Chapter 2475: Struggle

He Lingchuan beat him harder, the more the Earth Mother was wounded, the deeper she would sink into dormancy, objectively helping Shangguan Biao regain control of Yujing City.

So his attitude was relaxed and cheerful.

Go ahead and hit me—I'm already in an invincible position!

He Lingchuan looked at his injured right hand, which he could not lift for the moment, so he switched the spear to his left hand and moved the shield to his right arm.

In just a few breaths, four or five more figures emerged from underground—all of them Shangguan Biao's doppelgängers, two of whom were still serving as guardian spirits in other Secret Realms.

In the Duzhi Mountain Secret Realm, Shangguan Biao was entirely constrained by the "past," bound hand and foot; but in this void-like place, he could strut about freely, lavishly expending the power of the Earth Mother's Stone Heart!

As He Lingchuan said, his own abilities combined with the Earth Mother's Stone Heart produced energy greater than the sum of its parts—one plus one greater than two.

He could even employ wheel tactics and human wave strategies to literally wear down this "reincarnated dragon god" to death!

Shangguan Biao stared at He Lingchuan, malice dripping from his words: "You'll be dead before you know it! I'll leave you one breath so you can watch me slowly devour your Secret Realm!"

He Lingchuan had just speared the whip-wielding doppelgänger to death, snatching the whip into his hand directly: "We'll see."

This whip—no matter how I look at it, it looks familiar, even the whip marks on the stone are double-stranded.

With a flick of the whip, lightning filled the sky, two sharp cracks—two stone giants five zhang away were instantly blasted apart!

Excellent!

If wielded well, this whip's effective attack range easily reaches fifteen zhang, making it a superb mid-to-long range weapon, and far less taxing than other magical artifacts.

He Lingchuan gripped the whip in one hand and the spear in the other; for a moment, none of the doppelgängers could approach.

But at that instant, the Earth Mother suddenly trembled twice, and several large chunks of stone broke off from her right arm.

"Look, those immortals outside are also desperately attacking you, weakening you!" Shangguan Biao lamented, "Only I truly wish for you to live. If you don't submit to me, they will only hack you to pieces!"

That said, those immortals' attacks are indeed formidable. The Earth Mother had no time to glance at her arm, instead pointing at the sand table and telling He Lingchuan:

"Oh no! He's moved all the powerful Secret Realms to the edge of the Panlong Ruins—your Secret Realm is in danger!"

Shangguan Biao had originally been contending with the Earth Mother, preventing her from placing ordinary relics beside the Panlong Ruins. But now he changed his approach, directly stuffing several powerful Secret Realms beside the Panlong Ancient City, forcing them into close combat.

Clearly, this is a gang-up.

Go ahead, eat! I let you eat!

……

Inside Yujing City, the immortals were pursuing a demon army.

The enemy had just crossed a small river when the ground beneath their feet suddenly softened, one side bubbling and gurgling, the other sinking in a spiral.

From below, countless muddy hands shot up, gripping the demons' legs tightly and dragging them downward.

Great opportunity! Chonghui True Person immediately flung out a small sword; once released, it multiplied into hundreds, winding through street corners to chase the demons—must pierce each one through and through!

Chonghui True Person's disciple had recently scouted Yujing City, only to be captured by demons and eaten alive, so this time he came not purely for official duty.

But suddenly, several stone giants erupted from the stone buildings nearby, their eyes glowing red, blocking the flying swords' path.

The flying swords whizzed a few times, blasting them apart, yet still failed to pursue the demon army.

Immediately afterward, a swarm of stone men and stone beasts leapt out, lunging straight at the immortals.

Chonghui True Person chopped off their heads one by one while complaining: "These things have heads harder than nonsense—my blades are about to chip!"

This is stone harder than refined gold! Put plainly, Yujing City is a colossal fortress of hard stone. The immortals have been hacking and slashing all the way to now, and their magical artifacts are beginning to falter.

Zhu Xiuer leapt onto a high point once more, gazing toward the South Gate of Panlong Ancient City.

Now Yujing City is a city of earthquakes—constantly shifting buildings and mountains, ordinary houses collapsing in batches everywhere, ruins strewn about with no one bothering to clear them.

In fact, the immortals had already entered Panlong Ancient City to exterminate the demon forces here, only for the city's architecture to once again deeply merge with Yujing City, as more and more relics appeared around the Panlong remains.

Zhu Xiuer watched helplessly as it swallowed one relic after another, but Panlong Ancient City itself was also encircled by several powerful Secret Realms. Subsequently, these realms were forcibly relocated one after another, over and over, resulting in the entire city perpetually trembling, collapsing everywhere.

It is evident that the Earth Mother and Shangguan Biao have been locked in a frenzied struggle.

Yet one or two Secret Realms have still taken root beside the Panlong remains.

"Not good—there's actually an evil palm growing on the South Gate Square!" Zhu Xiuer watched with growing anxiety.

The evil palm is a specialty of the Yin'ya Relics, a man-eating tree.

Its appearance differs little from an ordinary palm tree, but its fruit is larger than a papaya, not the oil-yielding kind of palm fruit; after falling, it can regrow for a period until its size and appearance resemble a black chimpanzee, when the evil palm spirit bursts from its husk, roaming to gather prey for the evil palm.

It craves blood and alcohol, thus also serving as an evil deity worshipped by many ancient tribes.

Not only did a towering evil palm sprout on the Panlong Ancient City South Gate Square, but evil palm spirits were also breaking through the soil beneath it, utterly incompatible with the city's basic nature.

Correspondingly, in the Yin'ya Relics, two possuo trees have grown, glowing with red light, their branches and leaves towering skyward, bearing abundant fruit.

Several evil palm spirits shrieked in rage, brandishing spears to stab the trees, but the possuo fruit fell, transforming into tiny treemen, who then engaged the evil palm spirits in mortal combat.

The surface chaos and absurdity signify that, behind the scenes, two Secret Realms are also locked in a life-or-death battle.

"Shangguan Biao's doing!" If it were only the Yin'ya Relics, Zhu Xiuer would not worry at all—this is merely sending vegetables to the new Secret Realm of Panlong.

But she watched helplessly as four or five large Secret Realms were moved to the edge of the Panlong Ruins, each guarded by a spirit!

Yujing City's rule is: the survivor reigns supreme; those who remain are the elite praised by Shangguan Biao.

The scene before us clearly shows Shangguan Biao deliberately relocating powerful Secret Realms to the edge of the Panlong Ruins, to outnumber and gang up on the few. Zhu Xiuer worries that He Lingchuan's Secret Realm, still immature and unstable, can it withstand the bullying of so many realms?

Just as she pondered, the slanted tower beside her suddenly sprouted several stone apes with red-glowing eyes, striking her in the back of the head.

Zhu Xiuer bristled with spines—ordinary demons dare not approach, but the stone apes cared nothing for them.

Just as the Spider Queen was about to leap away, Pinghai True Person shouted, and over a dozen divine powers surged upward together, greeting Shangguan Biao's stone ape doppelgänger.

Zhu Xiuer only managed to utter "Wait a moment" before the stone apes were struck.

With their combined attack, not even a single person, let alone the earlier sandstone giant python, would escape being blown to pieces.