Chapter 1776

If the Zhaoyou God wanted to escape, he had to taste the bitter fruit of being trapped in his own cocoon. He Lingchuan gave Mother Zhu a thumbs up: "Well done!"

This was their good Mother Zhu indeed.

At this moment, two squeaks came from the side. He Lingchuan turned his head to look, only to see several small spiders chasing a squirrel, surrounding and intercepting it.

The small spiders had nothing to do after placing the Deep Abyss formation artifacts, and as soon as they turned their heads, they discovered this little thing peeking out from a crack in the stone.

The squirrel was very small and very agile, but the spiders could go anywhere it could.

He Lingchuan and the others could all recognize that this squirrel was actually the physical body of the Earth Essence, but the entire mining area was still in a state where escape arts were forbidden, so it had no way to tunnel away directly and could only rely on its legs to escape.

During the battle between the two sides just now, it hadn't made a move, but had curled up on the side, not daring to stir; only after the Zhaoyou God died did it have a chance to sneak away. However, its movements had been monitored by the eyeball spiders the whole time, and Mother Zhu hadn't missed this little accomplice.

Its escape method was also very peculiar; as long as its four legs were on the ground, it could change direction and body size at any time, but the spiders sprayed nets everywhere around it, and the Earth Essence was caught off guard.

Mother Zhu's silk net was even more ruthless than rat-catching glue; once stuck, it couldn't move at all, and only the Earth Essence's mouth could still open.

"How should we deal with this thing?" Mother Zhu heard its earnest pleas for mercy, and what it said sounded quite pleasant. Looking at the dark green necklace on its neck, the runes had already faded.

With the Zhaoyou God dead, the restraint on the Earth Essence was also lifted.

"You decide." Elder Liu was in a hurry to leave.

Mother Zhu picked up the Earth Essence from the ground and wrapped it seven or eight layers deep like a rice dumpling. The small spiders didn't know where they had picked up that coconut shell urn, and they stuffed the Earth Essence back inside.

Poor little thing, out of the tiger's den and into the spider's nest.

Mother Zhu hid this urn under her belly; I don't know where she hid it: "I'll take it back and ponder it."

At this moment, a loud noise came from not far away, and light flickered at Banqiu.

Everyone turned to look; it turned out that the Eye of Truth on the Banqiu Lighthouse was flickering, its light dimming and brightening.

"Elder Liu and the others' battle is also very intense."

The lighthouse tower body must have been damaged, otherwise it wouldn't be flickering so violently.

The Illusion Sect immortals were still remarkable. He Lingchuan asked Xiao Wencheng: "Exactly how many strong experts does the Tiangong have at the Banqiu Lighthouse? Have you scouted them out?"

Both sides had started fighting; surely they didn't still not know the number of enemies?

"Two Heavenly Demons are guarding the tower," Xiao Wencheng replied. "Strictly speaking, only one and a half. You are right; the Fenghe Heavenly Demon must have been seriously injured before, and its current strength can count as at most half."

He Lingchuan took a light breath. Bai Ziqi still valued the spiritual mines of Banqiu, having sent almost all his remaining manpower there.

Just at this moment, two rainbow lights flew out from the direction of the Inverted Lake, heading this way.

"The Tiangong has sent people." Elder Liu urged everyone: "Let's go."

They stepped into the territory, and the Haoyuan Gold Mirror disappeared from where it was.

Deep in the mine cave.

When Elder Liu and He Lingchuan arrived, the Soul-Absorbing Mirror was still embedded in the stone wall, seemingly everything as it was, but He Lingchuan could feel its trembling.

Just as he reached out to touch the mirror frame, the mirror's cry echoed in his sea of consciousness: "You've finally returned! This big lizard is about to bump me to death!"

It turned out the mirror didn't dare to go head-to-head with the Jie Shui True Person, so it had specially opened several mazes for it.

