Chapter 357: The War Begins

The great array is completed; the war to suppress the demon can begin.

But when the war was actually about to start, all the cultivators in Tongxian City felt doubts rise in their hearts again.

Is the great array really okay? Can it really suppress and kill Feng Xi?

Not only ordinary loose cultivators, but even the Foundation Establishment period elders like Elder Yu were also worried.

But they didn't dare to ask Mo Hua.

One reason was fear of putting pressure on Mo Hua, and the other was that asking would be useless anyway.

The arrow had been drawn, there was no turning back.

Matters had reached this stage, and the great array had already been built. No matter what, they could only grit their teeth and begin the suppression and killing of the great demon.

And Mo Hua, from beginning to end, had a calm gaze and a composed expression.

As if this great demon was destined to die within the great array this time.

This also inexplicably calmed down the several Foundation Establishment cultivators.

Elder Yu sighed in his heart. These people, good or bad, had lived for over a hundred years, experienced the winds and waves of Foundation Establishment cultivators, yet now they were not as steady as Mo Hua, a child.

But then he thought again. Although these people had experienced winds and waves, it was indeed the first time they had encountered such a huge storm as the great demon...

A great array is also an array formation. Since it's an array formation, they just don't understand it. Since they don't understand it, then they should just believe Mo Hua.

Not only Elder Yu, but basically all cultivators were thinking this way.

The Five Elements Slaughter Demon Great Array is a trapping and killing great array. If they were to trap and kill Feng Xi, they would naturally first have to lure Feng Xi into the array.

This step was very dangerous, so it was only done by Foundation Establishment cultivators, with Dao soldiers covering from the side.

Among the Foundation Establishment cultivators who were luring and killing Feng Xi, Mo Hua unexpectedly saw Zhang Lan.

"Uncle Zhang, you've reached Foundation Establishment?!"

Mo Hua was shocked.

Zhang Lan pretended to be calm, but his eyebrows and eyes couldn't hide his pride. He said lightly, "It's alright, I just casually reached Foundation Establishment."

Mo Hua curled his lips. Casually reached Foundation Establishment... he said it as if he had casually arranged a marriage.

Is Foundation Establishment really that easy...

But then he remembered Zhang Lan's previous words.

For disciples of influential families, reaching Foundation Establishment was indeed not difficult.

Zhang Lan had previously stopped at Qi Refining ninth layer. One reason was to temper his foundation, and the other was to avoid family troubles.

"Have you tempered your foundation well?" Mo Hua asked.

Zhang Lan said casually, "About enough is fine, no need to always temper."

"So you've reached Foundation Establishment, does that mean you have to go home and get married?" Mo Hua asked curiously again.

Zhang Lan's face darkened. "You child, can't you say something proper?"

Mo Hua chuckled, and at the same time, a sense of gratitude was born in his heart.

He knew that Zhang Lan's actions were actually for the cultivators of Tongxian City. After all, dealing with a great demon, one more Foundation Establishment meant one more strength and one more guarantee, which was why he urgently broke through his realm.

Mo Hua silently remembered Zhang Lan's favor and secretly said in his heart:

"If I have the opportunity in the future, I must definitely help Uncle Zhang!"

The plan to suppress and kill the great demon had already been discussed properly before the great array was built. At this time, it was just confirming the personnel.

The next day, as the sky was dim, the Dao soldiers began to assemble.

Yang Jiyong stood on a mountaintop, looking at the blood-colored great demon in front of him from a distance, his expression grave.

After a while, a Dao soldier commander wearing similar armor walked over and said in a low voice, "Big brother, everything is arranged."

This person was named Yang Rong. He was both from the Yang family and was the Dao soldier commander allocated for support this time.

Yang Jiyong nodded, still frowning.

The atmosphere was a bit stifling, so Yang Rong found some topics to chat with Yang Jiyong.

After chatting about some family trivial matters, Yang Rong suddenly had some doubts and asked:

"Big brother, why were only people from the Yang family allocated this time?"

