Rebirth of the Stars

Ning Yuan thought for a while, and temporarily let go of his inexplicable worry.

Even if someone enters the secret realm, there can only be one person. And if there is only one person, it is basically impossible to catch up with Ning Yuan's progress unless they have a good understanding of this secret realm. Even if the person who came has great magical powers, the trap passage in front can pass through extremely quickly, and the ice and fire passage will take at least seven days.

"At least seven days." Ning Yuan thought of this, and the urgency in his heart eased slightly.

No time was wasted. While adjusting his breath, Ning Yuan constantly sensed the mountain spirit aura between the heavens and the earth, capturing the mountain spirit's aura.

Any artistic conception move is a process of harmony. But to converge, you have to perceive, capture, understand, and integrate this meaning. This is true regardless of the meaning of weapons such as spear intent and sword intent, or the meaning of mountains and rivers such as mountains and lakes, or the meaning of elements such as earth, fire, water and wind. The so-called fusion is the process of understanding the way of heaven and earth.

"The Great Mountain Power" was an opportunity and a turning point for Ning Yuan to get a glimpse of the subtleties of the heaven and the earth, and it could also be said that it was an opportunity for him to understand what cultivation is.

Even though the sentient beings in the Age of the End of Dharma know about cultivation, they know that the so-called cultivation is the process of gaining powerful and extraordinary power, but if you really understand what cultivation is, it really looks at the level of ordinary sentient beings.

As for cultivation, Ning Yuan knows it like most ordinary beings but does not know why it is, and may not even "know it."

There are usually three sayings about practice.

One is to say that "practice is to cultivate the mind." The key is the word "heart". But this "heart" is clear that no one can explain.

The second theory is "cultivation means comprehension." The key is the word "true". But this "reality" is also unexplained.

The third is "practice is to cultivate the Tao." The key is the word "Tao". However, no one can clearly explain the meaning of "Tao" and what is "Tao".

For Ning Yuan, these three statements seem to be very reasonable. Although the emphasis is different, the meanings they want to express seem to be the same.

Therefore, he initially understood that cultivation is the integration of "cultivation of the mind", "cultivation" and "cultivation of the Tao". And this "heart", this "reality", this "dao" is what he needs to understand.

The "mountain power" contains the "mountain avenue" in the end. This has been understood since he understood what a "big mountain power" is. In the course of constant practice and display, Ning Yuan also had a slight understanding of "The Way of the Mountain", and what he had to do now was to deepen this understanding.

According to the unknown tricks passed down by his father and the deduction of "Yaoyan", the best way to understand "Tao" is to start with "intention". The best way to comprehend "intention" is to "melt in." Capture the "meaning" between heaven and earth and integrate it into your own soul. With "soul and will melt heaven."

This method has been naturally mastered from the first time Ning Yuan perceives his vitality through visualization. When he practiced the Three-Edged Spear Technique, he used the exercises of the spear technique, breathing and visualizing the Qi diagram of the Three-Edged Spear Technique to guide the process of the Heaven and Earth Yuan Qi flow around his body. And the vitality that was absorbed into the sea of ​​qi is the vitality that the Triangle Spear Art needs.

Although this process is Ning Yuan's initiative, in fact most of the process is passive. In fact, the so-called exercise has almost only played a guiding role.

Confusion is different. "Mongyi" requires Ning Yuan to take the initiative to visualize, to perceive the "intention" flowing between heaven and earth, to analyze and understand which "meaning" he needs, and then to shake it through his own will and spirit to capture what he needs. "Intention" integrates "them" into their own will and spirit to comprehend their "heart", their "truth", and their "dao".

This is not destined to happen overnight.

After adjusting his state to Consummation, Ning Yuan got up and started another challenge.

Challenge, rest, challenge again, and so on.

I have to say, "It is better to be beaten for three days in one year of empty training", which makes some sense.

Actual combat is indeed the best way to cultivate and grow for some people.

In the afternoon three days later, Ning Yuan finally broke through the gatekeeper's defense for the first time with a "big mountain" after pulling away the gatekeeper's spear with skill.

Although it only caused small pieces of damage to the enamel layer of the gatekeeper's chest, it was also a great encouragement to Ning Yuan.

