Chapter 2814: Mutual Probing

He Lingchuan was greatly alarmed.

He saw that the city gate of Panlong in the Secret Realm was crowded with people; at a glance he knew they were Cangyan's army, and he even caught sight of Mingke the True Person. The city gate's armament, like linked pearl cannons, fired volley after volley downward, the strike density no less than that of the Mingsha Forest battlefield. For the enemy below Panlongcheng was likewise a vast black mass, but not the Beijia army; rather, all kinds of strange and grotesque summoned creatures.

So who is the main attacker? He Lingchuan could easily see dozens of people standing below the city, at least wearing human appearances, but judging from the divine abilities they employed, most were probably of immortal-demon level.

Are the demons attacking the Earth Mother Plain? He Lingchuan broke out in a cold sweat on his back, and the wound at his waist and abdomen seemed to hurt even more.

He knew the Earth Mother should be in the Kunlong Pit, but how would the demons know its exact location?

The reason he let the Earth Mother become the guardian of the Panlong Secret Realm was chiefly because it had no fixed abode and its whereabouts were elusive. Yet now, how did the demons manage to seize its whereabouts?

He Lingchuan's gaze shifted again, and he actually discovered a familiar divine sigil:

Layer upon layer interlocking, slowly rotating equilateral triangle.

It hovered above the shoulder of a middle-aged man.

Although this man's visage was unfamiliar, He Lingchuan immediately confirmed his identity:

Jialou Heaven!

An old enemy had come knocking again, and his heart turned cold.

Last time Jialou Heaven led his demon underlings to invade Yujing City and invade Shangguan Biao's Void Realm, but was defeated by He Lingchuan and the Earth Mother joining forces, losing an incarnation.

This time he has come a second time, seeking revenge.

"Where are you looking?" The voice of Pili Heaven had not yet arrived, but the person was already there; a flash brought him within eight feet of He Lingchuan.

He is indeed the proper deity of the Lingxu Assembly, yet this brat, when fighting him, actually wandered off, his eyes constantly glancing heavenward—does he not take him seriously at all?

Pili Heaven fundamentally does not need to walk with his legs; even if others stare unblinkingly, they can only see him as ghostlike.

But before He Lingchuan could act, with a whoosh, a gust of mad wind swept between the two in midair, rolling toward Pili Heaven.

It was precisely the wind monster manipulated by the True Person Fuji.

This wind monster had originally been taken away by an incarnation of Tongming the True Lord, but He Lingchuan had snatched it back for him. After the wind monster had rested for a while, and today the wind on the battlefield was also strong, which was beneficial to it, so when this fellow appeared he was full of vigor, wanting to knock down his opponent with a single punch.

On today's battlefield, this wind monster could easily sweep seven or eight giant rhinoceroses into the sky, each weighing over ten thousand jin, its entire body clad in heavy armor, its tonnage matching that of half a giant elephant.

It is a wind monster, and its way of attacking is to unleash a great wind vortex. Because it rolls up the yellow sand on the ground, others can clearly see the vortex is top-shaped.

Yet facing the wind monster's assault, Pili Heaven only extended his right hand and made a reverse twisting motion against the vortex.

A strange scene appeared:

The wind monster first came to a sudden halt, as if the whole picture had frozen; after a breath, it suddenly reversed its rotation.

The wind monster let out a great roar, for its arm had actually exploded!

The wind vortex's forward and reverse forces directly opposed each other, causing a violent wind to sweep across the area beneath the stockade.

Pili Heaven spread his five fingers and gently pushed forward; the space where the wind monster was suddenly congealed, not even a breath of wind remained.

"Spatial Lock," one of his specialties.

Air movement can form wind. Once the wind on this battlefield can no longer flow freely, it becomes like water without a source, and can only quickly calm down.

At this moment, Pili Heaven suddenly frowned slightly, seized his weapon, and blocked it before his forehead.

Yet clearly there was nothing in front of him.

The weapon he held was also quite distinctive, resembling a sword yet not a sword, with blades on both sides studded with nail-like sharp serrations, especially like the pointed snout of a sawshark; viewed from afar it resembled both a cactus and a handheld saw.

Only a "ding" was heard, and this saw-sword actually struck something—

A knife flashing with black light.

This was He Lingchuan's Floating Life Blade, which he unleashed while the wind monster attacked Pili Heaven.

This divine weapon, once it leaves the hand, will enter the void until it reappears before the enemy, striking him unawares.

With just this move, He Lingchuan had previously severely wounded many opponents. Unexpectedly this time, Pili Heaven saw through it in advance.

Moreover, the position where the Floating Life Blade appeared was farther than He Lingchuan had set; that is, Pili Heaven's this block directly knocked the Floating Life Blade out of its predetermined trajectory; otherwise, merely extending the blade aura by three feet would already have made him suffer greatly.

Before today, He Lingchuan had never encountered such an opponent.

After one unsuccessful strike, the Floating Life Blade would vanish from its original spot and return to its master's hand.

Seizing the opportunity, Pili Heaven's left hand suddenly formed a seal; the Floating Life Blade, about to vanish into the void, failed to do so, but instead repeatedly collided within a transparent space seven feet square, like a light constantly being refracted.

This too was the "Spatial Lock" divine art.

Equivalent to locking the Floating Life Blade inside a completely sealed transparent box.

This space is completely isolated from the outside; logically, the Floating Life Blade should no longer be able to return to the void.

Pili Heaven had previously used this move to seize opponents' magical implements, never failing; the treasure spaces where he stored his spoils had been opened one after another.

But this time was different.

He let out a sound of surprise, discovering that after the Floating Life Blade had struck the transparent box hundreds of times, it still vanished silently!

Pili Heaven was greatly astonished. He certainly could tell that the Floating Life Blade had indeed completely disappeared from this confined space, not merely turned invisible or hidden away.

How could the Tiger-Wing General possess such ability, to take an object from within his sealed space by remote means?

This is unreasonable, utterly unreasonable.

He certainly does not know. The one who did this was not He Lingchuan; what he is now encountering is merely the same perplexity faced by the Sea Emperor Xuandu of Liuli Sea two hundred years later.

Opposite, He Lingchuan also found himself in difficulty.

According to known data, Pili Heaven is a rather troublesome enemy. For he excels in spatial divine abilities—

Enemies bearing spatial divine powers have always been the hardest to deal with, whether immortal or demon.

The Fenghe Goddess previously caused great trouble for the Panlong army precisely because she possessed a spatial folding technique.

This is still an ordinary demon who has not yet condensed a divine sigil, whereas Pili Heaven's spatial divine sigil was already formed four thousand years ago, and in the late Ancient War he together with the Lingxu Holy Sovereign, Mitian, and other great demons forged the Tianluo Star.

In this process, the Lingxu Holy Sovereign placed great importance on his expert opinion. For broadly speaking, the human realm and the heavenly realm are precisely two great special and independent spaces, so the advice of the god of space is naturally very important.

He Lingchuan worries that the intelligence he and Zhong Shengguang previously obtained was limited, only knowing that the Lingxu Holy Sovereign dispatched two great demons in full divine descent, but unaware that Pili Heaven was one of them.