Chapter 1802

This area itself had a game trail trodden by beasts and people; it was very narrow, but the tracks didn't follow a normal path. The dense tall grass was over a zhang high, but now it was all flattened to the ground, clearly crushed thoroughly.

"It's a big guy." The path crushed out of existence reached a width of seven chi (2 meters)!

"It wasn't crushed by wheels." It was like a steamroller had passed through.

Bai Shi dipped a bit of grass juice from the tall grass and sniffed it under his nose: "Very fresh, just crushed not long ago."

Bai Seventeen pointed forward again: "The tree canopy has been broken."

There was a tall palm tree by the path, its head snapped off.

The problem was, it was over three zhang (ten meters) tall.

What kind of creature would specifically climb up and knock off the tree canopy?

Bai Ziqi only had to take one look to say: "The canopy was brushed off."

There were traces of the tree trunk being forcibly brushed against; a layer of hard bark had been scraped off, and broken leaves and berries were scattered all over the ground.

Everyone gasped: "This height, it's almost catching up to a Golden Armored Divine General."

There was an elephant demon in the team that snorted. Its body was a zhang tall, which was considered burly among existing monsters, except for a few oddities, such as the Snail Toad and the Skin-Turning Fish, etc.

But the big guy that had crawled out of the pool earlier was more than twice its height.

"Comparing height, its body isn't wide; it should be long and thin, and it could still crush the grass like this." Bai Shi pondered, "Hmm, a giant python?"

"This is the Upside-Down Sea, the lair of Thousand Illusions True Person," the gray parrot said coldly. "It's very likely its Yin-Hui Dharma form!"

Everyone's heart hissed; that was right, when the Yin-Hui walked, it also left such traces.

The walking traces of the giant serpent's Dharma body only went as far as a stone mountain, and then they stopped.

There were only loose rocks and hard cliffs on the stone mountain; when the giant serpent walked here, it didn't leave traces as easily as it did in the grass and mud.

A wolf demon stepped forward and sniffed a few times: "No, there's no scent."

Its sense of smell was much sharper than a human's.

"Does this giant serpent have a scent?"

When Bai Shi asked this, Bai Seventeen shook his head, and Bai Ziqi said: "No. Thousand Illusions True Person has long since cultivated the Flawless True Body; at no time will any scent leak out. Furthermore, we just used several tracking supernatural powers, and none of them could catch its whereabouts."

The wind blew through the tall grass, rustling, as if there were always a pair of malicious eyes in the dark.

Since they knew the Yin-Hui Dharma form had returned to the Upside-Down Sea, everyone moved even more cautiously, fearing it would ambush them from the side of the road.

That monster had caused one Heavenly God clone to die and another to be seriously injured, and Qingyang had also suffered a great loss; Miaozhan Tian naturally listened to the full report of the war afterward.

Bai Shi whispered to Bai Seventeen: "Why do I feel that this real world is even more bizarre than the previous Illusion Realm?"

At least the people they met in the Illusion Realm were living civilians, not dead souls who thought they could still breathe!

But why were the civilians of the real world made up of dead souls? Bai Ziqi subconsciously glanced at the ring on his hand again, and seeing it still wasn't glowing, he said: "Go to the village ahead and take a look."

The farmer's case wasn't enough to explain the problem; there was a village ahead, and he needed more samples.

Dead souls occupying water shells to impersonate living people—isn't this a supernatural power? Isn't this a disguise? Why did the ring bestowed by Miaozhan Tian have no reaction? The gray parrot didn't make a sound either; Bai Ziqi thought it might be thinking.

As soon as the words fell, a bird demon landed from the sky and reported urgently: "Southwest, due north, and due south of Waist Lake, there are three hundred, over five hundred, and one thousand people rushing here respectively."

"Where did they all come from?"

"There are villages and towns in all three directions," the bird demon said. "We flew to the town due north and saw that when the townspeople rushed out of the town, they were still wearing ordinary clothes and grabbing pitchforks and fire pokers, but when they emerged from the dense forest in front of the town, they had changed completely, actually wearing light armor and picking up fine weapons!"

Another bird demon added: "Oh, and they were also wearing ghost masks!"

One thousand eight hundred? Bai Ziqi immediately ordered: "Prepare the battle formation, the whole army is to engage!"

After the war in the Illusion Realm, his army was down to less than a thousand men. If the incoming army all had the strength of the dead farmer, then this battle for the Heavenly Palace's team would be exceptionally difficult.

Even if they killed all these dead souls, there were still over two hundred thousand left inside and outside Silver Pearl City.

"Go up to the hill and build a small tower first," Miaozhan Tian also spoke. "I can shine them into their original forms."

Dead souls actually cannot stand the light; they rely entirely on this water shell for protection. Now that the daylight is just right and the warm sun is bright, if the Eye of Truth can remove the disguise of the water shell, the dead souls will naturally dissipate when shone upon by the sun.

Everyone had seen His methods, so at Bai Ziqi's command, the army rushed to the high ground before the enemy could close in.

There were only a thousand practitioners in the Illusion Realm, but here there were hundreds of thousands of dead souls; relying on their own thousand men alone, they couldn't kill them all, so it was best to use the daylight to destroy them. The lighthouse tactic had been quite successful in the Illusion Realm and was also suitable for a small force to destroy a large one, so they might as well copy it here, survive a few waves of impact, and then plan their next move.

Watching Bai Seventeen and the others digging holes to bury the red candles, the gray parrot didn't say a word.

Bai Ziqi noticed that Miaozhan Tian had become taciturn after crossing the lake.

As soon as everyone entered this world, they saw strange phenomena occurring frequently; just by the naked eye, one could discover endless strange things, but when tested with the Eye of Truth, everything was normal.

Even Miaozhan Tian's divine eyes were deceived, which was very terrifying.

Bai Ziqi also had many thoughts; if Miaozhan Tian's positioning of the entire world was wrong, it meant that his party had stepped into the enemy's trap, and the advantage established in the Illusion Realm had vanished.

The subsequent battle might be very passive.

Just then, Bai Seventeen stood up, his face full of panic: "Divine Venerable, My Lord, the lighthouse, the lighthouse cannot be built."

Previously in the Illusion Realm, as long as the red candles infused with divine power were planted in the soil, they could quickly grow into a tower. Otherwise, with the battle being so intense, how could the Illusion Sect have allowed it to grow slowly? But now, the red candles just lay quietly in the dirt pit, without any sign of growth.

Everyone's heart turned cold.

If the lighthouse couldn't be built, facing hundreds of thousands of ghost troops on their own...

Even with the Divine Venerable here, did they, did they really have a chance of winning?

A faint light flashed behind Bai Ziqi, and True Lord Cangxi appeared out of thin air, walked to the edge of the pit, and a flash of red light flickered in his eyes.

The structure beneath the soil was clearly seen through by Him.

Everyone immediately knelt down to salute, calling out "Divine Venerable," knowing that this was Miaozhan Tian manifesting in the skin of an ancient True Immortal.

This world was filled with secret illusions that were difficult for human power to break through, and Miaozhan Tian had no choice but to take the field in person.