Capítulo 1629: Chapter 1631: Human Wave Tactics
Sofia’s Daoist temple, its protective forces are divided into three layers.
The first layer is the team where Beauty Lin is, we won’t delve into that, it’s not led by Beauty Lin, but they’re all part of one team. Their vigilance range isn’t just limited to Amstan, and it even extends beyond the Sydney surroundings.
The second layer is the manpower provided by Elder Lin, Sofia’s own bodyguards, and a few trusted volunteers.
The third layer consists of the protectors of Luohua, Chen Shengwang, and Gazi… as well as Feng Jun for the ti being.
Among these three layers, the first layer has the toughest task, and it is the one that engages most fiercely with external forces.
In most instances, after external unknown forces set up so equipnt quietly, it doesn’t take long before Johnson arrives at the scene to dismantle the said equipnt. The uninford might think, wow, Sofia’s bodyguards are really impressive.
However, Johnson knows well that most devices aren’t discovered and monitored by the temple setup. The temple’s own monitoring equipnt can’t be considered completely useless, but its main role is as a deterrent force.
The truly formidable asset is Sofia’s ability to receive mysterious reports, knowing where issues arise and decisively dispatching people to solve them.
Why is Johnson mostly dispatched to resolve these issues? Because among Sofia’s crew, the only one with suitable skin color is Johnson. Elder Lin and Luohua’s people are all yellow-skinned, and if they were to take action, it could easily lead to overinterpretation—Australia is very cautious of Huaxia.
The third layer is the final defense line of the temple, mainly relying on Chen Shengwang. Although Gazi is a High-Rank Martial Master with considerable combat strength, he cannot drive various formations. In terms of supernatural thods, he indeed falls short compared to the Qi Refining Sixth Layer senior, Chen Shengwang.
Gazi’s sensing ability is not bad, but Chen Shengwang has leisurely mixed in secular society for over eighty years, making his alertness extraordinarily strong. Coupled with the profound divine sense cultivators possess, Chen Shengwang’s warning capability is even stronger.
Therefore, the temple’s defense is mainly manifested in the first and third layers; the second layer is basically just for show. It’s only the outsiders who, in awe, mistakenly think that the temple’s security is all thanks to Sofia’s bodyguards.
On the third day that the Incense Fire Array was set up, Sofia began her cultivation. The Golden Sunflower’s efficacy here far exceeds its performance in the Mai Nation. She delightedly inford Feng Jun that she feels advancing to the Third Level of Qi Refinent is progressing swiftly.
Feng Jun remarked that this is a normal procedure; his thoughts were all on preparing for potential retaliation from the church because he feels the church won’t ignore the changes happening here.
Yet surprisingly, the church remained silent, seemingly ignoring this place.
Another ten days passed, and Sofia jumped two levels, advancing to the Fourth Layer of Qi Refinent. Feng Jun couldn’t help but secretly marvel: no wonder Incense Fire Ascension draws so many, cultivation truly speeds up.
Two days later, one of Chen Shengwang’s won progressed to the Qi Refinent stage.
This is an extrely rare event; this woman not only is over forty but has never spent a day cultivating within the Spirit Gathering Array. She only relied on coupled cultivation with Chen Shengwang, yet she advanced—given Chen Shengwang’s conditions, he couldn’t possibly provide her with too many resources.
Regardless, Chen Shengwang was quite happy, accompanying her to solidify her realm for two days, and even plans to help her apply for an Australian work visa to look after the temple together in the future.
Another woman naturally felt sowhat envious, so the ensuing romantic entanglents are needless to elaborate. Fortunately, with Chen Shengwang’s cultivation level, even nearing ninety years of age, he surprisingly manages to endure.
But this resulted in him being unable to guard the temple.
However, Australia still necessitates the protection of the Qi Refinent stage; so formations require the cultivation level of Qi Refinent to activate.
The Qi-Refining Cultivators at Luohua Manor once again beca scarce, as Hua Hua and Lin Heihu were tied up at the Cancer Care Center, Shen Qingyi was at the brink of advancent, and needed to stay at Luohua. Thus, factoring in all considerations, only Zhang Caixin t the criteria.
Zhang Caixin had recently advanced to the Third Level of Qi Refinent, and her mindset had relaxed, hence she didn’t mind temporarily staying in Australia.
But this is a temporary asure; Feng Jun didn’t approve of her applying for an Australian work visa.
Gazi appeared at the temple as Luohua’s representative, given Luohua’s dominance in Daoist Sects, this wasn’t unexpected.
If another person from Luohua were to appear, it would be excessively ostentatious, posing potential risks to Zhang Caixin and Gazi’s personal safety.
Thus, Xiao Caixin did not apply for any visa but quietly entered Australia through the Teleportation Formation.
Because she had no visa, she couldn’t openly wander the streets of Sydney, but she didn’t complain about this—strolling alone didn’t really appeal to her regardless.
In fact, she was quite satisfied with the Spirit Gathering Array at the temple; it’s a High Tier Spirit Gathering Array, a level higher than the one at Luohua—not that Luohua couldn’t improve it, but Feng Jun preferred to prioritize sustainable developnt by utilizing foreign resources first.
