Chapter 1182 – Pillar
Chapter 1182 – Pillars
Xu Chuniang was too lazy to beat around the bush with him, and questioned the old man directly.
“If I am unfortunate enough to die in battle, do you have an advantage? Wouldn’t that Scorpion Scissors not have to be delivered?”
The old man coughed lightly and retorted with a serious expression.
“What are you saying, is the old man that shameless? Even if you did have an accident, that Scorpion Scissors wouldn’t have landed on Old Husband’s head.
I was just thinking that if you can take out something as good as a Demon King level scorpion pincer, your strength is bound to not be bad, so you can make an extra effort.”
Xu Chuniang didn’t believe a single word of the old man’s words.
The mansion she had bought was far away, under normal circumstances, it wouldn’t have been chosen at all, this old man had clearly chosen her on purpose.
Xu Chuniang grinded her back teeth with some reluctance, she was somehow pitched a handful of times, she was really not in a good mood.
The old man glanced at her face and touched his nose somewhat awkwardly as he continued to transmit his voice.
“Little friend don’t panic, if you really encountered an accident, the old man will help you, to ensure that you live to return to the city is, I picked you really have no other meaning, just want to see your strength.”
Hearing his words, Xu Chuniang’s heart finally smoothed out quite a bit.
At least this old man had picked her, not really wanting her life.
But using this method to test her strength, she wouldn’t agree to it.
After leaving the city, the crowd felt the might of the Sand Beast Tide more intuitively, and their faces couldn’t help but become apprehensive.
In this flood of thousands of Sand Beasts, could they really be safe and sound?
The old man saw their fear and did not say anything, his face was as normal as he activated the outermost city protection formation.
An earth-colored pillar rose up from the ground, emitting a thick, earth-colored light that shrouded dozens of miles in every direction.
At the same time that the old man started the formation pillar, along with it, there were also the remaining twenty-three formation pillars around Sand City.
After these twenty-four pillars were activated, the earth-colored light emitted was connected to each other, linking the entire Sand City into a whole.
The old man commanded, ”You guys guard the positive Qian position, you split up to guard the Kan position and the Li position, the rest of you split up into two groups, relying on the cover of the formation pillars to take turns to deal with the Sand Beasts, and make sure to slow down the Sand Beasts’ army and stop them from heading to Sand City.
Remember, make sure not to expose your bodies outside the formation awnings!”
Feeling the powerful aura of the formation pillar, the faces of the crowd eased up quite a bit.
They didn’t expect that the range of the City Protector Formation was actually so wide, and that there were actually formation pillars deep in the ground of the outer city.
Hopefully, these formation pillars would be able to last longer under the attack of the Sand Beast army.
Xu Chuniang was assigned the task of dealing with the sand beasts, becoming the first batch of cultivators to face the threat of the sand beasts head on.
The old man’s command was reasonable, and by distributing the manpower in such a manner, not only could he maximize the effectiveness of the formation, but he could also maximize the extent to which he could stop the Sand Beast army from approaching Sand City while ensuring the safety of the crowd.
She swept her remaining twenty-three formation pillars with her residual light and realized that the teams led by the other Demon Lords had also begun to move, and some of them had even engaged the Sand Beasts.
Dozens of Sand Beasts brazenly rushed towards the formation pillars, but as soon as they touched the earth-colored light, wisps of green smoke rose from their fur and ignited a blazing fire.
The sand beasts that were scorched rolled all over the ground in pain, and in the end, they could only stop in their tracks.
Seeing this scene, the crowd’s confidence increased greatly.
Xu Chuniang, however, noticed that after cauterizing the sand beasts, the light of those formation pillars seemed to have dimmed a bit compared to before, only that the degree was extremely shallow and could not be easily seen.
She realized in her heart that the power of these formation pillars was limited.
When the power contained in the pillars was exhausted, this line of defense would be quickly broken.
As time passed, the distance between the sand beast and the crowd grew closer and closer, and the battle was imminent. Xu Chuniang stood at the front line, and coming face to face were several petite and agile sand leopards.
Seemingly aware of the power of this earth-colored light, the sand leopards didn’t approach the formation pillars hastily, but rather spaced out at a certain distance, spitting out a gust of wind containing poisonous sand, launching an attack towards her.
This bit of poisonous sand and wind, if it was on a normal day, Xu Chuniang wouldn’t even put it in her eyes.
But right now, that old man had the intention to test her strength, so if she acted too easily, wouldn’t that be just what he wanted?
Moreover, she also wanted to know if what the old man had said earlier was true or false.
Thinking of this, Xu Chuniang’s movements deliberately slowed down by half a beat, waiting until the gusts of wind and poisonous sand reached her before she swung out a magic qi that managed to stop them.
However, there were a few grains of poisonous sand that avoided the magic qi’s blockage at a tricky angle and landed on her body and hands.
On her vestments, the places touched by the poisonous sand were quickly corroded with a large hole.
The naked skin on the outside even became a bloody mess.
When the old man saw this scene, he frowned darkly, thinking that it shouldn’t be like this.
However, with her cultivation at the Heavenly Demon Beginning Realm, facing the siege of three or four Sand Leopards of the same realm and only receiving a slight injury was already a good performance.
Some Heavenly Demon Middle Realm cultivators wouldn’t necessarily be able to do better than her.
Did she have some reservations, or was it mainly luck that she managed to successfully cut down one of the Sand Scorpion King’s pincers earlier?
The old man did not jump to conclusions and decided to observe and watch again.
In battle, many instinctive reactions could not be hidden, and what he wanted to know would definitely be answered.
This observation by the old man was for several hours.
Until Xu Chuniang’s body was depleted of demonic energy and she retreated from the front line covered in wounds and exhaustion, he still didn’t see anything halfway wrong.
Her performance in the battle had some redeeming qualities, but that was about it.
Could it be that he was really mistaken?
The old man wondered in his heart, and was still a bit disappointed, feeling that he was wasting his time.
An ordinary Heavenly Demon Realm cultivator, where was it worth his attention.
Xu Chuniang acted as if she was unaware of the old man’s secret measurements, calmly taking out pills and taking them to heal her injuries, rapidly repairing her body’s injuries.
Despite the protection of the formation pillars, the number of sand beasts was simply too many, the battle was still very tight, and she only had three hours to use for recovery.
After three hours, it would be their turn for this group of cultivators to go to the frontline again.
After one or two days of such a bitter battle, the demonic qi in everyone’s body was completely exhausted, and the earth-colored light emitted by the formation pillar also dimmed a lot.
Gradually, some cultivators began to be unable to cope with the high intensity of the battle, their movements were sluggish, their spirits became trance-like, and they frequently made mistakes.
On the battlefield, mistakes were equivalent to death.
Those cultivators around Xu Chuniang who were fighting with her never got up again after falling down one after another.
The pressure on her increased after those around her fell.
What was even more terrifying was that after the power of the array pillars had decreased, some sand beasts began to leap forward and try to break into the area covered by the array pillars, and some of them actually managed to do so.
Right at this moment, a huge sand eagle shattered the faltering earth-colored light, emitted a vicious eagle cry, and, from the top down, clawed towards Xu Chuniang’s heart!
(End of chapter)