Starting My Cultivation With Time Management-Chapter 857 - 95: Striking Directly at the Heart
Chapter 857 -95: Striking Directly at the Heart
Use the Heavenly Weaving God Shuttle? Long Long felt somewhat disappointed.
In his opinion, compared to transforming into the Tai Yin Sword Master and annihilating all the Tribulation Lightning in one fell swoop, this method of using the Heavenly Weaving God Shuttle to dodge all the Tribulation Lightning seemed far less decisive and grand.
Moreover, the duration of the Heavenly Weaving God Shuttle’s invincibility was too short. What if he miscalculated the timing—what then?
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“Wake up,” the Kunlun Mirror advised him, “If the affairs of the Tai Yin Sword Master are exposed, you’ll have real trouble in the Eastern Emperor Realm.”
“Indeed,” the Summoning Sword also chimed in, “If my identity is revealed, the Sword Master would be troubled as well, wouldn’t he?”
Are you some kind of echo machine… Long Long was somewhat speechless, but remembering the unique significance of the Tai Yin Summoning Sword to the Eastern Emperor Demon Realm (after all, Long Hu’s grandmother had died because of it), he had to admit that it was better not to take the risk.
Without the Tai Yin Summoning Sword, he could only resort to the method mentioned by the Kunlun Mirror. After all, the Featherfall Thunder was singularly too resistant to damage, and if he were to handle it one-on-one, he didn’t know how much True Yuan it would cost him.
He wasn’t someone to waver or dither. Once he made up his mind, he took immediate action.
Sea-Calming Divine Needle, stir!
This time, it wasn’t to brutishly crush the Tribulation Lightning, but instead to use the pressure from the outer layers of the great vortex to concentrate most of the Featherfall Thunder toward the vortex’s center.
Compared to the former approach, this one consumed much more True Yuan, to the extent that Long Long inwardly cursed his misfortune. If he made any blunders later on, he feared that he would die without a place to bury his body.
No matter, the arrow is on the string, he had to let it fly!
The Featherfall Thunder above had been compressed into a straight line, resembling a gigantic pillar reaching to the heavens, with azure Thunder Light coiling and jumping along the pillar’s surface, crackling intensely.
The distant Dragon Clan members watched with their eyes wide and mouths agape, wondering what kind of Heavenly Tribulation this was? The common Tribulation Lightning was usually oppressive, blanketing the sky and descending like a sudden storm. But a Heavenly Tribulation gathered into a single pillar of light was something they had never seen before.
Moreover, because the pillar had concentrated too much of the Tribulation Lightning, it now shone as brightly as the scorching sun, and it wouldn’t be surprising if, in the next second, the light pillar suddenly solidified and crushed Long Long into a pancake with a snap.
Within a palace on Jianmu Divine Island, Long Hu watched the distant Tribulation Clouds with nervous unease, her hands tightly gripping the edge of her bed.
The clan asked her to stay on the island, not allowing her to watch Long Long’s Tribulation from a close distance (mainly for fear that she would disturb him), so she could only watch from across the sea.
From this distance, the Tribulation Lightning couldn’t be made out clearly, only the oppressive expanse of dark clouds—but as Long Long concentrated the Tribulation Lightning into a pillar of light, she finally could make out its outline.
Just as the little fox was worriedly fretful, suddenly, she heard the sound of shouting and fighting coming from outside.
Following that, the Jianmu beneath her began to shake violently.
“What’s happened?” Long Hu quickly got to her feet in alarm, grabbing the Fox Chanting Sword as she did so.
Because she had already arranged with Long Long that one day they would escape from there, even when Long Hu stayed in her own room, she always kept the sword with her.
Rising from the window with Sword Control, Long Hu first quickly dove to lower her altitude, then urgently turned her head to look, only to see a group of unfamiliar Cultivators attacking the Jianmu.
Though their robes were styled like those of the Azure Dragon Clan, the spells and Divine Skills they used were mostly of the Metal and Earth Elements, without any trace of the Dragon Clan. Instead, they bore a significant resemblance to the styles of Central State and West State.
This was… an enemy that had infiltrated the Eastern State!
In Long Hu’s mind, thoughts whirled like lightning as the Fox Clan’s inherent Agility trait began to take effect.
