Too much fruit

Chapter 769: The drought demon is rampant, besieging Wuwei
The next day, at dawn, there were flags waving, monks chanting scriptures, and marching forward in an orderly manner.

The original plan was to march tomorrow, but Manjusri suddenly changed the order and marched ahead of schedule. The monks of the Buddhist kingdom did not appear to be in a hurry. They just chanted scriptures and divided into three groups, marching in the southeast, northeast and east directions.

In the northeast direction, there is Avalokitesvara, with 25,000 monks, and under his seat are Weituo Bodhisattva and five Arhats.

In the southeast direction, Tan Wuwei was the leader, with 25,000 monks under him, and he was followed by Shen Hou and Guangli Bodhisattva.

This route is relatively close to Liangzhou. Once Yongzhou is occupied, Tan Wuwei can directly lead his men across the collapsed Daxing Mountains and march into Liangzhou.

The road due east, which is also the one in the center, is led by Manjusri himself, with 30,000 monks and a pirate monkey.

In terms of the number of people, the Buddhist Kingdom is not as good as the Taiping Sect at that time. It should be noted that the Taiping Sect at that time had 360,000 followers deployed in the last battle alone. The momentum was so huge and the formation was so strong that it was enough to make the Giant Spirit and Jiang Li fight head-on for quite a while.

That is to say, Jiang Lilai was the cunning one. Together with Master Yu, they tricked the Immortal Slaying Knife into killing the wrong person, and used their Yuan Qi to poison the disciples. Otherwise, the battle would not have been so smooth.

But in terms of average combat power, the Buddhist monks are far superior to the Taiping Sect's followers. This is because each of these monks is a practitioner who has achieved the Dao Fruit, of which only 60% are at the eighth and ninth levels, and most of the remaining 40% are at the seventh level, and the number of sixth levels can also reach three digits.

Their fighting power is less than 100,000 people, but is greater than that of an ordinary million people.

If Gongsun Qingyue had not suddenly attacked with the human bag, and Hong Haogu had not helped with the divine realm, the monks of the Buddhist Kingdom would never have been defeated even if "Jiang Liuguang" had not arrived.

Moreover, the Buddhist Kingdom has now converted people from several counties. If necessary, it can also follow the example of the Taiping Sect and mobilize a large number of believers to join the war.

The three groups of people were all practitioners, and they were able to use storage instruments to carry war resources, so they did not need to worry about baggage. Therefore, they traveled quickly all the way, running at the speed of cavalry on foot.

In a short period of time, more than ten counties were captured, and the county magistrates were all sealed. They were then handed over to Hong Haogu who used the earth escape magic to take them to Shen Hou, suppress their Tao fruits, and then convert them. Then the vacuum hometown was covered.

The Buddha's light, like a tide, covered half of Yongzhou in one day, and high or low Buddhist chants could be heard anytime and anywhere.

Among them, Guanyin of the northeast route achieved the greatest results. The resistance she encountered along the way was quite weak. Not to mention that Guanyin did not take any action, even the Arhats under her seat did not need to show up, and they were about to take over a county.

However, this kind of victory made Guanyin look solemn.

The gods of the county towns and villages were all of the eighth and ninth rank, so of course they couldn't resist the Buddha's army, but they had heavenly soldiers from the capital, as well as many fourth-rank gods. If they had spared a little bit of their strength, the Buddha's army wouldn't have been able to occupy the country so quickly.

Guanyin was already prepared to deal with the third level, but the other party seemed to have given up this route.

Are you still unaware of the Buddha’s salvation plan?

Or do you have other plans?
Just like that, the monks from the southeast were about to reach the county town, when suddenly—

"Stop."

Guanyin's expression changed slightly, she had heard Tan Wuwei's message.

"stop."

Tan Wuwei has the ability to predict the future, so Guanyin would certainly not disobey her words and immediately gave the order to stop.

However, it seemed a little late to give the order at this time.

In other words, there was no way to avoid it from the very beginning.

A blood-red color appeared in the sky, and a big star fell from the sky like a blood-red flag, falling straight into the center of the monks' army.

"Chiyou's flag!"

When Guanyin spoke the name of the blood-red flag, the heaviness in her heart eased slightly.

Although the flag of Chi You is powerful, an exposed offensive is always more reassuring than an invisible ambush in the dark. Moreover, Jiang Li does not have all five weapons of the God of War in his hands, so the flag of Chi You is unable to exert its full power.

At that time, a white lotus platform rose up among the monks, and a great master in white sat cross-legged on the lotus platform. He raised one hand lightly, and the two colors of scarlet and aqua blue combined to form a divine light, which broke through the air and greeted the big red star.

