ragginovel Chapter 2473 Thunder Prison
Chapter 2473 Thunder Prison
Chapter 2473 Thunder Prison
As the storm season draws to a close, the intensity of the storms gradually weakens, and life in the Great Wind Plains begins to revive.
Even during the season of windstorms, the land of Horned Blossom remains lush and vibrant. In the neighboring land of Flowing Wind, however, the landscape is drastically different. The border between the two countries is a stark dividing line: on one side, an endless sea of green; on the other, a barren wasteland.
Due to the poor relations between the two countries, the Kingdom of Horned Life had long since severed trade with the Kingdom of Flowing Wind and stopped selling them spiritual plants to ward off wind disasters. However, since the Kingdom of Flowing Wind was able to establish itself in the Great Wind Plains, it must have its own methods.
From the side of the Horned Kingdom, one can see across the border that the land is shrouded in a giant whirlwind.
At the center of the whirlwind is a towering spire, shaped like the Chinese character "金" (gold), with a smooth, mirror-like surface, as if cast in gold, radiating a dazzling golden light. The spire stands on the earth like a sharp sword, and when the gale blows here, it seems to be drawn by some force, rotating around the spire to form a whirlwind.
The spire stands in the very center of the city, and a huge whirlwind envelops the city and a large area of the surrounding land. The whirlwind looks terrifying, but it is suspended in mid-air, more than ten feet above the ground. Below the whirlwind is a calm space, undisturbed by the wind disaster.
The Kingdom of Liufeng calls it the Wind Tower. Normally, the army of the Kingdom of Liufeng is stationed around the Wind Tower, confronting the Kingdom of Jiaosheng across the distance.
In fact, this wind tower was newly built not long ago. In recent years, the Liufeng Kingdom has been pressing forward step by step, and the Jiaosheng Kingdom has been retreating again and again. Its territory has been continuously encroached upon by the Liufeng Kingdom, and one city after another has fallen.
Seeing that this jungle and the city within it were also about to fall, the Flowing Wind Kingdom indeed chose the tail end of the storm to launch a major attack.
However, what Liufeng Kingdom did not expect was that Jiaosheng Kingdom did not choose to back down this time.
Although Liufeng Kingdom had anticipated this and many cultivators from Jiaosheng Kingdom had rushed over, they had underestimated Jiaosheng Kingdom due to its previous cowardly behavior and suspected that Jiaosheng Kingdom was bluffing. They did not expect to encounter such fierce resistance as soon as the battle began.
At this moment, shouts of battle filled the air on the border between the two countries, and the spiritual light of supernatural powers and the precious light of magical treasures shone brightly, creating a scene of utter chaos.
The typhoon was not over yet, and strong winds were still howling over the battlefield.
Amidst the raging winds, streaks of azure light stood out conspicuously. These streaks, numbering in the thousands, moved swiftly and agilely across the battlefield. Wherever they passed, they not only dyed the winds azure, but also seemed to control the storms, turning them into their aid.
A blue light enveloped a magical artifact with pointed ends, shaped like a boat. It was a renowned magical artifact of the Liufeng Kingdom, called the Wind-Riding Shuttle. It was a unique magical artifact of the Liufeng Kingdom, and it was said that controlling this magical artifact required special supernatural powers. Even if outsiders obtained it, they would not know how to control it.
The cultivators of Liufeng Kingdom manipulated the Wind-Riding Shuttle with ease amidst the wind disaster, even using it to their advantage against enemies and gaining the upper hand.
However, this wind-riding shuttle is not without its flaws. If the power of a windstorm exceeds the shuttle's tolerance limit, it will lose its combat capability. Otherwise, the Flowing Wind Kingdom could take advantage of the windstorm to invade other countries and gain a significant advantage.
The Wind-Riding Shuttle turned the wind disaster into an ally of the Flowing Wind Kingdom. To the naked eye, the wind reversed, and the gale obeyed the command of the Wind-Riding Shuttle, as if it wanted to ravage and tear this forest apart, a breathtaking sight.
On the ground, however, it's a completely different scene.
The jungle seemed to come alive, with spirit trees rising from the ground, their roots and leaves wrapping around and piling up from all directions, transforming into enormous tree-men.
These tree-people are not tree spirits; they are inanimate objects. Each tree-person is controlled by a team of cultivators from the Horned Tree Kingdom. The figures of the Horned Tree Kingdom cultivators can be detected through the branches and leaves. They hide inside the tree-people's bodies and use their supernatural powers to turn the spirit trees into weapons of war. They share the tree-people's glory and their loss.
At this moment, it can be seen that there are not many cultivators fighting individually on the battlefield. The treants stand on the ground, waving their thick branches. As the wind blows, the Wind Shuttle nimbly shuttles through the treants.
Bai Ying'er and her group stood high in the sky, taking in the entire scene of the battlefield.
Meanwhile, at the top of the spire, several figures were gazing at the battlefield.
These people all have wings on their backs, but they are not bird wings; they are like the wings of a dragonfly, consisting of four transparent membranous wings.
They were all experts from the Liufeng Kingdom. In the center was a thin young man. His body was very thin, but not emaciated, which made him appear very light. He was the only Void Refinement cultivator in the Liufeng Kingdom—Fu Ling.
