Chapter 1772

The text remained for about five breaths before disappearing on its own. The person the dwarf was reporting to using the Water Mirror Technique was, of course, the commander-in-chief of the entire army, the Tiangong's Cloud Envoy, Bai Ziqi.

Before long, the surface of the mirror became misty with smoke, forming a few characters: Demon beast?

The dwarf replied: Suspected spider-scorpion, capable of spraying acid and silk webs, deep cultivation, guarding the giant Profound Crystal.

There truly was a kind of monster in the world called a "spider-scorpion," which, as the name suggests, combined the strengths of two monsters, capable of both stinging people with its tail and spraying silk threads.

The mirror displayed characters again: Giant Profound Crystal?

The dwarf said truthfully: "In the tunnel at the deepest part of the mine, there is a Profound Crystal embedded in the stone wall, over two zhang in height, purple and without impurities."

They didn't need to do anything else; as long as they could mine this giant Profound Crystal today, they wouldn't have to worry about the power supply for the several lighthouses.

The characters on the mirror surface dissipated, and for a long while, they did not appear again.

The dwarf thought the report had ended here and was about to put away the water mirror used for communication when a few large characters suddenly appeared on the mirror surface:

Trap! Retreat immediately! Seal the mine tunnel! The eight bright red characters almost filled the entire water mirror.

Upon seeing this, the dwarf was greatly shocked: "A trap?"

Was it really an enemy trap? The priceless treasure that no one could resist, the long tunnel, the fierce mine-guarding demon beast... all were exciting adventure elements, but they also all looked like traps designed to lure people in! A chill went through the dwarf's heart, as if a bucket of cold water had been poured over him. He immediately ordered the little squirrel beside him: "Call True Person Jieshui out, quickly!"

The little squirrel suddenly shook its head at him.

It had lost contact with its clones.

It had originally been able to control the earth mole-crickets with ease; these little things could not only dig and move things but were also extensions of its senses. But just a moment ago, all clones in the tunnel had lost contact with the main body.

So it only felt its vision go black and could no longer see what was happening below.

Of course, it didn't know that this was caused by the Soul-Sucking Mirror suddenly closing the world inside the mirror. The connection between the two worlds was cut off instantly, and its clones lost control, unable to maintain their shape, immediately turning into a speck of gray dust inside the mirror.

The dwarf immediately grabbed a piece of something from his bosom, ignited it with true fire, and threw it onto the ground.

It was a piece of a shriveled tail tip, its surface still covered in scales.

True Person Jieshui's lizard tail.

Those who could live from ancient times to the present were no pushovers. Before this giant lizard demon went down into the cave, it had handed a piece of its severed tail to the dwarf for safekeeping; at a critical moment, as long as the lizard tail was ignited, it could swap positions with the main body within a thirty-li radius.

With this swap, the lizard tail went over, and the real person would return. Theoretically, no matter if there were formations, traps, or forbidden escape arts at the bottom of the mine, it could slip away.

However, this severed tail had been burning on the ground for several breaths, and the dwarf could even smell the burnt scent, yet True Person Jieshui's main body still did not emerge from the flames.

Something had gone wrong.

He didn't have time to use the water mirror to report, so he directly sent a signal arrow into the sky, firing off blue and red fireworks.

Simple methods are the most effective; this place was not far from the Inverted Lake and Banqiu, so his companions would definitely be able to see his warning: something had happened at the mine tunnel.

Almost at the same time, several deafening explosions suddenly came from the direction of the Banqiu Lighthouse!

The civilians of Yu Village, dragging their families along, finally crossed the low valley under the repeated urging of the guard team and reached the hillside ahead.

Everyone was panting, walking unwillingly. After all, although the barrier on Banqiu had appeared strangely, who knew if it was harmful or not.

Immediately afterward, a loud noise came from behind.

The people of Yu Village had never heard such a dull sound, surpassing the roar of more than a dozen giant beasts simultaneously.

Everyone looked back in horror, seeing rolling smoke and dust suddenly overflowing from within the gray barrier on Banqiu.

Taking advantage of the aftermath of the explosion, this smoke and dust advanced in all directions at a terrifying speed. At this time, dozens of people still remained in the village and had not left; some had not finished packing their belongings, and others were too old and had trouble walking.

In an instant, the explosion and smoke caught up with Yu Village, swallowing it whole.

On the hillside, everyone was filled with horror.

For the past hundred and fifty years, the people of Silver Pearl Island had only suffered from Yaksha raids; when had they ever seen such a terrifying scene? Without the guard team urging them again, everyone ran for their lives up the slope.

At this time, Luo Xie also sprang out from the nearby woods, helping up a child who had fallen to the ground.

Just now, He Lingchuan had summoned the Haoyuan Golden Mirror in the mine tunnel, directly teleporting him over.

Behind him were immortals and demons fighting; he couldn't intervene, so he might as well return to protect the villagers.

The smoke and dust rolled over Yu Village and continued forward; fortunately, a sunken depression blocked it, making it difficult to roll up the slope.

Before it could roll up the hillside, it stopped.

A gust of wind blew, dust filled the sky, and the villagers coughed incessantly, yet they felt very fortunate in their hearts.

Luo Xie glanced into the barrier, also feeling lingering fear.

He knew that it was the immortals of the Illusion Sect fighting fiercely with outside enemies.

Having built up momentum for a long time, their strike was naturally thunderous.

But while feeling lingering fear, he also felt some yearning and curiosity. Island Master He, who had asked him to lead the way just now, was also very young, yet even the high immortal Elder Liu respected him, and he had always been kind to Luo Xie.

What kind of person was that? Beyond the Inverted Sea, what kind of world was it? Just then, a guard team member emerged from somewhere and pulled him aside: "Brother Luo, Brother Luo, you asked me to go to the low ridge to take a look just now. I, I..."

Before entrusting Elder Liu, Luo Xie was worried about his younger brother, so he had already sent a team member to the low ridge to check on his and his grandfather's wooden house.

Now this person had returned.

"How is it?" Luo Xie stood still.

"Don't be sad, don't get angry!" The teammate chose his words carefully, "Listen to me first..."

The dwarf had just ordered his men to be on alert when he heard human voices coming from not far away.

Afterward, more than a dozen brilliant rainbows circled the mountain and came straight toward the faces of the Tiangong group.

The defensive formation placed here reacted first, initially emitting a layer of cyan light shield, protecting all the masters in the middle.

Looking closely at this light shield, there were gullies and high ridges, with a rune embedded in each ridge, glowing with cyan light—

The image of this light shield was strikingly like a turtle shell.

And immediately afterward, three cyan shadows emerged from the ground, turning in the blink of an eye into giant Suanni over a zhang tall; they didn't howl but buried their heads and charged toward the source of the flying rainbows.

These things were actually big-headed fierce lions, but they had baboon tails. They only needed one bite to kill, and if the incoming enemy wasn't powerful enough, they wouldn't be triggered.

In the blink of an eye, the rainbow lights crashed into the light shield one after another.

The force of the counter-shock was so great that the open space at the cave entrance shook, and the pebbles beside the dwarf's feet jumped half a foot high.

But the light shield only flickered a few times before blocking the attack.

Those dozen or so brilliant rainbows, failing in one strike, turned back and combined into one, attacking again.

Just one strike.

It was unexpected that the cyan light shield still blocked it, but this time it trembled a few times, clearly no longer as relaxed as before.