The sky was dim, leaden clouds hung low.
The thick gray clouds were like a quilt, tightly covering the area around Eagle Grief Cliff.
The setting sun was still hanging on the horizon, yet the sky had already turned a deep dusk.
Shadows covered the ground, making the sunset seem all the more dazzling for a moment.
Chen Mu stared dumbfounded at the slowly collapsing Eagle Grief Cliff.
Where was the Mountain Protection Restriction?
Hadn’t it already been established?
Where did the Mountain Protection Restriction go?!
Boom!
In his daze, another clump of skeletal remains shaped like a green flame flew across the sky.The towering top of Eagle Grief Cliff exploded with a loud bang, the pointed peak instantly crumbling to pieces.
Soil and rocks sprayed in all directions, creating a huge opening in the clouds under the churning wind and sky.
The mountaintop’s falling rocks clattered loudly, yet the entire Eagle Grief Cliff seemed to fall into a strangely eerie silence.
At the foot of the mountain, halfway up, on the streets of the Market District, in the Medicinal Fields, everyone was looking up, frozen as if turned to stone, not daring to breathe, leaving only their faces dumbstruck.
The next moment.
The entire Eagle Grief Cliff collapsed into chaos with a bang.
People unleashed their skills, scattering in all directions.
Chen Mu swallowed his saliva and came back to his senses.
He turned his head to see his new neighbor, Du Cheng, kicking away a collapsing beam and leaping out from a pile of rubble.
Raising his hand, he threw out a swallow-shaped flying kite, leapt onto it, and with a bang, shot up into the sky.
Carrying a rolling air current, he turned into a small black dot in the distance in the blink of an eye.
Chen Mu immediately abandoned any attempt at concealment, his body emitting surging black smoke, with a wailing howl, he fiercely activated the Five Ghosts Great Escape Technique.
But just as he was about to bend his knees to leap and fly away, Chen Mu stopped again.
"Something’s not right!"
He stared intently at the gray clouds in the sky.
Threads of mournful green lightning flickered within the thick clouds, barely visible.
He felt as though he was being targeted by a ferocious demon, sending a chill over his heart.
Chen Mu’s hair stood on end, his scalp itching from the tension.
Suddenly, the entire sky flashed with a burst of green light.
Clumps of green, arrow-shaped flames violently broke through the clouds, pouring down to the ground like a downpour.
Chen Mu watched in horror as a person maneuvering a flying kite was struck by the flame arrows.
His flesh was burned away in an instant, leaving only a pale skeleton with an open mouth silently screaming.
But after only a few struggles, the bones turned into powder and dissipated.
The green flames, however, soared upwards, becoming even more fierce and rampant. What the hell!
Chen Mu’s back was instantly soaked with fine, cold sweat.
Looking at the dense shower of flaming arrows, his eyes involuntarily widened.
"Lucky! Lucky I didn’t fly out just now!"
"Otherwise, I’d be done for!"
Chen Mu didn’t dare to hesitate.
Point Ground into Steel!
The ground in front of him suddenly turned into a quagmire.
Next, he leaped up, Mana surged as he was midair.
Longitudinal Rainbow Light!
Great Escape Technique!
Black smoke and Spiritual Light appeared simultaneously.
He then took a dive forward.
Accompanied by a wailing howl, he plunged headfirst into the ground and disappeared.
Almost in the instant he vanished,
The entire sky was filled with mournful green flaming arrows hitting the ground.
The wooden building Chen Mu had meticulously cleaned up was instantly riddled with holes, flimsy as paper, collapsing and igniting in the mournful green flames, burning up and becoming clean ash in a few breaths.
...
Northern side of Eagle Grief Cliff, thirty miles away, atop a small mountain.
Chen Mu poked his head out of the ground and activated the Truthful Listening Technique. Only when he was sure there was no one within ten miles did he emerge from underground.
But just a glance to the south made his heart sink.
"Eagle Grief Cliff is done for."
