The ancestor is incompetent!

Chapter 12: Battle of the Dark Crows

Soon, several elders arrived and led their respective monks to rush in different directions.

The group that Li Yuan was in was led by a gloomy-looking elder named Yu Guhong, who was over 120 years old.

The elder was flying over the heads of the disciples, standing on a huge white bone. Coupled with his gloomy look, the disciples felt a creepy aura and were uneasy.

"Alright, stop here." Yu Guhong called everyone in a hoarse voice. He looked up at the sky and said, "At the beginning of the si hour, I will give you my orders. You can sit here and meditate for a while."

The five deacons received the order and rested on the spot.

When the sun gradually rose in the sky and the morning light shone through the mountains and forests, everyone could see the true appearance of Chouyun Mountain.

It turns out that this mountain is shrouded in clouds and fog all year round, like a foggy mountain, but if you look into the mountain, you can find that the fog is not white, but black.

Yu Guhong raised his head and stared at the mountain, saying: "Yang rises and gloom sinks, Wu and Gui turn into fire, hidden and unclear, there is murderous intent.

"Put the puppets in place! Place the Spirit Source Beads! Arrange the formation!"

All the disciples took out their puppets, placed the Spirit Source Pearls on them, and then with a pinch of magic, thirty Black Eagle puppets suddenly spread their wings and flew into the sky, making eagle cries in the air that pierced the clouds.

Five giant puppets, each ten feet tall, stood in front of everyone. Magic patterns were engraved on their ochre-colored bodies. When they stepped on the ground, the earth would tremble slightly, just like giant monsters.

Yu Guhong narrowed his eyes and stared at the sky without saying a word.

After waiting for a quarter of an hour, suddenly a ray of ochre-yellow light descended from the sky. This light turned into a huge pillar of light, which fell from the sky and penetrated through the heavy fog of Chouyun Mountain, causing the earth to shake.

"Boom~"

"Quack! Quack! Quack!"

Countless black crows flew up in the sky, screaming angrily and continuously spewing out black mist to fill the clouds on the sky.

Yu Guhong shouted, "All disciples, listen up. The puppets will lead the way, and you will follow. Go straight to the foot of the mountain, and do not retreat!"

All the disciples controlled the puppets one after another. Thirty black eagles flew at low altitude to clear the way. They could blow away the mist with a flap of their wings. Then five giant puppets strode forward.

Hundreds of dark crows flew out of the fog, making noisy noises and spewing black fog to stop us.

But with the Xuanyin puppets leading the way, the crows saw that the fog could not stop them, so they flew forward and fought with the puppets.

The claws and beak of the Black Eagle Puppet were as sharp as lower-grade magic weapons. After a flutter of struggle, the body of the Dark Corpse Crow fell to the ground.

The five giant puppets each grabbed a crow in their hands. Any crow caught in their hands would be turned into a pile of bloody mud by just clenching their five fingers into a fist. The sharp claws and poisonous gas of these crows were completely useless to the puppets.

Li Yuan, who was in the crowd, only used his clone to control the puppet without any other actions, unlike some cultivators who even used spells and talismans to kill the crows that approached them.

The cultivators advanced slowly, with the puppets clearing the way. These evil crows had nothing to stop them.

An hour later, the cultivators reached the foot of the mountain, and the crows that were blocking them scattered and disappeared without a trace.

Everyone showed joy on their faces. A steward beside Li Yuan said with a smile: "Brother, why didn't you kill some demon crows just now? These corpses are good things. One can be sold for a few spirit stones!"

Li Yuan shook his head. "My magic power is shallow, not as profound as yours, Senior Brother Qin. It is better to save some spiritual power for defense."

"Junior brother, you are too cautious. With the elders backing us up, why do you need to be so cautious?" The cultivator named Qin smiled and shook his head.

Li Yuan smiled and shook his head, looking at the situation at the foot of the mountain. He swept his mind up the mountain and was suddenly shocked.

It was because the mountain in front of him was black and gray, and Li Yuan's divine consciousness had been condensed in the Ten Thousand Woods Realm for many years, and was already stronger than a mid-stage cultivator, so the black and gray in his divine consciousness was not the mountain, but...

Countless dark crows are sleeping on the mountain!

Li Yuan couldn't help but tremble in his hands. This number was probably enough to form the legendary beast tide, right? How could there be so many demon crows in Chouyun Mountain?

He looked up and quietly looked at Yu Guhong's face, and found that the elder only looked solemn and not surprised, so he felt relieved. Since the elders had known about this situation for a long time, they would not let them die without any preparation.

Yu Guhong stepped on the skull and flew in front of everyone, saying: "Take back the puppets for self-defense, and stay here for half a day! No one is allowed to retreat before the sun sets, or without my order, no matter what the situation! Those who violate the rules will be locked up in the Death Cave dungeon!"

All the disciples felt a chill in their hearts, and they all said yes.

