Whoosh—
This was a very faint sound of something cutting through the air…
Sky Poison Arrows advanced slowly through the void, silently shooting toward the rear of the ‘enemy immortal’ group.
There was no immortal power fluctuation, no sense of sharpness;
Only inevitably, slight disturbances in the air remained.
To prevent these enemy immortals from sensing anything, these arrows didn’t target any specific person, deliberately aiming for the gaps between the figures on the outer edges…
Li Changshou’s timing was extremely precise.
At the rear flanks of the two battlefields, forty arrows successfully reached their designated heights;
At the arrows’ tips, those half-foot-long cylinders split open simultaneously, releasing colorless and odorless poison powder and mist that spread through the high air…
Puff puff, pop pop…
Like colorless fireworks, they ‘quietly’ bloomed in the clear sky.
Around the enemy formation’s outer edges, over twenty True Immortals hadn’t even had time to turn around before their vision suddenly went black and they plummeted toward the clouds below…
Gentle breezes carried the lethal poison that could kill Celestial Immortals, and dark figures continued falling one after another like dumplings dropping into a pot.
These Blood Mosquito puppets had truly become terrified of poison.
They reacted extremely quickly this time, with a Celestial Immortal puppet discovering something wrong behind them and immediately shouting:
“Surge your magical power!
Someone is launching a poison sneak attack from behind!”
Immediately, immortal power, demon power, and spiritual power surged around the enemies’ bodies, directly dispersing the approaching poison mist and powder!
But before this, over fifty True Immortals had already been poisoned to death…
Moreover, over a hundred figures had been contaminated to varying degrees, now struggling to resist the poison’s effects with their fighting power greatly reduced.
The Blood Mosquito puppets immediately began searching for those who had ambushed them from behind.
At this moment, the Salvation Sect’s immortals were also bewildered, not knowing where this ‘reinforcement’ had come from.
But they were being suppressed around Breaking Sky Peak’s cloud paths, with these two groups of powerful enemies still being extremely fierce, making it difficult to coordinate with external aid…
More importantly, the Salvation Sect’s immortals…
Couldn’t find any trace of reinforcements at all!
The poison arrow attack’s effect wasn’t perfect, and Li Changshou felt neither excitement nor regret in his heart, only silently summarizing the shortcomings of his self-developed magical tools.
This type of omnidirectional indiscriminate poisoning method was still inferior to using immortal power to silently deliver poison powder around the opponent’s primordial spirit…
Overall, it wasted most of the poison pills’ potency.
To prevent these poison mists from accidentally harming his fellow sect members later, Li Changshou used two types of harder-to-refine, time-sensitive Celestial Immortal poisons in the arrows.
Shortly after, the remaining poison in the air would break down and dissipate…
Although the concept of these arrows was good, they were too easily countered, and their effect wasn’t as good as poison formations using the same amount of poison.
Li Changshou briefly summarized in his mind as the battle situation showed slight changes again.
The Blood Mosquito puppets quickly determined the direction the poison arrows had come from, and their counterattack came swiftly and violently!
South and north of Breaking Sky Peak, at the rear of the enemy formation, over ten figures broke away from the main battle, pouncing toward where the paper soldier immortals were hiding;
They summoned magical treasures and condensed divine abilities, bombarding the two forest areas wildly!
In the darkness, a mysterious smile appeared at the corners of Li Changshou’s mouth…
Those forty paper figures hadn’t retreated into hiding!
When these thirty-plus True Immortal puppets dove down above the two forest areas, three paper figures rushed out from each side of the forest, actively drawing the enemy’s attention.
However, after these six figures appeared, they had only charged forward a few hundred zhang before being directly shattered by the streaking lights from behind…
At this very moment!
The remaining thirty-four paper figures directly rushed out from their hiding places!
Their auras surged as they moved with ghostly speed, charging straight toward these puppets…
The two groups of puppets that had come down to counterattack immediately struck out, but in their haste, half the paper soldier immortals still managed to reach their vicinity!
Without any hesitation, these paper figures directly self-destructed!
A total of over ten figures instantly exploded in the air the forests to the south and north!
The scene was quite ‘tragic,’ and the Salvation Sect’s immortals grew furious, yet could do nothing for these reinforcements that had appeared from nowhere…
But after the self-destruction…
Those thirty-plus Blood Mosquito puppets who had rushed to the forest area were completely unharmed, each somewhat dazed, not knowing what they had just experienced…
The self-destruction’s power had been quite weak.
