Troubled times: Start practicing spiritual practice by taking care of your sister-in-law.

Chapter 619: Six Hundred and Fifty One: Formation, Identification of Conspiracy
It was at this moment that Zhou Qin felt the innate spiritual energy in his body dissipating bit by bit.

"This is?"

Just as Zhou Qin was wondering, Butler Le had already slapped him. He was shocked and frantically mobilized his innate spiritual energy to block the slap from Butler Le.

"Pfft."

The disparity in strength and the sudden change caused him to be slapped away by Butler Le. After falling to the ground, he rolled for a distance and a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth.

Just when Zhou Qin was trying to get up with difficulty, Butler Le suddenly appeared in front of Zhou Qin and crushed his head with one foot.

From beginning to end, Butler Le only used the power of his physical body and did not use the innate spiritual energy in his body.

Afterwards, Steward Le followed the same method to deal with other officials.

Although the other officials felt something was strange, they still subconsciously resisted Butler Le's sudden attack. This was the body's instinct.

Heaven Prison.

All the royal family members of the Song Dynasty who are above the lower-rank warrior level in Luonan are imprisoned here.

In the cell, from time to time, the angry shouts of royal family members cursing Lu Sheng for being a traitor and a traitor could be heard.

Although these royal family members had no power in the court and their official positions were only honorary, their bloodlines destined them to be superior to those ministers and their status was higher than that of the ministers.

Even today when the imperial power is in decline, the ministers are still friendly to them on the surface.

Even when Xu Guozhong was still alive, he would not treat them like this, let alone lock them up in the Sky Prison.

Not only that, everyone was tied up with special ropes.

"Pounds."

At this moment, the door of the sky prison was opened, and a team of soldiers hurried in.

The royal family members who were cursing just now now shut their mouths and lowered their heads.

"Prepare."

The captain of this team of soldiers came in front of King Zhao Chuyue and said in a deep voice.

The soldiers drew their bows and arrows, aiming at Chu Yue who was tied up in the cell.

The clan member in the nearby cell saw this and immediately shouted, "How dare you! What are you going to do?"

Chu Yue also shouted: "How dare you! I am a royal relative. It was Lu Sheng who asked them to come. Even if you want to kill me, you need the imperial decree from His Majesty."

However, the captain of the armored soldiers seemed not to have heard Chu Yue's words, and waved his hand: "Release."

Dozens of arrows shot towards Chu Yue.

Chu Yue's face changed drastically, and he frantically circulated the innate spiritual energy in his body. However, the ropes tied around his body suppressed it, and it was unable to protect his body. Soon he was shot into a hedgehog.

After confirming that Chu Yue was dead, a soldier opened the iron door of the cell, walked in, and untied the ropes on the body.

If you sense it carefully, you will find that wisps of innate spiritual energy are being drawn away from Chu Yue's body.

After this special rope is made, it is soaked in the blood of warriors, which has a suppressive effect on warriors. However, the suppression range is limited, and top-grade warriors will not be able to withstand it.

Moreover, people who are tied up with special ropes can also circulate and mobilize the innate spiritual energy in their bodies, but they are unable to release it due to the suppression of the ropes.

Just before Chu Yue died, the innate spiritual energy in his body was in a state of operation. After he died, the various functions of his body were still maintained for a short time, and it would take some time before they would completely stop working.

So after the rope was untied, the innate spiritual energy in the body was released, lingering around Chu Yue's body, and finally a little bit was swallowed up by the Soul-Devouring Formation and transmitted back to the center of the formation.

……

The imperial guards were crowded on the streets of Zhuque Street. After all, Lu Xuan, Lu San and others did not inform Chen Jun of the ambush in the city in advance. When they arrived, the vanguard of Chen Jun had already fought with the ambushed Lu Jun.

These imperial guards were the defeated soldiers gathered by the butler Le of the prime minister's residence. They changed direction and confronted the Chen army.

When the main force of Chen Jun saw this scene, they immediately stepped forward to provide support.

"Dong dong dong..."

Drums sounded, and it was the sword and shield soldiers in the rattan armor army who rushed up, led by Jiang Li himself. They held large shields and ring-handled swords, and followed Jiang Li, who held a horse lance in one hand, and advanced along the road.

Behind them, there were even more Rattan Armor Army and Chen Army armed with spears, but they did not all rush forward. Instead, they kept a distance of several dozen steps.

The street is so wide that piling all of them up there would do more harm than good. Their role is to fill the gaps that appear when there are heavy casualties at the front.

However, Jiang Li personally led the team to fight. As a fourth-rank warrior, he could kill several people with every swing of his lance, breaking their bones and sweeping them flying several feet away.

