Bringing The Farm To Live In Another World - Chapter 16428

Chapter 16426: Unsolved Mystery

What puzzled General Wu was that the magical artifacts seemed to appear out of thin air. They couldn’t see the wielders, so they could only passively defend themselves against these attacks, leaving General Wu momentarily at a loss.

Just then, a sudden inspiration struck him. Looking at the artifacts, he made a decision and immediately shouted, “Everyone, defend yourselves while retreating! Don’t engage those artifacts anymore!”

Everyone responded. Although they didn’t quite understand General Wu’s meaning, they slowly retreated.

While there were rumors that cultivators’ magical artifacts could kill from tens of thousands of miles away, that was all nonsense. Even from a hundred miles away, it was impossible to kill someone. For

a magical artifact to hit an enemy, you at least needed to be able to see the enemy. You couldn’t possibly kill someone without even knowing where they were, could you? That was impossible.

Of course, such magical artifacts have existed before. For example, there were jade swords used for delivering messages, which could locate a person based on their aura. However, these were only used for delivering messages. But there have been instances where similar magical artifacts were created specifically for killing. A flying sword could be created that could lock onto a person’s aura and then be used to kill from beyond sight, just like using a jade sword to deliver a message, except it was for killing, not for delivering messages.

However, this method is quite difficult. First, your magical artifact must possess strong spiritual power. Second, its power cannot be too great. Most importantly, you must know the target’s aura; this is also extremely crucial.

If a magical artifact lacks spirituality, it’s difficult for it to find its target. The reason jade swords are made of jade is because jade is the most common and also the most spiritual material in the cultivation world. Even so, jade swords have limitations on their range. Generally, a jade sword’s transmission distance cannot exceed three thousand li (approximately 1,500 kilometers). Only the finest jade swords, made from the highest-grade jade, can achieve this distance. The maximum transmission distance of an ordinary jade sword is only about one thousand li. Of course, there’s a cheating method for using jade swords: they can use teleportation arrays to find their target. For example, even if two people are ten thousand li apart, if they are connected by a teleportation array, the jade sword can find them and fly to their side. However, this raises a question: if they truly have a teleportation array, why use a jade sword? They could simply use the teleportation array to find each other directly.

Another point is that your magical artifact cannot be too powerful. A powerful artifact contains more magic arrays, making it more difficult to control. Even if such an artifact possesses sentience, it cannot fly very far. Therefore, artifacts intended for long-range attacks cannot be too powerful; they can only serve as a surprise attack. If the opponent is prepared, such an artifact will be ineffective.

Finally, and most importantly, you must possess the opponent’s aura—a genuine aura. A cultivator’s genuine aura is not easily obtained; it must be from a trustworthy person. If your enemy obtains your aura, they won’t need a long-range artifact to deal with you; a few spells will suffice, making it much easier than a long-range attack with a magical artifact.

In fact, the jade swords used for communication in the cultivation world were originally created for killing. However, they were found to have an extremely low success rate and were unusable, so they were changed to be used for communication. Unexpectedly, the results were surprisingly good, so they continued to use them for communication to this day.

It is precisely for this reason that the cultivation world currently lacks magical artifacts capable of ultra-long-range attacks. This means that if you want to attack someone with a magical artifact, you must at least see them. After all, ordinary magical artifacts cannot fly to find and attack enemies on their own. You must see the opponent, lock onto them with your aura, and then you can attack them with the artifact. This is the most basic working principle of magical artifacts.

However, when General Wu and his group faced those magical artifacts just now, they couldn’t see them at all. Those magical artifacts seemed to appear out of thin air and attack them directly. This situation is definitely abnormal. General Wu hadn’t thought of this before, but when he couldn’t see the enemy, it suddenly occurred to him. They were attacked without seeing the enemy, so there was only one possibility: the enemy had become invisible.

And at this moment, who could be an enemy capable of invisibility? An ordinary person might assume it was the Blood Slaughter Sect, who had all concealed themselves and unleashed their magical weapons upon seeing them arrive.

