Chapter 862 - 850: Mirage
Mist Ridge Edge.
On the endless wilderness, blood-red seawater can be seen everywhere, quietly spreading over time.
In a certain part of the wilderness, a black armored figure floats in mid-air. He has no hair, no ears, no mouth, no nose, only a pair of eyes on his pale face.
Behind him, the sky splits open with a blood-red hole. Various fierce demons such as nine-headed serpents, three-headed birds, three-eyed giants, and hundred-meter apes crawl out of the large hole, filling the sky behind the figure.
"Indeed, to enter the Yama Cave Heaven, we still need you Yama clansmen." The figure looks down at Lan Zhang, the air around him trembling, speaking softly.
Lan Zhang hears this and squints his eyes.
The mantis stalks the cicada, unaware of the oriole behind.
He never expected that Mo Nuo General would pay such attention to him. As soon as he opened the Yama Cave Heaven, the enemy found him and completely opened the Yama Cave Heaven through the path he opened.
"Unwilling?" Mo Nuo General looks calmly at Lan Zhang.
"Hold it in." He speaks softly.
The sinister expression in Lan Zhang's crystal-red eyes flashes and disappears.
"Be honest, follow along, there will be rewards after this is done."
"Otherwise..." Mo Nuo General glances at Lan Zhang, retracts his gaze, and looks toward the distant blood-etched black sky.
"Hundreds of years of plotting have finally reached the harvest time."
"As long as the Yama Spirit Mechanism is sacrificed to the Great Nether Venerable, no one can seize my General position thereafter."
Mo Nuo's eyes that are usually cold can't help but reflect a trace of excitement.
...
White Bird City.
Looking at the sky above, full of blood-red cracks, like countless black shattered porcelain pieces.
Chen Mu has a calm face, even feeling somewhat speechless, wanting to laugh.
So many years of cultivation, he never experiences true stability.
Coming to Mist Ridge also brings constant trouble, now merely a bigger change.
Woo woo woo...
A series of strange whistles suddenly erupt.
Chen Mu snaps back to reality, seeing blood lights piercing through the Mist of Confusion in the sky. Black monstrous birds, wings spanning two to three meters with three eyes, descend like a swarm of arrows from the sky.
Their eyes are blood-red, bodies rise with blood-red vigorous qi, rapidly diving toward White Bird City. The air is pierced, emitting sharp explosive sounds.
Chen Mu observes the monstrous birds covering the sky, enchanting god qi mechanism soaring to the sky.
Buzz!
The three-eyed monstrous bird's straight arrow-like form suddenly becomes dizzy, collapsing into a ball. What was originally like thousands of arrows fired simultaneously turns into chaos, descending like dumplings in a free fall.
Chen Mu clenches his right fist.
Nightmare Victory Spell encompasses the sky along with the enchanting god qi mechanism, followed by Seven Emotions Flame.
Boom!
The monstrous birds covering the sky suddenly turn into one fireball after another.
Bang bang bang…
The fireballs hit the ground, instantly shattering into countless ashes, smoke and dust rise throughout White Bird City.
Chen Mu shows no joy, glances briefly, then looks toward the distant horizon.
The sky's Mist of Confusion becomes more sparse, clusters of blood-red flames rapidly fall from the increasingly large cracks. From afar, it looks like a blood-red meteor shower.
Even from a distance, Chen Mu can faintly sense the intense life rhythm emitted by the blood-red meteors.
In comparison, those three-eyed monstrous birds were nothing but worms.
"Fortunately, they have no interest in White Bird City."
Chen Mu feels relieved.
He wonders who the demon's attack targets are.
A huge buzzing sound arises from deep within Mist Ridge, and a towering tree shadow suddenly appears in the distant sky.
Its trunk is rough and black, its crown red like fire, seen from afar, it looks like a giant torch.
"Moonwort Tree King?"
"Mist Mirage?"
"Why did this thing appear?" Chen Mu wonders.
In the next instant, he sees the center of the Moonwort Tree's trunk splitting open, revealing a large mouth full of sharp teeth.
The large mouth takes a sudden breath, countless Mist of Confusion rushing into the Moon Ranking Tree's body. The originally illusory mirage turns instantly real, becoming an actual enormous entity!
Roar…
The sharp-toothed mouth exhales, circles of invisible vigorous qi spread from the Moonwort Tree King, expanding in all directions.
The blood-red meteors falling from the sky seem to hit the hard ground.
With continuous detonations, resembling fireworks, they shatter in mid-air.
"The Mist Mirage, usually seen as a Mist Ridge wonder, can absorb the Mist of Confusion to become solid and even attack invading Nether Demon Heaven demons?"
"It's truly… incredible!"
Chen Mu can't help but widen his eyes.
...
A moment later.
The distant explosions gradually subside.
The first wave of invasion from Nether Demon Heaven gradually calms down.
Chen Mu reluctantly withdraws his gaze, performs Longitudinal Rainbow Light, arriving at White Bird City's edge.
Standing on a cliff tens of meters high, overlooking the formerly lush grassland now tinged with blood-red.
The blood-colored seawater with a faint fragrance silently spreads over the grassland.
"Nether Demon Heaven Blood Sea? It's been a long time."
"The Nether Demon Heaven demons invade from the sky, while the Blood Sea floods the ground."
"Mist Ridge is dangerous."
A gray wind flies in, Xu Gui runs hurriedly to Chen Mu's side.
"Let's run away!" He looks at the cracked sky, face full of panic, speaks with a shiver.
Indeed, it's time to escape.
Chen Mu nods slightly, silently operates Nine Cups Calculation Scripture.
No matter if it's the grassland direction or the Mist Ridge direction, danger lies. It's as if surrounded, no place is safe.
"Let's go there and take a look."
Chen Mu reluctantly looks at the distant Moonwort Tree King.
The great tree can repel the Nether Demon's invasion, providing temporary shelter.
"Just this time, I can't carry the entire White Bird City along."
"It's too conspicuous."
With a thought, a dark shadow appears at Chen Mu's feet.
It's like torrential black water, like a gradually unfolding black curtain, spreading all around, covering the entire White Bird City.
Where it passes, scraping the ground three inches, everything—people, objects, buildings, land—all disappear.
In no time, only a bowl-shaped pit, over thirty miles in diameter, remains.
A breeze blows, softly whistling.
In the once bustling White Bird City, only Chen Mu remains.
All residents and the core area of White Bird City have been absorbed into Thousand Lanterns City.
Chen Mu takes a deep breath, the dizziness from the large-scale opening of said Thousand Lanterns City gradually eases.
His consciousness sinks into Thousand Lanterns City.
Twenty-four Bright Pearls float in mid-air.
The Soul-Attracting Lamps originally hanging throughout White Bird City's streets are pulled to soar, shedding warm light, illuminating the entire Thousand Lanterns City.
Xu Gui, Cheng Hu, and others, having been instructed, are calming the city folk along with the City Defense Camp soldiers. Seeing the gradually settling crowd, Chen Mu also relaxes.
He had considered integrating White Bird City into Thousand Lanterns City before, this attempt proves feasible.
"Without Vital Energy supplementation, Yin Spirits cannot survive long-term."
"But temporary accommodation for White Bird City citizens is not a problem."
"Without the burden of a massive White Bird City, running will be more agile."
Chen Mu regains focus, looks toward the distant tree.
Seventy-two Vermilion Feather Swords as pathfinders quickly fly toward the Moonwort Tree King.
With a flash of gold, his figure follows, promptly disappearing.