Inside a stone chamber deep within Snowcap Mountain, a middle-aged man with a brooding expression stared at the old man sitting cross-legged on a stone platform.
The eruption of Snowcap Mountain had made the temperature inside the chamber abnormal.
But it had no effect on either of the two men inside.
"Mountain Aspect, those people from Great Xia are breaking the formation. Aren't you going to act?"
The old man named Mountain Aspect opened his eyes on the stone platform.
"Hundred Ghosts, don't be so impatient."
"Impatient? If we don't hurry, Heavenly Sword Star will be here to kill us!"
Hundred Ghosts watched the unhurried Mountain Aspect, irritation churning inside him.
As the new leader of the Hundred Ghosts Seat, he had held the title of "Hundred Ghosts" for less than five years before running into a crisis like this.
Had he known, he would never have killed the previous Hundred Ghosts. Letting the old man stand at the front would have been better than facing Heavenly Sword Star himself.
Even if the current Heavenly Sword Star was not the one from back then, that title still carried far too much weight among the upper ranks of the Hundred Ghosts Seat.
Mountain Aspect smiled. "He won't get in. Snowcap Mountain has already erupted. Until the eruption ends, the entire grand formation is beyond the ability of Feng Shui Masters like us to break! Even the Heavenly Sword Star of old couldn't enter."
"Of course, if he really does get in, that would actually be a good thing for us."
"Outside the formation, Heavenly Sword Star's power is certainly something to fear. But inside it, do you think his power could rival the force of Snowcap Mountain's eruption?"
"Human strength has its limits. However powerful a man may be, he cannot