C732 The Losses Were Heavy
C732 The Losses Were Heavy
Ding Haoyue was delighted when Second Uncle called him Prefecture Master. He said, "If you need anything, just tell me."
"It's that warrior who came with Ren Xiao, Liu Duansheng. We should get rid of him first. If he doesn't die, it's impossible for our warriors to defeat him. Humph, this brat dared to offend me. This isn't just a matter of my face, it's also Yue Ding Manor's face. So Liu Duansheng must die!" Ding Baozhen said fiercely.
Ding Haoyue pondered for a moment and said, "Second Uncle, we just formed an alliance with Hsingyi Mansion. Isn't it not good to kill their people now?"
"Hehe, I have thought of this problem as well. Killing a person doesn't necessarily require you to do it yourself." Ding Baozhen said with a sinister smile.
"Second Uncle is looking for an assassin?" Ding Haoyue widened his eyes and slapped his thigh. "Yeah, why didn't I think that Second Uncle would be the best?" As he spoke, he gave a thumbs up to show his appreciation.
Ding Baozhen's face showed his appreciation. "Master, Second Uncle has only been obsessed with cultivation for a few years. He doesn't care about power and passion. I hope you don't disappoint your father and let our Ding Family rise to a higher level. Leave that Liu Duansheng to Second Uncle. Right now, the most important thing is to stabilize the overall situation and build a good relationship with the surrounding prefectures. Hide your strength and conceal your strength, and wait for the opportunity to rise to power!"
Ding Haoyue looked grateful. "Thank you, Second Uncle!"
"Haha, we are family. There is no need to be so polite. Alright, go ahead. You have just become the Prefecture Master. There are a lot of things that need to be taken care of, and Second Uncle will leave."
Before he could finish his sentence, the defensive array of Lord Mansion was suddenly activated. Yuan Qi surged. Then, violent winds raged in Lord Mansion. Lightning flashed and thunder rumbled. Huge fireballs appeared out of nowhere and descended like a rainstorm. A good courtyard instantly turned into a sea of fire!
Ding Baozhen, Ding Haoyue, Ding Zhiwei, and Ding Yingjie were all stunned. Wasn't their spiritual array a defensive array? Why did it suddenly turn into a killing array? Moreover, it was a few levels higher than before and had reached the level of a third level spiritual array. What was going on?
It was not too late. As soon as the fireball fell, countless ice thorns seemed to have been arranged. They were densely packed in the air, emitting a frightening cold light as they shot over.
"Quick, defend, defend yourselves!" Ding Baozhen roared, "Zilang, get out here for me!"
Zilang was a special consecrate of the Ding Family. He was a spiritual array master. Although he was a basic spiritual array master, he had spent a lot of resources to recruit him. He had personally set up the defensive array of Lord Mansion. Ding Baozhen had tried it before, and it could withstand his full power attack for an hour!
But why did the defensive array suddenly turn into an offensive spiritual array? They couldn't figure it out no matter what.
A figure flew out from a building in Lord Mansion. It was the District Lord. He didn't need Second Master's shout to notice that something was wrong. When he saw the sky full of ice thorns, he was so shocked that his mouth was wide open. He forgot to dodge.
The District Lord was merely a Deification Middle Period warrior. He spent most of his time studying formations, so his cultivation was naturally weaker. Just as the ice thorns were about to fall, he waved his hand again and unleashed several defensive spirit seals above his head, blocking the ice thorns that were stabbing towards him.
However, the others weren't as powerful as him. The servants and Nascent Infant guards in Lord Mansion screamed miserably as they were pierced by the three feet long icicles on the ground. After struggling a few times, they died, frozen by the icicles!
Some of the houses that were ignited by the fireballs were turned into ashes in an instant, including the cultivators inside. Before the ashes fell to the ground, the ice thorns arrived and froze in midair!
Only a few cultivators with profound magic power took out their magic treasures and blocked the two waves of attacks from the fireballs and ice thorns.
However, before they could celebrate, the tens of feet long Wind Blade floated in the air and let out a shrill cry. It hovered in the air and cut down those cultivators who relied on their defensive magic treasures to dodge the two waves of attacks. Fortunately, they were able to escape from the Nascent Infant realm and teleport away, trying to escape from the Lord Mansion.
"Zilang, what's going on? Damn it, why aren't you trying to think of something? Why are you standing there in a daze?" Ding Baozhen roared when he saw Zilang not moving at all.
Zilang's face was pale as he muttered to himself, "Impossible, this is impossible!"
"What is impossible?" Ding Baozhen roared.
"Someone changed the defensive array I set up and turned it into the Five Elemental Trap and Kill Array! He is an array master. If he wasn't an array master, he wouldn't have been able to do this!"
"Ah? Array master?" Ding Baozhen was stunned as well. As Void Refinement Cultivator, he naturally knew how precious an array master was. Qu Lang was merely a spiritual array master, but he was counting with his hands. Why did an array master suddenly appear?
"Is there any way to stop this array?" Ding Baozhen asked anxiously. If he was late, more people would die in Lord Mansion.
The doctor shook his head helplessly. "There is no other way. I am not his match for the formation. Second Master, please find someone else. Farewell!" After he finished speaking, without waiting for Ding Baozhen's reply, Zilang took out a flag from his Storage Ring. He looked at it with a pained expression and threw it at a relatively weak spot.
Crackle!
The Formation Breaking Flag tore a hole in the Five Elements Trap Killing Formation and flew out. As soon as he left, countless golden spears emitting powerful auras appeared in the formation, covering the entire Lord Mansion in all directions.
Miserable screams could be heard all of a sudden. Those who were weaker had almost died under the attacks of the first three fireballs, ice thorns, and Wind Blade. The golden spears fell, causing the Cultivator of the Deification Period to panic and begin to suffer casualties.
However, before the golden spears could fall, huge rocks weighing thousands of kilograms appeared in the sky. They fell together with the golden spears, causing the ground to shake. Every building that stood tall collapsed and turned into ruins!
After the smoke subsided, the vast Lord Mansion was razed to the ground. There were six to seven hundred cultivators who survived. Only thirty or so Soul Formation Stage cultivators survived, and the rest died without a burial ground!
The sad thing was that Ding Haoyue's third brother, Ding Yingjie, was pinned to the ground by three golden spears. His head was smashed into meat paste by a huge rock. He was dead!
"Third brother!!" Ding Haoyue threw himself onto Ding Yingjie's corpse in a sorry state. He was in extreme pain. He raised his head and cried out in grief, "Who is it, who is it? I want to kill him, kill him!"
A killing array had taken the lives of hundreds of people. The weakest among them was a Nascent Infant Early Period. More than twenty Soul Formation Stage cultivators, including Ding Yingjie, had suffered heavy losses.
To Ding Haoyue, who had just assumed the position of Prefecture Master, this was a fatal blow. Until now, he still couldn't figure out when he had offended an Array Formation Master, making him want to cry but have no tears. There was no way for him to take revenge.