Chapter 1140 Counterattack
Li Zhirui quickly glanced at the contents of the jade slip, and finally put his heart at ease.
The immortal forces south of Dongyuan Sect had some wins and some losses, but he was not very concerned, because it was too far away from the Li family and it was difficult to affect the Li family's strategy.
Only the sea area cleared by Dongyuan Sect was the target that Li Zhirui was most concerned about.
Because if they could not win, the island chain defense line established by the Li family would not be able to stop the attack of the sea clan at all. They could only choose to abandon this station that they had spent a lot of effort to build, retreat to Liangxia Xiancheng, and endure the angry counterattack of the sea clan.
Fortunately, although Dongyuan Sect failed to drive away the sea clan and take over the sea area, it also had a great advantage, and perhaps good news would be received soon.
Li Zhirui was now waiting for the news in a very peaceful state of mind, while paying attention to the clearing of the sea clan behind the island chain. The former was still unknown, but the latter had received good news one after another.
It's normal to think about it. The area behind the island chain is the sea area closest to Dongzhou. Although there are many water monsters there, they are not strong. Even the water monsters in the scattered fairyland can't be found.
With this kind of strength, how can they resist the countless cultivators who are coming in full force?
A few days later, in the more than 400 miles of sea between the island chain and Dongzhou, the countless water monsters were either dead or escaped, but now there are almost no water monsters!
Moreover, in this clearing operation, the casualties of the cultivators were very few, and everyone had a satisfied and happy smile on their faces.
After all, this battle was not a big threat to them, but a great harvest.
On the other side, Li Zhirui led Jiang Fengwu, Mu Yuan and other scattered immortals to confront the scattered immortal water monsters of the sea clan. They fought each other tentatively. Both sides knew that they could not solve each other, so they were quite restrained, as if waiting for something.
The water monsters were waiting for the base camp in the rear to send more of their own kind, especially those from the scattered fairyland, because these surviving water monsters had witnessed Li Zhirui's surrender to Changchuan.
Li Zhirui and his men were waiting for news from the Dongyuan Sect in the south.
If they won, then this time, the strategy of taking advantage of the weakness of the sea clan to seize the offshore area would be very likely to be realized!
But if they failed, they would also have to evacuate smoothly and safely at the first time to preserve their strength.
Two flowers bloom, each with its own beauty.
The Dongyuan Sect, which the Li family was concerned about, now had an absolute advantage. Unless the sea clan could send out a few more earth immortals and human immortals, it would no longer be able to reverse the decline.
But it was obvious that the sea clan in this sea area had no extra strength.
And they also realized this very serious problem, and they inevitably had the idea of retreating and running away. Anyway, they couldn't beat them, so it was better to keep their useful bodies and wait for the sea clan to send support, and then deal with the Dongyuan Sect together.
However, there was a water demon from the Earth Immortal Sect who was unwilling to retreat and hand over the entire sea area to the Dongyuan Sect.
So it did something that made the Dongyuan Sect monks grit their teeth and wish they could cut it into pieces, that is, it ordered all the sea creatures to extract the spirit veins, destroy the islands, and even control the low-level water demons to directly destroy the spirit veins!
"Damn it!"
"Evil beast!"
"Stop it now!"
The immortal monks of the Dongyuan Sect saw the actions of the water demons and instantly became furious, and the raging anger broke out in their hearts.
The people who originally did not intend to fight them for the time being could not suppress the anger in their hearts. They rushed up at the fastest speed, using their most powerful means to stop and kill the water demons that destroyed the spirit veins.
Without the spirit veins, they could not gain a foothold in this sea area; without the islands, they would not even have a place to stand!
Although both spirit veins and islands can be created, this process will not only consume a large number of spirit objects, but also time, and in this process, a large number of monks invested their energy!
You know, after Dongyuan Sect took over this sea area, it must restore the status of the monks as quickly as possible to resist the upcoming counterattack of the sea clan.
But after the destruction of these water monsters, many monks had to drag their tired and exhausted bodies to build, build garrisons and defenses from scratch, so there was no time to rest and recover.
In this state, how can they resist the aggressive sea clan?