The sun had completely set.
Yet the world was ablaze with green light, especially where Eagle Grief Cliff was located, a mournful green expanse.
All over the mountain, left and right, were eerie green flames.
And as time passed, the fire grew larger, threatening to cover the whole mountain.
Moreover, giant figures of insects, snakes, and wild beasts emerged from the flames.
At the same time, dense silhouettes dotted the mountain, wreaking havoc everywhere.
"A premeditated attack?" Chen Mu’s face darkened.
Otherwise, it would not have been so sudden, nor would there have been so many Exotic Beasts and barbarians attacking at once.
And moreover...
Where was Hu Changqing, the guardian elder?
Why had the Mountain Protection Restriction, which had already been built, not activated?
Bang bang bang...
A series of explosions interrupted Chen Mu’s thoughts.
The middle part of Eagle Grief Cliff was as if encircled by explosives, detonating one after another.
Soil and rocks flew, and another layer was sheared off from the great mountain.
An idea flashed through Chen Mu’s mind.
The barbarians’ attack, was it to destroy the mountain?
No! To be more precise, it was to destroy the Earth Vein Spiritual Spring!
"We can’t hold it, so you can’t have it either, huh?"
Chen Mu’s skin quivered.
How ruthless!
What about the other mountains...
Chen Mu’s brows tightened.
He had thought that securing Bi Jia Cliff and Wu Liang Mountain at the Eastern Ridge would restore peace.
But now, it seemed they might sink into even greater chaos.
"Let’s figure out a way to head back to Jade Spring Mountain," Chen Mu sighed.
He certainly didn’t fancy running into those crazed barbarians.
Just as he was about to perform the Escaping Earth technique to leave.
The air around him suddenly solidified, and an intense Exotic Force enveloped him completely.
Chen Mu felt like a mosquito trapped in amber, with strange forces twisting and pulling on him, rendering him immobile.
He was about to invoke the Five Ghosts Possession to forcefully break free when suddenly everything went dark, and the world seemed to spin around him.
The sickly green sky abruptly vanished, replaced by darkness.
A foul smell of soil invaded his nostrils.
The strange force that imprisoned him intensified tenfold.
He felt as if a mountain were crushing him, his Body Protection Aura collapsed in a flash, and intense pain surged through his body—Chen Mu almost heard the grating sound of his bones!
Chen Mu’s face went pale.
...
Atop a small hill.
Some ten meters away from where Chen Mu had been standing.
A blurring of light and shadow, and the figures of a tall and a short person emerged.
The taller figure was both tall and sturdy, with a palm-sized, bizarre tattoo on the left side of the forehead.
As he chanted Curse Words, the tattoo emitted a scarlet radiance, flickering constantly.
A wondrous power enveloped the entire hill, and accompanied by a buzzing sound, the hill itself began to tremble slightly.
"Is he dead?" the shorter, thinner man asked, grabbing the wrist of his right hand with his left, the palm of his right hand open, revealing a complex tattoo that was faintly glowing blue.
"Under the Coffin Mountain Secret Technique, that man won’t just die; he’ll be left broken," the tall and strong man said with a voice resonant as a bell.
"Old rules—we’ll keep that man pinned under the hill for half a year," the short and thin man said cautiously. "Let’s wait for him to be completely dead before we come to collect the body."
The tall and strong man glanced towards a distant broken mountain. "Half a year…"
"Don’t worry, even if this place is taken back by Jilong Road, there will be no danger for us to come collect the corpse," the short and thin man said confidently with a smile.
"This place is already thirty miles away from Eagle Grief Cliff, it’s on the very fringe of the periphery."
"Plus, with my Light Secret Technique, we will absolutely not be discovered," the short and thin man boasted, raising his tattoo-covered right hand.
The tall and strong man couldn’t help but nod.
That stealth ability was indeed formidable.
Working together on multiple occasions, one would handle concealment while the other took care of burying bodies. They had always been successful.
