Bringing The Farm To Live In Another World - Chapter 16405

Chapter 16403. Falling for a Trap

“Land Solidification Technique!” General Li, with his rich experience, recognized the technique at a glance. A strange expression flashed across his face. He had genuinely forgotten that while building a base inside a mountain did indeed expose it to attacks from multiple directions, seemingly a disadvantage, the situation was entirely different if the base possessed the Land Solidification Technique. The Land Solidification Technique was specifically designed to counter earth-based spells. Once a piece of land was solidified, it would become immune to most earth-based spells—a fact known to everyone.

However, the Earth Solidification Technique also has a weakness. First, it requires more spiritual energy than ordinary earth-based spells. Second, its application area is generally small. For example, an Earth Spikes spell doesn’t just produce one spike on the ground; instead, spikes appear throughout an area with a diameter of three zhang (approximately 13 meters). This is the area for an ordinary cultivator; a skilled cultivator could expand the area even further. Spells like Quicksand, which resemble traps, have an even larger area, reaching about ten zhang (approximately 33 meters) in a single use.

The Earth Solidification Technique, on the other hand, can only solidify a maximum of one square meter of land per use—a very low percentage.

Therefore, although the Earth Solidification Technique is the nemesis of earth-based spells, it’s not widely used due to its extremely low cost-effectiveness.

However, if someone sets up a large earth-solidification spell array, covering an entire area, that area essentially forms a massive protective layer—a physical layer at that. Earth-based spells are practically useless, and attacks with other elemental spells won’t be very effective either.

The earth-solidification spell is actually quite simple: without it, the ground is just ordinary soil, but with it, it becomes stone, even harder than stone. Therefore, this spell not only counters earth-based spells, but other elemental spells also find it extremely difficult to break through.

Of course, this doesn’t mean there are no spells that can counter earth-solidification. There are other spells that can, such as the Softening Slime spell. This is a special spell that can soften stone into something like mud. It’s the nemesis of earth-solidification, but calling it a nemesis is a bit of an exaggeration, because while the Softening Slime spell does counter earth-solidification, it still depends on which side has stronger energy.

Although the Blood Slaughter Sect’s base is now built inside the mountain, they’ve used a land-solidification technique. This is equivalent to embedding a steel plate around what was originally just a base built in the mountain. Trying to break through this steel plate

with earth-based magic is no easy task. Of course, you could use a mud-softening technique, but like the land-solidification technique, it requires a very high amount of energy. These two techniques are arguably the two most energy-intensive earth-based spells.

The Blood Slaughter Sect has clearly used the Creation Golden Wheel to create this land-solidification technique. This means that while they could use a mud-softening technique to break it, your energy must be stronger than theirs. But can the energy here in the Divine Kingdom be stronger than theirs? They’ve essentially used a magic array; can your energy exceed the energy of a magic array? That’s almost impossible. Therefore, breaking through this energy is even more difficult.

Could a sect-protecting treasure-level magic weapon break this land-solidification technique? The answer is yes, but it’s extremely difficult. The Earth Solidification Technique differs greatly from other spells. With other spells, attacking a single point might break the spell, like a fireball spell. Even if the fireball is large, attacking a single point might cause it to explode. But the Earth Solidification Technique is different; it truly hardens the earth to the point of steel. Even if you attack a single point, at most a hole will be created there, but the spell’s power won’t disappear. This is the most troublesome aspect of the Earth Solidification Technique. Of course,

you could use a sect-protecting treasure-level artifact to break the Earth Solidification Technique. The power of a sect-protecting treasure is immense enough to break through soil that has become as hard as steel. But that’s like using a sect-protecting treasure-level artifact to cut a steel plate—would you be willing to do that? Even if you were willing, you couldn’t completely break the Earth Solidification Technique in one go. If you attacked it a few more times, the power of your sect’s treasure-level magic weapon would be greatly reduced. In the words of the cultivation world, it would be considered a loss of spiritual essence, which would be a great loss.

Therefore, the best way is to use the Slime Technique to break the Earth Solidification Technique. However, to break the Earth Solidification Technique with the Slime Technique, the energy must be stronger than the Earth Solidification Technique itself. This means that everyone must use the Slime Technique simultaneously to break the Earth Solidification Technique.

