Chapter 351 The Victory Must Be Determined
During these three days, when the demon clan and the Land Buddhism fought against the Immortal Court fiercely, the cultivators from other places came sporadically, but not in sufficient numbers to affect the overall situation.
The men of the demon clan and the Land Buddhism naturally joined their respective camps. The cultivators of the Immortal Court were stopped outside the circle. They didn’t have the chance to break through the encirclement and join Chen Jizhen, Huang Jingyuan, and the others.
As the battle went on, its scale didn’t shrink, but expanded.
In the evenly matched battle, the cultivators of both sides were very cautious. Moreover, they grew rapidly in the battle and became more and more adapted to the crossbow cover. In the end, it wasn’t easy to kill each other. The casualties reduced, but the surrounding cultivators kept coming, so the scale of the battle expanded.
As the battle went on, the cultivators of the demon clan and the Land Buddhism, undoubtedly, benefited greatly. After all, the cultivators of the Immortal Court couldn’t get into the encirclement, and all of them were kept outside.
They came sporadically. As soon as they entered the attack range of the demon clan and the Land Buddhism, they were targeted one-on-one. After they were attacked by arrows several times and suffered casualties, they basically didn’t dare to move freely, hiding behind the cover.
Under Li Ye’s command, the cultivators of the Immortal Court were deliberately separated in different places so that they couldn’t gather together from different directions and form a powerful force. They also couldn’t fight against the battle line composed of the cultivators of the demon clan and the Land Buddhism by collaborating with the cultivators of the Immortal Court inside the encirclement.
In terms of the absolute number of people, if the cultivators of the Immortal Court fought either side of the demon clan or the Land Buddhism alone, they would have an absolute advantage. But they had fewer people than the sum of the two. Then, similarly, the sum of the cultivators of the demon clan and the monks of the Land Buddhism within dozens of kilometers around Dingyuan was basically more than the cultivators of the Immortal Court.
As the battle continued, the demon clan and the Land Buddhism encircled and suppressed the Immortal Court in a more and more favorable way.
In a mansion occupied by the cultivators of the Immortal Court, Chen Jizhen and Huang Jingyuan thought about countermeasures with a gloomy face, sitting in front of the stone table in the courtyard.
There were not many sounds of fighting now. The sounds of crossbows’ shooting and hitting were heard occasionally, like the sounds of birds in the forest. The atmosphere on the battlefield was a little dull.
This dullness added to the heaviness and stress of the crowd.
Finally, Chen Jizhen couldn’t help but slap the stone table suddenly. “What are we waiting for? If we keep doing like this, we will be trapped to death! If we use every means we can, only Feihong Bodhisattva can resist you and me. If we try our best, no one will know the result!”
After the demon clan and the Land Buddhism joined forces, their advantages over the Immortal Court gradually expanded through these days’ battles. If the battle went on like this, they would win in the end. In other words, if the cultivators of the Immortal Court didn’t want to be killed, they had to change accordingly.
While Chen Jizhen was furious, Huang Jingyuan was calm, even though he was unpleasant. He said slowly, “Maybe, we can try our best to fight Feihong Bodhisattva, but now, Li Ye is on her side. Even if we defeat Feihong Bodhisattva, we will also become a spent force. How can we fight Li Ye at that time?”
The ordinary cultivators of the Immortal Court were less than those of the demon clan and the Land Buddhism, so they could only rely on Huang Jingyuan and Chen Jizhen, these two top combat forces—even though they had a secret method to suppress the demon clan, there were still the monks of the Land Buddhism—their battle with Feihong Bodhisattva directly decided the fate of the cultivators of the Immortal Court.
Chen Jizhen was raging. “Is Li Ye really so powerful? He is just a mortal. Why could he fight you dozens of rounds?”
Huang Jingyuan fought Li Ye previously. Although Huang Jingyuan held the upper hand and Li Ye didn’t win, Huang Jingyuan didn’t defeat Li Ye after they fought dozens of rounds. In other words, Li Ye was just a little weaker than Huang Jingyuan.
If Chen Jizhen and Huang Jingyuan tried their best to fight Feihong Bodhisattva, it would be hard to tell the outcome. Even if they won luckily, they would pay a heavy price. At that time, how could they fight Li Ye who was not weaker than Huang Jingyuan in the heyday?
Huang Jingyuan didn’t respond to Chen Jizhen’s roar.
He didn’t need to answer Chen Jizhen’s question. Besides, he had nothing to say.
Huang Jingyuan knew that if he fought Li Ye face to face outside the secret region, Li Ye couldn’t resist him for a long time. But the secret region narrowed the gap between their power. When there was no big difference in power, fighting skills took an important place. Huang Jingyuan had to admit that he was afraid of Li Ye’s fighting skills.
What was more, Huang Jingyuan couldn’t understand the mysterious power in Li Ye’s body. He didn’t know it was the power of Dragon Qi, the power of the Way of Emperor, but he got the meaning of “Tao” from it. He couldn’t understand that, and at the same time, he didn’t dare to underestimate Li Ye.
This reminded him of the last time he had been absorbed into the picture by Li Ye.