Water, fire, yin and yang are in a state of agitation, giving rise to and restraining each other. The divine light of separation and combination can integrate the mystery of Kan and Li, and the true meaning of yin and yang. It can separate tangible and intangible things, and can also combine yin and yang. It has infinite magical uses.

The divine light brushed against the huge red star, instantly triggering a counterattack from the gods and demons of heaven. The collision of the gods and demons caused the sky to become dim and bright.

Guanyin formed seals with her hands and manipulated the divine light, while her other fair hand holding the mutton-fat jade bottle slowly rose up, ready to take action.

The gods of heaven destroyed everything, even the innate Qi was restrained. Although the separation and combination of divine light was mysterious, it was a bit too difficult to say that it could suppress the gods of heaven. Therefore, Guanyin had to use her own magic weapon.

However, before the mutton-fat jade bottle could take effect, the evil spirit suddenly retreated, and even the flag of Chi You began to disintegrate.

The surface of the big star spread out like petals, and a ferocious hand stretched out from it and grabbed the clutch divine light.

The divine light could dissociate visible and invisible objects, but it could not do anything to this palm. The scorching heat erupted from the palm, even affecting the yin-yang balance of the divine light.

"Roar!"

A shrill and violent roar sounded, and in an instant, the sky and the earth seemed to change color, and wherever the eye could see, it was red like fire.

One of the monks around suddenly paused, looked painful, opened and closed his mouth, and suddenly flames burst out.

Flames burst out from all seven orifices, burning all the flesh and blood, turning the monks into human-shaped torches.

"This is······"

Guanyin's eyes were shining. The divine eye, one of the six supernatural powers of Buddhism, allowed her to clearly see the ferocious monster crawling out from the inside of the star. Her expression changed, "Hanba!"

Before he finished speaking, the roar reached a new level, and a scarlet-red monster leaped out like a hungry tiger pouncing on its prey. Its pair of sharp claws tore through the sky and split the air, tearing apart the clutch divine light. The shadow of its claws was as big as a mountain, striking the earth directly.

Guanyin gently twisted her white hands and pulled out the willow branch from the mutton-fat jade bottle. She seemed to be sprinkling it slowly but actually quickly, and the sweet rain was like light, streaking towards the claw shadow.

As the two collided, the sweet rain was actually evaporated by an extremely high temperature and turned into firewood to fuel the fire. The claw shadow pressed down and hit the willow branch that suddenly grew larger, and a powerful stream of flames exploded.

"Boom!" The flames cleared away, the veil on Guanyin's head fluttered up, and ripples of flame appeared around her. Hanba was also affected by the recoil, and drew an arc in the air, and fell to the ground like a meteor.

"Oh!"

The flames when it landed swallowed up thousands of monks, the earth turned into scorched earth, and the endless earth energy was transformed into flame energy.

The temperature was rising rapidly, and the world seemed to have turned into a furnace, burning everything.

When the drought demon landed on the ground, the land became barren for thousands of miles, not only in front of it, but also expanded towards the already occupied counties. Wherever it passed, all grass and trees died, all life was destroyed, and even the loess solidified into a charred black color.

Guanyin's face was extremely solemn, because she found that Hanba's momentum was skyrocketing wildly. The earth beneath her feet was her source of power, providing her with an endless supply of earth energy.

The appearance of this monster put the troops along the way into an extremely unfavorable situation.

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At the same time, the army in the middle, where Manjusri was, arrived in front of a mountain range. The divine power intertwined between the mountains in front, turning into a sky full of brilliance, wind and rain gathered, and the figure of a winged dragon appeared.

Manjusri and the white-haired ape ascended into the sky together, looking at the heavenly soldiers in formation in the distance, and said calmly: "The future head of the Gongsun family, and the former elder of the Tianxuan of the Dinghu sect, are you trying to use the oath of the Ji and Jiang families to control me?"

Manjusri had witnessed the power of divine punishment on Mount Kunxu before.

Jiang Li's strength was comparable to that of a third-grade cultivator, but he was crushed to dust by the might of heaven, and almost lost his soul and body. Although from the subsequent developments, it seemed that Jiang Li did this on purpose, as he created the illusion of entering and leaving the body, deceiving the heavenly punishment.

But the power of divine punishment is real.

Even if it is a third-grade rank, if it suffers divine punishment, it will either kill it or be seriously injured.

Now that Manjusri has mastered the indestructible body of Tathagata, he will not die, but he will definitely be injured.

In the opposing formation, Jiang Sikong, the only one among the Jiang family who could compete with Wenshu in the way of the Sixth Elder, was probably just waiting for the day when the divine punishment would come.

"He actually hid behind a woman. This really tarnishes the reputation of our Jiang family." Wenshu snorted coldly.