Historically, strategies that involved sending Cultivators deep behind enemy lines to cause destruction during wartime were not unheard of, but such tactics had proven to be of little value.
The reasons were simple: first, to penetrate behind enemy lines, the forces deployed could not be large, and once exposed, they would immediately face being outnumbered.
Secondly, Cultivators were much less constrained than ordinary people, so there was no issue of cutting off food supplies or supply lines.
The only place where sabotage could be done is critical locations like the resource warehouses or repositories for books and scrolls. If such areas were penetrated by enemy spies, the damage would indeed be devastating.
But everyone isn’t foolish; such vital places would definitely be hidden very securely, and their existence wouldn’t ever be disclosed. Many smaller clans from the Demon Race even have ancestors guarding them personally, which makes it pointless for any spies to try anything.
Looking at the cultivators surrounding Jianmu now, they seemed to have no intention of attacking Jianmu directly. Instead, they were attempting to maintain a certain level of suppression to prevent reinforcements from breaking out.
Very quickly, they split off a force and rushed towards the vast expanse of Tribulation Clouds in the distance.
“Not good!” A thought flashed through Long Hu’s mind, causing her heart to sink.
Around the area of the Tribulation, the clan elders quickly received news that Jianmu was under attack.
Given the capabilities of cultivators to come and go without a trace, it was unrealistic to completely prevent infiltrations on the borders of the Eastern State. Yet, the brazenness of the enemy to send so many and attack the land of the Azure Dragon Clan infuriated the elders, making them feel the humiliation of being harassed on their own doorstep.
After confirming that all critical locations were secure, Qin Beiwang immediately ordered the assembly of forces to begin encircling and annihilating the enemy.
“We can’t encircle them!” Long Hu suddenly rushed in from outside.
Luckily, due to her agile and keen perception, she had pieced together the key points beforehand and reached there before the cultivators, quickly saying to Qin Beiwang and the elders:
“Their target is Long Long!”
Upon hearing this, the people of the Azure Dragon Clan were struck as if by Thunderbane, suddenly realizing the truth of the matter.
The Tribulation of any cultivator is not to be interfered with by others. Because once someone intrudes into the site of the Tribulation, the intensity of the Heavenly Tribulation will increase according to the power of the interlopers, likely resulting in both the person undergoing Tribulation and the intruder perishing together.
Considering this, generally no one would disturb another’s Tribulation. However, what if the one undergoing Tribulation had to be eliminated at all costs?!
For great clans like the Qilin and White Tiger, finding a few individuals willing to undertake a suicide mission was all too easy.
“Don’t encircle!” Qin Beiwang also hastily retracted the order and corrected himself, “Blockade! We must stop them from getting close to the Tribulation site at all costs!”
An encirclement requires deploying forces in all directions to cut off all possible escape routes for the enemy, whereas a blockade only needs to seal off one direction, which naturally has a much higher chance of success.
But it was Long Hu’s judgment that was quickly proven correct by reality: the front line soon reported back, stating that the group of cultivators was flying too fast and, even when attacked, did not engage in prolonged combat. In addition, their own side was unable to set up formations in time to halt them all.
“Useless!” Qin Beiwang knew that the enemy had specifically chosen a group skilled in rapid assault, but still couldn’t suppress his anger at his own people’s incompetence, saying to the elders, “Long Long must not fail his Tribulation. Now only we can take action!”
“Of course!” the elders responded in unison.
So the high-rank cultivators of the Azure Dragon Clan mobilized en masse, preparing to intercept the suicide squad that was quickly approaching.
Meanwhile, in the center of the ongoing Tribulation, Long Long was completely unaware, having just consumed an Elixir given by Shi Yao, feeling the rapid restoration of his True Yuan, he asked the Kunlun Mirror:
“How’s the concentration of Tribulation Lightning?”
“Not so great,” replied the Kunlun Mirror. “It looks like there’s chaos brewing outside.”
“What chaos?” asked Long Long.
The Kunlun Mirror paused for a moment before responding:
“A wave of enemy cultivators, a mix of Qilin and White Tiger, is speeding this way.”
“Damn it!” Even Long Long, who was usually calm and collected, couldn’t help but curse, “What the hell is the intelligence department of the Azure Dragon Clan doing? How could they let the capital be breached?”
