Battle Through the Heavens: Soul Palace, Gu Yan!

Chapter 12 Earth Spirit Pangolin

With a gentle blow, faint sound waves soared into the sky.

The blue eagle in the sky suddenly circled down, and with the flapping of its wings, it caused the plants beside Gu Yan and his companion to droop to the ground.

Gu Yan pushed off the ground with his feet, his body soaring into the sky, and finally landed steadily on the back of the blue eagle.

He looked down at the Little Fairy Doctor beside the thatched hut below, waved to her, and laughed loudly, "Little Fairy Doctor, we'll meet again someday!"

"Take care, Gu Yan!"

Looking up at the boy on the blue eagle's back, Little Fairy Doctor smiled slightly, a hint of reluctance in her smile.

Gu Yan can be said to be her first friend in life.

After waving goodbye one last time, Gu Yan finally stopped, turned around, and with a loud eagle cry, flew towards the northern sky.

Standing beside the thatched hut, Little Fairy Doctor watched the pale blue shadow disappear into the distant horizon before letting out a slow sigh.

Who knows when we'll meet again after this parting?

Moreover, when we meet again, things may have changed.

Clutching the jade bottle containing the Jade Spirit Pill in her hand, Little Fairy Doctor's pretty face showed a slight hint of melancholy.

High above, Gu Yan gazed at the increasingly smaller thatched hut in the valley, sighed softly, and murmured, "Goodbye."

Gu Yan landed near Qingshan Town.

He waved to Xiao Lan, thanked her, and then Xiao Lan soared into the sky and disappeared from sight.

Gu Yan turned his head to look at Xiao Lin and said, "Let's go back."

Xiao Lin nodded.

With a slight smile, Gu Yan took out the spatial teleportation talisman.

At this point, a small section at the top had turned black.

When the white jade tablet turned completely black, the spatial teleportation talisman became ineffective.

Without further hesitation, Gu Yan simultaneously infused a wisp of soul power and a wisp of battle qi into the white jade tablet.

"In the southeastern region of the Dou Qi Continent, in the Tianxing Empire, there is the ancient city of Gulang."

In an instant, spatial power danced on the white jade tablet, bursting with light that enveloped Gu Yan and Xiao Lin completely.

……

The night was as dark as ink, and the entire ancient city of Gulang became silent.

Family-oriented.

The patrolling tribesmen had solemn and serious expressions.

The night breeze carried the unique fragrance of mountain grass and trees, but also a faint, almost imperceptible, fishy smell.

Suddenly, an angry roar of a beast rang out outside the Gu family manor, followed by the sound of walls collapsing.

"What happened?"

Lights lit up one by one inside the Gu Family Manor.

"Monster attack!"

"Monster attack!"

The tribesmen on night watch shouted loudly, waking the rest of the tribesmen from their sleep.

Soon, figures rushed out, including Gu Ruiqing, Gu Tianyao, and others.

"Oh no, it's a spirit pangolin! Sound the alarm!" Gu Ruiqing glanced in the direction from which the roar came from, his expression changed drastically, and he hurriedly shouted.

The booming alarm bells pierced the night sky, and the Gu family manor was instantly brightly lit.

At this moment, the Earth Spirit Pangolin's group had already broken in.

The first thing to appear in sight was three enormous adult earth spirit pangolins.

Gu Ruiqing and the others knew very well that an adult Earth Spirit Pangolin was a third-tier magical beast, equivalent to a human Grand Master!

Their carapaces are like ancient bronze castings, covered with intricate and mysterious patterns, gleaming with a faint green light under the moonlight.

These patterns glowed faintly and rhythmically as they moved.

Each adult Earth Spirit Pangolin is over three zhang long. Their heads are flat and covered with sharp scales. Their two small eyes flash with a furious red light, and their mouths are full of serrated fangs.

What's even more chilling is that following behind them was a group of not fully grown pangolins.

They followed closely behind the adult pangolins, like a well-trained army.

Most of them are at the first order, while three or four are at the second order.

"How is this possible... The Starry Sky Mountains, where the Earth Spirit Pangolins live, are extremely far from here. Why would they attack our Gu family for no reason?"

Clan Chief Gu Ruiqing stood atop a pavilion within the manor, his face ashen.

Why?

He didn't understand.