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Both groups of people encountered obstacles. Guanyin and Manjusri each encountered difficulties set by Jiang Li. The scenes in both places entered Tan Wuwei's field of vision at the same time, making her realize that the situation was not good.

The road that Tan Wuwei was on now reached the Loess Plain. Ahead was an endless expanse of loess, with one or two weathered rock peaks occasionally rising up.

This is the path that Daojun took when he traveled west. Daojun and Ji Jiji fought here, and Daojun was injured and destroyed Ji Jiji's body. Laojun Temple was also built here.

The place had already suffered from the disaster of drought, and a great war between two powers occurred a hundred years ago, which made this place completely reduced to a wasteland. The land within a thousand miles was all yellow soil and yellow sand, and it was difficult to see any human traces.

"It's really a great battlefield."

Tan Wuwei, wearing a white robe and with a dignified figure, separated from his subordinates and floated to a rock peak in front of him. He said, "I am right, aren't I, the three of you?"

As if in response to her words, a swordsman in linen clothes and a bamboo hat appeared quietly. It was Mo Xuankong, the master of Mo Sect.

The sword was sharp, but a Taoist priest with a faint smell of blood on his body flew down on his sword and blocked the way. It was Taoist Guangcheng, the master of Yuxu Temple.

There was another Taoist priest, wearing a purple Bagua Taoist robe, about forty years old, with a long red and white beard under his chin, and a long sword on his back. He was Taoist Guangyuan, who was also a member of the Yuxu Temple.

This person indeed left Yuxu Temple and came to join the battle.

The three-rank masters of the Buddhist Kingdom had all come out in full force. If Yuxu Temple still had a third-rank master stationed there, it would be too petty. As a sword cultivator, Taoist Guangcheng was naturally very aggressive and directly asked Taoist Guangyuan to join the battle.

This was actually within Tan Wuwei's predictions, but I don't know whether she had predicted the current situation, and whether her ability to predict the future had enabled her to see the current situation.

The three third-rank masters surrounded Tan Wuwei from three sides.

The Buddhist army was divided into three groups, converting the gods along the way, covering the divine domain with a vacuum home, and bringing all the people inside into the Buddhist kingdom. This move could force the other side to also block it, and send two third-grade combat forces to intercept Guanyin and Tan Wuwei.

The rest will be left to Manjusri to deal with.

Manjushri condensed the Dharma image of Vairocana Tathagata and cultivated the Tathagata's indestructible true body. He had previously injured Guangcheng in a one-on-two battle, and now he was going to repeat the previous scene, and he was confident of a complete victory.

After Manjusri defeats the enemy, he can start to deal with the enemies in the other two groups.

This strategy is centered on Manjushri, maximizing Manjushri's combat advantage, and even if the enemy knows the Buddha's intentions, they will have to intercept.

Overall, it is simple but practical, forcing the other party to respond.

Jiang Li also accepted the challenge, but his response was unexpected. He released the drought demon to wreak havoc on Guanyin's path, and even wanted to destroy the areas that had been saved.

Threatening Manjusri with heavenly punishment, Jiang Li ambushed in secret to block the middle road.

Then, all the remaining three ranks were sent to Tan Wuwei's group, in an effort to liberate this third rank cultivator who could foresee the future.

From passively accepting attacks to actively attacking, the strategy of the Buddhist country was broken.

"I said that day that Jiang Sikong was a cruel and ruthless person. Others might not kill his followers, but he definitely would."

Tan Wuwei remained calm in the face of the three-way siege. Facing the gazes and auras of the three, he said, "Back then, 360,000 members of the Taiping Sect were disabled by Jiang Li's poisonous rain and eventually died in the aftermath of the war. Now, at most another 360,000 will die. This time is a new experience, and the second time is familiar. For that person, it may be just like wiping out a group of ants, and he won't take it to heart at all. With the drought demon wreaking havoc, who knows how many people will die on the scorched earth."

It seemed to be compassion, but also with a hint of sarcasm, which made the three people surrounding him frown.

But these three are not ordinary people. Even if they feel reluctant, they will not be provoked at this moment.

"Wuwei, your rhetoric skills are still amazing. You are worthy of being the best debater in our Mo Sect."

Mo Xuankong's tone was slightly cold, "It's a pity that the Mobian technique that was once used to uphold justice has now changed its meaning. Jiang Sikong's methods may be a little too cruel, but isn't it because you are practicing evil ways and trying to save the people that he did this? Even if you are guilty, the sin is first on you, don't confuse right and wrong and change the concept."

As soon as he finished speaking, three sharp sword forces locked onto Tan Wuwei at the same time, blocking all his escape routes.

(End of this chapter)