The speed of the heavy rain was not even as fast as the speed of bleeding. As soon as the rain hit the ground, it turned into blood, dyeing the bluestone streets red.

The enemy army retreated step by step, and Chen's army pressed forward step by step.

At this moment, the ground suddenly shook, and the tiles of the houses on both sides of the street fell to the ground and broke into several pieces.

Then the ground cracked, and ground water gushed out from the cracks. Someone was swallowed by the cracks. When his comrade next to him tried to pull him out, the ground under his feet suddenly cracked, and the two of them fell in together.

The sudden change startled both sides and they mistakenly thought it was an earthquake.

Jiang Li also thought so, but soon, he felt an invisible external force draining the innate spiritual energy from his body.

Jiang Li's face changed, not knowing what had happened.

At this time, on the branch road next to Suzaku Avenue, Butler Le led Lu Sheng's personal soldiers and rushed over, shouting angrily: "Kill!"

At this moment, even if Butler Le did not use his innate spiritual energy, he was no match for ordinary people just by relying on his own physical strength.

"whoosh"

But the moment he showed his head, he fell to the ground with a thud, with an arrow stuck in the middle of his forehead. His mouth was slightly open as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, no words came out. His eyes were wide open, and he died with his eyes open.

Lu Sheng's personal soldiers behind him were frightened by this scene, but they did not shrink back and dare to move forward. After a brief hesitation, they continued to rush forward.

There was no need for Jiang Li and the others to be distracted. The Rattan Armor Army and the Chen Army that were raiding the formation behind them separated a group of troops and rushed forward to kill them in an orderly manner.

Before that, Chen's army separated some archers and crossbowmen, who climbed up to some commanding heights on both sides of Zhuque Street. Holding strong bows and crossbows, they killed the imperial guards in groups of three or two from a high position, helping Jiang Li and others share the pressure.

Now that Lu Sheng's personal soldiers from the branch road were coming to attack, these archers instantly changed direction and suppressed them first, shooting them so that they kept dodging.

At this moment, the separated Rattan Armor Army and Chen Army rushed in front of them, crashed into their formation that was disrupted by the rain of arrows, and stabbed them mercilessly.

Chen Mo, who put down his bow and arrow, also noticed something strange about the sudden "earthquake" in the city. But when he was wondering what was happening, the innate spiritual energy in his body began to leave his body involuntarily.

The snow dragon horse under him also let out an uneasy cry.

Chen Mogang thought it was some special "martial arts attack" and quickly mobilized his innate spiritual energy to defend himself, but it was of no use. Instead, the feeling of being sucked away became even stronger.

His face changed, and he looked around to see what had happened. Suddenly, he found a potted plant on the windowsill of a house. The green plant on the potted plant turned yellow and withered at a speed visible to the naked eye.

This word suddenly popped up in Chen Mo's mind, and he remembered the Soul-Devouring Formation he had encountered in Xia Lin. It seemed very similar to the scene at the moment.

But after thinking about it for a while, when I was in Xia Lin, I didn’t realize that the Soul-Devouring Array could absorb other people’s innate spiritual energy?
He immediately stopped practicing the technique and tried to gather his innate spiritual energy, but found that it was useless. The innate spiritual energy in his body was still being drained away bit by bit.

If there was a detailed progress bar, Chen Mo's innate spiritual energy would only be 80% left at this moment.

Of course, the 20% consumed was not all absorbed by the Soul Devouring Formation. When attacking the city and dealing with Lu Sheng just now, plus the arrow just now, at least 15% was consumed.

But even so, in just a short period of time, 5% was taken away by the Soul Devouring Array, which was extremely terrifying.

You know, the capacity of Chen Mo's Dantian is at least several times larger than that of a warrior at the same level.

If it were someone else, wouldn’t they have taken away most of the profits?

Chen Mo quickly looked at Jiang Li and found that the red number on his forehead had dropped to 700, a drop of more than .

He quickly turned around and looked at Nalan Yiren.

2223, no change at all.

Xia Zhining too.

"What's wrong?" Nalan Yiren looked at Chen Mo who was staring at her and asked puzzledly.

"Why don't you try to practice your skills and release your innate spiritual energy?" Chen Mo said.

"???"

Although Nalan Yiren felt confused, she still gave it a try. After all, it was not an embarrassing move.

But soon, Nalan Yiren felt something and her expression changed slightly: "What did you do to me?"

Xia Zhining looked over.

"Do you feel that the innate spiritual energy in your body is being drained away bit by bit?" Chen Mo said.

"What on earth did you do to me?" Seeing that what Chen Mo said was right, Nalan Yiren believed that Chen Mo had done something to her and started to scold her angrily.