However, General Wu didn’t think so. While the Blood Slaughter Sect might use this method, another possibility existed: the enemy might have used an illusion array to separate members of one side, allowing one side to attack the array with their magical weapons. The array would then redirect these weapons towards the opposing group within the same side. Thus, those on the same side were fighting each other, unable to see each other due to the illusion array, leading both sides to believe they were fighting the enemy when they were actually killing each other.

General Wu had considered this, which was why he ordered his men to retreat. As he retreated, he observed the magical weapons; they were indeed diverse, meaning the users might be among their own people.

Realizing this, General Wu immediately shouted, “Are you from the Divine Kingdom? I am Wu Yuanqing!”

His voice was very loud and could carry far, because he didn’t know who the other side was, so he could only use this most primitive method.

He now only hoped that if the other side was really one of their own, they wouldn’t go too deep into the illusion array. If they went too deep, they wouldn’t be able to hear him.

Fortunately, the other side didn’t seem to have gone too deep into the illusion array, and soon a voice came: “I am Liu Qing from the Lingyu Mountain base.”

General Wu breathed a sigh of relief, and then he immediately shouted: “We should have reached the outskirts of Wuwei City, but there is an illusion array here. Let’s retreat, get away from the illusion array, and then regroup.”

Liu Qing responded, and then General Wu directed everyone to slowly retreat. General Wu directed everyone to retreat about a hundred miles, and after confirming that they were far away from the area of Wuwei City, he then circled around to the direction from which the magic weapon had attacked.

They had only flown a short distance when they spotted a large group of people. The other side also spotted them, and both sides slowed down. Once they recognized each other, they both breathed a sigh of relief and then regrouped. General Wu glanced around and then said in a deep voice, “There’s a Jade Screen Mountain outside Wuwei City. Let’s go there. I’ll send a letter to General Wu now, asking him to inform the people at the other bases to gather at Jade Screen Mountain to avoid a repeat of the misunderstanding we just had.”

Everyone responded, and they flew towards Jade Screen Mountain. General Wu immediately sent a letter to Wu Qian, who replied shortly after, informing them that he had already arranged for people to carry it out.

Not long after General Wu and his troops arrived at Yuping Mountain, the armies from the other bases also arrived. General Wu immediately summoned the leaders of each base together. Once everyone had arrived, General Wu looked at them and said, “As you all have seen, the enemy used an illusion array, so we couldn’t see the location of Wuwei City at all. However, now that we’ve arrived at Yuping Mountain, it means we can find Wuwei City. But what should we do next? That’s the question. I wonder what everyone’s thoughts are on this?”

The group exchanged glances and frowned. They realized they had oversimplified the situation. They could only know the location of Wuwei City through a map, so how could they provide support? They were all in a bind, unsure of what to do.

General Wu said in a deep voice, “Let me first tell you a bad result. We all came here to support Wuwei City, but Wuwei City is now shrouded in an illusion array. Doesn’t that mean that the people in Wuwei City are likely doomed?”

His words stunned everyone, and then their expressions changed drastically. They understood all too well what General Wu meant. If the enemy hadn’t completely occupied the Wuwei City base, the teleportation array there wouldn’t be malfunctioning. They wouldn’t be completely unable to contact the people of Wuwei City. Most importantly, the enemy couldn’t have so easily enveloped the entire city with an illusion array.

Now that they couldn’t contact the people in Wuwei City, and Wuwei City was still shrouded in an illusion array, it meant that the people in Wuwei City were likely doomed. Even if some were still alive, their numbers would probably be small, and they probably couldn’t save them.

General Wu continued, “I’ll write to General Wu now and tell him about the situation here. Let’s see if we should continue the attack. This must have been a long-planned scheme by the Blood Slaughter Sect, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to take Wuwei City so quickly. But the strange thing is, we had already made arrangements. The Shattering Star Sword was in place, and the Illusion Stone Array was set up. Why was Wuwei City still taken? This is very abnormal.”

Everyone nodded. They had only just thought of this problem. Wuwei City was no small base; it was the most important base controlled by the aristocratic families. It was teeming with experts, and the number of cultivators here was enormous. Under such circumstances, it was very strange that Wuwei City could be taken by the Blood Slaughter Sect in such a short time. How did the Blood Slaughter Sect manage to do it? This was something General Wu couldn’t understand, so he could only wait for Wu Qian’s orders. (End of Chapter)