After resting again, Ning Yuan stepped into the gatekeeper's attack range with his gun. At the moment when the gatekeeper's spear struck, he stepped forward, slew the gun and knocked the body of the gatekeeper's spear into the earthy wrist of its gun.

When the gatekeeper closed his gun while defending, he looked at him with a serious look, and a vague aura floated. The spear in his hand suddenly seemed to heavier a lot. The smoke-ring-like air ripples, stepping forward, Ning Yuan's spear slowed down. Slowly roll out.

"Great mountain."

This shot is Ning Yuan's pinnacle shot so far, and it also contains all his comprehensions of the "big mountains" trick so far.

As deduced by "Yao Yan", the shot that stirred up the air ripples passed through under the intercepting spear slowly and quickly, and the inclined upward spear shattered the enamel layer at the gatekeeper's head-body junction where the gun power was enveloped. Steady into the exposed core.

The gatekeeper's spear that struck Ning Yuan's body stopped, the majestic expression on his face, which was different from that of the other earth puppets, dimmed, and his body functions completely stopped. At this time, the point of the gatekeeper's gun was only half a foot away from Ning Yuan's neck. The wind pressure brought by the super strong force caused Ning Yuan's neck to arouse layers of concave contours, and the feeling of breathlessness made Ning Yuan's face turn blue.

"Huh!" Ning Yuan took a step back, took a long breath, raised his hand to touch his neck and gasped for a few breaths.

When Ning Yuan's breath calmed down, he suppressed the nervous "banging" heartbeat in his chest, his face was already covered with cold sweat.

I didn't feel it during the battle, but after reacting, I realized that I was on the verge of death again.

After a while, after being afraid, Ning Yuanyou suddenly chuckled, his face filled with confidence and excitement.

After a short break, Ning Yuan came to the standing gatekeeper and tried to take off the spear in his hand. After breaking by, I found that the spear didn't move at all.

Ning Yuan frowned and checked the storage finger. It was already filled with all kinds of weapons, including the iron bow with the scar which was systematically shown as "Tie Ling", and the thin scar with the name "Xianqi". Daggers, as well as the more sophisticated eighteen weapons in the maze.

"Forget it, lest you have to lose some when you don't have enough space." Ning Yuan Yao said to himself.

Then he stopped paying attention to the gatekeeper's spear, and looked at the gatekeeper's chest with a faintly visible shell panel. Take out the thin scar and insert the dagger into the gap and carefully pry it outward.

"I didn't pay attention in the boundary line, I don't know if there is something hidden?" Ning Yuan thought while prying.

"Basics of Puppet Manufacturing (Earth Puppet: A basic book that records the methods of making puppets of the earth puppet type, edited by Qin Qiao, chief puppet master of the "Qin" Alliance. Qin Qiao: The first female puppet master in the history of Longshan Domain, known as the "Puppet Female Maharaja".

Ning Yuan looked at the jade book in his hand, his eyes lit up. These puppets may be inadequate for offense, but they are a good choice for defense.

After packing up the spoils, Ning Yuan bypassed the huge body of the mud puppet gatekeeper and stepped into the one-way Dunjia gate at the exit of the maze.

After passing Dunjia Gate, Ning Yuan entered a stone house with only Zhang Xu's radius.

In the middle of the stone house is a sand table surrounded by an enchantment. On the ground in front of the sand table, there is a round stone dish, which is a stone futon. The stone disc was engraved with inexplicable runes, faintly glowing.

Ning Yuan raised his brows, his expression was unexpected and he seemed to have expected it.

A great deviation finally appeared between the boundary line memory and reality.

There is no such stone house in Ning Yuan's memory of the boundary line, and the stone forest that contains coercion should be reached through the labyrinth in his memory. That is a place that can make people completely collapse, but also can make people's spiritual will grow greatly.

However, Ning Yuan had long known that such a huge deviation would occur sooner or later when the boundary line was different. This is determined by the boundary line itself, as well as by the choices of sentient beings themselves.

Therefore, although Huang Sheng can have the advantage of foresight in certain things, he will never be worshipped as a "prophet" by sentient beings. Because the memory of Huangsheng's boundary line has always only been of reference value and not much value of unpredictable prophets.

