“Black Yin, Myriad Ghost, Bone Devil, although our righteous and evil paths have always gotten along like water and fire, let us set aside our grudges for the moment. In a little, withdraw from the cave and attack from the rear. Let our two factions work together to kill these mysterious men in black!” At this moment, Vice Alliance Lord Xie Guangting spoke, and his words had the three ancestors of the Five Ancestor Alliance and their disciples inwardly cursing.
“This bastard!”
The Black Yin Ancestor gnashed his teeth in rage. It was clear from the situation in the cave of green fire that the Righteous Alliance had a grudge against the bamboo hat men.
The Black Yin Ancestor had also imagined taking his Five Ancestor Alliance and retreating so that the Righteous Alliance could fight it out with the other two groups. He could then come back and reap the spoils.
But just a few words from Xie Guangting had removed this possibility.
Even if the Righteous Alliance was the one who wanted to ally with them, when did one ever bring up such a proposal in front of an enemy?
And he had even clearly stated a strategy. In this way, even if his Five Ancestor Alliance really did want to retreat from the battlefield, those men in black would remain suspicious.
And in fact, these words truly did have an effect.
Chapter 1479 - The Chief of the Origin Immortal Village!
Chapter 1479: The Chief of the Origin Immortal Village!
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
The bamboo hat leader cast a wary glance at the Five Ancestor Alliance and whispered, “Keep a watch on that group! Make sure that they don’t join with the others.”
They had no understanding of the situation in the martial arts world. They needed to take precautions against the possibility of these two groups joining together.
“Hahaha!”
At this moment, the Black Yin Ancestor began to laugh.
“Fellow Daoists, this one is Luo Qiyin of the Five Ancestor Alliance. If my guess is correct, the one you were trying to capture that day is this brat, but the Righteous Alliance ruined your plan, causing you to lose many men. Our Five Ancestor Alliance also has a grudge with the Righteous Alliance, so why don’t we work together to kill them? As proof of our sincerity, our Five Ancestor Alliance will kill the first ten-some Righteous Alliance members on the other side.”
The Black Yin Ancestor gave a cold and sinister smile.
Song Yuanyi and Xie Guangting said nothing in reply, but the Righteous Alliance members behind them exploded.
“You dare! Putting aside everything else, we’ll kill the members of your Five Ancestor Alliance first!” a Righteous Alliance disciple said in agitation.
“Hmph, what’s there to be afraid of?!”
“Everyone heard the ancestor’s order! In just a little while, we’ll kill these members of the Righteous Alliance until their blood flows like rivers!” the Five Ancestor Alliance disciples on the other side shot back.
Luo Qiyin is truly a crafty rascal. This is quite the mess now!
Wang Chong remained motionless, continuing to watch from the sidelines.
His situation had originally been extremely bad, but with the appearance of the Five Ancestor Alliance and Righteous Alliance, he now had a chance of survival.
Wang Chong decided that it was best to just keep his mouth shut and watch.
But as the cave resounded with shouts and roars, a jeering and ghostly voice echoed in everyone’s ears.
“Cease your quarreling! Today, all of you will die here!”
Whoosh! Whoosh! Countless figures suddenly rushed into the cave.
These people were wearing white masks and wearing black robes similar to those of the men in black. But their sleeves, collars, and the capes on their backs were all embroidered with golden thread. Moreover, on their chests was the round Yin Yang Wuji symbol, and beneath it was a large word embroidered in golden thread.
‘Origin’!
It’s them!
While the Righteous Alliance and Five Ancestor Alliance were still sizing up these newcomers, Wang Chong saw the Yin Yang Wuji symbol and the word emblazoned on their chests, and instantly recognized them.
The symbols on their chests were practically identical to the symbol on the robe of the guardian of the Origin Immortal Palace. There were only a few very minor differences.