Requesting the allocation of Dao soldiers could only be done through the Dao Court. This time, Yang Jiyong used the Yang family's connections, which was how he got Yang Rong and others transferred.

Moreover, not only Yang Rong, but all the Dao soldiers who came this time had ties to the Yang family, either surnamed Yang, or married into the Yang family, or had received favors from the Yang family. They could all be considered the Yang family's "own people".

"I feel more at ease with my own people doing things," Yang Jiyong replied.

Yang Rong obviously didn't believe it. "Big brother, tell me the truth, don't deceive me."

Yang Jiyong glanced at Yang Rong, thought for a moment, and said slowly:

"Alright, I'll tell you, but you have to keep your mouth shut, like a bottle. Don't let even half a word leak out to the brothers below."

Yang Rong's expression froze, and he nodded, saying, "Big brother, rest assured."

Yang Jiyong said: "I asked you to come, the main purpose is for confidentiality. Whether the great array is built or not, whether or not it can kill Feng Xi, you must not let the news leak out..."

Yang Rong found it a bit difficult. "Building a great array is such a big movement, it can't be hidden, right..."

"I'm not telling you to hide the matter of building the great array," Yang Jiyong said, "I'm telling you to hide the person who built the great array."

Yang Rong was stunned for a moment and asked, "Who built this great array?"

As soon as they arrived at Tongxian City, they were stationed near the great demon to prevent it from changing, so they didn't have much contact with the cultivators of Tongxian City.

They also didn't participate in the matter of building the great array.

They understood even less about drawing array formations.

He only remembered seeing a group of array masters, among whom the most eye-catching was a quite dignified old array master. As for who was responsible for building the great array, he had no idea.

Yang Jiyong was about to speak, but then suddenly shook his head again, "It's best that you don't know."

Yang Rong was slightly stunned and didn't want to ask again originally, but a sudden curiosity like cat claws scratching an itch arose in his heart.

Since Big Brother Yang was so serious, it meant this matter was indeed extraordinary.

"Big Brother Yang, tell me. If I know what the secret is, I can keep it better. If you don't tell me, I don't even know what the secret is. What if I accidentally let it slip?"

Yang Jiyong was stunned. "You boy, when did you become so clever?"

Yang Rong chuckled.

Yang Jiyong thought for a while and still decided to tell him, "Have you seen a small cultivator these days?"

"A small cultivator?" Yang Rong was slightly startled.

"With eyebrows like a painting, fair and handsome, looking clever and cute at first glance, but looking again makes you completely unable to see through him, that small cultivator..."

Yang Rong frowned and thought, then suddenly "ah" he remembered.

"Is it that small cultivator who was following behind a group of old array masters?"

"You said it backward."

"Backward?"

Yang Jiyong said faintly: "It's not that he was following behind the old array masters, it's that a group of old array masters were following behind him..."

Yang Rong opened his mouth wide. "No way..."

Then he connected it to what Yang Jiyong had said about "the person who built the great array," and for a while, he was a bit dazed, saying another sentence, "No way..."

Yang Jiyong stopped there and said no more, only reminding him:

"Understand now."

Yang Rong was stunned for a long time, and when he understood the matter, he shook his head and murmured, "Too terrifying..."

This year, such a small child can build a great array?

Yang Rong leaned closer to Yang Jiyong again and said in a low voice, "Big brother, this matter must not be known by the Li family and the Chang family."

Otherwise, they will definitely stop at nothing to win him over.

"That's why I only used the Yang family's connections to get you over."

"But what if we can't hide it?" Yang Rong was a little worried.

"It doesn't matter," Yang Jiyong said calmly, "As long as they don't see it personally, they won't believe it."

Yang Rong nodded.

Actually, he had seen it personally, but he still didn't quite believe it...

But since his big brother said so, he would just follow.

"And one most important matter..."

Yang Jiyong looked at Yang Rong and instructed again:

"This time's suppression and killing of Feng Xi, success or failure is unknown. If it fails, you must all find ways to protect Mo Hua's safety."

