Trafford's Trading Club Chapter 1072: Chapter 116: Where in the World Is the Path to

Chapter 1072: Chapter 116: Where in the World Is the Path to Immortality (78) — Underground Giant Tower

The beam pierced through the clouds, descending upon the earth, followed by a violent explosion, destruction… sweeping everything away.

A corner of the small hill was instantly obliterated, with the billowing dust obscuring the sky and covering the sun.

Team of twelve Gaias slowly descended at this moment. Their eyes flickered, clearly searching for any signs of life.

But right then, from within the rumbling dust, a figure broke through the air. Two cold lights flickered, the Ghost Baby wielding two silver daggers in its hands, directly criss-crossed, carving an X-shaped wound on one of the Gaias’ backs!

Though it was called a wound, it was merely a slight white scratch.

The Ghost Baby was momentarily startled, only to see the Gaia it had ambushed weirdly turning its head directly—at a non-human angle—180 degrees!

“Child?” The Ghost Baby was suddenly shocked.

But this Gaia’s arm also swung toward the Ghost Baby at an unbelievable angle—the hand cannon had transformed into a sharp blade!

The Ghost Baby hurriedly dodged, but its clothes were still slashed open. With daggers in both hands, it looked in all eight directions, watching the Gaias floating off the ground gather around, causing it to furrow its brows.

At this moment, Luo Pianqian, holding Long Xiruo, flew out from the dust, while Gui Qianyi and Xiao Shengmo broke through from different angles.

They simultaneously saw the attackers—a species they’d never seen before.

The team of twelve Gaias dispersed without a word, each heading for the group to attack!

“Be careful!”

Gui Qianyi hastily shouted—the speed at which these child-like enemies burst forth made this old turtle sense something amiss.

As a clerical worker in the pet hospital, a newly promoted monster just over seventy years old, even though its demonic power was greatly enhanced due to Su Zijun’s influence, Luo Pianqian, still lacking bat experience, could only hurriedly hold Long Xiruo and move to the left when faced with the suddenly appearing Gaia.

But the Gaia attacking, with its arm possessing transformation ability, ultimately transformed into an extended sharp blade, easily slicing across Luo Pianqian’s back!

Blood sprayed into the air, and Luo Pianqian fell headlong onto the ground!

Long Xiruo broke free from Luo Pianqian’s embrace, turned around, and saw Luo Pianqian lying on the ground, her face pained. There was an arm-length wound on her back.

“Sister Long… run…” Luo Pianqian weakly said, her eyes closing.

“Pianqian!!” Long Xiruo shouted anxiously, the Treasure Bead suddenly clasped in her palm, emitting a faint light.

The situation turned severe in an instant.

Almost at that moment, the Ghost Baby was already knocked to the ground. Four Gaias surrounded and attacked the Ghost Baby, leaving it no time to react.

Xiao Shengmo, besieged by another three Gaias, relied on the unique body of the Ghost Tribe to remain undefeated—yet the Lord of the Ghost City had no intention of making the first move.

Gui Qianyi had already drawn the staff sword hidden in his cane. The old fellow instantly analyzed the terrifying nature of this ambush team and, driven by a tremendous survival instinct, entered an all-out state early on.

With a three-foot-long staff sword and agile swordsmanship, Gui Qianyi battled three Gaias alone… but defeat seemed only a matter of time.

Gui Qianyi was already old, no longer as brave as in his younger days… a turtle is not a species that grows stronger the older it gets, especially since he foresaw his own end, the turtle’s life rapidly declining.

Just then, a low dragon’s roar sounded.

Gui Qianyi and others living in China… these citizens belonging to China, at this moment, seemed to hear a voice of anger deep within their souls… the anger of China’s faith.

The Godly Land true dragon’s creation body—by the ability of Gui Qianyi’s Treasure Bead, using Long Xiruo’s own essence blood as a power resource, could temporarily recover part of Long Xiruo’s bat power in an emergency.

Beside Luo Pianqian, Long Xiruo’s small body stood silently. In front of her, the creation body of the true dragon, floated expressionless two meters above the ground.

