A few little figures stood at the edge of the thick fog.
Behind them was a thick fog that was as thick as rice porridge and slowly drifted in the breeze. It was invisible to the naked eye.
In front of them, there were wisps of light mist that, with the eyesight of Zhou Laodao and others, could barely make out a thin mist of two or three miles. When the wind blew, the light mist rolled up whirlpools of varying sizes visible to the naked eye.
'Chiji~ga'!
Several little people began to communicate.
Their business was extremely high-pitched and shrill, with some strange...'electronic sound'?
This extremely interesting concept emerged in Lu Yu's mind. He shook his head vigorously and muttered a few Buddhist scriptures in a low voice - all the things in the previous life were like dreams and bubbles, and they have returned to dust and returned to earth. Those concepts and laws have no connection with this reincarnation and this world.
However, the sounds these guys make when communicating do not sound like the tones that flesh and blood should make!
As the conversation continued, two of the little men, who were about one finger joint taller than their companions - the little men who could be considered "burly and strong" in their tribe, came out. They strode to the side of the slain elk, raised their hands, and danced an interesting dance towards Lu Yi and others on the city wall.
They raised their legs high and stomped their feet hard. When their little feet landed on the ground, the ground actually trembled slightly, making a loud "boom" sound. Their feet collided with the ground, and the sparks splashed up to three to five feet high, several times higher than their bodies.
Such a loud noise made Zhou Laodao and others on the city wall twitch their faces.
Many people were secretly thinking, if they were stomped by this little guy, they would not even have time to break their bones or crack their tendons, right? They would be crushed directly into a meat paste!
The two little guys shouted loudly and danced happily.
Is this supposed to be a provocative war dance?
When the two little guys were jumping around, the expressions on their faces, if I was not mistaken, were full of malice and ridicule... They were provoking Zhou Laodao and others on the city wall!
Zhou Laodao cursed in a low voice: "I'm looked down upon by a bunch of villains!"
Lu Yi waved his hand gently. He grabbed a spear made of pure metal from a member of the Zhou clan beside him. He weighed it in his hand and found it a little too light. However, it should weigh about one million pounds!
With a twist of his five fingers, the spear danced in his hand into a circle of cold light. Lu Yi used some strength and threw the spear out.
The spear broke through the air, as fast as the wind.
With two loud "bangs", the spear thrown by Lu Yi reached the speed of sound in this world. Several white air explosion rings burst out in front of the spear head. With a loud "rumbling" sound like thunder, the spear reached in front of a little man in an instant.
The little man's face was tense, and he screamed at the top of his lungs. He suddenly raised his hands, straightened his chest, and used his chest to meet the oncoming spear.
'bite'!
A high-pitched metallic collision sound was heard, and a flash of Buddha's light appeared on the spear.
When Lu Yi threw the spear, he casually blessed it with the twelve-fold Vajra-indestructible Buddhist prohibitions, which increased the sturdiness of the spear by more than ten times.
With such an improvement, only a streak of fire splashed out on the little man's chest. The spear failed to damage his exposed skin at all. Instead, a half-inch long part of the tip of the spear was directly shattered. The spear hit the little man's chest, and the whole spear twisted, vibrated violently, and bounced backwards.
The little man was hit by Lu Yi's attack, and he just staggered back two steps, with no visible external injuries on his body.
Lu Yu couldn't help but take a breath.
His physical injuries have healed, and his mana has recovered a little. Although the attack just now was not a full-strength attack, it was enough to shatter more than a dozen standard small heavens in Liangyi Heaven!
Such a blow couldn't even scratch the little guy's oily skin!
The spear, which was endowed with the indestructible magical power of Vajra and whose quality reached the best quality of the supreme primordial celestial soldier-level weapons, was improved by more than ten times, but was still smashed by the pure "flesh" of this little man!
"We can't confront these guys head-on." Lu Yi said in a deep voice: "Before we find a way to deal with them, we should defend the city!"
After a slight pause, Lu Yi curiously asked Zhao Ding who had already rushed behind him: "Did the pioneering groups sent out by Tiemenguan encounter such brutal natives in the past?"
