ATPnovel Chapter 85 The Formation Breaks
Chapter 85 The Formation Breaks
The aura of the secret realm rushed towards them, shocking the Imperial Guards in the valley.
Chang Yuan paused for a moment while loading bullets.
Lu Linglong's necklace, earrings, and arm hairpin all glowed simultaneously.
She checked the magical artifact's feedback and exclaimed with a mixture of surprise and delight, "It's the aura of a secret realm!"
"The cultists used formations to seal off spatial fluctuations and disguised false aura fluctuations, causing us to make the wrong judgment."
"That book isn't meant to appear directly in the world; it must be found and brought out from a secret realm."
"Time is also distorted; it's not an hour later, but immediately!"
Chang Yuan closed the magazine and asked with a grave expression, "Should we rush in?"
Lu Linglong nodded and said, "We definitely have to rush in, otherwise it would be like handing the treasure over to the cult."
"Especially that book, we absolutely cannot let it fall into their hands!"
Chang Yuan nodded: "I understand, but there's no rush."
"According to the established plan, once the final objective is confirmed, the Divine Dragon Battalion will pave the way for us!"
"Look, they're here!"
The elite cavalry looked up and, sure enough, saw a massive airship force arrayed in two columns, about to traverse the valley.
After locking onto the fluctuations in the secret realm, the Shenlong Camp's airships once again soared through the valley.
This time, the airship didn't drop heavy anti-tank weapons, but rather fire meteors enveloped in flames.
The falling fireballs, in ways that Chang Yuan could not comprehend, precisely aimed at the core of the Triangular Silent Realm Imprisoning Array.
Gazing at the sky filled with fiery meteors, he subconsciously recited: "The east wind releases a thousand trees of flowers at night, and blows down stars like rain..."
"Unfortunately, there's no east wind here."
Lu Linglong and Gao Su both sensed that Chang Yuan's words had a hidden meaning, but neither of them could understand what he was lamenting.
No one in the entire Ming Dynasty would understand unless Emperor Jiajing (the Holy Emperor Shizu) were to reappear.
The deafening explosions continued incessantly, and every fireball that struck the Triangular Silent Realm Prison Array exploded into a massive fireball.
A fireball, a mix of red and black, rose up, stirring up smoke and dust from the ground and scattering countless burning sparks, like a magnificent giant mushroom.
Dozens of giant mushrooms rose at the same time, their bursts of fire so bright that they illuminated the entire valley.
The protectors of the three major cults, separated by a thick barrier of divine power, watched the fiercely burning flames, their faces turning extremely grim.
The White Lotus Sect's founder and Grand Protector, filled with shock and rage, shouted, "Didn't the Divine Dragon Camp only have heavy-duty airships capable of taking on ten thousand men? What, what is this arsonist thing?"
The Grand Protector of the Heavenly Principle Sect roared, "What are you yelling about?"
"Hundreds of them, falling randomly from a height of several hundred meters, somehow all of them managed to hit us on the head..."
"This thing is obviously a formation specifically designed to counter us!"
Upon hearing this, the Grand Protector of the White Lotus Sect glared angrily: "Of course I know. I'm asking, didn't you, the Heavenly Principle Sect, notice anything amiss while you were operating in Beizhili?"
The Grand Protector of the Heavenly Principle Sect glared back without hesitation: "The dog of a government would definitely keep such weapons, specifically designed to target us, tightly under wraps. We don't have any followers among the government troops, so how would we detect them?"
The two exchanged barbs, their eyes gleaming with menacing intent, ready to strike at any moment.
The Left Protector of the Sun and Moon Holy Sect remained silent, ignoring the argument between the two.
This is so normal.
The origins of both the Heavenly Principle Sect and the White Lotus Sect can be traced back to the White Lotus Sect, which rebelled two hundred years ago.
The White Lotus sect has been a professional rebel group among the people since the Song Dynasty.
During the Yuan Dynasty, the White Lotus Sect rebelled every year and launched uprisings every month. Even the Hongwu Emperor, who overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, had a complicated relationship with the White Lotus Sect.
