Chapter 1819

The entire secret palace could not withstand this impact and collapsed instantly.

The moment the Red Flame Horned Viper was unearthed, He Lingchuan felt the ferociously incomparable flame power and jumped into the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror without a word.

Stay behind to help Xiao Wencheng fight the enemy? He didn't have such thoughts of sharing weal and woe at all.

If Xiao Wencheng couldn't beat him, Qian Huan would act.

If He Lingchuan couldn't beat him, he would end up the same as the acolyte in front of the secret palace's offering table.

He and his companions stepped across the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror and immediately turned back to look.

It was pitch black all around; they were deep underground, and Wan Qi Feng could still feel cold water droplets falling on the tip of his nose, carrying the rust smell unique to the depths of ground fissures.

"Where is this?" He Lingchuan took out a fluorescent spore for illumination, and everyone looked around.

They were in a rock cave again, but it was far less spacious than Qian Huan's secret room.

The ground was full of rubble, probably due to the tremors from the seventeen Divine Fire Heavenly Meteorites.

Dong Rui looked at the white stone wall in front, finding it familiar no matter how he looked at it:

"Profound Crystal Mine Cave?"

This seemed to be the place where they had dealt with True Person Jie Shui! He looked left and right again: "It seems this place hasn't been mined."

"This world may not have Profound Crystal mines." He Lingchuan patted the stone wall, "But Luo Xie told me that the Profound Crystal Mine Cave was originally a natural rock cave and was later dug and deepened by generation after generation of Silver Pearl Island people. So this rock cave also exists in this realm, and I let the mirror send us here."

Why did he set this rock cave as the destination without hesitation?

The surface world had just experienced the baptism of seventeen Divine Fire Heavenly Meteorites, and the dust had not yet settled.

At such a time, the depths of the underground were the safest. There was even natural wind here.

The image of the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror was still Qian Huan's secret palace; the crowd hadn't said two sentences before they saw a sudden change in the secret palace.

The Red Flame Horned Viper and the wind god fighting made everyone's teeth ache.

These two fighting was truly somewhat fierce.

Zhu Xiuer even said: "These are just Dharma forms and clones, not their true selves beating each other up."

Anyway, the bottom of the mine cave was relatively safe, and the battle in the secret room couldn't affect this place, so everyone could still hold the mentality of watching a show and pointing fingers.

"It seems that the Brain-Eating Insect Demon secretly dispatched by Bai Ziqi followed us all the way, from crossing the lake until entering this secret room!" He Lingchuan rubbed his chin. *Heh*, this was the Bai Ziqi he knew; his ability to cause trouble in secret hadn't declined, "Which means, Bai Ziqi very likely has been tracking our whereabouts all along!"

Elder Liu led the Illusion Sect team from the lakeside to here, disguising as ghost people and dodging the search of ball bees all the way; it turned out to be a joke in the eyes of the Heavenly Palace.

Dong Rui also nodded: "No wonder. Miao Zhantian had been at a disadvantage in the struggle before, but Bai Ziqi hadn't made a move. It turns out they wanted to track the nest where Qian Huan was hiding through the Illusion Sect team!"

Just as He Lingchuan pointed out earlier, for the two great powers, the fastest way to end this great battle was to destroy the opponent's true body in one fell swoop!

True Lord Cang Xi, attached to by Miao Zhantian, had always been under Qian Huan's nose. This was where he suffered the most, because Qian Huan himself was hidden well and hadn't revealed a single flaw.

And Miao Zhantian and Bai Ziqi were both certain that the Illusion Sect would definitely find True Person Qian Huan to rendezvous after crossing the lake; as long as they mixed the Brain-Eating Insect Demon into this team, they might find Qian Huan's hiding place!

Dong Rui thought more and more clearly: "During the team's march, they encountered the Divine Fire Heavenly Meteorites released by Miao Zhantian, and True Person Qian Huan had to act to save them."

Otherwise, ninety-nine out of a hundred Illusion Sect disciples would be gone, and the survivors would be dead or seriously injured.

The Brain-Eating Insect Demon mixed into the team, so it naturally entered Qian Huan's base camp in this world! Using it as a coordinate, Miao Zhantian could launch a sneak attack at the appropriate time.

Of course, the timing didn't seem very appropriate right now, but Miao Zhantian must have known when the Brain-Eating Insect Demon was singled out and caught by Xiao Wencheng.

At this time, he had to launch; once the Brain-Eating Insect Demon died, the coordinate would be gone.

He Lingchuan had figured out this layer, which was why he hurriedly summoned the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror to send everyone straight to the depths of the mine cave.

When immortals and demons fight, it was best they not be affected head-on, otherwise they might follow in the footsteps of the acolyte in front of the secret palace's offering table, overflowing with charred fragrance.

Looking at the battle formation in the secret palace now, He Lingchuan felt lingering fear.

The act of bringing out the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror and connecting to the laws of the Inverted Sea was truly a stroke of genius! Otherwise, if Miao Zhantian came knocking, his dozen or so people would have nowhere to escape.

The image of the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror switched to a high-altitude perspective, because the secret room had already collapsed under the power of the two pythons' internal explosion.

So everyone saw a small island three *li* east of Silver Pearl Island suddenly sink.

Seawater backflowed, waves splashed, and in a short while, the hole was smoothed over.

Dong Rui muttered: "So Qian Huan put the secret palace there."

