Immortality Through Array Formations

Chapter 2751: Chapter 103: Array Evolution_3

But now a strong enemy has invaded, and Young Master Dan Zhu has personally gone to the frontline; this is a grave matter.

He can only grit his teeth and interrupt Mo Hua’s research.

Mo Hua pondered for a moment, nodded, and said, ”Alright, I understand. Let’s go back now.”

Whether or not to visit the core area of the spreading famine is something to consider later.

The urgent matter is to first deal with the incursion of the Shugu Tribe.

After all, Wutu and Wusha, these Mountain Realms, are considered Mo Hua’s ”stronghold,” serving as the base for further ambitions and must not be lost.

The threat from the Shugu Main Department cannot be underestimated.

Mo Hua took one last look at the withering land, as well as at the sporadic thick earth reformation formations he had drawn to combat the famine, feeling the strange sensation of ”life and death” intertwined and permeating. His eyes grew profound, and then he departed.

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The region where Mo Hua conducted his research on Taotie’s Power was in the northwest of the Wusha Mountain Realm.

The place where the Shugu Tribe attacked was directly west.

Mo Hua spent a day and a night hurrying to the frontline of the Wusha Mountain Realm. Upon reaching the frontline, he saw that both sides were already engaged in brutal combat within the rugged mountains.

Dan Zhu and Chi Feng were leading the Danque Tribe, along with barbarian soldiers from Wusha, Black Horn, and Wutu Tribes, in a deadly struggle against the Shugu tribal members with strange facial paint.

The Shugu Tribe bypassed the famine-stricken area and launched an attack on the Wusha Mountain Realm through the dangerous mountains.

Fortunately, their intentions were quickly discovered.

After learning this, Dan Zhu led his troops in a counterattack and successfully blocked the Shugu Tribe’s barbarian soldiers approximately thirty li from the edge of the Wusha Mountain Realm.

This prevented significant damage to the main body of the Wusha Mountain Realm, including the small state boundary of Wutu under the Wusha Mountain Realm’s barrier.

Meanwhile, the Shugu Tribe has always wanted to advance deeper into Wusha.

But Dan Zhu firmly defended against them.

On the frontline, both sides were caught in a tense back-and-forth that continued until deep into the night, when they finally withdrew their forces.

After the withdrawal, Dan Zhu, with furrowed brows, returned to the tent and immediately saw Mo Hua waiting for him. His expression turned joyful as he said:

”Gentleman, you’ve returned?”

Mo Hua nodded.

Dan Zhu looked at Mo Hua, unable to conceal his joy.

Mo Hua had been researching famine and comprehending Laws for several months without returning to Wutu Tribe or seeing Dan Zhu.

As he continued to look, Dan Zhu suddenly froze.

He felt that after a few months apart, Mr. Witch seemed entirely different.

His demeanor was more composed, more detached, and more transparent, with a faint sense of harmonizing with the surrounding world.

Even his breathing seemed to carry an indescribable rhythm.

His eyes held an unfathomable depth, as if everything he saw was no longer in its original form.

Dan Zhu was stunned.

Among all the Golden Cores he had encountered, even those great cultivators in the late Golden Core Stage, none possessed such a natural and profound demeanor.

Mo Hua, however, remained unaware.

When immersed in the Laws, he was unaware of his own changes. Seeing Dan Zhu’s initial joy turning to astonishment, he asked:

”Is the situation very serious?”

Dan Zhu snapped back to reality, shook his head, and said, ”It’s good that you are here, Gentleman.”

He hadn’t realized it himself, but his address of ”Gentleman” was more sincerely respectful than before.

Mo Hua then inquired about the battle situation.

Dan Zhu explained everything in detail.

This time, it was the Shugu Tribe that had suddenly attacked, led by the ”Six Strange Shugu” with whom they had previous conflicts.

Of course, Dan Zhu had already killed one of the six, so now they should be called the ”Shugu Monsters.”

The Shugu Monsters, originally a united band of six brothers, bore a deep grudge against Dan Zhu after one of them was killed. Their attack on the Wusha Mountain Realm was also a form of ”revenge.”

In normal circumstances, the Shugu Monsters were not a concern. They were previously defeated by Dan Zhu, and even with all six, they couldn’t rival the prodigy Dan Zhu, let alone now with only five of them.

But now they were in the Wusha Mountain Realm.

The Wusha Mountain Realm is a Second Grade Mountain Realm, subject to Heavenly Dao restrictions.

