320: Chapter 313 The New Disciples of the Mountain Gate Launch an Attack! Senior Brother Zhou Has Arrived!

Zhang Mu arrived at Yuzhang Mountain, threw the items to them, and then turned to go to Hogwarts to find the five people currently at the training grounds.

Strangely, the five of them were originally split into two groups, keeping a clear distance from each other.

Normally at the academy, except for some elective classes where sitting in the same classroom was unavoidable, they even intentionally avoided each other at other times.

If you went to the library, I would study in the dormitory; if you went to the training grounds, I would go to the library.

Yet today, the five of them had actually gathered at the training grounds and were even practicing magic together.

How rare.

Zhang Mu figured that during the practical combat course, Toby and Wino had reconciled after a deep conversation.

However, that was their own lives; Zhang Mu didn't plan to interfere. He called the five of them and Luo Lin to the Headmaster's office to collect their rewards.

First was Luo Lin's.

Hers wasn't exactly a reward, but a gift from her grandfather, so the range of choices was much broader.

Zhang Mu took out various strange 'puppets'. Besides the Owl that everyone loved, there were also squirrels, cats, and other animals suitable as pets.

Luo Lin was very conflicted, liking this one and being reluctant to part with that one, so she requested to have them all.

She was then rejected by Zhang Mu.

Giving her one more didn't actually matter; the manufacturing cost of the puppets was cheap, and the process was simple.

It was just that Zhang Mu felt he couldn't spoil her too much, otherwise her desires would expand uncontrollably.

Finally, after much hesitation, Luo Lin picked an MD cat.

The remaining five were easier to handle. Zhang Mu gave each of them a different pet, then handed Luo Lin a Snowy Owl, entrusting her to deliver it to the Queen, before sending them all away.

For the next few days, Zhang Mu had no heart for other matters and stayed in the dark void of "The World" to focus on his cultivation.

During breaks, he pondered how to open those room doors in "The World."

His current level was High-level Magician, which became Magister after panel bonuses.

On the Saul Continent, a Magister wasn't considered too weak; at the very least, self-preservation was possible.

However, after promoting to Magister, he entered "The World" several times and tried to open the tightly shut doors, but they wouldn't budge an inch.

The doors even gave off a faint ripple of magic power, as if mocking Zhang Mu for overestimating himself.

He was quite troubled; this "The World" was the treasure vault of the Ice and Snow Empire's number one Magic Family, and the items stored inside were precious beyond words.

As long as it was opened, he wouldn't just lack magic; he could also use it to train Professionals and use war magic items to strengthen fortifications throughout Lake.

Zhang Mu had pondered strategies for this to no avail and eventually gave up.

The number one Magic Family of the First Empire—their patriarch was at least Epic. He figured he shouldn't think about pushing them open until he reached Epic, so he left it at that for now.

Shaking his head to discard his thoughts, he refocused his slightly distracted attention.

For the next five days, Zhang Mu did not take a single step out of the void. It wasn't until the morning of the fifth day that he summoned a Portal and went to the palace to collect the magical beasts and Knight Magic prepared by the King.

The details of the small talk between the two sides will not be elaborated upon.

He stuffed all the magical beasts into "The World" and went in himself. Arriving at Yuzhang Mountain, he said "There may be trouble, I'm off" to the five people practicing swordsmanship on the back mountain peak, and then sent them all out of "The World."

Before the six of them could understand what happened, they soared into the air and flew out of the light gate.

After they shook off the entanglement of tourists and ran to the cave base, they learned the reason from the Director's mouth.

Another calamity has been revived.

Unlike the Mountain Rock Giant, this calamity didn't have such terrifying power; however, for humans, the danger had increased instead of decreased.

The Mountain Rock Giant had a grand size, so it would be discovered as soon as it appeared, allowing the Mountain Gate to arrive at the scene as quickly as possible to handle it.

But according to information from Russia's newly appeared transcendent, this calamity's size is comparable to large animals on Blue Star, and its movements are extremely hidden.

Human heavy weapons might be able to break its defense and kill it, but the problem is the calamity simply won't give humans the chance to surround it.

Missiles could indeed concentrate unexpectedly, but what if the calamity is hiding in a city?

Would you drop missiles into a city?

Due to the dense population, let alone missiles, even heavy weapons are very inconvenient to use.

After understanding the situation, Ye Ming was the first to ask: "Russian transcendent? When did they appear? What ability do they use? Magic?"

"The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs was vague in its wording, seemingly intending to hide it," Yue Ruo said.

"It's also normal; Russia isn't stupid, they wouldn't rashly expose all the details of their own transcendent."

"So what do we do now?" Luo Xiling asked.

"Return to Su City and form a special operations team with the five of you as the Core."

The Director briefly explained his plan.

Because the specific strength of this calamity was uncertain, the five of them would strike together in the early stages to avoid being defeated one by one by the enemy.

