Chapter 685: The situation is critical, and the decision is made (asking for monthly votes)

Chapter 685: The situation is critical, and the decision is made (asking for monthly votes)

Just when Li Mufeng was somewhat puzzled, he had already approached the "Black Dragon Demon King" and suddenly felt something was wrong in front of him, so he quickly stopped attacking and stopped his body.

"Hehe! Fellow Daoist Li is indeed quite knowledgeable, and he was able to detect my hiding technique in advance!"

At this moment, a somewhat sinister laugh sounded, and then a black arrow broke through the air from behind the huge body of the "Black Dragon Demon King" and headed straight for Li Mufeng's position.

Seeing the black arrow that suddenly attacked in front of him, Li Mufeng stood firm and immediately cast a spell with both hands. A three-inch golden jade bottle appeared out of thin air in front of him.

After the golden jade bottle appeared, it suddenly sprayed out a huge ball of flames, and instantly formed a blue fire wall in front of Li Mufeng.

At this time, the black arrow had just arrived in front of Li Mufeng and hit the blue fire wall, and immediately bursts of sizzling sounds were heard.

Although this black arrow light was quite powerful, it failed to penetrate the blue fire wall used by Li Mufeng and only left a pool of black marks on it.

"It is you, the Red Cloud Demon King!"

After blocking this attack, Li Mufeng also saw that the opponent who had just hidden behind the "Molong Demon King" and attacked him was another powerful Yuanying-level demon in the Floating Cloud Mountains, the "Red Cloud Demon King".

The territory of the "Red Cloud Demon King" is the Red Cloud Mountain, which is closer to the Zheng State in the east. The monsters there rarely invade the territory of the Wei State and deal with the cultivators of the "Xiaoyao Sect".

However, every time the monsters are in turmoil, the major sects in the cultivation world of the Floating Cloud Mountains have mutual support. The "Xiaoyao Sect" has also sent reinforcements to support the two major sects of the Zheng State many times in the past, and naturally knows about this famous "Red Cloud Demon King".

Half a month ago, several strange monster armies suddenly appeared in the north and came south to support, which greatly increased the strength of the monsters and captured "Tuyun Mountain" and "Iron Immortal Fort" one after another.

Li Mufeng and many Jindan elders of Xiaoyao Sect have already guessed that these monster armies are likely sent by the nearby monster king.

However, most of the monster kings sent by "Chiyun Monster King" have just come from the northern border and are relatively unfamiliar. This made the people of "Xiaoyao Sect" unable to determine for a while whether "Chiyun Mountain" had intervened in the war on the Weiguo side.

After seeing the figure of "Chiyun Monster King", Li Mufeng's face instantly became solemn.

Originally, in the face of the monster turmoil in this "Xiaoyao Sect", facing the monster army led by "Molong Monster King" in the north, it was already at a disadvantage and could only passively defend.

Now the demon king force of "Chiyun Mountain" has joined in again, cooperating with "Jinyu Mountain" to defend the country. Facing the joint attack of the two demon king forces, "Xiaoyao Sect" may have really encountered the biggest crisis in the past thousand years.

However, before Li Mufeng could consider how to deal with the situation in front of him, "Molong Demon King" who was casting a spell to accumulate power, with the help of "Chiyun Demon King", finally fed all three black balls in front of him.

"Friend Li, I said that it is not so easy for you to leave today. Since you can take on Brother Chiyun's magical power, otherwise try the power of my attack again!"

Before "Molong Demon King" finished speaking, he had already cast a spell to drive one of the black balls to rush to Li Mufeng's position from the front. The power that erupted from the black ball was faintly overshadowed by the arrow light magical power that Chiyun Demon King had just used.

Facing the long-accumulated and more powerful fierce attack of the "Black Dragon Demon King", Li Mufeng remained calm.

He cast a spell again to activate the golden jade bottle magic weapon in front of him, causing it to spurt out several blue flames, forming two relatively thick blue fire walls in front of him.

