pertwk Chapter 2370 Each Showing Their Means
Chapter 2370 Each Showing Their Means
Chapter 2370 Each Showing Their Means
The stone bridge spanning the two banks collapsed for no apparent reason a few years ago.
Then let's build another one.
With a low roar, the Earth Mother caused the ground outside Jade Capital to begin to extend outward and upward, attempting to fly across the moat and rebuild a stone bridge.
The main body of this wasteland has already been occupied by the Earth Mother, who is a great demon who is proficient in earth and soil, so this kind of action is just a piece of cake for her.
Even the stone bridges it oversaw the construction of were of better quality than those built by the Allied Forces' magicians more than a hundred years ago.
The initial phase went very smoothly, with a bridge spanning the two banks and traversing a drop of over a hundred feet.
Then, the problem arises.
It can't be put on the shelf.
The bridge's foundation stones would collapse immediately upon touching the soil of the Chipa Plateau.
This ancient city, this plateau, will not allow its power to set foot.
Mother Earth tried five or six times, but the other party's refusal was very straightforward and thorough, saying that if they didn't want to give her a piece of the pie, they simply wouldn't.
Then let's think of another way.
The Great Demon Qing Tu, who lived inside the city gate, stepped forward once again. This time, he removed paving stones from the main street of Yujing City and threw them one by one over the moat.
These paving stones are all black, rectangular stone strips, each about two to two and a half zhang long and one zhang wide.
After being thrown out, they did not fall into the river, but instead emitted a bluish light and hovered steadily above the river, each one slightly higher than the last, about five feet apart.
The Qing Tu Gui's throwing was extremely accurate; even if some pieces were in the wrong position, they could correct themselves.
This is a mechanism that Mother Earth salvaged from a ruin, called the "Heavenly Ladder," which can levitate. It wasn't very useful before, so she used it to pave roads, and today she's reverting to its original purpose.
Once this floating staircase is erected, it will not be subjected to any force at either end, nor will it touch the land of the Chipa Plateau, thus eliminating the risk of collapse.
Once it had stabilized, Mother Earth gave her command:
"Get up here, all of you! Anyone who slacks off, I'll eat them!"
The demons in the city had already gathered, and upon hearing the order, they rushed through the city gate and jumped onto the floating ladder.
The bird demons hovering in the air saw that their numbers were dense, and their momentum towards the Chipa Plateau was like a flood that had been released—except that this demon tide was rushing upwards, crossing a drop of more than a hundred feet.
Among them are many strangely shaped monsters, with human torsos but bull or tiger heads, looking completely out of place.
Their skin color is also grayish-brown, and some are even black and white, much like the color of the Yujing city wall.
Immortal Mingyao, who was on his journey, witnessed this scene through the withered leaf butterfly and asked his junior brother:
"Was that a puppet made of rock and mud by Mother Earth?"
“That’s possible,” Immortal Mingke said further. “More likely, it made a shell out of rock and mud and commanded those evil spirits to inhabit it.”
Wherever the Earth Mother goes, there is both widespread suffering and a carnival for demons and monsters, naturally attracting many non-human monsters.
"Oh right, and perhaps a small number of guardian spirits as well."
"Guardian spirit?"
“Many ruins have guardian spirits. They were once closely connected to that place, but they were unwilling to be forgotten. So, by chance, they transformed into another form of existence, some strong and some weak,” said Immortal Mingke. “When the Earth Mother devoured these ruins, she also captured and enslaved some of the guardian spirits, turning them into her soldiers.”
The demons of Yujing stopped when they reached the Chipa Plateau. Although the south gate of the Panlong Ruins was wide open, they did not rush in rashly. Instead, they formed several orderly groups outside the city and waited for further instructions.
This was no longer a rabble, but a demonic army operating with order amidst chaos.
Ling Jinbao, traveling with the immortals, couldn't share his view with the withered leaf butterfly and felt a pang of longing, so he couldn't help but ask:
"What's the situation now? Has the Earth Mother invaded Panlong Ancient City yet?"
Immortal Mingke replied, "No, its demon army is all guarding outside the gate."
Ling Jinbao remembered what happened to those who rushed through this tall city gate when the last strange phenomenon occurred in Panlong Ancient City. Clearly, the Earth Mother was more experienced than them and did not order her subordinates to rush in blindly.
Several dozen breaths later, twenty monsters finally rushed into the south gate of the city.
From mid-air, they could be seen passing through the city gate and stepping into the square.
It seems that the entrance to the secret realm is not located at the south gate of the city.
With their successful experience as a precedent, the main force of the demon army followed one group after another, passing through the South Gate, and then dispersed to various places to begin their search.
"Oh, it's in."
Ling Jinbao asked Immortal Mingke, "What are they looking for?"
“The entrance to the secret realm.” Immortal Mingke saw it clearly. “If we can’t enter the secret realm, Mother Earth may not be able to take over the Chipa Plateau. Even if she smashes the Panlong Ruins to pieces, she won’t be able to truly claim it for herself.”
This ancient city is already a ruin from over a hundred years ago, so what if it is destroyed again?
Passing by a large grove of camphor trees, the Immortal of Sihai said, "We should split up here."
So the people of Lingshan split into two groups.
Venerable Mingyao, Immortal Mingke, and Ling Jinbao quietly left the group and headed to Baiyuan Station, preparing to secretly infiltrate Yujing City.
How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's den? The key to defeating Mother Earth lies in whether our side can seize her vital points.
Master Sihai then led the remaining immortals and the main force to the Chipa Plateau, the main battlefield where the two major cities were locked in a standoff.
In the city of Yujing, the god Xiyu asked the little stone man standing on his shoulder, "How can I enter the secret realm?"
Instead of answering, the little stone man asked, "Have you ever looked in a mirror?"
"..." Isn't that obvious?
"There is clearly another world in the mirror, but you can't see it if you go behind the mirror. Only by standing in front of the mirror can you see the world in the mirror clearly."
Xi Yushen wasn't stupid: "So you're looking for that 'mirror'?"
“Yes. Secret realms all have specific entrances. The entrance to the ruins that I, the Great Ghost Qing Tu, used to guard is right on the city gate.”
"What happens after you find it?"
Mother Earth kept everyone in suspense: "Just you wait and see."
……
However, the demon army's operation within the city did not go smoothly. Having followed the Earth Mother for a long time, most of them were skilled at searching for secret realms, but this time they sniffed around for a long time without finding any trace of the entrance to the secret realm.
As precious time slipped away, Mother Earth grew impatient and decided to once again conjure up clouds and mist.
The mist spread from Yujing City all the way to the Panlong Ruins, without going anywhere else.
The fog was very thin, and the buildings in the ruins were still mostly visible. It was more like haze than fog.
Seeing that her subordinates were useless, Mother Earth simply took matters into her own hands.
The thin mist quickly enveloped the entire ruins, and then, faint blue-red or blue-white light shone through the mist.
Xi Yu climbed to the top of Yujing City Wall and looked into the distance, asking in surprise, "What's that?"
"The entrance to a secret realm always leaks out a little spiritual energy, or the aura of a guardian spirit. Other cultivators, even immortals, cannot detect it, but it cannot escape my divine powers!"
(End of this chapter)