Even though these humans, demons, and spirits were now controlled by Blood Mosquitoes with only a small portion of their ‘self’ remaining, in this brief moment, they all experienced quite significant emotional fluctuations.
Initially, when colorless poison mist suddenly appeared behind them, they had barely escaped death;
[Slight Relief]
Then they received orders to counterattack in the direction the poison arrows came from, discovered several figures fleeing in panic, and directly struck to kill them, achieving success without any effort.
[Relatively Calm]
The situation suddenly changed as these six figures were only diverting their attention, and immortal soldiers unexpectedly rushed out from the forest below, fiercely pouncing toward them!
[Slightly Nervous]
Surprisingly, these charging immortal soldiers were very ‘fragile,’ dying with just a poke and breaking with just a hit.
[Why Like This?]
But the enemy had planned while they were unwary, hiding previously without leaving any trace, and still managed to get half their figures near them, and they directly self-destructed!
[Scared Half to Death]
Laughably, these fellows’ self-destructions had no power, just an empty show, not even as strong as being hit by an Element Immortal with an ordinary magical treasure…
[Why Like This Again?]
Suddenly!
These thirty-plus enemy immortals’ vision went black, their primordial spirits first experiencing intense pain before directly losing sensation of the outside world, their immortal power dissipating as they uniformly fell backward in mid-air…
In their final moments, they finally understood…
[This Explosion was Poisoned]
Above the forest, these thirty-plus figures fell simultaneously.
In the darkness, Li Changshou raised his eyebrows, feeling somewhat helpless in his heart.
Why weren’t there more Celestial Immortals coming down?
Controlling four paper puppets to continue hiding underground, Li Changshou could deduce both sides’ reactions without even looking.
The Salvation Sect’s immortals were naturally completely bewildered, while those mosquito puppets became increasingly frenzied…
Overall, the first wave of sneak attacks had decent results, greatly reducing pressure on their side while also hindering the enemy’s offensive.
At this moment, the four paper puppets below Breaking Sky Peak couldn’t move rashly. Li Changshou shifted his consciousness to the ‘Heaven Eight’ paper puppet, roughly checking the Small Qiong Peak formation’s condition;
Then he paid attention to the battle in the high air.
After Elder Qiling transformed into his true form, he fought increasingly fiercely, steadily suppressing one of the enemy’s Golden Immortal level experts;
The Salvation Sect’s Sect Master…
Although somewhat scattered, still successfully held off those two Golden Immortals.
‘Looks like this will continue for a while.’
Li Changshou quickly returned his consciousness to the four paper puppets, preparing the magical tools for the next phase.
The first wave of sneak attack and encirclement had ended;
Next would be the second operation…
Drawing fire upon oneself, inviting the enemy into the trap, catching the turtle in the jar!
And the timing to strike would come soon.
…
‘How has such a small Salvation Sect not been dealt with yet?’
In a secret cave dwelling near Spirit Mountain, the Western Religion’s sacred ground in Western Ox Continent, Daoist Wenjing wore light blue gauze robes as she reclined on a bed…
Two maids knelt beside her, one fanning her with a fan, the other holding blood-like immortal wine, waiting for their ‘master’ to pick up the jade cup.
At this moment, Daoist Wenjing was secretly observing the Salvation Sect’s ‘great’ battle through the blood mosquitoes she had released.
She was purely watching the show.
Now, as long as she didn’t actively make a move and just stayed here, except for the Three Schools’ Sage Lords personally investigating and calculating, no one would know it was her doing.
Moreover, the Western Religion’s two Sage Lords had already personally concealed the heavenly secrets for her.
In the primordial world at this time, few people knew her background; even if those blood mosquitoes were exposed, they would only be considered a type of divine ability.
Daoist Wenjing understood clearly in her heart that she was a blade hidden in the darkness – if her background was exposed, she would lose most of her value.
At this moment, she had to watch the Salvation Sect’s battle.
If any unexpected situations occurred, such as the Human Dao suddenly having experts come to aid the Salvation Sect;
Then she would directly extinguish those three Golden Immortals’ divine souls, using their shells as a generous gift for the ‘Severing School’…
‘Such calculations are much more interesting than fighting and killing.’
