Chapter 3063

Inside the Lan Yue Pavilion, Du Shan was busy to the point of frantic anxiety.

Just now he had been watching the live broadcast of the Red General's showdown with Ying Zhi Tian with bated breath, when the three supreme masters suddenly vanished together from the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror.

Du Shan jumped in fright; fortunately the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror immediately relayed a sentence, still in the Red General's own words: "I am taking Them elsewhere to duel; you hurry and deal with the remaining Heavenly Demons."

Although Du Shan did not understand her as well as the Nine Nether Great Emperor, the Red General's voice had the power to calm hearts, letting him put his heart back in his stomach.

A person the Emperor Lord devoutly trusted, he also had no need to doubt.

She went alone to single-handedly fight two Great Heavenly Demons, and still had to spare half her mind to command the other battles; Du Shan had to do his utmost to share her burden and lighten her load.

Du Shan and several Grand Commanders had to simultaneously command all the armies within the royal palace to capture Heavenly Demons.

The originally scattered Heavenly Demons had already received Ying Zhi Tian's instructions and begun moving toward the previous positions of the two Great Heavenly Gods. Since he knew their destination, Du Shan's deployment of personnel to intercept them became much more convenient.

But there was still a portion of Heavenly Demons that did not go to the rear mountain, did not seek the two Great Gods, but instead rushed toward the outer hall!

Seeing this scene, Du Shan leapt up like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, and urgently ordered: "What about the remaining ministers? Have they all evacuated?"

The vast Chi Xiao Golden Hall was not only the Nine Nether Great Emperor's residence, but also the place where ministers handled official business and discussed affairs, the actual central hub of the entire Cang Yan Wang Ting. Every day, the outer hall held large numbers of ministers, generals, and guards on duty and handling matters.

When the Heavenly Demons and the armies began fighting, the outer hall issued an alarm requiring the populace to evacuate. With the aid of the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror, the ministers were able to swiftly withdraw from the Chi Xiao Golden Hall.

"Currently tallying, but the majority have already left; only soldiers remain on guard." The guard also looked at the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror. "My lord, the Heavenly Demons have reached the Inner Palace gate! They want to escape!"

These twenty-odd Heavenly Demons had already rushed to the Inner Palace main gate and were engaged in fierce combat with the guards.

"No." Du Shan stared fixedly at the mirror surface. "They want to come find trouble with me."

One did not know who the planner of this Heavenly Demon operation was, but they were quite clever. Once the infiltration plan was exposed, the Heavenly Demons immediately split into two routes: one to forcibly seize the Chi Xiao Golden Hall's central hub, the other to capture Du Shan and other important ministers as hostages to regain the initiative.

He ordered into the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror: "Dispatch fifty thousand elite troops to the Inner Palace gate, quickly!"

Between the Inner Palace and the outer hall there was a restrictive barrier, the best location to intercept Heavenly Demons heading for the outer hall. But these were all conventional measures; without human control, they could not withstand so many Heavenly Demons bombarding them together.

What Du Shan had to do was to dispatch people as fast as possible to reinforce this line of defense, spare no effort to confine the battlefield to the Inner Palace and rear mountain of the Chi Xiao Golden Hall, and not let the Heavenly Demons run out!

Today's battle was extraordinarily fierce and dangerous. The Emperor Lord was absent, the Red General was occupied; the heavy responsibility of protecting the entire royal palace fell on Du Shan.

Du Shan was sweating profusely. This really was not his area of expertise; fortunately he had several great generals by his side coordinating command.

Yu Lin Guard Grand Commander Liang Dao Yuan said: "Please evacuate as soon as possible! Return after the Chi Xiao Golden Hall is safe."

"Nonsense. If I leave, I won't be able to command the palace battle in real time!" Du Shan's permissions only allowed him to observe and relay orders through the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror while he was within the Chi Xiao Golden Hall's boundaries.

Du Shan's next words went unspoken:

Not to mention the Lan Yue Pavilion was heavily guarded, just with this Hao Yuan Golden Mirror before him, within the palace grounds he could come and go like the wind; the Heavenly Demons would also have a hard time catching him.

A gust of wind blew in from outside, and that small pebble in the corner of the room was flipped over.

It turned out not to be a stone, but some kind of eggshell.

Naturally no one witnessed this scene.

But on the pillar behind Du Shan, at some unknown time a dark red spider was clinging, its curled-up body only the size of a quail egg; not only was its color similar to the pillar, it almost merged completely with the pillar's relief carvings.

The moment Du Shan's words fell, this spider spread its legs and lightly sprang, pouncing toward him!

Unlike ordinary spiders, its eight legs were extremely thick and strong; this one jump effortlessly covered three zhang.

Most terrifying was that the moment it jumped, its body turned transparent, directly turning invisible in midair.

If Dong Rui were here, he would recognize this as a Hong Shan Jumping Spider; when attacking prey it can simulate natural wind. That is to say, when it lands on its prey, the prey's protective gang qi or magic artifact would very likely mistake it for a gust of clear wind, because wind would not trigger alarms or protective divine abilities.

That is to say, it might bypass the prey's defense mechanisms and not be resisted by divine abilities.

Du Shan naturally had protective magic artifacts on him, but most likely they could not block the Hong Shan Jumping Spider. And it also had a mouthful of venomous fangs; if prey was bitten and had no antidote, within two quarter-hours it would turn into pus and blood and die.

Du Shan had Yuan Qi protecting his body; the poisoning might not be that deep, but for a short time he would mostly be unable to move.

As long as the Hong Shan Jumping Spider bit him once, he could not jump into the Hao Yuan Golden Mirror and teleport away.

Although its jump was silent and it launched from the target's rear blind spot, Du Shan's heart still gave rise to a trace of warning, and he subconsciously turned his head.

Over these twenty years, he had cultivated quite diligently, alright? Although his aptitude in this aspect was truly a bit ordinary, his perception of danger was very strong.

With this tilt of his head, he happened to present his face to the Hong Shan Spider.

Yuan Qi still enhanced his dynamic vision, making him feel a blur before his eyes.

But before the Hong Shan Spider could jump onto his face, a shadow whooshed across the air from the side, knocking over the nearby shelf.

Clang—

Du Shan was startled; the surrounding guards drew their swords in unison.

An enemy approaching? There wasn't even a breeze in this room; why would the shelf topple?

Immediately after, Du Shan discovered an extra figure on the ground, the same chestnut color as the furniture, but shaped like a rabbit, with a very long tail.

"Number Sixty-Six?"

This was precisely Dong Rui's Yao Puppet, Number Sixty-Six.

Because Number Sixty-Six's temperament differed from other Yao Puppets, being quite stable, Dong Rui before leaving Ju City this time left it with Du Shan as a pet/guard; Du Shan had also carefully raised it, and when free always liked to hold it in his arms.

But it was usually lazy and gluttonous, not even liking to get off the furniture, able to lie on the roof for two or three days without moving. Du Shan had only fed it for two months, and Number Sixty-Six had visibly grown two sizes fatter; now it was just like a big fat rabbit.

Tonight it had also been squinting its eyes dozing on the side chair. Du Shan had never seen it act, but now it turned its head, and in its mouth it was holding a spider.

Just bitten to death.

It threw the spider on the ground.

"This thing————?"

The spider's body was bitten through, green juice flowing onto the ground. But with two hissing sounds, the bluestone floor tiles were corroded into several small holes!

Du Shan's complexion instantly turned very ugly.

If not for Number Sixty-Six intercepting it, this spider's venom striking his body, his face would have ended up like these floor tiles.

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