After contacting and understanding the calamity, they would then consider whether to disperse the five of them to guard various locations as appropriate.

While the Director was speaking, the plane was already prepared, and several people headed to the airport while talking.

Five hours later, the group got off the plane in Su City and took a car back to the Municipal Building.

There was no time for rest.

As soon as they returned, the Director and Ye Ming took over command and began preparing to set up the special operations team.

The criteria for selecting team members had nothing to do with fighting skills; the key was providing logistical support and analyzing intelligence on the calamity.

Talents meeting such conditions definitely couldn't be fully recruited from within the Special Investigation Bureau alone; they had to look all over the country.

Director and Ye Ming had to stay at headquarters, so Yue Ruo and Zhao Qi had to turn around and board business trip flights just after returning.

Ten days passed in a flash.

At noon, in the courtyard of the Municipal Building.

There were more than twenty young men and women in the yard forming a circle, excitedly watching the open space in the middle, clapping and cheering from time to time.

"Amazing! Do another one!"

Luo Xiling couldn't help but let the corners of her mouth curl up: "Watch closely!"

After saying that, her hands formed a sword seal, and the moon bright sword circling her body instantly burst with light, charging diagonally toward the sky, and then... sliced off a piece of the iron guardrail on the rooftop terrace of the Municipal Building.

It's over!

Luo Xiling, whose loss of control due to being carried away led to the error, hurriedly called back the moon bright sword and sliced the half-section of iron guardrail falling toward the ground into powder.

This wasn't the first time she had caused trouble; the fact that the concrete balcony railings had been replaced with iron was a testament to that.

She broke out in a cold sweat; whenever she recklessly caused an accident, the Director would...

"Luo Xiling!!!" The Director's head poked out from a window on the third floor, his face full of rage, "What kind of nonsense are you up to again?!"

As the Director lost his temper, the enthusiastic onlookers from just now quickly scattered, disappearing in an instant around corners, into toilets, building entrances, and so on.

"This bunch of ungrateful people, they were the ones who wanted to see me so..."

"Get up here!"

Luo Xiling was halfway through her mumbling when she heard the Director shout. With nowhere to hide, she could only go upstairs and push the door open timidly.

—Slap— The furious Director slapped the desk upon seeing her, "Did Immortal Xu give you energy reserves just so you could show off?!

How many times has it been?

A few more times and the Municipal Building will become a condemned building, do you know that?!

Hand over the box!"

The new calamity appeared on Blue Star, so Luo Xiling and the others were naturally fighting on Blue Star as well.

Considering endurance, Zhang Mu packed magic crystals into crafted wooden boxes and gave them to them to replenish the magic power of the "flying sword" Cores.

To prevent officials from trying to take them apart for research, he carved Fireball Spell formations on all six sides of the wooden box and instructed that the box must not be forcibly dismantled.

If they ignored him and insisted on dismantling it, Zhang Mu would not be responsible if people were blown up.

Luo Xiling aggrievedly pulled a palm-sized wooden box from her pocket: "Here..."

Taking it and putting it into the safe behind him, the Director's lingering anger hadn't subsided: "Do you have a screw loose in your head?

If you have nothing to do, go to the cafeteria and eat two more pots of rice. Why are you flying the moon bright sword around all day?

Huh? What do you want to do? Do you want to go to heaven?

Now all of Su City knows the Municipal Building has flying swords, they're all gathered outside watching!"

"Uh... the wall is quite high, they shouldn't be able to see..."

"You want to say they can't see, right?!"

The Director stood up, yanked open the curtains, and pointed to a residential area several hundred meters away: "They're all renting houses over there and setting up telescopes!

Thanks to you, the rent over there has been hyped up to thirty thousand a month. The homeowners in that neighborhood are laughing themselves silly, renting out their own houses and then going to other neighborhoods to rent a place to live!"

Luo Xiling was sprayed so much she didn't dare raise her head. After the Director's explosive output, his anger softened slightly.

Sitting back in his chair: "I know someone from the Mountain Gate will come to replenish the energy in the wooden box for you when it's used up, but you can't waste it like this. What if Immortal Xu finds out?

You'll be happy if he expels you from the sect."

"Oh."

"Oh my foot. Go, go, go, go play by yourself."

Luo Xiling was an optimist. Hearing she didn't have to be scolded anymore, she didn't care that the wooden box was confiscated and hurried away happily.

Just as she left, Ye Ming came in again.

"Director, almost everyone has arrived."

The Director was in no hurry to give orders, saying with a worried expression: "These youngsters have no small amount of ability, but they aren't steady enough. I think it's best to send them to military training for a month before starting formal work."

Ye Ming thought of Luo Xiling, who had just passed him by without even a greeting, and smiled: "Xiao Luo and the others caused trouble again?"

