Chapter 87: The Floating Cloud Sect Goes to War
Chapter 87: The Floating Cloud Sect Goes to War
At the mountain peak,
After a long silence, Xu Shen spoke again. “There were six warships in total. Two Bloodline Divine Emissaries at the Nascent Soul Realm. Four demons at the Golden Core Realm. Twenty priests at the Foundation Establishment Realm. And also one Divine Idol, plus 500 Black-Armored Warriors and 300 Temple fanatics. But this was only one group. Based on my experience, there should also be a strong fleet coming from upstream of the Blackwater River. A two-sided attack.”
“Kao Mountain Town is beyond saving.”
“Yes, beyond saving.” Ji Chang suddenly laughed. “Old Xu, you should stay. You must not repeat the mistake Qin Ke made back then. That guy was good in every way, but he was too proud. He never got beaten by an Evil God, and thought he could change everything and revive the Floating Cloud Sect. Hah! What an idiot!”
“I’m leaving. We can’t let people point at our Floating Cloud Sect and call us ungrateful. We received so many benefits before, and now we hide like mice. We can’t bear that shame.”
“Anyway, I’ve grown tired of living. Rather than one day I can’t resist and take Old Madam’s belongings, it’s better to die gloriously. Our Floating Cloud Sect has no cowards.”
Ji Chang spoke calmly. He waved his hand and put on a Black Fog Cloak. These were all traded from Kao Mountain Town. That Kaoshan Patriarch on the other side was really like a fool, giving out benefits wholeheartedly. Damn it, wouldn’t it be better to be more cunning? Now you’ve made me go die with you.
Xu Shen did not move. He did not turn to look at Ji Chang’s figure. After three hundred years, he would recognize this guy even if he turned to ashes. There was no need to take another look.
Partings of life and death were ordinary matters. They had experienced too many already.
He still remembered when he was five years old. He stood at the door and saw off his grandfather. That Old Man with a white beard that trembled when he laughed. Then the Old Man never returned.
When he was ten, his always stern father left. Before leaving, he patted his head. No matter how much he cried, his father said not a single word, and never came back.
At thirteen, his mother left. Even after boarding the flying sword, she kept turning back to smile at him. That gentle smile often appeared in his dreams. Every time he woke up, his pillow was wet with tears.
Later, he sent off more and more people, and gradually grew accustomed to it. Many times he thought he would send himself off too, but in the end, he never did.
In a blink, three hundred years had passed.
Who knew when it would end?
The wind whispered. He turned around. Ji Chang had returned. Xu Shen frowned slightly. Before he could speak, Ji Chang shouted, “Old Madam is awake. She wants us to go to the Stone House for a meeting.”
“She already knows?”
Xu Shen was startled.
Ji Chang sneered. “What doesn’t she know? She just pretends to be foolish every day. But this time it’s a bit strange. Wasn’t Old Madam always the type who preferred others to die rather than herself?”
Xu Shen did not speak. Then he threw out a small boat, pulled Ji Chang onto it, and they sped like the wind. In an instant, they returned to the small village. Jiang Ying was waiting for them outside. Though she had lost one leg, she was already fully armed and brimming with killing intent.
But Li Si was not there.
Ji Chang was about to go knock on the door when Jiang Ying stopped him in a low voice.
“He is cultivating. Don’t disturb him. Our Floating Cloud Sect now relies on Xu Shen, but the future relies on him. We can’t break that.”
Ji Chang shook his head. Did their Floating Cloud Sect still have a future?
The three quickly entered the Stone House. Inside, a unique Soul Lamp was lit. Old Madam was as usual, her eyes barely open, half-dead.
“Master!”
After Xu Shen and Ji Chang paid their respects, Old Madam glanced sideways at Ji Chang. “Even if you want to throw your life away, this isn’t the way to do it. Guard the great Formation Array. Just stop the fleet from the south.”
“What?”
“No way!”
“I disagree!”
Jiang Ying, Xu Shen, and Ji Chang reacted intensely. Even if Ji Chang was willing to go die at Kao Mountain Town himself, even if Xu Shen silently agreed, they did not want to activate the Formation Array. That would expose the Floating Cloud Sect’s hidden location. It was completely different.
“Master, I am willing to go support them personally. But this place is our Floating Cloud Sect’s foundation. We absolutely cannot expose it!” Xu Shen pleaded earnestly.
“Senior Brother, no! If you leave, no one will control the Four Symbols Formation Array.”
“All of you, shut up!” Old Madam was angry. “Look at you, all so timid. Do you think if we don’t act, we won’t be exposed? This is only the second wave from the Evil God Cult. There will definitely be larger forces rolling in behind. We are only a hundred miles from Kao Mountain Town. Can we hide?”
“Or are you willing to keep hiding forever?”
“Since there’s nowhere to hide, we fight.”
“Jiang Ying, you stay and guard the village. Just take care of your junior brothers and sisters.”
“Xu Shen, maintain the Formation Array.”
“Ji Chang, your Martial Arts Talisman Puppets, take them all out. Since our Floating Cloud Sect has received favors, how can we just stand by and watch?”
“Master, they brought an Evil God Idol. They came prepared!” Xu Shen said quickly. His four great Formation Arrays could stop the two Bloodline Divine Emissaries at the Nascent Soul Realm. Combined with Ji Chang’s Martial Arts Talisman Puppets, stopping the other small fries was no problem. Only that Idol was hard to deal with. That thing really killed anyone it saw. They couldn’t withstand it!
