Chapter 1755: Opponent Hidden in the Dark

Normal humans should care more about their own flesh and blood descendants, right?

Doesn't the dead old man know what is meant by closeness and distance?

Regardless, time was indeed delayed. According to the requirements of Miaozhan Heaven, they should have already rushed to Yu Village and started building the lighthouse by now! Then someone stepped forward and took out a headgear, carefully covering Old Man Luo's head.

This headgear was transparent, the material was soft, and it was stained with water, feeling slippery, very much like jellyfish skin.

After being put on, the headgear tightened on its own, starting to undulate along the facial features of Old Man Luo, slowly becoming more and more fitting; at the same time, due to the large evaporation of water, the color of the headgear also changed, becoming more and more similar to Old Man Luo's dark skin.

In just over thirty breaths, the headgear was completely dry and fixed. Diyan personally took it off and handed it to the person beside him: "Put it on."

This person put on the headgear, adjusted the position, and tidied up—

"Old Man Luo" appeared, and there were even a few hairs on his forehead. The original owner's head was almost bald, and this headgear actually restored the hair as well.

"Speak."

This person opened his mouth: "I am irreconcilable with you!"

The slightly hoarse voice, tone, and Old Man Luo were exactly the same, just without any emotion.

He changed into a set of coarse cloth clothes, and it was as if the Old Man Luo on the ground had returned from the dead.

The only flaw was that his expression was a bit stiff, and one would know it was unnatural after looking for a long time. Fortunately, Old Man Luo was withered and thin, and the faces of such old men were generally dull. As long as he smiled less and opened his mouth less, he wouldn't be exposed in the first instance.

"Go into the village and get some bait." When Immortal Diyan said this, he brought a bit of helplessness. The people behind him were all extraordinary experts. If they went outside and stomped their feet, the Flash Gold Plain would shake, but after entering the Chaohu, they were doing things like stealing chickens and dogs!

A person stood on the roof of the wooden house, holding a red candle high.

The mountain wind was strong, but the smoke from the candle didn't disperse, but condensed into a constantly turning single eye three feet above the head.

At the edge of its falling gaze, there was a layer of faint shadow.

This was a sub-eye of Miaozhan Heaven's Eye of Truth. People covered by this layer of shadow could avoid the monitoring of the Haoyuan Golden Mirror, which was equivalent to isolating the prying of Heavenly Secrets.

After they left the lighthouse barrier at the lakeside, they lit this candle, so Xiao Wencheng and the others couldn't see their figures in the Haoyuan Golden Mirror and didn't know their movements.

Otherwise, every move would be monitored by the Illusion Sect, so how could the subsequent tricks be played? Everyone walked out of the wooden house, and the person on the roof jumped down to follow, continuing to cover the whole team with the barrier of the Eye of Truth.

"Let's go." As long as the third lighthouse was successfully built and preserved, the battle between the Heavenly God and the Tiangong could usher in a turning point! ……

The Tiangong withdrew all dispatched troops, re-gathered, and re-opened the tower and camp on the high ridge eight li north of the Chaohu barrier! The tactic of blooming in multiple points was broken by He Lingchuan, so Bai Ziqi simply changed tactics, didn't take shortcuts anymore, temporarily only opened one new camp, built only one new lighthouse, and dispatched heavy troops to hold it.

Just this one camp was equipped with several great powers and over a thousand troops. It wouldn't be easy for the Illusion Sect to gnaw it down.

This time, it wouldn't win by the number of lighthouses. Bai Ziqi re-planned, intending to build a total of four lighthouses.

He communicated with Miaozhan Heaven, and this thing could grow non-stop, and its barrier coverage area would also grow larger and larger—the premise was that the Profound Crystals were enough, guaranteed in quality and quantity.

The taller and larger the lighthouse, the energy consumption would grow exponentially. The energy consumption of building one tall tower was equal to four or five small towers, so Bai Ziqi originally wanted to build more small towers.

Now, since he changed his fighting style, he had to prepare more Profound Crystals to fill the stomach of the tall tower.

Bai Ziqi stood on the tall tower, looking at the outline of the big mountain to the north and frowning.

The opponent's sudden change in fighting style was very unlike the style of the Illusion Sect and the Immortals.

A sudden change from a bad chess player to a high-level player, either they were disguised from the beginning to lure Bai Ziqi into a trap, or there was an expert pointing them out from the side.

Based on his understanding of the Immortal Sect, the former didn't look like the style of those arrogant old things, so it should be the latter.

After a few rounds of fighting just now, the opponent's reaction was fast and precise, truly blocking his moves tightly, and even predicting his predictions two or three times.

This directly led to heavy losses for the Tiangong, directly falling two monster Immortals, and three Heavenly Gods were seriously injured!

As for the elite of the three kingdoms, they had lost over six hundred people after fighting on the lakeside battlefield for over an hour, but in these few battles to protect the tower, they had died over four hundred! Bai Ziqi knew very well that the opponent's counterattack seemed to be to take down the lighthouse and regain the territory, so the Tiangong had no foothold, but the real hidden goal was to kill the Tiangong's high-end generals!

In this stage of the battlefield, monster Immortals, Immortals, and Heavenly Demons were one of the key factors affecting the war situation.

