The Lang Household Is Breached

After agreeing to help the Shrike Lao Household, the members of the Kong Household began setting up a Second Tier illusion array at the foot of Wolf Fang Mountain.

Some time ago, after Eldest Uncle and the others escorted the Vermilion Fruit Tree back to the Lineage, they had the Lineage Head recharge the Blue Peacock Feather within the Second Tier illusion array. It was now truly at full strength and could sustain the Peacock Spreads Its Tail illusion killing move for longer.

Otherwise, it might not have been able to hold the Second Tier Bronze-Iron Wolf Demon at bay for a quarter of an hour.

Scree! Scree!

Since they needed to tie down the Second Tier Bronze-Iron Wolf Demon, Eldest Uncle and the others did not bother warming up. They opened by activating the Peacock Spreads Its Tail killing move.

Awooo!

In the next instant, the Lang Household cultivators controlling the mountain-protecting array on Wolf Fang Mountain were all bewitched by the Peacock Spreads Its Tail illusion. The Second Tier Bronze-Iron Wolf Demon above the array, formed from bronze-iron light, also seemed to lose itself. It raised its head and howled before pouncing down from the air above the summit, straight at the Blue Peacock spreading its tail.

Instead of attacking as it had against the cultivators besieging them from all sides, forming a wolf's jaws, claws, and tail from bronze-iron light, the entire Second Tier Bronze-Iron Wolf Demon pounced down and fought the Blue Peacock formed by the illusion array.

That alone showed how deeply the Second Tier Bronze-Iron Wolf Demon, and even the Lang Household cultivators controlling it within the array, had been lured and bewitched.

For a time, the peacock's clear cries and the wolf demon's howls rang out ceaselessly beyond Wolf Fang Mountain.

The two creatures formed by the great arrays clashed in the air outside the mountain, fighting without end.

The Second Tier Bronze-Iron Wolf Demon formed from bronze-iron light lunged again and again like a truly ferocious Demon Beast, biting with its teeth, tearing with its claws, lashing with its tail, and even ramming with its bronze-iron body, trying to tear and smash the Blue Peacock formed by the illusion array to pieces.

Although the Blue Peacock formed by the illusion array had no sharp claws or fangs, no tough body, and was not suited to head-on combat, the illusion it cast by spreading its tail was exceedingly powerful.

Every time the charging Bronze-Iron Wolf Demon seemed to tear or smash the Blue Peacock apart, it found that it had destroyed only an illusion. The real Blue Peacock was still off to one side, continuing to cast the Peacock Spreads Its Tail illusion.

The Second Tier Bronze-Iron Wolf Demon had no choice but to roar and pounce at the next Blue Peacock illusion.

Yet each time the Second Tier Bronze-Iron Wolf Demon pounced on and tore apart a Blue Peacock illusion, although it did not destroy the real Blue Peacock or the illusion array, it consumed some of their power.

Once enough Blue Peacock illusions had been pounced on and torn apart, the Second Tier illusion array would eventually lack the power to keep running and be broken outright.

That was why Eldest Uncle Kong Yushuo had told the Shrike Lao Household cultivators that the Second Tier illusion array could hold back the Second Tier Bronze-Iron Wolf Demon formed by the Lang Household's protective array for no more than a quarter of an hour.

Now that the Second Tier Bronze-Iron Wolf Demon had been held up by the Blue Peacock formed by the Kong Household's illusion array, the rest would depend on the Shrike Lao Household's means of breaking the array!

Because Kong Wenxuan had not cultivated the Peacock Soul-Bewitching Scripture bloodline inheritance, he was unsuited to helping direct and operate the Second Tier illusion array. Eldest Uncle Kong Yushuo had therefore assigned him to stand guard around the illusion array and protect them.

He was also responsible for watching the Shrike Lao Household and the others as they broke the array. If anything changed, he needed to notify Eldest Uncle and the others in time for them to withdraw the array and retreat.

As Kong Wenxuan watched the protective array over Wolf Fang Mountain, four mighty, heavy streams of earthen-yellow light suddenly rose around the shortest Wolf Fang peak on the mountain's outermost edge. All four streams struck the ground around the shortest Wolf Fang peak at once.

In the next instant, a thunderous rumble rang out, and the ground beneath his feet and the surrounding mountains began to tremble and shake.

The shortest Wolf Fang peak on the mountain's outermost edge began to crack and collapse.

Awooo... ooo...

As the shortest Wolf Fang peak on the outermost edge collapsed, the bronze-iron barrier covering all of Wolf Fang Mountain also began to crack and cave in. The Second Tier Bronze-Iron Wolf Demon formed from bronze-iron light let out a roar that quickly turned into a whimper, and it too began to show signs of cracking and breaking apart.

Kong Wenxuan's eyes lit up at the sight. He now understood how the Shrike Lao Household and the others intended to break the protective array over the Lang Household's ancestral grounds.

The foundation of Wolf Fang Mountain's protective array lay in the Wolf Fang peaks within the Lang Household's ancestral grounds. The array drew on the power of the Dark Iron veins within these peaks as its foundation and source of power, combining it with the Lang Household's bloodline power to form the bronze-iron barrier and the Bronze-Iron Wolf Demons for protection and battle.

But now, by using Earth-Shaking Talismans to destroy one of the Wolf Fang peaks, the Shrike Lao Household and the others had effectively pulled out one of the protective array's foundations and array nodes. The entire protective array naturally began to fail, collapsing and breaking apart.

Likewise, the Second Tier Bronze-Iron Wolf Demon, which depended on the array and had been formed from its bronze-iron light, lost the foundation of its existence. After a whimper, it began to collapse, shatter, and dissipate along with the array.

"The wolf demon's gone!"

"The array's broken!"

"The Lang Household's ancestral grounds are open!"

"Everyone, charge! Grab what you can!"

At once, cheers and shouts erupted all around Wolf Fang Mountain. Cultivators from the households and factions participating in the siege, as well as the "hyena" cultivators roaming nearby and waiting to snatch some meat, all rushed toward the peaks of Wolf Fang Mountain, intending to loot the resources and treasures in the Lang Household's ancestral grounds amid the chaos.

At the same time, wolf howls and battle cries also rose from the peaks throughout the Lang Household's ancestral grounds. The Lang Household cultivators left to guard Wolf Fang Mountain and the wolf demons under their command began fighting the cultivators from every side who had invaded their household, defending their household and their kin.

For a time, the sounds of battle, slaughter, and thunderous explosions erupted throughout Wolf Fang Mountain, the Lang Household's ancestral grounds.

Amid all the chaotic fighting and slaughter, no one noticed a Second Tier chameleon Demon Beast. As though it possessed intelligence, it changed the color of its body along the way, blending into its surroundings. Without alerting any of the parties, it climbed Wolf Fang Mountain's highest peak and arrived before the Gray Wolf Lang Household's ancestral hall.