bookrebus Chapter 405: Siege of Bozhou
Chapter 405: Siege of Bozhou
Chapter 405 Siege of Bozhou
Last time, we talked about Lan Ze's state of mind improving and becoming a real Gu Master, and Li Yi arranged the next plan for Yu Jiu and Zhang Hongchen, because he will face the second-grade demon elephant Tongtian. How will the story develop next? Let's read on.
The next day, Yu Jiu got up at dawn to practice. Li Yi taught him that archery should start with strength training, and the training method was also very old-fashioned, lifting a stone pillar. With Yu Jiu's current level of cultivation, lifting a stone pillar weighing 100 kilograms was not a difficult task.
But Li Yi asked him to hold one in each hand, and he had to hold it for two sticks of incense. He also specifically told him not to touch the bow before he reached the standard. Although Yu Jiu was puzzled, it was rare for his master to teach him seriously. Although he had doubts, he still did as Li Yi asked.
After practicing, he couldn't even lift his hands, let alone cook porridge, and couldn't even drive the car. Fortunately, Lan Ze had already gotten up to cook, otherwise Li Yi would definitely scold him if he had nothing to eat when he got up.
"Hey, why don't I see Sister Hongchen?"
"I don't know, how about I go look for it?"
"No, she's gone."
"Leaving? Hey, why are you up so early?"
"Morning? You didn't sleep well last night! Sigh..." Li Yi sighed, then asked: "What's wrong with you? Is your arm broken?"
Yu Jiu said awkwardly: "Anyway, I can't lift it now."
"Don't worry, practice slowly. In the future, you will have to add two 300-jin stone blocks. This is just the beginning."
"Ah? Three hundred pounds?"
"Otherwise, if you want to shoot through the demon armor with an arrow, you need to use a bow of at least 500 jin. A bow of 300 jin can only be used against demon generals."
"Sir, how heavy is your Heaven-Slaying Sun-Shooting Bow?"
"Only a force of a thousand jin can open the Heaven Smiting Bow. When Dayi shot the three-legged golden crow, he increased the Heaven Smiting Sun Shooting Bow to three thousand jin, which allowed him to kill one with one arrow. A second-grade great demon is no joke."
"Then will Xiang Tongtian be weaker than the Three-legged Golden Crow?"
"It's hard to say. The six-tusked white elephant is the descendant of the original elephant demon. I fought with the original elephant demon once, but he ran away. That guy is stronger than me and his body is extremely strong. Even with my full strength, the arrow I shot couldn't penetrate his body."
Lan Ze was surprised and said, "If even Dayi can't defeat him, how can you be a match for Xiang Tongtian now?"
"Fighting against the monsters is not about who is stronger. Strength alone is useless. If I really can't beat the elephant monster, then why did he run away? We all have our weaknesses."
"Young Master, what you mean is that the elephant monster is slow, and we can use our physical advantage to consume him."
Li Yi pointed at Yu Jiu and said, "Look, you are not even as good as a child! Although I failed to kill the ancestor elephant monster, he was stabbed all over by me and fled, never daring to set foot in Jiuzhou again. This time his descendants are here, and the result will not be different.
Hey, Yang Shuo and Yang Di are awake, come and eat! By the way, Yu Jiu, you can’t lift your arm, how are you going to drive later? I need to catch up on my sleep, so I can’t help you!”
"I'll drive for him, and you can sleep in the car."
"Thank you, Sister Lan Ze."
Lan Ze reached out and touched Yu Jiu's head, and said with a smile: "Why thank you? You still need to practice. Although following his unconventional practice, I'm afraid you will have to take a lot of detours."
"Hey, what are you talking about! Why do you have to take a detour when practicing with me?"
The group ate and talked, and the atmosphere was very harmonious. After breakfast, we set off again. After crossing a high mountain, we finally saw green again.
Li Yi finished his sleep, pulled open the car curtain and looked out, he was surprised: "Wow, finally I see green! Either the locusts have been destroyed, or they can't fly over this mountain, or..."
