The Huoyun Sect's army of monks is led by Zhenren Chiyan. After receiving the support from the Hedong Branch, its strength is not much weaker than the Taiyi Sect's army of monks.

As a veteran Jindan Master, Master Chi Yan is not satisfied with blocking the army of Taiyi Sect monks.

He also has great ambitions and wants to defeat the enemy in front of him head-on.

He led the army under his command and took the initiative to attack the enemy. He and the Taiyi Sect army fought fierce battles on the vast sea of ​​​​sand.

Master Chi Yan left the army of monks under the command of others and stepped forward alone to invite Meng Zhang to fight.

In the battles in the world of cultivation, there are both groups of monks fighting and one-on-one challenges.

Fighting alone is not a heroic act, but affects the morale of both armies.

If a strong man is not restrained, he can attack ordinary monks unscrupulously.

Meng Zhang handed over the army to Wen Qiansuan's command, flew high into the sky, and personally responded to Master Chiyan's challenge.

Both of them were monks in the middle stage of the Golden Core. Master Chiyan was more than twice as old as Meng Zhang. When Master Chiyan became a powerful Golden Core cultivator, Meng Zhang was still in his mother's womb.

Master Chi Yan, who has experienced many battles, admits that Meng Zhang is a strong enemy, but does not think that he is weaker than Meng Zhang.

For example, Master Fei Shi of the Feihong Sect was his opponent, and Meng Zhang was still far behind.

Master Fei Shi had not shown up for so many years, so he speculated that the other party might have had some kind of accident.

Master Chi Yan believed that he could defeat Meng Zhang, a young boy, if he were to fight alone.

The two of them didn't say anything nonsense. Once they got close, they started fighting with all their strength.

The two of them showed off their full range of skills, using magical powers and secret techniques one after another, and the fight was extremely fierce.

The two armies of monks also started a fierce collision on the ground.

Years of bloody battles and the deaths and injuries of countless fellow sects have long established a blood feud between the two sides. Once a war breaks out, they will attack with all their strength and show no mercy.

Soon after the war started, both sides suffered huge casualties.

In the sky, in addition to the pair of Master Meng Zhang and Master Chiyan, there were also several Masters of Jindan who were catching and killing each other.

Among the several battlefields, the first to decide the winner was the pair of Meng Zhang and Master Chi Yan.

Meng Zhang first used the Qizheng Sword Art to attract the attention of Master Chi Yan, then used the divine light of the sun and moon to immobilize him, and finally stabbed him with the Spirit Snake Spear.

Although Master Chi Yan was injured and defeated, his strength still remained and he was still resisting desperately. Meng Zhang tried his best, but was unable to expand the results and kill Master Chi Yan.

In a battle between Jindan practitioners with similar cultivation levels, it is easy to determine the winner, but difficult to determine life and death.

After Master Chi Yan was injured and defeated, he did not panic. Instead, he slowly stabilized his position and fought and walked away.

The other Jindan Daoist members of the Huoyun Sect, together with the monks from the Hedong branch who were assisting in the battle, commanded the army of monks to fight and retreat, and slowly withdrew from the battlefield.

Although the Taiyi Sect monk army took advantage of the situation to pursue them, the enemy formation was tight. Although they were defeated, the Taiyi Sect monk army achieved limited results.

In the next ten days or so, the Taiyi Sect monk army took advantage of the victory to pursue and advance vigorously. However, the Huoyun faction retreated and resisted, making the Taiyi Sect monk army unable to march forward boldly without fear.

When Master Chi Yan led the army to block the army of Taiyi Sect monks, the Hedong branch concentrated its forces and attacked Feihong Sect with all its strength.

Due to the huge gap in strength, the army of Feihong Sect monks was almost defeated at the first touch, and had to retreat to Huangsha Ridge, relying on the third-order mountain guarding formation to resist.

