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Facing the intense gazes of the crowd, the old Celestial Master Zhang Jingqing remained calm, merely stroking his long beard slowly.
He didn't speak, but the disciples of Longhu Mountain behind him straightened their chests.
“Master,” Zhang Zhiwei said, “this is such a trivial matter, why should you trouble yourself? We, your fellow disciples, are willing to go first.”
"Disciple is willing to go!"
Tian Jinzhong and Zhang Huaiyi responded in unison, their voices like muffled thunder.
Zhang Yunyuan stood behind them, saying nothing, silently adjusting the Qi within his body to its optimal state.
National and personal grievances, matters of principle, need no further explanation.
Zhang Jingqing waved her hand, her voice not loud, but carrying an undeniable air of authority.
"My Longhu Mountain should be a model for the world."
In this battle, I, Zhang Jingqing, will lead the people of the Celestial Master's Mansion to forge a bloody path for all comrades under heaven!
Once the agreement was reached, there was no further delay.
It was midnight, the moon was dark and the wind was high, just when people were sleeping the most soundly.
Dozens of figures, like ghosts, silently crept to the edge of the Japanese army camp.
Leading the group were Zhang Jingqing and his elite disciples.
With a low shout from the old celestial master, dozens of dazzling golden lights suddenly blazed up in the silent night!
"The mysteries of heaven and earth are the root of all energies. Through countless eons of cultivation, I will attain divine powers!"
A loud chanting resounded through the night sky, and dozens of Longhu Mountain disciples were covered by a thick, condensed golden light shield.
Like wrathful Vajras descending from the sky, they formed thunder seals and, without the slightest hesitation, launched a desperate charge directly at the sleeping Japanese army camp!
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"
A piercing scream instantly shattered the silence.
The camp was thrown into chaos as countless Japanese soldiers rushed out of their tents, disheveled and sleepily raising their Type 38 rifles.
boom! boom! boom!
A burst of gunfire suddenly erupted, and bullets rained down like a storm.
However, a horrifying scene unfolded.
Those bullets, powerful enough to tear flesh apart, only made a series of crisp "clanging" sounds when they hit the golden light spell surrounding the disciples of Longhu Mountain. As if hitting the hardest steel plate, they all bounced away without even causing a ripple!
"Baka! It's sorcery!"
A Japanese officer screamed in terror, his voice distorted with fear.
His answer was a dazzling bolt of lightning that pierced the night sky.
"Yang Five Thunder - Palm Thunder!"
Zhang Zhiwei took the lead, and a white bolt of lightning as thick as a child's arm shot out from his hand, instantly turning the officer and several soldiers behind him into charred remains!
Tian Jinzhong roared. Although he was not skilled in thunder magic, his foundation was extremely solid.
He unleashed the Golden Light Mantra to its fullest potential, transforming himself into a rampaging golden chariot that crashed directly into the enemy ranks.
Ordinary soldiers' bayonets couldn't even leave a white mark when they slashed at him; instead, he punched them one by one, breaking their bones and sending them flying backward.
Zhang Huaiyi was like a silent killing blade. He condensed golden light at his fingertips, transforming it into an indestructible blade. With each strike, he silently took a life.
Amid the chaos, Zhang Yunyuan followed closely behind.
Instead of rushing to kill the enemy, he focused his mind on his inner vision. The primordial Dao Qi that encompassed all things and assimilated all laws quietly spread across the entire camp like the most sophisticated radar.
Countless chaotic energies emerged in his perception:
The faint scent of blood on the Japanese soldiers, the flames burning everywhere, the smoke of gunpowder filling the air...
He quickly filtered through the useless information, searching for that unique, cold, and eerie alien energy.
Just behind the central command tent, in a secluded camp area, dozens of powerful yet subtle ninja auras, like fireflies in the night, clearly appeared on his perception map.
"That's it!"
A glint flashed in Zhang Yunyuan's eyes, and without hesitation, he pulled out a crimson talisman from his robes.
These are communication talismans distributed by the Shangqing disciples before the war began.
He poured his Qi into it and then suddenly threw it into the air!
A thick, crimson pillar of fire shot into the sky, exploded in the dark night sky, and transformed into a huge character "Shangqing" that lingered for a long time.
"Signal given! Fellow warriors, follow me and kill!"
In the mountains and forests, the masters from the three temples and four families, who had been unable to restrain themselves any longer, let out a deafening roar and swept towards the core area of the Japanese army camp from all directions like tigers descending the mountain!
Almost at the same time the signal was sent, three dark figures shot out like ghosts from the ninja camp, forming a triangular shape, and rushed straight towards the Longhu Mountain group.
The three were incredibly fast, and the powerful aura emanating from them clearly indicated that they were all Jonin!
