C28 A Contest Between Magicians(2)

The Japanese onslaught on the water route was thwarted. This was almost a miracle in the circumstances. At this time, the Japanese had successfully launched a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, sweeping across Asia and the Pacific. Their military superiority was at its peak. The Chinese army had been losing ground, and although they had fought a few tough battles in Taizhuang, Changsha and Zuoyi, the final result was that the Japanese won. At the Shikai battle, the Chinese army had truly defeated the arrogant Japanese army.

But in the month of May of 1943, the war was fought with the argument that the Japanese army was invincible. Right now, many people were wondering why Japan, a tiny country with a small population and few resources, was able to defeat China so easily.

This was related to the early entry of Japan into the industrial civilization. They caught up with the industrial revolution and got lucky. But there is another key factor, and that is culture. Japanese adhered to Chinese culture, and there is still a legacy of Tang and Song dynasties. After the Chinese Song dynasty was occupied by the Mongols, the female Taoist let the Chinese perish once more after the Ming dynasty. Especially the female Taoist, the pressure on Han culture was very strong, only keeping the slave science of Confucianism and partly enslaving the Chinese. Thus, some of the ancient culture, such as Taoism, orthodoxy, cross-section theory, Yinyang theory and so on, were lost in China.

But the old things that had been passed down by the ancestors were gradually spreading and being ingrained in Japan. So the Japanese were also very proud that Japan was the inheritor of traditional Chinese culture.

This was also true, for example, because many of the ancient Chinese classics had been lost in China — this was the good work of the female true person, and the credit of the "Four Repositories" was the removal of the essentials of the Chinese culture and the preservation of the slave culture that was conducive to the female true person's rule. As a result, modern Chinese need to study Chinese history and seek books and records in Japan.

The ancient Chinese art of sumo, kendo, medicine, and Go has also been handed down in Japan. Especially Go, in the period of the government of the North, Duan Qili was an expert in Go, but who would have thought that a 5-stage player from Japan would be able to defeat the top Chinese Go players, and then Wu Qingyuan would have to travel to Japan to learn Go. Even modern Chinese Go under the efforts of Chen Zude, Nie Weiping and Ma Xiaochun, come after. But the rules of Go have evolved, and are no longer the rules of ancient Chinese Go.

And the Japanese have surpassed China in witchcraft culture, which occupies an important part of Chinese culture. This was the reason why a Flow Avoidance Grandmaster like Tong Duan had to send Zhang Tianrann and the four great families to China, in order for them to fight back.

Furthermore, Zhang Tianrann and the Four Great Families were not the true descendants of the Taoism, but were both Warlocks who were spread among the people.

After being thwarted, Tong Duan took a few days to recuperate before launching his second attack. He used a traditional sorcery, the illusion technique, which is called anomie in China.

This was the method of spreading beans into an army and folding paper into a human. Overnight, Chinese defenders discovered that the Japanese army could not be killed, and the ships could not sink. In such a situation, the Japanese soldiers would be discouraged and would be utterly defeated. They would then force their way into the Yellow Tomb Temple. However, Tong Duan realized that this technique was not effective, because not long after, all of his illusions were broken, and countless Yellow Mounted Paper s were left on the surface of the river. It was only then that he understood that besides Zhang Tianrann, the Chinese Army upstream had other powerful players.

This powerful being was Plowshare Witch Family's Zhong Yifaang. All these things were things that Zhong Family was good at doing anyway, so Tong Duan's illusion techniques would not be able to gain the upper hand in front of Zhong Yifaang. At that time, Zhong Yifaang's magic treasure was an ink bucket. On the surface of the river, Zhong Yifaang drew lines with ink, and the black ink lines were floating on the surface of the river, completely unaffected by the flowing river. When Tong Duan's paper man transformed into the soldiers, they all became their original forms once they entered the range of the ink bucket.

