Chapter 361: Ground Marks Exposed
There are many things in the world that are not affected by human will, and naturally will not be affected by the will of demons and monsters.

Even Lu Changjing, who has a golden finger, often encounters some helpless things, let alone a group of monsters and demons without a golden finger.

Although their numbers have increased a lot, they cannot form a strong force of will.

So when they saw Lu Changjing carrying the formation materials again, a group of Xuan-level monsters and demons were extremely angry.

"Kill him. You must kill him."

"It's him again. Why is he here again? Why hasn't he been exhausted to death yet?"

"This is the second time. This is the second time. Is his endurance so good?"

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A large group of demons and monsters rushed into the sky and attacked Lu Changjing, but they were still defeated by Lu Changjing who still looked a little tired.

This tiredness was naturally pretended, the purpose of which was to deceive the monsters and demons outside.

Seeing Lu Changjing's tired appearance, a group of Xuan-level monsters looked at each other and were speechless for a long time.

After a long time, the demons and monsters finally spoke.

"It seems that he hasn't recovered yet, but he has come to destroy our Pojun Xuan array. If we hold on a little longer, we should be able to defeat him."

"He has the Soul Stealing Technique and the Nine Dragon Tribulation, and he should also have other enslavement techniques. It is normal to leave some spies among our people."

"What should we do next? Should we continue to consume his energy and spirit, drive him away, and then continue to set up the Pojun Xuan Array Group? Even if we still have a lot of soldiers, we don't have many Xuan-level resources, especially the array plates of the Pojun Xuan Array Group."

"You tell me, is this guy trying to trick us? He actually still has some strength left, but he's just pretending that he can't afford it. That's why he keeps retreating and trying to trick us."

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More and more monsters and demons began to suspect Lu Changjing, but they were soon overthrown by themselves.

"We all know Xuanzun's strength. Even Tuotian Xuanzun, who has the strongest endurance among us, can't hold on for this long. So even if Phoenix God King still has some strength left, it shouldn't be much."

"You have verified through various methods that he is a lower-level Xuanzun. Even if he is not a lower-level Xuanzun but a middle-level Xuanzun, he cannot last so long. So even if he is gifted, he should be reaching his limit soon."

"If he was a high-ranking Xuanzun, or even a high-ranking Xuanzun, why would he keep pestering us and using all kinds of schemes and methods? I'm afraid he would have rushed out to enslave us long ago. His attainments in this area are not low."

"That's right. Although I don't know what method he used, he certainly can't keep going forever. Even the strongest man will get tired. We still have so many soldiers, so why don't we continue?"

"We should prepare for both situations. While sending soldiers to attack the Phoenix God King and consume his energy, we should also have these soldiers bring Xuan-level treasures to cooperate with us in attacking Tianque. Even if we cannot break it directly like the Xuan array group, we must continue to weaken its power. In this way, we may not need the power of the Xuan array group in the future to break Tianque."

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After some discussion, the monsters and demons outside began to act according to the plan. Most of them rushed towards Lu Changjing, while a small number of them brought mysterious treasures and detonated them directly near Tianque to cooperate with the monsters and demons outside to attack Tianque.

At the same time, demons and monsters rushed out of the Tianzhong area, trying to continue destroying the important veins around it. Even Lu Changjing felt a little flustered.

In desperation, he had to give up stopping the monsters and demons that attacked Tianque, and focused on killing the monsters and demons that attacked him and wanted to escape from the Tianzhong area.

Even if there were some that were missed, they were only some monsters and demons that the Jiuzhou Alliance could deal with.

Lu Changjing has decided that after this wave of offensive is over, he will spend some resources and treasures to build a group of mysterious formations around the Tianzhong area to resist these running demons and monsters to prevent them from causing damage to the land of Jiuzhou.

In this situation, he could only occasionally find time to kill the demons and monsters that attacked Tianque, and most of the time he could only watch them attack Tianque.

"Boom boom boom..."

"Bang bang bang..."

"Dong dong dong..."

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Various attacks, coordinated with the Xuan formation group and Xuan-level demons and monsters outside, continuously fell on Tianque, making Tianque weaker and weaker, and its power lower and lower.

However, although the Tianque that Lu Changjing added some ingredients to seems weak, it is actually full of essence. According to their attack frequency, they will not be able to break it even after several years.

This war will definitely not last that long. When the war is over, he will repair the damage again and let the monsters outside continue.

