Chapter 2749

Dozens of heavenly eyes turned into illusions, hidden above the Trapped Dragon Pit, closely monitoring everything happening on the Earth Mother Plain.

"Look there!" His confidant Mo Xu Bai pointed at the screen, "That open space—are troops gathering there?"

"It seems the Cangyan people intend to go support He Yue." Duanmu Heng rested his chin on his hands, his heartbeat quickening, "Hurry, go quickly!"

What he feared most was that the Earth Mother would avoid this conflict and burrow underground. Then his three-year plan would collapse on the spot, and all the gods' preparations would come to nothing.

But as long as Cangyan decided to support He Yue, his preliminary plan would already be half successful!

After that, these nearly a thousand people vanished from the plain.

"Earth escape, and long-distance earth escape at that." Mo Xu Bai was somewhat surprised, "The Earth Mother just arrived at the Trapped Dragon Pit, and can already use such a powerful divine ability?"

"This is its birthplace, with a natural connection to it." Duanmu Heng's eyes flickered, "Perhaps the Earth Mother has some innate abilities that can also be used within the Trapped Dragon Pit—take note of this!"

"Yes!"

"Besides, the Cangyan army setting out early to intercept is also good—our plan can begin sooner."

The heavenly eyes turned, aiming their gaze at the forest's edge.

After just a few dozen breaths, a cavalry unit suddenly charged out from the edge of the Trapped Dragon Pit, heading toward the Balian army.

"So fast, they've launched. Quickly inform Zhao Shuo—Cangyan's army is about a thousand strong, only three li away from them!"

"Yes!" Mo Xu Bai had his own way to contact Zhao Shuo.

Since the fish were about to bite the hook, the bait also needed some preparation—don't let it truly choke on a single gulp.

Another confidant watching nearby also grew tense, his back slightly damp: "My lord, should we begin now?"

Duanmu Heng stared intently at the screen, silently calculating something, and only after a long while did a faint smile appear:

"Begin!"

……

The three armies fought fiercely on the battlefield, while inside the Trapped Dragon Pit it remained peaceful and quiet, as always.

A forest guardian was working in the field, weeding the dragon's blood grass. The crops were growing well, and could be harvested in about half a month.

He worked very seriously, and birds chirped in the treetops beside him.

As he was about to strike the next hoe, the forest guardian suddenly stopped, pulling a grass knot from his pocket.

When he left home, this grass knot was intact, but now it had split into two.

Most importantly, over the past three years, this grass knot had always been intact, and his greatest purpose in staying here was to wait for the day it would break!

This day had finally come, right here and now.

The forest guardian put away his farming tools, strode back to his small hut, shut the doors and windows, quickly pulled out a purple stone the size of a pigeon egg from under his pillow, and rubbed it firmly in his palm a few times.

The stone lit up, emitting a soft purple glow.

Then he lifted a floorboard, revealing a small pit already dug beneath—empty, with damp soil.

The forest guardian grabbed the stone and slammed it hard against the floorboard.

Pa-ta— the stone shattered like an egg, and what flowed out was not liquid, but a pale purple smoke.

Ordinary smoke drifts upward, but this purple smoke flowed downward like water—what is called "reverse-flow smoke."

It flowed into the small pit beneath the floorboard, where it briefly gathered into a mass. The forest guardian even saw it condense into a shape, like a tiny slug.

Soon, it flipped and burrowed into the bottom of the pit, taking both the purple light and the flowing smoke with it.

The forest guardian stood in place for a few breaths, saw no other abnormalities, then walked out the door and resumed work.

Not only him, but many forest guardians in the Trapped Dragon Pit were doing the same thing.

They had released dozens of purple slugs underground, distributed at different locations in the Trapped Dragon Pit. If these positions were marked on the sand table of the Trapped Dragon Pit, they would be distributed around the Earth Mother.

One quarter-hour passed.

Two quarter-hours passed.

The Trapped Dragon Pit remained peaceful and quiet, the wind still blowing, the birds still singing, as if nothing had happened.

But on the table in the Western Town of the Dragon Pit, Duanmu Heng had a similarly purple stone egg that lit up.

This stone egg was larger than others of its kind, its surface patterns clearer, like gold and silver powder scattered on it, and under light it would shift colors, beautiful and dreamlike.

After more than ten breaths, two avian demons completed their reconnaissance mission in the Western Town of the Dragon Pit, and while returning to the Earth Mother Plain, were suddenly struck by two rainbow lights from below, their bodies numbed, and they fell into the forest below.

This place lies outside the Trapped Dragon Pit, west of the circular mountain walls, where the trees and river colors are quite normal.

Vast uninhabited areas are covered by dense forest, blocking out the sky. Unknown where they came from, many people appeared, expressionless, gathered at the forest's edge.

"All here, none missing. Geng Yue Shen, begin."

Called by name, Geng Yue Shen stepped forward, reaching out to pull down the vines and long branches covering a large stone.

The stone had been completely covered, but with this pull, its true face was revealed.

An irregular large stone, larger than a table for ten people, its surface smooth as a mirror, with thousands of lines on it, engraved with an extremely complex formation—ordinary people would feel dizzy at a glance.

Great Mountain-Moving Formation!

The formation had long been engraved, usually concealed by dense vines and branches, so the unaware would see nothing unusual until they got close.

Geng Yue Shen then poured large blocks of black crystal into the formation's eye, each block dark red. Even now, casually placing any one of them in the outside world could easily sell for two or three hundred thousand taels of silver, but he showed no hesitation, feeding them in one after another.

After feeding over twenty blocks in succession, he could no longer add more—the formation had eaten its fill.

Geng Yue Shen then pressed both hands into the formation's eye, murmuring incantations.

After about a quarter-hour, he twisted his hands hard, and this smooth stone wall, like a door, was pushed inward by him!

To this day, the renowned Great Mountain-Moving Formation has developed many variations, but its basic traits remain fixed engraving, long transmission distance, enormous energy consumption, long startup time, yet it can transmit a large number of living beings.

In this upcoming battle, no one will quibble over energy consumption.

After the transmission gate opened, everyone filed in one after another.

After just a dozen or so breaths, the gate slowly closed, no longer glowing, and was inconspicuous in the dark forest.

So where is the other foot of the Great Mountain-Moving Formation located? Or, where were these fifty-odd people transmitted to?

Of course it's inside the Trapped Dragon Cavern, but not on land.

Earlier, the Earth Mother transmitted the Coiling Dragon Army on the plains out of the Trapped Dragon Cavern in just a dozen breaths or so, proving Duanmu Heng's prior deduction was correct — this rare great demon, while occupying the Trapped Dragon Cavern, could merge with the ground and extend its spiritual sense outward. If unknown outsiders suddenly appeared in the Trapped Dragon Cavern, they would likely find it hard to escape the Earth Mother's eyes and ears.

However, the Earth Mother has no control over the water inside the Trapped Dragon Cavern!