Thus, all the illusions that Tong Duan had confused with the Chinese army vanished like smoke into thin air. The Chinese army seized the opportunity to fight, sending the Japanese back to the South Lama River.

Tong Duan also collected the dead bodies on the battlefield, using the method of returning the souls to fight. However, they didn't expect that at the very beginning, the battle with the Chinese army would be smooth sailing. No matter how much damage the zombies suffered, it wouldn't affect the battle at all. The only drawback was that it was slow.

The next thing that happened shocked Tong Duan. He realized that the zombie he was controlling had become more agile and had gained some of the intelligence of a normal person. The problem was that these zombies had become more powerful, but they had changed their direction. They were dealing with the Japanese army, and the zombies didn't care whether they were dealing with their own comrades or not.

Tong Duan used the Soul-Returning Technique to smash his own foot. He immediately understood that there were people with Wei Family upstream. The people from Wei Family were too famous, and the Japanese side had long heard of them. The ability of Wei Family to exorcise corpses and raise their ancestors was passed down to males but not females. It was not used by males nor did it interact with the government. It was passed down only within the clan of Wei Family and was a spell that the Japanese did not know of. Therefore, Tong Duan's Soul Resurrection Skill was not even able to withstand a single blow from Wei Yongqi.

One of the abilities of Wei Family was to raise corpses, it was to raise the abilities of zombies. To be able to train corpses into iron corpses and Copper Corpse, iron corpses were already invulnerable and agile. The Copper Corpse, on the other hand, could jump up a tree and move about in the water. Above the Copper Corpse s was the "Ba" stage, the highest stage for zombies.

At that time, Wei Yongqi's time was limited. He had controlled the zombies under Tong Duan's command to form a steel corpse and counterattacked with it. More than half of the troops led by Tong Duan had died. He knew that it was already impossible for him to defeat the Chinese Warlocks upstream. Furthermore, if the stalemate continued, the successor of Wei Family would nurture the Copper Corpse. If that happened, there was even less of a chance of victory.

Tong Duan planned to leave, but he did not know that other than the two helpers, Zhang Tianrann had also prepared to release Ghaob Miel, Huang Soongbai and Huang Tiehyan from the Tranquil East Warlock Family.

The purpose of these two people was not to defend against Tong Duan's attacks.

Rather, it was to make it so that Tong Duan could not go back at all!

This was Zhang Tianrann's personality. He would cut the weeds and remove the roots, leaving no leeway.

First, let's talk about the Ghaob Miel. This Miao Lin was the one who had released the Gu back then, and most people thought that releasing the Gu was just to cultivate a few poisonous bugs and then use it on their enemies. As a result, there were many rumors about a heartless man being set free by Miao Nu. However, just the low level of ability in releasing Gu was something that any girl could do, and when it reached a high level, it was no longer targeted at an individual human. A person like the Ghaob Miel would definitely not use her witchcraft for some reason.

Tong Duan realized that the ships and soldiers were all suddenly lost. He wanted to abandon the ship and land on the Yangtze River, but he couldn't find the river bank. He had forcefully expanded the width of the river, which was only a few tens of meters or even a hundred meters wide, by countless of times, to such an extent that Tong Duan's army could not find any direction, and tightly restrict Tong Duan in one space. This spell could not be explained in such a way. It was more reasonable to say that the Ghaob Miel actually reduced the size of the Japanese in the river, but that was the same for the Chinese army. This explanation was relatively reasonable, but it was also not a real method. This witchcraft was too profound, the words could not express it.

There is a saying in China that "a dog is in need of a wall".

This was also what Zhang Tianrann was most worried about. When he had set up the most wicked array on the Yangtze River, "Iron Lock Hengjiang", he had never planned to let Tong Duan go home. However, he also understood that for an expert like Tong Duan, he would definitely be able to find the flaw he was most worried about.

This flaw is none other than the Yangtze River ancient path.

