Affected by the formation, the soldiers on both sides lost their minds and were filled with killing intent. In a state of madness, they drew their knives at their comrades.
My brothers, in this battle array of thousands of ghosts demanding our lives, let us draw our swords and fight. It is either you die or I die.
After a short while, some people's swords shed blood, and some people fell off their horses.
"master?"
Seeing this, Li Shiyin stood up, unsheathed the Qingxing Sword, and was about to rush over to stop it.
“Don’t move.” Qin Ran stopped her. “This formation is called the ‘Ten Thousand Ghosts’ Formation. Even the ghosts haven’t appeared yet. In fact, the formation has not been activated yet... You have to help me break the formation.”
Li Shiyin looked at the soldiers fighting, and tightened the sword in her hand again and again, but still listened to her master's words and sat down cross-legged.
The one thousand elite cavalrymen who were confronting each other here today, whether it was the five hundred from Xuan Qin or the five hundred from Northern Chu, were all experienced soldiers who could fight ten enemies with one. In fact, the willpower of these people was extremely strong, but if they were like this, what about the ordinary people in the city...
She didn't dare to think too much.
The longer the time went on, the more the soldiers were affected by the formation, and they became more and more crazy, and fought more and more fiercely. There were only a thousand elite soldiers in total, and hundreds of them were killed or injured in a short period of time.
Because Li Shiwen practiced the physical training technique Qin Ran gave him, and because he had experienced many ups and downs, his mental willpower was much stronger than that of ordinary soldiers.
The soldiers in the battle were fighting each other, but he still had the energy to stop the fight.
Relying on his powerful military force, he pulled away many soldiers and prevented many tragedies.
but…
After all, he was just an ordinary person, and his soul and spirit were no different. He gradually discovered that something was wrong with him.
Sometimes I don't want to pull away the soldier I'm about to kill, sometimes I want the sword and gun to hit him, and sometimes I unconsciously use too much force...
He was becoming increasingly abnormal.
Then…
He saw that one of his brothers was about to aim his knife at another brother's neck. He was very anxious. He stretched out the knife in his hand to block the knife, then used his backhand to exert force to block the knife.
He did block the blow.
But he did not hold back.
His strength is several times greater than that of this soldier.
"when!"
"puff!"
For some unknown reason, half of the soldier's brain flew off.
He held the knife in his hand, staring blankly at his brother who was slowly falling. This brother who had fought with Xuan Qin for half a year, from Hengduan Mountain to Wuyi Mountain, and survived, died in his hands.
He is guilty of...
Suddenly someone came towards him. He was agile and turned around to block the attack. Then he kicked his brother hard, sending him flying several feet away. It was obvious that he was dead.
"No..." he cried.
Then joined the battle.
Li Shiyin watched this scene and called out again: "Master!"
Qin Ran raised his head and looked at Li Shiwen. Li Shiwen was controlling his hands with a painful expression, while...
Swing the knife and kill!
"Hey, you go..."
Before he could finish his words, something strange happened on the battlefield.
On Xuan Qin's side, the aura of some cultivators was spreading, and some cultivators were circulating their magic power and casting spells!
He was startled and looked over quickly, only to see Zhao Yaqing killing happily with a sword.
… Aunt Mei and the other Yuntianmen monks were afraid of hurting her and didn’t know how to stop her.
As a cultivator in the late stage of foundation building, Li Shiyin's soul was so strong that she didn't feel the influence of the formation at all. But Zhao Yaqing had gone crazy and violent!
"Such a character..." He sighed inwardly.
"boom!"
Over at the Xuanqin military camp, two sword lights finally shot up into the sky and killed towards the air.
"The Nascent Soul cultivator from the Infinite Sword Sect has taken action." Li Shiyin was a little excited.
In an instant, countless sword energies spread out from the sky, cutting and chopping all the dark clouds in the sky into pieces; some sword energies also spread out, causing the strong winds to stop.
The dark clouds dispersed, and finally some light seeped through them. People on the ground who were either trying to commit suicide or killing people with knives were illuminated by the light and suddenly became sober and woke up from their frenzy.
Li Shiwen also stopped his sword from swinging out. The soldiers under his sword felt like they had survived a disaster and cried out to him, "Thank you, General, for not killing me."
He looked at him, forced a smile on his face, and nodded. He turned around and saw a dozen people lying crookedly behind him...
He killed them all with his own hands.
He thought again of the Tiance Army who died because of him in the Hengduan Mountains...
"Master, look!"
Li Shiyin pointed at the two Wuyin Sword Sect cultivators who dispersed the dark clouds in the sky, and was quite delighted. As expected, sword cultivators need to move forward courageously. No matter what formation, they can just break it violently.
However, she did not see a smile on Qin Ran’s face. Qin Ran sighed, looked at her and said, “This is the person who does not understand the formation.