"Click—"

Suddenly, the three adult earth spirit pangolins raised their heads, exhaled two streams of foul-smelling fumes from their nostrils, and simultaneously plunged their six claws into the ground.

"boom!"

Centered on the three adult earth spirit pangolins, spiderweb-like cracks suddenly appeared on the bluestone slabs within a radius of a hundred feet.

Before the three patrolling tribesmen at the front could react, the ground beneath their feet was ripped open by the claws of the earth spirit pangolin, and they were sent flying into the air like kites with broken strings.

In the instant before their consciousness faded, they saw the juvenile earth spirit pangolins spread in all directions, most of them burrowing directly underground.

"clang!"

A crisp, metallic clang rang out.

Gu Tianyang struck a second-tier earth spirit pangolin with his sword, knocking it back.

The Gu family only has three Grand Dou Masters: Gu Ruiqing, Gu Tianyao, and Gu Tianyang.

Gu Ruiqing is an eight-star Grand Dou Master.

Both Gu Tianyao and Gu Tianyang are five-star Grand Dou Masters.

The remaining clansmen were all fighters and masters.

Both sides have the same number of Grand Dou Masters, but the weakest adult Earth Spirit Pangolins are at least Seven-Star Grand Dou Masters.

Compared to this, Gu Jia's situation is not so good.

Several eerie black shadows streaked across the sky; these were the earth spirit pangolins that suddenly leaped out of the ground and then swooped down, crashing into various buildings of the Gu family like meteorites.

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, a large hole was smashed in the wall on the east side of the Gu family library.

Amidst the flying pebbles, a spirit pangolin emerged from the cave.

The guard had barely cried out in alarm when the monster launched its attack.

It charged forward at incredible speed, its front paws plunging into the chest of the person on duty.

The member of the Gu family felt a tremendous force strike him, and he was sent flying like a kite with a broken string, crashing heavily into a pillar, spitting blood, and falling unconscious.

However, this was only the beginning of a nightmare.

The earthquake was shaking more and more violently, as if countless enormous creatures were moving underground.

The ground began to crack, and black fissures spread out like a spider web.

One after another, earth spirit pangolins crawled out from these cracks.

In the southeast corner of the Gu Family Manor, a Gu Family Fighting Master had just rushed out of his room when he was stopped by a spirit pangolin.

The earth spirit pangolin suddenly leaped up, its entire body crashing down on the young man like a giant hammer.

The young man hurriedly raised his knife to defend himself, but the impact caused his tiger's mouth to split open, and he was sent flying backward, crashing into a stone table in the courtyard and smashing the table to pieces.

On the other side, a medium-sized earth spirit pangolin discovered the Gu family's medicine garden and immediately let out a deep roar of excitement.

It suddenly used its front paws to dig open the fence of the herb garden and rushed in without regard for anything else, causing great damage to the herbs planted by the Gu family.

Several clansmen guarding the herb garden rushed to stop it, but were struck by the barbs on its tail, instantly tearing their skin and flesh.

More of their people rushed in.

"Protect the medicinal herb garden! We can't let these beasts destroy our home!"

More than a dozen tribesmen attacked the earth spirit pangolin at the same time.

However, due to the exceptionally hard shell of the Earth Spirit Pangolin and its extremely strong defensive capabilities, the dozen or so people were unable to inflict any effective damage on it for a time.

During the battle, a weaker member of the tribe was knocked to the ground by the earth spirit pangolin and was about to be trampled into mincemeat, but fortunately another member of the tribe came to his rescue in time.

"Boom!"

Another loud bang, this time in the main courtyard where clan leader Gu Ruiqing lived.

A massive earth spirit pangolin burst out from underground and smashed the stone gate of the main courtyard with a single claw.

Several nearby martial artists rushed over, one of them thrusting out a sword with a rainbow-like aura, aiming straight for the eyes of the earth spirit pangolin.

However, the earth spirit pangolin reacted extremely quickly, tilting its head to narrowly avoid a fatal wound, but still managed to scratch its cheek.

It let out a furious roar and attacked the man with both claws at the same time.

……

Battles broke out throughout the Gu family manor.

"The east wall has been breached!"

"A member of the clan has been injured in the west wing!"

"The library is on fire!"

"Go quickly to Beiyuan! Some of our clansmen are trapped there!"

Gu Ruiqing frowned. The Earth Spirit Pangolins were not only numerous, but also acted mysteriously, clearly indicating that they had come prepared.