Wang Chong had instantly recognized who they were, but he had never imagined that this mysterious faction who had operated the Origin Immortal Formation and used it to kill so many martial artists would appear in this fashion.
Boom! The three bamboo hat men and their subordinates instantly paled.
Like a hungry wolf meeting a fierce tiger, they stared at the Origin Immortal Villagers as if they were facing a great foe.
Whoosh! The hundreds of Origin Immortal Villagers began to part, allowing a figure with a mighty aura on par with the Lone Silence Ancestor and Black Yin Ancestor to step forward.
Unlike the others, they wore a silver robe, and the Yin Yang symbol on their chest exuded an aura that was noble and graceful, yet also incomparably powerful.
“Yellow Scarf Warrior, your lot had better not think about leaving today either!” the silver-robed chief of the Origin Immortal Village declared.
Their face was covered in a mysterious golden mask, but the voice coming from beneath the mask was that of a woman. It was dignified and cold, the voice of a ruler seated high above.
Her blazing eyes instantly landed on the bamboo hat leader as she spoke his name.
“Heh, we finally meet. Even though you hid your movements and disguised yourself in all sorts of ways, in the end, you still had to appear before us,” the bamboo hat leader suddenly said, his expression not one bit panicked.
They know each other!
Wang Chong acted the part of the bystander, and as he gazed at the two groups, he seemed to think of something and frowned.
The situation was getting more and more confusing. Wang Chong had thought that the three bamboo hat men had come for him, but it now appeared that this was not entirely the case. These guardians of the Origin Immortal Treasury had earlier used the array to kill countless people to protect the treasury, and after that, they had killed even more deep within this pit.
Wang Chong had thought that these two groups were completely unrelated and had no knowledge of each other, but it now seemed like they had known each other for some time.
Just what is going on here?
Wang Chong’s mind was in turmoil.
Rather than saying that the guardians of the Origin Immortal Treasury had appeared for the martial artists, they had actually appeared because of the men in black. He came to this conclusion because he had noticed that their chief’s eyes had been on the three bamboo hat men this entire time.
This clearly indicated who their main target was.
The God organization is behind the men in black. Could it be that the guardians of the Origin Immortal Treasury also have some sort of secret? No! To be more accurate, it should be the Origin Immortal Lord. Because everything here was created by the Origin Immortal Lord.
Wang Chong mused to himself. He once more recalled the unique apocalyptic symbol in the Origin Immortal Formation. He had an intense feeling that this was no longer a simple treasure hunt. There was some unfathomably large secret lurking beneath it all.
That Origin Immortal Lord from a thousand years ago probably had many, many secrets that the martial arts world knew nothing about.
As titans of the martial arts world, Song Yuanyi, Xie Guangting, the Black Yin Ancestor, Myriad Ghost Ancestor, Bone Devil Ancestor, and the Lone Silence Ancestor had sensed just as much as Wang Chong had.
“Don’t make any reckless movements. Let’s wait and see.”
The Bone Devil Ancestor’s eyes shifted as he messaged the other two ancestors.
On the other side, Song Yuanyi and Xie Guangting exchanged glances and then glanced at the oth
er two groups. After many years of tacit communication, these two leaders of the righteous path only needed to exchange a look to understand what the other was thinking.
At this moment, the Righteous Alliance, Five Ancestor Alliance, and Wang Chong had all been ‘marginalized’, turned into mere spectators. The men in black and the Origin Immortal Villagers had become the center of attention.
Neither group was simple!
This was a thought that everyone shared.
All of them sensed that some massive secret was concealed behind the curtain of this treasure hunt.
“It’s no longer important that I’ve appeared, because it is guaranteed that all of you will remain here forever. Did you not drive those martial artists into serving as your vanguard precisely so you could test our capabilities, so that they could die for you while you stole the treasure left behind by the Immortal Lord?” the chief of the Origin Immortal Village said.
Buzz!
