Braised Dragon with Soy Sauce

Chapter 157 Creating an Illusion

Seeing that all five boys were dead, the old man in black felt his heart sink and lost all will to fight.

Although he wished he could devour Mo Yuming and the others alive, he felt like he was stuck in a quagmire, possessing great skills but unable to use them.

So he made up his mind and gave up the fight.

Although it was frustrating to be forced to flee by some people with Earth-level cultivation, the situation was hopeless and there was nothing that could be done but give up.

He feinted, forcing back the two Falcon Guards behind him, and then ran back to the cave he had come from.

Seeing that their opponents had abandoned the battle and fled, Mo Yuming and his men immediately led their men in pursuit and fired crossbow bolts from behind.

From the moment he decided to flee, the old man in black lost all will to fight. He simply parried the incoming crossbow bolts as he quickly made his way forward.

Just as the old man in black disappeared into the cave, a howl of "Ah!" was heard, followed by what seemed like he had been bounced back by something.

The old man in black was ejected from the cave and landed about three zhang (approximately 10 meters) from the entrance. His eyes were bloodshot, and there were small bloodstains on his chest and neck.

Mo Yuming immediately recognized this as the work of Dragon Lord and Tiger Lord. This was a scheme Mo Yuming devised when he was bored. After Xinlan left, Mo Yuming was extremely bored, so he and a group of second-generation old men went around catching magical beasts to play with.

Mo Yuming used the ghostly spider silk he obtained during his trip to Xianghe Valley to weave an invisible net and tied it between two trees.

Due to the special properties of the Phantom Spider's silk, it is extremely difficult to detect its existence unless one knows in advance that there is a web there.

As a result, monsters often walk right into the trap.

Sometimes, because monsters run fast, they can get caught in a spider web suddenly. Due to the great impact, they are often cut and bruised by the spider silk.

Later, because using the silk of the Ghostly Demon Spider to make a net to catch monsters was both fun and interesting, almost every one of the twenty-odd second-generation elders in the valley followed Mo Yuming's example and made a net using the silk of the Ghostly Demon Spider to catch monsters.

The old man in black who had fled into the cave was bounced back by the web of ghostly spider silk that Mo Yuming had secretly set up in the cave.

Because the old man in black only wanted to leave as soon as possible, he did not slow down when he rushed into the cave. As a result, due to the high speed and strong impact, he was accidentally strangled by the spider web and was bounced back by the highly elastic web. His eyes were also blinded by the spider silk.

Mo Yuming and the others naturally wouldn't let such a good opportunity pass them by. They immediately pounced on him and hacked wildly with their knives, killing the old man in black.

The old man in black never dreamed he would be hacked to death like this; he died with his eyes wide open in disbelief.

After dealing with all the enemies, Mo Yuming put away the Spirit Shadow Stone.

Then he quickly left with the five unconscious sinner youths.

The Falcon Guard's killing of the sinner youth was a ruse. What appeared to be a heavy blow was actually a deflection of force when his palm landed on the youth's head; he merely used subtle force to knock the youth unconscious.

The act was merely for the old man in black's eyes, intended to distract him.

Another tactic is to create a false impression, deceive those who are concerned about the final fate of these five remnants of the criminal clan, and cover up the truth.

The former towns of Dongying and Xiyu are now deserted, and the people in both towns have all left.

Some left the Monster Mountain Range after receiving compensation and went far away, while others took over one or two shops in the underground mall of the Sacrifice Cliff Tunnel to continue their business.

The pavilion at the entrance to the deadly slope has long been demolished and replaced by an imposing mountain gate.

The mountain gate, which is ten feet high, is built with rocks quarried from the town of Dongying.

All the houses in Dongying Town and Xiyu Town have been demolished. Mo Yuming's design was to build a castle spanning two continents, with the main body of the castle located between Nanying Bridge and Beiyu Bridge.

Because Dongying Town and Xiyu Town have always been independent, there are differences in their construction. According to measurements, the Nanying Bridge is three to five feet higher than the Dongyu Bridge.

Mo Yuming wanted to cover the canyon between the two bridges with a stone slab bridge, so the first thing he had to do was level the ground.

The nearly 300-foot-long cliffs on both sides had to have a layer of rock removed before a stone bridge was built on top, which required a lot of stone to be quarried.

Because the stone here is of very high quality, the quarried stone can be used to build walls, so there is no waste.

However, the project was enormous, and the war expenses later disrupted Mo Yuming's plans.

Therefore, the construction of Wushuang Castle was shelved and has remained unfinished to this day. The original plan to build an auction house next to the castle has also been abandoned.

However, it wasn't completely abandoned; even during the battle against Wu Ji's 100,000-strong army, construction didn't stop.

Mo Yuming selected ten of the most skilled craftsmen from the nearly one hundred artisans he recruited from Yingzhou to work on the construction of Wushuang City.

After Uehara Castle was captured and the borders were basically secured, an order was issued to select 500 soldiers from the 3,000 troops defending She Shen Cliff to join the construction of Musou Castle, on a rotation basis every two months.

All soldiers who participated in the construction received additional compensation, which ensured that the training and defense of the garrison were not affected, and that the construction of the castle could continue.

Moreover, in addition to their fixed military pay, the soldiers who participated in the construction also received extra subsidies, which the soldiers were very happy to do.

It should be noted that, according to the long-standing practice in the Tianxuan Continent, soldiers do not receive any compensation for participating in various infrastructure projects.

After more than a year of construction, the walls of Wushuang Castle have been basically completed.

Starting from the mountain gate at the edge of the deadly slope, the structure is built along the edge of the canyon, standing 15 feet high and 10 feet wide.

The entire city wall was built of stone blocks, and the inside of the city wall was built into small rooms.

The distance from Jue Ming Po to She Shen Ya in the middle of Hui Long Dao is more than fifty li. The construction of this city wall was a massive undertaking.

Although the city wall is not high, appearing quite small compared to the more than ten-zhang-high city walls of Shangyuan City or Jian'an City, it is built on a cliff with a bottomless abyss, and once it becomes one with the cliff below, it no longer appears small.

Since there was a cliff outside, the city wall was basically useless for defense, at most just like the walls of a courtyard.

However, Mo Yuming built houses inside the city walls, which proved to be of great use.

The city wall, which stretches for over fifty miles, could accommodate at least several thousand rooms. Once completed, these stone houses would be ideal for garrisoning troops.

The canyon between Nanying Bridge and Beiyu Bridge has been constructed using stone slabs in the form of a stone arch bridge, as designed by Mo Yuming. The narrowest point between the two continents has finally been connected by Mo Yuming.

Looking down from above, you can see that after the two towns were connected by Mo Yuming, they resembled a giant butterfly spreading its wings and landing on the long canyon.

On one side is Dongying Town, and on the other is Xiyu Town. The giant butterfly's body is a stone arch bridge, three hundred feet wide, built by Mo Yuming using stone slabs.