"You just waste your mana recklessly, as if you were going crazy in an empty space. It does nothing but waste your mana."
“But…” Li Shiyin did not support Qin Ran’s words and pointed to the sky.
Then…
She saw that the clouds in the sky that were dispersed by the sword energy were slowly recovering, and the wind on the ground that was fixed by the sword energy was slowly blowing up again.
"These are just external forms, like smoke, fog and air. The impact of such destruction on the formation is minimal." Qin Ran and Li Shiyin said.
"Master..." Li Shiyin pursed her lips and asked, "What should I do then?"
“Although the effect is small, it is not nothing.” Qin Ran shook his head, “At least it allows me to see more changes in this formation. I can deduce more basic formations based on it.”
The two people from the Infinite Sword Sect in the sky frowned when they saw that the wind and clouds they had dispersed were slowly recovering, but they had to continue to use their sword energy to calm the wind and disperse the clouds.
Although what they did had minimal impact on the formation itself and it was basically impossible to break it with this, the two of them continued to destroy the outer appearance of the formation in the air, and the minds of the creatures in the formation were no longer affected.
Li Shiwen didn't stab himself with the knife. He just stuck it into the ground and bandaged the injured soldier with an expressionless face.
Seeing this, Li Shiyin sheathed her sword and sat cross-legged beside Qin Ran.
She watched the two people slashing the clouds in the sky for a while, knowing that their understanding of the sword was not as good as hers, so she no longer cared about this useless work. She retracted her gaze and looked at the master who was calculating furiously. It was still her master who was doing useful work.
As the saying goes, serious men are the most handsome.
Although the master was the best looking in Li Shiyin's eyes, the master who was calculating seriously at this time was indeed more charming.
There was no gentle smile on his face as usual, nor was there the fake smile he had when he was calculating others. Instead, there was a serious look on his face, with an innocence and obsession with knowledge, and he was completely immersed in his world.
This obsession calls her obsession.
She thought that she would just look at her master quietly for the rest of her life and never get tired of it.
At a certain moment, the master stopped calculating, picked up the manuscript paper, stood up, turned around and looked around, and compared it with the manuscript paper in his hand, as if looking for something.
He searched for a long time, and suddenly pointed to the open space on the left side of the Xuanqin military camp and said to Li Shiyin: "That place, Shiyin, use your sword energy to freeze it."
"Master is indeed the strongest. He found a way to break the formation so quickly." Li Shiyin thought, "What's the use of the two Nascent Soul cultivators in the sky being so powerful? They are still just reckless men with swords!"
As she thought about it, she stood up, drew her sword, circulated her magic power, condensed a sword energy, and accurately inserted it into the position pointed by her master.
As the sword energy flew out, the power of the stars in the air was connected to the star-shaped sword energy and fell on the open space over there, making the sword energy on the ground a little stronger.
“Star power?” Qin Ran noticed this scene. He looked up at the sky and murmured, “This formation can’t even block the star power, which means it’s less complicated than I thought… At least it doesn’t involve space formations.”
The Qiankun Formation is difficult in itself. If the Qiankun Formation is added to a compound formation, the difficulty will increase exponentially.
"Master, what else do you want to do?" Li Shiyin asked.
Qin Ran took a pen and made some revisions on the paper. After a while, he pointed to Li Shiyin and said, "That hill over there, fix the top of the hill."
The purple sword energy penetrated the mountain and froze it.
As the sword energy flew out, the wind in the formation suddenly stopped.
"This is the array base!" Qin Ran was a little excited. "Shiyin, we found one of the array bases."
Seeing Qin Ran happy, Li Shiyin was also happy.
"Yes, Master. We are so awesome!"
The formation base was destroyed, which angered the master of the formation. Suddenly, a ghostly roar sounded between heaven and earth, followed by a series of "squeaky" roars. Between heaven and earth, transparent creatures were struggling everywhere. They seemed to be outside the membrane and wanted to penetrate the membrane to come into this world.
"Master, what are these?!"
Li Shiyin looked at the floating and indescribable thing in the air, which made her inexplicably terrified and her skin numb.
“Ten Thousand Ghosts Soul-Calling Formation…” Seeing this, Qin Ran laughed. The formation appeared at this time, “Of course it’s the Ten Thousand Ghosts!”
"Ghost... Ghost?!" What girl is not afraid of ghosts? Even someone as strong as Li Shiyin was so scared that her tongue was wide open.
"These are not the ghosts you think of. These are the souls of a person who just died and had no time to disperse. They were forcibly collected by this person, and then refined into wronged souls and evil ghosts using cruel and evil means." Qin Ran said, "There are no ghosts in this world. The ones who have ghosts are cultivators. Cultivators are ten thousand times more terrifying than ghosts." "Then... then then then, Master, how are we going to kill ghosts?" Li Shiyin was not less afraid because of Qin Ran's explanation. She picked up Qin Ran's hand and looked at the ghost that was about to penetrate the film with trembling hands.