Fu Ling sensed the intense fighting spirit of the Horned Beast Kingdom and frowned slightly, wondering why their temperament had changed so drastically. He had long considered the Horned Beast Kingdom as his own, and because he valued their ability to cultivate spiritual plants, he had originally intended to take them over through appeasement. Unexpectedly, the Horned Beast Kingdom had also produced a Void Refinement cultivator.
He needed to prove his abilities to the person behind him, and he couldn't rely on external forces to annex the Kingdom of Kakusho. Therefore, he couldn't be impatient. So he chose to press forward step by step, gradually encroaching on the territory of the Kingdom of Kakusho, while suppressing the morale of the enemy.
Unexpectedly, Kakusho suddenly chose to fight to the death and was dealt a heavy blow. Fortunately, he was prepared and did not lose his composure.
"Finally, they couldn't hold back anymore?"
Although somewhat caught off guard, this was the situation Fuling had hoped to see.
The more frustrated the enemy becomes, the more mistakes they will make. Now is an opportunity. If we can decisively defeat Kakusho's counterattack, we can completely extinguish Kakusho's confidence.
Thinking of this, Fu Ling's lips moved slightly, silently issuing a command.
At this moment, the battlefield was not filled with fierce fighting, nor with rivers of blood and flying limbs, but it was even more dangerous.
The cultivators of the Flowing Wind Kingdom, manipulating the Wind-Riding Shuttles, gradually reorganized their scattered formation after the initial chaos and began to launch a methodical attack. The Wind-Riding Shuttles broke into smaller units, with dozens of them forming small teams that rushed towards a treant.
These wind-riding shuttles surrounded the treant, flying around it. The gale, dyed blue by the azure light, transformed into incredibly sharp wind blades, slashing fiercely at the treant's body.
'puff! '
'boom! '
……
In an instant, the jungle was completely transformed, countless trees were pulverized, and deep, bottomless ravines were left on the ground.
Broken branches and leaves rained down, and shocking wounds quickly appeared on the tree-man's body. If the tree-man's body had not been large enough, these attacks would have killed the cultivator who controlled it on the spot.
However, the tree people are not without their own strength. Although the branches and leaves that make up the tree people are drawn from ordinary trees, they undergo tremendous changes after the tree people take shape.
The treant was also enveloped in a blue light, but unlike the Wind Shuttle, it was filled with a rich wood element power. This wood element power permeated its branches and leaves, making them incredibly tough and giving them powerful defensive capabilities.
Most of the tree-men only had their outer branches and leaves cut off, without damaging their 'marrow'. However, some unlucky tree-men were cut in half at the waist, exposing the cultivators inside, who let out short screams and spurted blood.
Casualties finally began to appear on the battlefield.
The Liufeng Kingdom, however, was not excited at all, because their losses were even more severe. Even though the Wind-Riding Shuttle was agile, it could still stumble. Many of the Wind-Riding Shuttles were entangled in the branches of the Tree People and strangled.
The Wind-Riding Shuttle could not withstand the terrifying power of the Treant and was crushed. All the cultivators inside the Wind-Riding Shuttle perished, and very few escaped.
The battle continued for some time. The initial panic had subsided, and the Flowing Wind Kingdom had yet to gain the upper hand. Tree-men fell on the battlefield from time to time, but often more Wind-Riding Shuttles crashed down with them.
Seeing this, Qin Hou frowned deeply. In his mind, his side had caught Liu Feng off guard and should now be dominating the country.
Seeing Qin Hou's grim expression, Bai Ying'er knew what he was thinking. She took his hand and comforted him, "This is the first time in hundreds of years that Jiaosheng Kingdom has experienced such a fierce battle. Husband, you can't treat them as veterans who have been through countless battles. Isn't this all for their training?"
Once the war begins, troubles will follow one after another. This may be the only opportunity to train the troops. The cultivators of Jiaosheng Kingdom must adapt to the brutality of war. The situation is constantly changing, and the Taoist altar cannot cope with all situations. There will be face-to-face battles in the future.
Little did they know, the other side of the floating cricket looked even more disgusted.
The strength of the Horned Kingdom was beyond his expectations, and he noticed some strange signs. He was very familiar with the Horned Kingdom's supernatural abilities; the tree people shouldn't be this strong. The lightning leaping among the branches and leaves might be the key. Clearly, the Horned Kingdom had been holding back a secret.
Seeing that he could not break through after a long siege, Fu Ling finally could not hold back and gave the order.
'Boom! '
Suddenly, a gong sounded from outside the battlefield, its powerful and clear sound resounding throughout the entire battlefield.
The battle paused for a moment. The sound of the gong seemed to be some kind of signal. The Duyu Wind Shuttles on the battlefield paused slightly and then suddenly changed formation.
Although they didn't know what the Flowing Wind Kingdom wanted to do, the Horned Tree Kingdom knew they had to stop them. The treants pounced on the Wind Shuttle with even more frenzy, their dancing branches turning into fierce attacks, doing everything they could to prevent the Wind Shuttle from changing formation.
