Chapter 473: Using Oneself as Bait, Summoning Ritual

Four years later, Tianlan Grassland.

Unlike the tribal alliance of the Mulan people, the Tianlan Grassland where the Tuwu people live is also a nomadic tribe, with immortals and mortals mixed together, but the centralized ruler is the Tianlan Temple. No matter how big or small the tribe is, it must accept the direct jurisdiction of the temple. Even the tribal immortal master must go through the temple's spiritual opening ceremony and receive immortal laws. The control is very strict.

Immortal practitioners who have not gone through the temple ceremony are all unrecognized "black households".

Black households are called free immortal masters in the Tianlan Grassland, similar to casual cultivators, but their status is worse than casual cultivators. The Tianlan Temple does not recognize them as immortal masters, but in order to maintain stable rule, it also opens a loophole for these black households to join a tribe.

With a registered tribe guarantee, you can go to the temple for ceremony certification.

When black households have a hard time, they are not recognized by the grassland rulers and have difficulty in practicing. In order to obtain a regular status, they are often willing to accept some tribes to recruit them. On this day, a group of mortal tribes met two "free immortal masters". Because the team had no immortal master escort, they gave them spirit stones and asked them to go with them.

These two people were naturally Xu Qingyang and Han Li who had bid farewell to Tiannan and entered the grassland for more than a year.

If you want to know why the two are here and what they did in the past three years, it's a long story. Four years ago, after the Qiling Island incident, the two quickly rushed to Yu Guotian Tiancheng to meet with the Mulan high-level.

The Mulan people have been recuperating for 30 years, and the whole clan is ready to fight and plan a counterattack.

However, the vitality has not been restored after all, and the four major forces in Tiannan are also recuperating. They are not very willing to strongly support them to provoke a war. In the absence of resources, they are temporarily unable to launch a full-scale counterattack. Xu Qingyang suggested that multiple teams be sent into the grassland to engage in guerrilla warfare behind enemy lines to mobilize the Tuwu people into a wartime state, and then force the Tianlan Temple to suppress it. They will form an elite team and wait for the Tianlan Temple to take the bait and eat its leader in one bite.

In this way, the Mulan people can kill the enemy leader and capture the Tianlan Saint.

Xu Qingyang's plan is quite good. The Tuwu people are now in a natural defensive position with a vast territory and sparse population, and the situation is leaking everywhere. On the other hand, the Mulan people have no worries and are in a strategic position.

After sending a large number of guerrillas one after another, the Tuwu people were in chaos.

Under Xu Qingyang's personal operation, in the past two or three years, the enemy was strong and we retreated, the enemy retreated and we harassed, the enemy was tired and we attacked... and other tactics were played very happily, which made the Mulan people admire them very much, and the Tianlan Temple could not bear it anymore and planned a large-scale encirclement and suppression operation. At that time, Xu Qingyang combined the battlefield intelligence and considered the Tuwu people's eagerness to make achievements as soon as possible. He arranged a flaw in the gathering of the guerrilla leaders to attract the main team led by the Tianlan Saint.

Then there was nothing to say. Mulan dispatched two divine masters, the saint, a team of great masters, and Xu Qingyang to ambush together.

This was originally a very covert operation, but it was a complete failure. The Tianlan Temple seemed to have seen through their plan long ago and dispatched a large number of upper-level Yuanying immortal masters and three great immortal masters.

The great immortal master of the Tuwu people was a great cultivator in the late Yuanying period of Tiannan.

Faced with this situation, even though there were many masters of the Mulan people and Xu Qingyang and the other two intervened, they did not gain any advantage. In the middle of the fierce battle, Xu Qingyang's evil thoughts backfired, and he retreated before he was defeated, and then fled in all directions, losing contact with the Mulan people.

However, the matter did not end here.

Xu Qingyang had not yet obtained what he needed. After a period of recuperation, he barely suppressed the deepening of his evil thoughts, and re-established contact with the Mulan people's hidden base in the grassland, and began to launch a backup plan.

This plan was more risky, and Xu Qingyang planned to use himself as bait.

While letting the Mulan people prepare for support, Xu Qingyang and Han Li appeared in a hurry. A few months ago, they attacked a large tribe of Tuwu people and killed their tribe's Yuanying Immortal Master. Then they moved quickly and raided several tribes in succession. Now everyone in Tuwu is in danger and is looking for the two people everywhere.

The first half of the plan has been completed, and Xu Qingyang and Han Li are now lurking.

The grassland is vast, and it is easy for the two to find a place to hide, but the next step of the plan requires repeatedly pulling the attention of the Mulan people, so they did not hide, but prepared to quietly change places to make trouble.

