Two Venerables had arrived at Deer-Chasing Academy, one from the Primordial Divine Mountain-Yi Mountain-and the other from Southern Meteor Divine Mountain.
They would not allow Deer-Chasing Academy, which had good relations with Heaven Mending Pavilion, to intervene.
The Sacrificial Spirit, Gourd Vine, seemed to have sensed all this. He tore through space and headed over. Since feigning injury had failed to lure anyone into taking the bait, he would take the initiative.
Meanwhile, Heaven Mending Pavilion launched a mighty counterattack, its morale soaring like a rainbow. Throughout the battle, more powerful cultivators arrived to help. They were former disciples of Heaven Mending Pavilion who still cherished their old ties. Others ignored its plight, or even threw stones at it while it was down.
The Rain Clan, for instance!
Now, however, their luck had run out. The furious ancestor Mu Yan had set his sights on them.
Among those who came to help was Marquis Ling Tian, Xiao Tian's grandfather. He had once cultivated at Heaven Mending Pavilion himself and had actually preferred that Xiao Tian study there. But Xiao Tian had taken a fancy to the War Goddess and insisted on attending Deer-Chasing Academy, leaving the old man helpless.
Of course, the outcome had been perfect.
Marquis Ling Tian had now broken through to the Array Formation Realm and was brimming with confidence. He held his treasured bow, one of the Xiao Clan's foundational treasures, a precious artifact refined by a former King-Sealing ancestor in the Array Formation Realm.
A silver arrow, empowered by the Suanni Precious Technique and blazing with golden lightning, streaked across the sky and shot dead a fleeing Primordial Remnant, a Three-Legged Black Crow.
"Ha ha ha! What a thrill! Marquis Ling Tian has arrived! Anyone who invades our Pure Land will be killed without mercy!"