The golden jade bottle in Li Mufeng's hand is a fourth-level medium-grade magic weapon, the "Golden Flame Bottle", left by the previous Yuanying ancestor of the sect.

This magic weapon has both offensive and defensive capabilities. It is the most powerful fourth-level magic weapon on Li Mufeng. It is precisely because of this very sharp magic weapon that Li Mufeng has been able to entangle with the "Black Dragon Demon King" for so long.

This time, after the black sphere hit the top of the blue fire wall, although it did not directly penetrate the fire wall, the black sphere was blocked by the blue fire wall and suddenly exploded.

This attack not only blew a big hole in the fire wall in front of Li Mufeng, but also the aftermath of the explosion caused Li Mufeng to retreat several steps before he could stabilize his body.

At the same time, the first black sphere had just exploded, and the second black sphere had already followed behind, and hit the second blue fire wall.

This time, as expected, another explosion sounded quickly. Li Mufeng only felt a ringing in his ears, and he could not hear the sound outside all of a sudden.

Not only that, this explosion also blew a big hole in the second fire wall in front of Li Mufeng, opening the way for the last black sphere to directly lead to the opponent.

At the same time, while Li Mufeng had just focused most of his attention on dealing with the black sphere released by the "Molong Demon King", the "Chiyun Demon King" who had already attacked secretly also released several powerful transparent ice arrows towards Li Mufeng.

Faced with these two fierce attacks coming at the same time, Li Mufeng, who had no way to avoid them, quickly cast a spell and placed the "Golden Flame Bottle" above his head, which transformed into a fiery red light shield that directly enveloped his entire body.

After a loud "boom", the place where Li Mufeng was located was instantly surrounded by the smoke of the battle.

After seeing this scene, the "Black Dragon Demon King" who had transformed into a human form again and the "Red Cloud Demon King" next to him immediately showed some satisfaction on their faces.

Just as the two of them wanted to go forward to check the situation, a flash of light suddenly appeared in the smoke where Li Mufeng was, and soon a large ball of blue flames flew through the smoke and directly hit the "Black Dragon Demon King" who had just approached.

Seeing this, the "Black Dragon Demon King" was not surprised at all, and hurriedly stopped and cast a spell to form a shield in front of him to block the incoming flame attack.

However, just as the "Black Dragon Demon King" was dealing with this attack, a green escape light suddenly flashed in the smoke, and Li Mufeng, holding a flying sword magic weapon, slashed at the "Red Cloud Demon King" who had just approached.

This flying sword magic weapon is Li Mufeng's life magic weapon, and its grade has reached the fourth-level middle grade. "Red Cloud Demon King" could only dodge Li Mufeng's powerful attack.

After forcing his opponent to retreat, Li Mufeng did not choose to pursue the victory, but immediately bypassed "Red Cloud Demon King", turned into a green escape light, and flew directly to the position of the market formation below.

"Brother Molong, Li Mufeng is going to run, stop him!"

Seeing that Li Mufeng suddenly chose to escape, and there seemed to be some blood on the corners of his mouth, "Red Cloud Demon King" hurriedly shouted to notify "Molong Demon King" on the side.

"Where are you going!"

Feeling the sound of "Molong Demon King" and "Red Cloud Demon King" breaking through the air to chase from behind, Li Mufeng did not pay attention to it, and directly accelerated the escape light to escape quickly.

However, now facing the siege of the two demon kings, and because of the previous sneak attack, some of the meridians in his body were injured. Li Mufeng was also a little embarrassed at this time, and he did not dare to stay and fight with the two demon kings.

Seeing that Li Mufeng was in a bad state and seemed to be injured, the two demon kings behind him also chased him with all their strength, trying to stop him when he escaped into the "Guiyunfang" mountain protection formation.

However, just as they caught up with him, Li Mufeng turned around decisively and threw out a yellow talisman. Hundreds of sharp golden needles flew out of the talisman instantly, and shot directly at the two Yuanying demon kings who followed closely behind him.