Zhao Ding looked at Lu Yi and spread out his hands.
During the many years that Zhao Ding had served at Tiemenguan, he had personally sent out no less than thirty pioneering groups!
The territory directly under the jurisdiction of Tiemenguan is also known as the Eight Great Plains!
The so-called Eight Great Plains are - Tiemenguan originally only had one large plain under its direct jurisdiction, and the other seven large plains were dragged back by secret methods and pieced together after the pioneering team successfully opened them up with great effort, eventually forming the Eight Great Plains!
There were more than thirty pioneer groups sent out by Zhao Ding.
After Tie Wuxin took over as the garrison commander of Tiemen Pass, probably hundreds of pioneer groups were sent out.
Tie Wuxin went further back, so there is no need to trace back.
As far as Zhao Ding knew, there were several hundred pioneering groups, but the direct jurisdiction of Tiemenguan only had eight major territories!
Among hundreds of pioneering groups, only seven were successful!
Lu Yu raised his eyebrows.
Zhou Laodao and others also gasped.
Developing the primitive wilderness is indeed an extremely dangerous task... Fortunately, Tie Wuxin sent Tie Zhen and others out.
Zhou Laodao's expression was even more uncertain - at the beginning, when he saw the thousands of Tiemenguan regular troops escorting Tiezhen, he felt that Tie Wuxin was making a fuss out of nothing. In order to protect a dandy young man, he even sent thousands of Tiemenguan regular troops.
But now it seems that Tie Wuxin was not making a fuss about nothing. Instead, he underestimated the risks of the pioneering group!
The little man who was shot in the chest but was completely unharmed looked down at his chest, patted his chest hard without leaving even a white mark, laughed shrilly a few times with his face raised, and started dancing again.
He and his companions danced at a faster pace, their arms and legs waving several times faster than before, with a whirring sound as the wind broke through, and it was clear that their emotions were extremely high.
Before Lu Yi and the others could come up with a countermeasure, the two little men who were dancing almost crazily jumped up at the same time. They leaped more than ten feet high, swung in an arc, and jumped directly towards the shining city wall.
With two loud "clangs", the two little men crashed into the city wall in mid-air, and created two holes in the cold and shining wall, as thick as bowls and more than two feet deep.
Inside the city wall, the defensive ban was activated naturally, and a flexible repulsive force was like a spring, pushing the two little people embedded in the city wall out. The two were bounced back and flew a few miles away, landing heavily on the ground, and their feet stepped on the ground again, creating a large number of sparks!
Lu Yi turned around and looked down.
Although the city wall was not penetrated by the collision of the two little guys just now, two fist-sized lumps had appeared on the inner side of the wall - if these two guys had used a little more force when they collided, the more than three-foot-thick city wall would have been crashed through by them, and they would have crashed directly into this unfinished city.
Dozens of city foundations seemed to feel the threat. Large patches of Dao patterns surged on the surface of the city foundations. The big tree transformed from the divine seed, the speed at which the roots extended underground increased several times. A huge amount of metal materials were extracted from the underground by the developed root system and continuously provided to the rapidly growing city walls.
As dozens of city foundations moved, the city wall continued to thicken centimeter by centimeter.
At this speed, the thickness of the city wall will reach about ten feet in about an hour.
The wall was ten feet thick, so no matter how crazy these little people were, it was difficult for them to break through the wall with their bodies. After all, the hole that the two little people had just opened was already wriggling rapidly and had almost healed. This wall could constantly repair itself, and as long as the thickness reached a certain level, it would not be so easy to destroy it.
However, the two little guys who were doing the provocative war dance seemed to understand something.
They shook their heads and squeaked dozens of times - in the thick fog behind them, rustling footsteps were heard, and a team of more than 200 little men, carrying crudely made weapons shaped like spears, poked their heads out of the fog.
They stood in groups of three or five behind the two leading little men, listening to the two little men's screams.
Gradually, these two hundred or so little people became agitated as if they had been injected with chicken blood.
They danced and made sharp cries, and dozens of little men dropped their long weapons, pulled out short, dagger-shaped weapons from their waists, and flew to dozens of elk that were stuck to the ground and still twitching, and cut at them fiercely with their weapons.