"Mo Hua..."

Yang Rong remembered this name and nodded, saying, "Okay!"

After finishing, he looked at Feng Xi in the distance again and couldn't help but sigh:

"Such a large demon, just looking at it, I feel a sudden palpitation in my heart. Can we really kill it?"

Yang Jiyong said in a deep voice: "No matter what, we always have to try."

After finishing, he sighed in his heart again:

I hope this time, not too many people die...

The Dao soldiers who came this time were mostly trusted members of the Yang family and were also his brothers who had shared life and death on the battlefield. He didn't want too many casualties.

But this time they were facing a terrifying great demon.

Within the state boundary, a great demon is invincible.

Even if a great array is built, contending with a great demon is absolutely not an easy matter.

Yang Jiyong's expression was calm, but his inner heart was not without worry.

After Yang Rong left, after a while, Zhang Lan found Yang Jiyong again.

After reaching Foundation Establishment, Zhang Lan was much more confident. When he saw Yang Jiyong, his waist was straighter.

Regarding the matter of suppressing and killing Feng Xi, the two simply exchanged a few words, and then Zhang Lan turned to leave. However, he had just taken a few steps when he was called to a halt by Yang Jiyong.

"Zhang Lan," Yang Jiyong called out, silent for a moment, then said awkwardly: "Don't die ah..."

Zhang Lan's expression paused slightly, a little unexpected, but he still didn't say anything good:

"I won't die, you bastard, don't curse me."

Yang Jiyong's eyelids twitched. "I said 'don't die', not 'go die'!"

Zhang Lan snorted coldly, "Before a big war, your words are all reversed. The way you say it, it's like I'm about to die..."

Yang Jiyong's little bit of care for Zhang Lan instantly flew away, and he couldn't help but scold:

"You motherfucker, a dog's mouth can't spit out ivory, I'm really, my good intentions were fed to a dog!"

"You still have good intentions?"

"No, it was eaten by you, this dog thing."

The two people damaged each other for a while, then both fell silent.

Zhang Lan then said: "Rest assured, the great array was built by Mo Hua. He generally doesn't do things he's not sure about. As long as you don't seek death yourself, you should not die..."

Yang Jiyong didn't speak, but his mood was also not that heavy.

At Mao hour (5-7 AM), everyone began to act according to the plan, preparing to wake up Feng Xi and lure him into the great array.

Yang Jiyong made the first move.

He raised his long spear horizontally, exerted his full strength, condensed his spiritual power onto the long spear, and then the long spear glowed golden, carrying immense force, stabbing towards Feng Xi's abdomen.

This was a superior Dao law passed down secretly by the Yang family - Yaijin Gun.

The Qian family ancestor in the middle Foundation Establishment period had also been heavily injured by this gun law.

The long spear reached, and Feng Xi's abdomen was twisted and extinguished by the spiritual power, piercing a deep hole. But in a flash, blood qi condensed, and blood and flesh grew out again.

Seeing this, everyone exclaimed.

What a powerful gun law, and what thick blood qi.

For cultivators to kill such a powerful great demon is almost an impossible task.

It could just stand still and let these Foundation Establishment cultivators attack it until they were exhausted, and they might not even be able to consume one or two-tenths of its blood qi.

However, this one gun indeed caused not a small injury to Feng Xi.

Feng Xi cried out in pain, suddenly woke up, and let out a ferocious roar that made people's faces change.

It opened its eyes, its pupils turned irregularly, and finally fixed on Commander Yang's body. In a flash, the baleful aura on its body suddenly flourished.

It trembled as it stood up. Feng Xi, who had refined blood qi for three months, was already like a small mountain, mixed with thick bloody gas, and it directly pounced and killed towards Commander Yang.

Fortunately, the pig demon was clumsy, its blood qi had not yet been completely refined, and its movements were inconvenient.

Yang Jiyong retreated backward, while retreating, he lured Feng Xi towards the direction of the great array.

Today's three chapters are finished. Later, I will add another chapter to mention the progress of the plot a bit.