At the same time, a fierce wind arose on the battlefield, drawing the treants together and transforming them into towering wind giants.
Although the wind giant has no physical form, it is more than twice as tall as the treant. The treant's head only reaches the wind giant's waist. Regardless of its strength, the wind giant's aura already surpasses that of the treant.
'boom! ’
The ferocious wind giant swung its massive arms, desperately trying to hug the tree man tightly.
The treant's attack landed on the wind giant, who, as expected, wasn't as terrifying as he looked; his wind-formed body quickly began to disintegrate. With a loud 'bang,' one of the wind giants was shattered, and the broken wind giant transformed into a hurricane that lingered for a long time.
With the wind giants being destroyed one after another, the Wind Shuttle finally completed its formation change.
At this moment, from above the battlefield, one could see the Wind-Riding Shuttles evenly scattered across the battlefield, arranged in several layers from low to high. The bottom layer of Wind-Riding Shuttles, about ten zhang above the ground, roughly reaching the tree people's knees, was the most numerous, decreasing in number upwards, resembling a tower composed of Wind-Riding Shuttles.
The moment the formation was completed, the wind direction on the battlefield suddenly changed. The blue light, like a thread, connected the wind-riding shuttle. As the blue light swayed, the gale began to rotate, instantly turning into a whirlwind.
At this moment, a whirlwind enveloped the battlefield, and an invisible pressure weighed heavily on the hearts of the cultivators from the Horned Kingdom.
It's clear that Liufeng Kingdom's methods are extraordinary, but Bai Ying'er and her group seem confident in their own abilities and remain calm and collected.
Just then, the treants stopped attacking, the tree trunks split open, and cultivators flew out from inside.
These monks were all dressed in blue robes, making unknown hand gestures while chanting incantations.
"Fire and thunder terrify the soul, the heavenly prison is haunted."
Subdue demons and ghosts, pursue evil spirits and reveal their true forms.
disease!"
The supernatural powers and techniques of the various departments and academies of Taoism are mostly interconnected. The Dou Department has the Water and Fire Heavenly Prison, and the Lei Department naturally has the Thunder and Fire Prison. However, the Water and Fire Heavenly Prison focuses more on restraint and confinement, while the Thunder and Fire Prison emphasizes attack and killing.
In an instant, the primordial energy of heaven and earth stirred, thunder roared, and lightning and fire descended.
The battlefield was suddenly plunged into darkness, the whirlwind seemed to transform into thunderclouds, silver snakes danced in the sky, and thunder and fire fell in a flurry.
The thunder and fire were incredibly powerful. Instead of directly attacking the Wind-Riding Shuttle, they transformed into pillars of heaven on the battlefield, each one piercing straight into the whirlwind.
The Heavenly Pillar is composed of thunder and fire, with flashing silver light and rolling flames, and the crisp sound of chains echoing, as if a thunder god has descended to earth to capture prisoners!
The Four Pillars Establish Prison.
Every four celestial pillars form a celestial prison. So many celestial prisons appeared on the battlefield at the same time, and they were all inside the Wind-Riding Shuttle Formation.
Upon seeing this, Fu Ling's expression completely changed.
Each of the Heavenly Prisons was self-contained, dividing the battlefield into sections. The Wind-Riding Shuttles were naturally also separated by the Heavenly Prisons, and the once unified formation was thus cut apart.
To the naked eye, the Wind-Riding Shuttle Formation still maintained its previous formation, but the formation was in disarray. With a deafening roar, the whirlwind collapsed.
"What kind of spell is this!"
Fu Ling was filled with anger and shock. He never expected that his proud Wind-Riding Shuttle Formation would be so vulnerable!
The Taoist disciples who had made great contributions were all excited. When they joined the Taoist sect and practiced the unprecedented methods, they inevitably had doubts. But now they had no doubts at all, and their hearts were filled with only reverence for the Taoist methods and the Taoist sect!
This is the allure of the Taoist court; once they experience the power of 'summoning generals' and 'transforming into gods,' they will only become more fanatical.
'Whoosh! '
Seeing the Wind-Riding Shuttle wandering aimlessly on the battlefield, Fu Ling finally lost patience and took action himself. He had no choice; he couldn't wait for Bai Ying'er to appear. If he didn't intervene soon, the Wind-Riding Shuttle would likely be wiped out.
'Boom!Boom!Boom! '
A series of urgent gong sounds rang out outside the battlefield, followed by bursts of light as Fu Ling personally led the remaining troops of Liu Feng Kingdom to press forward.
Among the vast army, Fu Ling was nowhere to be seen, and the sound of gongs emanated from the very center of the Liu Feng Kingdom's army.
The sound of the gong originated from a bronze gong, which was as large as a mountain when it stood upright. The base of the gong seemed to be carved from stone, and the gong did not touch the base, but floated in mid-air above it.
The two gong-beaters were experts from the Liufeng Kingdom, both trusted generals of Fuling. They raised their bronze hammers and struck the gong with all their might, but could only make it vibrate slightly. The sound waves spread out visibly, and the Liufeng Kingdom army seemed to be wearing a golden armor, charging aggressively towards the battlefield.