abnabooks Chapter 1731 Pengqi and Yucun
Chapter 1731 Pengqi and Yucun
Chapter 1731 Pengqi and Yucun
Through the Haoyuan Golden Mirror, the voice of Xiao Wencheng, the head of the Huanzong, rang in everyone's ears again: "Miao Zhantian has been guessing the rules of the Immortal Lord. Soon, the lighthouse barrier may release the restriction of 'forbidden escape techniques', and the spiritual mine will be in trouble! So, please hurry up and destroy the lighthouse."
When He Lingchuan heard this, his heart skipped a beat.
Outsiders who enter the Upside-Down Sea will be restricted by the "ban on escape techniques", including the demons and devils brought by the Heavenly Palace, who are far less mobile than the immortals of the Illusion Sect. However, if the Lighthouse Boundary can unlock this ban, allowing these opponents to freely use escape techniques, the Illusion Sect's major advantage will be reduced.
The imminent crisis is that the demons can use their escape techniques to mine underground!
This bad news may very well overturn the overall plan that He Lingchuan had just made.
"How long will it take Miao Zhantian to decipher, I mean, to break the immortal master's escape technique restriction?"
"It's hard to say yet." Xiao Wencheng said, "But since the war began, the lighthouse barrier has been enhanced by Miao Zhantian. I still can't see the lighthouse on Banqiu on the Haoyuan Golden Mirror. So, it's probably only a matter of time before it breaks the 'Escape Technique Forbidden'."
He had no doubt that Miao Zhantian had come in person, otherwise why could the lighthouse barrier be improved so quickly?
He added, "The lakeside battlefield just reported that the lighthouse barrier is likely to be like the Haoyuan Golden Mirror, and it also has the ability to see everything and take in the overall situation within the domain, because the two raids behind the tower we organized were discovered by the enemy in advance. Miao Zhantian has the Eye of Truth, so it is not difficult for Him to do this."
He Lingchuan smiled bitterly: "Can't you give me some good news?"
Miaozhan Tianzhen is worthy of being one of the righteous gods of Lingxu. He has a deep understanding of the rules and can modify his magical powers so quickly according to the battle situation.
In He Lingchuan's opinion, the demon is more powerful than most immortals in terms of adapting to the time and situation.
Xiao Wencheng said, "When all of you passed through the Haoyuan Golden Mirror just now, you were all cast into the 'illusion' power. You are invisible to ordinary people and your opponents, and cannot be seen without special powers."
Hearing this, Dong Rui took out a mirror and looked at himself.
Sure enough, there was nothing on the mirror except the branches at the back swaying in the wind.
"This magical power can also conceal your aura, but the traces you left behind, such as footprints and sounds, cannot be covered up." Xiao Wencheng explained, "With the magical power of the Immortal Venerable, even the 'Eye of Truth' cannot find you, but this effect can only last for half an hour. Once the time limit is up, or you fight with others, the 'Illusion and Invisibility' effect will automatically disappear."
Dong Rui asked: "The lighthouse barrier doesn't work either?"
"No." Xiao Wencheng explained, "Just like Di Yun can become invisible in front of the Haoyuan Golden Mirror, you can also become invisible in the lighthouse barrier."
This is called reciprocity.
He Lingchuan listened and observed Yu Village below.
Perhaps because the people here are dedicated to mining, although Yucun is called a "village", it actually has more than 1,300 residents, which is larger than the nearby towns. The roads in the village are wide, and the houses are built in a more grand manner, with more than a dozen three-story buildings.
The lights in Yu Village were bright, and all the men were blocking the entrance to the village. Although they held their weapons tightly, their faces were filled with anxiety and uneasiness.
Because Yaksha leaves the lake at irregular intervals, the villagers are always on high alert every night when the storm wall disappears; but the weirdness of previous years can never be compared with tonight. The number of earthquakes on Silver Pearl Island is almost too many to count. Five or six houses in the village collapsed, and more than ten people were crushed to death. The worst was a family of four, all of whom died within three or five breaths.
There are not only flying rainbows in the sky, but also strange birds flying around, and the evening breeze often brings the sound of shouting and killing in the distance...
How could the people of Silver Pearl Island not be terrified when immortals and demons are fighting?
These men also knew that it was difficult for them to compete with the great supernatural power, but behind them were their homes and loved ones, and they had no way to retreat.
He Lingchuan and the others actually arrived a step late. Elder Liu's former fellow disciple, Master Di Yun, who has now transformed into a demon, led a team to Banqiu and also set up a lighthouse.
Their goal was clear, which was to dig out the black crystal. They also used Miao Zhantian's divine power to hide it from the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror. Logically, they would not allow mortals to watch here and then report to the immortals.
But they ignored the civilians of Yu Village and only moved around within their own barrier.
After the lighthouse barrier was established, the actual situation inside the lighthouse could no longer be seen from the outside. Only the huge phantom of the Eye of Truth on the top of the tower could be seen.
But the barrier is actually slowly getting bigger, and in a quarter of an hour at most it will be able to cover the entire Yu Village.
So the people in Yu Village were also frightened and pointed at it.
This definitely doesn't look like a good thing, it doesn't look like the magic of the God of Wind!
Some villagers immediately knelt down facing the north, muttering something and praying to the God of Wind, asking him to save Yu Village and their families.
One person stood up and yelled, "Stop kneeling, there is no time left, we need to evacuate Yu Village!"
