Chapter 223 - Striving for

As Martial Realm Cultivator, there was no one who didn’t understand the position of formation masters in the cultivation world, and no one didn’t understand that with the assistance of a formation master, their own strength would definitely increase by leaps and bounds, not to mention that this formation master had an extremely high level of strength.

When Yang Junshan’s identity as a formation master was found out by everyone, other than the face-smacking Wang Zong and the ice-cold Xiong Xiyi, everyone else, including Liu Zhifei, fell into a state of pleasant surprise.

Liu Zhifei even patted Yang Junshan’s shoulders, and said: “Good, little Yang, it must have been hard for you to hide this from us all. If I had known earlier, there would have been a formation master in my squad.

Yang Junshan immediately replied: Brother Liu is too serious, although I can lay down the array and have some experience in battle, but I have never experienced actual combat, and do not have any confidence in myself, so I naturally do not dare to spout nonsense.

Generally speaking, array formations could be divided into many different types. For example, from the perspective of array formations, array formations could be divided into illusions, defensive arrays, killing arrays, poison arrays, and so on. But from the perspective of what was being used, array formations could also be divided into: defensive arrays, battle arrays, Dao-soldier arrays, and so on.

When array masters were in danger outside, they would often not have time to leisurely set up their formations, so they could only use their battle arrays to meet the enemy. However, a battle array usually didn’t care about the strength of a formation, but about the speed at which it was set up!

Think about it, once you fight an enemy, their abilities and magic tools will all come at once, which will give you the time to calmly set up the array, and will only be able to respond in the shortest amount of time possible. Aesult, those battle arrays are usually streamlined, as long as they can be set up successfully in the shortest amount of time possible, they will not hesitate to greatly weaken the original might of the formation.

Yang Junshan was able to set up spirit arrays, and even set up large-scale village protection spirit arrays that covered a radius of several miles. Among the array masters, he could be considered a figure that could hold his own, but he had only practiced practicing the fighting formations used in real battles before and had no actual combat experience.

However, Liu Zhifei waved his hand and said: “Little Yang, you don’t have to worry. Although your words about the strengths and weaknesses of the battle formation are true, you have forgotten that you are not the only one fighting against the enemy. If you have my men to restrain you, then you can obtain the perfect opportunity to lay down the battle formation.”

Zhuang Guangyu stood out and said loudly: “Brother Fei is right, once we engage in battle with the Sirius Gate, we should immediately coordinate with Xiao Yang to set up an array formation after the surprise attack, we do not need to be able to trap everyone, as long as we can keep 3 or 4 people, we will havuge victory.”

Ning Ran laughed: It’s still three or four people, do you think that the people of the Sirius Gate are useless? Out of the twenty teams at the borders, almost every day, there are parties fighting with the people of the Sirius Gate or of the Opening Spirit School. However, the number of casualties are pitifully small, since they are all cultivators of the martial arts realm.

Liu Zhifei suddenly stood up and said: “No matter what, we must keep the matter of Xiao Yang being an array master confidential. Let me put it bluntly, if anyone were to reveal the secret of our team’s formation master before this battle, don’t blame me for not showing face.”

Three days later, Luo Bingkun returned to the team. Although his cultivation was not injured, he would often walk with his shoulders subconsciously to prevent mosquitoes from biting him, but the full number of third team members, coupled with the happy arrival of an array master in the team, caused the entire team’s morale to rise.

On this day, the newly formed team five which had just finished patrolling returned to their stronghold under the lead of Chestnut Ben. They nodded towards the third team that was already prepared, and then said to Liu Zhifei: “Senior Brother Liu, I’ll leave the disgrace of team five to you and the rest of the third team.”

Liu Zhifei nodded his head and said seriously: “Don’t worry Junior Brother Lin, we are confident in this battle.”

“It moved, it moved!” Squad Seven’s Ji Chenglin ran over and said, “The warning talismans we laid down have already been activated. A small squad from Sirius Gate is already headed towards the direction of the valley. According to the speed of their patrolling speed, they should arrive in about two hours.”

Liu Zhifei said: “Alright, let’s go. We will slow down our patrolling speed and rush to the valley in two hours!”

Finished speaking, Liu Zhifei turned to look at the two of them and said, “My two junior brothers, please do not forget to head back to the valley for reinforcements two hours later. But before that, do not make any moves on the fifth and seventh squads.”

Seeing the people of third team slowly leaving the stronghold, Ji Chenglin asked from the side, “Senior Brother Shi, how confident do you think Senior Brother Liu will be this time? Why do I feel that Senior Brother Liu’s actions are a bit too hasty?”

“No matter what, he is still venting his anger for my last loss.”

Ji Chenglin replied, “Senior Martial Brother, do you think that Senior Martial Brother Liu will be able to become a Successor Disciple even if he succeeds this time?”

