Chapter 2490: A Critical Moment / Thousand Catties Hanging by a Thread

In the great battle, the Heavenly Demons including Wu Yao were all injured; why didn't that gray-white Qiong beast go heal them? Was it because the physical vessels of humans and beasts differ, or because Jialou Tian wanted to concentrate his power to deal with Jiuyou, unwilling to waste effort healing his subordinates' wounds?

Also, why did Jialou Tian's offensive intensity increase as the battle progressed? He is a veteran of the battlefield; he wouldn't not know the necessity of seizing the initiative. When He Lingchuan first engaged him, why didn't he strike with thunderous force at the very first clash, catching He Lingchuan off guard?

Many immortal powerhouses go all out from the very first move, resolving the opponent at the fastest speed.

Does Jialou Tian not want to do this, or is he unable to do this?

He Lingchuan's gaze fell once more on that glowing divine spark, discovering that the outermost large triangle had almost stopped turning.

The inner circle's triangle was still turning clockwise, but could no longer drive the outer triangle. The gap in rotational speed between the two was growing ever larger.

What He Lingchuan most wanted to figure out was the significance represented by these triangles.

The external composition of every divine spark holds profound meaning; each manifests the true body's deepest understanding of the world and its laws. If the divine spark is Jialou Tian's ultimate move, then for He Lingchuan to respond with composure, he must dissect it beforehand.

"Heaven's movement has constancy; the seasons proceed in order." He Lingchuan silently recited in his heart, "All things, because of constancy, have order!"

Jialou Tian came prepared; he would certainly bring out his killer trump card.

The Xuling Divine Spark turned slower and slower, yet Jialou Tian fought faster and faster in battle!

It was just like... a mainspring being wound tighter and tighter?

Right under his watch, the outer triangle finally came to a complete stop.

It not only stubbornly braced against the inner triangle, but even seemed about to start rotating counter-clockwise.

The inner and outer triangles contending with each other directly caused the entire Xuling Divine Spark to begin trembling, its radiance oscillating and flickering!

Great ill omen!

Shangguan Biao also spotted the signs, and shouted loudly:

"Wait a moment!"

Intuition told him this was bound to be extremely dangerous, as if some terrifying event had hit a countdown and was about to erupt!

Jialou Tian could completely wait for it to drag away the Earth Mother before acting; those ten breaths wouldn't make a difference.

But he just wouldn't!

This crafty old Heavenly Demon most likely saw the Earth Mother's decisive role regarding Jade Capital City, and thus wanted to smash it to pieces along with everything else!

Moreover, Shangguan Biao had said before that he needed to borrow the Heavenly Demon's power to separate Jiuyou from the Earth Mother.

Shangguan Biao is the fake Earth Mother, yet he imprisons the real Earth Mother here without daring to kill it, showing that the real Earth Mother is most likely the source of Jade Capital City's power.

As a famous Great Heavenly God of the Lingxu Multitude, Jialou Tian's insight into laws and power is thorough; from the first moment he laid eyes on the Earth Mother upon entering the Void Land, he could deduce eight-tenths of its relationship with Shangguan Biao.

Once the Earth Mother's essence and soul perish here, Shangguan Biao might no longer control Jade Capital City.

For the Heavenly Demons, isn't that killing two birds with one stone?

Both killing Jiuyou and seizing Jade Capital City, thereby seizing the Great Fanghu!

Didn't Jiuyou just say that Jade Capital City and the Great Fanghu are inseparable? The Heavenly Demons have absolutely no reason to let the Great Fanghu go, so they are determined to obtain Jade Capital City as well.

So no matter how Shangguan Biao roared in fury, Jialou Tian merely acted as if he hadn't heard.

Shangguan Biao subconsciously wanted to activate the stones on the Heavenly Demons' bodies, to drive them out of the Void Land. This was a backup move he had prepared in advance; the things given to the Heavenly Demons could not only immunize them against Lei Ting attacks, but also drive them out of the Void Land if the Heavenly Demons suddenly turned hostile.