Around the creation body, three Gaias had already fallen to the ground—their chests seemed pierced by something.

Simultaneously, the creation body’s hand held the head of a Gaia.

“Dragon… Lord…” lying on the ground, dangerously the Ghost Baby, struggled to get up, only to feel a gentle force grabbing its body, pulling it instantly to Long Xiruo’s side.

“Don’t talk now, watch over Pianqian for me.” The creation body’s face slightly froze, “I’ll deal with these things first.”

Saying this, the creation body waved at the Ghost Baby, and a golden light immediately infused into the Ghost Baby’s body.

Its wounds did not heal, but its stamina was greatly replenished. The Ghost Baby glanced at the little butterfly monster, discovering the wound on her back had been stopped by a golden light, though not healed.

Seemingly analyzing that the biggest threat here was this creation body, several Gaias simultaneously abandoned their attack on Gui Qianyi and Xiao Shengmo, leaving two to hold them off, and quickly charged toward the creation body.

The creation body’s golden light flashed, and the entire creation body instantly transformed into a great shadow of a golden dragon—the golden dragon easily pierced through the bodies of one Gaia after another!

Consecutive explosions of Gaia bodies appeared in the sky, and finally, the golden dragon swooped down from the heavens, quickly resolving the two Gaias holding Gui Qianyi and Xiao Shengmo in check, then transformed back into human form, landing on the ground.

Gui Qianyi frowned slightly, looking at Long Xiruo—her little face was somewhat pale.

The creation body burned Long Xiruo’s essence blood every time… but now, Long Xiruo could not receive China’s protection from the earth, nor could she continuously receive power from the land.

Relying solely on her recovery rate, using the creation body each time was a situation where her efforts fell short.

Yet Xiao Shengmo was astonished by the power of the creation body… this was what he… no, this was the power of the true dragon known to China’s transcendent ones.

At this moment, the creation body suddenly looked towards Xiao Shengmo, making the Lord of the Ghost City flicker with unease—meanwhile, the creation body glanced toward a spot in the sky, “Gui Qianyi, take everyone and leave.”

“What?” Gui Qianyi was immediately startled.

In the sky, one after another, figures were flying over; just a rough count revealed no fewer than a hundred Gaias!

“Take this.”

Xiao Shengmo said in a deep voice, only to see him open his mouth, a black wind drifting out, transforming into a huge black mist!

The black mist dispersed, revealing a massive chariot floating in the air, with four black oxen stepping on ghostly fire in front.

This was the seat of Lord Xiao, the Lord of the Ghost City, and the four black oxen pulling the chariot were anything but ordinary. Everyone hurriedly boarded the chariot, and Xiao Shengmo slapped the black ox in front, and the chariot soared into the sky.

The creation body once again transformed into a golden dragon, single-handedly facing the hundred Gaias joining the battle.

The carriage traveled far, only the Golden Dragon could be seen moving in the sky, with numerous beams of light scattering in the air.

Gui Qianyi retracted his gaze, feeling his scalp tingle, “Lord Xiao, can it be faster?”

He knew that Long Xiruo creating a body was burning her own essence blood, and the longer it took, the heavier the burden on the body.

The Lord of the Ghost City, driving in front, nodded silently, pulling the reins with both hands. The Black Ox ahead called simultaneously, and the carriage suddenly sped hundreds of meters away.

Then the carriage plunged into the ground — this carriage was also counted as a ghostly object, endowed with peculiar abilities, simply immersing into the earth and traveling underground.

After a while, Long Xiruo inside the carriage suddenly opened her eyes, but her face was pale.

“How is it?” Gui Qianyi hurried forward, placing a hand on Long Xiruo’s wrist.

Long Xiruo shook her head, withdrew her hand, frowned and said, “Killed dozens, but there are still many left. I don’t plan to keep stalling with them. How’s Pianqian’s injury?”

Gui Qianyi said anxiously, “The bleeding has been stopped for you, but there’s a strange force entering her body that I cannot dispel immediately, only barely suppress. This Different Kind’s force is peculiar, constantly damaging Pianqian’s body… if she hadn’t evolved once later, probably this slash would have…”

“These things seem like puppets.” Long Xiruo frowned at this time, “I found while fighting them, they seem to lack thoughts… quite strange, bodies resembling human, but capable of transforming, and also like machines.”

