Chapter 783 - 778: Phantom of Emperor Qing
After walking for a while.
Leia finally couldn’t help but say, "But this isn’t the direction to the Miasma Spring!"
"Mm, this is the direction to the Palace of Roots."
Bai Pu didn’t hide it, but he gave the reason before Leia could get upset.
"The straight-line distance between the Palace of Roots and the Miasma Spring is about fifty kilometers. Within a hundred kilometers of the Palace of Roots, there are no other major demon strongholds."
"What do you mean?" Leia asked.
"It means that if Dongbo Cheng and I launch a surprise attack on the Palace of Roots, the only Demon General who can be dispatched within a hundred kilometers to support is just the Demon Throat — the guardian demon of the Palace of Roots has been lured into the Demon Bone Dao, and there’s no way they can make it back in time."
Bai Pu said calmly, "Leia, if I were you, I would now infiltrate the area around the Miasma Spring and calculate the earth vein data. When the Demon Throat is dispatched to the Palace of Roots, you can plant the bombs, destroy the Miasma Spring, and complete your Major General trial task."
Leia put away her smile and said seriously, "Bai Yujing... I hope you take into account Rein’s involvement and cooperate seriously to help me complete the task, rather than making me cooperate with you."
Bai Pu sighed, "I’ve been cooperating with you very much, clearly informing you of the departure time and when to plant the bombs... Leia, if you’re not satisfied, can you leave me a communication device so we can sync our timing remotely?"
Leia took a deep breath and handed over a conch shell device:
"Use this to contact me, it’s effective within a straight-line distance of one hundred kilometers... but it can only be used three times, so use it sparingly."
Bai Pu put away the conch shell and watched Leia’s figure slowly disappear, then turned his back to Dongbo Cheng and strode toward the direction of the Palace of Roots.
"Your alias is Bai Yujing?" Dongbo Cheng laughed, "I think this name sounds better than Gangxin."
"A name is just a code, it’s not important." Bai Pu thought Dongbo Cheng was a bit boring.
Dongbo Cheng continued to ask, "That woman just now said something, but I only heard one thing clearly. She wants you to wait for her time to act and cooperate with her, right?"
"Mm." Bai Pu didn’t know how much Dongbo Cheng could hear because Leia and his conversation involved some content related to the World Mystery, which should be filtered for Dongbo Cheng.
"So are you leaving now? Not waiting for that woman’s notice?" Dongbo Cheng asked with a smile.
"No need, actually I’ve already calculated the time, it’s her who doesn’t trust me enough. She wants me to cause a commotion in the Palace of Roots to lure away the Demon Throat when she gets close to the Miasma Spring... In reality, from here when we split up, by the time we reach the Palace of Roots, she should already be at the Miasma Spring. The timing of the order from Emperor Qing, the route and time of the Demon Throat’s action, are all within my calculations."
"Really, you can even calculate Emperor Qing’s reaction speed?" Dongbo Cheng expressed disbelief.
"When we escaped from the Palace of Roots, Emperor Qing actually had already given an order through something like a Phantom Clone of the Palace of Roots. From the issuance of this order, I could determine the threshold value and reaction speed for Emperor Qing’s phantom to give orders... With that parameter, it’s not difficult to calculate."
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Just as Bai Pu had predicted, as soon as Bai Pu arrived at the Palace of Roots, he received a message from Leia:
"I’m in position, you can act now."
Bai Pu ignored Dongbo Cheng’s astonished gaze, directly leaping into the battlefield of the Palace of Roots, and with a punch, the wooden gate of the Palace of Roots collapsed with a bang.
"Where is the White Dragon Fang?" Bai Pu knew that Dongbo Cheng, with the White Dragon Fang’s sword scabbard, could sense the general location of this ancestral weapon.
"In the northern part of the Palace of Roots... go forward and then turn right..."
Dongbo Cheng was holding that piece of the sword scabbard in his hand. At this moment, he had already recovered part of his combat power, following behind Bai Pu.
The elite demon forces of the Palace of Roots had been completely dispatched, and those left were almost all the old, weak, sick, and disabled.
Bai Pu didn’t even need to take out his weapon, nor did he need to expend Professional Energy. Dealing with these ordinary templates, or even those that couldn’t reach ordinary templates, "cannon fodder" demons, he casually punched and kicked, sending visible Gang Wind ripples, and the demons standing in front were either sent flying or killed on the spot.
Dongbo Cheng leisurely followed behind, reporting the position.
Soon, the two arrived at the wooden hall in the north of the Palace of Roots. As they looked around, the contours of large tree rings were visible on the dome, walls, and even the floor of the hall.
The entire palace of the Palace of Roots seemed to be carved out from the center part of an unimaginably large ancient tree.
"Strange, it’s supposed to be here... why can’t we find it?"
Dongbo Cheng held the White Dragon Fang’s sword scabbard, looking around somewhat puzzled.
He walked to the northernmost wall of the hall, gently knocking on the wooden wall. A hollow echo returned from behind the wall.
"That’s right, it’s here!"
Dongbo Cheng’s spirit lifted, and he drew the Peacock Feather, sweeping his sword horizontally!
A pale cyan Sword Qi slashed horizontally.
However, in the next second, both Bai Pu and Dongbo Cheng’s faces changed!
A terrible spiritual pressure descended, and on the northern wall, a three-meter-tall phantom of a demon with blue hair and green eyes faintly appeared.
The pale cyan Sword Qi landed on the demon phantom, causing a flash of blue-green demonic power light, rendering Dongbo Cheng’s attack ineffectual.
The blue-haired green-eyed demon phantom needed no introduction.
This level of pressure from a phantom was undoubtedly Emperor Qing!
"It’s you... descendants of the Cyan Dragon, and the Demon Control Master who killed the Red Emperor..."
Emperor Qing spoke with enunciation much clearer than his subordinates’ Demon Generals, "Withered Wood and Ghost Vine, those two fools, were toyed with by you. You dare to come here, are you looking for the Cyan Dragon’s relic?"
"That’s right!" Facing the immense pressure from Emperor Qing, Dongbo Cheng gritted his teeth and said, "I need to find my ancestor’s sword!"
"Heh heh heh... not possible. Even if the Palace of Roots is an empty city, you won’t be able to break the barrier I left behind!"
Emperor Qing’s presence here was merely a phantom; beyond spiritual pressure, it held no combat ability, and was effectively a backdrop.
Dongbo Cheng swung his longsword again, and the fine cyan Sword Qi formed into a chaotic torrent of falling leaves, sweeping toward the wall.
Dancing Wind Secret Sword Art - Wind Dance Leaf!
However, the blue-green demonic power light flashed again, completely dispelling the approaching Wind Dance Leaf Sword Qi.
The wall remained motionless.
Dongbo Cheng took a breath, and was about to unleash the full power of the Peacock Feather!
"Dongbo, wait a moment."
Bai Pu patted Dongbo Cheng on the shoulder, "I’ve been observing. The power source of this demonic power barrier isn’t just present here; there are multiple connecting points! To break it, brute force won’t work."
At that moment, Leia’s transmission came through, the voice urgent:
"Bai Yujing! Near the spring eye of the Miasma Spring, a layer of blue-green barrier appeared, protecting the earth vein! My bombs are planted but can’t detonate!"