Skinning, pulling out tendons, breaking down the skeleton...
Soon, dozens of elk were eaten clean by these little guys.
Many of the little guys were processing their prey, cutting off strips of tender, still-moving meat and stuffing them into their mouths, chewing with a "crunching" sound.
The bodies of these little red deer were extremely strong, their muscles were like steel bars, and the teeth of those little people were like pliers. The friction between the two and the sound of the teeth chewing the muscles was as sharp and piercing as a grinder crushing steel bars.
After a lot of trouble, a dozen little people, carrying bloody animal skins and waving them like flags, sang and danced as they walked towards the city wall. They came to a place less than ten feet away from the city wall - to be honest, for Lu Yi and others, ten feet was an extremely close and threatening distance.
But for these little guys who are only one foot tall, this distance of ten feet is probably a certain safety threshold, right?
They stood ten feet outside the city wall, waving animal skins and performing a provocative war dance. As the animal skins were waved, large amounts of fine blood splattered onto the city wall and were bounced back by the forbidden divine light emitted from within the wall.
"Buddha?" Zhao Ding looked at Lu Yi with some concern.
"The situation is not good." Lu Yi shook his head slightly.
"The situation is not good?" Zhao Ding looked at Lu Yi in horror.
Lu Yu pointed at his head with his finger. His mind was in a mess. Many broken fragments of memory were churning in his mind, making his brain seem to roll around. Waves of headaches kept coming.
Even so, Lu Yi found some useful things from countless memory fragments.
"Use your brain." Lu Yi said in a deep voice, "Have you noticed? These little creatures have been testing us all the time, testing our reactions and our threats to them... A very bad sign is that if they are in a dominant position in this world and are the life group at the top of the food chain, they should not be so cautious given the level of civilization they have shown."
"Their tools are very crude, and their clothes are very simple. So, they should be a primitive tribe. In my opinion, such a tribe is not smart enough, not intelligent enough, and not civilized enough. They act more on instinct."
"Since they act on instinct, if they were in a strong position, they wouldn't be so cautious. They are facing unfamiliar prey... their repeated attempts are a bit too weird."
"So, they may have powerful enemies in this world."
"A strong enemy, perhaps somewhat...similar to us?"
"But there are definitely some differences in external appearance from us."
"That's why these little creatures are so cautious in testing, provoking, or launching tentative attacks." Lu Yi murmured, "These guys have tribes that are stronger than them, which is a headache."
Zhao Ding, Zhou Laodao and others looked at Lu Yi in amazement.
Zhao Ding habitually bent his waist, bowed to Lu Yi and exclaimed: "My Buddha is extremely wise..."
The corners of Lu Yi's mouth twitched, and he raised his eyes and said coldly: "Less flattery, more practical work... Am I considered wise? Are you mocking me?"
Zhao Ding blinked and looked at Lu Yi in confusion.
Zhou Laodao coughed at the side and said, "Brother Fahai, how dare Brother Zhao? We are speaking from the bottom of our hearts. We think what you just said is... inexplicably... profound... We can't think of so many twists and turns. What's wrong with your brain? How can you think of all this?"
Lu Yu was speechless.
He looked at Zhao Ding, then at Zhou Laodao, and felt a sharp pain in his head again.
With your kind of attitude, you formed a pioneering group. Are you sure you are not giving these alien creatures "benefits and food"? No wonder Tiemenguan has only managed to gather eight great origins after hundreds of pioneering efforts.
The question is, how did you develop such a simple mind?
Lu Yi did not think that he was extremely intelligent or had a high IQ... He was just lucky, had some opportunities and good fortune, and with the help of external forces, he was lucky enough to have achieved some small success today.
Talking about wisdom...
Just an ordinary person, average looking!
How could such a simple little analysis of mine actually astound Zhao Ding, Zhou Laodao and others?
Or maybe Lu Fei has a brain disease.
Or maybe everyone in the Supreme Primordial Heaven is seriously ill!
