The third pass was called "Xuanwu Valley." It was a wide valley full of Xuanwu stones. In the middle of the valley was a long dam, and on top of it was a formation that forbade flying.
Since both sides were fighting Earth Immortals and Dao Integration cultivators, they should be fighting in the air. However, when Immortals and Demons fought, they had to advance step by step. Otherwise, if they flew directly into the territory of the Immortals, they would be surrounded and killed by many Senshu cultivators no matter how powerful they were!
The back of Xuanwu Valley was close to the periphery of the Spirit Cloud Palace. Thus, the Spirit Cloud Palace sent out a large number of experts and gathered many cultivators from various sects, including tens of thousands of Void Step cultivators. They were determined to defend the dam and prevent the Demon Sect and the Goblin Sect from rushing over.
The Four Sacred Sect also responded to the call and sent thirty Dao Integration cultivators, including Jiang Yunmu and Immortal Guo.
Before the two of them came out, they communicated with Qin Di.
Qin Di didn't have any more immortal weapons, so he gave Jiang Yunmu eighteen ninth-stage spirit treasure flying arrows and upgraded the Overlord Bow to a sixth-stage spirit treasure.
With these spirit treasure flying arrows, Jiang Yunmu could unleash the power of the Sunset God Arrow.
In addition, Qin Di also passed on the Ninth Heaven Phoenix Dance to Immortal Guo.
Immortal Guo's Purple Tenuity Heavenly Fire had been upgraded to a third-stage immortal fire. If it was used with the Ninth Heaven Phoenix Dance, it would be extremely lethal.
The thirty Dao Integration cultivators of the Four Sacred Sect came to Xuanwu Valley under the guidance of the fifth-stage Earth Immortal Luo Immortal Crystal. Together with Zhuang Yunqing and the others, there were fifty cultivators guarding a section of the dam that was five thousand feet long.
They only had one task, and that was to defend this section of the dam for a hundred years.
Not only them, but the other sects also shared the task of defending a section of the dam.
As the leader of the Immortal Sects, the Spirit Cloud Palace had issued a strict order for all sects to complete the task! If the dam was breached, not only would the participating cultivators be imprisoned in the water dungeon for fifty thousand years, but the breached sect would also have to pay a number of immortal spirit veins to the sects that fought bravely to defend the dam.
Guo Zhenjun stood on the dam and looked at the dense crowd of Devil's Doctrine and Goblin cultivators in the distance with a heavy heart. He looked around and found that the section of the dam guarded by the Four Divine Sects happened to be in the middle. The pressure there was the greatest, and it was the easiest to break through. Once other parts of the dam were broken through, they would be the most vulnerable, and they might not even be able to escape.
He sent the news back to Ethereal Immortal Peak and expressed his worries.
Qin Di descended the Immortal Mist Peak and came to take a look. He discovered that True Monarch Guo was right.
Logically speaking, this was just like the flow of water in a large river. The flow was the fastest in the middle! In terms of defense, the Four Saint Sect was in the middle, so they would bear the greatest pressure, which was extremely disadvantageous to the 50 cultivators participating in the battle!
Qin Di understood in his heart that this was also a trap dug by the Spirit Cloud Hall. In order to suppress the Four Divine Sect, they simply dug traps everywhere and repeatedly suppressed them! However, since the Four Divine Sect was assigned here, they could not refuse directly.
He walked around the five thousand feet long section of the dam and looked left and right. He found that the Heaven Heart Sect was on the left, and the Divine Firmament Sect was on the right. Both of them were one of the 72 unorthodox groups. They were not too strong, but the dam that they were defending was relatively short. Each sect was only assigned a defense of a thousand feet!
The sect leaders of the two sects had arrived in person and looked at the enemies outside worriedly. They did not know if they could defend the dam and complete the sect's mission. If they could not complete the mission and the dam was breached, the two sects would have to pay one-third of the immortal spirit veins. That was a severe punishment.
Because of this, the sect leaders of the two sects were worried. When they saw Qin Di, they hurried over to greet him.
Both sects had their own Earth Immortals participating in the battle, but the two sect leaders were both Dao Integration cultivators, so they were very respectful when greeting Qin Di!
"Immortal Qin, we are here to ask for help!"