Song Yuanyi, Xie Guangting, the Black Yin Ancestor, Bone Devil Ancestor, Myriad Ghost Ancestor, and the Lone Silence Ancestor next to Wang Chong all trembled in shock, a sharp light in their eyes.
“Alliance Lord…” Sikong Yuanjia thought of something and whispered into Song Yuanyi’s ear, but he was immediately cut off.
“Remain quiet for now. Let’s continue to watch,” Song Yuanyi said. Almost instinctively, Song Yuanyi had sensed something in this conversation.
This adventure seemed to conceal a secret that not even the leaders of the martial arts world knew about. Based on the words of these Origin Immortal Guardians, they had apparently been used.
The hitherto-silent Myriad Ghost Ancestor finally spoke. “Old Five, something doesn’t seem right.”
“。”
“Mm.” The Black Yin Ancestor nodded, his voice extremely soft. “We’ve all been renowned in the martial arts world for several decades, and there are very few experts of this world that we don’t know about. But we’ve never even heard of these two factions before. It would be one thing if they were weak and nameless, but neither group is easy to deal with. From a certain perspective, they’re even more formidable than the righteous and evil paths. This should normally be impossible.
“Let’s not alarm them. We can just keep watching and see if they reveal anything else. For such a large faction to remain completely unknown truly makes one uneasy!”
The Black Yin Ancestor’s words made his comrades also feel uneasy. These people truly were well-hidden to an unsettling extent.
Both groups had clearly completely forgotten about Wang Chong. Song Yuanyi, the Black Yin Ancestor, and the other martial artists were all focused on the two mysterious groups. The rest were just small fry who had been caught up in these events.
“Haha, if we didn’t do that, how would we draw you out? You’ve been hidden for so many years like a mouse in a gully. How disgusting! How contemptible! Isn’t it normal to use such minor tricks to deal with you?” The bamboo hat leader sinisterly smiled, completely unworried.
An Origin Immortal elder thrust a finger at the three bamboo hat men and roared, “Despicable! If my guess is right, you were the ones who made the fake treasure maps precisely so that those martial artists would come here and sacrifice their lives for you. You’ve used this trick again and again, for the last several hundred years! Truly shameless!”
Bang!
The men in black said nothing, but the Righteous Alliance, Five Ancestor Alliance, Wang Chong, and the Lone Silence Ancestor were all stunned.
I didn’t think that the fake Origin Immortal Art treasure maps… were actually their handiwork!
For the first time, surprise and stupefaction appeared in Wang Chong’s eyes.
Chapter 1480 - Layers of Mystery! (I)
Chapter 1480: Layers of Mystery! (I)
Translated by: Hypersheep325
Edited by: Michyrr
Wang Chong had known long ago that there were real and fake treasure maps for the Origin Immortal Art, and the fakes outnumbered the real ones. There were only six authentic treasure maps for the Origin Immortal Art, but over the centuries, at least one thousand fake treasure maps had been put into circulation. These treasure maps had stirred up countless bloody storms in the world and led many martial artists to lose their lives.
When Wang Chong first heard of this, he believed that they were just ordinary conflicts between sects. He had never imagined that the men in black would be connected.
What’s going on here? Just what was the relationship between the men in black who’ve been constantly chasing me and the Origin Immortal Lord who has been dead for nearly one thousand years?
Wang Chong was getting more and more confused.
“Bastard! Kill them!”
“They actually dared to play around with us! Slay them!”
The Righteous Alliance and Five Ancestor Alliance experts were fuming.
From the conversation of these two parties, the entire northwest expedition had been a trap. These mysterious bastards had played around with the martial artists of the world like toys. This was a crime that could not be forgiven.
“Hmph!”
The three bamboo hat men glanced at the martial artists and then looked away, their eyes brimming with disdain.
“Without my order, no one is to strike!”
The Righteous Alliance and Five Ancestor Alliance almost simultaneously issued the same order. Until they determined the strength of these two parties, they could not make a move.