Before he finished speaking, a swarm of mutant locusts flew over from the north of the mountain. Without saying a word, Li Yi activated the Martial Saint Ming Wang Dharma Image, protecting Lan Ze and the Yang brothers and sisters. He then gathered his righteous energy and said, "Fire Style: Five Dragons Playing with the Pearl!"
The Martial Saint and King Dharmakāya stretched out his palms, and five fire dragons flew out from his five fingers. Guided by a fireball, they continued to burn the locusts in the sky. However, the number of locusts was too large, and even the five fire dragons were just a drop in the bucket and could not burn them all.
Yu Jiu was naturally not idle either. In addition to lighting flames around his body to protect himself, he also controlled the flames to burn the locusts, but it was also useless.
"No, there are too many locusts. We have to think of another way! Lan Ze, where are your mice?"
Lan Ze closed his eyes and mobilized his mental strength. A moment later, swarms of rats came from all directions. Not only rats, but also flocks of birds came to join in the battle against the locusts. But even so, they still couldn't stop the overwhelming locusts.
Seeing that the mountain had been eaten bare by locusts, Li Yi shouted, "No, it's still not enough!"
"There are no mice or birds around here anymore. I have summoned all the ones I can. There are too many locusts!"
"I do have an idea, but it's a little dangerous!"
"It's already this late, why are you still talking about whether it's dangerous or not? Tell me now!"
"Try to control these locusts! Gather them together! Then Yu Jiu and I will burn them together! But these are mutated locusts. I'm afraid they are connected to the Gu God, and I'm even more afraid of you..."
Before Li Yi could finish, Lan Ze had already started trying to control the locusts flying all over the sky. But after several attempts, she shook her head and shouted, "No! They are being controlled by something else. I can't control them!"
"Is it the Gu God?"
"It's definitely not the Gu God! I've felt the Gu God's will, and I can still tell it apart."
This made Li Yi very confused. If it wasn't the Gu God, then who could be controlling these mutated locusts? So he turned on the Qi-gazing technique to observe the surroundings, but the locusts in the sky interfered with his vision.
Li Yi shouted, "Yu Jiu, stop burning it, come and protect Lan Ze and the two children! I'll fly up there to take a look!"
Yu Jiu heard the noise and came over, jumped onto the carriage, opened the fire cover and protected the carriage. Li Yi flew up with his sword, killing the locusts that pounced on him while rising. Soon he reached a height that the flying locusts could not reach.
Li Yi hovered in the air, observing the surroundings with the art of looking at qi, and finally he found the controller of the locusts. There was actually a locust monster on the mountain, and it was a third-grade extraordinary locust monster!
Now that he had found the culprit, Li Yi naturally did not hesitate any longer. He took out the Heaven-Shooting Sun Bow from the sack, put on the Spirit Feather Arrow, pulled the bowstring to its full length, and shot an arrow! With a whoosh, the Spirit Feather Arrow flew through the air, flying straight towards the locust monster like a tracking missile!
When the locust monster was still wondering who was flying into the sky, a black dot suddenly flew over. Before he could react, he was shot in the head by an arrow!
However, the locust monster was still able to move without a head, but it was also flying around like a headless fly. At this moment, Zhang Hongchen suddenly appeared behind the locust monster and threw out twelve flying knives, which quickly mashed the locust monster into a pulp.
Zhang Hongchen shouted loudly: "Sister, I am not your slave, I will not listen to your arrangements! I will go my own way! Damn brother, we will meet again!"
Li Yi shouted: "Where are you going?"
"Do you tube!"
"What if you leave Le Zonghui? You must at least send Miss Zhao Zhu to Le Zonghui for me! I have already promised her!"
"understood!"
"By the way, please say hello to me and the three ladies!"
"Don't even think about it!" After saying that, Zhang Hongchen disappeared among the flying locusts.
Li Yi shook his head and smiled, then he landed on the ground and said to Lan Ze, "Try to control these locusts again."
Lan Ze nodded, and then began to try, and soon said: "There are too many, I can only control a small part at a time."
"As long as we can control them! For the sake of the people in Miaojiang, the three of us will work harder. Yu Jiu will help me light a fire, and Lan Ze will control these locusts to fly towards us in batches!"
