Chapter 2858: No More Pretending, Cards Laid Bare

Jialou Tian felt even more certain in his heart: the master of the Secret Realm must be manipulating the battle from the shadows.

Jiuyou didn't dare show his face—was he unwilling to confront him directly?

Jialou Tian let out a cold laugh, his body suddenly swelling; in just three breaths, he transformed from an ordinary human into a giant ten zhang tall!

Besides maintaining his burly humanoid form, two extra arms grew from his ribs.

This wasn't a dharma form conjured by Jialou Tian—it was his true appearance.

Most true Great Heavenly Demons are quite tall.

The people on the city walls were all startled.

However, the black dragon stone carving wrapped around Jialou Tian also enlarged along with his body.

Jialou Tian's two extra arms each grabbed the dragon's head and tail, then yanked outward hard. With a sharp crack, the black dragon stone carving was torn apart on the spot—but the cost was that Jialou Tian's arms were bitten off by the black dragon and rolled to the ground.

Both sides suffered losses in this exchange, but taking advantage of the opportunity, the self-repair of Panlongcheng Gate had already been completed. The earlier blasted holes and cracks had completely vanished.

The power of the Great Expansion Heavenly Pearl was transmitted once again.

Panlongcheng once again blocked the Heavenly Demon's attack, narrowly escaping disaster.

But what about next time? No one was optimistic. For such an attack was merely an appetizer; once the Great Heavenly Demon made a move himself, he would have plenty of trump cards.

At that moment, a large pile of stone balls suddenly rolled out from the corner tower of the city wall, rolling down the wall to the ground, clattering over to surround Jialou Tian.

These were reinforcements sent by the Earth Mother's avatar to the Panlong Secret Realm—endless in supply, but limited in power. Jialou Tian didn't even bother to dodge, for these things couldn't possibly break his Golden Body.

Yet he had still underestimated the enemy.

Most of the stone men's attacks here felt like tickling to him, but one stone man looked no different from his companions—yet when it rolled down from the city wall, it happened to pass by Jialou Tian's occiput.

At that instant, it suddenly swelled to several times its size, a blood light flashed in its hand, and it horizontally slashed Jialou Tian's neck.

Fortunately, Jialou Tian was battle-hardened; as the stone man approached, alarm bells rang in his mind, and he immediately half-turned his body, raising one arm to block.

Blood sprayed everywhere—Jialou Tian's arm was actually chopped off.

Know that he possessed an Indestructible Vajra Body, which even divine weapons could not harm in the slightest. At the same time, several lights flashed across his body, and four or five protective artifacts shattered one after another.

The stone man let out a loud roar and launched a second attack.

At the critical moment, the Sequence Divinity flew to the front of the weapon and blocked this fatal blow.

Afterwards, both sides saw a shadow being blasted away, flying over two hundred zhang before crashing hard into the countryside outside the city like a meteor.

The one blasted away was Jialou Tian; the ground sank five zhang deep into a large hole capable of holding several floors—proof of the immense power of this strike.

The garrison on the city walls cheered, but Ling Jinbao pressed his forehead.

Oh no.

How could someone who could hit Jialou Tian like a baseball be merely ordinary strength?

He was likely about to be exposed.

But since Jialou Tian had personally taken action, whether he was exposed or not no longer mattered.

Yet the stone man gave Jialou Tian no chance to rise, striding toward the stone pit. Having ambushed once, it wouldn't succeed so easily a second time. Jialou Tian dodged twice, watching him, his gaze shifting from doubt to realization: "You are the Earth Mother?"

"Without a doubt." The stone man laughed loudly, his voice full of arrogance, "You think you can trap me with Huanle's dream? Simply naive!"

The arriving Gengyue Shen also clearly saw the weapon in his hand and couldn't help but be shocked:

"The Blood Blade Flying Axe of the Battle Sage Heavenly Sovereign!"

This axe, he would never mistake—it was the divine artifact wielded by the Battle Sage Heavenly Sovereign, possessing supreme power—the Blood Blade Flying Axe.

This was the Battle Sage Heavenly Sovereign's natal artifact. God present, axe present.

Yet this axe had fallen into the hands of the Earth Mother!

This, this!

Gengyue Shen felt only dread rise in his heart.

Jialou Tian's face sank like water, his gaze also falling on the Blood Blade Flying Axe. Huanle Goddess together with Haihuang Xuandu, plus dozens of Heavenly Demons, had actually failed to keep the Earth Mother trapped in the dream?

This made no sense—something unexpected must have occurred.

Moreover, how could the Battle Sage Heavenly Sovereign's natal artifact possibly fall into the Earth Mother's hands? Even if she escaped confinement, relying solely on herself, she could absolutely not slay the Battle Sage Heavenly Sovereign.

Jialou Tian silently drew a breath and asked: "Where is Jiuyou?"

"What's the rush?" the Earth Mother rumbled, "After you pass this level, you'll naturally see him."

Everyone had dropped the pretense, laid their cards bare.

What a perfect opportunity earlier—this old Heavenly Demon had no defenses against the Earth Mother. If they could chop off his head, today's battle would be over. The Earth Mother inwardly regretted it, but on the surface still pointed at Jialou Tian and cursed:

"I have always wandered freely across the four seas—what grudge or grievance do I have with you? You, Hui, keep coming to scheme against me?"

No wonder Siming Zhenjun and the Battle Sage Heavenly Sovereign had long been unable to enter Panlong Secret Realm—originally, they were ambushed outside. Jialou Tian's heart sank; since the Earth Mother had returned to reality, had Huanle Goddess and Haihuang Xuandu already...?

Never mind, that doesn't matter. Anyway, they were originally outside the plains.

But the fall of the Battle Sage Heavenly Sovereign was indeed a heavy blow to our side.

Yet he was also full of doubt: could Jiuyou plus the Earth Mother kill the Battle Sage Heavenly Sovereign?

This made no sense.

Three years ago, his avatar fought Jiuyou in Shangguan Biao's Void Realm—back then, the latter was nowhere near this strong. At that time he dared guarantee: if Jiuyou faced the Battle Sage Heavenly Sovereign, he would certainly be beheaded by him.

Merely three years apart—how could the situation have reversed?

Moreover, the Battle Sage Heavenly Sovereign wasn't fighting alone—he still had many Heavenly Demons under him, plus Siming Zhenjun!

Ah, Jialou Tian suddenly realized: if Jiuyou had truly eliminated all enemies outside, then the powerful foe now appearing in the Secret Realm couldn't possibly be just the Earth Mother?

In other words, Jiuyou was still dealing with Siming Zhenjun!

"Trying to buy time?" Jialou Tian's mouth curled into a faint cold smile, "Useless."

The Earth Mother startled.

Did this guy see through her stalling? No, was her acting really that bad?

Ling Jinbao suddenly said: "Is the godhood imprint of the Great Heavenly Demon turning back?"

During the dialogue between the Earth Mother and Jia Lou Tian, the godhood floating on Jia Lou Tian's shoulder, namely that set of triangular rings, had originally been trending toward stillness in the outermost large triangle, but at this moment it reversed counterclockwise!

At the same time, Jia Lou Tian's wound began to weave flesh and blood. Everyone watched in stunned silence as the severed end first grew golden bone, then tendons, nerves, fascia, and finally skin.

In fact, it took only a dozen or so breaths for the severed arm to fully regenerate.

"Even the wound from the Blood Blade Flying Axe heals this quickly!" Ling Jinbao said in a deep voice, "It seems the power accumulated in the Sequence Command godhood is not only usable against enemies!"