Chapter 49 - The Aristocratic Familys Motive (1/2)
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The person in the air sent a warning and a few people immediately flew out and began to conjure up seals. Red lights shone brightly and a ray of glaring light shot directly at the Protective Mountain Array. A loud cracking sound was heard and immediately a chink was made in the huge array. Those cultivators did not stop attacking, their attacks growing more intense instead, and the entire sky above Blackheaven Sect echoed with clashing noises.
Xi Qiu’s face turned white as a sheet. This group of people had the audacity to directly attack the Protective Mountain Array with the intention to slaughter. The disciples of the Blackheaven Sect all flew out and gathered in front of the hall. They were flustered looking at the sky as all the hall masters also arrived.
“Senior Brother, this is…” Disciplinary Hall Master Xi Chen stepped forward and asked hurriedly.
“I am not sure either.” Xi Qiu’s heart sank as he turned towards a disciple and ordered, “Quickly head over to Ling Xiao Peak to inform the two Supremacies, Ye Xing and Yu Yang, and invite them to immediately come out of seclusion.”
“There’s no need for that!” The moment this voice was heard, two white silhouettes had landed at the hall simultaneously. “We are already here.” They must have noticed such a large happening.
“Greetings to you both, Uncle-Masters.” Everyone saluted them.
Yu Yang nodded and with furrowed brows, asked the people in the sky, “What is going on? Why would the Xuan Yuan Family from the Upper Azure World be here all of a sudden?” Especially with a stance ready to battle?
Everyone present had blank looks but Lonemoon furrowed his brows, stepped forward and said, “Senior Brother, I think they are here for me.”
“Junior Brother Lonemoon…” Both Supremacies were shocked. Just as they were about to ask further, a loud bang was heard at the Protective Mountain Array—it had shattered under the attack of the enemy. The gigantic lotus flower headed towards the main peak’s hall and stopped in the air before the hall.
Upon taking a closer look at the hundreds of cultivators above, everybody sucked in their breath as they realized there were quite a few of them were Soul Formation cultivators, and the five that were leading them were Traveling Immortals. The others were either of the Nascent Soul or Golden Core stage. Not one was below Golden Core.
Such a lineup would not be possible for them even if they rounded up all the cultivators in the Middle Azure World. Xi Qiu’s heart sank as he grew more fearful of the Upper Azure World’s extent of power. Seeing that the other party did not immediately begin to battle, as the sect master, he took a deep breath and went forward to say, “Fellow Daoists of the Upper Azure World, I am sorry for not being able to welcome all of you due to your sudden arrival at the sect, but may I know the reason behind destroying my Protective Mountain Array?”
“Hmph, stop feigning ignorance!” The cultivator on the right came forward. “My three elders of the Xuan Yuan Family came over to this world in good faith to help you explore and check how true the newly surfaced mystic realm was. Yet not only did you guys not appreciate it, you used some despicable means to kill them in the mystic realm. As one of the four largest aristocratic families in the Upper Azure World, should I not have come here to claim blood revenge?”
At those words, not only Xi Qiu’s, but more than half of the Blackheaven Sect cultivators’ faces turned black. He looked over at Lonemoon and immediately guessed at what had happened. Previously, most of the disciples had witnessed the ill conduct of the three people from the Upper Azure World. While they claimed to help explore the mystic realm, they had actually come to fight for the resources and they probably also fought with many of the cultivators of the other sects. But the outcome of that was obvious; apparently, all the fighting backfired and they were killed instead.
There were several mystic realms in the Three Azure Realms, but many of them had restrictions on the people that were allowed to enter which was why mystic realms had been deemed as not under the jurisdiction of laws. Moreover, since the Dharma treasures contained in those realms were all without owners, it was common for a few people to discover them at the same time, and so fighting for resources in a mystic realm was prevalent. The outcome would of course be that the fittest would survive. All the resentment inside a mystic realm would not involve anything outside of it, thus the sects kept a certain mutual understanding.
Yet these actions of the Xuan Yuan Family today seemed ridiculous. Was this to imply that only the people from the Upper Azure World were allowed to kill people while the rest could not even retaliate?