Chapter 225 Hong Jin's Appearance

Suddenly, one of the monks leaning against the wall stood up and said with a big laugh,

“Hahaha, Junior Brother Diao, it looks like you have to change your plan. With your strength, I don’t think you’re capable of controlling the situation here!”

The man was originally lying down disguised as an injured Gu seller, but at this moment he tore off his black clothes and hood, revealing his true identity.

He stood up from the darkness beside the wall, and while talking, he slowly walked to the bright place in the middle. It turned out to be the sect inspector of Lingshou Mountain - Hong Jin.

This person is quite famous among the independent cultivators in Lanzhou. As soon as he appeared, the Five Friends of Mengshan and a group of independent cultivators greeted him hurriedly, calling him "Senior Hong" one after another.

Mo Juren remembered that he actually called Diao Yuanzheng "Junior Brother Diao" and suddenly became alert and stepped back a little.

Hong Jin stood calmly between Diao Yuanzheng and the five friends from Mengshan, and suddenly laughed.
"Hahahaha, we haven't even seen the treasures in this secret realm yet, and we're already fighting to the death here. Isn't that a bit too ignorant? Junior Brother Diao, don't you think so?"

Diao Yuanzheng seemed to be annoyed by the implicit meaning of his words. He just snorted coldly and did not respond.

Seeing that the situation had eased, the Five Friends of Mengshan withdrew their magic weapons one after another. However, they were obviously afraid of the sudden appearance of Hong Jin. If he joined forces with Diao Yuanzheng, even they would not be able to resist the power of the two foundation-building cultivators.

Fortunately, Hong Jin didn't seem to get along well with Diao Yuanzheng, and had no intention of joining forces. Instead, he made sarcastic remarks. His words seemed to give everyone a sense of fairness and justice.

Hong Jin looked at the reactions of the people around him with satisfaction, and then suggested,
"Everyone has seen that there are dozens of stone men standing in front of us blocking the road. Instead of fighting here, why don't we work together to figure out how to deal with them? Don't you agree?"

Wang Zhuo and the other five friends from Mengshan looked at each other and suddenly said,

"With Senior Hong presiding here, we have nothing to say. It's not impossible for us to work together to deal with the stone man, but if we have to fight to the death, there must be some benefits, right? I wonder if Senior Hong knows what treasures will appear in this secret realm?"

Hong Jin smiled when he heard this.

"If I knew this in advance, I might have sent a message back to Spirit Beast Mountain to bring in a large group of people. Why would I cooperate with you? Now that the secret realm has just been opened, time is the most precious. The sooner we break through these formation barriers, the sooner we can get greater benefits."

Seeing that everyone was silent, Hong Jin continued,
"But what the Mengshan Five Friends said is also human nature. How about this, I, Hong Jin, promise here that as long as everyone works together to break this secret realm, if we find treasures that can be divided inside, we will divide them equally according to the merits, and everyone will have a share. How do you think?"

Wang Zhuo and the others thought about it. Anyway, everyone's purpose was for the opportunity here, but now nothing has been decided yet. It would be fine to act according to Hong Jin's way first.

So they all agreed to the proposal of breaking the formation together.

Hong Jin took the lead and said,

"Before the Mengshan Five Friends came in, we had already seen how powerful these stone men were. Their most powerful skill is their joint skills. They are not afraid of group attacks at all. It is not easy to defeat them."

"But if our goal is just to get through their defense, then things will be much simpler,"

"It's best for us to split into four groups and work together to prevent the stone men from forming a large formation. Then everyone can pass through the stone men formation as quickly as possible and enter the next passage."

"I think it should be arranged like this. I will be in one group, Junior Brother Diao and the poison seller will be in one group, the five friends from Mengshan will be in one group, and the others will be the last group. How do you think about it?" This arrangement was not bad, and Diao Yuanzheng agreed to it by default.

Soon the four groups of people were ready and stood together opposite the stone man formation.

Mo Juren stood beside the five friends, using their shadows to block Hong Jin's sight. He even picked up a hood of a Gu seller from behind and put it on himself for a little coverage.

At Hong Jin's command, the four groups of troops shouted loudly and rushed towards the stone man formation in front.

It is unknown what drives these stone men. They are tall and big, very agile in movement, and the weapons in their hands are long and sharp, with strong defense, making them almost impossible to break.

Mo Juren took a look and found that each stone man seemed to have the same magical light attached to the stone wall passage.

As soon as the monks entered the stone man's attack range, they were immediately targeted by it and hacked to death with weapons.

Zhao Han, one of the Five Friends of Mengshan, was the first to be hit. He was chopped on the head by a large iron knife. He quickly drew out his magic weapon, the spear, and transformed into three phantoms to meet the attack.

With three clangs, clangs, and clangs, the gun shadows were chopped into pieces one after another, and the magic weapon in Zhao Han's hand was also shaken aside. The iron knife went straight to the open middle door of Zhao Han.

Wang Zhuo saw this and moved his large shield sideways, barely blocking the attack and knocking the stone man's iron knife slightly off course.

Afterwards, another stone man's iron stick came at them again. Xie Hong, Zhang Xing and others quickly used their magic to try their best to resist.

Although these stone men moved slowly, because their weapons were very long and there seemed to be a linkage mechanism between the stone men, when one stone man struck out, the other four would follow suit and attack without stopping.

This made it difficult for the less agile monks to cope with the situation, and soon some of them were covered in blood and hacked to death by the stone men at their feet.

The most relaxed person was Hong Jin. After all, he was a veteran foundation-building cultivator. Relying on his powerful personal strength, he moved around the five stone men. Although he did not make any effort to destroy any of the stone men, the five stone men surrounded him and worked at full capacity, unable to stop at all.

Although Diao Yuanzheng is also at the foundation building stage, he seems to be inferior in fighting. His moves are all shadows, flames, air blades, cold air, etc., which have little effect on the stone man with thick skin and strong body.

Fortunately, with the desperate protection of seven or eight of the Gu seller's men, they were able to escape without any trouble and made it to the center of the stone man formation.

Mo Juren originally wanted to take advantage of the chaotic situation, take out the Nuan Yang Jade, pass through this space, and reach the center of the formation inside first.

However, seeing that the five friends of Mengshan had to work very hard to keep their lives safe with the exquisite cooperation of the stone men, it might be beyond their ability to easily pass through the formation of these stone men.

Especially the fourth group of independent cultivators, since they were a motley crowd hastily put together, they had no idea how to fight and they were just rushing around randomly.

Under the stone man's exquisite combo, they quickly lost their weapons and armor. Many people were hacked to death on the spot, and the rest were in danger, including Hu Pinggu...

(End of this chapter)