: The Underworld and a Poisonous Scheme

"Not even a mid-section flank attack works?!" Seeing the Iron Deer Mountain God kneel in defeat, the Amethyst Glow Mountain God felt an immense weight in his heart.

The Red Sleeve Immortal beside him watched him.

He sighed, looking back at her: "Red Sleeve, I've treated you to drinks a few times. Don't look at me like that; it's creepy."

Red Sleeve Immortal's voice was delicate, but her words were icy: "Your turn."

"After finishing here, my task will be done, and I can go to Army Advisor Lu to claim my reward."

"Could you hurry up and go die?"

The Amethyst Glow Mountain God was speechless.

After a moment of silence, he sighed: "Forget it, send me off then."

Red Sleeve Immortal smiled and decisively unleashed her divine ability, Mountain Moving.

"You go too!"

The last of the Amethyst Giant Wood Mountain appeared before the steel tide.

The mountain god hovered in the air above the peak, hands clasped, expanding his domain, causing the entire Amethyst Giant Wood Mountain to emit a faint purple glow.

The purple radiance enveloped the steel tide, immediately producing a harsh sizzling sound as billowing steam rose from the tide.

The power of the steel tide was endless, and soon, it overwhelmed the Amethyst Giant Wood Mountain.

However, unlike the previous giant wood mountains, even as the Amethyst Giant Wood Mountain collapsed, it merely turned into countless amethyst light points, drifting into the air.

The Amethyst Glow Mountain God's face turned pale, but he smiled, reaching out to gather all the amethyst light points into himself.

"Huh?" Many Nascent Soul stage cultivators who saw this were slightly surprised.

Zhu Xuanji's eyes flashed with sharp light: "This mountain god has some schemes. He actually used the enemy's vanguard to help his mountain body undergo military dissolution, transforming it into his own divine foundation."

He secretly noted the Amethyst Glow Mountain God in his mind.

Lin Bufan nodded in agreement: "Achieving this step isn't simple. It seems the Amethyst Glow Mountain God is likely a mountain spirit who cultivated into a god. Or perhaps, a god performed a body-snatching technique, using the mountain as a physical body."

Du Tiechuan also remembered this Amethyst Glow Mountain God.

"He has some skills." He controlled the entire army, his perception the broadest and deepest.

Although the heavy armor main force crushed the Amethyst Glow Mountain Peak, they were coated with many purple light points.

These light points rapidly expanded on the armor and shadows, becoming patches of purple light.

Under the burning of the light patches, the soldiers' body temperatures rose quickly, their stamina consumption doubled, and their moisture evaporated rapidly.

After observing for a while, Du Tiechuan gained a new understanding: "This must be a kind of light poison!"

After successively crushing four great mountains, each with its mountain god and domain, the heavy armor main force's momentum had decreased by twenty percent.

Among the soldiers, those with weaker foundations were already feeling tired.

"This won't do." Du Tiechuan had long memorized the terrain map of the Thousand Peaks Forest.

He knew that the main force had only covered thirty percent of the journey, not even half the distance to the target.

So, he decisively took out the National Power Bricks.

He threw the National Power Bricks directly behind him.

Over twenty pitch-black bricks melted into the dark iron tide, transforming into surges of powerful energy, greatly supporting the heavy armor army!

"Ooh ooh ooh!"

The soldiers cheered excitedly, feeling a surge of energy infuse them, sweeping away fatigue and revitalizing their spirits.

The steel tide regained its peak momentum, continuing to charge into the depths of the Thousand Peaks Forest.

"Their target is the Dragon King Giant Wood Mountain. We must not let them succeed!" Lord Long's face was cold.

Lu Hongtu transmitted a message to reassure him: "Lord Long, rest assured. The Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts are in position."

Lord Long didn't hesitate and said directly: "Tell them to act! I hope their performance is worth their price."

Upon receiving the message, the Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts didn't act immediately but chose to continue observing.

Lord Long, seeing no movement for a long time, angrily ordered and questioned them via message.

The Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts scoffed, turning a deaf ear. Only after Lord Long urged them three times did the white-clad ghost cultivator, Tian Shuang, smile faintly: "The time is right."

The black-clad ghost cultivator, Di Hui, was even more direct: "Act!"

The two stood on separate mountain peaks, one left, one right.

Tian Shuang rapidly formed hand seals, finally crossing his hands over his chest, his magical power erupting like a flood.

An extremely cold ghostly aura condensed around him.

He chanted softly, the incantation echoing on the mountain peak: "Ethereal ghost fire, Tian Shuang condenses souls, open my ghost gate, unveil the underworld."