This yellow talisman is a fourth-level low-grade high-level talisman that Li Mufeng has treasured for many years. Its power can already deter the safety of ordinary Yuanying cultivators.

Facing such an attack at such a close distance, the "Molong Demon King" and the "Chiyun Demon King" did not dare to respond casually. They quickly retreated to the side and used their own defensive means to resist the attack of these sharp golden needles with all their strength.

While the two demon kings were busy dealing with the attacks of the talismans, Li Mufeng quickly sped up his escape light, shook off his opponents and fled the battlefield directly, returning to the "Guiyunfang" mountain protection formation.

"The magic weapon in Li Mufeng's hand is indeed powerful. Facing such a full-strength attack from us, he still escaped so easily!"

The "Molong Demon King", who had just dealt with the golden needle attack in front of him, saw Li Mufeng who had already escaped to a place not far from the mountain protection formation. He knew that he could no longer catch up with the opponent, and couldn't help but sigh slightly.

Hearing what the "Molong Demon King" said, the "Chiyun Demon King" on the side immediately sneered and shook his head and said:

"Hmph! Don't worry, brother Molong. Although Li Mufeng escaped, he did not escape unscathed. He was seriously injured this time and probably won't dare to come out to fight with us in the short term.

Next, we just need to attack the mountain protection formation with all our strength. Guiyunfang will definitely not be able to hold out for too long. For us, it will only take a few more days.

Haha! Our two families have already won this battle. No matter how hard Xiaoyao Sect struggles, it will be useless.

Once we take down Guiyunfang, the northern part of Weiguo will all fall into the hands of our demon clan. By then, Xiaoyao Sect's strength will be greatly damaged, and sooner or later the entire Weiguo will belong to us."

"Well! Then do as you said, attack the Guiyunfang mountain protection formation with all your strength. I want to see how long they can hold out." The Molong Demon King looked at the "Guiyunfang" mountain protection formation in front of him and also showed a somewhat excited smile.

Just after withdrawing the "Guiyunfang" mountain protection formation, Li Mufeng immediately ordered the troops to withdraw and asked all the monks who were fighting outside to withdraw to the Fangshi mountain protection formation.

Song Qingming and others, who had not figured out what happened, hurriedly cast spells to get rid of their opponents and quickly retreated to the formation.

Just as Song Qingming and other Jindan monks had just withdrawn, two figures suddenly appeared in the sky above the battlefield, looking at the Fangshi formation in front of them with disdain.

They just waved their hands and threw out a powerful and fierce attack, killing dozens of low-level human monks nearby who had not yet withdrawn to the Fangshi formation.

"It's the Yuanying Demon King, everyone retreat quickly!"

Those who were still outside the formation and were shocked by the attack in front of them, saw the figure of the "Molong Demon King", and hurriedly accelerated their pace of escape and ran towards the formation desperately.

However, no matter how fast they ran, they were still too slow to face those high-level monsters at the Yuanying and Jindan levels. In just a few moments, hundreds of human cultivators fell on the battlefield.

Fortunately, at this time, most of the cultivators had already withdrawn, and there were not many "Xiaoyao Sect" cultivators left outside. After paying the price of nearly a thousand cultivators' deaths, the remaining people all withdrew back to the formation.

"What's going on? Why did another Yuanying Demon King appear?"

Song Qingming and other Jindan elders standing on the city wall were shocked when they saw the two Yuanying Demon Kings leading the demon beast army to attack the market formation.

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Half a day later, in the meeting hall of "Guiyunfang".

More than a dozen Jindan elders of Xiaoyao Sect who had just withdrawn from the battlefield had gathered here. Everyone had a sad face and discussed what had just happened on the battlefield.

Today, they fought a big battle with the demon beast army because a "Red Cloud Demon King" suddenly appeared in the enemy army, catching the human cultivators off guard.

