Chapter 153: First Battle

Involving significant interests like a spirit mine, the Dao Court Division's mediation yielded no results, and it could only be handled according to common rules. The Qian family and the demon hunters would engage in a fierce battle at the site of the Nameless Peak spirit mine.

Whoever won could take control of the spirit mine.

Currently, the Qian family was on the offensive, while the demon hunters were defending.

The atmosphere among the demon hunters also gradually grew tense.

Elder Yu commanded all recent demon hunters not to enter Big Black Mountain to hunt demons. He also summoned and gathered most of the Qi Refining Seventh Layer to Qi Refining Ninth Layer demon hunters, stationing them inside the Nameless Peak mine cave.

The demon hunters were strictly arrayed and waiting, preparing to welcome the Qian family's attack. On another front, they were speeding up the mining of the spirit mine.

It would be best if they could defend the spirit mine, but the Qian family was powerful and had many cultivators. The demon hunters might not be able to defend it in the end.

Since they didn't know when the spirit mine would be lost, they would mine as many spirit stones as possible before that happened.

All late-stage Qi Refining cultivators had to enter the spirit mine. Mo Shan was at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, so he was naturally no exception.

Mo Hua also wanted to go in, but Mo Shan refused, and Elder Yu disagreed even more.

When they had previously attacked and occupied the spirit mine, Mo Hua was outside, with mountain rocks and woods to hide in. If he encountered danger and things looked bad, he could still run.

Now, inside the mine cave, there was basically nowhere to escape.

If the Qian family cultivators attacked, and both sides were in a chaotic battle, with knives, swords, and spirit power flying randomly, no one could guarantee Mo Hua's safety.

Therefore, Elder Yu originally absolutely refused to let Mo Hua, a small cultivator at the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, stay inside the spirit mine.

Until Mo Hua said he could help paint arrays.

"I can paint the Gold Armor Array, which can also be used by late-stage Qi Refining cultivators!"

When Elder Yu heard this, he simply couldn't refuse.

In large-scale chaotic battles between cultivators, the role of arrays was very significant.

And this Gold Armor Array, just by its name, sounded more formidable than the "Iron Armor Array." With the addition of the Gold Armor Array, the possibility of defending the mine cave greatly increased.

Even if they ultimately failed to defend it, they could delay for more time and mine more spirit stones.

This was a spirit mine, after all. Even if it was a small one, it was enough for many rogue cultivators to live off for a long time.

Elder Yu's heart was moved.

Several other demon hunters also told Elder Yu how good the Gold Armor Array was. When Mo Shan was hunting demons that time, it was because the vine armor had the Gold Armor Array painted on it that he was not injured after taking a claw from a Kui Mu Wolf.

Mo Shan sighed and had to take out the vine armor on which he had painted the Gold Armor Array.

Elder Yu took it and examined it carefully. After testing the defense of the vine armor, his eyes lit up, and he immediately decided to let Mo Hua stay.

Just like that, Mo Hua stayed inside the spirit mine.

Elder Yu instructed the other demon hunters to take good care of Mo Hua. At the same time, he secretly said to himself:

"Which blind fool dares to touch a single hair on Mo Hua's head? I will kill him with one palm!"

In the following days, Mo Hua began painting Gold Armor Arrays for the demon hunters.

With Mo Hua's current divine sense strength, the enhanced control from the Tian Yan Jue, and the increased recovery speed from meditation techniques, he could paint ten sets of First Grade Gold Armor Arrays in a day.

The spirit ink for these Gold Armor Arrays was temporarily provided by Mo Hua.

Elder Yu would convert this spirit ink into spirit stones and, along with the reward for painting the arrays, give it all to Mo Hua in the end.

Before, Elder Yu had no spirit stones, so he was stingy.

Now that they occupied a small spirit mine, he would not let Mo Hua suffer any losses.

To let Mo Hua paint the arrays in peace, Elder Yu even specially opened a small mine cave, arranging it to be warm and comfortable. He also instructed Mo Hua to tell him if he had any needs.

Mo Hua stayed inside the small mine cave and painted arrays. In three days, he painted about thirty sets of Gold Armor Arrays.

Afterward, the Qian family cultivators began attacking the mountain.

Mo Hua lay at the cave entrance, looking at the large force of Qian family cultivators below. He was a little worried and asked Elder Yu: "Can we beat the Qian family?"

"We can fight, but it won't be easy to fight. It's hard to say who will win or lose."

"Have you fought before?"

Elder Yu nodded, "We have fought several times before. The Qian family was too overbearing, so we counterattacked. Fighting and fighting, it became a chaotic battle, completely messy. That time, we suffered more losses. The Qian family won, but they didn't gain much advantage."

Mo Hua was puzzled, "Where is the Qian family more formidable than us?"