Inexplicably, Lu Yi thought of the time in the lower world when Linghu Jun led Lu Yi and others to destroy one heavenly realm after another and collect the origin of the world and "sky crystal". Linghu Jun racked his brains to "write poetry", but ended up not being able to write even two lines of a decent doggerel!
Is your brain not working well?
That shouldn’t be the case!
With the cultivation level of the Supreme Taichu Heaven, the lives in this world are not naturally stupid.
Then, things get interesting.
Shaking his head and putting aside the messy thoughts in his mind, Lu Yi looked intently at the dozen or so little men outside the city who were waving animal skins wildly and making provocative remarks - some of them had already unbuttoned their pants and urinated heartily towards the direction of the city wall; others were laughing and spitting fiercely towards the direction of the city wall.
Two little men even took out the steaming hot internal organs of the animals they had just dissected and slammed them hard on the city wall with a "smack".
Seeing Lu Yi and others standing on the city wall, they just looked down and no one reacted at all.
These little people had distorted faces and made sharp, long whistles.
The first two little people who were dancing under the city wall laughed and whistled sharply. The dozen or so little people who were provoking them under the city wall jumped back. They gathered together and chattered a lot, and the large group of people quickly disappeared in the thick fog.
At the edge of the fog, there were only a dozen little men carrying fresh animal meat that was still twitching from time to time, patrolling left and right, looking towards the city wall from time to time, raising the meat in their hands and shouting a few times, biting off a piece of meat with a "crunch", and chewing it with a "crunch crunch" sound.
The large group of troops retreated, leaving behind a dozen sentinels to keep watch!
"Hey, they're afraid that we'll run away." Lu Yi smiled and shook his head.
Zhou Laodao, Zhao Ding and others wanted to laugh along, but they really couldn't... These little guys just showed extremely terrifying physical fitness. Even Zhou Laodao didn't have the confidence that he could hurt these little guys.
Just look at the way they do things and you will know that these little guys are not harmless pacifists.
They retreated temporarily, but it was obvious that they were going to summon more tribesmen and more reinforcements.
When their large group of troops arrives...can this city be defended?
"Zhao Ding, when you set out, since you prepared so many weapons and armors, did you prepare anything else?" Lu Yi thought for a while and said slowly: "Although I only have a basic understanding of refining weapons and formations... I do know a few things."
"These little guys act savagely and roughly, relying more on physical attacks."
"Maybe, we could... well."
Zhao Ding hurriedly took out a jade book and handed it to Lu Yi - this was a list of supplies that the entire pioneering group brought out from Tiemen Pass, including various weapons, armors, large-scale war machines, various medicines and pills, imperial money as the final strategic reserve, and so on.
Among them, there are large amounts of refined pure spiritual gold materials, and they are all rare materials of excellent grade.
"Well, that's enough." Lu Yi nodded with satisfaction: "Come, let me try to see if I can set up some interesting little formations and prepare some welcome snacks for them before they come back."
Fortunately, those villains didn't know the principle of 'strike while the iron is hot'... Well, Lu Yi patted his head, it seemed that the phrase 'strike while the iron is hot' was not appropriate here.
It should be - 'take advantage of their unpreparedness', while Lu Yu and others have just arrived and have not yet gained a firm foothold and laid a solid enough foundation, then use all your strength and strike hard!
If this is the case, I believe that the dozens of villains would still have a chance to break into the city and cause trouble for Lu Yi and his party.
But now!
One after another, formation flags flashing with blurred five-element light kept flying out from Lu Yi's palm. The rising Buddha's flame melted piles of spiritual gold, which were then cast into flagpoles. Various rare "spider silks", "silkworm silks", and "natural silks" spit out by various exotic insects crisscrossed and were quickly woven into flags. On them, runes kept lighting up, and prohibitions were constantly imprinted.
Time passes by little by little.
The dozen or so little guys left outside the city had already laid on the ground, snore-snoring and falling asleep.
These guys didn’t even deploy a sentry to stand guard!
By the time Lu Yi had refined enough formation flags and placed them around the city, the pioneering group had completed their preparations. All the young and strong men in the pioneering group had been organized into an army and had begun to practice the "Indestructible Diamond Sutra", officially stepping into the threshold of "entering the Tao and practicing". When the walls formed from the city foundation were already three feet thick, there was finally movement outside the city.