Huang Jingyuan couldn’t help but think that Li Ye’s comprehension and mastery of “Tao” might reach an impossible realm beyond common sense.
Realizing this, Huang Jingyuan was full of mixed emotions. He was uncomfortable and flustered, and he didn’t dare to act rashly.
Huang Jingyuan didn’t speak anymore, while Chen Jizhen said in a more anxious and worse tone, “Brother Huang, you’re always resourceful. Do you have any solution to the current crisis? Are we going to die here and be defeated by Li Ye, that mortal?”
Chen Jizhen didn’t wait for Huang Jingyuan’s answer and got up immediately, full of heroic spirits, like a group of raging flames. “Brother Huang, if you can do nothing, I will spare no effort to fight Feihong Bodhisattva now! The outcome of the battle is unknown now. Do we really have no chance? Even if we really have no chance, I would rather fight to death than wait to die!”
When finishing speaking, Chen Jizhen took out his sword and was ready to rush out.
“Calm down, Brother Chen!” Huang Jingyuan hurriedly pulled him.
Chen Jizhen was now in high spirits and full of confidence and pride with his eyes wide open, as if no one could block him. Seeing Chen Jizhen’s look, Huang Jingyuan was a little stunned.
The current situation was indeed unfavorable to the Immortal Court. The Immortal Court didn’t expect that Feihong Bodhisattva would appear in Hedong. No one knew how much suppression the Immortal Court had on her. After all, Feihong Bodhisattva had high status, so she shouldn’t have acted rashly. Even when all sides were at war, she shouldn’t take action easily.
And Li Ye’s force suddenly rose, which caught people off guard. It was a terrible thing that he, as a mortal, was able to fight the immortal. Moreover, since the battle began, both Li Ye’s personal fighting ability and his fighting skills in the secret region “surprised” everyone in succession.
At this time, instead of looking down on Li Ye, Huang Jingyuan found Li Ye unfathomable. He was afraid that Li Ye was hiding something big and terrible, so he needed to be careful all the time.
He looked down on Li Ye before, but now, he feared Li Ye very much.
Gradually, the more Huang Jingyuan thought, the more frightened he became. He was flustered and no longer had the courage to fight.
Only when he saw Chen Jizhen ask to fight to death with no fear did Huang Jingyuan come to himself and feel ashamed secretly.
Now, Chen Jizhen showed the demeanor of a general.
Huang Jingyuan’s cultivation wasn’t inferior to Chen Jizhen’s, and he was resourceful, steady, and cautious, but he was just a military counselor and ranked behind Chen Jizhen among 72 Earth Devils. That was the reason.
As a leading general in the army, he could be impulsive and not very resourceful, but he had to have the indomitable spirit and faith to lead the army to fight in any situation, without losing morale.
Huang Jingyuan was inspired.
After being infected by Chen Jizhen, he quickly calmed down and returned to his senses. He began to quickly calculate gains and losses and play his role as a military counselor.
As a leading general, Chen Jizhen could influence others.
Soon, Huang Jingyuan had a plan in his mind.
He sat down with Chen Jizhen. With bright eyes, he said calmly, “I have a plan to turn defeat into victory!”
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Standing on the roof, Li Ye looked at the purple-blue grid in the suburb of Dingyuan, frowning slightly.
They had been delayed here for a long time. They saw the purple-blue grid shrink to Dingyuan personally, so it was easy for them to accept that. It looked like the purple-blue grid would enter the city in about half a day.
Both Li Ye and Feihong Bodhisattva sent people to observe the purple-blue grid closely. In the end, they made a conclusion that any person or thing with Spiritual Qi would turn into ashes in a flash when they were covered by the purple-blue grid.
They had to leave Dingyuan before the purple-blue grid entered the city.
In other words, there must be a winner in the battle among the demon clan, the Land Buddhism, and the Immortal Court before that. Based on previous experience, the light shield outside the ruins would open when only one faction of cultivators existed in the ruins. Then, the people inside could leave the city with the pieces of the battleax.
The arrival of the purple-blue grid was undoubtedly urging people to decide the outcome.
Li Ye took back his gaze and looked at the place where the cultivators of the Immortal Court gathered. Suddenly, he smiled lightly and said to Feihong Bodhisattva next to him, “It seems that the show is about to start after all.”
Feihong Bodhisattva still said in a flat tone, “As long as they are a little proud, they will not sit and wait to die.”
According to Feihong Bodhisattva’s meaning, the Taoist Immortal Court was always proud. They were in charge of Jiuzhou and looked down on all the so-called “foreign gods and demons”, including Buddhism. Chen Jizhen and Huang Jingyuan were famous and proud, so they would launch a mortal battle.
As expected, as soon as Feihong Bodhisattva finished speaking, the cultivators of the Immortal Court showed up from the cover together. After shooting arrows, they rushed out from the roof, walls, and the forest in succession, as swift as tigers. They took the initiative to attack Li Ye and Feihong Bodhisattva!
The cultivators of the Immortal Court turned out to attack in full strength, including Chen Jizhen and Huang Jingyuan.