The boulders thrown by the Flaming Guardian Ape continued to hit the protective shield of the Stronghold like meteors. Each time, the ground of the Stronghold trembled slightly.
Xia Pingan waited quietly in the Stronghold.
Apart from the Flaming Guardian Ape, the other zombies and larvae were unable to attack the Stronghold, nor did they dare to get too close. They seemed to have become numb to such attacks. Most of the zombies gathered in the barracks, while others wandered around the Stronghold and surrounded it.
A few hours later, the sky in the Spiritual Realm gradually darkened. After waiting for a while, a little bit of starlight appeared in the sky.
The starlight was the human spirits that had entered the Spiritual Realm.
As the sky darkened and the spirits appeared, the low-level larvae that had been entrenched in the sky above the Stronghold and in the barracks began to swim towards the stars that appeared in the sky. The Flaming Guardian Ape's attack frequency gradually slowed down, and then it stopped.
By the time the starry sky appeared, there were no longer any low-level larvae around the Stronghold. There were only zombies and monsters that looked like humans entrenched near the barracks. They even lit bonfires. From a distance, the barracks looked very lively and relaxed. The screams of the green-skinned zombies reverberated in the wilderness and could be heard from afar.
The huge Flaming Guardian Ape was still standing in the barracks, motionless, leaving only a huge shadow in the wilderness.
Xia Pingan was ready!
"Your Majesty, I will make the Stronghold's protective shield disappear temporarily in a moment. At the same time, I will send two Stone Guardians out of the Stronghold's main gate. When the Stronghold's protective shield disappears, Your Majesty can rush out from the side of the Stronghold, hide your figure, and approach the barracks from the side. The Stone Guardians will try their best to attract the attention of the zombies and larvae. However, if Your Majesty's whereabouts are revealed before you approach the barracks, or if you are surrounded in the barracks, it will be impossible. Your Majesty, please evacuate quickly!" Elder Mu said to Xia Pingan.
"Okay, I got it!" Xia Pingan nodded. "Get ready!" After saying that, Xia Pingan slid down from the gate tower and ran towards the side of the fortress. After being 4-5 kilometers away from the front of the fortress and away from the gazes of those zombies and monsters in the barracks, Xia Pingan stopped near the protective cover of the fortress. He then crouched on the ground and waited for the protective cover of the fortress to disappear.
After waiting for a few minutes, the protective shield of the fortress disappeared in an instant.
The moment the protective shield disappeared, Xia Pingan did not stand up. Instead, he rolled out of the fortress's protective area.
In the distance, opposite the fortress, the moment the protective shield disappeared, two stone guardians with glowing red eyes rushed out of the protective shield and strode towards the barracks in the distance.
The fortress's protective shield was too conspicuous, especially at night. Therefore, as soon as the protective shield disappeared, the zombies and monsters in the barracks who were wandering around and doing nothing immediately noticed the abnormality of the fortress. At the same time, they saw the two stone guardians rushing out of the fortress.
"Squeak squeak …" Those green-skinned zombies screeched and rushed towards the two stone guardians. The two sides quickly collided in the wilderness between the fortress and the barracks.
A fierce battle broke out in an instant!
The stone guardians strode forward and brandished the flail and heavy sword in their hands. In the blink of an eye, several green-skinned zombies in front of them were turned into meat paste.
The corpses in front of the Stone Protectors, especially the green-skinned corpses, simply weren't a match for the Stone Protectors. The Stone Protectors brandished their weapons and sent the green-skinned corpses flying one by one. Some of the green-skinned corpses were even lifted up by the Stone Protectors and stomped heavily on their bodies, causing them to explode.
As soon as the zombies died, the remaining soul power in their bodies floated like fireflies in the wilderness. In the blink of an eye, they were devoured by the other green-skinned zombies. It seemed that the stone guardians of the stronghold could not directly absorb the soul power of the zombies they killed, unlike the Spirit Herders.
Some green-skinned zombies even tore at each other in order to devour the soul force of their companions, causing quite a bit of chaos.
Two monster-like high-ranking beetles flew over from behind the zombies. With a strange roar, they pointed at the two stone guardians. The ground of the wilderness suddenly turned into a large area of quicksand. The two stone guardians were immediately trapped by the quicksand. Most of their feet sank into the quicksand and were unable to break free. They were completely trapped.
As the zombies rushed forward, the stone guardians trapped in the quicksand continued to brandish their weapons and kill the zombies that rushed over. However, the more the stone guardians moved, the deeper their bodies sank into the quicksand. Slowly, the quicksand had sunk up to the waist of the stone guardians …
A large group of zombies rushed over and gradually submerged the two stone guardians.