Originally, according to Master Wu Mingwei's idea, with the help of the third-order mountain guarding formation, Huangshaling should be able to hold on for a long time and reach Taiyi Gate for reinforcements.

But at the level of Jindan Daoist, the Feihong Sect is really far behind. Even with the help of the thick earth god general and the weak water god general, it can't reverse its disadvantage.

The Huanglian Sect's Hedong branch has a great cause and has too many trump cards. Facing the third-level mountain-protecting formation, the monks from the Hedong branch directly took out a stack of third-level formation-breaking talismans.

Master Xiaolian in the late Jindan period took the lead and led an army of monks to attack Huangsha Ridge.

The third-level mountain-protecting formation lasted less than ten days before it was completely breached.

The thick earth god general and the weak water god general had received instructions from Meng Zhang in advance. Seeing that something was wrong, they immediately abandoned the Feihong Sect monks and tried their best to break out of the encirclement.

The monks from the Hedong Branch were eager to capture Huangsha Ridge and did not pursue or intercept them.

After paying a certain price, they broke out and fled towards Yaofeng Gobi.

The Feihong Sect monks headed by Wu Mingwei can only live and die with Shanmen Huangsha Ridge.

During the battle, most of the Feihong Sect's monks died on the spot. After Hedong Fentan captured Huangshaling, they showed no mercy and executed all the captured and injured monks.

In addition to leaving a small group of monks to chase down the remaining enemies and clear out the surrounding area, Master Xiaolian led the main force of the army and hurried to another battlefield.

Since then, Feihong Sect has almost been destroyed.

In addition to a small number of disciples stationed at Luochen Hill, the only thing left to see is whether the Feihong Sect has any back-ups.

When Meng Zhang saw the Hou Tu God General and Weak Water God General who had escaped back, the Taiyi Sect monk army was pressing down on the Fire Cloud Sect, chasing and beating them fiercely.

Although he had some expectations in his heart, Meng Zhang was still filled with emotions when he heard the news about the fall of Huangshaling with his own ears.

The situation was critical, and now was not the time to be sad for spring and autumn. Meng Zhang put away his other thoughts and began to consider the next action.

Although I know that the safest approach at present is to immediately lead the Taiyi Sect monks to escape from here as quickly as possible and embark on the road of escape.

But Meng Zhang really couldn't make up his mind to just give up everything in front of him.

It is really not easy for Taiyi Sect to have everything they have now. All the territory is hard-won.

At this time, Meng Zhang had not discovered the changes on the other side of the Death Sand Sea, so he naturally did not know that True Lord Yue Feng and True Lord Xuanfeng had already made a trip to confirm the life and death of True Lord Tianzhu.

Therefore, Meng Zhang still had illusions in his heart and was unable to make a final decision.

After thinking for a long time, Meng Zhang made a decision that he thought was the best of both worlds.

On the one hand, he called a few cronies and asked them to take some extremely outstanding young disciples to secretly leave Yaofeng Gobi and temporarily enter the Jiuqu Alliance's territory to hide.

On the other hand, he ordered the army to stop pursuing and then retreat proactively.

The enemy, who had been suppressed by the Taiyi Sect monk army, did not catch up immediately, giving Meng Zhang the opportunity to calmly adjust his deployment.

Meng Zhang led the army of Taiyimen monks to quickly turn in, retreat all the way, and retreat directly back to the Baicao Slope of the mountain gate.

Then Meng Zhang began to fully shrink his strength and asked the Taiyi Sect disciples to abandon all peripheral strongholds, including Xiongshi Ridge, and all disciples retreated into Baicao Slope.

Various members of the Hanhai Taoist Alliance were also recruited as the main monks, and followed them to retreat to Baicao Slope.

In Baicao Slope, the main monks from Taiyi Sect and even the entire Hanhai Dao Alliance are concentrated. The number of monks exceeds 6,000.