"Tsk tsk... Patriarch Wei is really powerful!" the shorter man said, looking at the mountain that had been reduced by half, his face full of awe.
"Not just Patriarch Wei but also three other Condensing Aperture experts," the tall and strong man shook his head. "Four of them set up the altar, pooled their collective power, and only then could we see the situation as it is now."
"That’s why I say Patriarch Wei is powerful," the short and thin man retorted. "Those people have never worked together before."
"Are you planning to follow Patriarch Wei?" the tall and strong man gave him a sidelong glance.
"After this battle, there will be many more than just me wanting to follow Patriarch Wei," the short strong man said calmly. "You wouldn’t be thinking of following those other unpredictable fellows, would you?"
"I don’t want to follow anyone," the tall strong man shook his head.
"East Ridge has changed; we need to find a big backer," the shorter man couldn’t help but sigh.
The tall and strong man fell silent.
...
After a while.
Feeling the feedback from the Secret Technique and sensing that the man below had been pinned down motionless, a slight smile appeared on the corner of the tall strong man’s mouth: "We’ll talk about finding a backer later. For now, let’s go hunt the next prey."
But just as he was about to withdraw his Secret Technique, his face changed abruptly.
He felt the prey he had firmly pinned down beneath the ground suddenly unleash a tremendous burst of strength.
It was as though he had caught a python as thick as the mouth of a bowl with his bare hands.
Despite his exertion, he could only watch as the opponent shattered the hold of the Exotic Force like rotting wood and broke free from the Coffin Mountain Secret Technique.
"Go!" he exclaimed loudly.
The short and thin man beside him tensed up, quickly spat out some tricky Curse Command, and clenched his fist significantly.
A deep blue light shot out from between his fingers, and a pale blue orb of light suddenly rose from beneath their feet. The figures of the two men became obscured by the swift blue light.
By the time Chen Mu emerged from the ground, the tall man was left only with a head, while the shorter man had only his eyes visible.
The other man emotionlessly gave Chen Mu a glance.
Then the blue light flashed explosively, the orb closed up, and the two men disappeared from sight.
Escape?! Chen Mu’s eyes flashed fiercely.
He had been pressed into the soil and scraped around—had he not been physically strong and possessed the Point Ground into Steel, by now he would have been flattened by the mountain!
And now they wanted to run?
Truthful Listening!
Hum...
A ring of gray ripples immediately spread out in all directions. The landscape within a radius of ten miles flashed into his mind in the blink of an eye.
Gone?!
Chen Mu’s expression changed.
To think they could evade the Truthful Listening Technique’s search!
He swept his gaze around ferociously.
Three Yin Slaying Demon! Three Yin Slaying Demon...
A blanket of ghastly green crescent blades slashed in all directions.
If he couldn’t see them, then he would force them out!
Bang!
A hundred meters away, near a tree thick enough for three people to embrace, a distortion of light and shadow occurred.
As if a projection screen was tapped, ripples appeared on the surface of the tree trunk.
Chen Mu abruptly turned his head, exhaling a forceful breath through his nostrils.
Yin Error!
A flash of black light.
A hundred meters away, the black crescent blade swooshed past.
Yet, this strike met with air; there was neither a feeling of impact nor a splatter of blood.
Chen Mu’s face immediately contorted in frustration.
Just as he was about to continue invoking the Three Yin Slaying Demon to cover the vicinity, the Yin Error crescent blade that had flown skyward suddenly whirled back.
Aiming three meters to the right of the large tree, it plunged into the ground with a ’thud’.
Ah...
A dull scream echoed.
Boom!
The crescent blade burst out of the earth.
Two bodies with severed heads appeared among the fragments of shattered blue light.
Constantly nourished by the Spirit Nourishing Curse, the spiritual intelligence of the Yin Error crescent blade had grown significantly, managing to break through the opponent’s hiding Secret Technique and excel in tracking capabilities!
"Haha! Well done!"
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