… …
At the same time, Xia Pingan was madly running through the wilderness. He hid in the gray fog and rushed towards the barracks from the side at his fastest speed.
All the zombies and beetles in the wilderness were distracted by the two stone guardians. Thus, they didn't notice Xia Pingan and didn't expect him to suddenly attack the barracks from the side.
… …
When the stone guardians were submerged by the zombies, Xia Pingan had already approached the edge of the barracks. The huge Flaming Vajra stood in front of him like a towering mountain peak and a skyscraper. It stood firmly in the middle of the barracks and no longer had the terrifying aura it had during the day.
The barracks was extremely simple and crude. The barracks were surrounded by fences and walls made of branches and stones. The ground of the barracks was full of pits and pits. Those pits and pits were the hiding places of some green-skinned zombies.
Xia Pingan rushed to the foot of the Flaming Vajra. Two green-skinned zombies suddenly drilled out from the side and stood in front of Xia Pingan. The two green-skinned zombies didn't expect someone to rush into the barracks. Their eyes widened and they were about to shout.
This time, there was no way to dodge!
Xia Pingan abruptly accelerated. Without saying a word, he slashed out his Soaring Awn Sword and directly chopped off the heads of the two green-skinned zombies.
Xia Pingan didn't wait for the two flying heads to fall to the ground, nor did he wait for the soul power from the two zombies to fuse into his body. He leapt up and landed on the instep of the Blazing Gorilla's several meters tall feet. He used his hands and feet to climb up the Blazing Gorilla's calves, thighs, and torso at the fastest speed possible. He rushed towards the Blazing Gorilla's head.
The Flaming Vajra's body was not completely smooth. Instead, it had a complex metal block structure and a few gaps that could be used as leverage.
In less than a minute, Xia Pingan had rushed to the top of the Flaming Vajra's head. He stepped on its nose and stood between its eyes.
Xia Pingan followed Elder Mu's instructions and pressed his hand between the Flaming Vajra's eyebrows. A metal block between the Flaming Vajra's eyebrows suddenly slid away from the side, revealing the soul stone inside.
The soul stone of the Flaming Vajra was the size of a pumpkin. It was a hexagonal snow-white crystal. At this moment, there was a trace of black mist entwining in the soul stone.
Xia Pingan pressed on the soul stone, gritted his teeth, and frantically injected his soul power into the soul stone of the Flaming Vajra.
Only then did the two golden light spots in the air slowly fly up from below and be absorbed by Xia Pingan — they were the soul power of the two green-skinned zombies just now.
At this time, in the distant wilderness, Xia Pingan saw that the necks of the two Stone Protectors had completely sunk into the quicksand. One of the Stone Protectors' head was riddled with scars as a Green Corpse Puppet pierced its head with a sharp spike. With a loud bang, its entire body turned into fragments and scattered everywhere. It had been killed.
Suddenly, a green-skinned zombie below the barracks pointed at the head of the Flaming Vajra and screamed. The ear-piercing scream resounded throughout the barracks.
Xia Pingan had been discovered.
The entire barracks was alarmed. Even the zombies and insect monsters in the distant wilderness turned their heads and looked at the Flaming Vajra.
In the blink of an eye, more than 20 slashes of soul power were injected into the soul stone of the Flaming Vajra. The soul stone of the Flaming Vajra emitted a brilliant white light like an incandescent lamp. The white light immediately illuminated Xia Pingan's figure in the sky. Under the impact of Xia Pingan's soul power, the black gas in the soul stone was like ink being washed by clear water, becoming much lighter all of a sudden.
Xia Pingan could even see some black gas being squeezed out of the soul stone and dissipating into smoke.
"Roar …"
An angry roar echoed in Xia Pingan's ears as a horseshoe insect flew into the air from the camp. The horseshoe insect was furious as it stared at Xia Pingan with its blood-red eyes. It pointed at Xia Pingan and suddenly, hundreds of arrows condensed in the air and shot towards Xia Pingan. Xia Pingan looked at the horseshoe insect that was flying towards him.
At this time, if Xia Pingan gave up on injecting his soul power into the soul stone of the Flaming Vajra, he could avoid it at once.
But after glancing at the soul stone, Xia Pingan gritted his teeth. He grabbed the soul stone with one hand and continued to inject his soul power into it. His other hand held the Soaring Edge Sword and danced in front of him. The sword light of the Soaring Edge Sword turned into a screen. In a series of clanking sounds, it directly cut down the hundreds of arrows shot by the horseshoe insect monster.