"You forgot?" Qin Ran rubbed Li Shiyin's hair with the hand holding the pen, comforting his silly disciple, and said, "Where is your move 'Sealing Dust and Absolute Thoughts'?"
"Is that a sword technique that targets the primordial spirit?" Li Shiyin asked.
"When a soul transforms into a Nascent Soul and leaves the body, it becomes a Primordial Spirit. When a soul is refined by a cultivator using evil means, it becomes a ghost." Qin Ran explained, "A ghost is actually a low-quality Primordial Spirit."
“Oh oh!” Hearing that Fengchen Jue Nian could work on these poor evil spirits, Li Shiyin was suddenly not so scared anymore. She took a deep breath and sat cross-legged again, “Master… Master, you have to protect me!”
"Yes." Qin Ran nodded, and then said to Li Shiyin, "This formation is centered on ghosts. The more ghosts there are, the greater the power. The fewer ghosts there are, the weaker the power. If you kill more ghosts, it will be easier for Master to break his auxiliary formations later."
After hearing what her master said, Li Shiyin was no longer afraid. She could help her master, so what was there to be afraid of ghosts
She closed her eyes, and her soul walked out from between her eyebrows holding the Muran sword.
In fact, this "Ten Thousand Ghosts Life-Calling Formation" is indeed terrifying, as can be seen from the fact that it can cover such a large area as Wuyi City and Xuanqin Military Camp. However, it is precisely because of the power of this formation that the black-robed man swelled up, and he actually covered such a large area with this formation.
If it was in a very narrow place, even if it was just Wuyi City, then ten thousand evil spirits wreaking havoc in the city would be truly a terrifying thing.
If we deal with cultivators in a very small place, even Nascent Soul cultivators might suffer.
but…
Now, after this formation covers the inside and outside of the city, ten thousand ghosts in such a large space does not seem to be enough.
In particular, he could never have expected that among the cultivators here, there was someone who had cultivated the Primordial Spirit before reaching the God Transformation Stage, and he could never have imagined that this person had learned a sword technique specifically for the Primordial Spirit.
Li Shiyin performed the Fengchen Jue Nian technique, and her soul descended with the Muran sword in hand. She was emitting a bright light, just like a banished immortal.
The evil spirits that formed out of thin air saw her as if they had seen their natural enemy, and they all stopped for a moment...
That was the black-robed man who held the formation, feeling shocked and terrified.
As soon as Li Shiyin swung her sword, an evil ghost turned into black smoke and disappeared into the air. Then, she performed the Nine-Turn Star Sword Technique, and countless primordial sword energies scattered out, killing the evil ghost as easily as cutting grass.
At the same time, leaving aside the mortals, they have no way to deal with these evil spirits and can only escape or be killed. Even the monks can only use magic to barely force back the evil spirits but cannot hurt them.
Zhao Yaqing danced with her sword, displaying her sword skills. The sword skills drove the magic power to flow around her, beating the evil spirits back step by step. However, every time she beat back the evil spirits, those evil spirits would act as if nothing had happened and rush towards her again, screaming.
"Ten thousand ghosts are asking for my life..." She gritted her teeth and asked Aunt Mei, "How can I hurt these things?"
Aunt Mei shook her head and sighed, "You need to practice skills related to the soul or spirit to hurt these evil spirits."
"Your Majesty, why did you give this set of skills to him?!" Zhao Yaqing said hatefully.
Aunt Mei didn't dare to speak.
"Sooner or later, we will run out of mana and be devoured by ghosts and die!"
But after forcing the evil spirits back once again, Zhao Yaqing was surprised to find that the evil spirits did not attack her again, but turned around and rushed in another direction.
Puzzled, she looked over there and discovered that the evil spirits from other places were also rushing over there, densely packed like a tide.
That side has been wrapped by evil spirits, and only the center has a bright light coming out from the gaps of the evil spirits...
"Who is that?" she asked. "All the evil spirits are going to him!"
Aunt Mei doesn't know.
But soon...
“Swish, swish, swish…”
Countless sword qi with purple color slashed out from the center, cutting the evil ghosts neatly into several pieces. Countless evil ghosts turned into black qi under the sword qi.
"That sword energy..." Zhao Yaqing felt that the sword energy was very familiar, and had the most unwilling guess in her mind.
"boom!"
A pure white figure rushed out from the encirclement of evil spirits...
That is the celestial being based in hell, she is Li Shiyin!
Zhao Yaqing was struck by lightning.
"How...how could it be her?!"
Aunt Mei looked at Li Shiyin who was circling the evil ghost in mid-air, then looked towards Qin Ran and saw Li Shiyin there as well.
Qin Ran sensed her gaze and looked at her with a pair of eyes as deep as the abyss.
She didn't dare to look at him and quickly looked away.
"Soul..." She sighed, "It's the soul!"