"I am Mo Bin. Our Heaven Heart Sect only has two Earth Immortals. This time, one of them is only a level two Earth Immortal. To be honest, it is very difficult for us to defend this section of the dam. So, please think of a way. It will be best if we can complete the mission without too many people dying. Immortal Qin, you are a mighty figure with great means. You must help us! "
"Immortal Qin, I am Ma Yu. Although our Divine Firmament Sect has three Earth Immortals, one of them has just advanced and the other is in his old age. The only one who can really fight is a level three Earth Immortal. Compared to the demons outside, we are not strong enough. Who knows, after this battle, all the cultivators participating in the battle will die!"
Qin Di shook hands with them one by one and exchanged some pleasantries. He said, "Such a long dam will definitely be breached. I wonder who chose this line of defense. Why is it so long? "
Mo Bin was a tall and thin old man. He replied in a low voice, "Immortal Qin, I heard rumors that the four Upper Sects of the Celestial Family are secretly in contact with the Demon Sect and the Goblin Sect. The reason why they started this battle is to exhaust a group of people! We are all targets to be exhausted! "
Qin Di was stunned. "There is such a saying?"
Mo Bin took a step closer and said, "Immortal Qin, you also know that after the collapse of the Heavenly Pillar, not only was part of the blessed land destroyed, but the number of Immortal Spiritual Veins also decreased. Other than the Spiritual Veins fixed by the sects under the main peak of the Celestial Mountain, the wild Immortal Spiritual Veins have all disappeared! I suspect that during the next Spirit Tide, there might not be any more Spiritual Veins appearing! "
Qin Di heard this and thought to himself, "There are so many Spiritual Veins near the Celestial Mountain. Some of them might be related to Xing Tian. Some might be the sweat that flowed out of his body and turned into Spiritual Veins. If Xing Tian left the area, the Spirit Tide might really disappear. "
Ma Yu was a middle-aged female cultivator. She looked gloomy. She said, "Sect Leader Mo is right. I've also heard of this rumor. The four Upper Sects might have reached an agreement with the Demon Sect and the Goblin Sect. They want to use this war as a meat grinder to kill a large number of unorthodox cultivators. This way, the remaining cultivators will be able to obtain more Spiritual Veins and have a chance to reach the peak of Earth Immortal Stage. Then, they will ascend to the Spiritual Realm. "
Hearing this, Qin Di could not help but think of the wars in his previous life. Every time there was too much population, there would be a large-scale war. For example, during the end of the Qin Dynasty, the population dropped from 29 million to 7.5 million in just seven years. That was a loss of 70%! The Hegemon-King of Western Chu, the great hero Xiang Yu, killed 200,000 prisoners of war. In the second year of the Common Era, Wang Mang usurped the throne and Liu Xiu restored the Han Dynasty. The population dropped from 60 million to 21 million. Before the Yellow Turban Uprising, the population was 50 million. After the Battle of Chibi, there were only 6.8 million left. During the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongolian hero, who only knew how to shoot eagles with a bow, wanted to turn the Central Plains into a farm. He started a massacre in Sichuan and killed 20 million people until there were only 800,000 left! During the chaotic war at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, 70 million people died! After every war, the common people were wiped out and the land was barren for thousands of miles.
He really did not expect that after transmigrating to another world and choosing to cultivate, he would encounter such a thing.
Qin Di frowned and thought for a while. He said, "Now that things have come to this, what do the two of you think?"
Mo Bin spread out his hands and said with a bitter smile, "We can't think of a way. We just hope that fewer people die. Immortal Master Qin, please help us."
Ma Yu took a step forward and asked, "I heard that you can refine a third-grade immortal formation. Can you set up an immortal formation here and protect the area guarded by our three sects? We are willing to pay spirit crystals or immortal stones to seek your sect's protection. "
Qin Di answered, "There are no spirit veins in the Black Tortoise Valley. If we want to support the formation, we can only rely on immortal stones or spirit crystals to provide spiritual energy. I don't know how many immortal stones we will need in a hundred years."
Mo Bin said eagerly, "Can you roughly calculate how many immortal stones it will cost? I don't think this battle will last for too long. There must be a lot of intervals. The immortal formation only needs to be activated when the battle is fierce. Our two sects are willing to pay 30% of the spiritual crystals each. What do you think? "
Qin Di looked left and right again and knew that he had to set up the immortal formation. Because even if the fifty cultivators of the Four Saint Sects could guard this part of the dam, they could not rule out the possibility that the Goblin would break through from other places and come back to surround them. Once they were surrounded from all sides, it would be too dangerous for them to escape!
So he nodded and said, "Okay, please pay some of the spiritual crystals first. I will go and set up the formation!"
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