Chapter 223 Sand Disaster_2
As a promising protege of the Spirit Profound Peak, Chen Mu was only at the Five Viscera Realm, but facing a Sixth Rank Great Demon, he certainly had the power to fight, or at least could delay and resist until the arrival of other protectors from the Seven Profound Sect, or until Xiahou Yan was freed to deal with it.
However, sending Chen Mu was ultimately a risky move, especially since dealing with a Sixth Rank Great Demon amid a sandstorm disaster was perilous, and no one could be sure if there would be any unexpected situations.
"North seventy-seven pass?"
Chen Mu had just withdrawn his hand from the Earthly Elemental Stone and spoke in a calm voice.
"Yes..."
Liu Jing looked at Chen Mu and immediately responded, about to say something when he saw that Chen Mu had already started moving upwards, disappearing into the stone house within a few steps.
He was slightly startled and hurriedly followed a few steps: "Protector Chen, better safe than sorry, if it's not feasible, just abandon the pass!"
But Chen Mu was already out of sight, only his voice echoed along the spiraling upward passage.
Seeing that Chen Mu had left.
Liu Jing could not help but shake his head and give a bitter smile.
This prodigy of the Spirit Profound Peak was indeed decisive. Facing the assault of a Sixth Rank Great Demon, he showed no fear and just went ahead. Perhaps, that was the pride of a brilliant individual. One could only hope nothing would go wrong.
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Yunlu Pass.
North seventy-seven pass.
This place was already one of the most northern passes of Yunlu Pass, a few dozen miles further north, and it would cross into the borders of Ice State.
The climate here, besides the endless yellow sand, had also noticeably gotten colder.
At that moment,
Dark clouds covered the sky, and a sandstorm of yellow sand whirled around, the storm lifting sand hundreds of meters high, surpassing the towering Yunlu Wall and completely engulfing the pass above the Yunlu Wall, making it nearly impossible to open one's eyes.
In this fierce sandstorm, about a dozen Great Demons were struggling to climb the towering Yunlu Wall, one of which had already reached the top of the Yunlu Wall and entered inside the pass, roaring amidst the swirling dust.
"Roar!"
Its eyes blood-red, it lunged toward a nearby dome-shaped building, then with a fierce swipe of its claws, the entire building collapsed and shattered.
However, there was no one inside.
Not just inside this dome-shaped building, the entire pass seemed to be empty at the moment.
The other small passes of the Yunlu Pass, besides the main pass, were mainly for surveillance purposes, and the soldiers stationed there were not very strong, with commanders only being at the Tendon Changing Realm.
Against sandstorms with Second and Third Rank Great Demons, they could hold off for a bit, but once Fourth Rank or higher Great Demons appeared, they would immediately hide inside the buildings or even within the tunnels and stone caves carved into the Yunlu Wall.
The pass buildings constructed on the Yunlu Wall were not very sturdy.
But the Yunlu Wall itself, due to the flow of Earth Pulse's Power within, was extremely tough!
Even Fifth Rank or Sixth Rank Great Demons would find it hard to forcefully tear it down.
At that moment.
In a cramped stone chamber, over twenty soldiers were huddled around a small piece of Earthly Elemental Stone in the center.
"Damn it, are you sure you saw right, really a Sixth Rank Great Demon?"
"No mistake, it's definitely a Sixth Rank Sand Demon."
"What good does it do if you saw wrongly? The signal has been sent out for half a moment now... I hope the arrangements above can hold them off a little longer."
All the soldiers were extremely tense at that moment.
The pass building had a special arrangement, inside there were some special Medicinal Powders that aggravated the Great Demons, making them more irate and causing destruction to the buildings above, thereby delaying them at the pass.
But the problem was that the demonic creatures that had come this time were too horrifying, being of the Sixth Rank, it could be said that fortune was not on their side!