After all, it is a top-level group of mysterious formations. Even if its power has been greatly reduced, it is still impossible for these monsters and demons to break through it.

So the war continued. This battle lasted for several days. About tens of billions of monsters and demons died at the hands of Lu Changjing. Together with the previous losses, the total amount had reached tens of billions.

The many granaries built by the Jiuzhou Alliance were no longer sufficient, so they had to build more granaries to store the processed corpses of demons and monsters.

This also made the price of the flesh and blood of monsters and demons in Jiuzhou League lower and lower, and many ordinary people could afford it.

In addition, with Lu Changjing's vigorous promotion of various martial arts systems, many human beings embarked on the path of cultivation. With the help of the flesh and blood of monsters and demons, they made rapid progress. Masters appeared one after another. Even the physical fitness of ordinary humans became terrifyingly strong, far surpassing before.

At this moment, there are still more than 20 billion human beings remaining. Nearly 80 billion humans have died in these decades of disasters. The damage is enormous.

However, these more than 20 billion human beings are striving for excellence. After numerous trials and tribulations, their overall quality far exceeds that of the human race decades ago.

Basically everyone is a warrior, and more and more masters are emerging. The number of gods and demons is also increasing, and is not much different from decades ago.

As for the number of demons and monsters in the land of Jiuzhou, there are only a few billion left. Originally, there were more than 200 billion of them, but now more than 200 billion have been lost, and there are very few left. These are more obedient to the human race and will not cause so many troubles. All the demons and monsters with anti-human signs have been cleared out by Lu Changjing to avoid any more trouble.

The restoration of the Potian Alliance, the reconstruction of the Mieren Alliance, and the overwhelming hatred of the demons and monsters outside towards the human race, all made Lu Changjing confirm again and again the truth that those who are not of our race must have different hearts, so he showed no mercy to the demons and monsters in the land of Kyushu.

Natural disasters and man-made disasters came one after another, and these demons and monsters were slaughtered in large numbers, so only the obedient and honest ones were left, who would not go against human beings.

Under the disaster of the sky-sealing cold air and the extremely cold wind, in just a few decades, the number of creatures in the land of Kyushu plummeted from more than 300 billion to less than 30 billion today, a loss of more than 90%. This shows the horror of this disaster.

Earthquakes, extreme cold, hail, freezing rain, war...all these factors combined have caused such alarming damage to the land of Kyushu.

This time, Lu Changjing persisted for more than ten days before hurriedly leaving the Tianzhong area. It seemed that he was too exhausted to hold on, but in fact, he was just calculating these monsters and wanted to attract more monsters and ghosts as food and resources, and improve himself at the same time.

After leaving, Lu Changjing only rested for half an hour before he became full of energy again and began to repair the damaged Jiuzhou Xuanzhen group.

After some discussion, the demons and monsters outside did not set up a group of mysterious formations, but instead set up some simple mysterious formations to cooperate with the outside forces to attack Tianque. The effect was very good, and Tianque was becoming weaker and weaker.

Lu Changjing quickly manipulated the Jiuzhou Xuan Array Group and mobilized forces to repair the damaged Tianque, but he pretended to be seriously injured, but in fact he had fully recovered.

After repairing the flaw in the sky, Lu Changjing repaired the flaw in the ground and other surrounding areas, making the Jiuzhou Xuan Formation Group more stable and its power far exceeded that before.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Lu Changjing rushed to the Tianzhong area again to fight a decisive battle with these monsters and demons.

Soon, large numbers of demons and monsters were harvested like straw and turned into food for the Jiuzhou Alliance.

The resources and treasures exchanged for these grains basically all went to Lu Changjing. He was not doing good deeds for free, and he had to make everyone pay something.

Otherwise, people will not cherish things that they get for free. Only when they spend money on things, everyone will know how to cherish them.

At most, the price has become much cheaper, so that ordinary people can afford it. This is already Lu Changjing's kindness.

This happened once, twice, three times, four times, five times... until dozens of times. The number of demons and monsters that died at Lu Changjing's hands has reached more than 100 billion.

There are only hundreds of billions of monsters and demons left outside, which means that Lu Changjing killed only a few of them by himself.

If the temperature outside had not been getting lower and lower, with the sky-sealing cold and extreme cold wind raging everywhere, if they had not opened the gap in the sky and found the Dinghai Pearl, they would have been doomed to die. It is estimated that many monsters and demons would have already escaped.

The ratio of casualties is so alarming. The demons and monsters are not fearless machines. They also have intelligence and thoughts. How could they keep committing suicide like this?

