Chapter 210: Magical Method to Break the Formation
Chapter 210: Magical Method to Break the Formation
"Master Wen, what countermeasures do you have?" Xue Bao suddenly became alert and asked hurriedly.
In order to facilitate command, Wen Rui equipped officers at all levels with radio headsets so that they could switch channels and communicate at any time.
While he was still in the logistics base, he had already contacted the commander-in-chief and offered advice.
"Our army has a huge advantage in small-scale combat. Why should we fight the main force of the Dingguang bandit army here?"
Wen Rui advised kindly: "The Jinling Sect's transport ship delivery capability is even more overwhelming than the enemy's, and its mobility advantage is also huge. We might as well withdraw our troops, break up into smaller units, and attack everywhere to capture all the cities in the core area of Dingguang Xianzong."
"This way, the enemy's main force will have to split up and rush to rescue them, and our army can defeat them one by one."
Fairy Hanyuan, Immortal Changqing, and Immortal Ziyang were also in the conversation channel between Wen Rui and Xue Bao. Immortal Ziyang couldn't help but interrupt and said, "That's not right. The other side has set up the formation. How can we not break it?"
"Yes, if we do not break the enemy's formation but retreat instead, wouldn't that bring disgrace to the reputation of Taoism? It would be as if we are afraid of the Western religion and our Taoism and abilities are inferior to those of the Western religion."
Zhenren Changqing also spoke.
Even Fairy Han Yuan revealed contempt in her tone: "Master Wen, you are a businessman, and it is your instinct to seek profit and avoid harm. For cultivators of my generation, especially those who have reached the immortal level, we can lose the battle even if we lose the people."
Wen Rui immediately showed an expression like "Old man in subway looking at his phone.jpg". He really couldn't understand why immortal cultivators were so concerned about their reputation.
This was exactly the case during the Battle of the Gods. As long as the Jie Religion set up a formation and called out numbers inside the formation, the Chen Religion would rush forward to break the formation. If the saint had not been sought for help in the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation, the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chen Religion would have been nearly wiped out.
Even though they had a super magic weapon called Hunyuan Banner, which could instantly teleport the army to any location, the Golden Immortal of the Chan Sect chose not to use it. Instead, he went to break the formation and fight with the Jie Sect disciples who set up the formation. Many people died as a result.
Use the Hunyuan Banner to carry out a decapitation operation. Send an elite army directly to Chaoge Lutai to kill King Zhou and Daji. Wouldn't the war be over then?
Wen Rui came up with his own conspiracy theory, believing that the Conferred God Tribulation was a grand conspiracy against the disciples of the Jie Religion. There were countless opportunities to kill King Zhou, but the Golden Immortal of the Orthodox Religion chose not to seize them. The strategic goal was to destroy the Jie Religion's vitality, and killing King Zhou and destroying the Shang Dynasty was simply a cover.
It now seems that, regardless of whether it is a conspiracy theory or not, the Chan sect has engraved the obsession of breaking the formation into its genes and passed it on to its descendants.
Commander Xue Bao pondered for a moment and said, "Master Wen, I know you made this suggestion with good intentions, but the situation is special now. It's not like a battle between ordinary armies where you can do whatever you want. We cultivators must follow rules in our wars. Setting up formations and fighting are the etiquette of war. If you don't follow the etiquette and win by trickery, how are you different from a demon?"
Wen Rui was almost laughing at these stupid teammates. How could he possibly win a war with these bugs?
Oh, no, he suddenly remembered that he didn't want to win, he just wanted to see a river of blood.
"I was not thoughtful enough and my vision was too small. But breaking the formation is not easy."
Wen Rui apologized very sensibly, "I have studied the Joyful Zen Sutra seriously, and I have a good understanding of the 'Great Trouble Love and Contamination Vidyaraja Array' set up by the Dingguang Immortal Sect. The most powerful thing about that array is that if the person who enters the array has not opened the seventh consciousness, the manas consciousness, and cannot block the six consciousnesses and only use the mind's eye to see through everything, then what he sees, hears, and feels are all illusions manifested by the seven emotions and six desires. His Tao heart is suppressed by his mortal heart, and he falls into the confusion of the world of mortals and cannot extricate himself."
The seven emotions are joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, hate and pity.
The six desires are: the desire for survival, the desire for knowledge, the desire for expression, the desire for performance, the desire for comfort, and the desire for love.
