The Way of the Immortal Master

While the Taiyi Sect and the Skillful Hand Sect were digging the earth's veins intensively, Shangguan Longyan, the head of the Earth Fire Sect, was still hesitating.

Lie Yanren, the great elder of the Earth Fire Sect back then, fully supported Shangguan Longyan as the elder of the Earth Fire Sect. It was because Shangguan Longyan was calm enough to act in a thoughtful manner.

Most of the foundation-building monks of the Earth Fire Sect were affected by the cultivation method, and because they were greatly stimulated by life and death during the foundation building. All of them have bad tempers, and many of them are crazy and fearless, and very few of them even have a tendency to self-destruct.

As a rare sober and rational person, Shangguan Longyan was entrusted with the important task of head of the sect even though his cultivation was mediocre among the monks in the foundation period of the Earth Fire Sect.

But it is also because he is too rational that it is difficult to make a decision at a critical moment.

Although he has been staying in the ground fire gate, he still pays close attention to the movements of Lin Quanguan through the sent eyes and ears.

The coalition forces of Taiyi Sect and Skillful Shou Sect surrounded Lin Quan Guan, but did not attack directly. This did not surprise him.

Even if the two sects were slightly stronger than Linquan Temple, it would be difficult for them to break through Linquan Temple's mountain guard formation, so naturally they would not ask for trouble.

The two sides are now locked in a standoff. Such a situation is echoing Shangguan Longyan's wishes.

It's best for them to continue to confront each other slowly like this, and when the real Lie Yan returns, then the real Lie Yan will decide how to deal with the situation in front of him.

As for the large-scale excavation carried out by the coalition forces of the two sects, Shangguan Longyan also couldn't understand it. Like Daoist Guanghui, he believed that the two sects were playing tricks and trying to lure monk Lin Quanguan out of the protection of the mountain guard formation.

Since the situation at Linquanguan is stable and there is no danger of being breached for the time being, Shangguan Longyan can hold back for the time being without making a hasty decision.

After nearly a month of hard work, the excavation work was finally completely completed.

Thick Earth God will draw several key nodes on the map, and it is necessary to lay out magic circles on it.

After all the disciples of the two sects rested for two days and regained their vitality, Meng Zhang ordered them to continue working.

A large amount of formation materials were sent to the front. Under Wen Qiansuan's personal supervision, several magic circles were set up one by one.

The God of Thick Earth selected a location to set up the altar, and then began to open the altar.

Meng Zhang and the others all came outside the gate of Linquan Guanshan to monitor the movement inside when the Houtu God General was practicing the method. Only Wen Qianjuan stayed there to assist Houtu God General to practice.

After a while, there was a loud bang like thunder, followed by several bangs in succession, and the whole earth shook tremendously.

A strong earthquake struck suddenly, but the scope was not large, just near the mountain gate of Linquan Temple.

Several peaks in Linquan Temple trembled violently, as if they were about to collapse completely.

The monks of the two sects have been reminded in advance, and they can still remain calm now.

However, within Linquan Temple, because of the sudden earthquake, it fell into chaos.

Fortunately, the earthquake didn't last long. It only shook a few times before it subsided completely.

Under the stern reprimand of Lin Quanguan's senior management, Lin Quanguan's interior finally recovered calm.

Brother Lin Quanguan inspected the damage caused by the earthquake, especially focusing on checking whether the mountain protection array was damaged in the earthquake just now.

The results of the inspection made everyone very satisfied. The mountain guard formation stood still and was not injured at all. As for the damage to some buildings in the sect, it is not worth mentioning at all.

Meng Zhang and others flew in the air, staring coldly at the mountain guard formation below.

The mountain protection formation is currently the largest amulet of Linquan Temple, and they must be paying attention to the situation of the mountain protection formation all the time.

Brother Lin Quanguan will soon be able to detect the situation where the spiritual veins stop sending spiritual energy to the mountain protection formation.

In fact, monk Lin Quanguan had already noticed that something was wrong before he found out that there was something wrong with the mountain guard formation.

All the monks in Lin Quanguan meditate almost every day to adjust their breath, absorb spiritual energy into their bodies, and refine it into their own true energy.

Soon after the earthquake, some monks began to do their daily homework and began to meditate.

After practicing for a while, many people felt that the aura on the mountain had become much thinner today. It takes more effort than usual to absorb enough aura.

At first everyone thought it was a coincidence, but then, almost every monk felt this way. And as time goes by, the aura becomes thinner and thinner.

At this time, Daoist Guanghui was finally alarmed.

After careful investigation with several foundation-building period monks in his sect, he found that the aura provided by the spiritual veins was decreasing day by day.

Now, everyone became terrified.

The spiritual energy provided by Lin Quanguan's second-order spiritual vein not only needs to maintain the operation of the mountain protection formation, but also be absorbed by all the monks in the mountain gate.

If there is really a problem with the spiritual pulse, it will not be able to provide enough spiritual energy. Not to mention the mountain protection formation, all monks in the mountain gate will be affected in their cultivation, and the true energy consumed cannot be replenished in time.

Daoist Guanghui took Daoist Guangrui and several other cronies, and personally performed the earth escape technique, and escaped into the ground, towards the location of the underground spiritual vein.

The range of Lin Quanguan's mountain protection array seems to be small, but it actually protects a three-dimensional space. The sky, the ground, and the underground are all within the protection range of the large array.

There are many monks who are proficient in the earth escape technique in the endless sand sea. If a large formation does not take into account the protection of the ground, it will be born with fatal flaws.

The second-order spirit veins of Linquan Temple are naturally also within the protection range of the mountain protection array.

After Daoist Guanghui and others came to the location of the spirit vein, they soon discovered that there was a big problem with the spirit vein.

The spiritual veins have collapsed, and the spiritual energy is constantly passing away. If it continues like this, it will take at most three or two days for the spiritual energy in the spiritual veins to be completely lost.

After all, Lin Quanguan's background is not enough, and there is no such high-end profession as a geologist in the sect. Even in the entire endless sand sea, only Feihongzong has a master, and the level is relatively low.

With the current damage to the spiritual vein, it is difficult for ordinary low-level earth masters to repair it effectively.

Daoist Guanghui figured out the situation of the spiritual vein, and his face immediately darkened. He finally knew now that the seemingly useless excavations carried out by the coalition forces of the two sects actually hit the vital point of Lin Quanguan.

Daoist Guanghui regretted it in his heart. When the two sects first began to excavate, he should have stopped it, and should not have allowed the enemy to achieve his goal without hindrance.

If Daoist Guanghui had made the right decision at that time, sending the monks in the foundation building period on the mountain to harass and attack, and leave with one blow, it would definitely be able to interfere or even interrupt the enemy's excavation work.

But being too cautious, he took the wrong countermeasure of sitting idly by and watching the situation change.