Chapter 2886: Supernatural Ability Battle

Therefore, the Between Between Between Beijia people were all unwilling to get too close to the cliff, yet things climbed up from beneath the cliff——

Water Apes.

Their physiques were no different from Giant Apes; each one stood over a zhang tall, robust and strong, agile in movement, but their bodies were composed of riverbed mud, sand, and river water. When Between Between Between Beijia people were struck by them, it felt like being swung at by heavy water bags — not only seeing stars, but possibly even having their brains dashed out——

In terms of power, they were not much inferior to large iron balls.

If there were only a hundred or eighty, it would be manageable, but the problem was that the Water Apes climbing up the cliff were dense and numerous; looking down from atop Panlongcheng, it was a pitch-black mass, almost obscuring the cliff itself.

Inside the moat, more Water Apes were still being created, climbing up in a steady stream.

The Between Between Between Beijia soldiers' weapons were imbued with Yuanli, able to wound these monsters, creating the wondrous sight of "cutting water with a knife"; if a Water Ape was bisected at the waist, the river water inside its body would flow away, turning into a wet puddle on the ground.

But after several dozen breaths, once the effect of the Yuanli dissipated, they would crawl up again in place, reform into ape shapes, and rejoin the battle.

Of course these things were not impossible to eradicate completely; the formation of every Water Ape originated from a core cornerstone.

As long as one found this stone and chopped it to bits, the Water Apes could not regenerate——soon, Between Between Between Beijia soldiers discovered this point.

But the problem lay in the fact that this was the Panlong Wasteland; the battlefield ground was covered in sand and soil — who could accurately distinguish, from a ground full of sand, which piece was the Water Apes' cornerstone?

Therefore, after chopping up Water Apes, Between Between Between Beijia soldiers still had to search carefully on the ground, wasting much time. And this was Zhong Shengguang's strategy after fusing with the Dayan Heavenly Pearl——delay time, delay the advance, the longer the better, to lessen the pressure on Panlongcheng itself.

No one knew for the time being that the Water Apes summoned by the Dayan Heavenly Pearl actually had a quantity limit; from start to finish, there were only several thousand.

Therefore, the main focus was on energy efficiency and renewability.

The reason was also simple: the Dayan Heavenly Pearl had to retain more power to deal with the Great Heavenly Demon Pilitiian.

Soon, cries of alarm came from the frontline soldiers battling the Water Apes. Because in the depths of the abyss, besides the Water Ape swarm, a big fellow also showed itself.

The Between Between Between Beijia soldiers at the very front saw first two incomparably huge claws press onto the cliff, pressing the ground until it cracked open.

Immediately after, a dragon head poked out from beneath the cliff; just the horns on its head were seven chi long, taller than a man.

Sharp teeth and claws, long whiskers and serpentine neck.

The Black Dragon manifested.

To be precise, it was Panlongcheng's guardian beast detaching from the city wall, climbing up from the bottom of the abyss. It placed its two front claws on the cliff and exerted force, its massive dragon body soaring into the sky, charging toward Pilitiian amidst the cluster of Water Apes.

The appearance of the Water Apes was somewhat troublesome for Pilitiian, because these monsters were mixed among the Between Between Between Beijia soldiers, and unleashing his spatial divine arts would inevitably cause friendly fire.

But the moment this big fellow the Black Dragon appeared, Pilitiian locked his target onto it.

The Black Dragon came with overwhelming momentum, sweeping away who knew how many Between Between Between Beijia soldiers and Heavenly Demons along the way, but when still a hundred zhang from Pilitiian, its form turned illusory, suddenly dispersing into four or five gusts of violent wind, attacking Pilitiian from all directions.

Watching the big fellow come with overwhelming momentum, Pilitiian yanked the divine format off his shoulder and gripped it in his hand.

At this moment, the divine format materialized, transforming from a phantom into a radiant magical artifact.

Many Heavenly Demons forge their own divine formats into magical artifacts for use as such. For example, Miao Zhantian's Eye of Truth, and Jialou Tian's Sequence Divine Format, both shine brilliantly in battle. The magical artifact in Pilitiian's hand also had a special name, called the Mandala Ring.

Its shape was a huge silver ring, at whose center bloomed a mandala flower; its petals layered open, each layer having twelve petals, the very core pistil also exactly twelve strands. And around the mandala flower were twelve circles; silver dotted lines radiating from the flower center divided the entire ring into even equal parts.

This divine artifact looked like an incomparably exquisite work of art, but it was not fragile in the slightest.

Pilitiian grasped the Mandala Ring and waved it lightly toward the Black Dragon.

A phantom flew out from the artifact, like its imprint, but expanding larger and larger in midair, then colliding head-on with the oncoming Black Dragon.

The two sides did not clash in the slightest.

The Black Dragon went forward, the Mandala's phantom went backward; in the air there was only a brief instant of intersection, then the phantom expanded into the distance and dissipated.

But the Black Dragon's movements froze. Before it could pounce before Pilitiian, it disintegrated in midair.

Its enormous body was actually cut into dozens of evenly sized pieces, crashing to the ground amidst wind and sand.

Witnessing this spectacular scene, everyone was shocked.

Between Between Between Beijia soldiers cheered aloud.

Panlong generals, however, knitted their brows tightly.

Panlongcheng's gate guardian beast, was actually not a match for a single move from Pilitiian?

That was a Black Dragon, after all!

Even if it could not compare to a true Dragon God, in the hearts of the Panlong people, the Black Dragon totem was still an incomparably sacred existence.

This move of Pilitiian's was the Spatial Severing Art released via the Mandala, able to arbitrarily slice a designated space in an instant. Thus objects within that space naturally could not escape unscathed, falling apart due to the severing of space.

Theoretically speaking, most battles involve space, hence it is difficult for anything to truly harm the main body of the Space God.

However, the Between Between Between Beijia people's cheers had not yet died down when the Black Dragon fragments covering the ground suddenly dispersed in the wind.

Then, four or five gusts of wind swirled up around Pilitiian.

In merely three to five breaths, the Black Dragon's body formed once again from the wind; it surrounded Pilitiian in the middle, claws and fangs striking at him together. This attack was already at close quarters and came from all directions; even with the Mandala Ring in hand, Pilitiian could not cleave the entire Black Dragon open like last time.

But he did not need to at all. Because he merely shook the silver ring twice lightly, and his person vanished from the spot——that is, vanished from under the Black Dragon's claws and fangs, instantly shifting forty zhang away.

He was the Space God, and within his own boundary; wherever he wanted to go, was it not as he wished?

……

He Lingchuan rode a paper crane flying toward Panlongcheng; halfway there, he suddenly felt a pang of heart palpitations, as if some calamity had occurred.

Not good; his sixth sense had always been keen.

At this time, he had already reassembled several people, and asked them to gather with him at a designated location.

Flying another twenty li ahead, the paper crane's body began to jolt. This indicated the air currents aloft were somewhat restless, and somewhat violent.

There were also fine sand grains hitting He Lingchuan's face.

Had the wind risen from the direction of the Chip'a Plateau?