Chapter 374: Jiang Yue’s Plan
At that, everyone turned to Jiang Yue.
The illusion master was focused on the formation but his brows were creased in a frown.
With a sigh, the brilliance in his eyes dissipated and he turned to the group.
[How is it?] Xuan Ke was the first to ask.
[Our options are limited.] Jiang Yue said.
In the past six years, the orthodox cultivators won and lost many battles against the Death Flower Ascension Front.
At first, they mostly lost because they didn’t know enough about the enemy’s foundation light balls.
However, after many encounters, they figured it out.
Since then, everyone knew to stay more than one hundred kilometres from any enemy camp and never enter the explosion zone within sixty breaths of an explosion.
In this way, they could avoid being poisoned which began to even out the odds against the enemy.
[There is no easy way to break the formation.] Jiang Yue said and everyone turned solemn.
If they couldn’t break the formation with one strike, they would give the enemy a chance to react.
At that time, they may not be able to escape when the enemy used the foundation balls.
[Is there a way to draw out the enemy? If we can get them out of the formation, we can attack them from a distance?] Someone asked.
[We can use a smoke poison talisman.] Someone suggested.
[How will we get it inside the formation?]
[I may have an idea.] Jiang Yue suddenly said.
As he thought about his idea, his eyes turned bright and a cunning smile appeared on his lips.
[What are you thinking?] Yu Nianzhen asked.
[XiaoLan is out of seclusion.] Jiang Yue answered.
Soon after Jiang Yue and his group escaped from the allied camp, XiaoLan retreated to break through to the fourth level.
Five years later, she successfully broke through and Jiang Yue couldn’t help but marvel at her timing.
[XiaoLan?] Meng Zihua asked the question that was on everyone’s mind.
[XiaoLan is my contract demonic beast. We can use her to destroy the enemy.]
[Is what you said true?]
After that, Jiang Yue explained his plan to everyone.
A while later, he pasted an invisibility talisman on XiaoLan and the small butterfly flew towards the enemy camp.
[Is this going to work?] Someone questioned.
[We will know in a while.] Another answered and everyone fell silent.
Although they couldn’t see XiaoLan because of the invisibility talisman, they knew how long it would take her to reach the enemy camp.
When it was about time, everyone became a little tense.
They watched the six enemy disciples who were patrolling outside the formation but didn’t see anything.
[What’s going on? Did she succeed?] Someone asked and they turned to Jiang Yue.
At this time, Jiang Yue had closed his eyes and was using his divine sense to see through XiaoLan’s eyes.
[She has done it.] He said and everyone heaved a sigh of relief.
[Now we just need to wait.]
[Waiting is the hardest part.] Someone grumbled and the others agreed.
[What about XiaoLan?] Yu Nianzhen asked.
[She is on her way back.]
[Good. You should rest after she returns.] Yu Nianzhen transmitted privately.
[Okay.] Jiang Yue didn’t argue.
He was a little tired from using his illusion eyes and he wanted to rest when he could.
[Do you want to enter the ancient palace?] Yu Nianzhen asked.
[I will enter.] Jiang Yue said.
Although he was confident in his plan, there was no telling what would happen.
If things went wrong, he didn’t want to be a burden if everyone had to escape.
In that case, it was better to enter the ancient palace so that Yu Nianzhen would have an easier time taking him away if things went wrong.
[Azhen, be careful.]
[Don’t worry.] Yu Nianzhen said and rubbed Jiang Yue’s head.
[I will see you soon.]
With that, Jiang Yue left XiaoLan with Yu Nianzhen and entered the ancient palace.
Time passed in the blink of an eye, and soon, it was time for the enemy guards to change shifts.
At this time, everyone became more alert and watched in anticipation as the old guards entered the formation.
[Do you think it will work?] Someone asked but no one answered.
No one knew if the plan would work.
However, they all wished it would since it was the only way for everyone to survive.
If the plan didn’t work, they would have to think of another way.
When that happened, some or all of them would die.
[Let’s hope it will work.] Someone finally said.
In the tense atmosphere, three hours passed and Jiang Yue came out of the ancient palace.
[How?] He asked Yu Nianzhen.
[The guards have changed.]
[How long?]
[Three hours.]
[We should know something soon.]
Yu Nianzhen nodded and took Jiang Yue’s hand.
As Jiang Yue expected, the enemy camp broke into chaos a few moments later.
"It’s working." A female cultivator shouted excitedly.
In her excitement, she spoke aloud but no one cared since they were in a similar state of excitement.
"Eight have already died." Zhu Bing said.
"I didn’t expect the plan to work so smoothly." Lin Huang said with a smile on her lips.
"Fellow Daoist Jiang has really saved us." Meng Zihua said and most everyone looked at Jiang Yue in gratitude.
Now that XiaoLan had broken through to the fourth level, her illusion technique had become extremely terrifying.
Previously, she sprinkled illusion dust on the enemy disciples and drew them into an illusion.
In the illusion, she convinced them that six bottles of poison mist were six bottles of spiritual mist.
When the six disciples entered the formation, they went to their caves and released the poison mist.
After a while, the mist spread to every corner of the camp and the enemy disciples began to die.
"The poison mist is made from the venom of a level four human-faced python. No one will be able to survive it." A disciple of the Poison Valley spoke excitedly.
"Liu Bai is originally a nascent soul realm cultivator. Will she also die?" A disciple of the Divine Fist sect asked with doubt in her voice.
"Even if she doesn’t die, she will be seriously poisoned." Someone said.
In fact, there were many poisons more deadly than the venom of the human-faced python.
However, the poison mist of the human-faced python had an advantage.
This advantage was that it was colourless and odourless.
Given time, it could poison even a nascent soul to death.
At this time, the only uncertainty was when Liu Bai would notice the situation.
If she noticed early, she would be able to exit the formation before she died.
Unfortunately, escaping was meaningless.
Unless she had the specific antidote for the poison, she would surely die because ordinary detoxification pills were useless.
"Thirty-three more have died." Someone observed and several people cheered in happiness.
"There are some who are trying to escape."
"It’s useless, they will all die in a while."
"Wait...., Liu Bai has come out. She is flying this way." A young man shouted and the group fell into panic.
"Don’t let her get within one hundred kilometres." Another shouted and everyone reacted.
Talismans, formation disks, and all kinds of attacks were thrown towards the swordswoman who was flying over.
At the same time, everyone began to retreat, trying to maintain as much distance as possible.
"She has taken out her light ball." A woman screamed but she didn’t need to because everyone had noticed.
"Does she want to throw?"
"What do you think? Could it be that she wants to eat it?" Another asked sarcastically.
"I was just asking." The first one said but he also felt he had asked a stupid question.
"It’s best to teleport from this place." Someone said and immediately activated a teleportation talisman.
"Don’t teleport if you don’t have a directional talisman." Wei Ge immediately warned.
At this, those who were about to activate their teleportation talismans immediately calmed down.
In this situation, their instinct was to teleport away.
However, a non-directional teleportation talisman was a gamble.
If things went well, they would be teleported away from the crisis but if they were unlucky, they would land closer to the crisis.
Considering that, it was best to fly and leave teleportation talismans as a last option.
"She is faster than us." Someone looked back and saw that Liu Bai was closer than before.
"If she closes the distance a little more, she will have us in the explosion range."
"I thought she was poisoned! How can she fly so fast?"
"Even if she is poisoned, she is still a nascent soul realm cultivator"
"Focus on escaping." Wei Ge shouted with a solemn look on his face.
In addition to the light ball, he was worried the enemy would give up on herself and decide to blow herself up.
At that time, they would face a double disaster and it would be hard to survive.
