Invasion Myth: Starting with the Schoolteacher

Chapter 683 Visualizing Xu Xuan
This Dongting Lake Kingdom has been a place where demons have roamed since ancient times.

Suddenly, a fierce wind arose on the lake, and dark clouds pressed down overhead! Five demon kings appeared, making for a formidable battle:

A thousand-foot wave surges from the east, ten thousand layers of ripples rise from the west. Demonic mist obscures the sun from the south, malevolent energy surges towards the heavens from the north. In the center stands a lake patrol envoy, wielding a golden whip that gleams in the sun. Five armies of demonic soldiers shout in unison, their roars shaking the heavens and startling the heavens!

The Stone King of Lishui is covered in green scales and holds a trident that divides the water. Three thousand shrimp soldiers and crab generals under his seat push the vast turbid waves, and the rocks in the water actually form an array on their own, sparks flying when they collide.

The Songzi Mouth-Front Worm King revealed its true form: a hundred legs like oars, a thousand eyes shining brightly, leading countless armored nymphs to lay a net that covered the sky and the earth, turning fish and shrimp into white bones wherever it passed.
The Taipingkou Salamander King transformed into a nine-foot giant, its fleshy whiskers on its cheeks wielding like steel whips, and its five hundred merman guards spewed poisonous saliva, turning half of the river water green.

The King of Eels at Lotus Pond wields a snake-shaped soft sword. Its body is slippery and difficult to approach. Ten thousand eel spirits form a chain formation, creating a hundred deadly whirlpools at the bottom of the water.
With his fiery red hair, King Luo Fei of the Tuning Mouth struck the water with thunderous blows, while his foreign demon soldiers chanted incantations, raising the water temperature to scalding hot.

When the remaining five demon kings arrived together, Baoan Hall's wild attack tactics came to a complete end.

Moreover, judging from the overwhelming momentum, the elite troops of Dongting Lake had gathered in the South Dongting Lake, which was an unprecedented and spectacular sight.

In the past, these demon kings each ruled their own territory, but today they are united in hatred against the sudden attack by Baoan Hall.

Dongting Lake receives four rivers to the south—Xiang, Zi, Yuan, and Li—and connects to four mouths of the Jingjiang River to the north—Songzi, Taiping, Ouchi, and Tiaoxian.

These four rivers and four mouths are the vital passages between the upper and lower reaches of the Dongting Lake system. Spiritual energy gathers here, and demonic energy breeds here, thus giving birth to eight great demon kings, each occupying a region and ruling over thousands of aquatic creatures.

These demon kings are all ferocious monsters who have cultivated for hundreds or thousands of years, commanding a vast army of demon soldiers and possessing overwhelming power.

Any one of them would be a powerful figure who could dominate a region in the outside world. Even if all the demons of Taihu Lake were tied together, they might not be able to defeat the methods of just one of them.

If those three demon kings had been even slightly more astute, either turning tail and running at the first sign of trouble or retreating to their lairs to hold out, the battle wouldn't have gone so smoothly.

Unfortunately, they underestimated the determination of the Anbaando and overestimated their own abilities.

However, faced with the scene of towering blood waves, even these seasoned veterans couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts.

What's more, it's puzzling that the Xiangshui Alligator Dragon King, the Zijiang Blood Vine, and the Yuanhe Shark King were all swiftly defeated by external enemies within just two days. There's something rather mysterious about it.

In fact, the reasons are nothing more than three points:

First, tactical overwhelming.

Their invasion was like fire, their movements like thunder.

The elite troops of Baoan Hall were all deployed, with a "nothing to lose" mentality, and they went all out to attack the demon's lair without regard for the cost, giving their opponents no chance to breathe and relentlessly pursuing them.

That astonishing land march was practically like making the Dongting spirits stand up and kick!

Secondly, it is blessed by Heaven.

Each member of the hall possesses unique skills, some are versed in esoteric arts, some are skilled in killing, and some are adept at strategy. They cooperate seamlessly, using their wits to outmaneuver the unsuspecting.

The new Shushan Mountain is endowed with the aura of the Three Heroes and One Cloud, and the Qing Hall Master embodies the expectations of the Holy Father. This invisible power is extremely terrifying.

Third, the command was appropriate.

King Xiaoqing's military strategy is like a snake slithering through the grass. It seems casual, but in reality, it conceals deadly intent.