But he immediately remembered that Jialou Tian hadn't reached out to accept it at the time!

Even if Shangguan Biao drove away the other Heavenly Demons, he couldn't drive away Jialou Tian.

All he could do now was exert every ounce of strength to drag the Earth Mother downward, hoping to get it away before the major event occurred!

These damn Heavenly Demons!

He just knew, these damn Heavenly Demons are fundamentally unreliable!

And at this moment, the distance between He Lingchuan and the Earth Mother was also over a hundred zhang, with a massive Lei Chi wall in between.

Even with wings he couldn't fly across.

The Lei Chi water had already submerged past the Earth Mother's chin; the ghastly white electric light reflected off its face, making it look iron-green.

By its ears echoed the Blood Demon's anxious roar: "Quickly!"

Dragged to the pool bottom, it would certainly live;

If it trusted Jiuyou, it would most likely die.

Choose, make the choice of fate.

Before the Earth Mother there was no one, only a pool full of lightning. The stone chains desperately dragged it down, but it still strained to stretch its neck, letting out a final shout toward the sky:

"I am willing to pay any price, only asking to defeat Shangguan Biao!"

The moment those words fell, the Lei Chi water submerged its nose.

The next instant, He Lingchuan's voice rang out right by its ear, only a single word, calm and steady:

"Good."

Lightning flashed everywhere, audio-visual effects maxed out; no one would notice that a speck of red light flashed in response within the Earth Mother's ear canal.

At the same time, the pendant on the Longjiang Giant Beast's chest, its outermost triangle, finally couldn't withstand the pressure of the inner rotation, and with a "ding" sound, shattered.

This sound was extremely crisp, like a glazed cup being smashed, but with the volume amplified a thousand times.

The Longjiang Qiong beast slapped this shattered triangle onto its own chest with one palm.

In an instant, its body size exploded.

After entering the Void Land, the Longjiang Qiong beast had compressed its hill-like body down to one zhang tall to ensure lightness and agility in combat. But now it not only instantly recovered its original size, its body even continued to swell!

Its torso, skin, blood vessels, and bones all emitted terrible strange noises.

From He Lingchuan's perspective, its whole body was glowing, muscles fully swollen, like a water balloon filled to bursting, about to explode the next second.

Even the Longjiang Qiong beast's seven orifices emitted piercing Jin Guang.

He Lingchuan's back hairs stood on end; he sensed danger descending.

The cyan gem on his left arm guard suddenly lit up, then transformed into a large shield four chi in diameter. The shield face bore no traces of polishing, but was covered in small holes like a honeycomb; any enemy striking down with force would eat the full rebound force.

This wasn't some defensive artifact the Earth Mother casually made from any random stone on its body, but the manifestation of a stone tendon. Within the Earth Mother's massive body, it originally lay right next to the core, bearing the compression of hundreds of thousands of tons of force; its toughness far exceeds mortal imagination.

The Dragon River Beast, standing ten zhang tall, didn't even need to leap—it let out a long roar, grabbed a massive hammer, and with a single stomp, brought it crashing down toward He Lingchuan's head.

"Break!"

This strike was unlike any before: the hammerhead was four zhang in diameter, blazing with the same golden light, hurtling toward He Lingchuan like a meteor, trailing a long golden flame behind it.

Even the heavenly thunderlight was drawn in by the hammer, converging in unison upon its target.

In the entire void, nothing shone brighter than this— the golden radiance of sunrise paled to less than one percent of its splendor.

He Lingchuan's vision was utterly consumed by the violent golden light and lightning.

Worse still, no matter where he dodged, he could not escape the hammer's golden radiance.

No matter how he twisted and turned, the hammer always struck squarely at his crown.

Unavoidable, unstoppable.

This was the true power of the Heavenly God's strike!