The unprepared "Guiyunfang" cultivator army lost thousands of cultivators in this battle. Even the Supreme Elder Li Mufeng was seriously injured because of the sudden ambush by the Demon King. He went into seclusion to heal his wounds as soon as he came back.

Just facing the army of monsters under the command of "Molong Monster King", "Guiyunfang" was already very struggling to cope with it. Now the opponent has another Nascent Soul Monster King, which has broken the original balance on the battlefield.

Now even the only Nascent Soul Grand Elder Li Mufeng of the sect was injured, and the people of "Xiaoyao Sect" did not dare to go out to fight the enemy. They could only hide in the mountain protection formation and discuss how to deal with the unfavorable situation in despair.

Just as everyone was talking about the battle situation, a white light suddenly flashed, and Li Mufeng, who was still a little pale, appeared out of thin air at the door of the hall and walked in quickly.

"Greetings, Grand Elder!"

After glancing at the people in front of him and finding that no one was absent, Li Mufeng sat at the top seat with a smile.

"Uncle Li, aren't you in seclusion? Why are you here suddenly!" Seeing Li Mufeng's figure, Bai Yuxian hurriedly stepped forward with concern and greeted him.

Li Mufeng nodded calmly and said, "Don't worry, my injury is not serious. Now the situation outside is critical, and the sect needs to make a decision as soon as possible. I also want to hear your opinions."

Before knowing that Li Mufeng was injured by the Demon King in the previous battle, everyone was very worried. Now that they heard that his injury was not serious, everyone was relieved and their faces looked a little better.

For a sect like "Xiaoyao Sect" with only one Yuanying ancestor, the importance of Li Mufeng is unquestionable.

Once the only Yuanying cultivator of the sect is lost, "Xiaoyao Sect" will immediately change from a Yuanying sect that dominates one side to an ordinary Jindan force, and its status can be said to have plummeted.

As long as Li Mufeng, the Yuanying ancestor, does not have any major problems, "Xiaoyao Sect" will have a chance to counterattack the monster army and regain their lost territory even if the war is not favorable for a while.

"Uncle Li, isn't the Red Cloud Demon King attacking Zheng? Why did he suddenly come to our Guiyunfang? What's going on in Zheng? Why hasn't any news come to us yet?

Now that the demon beast army of Red Cloud Mountain has participated in the attack on our Wei State, it stands to reason that the people of Zheng State and Tianji Sect should send troops to help immediately, but now they have just set off, how can they rescue us in time."

Hearing the words of Guangling Zhenren standing in front, Li Mufeng sighed and shook his head and said: "We have just confirmed what you said. We were just suspicious before. Zheng State should be like us, being kept in the dark and not knowing about this matter.

The situation is critical now, and saying these can't change our current situation. We still need to find a way to solve the crisis in front of us as soon as possible.

Now the two outside The Yuanying Demon Kings are attacking the market town together. I am afraid that I can't contain them by myself. But if we don't go out, and let the monster army attack the city like this, the market town formation can only hold out for two or three days at most.

I have sent a Thousand Miles Sound Transmission Note to inform Yang Daoyou of Tianji Sect, asking them to send high-level cultivators to rush over for support first. However, it will take at least five or six days for them to arrive here, as they are tens of thousands of miles away.

At this time, should we stay and continue to hold on and fight the monster army to the end, or prepare to evacuate this place and give up Guiyunfang to save strength? I am a little undecided now. You are all the backbone of the sect, so why not tell me your opinions! "

The situation outside has reached such a critical moment. Li Mufeng's statement is very direct. For the current "Xiaoyao Sect", there are only two choices.

Either evacuate this place in advance and take the initiative to give "Guiyunfang" to the monster army. This can save most of the sect's living forces and withdraw safely to Guyang Mountain.

But after losing "Guiyunfang", the monster army will definitely continue to move south, and the entire northern part of Weiguo will definitely fall quickly. At that time, the hundreds of millions of ordinary mortals who did not have time to evacuate will face these extremely ferocious monster armies, and it will be a tragic scene of devastation.