After all, there were more than a hundred passes in total in Yunlu Pass, counting both the north and south, and even during the sand disaster, encounters with Sixth Rank demonic creatures were rare; most were just sandstorms carrying a few Second or Third Rank demonic creatures.
A Sixth Rank Great Demon, in the several hundred li of Yunlu Pass, was a terrifying existence that only Xiahou Yan, the protector, could handle.
Crucially, their location was one of the most remote outposts, hundreds of li away from Yunlu Pass; even if Xiahou Yan rushed over, it would take nearly a quarter of an hour, and from the moment they realized something was wrong and sent out an urgent report to the arrival of the sandstorm, only a quarter of an hour had passed.
Now the demonic creature was wreaking havoc, destroying the pass.
No one knew whether they could hide for another quarter of an hour.
Noises from above came from time to time, making everyone even more anxious and uneasy.
Almost another quarter of an hour had passed when suddenly, from the stone chamber tunnel above everyone's heads, a loud boom was heard as the sealed roof was viciously torn open by a fierce force!
In an instant, a great deal of dust and sand poured down the tunnel, accompanied by a suffocating demonic might. Everyone saw a huge head appear outside the cave, staring into the tunnel at the stone chamber where everyone was hiding.
This was bad.
The many soldiers inside the stone chamber were all utterly horrified.
Although there were arrangements outside and inside, along with Medicinal Powder to conceal their scent, against Fifth or even Sixth Rank demonic creatures, it was very difficult to hide, not to mention hoping to keep hidden for a long time.
"Sand Python..."
Twenty-odd soldiers, along with the leading Colonel, were all so terrified that they dared not breathe.
This was not the Sixth Rank demonic creature, but a Fifth Rank Sand Python, which for them was equally a terrifying existence that was utterly impossible to confront; even Colonel Zhang Yong, a Martial Man from the Tendon Changing Realm, was nothing but an ant before it.
What was even more despairing was that, at this time, it seemed unlikely that anyone from the main pass could arrive in time!
Boom!
A loud boom was heard.
The massive Sand Python, with its thick forked tongue, fiercely slammed its head toward the tunnel, attempting to enter the stone chamber, but its large size meant the tunnel boomed loudly and even burst apart a section, yet it still could not get through.
The stone chamber was located within the Yunlu Wall, and the Wall's interior flowed with the Power of Earth's Veins, making it much more robust than the structures above at the passes, not something that could be casually torn apart.
"Hiss."
The Sand Python slammed several more times without being able to forcefully penetrate, although it did break some of the edges. But since the tunnel was long, forcing its way in was clearly not something that could be accomplished quickly.
It vigorously shook its head, and a human-like frustration seemed to appear in its serpentine eyes. Then it flicked its tongue again, suddenly gathering a surge of demonic might. In an instant, a torrent of sand from all directions converged.
Zhang Yong and the others inside the stone chamber turned ashen at the sight.
This was what they feared!
It was okay for a Fourth Rank demonic creature; if it were large, it couldn't get in, but a Fifth Rank or higher demonic creature, which was like a Five Viscera Realm Martial Artist and possessed a similar 'demonic power' to Yuan Gang True Essence, could employ extraordinary methods.
Almost in the next moment, a flash of blood in the Sand Python's demonic eyes, and the converging sandstorm transformed into a mighty torrent that burst forth toward the tunnel, about to pour into it.
But.
It was at that moment.
Under the fearful gazes of Zhang Yong and the other soldiers, a streak of light suddenly came from far away, arriving just before the surging sand flow, and abruptly pinned itself at the mouth of the tunnel!
The torrent of sand falling through that streak of light shattered and dispersed piece by piece, not a single clump of sand able to enter the tunnel or fall into the stone chamber, all were completely blocked by that stroke of light.
"That is..."
Zhang Yong and the others all displayed relief.
Because they clearly saw that what pinned itself on the tunnel, blocking all the sand flow, was unmistakably a knife!
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A knife glowing with specks of red light!