"Do you think you can trap me like this? How naive!"
"Shadow Clone!"
Clumps of black gas emerged from Ji Zhongming's body, transforming into his likeness and launching attacks on the ice prisms.
However, after those ice prisms were shattered, they recombined into new ones. Moreover, these ice prisms seemed to multiply. Once one was broken, three or four would split out.
The number of mirrors kept increasing, making Ji Zhongming's eyes grow more and more dazzled. At this moment, a sharp sword qi came from nowhere, dispersing several of his clones.
He turned to look in the direction where the sword qi came from, but only saw his confused figure in the mirror.
Then he felt a sharp pain in his back. A sword qi struck him, and the smell of blood spread.
He quickly turned back again, only to see his angry and distorted face in the ice prism.
After repeating this several times, all his clones had been broken, and his body was covered with wounds of various sizes caused by the sword qi.
"Playing these tricks, huh!"
Ji Zhongming raised his sword, and it let out a humming sound in his hand. This sound directly shattered the ice prism closest to him.
Shen Qing, who was hiding behind the ice prism, had her ears bleed from this sound. She quickly covered her ears and moved away from Ji Zhongming.
Seeing that this method worked, a sneer curled up on Ji Zhongming's lips. "Hide! Why don't you keep hiding? You disgusting and despicable rats!"
As the ice prisms shattered, the figures of Li Xian and Shen Qing gradually emerged.
Ji Zhongming raised his great sword and slashed at Shen Qing, who was closest to him.
Li Xian rushed over, pushed Shen Qing away, and then caught Ji Zhongming's killing move with his Chenxi Sword.
Shen Qing shook her head. Ignoring the injury to her ears, she quickly raised her Wuwang Sword and started fighting with Ji Zhongming.
One sharp move after another was launched. The clashes among them caused great energy fluctuations, and the entire back mountain was affected by their fight.
At this moment, Wang Nian, who was still in front, making the infected demonic beasts attack the mountain - protecting formation, suddenly stopped the attack.
Because he heard a familiar summoning sound. Not only him, but also his subordinates clearly heard it.
"General, did we hear wrong? This is the unique summoning technique of General Huan!"
"No, I heard it too!"
A hint of excitement flashed across Wang Nian's face, but he suppressed it, fearing it was an enemy's trap.
Then he clearly heard the signal sent by Huan Zhong through a secret message, and only then did he truly confirm that the one sending this sound must be Huan Zhong.
"Only General Huan Zhong knows the secret message. It's really him! He's not dead!"
Wang Nian couldn't hide his excitement on his face, and his subordinates were also shouting that they wanted to see General Huan.
But Wang Nian was worried that there was a trick. So he arranged for half of his subordinates to remain in ambush in the dense forest, while he led the other half to the place where the signal came from.
Since the demonic beasts stopped the attack, the barrier of the mountain - protecting formation disappeared, and the bell stopped ringing. Before Master Honghua and his people arrived at the front gate, everything seemed to have returned to calm.
"What's going on?"
Master Honghua frowned deeply, and his deep eyes stared in the direction of the dense forest.
The mountain - protecting formation would not show its barrier unless it was attacked by a powerful external force. If not for this possibility, then it must be a demonic attack. Either of these two situations was not to be underestimated.
But this attack only lasted for less than half an incense stick's time and then disappeared, which made him feel something was strange.
But for the sake of safety, Master Honghua still asked the disciples of the Law Enforcement Hall to continue patrolling the mountain, while he led several elders into the dense forest first.
When he and his people arrived at the attacked place, they saw that the area was filled with demonic qi. Many demonic beast corpses were lying on the edge of the barrier, with scorched marks on them, which was a sign of an attack on the formation.
Master Honghua immediately understood that this was a pre - meditated attack, but he didn't understand why these demonic beasts stopped attacking halfway.
It was known that the last time the barrier of the mountain - protecting formation of the Qingyun Sword Sect appeared was a thousand years ago when the seal of the Demon Abyss loosened, and some demonic soldiers escaped and caused chaos on the Nine Wastelands Continent.
This dense forest was a good hiding place, so the Qingyun Sword Sect had been harassed by demonic creatures quite a lot.
He hadn't seen the barrier of the Qingyun Sword Sect take shape for a long time.
After pondering for a moment, he decided to lead his people to continue exploring deeper into the dense forest.
Hong Chaoyang remembered Shen Qing's instructions, so he led Master Hongdie and several of Master Hongdie's direct disciples to the back mountain. Qi Nian was among them.
Wang Nian carefully probed forward. As the sound grew louder, his heart was pounding like thunder, and his heartbeat quickened as he got closer.
"General, is the person in front really General Huan?"
A subordinate asked in a low voice uneasily.
There was a glimmer of hope in Wang Nian's heart. Naturally, he hoped that the one waiting for him in front was Huan Zhong, not an enemy's trap. But he didn't dare to make a hasty judgment before seeing the person.
So he cleared his throat and said in a deep voice, "When we see the person later, don't act rashly. It's possible that the enemy has transformed into General Huan's appearance to deceive us. So you must keep a clear head. Do you understand?"
He calmly instructed his subordinates, but he didn't expect that his words were heard by Huan Zhong.
Huan Zhong walked out from behind the tree shadows, holding the familiar bone flute in his hand, which was a tool for transmitting sounds.
Huan Zhong smiled with relief and looked at Wang Nian appreciatively. "I didn't expect that in just a short time, you've grown so much. You really look like a reliable general now."
Seeing Huan Zhong's figure appear, Wang Nian showed a look of joy on his face. He took two steps forward but then stopped abruptly. He收起 his joy and put on a cold and rigid expression.
"Who... who are you exactly?"
Huan Zhong raised his eyebrows and asked, "Have you become a general and even forgotten me? I pulled you out of the pile of dead people. Are you even forgetting your benefactor?"
"Moreover, who else knows the secret message of the Huan Family Army?"
Wang Nian's eyes grew warm, and tears immediately welled up in his eyes. He excitedly ran forward and knelt in front of Huan Zhong. "It's really you, General! You're really not dead!"
The subordinates behind Wang Nian looked at each other. Seeing their general running forward and kneeling at the person's feet, they naturally didn't want to lag behind and rushed to kneel at Huan Zhong's feet one after another.
"Your subordinate pays respects to the general!"
Huan Zhong also couldn't hide his excitement. He quickly helped Wang Nian up and then said to the row of kneeling demonic soldiers, "Get up, get up. This is not the place to talk. Follow me quickly."
"Yes!"
Wang Nian wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and firmly followed behind Huan Zhong.
The group walked back. They had only walked less than a thousand meters before, so they quickly returned to the original place.
When the other half of the demonic soldiers saw Wang Nian bringing Huan Zhong back, they all showed happy expressions.
They had all been Huan Zhong's subordinates, and Huan Zhong had always been like a pillar of stability in their hearts.
But they didn't have much time to be happy. A group of people faced Master Honghua, who was leading the elders to investigate.