"The new team members followed suit, and Xiao Luo is also simple-minded, going at it as soon as they egg her on. This building is almost ruined. How am I going to hand it back to the local Government Officials then?"

"Young people, being active is understandable."

Looking him up and down, the Director said oddly: "Xiao Ye, you're only in your twenties this year, right?"

"I'll be 28 after the New Year."

"Aren't you still a young lad? You speak so old-fashionedly, change it."

"This..." Ye Ming laughed helplessly, "How do I change this?"

"Expose yourself more to things young people like."

"Then I'd have to put my work aside for a bit."

"Try it when you have time."

"Alright." Having successfully handled the Director, Ye Ming returned to the main business, "All personnel are in place. Once Sister Yue and Brother Zhao return tomorrow, we can move the base."

"Is the new base over there finished?"

"Because it's in the mountains and you didn't allow a highway to be built in, the roads are poor and material transportation is slow. Currently, only the main facilities are built.

For the rest... should we build a road? Otherwise, it's too slow."

"We can't build one." The Director stood up and walked to the window, gazing at the somewhat dark sky, "Widening the dirt road is enough."

Not understanding why the Director was so stubborn, Ye Ming had to skip this topic and continued: "We have some news about the transcendent in Russia."

"Speak."

"It's certain to be a local Russian transcendent, not someone from Hogwarts or the Mountain Gate who went over.

The transcendent appearing in Mosco, Russia, is a nineteen-year-old boy. He's said to be quite shy and practices something called 'Arts'."

"Arts... Sorcery? Witches? Werewolves, vampires, or something?"

"Not quite sure." After seeing the Kunpeng, Ye Ming didn't dare to arbitrarily conclude that human myths were fictional.

"Let's ask Immortal Xu when we meet him someday." The Director looked worried, "For now, we still have to focus on the calamity. If... Ye Ming, say if we really can't hold out, will the Mountain Gate come to our rescue?"

"According to Immortal Xu's instructions, we shouldn't have any fluke mentality."

"What do you mean?"

"Be prepared to deal with everything ourselves."

The Director frowned deeply: "Why?"

"I guess Immortal Xu might be worried that we'll act recklessly because we have someone to rely on."

The two didn't chat much more about other things. After the Director gave the order to move the base, Ye Ming left.

The new base wasn't too far away; it was in the deep mountains on the outskirts of Su City—the mountain stream where Zhang Mu had swung his sword to split a rift in the ground.

Setting the new base there was personally decided by the Director. He felt that the sword mark possessed the power of an immortal and might have a certain deterrent effect on the calamity.

Although Luo Xiling and the other four disciples all stated that they didn't perceive any 'spiritual energy' from the sword mark at all, the Director still didn't change his mind.

In fact, the Director was so persistent not just for the sword mark, but also for reasons of concealment.

Shortly after Zhang Mu split the sword mark, Kyoto sent people to seal off the surrounding area and dispatched an army to patrol and protect it, preventing tourists who came to watch from accidentally falling to the bottom of the valley.

As tourists from all over who wanted to see it were blocked for a long time, fewer people came. Thanks to this, the Director even saved the trouble of setting up sentries.

Early the next morning, Yue Ruo and Zhao Qi, having completed their tasks, returned smoothly, and the moving operation immediately began.

There were many items, large and small, but Ye Ming had already inventoried and loaded them onto trucks.

Daily necessities didn't need to be purchased as the base had them; everyone just needed to get in the vehicles.

The convoy started, drove out of the Su City area, ran along the highway for a while, and turned left onto the dirt road.

The journey ended an hour later, and they arrived at a base built in the mountains.

Despite the fatigue of the journey, they didn't rest. After getting off the trucks, they had to install electronic equipment and set up a combat room that integrated reconnaissance, strike, and overall coordination.

However, accidents always come unexpectedly.

Just after starting work for a while, a call came from Su City officials. A citizen had reported witnessing a strange creature suspected to be a non-Blue Star animal in the outskirts.

The Director was very puzzled, thinking to himself that there are so many Blue Star animals that they can't be counted, so how could you be sure the creature you saw was a "non-Blue Star animal"?

When the photo was sent over, he understood.

This thing indeed couldn't have grown on Blue Star.

The calamity had appeared. Although they weren't fully prepared yet, the enemy wouldn't wait. The Director ordered the five to attack, while the combat room would be responsible for providing all logistical support during the operation.

The five of them took their wooden boxes, put on earbud headphones, and left in a hurry.

They flew away into the sky. The Director, looking up and about to return to the combat room, suddenly saw a small black dot in the sky rapidly expanding.

As the distance gradually closed, the Director found the black dot was a person, and that person's appearance...

The Director's eyes suddenly went wide: "Senior Brother Zhou?!"

Senior Brother Zhou was dressed in the white robes of the Mountain Gate, with a long sword on his back, landing gracefully.

"How have you been lately?" He smiled and cupped his hands.