Chapter 3162: The Mantis Stalks the Cicada

Because the time was short and the mission heavy, and the entire journey had to be flown straight through, this sniping mission had no ground troops participating, losing much cover.

When arranging personnel, Helu Tian also felt stretched thin. There were only a dozen or so Great Heavenly Demons in total; if they covered Mount Xushan they couldn't cover the other end, and She had to exert utmost maneuvering ability. Alas, how he missed the good old days when the Lingxu multitude possessed thirty-six Great Heavenly Gods.

Back then they had Jialou Tian, Miaozhan Tian, Baizhan Tian...

If that lineup descended to the mortal world, the human realm would be instantly defeated.

After the Heavenly Demons shifted their attack focus to the southwest army, they had originally brought seven or eight Great Heavenly Demons; this time they came out in full force, first intercepting Mou Di and then the rest were urgently transferred from the north.

And the five Great Heavenly Demons originally attacking Mount Xushan, like Baosha Tian, also quickly withdrew, lying in ambush in the Thousand Pines Forest.

The five Great Heavenly Demons huddled together, able to advance and attack, retreat and defend, with very high safety.

This forest land, by sheer coincidence, was precisely the place where Shuangye had previously intercepted Pili Tian and the Eye of Fear.

Mou Di leading the host of immortals flying was like over a hundred streaks of meteors flashing across the sky, extremely conspicuous. Ten Great Heavenly Demons leading their forces to intercept, their might even more prominent, and they had set up a half-circle ambush formation, just waiting to outflank. However, the host of immortals saw the Heavenly Demon army's imposing momentum from afar and did not engage head-on, immediately scattering to fly in all directions. Quite a few immortals were encircled by Heavenly Demons and one after another employed teleportation divine abilities or formations, focusing entirely on not looking back, not entangling in combat, flying chaotically like headless flies, utterly without order.

It looked exactly like they were scared out of their wits.

The battlefield was extremely chaotic, and high in the sky it was impossible to set up anti-teleportation barriers.

The Great Heavenly Demons' main target was not them, but the three Great True Immortals. Yet after a chase, no one caught sight of Mou Di's figure. As the on-site supreme commander, Helu Tian knew in his heart that things were bad. Where exactly were those three Great True Immortals?

Thousand Pines Forest.

The five Great Heavenly Demons including Baosha Tian had lain in wait in the forest for less than a quarter-hour when they saw several hundred streaks of rainbow light flying in from the northern sky.

"Mount Xushan's reinforcements sent to Mou Di!" Baosha Tian's spirits lifted. "Our prey has arrived!"

Chi and Helu Tian maintained contact, knowing the latter and Mou Di's group of immortals were currently playing a game of hawk catching chickens in the sky.

Now, it was their turn.

"Oh, isn't that the Qinhai Yaksha King? And there's a Celestial Phoenix too!" Baosha Tian swept a glance and knew Mount Xushan's dispatched reinforcements were weaker than his own side; it looked like there were only four or five True Immortals, and six hundred-plus immortals.

No help for it; the War Alliance's number of True Immortals was originally far fewer than the Heavenly Demon side, and Mount Xushan still had to leave a few to hold the fort, to prevent Helu Tian from launching a sneak attack, so the number of True Immortals that could be dispatched to support the southwest was limited.

And Mount Xushan's purpose in dispatching True Immortals was also not to defeat the enemy, but to rescue Mou Di and the other two Great True Immortals from the Heavenly Demons' hands.

Four plus three makes seven Great True Immortals. Seven Great True Immortals against ten Great Heavenly Demons — even if they can't win, they can escape.

The Yuan Qi surge hasn't passed the halfway mark yet; they are no match for our side! Baosha Tian waved his arm:

"Attack!" The Qinhai Yaksha King had previously poked a big hole in Chi's lower back; now it was Chi's turn for revenge!

The five Great Heavenly Demons brought along fifteen hundred companions, vast and mighty, ascending to the heavens, heading straight for Mount Xushan's reinforcements.

Yuanling and the others on the opposite side faced them without fear, meeting them head-on.

The moment the two sides clashed they fought fiercely; from time to time a Heavenly Demon or an immortal was struck down.