The three-meter-thick city wall was large enough to accommodate a large number of soldiers, and a number of heavy crossbows had been placed on the wall.
Uncle Caracal was busy. He was as round as a ball, his fat body trembling, running back and forth on the city wall, gesticulating with his two front paws, dancing like a cat praying for rain. His sharp claws left white marks in the air, and continuously imprinted the acquired Xinjin runes on the crossbow arrows.
These heavy crossbow arrows, produced in the official workshop of Tiemenguan, are as thick as an arm and over ten feet long. They are made of a special alloy and the casting method used is quite sophisticated.
Combined with a specially made crossbow, this kind of crossbow arrows were placed at the Iron Gate Pass . A single arrow shot from an ordinary Heavenly Soldier-level armor was enough to easily penetrate thirty-six Heavenly Soldier armors lined up side by side within a distance of ten miles.
After being blessed by the manul's runes, these crossbow arrows became harder, more flexible, and sharper.
Lu Yu judged that the armor-piercing power of these crossbow arrows had at least doubled.
Just as Zhou Laodao was holding a heavy crossbow and preparing to shoot an arrow at the little man lying and snoring in the mist outside the city, the sound of tiny and dense footsteps was heard, and groups of little men like bandits ran out of the mist in a disorderly manner.
There were more than 30,000 little people in total, chattering and waving crudely made spears and daggers, pouring out like a group of cockroaches in an explosive nest.
Among these little people, it is obvious that there are men and women, old and young, and even babies in swaddling clothes. This scene must be the posture of a tribe's "everyone is mobilized".
Rushing in front of these little men were dozens of leaders on horseback.
These people were actually wearing some leather things that looked like armor - anyway, they were just some animal skins with black and red blood stains, which they had cut randomly and wrapped around their bodies.
Judging from the appearance alone, it is difficult to associate these rather abstract things with "armor". However, in terms of function, these animal skins worn on the body do play a similar role.
Dozens of little men in armor and riding mounts rushed over arrogantly. One of the little men saw a dozen people who stayed behind and were snoring at the edge of the thick fog. He suddenly jumped down and started punching and kicking those little men who were sleeping on the ground.
"Clang, clang, clang", when these little guys beat their companions, the sound was quite shocking. Such a small body actually made a loud sound like a bronze bell, which made the eardrums of Lu Yi and others standing on the city wall hurt.
A dozen unfortunate little creatures were wailing, crying, and rolling around on the ground.
After making a fuss for a while, a dozen or so little people stood up amid the chief's scolding and walked up to the group of tribal leaders on horseback, chattering about something.
More than thirty thousand little people have already spread out their formation under the city wall.
In fact, they were too small. There were more than 30,000 of these little people, but at a glance, the area they occupied was not very large. The leaders rode their mounts with their heads held high in the front, the young men stood in the middle, the middle-aged women were laughing and standing on both wings, and the elderly and children who had no fighting power were at the back watching and cheering. Some of them were happily chewing on various foods in their hands.
These little guys perfectly interpret the true meaning of "mob".
They finally formed a formation under the city wall, and then a few leaders on horseback shouted a few times, and a team of more than a thousand young and strong men jumped and rushed towards the city wall, waving various weapons.
"Puff, bang", when this group of little people charged, some little people in the group threw out the spears in their hands.
The tiny man was incredibly strong. The crudely made spear, over a foot long, made a sharp whistling sound and shot out like an arrow from a strong bow. It shot out from a few miles away as fast as lightning and headed straight towards the members of the pioneer group on the city wall.
Seeing that the members of the pioneer group were caught off guard and were about to be hit by these chopstick-sized spears, Lu Yi waved his hand and the large formation he had set up was activated.
Outside the city wall, a light mist appeared out of thin air, and then the five elements' energy cycle began. The thick power of the five elements quickly enveloped the area within a hundred miles, wrapping up these little people inside.
A strong wind suddenly arose, and gusts of wind swirled and blew past with a whooshing sound.
Dozens of thrown spears were blown by the strong wind, and their trajectories were slightly deviated. With a shrill laugh, they flew past the heads of dozens of unlucky people.