“You shouldn’t speak first, eat this.” Gui Qianyi at this time took out a bottle, poured out some pills.

Long Xiruo nodded.

Losing the ability to supplement from the earth, she recovered very slowly… Gui Qianyi’s Spiritual Medicine could only slightly increase her current body’s blood creation speed.

Seeing Long Xiruo seated cross-legged, absorbing the medicine’s power, Gui Qianyi was somewhat relieved. But the unknown matters ahead made him worried.

“Lord Xiao, where is this carriage heading?” Gui Qianyi at this time looked up at Xiao Shengmo, driving the carriage ahead, frowning.

“Mountain.” Xiao Shengmo did not look back, said indifferently ahead, “Passing from here should get close to its base.”

Gui Qianyi’s gaze shrank slightly, suddenly said, “Lord Xiao seems to have intentions?”

“What Gui Lao said, Xiao cannot quite understand.” Xiao Shengmo said indifferently.

Gui Qianyi said in a deep voice, “Although the mountain is a clear target, we met strong enemies, rushed to escape… why did the lord choose to advance in the mountain’s direction? Now with unknown enemies numerous and strong, the mountain might be their base camp… Old Turtle is really puzzled, why knowing there’s a tiger in the mountain, dare to go to the tiger mountain.”

“To fetch something.”

Xiao Shengmo at this time turned around, a smile of a sort that moved people appeared on his ghostly aura-filled face… like a cold smile.

“Fetch something?” Gui Qianyi squinted his eyes, but quietly gestured to the Ghost Baby.

Only to see Ghost Baby’s hand move secretly, a dagger with cold light quietly appeared.

But just then, in this carriage where they were, indeed a small seven-story tower emerged out of thin air.

“Tower of Myriad Ghosts?!” Gui Qianyi was suddenly shocked!

And at this time, this small tower unexpectedly produced a huge suction, instantly sucking everyone inside it!

Inside the carriage, it was just Xiao Shengmo driving left.

“By someone’s request… forgive me, everyone.”

The small tower then slowly flew to Xiao Shengmo’s side, fell under his seat, his expression still indifferent, waved his reins, and the carriage speed increased again.

…

Not knowing how long the carriage progressed, finally left the dark underground.

Suddenly, the oppressive feeling around vanished, the carriage directly flew out from the rocks, entered a very vast space.

At this time, there was a change in Xiao Shengmo’s gaze… it was solemn.

In front, surprisingly a gigantic thing.

It extended underground, simultaneously going above ground, like a giant tower, unseen bottom and top… the carriage in front of this giant tower was like a microorganism.

The whole body of the giant tower was built with some kind of metal… Xiao Shengmo drove the carriage, quickly climbed up, soon — the carriage came to an entrance of this metal giant tower.

Square entrance, immense and dark, the carriage rushed into this long corridor entrance, disappeared.

…

The hard earth and rocks at this time opened little by little.

Afterwards, seemingly something inside was drilling out — quickly, it pletely detached from the earth.

But it suddenly lost gravity, heavily fell down — this was a shell, gigantic, as large as a bedroom-sized shell.

At this time, several people’s figures rushed out from this shell, and luckily stopped on a protruding rock platform.

This group, confronting Daoist Bai Jie, attempting to explore the underground edge, seeking a way out of Ming Tus Mountain, and True Person Huanyang.

“Is here… is it the end? What on earth is this?”

Clearly, Ming Tus Mountain couldn’t distinguish direction in the dark underground, could only vigorously control the shell to dive — finally arrived at this place.

Faced with what shocked True Person Huanyang, Ming Tus Mountain was also terrified, “This old man lived for years, never seen such… such a massive thing!”

Human’s so-called world skyscraper, pared, would seem like a ridiculous toy.

It was enormously huge, entirely made of metal, having countless places like windows, like a giant tower buried underground.

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PS: Heard tomorrow is the college entrance exam, blessings from Boss Luo: Exam taker 1s