Chapter 523
With the care of Master Jindan, the safety of the cannon fodder monks is guaranteed to a certain extent.
Every time the formation changes and starts to counterattack, Master Jin Dan is able to react in time and block the formation's counterattack.
When the cannon fodder monks saw how powerful their Jindan master was, their morale was boosted and they began to attack even harder.
The Feihong Sect has ruled the endless sand sea for hundreds of years and has extremely rich experience in controlling cannon fodder monks.
In fact, many of the monks from all walks of life who participated in the war had experience fighting under the Feihong Sect before.
When the Feihong Sect sent these cannon fodder monks, they did not just suppress them, nor did they let them die in vain.
All the cannon fodder monks take turns going into battle. After each team of monks completes a round of attack missions, they will be given a chance to rest.
The attack efficiency of the cannon fodder monks has been greatly improved, they are playing an increasingly important role, and they are beginning to put pressure on the formation.
Naturally, the Huoyun Sect monks would not just watch without any reaction.
Hiding behind the large formation, they have the advantage of a convenient location and have many means at their disposal.
When it was Master Qi Nanfei's turn to take care of these cannon fodder monks, Master Chi Yan personally controlled the flame-covering formation and produced multiple changes. Not only did he kill a large number of cannon fodder monks in one go, but Master Qi Nanfei was also made disgraced and almost injured.
Fortunately, Master Fei Shi and the others responded in time and launched a diversionary attack on the formation, thus helping Master Qi Nanfei escape the siege.
Master Qi Nanfei, who had been greatly humiliated, started to take action. But the cannon fodder monks saw that they were all suffering heavy casualties under the care of Master Jin Dan, and their morale immediately collapsed.
In the face of life and death, their relatives and classmates were all forgotten, and they only focused on escaping for their own lives.
Wu Mingwei took the initiative to fly over and personally executed a group of guys who escaped first, thus shocking everyone.
Then the supervising monks of Feihong Sect began to reorganize these cannon fodder monks.
However, after such an incident, it was no longer possible to continue the attack that day, and time was wasted in this way.
After a night's rest, the Feihong Sect relied on their rich experience in the imperial service to barely control the team of cannon fodder monks. Early the next morning, they continued to drive them onto the battlefield.
In the following time, the four golden elixir masters kept attacking the mountain guarding formation, and the cannon fodder monks rushed forward one after another with all their might.
The losses of the mountain-protecting formation were limited, and the Huoyun Sect monks were unscathed. On the other hand, more than half of the cannon fodder monks recruited by the Feihong Sect were lost, and even the battle supervising monks suffered a lot.
Teams of monks sent by the Feihong Sect are still running around in the endless sea of sand, but it has become increasingly difficult to recruit monks to participate in the war.
The rate of replenishment of cannon fodder monks is far less than the rate of loss, and it is almost unsustainable.
The Feihong Sect has suffered such a heavy loss, so of course the Taiyi Sect and the Mobei Qi Family can't watch the show from the sidelines. It's Taiyi Sect's turn to take action.
Although Meng Zhang couldn't bear it, but faced with the current severe situation, he still ordered Taiyi Sect to join the war.
Taiyi Sect's approach is similar to that of Feihong Sect, in that Taiyi Sect monks drive cannon fodder monks to participate in the war.
Not only were all the cultivation forces who had recently taken refuge in Taiyi Sect been recruited, but even the various members of the Hanhai Dao Alliance were not spared.
Probably because Meng Zhang is still young, he still retains some of his mentality before time travel, and there is always a trace of goodwill in his heart.
Of course, in the eyes of those monks who were decisive in killing him, he was a woman of kindness. The members of the Hanhai Taoist Alliance thought that he was hypocritical and pretentious.
No matter what others think, Meng Zhang still tries to act according to his own heart and strives to make his thoughts clear.
Before the war started, he spent a lot of money to buy a large number of machine puppets from Jiqiao Sect.
He did not hesitate to be shameless and asked Gu Yue Huaidie to come forward and ask the Jiqiao Sect to sell some mechanical artifacts that were not sold to the outside world.
Taiyi Sect has done frequent business with Jiqiao Sect in recent years, and is a rare big customer.
Taiyi Sect needs the mechanical creations of Jiqiao Sect, and Jiqiao Sect also needs various spiritual materials provided by Taiyi Sect, especially some mineral resources unique to the Endless Sand Sea.
Faced with Taiyi Sect's strong request, and in order to save the Gu Yue family's reputation, Jiqiao Sect sold some rare mechanical artifacts to Taiyi Sect, and specifically told Taiyi Sect that they could only use them themselves, and they must not let these things go to them.
outflow.
Before the cannon fodder monks launched their attack, the Taiyi Sect monks released countless machine puppets.
In addition to a large number of first-level puppets, there are also many second-level puppets.
With the cover of these puppets, the cannon fodder monks began to attack the mountain guard formation.
Meng Zhang spent a huge amount of spirit stones this time and almost emptied the Jiqiao Sect's inventory. Stimulated by the high price of spirit stones, the Jiqiao Sect is now working overtime to make various mechanical creations for the Taiyi Sect.
The cannon fodder monks in Taiyimen are also divided into different levels.
