Chapter 285: The Final Battle Between the Two Sides
A life-and-death battle is brewing between the Mulan people and Tiannan. Both sides are busy mobilizing troops and making various arrangements.
On the Mulan side, various tribes continued to come from the grassland, and their strength is now much stronger than during the previous battle with Tiantian City.
Except for the Jinyang tribe, the largest tribe of Mulan, which was monitoring the actions of the Tuwu people, all the elite troops of the rest of the tribes were sent out.
As soon as all the coalition forces arrive, the Mulan people will start attacking again.
Tiannan was also mobilizing. Not only did the four major forces send a large number of troops, but even some independent cultivators came.
In this way, two months passed, and finally the two sides had almost gathered their respective strengths. So one day, the Mulan people sent a declaration of war.
After receiving the letter of challenge, Wei Wuya and the other two met with Ye Changsheng again. After everyone passed the letter of challenge around, Master Zhiyang stroked his beard and asked, "What do you three fellow Taoists think?"
"What the hell is the Mulan people up to? It would be fine if they just had a decisive battle in seven days, but they want to have a gambling fight and put so many precious materials on the line!" Wei Wuya said with a frown.
In this declaration of war, the Mulan people proposed to have ten life-and-death fights with the Tiannan side.
These gambling fights are only open to cultivators below the late Nascent Soul stage. They will be held in front of the two sides' formations. Both parties will be placed in a closed space barrier. Even if they lose, they cannot leave and can only die on the spot.
In addition, the Mulan people used the captured Tiannan captives as threats, demanding that the Tiannan side must agree to their demands, otherwise they would kill these thousands of captives.
Winning one of ten gambling fights could earn you a hundred prisoners.
"There must be some conspiracy here. The Mulan people would not make such a request for no reason!" said the old demon Hehuan with a frown.
"There is a conspiracy for sure, but we can't tell what they are planning, and we have to rescue these thousands of prisoners!" said Master Zhiyang.
"Then agree to their request. It's just a matter of finding ten people to play a game with them!" Ye Changsheng said calmly.
Knowing the direction of the war, he did not take the fight seriously.
After seven days, as long as the news came from the grassland, there would be no need to continue the war.
At that time, what we should consider is how to unite with the Mulan people to fight against the Tuwu people.
Just like in the original book, two countries in the Nine-Nation Alliance were allocated to the Mulan people for settlement, and then they were allowed to stand on the front line against the Tuwu people.
Or, make other plans.
However, now with Ye Changsheng around, the strength of Tiannan has changed, and the city of Tiantian has not been occupied by the Mulan people, so it may not be so easy to cede land.
By then, there will probably be some more things to consider.
After hearing Ye Changsheng's words, the three great monks nodded in succession. They had similar ideas.
No matter what conspiracy the other party has, you still have to accept the bet.
So, after the four of them discussed it for a while, they went their separate ways.
On the second day, in the meeting hall of Tiantian City, all the old monsters in the middle stage of the Nascent Soul in Tiannan were gathered here.
Ye Changsheng and four others also appeared and told these people about the gambling fight. After some intimidation and inducement, they finally gathered ten people to participate in the gambling fight.
Among them was Han Li. In order to get him to join the gambling fight, the three great monks even took out a large amount of Geng Essence to exchange with him.
Han Li was a little stunned for a moment when he saw the amount of Geng Jing in the hands of Master Zhiyang, Wei Wuya and others.
He felt a little regretful for agreeing to the rather harsh deal with Ye Changsheng some time ago.
He offered so many conditions before he was able to obtain a piece of Geng essence the size of a goose egg from Ye Changsheng.
But now, these three great monks took out twice as much Geng Essence, and the transaction conditions were not very harsh.
As long as he takes part in the life-and-death fight, that'll be enough.
In fact, if he could refine the Da Geng Sword Formation, Han Li would be very confident about the gambling fight.
As long as the other party does not send out a great monk, he has the confidence to defeat the other party.
Therefore, Han Li naturally felt that the transaction with the three great cultivators made him more satisfied.
Even if he didn't have Ye Changsheng's goose egg-sized piece of Geng essence, the ones the three great cultivators took out would be enough for him to refine a set of Da Geng sword formation with thirty-six flying swords.
Thinking of this, Han Li could only give a bitter smile. What could he do if he regretted it now? He had already agreed to the deal with Senior Brother Ye.