This is why Ning Yuan calls Huangsheng's chance a "gambling".

Although there is no memory of this place in the memory of the boundary line, Ning Yuan can easily guess what he needs to do with the simple settings in the house.

When the Zhuxing Coalition Government announced that it would start the "Rebirth Plan", Ning Yuan spent a long time to supplement some of the spiritual knowledge left over from the ancient and ancient times.

Thanks to the non-ordinary family background of the Ning family, Ning Yuan has read a lot of the records about runes left by the Xianxia and Xianshen eras.

Ning Yuan just knew the rune on the stone dish in front of him.

"Guide the soul", "guide the soul" and "attach the soul".

Undoubtedly, the function of the stone dish is to separate the user's consciousness from the body and throw it into the "sandbox" in front of him and attach himself to a certain existence, to complete a certain trial with the identity of this existence.

Ning Yuan thought for a while, then looked at the stone house, but found no means to leave the stone house.

"It seems that I can only go in and walk for a while." Ning Yuan said calmly to himself.

Ning Yuan was obviously a little different after passing through the maze of earth puppets, compared with the caution, caution, nervousness, and anxiety of entering the secret realm.

The most obvious thing is that Ning Yuan has become confident. It's not the arrogance and slack after taking the White Skull Grass in Long Sen, or the hilarious and arrogant after pitting Scar and others, but the true self-confidence. Confidence in grasping one's own strength and confidence in passing trials.

It's not blindness, but a stable mentality.

Ning Yuan put the somewhat inconvenient three-row cold iron gun into the storage and pulled his finger. After adjusting his breath a little, he sat cross-legged on the stone dish.

After Ning Yuan sat on the stone dish, the stone dish under him lit up a mask to cover Ning Yuan, and then Ning Yuan felt his consciousness begin to leave his body.

Ning Yuan lowered his head and "looked" at his calm body while sitting cross-legged, and was wrapped in a force and threw it toward the "sandbox" barrier in front of him.

When Ning Yuan came back to his senses, his consciousness was no longer in the stone house, but in a chaotic camp. He raised his hand to look, touched his face and body, and took a photo with a glass of undrinked water on the low table next to him, and found that he had become a seven-footed man in armor. The armor was full of scratches, and there were even wet blood dripping along the edges of the armor. A long, blood-stained knife was stuck on the ground beside him.

Just as Ning Yuan was thinking about the identity of the brawny man he was in, a **** sergeant who looked like a soldier rushed into the camp, bowed his head and knelt three steps away in front of him, and said loudly: "Report! Your lord, chasing behind him. The enemy has already fought with our front battalion, and there are also enemy troops on both sides. There are many enemy troops. Our soldiers have long been exhausted and morale is low. The outnumbered people have been retreating. Vice-General Zhao inferred that the battalion soldiers would have been at most a quarter of an hour ago. It will collapse, so please make a decision quickly."

The big man possessed by Ning Yuan raised his eyebrows, and just wanted to ask, a memory that did not belong to him poured into his consciousness.

In the process of closing his eyes and digesting this memory, Ning Yuan finally gained a little understanding of his own situation and this trial.

However, after understanding his own situation, Ning Yuan's heart became heavy in vain.

Opening his eyes, Ning Yuan pondered for a while, then opened his mouth and asked:

"Has the guard camp assembled?"

Chuan Lingbing raised his head and reported: "It has been assembled outside the accounts."

"Behind you is the homeland." Ning Yuan, who looked like a big man, took a deep breath and sighed in a hoarse and difficult voice.

According to the information instilled, this was a city-state war that took place in the 7264 year of the city-state calendar, which is more than 3,000 years ago. The two city-states at war were the small city-state "Xiuyuan City" and the medium-sized city-state "Iron Zhicheng".

The big man possessed by Ning Yuan was the lord of the small city-state "Xiuyuan City", and Fan Xiu, a knife practitioner who had just entered the ranks of the school.

According to memory, in this war, "Iron Zhicheng" was the offensive side who initiated the war, while "Xiuyuan City" was the defensive side who had no choice but to fight.