Under the power of a group of fairyland monks, the water monsters, who were already defeated, fled in a panic, causing greater casualties, but the damage they caused was already quite serious.
Dozens of islands collapsed and even sank directly into the seabed; the spiritual energy nearby was obviously much thinner, and after the extraction of the water monsters, most of the surrounding spiritual veins could no longer be extracted, unless Dongyuan Sect was willing to bear the karma of destroying the world!
And this, obviously no monk was willing to bear.
The fairyland monks of Dongyuan Sect were gloomy and ugly. They took over this sea area relatively smoothly, but it was in ruins!
"Don't waste any more time!"
A certain earthly immortal used thunder sound to wake everyone up and ordered: "Hurry up and organize the disciples to build a base, ask the sect to send a few spiritual veins immediately, and set up a large formation to protect the island. This must be completed before the sea tribe counterattacks!"
"Yes!"
With a clear goal, everyone began to act, even the scattered immortals and human immortals were no exception, in order to build a solid defense line as soon as possible to resist the fierce counterattack of the water monsters.
After Feng Mingming, who was hiding hundreds of miles away, got a clear answer and immediately flew north to find the island chain defense line established by the Li family.
"Fellow Daoist Li, although the Dongyuan Sect won this battle, the water monster destroyed a large number of islands and spiritual veins before escaping. They must start from scratch and have no time to recover. I am afraid it will be difficult to resist the counterattack of the sea clan."
The matter was of great importance, and Feng Mingming did not have time to greet and quickly told the news he knew.
After listening, Li Zhirui frowned. He did not expect that the actions of the Dongyuan Sect would add more difficulties and increase the difficulty of defending the sea area.
"Do you know where the Dongyuan Sect built its garrison defense line?"
"It should be more than 800 miles from the shore."
Li Zhirui's eyes suddenly lit up, and he murmured: "It seems that the Dongyuan Sect has no intention of giving up, and their determination is very firm. Perhaps they are now drawing on the power of the sect to restore their combat effectiveness as soon as possible."
If it were not for the determination to burn their boats, the Dongyuan Sect would not have placed its garrison so far away from the shore, because if it failed, the sea clan would chase and invade on the way, and I don't know how many cultivators would die on the way.
"Next, don't worry about the situation on the Dongyuan Sect side. It's better to think more about how the family can win in the face of the sea clan's counterattack."
In order to achieve this goal, the Li family has really tried its best to squeeze its own strength, and even constantly summoned vassals and scattered cultivators.
Although the latter two are not very strong, they are numerous and can still play a role in facing the beast tide.
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“It’s bad! It’s bad!”
In the Sea Palace in the center of the East China Sea, a large number of excellent and powerful water monsters gathered here.
This is the contest of all races held by the sea clan, the purpose is to select excellent sea clans and provide them with sufficient resources, so there is no need to worry about cultivation resources.
Now a lively and fierce competition is going on, but everyone suddenly heard a panic shout.
“Don’t spread panic here!” Immediately, a water monster stood up and scolded with an ugly face, and then asked people to take them away first.
While it maintained order, several earth fairy water monsters disappeared quietly.
“What happened?” A certain earth fairy interrogated the tribe member who was in a mess and ran back from a distance.
“Ancestor, those immortal forces took advantage of the clan’s meeting to launch a sneak attack. I’m afraid that the thousands of miles of offshore areas in the north will fall into their hands. There is no way to take it back with local forces alone.”
Hearing this, the faces of the water monsters were very ugly.
Although it was expected that the immortals might take advantage of the situation before this, it was unexpected that it would become a reality.
"Before those elite tribesmen left, they ordered to set up formations and traps in various gathering places. How could those cultivators take over the offshore area so smoothly?"
"Those cultivators came with great momentum, and they did not go directly to the sea area where the gathering place was..."
The sea clan is rich, but they are not rich enough to set up formations and traps in every sea area.
And it is obvious that the cultivators found the backhand they left behind and directly avoided it.
"What should we do now?"
The Ten Thousand Races Contest is the first grand event of the sea clan. More than 70% of the descendants who can stand out from it will become immortals. If it is interrupted now, won't all the previous efforts be wasted?