Yu Guhong took out a fist-sized wooden sphere from his storage bag, muttered something and threw it into the air. The sphere suddenly enlarged countless times, and forty-eight Black Eagle puppets with the strength of the middle stage of Qi Refining flew out of it and hovered over everyone's heads.

Then, fifteen A-wood puppets and fifteen B-wood puppets fell down and formed a circle around the disciples.

This is not the end yet. Nine giant puppets comparable to those in the late stage of Qi Refining fell from the sphere, forming a circle of defense outside the thirty Jia and Yi wood puppets.

Then the sphere broke into dozens of pieces and fell to the ground, turning into black wolf puppets and black leopard puppets, forty-eight of each, and each of them was in the middle stage of Qi Refining.

Finally, five Black Tiger puppets in the late Qi Refining stage joined the group of puppets, forming a heavy line of defense.

All the disciples were shocked to see this scene. They did not expect that there was such a mysterious puppet formation inside the mountain gate.

Yu Guhong said to the five deacons and disciples, “This formation is the Five Puppet Ring Mysterious Formation. Even if someone at the peak of Qi Refining comes in person, he will not be able to break the formation if he does not understand the key points.

You all have to keep an eye on your fellow disciples. Once they go out into the battle formation, they will be dead. This is the core of the formation, the spiritual puppet. The five of you have to protect this thing. If it is damaged in the slightest, you will be held accountable!"

After saying that, he released a white little puppet the size of a baby's head among the five people. As soon as it appeared, it sat cross-legged on the ground. Hundreds of silk threads extended from its body and connected to the body of each puppet, and then the threads disappeared.

The little man made hand gestures and kept moving the puppets. The tigers, leopards, wolves, eagles and pythons in the entire puppet formation began to move around. The Jiamu and Yimu puppets also followed suit and walked around the sixty-five disciples like patrolling soldiers.

The five deacons and disciples were all shocked by the miracle before their eyes and quickly responded with yes.

Yu Guhong stood up again and said to everyone worriedly: "Remember, if you take a step out of this formation, you will die!

The core of this formation is on the spiritual puppet. If the spiritual power is exhausted, you can replenish it with the spiritual source beads on your body. If it is still insufficient, you can transfer your own spiritual power and hold on until the sun sets! "

After saying this, the elder stepped on the skull and turned around and went into the mountains.

Not until his figure disappeared did the disciples relax and look at the puppet beside them curiously.

Just after a cup of tea, Li Yuan, who was sitting cross-legged, suddenly stood up and said in surprise: "My fellow brothers and sisters, quickly meet the enemy!"

Everyone was startled by his voice and looked around, but found no trace of the enemy.

The deacon named Qin beside him frowned and asked, "Brother, what do you mean?" Li Yuan's face was gloomy, and he pointed to the mountain, "Look!"

The cultivators looked at it with half belief and half doubt, and found nothing unusual.

Just when someone was about to ask in confusion, they suddenly heard several deacons say in horror: "How is this possible?"

I saw the black and gray color on the Chouyun Mountain gradually floating up like water, and getting closer and closer. When it was several hundred feet away, everyone could see clearly that it was an endless number of Dark Corpse Crows rushing towards them!
"This...this...have we been abandoned by the elders?"

"Are we the bait used by the mountain gate to catch monsters?"

"What should we do? Can this formation hold up?"

The disciples panicked. Among the five deacons, there was a disciple named Wang, who was obviously the most senior. He shouted coldly, "Don't panic, fellow disciples. The Dark Corpse Crows are quite fast. We can't escape now. The only way to survive is to stick to the Five Puppet Ring Mysterious Formation set up by the elders!"

After hearing this, everyone calmed down a little, but when the group of dark corpse crows attacked like a landslide, everyone couldn't help but tremble in their hearts.

Li Yuan stared at the psychic puppet in front of him. This little puppet looked like a living person, very lifelike. The main thing was that the person in the main formation was it, not a cultivator.

Countless dark corpse crows came overturning, covering the sky and the sun. The crows' noisy noises were incessant. The Jiamu puppet waved the weapon in his hand and kept chopping down the evil crows.

Nine giant puppets were inserted into the ground like pillars, and a khaki light curtain rose up and covered everyone.

The bow and arrow in Yimu Puppet's hand kept shooting at the demon crow that broke into the formation.

The Black Tiger Puppet only targets those demon crows with strong aura. It can spit out a golden light by opening its tiger mouth and piercing through the bodies of those demon crows in the middle stage of Qi Refining.

The wolf, leopard and eagle puppets cooperate with the Jiamu and Yimu puppets to kill the scattered crows.

Even if the nine pillars transformed by the giant puppet were scratched by countless crows, a flash of ochre light would instantly restore them to their original state every half hour.

The same is true for the Jiamu and Yimu puppets. Every half hour, a green light flashes, and they become intact.

So even though the disciples were surrounded by countless dark crows, they were still safe.

All the disciples needed to do was to continuously transfer their Spirit Source Pearls to the psychic puppet. In just one hour, seven or eight Spirit Source Pearls were used up.