Baosha Tian blocked the Qinhai Yaksha King's steel fork, the magical artifacts dancing around him about to counterattack, when he suddenly felt a pang of heart palpitations, and the divine ability he launched drained away. The other Heavenly Demons fared even worse; some flew about in disorder, some plummeted straight to the ground, the originally neat battle formation was instantly thrown into chaos. This kind of power...

"Eye of Fear!" Baosha Tian shouted loudly. "Calm your minds and concentrate, don't let fear seize you!"

Among these several hundred immortals, there was actually an Eye of Fear hidden!

Mortals would be scared to death alive by the God of Fear, but Heavenly Demons have strong wills, especially Great Heavenly Demons — as long as they are not singled out by the Eye of Fear, they will not enter a rigid fear state.

However, just as the Eye of Fear took effect, a monster that looked like a toad but wasn't a toad, like a snail but wasn't a snail, suddenly burrowed out of the ground in the Thousand Pines Forest. It was very bulky, but emerged soundlessly, its camouflage colors blending seamlessly with the ground, and the immortals and demons fighting fiercely in the sky didn't notice its appearance.

Snail-Toad!

Over these twenty-plus years, Dong Rui had carried out countless versions of improvements on it, making its load capacity greater, its tunneling speed faster, less affected by terrain, and able to orient itself underground.

It can restrain its demonic qi and conceal its form; even if other immortals' divine sense sweeps over it, they would only take it for a rock. After the Snail-Toad showed itself, its shell flipped upward, and several dozen beams of light soared skyward, instantly joining the battlefield.

Baosha Tian was in the midst of collecting his mind to defend against the Qinhai Yaksha King's sneak attack, when unexpectedly a chill ran down his back, and even his godhead was frantically warning him. He didn't even have time to think carefully, immediately swapping his own position with that of a magical artifact fifteen zhang away. When he looked back, he saw a snow-bright, peerless huge white light brush past his original position, slicing three Heavenly Demons not far away into two halves in one breath!

Heaven Surplus Sword? He recognized it at once — this was Old Ancestor Wuhuan's natal magical artifact!!

Wrong. Mou Di has already been intercepted by Helu Tian; how could he suddenly appear here?

Baosha Tian looked down and happened to see those several dozen beams of light rushing over; when he made out the faces of the leaders, cold sweat broke out on his back: not only Mou Di, but also the Azure Qilin, and also that black-armored, black-helmeted, crimson-cloaked, face-full-of-sinister-venom one

Nine Nether Great Emperor!

A trap! They had fallen into the enemy's scheme.

The moment he saw the Nine Nether Great Emperor, Baosha Tian immediately issued a retreat order, while simultaneously trying to contact Helu Tian long-distance for emergency reinforcements.

But the black mist behind the Nine Nether Great Emperor suddenly exploded, in an instant covering a radius of a thousand zhang.

Baosha Tian's long-distance divine ability hadn't even had time to connect before it was blocked; his heart couldn't help but sink into a wave of despair:

Damn it, without Helu Tian's godhead "Cloud Palace", what do we have to counter the Nine Nether Great Emperor's Dark Heavenly Curtain?

Two quarter-hours later. When the Qinhai Yaksha King once again pulled the trident out of Baosha Tian's back, this encounter battle was declared over.

Three of the five Great Heavenly Demons died; three hundred-plus Heavenly Demons were also killed; the other two Great Heavenly Demons led the remaining Heavenly Demons in a hasty retreat.

The reason for the brilliant battle results was attributed to two major causes. First, the Yuan Qi surged rapidly; the Yuan Qi rise in this half-hour was faster than the previous four-plus hours combined, obviously under the Dragon God's efforts the law restoration would get faster and faster towards the end.

The estimate by Full Moon Great Shaman and Red General was very accurate — just five hours and up.

The other reason was that the Nine Nether Great Emperor's side had more top-tier combat power!

Besides Yuanling, Shuangye and the other three True Immortals who flew normally as reinforcements, there were also the Nine Nether Great Emperor and four other powerhouses.

The group of immortals intercepted by Helu Tian was real, but also a smokescreen, because among them there was no Mou Di.