Black Bull Sect, Sect Main Hall.
Sect Master Niu Zhenshan sat cross-legged on the seat of honor. After tens of thousands of years of cultivation, his Black Bull Demon Art had reached the eighth level, bringing him to Celestial Immortal Grand Perfection!
In the surrounding lands, aside from a few old monsters living in seclusion, he believed no one could rival him!
Suddenly, he frowned and opened his eyes.
"What's going on?"
"Didn't the Seventeenth Elder go to the Heavenly Dao Sect to handle matters?"
He muttered under his breath and waved his right hand. The section of the hall's side wall where the Life Tablets hung came into view.
Among the hundreds of Life Tablets, one shattered with a crash. It belonged to the Seventeenth Elder!
"Dead?"
Niu Zhenshan sprang to his feet, a savage aura filling the hall.
"How dare they! Who has a death wish so strong they'd touch one of the Black Bull Sect's people?!"
His first thought was that Blackwater City had turned on him, but he dismissed it at once. Blackwater City had no reason to kill someone from the Black Bull Sect!
After all, the two powers had been allies for years!
Which meant...
"The Heavenly Dao Sect?"
A cold light flashed in Niu Zhenshan's eyes.
"Some no-name sect that crawled out of nowhere dares to..."
Before he could finish, an urgent bell rang outside the hall!
"Enemy attack!!!"
A shrill alarm echoed across the Black Bull Sect's mountain compound, followed by deafening explosions and cries of battle!
Niu Zhenshan's expression changed drastically. In a flash, he was outside the hall.
The sight before him made his pupils contract!
The Black Bull Sect's mountain-protecting formation, the Black Bull Treading the Sky Formation, was shaking violently. Spiderweb cracks already covered its surface!
It was