This man had thick eyebrows, big eyes, and full temples. He was about seventeen or eighteen years old, with a strong body. He wore a light leather armor and had two swords on his waist.
He Lingchuan himself also uses a knife. Looking at the shape of the scabbard, you can tell that it has a wide back and a thin blade, the knife line is smooth, and the handle is slightly curved, which should be more suitable for riding and killing.
Elder Liu just happened to explain: "This is Luo Xie, the deputy chief of guards at the Black Crystal Mine."
Although the place where everyone was standing was still more than ten feet away from the village entrance and even a nearsighted person could not see the people clearly, Elder Liu still had to set up a barrier before he could speak to He Lingchuan and others with confidence.
Luo Xie still had a dozen or so men, and they cooperated with him to drive the people away.
Someone said softly, "Isn't our village protected by a formation?"
Yu Village has taken root here for decades, and most villagers have never left here in their entire lives, so it is inevitable that they feel reluctant to leave.
Luo Xie glared at them and said, "The battle in the southeast has lasted for so long, which means the Immortal has not won yet. Do you know what is on Banqiu? Can the formation really withstand it? Leave now, or you will all die here!"
The utterance of the word "death" finally brought back the consciousness of many people.
The villagers scattered, and instead of fleeing immediately, they rushed back to pack up their belongings.
The whole Yu Village was in chaos.
Elder Liu asked He Lingchuan: "Island Master He, what arrangements should we make now?"
"Has the lighthouse barrier spread to the mining area?"
Elder Liu knew without having to climb over the mountain: "Not yet, maybe another quarter of an hour."
"The lighthouse has just been built and needs to be fully protected. They should not have gone down to the mine yet, so we still have time to make arrangements." He Lingchuan said to the remaining three immortals, "Please sneak into the lighthouse barrier to investigate, and wait for my signal before taking action. Don't waste the opportunity to disappear."
They are under the protection of the magical power of "invisibility" and will reveal themselves once they fight with others.
The three immortals nodded, and led their disciples through the mirror, directly touching the edge of the lighthouse barrier and quietly sneaking in.
With their level of cultivation, they could easily achieve complete silence and no trace left on the ground.
On the hillside, only He Lingchuan and his two companions, Elder Liu and a dozen disciples of the Huan Sect were left.
"There is a spirit beast hidden in this village that can store a large amount of black crystals, right? I always feel that the demon will not let go of more than a thousand kilograms of black crystals easily."
The fact that Master Diyun was sent here to build a lighthouse despite having a broken arm shows two things:
First, Bai Ziqi did not have many powerful people around him, which was a bit stretched. It was obvious that the Immortal Palace had suffered a lot in the last round of confrontation with the Illusion Sect.
Second, the Tiangong team is in urgent need of Xuanjing and must get it at any cost.
Since Master Diyun is here, why not try to get the black crystal stock in Yu Village? That's more than a thousand kilograms of high-quality black crystals. It will be enough for the Lighthouse for a while, right?
The Jinghong Ferry in Lingxu City that had stunned He Lingchuan back then, such a magnificent set of magical instruments only consumed 20 kilograms of black crystals every day to maintain normal operation. The inventory in Yu Village could allow it to operate for two months.
"It may not be in the village." Elder Liu answered, "The Pengqi lineage can no longer be seen in the outside world. But this one is less than three hundred years old and has been raised in the sacred mountain. It is still in its infancy, playful and active, often escaping for more than a hundred miles, and sometimes running to other islands to play. This kind of spiritual beast will not mature until it is eight hundred years old."
Dong Rui's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Wow, what a late bloomer."
When it comes to rare monsters, he becomes interested.
"It has its own storage space inside its belly, and the space increases with its age. When it was 800 years old, it could carry 180,000 kilograms of black crystals. Now it is 300 years old, and the capacity is only 37,000 kilograms, but it is enough." Elder Liu spoke quickly, "The black crystal ore dug out by the people of Yu Village will be screened, purified, and weighed outside the mine, and then fed to Pengqi. It will not be brought back to the village."
When He Lingchuan heard this, he knew that the Huan Sect was trying to prevent mortal miners from embezzling the black crystals.
After all, this thing is worth a lot of money no matter where it is.
"Every fifteen days, Pengqi will deliver the black crystal to the Wind Temple on his own, without the people of Yu Village having to do anything."
Pengqi was also in charge of the transportation of the black crystals, so the people of Yucun only had to do mining and screening, which reduced the risk. In peaceful times, Pengqi's unstable temperament was not considered a risk.
"Usually this spirit beast hides underground, and no one knows its exact location."
He Lingchuan nodded: "How can I call it out?"
"It has super hearing. If you shout louder, it can hear you." Elder Liu shook his head, "But hearing doesn't mean it's obedient. This guy is very willful. Old Luo has raised him for decades, but he stopped raising him last month, and he got angry."
"How does Lao Luo usually feed it?"
"That's unclear." How could Elder Liu care about these details? He pointed downwards, "This Luo Xie is his grandson."
Elder Liu is an immortal, so how could he recognize the people of Yu Village? But Lao Luotou had an important responsibility after all, as the breeder of spirit beasts, and he required a clear background.
While they were talking, Yu Village was in chaos.
It was a real riot, because the villagers not only packed up their belongings, but also took away chickens, sheep, and pigs. No matter how the guards tried to persuade them, it was useless.
(End of this chapter)