Chapter 497 Incorrect Plan
The ends of the log where it connected with the mountain had sprouted roots that burrowed into the mountain itself.
The original plan was to cut off the roots on this side, push down the log, and use the weight of the log and the momentum of its fall to twist off the roots on the other side.
But the log was wedged too tightly and was too heavy, they couldn't budge it at all.
Going to the other side to cut off the roots to prevent the log from absorbing the energy from both mountains was not an option either, as that area was within the skill range of the bizarre creature, leaving them in a dilemma.
Lin Shen scrutinized the point where the log and the mountain wall were connected. The end of the log was stuck in the fissures of the mountain, flanked by protruding rocks. Unless they could lift this end of the log, pushing it down was out of the question.
If they could shave off one side of the protruding rocks, the log itself could slide down, but unfortunately, the rocks here were extraordinarily hard and couldn't be chopped at all.
Lin Shen tried, but neither the Sway Style nor the Folding Style worked on the rocks. Only the Suppressing Mountains and Rivers Skill of the Mutated Jade Linglong could affect them.
The problem was that only the Suppressing Mountains and Rivers Skill was effective. Wei Wufu's White Robe skill was of no use either, as it had limited success in weakening the hardness and toughness of the rocks, making it impossible to cut them off like tree roots.
Lin Shen looked at Wei Changqing and the others on the log, whose carapaces were bleeding; their situation didn't look very promising.
"Wei, start singing," Lin Shen gritted his teeth and activated all his skills, with Super Base Change fully engaged.
He placed both hands on the Scrap Sword, and directly filed down on the protruding rock.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
"The sky is so vast... the wild so immense... in this life I've been wildly unruly..." Wei beat the wooden fish, singing the enchanting lyrics over and over again.
Lin Shen held the Scrap Sword, treating it like a file and continuing to scrape at the rock.
The hardness and strength of the Scrap Sword were beyond imagination, and under it, the rocks, whose hardness and toughness had been reduced by Suppressing Mountains and Rivers, began to display cuts with each file.
"If Ye Kong and the others were here, it would be great. With their accompaniment and singing along with Wei, giving me empowerment, the effect would certainly be much better," Lin Shen knew that thinking such thoughts was of no use now, he had to keep on harshly filing the rock.
Although he was uncertain if there was enough time, this was the only thing they could do now.
Lin Shen had chosen the rock on this side because it protruded more than on the other side, but this part of the mountain itself had a crack, which, if filed down to, might just cause that section of the mountain to split open.
Who knows how long he had filed for, but Wei's singing voice was already hoarse, as if his throat had been filled with three pounds of sand.
Lin Shen suspected that in his entire life, Wei hadn't spoken as much as he sang today.
However, the crack that Lin Shen had filed was still over a foot away from the mountain's own crack.
Crack! Crack!
After a few more vigorous files by Lin Shen, several cracks suddenly appeared near the fissure.
Seeing this, Lin Shen was overjoyed and filed vigorously a few more times. The cracks multiplied, and the sound of the rocks splitting was continuous.
"I bet right!" Lin Shen was both shocked and delighted, seeing that the rock wedging the log was about to split from the mountain, he quickly called Wei and ran to the other side of the mountain.
Crack! Crack!
The rock cracked in intervals, but it never completely broke off.
Lin Shen gathered all his strength and unleashed the Wave-Breaking Quadruple Punch at the mountain.
That punch was like the last snowflake that triggers an avalanche, immediately causing a massive rockslide as large swaths of rock tumbled down the mountain.
With the rocks sliding down, one end of the colossal log, which had lost its support, slid down as well.
The immense torque snapped the roots embedded in the mountain one by one, and the log, carrying a terrifying force, smashed down towards the bottom of the mountain.
The log crashed against the mountainside, fracturing the rocks, and when the roots at the other end finally snapped, the whole log smashed into the mountain stream with an incredibly terrifying momentum.
The ground shook, mountains quivered, and countless rocks rolled down from the mountain; dust billowed up below, creating a scene like the end of the world.
Lin Shen and Wei Wufu lay on the mountainside, trying their best to steady themselves, looking down into the ravine, but they couldn't see the situation below.
Wei Wufu looked down anxiously. Although he knew that a Nirvana Being's body wasn't so easy to damage, if it was smashed by that log, even a Nirvana Being's body wouldn't withstand it.
However, the chances of that were slim; the log's falling speed was much faster than their bodies would fall.
As soon as the shaking stopped, Wei Wufu and Lin Shen immediately rushed down the mountain toward the ravine, but they couldn't see anything in the midst of all the dust.
"Grandfather..." Wei Wufu shouted loudly, but his voice was already hoarse, thin and faint, almost lost.
"Wufu, we're okay," a voice came from within the dust, bringing Wei Wufu and Lin Shen immense relief.
"We're okay... we're okay..." another voice resonated amidst the dust, and soon the seven members of the Wei Family emerged from the clouds of dust.
Although they all had varying degrees of scrapes and bruises, they seemed to be alright, only their carapaces were somewhat damaged.
When the dust settled, Lin Shen and the others could see the log had smashed into the ravine, creating a deep pit.
Everyone's eyes searched and quickly found the location of the bizarre creature and the bug sac, down in a lower position.
The bug sac was crushed under the log, with the top half of the hideous creature exposed, and the sickeningly slimy substance that connected its body to the bug sac splattered everywhere.
Perhaps the contents of the bug sac were squeezed into pulp and squirted out; such was the terrifying weight of the log that not even a Nirvana Creature could withstand being smashed like that.
As Wei Changqing and the others were about to go finish it off, chopping the bizarre creature into pieces, the creature's body twitched.
With its hands pressing against the ground, it propped up its upper body and stared at Lin Shen and the others in a weird pose, letting out strange cackling laughs.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
"Finally... finally down here... I really should thank you..." the creature spoke human words, startling Lin Shen and the others.
Wei Changqing snapped into action, his swords rubbing together to create an indestructible purple thunderous crackling, slashing towards the bizarre creature.
With one hand supporting itself on the ground, the creature swung its grotesque fangs to meet the purple lightning, letting off a thunderous boom as Wei Changqing's attack was blocked.
The log swayed a few times, and as it rocked, countless roots could be seen sprouting from where it met the ground. These roots penetrated the earth under the entire log.
Streams of glowing light were drawn out from the earth, flowing into the log, which gradually began to glow with said light.
"This is bad," Lin Shen's expression soured, realizing that their plan had been wrong from the start.