Such a massive lineup descended upon Misty Cloud Mountain like dark clouds pressing down on a city, giving everyone a new understanding of the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
No wonder Yan Luo Cang had suggested going to the Heavenly Snake Mansion for reinforcements. With such a powerful sect, the forces of the other nations simply could not stop them.
Outside Misty Cloud Mountain, two dark figures watched the scene and let out sinister cackles.
"Vice Hall Master Zhou truly is a master strategist. A little trick was all it took to fool that bunch of stinking harpies from the Heavenly Snake Mansion."
"Your praise is undeserved, Hall Master. It was merely that the Misty Cloud Sect had developed too rapidly, arousing the fear and dissatisfaction of the many great forces in the northwest. I only had to stir things up a little, and this destabilizing factor was brought into being."
Wang Ba nodded. "Indeed. However, I took a look just now. This ancestor of the Misty Cloud Sect doesn't seem very strong. She was probably built up by someone else's flattery. With the Heavenly Snake Mansion's foundation, it should certainly be able to wipe out the Misty Cloud Sect."
Vice Hall Master Zhou said, "Hall Master, wherever there is battle, there are vengeful undead souls. In a while, we'll be able to harvest a great many souls again."
"Old Zhou is right."
With that, Wang Ba and Vice Hall Master Zhou both burst into laughter.
"What an arrogant, inexperienced fool. She's practically begging to die and showing off her own limits!"
Ye Qianqian watched She Xiuyue's smug expression, which was even more pretentious than her own, and helplessly shook her head before saying to Xiao Yi Xian and Medusa:
"You two should leave quickly. This is a place of trouble, and I don't want you to be caught up in it. Both of you are descendants of my closest friends. If anything happened to you, I truly wouldn't know how to face my friends in the afterlife!"
The two women hesitated upon hearing this. They wanted to leave but were unwilling to go; they wanted to stay but were unwilling to remain. Their hearts were filled with waves of inner conflict.
"Ancestor... I..."
Xiao Yi Xian wanted to speak but stopped, wavering for a moment.
The senior before her was her ancestor's sworn sibling! She had even helped her control the Calamity Poison Body. If she simply left, wouldn't that make her heartless?
That was what Xiao Yi Xian was thinking.
Medusa felt the same way. She was endlessly grateful to Ye Qianqian for saving her just now, but she did not possess Xiao Yi Xian's desire to repay the favor.
As the queen of the Snake People Clan, she knew very well that every word and action of hers represented the entire clan. Thus, she truly did not want to take part in the battle that was about to break out.
The Heavenly Snake Mansion was enormously powerful, far beyond what the Snake People Clan could compare with. If the Misty Cloud Sect were defeated today, the Snake People Clan would likely be dragged into the disaster as well.
Yet Medusa was also filled with resentment. The humiliation she had just suffered had formed a knot in her heart. She wished she could hack She Xiuyue into pieces and feed her to the dogs, only then would the hatred in her heart be relieved.
At that moment, Ye Qianqian saw through Medusa's thoughts and added fuel to the fire. "Medusa, you are a descendant of Nuwa, so you must leave this place.
"Today's battle is of great consequence. You must not be implicated. Once your strength has greatly increased in the future, you must never forget your mission. The living beings of the Dou Qi Continent still need you to protect them. That is my only request of you."
After hearing this, Medusa immediately changed her mind, and her lofty sense of purpose exploded.
That was right. She was a descendant of Empress Nuwa. How could she be afraid? The Heavenly Snake Mansion had provoked them without cause, so it was in the wrong from the start. As Nuwa's descendant, she absolutely could not stand idly by.
"Ancestor, I'm not leaving. You and my ancestor are sworn siblings, which makes you my only close kin in this world. How could I abandon you?" Xiao Yi Xian said firmly.
"Senior, I'm not leaving either. A descendant of Nuwa would never be the sort to cling to life and fear death. Besides..." Medusa coldly glared at She Xiuyue in the sky and snorted. "This queen will absolutely chop that slut into mincemeat!"
The two women firmly declared their positions at the same time, making Ye Qianqian inwardly delighted.
Regardless of whether the two of them would stand on her side in the future, at least they had formed a connection!
"Good." Ye Qianqian adopted the bearing of an elder and said earnestly, "You two truly possess the bearing of your ancestors. I seem to see the shadows of your ancestors in you both, and it fills me with comfort.
"If your ancestors are watching over you from the afterlife, they must certainly be proud of you as well!"
"Hahaha! Today is the end of your Misty Cloud Sect!" She Xiuyue laughed loudly and looked down contemptuously.
These were the Heavenly Snake Mansion's strongest forces, and they were also the reason the Heavenly Snake Mansion had never been challenged by other powers for so long.
Whatever Misty Cloud Empire or Misty Cloud Ancestor they spoke of, they were completely insignificant before the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
"What are you laughing at, your sister? Your foul breath is stinking up the whole place. Did you brush your teeth this morning?"
Ye Qianqian said, "You brought so few people and already got carried away. Who gave you that courage?"
"So few people? Hmph." She Xiuyue snorted. "What outrageous arrogance. This sect master will now let you taste what it means to be crushed beneath an irresistible force!"
"Then I'll wait and see." Ye Qianqian turned back to Yun Shan and the others. After they nodded in understanding, they each took out a bamboo flute and began to play softly.
The sound of the bamboo flutes was driven by dou qi. The music drifted melodiously and continuously for hundreds of miles.
