198: Chapter 198 Since they've all come, let's deal with them all at once.

"Since the Sect Master is unable to preside over this, we Grand Elders will take the liberty!"

Granny Jingxu shouted sharply, a flash of determination in her eyes, "Fellow Daoists, follow me to raise the Formation! With our remaining bodies, let us Summon the Ancestor, call upon the true spirits of our Ancestral Masters, and protect our Sect!"

"Yes!"

The other four Grand Elders responded in unison, their voices shaking the heavens.

The five of them hesitated no longer. Simultaneously, they bit the tips of their tongues and spat out five mouthfuls of heart blood, each containing immense life essence and Divine Soul power!

"Pfft—!"

Five crimson blood arrows, tinged with a faint golden light, shot out. They did not land but instead rapidly converged and underwent Fusion in mid-air, transforming into an incredibly complex, constantly rotating crimson Talisman!

At the same time, the five of them formed hand seals at lightning speed, leaving behind countless afterimages, while chanting ancient and obscure incantations.

The syllables of the incantations were strange, as if they were not human language, carrying a peculiar power to communicate with the netherworld and call upon the ancient past.

As the incantations rang out, the crimson mist steaming from their bodies grew thicker. Their faces aged and withered at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if their life force was being rapidly drained!

Yet, their eyes grew brighter and brighter, like burning stars!

"With my blood, serve as the guiding lamp!"

"With my Soul, serve as the brick to knock on the door!"

"Unworthy Disciples of later generations respectfully invite the Ancestral Masters of the past…"

"True, Spirit, Return, Position—!"

Granny Jingxu's hoarse voice blended with the chanting of the other four Elders, creating a strange resonance that shot straight into the ninth heaven!

The crimson Talisman glowed brilliantly, suddenly shooting out a beam of blood-gold light that aimed directly behind the Law Execution Platform, toward the direction of the Hehuan Sect Forbidden Ground!

"Rumble—!"

It was as if some mechanism that had been silent for eternity had been triggered; the entire Hehuan Sect mountain range shook!

Countless ancient Formation runes emerged from the ground, the mountains, and the Void Realm, flickering with unstable light!

From the depths of the Forbidden Ground came a dull roar, as if a prehistoric beast were awakening!

A desolate, ancient, and vast aura began to permeate from the direction of the Forbidden Ground, gradually enveloping the entire Sect.

Within that aura were contained at least several distinct wills, each powerful enough to make one's Soul tremble!

In the sky, the wind and clouds changed color, leaden clouds hung low, and thunder gathered faintly, as if the Law of heaven and earth were furious and resonating due to the activation of this forbidden technique!

Around the Law Execution Platform, all the Hehuan Sect Disciples were stunned by this grand and terrifying spectacle; many trembled and involuntarily knelt down.

Xu Ruyu was also shocked to the core. He could feel that as the Summoning the Ancestor ritual proceeded, the energy field of this entire region where the Hehuan Sect was located was undergoing some fundamental and highly directional distortion and transition!

It was as if invisible passages were being forcibly opened, connecting to some extremely distant, extremely high-level dimensions or space-times!

"This is… Summoning the Ancestor?"

Xu Ruyu muttered to himself, his eyes filled with shock.

This was already beyond his understanding of traditional cultivation methods.

Lady Qingli said in a low voice, "They're crazy… They actually started it… Are they not afraid of death?"

She turned her head to look at the white-haired Little Girl who was watching the ritual below with a hint of pity.

And that Little Girl, at this moment, had a reaction that caught everyone by surprise.

Far from stopping it, she clapped her little hands and giggled, her voice crisp and pleasant:

"Interesting! Truly interesting! Little Hehuan, these Disciples and grand-Disciples of yours are actually more interesting than you! To think they would dare to play this 'Summoning the Ancestor' game?"