Wen Rui further explained, "The Chan sect focuses on fate and aptitude, but not on tempering one's character. Among the more than 6,000 Chan sect disciples in our army, I only know Gu Changfeng, who can see through the seven emotions and six desires. If the several sect leaders who have reached the realm of celestial immortals enter the formation, I'm afraid they will not end up well."
These words made the four sect leaders blush. Although they were immortals with high cultivation levels, their character cultivation levels were not that high.
From the Buddhist perspective, seeking longevity is the desire for life among the six desires, and seeking immortality is the desire for knowledge, both of which are considered impure among the six senses.
The Great Enlightened One, who hears the truth in the morning, can die in the evening, what is the point of living? "The Dingguang Immortal Sect set up this formation, precisely to grasp the weak spot of our Taoist monks. If our soldiers cannot overcome the weakness of the seven emotions and six desires, charging into the formation is tantamount to sending themselves to death."
After hearing this, Zi Yang Zhenren smiled bitterly and said, "What Sect Master Wen said makes sense. I agree with him. To be honest, among my disciples of Zi Yang Xianzong, only Chang Feng has such a temperament that he would not get confused after entering the enemy camp. Since he cut off the root of his troubles, his temperament has been improving day by day. He has become more mature and calm, and has gradually entered the state of selflessness. As his master, I can only sigh that his student is better than his teacher."
Fairy Han Yuan curled her lips, feeling quite uncomfortable.
Hearing him praising his own disciple, she felt even more unhappy when she thought of her niece Yan Ruoyan who had passed away and became a stepping stone for Gu Changfeng to improve his cultivation.
"Master Zi Yang, why don't you follow Gu Changfeng's example and cut off the root of your troubles? You will become immortals now, and you won't need them when you ascend to heaven in the future. Keeping them will only cause you trouble."
The female clan leader said sarcastically, "When the time comes, you two, master and disciple, will join forces to break the enemy's formation. It will surely become a good story."
"You!" Zi Yang Zhenren was so angry that his face was blue and purple. "Don't talk nonsense. Even if I cut off the root of my troubles and joined hands with my disciple to kill into the formation, I will not be deceived. There are two Arhats guarding the center of the formation. I can barely defeat one Arhat. Chang Feng is only in the God Transformation Realm, how can he be a match for the Arhats?"
"If you insist on cutting off the root of your troubles, then Sect Master Xue and True Man Changqing will have to cut off the root of your troubles with me. Only if the three of us charge into the formation can we defeat the two Arhats and have a chance to break the formation."
True Man Zi Yang also had his own plans. He directed the conversation to the other two male immortals in order to draw them to his camp, create a male-female confrontation, and help him refute Fairy Han Yuan's fallacy.
At this point, he spoke in a resolute tone, "Sect Master Xue, Master Changqing, as long as you are willing to accompany me to remove the root of my troubles, I will do whatever I can. For the glory of the Chan Sect, for the slaying of demons, and for the welfare of all living beings, what does a mere root of trouble mean?"
This is a bit like taking advantage of the situation. He used words to target the other two male immortals and step on them to highlight his own image of being tall and mighty.
Xue Bao and Zhenren Changqing knew what Zhenren Zi Yang was thinking, but since it concerned his lower body, they couldn't argue with him.
"Let's talk and joke, but don't make fun of me. My Xue family is a family of immortals, and it's very important to pass on our family lineage, okay?"
"It's not that I'm reluctant to give up the root of troubles, but I can't afford to lose face... If I cut it off, I'll have to change my Taoist name to Wugen Zhenren."
When Wen Rui was fighting with Monk Huimu, the only witnesses at the scene were the disciples of Jin Ling.
Moreover, Monk Huimu has not been proven dead yet, and even the Great Joyful Bodhisattva of the Dingguang Immortal Sect cannot calculate his life or death.
At this moment, he was in Schrödinger's monk state in the core of the earth's fire, maintaining the mantra of Acalanatha and struggling to resist the flames of the earth's core.
If I don't go and see it with my own eyes, I won't know whether the shield is broken or not, or whether he has been burned to death.
The four great sect leaders were unaware that Wen Rui possessed the ability to confront the Arhats of the Western Religion head-on. They habitually believed that Wen Rui had a mediocre mortal body and only possessed many strange and secret techniques.
The four sect leaders did not include him in the "root-breaking and formation-breaking commando team".
Originally, he had nothing to do with it, but Wen Rui joined the discussion at an inopportune time: "Fairy Han Yuan has a point. I think you should be more open-minded. For the sake of world peace, just cut them off. Why not lead all the male monks in the army to cut them off together, right in front of the enemy, to scare them off and boost our army's morale."
(End of this chapter)