“What does it matter if you know? Didn’t we still mess around with you like playthings? And besides…” The bamboo hat leader sneered. “With just you lot, what can you do to us? Once we kill you all, what you’re guarding will still fall into our hands.”
“Kill them!”
The three bamboo hat men erupted with storms of killing intent that locked onto the Origin Immortal Guardians, and behind them, the men in black pulled out their weapons.
Awooo!
With fierce howls, the men turned into half–Lu Wus, their bodies rapidly growing larger and violet flames igniting on their skin.
“Ah!”
At the same time, ten-some men in black began to blaze with black flame.
Black Flame Asuras!
In a few seconds, these men in black had soared in power, their auras turning crazed and vicious, bursting with the desire to kill and destroy.
Song Yuanyi and his Righteous Alliance had already clashed with these men once and were well aware of their power. It was just that there were fewer of these experts than last time. But this was a new experience for the Black Yin Ancestor and the Five Ancestor Alliance, and they were given an unprecedented shock.
“What’s going on? What are these scoundrels?” an expert of the Five Ancestor Alliance called out in alarm. Many people stumbled backward in panic and fright.
The inhuman transformations of the men in black had gone beyond the domain of martial arts. Even the members of the evil path were flabbergasted by this sight.
“Hahaha, everyone, get up there and kill them all!”
The bamboo hat leader coldly laughed, the killing intent around him so intense as to be tangible.
These words immediately made the air tense. The Black Yin Ancestor, Song Yuanyi, and the Lone Silence Ancestor grimaced.
“Hmph, how suicidal! If we dared to appear before you, it means that we came with the absolute confidence that none of you would be able to leave this place!” the cold and somber voice of the Origin Immortal Village Chief rang out.
As that voice echoed through the cave, everyone suddenly began to hear the buzzing of countless wings vibrating in the air.
“Not good! It’s those bugs!”
Others might have needed some more time to understand what this vibrating was, but Wang Chong instantly recognized it.
He had clashed with the Stellar-Piercing Beetles numerous times within the Origin Immortal Formation, but the vibrations now were somehow even stronger.
The
se thoughts had barely flitted through his mind when countless small golden balls of light appeared in a distant cave like stars in the night sky.
These beetles made Wang Chong’s blood freeze. Behind him, one of the successors of the Origin Immortal Art was still standing there, showing no indication that he planned to leave, and in front of him were hundreds of Stellar-Piercing Beetles.
In the past, with the Heavenly Mandate Battle Armor, Wang Chong would have been unafraid, but now, Wang Chong was in an extremely perilous situation.
And things were only just getting started.
Roooar!
A deep and brutal roar emerged from a distant cave, and then the ground began to shake as thunderous hooves slammed against it. Dust and rocks rained down from the ceiling.
Several vast storms of energy were rushing their way toward the cave.
And this ancient aura made everyone pale.
“Dragonbeasts! Several of them!”
The Origin Immortal Villagers had actually brought over the Dragonbeasts along with the Stellar-Piercing Beetles. Each of these Dragonbeasts was incredibly strong and innately resistant to all Stellar Energy, in addition to possessing a formidable recovery ability. Just one would be a nightmare for all of them to deal with, let alone three.
“If I were you, I would just obediently stick out my neck and wait for them. Kill them!” The Origin Immortal Villager’s voice resounded through everyone’s ears, but it was soon drowned out by an endless droning and vibrating as countless beetles poured into the cave.
The beetles assailed righteous martial artists, evil martial artists, and men in black alike, not discriminating between targets.
“Ah!”
“Careful!”
Panicked shouts filled the cave as everyone took out their weapons and began to hastily fend off the beetles.
A Five Ancestor Alliance expert was caught off guard, and a beetle instantly managed to bore through his Stellar Energy and into his body. As the man screamed, a tyrannical black flame emerged from his body and completely engulfed him.
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