Chapter 455: Lou Lan’s Idea


    Trantor: Irene Editor: TYZ, KLKL


    Autumn Water channeled elemental energy into the bronzentern she was holding and a wispy, bean sized me lit up. The me shot out a green light ray that shone onto the ground.


    The green ray was very weak, but the illuminated spot on the ground quickly became transparent and the maze-like sewerage system appeared before their eyes.


    The rest were startled as it was the first time they’d seen something like this.


    Autumn Water’sntern, "element-chasingntern", was a weapon used to track enemies. Elemental energy would be needed to track sand puppets who’d fled this way since there would be traces left behind, unconceble before the element-chasingntern.


    The green light followed the elemental energy traces and moved rapidly.


    Where the light passed the ground, it returned to normal. When the light shone on the thick, solid ground it became crystal clear and so did the underground structure.


    Suddenly,the shadow of a pool of sand appeared on the ground before everybody’s eyes.


    "There!"


    Everyone reacted instantly. As Autumn Water held onto herntern, the rest went forward and fusion elemental energy’s unique, brightly-colored light rays shot toward the ground like raindrops.


    Moving stealthily underground, Lou Lan had sensed the light ray. He was extremely sensitive to changes in elemental energy, even more so than Ai Hui.


    In the moment the light shone onto the ground Lou Lan immediately moved further down. Passing through theplicated sewer, he continued moving downward, closer to the city stabilizer blocks.


    Benefitting from his previouswork scouting and monitoring, Lou Lan was very familiar with every corner of Clearwater City.


    Feeling the danger overhead, Lou Lan immediately activated the city stabilizer blocks’ seals.


    The deep ck city stabilizers lit up.


    Each city wouldy city stabilizer blocks underneath to prevent underground dire beasts from entering into the city.


    During the blood catastrophe in Induction Ground, many cities had been invaded by blood fiends from underground. Having learnt a painful lesson from that, cities fortified their underground defense system by adding arge amount of elemental trace seals, whichbined with elemental energy to strengthen it.


    And Clearwater City’s city stabilizers were even more well-configured.


    Qiao Meiqi was rich and powerful, and spared no effort in ensuring that Clearwater City was uncopsible. The city’s defense was made up by two sections, one above ground and one under. Above, the cloud defenseyer blended well with the sprinkling water screen. They were like an overturned bowl, covering the citypletely and tightly.


    Underground, the city relied mainly on city stabilizers. In order to strengthen their resistance, each block was engraved with the most updated elemental traces. Some versions of the traces had been used on God-subduing Peak as well. The Gong Residence had exerted themselves in this aspect.


    Other than that, Qiao Meiqi had especially set aside arge sum of money to build an elemental energy pool to supply the city stabilizers with elemental energy, which significantly strengthened their power.


    Lou Lan was extremely familiar with elemental traces, since Ai Hui often asked him to analyze theposition of elemental traces. Triggering the elemental traces on the city stabilizers couldn’t be easier for Lou Lan.


    However, those above ground still had no idea what kind of sand puppet they were dealing with.


    They were oblivious to what was about toe.


    The light rays, released by the few elites of the Assembly of Patriarchs, shot toward the pool of sand beneath the ground like sharp knives cutting into tofu.


    They did not want to rm the city guards so they avoided making amotion. It wasn’t the time to attack yet. While they had the enterprise’s shielding, they’d traveled a long way after all and weren’t in the right state to battle. They needed time to recover from their exhaustion.


    Although there wasn’t a hugemotion, they did not relent. They could not believe that a sand puppet could actually dodge their attacks.


    Fusion elemental energy’s power and might was highly destructive. Any pure elemental energy was like tofu in front of fusion elemental energy.


    The green light locked onto that pool of sand despite its constant downward movement.


    The brightly-colored light rays followed right behind and were rapidly closing in.


    As they were about to overtake, the sand figure vanished suddenly.


    Autumn Water was shocked. What happened?


    The element-chasingntern had never slipped, so why did the opponent disappear all of a sudden?


    As she was lost in thought the transparent ground warped like a surging water’s surface. The me in the element-chasingmp trembled and swayed violently like a candle me in a storm.


    Pop. The candle me exploded with sparks.


    The sudden change of events caught Autumn Water off guard.


    The element-chasingntern was a high-grade item made by the Assembly of Patriarchs’s craftsman. If it weren’t for the fact that she had performed outstandingly in a crucial mission, she wouldn’t have gotten the chance to use it. Ever since thentern fell into her possession it had never slipped. This was the first time ever that she’d been in a situation like this.


    But Autumn Water was a Master, after all, so she reacted quickly. Thentern tracked elemental energy waves. Even the smallest ripple couldn’t escape its senses so there was only one possibility to exin this situation – the elemental energy waves were overly-intense.


    Overly intense...


    Autumn Water’s face changed. Before she could issue a warning a big piece of the solid ground rose up, as if a monster was about to drill its way out.


    "Quick..."


    The raised ground was like a crispy biscuit, breaking into many pieces as a faint blue light shot out from the cracks.


    The surging water elemental energy broke through the ground effortlessly. A water pir soared and exploded in mid air, causing hundreds of thousands of raindrops to sprinkle down.