Yu Jiu and Lan Ze nodded in response at the same time.
Li Yi grabbed Yu Jiu and jumped out of the carriage. Then he formed a lotus seal with his hands and chanted the six-character mantra. A six-petal lotus seal lit up under his feet, mobilizing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. Then he gathered his righteous energy and shouted:
"There were gods who created the world, and saints went west to spread the true scriptures.
The five qi returning to the origin is a truly wonderful method, and the three flowers gathering at the top of the head condenses the positive energy.
The golden light on the top of the head empties the five elements, and the red lotus under the feet burns all souls.
The soul will be transferred to another world and obey my command, and it will enter reincarnation and continue its life.
The soul-transforming red lotus blooms!"
The lotus mark under Li Yi's feet turned into a huge lotus bud and slowly rose up, but the bud did not bloom yet.
"Yu Jiu, Fire Spirit True Soul!"
Yu Jiu immediately used his special move. His hair, eyebrows, and eyes all turned red, and the fire mark between his eyebrows turned into a red lotus pattern. As his spiritual power was injected into Li Yi, a six-petal lotus blossomed!
This lotus flower can do more than just burn the locusts to death. These locusts are all mutated poisonous insects that are controlled by the locust demon to reproduce in large numbers, which is why they have reached this scale. It can be said to be a combination of the poisonous insect and the demon. They have extremely strong vitality and are slowly burned by ordinary fire.
For Li Yi, whether from the perspective of Buddhism or the perspective of the extraordinary realm, this kind of large-scale massacre is a taboo, but these mutated locusts cannot be ignored, and they cannot enter reincarnation after death, so Li Yi can only use this trick of transforming the red lotus at all costs.
This is a spell that combines the three schools of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. In order to increase the sustainability of the red lotus karma fire, it uses the righteous energy to bless it, and then uses the law of fate to transform the souls of the locusts into plants, which are then burned again to send them into reincarnation.
At this time, Li Yi was like a torch, and Yu Jiu was naturally the flame that lit the torch, but the scale of this lotus-shaped torch was quite large! A pillar of fire with a diameter of more than ten feet rose up, and Lan Ze immediately controlled batches of locusts to fly towards the pillar of fire.
It is simply impossible to resist this kind of locust plague that numbers in the hundreds of billions with human power. If Li Yi does not have the strength of a second-grade extraordinary realm, he can only watch these locusts turn this place into a barren land.
The fire stick continued to erupt for a day and a night, and Li Yi, Lan Ze and Yu Jiu persisted like this for a day and a night. Fortunately, they finally managed to almost completely eliminate the locusts that were harming Miaojiang.
The three of them fell to the ground exhausted, their bodies completely hollowed out...
When Li Yi opened his eyes again, he found himself lying on the bed, with Dongyi Weijia beside him.
"You are finally awake, my Lord! We were so worried!"
"Where is this?"
"Banshu Castle!"
"Where's Lan Ze? Where's Yu Jiu? And where are the two children?"
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. They are all fine. I brought them back with me. They told us how Your Majesty killed the locust monster and wiped out the locusts. I didn't expect that Your Majesty has already been promoted to the extraordinary realm after just over a year! Your Majesty is Your Majesty..."
"Stop flattering me. Are Lan Ze and Yu Jiu awake?"
"Yu Jiu is awake. That child is worthy of being the master's disciple. He is truly gifted and will become a great man in the future!"
"If you talk to me like this again, I'll slap you to death! How's Lan Ze?"
Wei Jia scratched his head awkwardly, then said, "Miss Lan Ze has consumed too much mental energy and has not woken up yet."
Li Yi immediately got up from the bed and went to see Lan Ze.
Wei Jia pushed him back to the bed and said sternly, "Your Majesty has not recovered yet, so you should rest for a few more days. Miss Lan Ze has someone to take care of her, so she will be fine. Besides, there are more important things than Miss Lan Ze right now!"
Li Yi said unhappily: "Nonsense, nothing can be more important than Lan Ze, help me go see her!"