Dragon Tamer

Chapter 584: Chapter 586 Earth Demon King
 

“Your lunch has arrived, enjoy it to your heart’s content!”

The stone statue giants mercilessly trampled the Li Chuan soldiers. Not to mention the elite soldiers, even cultivators couldn’t withstand such crushing stomps from the stone statue giants!

Hundreds of city-state giant statues began their slaughter, their strength so immense that even full-force strikes from King Level Realm Experts couldn’t deal significant damage to them. Perhaps for Dragon Shepherds and God and Mortals with higher cultivation bases, they were somewhat clumsy and couldn’t threaten their lives, but for teams with lower cultivation, as well as army guards and soldiers, it was as if the God of Death had descended!!

The cold wind howled, and the Absolute Ridge City-State stood upon the flat silvery mountain ridges, the human tide streaming slowly through the strong winds like layers of gravel atop a Gobi, while the statues were like huge boulders, unmoved.

The gap in strength was too vast, with more and more people dying under the trampling of the city-state giant statues. People had no idea what kind of power this was or how to kill these beings, and even the powerful figures from the major factions were at a loss on how to deal with these stone statues mercilessly slaughtering the Li Chuan punitive forces.

In the city, a giant statue roared, rampaging and randomly smashing the ground, and the army guards being trampled belonged to Zheng Yu, identifiable by their dark brown breastplates.

Different from the other armies trampled into disorder, the dark brown army guards led by Zheng Yu remained orderly amid the crisis, using a diversion tactic to lure one of the rampaging giant statues into a trap and shattered it.

The tactic was simple: when a giant statue pursued one of the teams, the team’s path of escape would split in two. If the city-state giant statue chose one of the splinter teams to chase down, then that team would again split into two groups and flee in different directions.

In this way, each time that a city-state giant statue chose a target, it would be distracted, and its speed would inadvertently slow down, making the chance of successfully capturing one of the teams very low, and even if one group had no escape, those who died would still be in the minority.

“The other armies are too dispersed; my Chessboard Shadow Formation can’t cover them, and four city-state giant statues in the southeast and due north are blocking the key nodes of the chess formation,” Zheng Yu said as he surveyed the area from his vantage point and found that the troops had been severely scattered.

His Chessboard Shadow Formation could cover several kilometers. After all, the diversion tactic was a very simple formation, which allowed Zheng Yu to guide more soldiers on how to deal with these city-state giant statues using his own chess game formation.

As Zheng Yu pondered how to deploy his chess pieces, a noble dragon cloaked in blue flames charged down a side street of the city, and the rider atop this Fire Kirin Dragon was someone all too familiar!

“Brother Zhu!”

Zheng Yu hurriedly employed his chess technique, using phantom constellation tracks to guide the Fire Kirin Dragon closer to his location.

Zhu Minglang also quickly noticed this special chess formation drawing him in and followed the chessboard phantom right to where Zheng Yu was.

“Brother Zhu, please assist me. The army is scattered, and the generals have no way to deal with the Giant Ridge stone statues. Several nodes of my chessboard have been obstructed by the stone statues… those four city-state giant statues,” Zheng Yu said, foregoing any unnecessary words and immediately informing Zhu Minglang of his request.

“No worries, Heavenly Slaughter Dragon, Little Qingzhuo, you two head to the southeast and due north, respectively, and annihilate the stone statues there. Be aware that within the bodies of these statues resides an Earth Demon that must be killed,” Zhu Minglang instructed his Azure Dragon and Killing Dragon.

With two dragons escorting and the Kirin Dragon clearing the way, Zhu Minglang killed countless enemies along this path; their corpses could have probably amounted to a mountain. And that’s not to mention figures like Nan Xiong Peng Hu and the Old Servant Gardener, such formidable city-state generals!

The might of the Immortal Ghost far surpassed these city-state stone statues. With the strength of Little Qingzhuo and the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon, taking down two city-state giant statues wouldn’t be too difficult; it’s just that there were an enormous number of giant statues, and who knows how many Earth Demon Worms the city-state’s soil had reared. Those Giant Ridge Generals, those giant demons, and those living city-state giant statues, all were the work of these perverse Earth Demon Worms!

It must be that Absolute Ridge City-State knew of the coming Time Wave and understood how to make the most of the World Dragon Gate’s graciousness. They cultivated these Earth Demon Worms on a large scale, allowing them to gain power multiplied by tens or even hundreds of times that of their original strength in battle.

If there was a way to eradicate all the Earth Demon Worms in the soil at once, then the true powerhouses of the Absolute Ridge City-State would be left with no more than the Eight Elders, Four Braves, and Dual Chakravarti.

“Just how many Earth Demons have they raised? Since you claim that this Absolute Ridge City-State clan are wayward kin from your Ming Clan, does it mean that even rearing Earth Demons is a secret technique of your Ming Clan?” Zhu Minglang turned and asked the young Mingji.