    Standing too close to the pir, two Assembly of Patriarchs’s elites weren’t able to dodge the rain in time and their bodies were soon filled with dense, honeb-like holes. The weirder part was that their honeb-like corpses had no bloodstains on them. Not only did these water droplets, that were made from water elemental energy, take away their lives, they took away all the moisture from their bodies.


    Mister Dou, Jiu Gui and the rest of the gang were all searching for earth elementalists. Generally speaking, once sand puppets moved too far from their owners, their movements became clumsy and their reactions slow. This sand puppet acted nimbly so there must be an earth elementalist controlling it. Upon seeing the sand figure, Autumn Water locked onto it once again, they were relieved. They needed to get rid of the hidden earth elementalist.


    But at that point in time the sudden surge of water elemental energy frightened everybody.


    Mister Dou burst out in anger, "Are you guys crazy? Why did you activate the city stabilizers?"


    The elites wanted to cry but no tears came out. They weren’t the ones activating the city stabilizer blocks. The blocks were buried deep down, so it just was impossible for them to do it.


    No one was in the mood to listen to their exnation however. Everyone knew they were in trouble.


    Indeed, a mournful rm rang and echoed throughout the whole city.


    Autumn Water turned pale. She trilled, "What now?"


    Mister Dou spoke up with an ominous glint in his eyes, "It’s do or die, move it! Attack the mayor’s residence!"


    A few of them made eye contact . Their n had already fallen through so they had no other choices. The further they dyed, the more passive they would be. While it wasn’t the best time to attack, since they weren’t sufficiently prepared, their targets were even more unprepared. Plus, with four Masters by their side, they did have the upper hand.


    "Mayor’s residence!"


    The few of them flew toward the residence without hesitating.


    They had no time to waste on a tiny sand puppet. Time was of the essence.


    The victors gained everything whereas the losers were left with nothing.


    The rm sounded and the guards in the cloud defenseyer tensed up instantly.


    One of them cried out loud, "Master Yang, intruder alert!"


    Yang Xiaodong went over and asked in a low voice, "Where?"


    The guard answered hurriedly, "Wei River Street."


    Master Yang’s voice followed. "I see it."


    Crack.


    The guard saw ck as he lost consciousness.


    Without even looking at the broken-necked guard, Master Yang turned around and disappeared.


    The other guards were stunned as a chill rose up their spines. Master Yang was a traitor! They turned around in hopes of escape, but they too saw ck and fell to the ground one after another.


    Yang Xiaodong’s silhouette resurfaced as a tinge of worry shed across his eyes. He knew they must have met with an unexpected situation, or else they wouldn’t have chosen to act at this point in time.


    And it was just an impudent attack.


    He could tell with a nce that they were advancing towards the mayor’s residence.


    Head on?


    At this point he, too, threw all concerns aside. His eyes were filled with hatred. Head on then!


    He conveniently shattered the cloud that was controlling the cloud defenseyer, and everything shattered into bits and pieces like ss.


    The ever-present cloudyer that enveloped the city started to melt like snow and disappeared rapidly. Blue sky appeared over the city and the water screen outside weakened and vanished eventually.


    Citizens who found it strange raised their heads to look. They did not understand what had happened.


    Were dire beasts invading the city?


    Qiao Meiqi was rmed as well. He went up to the balcony and looked at the cloudless sky, his face turning strange.


    He had a premonition that something bad had happened.


    Fear enveloped him.


    Just then, Yang Xiaodong came flying over with a panicked look on his face. Qiao Meiqi’s heart sank. Master Yang’s anxious state gave him an idea of how grave things were. Nevertheless, he was feeling somewhat calm, just as how victims grabbed onto theirst straw of hope when drowning.


    QIao Meiqi asked in an unstable voice, "What happened, Master Yang?"


    Yang Xiaodong yelled as he flew in, "Intruders have entered the city with errant intentions! They’re extremely powerful, so quick, find somewhere to hide, Mayor!"


    Qiao Meiqi’s pupils shrank as he looked toward the faraway sky.


    In an instant, right after he activated the city stabilizer blocks, Lou Lan dodged to the side, knowing exactly which spots were safe. He listened to the conversation overhead and until he could no longer sense the presence of those people, he returned to the surface.


    He looked up in the sky and understood that the opponents had alreadyunched their attack.


    Ai Hui and the rest were still unaware of the situation!


    Being unprepared, they would easily get struck, especially since Yang Xiaodong was a traitor.


    But Lou Lan did not know how to fly and his speed was much slower than his enemies.


    How should he inform Ai Hui?


    He cocked his head and racked his brains. The red light in his eyes shed. He’d thought of an idea. While he wasn’t certain of its effectiveness, he could only try.


    A pool of yellow sand rose into the sky like a cannonball.


    Boom!


    An unusual, resounding explosion sounded throughout the city. The yellow sand exploded and formed a row of words in the air.


    "Yang Xiaodong is a traitor. There are three other Masters!"


    The words were exceptionally eye-catching. After the row of words was a vivid and lifelike image of a mini Lou Lan. He was wearing a chef’s apron, raising a pot with one hand and holding a spat in another.


    On the balcony with his pupils shrunk, the mayor looked at the faraway sky and ordered in a stern voice, "Stop him!"


    The other guards saw the words in the sky. With an angry howl they immediately went to seek out Yang Xiaodong. "Leave quick, Mayor!"


    A few other guards escorted the mayor away in a panic.