The little man charging outside the city suddenly stopped.
They were surprised to find that the fog around them was getting thicker and thicker, gradually reaching the point where they couldn't see their hands in front of them.
Not only that, the thick fog was confusing their sense of smell, hearing, and even the touch of their skin.
The five senses and six consciousnesses are being greatly reduced.
The little people scurried around like headless flies for a few steps, and then fell to the ground in large groups - their sense of balance was also weakened. They stepped on the ground one after another, and the ground felt empty and hazy. The originally flat ground seemed to be full of potholes of various sizes. Many of the little people fell to the ground after running only a few steps.
Countless little people screamed in panic.
What Lu Yi had set up was only the simplest 'Five Elements Reversal Formation'. This kind of formation, in Liang Yi Tian, ​​was basically synonymous with 'entry-level' and 'low-grade stuff'... Any formation master with a little bit of achievement would disdain to set up this kind of formation.
However, this kind of 'entry-level' 'low-level' formation has simple flags to refine, consumes very little materials, and is extremely quick to set up... Most importantly, the five gentlemen around Lu Yi have the power of the five elements in their bodies, which can just cooperate with this formation.
There was a breeze under the feet of the five masters, and their feet-sized bodies were suspended in the air, just at the height of Lu Yi's chest. Their bodies were shining with five-colored brilliance corresponding to the five elements, and wisps of clear five-element fluctuations continued to flow into the formation.
In all directions, the turbid and chaotic road of heaven and earth gradually became clear.
In the void within a radius of one hundred miles, the laws of the Dao gradually became agile and clear, just like 'Tai Chi is divided into two poles, and the two poles become four images'... The heaven and the earth have become clear and alive. Within this radius of one hundred miles, because of the existence of this five elements reversal formation, scenes familiar to Lu Yi and others gradually emerged, such as blue sky and white clouds, gentle breeze and drizzle.
The five masters cooperated with the formation to quickly distort, change, or in other words, redefine the laws of the avenue within a hundred miles. The originally chaotic and muddy avenue of heaven and earth gradually changed dramatically and rapidly according to the standard template given by the five masters.
For Lu Yi and the members of the pioneer group, this change is welcome.
Standing on the city wall more than a hundred feet high, they could see that the land within a hundred miles outside the city wall had become fertile and drizzle began to fall from the sky. As Lu Yi threw out a handful of seeds of grains and flowers, the flowers and plants in this area gradually bloomed and the grains multiplied. Accompanied by blue sky and white clouds, it seemed like a paradise.
As for those little guys, being drowsy and disoriented is fine.
The drastic changes in the laws of heaven and earth within a small area directly turned them from "free fish in the deep sea" into "dried salted fish thrown into the crater of a volcano"!
Unlucky guys.
In the original laws of heaven and earth, they were like fish in water.
But at this moment, the environment of heaven and earth changed, the laws of the universe changed, and they were like fish thrown into the crater of a volcano ... The environment of heaven and earth and the laws of the universe around them were like boiling magma and highly toxic smoke, which was torture at all times and was squeezing their vitality at any time.
Those old and weak little people fell to the ground one after another.
Then more little people fell to the ground gasping for breath.
A breeze blew, and large raindrops fell from the white clouds. The clean and transparent raindrops fell on these little people, and actually made a "hissing" sound, just like concentrated hydrochloric acid dripping on pure iron sheet, splashing wisps of white smoke visible to the naked eye.
A little man let out a painful whine.
There were warriors among the little people who were roaring and charging randomly in all directions in the fog, trying to find the enemy and tear them into pieces... However, in this upside-down and confusing formation, they had no idea about the formation and were like wild beasts, so all their actions were vain.
"It seems that they are not that difficult to deal with." A group of Zhou youths laughed.
However, Lu Yu and some other experienced martial artists who had entered the Taoist sect were all tense.
In the distance, in the thick fog, crimson eyes lit up.
The gaze was dim, and judging from the height of the red light, their owners should be no different in stature from ordinary people... They were obviously not these little people who were only about one foot tall.
They are an indigenous group with larger bodies!