After all, it was all caused by the horrible weather outside, and there were dozens of mysterious-level monsters and ghosts bewitching them, or even directly casting mysterious techniques and magic on them, otherwise these monsters and ghosts would have collapsed long ago.

Even so, many demons and monsters deserted and were unwilling to continue fighting. They could not hold on any longer.

Dozens of Xuan-level demons and monsters were so tired that they could hardly hold on any longer. They looked at Lu Changjing who was fighting "tiredly" with a hint of despair.

"Another year has passed. Can he just hold on like this? We are all so exhausted after taking turns to cast spells. Why can he still persist?"

"This guy is definitely a freak. He might be extremely talented in this area. But even so, the damage to him must be huge. He might even have damaged his foundation."

"Even so, the Sealing Heaven Frost Prison is getting closer, and the Sealing Heaven Frost Air and Extremely Cold Winds rushing into the Slaughterer Island are increasing. We can no longer afford to delay."

"Should we continue? It's been so long. Why don't we release the earth poison we accidentally obtained and let it penetrate into the land of Jiuzhou along with the sky-sealing cold air and the extremely cold wind, giving those humans a heavy blow. Maybe we can also poison the Phoenix God King."

"The Phoenix God King is Xuanzun, and it is highly unlikely that he will be poisoned. After all, that kind of earth poison is a large-scale lethal poison, and it has little effect on high-level practitioners. Even gods and demons are difficult to be poisoned, let alone Xuanzun. Let's wait a little longer."

"If we continue to consume them, when will it end? Even if I don't care much about my people, I feel that too many have been lost in the past few years."

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The ideas of these monsters and demons began to conflict. Some wanted to continue to consume them, while others demanded to find other ways to open the sky. Soon they split into two parts. Some went to find other solutions, while others sent more monsters and demons to besiege Lu Changjing.

Knowing that something had happened to the demons and monsters outside, Lu Changjing also became alert, so after killing hundreds of billions of demons and monsters, he immediately withdrew from the Tianzhong area and began to repair the loopholes in the Jiuzhou Xuan Array Group everywhere.

After more than a year of repairs, the mortal formations, spiritual formations, divine formations and low-level profound formations of the Jiuzhou Profound Array Group have basically been repaired by him. The power has reached more than ten times of before, and can probably exert nearly half of its power.

Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible for the demons and monsters outside to break in.

Some of the demons and monsters with strong perception may have discovered something unusual, but due to the camouflage and concealment of the Jiuzhou Xuanzhen Group, they are unable to confirm this.

It might be a bit of an exaggeration to say that the current Jiuzhou Xuanzhen Group is as stable as Mount Tai, but it can still be said to be as stable as a mountain.

But it is better to be safe than sorry. Who knows what other tricks those monsters and demons might have? Before, they focused their attention on Tianque, and Lu Changjing was able to monitor it at any time and respond in time to ensure the safety of the Jiuzhou Barrier.

Now, some Xuan-level demons and monsters are looking for other ways. If they find it, who knows how much damage it will cause to the Jiuzhou barrier.

It is impossible for Lu Changjing to take care of every place. It is already difficult for him to guard the Tianzhong area.

So after some consideration, he could only repair the Jiuzhou Xuanzhen Group as much as possible to make the Jiuzhou barrier more stable and strong.

At the same time, a large number of spirit formation masters and divine formation masters of the Jiuzhou Alliance were mobilized, and with the assistance of the Jiuzhou Mysterious Formation Group, they repaired the earth veins, water veins, and spirit veins of the Jiuzhou land everywhere...thereby strengthening the Jiuzhou Mysterious Formation Group and the Jiuzhou Barrier.

Sure enough, not long after, those demons and monsters used some unknown method to lead a large amount of sky-sealing cold air and extremely cold wind to the weak points of Jiuzhou's barrier, allowing a large amount of sky-sealing cold air and extremely cold wind to penetrate deeply into it.

The temperature in Kyushu plummeted, and hail, heavy snow, freezing rain... appeared one after another, forcing Lu Changjing to slow down the efforts to repair Kyushu's veins and mobilize a large number of people to provide disaster relief.

After a while, the anxious demons and monsters outside actually discovered the location of the ground mark, so they sent a large number of people to attack the ground mark. At the same time, they asked the demons and monsters in the Tianzhong area to try their best to sneak towards the ground mark, preparing to deploy means there to turn it into a gap in the ground, or even break it directly.

(End of this chapter)