A charming and intoxicating smile appeared at the corners of Daoist Wenjing’s mouth, but the two demon race maids beside her only lowered their heads, not daring to look even once.
Daoist Wenjing had started watching the show when the five Golden Immortals began fighting;
And her attention had always been drawn to the battles at the Golden Immortal and Celestial Immortal levels.
True Immortals to her were no different from uncultivated practitioners, uninteresting, monotonous, and quite boring.
Golden Immortal battles were somewhat interesting, especially that rare primordial species – the auspicious beast Qilin, which made Daoist Wenjing quite appetized.
When Li Changshou secretly launched the first wave of encirclement attacks with paper puppets, poison-killing over eighty True Immortals and wounding over a hundred True Immortals, causing the situation to reverse to some degree.
The scale of victory temporarily tended toward balance.
‘Hmm? What’s happening below?’
Daoist Wenjing roughly scanned around Breaking Sky Peak, her mouth twisting with complete disdain.
These hastily gathered puppets were truly useless, now almost being pushed back by the other side!
Never mind, today’s battle probably wouldn’t destroy the Salvation Sect…
Continuing to delay would only exhaust the blood lotus power within these three fake Golden Immortals.
‘Hmph, if my children were to strike, this tiny Salvation Sect would vanish in an instant…’
Oh right, where did those Salvation Sect disciples go?
Daoist Wenjing was slightly confused and observed up and down for a while, soon giving a cold laugh.
There were slight spiritual power fluctuation remnants in the earth’s veins underground, seeming to be… an earth vein transportation formation?
Escaped to the east?
With just such methods, do you think you can hide from this queen?
[Since we can’t directly destroy your entire sect, then killing all your sect’s disciples would have quite a good effect too…]
The scene afterward would surely be quite interesting.
Although actively controlling and contacting these puppets now would somewhat risk exposing herself;
Daoist Wenjing felt a slight stimulation in her heart and decided to take a small risk.
…
Near Breaking Sky Peak at the Salvation Sect, where thousands of immortals battled intensely.
A trace of Dao rhythm secretly descended, falling upon a human-born Celestial Immortal-level Blood Mosquito puppet, then quickly withdrew.
This Celestial Immortal old Daoist’s body trembled, directly retreating from the battle, calling over a True Immortal level demon roc and lying prone on the demon roc’s back.
To better complete the ‘master’s’ recently transmitted orders, this Celestial Immortal old Daoist ordered the demon roc to first rush north, then turn east after flying far enough…
Roc-type demon cultivators were mostly skilled at flying, and this demon roc had some Golden Roc bloodline and innate divine abilities.
As the demon roc flew at full speed now, they vanished in the blink of an eye…
Several Celestial Immortal elders of the Salvation Sect noticed this matter, deducing that this Celestial Immortal old Daoist and roc demon might be going east to cause harm.
They secretly transmitted messages, their hearts naturally extremely anxious;
But at this moment, their side was surrounded by Breaking Sky Peak. Let alone whether they could break through to rush east for rescue, just looking at that roc demon’s speed, they simply couldn’t catch up!
A Supreme Elder broke away from the battle to retreat, taking out several message jade talismans, hurriedly contacting several external affairs elders who were now sixteen thousand li to the east, telling them to quickly hide with the disciples.
That was all they could do…
The Salvation Sect’s elders had misjudged two things.
First, they hadn’t imagined the enemy could be ruthless to this extent.
The battle here hadn’t ended, yet they would directly go trouble those disciples who hadn’t achieved immortality!
Second…
The earth veins were deep underground, so how exactly did the enemy discover their hidden earth vein transportation formation?
However, these small details that the Salvation Sect elders had miscalculated…
A certain disciple had anticipated early before the battle.
The three words ‘Mosquito Daoist’ had left too fierce an impression on Li Changshou, and his vigilance had been at maximum from the very beginning…
As soon as the Celestial Immortal old Daoist and demon roc moved, Li Changshou had caught their direction.
He said ‘trouble’ in his heart but didn’t feel any tension.
This wasn’t because Li Changshou didn’t care much about his junior sister and master, but because he had already prepared countermeasures. Never mind one Celestial Immortal going over, even if ten went…
Ahem, that number was a bit too many.
Even if three or four Celestial Immortals went, it wouldn’t be a big deal!
