Chapter 462: A Major Tribulation for the Tool Sec (1/2)
Chapter 462: A Major Tribulation for the Tool Sect
At the end of a mountain valley.
A cluster of thick, pale-gray smoke was slowly penetrating and dissolving a ward of slithering lightning bolts formed by multiple Tool Sect elders.
A number of thunderballs were floating in midair, flickering and giving rise to heaven-shaking, earth-shattering rumbles from time to time.
Beast-like shadows could be vaguely seen within those thunderballs. They were apparently struggling and trying to break away from the thunderballs as the Death Reign closed in on them.
“We can’t hold much longer, sectmaster,” An elder with dangling, long, white eyebrows, who resembled Zhu Bin, said with a suffering expression. “It’ll take the Death Reign a quarter hour at the most to breach our last defensive ward.”
The elder was named Zhu Lian, Zhu Bin’s cousin and a late Profound realm cultivator.
Eyebrows furrowed, Qi Bailu gazed at the slowly approaching Death Reign. With a helpless sigh, he ordered, “Inform all supervising disciples to urge the equipment forgers who are attending the assessment assembly to stop and return to Desolate City. Tell them not to stay in Desolate City, and that they need to evacuate via the inter-realm teleportation portal as soon as possible.”
Standing next to him, an elder who was responsible for giving out orders answered with a grim expression, “Got it, sectmaster.” Then, he took out a Sound Stone and whispered Qi Bailu’s order into it.
Afterwards, Qi Bailu asked the elders around him, “Have Zhu Bin and my junior martial sister found that traitor yet?”
“Not yet.”
Qi Bailu nodded as he summoned Zhu Lian to his side and said, “Here’s what we’ll do: you’ll take everyone here back to our sect’s headquarters. Once you’re back, activate the grand protective spell formation. I’ll stall the Death Reign for you.”
WHOOSH!
With these words, an object flew out from within his cuff.
It was a bronze mirror with a smooth surface, within which torrential flames could be seen, as if it was sealing a mysterious fiery dimension.
The treasure was named the Flame Mirror, a seventh level Spirit Channeling grade treasure. Even in the entire Domain of the Falling Stars, it was considered one of the most prestigious spiritual tools in existence.
After whooshing out of Qi Bailu’s cuff, the palm-sized bronze mirror rapidly expanded and filled the entire mountain valley within seconds.
Endless flames poured out from within it, aggravating the fluctuations of spatial energy in the valley.
It was as if the Flame Mirror was serving as a medium that connected the mountain valley with a dimension of infinite flames.
Soon, not only the mountain valley, but also the adjacent areas were engulfed by the raging flames that poured out of the Flame Mirror.
Standing at the end of the valley, powerful experts from the Tool Sect looked at the Flame Mirror and the endless flames before them, feeling as if they were looking at a completely different world.
Qi Bailu’s figure faded, as if he had turned into an faint shadow which could vanish at any moment. “Go, Zhu Lian! Take all of our sect members back to our headquarters! No one is allowed to come out before I return!” With these words, he vanished completely into thin air.
Simultaneously, his vague figure appeared in the middle of the torrential flames within the gigantic Flame Mirror.
He continued to summon endless flames from that mysterious dimension and rapidly turned into an enormous man of flames, as if he had become the imperial lord of that mysterious dimension and the infinite flames within it.
As the cluster of thick smoke formed by the Death Reign continued to press forward, Zhao Shanling’s voice rang out from the depths of it. “My beloved senior martial brother, you’ve finally summoned your Flame Mirror. I can’t wait to see if your Flame Mirror is able to stop my Death Reign!”
The might of the Death Reign seemed to suddenly surge, causing the thunderballs before it to instantly become dim and lifeless.
“Why are you still here?!” Qi Bailu shouted.
Zhu Lian made a grasping motion in the air, and the thunderballs flew back to him. With reddened eyes, he looked at Qi Bailu and said, “Take care, sectmaster! We’ll be waiting for you in our headquarters!”
“Let’s go!” He took the initiative to fly towards the Tool Sect.
The other Profound realm experts from the Tool Sect also leaped into the sky and sped away after him, bearing their grief.
“Zhao Shanling, don’t you imagine that you’ll be able to do whatever you want by hiding in the dark and controlling your Death Reign!” Qi Bailu’s voice echoed out from within the enormous Flame Mirror. “Master’s biggest mistake was expelling you into the boundless void, instead of killing you. The reason why master made that mistake was that he treated you as his child and couldn’t bear to kill you. But I won’t make the mistake he made!”