187: Chapter 187 Calling for reinforcements? You'll die even if you dig up your ancestors!

“Clang—!”

“Clang—!”

A dull bell toll echoed deep within the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains. It rang a total of nine times.

The entire Shushan Sword Sect instantly fell into an uproar.

Nine tolls of the Heaven-Shaking Bell—this was the highest crisis alert that had only appeared three times in the thousands of years since Shushan's founding.

It represented that the Sect had reached its final moment of life and death.

Tens of thousands of inner and Outer Sect Disciples all rushed out of their Immortal Caves.

They looked toward the Golden Peak Great Hall with faces full of terror, having no idea what had happened.

Mount Shu's back mountain, the Forbidden Ground, the Sword Tomb.

This place was shrouded in thick fog year-round, with broken Flying Swords covering the mountains and plains, burying the heroic souls of Shushan's ancestors through the generations.

As the bell tolls faded, the ground deep within the Sword Tomb began to vibrate violently.

“Boom!”

Three mountain peaks, straight as sharp swords, suddenly split open down the middle.

Three decaying yet terrifyingly powerful auras shot into the sky like pillars of Qi.

The clouds in the sky were directly shredded by these three auras.

“Who rang the Heaven-Shaking Bell? Disturbing our slumber!”

A raspy, aged voice, sounding like two pieces of dried bark rubbing together, spread across all thirty-six peaks of Mount Shu.

Inside the Golden Peak Great Hall.

Hearing this voice, Sword Without Limit was not afraid; instead, as if grasping a life-saving straw, he knelt directly on the cold floor tiles.

“Unfilial Disciple Sword Without Limit respectfully welcomes the three Grandmaster Uncles from their seclusion!”

Shua! Shua! Shua!

Three gray afterimages flashed within the hall.

Three elders appeared out of thin air in the Golden Peak Great Hall.

These three were skin and bones, their eyes deeply sunken, and their skin like dried orange peels.

They wore tattered taoist robes from an unknown era, and their entire bodies emitted a thick stench of death.

But the pressure they released was twice as powerful as Sword Without Limit, who was in the Late Stage of the Nascent Soul Stage!

Half-step Soul Transformation!

These three were all old monsters who had lived for over a thousand years.

To delay the passing of their lifespans, they had sealed themselves within the Spiritual Veins beneath the Sword Tomb, lingering on the brink of death.

Being forcibly awakened now meant their parched lifespans were accelerating their decline; they wouldn't live much longer.

“Sword Without Limit, if you don't provide a reasonable explanation, this old man will split you alive today!”

A leading One-Eyed Elder stared coldly at Sword Without Limit.

His remaining eye flickered with a bloodthirsty light.

Sword Without Limit didn't even bother to wipe the black blood from the corner of his mouth and hurriedly kowtowed.

“Grandmaster Uncles, please appease your anger!”

“It's not that this Disciple is incompetent, but the Sect is truly facing a great disaster!”

“The haotian mirror... is shattered!”

As soon as these words were spoken, the faces of the three old monsters changed drastically at the same time.

“What did you say?!”

The One-Eyed Elder grabbed Sword Without Limit by the neck and lifted him up forcefully.

“The haotian mirror is our Shushan's Sect-guarding Divine Artifact, indestructible. How could it shatter?!”

Sword Without Limit gasped for air and quickly recounted what had happened at Qingqiu Mountain.

He focused on describing the young monster who held the Ancient Thunder God's bone and shattered the Divine Artifact with a single strike.

“Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Awakening... Ancient Thunder God's remains...”

The three old monsters looked at each other. A look of extreme gravity flashed in their eyes, but it was immediately replaced by unconcealed greed and fanaticism.

“Good! Good! Good!”

The One-Eyed Elder tossed Sword Without Limit onto the ground like trash and laughed towards the sky.

“The three of us are nearing the end of our lifespans; we thought we could only sit here and wait for death in frustration.”

“Who would have thought such a massive Opportunity would deliver itself to our doorstep!”

“If we can drain the ancient essence blood of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox and add the Supreme divine bone of the Ancient Thunder God, the three of us will surely be able to reconstruct our Physical Bodies and directly Breakthrough to the Soul Transformation Stage!”

