"Protect His Highness!!"
"The archer nocks the arrow—"
The officers shouted in the crowd. On the narrow mountain road, more than a thousand people were separated by 20 to 30 feet. Yu Juluo, Shi Wansui, Han Qinhu and other generals drew their weapons and urged their horses to rush forward. Someone shouted, "Protect the emperor to the rear!"
Yang Su, the Duke of Qinghe, who was also guarding Yang Guang, frowned as he looked at the army of unknown origin ahead on the road and felt a spiritual energy flowing around the mountains.
Xilulu-
The yellow horse neighed restlessly, shaking its mane and carrying Yang Guang, and turned in a circle under the escort of the guards. The young man on the horse pulled the reins and looked back, and saw Yang Su still sitting safely on the horse.
He shouted at him, "Why doesn't Lord Qinghe leave yet?"
"Your Highness, don't panic. This might be the magic array that Lu Liangsheng set up here. It was just startled by our murderous aura."
The soldiers around him held up their shields and formed a battle formation. Yang Su on horseback raised his hand and his eyes focused.
"Your Highness, you may not know that Fellow Daoist Lu is good at illusions, and this formation is probably related to illusions..."
call out-
There was a loud sound of breaking air in the distance. Yang Su stared at the flying black shadow, sitting on the horse's back motionless, and a strand of hair on the side of his face was blown up.
Some blood splattered behind him. A soldier covered his shoulder, screamed "Ah!" and fell to the ground.
He glanced back and snorted.
"This is an illusion! It's fake! It doesn't really hurt."
"But, Lord Qinghe, it really hurts, it hurts so much!" The soldier covered the arrow that was nailed in his shoulder, and blood was flowing out from between his fingers, staining his armor and clothes red.
Yang Su smacked his lips, frowned even more, and turned his face to a serious expression.
"Maybe... I was distracted."
He suddenly turned the horse's head and shouted "Gee!", urging the horse to move back several feet. He stopped only when he felt it was safe. He raised his hands towards the mountain and used his magic power to convey his words loudly among the mountains.
"Chang'an Yang Su and His Royal Highness the Prince of Jin pay their respects to Mount Qixia's Lu Liangsheng!!"
The sound echoed through the mountains. Yang Guang straightened his back and looked around surrounded by guards. The birds were still circling. The spiritual light that he could not see suddenly flashed on a mountain in front of him. The wind here was even more violent. The hem of his robe fluttered and stuck to his face. He quickly raised his hands to cover his face and neck, shouting, "Duke Qinghe, why did you become like this?!"
"Well… "
Yang Su didn't know the situation either, and his voice became a little unclear in the wind: "Your Highness, Fellow Daoist Lu may not be at home!"
"Retreat first!"
"We can't leave. We may have been trapped in an illusion array all the way here. We can only break the array!"
Soon, the sound of war drums was heard. Yang Su gathered his magical power and looked towards the mountains, using his hand gestures to find the key position to break the magic circle.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The wind was strong at that time, and Yang Su's words could not be heard in the front. Shi Wansui, Han Qinhu, Yu Juluo and other generals who were commanding the army to assemble also set up their battle formations. The war drums on the opposite side sounded one by one, and the densely packed troops like a long dragon pushed forward step by step with long spears. There were also large crossbows and longbows in the rear, which made the generals feel their scalps tingling.
"Bows and crossbows... How to deal with this narrow area..." "Just fight as you can. Who said they didn't have enough killing?"
“Don’t look at me!”
"Hey, do you think the other side's armor is a little different?" "Yes, this armor is not from the Chen Dynasty, and I haven't heard of a general named Bai in the Chen Dynasty. There are at least more than 10,000 soldiers here, so they can't be unknown."
The generals had experienced many battles, and they immediately found something suspicious in the enemy's clothing and flags. However, at the moment, they did not dare to be careless and immediately deployed their troops.
Yu Juluo exerted all his strength, raised his sword and turned back: "I will take a hundred people to test the enemy's strength, you guys stay here, if it's not going well, don't come to save me, just focus on protecting His Highness!"
"Be careful, if anything goes wrong, return immediately!" Shi Wansui warned, and then summoned a messenger: "Go and ask Lord Qinghe what to do next?!"
"yes!"
When the messenger rode away, Yu Juluo had already selected 120 soldiers, gripped the hilts of his swords, raised the blades from his arms, and shouted loudly.
"Come with me!"
He squeezed his heels against the horse's belly and suddenly rushed out with more than a hundred frightened soldiers, trampling on the mile-long mountain road.
"kill!!"
The moment the fierce shout burst out, the distance of a few miles was reached in the blink of an eye. On the rolling horse hooves, Yu Juluo held up the knife in one hand: "I am the Great Sui Yu..."
Looking ahead, the general on the chariot had an expressionless face. He simply raised his arms and squeezed the air with his open palms.
The spear-wielding infantrymen behind him moved to the left and right, revealing half-crouching figures, holding bows and crossbows and aiming at him.
"Wind!" On the chariot, General Bai clenched his fist and shouted.
The next second, there was a loud "clatter" sound, the crossbows were strung and lifted up from the soldiers' hands. Yu Juluo and more than a hundred soldiers who were rushing over widened their eyes, and the original angry expressions froze on their faces.
What was reflected in his eyes was a row of black shadows flying straight towards them with the sound of strings banging...
Hey, hey!