“That Evil God Idol, leave it to me.”
After saying this, Old Madam closed her eyes.
Only a few seconds later, the world suddenly shook. Lightning flashed and thunder roared. A great wind sprang up. The dark night sky was suddenly torn apart by bright lightning. The bloody clouds in the sky let out desperate howls, bleeding profusely.
Then, a corner of the starry sky was finally revealed in this area.
The blood clouds still tried hard to heal. But then another sword light swept across, tearing an even more terrifying wound in the blood clouds. Immediately after, a miraculous scene occurred. In the brilliant starry sky, a thin barrier suddenly pressed down. Then, the majestic ruins of a city appeared in the Mortal Realm.
Even though only part of the city ruins could enter the Mortal Realm, it still seemed like a divine miracle.
Countless lightning bolts, sword lights, and heavenly fires spread and burned around the city ruins.
On the ground, Xu Shen, Ji Chang, and Jiang Ying were already so excited that tears streamed down their faces. After so many years, they could finally see Master’s true form again. The World Guardian True Immortal—she was still here.
At the same time, over ten miles away, on the fleet on the river, one Evil God Idol turned into blood fire all over the sky, coming like a burning curtain covering heaven and earth. It was actually connected to countless Evil God Idols throughout the world, in the Illusory Void and the Mortal Realm, forming a large net for suppression.
Who would have thought that a World Guardian True Immortal would show up right here? Who else would they capture but you?
But before the suppression net could form, a curtain of lightning light fell from the city ruins. It instantly suppressed the blood fire all over the sky, forcibly blasting a blank space within the blood cloud curtain.
Immediately after, a long sleeve flew out from the Illusory Void. It carried supreme power and instantly ground the Idol’s main body into dust.
At this point, the suppression net lost its connection point and had to quickly fade away.
The corner of the city ruins that had forcibly intervened in the Mortal Realm from the Illusory Realm also rapidly disappeared. The blood clouds in the sky sealed everything again, as if nothing had happened.
But those who knew, knew. That Evil God Idol had been destroyed.
“Four Symbols Formation Array, activate!”
Xu Shen roared. Instantly, centered on the Floating Cloud Sect’s small village, within a radius of ten miles, beams of dazzling light shot into the sky. The aura was startling.
In an instant, lightning, sword rain, hurricanes, ice spikes, giant trees—intense, dense attacks fell from the sky. They completely covered a stretch of the river over ten miles long. Saturation bombing.
In just a few seconds, except for the two Bloodline Divine Emissaries and the four Golden Core Realm demons, none survived. Even the six warships turned into fragments.
This was the power of the Four Symbols.
“Boom!”
Two beams of blood light shot into the sky. When they fell again, they were blocked by a curtain of lightning light. The shadows of two Blood Crows were revealed. But the look in their eyes was not fear, not surprise, but cruel delight.
Yes, they were overjoyed. They were just following orders to suppress Kao Mountain Town. Who would have thought they’d be ambushed by a World Guardian True Immortal on the way. Hah, they had never seen such a foolish World Guardian True Immortal!
Hah, the Four Symbols Formation Array!
This was a rat’s nest!
Cawing strangely, the two Blood Crows flew around the Four Symbols Formation Array at extremely high speeds. Even though Xu Shen continuously controlled it, even though Xu Shen was a Formation Array genius, as long as the two Blood Crows did not take the initiative to attack, did not actively step into the attack range of the Four Symbols Formation Array, he could do nothing to them.
As for the four Golden Core demons, they did not stop at all. They directly leaped onto the opposite bank and disappeared into the darkness. It was unknown whether they went to Kao Mountain Town or to report.
For a time, the situation became extremely bad. The two Bloodline Divine Emissaries did not leave. They happily flew kites just outside the Formation Array’s reach. They were preventing the people of the Floating Cloud Sect from escaping or retreating.
On the mountain peak, Xu Shen and Ji Chang looked at each other and could only smile wryly.
This was the limitation of Formation Arrays. The earlier fleet just happened to sail into the attack area of the Four Symbols Formation Array. Though Xu Shen had deliberately targeted the two Bloodline Divine Emissaries, he could only seriously injure them in the end, with no time to finish them off.
As for them rushing out to attack, that was even more of a joke. If the Bloodline Divine Emissaries came back and self-destructed, both of them would be finished.
“Our Floating Cloud Sect has done all we can. Now it’s up to Kao Mountain Town itself. Senior Brother Ji, prepare for a fight to the death. This place is already our last hiding spot.”
Xu Shen let out a long sigh.
“Then it’s just right to go all out! I’ve long been tired of living,” Ji Chang said fiercely. They had obtained large amounts of materials from Kao Mountain Town before. Making a thousand Martial Arts Talisman Puppets was no problem at all. If the Evil God Cult wanted to take this place, hmph, unless they paid with tens of thousands of lives, it was impossible.
“It’s just a pity. I thought our Floating Cloud Sect could finally revive once. Who would have thought it was just a last glow before death. How fate plays with people.”
Turning to look north, towards Kao Mountain Town, they could actually see a thread of light piercing through the Dark Mist. Over there, it must already be a hellish battlefield of slaughter.
That Kaoshan Patriarch, really damn unreliable!