Another bald elder snorted coldly.

“Since that kid dares to come, he must have something to rely on. To be able to shatter the haotian mirror in one hit, his strength absolutely cannot be underestimated.”

“What is there to fear!” Killing intent flashed in the One-Eyed Elder's eyes. “This is Mount Shu! This is the dojo we have cultivated for thousands of years!”

“Sword Without Limit! Pass down the order!”

“Activate the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Array!”

“All Disciples, return to your positions and pour all your spiritual power into the Formation eyes!”

“Today, this old man will ensure they never return! I'll refine them all into human blood pills!”

...

Meanwhile.

High in the sky, the Frost Giant Dragon was shuttling through the clouds at full speed.

The biting wind was completely blocked by the golden barrier Chu Ling had set up. In the sofa area on the dragon's back, the atmosphere seemed a bit strange.

Mary and Reba were still playing poker enthusiastically, their faces covered in white paper strips. Lin Lang sat nearby, lost in thought as she looked at her bad hand. She couldn't understand how her calculation abilities as a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator couldn't beat these two women from the secular world.

Bai Li sat alone in a corner.

Nine snow-white fox tails were cushioned beneath her, like a fluffy throne.

Her beautiful purple eyes stared unblinkingly at Su Yang, who was resting with his eyes closed on a leather sofa.

This man. Domineering, roguish, arrogant, and completely unreasonable.

But at the Qingqiu Fox Clan's most desperate moment, he descended like a god of war, shattering the high-and-mighty, hypocritical Righteous Path with a single strike.

He even used that... extremely embarrassing mouth-to-mouth method to forcibly help her smooth out her rampaging Meridians, saving her life.

The Yao Race has always admired the strong. In the face of absolute power, Bai Li found that her pride as a Saintess had long since shattered into nothingness.

“What are you looking at?”

Su Yang asked casually without even opening his eyes.

Bai Li, like a startled kitten, suddenly retracted her gaze, and two seductive blushes instantly appeared on her cheeks.

“Who... who's looking at you! I'm just looking at the scenery outside!” Bai Li retorted stubbornly.

Su Yang opened his eyes, sat up, and stretched.

He looked at Bai Li's tsundere appearance and found it very amusing.

“Looking at scenery? What's so good about a few broken clouds.” Su Yang moved directly toward Bai Li and sat right next to her.

“You should be looking at me, your husband.”

“What nonsense are you talking!” Bai Li was so angry that her nine tails stood up, and she quickly dodged to the side. “When did I ever admit you were my...”

She found that word too shameful to even speak.

“What? You're not going to take responsibility after sleeping together?”

Su Yang directly entered rogue mode.

“Down in the abyss, you held onto me so tightly, and you almost bit my lip through. Now you're being heartless after getting what you wanted, huh?”

“You're shameless!” Bai Li was overcome with shame and indignation, and she directly raised her jade-like hand to slap Su Yang's chest.

Su Yang didn't dodge and took the blow head-on.

Bang!

The palm strike landed solidly on Su Yang.

As a result, not even the dust on his clothes was knocked off; instead, Bai Li's palm was jolted numb, and she hissed in pain.

“You've got quite a bit of strength. As expected of a great yao who has Awakening her Bloodline.”

Su Yang grabbed Bai Li's wrist and pulled her forcefully into his arms.

“However, murdering your husband is subject to family discipline.”

Bai Li struggled a few times but found that his hand was like an iron clamp, impossible to break free from. She could only glare fiercely at Su Yang.

“Let go of me! Or I'll really bite you!”

“Go ahead and bite. The marks from last time are still there; do you want me to pick another good spot for you?” Su Yang leaned his face in, looking completely unbothered.

Bai Li looked at the face so close to her.

A strong masculine aura wafted toward her. Her heart rate suddenly accelerated, and she truly didn't know what to do with this rogue.

The dignified Saintess of Qingqiu, the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox whom countless Prodigies in the cultivation world considered a luxury just to glance at. In front of this man, she couldn't even muster any temper.

“Cough, cough.”

