Chapter 1670: Gradually approaching

One of Qing Yang's Green Guards, Ding Qingshan, who was originally going to duel He Lingchuan at King Yao's birthday celebration, was proficient in various weapons. The magic treasure he unleashed at this moment was several slender silver threads. As a pillar-stabilizing beast lunged at him, he pulled the silver threads into a loop and cast it forward with extreme speed, and the beast was snared by the neck. It was like a wild dog caught in a rope, struggling to no avail. The pillar-stabilizing beast was small, and as long as Ding Qingshan lifted it off the ground, it couldn't attack the enemy.

He used this method to catch two pillar-stabilizing beasts.

Another Green Guard on the side saw this and casually pulled out a heavy hammer to smash the pillar-stabilizing beast's head.

The hammer head glowed with black light; it was clearly no ordinary item.

"Don't!" Ding Qingshan couldn't stop him in time. With two "guang-guang" sounds, the pillar-stabilizing beast's head was smashed to pieces.

The strength was not insignificant; ordinary palace guards couldn't even shave the copper skin of the pillar-stabilizing beast.

However, although the pillar-stabilizing beast had its head cracked, it didn't fall on the spot. The stones on the ground rolled together quickly, reassembling into a head, and went to find the body to fit together—

Deng-deng-deng, the refurbished pillar-stabilizing beast returned to the field!

"Sure enough!" Ding Qingshan cursed fiercely.

This thing not only had copper skin and iron bones, but it could also regenerate after being smashed. Seeing this, others felt deeply hopeless:

How could they fight this? How could flesh and blood win against such a thing? It didn't know fatigue or pain; it could wear you to death! Qing Yang suddenly pointed at the lunging pillar-stabilizing beast and said to the strongman: "Hit its hindquarters!"

Even when fighting stone carving beasts, people were accustomed to attacking their heads, necks, and limbs, just like attacking living beasts. The buttocks and shoulders were areas with high defense and were usually ignored.

The strongman obeyed, dodged two attacks, found the opportunity, and struck two heavy hammer blows backhanded, indeed smashing the rear half of the pillar-stabilizing beast to pieces, splitting it into seven or eight chunks.

The stones on the ground rolled and assembled themselves, soon to be restored.

Qing Yang's gaze lingered among the rubble, and she suddenly raised her wooden staff and tapped on one of the stones.

Ka-ba.

Her movement was not large, and it didn't look very lethal, but this hard stone shattered into two halves. Afterward, Qing Yang leaned down and picked out a white ball, round and the size of an olive, from the stone.

As soon as this object was taken out, the pillar-stabilizing beast stopped moving immediately, and even the rubble on the ground stopped reassembling.

Sure enough, this thing was the core hub of the pillar-stabilizing beast. It received King Yao's orders and attacked the enemies King Yao identified.

Qing Yang squeezed it; this little white bead was quite elastic. Shining it against the light, there was vaguely a black dot in the center of the bead.

This black dot could actually move.

It was a living thing.

Looking at it, it seemed like... an egg? Qing Yang frowned. What kind of creature's egg would look like this? Just then, torches flared not far away, and another team arrived—

Tu Han and Shan Zezhong arrived, shouting as they joined the battlefield.

They had been blocked by Bai Tan outside the South Gate and had no choice but to take a detour, entering from the West Gate. The bell sound on the gate tower just now was rung by them.

The Yao Palace was not small, and they were delayed on the way, arriving late to rescue the sovereign.

The great riot of refugees in Tianshui City left the official manpower insufficient, and King Yao sent palace guards to support, leaving only a thousand people in the palace. Usually, such an arrangement was fine, but they didn't expect Qing Yang and Bai Tan to suddenly rebel tonight. Of the thousand people in the palace, four hundred followed them in rebellion, while the rest tried to rush to rescue the sovereign but were repelled several times because they lacked scale.

It wasn't until Tu Han and the other received King Yao's secret order that they led troops to charge into the palace city, picking up scattered palace guards along the way, and finally arrived at the Frost Immortal Hall.

Calculating this way, the number of people on both sides narrowed, and the pro-sovereign faction was no longer just Zhao Song and the imperial guards struggling to support.

King Yao was overjoyed. Seeing the Bai Tan army outside the Frost Immortal Hall disrupted by the stone carving beasts, he once again said sternly: "Throw away your weapons, kneel down and hold your heads, and I will spare your lives!"

Seeing the sudden arrival of a large number of enemy reinforcements and the stone carving beasts killing people crazily, many of Bai Tan's Tianshui City Patrol troops wavered. They had originally summoned the courage to kill the sovereign and rebel, but now that the enemy was strong, they lost heart, so they retreated from the battlefield and knelt down secretly.

Sure enough, after they threw away their weapons and knelt, the stone carving beasts rushed past them without even looking at them.

Within a few dozen breaths, over a hundred people knelt outside the courtyard. Bai Tan was furious and rushed to cut off a few heads: "All of you, stand up! This old thing is untrustworthy. If I die, you will also be sliced to death!"

At the same time, he glanced at Qing Yang, feeling anxious in his heart. Why hadn't this Regent exerted her power yet?

At this very moment, the only ones still fighting tenaciously were his confidant army and the temple soldiers borrowed from the temple.

These temple soldiers shouldn't have had elemental power, but Bai Tan had secretly registered them according to the City Patrol Army establishment a few days ago. At that time, he was the Minister of Justice, and the Tianshui City Patrol was under his jurisdiction, so the order was valid.

Facts proved the brilliance of this move; in the end, only these temple soldiers were the most steadfast.

Seeing the situation reverse, King Yao finally felt relieved and pointed at Bai Tan, sneering: "I gave your whole family high official positions and endless wealth, yet you were not satisfied and still wanted to rebel with this old hag? How can there be such a wolf-hearted, ungrateful thing in the world!"

Learning that Qing Yang's partner in rebellion was actually Bai Tan, King Yao was also completely puzzled. The Yao Nation had treated the Bai family quite well for the past two hundred years; what on earth was this guy plotting by rebelling! Bai Tan parried a pillar-stabilizing beast with his blade and said righteously: "The Yao Nation is dominated by treacherous officials, corruption is rampant, and national strength is declining. You turn a blind eye to it, and even worse, you extort bribes from your subjects and dig into the national granary to fill your own treasury, harming the public to enrich yourself!"

He gave a chuckle: "The common people are complaining, but you are deaf and blind, thinking it is still a peaceful and prosperous age, completely unaware that the Yao Nation is going downhill. Now you can't even suppress the alliance army, which is like grass and weeds! A person like you, who loves grandiosity, is greedy beyond measure, yet mediocre and incompetent, is a disaster to the Yao Nation as long as you sit on the throne for one day! I am pulling you down to benefit the people of the Yao Nation!"

"You want to rebel and be King, yet you still have to pull out a mouthful of morality as an excuse?" King Yao spat on the ground and said sinisterly, "Kill him, let him watch himself be torn apart!"

With a wave of his hand, nearly half of the stone carving beasts went to attack Bai Tan, even more than those besieging Qing Yang.

Traitors were always the most hated.

Although Qing Yang found the flaw in the stone carving beasts, not everyone could smash their hard bodies and then find the white egg inside the stones in the dim light. Therefore, Bai Tan's elite were struggling in the siege of the stone carving beasts, which was exceptionally difficult.

All their past training was for killing living things, not for dealing with such immortal monsters.

Qing Yang finally raised her staff: "I will give you a helping hand."

She blew a breath at the wooden staff, and the leaves on the staff were blown up, sticking to the stone carving beasts as if guided.

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