Chapter 3036

However, they had just exerted all their strength when two triangular heads popped out from the city wall beside them.

These two things had upper beaks curved downward like an eagle's beak and lower beaks curved upward like a fishhook; when the beak snapped shut, it could firmly lock onto prey.

Even more terrifying was that the width of the opened beak was one zhang, easily able to swallow two or three people.

These two heads looked identical, each lunging at the two people pulling the winch on the gate panel.

They surged forward with the speed of a crocodile lurking underwater striking prey, but silently, without even a splash; before the stalwart Cangyan could utter a sound, they bit him and dragged him straight back into the city wall.

The gate panel also nearly got hit, but the giant shield behind him actively protected its master, its length spontaneously swelling over one zhang, firmly wedged in the giant turtle's beak, preventing it from swallowing the gate panel immediately.

But immediately afterward, the second eagle-beak turtle head emerged, its beak stained with blood, joining its companion in a pincer attack on the gate panel.

This was the manifestation of the city-defending beast's essence soul, just like the city-defending beast of Panlong City, the giant black dragon. However, since Baojicheng loaded the city armor, there has never been any record showing that the Ba's essence soul could emerge to harm people; it is only known that it can significantly enhance the city wall's own defense.

Since the founding of the nation, Baojicheng has never faced an attack, and the secret of the Ba's essence soul has remained unknown to all—until today, when it nearly ruined He Lingchuan's great undertaking! It is called "nearly" because Mingke Xianren and others had already sensed it and rushed to assist.

But the fastest to act was still He Lingchuan.

He had no time to defend against the second Hao Ling Xianren's attack, turned back, and swung a blade.

Before everyone's eyes, a screen of cold light exploded, resembling the Milky Way flowing backward; in that instant, nothing else could be seen. Even Mingke Xianren, three zhang away, felt his scalp tingle, and goosebumps rose all over his body.

Such overbearing and icy killing intent!

The blade light sliced horizontally across the two elongated necks of the Ba; only two cracking sounds were heard, and the turtle heads fell to the ground!

As part of the city armor, this thing's hardness is unknown how many times greater than diamond; earlier, Mingke Xianren and Hu Min's attacks on the city wall only managed to dig a fingertip-deep pit at most.

Needless to say, the hardness of the Ba's head is even greater than the city armor itself, yet He Lingchuan so cleanly severed it with a single blade!

Even the blade's residual momentum continued, striking the auxiliary wall beside the city gate; afterward, cold light shone through from the other side, cutting the two gate-guarding Hao Ling guards in half!

It nearly injured the nearby Cangyan warrior.

Even the seven-chi-thick wall could not withstand the blade's edge, as if it were a cake sliced by a knife.

Let alone the enemy's麻爪 under the city gate, He Lingchuan himself was startled. Although he led the war alliance in the Battle of Beijia, the military gathered countless heroes, and none required the Nine Abyssal Great Emperor to personally take the field; the last time he himself acted was in the Battle of Kunlong Moat.

How long has it been since then, and his cultivation has advanced again? Moreover, cultivation improvement is secondary; to chop off the Ba's hard head like this, at least seventy percent of the credit must go to elemental power!

The manifestation of elemental power on him is even more condensed and powerful!

Last time, the Red General single-handedly split the rear garden of the Bolang King, already showing initial signs of elemental power's vigor, but He Lingchuan only by personally acting could truly sense its changes within himself.

Taking advantage of this opening, Mingke Xianren stepped forward and helped the gate panel desperately push open the winch.

As long as the gate is wide open, Baojicheng's city armor, no matter how sturdy, is useless.

The creaking sound of the gate opening was like a death god's horn blowing in every Hao Ling soldier's ear.

After this, everything that followed was without suspense.

Four hours later, the fighting inside Baojicheng was also nearing its end.

He Lingchuan's team opened the city gate from within; the Red General, long waiting outside, led the large army into Baojicheng, joined forces with the Nine Abyssal Great Emperor, and thereafter gods blocked god-slaying, immortals blocked immortal-killing, profoundly illustrating what it means to be not a fierce dragon but unable to cross the river.

The Hao Ling army resisted fiercely, and within the capital city, over thirty immortals and demons rushed to respond to the battle, with fighting spreading throughout streets and alleys.

Upon entering the city, the Cangyan army immediately dismantled the turtle-shell talismans, removing Baojicheng's city armor.

Baojicheng's area is too large; originally, this city armor was a unified whole with it, and even the earth mother could not move it; but once the city armor was removed, the禁遁 barrier was also broken simultaneously, allowing the earth mother to fully exert itself.

After Baojicheng fell, the Hao Ling people also followed suit in breaking through defenses, their elemental power greatly diminished. Soon after, the Hao Ling protective circle was forced to compress within the palace walls. Although the palace city lacked the Ba's city armor, its defensive power remained outstanding.

The monarchs and ministers inside the city were discussing defense plans when suddenly the ground trembled violently, many people couldn't stand firm, and all fell to the ground like rolling gourds.

Multiple cracks appeared in the palace ground, buildings collapsed one after another, and smoke and dust filled everywhere.

If viewed from outside, the entire palace appeared to be arched upward, lifted two zhang above the ground

This is the earth mother diving underground, then striking upward from below.

The palace's area is much smaller, making it suitable for it to use brute force to open the box.

After this impact, the barrier disappeared, the palace walls cracked, and defensive power greatly diminished.

The war alliance's troops poured through the broken palace walls like a tide, slaughtering their way into the palace.

Unable to escape, the Hao Ling monarchs and ministers had faces like dead ashes, staring at that black-clad figure leading the murderous army, step by step approaching themselves: "Surrender your weapons, and you will not be killed."

The Nine Abyssal Great Emperor's majestic voice entered the ears of everyone present.

"Otherwise, I will send you to meet the Bolang King."

Behind the Hao Ling king were still thousands of royal troops, but the Hao Ling king's heart held only infinite fear.

A force of several thousand people could not give him even a bit of security.

Enough.

The battle for the Hao Ling nation's capital city had ended, and the streets still floated with a thick smell of blood.

When the gate panel withdrew troops, he still saw the logistics troops cleaning the battlefield, carrying away corpse after corpse.

The residential area was utterly silent; no one dared to turn on a light.

Turning the street corner, they happened to meet another troop. The leader was precisely Meng Shan.

Meng Shan is now also the vanguard general of the Panlong Army, his physique more explosive than twenty years ago, holding in his hand a meteor hammer, the hammer head still stained with blood and hair, not yet cleaned.

This hammer had once painfully struck the Nine Abyssal Great Emperor, and not just eight or ten times—each time it could knock him down so he couldn't get out of bed for ten days or half a month. This achievement is enough for Meng Shan to boast about for a lifetime.

"Work's done, work's done." Meng Shan happily patted the gate panel's shoulder, "Let's go have a drink."

If it were someone else, being patted like that by him would have long been smashed into the ground. Only the gate panel received it calmly, without even a slight sway in his steps: "Tonight the whole city is under curfew, we also cannot drink alcohol.

The battle has just ended, and because time is urgent, the entire army is not holding a victory banquet.

Sigh, no fun." Meng Shan sighed, then asked: "Eh? Where's your wife? I haven't seen her for a few days."

If someone else asked like that, they'd easily get beaten, but the gate panel knows he is just a simpleton, with no trace of teasing or malice.

"Willow twigs have recently been transferred by the emperor to another assignment, and will only return after some time."