She tilted her head, her large amber eyes full of excitement and curiosity, and stood on tiptoe, peering toward the direction of the Forbidden Ground:

"Let me guess, how many old ghosts can you wake up? Is it that Ling girl who always kept a straight face and pretended to be profound? Or that lecherous old man from even earlier who liked to peek at female Disciples bathing? It shouldn't be Ling girl; she is already gone. Then it must be… hehe, it wouldn't be that freak who refined himself into a zombie and still thought he was handsome, would it?"

Every time she made a "guess," the faces of Granny Jingxu and the others, who were presiding over the ritual below, turned a shade paler, their hearts filled with horror and suspicion.

These descriptions… some of them actually faintly matched the sporadic records about certain Ancestral Masters in the Sect's top-secret archives!

Who on earth is this girl?!

Xiao Nianyin listened to the Little Girl's words and looked at the Elders below who were burning their lives to perform the Summoning the Ancestor. The complexity in her eyes deepened.

She finally spoke slowly, her voice still calm but carrying an unquestionable power that clearly overpowered the chanting of the incantations and the roaring of heaven and earth:

"Elder Jingxu, everyone… stop."

Her voice was not loud, but it seemed to contain a strange rhythm that caused the rotation of the crimson Talisman to falter.

Granny Jingxu looked up abruptly, her old face full of confusion and anxiety: "Sect Master! You cannot! The ritual has begun, it is hard to interrupt! Furthermore, with a formidable enemy before us, only the true spirits of the Ancestral Masters can…"

"She is not an enemy." Xiao Nianyin interrupted Granny Jingxu, her gaze turning back to the white-haired Little Girl, her eyes complex. "At least, not entirely."

She paused, seemingly wanting to explain something, but in the end, she just shook her head gently: "Stop the Summoning the Ancestor. I will bear all the consequences myself. Otherwise… what you summon might not be salvation, but… even greater trouble."

However, at this moment, Granny Jingxu and the others had already burned their vital blood and sacrificed their Divine Souls. The ritual had reached a critical juncture, like an arrow released from the string; how could it be stopped just because they said so? Moreover, they simply did not believe or understand the meaning of Xiao Nianyin's words.

"Sect Master! Things have reached this point, we can only let the Ancestral Masters decide!" Granny Jingxu gritted her teeth, ignoring Xiao Nianyin's dissuasion, and together with the other four Elders, spat the last mouthful of vital blood onto the crimson Talisman, completing the final ritual!

"Boom—!!!"

The crimson Talisman exploded, transforming into five thick beams of blood-gold light that completely submerged into the depths of the Forbidden Ground!

The next second—

"Crack… crack…"

It was like the sound of glass breaking, coming from the Void Realm above the Forbidden Ground.

A jet-black, deep space-time rift, with the aura of Chaos flowing along its edges, was forcibly torn open!

Behind the rift was endless gloom and chaotic space-time turbulence.

And in the depths of that gloom, several incomparably ancient, incomparably powerful wills, carrying a majesty that looked down on all living beings, like sleeping Dragons, slowly… opened their eyes.

A terrifying pressure that made even the Law of heaven and earth retreat, like a bursting galaxy, poured out from the space-time rift, instantly sweeping across the entire Hehuan Sect!

The Summoning the Ancestor… succeeded!

A wisp of true spirit or projection of the Hehuan Sect's past Ancestral Masters was about to cross the boundary… and return!

And at this very moment, the playful look on the white-haired Little Girl's face completely vanished.

She looked at the space-time rift, feeling the familiar yet strange ancient aura leaking from it, sighed softly, and muttered to herself, her voice only audible to Xu Ruyu who was closest to her:

"A few unruly little ones… After being in the Immortal Realm for so long, I'm afraid their tempers have only gotten worse, haven't they? Very well…"

She patted the non-existent dust on her body. Within her small body, an aura, no less inferior to the pressure leaking from the space-time rift, began to quietly awaken.

"Since they have all been called out, then… I'll just clean them all up at once. It will also make up for the regret of not having bullied you all before…"