Although in the world of cultivation, no matter how many low-level monks there are, it is difficult to threaten high-level monks. But relying on the third-level mountain guarding formation, it still makes sense to have more people.

Since Baicao Slope was selected as the mountain gate of Taiyi Gate, the senior officials of Taiyi Gate have invested a lot of effort in building it.

The defense facilities here were built after Taiyimen had worked hard for many years and invested a lot of manpower and material resources.

After Wen Qian calculated the elixir, he quickly became a third-level formation mage and had the ability to independently set up third-level formations. As long as he had enough materials, he could also refine a new third-level formation.

After General Houtu returned to the golden elixir stage, he was finally able to fully display the earth master's various secret magic powers, making full use of his abilities.

He communicated with the earth veins below Baicao Slope and activated the power of the spiritual veins. While changing the surrounding terrain, he greatly strengthened the surrounding defenses and even cooperated with Wen Qiansuan to set up a large protective array.

Wen Qiansuan purchased two third-level mountain-protecting formations from Gale City, took them apart personally, and added some formation flags and disks prepared by himself to create a brand new third-level mountain-protecting formation——

Five elements inverted formation.

The mountain-protecting formation stands on the ground veins and fully absorbs the spiritual energy of the spiritual veins. After the installation is completed, it can be said to be almost impregnable.

Meng Zhang concentrated almost all the power he could muster, and relying on this mountain-protecting formation to hold on, he was still certain of blocking the coalition forces of the Huoyun Sect and the Hedong Branch.

Everyone in the Taiyi Sect knows that this is a battle that is related to the survival of the sect, and everyone is in a tight position, waiting for the arrival of the enemy.

Without letting the Taiyi Sect monks wait too long, Master Xiaolian personally led the coalition forces of the two sects and quickly advanced not far from Baicao Slope.

Master Xiaolian easily found out the latest trends of Taiyi Sect.

He knew clearly in his heart that only by breaking through the Taiyi Gate in front of him and completely wiping out the army of monks stationed at the gate could the final outcome of this battle be determined.

Master Xiaolian concentrated all the forces he could mobilize. In order to avoid spreading his troops, he did not even bother to divide his troops to raid the nearby Taiyimen stronghold.

He even turned a blind eye to Xiongshi Ridge, which had been voluntarily abandoned by the Taiyi Sect. As for the other members of the Hanhai Dao Alliance, he was even more dismissive.

After the coalition forces of the two sects were in position, without wasting any time, Master Xiaolian commanded the army to launch a fierce attack.

When the war has reached this point, either you die or I die, and actions such as persuading surrender are meaningless.

As soon as the coalition forces of the two sects started to attack, they kicked the rocks and suffered heavy casualties.

Master Xiaolian ignored it and directly ordered to continue the fierce attack.

Among the coalition forces of the two sects, there are also supervisors from the Shanyue branch. They will not care about the casualties of the Hedong branch. They will only care whether the Hedong branch obeys the instructions of Zhenjun Yue Feng and fights with all its strength as soon as possible.

End the battle.

Although Zhu Liangyu has returned to Zhenjun Xuanfeng, there is still Zhenren Xiaolian, a monk in the late Golden Elixir stage, among the army.

Among the reinforcements sent by the Hedong branch headquarters, there were two middle-stage Jindan monks. Together with Zhenren Chiyan who suppressed the injury, there were three middle-stage Jindan monks.

At the level of Jindan monks, the combined forces of the two sects far exceeded the Taiyi sect in terms of both quality and quantity.

If Taiyi Sect had not relied on the third-order mountain guarding formation to defend it, it would have collapsed at the first touch against the combined forces of the two sects.

Next, the attacking side used all means, regardless of casualties, to attack the mountain guard formation on Baicao Slope with all their strength.

Naturally, the Taiyi Gate side was unable to get out. They used every move to defend the mountain gate.

Once this brutal offensive and defensive battle began, it quickly entered a white-hot stage.
To be continued...