Chapter 2306

In a contest of consumption, who fears whom? It wields the primordial force of the Azure Yan Nation!

"These few colossal spirit deities are indeed strong, but can they surpass the collective might of the vast Azure Yan?" The mirror chuckled triumphantly, "Obediently kneel, Grandfather will teach them how to be gods!"

Liu Qingdao: "..."

He was also cooperating with the Emperor's Heart-Protecting Mirror for the first time; turns out it's this lively?

The Emperor truly suffers in ordinary times.

As if hearing the mirror's words, the burliest colossal spirit deity suddenly let out a long roar and knelt down simultaneously with its companions.

"... They actually knelt?" The Soul-Capturing Mirror blinked in surprise.

However, the seven colossal spirit deities alternated their hands, striking the ground with heavy punches one after another, their speed producing afterimages.

Punch after punch, punch after punch—this is seven humanoid pile drivers, relentless and unceasing.

Most terrifyingly, their attacks remained perfectly synchronized, uniform, and efficient.

They struck together, lifted together, gathered strength together, and launched a new wave of assault together.

Such an attack rhythm—how much faster than before? More than tenfold!

These seven hulks were originally a single entity, united in mind and will, their punching speed differing by not a hair's breadth.

The cracks in the ground expanded ever wider; even as the subterranean red light struggled to compensate, the rate of crack expansion for the first time surpassed the rate of healing.

Yuan Xilin also gritted his teeth: "Faster, even faster!"

What could sustain the colossal spirit deities' such violent assault was a massive consumption.

Yet the Qixia Sect's mystic crystals are ultimately limited; if they fail to break through within thirty breaths, their reserves will run dry!

If placed in ancient times, with abundant spiritual energy and mystic crystal supply, the colossal spirit deities' power could be further amplified.

Damn it, if the Qixia Sect could grasp one or two mystic crystal veins in their hands, what Wei'an City, what Bingyuan Office—they wouldn't even blink!

In the mirror's Chengnan, Elder Chu also realized he had been deceived.

The dozen or so fire apes he released rampaged through the market and residential districts, causing explosions everywhere and flames shooting into the sky; civilians not blown to death fled their buildings, men, women, old and young wailing as they scattered in panic.

Elder Chu saw nearby several fire apes suddenly burst through a wall, trampling over a family of seven or eight people, as if crushing a few ants.

Building after building burned to ashes, lives harvested in clusters; within a few dozen breaths, Chengnan was in utter chaos, resembling a human purgatory.

Fear, helplessness, confusion. Elder Chu snorted—this was exactly the grand scene he wanted!

He must let Wei'an City and Azure Yan know the consequences of offending the Qixia Sect.

But his disciple soon pointed ahead at the ground and said: "Patriarch, those dead people aren't right!"

Not right? Elder Chu focused his gaze—those civilians previously trampled by the fire apes had turned into patches on the ground, becoming clumps of charcoal black. Unluckily, a gust of wind blew at that moment, lifting them up.

Indeed not right.

Given the fire apes' high temperature, ordinary people colliding with them would turn into charcoal clumps within a few breaths; Elder Chu had previously paid it no mind. But such charcoal black usually merges with the ground—how could it float so freely in the wind?

A clump of black ash flew over; Elder Chu snatched it and rubbed it in his hand—it crumbled apart.

"Paper?"

He sensed something amiss; just then, two people ran out of a burning house not far away. Elder Chu gestured, and the two were seized and pulled over through the air.

The two cried out: "Ah, what do you want to do!"

Elder Chu paid no heed, treating them like dolls as he jerked them up and down repeatedly for inspection.

Upon closer look, everyone saw the problem. These two Wei'an City civilians appeared normal from afar, but up close, their skin was pallid, their gaze and complexion dazed, and their clothing felt strangely textured—not like cloth, but rather like...

"Paper?"

Elder Chu's disciple noticed a talisman slip protruding from the back of each person's head and yanked it hard.

The talisman was pulled out.

"Patriarch, it's a talisman!" Yellow paper with vermilion incantations, red as blood.

Who would stick a talisman on a living person's head?

Once the talisman was removed, the two civilians instantly turned into two paper people, their bodies rapidly flattening.

Elder Chu gave them a hard flick, and they fluttered away lightly.

"What a bunch, this Chengnan is full of paper people!" He squeezed the words out between his teeth, then hastily sent a secret transmission to Yuan Xilin.

We've been tricked—what kind of ghost place is this?

"Go to the Red Tower to regroup!" He ordered his disciples, "Sect Master Yuan is under attack—we'll go help him."

He now understood—the enemy wanted to divide and conquer them. On Azure Yan's turf, the opposing side certainly outnumbered them.

At this moment, several streaks of golden light sliced across the sky, and all the disciples couldn't help but cheer:

"The colossal spirit deities have manifested!"

"Shut up with your shouting!" Elder Chu's face sank like water, "Releasing the colossal spirit deities this early—what good could come of it?"

The colossal spirit deity is the Qixia Sect's trump card; Sect Master Yuan had just clashed with the Bingyuan Office when he unleashed it, indicating the battle turned unfavorable for us from the very start.

He also heard Yuan Xilin's secret mental transmission:

"This entire Wei'an City is fake—hurry and regroup with me; we'll break out!"

The whole city is... fake? Elder Chu frowned, feeling the violent tremors of the ground—this was the colossal spirit deities beginning to exert force. Familiar with sect tactics, he instantly guessed the sect master intended to shatter this world directly.

Quite right—they had fallen into the enemy's trap, already losing the initiative. Azure Yan held the advantage of home turf here; the Qixia Sect would do best not to clash here, but to break out first and talk later!

Just then, a half-cry of alarm came from behind; Elder Chu recognized the voice as belonging to Elder Xu's grand-disciple.

He turned around and saw a disciple lying on the ground, blood pouring out, while another was bitten in the lower back by a monster that had leapt out of a house, being dragged backward violently.

This monster stood over a zhang tall, resembling both a crocodile and a lizard, with a slender build and dark red scales.

Here, the buildings and people were made of paper, but the monster was real—absurd.

"Wretched beast, dare you!" Elder Chu roared in anger, his vajra pestle flying from his hand and automatically striking toward its nose.

This monster also knew what was good for it, and let go in a second.

The Jin Gang Pestle spun around and flew back to chase it, but it still picked up the Qixia Sect disciple from the ground, rolled him around in its mouth twice, and swallowed him straight down, only then diving into the earth with a powerful plunge, smooth as a fish entering water.

The precious pestle struck empty air and flew back; Elder Chu grabbed it in one hand: "Go!"

The injured were supported by fellow disciples; they had only fled a few zhang when one urgently said: "Martial Ancestor, Junior Brother Lu has been poisoned."

Elder Chu looked back; the injured disciple's face was covered in a layer of black qi, yet his lips were blood-red, and the foam he spat was pale yellow. He panted heavily, and everyone could see the blood vessels on his neck bulging, bright red all over.

"That lizard's teeth carry fire poison!" Elder Chu was rich in experience; one look and he knew what was going on. "Take three Ice Green Pills, apply externally and take internally for him!"

"Ice Green..." The disciple froze for a moment, but immediately did as told.

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