Chapter 2917: Virtual-Real Conversion

Even if General Hong took the field, without finding its flaw, she probably couldn't smoothly break through this mirror surface.

Then the suppression advantage gained over Jialou Tian would likely vanish again very soon.

What to do? Ling Jinbao prided himself on his quick wits, yet in this instant he thought of six or seven methods, only to reject each one himself. Tough nut to crack — whether person, object, or attack in any form, anything crashing into the mirror surface gets bounced back along its original path.

Then, everyone on the battlefield saw General Hong crash straight into the mirror-surface divine ability, ramrod-straight and without any flourish.

Ju-just like that, so brazenly crashing in? She didn't even plan to think of another way?

An inconceivable scene appeared:

She passed through.

She actually passed through!

General Hong passed through the mirror surface just like that, not bounced back along the original path.

No one could understand what had happened; even Jialou Tian's eyes snapped wide open.

Could it be that General Hong's body can switch back and forth between the illusory and the real?

No, even a ghost's attack would be reflected back by the mirror-surface divine ability.

Right at this moment, Jialou Tian suddenly discovered an inconspicuous little lamp floating behind General Hong. Only because the few bolts of Lei Ting that had slashed down from the sky moments ago were far too dazzling, effortlessly covering up this lamp's radiance. It was also hiding behind General Hong, making it appear exceptionally dim.

"Floating Lamp!"

What caliber is Jialou Tian? One glance at this lamp and he understood everything.

What passed through the mirror-surface divine art was fundamentally not General Hong herself, but a phantom she had swapped in using the Floating Lamp.

A shadow is formless and substanceless, so naturally it isn't rebounded by the mirror-surface divine ability.

Then where is her true self?

Need one ask? Of course she's in the shadow on the ground.

This Floating Lamp is the unique divine artifact of Tongming True Lord's subordinate deity Yunqing Shen; it can swap the positions of the master's true body and the shadow on the ground. The artifact's original purpose is evasion, or rather immunity to enemy attacks. After all, every time Tongming True Lord uses his divine authority, he inevitably becomes the focus of concentrated enemy fire.

Both he and Yunqing Shen were defeated by He Lingchuan, so this lamp naturally fell into He Lingchuan's hands. For General Hong to get it was effortless.

At this moment Ling Jinbao, watching the battle from beneath the city gate, also spotted the Floating Lamp, and couldn't help slapping the little stone man's shoulder hard in admiration:

"Brilliant! Why didn't I think of that?"

The little stone man shuddered under his slaps: "Think of what?"

It still didn't think of it.

"I'm really stupid." Ling Jinbao pointed downward, "This mirror-surface divine art may be formidable, but it doesn't reflect everything — at least there's one thing it cannot reflect back."

The Earth Mother naturally asked: "What thing?"

He still hadn't figured it out.

"Light." Ling Jinbao stared fixedly at the battlefield below, "This mirror-surface divine ability does not reflect light! Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to see Jialou Tian behind the mirror surface."

An ordinary mirror reflects light, so a person looking in a mirror only sees themselves, not what's behind the mirror.

Yet this mirror-surface divine art below reflects almost everything external, except light.

In other words, light can penetrate it effortlessly.

General Hong's use of the Floating Lamp happened to exploit this bug, slipping herself through directly, safe and unharmed.

The most remarkable part is that a countermeasure others couldn't devise even after racking their brains, General Hong produced effortlessly, without even losing much time.

In the short span of four breaths, General Hong had slain three Heavenly Demons, crossed a mirror-surface divine art almost no one could crack, and faced Jialou Tian head-on once more.

Divine valor to this extent, keen wit to this extent.

Today's battle is actually a speed race; heaven's timing and earth's advantage both favor General Hong, but the time limit is extremely strict.

Fortunately, the opponent still doesn't know this.

Jialou Tian had just stood up, his injuries nowhere near healed, when General Hong's attack arrived.

He drew a deep breath, pulled out a pair of green jade jian, and met the next wave of terrifying onslaught.

Facing this famous general from two hundred years ago, Jialou Tian's feeling was vastly different from fighting Jiuyou.

Both possess fierce, sharp combat techniques and crisp, decisive body methods, yet the Jiuyou Great Emperor's tactics excel in vast, surging momentum, skilled at overwhelming with force; General Hong's style, by contrast, is ultimate cruel ruthlessness. Crossing hands with her, Jialou Tian always has the illusion of being locked in Death's gaze, bone-chilling and terrifying.

No, he remembered — Heaven has long circulated a saying: the Wasteland War God General Hong inherited Miti's power and divinity. If that legend is true, regarding her as the new God of Death would not be excessive.

How on earth did Jiuyou release these monsters? Jialou Tian cursed inwardly. Right now he truly wanted to travel back two hundred years, grab Miao Zhantian and demand answers: why couldn't he completely seal off General Hong's possibility of returning to the mortal world back then?

The two big bosses duel, while the Panlong Army goes to besiege the other Heavenly Demons.

The Heavenly Demons on Jialou Tian's side are all experts Lingxu Saint Venerable meticulously prepared for this surprise attack, each with a specialty. But the Dafeng Army and Panlong Army surging out of Panlongcheng are endless, and the disparity in numbers grows ever greater.

At this moment, under the Earth Mother's control, a vast open space was cleared directly before Panlongcheng; all excess buildings were leveled.

Such terrain is most suitable for a large-scale army engagement.

The Heavenly Demons saw things looked bad and unleashed over ten divine abilities, blasting apart the natural Tianqiao Bridge spanning the heavenly moat, to stop Panlongcheng from continuing to spawn troops.

Whenever the Tianqiao Bridge regrew on its own, they raised their hands and blasted it again with divine abilities.

After two or three such rounds, the Tianqiao Bridge stopped regrowing, and the Panlong Army troops lingering before the bridge grew more numerous, soon filling that open space.

At this time this plain was still suppressed by an inexplicable force; the Earth Mother could not manually close the heavenly moat between Panlongcheng and the plain, so once the Tianqiao Bridge was severed, Panlongcheng's people were blocked.

But before the Heavenly Demons could catch their breath, another shocking scene appeared:

At the command of Hu Min and other generals, the warriors standing at the edge of the heavenly moat suddenly whipped their mounts, first falling back a short distance to build momentum, then their steeds let out long, shrill neighs and leapt toward the opposite bank!

Such a distance, with heavy knights, armor, and vehicles on their backs — impossible for all warhorses to make the jump!

Isn't this suicide?

Yet it wasn't.

These men and horses did not plunge into the abyss; instead, after leaping they turned into streaks of red mist, riding the wind to drift to the far shore!

Because the number crossing was so large, this scene of rolling mist was spectacular. Not only the Heavenly Demons — even Ling Jinbao and the rest stared dumbfounded:

It can even be done like this? What divine ability or spell is this?

Ling Jinbao's heart stirred as he recalled what the soldiers of the Great Wind Army had just said:

It won't be long before he's a living person.

It won't be long — does that mean he's not considered alive yet?

Bao Chi Hai had already let out a low cry: "Illusion and reality shifting!"

He is the Night Wanderer God, who was not originally considered a living person, so he reacted faster than others.