Resources could be looted, territory could be contested, but the people he brought into the Chaohu were just so many, and there was no way to regenerate them. Miaozhan Heaven wanted to cut the Thousand Illusions' wings, and how could the other side not want to weaken Miaozhan Heaven's strength? This kind of thing, one time could be a coincidence, but two or three times was intentional. Bai Ziqi discovered that this newly replaced opponent seemed to understand him very well.

Understand his temper, understand his style, understand his way of thinking.

In the Chaohu, it was originally impossible to have such a person. So, was it from overseas?

So... could it be He Xiao?

There was no evidence to prove that He Xiao had taken over the Illusion Sect's command baton, but Bai Ziqi just felt that it might be him!

He Xiao sent him a battle letter and invited him into the Chaohu; he couldn't just stand by and watch, right?

The opponent understood him, and he also had three points of clarity about He Xiao. This person had always loved to take chestnuts from the fire, so this Immortal-Demon Great War must be a battlefield for him to play!

How should he deal with this guy? At the moment, he was still hiding in the dark.

Bai Ziqi thought of the Brain-Eating Insect Demon that sneaked into Shilong Peak. This thing hadn't given feedback for a long time. Had it been killed?

That was, after all, the territory of the Immortal Sect. For outsiders/outside monsters to act freely and cause some destruction, the difficulty was still very high.

What method should be used? At this time, the light above the tower changed again.

Bai Ziqi stood on the top of the tower and was most sensitive to the change of light. Looking up at this moment, he happened to see the huge Eye of Truth blink twice in succession.

It rarely blinked, was there any change again?

Bai Ziqi's thought hadn't turned yet, when the gray parrot landed on the horizontal wood beside him and spoke in human language: "I have understood the laws of the Thousand Illusions in the Chaohu and added the power of 'observing everything' to the Eye of Truth. You look at the sand table."

Bai Ziqi looked at the sand table on the table as told, and actually discovered that people had appeared on the sand table! The three-dimensional map of the Chaohu was surveyed by him after sending bird monsters to observe the terrain. There were mountains and water, jungles and buildings, but no people! Even if the lakeside battlefield was fighting to the death, it was still empty on the sand table, only showing the terrain.

The sand table Bai Ziqi used in the past was also this kind, and he didn't feel there was any problem.

However, there were people on this sand table now! Vivid, running, with faces and hands, fighting to the death on the sand table battlefield.

Bai Ziqi looked at the sand table and then at the real battlefield below. Well, it was indeed a one-to-one correspondence.

Every person

The grey parrot continued its explanation: "From now on, all changes within the lighthouse barrier, whether people, events, or terrain, will be displayed on the sand table. You must make good use of it!"

Bai Ziqi responded with great joy, "Understood."

From such a change, one could see that Miao Zhantian was indeed possessed of vast supernatural powers, having grasped the laws of the Inverted Sea so quickly and created corresponding divine arts.

With this sand table augmented by the Eye of Truth, Bai Ziqi's ability to oversee the battle situation would improve by two whole levels!

Soon, Bai Shi on the side discovered from the sand table that an enemy force had circled to the rear of the lighthouse, preparing to launch a sneak attack.

"Heh, let's use them to sharpen our blades," Bai Ziqi smiled, throwing out a command token to send the Luodian people to intercept them.

At this moment, the heavens and earth brightened, filled with clear radiance.

The night sky at this moment finally parted the clouds to reveal the moon.

Since the storm wall disappeared, the Inverted Sea had been covered in dark clouds, making it hard to see the stars or the moon. But today was the fifteenth; the moon was as bright and clear as a silver plate, plating the sea surface and the islands with a hazy, gentle white light.

Under the moon, Silver Pearl Island was similarly glowing white.

Looking at the lighthouse barrier from the outside, it was a blur; but for those standing inside the barrier, the outside was basically clear, with only a shallow layer of water-ripple obstruction.

Bai Ziqi stood at the top of the tower, his gaze sweeping across the Inverted Lake once more, when it suddenly froze: why were there lights on the shore, twinkling and very dense!

His first reaction was that the enemy's reinforcements had arrived.

But that was not right; the Phantom Sect's reinforcements had no need to light lamps.

He gave an instruction, and immediately a bird demon flew off to scout.

It turned out that after the moonlight shone down, small lamps on the weeping trees by the Inverted Lake began to light up one after another, emitting a warm white glow.

Looking from afar, they were even more sparkling and gentle than the stars in the sky.

The bird demon circled above these woods for over a quarter of an hour and found no other abnormalities, so it picked up two glowing small lamps in its beak and returned to the lighthouse.

Bai Shiqi took them and looked; the things were pear-shaped: "They look a bit like fluorescent spores."

But they also had the feel of a pear. Bai Shiqi casually squeezed one, and with a "pop," it burst, juice splattering everywhere, and the light immediately vanished.

He sniffed it, and the scent was also like a pear.

Bai Ziqi rolled his eyes: "Go find someone in the know and ask."

"Yes."

Since the war began, the Tiangong had actually captured a few nearby villagers to understand the situation, and this group was still there.

Before long, Bai Shiqi returned and reported to Bai Ziqi:

These "small lamps" were indeed the mature fruits of the trees. The locals called them "Silver Trees." Usually, they looked no different from ordinary trees, and only when they absorbed enough moonlight on the night of the full moon would they glow on their own, which they called "Silver Pearls."

This was the origin of Silver Pearl Island's name.