After obtaining the Geng essence from Master Zhiyang and others, Han Li immediately went into seclusion and began to mix the Geng essence into his flying sword to refine the Great Geng Sword Formation.
Ye Changsheng and others gathered together with Long Han, Feng Bing, Tianhen Laoguai and others to discuss various matters.
Soon after, various orders were issued, and all the Tiannan monks in the entire Tiantian City knew the news of the decisive battle with the Mulan people.
The entire Tiantian City was fully mobilized within just two or three days. After a commotion, armies of monks, according to their pre-arranged organization, all with solemn expressions, marched out of Tiantian City.
The army arrived at a pre-arranged location. Relying on the stronghold here, the army of monks began to quickly set up various forbidden formations.
By the sixth day, basically everything was arranged, and the camp of the monks' army became quiet.
Most people sat quietly in their tents, recuperating and gathering their strength. Only a few high-level monks kept patrolling and making various arrangements.
Ye Changsheng and Yuan Yao also arrived at the camp on the sixth day. Looking at the scene in front of him, Ye Changsheng sighed:
"The last time I participated in such a large-scale war was when I was in the foundation-building stage!"
"Sir, are you talking about the war between the Kingdom of Yue and the Demonic Path?" Yuan Yao asked after a moment of thought.
"Yes, at that time, the good and the evil invaded, causing the cultivators of many countries in the Tiandao Alliance to still hate the good and the evil. Now their sects have been broken up and grouped together. It is said that when this arrangement was made, a lot of trouble occurred!" Ye Changsheng said with a look of reminiscence on his face.
"Among the major forces in the world of immortal cultivation, interests still come first. It is not uncommon for them to be fighting to the death yesterday and join forces to fight the enemy tomorrow. It's the same for both the righteous and evil forces in our Chaos Star Sea!" Yuan Yao said with a little emotion.
"After resolving the issue with the Mulan people this time, I'll have to go to the Demon Valley again and then return to the Chaos Star Sea!" Ye Changsheng thought to himself.
Talking about the Chaos Star Sea, he thought of the Miaoyin Sect over there, and he didn't know what the current situation of the Chaos Star Sea was.
Ye Changsheng and Yuan Yao were taken by a cultivator from the Tiandao League to a tent in the center of the camp to recuperate.
At the same time, in the base of the magicians dozens of miles away from the Tiannan camp, in a stone chamber twenty or thirty feet underground, several important figures from the Mulan side gathered here to discuss something.
The four men and one woman are the four divine masters of the Mulan people and the saint.
"Master Le, how is the preparation of the spiritual oil? You must know that the time when the holy lamp is lit is related to the length of time the holy bird appears in this world. There can be no mistakes!" The skinny old man asked the saint.
"Master Zhu, please rest assured. This battle is related to the life and death of our clan. I have brought all the lamp oil that our clan has stored for a thousand years. It is enough to support the Holy Bird to fight this battle!" said the woman surnamed Le with a solemn expression.
The skinny old man nodded upon hearing this and said, "In this battle, if we want to suppress Fellow Daoist Ye on the opposite side, we can only rely on the power of the Holy Bird!"
“When the time comes, I will support the overall situation. Brother Zhong, Brother Bi, the two of you will join forces with Sect Master Fang of Yinluo Sect to deal with the three great cultivators of Tiannan!”
"Brother Tian, you will be responsible for protecting the Saint Girl and preventing her from being ambushed by the people from Tiannan!"
The old man arranged everything in an orderly manner, assigning tasks to each person clearly.
This time, the key to the battle lies in how to stop the number one cultivator in Tiannan.
It is impossible for the Mulan people to use three great monks to restrain Ye Changsheng like they did last time.
If that were the case, their manpower would not be enough to contain the three great cultivators of Tiannan.
The only way is to summon the holy bird and use it to deal with that person.
As a creature from the upper realm, the holy bird, even if it is just an incarnation, almost possesses the strength of a deity.
After arranging his own people, the divine master Mulan invited in several black-robed monks from the Yinluo Sect of the Great Jin Dynasty and had some discussions with them.
While the Mulan people were busy making various pre-war arrangements, Ye Changsheng was once again invited over to Tiannan to have a final discussion with the three great cultivators and others.
This time, in order to deal with the Mulan people, each sect really brought out a lot of trump cards, especially the good and evil sides, which brought out a lot of powerful killing moves.
When they first expanded, these trump cards were hidden deep inside, but now many of them have been brought out.
This shows how much they take this war seriously.
After arranging their respective tasks against the enemy, everyone invited the old monster Tianhen to come.