Elder Yu thought and said: "In a frontal battle, each has its advantages, but the Qian family has many spirit stones, their spirit tools are better than ours, and they can also hire people."

Mo Hua said: "Then with the Gold Armor Arrays, won't we have some advantage?"

Elder Yu nodded and said: "Yes."

He also didn't know how formidable the Gold Armor Array was, but in such a chaotic battle between cultivators, even a small advantage could influence the course of the battle.

Afterward, the Qian family began openly attacking the mountain.

The Qian family had always looked down on the demon hunters, feeling that they were all poor and stingy.

The Qian family, on the other hand, was rich in spirit stones, and their cultivators' cultivation was generally one layer higher than the demon hunters.

So for this mountain attack, they didn't choose early morning or late night, they didn't choose a surprise attack, but in broad daylight, they openly and righteously entered the mountain.

They wanted to give the demon hunters a show of military might.

But once the battle began, they immediately found something was wrong.

Thirty Qi Refining Ninth Layer demon hunters charged forward majestically, leading the way, and immediately began to charge and kill.

The Qian family cultivators' knives and swords chopped at their vine armor, but could only leave scratches.

The Gold Armor Array was a First Grade Nine Pattern Array. Ordinary knives and swords, even in the hands of Qi Refining Ninth Layer cultivators, found it very difficult to cut through vine armor with the Gold Armor Array attached.

The fearless demon hunters with the Gold Armor Array added on only needed to raise their knives and chop randomly, with every strike drawing blood. The Qian family cultivators simply couldn't resist and were repeatedly forced to retreat.

They retreated and retreated until there was nowhere to retreat.

Seeing that they couldn't fight, the Qian family could only flee in disarray. A crowd of cultivators scattered directly.

They had come with fierce momentum, but unexpectedly were directly defeated. The Qian family felt very ashamed and returned not long after.

This time, they were thoroughly prepared, all wearing vine armor. Some Qi Refining Ninth Layer cultivators even wore iron armor.

Iron armor was purely refined from fine iron, expensive, and extremely hard.

The two sides battled again.

Then the Qian family cultivators discovered that the demon hunters' vine armor seemed a little different from theirs...

The demon hunters' vine armor was incredibly hard, requiring a lot of effort to chop through.

Their vine armor, on the other hand, was like paper, and was cut through after only a few strikes.

Even their iron armor was only about the same as the demon hunters' vine armor...

But iron armor was heavier, inconvenient to move in, and simply became a target.

Ten or so Qian family cultivators wearing iron armor, only focusing on the front and neglecting the back, were treated like monkeys by the demon hunters wearing vine armor. After a few rounds, they were knocked down.

Their iron armor was also stripped away.

Several of the Qian family members wanted to spit blood.

That was a whole set of iron armor! How much fine iron did it take to make one set of iron armor? It was just being plundered like this!

But the spirit mine still had to be fought for, those were shining spirit stones!

To deal with the demon hunters' vine armor, the Qian family simply invested heavily, buying twenty genuine First Grade knife tools.

These knife tools were extremely sharp, only requiring one strike to cut through ordinary vine armor.

Carefully selected Qian family experts held these First Grade knife tools and battled the demon hunters again.

These First Grade knife tools indeed had an effect, capable of cutting through vine armor with one strike. With two or three strikes, the vine armor almost cracked open.

But, the Qian family immediately discovered a bigger problem.

The number of demon hunters wearing vine armor was increasing!

At first, there were only thirty.

Later, a few more appeared every day, and then a few more, until now, the demon hunters basically all wore that headache-inducing vine armor.

Everyone had it!

The Qian family cultivators' scalps went numb.

They only had a total of twenty knife tools! To face vine armor, yet there were over two hundred sets!

How could they fight this?

Then, they were defeated again, without any surprises...

Continuous defeats caused the morale of the Qian family cultivators to scatter. They could only pause their offensive and rest slightly.

Elder Yu was greatly overjoyed.

The effect of this Gold Armor Array was far stronger than he had originally imagined.

He had originally thought this would be a bitter battle, and even if they won, the casualties would be relatively heavy.

But unexpectedly, they not only won now, but also won easily, and the demon hunters did not suffer many casualties.

This made Elder Yu breathe a long sigh of relief. Following that, he was a little doubtful and asked Mo Hua:

"Why is this Gold Armor Array so hard?"

It was so hard that even First Grade knife tools needed several strikes to cut through it.

They were wearing ordinary vine armor, not First Grade iron armor cast from fine iron.

Mo Hua said as if it were the most natural thing: "Because the Gold Armor Array is a First Grade array."

"A First Grade array..." Elder Yu nodded, "No wonder."

A First Grade array, how could it not be strong?

Then Elder Yu suddenly snapped back to his senses, his heart pounding wildly.

"First Grade?!"

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