The young Mingji was panting heavily with exhaustion. He dared not lose sight of Zhu Minglang and Nan Lingsha, using every ounce of energy he had to stay alive.

“The… Ming God Clan!” Despite nearly running himself to death, Mingji didn’t forget to remind Zhu Minglang who he was—someone of noble heritage from the Upper Realm, a descendant of gods. After catching his breath, he continued, “Our Ming God Clan is the epitome of the Upper Realm. How could we possibly nurture such vile and filthy creatures? In the illusory body cultivation system, there are many branches, including beast form, martial cultivator, body cultivation… But it’s exactly this kind of parasitic evil cultivation that we have discarded and fought against. Otherwise, why would our Ming God Clan eradicate this trash?”

“So what? Your Ming God Clan failed to clean house properly, letting them run over here to harm others?” Zhu Minglang retorted.

“Hmph, vermin always have their own filthy ways to live. They must have constantly soaked their bodies in blood and medicine, allowing their flesh to become suitable habitats for those Earth Demons, achieving a symbiotic relationship with the Earth Demons inside them,” stated the young Mingji.

“Can you say something useful? Is there any way to completely eradicate these Earth Demons? There are so many giant statues throughout the city, and if a statue breaks, those Earth Demons can just move to another host, or even directly take over the bodies of ordinary soldiers. They can’t be killed off; it’s a never-ending battle, and our casualties will only keep increasing over time,” Zhu Minglang said to Mingji.

“You saw it in the Earth Garden, there was an eyeball worm. That’s the leader of the Earth Demons. There are still so many powerful Earth Demons in Absolute Ridge City, which means that the eyeball worm from the Earth Garden is definitely not the strongest. There must be an Earth Demon King. If we can kill it, the rest of the Earth Demons are no different from slightly bigger earthworms,” explained the young Mingji.

As they spoke, the Azure Phoenix Dragon and Heavenly Slaughter Dragon had returned to Zhu Minglang’s side. The four towering and imposing City-State giants had been slain, including the Earth Demons hiding within them.

Earth Demons are blood-drinking creatures, and when they die, a substantial amount of living blood gushes out. However, the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon showed absolutely no interest in the blood of these Earth Demons.

Zhu Minglang inquired with the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon, and it responded that the blood of these Earth Demons was of very low quality, nowhere near the standard of the Ten Thousand Year Saint Spirits, and furthermore, the blood they consumed was filthy, which it did not like.

The Heavenly Slaughter Dragon…

As a vampire among dragons, it was unexpected that it would also have a sense of cleanliness.

However, from the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon’s reaction, Zhu Minglang also realized something.

After these Earth Demons parasitized the statues, they demonstrated power far beyond that of ten-thousand-year-old Holy Spirits, seemingly close to a standard of twenty-thousand-year-old creatures. So why was it that their blood, which flowed out after death, was of such low quality? It seemed superficially impressive.

Such a situation usually indicates a group effect where there is a Demon Emperor or Queen Bee within the group. These offspring derived from it may not be very strong on their own, but due to the presence of the Demon Emperor or Queen Bee, their power significantly increases within their territory.

It’s like the air currents that migrating birds follow, the swimming patterns that fish use to signal danger, bees working distinctly under the Queen Bee’s command…

Mingji’s words seemed to hold weight.

There existed an Earth Demon King among these Earth Demons.

If it could be killed, all the Earth Demons would be far less formidable than they are now.

So where was the Earth Demon King?

Zhu Minglang glanced instinctively at the city-state, at the towering fortress with a tall tower on top, which allowed one to survey the entire city-state.

There was a huge flock of Divine Birds around the fortress, making the massive fortress seem like a gigantic demon nest. From the outside, one couldn’t see clearly what was inside, let alone make out what or who was standing on the top of the fortress tower.

However, just as Zhu Minglang hesitated, he saw a familiar figure flying towards the fortress, surrounded by the dark swarm of witch birds. It was Li Yunzi!

“Brother Zhu, I’ll take care of these City-State giants,” Zheng Yu told Zhu Minglang.

The chessboard’s shadow formation had spread far and wide, encompassing the entire urban area within Zheng Yu’s control. Although it wasn’t guaranteed that every soldier would move according to the chessboard layout, the guidance was enough to prevent them from being utterly defenseless against the City-State giants’ slaughter.

Zhu Minglang nodded. Killing each City-State giant individually was too time-consuming. Li Yunzi must have also realized the key to these giants’ strength and immortality lay at the fortress. The battle would only truly be won by dealing with the Earth Demon King.

“Let’s fly over directly,” Zhu Minglang said without wasting any further time. He jumped onto the back of the Heavenly Slaughter Dragon and motioned for Nan Yuso to do the same.

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