However, although the White Lotus Rebellion was frequent, its professionalism was not as good as that of the Hongwu Emperor. In the end, it was the rising Ming Dynasty that established the great cause.
The White Lotus sect remained unruly in the Ming Dynasty and continued to rebel in various places. It was then severely suppressed by the Ming Dynasty and eventually dispersed into more than a dozen messy cults.
The various sects such as Chiyang Sect, Hongyang Sect, Luo Sect, Huangtian Sect, Wenxiang Sect, Tianli Sect, Bagua Sect, Qingshui Sect, Shouyuan Sect, and Hunyuan Sect are all remnants of the White Lotus Sect.
The leaders of the Tianli Sect were Neo-Confucian scholars who integrated Neo-Confucian thought and perfected their belief theory, thus achieving greater development and gradually merging with and eliminating other sects.
The beliefs of the Tenrikyo sect changed during the merger, and they changed to believe in the Eternal Mother, believing that after death they will enter the Void Homeland and enjoy boundless bliss.
The current White Lotus Sect is a fundamentalist White Lotus Sect, which has been passed down from the lowest level of farmers to this day. They still believe in Maitreya, the future Buddha, and believe that only Maitreya can lead them through the end times.
Because it was rooted in the countryside, it had a huge base of believers. After the arrival of the extraordinary era, a large number of extraordinary individuals emerged, and it quickly became one of the top five major sects in the Ming Dynasty.
It is common knowledge that heretics are more hateful than heretics!
The Heavenly Principle Sect and the White Lotus Sect were heretics to each other, and they would fight to the death whenever they met. If it weren't for the mighty Ming Dynasty suppressing them like Mount Tai, they would have killed each other long ago.
The Left Protector's silence was filled with vigilance.
Before this, he was the dividing line between the two, and as the strongest person and the representative of the strongest sect, he forcefully suppressed the two remnants of the White Lotus.
But now, he has been shot through the head by Chang Yuan's Yangyan bullet, leaving a hole in his brain. It's no exaggeration to say that he is hanging by a thread and can no longer suppress the conflict between the two.
Even the Left Protector had to worry that the two remnants of the White Lotus sect might suddenly join forces and kill him first.
After all, when heretics are weak and have an opportunity, they will join forces to eliminate the strongest one first, increasing their chances of taking the treasure for themselves.
Under the oppression of the Ming Dynasty, the cult was still able to maintain cooperation when the situation was very favorable.
However, when the situation shows signs of collapse, internal strife becomes the top priority.
Because by sacrificing their teammates, the Imperial Guards wouldn't pursue them to the end.
This is the tacit understanding that has developed over hundreds of years of cat-and-mouse games.
Just as the three cult protectors were on guard against each other and coveting each other's territory, the Triangular Silent Realm Imprisonment Array was the first to give way.
The defensive array, relying on three altars of evil gods as its fulcrum, rapidly depleted the blood of more than 2,700 cultists amidst a barrage of bombardments and continuous flames.
Without the cover of blood, the formation burning in the flames revealed its true form.
It was a hemispherical shield constructed from layers upon layers of dark, forbidden patterns, centered around three altars.
The moment the shield was revealed, spiderweb-like cracks appeared, making it look like a shattered dark glass bowl.
As another batch of fiery meteors crashed down, the great formation was blasted into pieces, and the dark, glass-like array curtain shattered layer by layer.
The restrictions that confined the space dissipated, and huge cracks appeared in the barriers that separated the inside from the outside, allowing the aura of the secret realm to spread completely.
The blood mist, which had already thinned considerably, completely dissipated within a few breaths.
"The formation has been broken!"
"The blood mist has dissipated!"
"kill!"
The Imperial Guards, who had been suppressed for so long, let out an angry roar, and shouts of killing and attacks erupted at the same time.
Chang Yuan raised his Jin Yang revolver: "Brothers, victory is just around the corner!"
"Charge with me!"