The ancient path of the Yangtze River was located in the Three Gorges region, which was located in a huge underground river beneath the Yangtze River. The starting point was the festive sky pit, while the finishing point was Nanzhen Pass. In the channel of Three Gorges, there were countless entrances that entered the ancient path. If Tong Duan found out about this ancient path, he would lead the army directly from ancient path to the back of Sichuan Province, and he would definitely lose the war of the stone tablet.

However, in order to activate the ancient path, one must be able to use the two mythical creature that were guarding this place, the Bibi and Ao Tian.

Let's talk about the mythical creature guarding the Yangtze River.

When Li Bing was guarding Dujiangyan, he buried the white rhino as the guardian mythical creature, but Li Bing was also very worried about the Yangtze River water, so Li Bing started with twenty-five guardian mythical creature from Qin to Jin, along the Yangtze River and from Yibin to Yunmeng Ze.

Yibin is the Dragon and Jade Toad; Luzhou is the Xie; Hejiang is O and Zhujian; Kuan is the Song Dynasty; Fuling is the Tao Tie; Fuling is the Wu and the Golden Crow and Luwu; Zhongxian is the Hornwood; Wanzhou is the Dangkang; Yunyang is the Annihilation and Wuzhi; Fengjie is the Kui; Wushan Mountain is the Phoenix; Ba Dong is the Hou and the Baize; Zigui is the Yin and the Heaven; Xiao Ting district is the Yang and the ancient fish with snake head; Yunmengze, the present Jingjiang section and Dongting Lake, is the Bifang, the Primal and the Chaos Chariots.

These things were all stone sculptures when they were buried in the ground along the Yangtze River. However, the moment they activated it, they would become a gigantic mythical creature, and one that was alive.

In any case, there were many things that modern people could not explain in the past. Even though science was very developed these days, when it came to matters like these, they still had to follow the rules of their ancestors.

Zhang Tianrann's worries were not wrong.

And at the entrance, there was actually a huge metal plate. On the metal plate, there was a huge iron anchor, and that iron anchor was tied to Ao Tian, while the metal plate was carried by Qin Si. This entrance will move. It was impossible for ordinary people and huckster to find it.

However, with an expert like Tong Duan, he could figure out the direction. What was even more terrifying was that Tong Duan was able to control the Arrogant Heaven.

In the past, Li Bing and his descendants had set up guardian mythical creature with different functions and responsibilities. Bianchi is a big turtle, the sky is a giant bull.

But Huang Family had always grasped the ability to drive mythical creature. In the current situation, Tong Duan could too.

When Huang Soongbai and Huang Tiehyan sneaked into the middle section of the Western Tomb Gorge, they found out that it was already too late. Tong Duan had already controlled the mythical creature and opened the metal board.

Zhang Tianrann had underestimated Tong Duan, because the ancient books on controlling mythical creature did not only have secret manuals passed down in the Huang Family. In ancient China, there were still some lost records of the Water Meridian, Mountain and Sea Scripture, but the ancient books of Japan all mentioned the method to control the mythical creature. He had already learnt how to control mythical creature from these books back in Japan.

Huang Soongbai and Huang Tiehyan's operation had failed, and they had returned to the Three Fighting Flatland to report to Zhang Tianrann. Zhang Tianrann was furious, he had wanted to kill Huang Tiehyan at that time, but Zhuang Chongguang had stopped him. Thus, Huang Tiehyan thought about Zhuang Chongguang's kindness. The two of them had a very good private relationship. It was this small interlude that resulted in Zhang Tianrann not being able to act in the end. That was another story to come.

Tong Duan had already entered the ancient path of the Three Gorges, so the battle between Zhang Tianrann and Yue Yang, had gone from the surface of the river to the bottom of the ancient path. Zhang Tianrann led the helpers from Ba Dong into the ancient path, and quickly flew downstream to the location of the Green Beach. The two great sect's masters met under the ancient path, and began their battle. Their fight was related to the entire battle.