Chapter 377: thousand dao city 47.

"No."

"They are building a formation."

Mo Yuxin nodded.

"A very large one."

Su Lian’s face went pale.

"A suppression formation."

Mo Yuxin looked at her.

"Yes."

The Battle Maiden Sect had been preparing for an ordinary siege.

The enemy had been preparing to bury them.

Su Lian rushed toward Mu Qingru.

Mo Yuxin followed.

They explained what they had found.

Mu Qingru’s expression became extremely grim.

"Can we stop it?"

Mo Yuxin answered, "Not if we only repair the existing formations."

"Then what do we do?"

Mo Yuxin looked at Su Yubing.

Su Yubing looked back.

For a moment, neither spoke.

Then Su Yubing smiled.

"We need to know what they think will happen after it activates."

Mo Yuxin nodded.

"Exactly."

Mu Qingru stared at them.

"Why?"

Su Yubing replied, "Because people who are sure they will win become careless."

Mo Yuxin smiled.

"And careless people reveal things."

That evening, the enemy finally sent a formal declaration.

A single flying ship approached the Battle Maiden Sect’s outer gate under a white flag.

A man stood at the front wearing the robes of the Heavenly Sword Sect.

He announced himself as Elder Han Qingtian.

His voice carried across the mountain.

"Sect Master Ye Qinglan, your sect has violated the resource agreements of the Southern Continent, attacked Golden Mountain Sect property, interfered with trade routes, and threatened the safety of Thousand Dao City. The major sects have therefore decided that the Battle Maiden Sect must surrender its weapons and dissolve its external branch."

Silence followed.

Ye Qinglan walked to the gate.

She stood alone at first.

Then Mu Qingru, Ji Ruyan, Su Lian, and the other elders joined her.

Finally, the younger disciples gathered behind them.

Ye Qinglan looked at the army outside.

"Your accusation is false."

Elder Han smiled.

"You have no proof."

Ye Qinglan answered, "Neither do you."

"We have evidence."

A large jade screen appeared in the sky.

It displayed images of a Battle Maiden disciple attacking Golden Mountain Sect cultivators.

The scene looked real.

Several elders became angry.

Ji Ruyan stared at the screen.

"That is not me."

Su Lian immediately recognized the figure.

"That robe belongs to our sect."

Mo Yuxin looked at the image.

The face had been altered using a formation.

The body movements were copied from a Battle Maiden sword technique.

But the spiritual signature was fabricated.

Su Yubing leaned toward her.

"False."

"Yes."

"Can you prove it?"

Mo Yuxin smiled slightly.

"Easily."

She stepped forward.

The image in the sky suddenly stopped.

Everyone looked up.

Mo Yuxin raised one finger.

The scene rewound.

The spiritual pattern beneath the false cultivator’s feet became visible.

Then another hidden layer appeared.

The copied spiritual signature was exposed.

Gasps spread across the battlefield.

Mo Yuxin pointed at the formation mark.

"Azure Cloud Sect."

The enemy army went silent.

A few people from Azure Cloud Sect immediately stepped forward.

"Nonsense."

Mo Yuxin did not react.

She raised her hand again.

A second layer appeared.

Beneath the Azure Cloud formation was another mark.

Golden Mountain Sect.

Mu Qingru looked shocked.

Ye Qinglan’s eyes narrowed.

The evidence was not enough to prove the entire conspiracy, but it was enough to show that at least part of the accusation was fabricated.

Elder Han’s expression changed.

He did not expect someone to expose the formation trick so easily.

Mo Yuxin lowered her hand.

"Your evidence is fake."

Han Qingtian’s face became cold.

"Even if one image is false, the Golden Mountain Sect still accuses your disciples of attacking their members."

Ye Qinglan answered, "Then bring real evidence."

The elder smiled.

"We will."

The white flag disappeared.

The flying ship turned around.

The next sound was a war horn.

The entire army moved.

This time, there was no probing.

Thousands of cultivators surged toward the mountain.

The Battle Maiden Sect activated every defensive formation it had.

The first line of the enemy reached the valley.

Spiritual techniques exploded across the battlefield.

Ji Ruyan charged forward with the younger disciples.

Su Lian activated three formations at once.

Ye Qinglan and Mu Qingru fought on opposite sides of the mountain.

Ning Shuyue and Luo Qinghe remained with the medical group, defending the injured.

And Mo Yuxin and Su Yubing stood together on the central platform, watching the battlefield unfold.

Su Yubing looked at her wife.

"Yuxin."

"Yes?"

"I think they have made their first mistake."

Mo Yuxin smiled.

"Which one?"

"They think we are here to save them."

Mo Yuxin nodded.

"But we are here to help them save themselves."

Su Yubing smiled.

"Exactly."

The battle continued through the night.

The enemy army slowly pushed through the first outer line.

The Battle Maiden Sect retreated step by step.

Every retreat was controlled.

Every wounded disciple was carried back.

Every formation was abandoned only after the next one was ready.

But numbers mattered.

The sect was running out of energy.

The enemy was not.

At midnight, the second defensive wall collapsed.

At one in the morning, the southern gate was breached.

At two, dozens of Battle Maiden disciples were wounded.

At three, another supply store was destroyed.

At four, the enemy army finally reached the main mountain.

Ye Qinglan stood at the top of the steps.

Behind her were the remaining disciples.

There were fewer now.

Many were injured.

Many were exhausted.

But they were still there.

Ye Qinglan looked at them.

"We do not retreat any further."

The disciples raised their weapons.

Ji Ruyan stood beside her.

Su Lian took her hand for one brief moment.

Ning Shuyue and Luo Qinghe stood together behind them.

Mo Yuxin and Su Yubing were still at the center.

The enemy army approached.

And above them, hidden inside the clouds, a massive formation slowly began to take shape.

Mo Yuxin looked upward.

The suppression formation was almost complete.

Su Yubing noticed her expression.

"How long?"

"Several minutes."

"Can you break it?"

Mo Yuxin nodded.

"Yes."

Su Yubing smiled.

Then she said quietly, "Wait."

Mo Yuxin looked at her.

"Why?"