This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder

Chapter 193: Soldiers Armed with Xiyi Talismans

Chapter 193: Soldiers Armed with Xiyi Talismans

The demons began to swarm the Vast Heaven Islands en masse. It wasn’t a disorganized charge, though. Groups of demons entered the domain of the Vast Heaven Islands from strategic locations from three hundred and sixty degrees in intervals, preventing the demons from gathering too closely together and repeating their earlier mistake.

Unlike the previous time, when the demons invaded the Vast Heaven Islands, there was a reaction, but it was not the appearance of the cultivators as the demons suspected. Instead, the second island to the ninth island began to move from their orbit.

The eight islands gathered around the central island in a circular fashion and equally spaced apart. With the change in the structure of the Vast Heaven Islands, the domain changed into a spheroid and altered the gravity within.

Before, if gravity was pushing down, now, gravity was pushing any intruders outward from the central mountain. Any demons who entered from the top or bottom would feel their bodies dragged towards the central plane and outward, out of the domain.

The demons struggled and resisted the force, but they were too weak to oppose the gravitational force of the Vast Heaven Islands. Seeing this, Ashflame Crow discussed it with his fellow elders and ordered twenty percent of the demons to charge. He believed the change in gravitational force was due to a technique, and he wanted to exhaust it.

After more than twenty percent of the demons charged in, they were all repelled towards the outer rim of Vast Heaven Island’s domain. With their unaccountable numbers, the demons formed a ring around the Vast Heaven Islands.

When a demon was ejected outside of the domain, they would fly towards the central mountain from the top or bottom, forming a continuous cycle. Hours passed like this with no sign of the cultivators, but Ashflame Crow wasn’t in a rush.

Seven days later, Ashflame couldn’t help but worry.

He’d thought it would take at least a day to exhaust the user of the technique, but the reality was different than his expectations. It was they, the demons, that were beginning to become exhausted. The demons were using their qi to counter the gravitational force of the Vast Heaven Islands, so after repeated cycles, they could not generate enough qi to sustain their tactic.

Ashflame Crow contemplated switching the group of demons to the second group. This way, after the demons sent to exhaust the user of the gravitational technique started to get low on qi, they could rotate the groups, continuing the process.

Ever the cautious one, Ashflame Crow did just that. What he didn’t know was that Tianyi wasn’t expending his qi at all, and even if he was, Tianyi’s qi output was higher than the input needed to sustain such a technique. The change in gravitational force was the result of Tianyi changing the formation that sustained the Vast Heaven Island’s nature as a pseudo realm. It did not cost any energy as the gravitational force was something more akin to the exertion of a law of physics.

All Ashflame Crow was doing was mentally exhausting his forces and lowering their morale. In contrast, the cultivators and residents of Fan City had their morale boosted. Anyone would balk at the sheer numbers of demons that came to assault them, but after continually seeing them fail, their fear turned into mockery.

But Ashflame Crow did not know any of this, so he continued with his strategy of exhausting Tianyi.

Only after six months did Ashflame Crow notice something wrong. Actually, he had already suspected something wrong earlier, but he had been unwilling to give up after the time he had already invested. Finally, he called the demons to retreat. By now, the demons were staring at Vast Heaven Islands with fear as if it was some sort of eldritch location. They had even launched numerous projectile and elemental attacks, but they were pushed out as well.

Ashflame Crow gathered the elders and discussed how to deal with the situation. At this rate, no matter how much time passed, they wouldn’t be able to break through the Vast Heaven Island’s defense.

At the very least, Ashflame Crow was sure that the majority of the cultivators were hiding in the Vast Heaven Islands. You’d had to be stupid to choose to escape and flee from the demon army instead of bunkering down in the perfect fortress.

After numerous rounds of discussion, the demon elders decided against sending any more of the lower realm demons until they could solve the issue of the gravitational force. Although they wanted to lie in ambush among the weaker demons and prevent the cultivators from discovering their abilities, they would be forced into a stalemate at this rate.

The attacks poured forth nonstop. It was as if the humans were at the Nascent Soul Realm and were able to continuously unleash techniques without rest. At this point, Ashflame Crow thought the humans possessed even more Nascent Soul Realm level combatants than the demons!

Ashflame Crow’s immediate action was to retreat, but he stilled in his decision as he recalled Golden Crow Ancestor’s orders.

“Continue attacking. It doesn’t matter if you have to sacrifice all the Leviathan Clan demons present.”

Gritting his teeth, or rather, gritting his beak, Ashflame Crow ordered the first group of demons to attack.

Ashflame Crow had separated the remaining demons into three groups. The first two groups were primarily composed of demons from the Leviathan Clan. In contrast, the last group was composed of the Golden Grow and Jade Rabbit Clan members and the strongest Leviathan Clan members. The last group was supposed to be the trump card against the cultivators when they were too tired after waves and waves of assault.

Ashflame didn’t order a retreat to regroup because he didn’t want their efforts in weakening the gravitational force to go to waste. Ashflame Crow didn’t believe that the damages to the islands could be easily fixed, but now, he didn’t dare to leave anything up to chance. After all the surprises he saw for the past few months, he believed nothing would surprise him anymore.

At the central mountain, the top echelons of the disciples were present and watching the battle. Large versions of Xiyi Talisman were floating around the room and displayed the battle’s events in real-time.

Yes, even now, Tianyi was advertising his Xiyi Talismans.

Daoist Moneybag’s eyes turned towards Tianyi after the shock at seeing the Xiyi Talisman at work. He wasn’t the only one, as the other disciples displayed similar expressions of shock.

Compared to elite disciples like them, the techniques unleashed by the talisman were subpar at best, but that wasn’t the main focus. With a Xiyi Talisman, a foundation establishment disciple could unleash the power of a nascent soul grandmaster. More importantly, Xiyi Talisman had multiple uses. As long as you had enough Xiyi Talisman and even servants, you could have the power of a squad or small army composed of nascent soul grandmasters!

Well, there was the downside of needing spirit stones as energy or naturally absorbing the spiritual qi. However, inside Tianyi’s Vast Heaven Islands, the qi was supplied to the talismans almost immediately.

“Brother Xi, how many talismans can you make?” Daoist Moneybag asked, several other disciples also perked up their ears.

“Not much, as long as I have the materials, about fifty a week?” Tianyi wasn’t sure. He left most of the logistics to Xi Ri, after all.

Not much?

Numerous disciples found their emotions leaking through their masked expression at Tianyi’s words. Fifty a week was already a lot! It meant that Tianyi could have a force of fifty nascent soul grandmasters every week!

They respected Tianyi’s strength, but Tianyi had no personal force or connection like Xia Yushan did. Now however...

As long as Tianyi willed it, he could amass a massive amount of influence with time.

In truth, the Xiyi Talisman wasn’t as impressive as they thought it was. The only reason they showed such a stunning performance was due to the terrain they were used in, the Vast Heaven Islands. Outside, the number of spirit stones needed to fuel the Xiyi Talisman to repeatedly unleash such techniques would be astronomical. Still, Tianyi might have downplayed the combat ability of the Xiyi Talisman too much.

“Brother Xi, how about we enter cooperation? I want to act as an intermediary for the sale of these Xiyi talismans outside of Buzhou Immortal Sect’s territory.”