great-warnovel Chapter 304 The Second Mobile Sanctuary
Chapter 304 The Second Mobile Sanctuary
The Beast King has a fortress hidden inside his belly.
This small, mobile sanctuary was compressed into a folded core and implanted into the Beast King's abdomen, continuously drawing divinity from nine hordes of beasts for three hundred years.
The core is encased in the sealing patterns of the Jade Void Palace, while the inner layer is filled with spiral codes representing the mobile sanctuary.
Yuxu Palace first sealed the things, but later someone took over the seal and turned the Beast King and the beast horde into power plants.
Lu Yan unfolded the structural diagram, and nine power supply tubes extended from below the Nine Lotus Lantern, which were respectively inserted into the Beast King's sternum and the command lines of the nine beast groups.
The light suppressed the core, but also kept the Beast King alive.
Three hundred years ago, the Beast King swallowed the lamp base and used his body to suppress the fortress's restoration process.
Turn off the lights, and the core unfolds.
Lighting the lamps, the core concept unfolds as well.
Nezha stood on the Beast King's forearm, his Hun Tian Ling wrapped around the nine lamp petals, and he did not press down any further.
"It points me in the hand, it means entrusting our lives to our hands."
The Beast King's forehead was pressed against the stone surface, and a line of bloody words appeared next to the claw marks.
Take the lamp, open the door.
Leave the lights on, the city opens.
Zhao Lei raised his shield to block the gap below his sternum.
"This Beastmaster really knows how to frustrate people; all the options are expedited."
The offline channel switches to a short message code.
The seventh gate of Chang'an was 60% open, and the array rope on Qin Zheng's shoulder had been dragged through the crack in the gate. The northwest stone slab was only half a foot away from the array eye.
Qin Wangshan's instructions were pushed into everyone's terminals.
"Only forty minutes remain on the Kunlun battlefield."
"In the 41st minute, Chang'an North's defenses failed, and the construction team will cut off the outer passage of the seventh gate."
Qin Wuyi placed the main plate in the center of the Beast Court, and the plate reflected the military patterns of nine beast groups.
"Before the core unfolds, stuff it into the Qiankun Dingjie (a system for defining the universe)."
Lu Yan looked up.
"Can your boundary contain a fortress?"
"It can't hold the whole structure down."
Qin Wuyi drew the beast horde's command lines into a nine-square grid, with nine lamps corresponding to nine positions, and the core suspended in the center.
"I fixed its volume, coordinates, and timing, keeping it at the size it was before unfolding."
"The formation needs nine support points, and the nine guardian marks of the beast hordes can just fill those positions."
"I need to set up 360 array plates."
Wen Yue swept her gaze over the cave entrances around the Beast Court.
"There are enough array plates, but the beasts aren't obedient enough."
Of the nine beast hordes, six have had their silver control lines removed by Nezha.
The remaining three still bear the silver brand, which connects to the core of the sanctuary.
They either return to the flag or are dragged into the core of the formation.
Nezha climbed onto the back of the ferocious-toothed creature, the Jade Void Flag was stuck on the back frame, and the copper whistle was held across his lips.
Three long and two short return flags passed through the Beast Court.
The sound of claws came first from the east cave, followed by the scraping of armor plates against the stone wall.
The guardian marks of the cave were lit up one after another at the nine cave entrances.
The three fanged creatures simultaneously lowered their heads and let out short, low growls toward the northwest.
The first horde of beasts rushed out of the cave entrance. The horned beasts, bone-winged beasts, and armored giant apes formed an old military formation and moved towards their positions along the outer ring.
The second and third followed closely behind, and the marks of the shields on the wounds had not yet faded.
A silver thread hangs down from the seventh cave entrance.
The three-headed lord beast shattered the door frame, revealing a silver number on the brand on the back of its neck, its fangs pointing directly at Nezha and the outer ring guards.