A look of unwillingness and pain flashed across his face, but he quickly hid it and said in a low voice, “We still have to see how the battle goes. If we win, Senior Apprentice Brother Lin might be able to become a Successor Disciple, but if it’s just a small victory, I’m afraid it won’t attract the attention of the high order cultivator in the sect.”

He paused for a moment, then sighed, “Although Senior Martial Brother Lin got the recommendation from Martial Uncle Chen, Martial Uncle Chen is still considered a newcomer. Moreover, he is not a Successor Disciple, so his qualifications and prestige are not high enough to attract much attention. Senior Martial Brother Liu can only place his hopes on the border war and also try his best to attract the attention of the higher level cultivators of the sect. It’s a good thing that the third team is strong, even if you failed the surprise attack, you should still be able to escape.”

Ji Chenglin laughed bitterly and said, “No matter what, Senior Brother Liu still has a Adept Realm Cultivator to introduce to the sect. I pity you and me …” “Ahem, if Senior Martial Brother was not injured …” Sigh, I won’t say anymore. ”

A smile crept up his face, and he said, “This is heaven’s will!”

“Yes, heaven’s will!”

“I heard that Junior Zhang is going to become a Successor Disciple this time?” How many years has it been since our Heaven-Shaken Sect saw a true disciple with a middle stage martial arts realm? ”

“Junior Zhang is Senior Master Qing Mu’s senior, and is alsecognized genius in the sect. Not only does he have the highest cultivation among Spirit Realm cultivators, his skills in alchemy are extremely profound, and after he advanced to the martial arts realm, the position of the true disciple in the sect has probably been prepared for him. Furthermore, I heard that he jumped a few steps and killed a late stage Opening Spirit School cultivator at the border …”

Although everyone was prepared for this battle, but in truth, it was just a game of wager. Whether or not it succeeded even Liu Zhifei himself did not have much confidence, but he knew that he did not have many opportunities left, if he could not create some commotion within a month to attract the attention of the higher ups of the sect, the position of the true disciple would definitely not be his.

The direct disciples of the Heaven-Shaken Sect were all extremely valuable, and would normally only recruit disciples once every three years. The number of people would always be between three to five, and even though there were very few of them, the ones to be chosen as the direct disciples were all the best of the Heaven-Shaken Sect s, with two-thirds of the Adept Realm Cultivator s being true disciples before they had advanced into the realms of life.

Becoming a true disciple not only meant that the chance of advancing to the realms of life would greatly increase in the future, it also meant that he could truly enter the core circle of the Heaven-Shaken Sect. In the future, he would also be able to directly participate in the decision-making levels of the Heaven-Shaken Sect.

“Brother Fei, it’s about time. We are still three miles away from the valley. By now, the Sirius Gate’s patrol team should have entered the valley!”

At this time, even the usually laughing Zhuang Guangyu had a hint of seriousness on his face.

Liu Zhifei turned his head to look at the teammates behind him, and said: “Success or failure depends on one move, once you meet the enemy, remember that everyone will be bought by Xiao Yang! Little Yang, you have to set up an array formation as fast as possible, otherwise, when the people of Sirius Gate find out that something is amiss, they will turn around and leave.

Yang Junshan calmly nodded and said: “I’ll do my best!”

Liu Zhifei hesitated for a moment, as if he still wanted to say something, but in the end, he turned and said to everyone: “Use all your strength to avoid leaving too much of a reaction time for the other party!”

A distance of three kilometers was nothing to Martial Realm Cultivator, who was giving his all. Although Martial Realm Cultivator had spiritual awareness, he could only sense the surrounding three hundred meters; therefore, the time left for third team’s group to react was extremely short.

When the Sirius Gate team noticed that the people from the third team had appeared and started to panic, the third team had already rushed to the top with Liu Zhifei leading the way.

They could not allow the Heaven-Shaken Sect’s people to scatter the formation in a single move, otherwise, once they went to fight, they would be defeated one by one by the Heaven-Shaken Sect’s people!

The leader of the Sirius Gate Group knew clearly that Liu Zhifei’s aura was at its peak, but he had no choice but to meet this attack that he had been storing energy for a long time. Otherwise, if he disbanded the group, the Sirius Gate would have no choice but to flee.

When Liu Zhifei was less than three hundred meters away from him, he had already risen into the air, and smashed the round bronze gourd hammer down towards the head of the Sirius Gate’s chief with an imposing manner, but was stopped midway by the magical equipment wielded by the leader.

With a loud sound in the air, Liu Zhifei’s artifact directly smashed his opponent’s artifact into the ground, and a cloud of dust instantly rose seventy and eighty meters from the ground.

The face of the leader of the Sirius Gate who was holding his breath turned red, as though he had suffered an internal injury from this strike, but he still revealed a happy expression.