This requires an identity to cover up, so they met this team.

The team is led by the patriarch of a small tribe, named Cangjiu tribe, which was originally a branch of a medium-sized tribe. A few years ago, due to internal conflicts, they were excluded and exiled. There was no immortal master in the tribe, and it was difficult to survive. The grazing place had to be rented by others. Therefore, taking advantage of the recent opening of the temple, they escorted offerings from a long distance and went to the temple with potential children to "open their spirits".

Thanks to the two joining, they had a smooth journey.

It was not without danger. For example, a few days ago, a wolf pack led by a low-level demon wolf was wandering nearby with ill intentions, but was silently solved by Yin Yue without taking any action.

Although the old tribe leader Ying Jiu didn't know yet, he was very glad for his choice.

Seeing that the destination was approaching and it was getting late, Ying Jiu ordered the team to stop, and then walked to a large carriage in the middle of the team. He stood in front of the carriage, put one hand on his chest, bent down, and said respectfully: "Two immortal masters, we will camp here today. The destination is approaching, and there are at most two days of journey..."

Inside the carriage, Xu Qingyang closed his eyes, and Han Li slowly opened his eyes.

He first glanced at Xu Qingyang, with a bit of worry on his face. In the battle a year ago, Brother Xu almost became a demon. Although he successfully suppressed it, he no longer dared to use his full strength easily.

The first few raids were mainly carried out by him.

It would be very risky to continue to implement their next plan, and it would definitely be another fierce battle.

He was not afraid, because he could always run away if he couldn't win, but Xu Qingyang's condition was not optimistic. If he couldn't control himself, the problem would become more and more serious. Thinking about it, Han Li shook his head slightly. Brother Xu would never miss this opportunity. It was useless to persuade him. He waved his hand to open the car door and looked at the environment outside.

The old man heard the voice and raised his eyes slightly.

At this moment, the tribesmen were in a commotion. The old man found that the immortal master was looking at the back, and then looked back, only to see a dazzling white light shooting past in the distance. When the commotion subsided, Han Li spoke.

"Someone may come later. If they ask anything, just answer normally!"

The old man didn't understand, but he lowered his head and said: "Master, don't worry. My Cangjiu tribe is just an inconspicuous mortal tribe. No one will care." As he said that, he saw the white light turn back, and a red light flew from the side, just meeting above their tribe, and revealing their figures at the same time.

A man and a woman, the man looked middle-aged, and the woman was 27 or 28 years old.

"Master Xiu, I didn't find anything here. How about your side? Can you find the trace of the two people?"

The woman shook her head: "According to the information provided by the temple, the last time the two foreigners appeared, they should have come to the eastern part of Tianlan. The immortal masters of the nearby tribes have been dispatched to lay a net to shrink, but these two foreigners are hiding, how can you and I find them..."

The woman's words were very perfunctory, and the man was quite anxious.

"Master Xiu, these two have angered several great masters and saints in the temple. Not only did they conspire with the Mulan people to provoke war some time ago, they also attacked and killed the upper-level masters of the Kuilang tribe and the Black Python tribe. It is said that he was one of the commanders of Tiannan at that time."

"If you find them, the temple will reward you handsomely"

"Hmph, so what, Master Li, if you and I really find their traces, it may not be a good thing..."

"Master Li, don't take some things too seriously. The rewards from the temple are indeed generous, but you and I have to consider our own paths. Don't lose your life for a mere reward!"

The man looked a little shocked. Can he still be so perfunctory!

The woman struck while the iron was hot and said, "The soul-calling spell cast by the temple said that they could track us down immediately if they found us, but by the time they really surrounded us, you and I would have been dead without a burial place. In the final analysis, they are just treating us, the immortal masters of the small tribe, as cannon fodder. The more serious we are, the closer we are to death..."

The sober attitude of this woman finally extinguished the spirit of Li Xianshi.

"Then according to Xiu Xianshi's opinion, what should you and I do? We can't really ignore the tasks assigned by the temple..."

Seeing that she finally came to her senses, the woman was satisfied. She couldn't do this negative attitude alone, otherwise she would be in big trouble if she was reported, so she had to drag the other party to play badly together.

Immediately, she came up with several strategies for playing badly, and came up with words to answer questions from above.

The so-called superiors have policies, and the subordinates have countermeasures.

After whispering to each other, the two turned around and disappeared into a flash of light. The Cangjiu tribe, who were waiting for battle, looked at each other in surprise. In the carriage, Han Li eavesdropped on the conversation between the two clearly, and couldn't help but smile. Although they had already used the alien technique, the two Jindan Tuwu people could not see through them, but it was better to have less trouble than more.

