All of this was caused by many factors.
In addition to the misjudgment of the Spirit Huan Sect's situation, there was another very important point: the Djinling Demons had already led their army and launched a three-month-long siege on Yan Lan Pass in the extraterritorial battlefield.
Although the Demons had yet to launch an all-out attack with their entire army, the fact that the Demons' army was circling outside the pass did indeed give the Da Xia Kingdom and the Heavenly Secrets Temple a great sense of crisis.
This was because no one knew when the Djinling Demons would suddenly launch an all-out attack.
Perhaps it would be a long time later, or perhaps it would be tomorrow.
However, there was absolutely no room for luck in this matter.
Moreover, in terms of direct strength, the Human Race was much weaker than the Demons.
Why would the weaker side divide their forces in other places?
The Human Race was not so arrogant, nor did they dare to be so arrogant.
Therefore, the Da Xia Kingdom had almost all of their energy and strength hoarded in Yan Lan Pass.
The lack of manpower was the biggest dilemma that the Human Race was currently facing.
Even the cultivators that were deployed to ambush the "traitor of the Spirit Huan Sect" reported by the Water Moon Observatory Master was already squeezing out some strength from the gaps between the fingers of the Da Xia Kingdom.
In addition, mobilizing cultivators on a large scale was actually very easy to attract attention and would instead inadvertently alert the enemy.
How did the Water Moon Observatory Master discover the Spirit Huan Sect's plan?
Wasn't it because of the Spirit Huan Sect's large-scale recall of cultivators from Longcheng Pass?
Since the Water Moon Observatory Master could discover the Spirit Huan Sect's actions, how could the Spirit Huan Sect's traitor not notice when the Da Xia Kingdom mobilized a large number of cultivators from Yan Lan Pass into the Central Spirit Region for an "ambush"?
Moreover, in the face of a First Tribulation cultivator from the Spirit Huan Sect, the Da Xia Kingdom's Second Tribulation cultivator was already in the bag. Logically speaking, the Da Xia Kingdom's side should have been very cautious in using the Spirit Huan Sect's Second Tribulation cultivator to catch a turtle in a jar.
In fact, for an existence at the level of the Da Xia Kingdom, decisions and deployments were made from a rational and objective point of view. There was a strict system and rules that needed to be followed.
King versus King versus King.
If they were to fight above their level, King against King, then when the other side sent out a King, what could they send out?
As for the fact that the enemy king was already snoring beside his bed, while his own side sent his own king elsewhere, just to take care of the enemy king, and then put the most important battlefield in danger, that was even more unreasonable.
However, the appearance of a late-stage eighth-grade pet beast that was comparable to a Third Tribulation realm cultivator had indeed destroyed all of Da Xia Kingdom's preparations.
Just like how the Da Xia Kingdom was confident in ambushing a First Tribulation cultivator with a Second Tribulation cultivator, late-stage eighth-grade demon beasts could easily break through a Second Tribulation cultivator's ambush.
After reaching the Tribulation Passing Realm, every time a cultivator overcame a Heavenly Tribulation, their strength would increase exponentially.
A First Tribulation realm cultivator was only at the beginning of the eighth realm.
Third Tribulation realm cultivators could already attempt to find their own Dao in the world, undergo Dao Integration, and advance to the ninth realm.
The gap between them was self-evident.
But no matter what, Da Xia Kingdom's response seemed to be correct, at least in terms of the process. It was the most correct choice based on all the information and the current situation.
Even if people in the future looked back on this period of history and offered their own opinions and criticisms of Da Xia Kingdom's decision at this time, saying things like "the ruler of Da Xia Kingdom is too stupid and should have sent more people", they would only be giving advice from God's point of view.
Who didn't know how to give advice after the fact?
The humans had no one they could use, the "no need to use a butcher's knife to kill a chicken", and the Spirit Huan Sect's "playing the pig to eat the tiger". Because of this, Da Xia Kingdom was prepared, but not prepared enough.
But could this be said to be because the Demons were too lucky?
Absolutely not.
Da Xia Kingdom's lack of manpower wasn't because the Demons were lucky, but because the Heart Demons had specially joined forces with the Giant Spirit Demons of the Tianmen Region for this battle. They had them assume a fighting stance in order to divert the humans' attention, thus creating this situation.
As for the Spirit Huan Sect's "playing the pig to eat the tiger", it was even more so because of their meticulous preparation.
It could only be said that in this game of chess in the Central Spirit Region, the Heart Demons were more skillful.
The concealment and preparation that had begun since the New Year of Chang 'an had finally blossomed today.
Logically speaking, the Heart Demons had already taken every conceivable possibility into account this time, and there was absolutely no possibility of failure.
However, just at the end of the New Year of Chang 'an, a butterfly that didn't belong to this world had quietly descended, and had already flapped its wings many times.
Therefore, some things that shouldn't have happened had already happened, and became the so-called variable.