The two controlled beast hordes on the left also changed their formation, and the beast tide converged from the three gaps.
The Dragon Guards erected a shield wall, and heavy machine guns pressed down on the beasts' forelegs, causing bullets to bounce off the silver crystals and back onto the stone ground.
Nezha raised his Fire-Tipped Spear, and the butt of the spear struck the forehead bone of the Fierce Fang.
"The order to return the flag has been issued; those who violate the order will be branded first."
The silver lord beast did not stop; it slammed its front paws into the ground, sending shattered rocks rolling toward the array plate area.
Zhao Leiguang stepped forward, shielded by two shields, while the pulse core held off the first wave of impact.
"Old Shen, the left side is yours. Don't let them trample on Wuyi's belongings."
Shen Xinglin unfolded his lance, pinning the wing roots of the two bone-winged beasts and dragging them toward the side wall.
"Your shield wall is leaky."
"The wind can enter, but the beasts cannot."
Yang Jian removed the divine seal cloth from his forehead.
The Heavenly Eye only opens for a single breath.
The golden light swept across the brand on the back of the necks of the nine beasts, then passed through the layers of bone beams in the dome, and finally nailed to a silver iron vein above the beast court.
The nine control chains do not run separately; they share a common switching node.
The silver crystal on the forehead was immediately covered with a new shell, and nine interfaces were attached to the outer edge of the Heavenly Eye.
Yang Jian brought the Investiture of the Gods back to his forehead and closed his third eye.
"Southeast of the dome, thirty-four meters above the ground, the third section of the iron vein."
Wen Yue raised her crossbow, and the rangefinding arrow had already been driven into the bone beam.
"The distance is enough, but the bills aren't enough."
She pulled back the World-Destroying Thunder Crossbow, and twenty-seven scattering grenades were laid into the dome in three layers.
Qin Wuyi pulled out an eight-yard array plate to fix the trajectory and detonation sequence of the grenades.
The high-explosive arrow pierced through the heads of the beasts and embedded itself in the center of the iron vein.
The circular explosion circled the dome, tearing the silver crystals inside the bone beams away from the interfaces, and debris scattered all over the beast garden.
Lin Chuxue stepped onto the broken pillar, aiming her Blood Pool Howling Staff at the node below.
The first layer of blood-burst array patterns suppressed the iron veins, while the second layer advanced along the silver lines towards the nine openings.
The silver lord beast raised its head and roared, the brand on the back of its neck curled up by the array patterns.
Xiao Qianyu stepped onto the beacon, her figure passing through the fire line, and the Dragon King Halberd fell towards the first control chain.
A knife.
The second and third control connections are disconnected.
Using the direction of the broken chain's rebound, she changed position, and the halberd sliced all the way from the dome to the western entrance of the cave.
The nine silver lines lost their connection points, and the serial numbers in the brand gradually faded away.
The three controlled beasts rushed to the shield wall, their front claws digging deep trenches, but their heads lowered one after another.
The ferocious beast leaped down from the platform, its three heads pressing against the foreheads of the three lord beasts.
Nezha landed on the back of the ferocious beast, his copper whistle close to the mark of the first lord beast.
"Return to the flag."
The remaining silver crystals within the brand struggled to emerge from the fur, trying to crawl towards Nezha's wrist armor.
The Hun Tian Ling wrapped around the silver crystal, and the Qian Yuan Mountain Fire pattern burned along the ling, turning the silver crystal into ashes.
The lord beast crouched before the tattered flag, and the guardian marks of the three beast packs turned back into the Jade Void Army pattern.
Su Yunqing raised the Gift of Yao Guang, but the beam of light did not fall directly into the wound.
The group shield first covered the nine beast hordes, keeping the silver residue outside the shield.
The healing beams repaired the bone wings, carapace, and torn abdominal armor through the shield, and the beast horde gradually moved into the designated positions on the array plate.