The ghostly aura suddenly ignited, turning into a mass of deep blue ghost fire.

The ghost fire, large as a city, soared into the sky.

As it rose, the ghost fire spread, forming the outline of a giant gate.

On the other mountain peak, Di Hui stomped his feet, and a three-dimensional magic array immediately appeared around him.

The array operated, spewing countless netherworld ghostly auras.

He shouted deeply: "Hell's dark spring, Di Hui gathers shadows, open my ghost gate, welcome the dead."

The next moment, the ghostly aura turned into countless particles of dust, spreading from the ground, following the traces of Tian Shuang's ghost fire, rising upwards, filling the entire giant gate outline.

The giant gate quickly became clear, turning into a solid entity.

Tian Shuang and Di Hui simultaneously activated their combined divine ability, causing the two forces within the giant gate to rapidly merge.

The two ghost cultivators shouted together: "Heaven and earth interact, yin and yang reverse!"

The ghost fire and nether dust vanished, perfectly merging into a new force.

The giant ghost gate fully formed at that moment.

On the surface of the ghost gate was an enormous skull.

The skull had deep eye sockets and a mouth full of fangs.

It emitted ghostly laughter, opening its mouth wider and wider until it squeezed out the entire skull face, leaving only the huge mouth, which expanded to the frame of the gate.

Instantly, ghostly mist rose, ghostly aura spread, and the nearby battlefield was enveloped in a cold, deep chill.

Within the skull's mouth, a black vortex rapidly spun, forming a path to the underworld.

The Ghost Gate Pass towered into the clouds, wider than a mountain peak.

"Not good!" Seeing the situation turn bad, Du Tiechuan thought about changing the direction of the steel tide.

But the Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts cast their spells quickly, the Ghost Gate Pass formed rapidly, and one of the steel tide's weaknesses was its difficulty in turning, leaving Du Tiechuan no time to adjust. He could only go with the flow, steering the steel tide straight into the Ghost Gate Pass.

"Hahaha!" Lord Long, seeing this, turned from anger to joy.

Lu Hongtu smiled.

Many cultivators in the alliance also breathed a sigh of relief, erupting in deafening cheers.

"We won, we won!"

"Who are these two ghost cultivators?"

"Clearly, they are the experts Lord Long secretly arranged."

"To summon such a huge Ghost Gate Pass, who exactly are these two ghost cultivators?"

"Hahaha, Du Tiechuan, you like charging, don't you? Then go charge into the underworld to kill enemies."

Many alliance cultivators lost their composure.

Since the start of the great battle, the terrifying power of the steel tide had truly frightened many, leaving almost everyone deeply shocked. Especially seeing the steel tide crush four divine mountains in a row, unstoppable and invincible, a shadow had fallen over everyone's hearts.

The unexpected move of the Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts was like a sword of sunlight, instantly piercing the heavy shadow in everyone's hearts.

Since they couldn't stop the steel tide head-on, they opened another path, letting it charge elsewhere!

This was the tactic arranged by the Dragon King Temple.

Lord Long was the executor, and for this, he spared no expense to invite the Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts to assist.

"Commander, how shall we proceed?" Du Tiechuan's deputy urgently asked.

Du Tiechuan snorted coldly, his face resolute: "Continue charging!"

Boom.

The steel tide charged without hesitation, carrying its violent impact force into the Ghost Gate Pass.

The central part of the armored tide poured into the ghost gate, stepping from the yang world into the yin world.

But the sides of the steel tide continuously crashed into the gate frame of the Ghost Gate Pass.

The side frames immediately made cracking sounds, becoming unstable.

The Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts' expressions changed. They had used their foundations and consumed large amounts of precious materials to temporarily create the strongest Ghost Gate Pass.

It could be said that the strength of this Ghost Gate Pass broke their personal records, the toughest one ever!

But it couldn't hold up after just the initial impact.

What happened next made the twin ghosts even more alarmed.

The giant skull on the Ghost Gate Pass made whimpering sounds, actually trying hard to close its mouth.

"Heaven-Swallowing Ghost God?!"

The Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts had never seen the ghost god they summoned so distressed and in pain.

This ghost god was like a duck, being held by the neck, forced to swallow food poured into its mouth and throat.

Its arrogance vanished at this moment, feeling too full, bloated to the point of explosion!

Just as it felt it couldn't hold on any longer, the Ghost Gate Pass gave out first, emitting a dull roar before tilting and collapsing into the steel tide, smashing into countless black shadowy splashes, quickly washed away into debris.

The path to the underworld also instantly became ethereal, dissipating like clouds.

The road ahead for the heavy armor main force became solid again, restored to the mountain path of the yang world.

The Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts suffered backlash, their auras plummeting. Shocked and uncertain, they immediately activated a small teleportation array to leave the battlefield.

The steel tide continued its charge, all ordinary mountains along the way collapsing, shaking heaven and earth.

However, the heavy armor army also lost twenty percent of its troops.

They didn't die but were lost in the underworld.

This was the first heavy blow suffered since the Iron Tide Flattens Plains military tactic was deployed!

But this result didn't satisfy the alliance army of the Thousand Peaks Forest.

Because the enemy's main force still remained.

The Heaven and Earth Twin Ghosts were already powerful reinforcements beyond their expectations, but the Ghost Gate Pass's power wasn't enough to suppress the enemy army.

"With such momentum, can we really resist?"

"This is the might of a cultivation nation! Du Tiechuan, one of the senior generals, only today do I truly understand the meaning of this position."

"A newly formed army, with layer upon layer of enhancements, possesses the power of a Deity Transformation. Sigh..."

Seeing the cultivators' dejected and discouraged expressions, Lu Hongtu immediately spoke to boost morale: "It's fine."

"I've long set a clever plan to deal with Du Tiechuan."

"Next, no matter what choice he makes, he will suffer heavy losses."

Hearing this, everyone's eyes lit up, looking at Lu Hongtu.

"Great Cave Master, what is the plan?"

"Tell us quickly."

Lu Hongtu smiled: "Just watch, everyone."

The steel tide charged on, rampaging through the Thousand Peaks Forest.

After the Ghost Gate Pass, they encountered no other obstacles.

However, Du Tiechuan felt an increasing sense of foreboding.

He pondered secretly: "The situation is strange! Given Lord Long and Lu Hongtu's abilities, they definitely have other backup plans."

"What could it be?"

The two main national forces advanced continuously, gradually seeing a dragon-headed giant wood mountain towering into the clouds. The surrounding peaks only reached half its height, making it stand out like a crane among chickens.

"Target spotted!"

"Dragon King Giant Wood Mountain, location of the Dragon King Main Temple!"

"Crush it, and the enemy's morale will surely plummet, even the Whiskered Dragon King's strength will be damaged."

The soldiers in the steel tide felt their spirits lift.

They had charged all the way here, and even with multiple military tactic enhancements, they felt tired.

Ning Zhuo's condition was generally better than those around him.

This was thanks to the Fetal Breath Spiritual Boat, which had rapidly advanced his physical foundation in a short time.

Although he participated in the battle, he devoted more energy to comprehension.

He continuously contemplated the Iron Tide Flattens Plains military tactic, making much progress.

His understanding of military tactics had improved more intuitively.

When the army first set out, he could only sense about three hundred people around him. But as he actively contemplated and understood the military tactic better, he could now sense over five hundred people nearby.

Not only that, he could also sense the vague thoughts of over a hundred people and the emotions of over two hundred people.

"If I can sense the vague thoughts of the entire army, I might fully comprehend the Iron Tide Flattens Plains military tactic." Ning Zhuo vaguely had such an insight.

The Thousand Peaks Forest alliance was panicking.

Someone questioned Lu Hongtu: "Army Advisor, the enemy has already attacked our main base. Where is your plan?"

Lu Hongtu laughed heartily: "Now is the time, everyone watch!"

The next moment, on the mountain path ahead, as if a layer of canvas was lifted, a military camp suddenly appeared.

The camp was heavily defended, with military flags flying.

"Ah?!" Instantly, both enemy and ally exclaimed in shock.

Because this suddenly appearing camp was none other than the vanguard army of the two nations!

The vanguard army of the two nations was clearly on another battlefield, surrounded by heavy poison miasma, so how could they be here?

Most cultivators in the alliance were deeply puzzled.

So was Du Tiechuan.

He had sent scouts deep into the poison miasma, losing many lives, only to find that the vanguard army was holding their defense, temporarily safe.

But now, this army was here!

Even the entire vanguard army was confused and shocked.

They had thought they were defending in place, so how did they suddenly change location, arriving deep in the enemy's lair?!

There was no time to consider this question; they soon found themselves in a desperate situation.

The steel tide was right before them!

Vanguard Army: "Is that Commander Du's steel tide? Not good, we can't withstand it at all!"

Du Tiechuan's deputy was horrified: "Commander! Turn quickly, ahead is the vanguard army, our allies. If we crush and slaughter them, our morale will be severely shaken!!"

The Thousand Peaks Forest alliance exclaimed, then burst into continuous cheers.

"Marvelous, what a brilliant plan!"

"Army Advisor Lu, as expected of you."

"A clever plan, truly a clever plan!!"

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