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Chapter 2388 Two Traps on a Five-Zhang Road
Chapter 2388 Two Traps on the Five-Zhang Road
The Bear King roared a few times to stop them, but the demons, who were usually more obedient than dogs, ignored him and went about their own business. After it finished roaring, it felt a chill in its nostrils and sneezed. For some reason, the more it looked at the little stone man on its shoulder, the more it disliked him. The old resentment of being disliked and punished by the Earth Mother welled up in its heart.
Mother Earth glanced at it sideways: "What, are you going crazy too?"
When Mother Earth turned her back, the Bear King felt a chill in his heart, as if ice water had been poured over his head, and his frenzied energy was suppressed.
It is highly skilled in Taoism and has been immersed in the majesty of the Earth Mother for too long, so it has not completely lost its mind.
However, many monsters went mad and launched indiscriminate attacks on their companions. In such a confined area, this chaos thwarted the Earth Mother's offensive.
"What on earth is causing this?" The little stone man tilted his head, the light in his eyes turned black, and the scene in front of him suddenly turned black as well. All living things in his eyes turned red and orange.
Then, the Earth Mother's clone saw grayish-white things floating in the air. Some had no legs and looked like maggots, some had too many legs and looked like centipedes, some slithered sideways like crabs, and some looked like small skeletons, but were just skin and bones.
They fly through the air and burrow into the seven orifices of the monsters. Once inside, the monster will most likely go mad.
What is this thing? Why does it look so familiar? And it's invisible to the naked eye. Fortunately, Mother Earth has some special supernatural powers.
It casually cast two spells, but they both passed right through the creatures' bodies without causing them any harm.
The stone man tilted his head, deep in thought.
An extraordinary object that can drive monsters mad but is unaffected by ordinary supernatural powers.
After defeating the two mad gray wolves, the wolf king suddenly spoke up: "The two humans from Blackwater City told me that the Panlong Desert used to have a gale season every year. In addition to the gale, mortals who entered the desert would go mad and die."
"The Three Corpse Worms!" The Earth Mother understood. The two prisoners had also mentioned that when Sun Fuping led them into the Panlong Desert, they had to take calming and soothing medicine to resist the invasion of the Three Corpse Worms. This thing was also a kind of inner demon, but the monsters were unfamiliar with it.
Once their true nature was identified, the next step was easy. The stone man took out a translucent jade bottle, plucked a blade of grass from his body, threw it in, and stirred it. The blade was then covered in dew.
It said to the Bear King:
"blow!"
With a roar, the Bear King unleashed a powerful gust of air from its chest, turning the dewdrops on the grass into a pale green mist that drifted forward.
A strange scene unfolded: the red light in the eyes of any monster shrouded in mist dimmed instantly, and its ferocious attacks slowed down.
A few breaths later, they stopped moving and looked at each other.
Once they regained their senses, they were all completely bewildered, having no idea what had just happened.
In the eyes of the stone man, the mist caused the three corpse worms to crawl out of the monsters' seven orifices and flee in all directions, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
This is the dew it usually collects from the golden lotus, which unexpectedly comes in very handy here.
Although the Earth Mother's countermeasures were timely, the demon army had already suffered losses, with many killed or wounded.
"Hurry up, keep going!"
Fortunately, the Earth Mother's power to deter the demons was very strong, and the demon army soon recovered from the chaos and continued to advance.
The two large stone balls rolling at the front were almost there. Mother Earth also realized that the passage was actually not long; they would be back on the surface in about ten more zhang (approximately 33 meters).
However, after the demon army had advanced another few feet, several demons suddenly felt their feet go weak, as if they had stepped on something they shouldn't have.
"Trap..." They were also alert and immediately raised their voices to signal.
But before the word "trap" could be uttered, a series of eerie howls and screams suddenly erupted from inside the tunnel.
It was a true wail of ghosts and wolves, shrill, loud, and piercing!
The tunnel was originally quite quiet, but the sudden switch from extreme quiet to extreme noise, with a loud bang right next to their ears, left many monsters feeling dizzy and disoriented!
Furthermore, the tunnel is a relatively enclosed space, so the sound cannot travel out at all. Instead, it is reflected off the rock walls and becomes surround sound, doubly stimulating the eardrums.
The person who set this trap was also malicious, and even used supernatural powers to amplify its sound effects.
Some monsters with sensitive hearing collapsed on the spot, some falling into a coma, others dying, with blood flowing from their ears.
"Ghost Silk Child!" Several demon generals and leaders rushed forward, pulled out more than a dozen radish-like things from the ground, and broke them in half on the spot.
The noise, a hundred times sharper than a baby's cry, finally subsided.
But many monsters shook their heads desperately, yet still experienced ringing in their ears, as if the screams were still lingering in their ears, unable to dissipate for a long time.
This ghost child wasn't particularly terrifying to begin with, but placed in this enclosed tunnel, it truly made a six-fold difference in effectiveness with only two parts of its power.
Emerging from the secret chamber, they had only walked five zhang (approximately 10 meters) when they were ambushed twice, resulting in casualties. The remaining passage was another ten zhang (approximately 30 meters), and who knew what other surprises the enemy had laid for them? Even the boar demons hesitated, unwilling to take another step.
They are only thick-skinned; they are not immune to sound wave attacks.
"Enough! Get out of the way!" The Earth Mother's clone was furious at their dawdling and inflexible manner. "Let's break through to the top!"
Having said that, it jumped off the bear king's shoulder, and its body began to emit a black light.
The Mother Goddess is about to make her move! The demons were very experienced, and upon seeing this, they retreated desperately, even though the place was narrow, they made sure to give the Earth Mother's clone space to retreat more than two zhang away.
Then they all knelt down and lay prostrate on the ground. Those who were too close to Mother Earth could only pray for their own good fortune.
Mother Earth's form began to grow larger and larger!
When it was still a tiny stone figure the size of a palm, it had a somewhat cute appearance. But after its size was magnified a thousand times, it was nothing but terrifying!
Several monsters nearby had nowhere to hide and were crushed into meat patties by it.
The soil and rock layers here are unusually hard, and the Earth Mother's avatar encountered stubborn resistance when it broke through upwards.
But almost no rock formation could withstand its force; Mother Earth roared and thrust upwards with tremendous force—
With a loud crash, the ground was blasted open.
It used its own strength to carve out a huge skylight between the passage and the ground.
Of course, the most direct consequence of doing so was that the soil and rock above collapsed, causing the passage to cave in and burying the entire demon army.
However, how could a monster's body be as fragile as a mortal's? Just a dozen breaths later, the collapsed pile of sand and gravel began to stir, and the monsters emerged from below, starting to climb upwards.
The Earth Mother's clone was the first to come up and look around.
As the final boss of this operation, it shouldn't have taken action so quickly, not because of prestige, but because its power should have been reserved for dealing with emergencies or powerful opponents.
(End of this chapter)