Chapter 2787: The Bustling Siege Battle

The blue-faced great demon casually grabbed a dozen or so stone balls and hurled them into the sky. Only the sound of continuous explosions was heard—before the meteorites even hit the ground, dozens were blasted apart and flung away, while many more plunged headfirst into Tian Ye, blasting out huge pits.

Even if any meteorites slipped through the net aimed at the city gate, Immortal Mingke and the trebuchets on the city wall could handle them.

The stone balls not thrown by the blue-faced great demon automatically flipped out from the battlements and fell silently, rolling one by one without a sound.

After landing from a height, they used their immense potential energy to roll toward the demons, flipping over upon nearing them and instantly transforming into the stone men and beasts the demons were already very familiar with.

Outside, these things had been endlessly disturbing their exploration of the Earth Mother Plains, so when they finally entered the Secret Realm, these stone lumps followed them in. How could the demons' mood be summed up by just the two words "annoyed"?

They snorted and retreated a few steps.

In the initial clash, all kinds of divine abilities were merely probing.

The large number of meteorites struck down by the blue-faced great demon in the wild suddenly rolled together in pairs and threes, merged into one, rapidly grew limbs and heads, and became the much larger Meteorite Spirit Generals!

Indeed, possessing earth affinity was not limited to Earth Mother alone—demons had similarly evolved the ability to command earth, also called "Earth Divinity." These Meteorite Spirit Generals wreathed in blue flames, while manifesting crystal shields and massive stone swords and hammers, advanced to meet the stone men and beasts sent by Earth Mother.

The stone men dispatched by both sides instantly became a tangled mess.

At the same time, the heavenly god Weihua retreated dozens of steps, opened his divine realm under the cover of his companions.

He snatched a pendant from his neck and threw it to the ground. The pendant was a flat, irregular geometric pattern; upon landing it expanded, and within a breath it began to collapse downward.

In just a few breaths, a huge pit collapsed in the ground, pitch-black and bottomless. Weihua Shen patted the edge twice and shouted loudly: "Come out, fight for me!"

Immediately, dense swarms of strange creatures surged out of the pit like a gushing spring.

Their bodies were pitch-black, their shells still able to reflect light, with long upper and lower limbs—resembling humans yet somewhat like mantises. When their carapaces opened, they could extend a pair of wings; these wings could not let them fly freely, but allowed them to glide through the air for a distance.

These things gushed out of the earth holes in such a manner that Immortal Mingke thought of a phrase:

Stirring up a hornet's nest.

After crawling out of the holes, they surged forward like a tide toward the Panlong City Wall, moving faster than galloping horses. Most terrifying was their overwhelming numbers—the ground before the city gate was almost completely obscured, its original color no longer visible.

In such a classic siege, how could the attackers lack an army? Thus Weihua Shen summoned from his divine realm the Black Ling army dwelling in the Insect Abyss. They were agile, with light yet sturdy exoskeletons, and their forelimbs were naturally a pair of curved sickles—innate weapons.

Rushing to the base of the city wall, the Black Ling climbed along the wall as if walking on flat ground, their movements far more agile than human soldiers.

At this moment, the massive stone dragon head carving on the Nancheng gate stirred.

It had never been mere decoration.

The black dragon poked its head out from the city wall and spat a red-and-white flame column downward, sweeping left and right. The Black Ling had no Yuan power to protect them; before such terrifying dragon breath, they could not last two breaths before being burnt to charcoal, and the entire battlefield filled with a scorched fragrance.

But their numbers were endless—this batch of Black Ling had just died when new reinforcements surged forward to fill the gap. Their simple minds held no fear or dread; Weihua Shen ordered them to charge, and they charged headlong without hesitation, fearless of death.

However, the demons also made a slight adjustment, splitting their forces to attack from the left and right flanks of the city gate. Who would have known that the gate beasts on the wall also split into two, becoming two black dragons to sweep with dragon breath?

They even coordinated with the stone beasts rolling down from the city top, and could shake off the Black Ling that leapt onto them, desperately attacking.

The demons had never seen such proactive and aggressive gate beasts before.

But the black dragons' fire-breathing had to pause eventually, and the Black Ling seized that gap to climb to the top of the wall. The fastest batch had already reached the battlements, where the Black Armor Army and Shen soldiers stood ready, raising spears and halberds to thrust downward.

Facing such a horde of enemies, the blue-faced great demon extended his sharp claws, scratched his own upper belly, then tore it open.

From his abdomen sprang forth many little demons—though not as endless as the Black Ling, they numbered in the hundreds or even thousands. Among them were agile imps and larger, stronger red demons. As soon as they emerged, they rushed straight at the Black Ling, effectively filling the gaps in the battle between the black dragon stone carvings.

With the two gate beasts and Earth Mother's avatar unleashing full firepower, for a moment the area below the city was emptied—Black Ling were temporarily cleared out, leaving the ground stained with blood and charcoal.

The silhouettes of those dozens of Meteorite Spirit Generals now appeared somewhat isolated.

But Mingke was not optimistic, and the enemy didn't take it seriously either. Having just begun the fight, he said only one thing:

We'll see what happens later.

One Meteorite Spirit General had just been felled when Immortal Mingke suddenly noticed a strange symbol on its back:

Layered overlapping triangles.

But before he could examine it closely, the triangle vanished.

That was...

Immortal Mingke's heart jolted—this emblem looked somewhat familiar; the Emperor had once mentioned to him that it was the divine seal of the Great Heavenly Demon Jia Lou Tian!

Had Jia Lou Tian also come to this battle?

Keeping this in mind, he observed that the Meteorite Spirit Generals on the battlefield were now somewhat different from when they first appeared. As the battle progressed, their power grew greater, their sensitivity heightened, and even the shapes of their blades and shields became increasingly exaggerated.

What was going on? Could these Meteorite Spirit Generals still evolve?

Nine-tenths likely due to Jia Lou Tian's meddling behind the scenes. This Great Heavenly Demon had not shown himself openly, but had already made a move!

The Meteorite Spirit General that had been cut down fell to the ground and shattered into eight pieces; its companions rushed over, rolled along the ground, and thus Immortal Mingke saw that the scattered stone fragments were absorbed by them.

Upon this general, blue flames flared, and its body grew larger and more formidable.

Moreover, from the demons' perspective, every Meteorite Spirit General bore Jia Lou Tian's divine seal flashing on its back. Each time they clashed with the enemy, the triangles in the seal rotated ever more slowly.

If He Lingchuan were here, he would instantly recognize this as Jia Lou Tian's divine seal accumulating energy. But he had never seen Jia Lou Tian place his divine seal upon other demons' creations.

In the previous battle in the Void Realm, Jia Lou Tian had not revealed all his trump cards.

Thus, Jia Lou Tian himself might not even need to act personally or endure enemy attacks—the sequential divinity could accumulate power on its own.

After dozens of breaths, only five Meteorite Spirit Generals remained on the battlefield.