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Helpless, he left a portion of his men to continue rebuilding Xiangyang, while another group continued the search for the rascal pig's whereabouts. As for himself, he headed north once again with the troops, intent on achieving his goal as soon as possible.
Actually, the rascal pig was right under these people's noses all along.
The searchers looked high and low inside and outside the city, nearly pulling out the hidden stakes in the moat, all to find it. Yet, they never imagined that, at that moment, the rascal pig was right under the city walls.
Heavenly trial chased after it, and the rascal pig, in its panic, scurried into a pier.
But with one blast of thunder, the pier crumbled under the force of the heavenly trial into dust.
Before the rascal pig could get up, more heavenly trial lightning struck it repeatedly, shaving off layers of the eight-meter-high walls. The impacts blasted into the ground, carving out a huge, deep pit.