Let him take some independent cultivators and old monsters to launch a surprise attack on the rear of the Mulan people.
Now, the Fengyuan Kingdom of the Nine-Nation Alliance has been completely occupied by the Mulan people. If Ye Changsheng had not stepped forward in Tiantian City, even the Yu Kingdom would have been taken away by the Mulan people.
The three great monks' arrangement for the old monster Tianhen was to let him launch a surprise attack on the resource storage area in the rear of the Mulan people in Fengyuan Country.
In order to get this old monster to take the risk, the three great monks also promised that after the success, they would allocate a country called Xu to him, allowing him to establish his own sect there.
After making all these arrangements, on the morning of the seventh day, a long bell rang.
In the Tiannan camp, the monks who had been gathering their strength for a long time came out of the camp one after another, transforming into stunning rainbows that shot up into the sky.
For a moment, colorful spiritual lights filled the sky, and clear chirping and long whistling sounds came one after another, like a torrent rushing towards the opposite side.
In the mages' camp opposite, there was also an overwhelming amount of light of various colors rushing in with great momentum.
The two sides were like two huge waves, seemingly about to collide with each other, but when they were ten miles apart, they suddenly stopped at the same time.
Facing each other from afar, a terrifying murderous aura permeated from the two armies.
The dozen or so wild beasts in the Mulan army were extremely eye-catching. At the same time, a group of monks in black robes also attracted the attention of Tiannan.
Anyone who knows a little about the inside story knows that they are cultivators from the Dajin Demon Sect, and the dozen or so wild beasts that terrified the Tiannan cultivators were brought by them.
Of course, what Tiannan didn’t know was that these Yinluo Sect monks also brought thousands of bronze-armored corpses with them.
The Mulan people have prepared many means, and on the Tiannan side, there are also many more strange things compared to the last time.
For example, right now, in an open space somewhere in the military formation, a group of Hehuan Sect monks were carrying two huge coffins, one black and one white. The coffins were covered with various talismans of different sizes, which looked extremely weird.
According to the old demon Hehuan, the two coffins contained the famous Yin and Yang demons of their Hehuan Sect. They were refined corpses made from two Nascent Soul cultivators and had extraordinary magical powers.
On the other side, where the righteous monks gathered, there was a bronze platform about six or seven feet high. On the platform stood a bronze gong. Near the gong, a shirtless giant was sitting with his eyes closed.
In the team further away, there were more than a dozen black statues, about three or four feet tall, looking a little broken, and all of them looked like ancient ferocious beasts .
There are too many things like this to count, and all the major sects have brought out a lot of strange things.
Only Long Han from Luanming Sect knows all these things. Next, he will be the commander of Tiannan and will make full use of each of these things.
When all the monks were gradually in place, suddenly three shocking rainbows shot up into the sky from Mulan's side and flew towards Tiannan.
"They are Mulan's three great divine masters. The fourth great divine master and the late-stage leader of Yinluo Sect did not show up!" Wei Wuya said lightly with narrowed eyes.
"Let's go, the three of us will go and take a look!" said Master Zhiyang.
The three great cultivators of Tiannan also transformed into three rainbow lights, soaring into the sky, and confronted the three great divine masters of Mulan.
Ye Changsheng did not follow them, but stood next to Long Han.
"Brother Ye, the key this time lies in you. If we can't stop the Mu Lan Shengqin, it is very likely that our army formation will be destroyed with its magical powers!" Long Han said solemnly.
"I'll do my best. After all, it's a monster with magical powers comparable to those of a Divine Transformation cultivator. You also have to make other preparations!" Ye Changsheng said expressionlessly.
This time, his mission was not to fight against any of the other great monks, but to resist the Mu Lan Sheng Qin.
Tiannan's original plan was to have the seven Nascent Soul elders of Taizhen Sect carry some ancient treasures to resist the Mu Lan Holy Bird.
However, later on, news came that Mulan was preparing to use this holy bird to deal with Ye Changsheng. If Ye Changsheng did not confront this holy bird, the other party would most likely let the holy bird attack the army formation.
With the power of the Mulan Holy Bird, it could probably burn at least a thousand Tiannan monks to death with flames just by opening its mouth.
In order to prevent the army from being defeated, Tiannan discussed it and decided to let Ye Changsheng deal with the sacred bird.
Ye Changsheng was also happy to see the strength of the incarnation of the demon beast from the upper realm, so he agreed.