"Xiuyuan City" is a small city-state with a population of just over 150,000, with a left and right army. However, about 7,000 of these people are full-time garrison troops. The other 7,000 are logistic and security forces, including servicing, inspection, and security. Only 8,000 can be used for foreign operations. And two-thirds of all soldiers are recruits who have just turned normal.

Tiezhicheng is a medium-sized city-state with a population of 800,000, and there are plenty of troops on the bright side. Among them, the city defense army, the security force, the logistics organization, and the soldiers used for foreign operations are sufficient. And because Tiezhicheng has always been a very aggressive city-state, more than half of the soldiers are veterans who have experienced at least one or two wars.

Comparing the data between the two parties, there is no doubt that "Xiuyuan City" is at an absolute disadvantage. Theoretically speaking, such a military comparison, "Xiuyuan City" is undoubtedly defeated.

However, war is not something you can't fight without knowing that you will lose. Especially when others come to invade you and want to kill your people and relatives.

But it depends on how to fight.

Although "Xiuyuan City" had just been upgraded to a small city-state, it only took one or two years. However, thanks to the influence of the large-scale and occasionally small-scale "beast tides" that erupted on the Nieno continent twice a year, the walls of "Xiuyuan City" were still solid.

If you concentrate on defense, there is still a slim chance to survive. Moreover, as a member of the "Qin" alliance, "Xiuyuan City" had already sent a message to the alliance city-states for help after receiving the information. Therefore, as long as it can survive the opponent's attack for half a month, "Xiuyuan City" will have a certain opportunity to wait to support the attack to repel the "Iron Child City" or even counterattack with the help of allies.

However, just when the Han Fan Xiu and the staff of the "Xiuyuan City" plan to use the city defenses of the "Xiuyuan City" to fight a defensive battle with the first group of offensive troops from the "Iron Zhicheng", the latest The intelligence of the people is to make everyone's heart tighten and scalp numb.

According to intelligence, several special troops appeared in the first offensive troops of "Iron Zhicheng". And it was these special forces that made the strategy of the "Xiuyuan City" defensive battle almost aborted as soon as it was implemented.

Five-headed siege behemoths, a large group of mountain destroyers, a curved wood spirit unit, and a battalion of large spear-making units.

The scientific name of the siege behemoth is "Rakaroff's Behemoth", which is the largest among the tamable spirit beasts of mankind. An adult "Lakarov Behemoth" can grow up to fifty feet long, a hundred and twenty feet long, and a width of nearly twenty feet. It is a veritable behemoth.

The Mountain Destroyer Force is a special force with the characteristic "Mountain Destruction". All troops with characteristics are elite. The effect of the "destroying mountain" feature is to double the damage to the city defense. When using heavy weapons, especially heavy blunt weapons such as a single siege hammer, there is a certain chance to cause a crushing blow to the city defense.

It can be said that the first two troops have made the defense of "Xiuyuan City" in vain, making Fan Xiu and the high-level people desperate, then the latter two troops will completely make Fan Xiu and others face ashamed.

Wood spirit troops refer to troops composed entirely of wood spirit tribes, or troops composed entirely of wood warlock professionals. Both the wood spirit tribe and the wood warlock have an ability that makes people both enviable and fearful. That is "plant manipulation".

The "plant communication" and "plant alienation" of the Wood Spirit tribe belong to the category of racial talents, and belong to the natural awakening talents of the Wood Spirit tribe.

The "Plant Giving" of wood warlocks is a basic professional ability, and basically every practitioner who is employed by wood warlocks can master it.

The "plant manipulation" ability of the Wood Spirit forces allows most of the siege infantry to ignore the existence of the city wall, because the plants being manipulated are the natural "cloud ladders" of the siege infantry. Moreover, this kind of "cloud ladder" can grow on the city wall, and can have some special abilities according to the plant seeds used, such as fire prevention, oil absorption, and even active defense and attack capabilities.

Finally, the large-scale spear-refining unit. Large-scale refining guns are called "gas refining ballistas." It is a double-operated air refining firearm. The refining spear uses the source stone as the power, and is excited by the runes engraved on the small turbine, which can launch suitable ammunition. It is a powerful weapon that mortals can skillfully use. The range of large refining spears is usually between five and twenty-five miles. Of course, beyond the visual range of the attack requires the appropriate detection means to cooperate. However, any gas refining firearm is the most powerful at close range.