One of the Jonin formed hand seals in mid-air and pushed forward forcefully.
Fire Release: Roar of the Flaming Dragon!
A ferocious fire dragon, over ten meters long and composed entirely of flames, roared and charged at Zhang Yunyuan with temperatures high enough to melt gold and iron!
The scorching heat wave distorted the surrounding air.
Faced with this devastating attack, Zhang Yunyuan neither dodged nor evaded.
With a thought, the "fire qi blessing" he received from the Fire Virtue Sect was activated instantly, giving him an absolute sense of control over the flames.
He didn't form any hand seals or cast any spells; he simply opened his mouth and gently inhaled at the roaring fire dragon.
A strange scene happened.
The massive, fiery dragon, when it was still three feet away from him, seemed to be instantly swallowed up by an invisible black hole!
Even the flames and heat, even the roaring sounds, vanished without a trace in a mere instant, as if they had never existed.
The sneer on the ninja's face froze instantly, his pupils contracting violently in extreme shock.
His technique... was eaten?!
Before he could react, another Jonin's attack had already arrived.
He was a Jonin wielding a katana, whose swordsmanship was extremely sharp.
With a single slash, a condensed, almost tangible, pale white blade aura tore through the air, carrying a sharpness capable of tearing through everything, and aimed directly at Zhang Yunyuan's neck.
Zhang Yunyuan remained standing in the same spot, extending his right index finger, at the tip of which a wisp of fire energy quietly condensed.
He lightly slashed at the sharp blade energy, and—*swoosh*
The condensed blade energy, powerful enough to cleave a tank, melted and disintegrated instantly upon contact with the fiery energy at his fingertips, like boiling water poured onto snow. It dissolved into primordial energy particles and vanished into the air with a soft sound.
"Nani?!"
Before the exclamation of the sword-wielding Jonin had even faded, the third Jonin had already launched a sneak attack.
He formed a hand seal, and instantly merged into the ground beneath his feet, disappearing from sight.
Earth escape: the art of beheading in the heart!
The next moment, the ground beneath Zhang Yunyuan's feet suddenly trembled, and a hand wearing a metal gauntlet burst forth from the earth, holding a kunai that gleamed with a cold light, aimed straight at the Yongquan acupoint on the sole of his foot!
However, just as the kunai was about to touch his body...
Zhang Yunyuan stomped heavily on his foot.
"Get out of here!"
A chaotic and domineering primordial energy, centered on the soles of his feet, suddenly seeped into the earth!
The feeling wasn't like an attack; it was more like the earth itself suddenly generating an irresistible, outward repulsive force.
A scream of pain.
The Jonin who was lurking in the soil was as if he had been forcibly "squeezed" out of the mud by an invisible hand, spitting out blood and falling heavily to the ground.
He felt his internal energy being instantly devoured by the earth, his meridians shattered, and he could no longer gather even a trace of it.
In the blink of an eye, three powerful Jonin were left with one crippled and two completely bewildered.
Zhang Yunyuan's bizarre and illogical methods sent chills down the spines of all the enemies who witnessed them.
However, the madness of the Higanbana ninja far exceeded everyone's imagination.
After a brief moment of shock, more ninjas, like mad dogs smelling blood, surged out of the camp without fear of death, clashing violently with the experts from the three temples and four families.
Swords flashed, lightning and fire talismans clashed, ninjutsu and Taoist magic clashed fiercely in this small area, creating wave after wave of energy surges.
The battle quickly became a stalemate.
These ninjas seemed to have no sense of pain; even if their limbs were severed by lightning magic, they would still bite their opponent's throat with their teeth.
Even if pierced through the chest by a sharp blade, he would detonate the explosive tags on his body before dying, attempting to take the enemy down with him.
A piercing cry of despair came from the battle not far away.
Upon hearing the sound, Zhang Yunyuan looked over and saw that Lu Ren, the eldest young master of the Lu family, had been stabbed through the chest by a ninja wielding a strange longsword while trying to protect a member of his clan.
After succeeding in his attack, the ninja did not linger in the fight. With a flicker of his body, he vanished into the chaotic battlefield like a ghost.
Lu Ren's body slowly went limp, and the last glimmer of light in his eyes was directed toward the direction where his younger brother, Lu Ci, was.
"Protect...the family..."
His sacrifice was not without value.
He risked his life to successfully lure out the ninja leader who had been hiding in the shadows and directing the battle!
"kill him!"
Lu Ci, the future ruthless and decisive hero, now had bloodshot eyes and let out a roar that was not human. He charged toward the most powerful ninja leader who had just appeared, as if he were a madman.
A true bloodbath was thus ignited.
Chapter 56 Quanxing Enters the Game