Chapter 397: Covert Violence (1/2)
As one of the foremost factions in the world of immortals, House Donglin was extremely quick to mobilize. They evacuated all of their immortals and cultivators before a stick of incense had finished burning. Even cultivators who’d reached critical points in closed door cultivation were interrupted and dragged out, leaving the place completely empty.
Not even origin dao immortals would be able to survive more than a hundred weapons of war. Abandoning their territory was the only choice left for the aristocratic house.
Lu Yun didn’t care how House Donglin would retaliate in the future after this. The two of them could never coexist in peace anyway.
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“Nice city the Donglins have, alright. It’d be a shame if it were destroyed.” Lu Yun and Qing Han descended upon Donglin territory with the Ingress Path after it’d been emptied.
They looked upon a city of five hundred kilometers in diameter that contained dense layers of spatial formations, which in turn created a great many subspaces. The city was only a hair below Xiankan.
“There’s no time, Donglin immortals will soon come to their senses. Get moving, Feinie. Don’t leave them anything!” Lu Yun immediately summoned his envoy.
Qing Han gave him an exasperated look. So Lu Yun had never actually planned to attack House Donglin; he’d given them the ultimatum simply to drive them off. With the people gone, he could do anything he wanted with the place.
Forty-five minutes were much too short, so the Donglins hadn’t been able to take many of their possessions with them. Therefore, Lu Yun decided to steal this impressive city like he had the North Sea palace!
More than a hundred imitation weapons of war remained fixed on the Donglin territory and its surrounding area, intimidating the Donglin immortals from turning back. In truth, only eighteen of them were the real deal. The others, well, were works in progress. Useful for swaggering around, but useless in offensive capability.
Refining the imitations was extremely demanding in terms of materials. What Lu Yun had gained after raiding the North Sea court was enough for only eighteen of them. In addition, the cannons needed to be maintained after each use. Thus, he hadn’t had the chance to refine more of them; unfinished molds were all he had.
Nevertheless, Lu Yun had proven to the world how powerful the imitations were. Even if they were fake, no one would dare run the risk.
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Feinie was brutally efficient. She blanketed the city with light from the Formation Orb as soon as she appeared, setting up formations at great speed.
Rumble!
After roughly half the time it took for an incense stick to burn, the earth beneath them began trembling. Donglin City shrank dramatically into a miniature metropolis.
“Collect!” Feinie commanded, and the city entered the Gates of the Abyss.
“The Donglin idiots are coming back. Let’s go!” Lu Yun grabbed Qing Han, and the two of them returned to Dusk Province on the Ingress Path.
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The earth was trembling.
“We’ve been fooled!” Donglin E came to a sudden stop and turned to look in the city’s direction, his fellow house members following suit. There was only an enormous crater in the ground now, the great city gone.
“Where’s our land?” a peak arcane dao immortal asked in shock. “Where’s Donglin City?”
“It’s Lu Yun. He scared us away so that he could steal our city!” Donglin E growled. “Go back!”
He rushed back to Donglin City on the back of a sword.
“House Donglin will not suffer you to live under the same skies as us, Lu Yun!!” shrieked an arcane dao immortal.
Earlier, they’d been too terrified of the weapons of war to think properly. After all, those cannons could kill even origin dao immortals! Considering the weapons’ impressive range—hundreds of thousands of kilometers—the Donglin immortals had abandoned their territory without looking back in a rush to get away.
Now, they finally realized that there was something amiss about how everything had happened. They shot back to their territory, eager for vengeance.
“Lu Yun!!” When they returned, Skybearer still remained open in the air. Donglin E’s gaze shifted from where the city should’ve been to the gates hovering in the air, his eyes blazing with fire.
“Return our land at once, or this seat will kill you even if it costs me my life!” Donglin E demanded in a cold voice, glaring at Lu Yun through Skybearer.
“The incense stick has burned up,” Lu Yun said in lieu of an answer and smiled.
“Huh?” Donglin E paused.
Hum!
Skybearer suddenly grew from a few meters to three hundred meters tall. Eighteen cannons emerged, each taking a shot at… the Donglin immortals who’d just followed Donglin E back to their former territory!
Boom!!
“No!!” Donglin E wailed.
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