One can imagine the effect of a powerful firearm that can shoot 25 miles away from a human body at close range.

If it were just the Siege Behemoth and the Mountain Destroyer, even though Fan Xiu and others were desperate, it was not impossible. The siege behemoth has a gentle temperament, and can only play a role under the control of the rider. As long as the driver is killed, the siege behemoth will leave the full-blooded battlefield on its own. Although the mountain destroyer is powerful, it belongs to infantry after all, and there is only one brigade, that is, a hundred people, as long as they use their range to sniper and kill before the opponent rushes into the city wall. After all, arms like this are usually easy to recognize.

What really made everyone feel ashamed was the wood spirit unit with the song as the unit and the large spear-making unit with the battalion as the unit.

In the city-state army system of the Nieno continent, the number of troops is divided into seven types of titles: five, ashes, brigade, qu, battalion, division, and army.

Five people and one team, ten people, one team, twenty people, one squadron, one hundred people, one group, three hundred people, one battalion, 800 people, one battalion, four battalions and two squadrons, one division, that is Three thousand eight hundred places. The ten divisions, two battalions and four brigades are one army, which means that the first army has exactly 40,000 places.

That is to say, there are 300 people in the wood spirit army, and 800 people in the large-scale spear refining unit. Because the large-scale refining spear requires two people to operate, the actual number is doubled to 1,600 people.

If the wood spirit army is not composed of the wood spirit tribe who has condensed the "qi seed", it is completely composed of at least the mid-soldier cultivator. Because only the mid-soldier cultivator who has condensed a sea of ​​energy has the opportunity to become a warlock. The warlock profession is the only regular profession among practitioners that can obtain attribute abilities at the human level except for certain awakening talents.

To be honest, Fan Xiu would not be surprised that an ordinary medium-sized city-state has one or two of these four arms. However, Fan Xiu absolutely did not believe that four wood spirit troops, composed entirely of practitioners, and large spear refining troops that needed huge resources, appeared in the organization of Quhe battalions.

In other words, this war is not just a unilateral act of war by the "Iron Child City", it also has a bigger hand pushing it behind the scenes.

Its target is not only his small "Xiuyuan City" but probably the entire "Qin" Alliance.

This is a guess that Ning Yuan deduced after digesting the meaning of the comparison of strength between the two sides and the meaning of the enemy's arms in his memory. And he believes that eight or nine are inseparable from ten.

The current war is only the first step.

Thinking like this, Ning Yuan continued to digest the next memory information.

But when everyone in the upper class of "Xiuyuan City" was racking their brains to break the deadlock, the latest investigation information sent back by our detective riding a horse made Fan Xiu and others suddenly see a glimmer of dawn in the dead. The dawn of hope.

Intelligence shows that perhaps because of their extreme confidence in their own combat power, or because of the difference in the strength of the two sides, the other side did not pay attention to "Xiuyuan City" at all.

In short, I don’t know what the opponent thinks. The siege behemoth troops walk in front of all the troops because of their body size and the huge stepping distance. The mountain destroyers are small and short-legged infantry, so they sit directly in the siege. The body of the behemoth.

The wood spirit troops and large spear-refining troops are located in the middle of the team, surrounded by a large number of infantry regiments and protected in the center.

The cavalry troops followed closely to lead the way on both sides of the siege behemoth. The infantry unit was behind the cavalry.

That said, there is no problem. The real problem is that the distance between the cavalry unit and the infantry unit in the rear is so large that it can be said to be completely out of touch. However, even so, the cavalry unit did not have the slightest intention of waiting for the infantry to keep up.

What the entire intelligence expresses is that this time the enemy army will arrive in two waves, a wave of 5,000 cavalry troops, including war monsters and mountain destroyers. One wave includes all the long-range archer troops, logistic support troops and most of the infantry troops, including the wood spirit troops, large-scale spear-refining troops and so on. The intelligence estimated that the time interval between the arrival of the two waves of enemy forces was at least five days.

At an interval of at least five days, this allowed Fan Xiu and others to see a certain opportunity, an opportunity to use the time difference to completely wipe out the opposing cavalry unit and the two siege units.