Chapter 264: Breaking the Mountain
After the Primordial Rectification Treasure Ruler reached the sky above, the spiritual light along its body grew ever larger. Within one or two breaths, it had covered the entire mountaintop.
The next moment, one dazzling burst of light after another flared around the Six Suchness Sect's grounds, followed by a string of crackling shatters. The entire compound was exposed like fruit flesh stripped of its peel.
The Primordial Rectification Treasure Ruler could shatter illusions and purge filth. The artifacts arrayed around the Six Suchness Sect were, plainly speaking, only for defense and warning, and were not of particularly high grade. Under that illumination, they shattered one after another.
Besides the artifact formations, the Six Suchness Sect had arranged disciples to watch over the grounds. Yet when they saw the spiritual light descend, they did not realize that an enemy had come knocking. They thought something had gone wrong within their own sect.
It was not that they lacked vigilance. Since the Six Suchness Sect had been established, it had never suffered an invasion by an outside enemy, and there had never been anyone they needed to guard against.
Even when major sects annexed smaller ones, under the regulations of the Azure Yang Upper Continent, they did not come battering down the door. They used other methods to force the matter.
Jiang Chang and He Gu'an, however, reacted swiftly. They realized that an outside enemy had invaded.
Moreover, beneath the cover of that spiritual light, both could clearly feel an inexplicable irritation rising within them, as though their instincts were urging them to avoid it.
Yet even now, neither connected this matter to Zhang Yu. In their view, he should still have been trying to confirm the truth of the matter with Guan Fu.
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