Now they needed the Tuwu people to track them with all their strength, but they could not be found by ordinary Tuwu people first.

This situation would force the Tianlan Temple to use their special skills. At that time, in the headquarters of the Tianlan Temple, in a forbidden area in the back mountain, hundreds of Tuwu high-level immortal masters bathed and fasted, and gathered one after another.

In the center of the forbidden area, there was a square with a diameter of a thousand feet.

Looking down from the sky, this huge square is actually a huge formation diagram. At the center of the formation diagram, there is an altar several feet high. It is simple and ancient. Except for the mysterious runes carved on all sides, there is no decoration, but there are more than a dozen Yuanying stage upper-level immortal masters standing on all sides, quietly waiting for something.

About an incense stick of time, two women and one man stepped into the square.

In the middle, there is a tall woman in a silver robe and white veil, with a pair of clear and dreamy eyes, which is breathtakingly beautiful. On the left is a man in his thirties, with a look of vicissitudes of life.

The woman on the right is a plump young woman with a curvy figure.

But her temperament is a bit gloomy, and there is a black ghost head on each shoulder.

These three people have extraordinary status. When they appeared, all the people around bowed and saluted, saying that they were meeting the saint, the great immortal master, etc. The three nodded slightly, walked straight to the altar for a few feet, turned around and stood still: "Masters, there is no need to be polite. Everyone should know the purpose of this summoning ceremony."

The woman in the middle spoke slowly, with a calm tone and a strong murderous intent.

Everyone felt cold in their hearts, and then became very serious again. Now the situation is not good. Not only are the Mulan people ready to move, but the two Tiannan people are even more daring. They went deep into the hinterland of Tianlan to make trouble, making everyone feel insecure and uneasy.

Judging from the recent feedback, it is useless to rely on the tribes below to search online.

The silver-robed saint gestured to the left and right and said, "In order to cope with many challenges, in addition to locking in two outsiders, we are also preparing to keep the holy beast clone permanently in the lower world for this summoning ceremony. For this purpose, the two great immortals have been running around for more than ten years, looking for two suitable sacrifices. Whether it will succeed depends on the luck of our tribe..."

The two people on the left and right nodded and clapped their hands to summon the outsiders.

Then, on both sides of the square, a team of giant bronze men, eight in each team, walked into the square array, each carrying a huge wooden frame, and finally placed the wooden frame steadily on the left and right of the altar.

There were nothing else on top, but a green bull monster and a snow-white giant python.

All the Yuanying immortal masters present judged at a glance that the two monsters were at the peak of level seven, and were rare existences that were about to enter the level eight great monsters. No wonder the two great immortal masters had to personally capture them.

Although the Tianlan grassland is better than the Tiannan cultivation world, top-level monsters are still very scarce.

In order to get these two top-level level seven monsters, the Tuwu people spent a lot of effort, and these two monsters were not ordinary species, but direct descendants of wild species. The silver-robed saint waved her hand to let the bronze man push away, twisted her thin waist, and a ball of green light flew out, and a 10-foot-high ancient flaming tripod appeared above the green bull.

If Han Li were here, he would be stunned.

This small tripod is very similar to the Xutian Tripod. It can be said that except for the green flame, they are basically the same.

With the operation of the silver-robed saint, the green cow was decomposed into hundreds of parts, and the bloody smell filled the square. The lid of the ancient tripod soared into the sky, and a large piece of green gravel flew out from the inside, wrapping the blood and flesh of the green cow.

In the flickering light, the flesh and blood were absorbed by the gravel, and finally even the demon beast's soul was swallowed up.

The same steps continued to swallow the white python.

When the two level 7 peak demon beasts were completely swallowed up, the gravel released by the ancient tripod was completely dyed red, and the blood light was bright, turning into a blood cloud suspended above the altar. The silver-robed saint cast a spell again, driving the ancient tripod to the middle of the altar, turning her head to the men and women on the left and right and said: "It can start, both of you, please help me!"

The two great immortals responded with a smile, and at the same time cast a spell to activate the altar.

When the altar was full of spiritual light, the lines were connected into a whole, and the flames on the ancient tripod were shining together, the silver-robed saint took a half step forward, and the obscure spell sounded. The two great immortals put their hands on her shoulders, one on the left and one on the right.

With the blessing of the two, a bull-headed snake-body suddenly appeared on the saint's forehead.

The saint pinched her hands and released a silver ball of light, which became bigger and bigger. It lasted for a whole meal. The ball of light smashed open, revealing a hazy light hole, which disappeared in the blink of an eye. But in the blink of an eye, a red light shot out and plunged into the blood cloud.

All the suspended blood sand was sucked over, forming a wriggling blood cocoon.