Storming Scarlet Moon Mountain!

After leaving Azure Luan Immortal City, Mo Wen did not go to Soul-Severing Ridge. Instead, he flew straight toward Scarlet Moon Mountain.

He knew full well that the Ji Household had set a trap at Soul-Severing Ridge. He wasn't so foolish as to let his enemies lead him by the nose!

As for Song Xuan, if he was still alive, he wouldn't die whether Mo Wen went to Soul-Severing Ridge or not, because he was still valuable to them. If he was dead, then the entire Ji Household would pay for his life!

So he chose to go to the Ji Household's lair-Scarlet Moon Mountain.

Scarlet Moon Mountain lay two thousand li southwest of Azure Luan Immortal City. It was a spirit mountain with a second-tier high-grade Spirit Vein.

The Ji Household had established itself on Scarlet Moon Mountain over five hundred years ago. Through the painstaking efforts of generations of Ji Clan members, the spirit mountain had been fortified like walls of bronze and ramparts of iron. Even if a Golden Core True Person made a move, they could not conquer Scarlet Moon Mountain in a short time!

Mo Wen dared to storm Scarlet Moon Mountain for two main reasons: first, all of Scarlet Moon Mountain's experts had gone out, leaving it at its weakest. Second, he happened to be carrying 134 second-tier low-grade Restriction-Breaking Talismans.

Mo Wen believed that as long as he was willing to use those hundred-plus Restriction-Breaking Talismans, he could surely turn Scarlet Moon Mountain upside down!

Half a shichen later, he arrived at the foot of a magnificent mountain.

"Ji Clan of Scarlet Moon Mountain, today your name will be struck from the rolls!"

With a loud shout, Mo Wen flicked his hand and sent out thirty-six second-tier low-grade Restriction-Breaking Talismans, landing them on various nodes of Scarlet Moon Mountain's protective formation.

With a slight movement of his spiritual sense, all thirty-six Restriction-Breaking Talismans activated at once!

In an instant, dozens of tremendous blasts, like thunderbolts from a clear sky, shook heaven and earth. The towering mountain peak, over a thousand zhang high, swayed as though a giant god had shoved it several times.

At the same time, hundreds of houses and halls collapsed. Hundreds of Qi Refining cultivators flew out of the ruins, searching for the culprit behind the upheaval.

"Who dares come to Scarlet Moon Mountain courting death?!"

"Villain! Get out here! I'll cut you into a thousand pieces!"

"Everyone, be careful! This villain can shake our clan's mountain-protecting formation. He's at least a Foundation Establishment Late Stage Cultivator!"

"..."

Soon, someone spotted Mo Wen.

"It's him!"

"Who is this villain? Does anyone recognize him?"

"Quick, go notify the patriarch!"

The Ji Clan cultivators all spoke fiercely, yet not one dared step outside the mountain-protecting formation and fight Mo Wen to the death!

Mo Wen watched the Ji Clan members as they raved and shouted, his gaze gradually turning cold.

"Don't blame me. Your Ji Clan provoked me first!"

He murmured to himself inwardly, then sent out another thirty-six Restriction-Breaking Talismans!

Thunderous blasts rang out again. Before the horrified eyes of the Ji Clan members, Scarlet Moon Mountain's protective formation collapsed with a thunderous crash!

At this point, Mo Wen naturally wouldn't hold back. In the blink of an eye, he unleashed nine Fire Crow Techniques in succession.

The Fire Crow Technique was the only group-attack Law Technique Mo Wen cultivated. He rarely practiced it, and had only just reached the minor accomplishment stage, allowing him to release only a little over a hundred fire crows with each strike.

But even so, when nine Fire Crow Techniques came down in succession, Scarlet Moon Mountain turned into a mountain of flames!

In that brief span, nearly half of the hundreds of Qi Refining cultivators had perished on the spot! The remaining cultivators were also burned and wounded all over, a sight too terrible to behold.

"Villain! You'll die a horrible death!"

