"Th-then what do we do?" Meiyao cried out in alarm. Watching the small loft sway violently as it plunged toward the ground, she naturally had no idea what to do.
"Stay calm. We'll just go outside now. As for the loft, put it away first and repair it later." I offered a solution. Only then did An Fan, who had appeared before us, let out a sigh of relief and say, "Dong Ren Valley Master really did make proper arrangements. But now we're surrounded by powerful enemies on all sides. What should we do?"
Rumble!
A stone pillar pierced straight through the loft and plunged into the ground near us. This earth-element siege weapon was surprisingly powerful. And that wasn't all—meteors began diving down from outside. It clearly wasn't an ultimate technique that an ordinary early-stage Spirit-Manifestation cultivator could unleash, and An Fan was so anxious he almost jumped.
I had no time to worry about anything else. I grabbed Meiyao's hand, opened the Six-Colored Umbrella, and flew out beyond the terrace. Sure enough, the loft itself was a large target. As long as the enemy wasn't blind, they could see it approaching from far away. How could they not attack us?
Fifteen or sixteen Spirit-Manifestation cultivators had ambushed us. They stood atop stone tablets of all different shapes—some sword-shaped, some dish-shaped, while others were block-shaped or spherical. Yet all of them had spiritual veins carved into their surfaces, which was why they were called tablets.
These should have been the Sun-Moon Observatory's Azurecloud Stones. It was said that they consumed a tremendous amount of energy to get started and weren't very fast, but once they entered an accelerated state, they became incredibly swift. While flying, they resembled huge boulders plunging from the sky. They could both attack and fly,