"My lord, I also feel that the innate spiritual energy in my body is being drained away bit by bit." Sun Meng, who was drawing his bow and arrow to mobilize his innate spiritual energy to act as a shooter, suddenly realized something and spoke quickly.

"not good."

At this time, Chen Mo finally understood what was going on with the strange feeling he had felt before entering the city.

Facing the puzzled looks of Xia Zhining, Nalan Yiren, Sun Meng and others, Chen Mo did not explain too much. When he was about to order a withdrawal, he suddenly thought that if he withdrew at this time, the good situation would be reversed.

He also realized that lower-level warriors and ordinary people who were unable to absorb innate spiritual energy would not be affected at all.

After all, there is no innate spiritual energy in the body, so it cannot be extracted at all.

He looked at Sun Meng, then moved to a personal soldier and said, "You, quickly inform General Yue and General Wu and ask them if their innate spiritual energy is also being extracted. If so, have them evacuate quickly. Remember, have them evacuate individually and don't disturb the main army."

At this time, Nalan Yiren also realized that the reason might not be Chen Mo's.

Without Chen Mo saying anything, she jumped off her horse, turned around and jumped onto a roof, and then after a few jumps, she was dozens of feet away from Chen Mo.

"Zhi Ning, you stay here to command first. Be careful not to advance rashly. Be careful." After Chen Mo said this to Xia Zhi Ning, he said something to Sun Meng, asking him to withdraw from the city as well.

Then Chen Mo jumped up from the horse's back, and after landing on the ground, he tapped the ground with his toes, and then jumped again. While spinning in the air, he performed the Yunyou Step, and his feet lightly stepped on the raindrops. After a few steps, he landed on Jiang Li's warhorse.

Jiang Li felt something and just as he turned around, he was picked up by Chen Mo.

Chen Mo lightly tapped his feet and flew into the air. At the same time, the Tang sword hanging on his waist was instantly pulled out and swung quickly in front of him.

"The big sun cuts with one breath!"

A terrifying invisible blade light fell into the enemy army, hundreds of people were cut in half, and blood and flesh flew everywhere.

The street was completely cleared out.

Chen Mo didn't stay for long and retreated with Jiang Li.

After leaving Zhuque Street, Chen Mo let Jiang Li go.

At this time, Chen Mo discovered that the speed at which the innate spiritual energy in his body was being extracted began to slow down.

Chen Mo asked Jiang Li and found that he felt the same way.

"Duke Anguo, what happened?" Jiang Li asked.

"Let's talk about it after we get out." Chen Mo said without staying any longer.

……

South Gate.

Diwu Fusheng and Liu Ji, who were guarding outside the city, saw Chen Mo, Jiang Li and Sun Meng running out of the city and hurried forward to greet them.

The Fifth Fusheng said, "Duke Anguo, something happened in the city. Why is the ground shaking?"

"Yes, Duke Anguo, there was no accident, right?" Liu Ji asked.

Before Chen Mo could speak, Jiang Li behind him said in surprise: "Duke Anguo, that feeling is gone."

Jiang Li discovered that the innate spiritual energy in his body was no longer leaving his body uncontrollably.

Chen Mo also discovered this and said, "I suspect that Lu Sheng activated the Soul Devouring Array. What happened in the city is almost the same as the Soul Devouring Array I encountered in Xia Lin. The only difference is that it can actually absorb the innate spiritual energy in me and General Jiang."

"What, Soul Devouring Formation?!"

As soon as Chen Mo finished speaking, Diwu Fusheng, Liu Ji, and Jiang Li were all shocked. Diwu Fusheng frowned. Their ancestor was a loyal minister of Emperor Taizu and had participated in the arrangement of the Soul Devouring Array of Emperor Taizu. Naturally, he knew how terrifying the Soul Devouring Array was.

He wondered, "The energy of the dragon veins under Luonan has long been drained by Emperor Taizu. Even if it is restarted, it can only draw the innate spiritual energy between heaven and earth. Lu Sheng wants to form a formation to break through..."

As he spoke, Diwu Fusheng thought of what Chen Mo said, "It can actually absorb the innate spiritual energy in me and General Jiang." He immediately raised his eyebrows and said, "Lu Sheng must have obtained the formation diagram of the Soul Devouring Formation and changed the way it operates. He wants to use the innate spiritual energy in the warriors' bodies to make up for the lack of dragon vein energy."

"Not good, Lu Sheng wants to take that step by this means." Liu Ji's face changed.

Chen Mo also realized that the situation was not good. If Lu Sheng broke through to the first level, then everything would be over.

Emperor Taizu was able to turn the tide because he broke through to the first-grade warrior.

"By the way, where is Miss Nalan?"

(End of this chapter)