Reba, who was nearby, coughed twice on purpose, covering her eyes with her hands but leaving her fingers wide open.

“Boss, mind the influence. It's in public, and there's a minor here.”

Mary rolled her eyes directly.

“What kind of minor are you? I'm over two hundred years old; I've seen everything.”

Su Yang laughed and released Bai Li's wrist.

“Alright, I'll stop teasing you.”

He stood up and walked to the dragon's head. Facing the howling wind outside the barrier, he looked into the distance with eyes like torches.

“We're almost there.”

“Get ready to work.”

Ahead.

The deepest part of the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains.

An extremely magnificent complex of buildings, even surpassing physical common sense, appeared in everyone's sight.

Hundreds of massive floating peaks were connected by countless thick black iron chains.

Countless waterfalls cascaded from the edges of the peaks, falling into the bottomless abyss below.

This was the location of the Shushan Sword Sect, the leader of the Righteous Path.

However.

At this time, Mount Shu did not have the peace and tranquility of an immortal's blessed land.

The entire Sect, was tightly wrapped in an extremely thick dark-gold light screen.

Phantoms of countless stars flowed upon the light screen. Each star emitted an extremely terrifying destructive aura. All the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi within a hundred-mile radius was completely drained by this Formation.

This was exactly Shushan's strongest trump card—the Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Array!

Inside the grand array.

Tens of thousands of Shushan Disciples sat cross-legged. Each face was pale as they continuously poured their natal spiritual power into the Formation eyes.

In the void in front of the Golden Peak Great Hall.

Sword Without Limit and the three Grand Elders stood side by side. They stared fixedly at the Frost Giant Dragon galloping in from the distant horizon.

“They're here!” Sword Without Limit gritted his teeth, his eyes full of resentment.

“Hmph.” The One-Eyed Elder snorted coldly.

“It's good that they've come. Once they enter the range of my Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Array, not even a fly will escape!”

The Frost Giant Dragon stopped a thousand meters away from the Shushan array.

The massive dragon body hovered in mid-air, breathing out bursts of cold breath.

Su Yang stood on the dragon's head. He looked down at the defensive Formation in front of him, which looked like a giant tortoise shell, and a sneer curled at the corner of his mouth.

He activated the System's Eye of Investigation.

【Target: Zhou Tian Xing Dou Grand Array】

【Rank: Quasi-Soul Transformation Rank Defensive Killing Array】

【Description: An ultimate Mountain-Protecting Grand Formation that gathers the spiritual power of tens of thousands of Cultivators and draws upon the power of the Nine Heavens' stars. Its defensive power is extremely strong, and its counter-shock force can easily shatter the Physical Body of a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator.】

After reading the System prompt, Su Yang curled his lip in disdain.

“Is this how you Shushan people welcome guests?”

Su Yang's voice, mixed with pure spiritual power, was like rolling heavenly thunder, directly penetrating the Formation's soundproofing and spreading throughout Mount Shu.

“If you can't win, you hide in a broken tortoise shell like a coward?”

Inside the Formation.

The One-Eyed Elder let out a burst of arrogant laughter, the sound deafening.

“Ignorant child, do not be so arrogant!”

“This old man is a Grand Elder of Shushan! Since you have the guts to come to your death, hand over the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox and the thunder god golden bone immediately!”

“This old man will show great mercy and can decide to leave you with an intact corpse!”

Su Yang looked at the wizened old man shouting crazily inside the Formation as if he were looking at an idiot.

He didn't even have the interest to reply.

With a backhand motion, he pulled the thick thunder god golden bone out from the System space.

The golden bone staff in his hand instantly surged to dozens of meters long, looking like a pillar that supports the sky. The purple-gold lightning coiled around it began to jump frantically, emitting piercing explosions.

“Leave me an intact corpse?”

Su Yang gripped the bone staff with both hands and slowly raised it over his head.

His muscles instantly bulged and defined themselves, and bone-jarring cracking sounds erupted from within his body. Terrifying Pure Yang True Fire spread along his arms onto the bone staff.

“I think you don't know...”

“In this world, there has never been a walnut that couldn't be cracked. If there is...”

“...it's because the hammer isn't big enough!”