General Li frowned, then said in a deep voice, “All Kingdom-level experts, assemble here.” With his voice, all the Kingdom-level experts who had come with him gathered around him, several hundred in total.

General Li continued, “Everyone, use the Slime Technique with me to attack the mountaintop.”

Upon hearing this, all the Kingdom-level experts responded, and then they all prepared. General Li then asked, “Everyone can cast the Slime Technique instantly, right?”

Everyone responded once more, and General Li continued, “Alright, then listen to my command, three, two, one, release!” With that, he immediately unleashed the Slime Spell, and everyone else did the same, all throwing their Slime Spells onto the mountaintop.

Once the Slime Spells reached the summit, General Li immediately instructed the ordinary cultivators, “Use earth-based spells on the mountaintop.”

The cultivators all responded, and simultaneously used earth-based spells on the summit. This time, the mountaintop finally changed; holes appeared, but these holes were only about one meter deep. Normally, using such a simple spell, they could create holes over ten feet deep, or even several feet deep, but this time they only created holes about one meter deep—a significant difference.

However, this was still much better than having no effect at all. General Li immediately said, “It’s working! Everyone, keep going! Pay attention, after we use the Slime Technique, concentrate your spells and create a large hole in the middle of the mountaintop.”

The ordinary cultivators immediately responded. General Li then said, “Everyone, get ready! Three, two, one, release!” With his voice, everyone released the Slime Technique again, and the disciples below also released their spells once more. This time, their spells were more concentrated, and a large hole with a diameter of over ten zhang appeared in the middle of the mountaintop, but its depth was less than two meters.

General Li then spoke, “Use our Mud Spell on that hole as well.” Everyone responded again, and under General Li’s unified command, they released the Mud Spell once more. This time, the Mud Spell landed right inside the hole. After they used the Mud Spell, the other ordinary cultivators used earth-based spells again, making the hole even larger and deeper, reaching a depth of about five meters.

General Li’s eyes lit up, and he immediately said, “Next, tell the others to try this method as well, and see if they can attack the enemy’s underground base from other places.”

Someone immediately responded and went to relay the order, while General Li and his men continued to use this method to slowly dig into the mountain. Everyone’s attention was focused on the area solidified by the Earth Solidification Spell, and they didn’t notice that those digging from the foot of the mountain upwards had been silent for quite some time.

Those digging from the foot of the mountain upwards were quite fast. The area covered by the Earth Solidification spell was only a small patch; there was no Earth Solidification spell along the entire distance from the foot of the mountain to the halfway point. Those digging upwards initially didn’t know there was an Earth Solidification spell above, but they quickly learned. They were somewhat disappointed, but they continued digging upwards at a rapid pace, since attacks were already underway on other sides, leaving them with no choice but to attack from below.

However, they were also relieved; the enemy base was located where the Earth Solidification spell was applied. As long as they hadn’t encountered the Earth Solidification spell, they wouldn’t encounter the enemy. This was the thought of everyone digging upwards.

But when they suddenly found themselves in a space, they were stunned. Then they suddenly realized they had entered the enemy base. And the enemy base hadn’t used Earth Solidification spells below?

Just as they were thinking this, countless enemies suddenly attacked. They quickly engaged in battle, and a fierce fight broke out within the base. However, as the battle raged, these people from the divine kingdom discovered that the base also possessed earth-solidification magic, and indeed, it was only applied to the top and sides; the bottom was unaffected.

Now that they had entered the enemy’s base, they were now facing the enemy alone. Most terrifyingly, even if they wanted to break through the mountain walls to let those outside know they were under attack, it was impossible. The walls and pillars of the base were all encased in earth-solidification magic. They couldn’t even make it known that a battle was taking place there, let alone that the outside world was attacking the mountain, creating a considerable commotion that made it impossible for anyone to hear their voices. Therefore, although they were being attacked, those outside remained unaware, because the outside was also engaged in combat, with energy flying everywhere and the noise deafening, so no one noticed they were being attacked by the Blood Slaughter Sect. (End of Chapter)