Dan Zhu, at the Golden Core, could only exert the cultivation of the Foundation Establishment Peak in the Wusha Mountain Realm, unable to fully exert his strength.

Especially since his superior Vermilion Bird Profound Fire Feather Robe magic treasure couldn’t be used, effectively rendering more than half of his strength useless.

Thus, his natural talent had been subtly ”weakened” by the Heavenly Dao.

Meanwhile, the Shugu Monsters, originally inferior to Dan Zhu, found themselves ”enhanced” compared to him due to the realm’s suppression.

As a result, Dan Zhu found it difficult to gain any advantage over the five of them.

Mo Hua initially brought Dan Zhu to the Second Grade Mountain Realm to protect him from being targeted by other high-grade Golden Core cultivators.

However, instead of being protected, Dan Zhu was the one who got ”weakened” first.

The Shugu Monsters were instead the ones being protected.

Mo Hua’s mind was somewhat conflicted.

Under the balance of the Heavenly Dao, the shifts in power dynamics were indeed quite subtle.

Once the Golden Core was restricted, the main force of the war turned entirely to the ”Foundation Establishment.”

The outcome of this Tao cultivation battle would be completely led by the barbarian soldiers in the Foundation Establishment Realm.

In other words, it was a contest of forces between the Danque Tribe and the allied tribes of Wusha, Black Horn, Wutu, and others against the Shugu Main Department.

In the Great Province Boundary wars, strength was dictated by the strong. The higher the realm, the stronger, and a Feather Transformation can slaughter all.

In the small state boundary wars, numbers dictated strength. More numbers meant stronger, and even ants can gnaw an elephant to death.

On Mo Hua’s side, even including the forces under Dan Zhu and the allied forces from various small tribes in Wutu, all combined, they did not match the forces of the Shugu one main department.

At this moment, not all forces available in the Wusha Mountain Realm could be mobilized.

The rear tribes like Wutu also needed to dispatch troops to guard.

Thus, the barbarian soldiers under Dan Zhu amounted to about two thousand, which was only half of the Shugu Tribe’s forces.

Furthermore, these four thousand barbarian soldiers of the Shugu Tribe were not their entire force.

After all, this war had just begun.

They could not attack Dan Zhu with full force right away.

But the future was uncertain.

Therefore, the current situation was extremely severe.

With a disadvantage in numbers, and Dan Zhu himself being restricted in cultivation, he couldn’t rely on his personal strength to turn the tide massively, hence his grave expression.

Mo Hua pondered for a moment and said, ”No problem, let’s test them first.”

Mo Hua then made some simple arrangements.

These arrangements were made after he slightly calculated based on the specific circumstances.

Mo Hua didn’t delve deeper into calculations.

Because the scale of this war was quite large, totaling six thousand people; ten times the number from the previous battle with Bi Jie.

The difficulty of calculations also increased tenfold.

This far exceeded the limits of what Mo Hua could calculate.

Moreover, this was a direct confrontation, more about clashing head-on, not much space for cunning tricks, and strategems wouldn’t work well.

So, Mo Hua could only do a basic prediction of the overall fortune and misfortune, then let both sides battle a few rounds to assess the situation and plan the next steps.

The next day at dawn, both sides began to engage in battle again.

Mo Hua stood on a distant cliff, surveying the battlefield, and the situation didn’t look optimistic.

A smaller army was indeed weaker.

Moreover, there was another more severe issue:

Barbarian Armor.

The Barbarian Armor of the Shugu Main Department was a notch better than the Barbarian Armor of all the barbarian soldiers on Dan Zhu’s side.

Additionally, in this battle, the Shugu Main Department deployed an even more special type of Barbarian Armor.

This was a grey-black, menacingly shaped, extremely hard Tusk Heavy Armor made from an unknown demon bone.

This almost indestructible heavy armor worn by the Foundation Establishment Peak barbarian soldiers of the Shugu Tribe was almost invincible in the Second Grade Mountain Realm war.

Even Dan Zhu himself, without using his Golden Core cultivation or activating his Feather Robe magic treasure, couldn’t break through these ”hard bones” heavy armors.

The ultimate result was self-explanatory.

The battle ended with the defeat of Dan Zhu’s tribe and the Wutu Alliance.

The Shugu Tribe advanced fifty li.

Everyone’s expressions were bleak and defeated.

Only Mo Hua, after a moment of contemplation, had a peculiar glow flashing in his eyes:

”Shugu Tribe... Heavy Armor...”