But after Jie Shui True Person waded through two mazes, it had figured out the pattern and was becoming increasingly irritable, crashing around in the mirror space. The mirror had already tried its best, but it could no longer trap it.

At most twenty breaths more, and this thing would break out of the mirror.

"Not bad at all." He Lingchuan patted it to show encouragement; after all, what it had trapped this time was a genuine demon immortal. Although the whole process took less than half a stick of incense, it was enough for the mirror to brag about for a long time. "Open the door."

With its master back, the Soul-Absorbing Mirror breathed a huge sigh of relief and immediately opened the entrance to the mirror world.

The luxurious configuration of Elder Liu + He Lingchuan + Mother Zhu + Dong Rui had no problem taking on the Zhaoyou God one-on-one, and now gang-beating a single Jie Shui True Person was even less of a problem.

Don't forget, the mirror world was still He Lingchuan's home turf.

Having said that, Mother Zhu had put on her sister's battle robe, the Spider Immortal's remains, before facing the Zhaoyou God this time.

The last time she did this at Xushan in Lingxu City, she could only exert about twenty percent of the Spider Immortal's remains' power; three or four years later, Mother Zhu was no longer what she used to be, and wearing this battle robe again, she could basically bring out sixty or seventy percent of her peak-period ability.

She had already been a Spider Immortal in the ancient times, and now her cultivation was just walking the old path again; playing through the second round was fast.

Not long after, the Jie Shui True Person, with no way to escape, was pressed to the ground and kneaded round and flat by them, surrendering while wailing. Elder Liu took the lead this time, using the Immortal-Binding Rope to tie the big lizard into a bundle and temporarily suppressing it in a pill furnace.

This was also Xiao Wencheng's request: he wanted it alive.

"Hurry to the Banqiu Lighthouse." He Lingchuan began to urge before he had even left the mirror world. "Hurry, hurry, hurry, success or failure hinges on this one move!"

Meanwhile, outside the mine cave, the two rainbow lights landed on the flat ground, turning into two people, both with a large box on their backs.

Seeing the corpses on the ground, their expressions turned solemn, and they immediately reported to Bai Ziqi, asking whether they should go down into the mine cave to take a look.

Bai Ziqi's reaction was swift: No need, support the Banqiu Lighthouse immediately! He knew very well that the Zhaoyou God and Jie Shui True Person were likely in grave danger. This was, of course, a major loss for the Tiangong, but the most important thing right now was to try to hold onto the Banqiu Lighthouse.

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With the battle in the mine cave over, He Lingchuan and Dong Rui crossed the mirror to return to the Wenhui Pavilion on Stone Dragon Peak, which was where Xiao Wencheng oversaw the overall situation.

They also brought the Jie Shui True Person back and handed it over to Xiao Wencheng for disposal.

Elder Liu and Mother Zhu went to Banqiu to rendezvous with Elders Liu, Zhao, and others, to launch an all-out assault on the Banqiu Lighthouse.

Elder Liu had naturally noticed Mother Zhu's surge in strength before the battle against the Zhaoyou God, so he invited her to go to Banqiu for support.

The Spider Queen agreed very readily.

She hadn't participated in a battlefield of a great immortal-demon melee for a long time, and she really missed it a bit.

This time when He Lingchuan returned to Stone Dragon Peak, Xiao Wencheng's attitude toward him was exceptionally enthusiastic. In the mine cave battle, the enemy lost two major generals while their side remained unscathed; this was a huge shift in the strength of the enemy and themselves, and might even change the outcome of the Banqiu Lighthouse battle.

He pointed into the mirror: "While you were capturing the Jie Shui True Person, the Tiangong also sent two strong experts to Banqiu. Not long after they arrived, the lighthouse suddenly grew rapidly again, and it is now nearly ten zhang high."

He Lingchuan took a look; this lighthouse was indeed brighter, and its footprint had expanded significantly.

This growth rate was truly extraordinary, and right under everyone's gaze, the Banqiu Lighthouse was still growing taller.