After Zhang Caixin arrived at the temple, she stayed within the Spirit Gathering Array without coming out, other than Sofia, Avril, and Johnson, no one else knew.
On the evening of the third day of her arrival, fourteen or fifteen cars pulled up to the temple’s entrance; from the cars erged thirty or forty young people looking like students. They expressed to the gatekeeper their wish to enter the plaza for “camping.”
Seeing them bringing along sound equipnt, drinks, and food, the gatekeeper realized these people intended to throw a party here.
Such events aren’t actually rare in Australia; as long as young people don’t disturb the public, others won’t pursue the matter.
But borrowing a place from the Daoist temple without staying there, no matter how you look at it, seems a bit off.
The gatekeeper naturally refused this request and warned them that this is private property. If they trespass, they might be attacked, and even if they make noise nearby, the owners will choose to call the police.
These young people could really cause a fuss; they set up camp about a mile away from the Daoist temple, cleared the ground a bit, erected tents, lit bonfires, and even started a generator to play music.
Perhaps due to seeking privacy, over twenty tents were scattered far apart, utterly disorganized, typical of young people.
However, Sofia and Avril didn’t see it that way, nor did Gazi and Zhang Caixin.
Beauty Lin’s colleagues were even more on edge, “Be careful, today’s matter probably won’t end peacefully.”
Nevertheless, the young people didn’t really act out of line. Although they sang and danced with the music, it wasn’t heavy tal rock; what little rock there was, was relatively soft. Being a mile away, they wouldn’t affect the Daoist temple.
Then food was brought out, along with drinks, and so people slipped into tents in groups of two or three.
Beauty Lin’s colleagues grew more anxious, “Be careful, they’re about to take action soon. With so many people, it’s hard to keep track of everyone… Where’s the reinforcents, why haven’t they arrived yet? We only have four people.”
“These people might be a decoy,” soone suggested a different perspective, “be cautious of them infiltrating from other directions.”
This tactic was actually a bit irritating; openly organizing so many people, simply knowing the opponents were short-staffed.
Sofia’s manpower was indeed lacking, a vast piece of land with only over twenty people in total, including Elder Lin’s people and volunteers—more people would make it harder to maintain secrecy.
But when forty-plus people ca down at once, the Daoist temple couldn’t even do direct surveillance; it was purely a case of the many bullying the few.
Elder Lin was even a bit angry seeing this, “Since when did it fall to foreigners to use human wave tactics against us?”
A person next to him, not much younger, spoke, “This isn’t human wave tactics; it’s absolute crushing within the allowed rules, they call this open strategy.”
It indeed was open strategy. Among these forty-plus people, only six were actually tasked with probing the Daoist temple, and even four of them were part-tirs.
But this already made things quite passive. Besides these six, there were four or five pairs of young couples who didn’t even enter tents but hid directly in the woods. In such a situation, how could one abandon surveillance?
And beyond that, in two other directions, there were also two people stealthily approaching the Daoist temple.
As for which of these people really intended to enter the Daoist temple to gather information, and which were decoys—it actually didn’t matter. What mattered was that they outnumbered, and any decoy could instantly turn into a real spy.
This was the largest crisis the Daoist temple had faced since its establishnt. The other side had sharply targeted its Achilles’ heel.
However, Sofia genuinely wasn’t afraid; she didn’t know why, but there was a faint sense of anticipation in her heart.
So she directly contacted Gazi, saying this was the situation outside, “We can ignore them, just wait calmly.”
“Impossible to ignore,” Gazi firmly opposed.
He wasn’t exactly a smart person, perhaps even a simple man, but having been around Feng Jun long enough, he could guess many things without others saying, so he pointed straight to the root of the issue, “If fifty people can co this ti, then five hundred can co next ti.”
“They used to sneak in quietly, now they’re fighting with numbers. Unless we curb their hopes, this harassnt will only increase.”
Sofia wasn’t soone who couldn’t listen, and she acknowledged that Gazi’s words indeed made sense.
After pondering a bit, she asked, “So what should we do, take the initiative?”
“How’s that possible?” Gazi shook his head, “If we attack, we lose the moral high ground; we can wait… but should appropriately counteract.”
Sofia thought it over, but still shook her head, “I don’t understand what you’re saying, I want to know, what should we do now?”
“There are many approaches,” Gazi thought this was fundantally not an issue; using Brother Jun’s words, it was almost a free point question, but after a long mont he still suggested, “Since Zhang Caixin is here, we could ask her.”
He didn’t think his intelligence was inferior to Zhang Caixin’s, but… this matter did seem more fitting for her to take the lead.
Zhang Caixin had been staying in the Spirit Gathering Array, not getting involved with the outside affairs. After receiving the ssage, she finally ca out—truly fashionably late.
But in Gazi’s eyes, her unhurried deanor was just like Elder Feng’s.
After listening to the two of them, Zhang Caixin smiled indifferently, “Such a simple matter, is it that serious?”
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