The Siege of Wolf Fang Mountain: Sword Qi Thunderclap
Outside Demon-Suppressing Pass, in the southern mountains, near Wolf Fang Mountain, the ancestral grounds of the "Gray Wolf" Lang Household.
More than a month had passed. Kong Wenxuan had successfully forged the Crimson Fire Divine Sword and raised his cultivation to the Qi Refinement Eighth Layer. Meanwhile, the campaign to wipe out the "Gray Wolf" Lang Household had reached its final stage, and the various households and factions had begun their siege of its ancestral grounds on Wolf Fang Mountain.
Kong Wenxuan was determined to obtain the Dark Iron spiritual materials in Wolf Fang Mountain. Thus, upon emerging from seclusion and hearing the news, he had no time to linger at Demon-Suppressing Pass. He hurried out of the pass with his eldest uncle, third aunt, eldest brother, and the others, making for the vicinity of Wolf Fang Mountain to join the assault on the "Gray Wolf" Lang Household's ancestral grounds.
Back when the "Peacock" Kong Household fought the Lang Household's cultivators and wolf demons, it had won renown with Peacock Spreads Its Tail, an illusory formation killing move. That was why the other households and factions had invited them to join the siege and assigned them a separate direction of attack. Everything obtained from an assault in that direction would belong to the Kong Household.
Otherwise, the Kong Household might not even have had a share in this division of the resources and treasures on the "Gray Wolf" Lang Household's ancestral grounds.
After all, the various factions had spent the past several months chasing down and intercepting the Lang Household, relentlessly killing its cultivators and wolf demons. They had driven it into a desperate plight, and the strength of the "Gray Wolf" Lang Household had been reduced to rock bottom.
This siege of the Lang Household's ancestral grounds on Wolf Fang Mountain was a feast with little danger and great rewards. Plenty of households and factions inside and outside Demon-Suppressing Pass had seen the profits and wanted to join, but all had been turned away.
Even so, those rejected households and factions clearly had no intention of giving up their chance to partake in the feast. Most were now lingering not far from Wolf Fang Mountain, watching it at all times.
Once the households and factions such as the Kong Household besieging the Lang Household's ancestral grounds broke into Wolf Fang Mountain and began fighting and killing the "Gray Wolf" Lang Household, the slightest confusion would send the households and factions lurking and spying nearby pouncing in at once. They would charge into the Lang Household's ancestral grounds and plunder resources, spiritual materials, treasures, and the like at will.
"What a pack of greedy, bothersome hyenas!" Kong Wenxuan looked into the distance at the households and factions lurking and watching nearby. He could not help frowning as he turned to his eldest brother, Kong Wenzhang, and asked, "Eldest Brother, isn't there any way to drive those hyenas off?"
Kong Wenzhang shook his head. "No. Unless we kill enough of them to make it hurt, make them afraid, they'll gather again even if we drive them away for a while."
"Men die for wealth, birds die for food. It's been that way since ancient times."
Hearing this, Kong Wenxuan raised his brows, itching to try. He had just forged the Crimson Fire Divine Sword and was looking for people to test its mysteries and power on.
Kong Wenzhang seemed to read his thoughts and hurriedly stopped him. "Don't do anything reckless. Those people may be hyenas, but they come from many households and factions inside and outside Demon-Suppressing Pass. If you go on a killing spree, there's no telling how many mortal enemies you'll make for the Lineage."
"Look at the Lang Household. Its fearsome reputation was known far and wide, but what came of it? It offended too many people, and now its whole Lineage faces destruction."
"Besides, the Lang Household's ancestral grounds on Wolf Fang Mountain cover a large area, and it has spent over a century establishing itself there. Who knows how many formations, restrictions, traps, and other defenses it has laid inside?"
"The Kong Household alone can't possibly claim all the resources and treasures on Wolf Fang Mountain. Plenty will end up in other hands anyway, so we might as well keep those hyenas around to help ease the pressure on the Kong Household and probe and clear away the formations, traps, and other defenses the Lang Household has set up in its ancestral grounds."
Kong Wenxuan smacked his lips in some regret and shook his head. "Fine. In that case, I'll let my Crimson Fire Divine Sword have its first taste of blood on the 'Gray Wolf' Lang Household."
As he spoke, he turned to look at the Lang Household's ancestral grounds on Wolf Fang Mountain. The Lang Household had named it Wolf Fang Mountain not only to match its "Gray Wolf" bloodline, but also because the mountains there did indeed resemble wolf fangs.
Several sharp peaks rose side by side from the Lang Household's ancestral grounds, stabbing into the sky like wolf fangs. Hence the name Wolf Fang Mountain.
The Dark Iron spiritual metal vein Kong Wenxuan had set his sights on lay among those sharp peaks that stabbed into the sky like wolf fangs. Almost every one of them contained a Dark Iron vein.
However, the quality of the Dark Iron veins differed from peak to peak. Kong Wenxuan needed First-Tier Superior-Grade Dark Iron spiritual materials, which could only be found in the highest-quality Dark Iron vein.
Of those "wolf fang" peaks, only the one in the very middle, the tallest and steepest of them all, contained the highest-quality Dark Iron vein.
For that reason, the Kong Household had no choice but to set its direction of attack and its sights on that central peak, the tallest and steepest "wolf fang."
That tallest "wolf fang" peak was also the heart of the Lang Household's ancestral grounds, the place where its defenses and protection were strongest.
It was easy to imagine that breaking into it and taking it would be no simple task for the Kong Household.
Whoosh! Crack...
Just then, a streak of spiritual light shot into the sky from beneath another nearby "wolf fang" peak and burst like a firework.
"That's the signal to attack!"
Seeing this, Kong Wenzhang immediately said:
"The general assault has begun! We have to move too."
Before his words had even faded, cries to kill and the sounds of battle rang out all around Wolf Fang Mountain. Lights from various attacks, manifestations of all manner of Bloodline Divine Abilities, and the flashes and shadows of combat Law Artifacts rose and fell around the mountain, bombarding it without cease.
Awooo!
Under those attacks, a piercing wolf howl rang out from Wolf Fang Mountain. Great swathes of copper and iron light erupted from the "wolf fang" peaks and converged in the air, forming a copper-and-iron dome of light that covered the whole of Wolf Demon Mountain.
Within the copper-and-iron dome, vast amounts of copper and iron light gathered and took shape, forming Bronze-Iron Wolf Demons that seemed both real and illusory. Like a wolf pack hunting its prey, they charged out of the dome and killed their way toward the households and cultivators attacking the mountain from all sides.
A large number of Bronze-Iron Wolf Demons also charged out toward the Kong Household's group. Because they were attacking Wolf Fang Mountain's main peak, the heart of the Lang Household's ancestral grounds, even more Bronze-Iron Wolf Demons came at them, and they were stronger.
"Everyone, be careful..." Facing the many Bronze-Iron Wolf Demons charging out, his eldest uncle, Kong Yushuo, had only just called out a warning.
Then, all at once, he saw a streak of crimson sword light flash like a shooting star into the pack of charging Bronze-Iron Wolf Demons. Wherever it passed, it cleaved them in two, turning them into copper and iron light that dispersed on the spot.
Rumble...
Only then did the sound of the sword light's impact reach them.
The mystery and power of the Crimson Fire Divine Sword: Sword Qi Thunderclap!