even think about catching up in this life!"
Zhuo Qingfeng: …
"Found it, the Five Absolute Heavenly Thunder Formation!"
Jiang Yuebai flipped to the end and pointed at the formation diagram on it. She had two hidden cards, one of which was the Five Elements Thunder Beads that she had saved for half a year, and now it was just right to set up the formation.
And she... didn't plan to stay together.
(End of this chapter)