Not on the main island of Silver Pearl Island at all, this cunning old thief.

The Red Flame Horned Viper and the wind god also leaped out of the sea, continuing to fight.

Miao Zhantian had finally caught one of Qian Huan's Dharma forms and absolutely could not let it escape again.

Zhu Xiuer said as soon as she saw the image: "Miao Zhantian's ambush this time was good, but it's a pity the harvest was too small."

Wan Qi Liang didn't understand: "Ah?"

"Miao Zhantian should also be very clear that opportunities like this to ambush Qian Huan on his own turf only happen once at most, and are worth cherishing." Zhu Xiuer provided live battle commentary, "The ideal result is to find Qian Huan's lair and then catch him and beat him to death."

He Lingchuan raised his eyebrows: "Can he win? Doesn't look like it."

"Miao Zhantian didn't win in his last duel with Qian Huan." Zhu Xiuer pondered, "If there were no trump cards, I couldn't imagine why he would spend so much effort. What I can think of, Qian Huan naturally has a better idea of, so he only put one Dharma form in this secret palace, not his true self at all! Miao Zhantian used such a precious opportunity only to salvage one of his opponent's Dharma forms; he must be feeling very frustrated."

In the current situation, should Miao Zhantian use his trump card or not?

If he doesn't use it, this is Qian Huan's turf; can he be sure of winning? If he uses it, it's too wasteful to use it on just one Dharma form. What will he do when the other party's true self comes out? Dong Rui calculated with his fingers: "The battle between Qian Huan and Miao Zhantian, the battle of laws is one battlefield, the battle of immortals and demons under them is the second battlefield, the army battle at Unbeaten Ridge is the third battlefield; now, a fourth battlefield has been opened, the battle of Dharma forms and clones. Good heavens!"

"This is called sinking deeper and deeper." As the war entered this stage, neither side had autonomy anymore.

Dong Rui asked him: "Looking at this struggle between two powers, who will win?"

He Lingchuan said honestly: "Can't tell."

"..."

He Lingchuan rarely gave this kind of answer: "Miao Zhantian has been showing strength since entering the Inverted Sea. This 'strength' is supported by high-energy-consuming great divine arts."

As everyone knows, intensity is not easy to sustain.

"On the other hand, True Person Qian Huan has been using the least cost to meet the enemy. The Yakshas by the Inverted Lake, the ghost people of this world, and even the thousand-plus people of the Illusion Sect are all his pawns." He Lingchuan looked at the mirror surface, "Only using pawns can achieve this effect; Qian Huan has preserved his strength to the greatest extent. Someone once told me that if a war of this magnitude doesn't have a winner at the beginning, it will have to be a war of attrition in the later stages."

He had heard this sentence from Mitian in Panlong City a long time ago.

"So I am really curious, what is Miao Zhantian's trump card, and how is he sure he can defeat Qian Huan, who has preserved his strength better than him?"

And if he wanted to see both sides' trump cards, he had to live to the end.

The image in the lower right corner of the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror suddenly switched to darkness.

This was not He Lingchuan's instruction, so he noticed it immediately.

"Light it up!" He snapped his fingers.

The image of this area changed to a dark gray dim environment. This was not because that space suddenly lit up, but the result of the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror's self-adjustment, similar to night vision goggles.

"Qian Huan's secret palace?"

The black hole formed by the two gray pythons exploding inside the Red Flame Horned Viper's belly only existed for a short moment; many things here hadn't had time to be sucked in before the black hole closed.

But the entire space had collapsed and was basically filled with falling rocks; He Lingchuan saw the half-melted offering table in the back and recognized where this was.

However, there was a huge rock tilted here, just enough to open up a space underneath.

The image of the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror was aimed at this area.

Miao Zhantian's clone, Qian Huan's Dharma form, and Xiao Wencheng had all left; what was left inside? He Lingchuan pondered for two breaths and said to the crowd: "I'll be right back."

Zhu Xiuer reminded him in time: "The Red Flame Horned Viper just left; the temperature there is very high."

He Lingchuan nodded: "Got it."

With that, he stepped into the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror.

The mirror surface flashed, transmitting him back to the secret palace.

The short-term temperature here had been astonishing; the rock walls brushed by the Red Flame Horned Viper were burned and melted, and the collapsed rocks resealed this place as a secret room, so the temperature was still very high.

As soon as He Lingchuan landed, he felt heat waves rushing at him, as if he were standing in a pancake-baking barrel. If an ordinary person came in, they would be fully cooked in less than two minutes.

But he had expanded his protective *gang* energy before crossing the mirror, and the *Keng Long* Battle Armor also automatically emerged, basically isolating harmful heat and toxic smoke three *chi* away.

He Lingchuan only felt warm.

But one thing was indeed heating up:

The divine bone necklace on his chest.

Sure enough, the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror automatically switching the image to the secret room was another trick by the Great Fang Hu, the mastermind behind the scenes.

What good food had it taken a fancy to again? The space here was not large, and the divine bone necklace's reaction became increasingly sensitive; He Lingchuan only walked a few steps away, and the necklace had no movement.

Oh, the food it wanted was near where he was originally standing? He Lingchuan paced back and forth a few times and finally discovered that what the divine bone necklace had taken a fancy to was actually—

Those charred, broken fragments on the ground.

They were different in color from the stone walls, but they had already melted together.

He Lingchuan immediately remembered what this was—the obsidian on the Red Flame Horned Viper's body.