.....
Black Cloud Mountain.
The Profound Cloud Daoist, or rather, the "soul" of a certain Heart Demon, was looking at the not-so-majestic defensive formation set up by the Tianji Temple on Black Cloud Mountain, and a trace of excitement rippled through his heart.
This was the dream of the Heart Demons for 20,000 years, and the joint efforts of several generations.
Now, this dream was in their hands, and it was gradually becoming a reality.
Once these Inter-region Transportation Formations were all destroyed by them, the Central Spirit Region would fall into a state of isolation and helplessness. It would become the property of the Heart Demons, and they would be able to slowly erode it.
Their Heart Demons would also leap from their position of being in the middle of the Eight Great Holy Demons of the abyss to the top of the Eight Great Holy Demons.
As for him, he would become one of the meritorious officials who had opened up new territory for the Heart Demons.
For this day, their Heart Demons had made too many preparations. They had paid an unimaginable amount of patience and hardships.
However, this was something that only they could do. Even if the other Seven Great Holy Demons had the same patience, they could only look at the ocean and sigh.
There were many smart people in the human race. How could it be so easy to silently take control of a Dao Sect?
They had also relied on their bloodline ability to reach this stage.
In other words, it could be said to be a meticulous plan, but in the end, it was still a gift from the heavens.
The Heart Demons had two great innate abilities:
Spirit Control and Life Control.
However, no one knew the specific abilities of these two great innate abilities.
Not to mention the human race, even the other Demons of the abyss, other than the Heart Demons, did not know the specific effects of these two innate abilities. They only knew the names.
All of this was the reason why the Heart Demons kept their mouths shut and never revealed their abilities in front of outsiders.
As long as they did not reveal or speak, no one would be able to pry any information out of them.
After all, they were Heart Demons!
As for the Spirit Huan Sect, this incomparably important chess piece, it was the situation they had managed to achieve through their Spirit Control.
The so-called Spirit Control was, in layman's terms, a clone.
It was just that the Heart Demons' clone ability was exceptionally special.
First of all, the pure-blooded Heart Demons were born with three souls in one body.
Each soul could control an avatar.
In other words, any Heart Demon could have three clones.
The clone techniques cultivated in the cultivation world were usually only able to cultivate one clone.
In terms of numbers, the Spirit Control was already superior to the clone techniques of human cultivators.
In addition, the Spirit Control had another special and strange aspect. It was also the reason why they could silently control the Spirit Huan Sect in their hands.
That was the clone method of the Spirit Control, which was similar to the "spirit exchange" of possession!
The clone techniques of human cultivators were usually to personally refine a physical body and then split a wisp of soul to enter the body.
However, the Spirit Control could directly seize the physical body.
Regardless of the race, as long as it was a living being, the Heart Demons could seize the physical body through the Spirit Control.
Once they seized the physical body of the living being through this technique, the Heart Demons could inherit everything of the living being, including the cultivation base, Dharma artifacts, physical body realm, and so on.
Even the Primordial Spirit could be inherited!
In other words, other than the soul, nothing else would change.
Just from the aura and appearance alone, no one would be able to see any flaws.
Of course, this technique was not without restrictions.
First, the Primordial Spirit of the living being they wanted to exchange souls could not exceed the realm of the original body. Otherwise, the exchange would not succeed.
In addition, the cultivation base of the three souls could not exceed the cultivation base of the Heart Demons.
Second, even the Heart Demons found it difficult to do two things at once, not to mention three or even four things at once.
If they used one consciousness to control the three clones and the original body at the same time, it was inevitable that their thinking would be messed up.
Especially when the three clones were fighting, they would not be able to take care of it.
Therefore, most of the time, they would cut off the connection between the original body and the four consciousnesses of the three souls, allowing each soul to act on its own.
Then, after a period of time, the original body would return to the original body to understand what had happened to the three souls during this period of time.
The third and most fatal limitation was that the relationship between the Heart Demons' original body and the three souls was like the relationship between the human heart and the other organs.
Once the heart stopped beating, the other organs would stop functioning no matter how healthy they were.
To the Heart Demons, the death of the three souls would not affect the original body at all.
However, once the original body died, the three souls would immediately die.
In other words, when fighting against the Heart Demons, it seemed like one against four in the worst case scenario, but in fact, all one needed to do was to determine the location of the original body and then kill the original body.
The worst thing was that the Heart Demons specialized in cultivating the Original Spirit. Therefore, their physical bodies were abnormally weak compared to other Demons.
Also, because their bloodline ability was Soul Control and Life Control, which did not have any effect on increasing their combat power, it was almost normal for the soul to be stronger than the original body in the Heart Demons.
Most importantly, the original body had the weakest combat power.
Once the original body died, the soul would die no matter how strong it was.
Therefore, how would the Heart Demons dare to expose the effect of their bloodline ability?