But if we don't immediately organize powerful tribesmen to fight back and take back the offshore area while the immortals have not been established for a long time and are not stable, will it be occupied by the immortals for hundreds of years before we can find a way to take it back?
The two choices made them entangled, and finally chose to give the decision to the great immortals, hoping that this choice would bring surprises to everyone.
The situation was urgent, and they got the answer not long after.
Organize people immediately to take back all the lost sea areas!
As for the Ten Thousand Races Contest, it can only be temporarily stopped and restarted after this battle.
This process will definitely waste a lot of spiritual objects, but how can these external things compare to the precious sea areas?
And those sea clans who are participating in the contest are clamoring to show the immortals a good lesson, so that they will never dare to covet the sea areas again.
In just one day, the sea clan organized a powerful army and rushed all the way to the west.
However, they are only the first wave of support for the sea clan, and there are still a large number of water monsters behind them, but they don’t have to rush over so anxiously.
…
Time is like running water, rushing down rapidly.
In a blink of an eye, it was a few days later.
During this period, the Li family would draw out some of their members every day to build a defense line, striving to make the defense line stronger and better resist the water monster.
On an ordinary morning, the sea clan roared loudly.
Dense and countless sea clan armies appeared in the sight of Li Zhirui and others.
Those recruited independent cultivators and cultivators from small forces stared in amazement at the beast tide of at least hundreds of thousands of low-level water monsters not far away.
"What are you afraid of! What is there to be afraid of? They are just a group of cannon fodder. As long as you stay in the garrison, you don't have to worry about your life safety." A Li family cultivator shouted loudly.
"Ring the bronze bell and prepare for the attack!"
The best defense is to attack instead of defend. We cannot let a large number of water monsters dispersed in various places of the island chain for 400 miles, so we must find a way to prevent the sea people from being separated before they take action.
Rumble--
All kinds of thunder, storms, and fire fell from the sky and kept hitting the water monsters. These water monsters who rushed here and had not yet stood firm were directly stunned, and bursts of wailing and screaming sounded around them.
The sea people who came to attack the Li family naturally could not be all elite. After all, with the current strength of the Li family, it is not enough for the sea people to take it seriously.
So most of them were water monsters gathered and recruited on the road. Their strength was only level five or six, or even lower. They were completely used as cannon fodder.
At the beginning of the war, the monks protected by the formation could attack them as much as they wanted and eliminate low-level water monsters one after another.
But soon, the frequency of everyone's attacks dropped because of insufficient mana!
There were too many low-level water monsters, so the cultivators could only take turns to attack to avoid the monsters' attacks from directly hitting the formation and damaging it.
On the battlefield of the mortal realm, the two sides fought fiercely, and on the battlefield of the fairyland on the other side, it was even more so.
"My defeated generals, do you dare to fight me?"
Li Zhirui shouted, and walked out of the formation with Mu Yuan, A Yue and others.
Jiang Fengwu sat in the station and presided over the formation in person.
"Hmph! Don't be too arrogant! Today is your death day!"
"Then let's see if you have the ability."
Li Zhirui stopped talking nonsense, and took two water monsters in the late stage of Sanxian, left the crowd, and opened up another battlefield in the distance.
A Yue and others also found their opponents, including Feng Mingming and Feng Buxi who came to help.
The number was just right.
The sea clan originally arranged three more immortal water monsters to raid the formation, intending to end the battle here as soon as possible, but they didn't expect that the Li family had two more immortals, and Li Zhirui fought one against two, directly eliminating the gap between the two sides.
Now it depends on whether the Li family is stronger and makes a breakthrough first, or whether the sea clan wins first and defeats the Li family cultivators.
For a time, the sky was colorful, and all kinds of powerful magical powers bloomed in their hands. The powerful impact caused no creatures nearby to dare to approach.
This is also the reason why they all stayed away from the main battlefield. The battle with full force is likely to affect a large number of nearby creatures.
Xiaoqing and Xiaocang also couldn't hold back, rushed out from the station and headed straight to the battlefield. They wanted to break through the bottleneck in this fight and achieve the realm of immortals. (End of this chapter)