"Reporting to Sect Master, several groups of people have suddenly appeared outside Misty Cloud Mountain. They're all heading toward the Misty Cloud Sect. It seems that... we've been surrounded." An old woman from the Heavenly Snake Mansion hurriedly flew toward She Xiuyue.
"What?" She Xiuyue's pupils contracted, and a trace of unease rose in her heart.
"Elders of the Misty Cloud Sect, form the Cloud Smoke Cover Sun Array!"
At the same time, Yun Yun led the elders of the Misty Cloud Sect over. With a delicate shout, all the elders immediately formed up and began forming hand seals.
The blazing sun was covered by a massive cloud, and the world gradually darkened. Countless cloud swords flew within layers of dark clouds. All they needed was another command from Yun Yun, and ten thousand swords would shoot forth, punching countless holes through the enemy experts.
The moment this array appeared, the experts of the Heavenly Snake Mansion were terrified. They retreated dozens of steps before finally stopping.
"Gather Ten Thousand Poisons Underworld Emperor Array! Bring the war beast up here!" Xie Shan shouted at the same time. The former disciples of the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate each released their Heavenly Poison Earth Fiend energy, and a decaying aura spread without end.
A demonic scorpion more than a dozen zhang tall came charging over, spewing poisonous smoke and thick fog as it uprooted mountains and toppled trees. Its two pincers clacked loudly. It was the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate's former sixth-tier war beast—the Four-winged Sky Demon Scorpion.
The experts of the Heavenly Snake Mansion retreated dozens of steps again, afraid of being corroded by the vast poisonous aura.
"Summon the Golden Geese for this sect master!" Yan Luotian shouted.
The former disciples of the Golden Goose Sect drew their long goose-feather blades from their waists. Their cold gleam was chilling, and their momentum soared like a rainbow. More than a hundred fourth-tier golden geese flew into the sky, crying sharply. Many people leaped onto the geese's backs and readied their blades, waiting to dive down and reap a great harvest of heads.
The experts of the Heavenly Snake Mansion retreated again.
"All disciples, heed my command! Form the Ten Thousand Beasts Array!" The Mu Lan Three Elders rallied the former disciples of Mu Lan Valley. In groups of three, they executed the Three Beast Savage Art. A savage beast head condensed from dou qi emerged above each person's head, glaring furiously ahead.
"The Jia Ma Imperial Family has arrived..."
At that moment, a military force came through the rolling dust. Jia Xingtian of the Jia Ma Imperial Family and the eldest princess, Jia Ma Yaoye, led the imperial family's disciples over after receiving the news. Behind them, an Abyssal Sea Flood Dragon Beast twisted its long body and roared, surging forward with ferocious momentum.
"Fourfold Sea Wave Array, form up!"
"Clack, clack, clack, clack, clack..."
Jia Ma Yaoye waved her long sword and ordered her soldiers to form four horizontal ranks.
The soldiers in the front rank raised their golden shields, forming an iron wall and copper rampart.
The soldiers in the second rank each held a silver spear, resting it across the shoulders of the shield bearers in front.
The soldiers in the third rank held qi-breaking crossbows, raising them slightly to a forty-five-degree angle.
The fourth rank hurriedly assembled catapults in an orderly fashion. Many iron spheres the size of fists were carried onto the iron scoops, waiting to scatter flowers from the sky upon the Heavenly Snake Mansion.
"Do not retreat! Do not retreat! Anyone who retreats will be executed!" A Heavenly Snake Mansion elder was consumed by rage and loudly berated the disciples retreating on the ground, but he still could not rouse them from their terror.
"We'll join in the fun as well." The King of the Chuyun Domain, Nan Gong Yu, who was still at the Misty Cloud Sect, the new King of the Mu Lan Domain, Mo Youyou, and the King of the Yanluo Domain, Yan Luo Cang, each brought more than a dozen Dou Wang and Dou Ling guards and stood ready for battle.
"The Nalan Family has arrived!"
"The Mittel Family has arrived!"
"The Mu Family has arrived!"
Nalan Jie of the Nalan Family, Mitter Teng Shan and Hai Bo Dong of the Mittel Family, and Mu Chen, the clan leader of the Mu Family, arrived one after another with their family disciples and personal guards.
"The Alchemist Association has arrived!"
Ma Fa of the Alchemist Association and Pill King Gu He led more than a hundred alchemists and their attendants to reinforce the battle.
"How could such a battle be missing us?" Yan Shi and Feng Li, among the Ten Great Experts of Jia Ma, arrived with loud laughter, each leading all the disciples under their command.
Yan Luotian, Yun Shan, Xie Biyan, Saber, the Mu Lan Three Elders, Xiao Yi Xian, Medusa, and many other Dou Zong experts flew into the sky, their expressions cold and stern.
Once the beacon fire was lit, the feudal lords gathered.
Reinforcements came from every direction, leaving no one able to contend.
A mighty army of experts climbed Misty Cloud Mountain, standing opposed to the Heavenly Snake Mansion's forces.
"How could this be?" She Xiuyue gaped in shock. She truly had never expected the Misty Cloud Sect to possess such strength.
Ye Qianqian looked toward the stunned She Xiuyue and abruptly released her Conqueror's Haki. Its might shook through the ages and awed the firmament. The experts of the Heavenly Snake Mansion trembled violently, while those with weaker cultivation on the ground were all knocked unconscious by the overwhelming aura. Like golden mountains collapsing and jade pillars falling, a vast crowd toppled in an instant, and their morale plummeted.
"You want to destroy my Misty Cloud Sect? Is this all you have?"
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