One of Xia Pingan's hands was numb from the shock!
At this time, he realized that the arrows shot by the insect monster were completely condensed out of thin air, and they were real, not just a simple spell. The arrows that were cut down by his flying light directly fell from the sky.
Seeing that this move did not force Xia Pingan away, and that Xia Pingan was still inputting soul power into the soul stone of the Flaming Vajra, the horseshoe insect monster became anxious. It roared in the void, and its whole body suddenly turned into a huge fiery red horseshoe insect with a length of tens of meters. It opened its huge mouth, revealing its ferocious sharp teeth, and rushed towards Xia Pingan. It seemed to want to open its huge mouth and swallow Xia Pingan.
"Demon Slaying Sword …" The Soaring Edge in Xia Pingan's hand turned into a ray of blue light, and suddenly became ten times bigger. It stood in front of Xia Pingan to protect him, and slashed towards the horseshoe insect's head that was coming at him.
The horseshoe insect raised its head, and its tail slammed towards the Demon Slaying Sword, colliding in front of Xia Pingan with a loud bang.
The fiery red horseshoe insect flew backwards, its tail dripping with blood, and many scales fell from the sky. Xia Pingan's Demon Slaying Sword had been neutralized by the horseshoe insect. Not only that, the Soaring Edge that flew out from Xia Pingan's hand was caught by the horseshoe insect's two claws. Soaring Edge trembled and struggled, but it could not fly back.
Xia Pingan's expression changed.
At this time, several other horseshoe insect monsters quickly flew over.
"Your Majesty, quickly retreat …" Elder Mu's anxious roar came from Saisai's direction.
The stronghold's protective shield disappeared again, and this time, hundreds of Stone Protectors rushed out of the stronghold. Elder Mu could not care less.
Elder Mu stood on top of the fortress's gate tower and watched the battle nervously. When Xia Pingan was discovered by the first horseshoe insect monster, the battle had taken a turn for the worse. It was very unfavorable for Xia Pingan. Those evolved horseshoe insects were very powerful and did not lose to Xia Pingan at all. What's more, Xia Pingan was still holding the Blazing Vajra's soul stone in one hand. While pouring soul power into the Blazing Vajra's soul stone, he still had to fight those evolved horseshoe insects.
The horseshoe insect monsters that rushed over suddenly increased to four. Xia Pingan was completely surrounded, and he even lost Soaring Edge in his hand.
The situation was critical.
Xia Pingan glanced at the soul stone, and the black gas in the soul stone faded a little. He gritted his teeth and frantically injected his soul power, but he did not withdraw.
A ferocious horseshoe insect monster suddenly appeared in front of Xia Pingan. With a wave of its hand, a pitch-black spear appeared in its hand. The spear directly stabbed at Xia Pingan's heart.
Xia Pingan grabbed the spear head with one hand and twisted it with one hand, directly breaking the spear shaft.
The spear shaft without the spear head was still sharp, but the direction was changed, and it fiercely stabbed Xia Pingan's right shoulder. The spear shaft pierced through Xia Pingan's shoulder and hit the nose of the Blazing Vajra behind Xia Pingan with a bang.
The blood on Xia Pingan's body spilled directly on the Blazing Vajra's head and face, and on the soul stone of the Blazing Vajra.
The Blazing Vajra was motionless, but Xia Pingan once again felt the breath of death.
Death was close at hand, and the tongue of the Grim Reaper had turned into a scorching flame that licked his body. His clothes and hair began to burn.
That was the third horseshoe insect monster.
This horseshoe insect monster directly burned itself with terrifying flames and rushed towards Xia Pingan, wanting to surround Xia Pingan and turn Xia Pingan into ashes.
"Go to hell …" Xia Pingan was also ruthless, and a stubborn and fierce aura surged from his heart. Looking at the third horseshoe insect monster that rushed in front of him, Xia Pingan did not retreat half a step. While continuing to inject the soul power in his body into the soul stone of the Blazing Vajra, he held half of the spear in his hand and stabbed at the head of the horseshoe insect monster that looked like it had just walked out of a steel furnace.
Xia Pingan's entire arm was burning, but the spear head still firmly pierced into the head of the horseshoe insect monster.
At the same time, the horseshoe insect monster also rushed over fearlessly and surrounded Xia Pingan all of a sudden.
At this moment, the head of the Blazing Vajra was like a torch on a tower in the wilderness, burning fiercely and illuminating the entire night sky.
Seeing this scene, Elder Mu on the fortress wall felt a chill in his heart …
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