Zhao Leiguang and Shen Xinglin retreated to the Beast King's chest.
With two shields on the left and a lance on the right, the two men pressed the constantly rising sternum back into place.
The core within the Beast King's body has begun self-examination; with each tremor of the bone armor, a layer of rubble falls from the mountain's belly.
"Qin Wuyi, how much more is needed?" Zhao Leiguang asked.
"Of the 360 coins, 287 have already been placed."
Qin Wuyi squatted in front of the main plate, the array plates were arranged in nines, the outer circle pressed down on the beast army pattern, and the inner circle locked the beast king's breastbone.
Each time a coin is placed, the Chang'an projection on the main plate jumps once.
In front of the seventh gate, Qin Zheng braced her shoulder against the northwest stone slab, the gap in the door already swallowing her arm guard.
Qin Wuyi did not look up.
Give me seven more minutes.
Lu Yan stepped into the lamplight on the Beast King's chest.
The Black Lotus Pure Land spread out along the nine military command anchors, avoiding the Beast King's life path, and cut straight into the communication port on the outer side of the folded core.
Silver codes surged from the port, attempting to escape to the Kunlun ley lines using the beast horde's brand.
The black lotus patterns closed, blocking the nine external passages within the Beast Court.
The flame shrank inward by an inch.
The silver-masked man's mask emerged from the depths of the flames, its reflection shimmering on the mirror, mirroring the entire Beast Garden.
"Lu Yan, you always have a habit of tearing down other people's decorations."
"The old man in Yuxu Palace, the lamp bearer in the coffin, and the group of soldiers in front of the gate are all keys you left for me."
The silver-masked man raised his hand, and the flame revealed the face of the old man guarding the palace, the fire mark of the Taiyi Zhenren, and the replica pattern of Lin Weiguo's copper coin.
"The cleaner you dismantle it, the more willing the Beast King will be to hand over the authority of the Lamp Master."
"Rescue the guards, destroy the clone army, and return the order to the beast horde."
"You've taken away the last piece of insurance yourself."
Lu Yan pressed the Void Disc down onto the lamp base.
"External communication has been cut off."
"You can't activate the core."
The silver-masked man's mask turned toward the Beast King's sternum.
"External connections are a door left open for people far away."
"This sanctuary is inside the Beast King's belly, so who needs remote commands?"
Nine fissures appeared on the inside of the Beast King's sternum.
Qin Wuyi's main plate issued a warning, indicating that thirty-six of the array plates that had been positioned had been pushed away from their original locations.
The military markings on the necks of the nine beast hordes glowed simultaneously, and the weight borne by their formation pressed from the ground of the beast court all the way into their bones.
Zhao Leiguang lowered his shields by half a foot, sparks flying from the edges of the shields.
"Old Shen, this time we have some really big items to ship out of the warehouse."
Shen Xinglin modified his lance into a long anchor, and drove the anchor rod into the Beast King's shoulder bone.
"Logistics personnel, do not sign for this package."
The silver hull was outlined through the gap in the sternum.
The folding decks unfolded layer by layer, the bow crashed through the bone beam above the Beast Court, and large cracks were pushed up in the belly of the ship.
The Nine Lotus Lantern detached from the lamp base on the Beast King's chest, its nine petals trailing flame patterns as they fell toward the lotus seat in the center of the ship.
Nezha flung out his Hun Tian Ling (a magical ribbon), and as soon as the ribbon touched the lamp petals, the silver hull raised a barrier, blocking all the fire patterns outside.
The Beast King pressed its forelimbs into the ground, the old wound under its sternum was reopened by the ship's hull, and nine power tubes were pulled out of its body.
The silver-masked man's mask stood above the lamplight.
"The second mobile sanctuary has been restored to its original position."
The Nine Lotus Lanterns fell into the ship's central axis, their flames pouring into the silver deck.
Deep inside the mountain, the second mobile sanctuary began to supply power.