Chapter 2450: So Easy to Deceive?

This is merely a surface phenomenon.

From the earth mother's perspective, this is actually a struggle and mutual consumption between two secret realms.

The new Panlong Secret Realm has already appeared, and it is coming with great force, first taking the shield-skin fish secret realm to sacrifice to its own five viscera temple. Meanwhile, the shield-skin fish fought desperately, but unfortunately its strength was insufficient.

When the earth mother ascended the city wall, she happened to see the shield-skin fish gathering all its strength for one final collision, and then it disappeared beneath the salt lake, never to appear again.

It and its secret realm were both swallowed by the opposing side.

Seeing this, the earth mother felt a dark anger, having arrived a step too late.

The disappearance of the shield-skin fish secret realm does not seem regrettable to her. Throughout history, many secret realms have existed and then vanished within Yujing City, like passing clouds. In this city where the strong are revered, only powerful secret realms deserve to remain.

What secretly startled the earth mother was the aggressiveness displayed by the new secret realm.

As soon as it emerged, it eagerly devoured the shield-skin fish secret realm. This not only shows it does not regard the earth mother, the local hegemon, with any respect, but also indicates it is extremely hungry and needs to immediately replenish energy. After all, the generation and stability of each secret realm consume vast amounts of energy.

Hungry, huh...

The Bear King stood upright, gazed eastward, and then pointed, saying: "The underground secret realm and its surroundings are also flashing! Does that mean, uh..."

Around the underground secret realm, there happen to be four or five buildings that are ruins of the Panlong.

Now, they are all glowing together.

Within Yujing City there are dozens of ruins, worthy of being called a museum of relics, but only a few possess guardian spirits; the rest are the earth mother's collection.

Dealing with these secret realms lacking guardian spirits, the actions of the new Panlong secret realm can be much faster.

In just a little over a moment, the new Panlong secret realm had devoured three secret realms within Yujing City!

The earth mother had never seen such an impudent prisoner—captured and brought into Yujing City, yet still daring to devour fellow companions.

It snapped its fingers twice, and the relics around the Panlong ruins that had not yet been devoured were moved away amidst the rumbling of earthquakes.

We cannot let the new Panlong secret realm feast without restraint; if it becomes too strong, the earth mother's difficulty in dealing with it will increase.

Why has the Panlong new secret realm only just emerged now? The earth mother infers this is likely because its reconstruction has entered the later stage, and only then did it connect to reality.

From this point on, it no longer needs to, nor can it, conceal itself.

The earth mother murmured: "So, those people's blinding technique was used to cover up the previous period."

The opposing side did not want to reveal too early the fact that the old Panlong secret realm had already perished, so they delayed as much as possible. But now, it no longer matters.

The Bear King, meanwhile, looked left and right, gazing at the various glowing points and swallowing his saliva: "Could these, could these all be entrances to the Panlong secret realm?"

"Nonsense." The earth mother said coldly, "I have not yet divided the Panlong ruins; Yujing City and the Panlong ruins are now interlocked."

It extended a hand and pointed downward at the great city:

"Now, this is both the secret realm of Yujing City and the secret realm of the Panlong ruins!"

During the process of Yujing City and the Panlong ruins merging, their secret realms naturally collide as well!

This scene has occurred countless times when Yujing City devoured other secret realms. Only, Yujing City's former opponents were far inferior to it, lacking much resistance, and thus were naturally devoured by it in the end.

But this time's opponent is the Panlong ruins. From the ruins to the behind-the-scenes figures, none are easy to deal with.

Clearly having no secret realm, yet in the end suddenly producing one.

It is hard to say this is not something the opponent designed in advance.

"But it has only just emerged; the secret realm must still be very unstable." This moment is precisely the golden opportunity for it to seize the new secret realm.

The Bear King roused his spirit: "Since the entrance to the new secret realm has opened, shall we charge in and attack?"

"Fool, the same trap—do you want to fall into it twice?" The earth mother exclaimed in frustration, "The new secret realm of Panlong City will certainly have a guardian spirit. If you do not kill or subdue it, even if you circle a hundred times within that new secret realm, it will be of no use!"

It has devoured too many relics and secret realms. For those secret realms without guardian spirits, as long as it occupies the relics in reality, it can mostly seize the secret realm as well; but if a secret realm has a guardian spirit, it becomes troublesome, with nine-tenths of the key to controlling the secret realm held by the guardian spirit.

For example, the Ghost Gate of Yujing City—the earth mother only secured this ancient great gate as her city's facade after defeating the Qingtu Great Ghost. Without this procedure, subduing the Ghost Gate secret realm would take several times longer.

The Bear King scratched his head: "Then we shall just kill the guardian spirit!"

The earth mother looked toward Yujing City and said coldly: "It may not necessarily be within the new secret realm."

"Ah?"

"Do you know what it looks like, what abilities it has?"

"Uh, I don't know."

As the earth mother was about to speak again, the one-eyed giant king suddenly strode forward, with two subordinates behind him dragging a cage.

In the hands of the tall one-eyed giant, this resembled a cricket cage, but inside was a person.

A cultivator, with a bruised and swollen face, bloodstained collar, scorch marks all over his body, and his hair still reeking of burnt odor—clearly he had suffered greatly.

The one-eyed giant king rumbled: "Mother Sovereign, this youth is a follower of the immortals who previously sneaked into the white house, unable to withstand torture and confessed—let you hear him."

Timely indeed, the earth mother impatiently said: "Hurry up."

The one-eyed giant king struck the cage with his long staff, and instantly a current crackled with sparks, stabbing the prisoner to jump up, letting out a miserable cry of "Ah."

Just from this, his skin split and flesh tore. The two one-eyed giants behind, smelling the aroma of roasted flesh, could not help but swallow their saliva.

The one-eyed giant king then said to the prisoner: "What you said earlier, now say it again to Mother Sovereign, word for word!"

This prisoner had nearly been driven mad by their torture, and could only repeat everything in detail.

It turned out he was an elder of the Tong Sect, most skilled in healing arts, and this time infiltrating, he was assigned to the group of Mingyao the Revered. As a result, the white house was a trap; Mingyao the Revered led the people in breaking out, while this Tong Sect elder gained nothing, was beaten down.

For Lingshan, this is normal loss; for the Tong Sect elder, this is a calamity of losing one's head.

What about the other group?

"The other group was led by the immortal Mingke, infiltrating Duzhi Mountain to seek the golden dew lotus. Mingke the immortal and the Cangyan people believe that this golden lotus is related to the earth mother's stone heart..."

"Cangyan people?" The earth mother interrupted the prisoner's words, "How did you end up entangled with the Cangyan people?"

It turns out the invaders of the Duzhi Mountain secret realm were not only people from Lingshan?

"We were discussing plans at the Bai Yuan relay station when the Cangyan people suddenly arrived. Mingyao the Revered had once used secret arts to observe that they had entered the Panlong secret realm..."

Under the earth mother's questioning, the prisoner explained the full context.

"A Cangyan general, and the earth-hole spider queen?" The earth mother's eyes flared with red light, "You fools! He claims to be the Tiger Wing General, and you believe him? Lingshan is this easy to deceive now?"