Once half of Weiguo fell into the hands of monsters, the "Xiaoyao Sect" that lost half of the mortal territory. The strength of future development will inevitably be damaged, and it is very likely to decline.

If they choose to stay and wait for help, the market formation can only last for two or three days at most, and the "Xiaoyao Sect" will have to pay the price of blood to stop the siege of the monster army.

If they do this, let alone whether they can finally defend "Guiyunfang" under such an extremely disadvantageous situation.

As long as this battle continues, the "Xiaoyao Sect" will inevitably pay a huge price, even the Jindan and Yuanying cultivators standing in the hall will inevitably fall in the war.

Whether to give up half of the sect's territory and population, or to sacrifice the lives of many sect monks to fight the monster army to the end, these two choices are difficult for Li Mufeng to accept, which makes him unable to make a decision.

"Uncle Li, I think we can't evacuate so easily. We must take the initiative to give up Guiyunfang. The entire northern territory is no longer safe and will inevitably fall into the hands of monsters. This will be an unbearable loss for the sect.

Since Tianji Sect has come to support us, we still have a chance to defend Guiyunfang. Even if we have to fight a bloody battle with monsters, we must all persist and not give up the territory to the monster army."

As soon as Li Mufeng finished speaking, the sect's law enforcement elder Li Wutong stood up and expressed his intention to continue to hold on.

At the same time, the elderly Guangling Zhenren also spoke up: "Junior Brother Li is right. Tuoyun Mountain and Tiexian Fort are given up. We will definitely have a chance to take them back in the future.

But if we give up Guiyunfang today, once we lose this most powerful support point for counterattacking the monster army, even if reinforcements arrive in the future, the sect will probably be unable to recover the lost land in the north.

The Weiguo territory was accumulated bit by bit by the ancestors of the sect for thousands of years. We, the descendants, cannot destroy the thousands of years of foundation of the sect just to save our lives for a while."

The people present saw that Li Wutong and Guangling Zhenren, who had always been at odds with each other, had reached a consensus this time, and they all showed a little surprise.

"Uncle Li, what the two brothers said is also what I think in my heart. I believe that if we hold on firmly, we will have a way to repel the attack of the monsters!" Chen Xuanxin, who has never liked to express his opinions, rarely expressed his thoughts at this time.

"Yes! I also support the idea of ​​several brothers, hold on to Guiyunfang and wait for reinforcements."

"I agree too!"

"..."

As the voices rang out, many elders present, including Song Qingming, expressed their support for the idea of ​​holding on.

Even Hu Qingyun, who supported the idea of ​​retreating at the beginning of the discussion, immediately changed his attitude when he saw that the situation was not right, and shouted out the idea of ​​holding on to Guiyunfang and fighting to the end with the monster army.

Seeing that many Jindan elders present were not afraid of the ferocious monster army outside and wanted to fight to the end, Li Mufeng immediately made a decision in his heart, stood up and said seriously:

"Since everyone wants to defend the sect's territory and fight to the end with the monster army, then I, the supreme elder, have nothing to worry about.

Yuxian sent down the order to take out all the usable materials in the treasury and distribute them to the monks defending the city. Everyone should adjust their status and go out of the city with me to fight the monsters in two days.

After sending a message to urge Let's go to Zhenyang Sect and see where their people are. If they can arrive in time, our chances of winning will increase.

Also, send a message to Guyang Mountain and send a flying boat to send all the defenders of Zixingfang, Taiyue Lake, and Jinshanfang to Guyang Mountain for reunion. This time, we must concentrate all our strength and vow to defend Guiyunfang. "

"Follow the order of Master Li!"

Hearing Li Mufeng's determination to hold on, many Jindan cultivators present also shouted out a trace of anger that had been suppressed by the army of monsters for days. (End of this chapter)