Chapter 2500: All the Way Fleeing and Leaping

If this guy were to defect back to Guan Biao again, and add a treacherous demon to our side, where would our chance of victory be?

So it roared: "Tree hollow, he even dares to deceive the gods! If you help him, he'll enslave you later!"

The one-eyed giant king led his clansmen charging from high ground toward the battlefield, laughing: "You traitor still dare to speak confidently! Mother Sovereign, don't fear, I'm here to save you!"

Don't look at his bulky frame—his jumping power is excellent; he leapt straight from a boulder five zhang away to the center of the field in one bound, like a landing rubber ball, but he made a loud "Boom!" on impact, and the shockwave kicked up dust and sand that could push out a circle.

It was very brave, right from the start it blocked several monsters' attacks, greatly easing Guan Biao's pressure.

Guan Biao finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and stared at the green leopard demon: "Wait, it'll be your turn soon."

But he had just crushed a few monsters when he felt a gust of wind at the back of his head.

He lunged forward hastily, only to be bitten on the neck by a weasel-like monster lunging at him.

Guan Biao strained to turn his head and saw that the one swinging the great hammer at him was the one-eyed giant king.

"Oh, my hand slipped!" the one-eyed giant king grinned at him, showing a mouth full of fangs: "Mother Sovereign won't blame me, will she?"

Guan Biao's heart turned completely cold.

It's over.

This guy truly can't be relied on, even if tempted by profit.

Only then did the green leopard demon relax, jump down from two stones, and slowly walk over.

The monsters stared hungrily, and the encirclement shrank in unison.

If viewed from above, thousands of monsters here formed a huge encirclement, with only Guan Biao, a lonely red shadow, at the center.

Thousands versus one—this time there's no suspense.

In just half a moment, Guan Biao was tightly bound with ice chains and thrown at Wu Yao's feet.

From his angle, every monster looked down on him.

Wu Yao only asked him three words:

"Yangguan Pass?"

Bound by ice chains, Guan Biao couldn't revert to his shadow form; his left arm was torn off, his right leg gone, his body riddled with large holes, clinging to life.

"I buried the Yangguan Pass in Shaocheng."

Earlier, he had forced Shaocheng's people to mine xuan crystals for him, then drove the monsters to devour Shaocheng's people completely.

Wu Yao didn't understand: "Why?"

"Shaocheng is steeped in vengeful resentment—no one would go there again." Guan Biao hung his head, dejected: "I like burying my treasures in such places."

"Fine, you take us there."

Guan Biao shook his head: "I can't go."

"Why?" Wu Yao sneered coldly: "Do you think you still have the right to say 'no'?"

Guan Biao murmured faintly: "Before, Jingdu City was mine—I could go anywhere; now Jingdu City is no longer mine, but I……can't leave Jingdu City."

As he finished speaking, his figure suddenly became illusory, and his voice faded away softly.

"This?" Wu Yao startled, yanked hard on the ice chain, but one end was already empty.

"Did he self-destruct?" A several-thousand-year-old old ghost, capable of such ruthlessness toward himself?

The monsters were also stunned; the one-eyed giant king rubbed the back of his head, suddenly sensing something wrong: "He has a doppelgänger!"

He was Guan Biao's old subordinate; back when Guan Biao impersonated the Earth Mother, he often created various doppelgängers to boss them around. So——

"What we caught was just a doppelgänger?" Wu Yao frowned, suddenly asking the green leopard demon: "Before you lured him here, where else had he been?"

"He had the Bear King dig things from under the five-clawed locust tree, but wouldn't let us near, and we didn't see what it was."

"And the Bear King?" Wu Yao said, scanning the rubble pile.

Earlier, the falling boulder had smashed the Bear King down here.

"Dig it out!"

……

Just as Guan Biao faced off against the green leopard demon, not far away in the rubble pile, the Bear King's held Lingmu suddenly emitted a wisp of red smoke.

It specifically probed the Bear King's breath.

As the red smoke had predicted, this lazy bear was still alive, merely knocked unconscious by the impact.

This guy has thick skin and tough flesh—his entire cultivation lies in his tendons, bones, and outer hide; trying to crush him isn't that easy.

It circled twice under the Bear King's nose: "Wake up!"

Somehow, it did something—the Bear King sneezed and slowly woke up.

Upon seeing the red shadow right before his eyes, he jumped in fright, his speech stuttering:

"Ah, Mother, Mother Sovereign? What happened?"

"Your subordinate, the green leopard demon, rebelled and set a trap to crush you." Guan Biao added, not wanting to return for it if there was any chance: "Get up quickly, move lightly—this place isn't safe to linger, enemies are everywhere outside."

The Bear King also focused his hearing: "Who are they fighting against?"

"My doppelgänger is buying us time. Hurry!" Guan Biao urged again.

The Bear King moved slightly, crying out: "My right hind leg is broken."

He was lucky—the boulder hadn't fully pressed down on him, but was supported partly by a broken rock beside him.

"You can still walk—it's not a broken spine." Guan Biao grew impatient.

The Bear King struggled a few times, found he could still move, so he shrank his size and actually succeeded in wriggling out from under the boulder, scrambling away through the rubble.

At this moment, the monsters had already clashed with Guan Biao's doppelgänger here, making this spot surprisingly quiet.

As the Bear King walked out, he only then noticed his back severely wounded, his internal organs also gravely injured, walking as if about to fall apart.

Ah, what is this!

From ahead came chaotic footsteps; it hurriedly hid behind a large stone.

I saw the one-eyed giant king leading his men quickly passing by here, rushing to the cliff battlefield, and they didn't notice us hiding to the side.

The Violent Bear King said: "This guy isn't a good omen either; your avatar is going to suffer."

Shangguan Biao only said: "Leave quickly, get out of Jade Capital City as fast as you can!"

That is his strongest avatar; he allocated most of his power to it, so once it falls, his true self becomes weak instead.

The Violent Bear King endured the pain and walked outward.

Jade Capital City is now in complete chaos; it encountered several waves of rampaging monsters, some of whom actively came to submit, but under Shangguan Biao's orders, it ignored them all.

Now leaving the city is not an easy task; Jade Capital City's layout is in unprecedented disorder, and aside from the avian monsters circling high in the sky, few can clearly say where the city gates are located.

The Violent Bear King headed south all the way, only to walk into several dead ends, wasting considerable stamina.

Finally, it leaned against a broken wall to sit down, catching its breath for half a day: "We might as well ride that blood Qilin and fly straight out of the city."

Taking a bit of risk is better than wandering aimlessly on the ground.

It then asked Shangguan Biao: "My lord mother, why do you want me to leave the city with you?"

Shangguan Biao glanced at it: "What do you think?"

If he had any other way to escape the city on his own, he would have fled thousands of miles away by now—could he still be trapped in this predicament?

"Can't you leave on your own?"

His back itched slightly, and the Violent Bear King unconsciously rubbed against the wall.

A few clumps of bamboo were planted at the corner of the wall, and beside the bamboo stood a stone guardian, carved into the shape of a round egg, with somewhat rough craftsmanship and several cracks on its surface.