"Our patriarch won't let you off!"

Some diehards were still hurling curses, while other, cleverer cultivators were gritting their teeth against the pain and trying to flee Scarlet Moon Mountain.

Mo Wen's main purpose in raiding Scarlet Moon Mountain this time was to take some Ji Clan members hostage. How could he let them leave?

He moved, turning into a streak of light, and subdued all the Ji Clan members who tried to escape. He piled them together, stacking them into a mountain of flesh.

Next, he began looting the Ji Clan's stores.

It had to be said, the Ji Clan really was fat! Mo Wen made only a cursory sweep and obtained over three hundred thousand low-grade Spirit Stones and more than a dozen bags of spirit items.

Those dozen-plus bags were large Storage Bags, each with a space a hundred zhang across!

"What a pity I can't take Scarlet Moon Mountain's second-tier high-grade Spirit Vein with me!" Mo Wen thought with considerable regret.

"Huh? Why haven't I seen Ji Yuan? Did he go to Soul-Severing Ridge with the others?" Mo Wen felt that something was amiss, but for the moment, he couldn't put his finger on what it was.

Just then, his expression hardened, and he turned his gaze toward the distance.

Soon, a streak of light appeared in Mo Wen's field of vision, drawing ever closer to Scarlet Moon Mountain.

"You got here pretty quickly!" Mo Wen murmured, battle intent surging in his heart like a towering wave!

This time, he hadn't altered his appearance, showing his true face instead.

Several breaths later, the streak of light landed a hundred zhang in front of Mo Wen, revealing a slightly plump old man with snow-white hair and beard.

"You're Mo Wen, that second-tier talisman master?" The old man's eyes were calm, as though Scarlet Moon Mountain and the hundreds of Ji Clan descendants were all expendable!

"You're the Ji Household patriarch?" Mo Wen shot back, refusing to show any weakness.

"It seems everyone underestimated you! Then again, if you didn't have such capabilities, Buqun would have brought you back long ago!" the Ji Household patriarch said with feeling.

"Where did you take Song Xuan?" Mo Wen continued.

"That boy from the Song Household isn't important. I only wanted to draw you out and avenge Buqun! I never expected you to be so ruthless as to storm Scarlet Moon Mountain directly."

"You provoked me first!"

"Yes. If I'd known this would happen, I'd have slapped that boy Yuan to death back then, and the Lineage wouldn't have incurred such a formidable enemy." The Ji Household patriarch let out a long sigh and said no more.

Mo Wen understood what the Ji Household patriarch meant. He too fell silent and quietly waited for the Ji Household's Foundation Establishment cultivators who were on their way.

Another quarter of a shichen or so passed before the other Foundation Establishment cultivators of the Ji Household finally returned.

At the sight of Scarlet Moon Mountain's devastation, the eyes of the four Foundation Establishment cultivators turned red. Their gazes were as cold as blades as they looked at Mo Wen.

Mo Wen paid them no mind and asked directly, "Where's Song Xuan?"

The oldest of the four Foundation Establishment cultivators said coldly, "I killed him long ago!"

"You're Ji Buli, the Ji Household's grand elder?" Mo Wen asked.

After hearing the grim news about Song Xuan, killing intent surged in his heart. He flicked his hand, sending a streak of sword light slashing toward Ji Buli.

Ji Buli didn't dare be careless. He took out a high-grade Spirit Artifact shaped like a turtle shell and blocked the sword light.

With a tremendous bang, the turtle-shell Spirit Artifact was slashed open, leaving a sword mark over two inches deep. Ji Buli himself was sent staggering back seven steps, a trace of blood appearing at the corner of his mouth.

Seeing this, the other three Ji Clan Foundation Establishment cultivators went pale. They stared at Mo Wen in disbelief, unable to utter a word.

Ji Buli's cultivation was at the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage Peak, yet he couldn't withstand a casual strike from Mo Wen!

Hadn't Mo Wen only just advanced to Foundation Establishment? How could he be so powerful?!