He was well-versed in the principle of "using orthodox tactics to engage and unorthodox tactics to win," and while outwardly displaying a grand and imposing formation, he had already secretly devised a series of vicious schemes.

To use Gui Da's highest praise, it's that he has three parts of Master Xu's ruthlessness.

Faced with the overwhelming army, the outsiders at the mouth of the Yuanjiang River remained completely calm.

Yu Bai and Ni Long continued to reorganize the defeated troops, maintaining the virtues of diligence and thrift of Baoan Hall.

Meanwhile, the martial arts faction began taking medicine and performing hand seals to restore their magical power, preparing for another big battle.

The ferocious aura and hostility were undisguised as they rushed towards the demon kings, letting these local demons know what it meant to be hostile.

Seeing so many demons and monsters, Li Yingqi was ready to draw his sword at any moment. If only he could recite a poem at this moment and then charge into the fray alone... tsk tsk tsk.

The vanguard's blood was boiling, his mind filled with both calamity and killing intent, and flames were burning between his brows.

Qi Lingyun, as the oldest and most composed of the new Shushan swordsmen, quickly pulled the younger members of the group along.

Even the once-dominant Old Shushan didn't possess such purity; the New Shushan is truly ruthless.

Faced with this situation, it's best for us younger generation to cooperate with the main force and see how Master Qing leads everyone out of danger.

However, Qi Lingyun was a newcomer and didn't know much about it.

In fact, the greatest danger right now is Qing Tangzhu himself.

When questioned by the Stone King, Little Green King frankly addressed himself as King Benbo.

Three years ago, when she first came out of West Lake, she was just a sharp-tongued, foolish monster. Although she was reckless, she lacked composure.

Now, after many trials and tribulations, it has begun to show signs of becoming a hegemon. Its every move exudes a restrained power, yet it also harbors a hidden killing intent.

Especially after putting on the blue Confucian robe, he felt as if he were possessed by a saint.

There's no need for deliberate ostentation; simply standing with his hands behind his back at the bow of the ship, his cold gaze alone gives off an unfathomable feeling.

Coupled with the horrific scene of corpses strewn across the land and blood staining Dongting Lake, even ruthless characters like the five demon kings couldn't help but mutter to themselves.

This was precisely the tactical deception that Xiaoqing had devised.

She needed to buy time for Yan Chixia, so she planned to stage an empty city ruse.

While she's still a beginner when it comes to pretending, she can imitate a certain guy and become a particularly good pretender.

"I am Xu Xuan, I am Xu Xuan, I am Xu Xuan..." He kept repeating to himself, and the micro-expressions on his face and the look in his eyes actually became more and more unfathomable, and even lotus patterns appeared all over his body.

If they are similar in form and spirit, then supernatural powers will naturally arise, and a chaotic thread of cause and effect will appear in places where Xu Xuan is not.

Xiaoqing's heart truly calmed down, as if she had received the blessing of wisdom.

She could see the Stone King's shock, the Raphthong King's gloating, the Insect King's greed, the Salamander King's doubt, and the Eel King's apparent hidden malice.

This is Bai Lian's perspective.

In fact, this method is called visualization in spiritual practice.

Visualize the true form or Dharma body of an ancient deity to comprehend its astonishing supernatural powers.

With absolute trust and the combined magical power, Taihu Water Goddess grasped some of its essence, and now she is—the White Lotus Green Snake.

"This scene... reminds me of the time when Your Majesty first arrived at Dongting Lake, which was once stained red with blood." As expected, the well-informed Stone King of Lishui was intimidated, and his body under the blue scale armor tensed slightly as he muttered to himself.

Because it is a spiritually connected rock situated in the water, it gazed at the starry sky for a thousand years and comprehended the secrets of heaven on its own.

In its eyes, Xiaoqing was shrouded in a layer of mist, and upon closer inspection, a phantom figure could be seen superimposed on the other person. If one wanted to investigate further, there was even a warning that one would die and perish.

Such was the celestial warning; it fell silent.

The other four demon kings, however, did not have such good self-control.

"The King of Busyness?"

The four kings were all taken aback, exchanging bewildered glances. When did such a figure emerge from the Dongting Lake region?
They have been entrenched here for hundreds of years and know the details of each demon king like the back of their hand, but they have never heard of any "King Benbo"!
“Strange…” The fleshy beard on the cheek of the Taipingkou Salamander King suddenly trembled, and its cloudy eyes moved slightly, as if it had remembered something.

(End of this chapter)