‘The timing is about right…
Begin the second wave of operations!’
At this time, Li Changshou had to place part of his consciousness on the Person Character Three Number paper puppet beside Ling’e, beginning to prepare for the coming battle.
He could only let Heaven Character Two Number paper figure hide underground while the other three paper puppets emerged again from the valleys around Breaking Sky Peak…
This time, they didn’t release a paper army;
The three figures transformed from paper puppets directly flew into the air!
Two men and one woman appeared on the south and north sides, actively revealing their cultivation realms, uniformly late-stage True Immortal!
This was the highest realm Li Changshou could currently have paper puppets simulate. — Paper puppets themselves only carried immortal power, and there was a certain upper limit to immortal power storage.
Then, these three figures circulated immortal power and shouted!
First looking north.
The young Daoist carrying a long sword shouted:
“We were passing by and saw a group of demons attacking the mountain!
How outrageous!
Salvation Sect friends, my sister and I have come to lend our strength!”
Full of righteousness and overwhelming heroic spirit!
Then, the female immortal holding a jade flute beside him also called out clearly:
“In this bright world under heaven, with heaven and earth looking on, we shall slay demons and eliminate evil to protect the human way!
Salvation Sect friends need not worry about us two, we won’t attack forcefully but will first draw away some demons for you!”
These words were very reasonable, immediately steadying the Salvation Sect immortals’ hearts as they felt quite grateful toward these two ‘coincidentally passing by’ strange Daoist friends.
Although many immortals felt…
Their appearance was slightly strange…
Compared to the two paper puppets in the north, the somewhat rough brute in the south was much more direct;
This paper puppet shouldered a great axe and, standing ten li away from the battlefield, shouted several times:
“Your ancestors! You bunch of demon ghosts!
If you have the guts, come face me directly!
I’ll curse your demon ancestors!”
Immediately, the Blood Mosquito puppets besieging Breaking Sky Peak responded!
In the northern direction, over ten dark figures attacked that pair of male and female Daoists.
The sword-carrying paper puppet laughed heartily as the two quickly retreated, casting several spells formed from immortal power, meeting the attack with proper form.
The south side… was more intense…
Over twenty great demons turned to attack that brute, with even two Celestial Immortal-level great demons at the front!
This brute paper puppet’s legs trembled as he shouldered his great axe and turned to flee, secretly using the wind escape technique to charge straight toward Small Qiong Peak’s direction.
To hold these people’s attention, Li Changshou used this brute paper puppet’s mouth to break his “cursing precept.”
The brute kept cursing and swearing, spouting popular primordial world insults one after another…
Things like ‘unfilial offspring’ and ‘born a demon but not raised as one’ were still relatively basic.
Li Changshou quickly decided to add more flavor, starting to shout some more provocative words. Even though these demon race members were currently being controlled mentally, they still burned with fury.
For example…
“There are two Demon Emperors but only one Demon Empress!”
“Your ancestors were beaten so badly by the Shamanic Race back then that they didn’t dare land on the ground, yet still shamelessly claimed to share the rule of heaven and earth with the Shamanic Race!
Where’s your face? Where’s your face?”
Streams of light shot forth as the demon group attacked together, wanting to tear this brute apart.
However, Li Changshou’s wind escape technique incorporated borrowing force methods, quite skillfully dodging and weaving through the air while continuing to curse loudly.
Unconsciously, the brute paper puppet charged above Small Qiong Peak, with a streaking light conveniently coming from behind.
Li Changshou controlled the paper puppet to deliberately get hit by the treasure pearl within the streaking light…
The brute’s figure was knocked down, falling toward Small Qiong Peak, then barely stabilizing himself in mid-air before turning to look at the approaching demon group.
But at this moment, the demon group also felt a slight sense of danger, with several humanoid great demons showing hesitation in their eyes…
In the darkness, Li Changshou coldly snorted in his heart.
The brute paper puppet directly turned around, standing at the edge of Small Qiong Peak’s formation, gave a thumbs-down gesture to the demon group, then mockingly beckoned with his finger.
“I’ve been running for so long, but this is all you’ve got? Your hits don’t even itch!
Come on, fight me one on one!”
Those twenty-plus demon experts were slightly stunned, then all pounced toward the brute below.
With Blood Mosquitoes influencing them in secret, naturally their group would “one-on-one” fight him alone.