Those monks who have recently taken refuge can be used as they please. The senior Taiyimen will not feel bad if they are all consumed, but at most it makes Meng Zhang a little unbearable.
As for the members of the Hanhai Dao League, as well as the casual cultivators hired from the Jiuqu League, they should be cherished a little more and cannot be consumed casually.
In addition to the commonly used talismans and magic weapons, these cannon fodder monks also have many mechanical creations given by Taiyi Sect.
Mechanical creations such as Thunder Crossbows and Flame Guns do not need to consume innate energy at all. As long as the spiritual stones are installed, they can be easily activated.
Due to sufficient preparation in advance and adequate weapons, the number of monks dispatched by Taiyi Sect was far less than that of Feihong Sect, but the pressure on the formation was not much smaller.
In particular, some of the mechanical creations controlled by Taiyi Sect monks are specially used to attack the protective formation.
Like a thundering blunderbuss, it can be fired far away from the mountain guard formation.
Every time it is activated, it makes a thunderous sound and shoots out a thunderous light group, hitting the mountain-protecting formation heavily.
There are also landslides that hit cars, dozens of feet long and nearly ten feet high.
Controlled by the Taiyi Sect monks, it rushed from a distance, like a mountain collapsing, and hit the mountain-protecting formation hard, causing the formation's protective light curtain to shake.
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They are also members of the Jiuqu Alliance, so of course Master Chiyan and the others recognized the machine-created creations of Jiqiao Sect.
They secretly cursed the Jiqiao Sect for not caring about the friendship of the alliance, only interested in earning spiritual stones, and wantonly selling machine-made creations to the enemies of the Fire Cloud Sect.
In the eyes of Jindan Masters like Master Chi Yan, they had never looked down upon the mechanical creations of Jiqiao Sect before.
He believes that these strange skills and obscene things will not help monks improve their cultivation. If low-level monks are addicted to these things, they will delay their cultivation. These things do not seem to be weak, but they can only be used by low-level monks.
Show off your power in the middle.
Now, these mechanical creations have fallen into the hands of Taiyi Sect, and they have actually played a huge role, posing a great threat to the mountain guarding formation.
Seeing that Jiqiao Sect's mechanical creations were so useful, both the Feihong Sect and the Mobei Qi family were ready to purchase them from Jiqiao Sect.
When there was no stock in stock, they even shamelessly asked Taiyimen to give them some.
Now we are all grasshoppers on the same rope, working towards the same goal.
Meng Zhang worked hard and gave them a batch.
Taiyimen's Shengongtang is developing well. Not only can it repair many mechanical artifacts purchased from Jiqiao Sect, it also has certain refining capabilities and can refine some relatively simple items.
Because Meng Zhang values the manufacturing ability of mechanics more, and there is no shortage of their fighting power in the sect, the monks of Shengong Hall rarely go to the battlefield.
During this war, the mechanical artifacts stored in the door were quickly consumed. The monks of Shengongtang went all out. In addition to maintaining daily maintenance, they also worked hard to refine the mechanical artifacts to provide the frontline troops with the help they could.
The attack on Feihong Mountain continues, and the losses of the three forces are getting heavier and heavier.
After a large number of cannon fodder monks were lost, no matter how unwilling they were, the three factions had to send their direct disciples to the field.
Although due to the extensive use of mechanism creations, the losses of the attacking side have been reduced.
However, after more than a month of siege, not only the cannon fodder monks lost most of them, but also the direct disciples of the three factions suffered heavy casualties.
Of course, even after sacrificing so much life, it doesn’t mean it has no effect at all.
The details of this flame-covering formation were basically figured out by the four Jindan Masters.
Even the third-level mountain-protecting formation is not indestructible. After a long period of high-load operation, even if the formation can still support it, many parts of the formation are beginning to have problems.
The three forces paid such heavy losses and finally caused a certain amount of damage to the formation.
The current situation depends on which of the two parties can continue to bear the losses and persist until the end.
Will the lives of the three forces be consumed first, or will the Huoyun Sect's mountain-protecting formation collapse first?
In addition to the bloody fight on the battlefield, there are also undercurrents and endless battles outside the battlefield.
Jiqiao Sect, which has been selling machine-made artifacts to Taiyi Sect, asked someone to send news that their transaction with Taiyi Sect will be temporarily suspended.
They will no longer sell mechanism creations to Taiyi Sect, and all orders that have been placed will also be cancelled.
The Jiqiao Sect is also a Jindan sect. Among the Jiuqu Alliance, it is a big businessman that attaches great importance to goodwill. You can imagine the pressure behind it to allow the Jiqiao Sect to put away a lot of spiritual stones without making any profit and take the initiative to lose its own interests.
And know.
Soon after, Gu Yue Huaidie sent a messenger to let Meng Zhang inform him of the whole story.
The Jiqiao Sect was forced to break the contract because True Lord Xuanfeng intervened.
Faced with the pressure from True Lord Yuanshen, not to mention the Jiqiao Sect, even the Gu Yue family had to retreat.
The messenger told Meng Zhang with great regret that the Gu Yue family had to temporarily cut off contact with the Taiyi Sect and would no longer be able to provide help to the Taiyi Sect in the future.
This wasn't the end yet. Not long after, bad news came from Gale City.
Chapter completed!