.....
Yun Xuan Daoist shook his head and collected his thoughts.
There was still a tough battle ahead.
This was because the Black Cloud Mountain was the territory of the Tianji Temple.
Compared to the Da Xia Kingdom's state capital, the Tianji Temple's Inter-domain Transportation Formation was not open to outsiders. The Black Cloud Mountain was even more sealed and did not allow outsiders to enter.
Therefore, the Spirit Huan Sect cultivators could not do what they did in the Da Xia Kingdom's state capital. They could not sneak into the Black Cloud Mountain first and wait for an opportunity to destroy the formation.
They could only attack the mountain by force and destroy the formation while killing all the Tianji Temple cultivators in the Black Cloud Mountain in one fell swoop.
.....
The Inter-domain Transportation Formation was indeed expensive, but in reality, not many people would think much about it.
It was just like how everyone knew that high-speed trains were very valuable, but no one had ever heard of a robber robbing a high-speed train. Most robbers would rob a bank.
Therefore, in the Central Spirit Region, the Heaven's Secret Temple had always placed more guards than the Black Cloud Mountain.
However, no matter what, for such an important item, even if the Dao Sect's guards were weaker, how weak could they be?
Moreover, compared to the Da Xia Kingdom, which was everywhere, the Tianji Temple's Inter-domain Transportation Formation in the Central Spirit Region was the only one. Therefore, their strength was more concentrated.
But …
The Yun Xuan Daoist combined the information obtained from the sect's internal secret channels and was completely certain that there was no Level Nine cultivator in the Black Cloud Mountain.
In fact, there was no need to make an unnecessary move to confirm it.
Who would let a Level Nine cultivator watch over the Transportation Formation?
Without a Level Nine cultivator guarding the Black Cloud Mountain, there was no way it could stop him and the cultivators he brought with him!
The Yun Xuan Daoist was extremely confident.
If one did not take what the heavens gave them, they would be punished. The human race occupied such a good piece of land, but they were so weak and unworthy of their position. They deserved to meet such an end.
Good things should be left for the strong.
Opportunities would only pity those who set their minds on it. The Mental Demon Clan was able to strike first before the other Seven Great Saint Demons, which required extraordinary courage.
This was because if there was an accident in any part of the battle, they would have to face the encirclement and suppression of the human race in the Seven Regions. Behind them, there was a high possibility that the Seven Great Saint Demons would kick them while they were down.
"Elder Yun Xuan, it's time," a short and fat male cultivator said to the Yun Xuan Daoist.
The Yun Xuan Daoist's position in the Spirit Huan Sect was that of an elder.
After such a long time, the Mental Demon Clan had long been used to addressing each other as humans. Even now, when the map was unrolled and the dagger was revealed, they had not changed their way of addressing each other.
"Then let's do it. It's just a small Black Cloud Mountain. Let's not waste too much time," Elder Yun Xuan said with a smile.
Although he spoke casually, in reality, he had never underestimated Black Cloud Mountain.
The Mental Demon Clan had always been meticulous in their planning.
"The time to attack has arrived. Everyone, attack with all your might. We must work together. Don't make any mistakes and ruin our plan!" Elder Yun Xuan's eyes flashed fiercely as he shouted.
"We obey Elder Yun Xuan's orders!" the other Spirit Huan Sect cultivators under him replied in unison.
On the first morning of the eighth year of Tian Yuan, when the sun had just revealed a trace of light, outside Black Cloud Mountain, Elder Yun Xuan led a group of cultivators and launched an attack on Black Cloud Mountain.
The attack was omnidirectional. Under Elder Yun Xuan's command, the cultivators under his command and their respective pet beasts formed a huge team. They split into multiple directions and attacked Black Cloud Mountain's protective formation at the same time.
Boom! Boom!
Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
In a quiet room on Black Cloud Mountain, a tall and thin Daoist was sitting cross-legged on a cattail hassock.
"They're here." The moment the tremors sounded, the tall and thin Daoist's eyes lit up. "The traitors of the Spirit Huan Sect have entered the trap!"
Then, the tall and thin Daoist's figure flashed as he left the quiet room and appeared in the outside world.
Along with him were more than ten cultivators wearing golden Daoist armor.
The Daoist armor these cultivators wore was woven with rows upon rows of armor plates that were arranged neatly and stacked together. It was extremely thick.
Under the faint light of the early morning, the armor shone with a golden light like golden scales.
This style of armor was known as fish scale armor in the mortal world. It was a high-grade armor that only military officers could use.
In the world of cultivators, it was naturally not a simple armor. Instead, it was engraved with many Daoist patterns and possessed many mystical abilities.
However, the similarity was that this Daoist armor was also a high-grade Daoist armor that could only be used by high-level cultivators.
This was the uniform Daoist armor of Sky River City's Golden Scale Guards.
These cultivators were the Golden Scale Guards.
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