Li Yuan was among the disciples, silently watching the formation. This spiritual puppet was just like a real person, and the way it controlled the entire formation was extremely exquisite. If he could also have such a puppet formation, it would be incredibly powerful.

There are ten such large formations in the entire Sorrow Cloud Mountain. Each of them seems to have something extremely attractive and tempting to the crows, causing them to lose their minds and attack the formations frantically, without even defending their nests.

On the top of the mountain, there was a giant crow with a flesh crown on its head, more than ten feet long. It looked angrily at the group of people in front of it and spoke in human language: "Human race, I, the Dark Corpse Crow, live here, do not harm the harmony of nature, and do not kill people. Why are you killing me so maliciously?"

Among the more than ten people, the leader was Helian Wei.

He stroked his long beard, holding a round ancient plate in his hand, and said with a smile: "You, the Crow King, are already very intelligent and your transverse bone has been transformed, so how could you not know that the treasure belongs to the capable?
Elders, let's get started."

Ten elders stepped forward and surrounded the leader of the Ten Thousand Crows.

"Cuck!"

At the foot of the mountain, suddenly, a number of black crows flew out. Each of them had the powerful strength of the late Qi Refining stage, and they came to protect their leader.

Seeing this, Helian Wei sneered and said, "Since this old crow wants to destroy our race, go and stop them. I will deal with it!"

After saying that, Helian Wei flew up, and the magic disk in his hand suddenly became larger, floating in the sky and turning into eighty-one feet, measuring the sky with a ruler and stretching the veins of the earth. The breath of Wu Earth turned into chains to bind him away.

The leader of the giant crows howled at the sky, and a rolling black gas filled the air. When it met the wind, it became clouds, and when it met the light, it became rain. In the clouds and rain, black water surged, and there was a deadly atmosphere. The black water became a river, and the waves rushed towards the khaki Dharma Plate.

Helian Wei exclaimed in amazement: "When the corpse evil sees the sun, it transforms into Xuan Qi. Are you, a monster, still thinking of refining [Xuanyun Yuwu]?

Unfortunately, Xuanshui connects to Yin, which happens to be suppressed by my Wutu Daoism. "

After saying that, Helian Wei flashed and merged with the ochre-colored magic disk. A rosy glow shone in the midst of smoke and dust. A mountaintop stood tall above the auspicious clouds, firmly suppressing the surging black water and preventing it from flooding up the mountainside.

The other elders also displayed their magical powers, almost all of them fighting one against two, or even one against three.

The truth is that although the monsters have reached the late stage, they are not proficient in magic and have no weapons to use. In addition, these elders all have puppets to cooperate with them, so they have a great advantage in strength.

The sky gradually darkened, and the fighting on the top of the mountain and the fighting at the foot of the mountain never stopped.

The disciples at the foot of the mountain have run out of magic power. Even with the mysterious puppet formation, they can't do anything about the large number of crows.

Li Yuan was breathing heavily, holding a spirit stone in his hand to replenish his magic power. Many disciples around him had turned pale due to excessive output of spiritual power.

Many puppets in the puppet formation had been destroyed, and dark crows had occasionally managed to sneak into the formation. If it weren't for the two deacon disciples who were able to kill the crows that had entered the formation, all the disciples would have been eaten by these crows.

Another half an hour passed, and only a few giant pillars and a few broken wood puppets were left outside the puppet formation.

At this point, the formation was broken.

Disciple Wang immediately shouted, "My fellow disciples, our only way to survive is to charge forward. We can't escape the range of the crows if we retreat. Only when the mountains are empty can we have a chance of survival!
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The deacon named Qin said with an unpleasant expression: "Who will take the spiritual puppet away?"

The disciple surnamed Wang glanced at it and said, "Junior Brother Li Yuan, you must protect this spiritual puppet. When supplying spiritual energy to the spiritual puppet just now, I saw that you were the first to retreat each time. I guess you must have the most spiritual energy in your body, right?"

Upon hearing this, Li Yuan hurriedly said, "This spiritual puppet is a treasure of the mountain gate. I am too weak to protect it well. If it is lost, I am afraid that the elders will punish me severely."

"Junior Brother Qin, you take the psychic puppet and go first! Junior Brother Li Yuan, you retreat last!"

Seeing this, the deacon named Wang had no choice but to change his words.

Then, the disciples in the formation used talismans and spells to protect themselves and rushed out of the formation.

Once the spiritual puppet in the formation was taken away, the formation was naturally broken, and countless black crows flew over after smelling the blood.

Li Yuan no longer cared about what the disciple surnamed Wang said about covering the rear. He took advantage of the chaos and took out Baibi Wulan, transformed into a black cloud and rushed into the mountain at a high speed.

"Wow~"

A sky full of black crows were chasing him, but fortunately Li Yun's magic weapon was extremely concealed, and when it passed by the crows, it was just a ball of black fog, which allowed him to escape into the mountains first. When he arrived at the mountain, he found that there were hundreds of caves over ten feet wide on the entire mountain, and they were bottomless!

(End of this chapter)