Chapter 2309

However, the price for Elder Chu letting Qiong Long unleash its full power directly was that its true form had to be deployed, and its originally solid wind body was scattered to every corner of the city.

If facing an opponent like Qianhuan True Person, dispersing power would be unwise, but these few monsters were at most at the Immortal level, so Elder Chu thought there was no problem.

But he still underestimated the situation.

Qiong Long expanded its form, its volume increasing several times, and the buildings in this area were instantly blown into disarray.

Elder Chu's original intention was to blow away all these troublesome paper huts, leaving Zhu Xiuer and others with no place to hide. As soon as they emerged above ground, Qiong Long could immediately capture them.

But the problem was, these were not paper huts!

The violent tornado blew away their disguises, revealing their true form—

Spiderwebs.

Inside every building, countless spiderwebs were densely laid, connected horizontally and vertically in various ways, forming masses of spiderwebs.

Just the interior of an ordinary residential building could contain as many as several thousand spiderwebs, and with several thousand buildings in this area, that amounted to hundreds of thousands of webs. When the tornado blew, it gathered them all together.

These spiderwebs were intertwined and entangled, already mixed together—you in me, me in you—and when stirred by the tornado, even the spider queen herself could not be separated.

Moreover, the tornado's swirling motion was from inside to outside, from bottom to top, then from outside to inside. Elder Chu had no time to react, and these millions of spiderwebs were swept up from every corner of the ground, following the tornado's swirling direction and beginning to coil upon themselves!

Countless tiny spiders clung to them.

Saying they were small is relative to Zhu Xiuer's size; the smallest among them were about the size of a human male's fist, while the larger ones exceeded the size of a young calf.

The power of Qiong Long's wind blade could cut through even Zhu Xiuer's toughest spiderweb—one layer like this, two layers perhaps still like this, but if ten layers of spiderweb overlapped, it became difficult.

Now floating in the air were millions of spiderwebs!

Although only a small portion were produced by Zhu Xiuer, the rest were the work of the earth-spider clan, but with numbers reaching this scale, even Qiong Long's wind blade would have its power reduced by a fraction after passing through more than ten layers of web.

No matter how powerful it was, it could not tear through a hundred thousand webs.

Clearly an unstoppable wind blade, yet it could not tear through something as light as nothing—this is what is called inextricable, tangled in disorder, also known as qualitative change arising from quantitative change.

Do not forget, this giant web forming the Binding Silk Array contracts inward by borrowing wind power, meaning it was wrapped all around Qiong Long's entire body.

Elder Chu's earlier order, which let Qiong Long expand its form while also dispersing its power, prevented it from immediately contracting to break through.

Thus Elder Chu discovered that the wind power suddenly diminished.

Qiong Long did not actively contract; it was the Binding Silk Array that forcibly severed its outer wind power. The tiny spiders on the web were unusually diligent, immediately rushing to repair the damaged web surface.

Only then did Elder Chu recall a term: "impenetrable by wind."

By the time he ordered Qiong Long to concentrate its power and break through, it was already too late. No one could see the wind monster anymore—only a colossal spiderweb cocoon, shockingly large, crashing to the ground with a sound and fury no less than that of the Divine Giant once cleaving the earth.

One of the Xi霞 Sect's ultimate weapons, the formless and traceless Illusory Spirit Qiong Long, had actually been wrapped into a cocoon, unable to move.

Endless spiderwebs formed an impenetrable barrier, firmly imprisoning this monster that commanded wind and cloud.

The sect disciples were greatly alarmed, all directing their magical artifacts toward the giant cocoon, attempting to break it from the outside.

But it could not be cut, could not be untangled—thousands upon thousands of threads clung to Qiong Long's forehead; how could they possibly unravel it?

With Qiong Long trapped, the earth-spider queen's form once again surfaced from underground, and behind her appeared not only the Ren Shui True Person, but also seven or eight great demons.

The Xi霞 Sect members were shocked and terrified, not knowing where these monsters had been hiding beforehand.

The enemy's home-field advantage was truly overwhelming.

In fact, since the Heavenly Centipede was captured, Cang Yan had obtained vital information about the Xi霞 Sect from it—such as sect membership numbers, each person's signature techniques, hidden trump card traits of the Illusory Spirit, and even the temperaments of each elder and important disciple.

These several battle sub-venues in the Mirror World, the Nine Abysses Great Emperor had specifically tailored formations against the Divine Giant and Qiong Long's traits, pre-deploying troops to expect each to be destroyed individually.

Not to mention other things, just the fact that the Mirror World could simulate Weian City in such haste was already remarkable.

Battles between Xian Sects rarely involve such meticulous planning—relying on calculated strategy against unprepared opponents—and the Xi霞 Sect suffered a major loss right away.

What the immortals originally found most troublesome was not the Divine Giant, but Qiong Long, after all, this formless, traceless Illusory Spirit possessed immense power and served as an excellent restraining force on the battlefield.

But He Lingchuan clearly knew the weakness of the wind demon, and from this deduced that Zhu Xiuer's ultimate technique might be able to counter it.

At this moment, not far away came the sound of noisy footsteps. The Xi霞 Sect members turned their heads and saw a unit of soldiers in bright armor rapidly approaching. Each soldier emitted a hateful red glow.

Having been in seclusion for over a hundred years, Elder Chu was not well informed about the changes in military spiritual power, but he instinctively sensed danger.

"Where is your brother?" Zhu Xiuer asked the leading Weng Xing.

"He went to fight the Divine Giant." Weng Xing replied honestly, "Elder Liu said manpower was sufficient, so he sent me here to help."

Seeing Elder Chu's face grow increasingly grim, Zhu Xiuer rubbed her sturdy forepaws and smiled faintly:

"Without that hateful wind monster in the way, we can now have a fair duel!"

……

Yuan Xilin, using the Divine Giant's perspective, discovered that Cang Yan's army was pouring into the Mirror World, endless and continuous.

Before the Divine Giant, these humans' builds were like ants, but their attack power troubled the Xi霞 Sect greatly.

Several leaders gave a command, and a volley of ten thousand arrows was released.

The "Demon-Breaking Arrows" standard issue of the Cang Yan army are special weapons, repeatedly tested and improved over the years in battles against immortals and demons, with great effect in breaking divine abilities and spells. Combined with the army's own blazing red spiritual power, each arrow striking the Divine Giant felt like a fine needle pricking a person.

Although the Divine Giant feels no pain, the damage caused by the Demon-Breaking Arrows is real and substantial, and a single volley can involve thousands of arrows striking at once—such a large target that even the poorest archer could not possibly miss.

After the first volley ended, the second rank stepped forward to fill the gap, then another round of concentrated firing, orderly and neat.

This shooting tactic of the Cang Yan army, effective against immortals and demons before, now proved equally effective against the Divine Giant.

After three such rounds, total time elapsed was only seven or eight breaths, and the Divine Giant's form had been shot into a virtual state. The weakening of its power first manifested as its form becoming illusory. Additionally, Yuan Xilin also ordered them to actively shift from solid to virtual to avoid the army's damage.

The Cang Yan army paid no heed to this, and immediately launched another volley of rapid fire!

The arrows were not fired into the void, and instead pinned the Divine Giants into a hedgehog-like state.