After the fairy disappeared

Chapter 2563 The Land of Weak Water
The location chosen by He Lingchuan was a dense forest at the bottom of a valley, where the trees were short and thin, with very close spacing, making it difficult for ordinary people to even step on them. A stream flowed through the valley, its murmuring water softening the ground year-round, leaving one's feet covered in mud with every step.

“This place is nice, it just needs a little modification,” He Lingchuan said to the little stone figure standing on Aunt Zhu’s arm. “It’s up to you.”

The little stone man rubbed his hands together, then leaped off the Spider Queen's shoulder and silently disappeared into the ground.

Before long, everyone noticed that the ground around them was slightly undulating, like the calm sea surface gently rippling.

A few trees not far away stood silently, one side bent.

"Alright." The Earth Mother's voice came to everyone's ears. "I have transformed this place into a weak water field, where even a goose feather can sink. You all have my pebbles on you, so you can see where the mud is and float even if you fall in. But others are not so lucky."

As soon as he finished speaking, the strange phenomena on the ground stopped, and the valley looked no different from before.

But in He Lingchuan's eyes, some parts of the ground emitted a striking red light, warning them not to step on them.

The nearest glowing spot was just three feet away, but there was nothing unusual about it on the surface; it was just an ordinary patch of grass, the soil was damp, and there was even a shoe print on the fallen dandelion.

A blackbird happened to be perched next to Dong Rui, and while preening its feathers, it picked up a soft feather and gave it to him. So Dong Rui tossed the feather onto the grass.

How heavy can a feather be? Even if it falls from mid-air, it will float for a long time before landing.

But right under everyone's noses, the feather slowly sank into the ground.

Finally, the ground closed up again, just like before, with no trace of the feathers remaining.

Aunt Zhu also became interested and plucked out a spider silk thread, placing it on the ground. This was something that could drift away with the wind, but once it landed on the muddy ground, it seemed to be sucked in by an invisible force and slowly sank.

“There’s a strong suction in the mud, and it’s hard for prey that falls in to climb out. Interesting!” Just as Aunt Zhu finished speaking, another mud puddle in the distance made a splashing sound.

"There's something else in the mud pit?"

"Of course," Mother Earth laughed. "When entertaining guests, we must do so with great ceremony!"

Its power lies in its ability to transform desolate wilderness into He Lingchuan and his group's domain in a very short time.

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Half an hour later, a rainbow appeared in the sky, but it only circled in the sky and did not land.

Within half an hour, more than a hundred more rainbow lights arrived and settled on the southern mountain.

The number of pursuers has doubled compared to before.

Cultivators should possess discerning eyes, making it easy for them to see through the shadows of trees, but this forest was shrouded in a thin mist, making it impossible for anyone to see clearly. Someone in mid-air performed a wind-summoning incantation, but it couldn't dissipate the mist, thus revealing that there was some mystery below.

"right here?"

"According to the instructions of the gods, Master Duan should be in this forest."

"I thought the enemy had fled far away, but I didn't expect them to be only fifty miles from Yanxia Bay. Even the ground troops have arrived."

"Be careful, the enemy is not to be trifled with. Let the Qi Beast go in to scout ahead first."

"Furthermore, they have the ability to burrow underground, and may very well escape at the first opportunity. The army is setting up battle formations around the valley to prevent burrowing."

"Huh? Setting up a barrier to prevent escape in the wild... the effect is limited."

There are too many uncertainties in the wild, and large battlefields usually don't bother to set up barriers to prevent escape, unless they are outnumbered.

"This is an order from above. We'll attack once the barrier that prevents escape takes effect."

The antenna on Duan Heyun's body mysteriously disappeared and then mysteriously reappeared. Who wouldn't suspect that there might be a trap here? But Lingyun Palace had given the order, so everyone had no choice but to come.

We can't just ignore the clues, can we? Master Duan is desperately in need of help.

As a result, of the 1,700 troops who actually arrived, 400 had to be assigned to guard the positions. This mountain forest was very large, requiring at least 90 positions, and even 400 men were stretched thin guarding them.

Then, more than two hundred Qi beasts and demon puppets rushed in.

Lingyun Palace may not have much else, but it has an exceptionally rich stockpile of this kind. The twenty-odd demon puppeteers who commanded them were protected by the army as they marched into the mountains.

The cultivators also rode various rainbow lights to pierce through the forest and launch a thorough search.

The woodland was unusually quiet in the afternoon, with only the roars of the monsters rising and falling.

The two cultivators flew to the stream and suddenly heard the sound of trees falling nearby. Just as they were about to go and check, they were suddenly pulled down by a powerful suction force from below!

Caught off guard, they landed with a thud, sinking half their bodies into the ground.

What is that, a mud puddle?

They threw lassos at the small trees beside them, hoping to use them to get ashore, but it seemed as if dozens of water ghosts lived in the mud pit, clinging to their feet and dragging them down.

"This is a quicksand pit! Get out of there quickly!"

No matter how they activated the magical artifacts, they were firmly stuck to the ground and couldn't fly up.

The Weak Water is so vast that even birds cannot cross it, and even flying cultivators and bird demons are dragged down with it.

Fortunately, several other practitioners arrived, grabbed the lasso, and tried to drag them ashore.

This was a tug-of-war, a tug-of-war with the quicksand pit.

It took six or seven cultivators to pull the two people out little by little.

At this point, everyone could see that the quicksand pit was a powerful trap set by the enemy.

Just as they were about to reach the shore, the grass rustled nearby, and two figures rushed out, pouncing on the people tug-of-war on the bank.

These are two crocodile-like monsters, but with sharper snouts, longer teeth, and longer legs. Their bodies are covered with gray rock spots and thorns. When they crouch in the grass, they blend in with the ground. When they charge out, their tails are like pile drivers, providing powerful propulsion.

During Shangguan Biao's control of Yujing City, he once created the monster Wutuo using rocks, soil, and demon corpses. The Earth Mother thought his idea was good, and besides, there were also a lot of corpses buried in the plains, so she used them to create many swamp beasts, which were particularly suitable for this environment.

The cultivators were startled and dodged, and their grip loosened.

One of the unlucky ones was too slow to dodge and was bitten around the waist by a gray crocodile, falling into a mud pit with a thud.

When bystanders tried to rescue him, the gray crocodile began to roll wildly in the mud, making it impossible for anyone to help.

In the blink of an eye, both the man and the crocodile sank to the bottom.

This was like the start of a battle. The Lingyun Palace people who entered the mountains and forests began to be troubled by the terrain. After all, quicksand pits, or weak water pits, could not be seen from the surface. You could only feel them when you stepped into them, but by then it was usually too late.

Besides the difficulty of climbing out after falling in, the struggles of those trapped in the pit are the best signal for the nearby swamp beasts to start their meal! They will rush in from all directions to attack the trapped prey.

The Lingyun Palace army that entered the mountains and forests numbered about a thousand, but they felt that the number of these swamp monsters was almost endless!