The charging warhorse stood up, and several crossbow arrows pierced into the horse's body and sank into its flesh. It tilted and fell to the ground. Yu Juluo on top was directly knocked to the ground. The soldiers on the left and right fell down one after another along the mountain path where they charged, all of them with several arrows in their bodies, rolling on the ground wailing.
"Old Fish!" "Don't go—"
Han Qinhu shouted anxiously in the back, and Shi Wansui pulled him to dissuade him. In the sound of the wind, he also shouted to Yang Su behind him: "Duke Qinghe, find a solution quickly!!"
Behind the shields, Yang Su was sweating on his face. At this moment, he had found a way to break the formation. However, this formation was quite difficult to understand. It not only coincided with the trend of mountains and rivers, but also attracted the popularity of heaven and earth.
'Sure enough, it's really hard for scholars to practice Taoism. There are so many twists and turns everywhere...'
He drove the magic power to penetrate into the nodes of the magic circle, and blamed Lu Liangsheng in his heart. When the thought flashed through his mind, his hands were not slow. He bit the bloody fingertips, flicked them into the air, and disappeared into the air.
I heard a slight clicking sound in my ears, and the strong wind around me stopped.
"It's done!"
Yang Su was overjoyed, his face solemn, he nodded slightly and tilted his head, looked at Prince Jin, stroked his beard and nodded.
"The magic circle has been broken. Your Highness, you may follow me now."
call.
Yang Guang also breathed a sigh of relief and urged his horse forward. The two men then arrived at the position of the front army. They saw that the army of unknown origin in front of them gradually disappeared from their sight as if blown away by the wind and turned into starlight floating away.
More than a hundred heads were exposed above the ground. Yu Juluo shouted in fear to Shi Wansui and others, "What are you still standing there for? Dig us all out! I can't breathe!"
Even the soldiers who had been shot by arrows before were not dead and had no wounds on their bodies, but they still felt tearing pain, which made them unable to walk. They were helped by their companions to sit on the side of the road to rest.
Seeing this scene, Yang Guang's eyes widened and he clutched his robes excitedly. Although he didn't understand these, he could still see the horror contained in the illusion array.
Sure enough, this was the magic of a master. On that day on the street in Chang'an, he saw that Mr. Lu was not an ordinary cultivator. He could wield a magic sword to slay demons and monsters, and he could also set up a magic formation to deploy thousands of soldiers and horses.
"No, I must see Mr. Lu today!"
On the other side, Yu Juluo had been dug out by the soldiers and was helped back. He lowered his head and bowed to Yang Guang in dejection.
"I have brought shame to Your Highness. Please punish me."
On horseback, Yang Guang waved his hand, asking him to stand up, and said with a smile: "No need to be like this, your opponent is Mr. Lu, who has a high level of Taoist cultivation. Ordinary people like us are definitely not as good as him."
Yu Juluo got up from the ground and curled his lips. He was a little unconvinced at first, but he didn't say it out loud in the end. He turned to Yang Su on the side and clasped his hands.
"Thank you, Lord Qinghe, for breaking the magic in time."
"It doesn't matter. The magic circle has been broken now. General, please lead the way."
The troops in the mountains formed a long line again. Yang Su took back the command and was about to give an order when the strong wind that had stopped started up again.
The woods at the foot of the mountain were shaking more violently than before. Stones on the ground were rolling and were blown up and hit people in the face. The cavalrymen around them sat on their horses, kicking their hooves and neighing in fear. If the knights had not held the reins tightly, they would have turned around and ran away.
"What's going on, Lord Qinghe?" "Yes, hasn't the magic been broken?!"
Yu Juro, Shi Wansui and other generals screamed in anxiety, squinted their eyes due to the wind, and kept comforting their horses. Yang Su, who was asked about this, was also confused. It was true that his eyes had broken the magic circle just now, but why such a sudden change happened again, even he didn't know.
'Could it be that there is another magic array in the array...'
Yang Su frowned and thought about countermeasures, when suddenly a voice in the team shouted: "What is that?!"
Yang Guang and a group of soldiers on the side looked in the direction of the sound and saw countless rocks and boulders falling from a nearby hilltop and rolling into the middle of the road.
On the top of the mountain where the sun shines, a huge long body is pressing down on the top of the mountain, rolling and swimming, flashing in everyone's eyes. Its scales, as big as a house, are reflecting the light, flashing continuously as it slides.
The long body rolled along the endless mountain with a rumbling sound. At a certain moment, it suddenly stopped. The wind blowing on everyone's face changed direction in an instant. The huge long body had a slow upward trend. The head that had been missing was now raised high from the other side of the mountain, and the sunlight that shone on the earth was shaded in more than a thousand lines of sight.
“Ah…” Yang Guang was so frightened that he nearly fell off his horse. He hugged the horse’s neck and lay on it with his eyes closed. The soldiers and generals around him, even Yu Juluo, Han Qinhu and others, all had terrified expressions on their faces.
The top of the huge snake body is composed of nine heads, each with a different face and expression. Its eyes are like lightning, and it spits out its snake tongue, overlooking a group of "ants" below the mountain.
Gulp…
Yang Su couldn't help swallowing and tightening his Taoist robe.
… It’s fake, it’s an illusion, it’s an illusion… Don’t be afraid!
Lu Liangsheng... Fellow Daoist Lu, I'm not here to seek the truth or to break through the formation, why are you making things difficult for me
At this moment, he was also feeling bitter.
"Who are you? You'd better leave! My master's magic circle is very powerful! Don't barge in!"
Suddenly, a childish voice sounded from a cliff not far ahead.