World of Cultivation - Volume 06 - All Hail Our King

by Fang Xiang

  Pew pew pew!

  Pillars of blood shot up. Before they could land on the ground, they were frozen into droplets of ice by the cold air and was swept up with the wind and snow.

  The guards widened their eyes, a chill spreading through their bodies. In a blink, they turned into people of ice.

  They fell down face forward, pia, and shattered!

  The wind and snow they had relied on had become the great boon for the enemy. Ice spikes shot out of the wind and snow. These ice spikes possessed astounding power. Even the defensive light shield of Clear Sea Storehouse could not withstand a single blow!

  Several figures were rapidly moving to the third defensive position. Zuo Fan was slightly reassured. These people were usually very proud. Fortunately, they did not mess up at important times.

  "Third Position!" Zuo Fan shouted. "Prepare the [Sky Lock]!

  As he finished, countless seal scripts suddenly flew out of the depths of the storehouse and quickly flew into the sky. In a blink, a circle of light appeared in the sky above the storehouse. The light circle was over ten li in diameter and countless bright seal scripts flowed endlessly.

  The [Sky Lock] was one of the Clear Sea Warehouse's strongest jinzhi. It was for facing experts, especially shen power experts. The enemy's strength was unfathomable and was definitely a shen power expert.

  This definitely was not good news for Zuo Fan.

  Right now, the development of jinzhi had fallen behind. The jinzhi that could match shen power experts were rare. However, due to the importance of Clear Sea Storehouse's location, there were jinzhi set up here that could be used against shen power exerts.

  This was [Sky Lock]!

  If those people could delay the enemy, the [Sky Lock] would be able to restrain the enemy.

  Several figures quickly engaged the enemy in battle. With Zuo Fan's strength, he could only see several grey figures and one blue figure flashing around.

  "The lock is set!" the subordinate said joyfully.

  "Attack!" Zuo Fan unhesitatingly ordered.

  The circle of light suddenly contracted. It descended from the sky, its target Lan!

  The wind and snow seemed to suddenly stop.

  ———

  This was the first time Shuang Yu was working with Gongsun Cha. It was a strange feeling. He had to admit that Gongsun Cha's preparations had been very detailed, so detailed that it was beyond his imagination.

  While they were both among the ten great battle generals, Gongsun Cha and Gu Liang Dao's styles were completely different. Gu Liang Dao's moves were big and open, but Gongsun Cha was more detailed. Only battle generals like Gongsun Cha would be able to do preparations to this level.

  The accurate and thorough preparations allowed Shuang Yu to feel relaxed. What he needed to do was simple. He only needed to express his strength to successfully complete the mission.

  His target was Thousand Sail Sect.

  Thousand Sail Sect was not a large sect. Actually, it was only one of Tian Huan's outer sects. Its status in Tian Huan was not high, but its importance was seriously underestimated.

  Tian Huan had many outer sects. There were thousands of sects that had connections to Tian Huan and the Thousand Sail Sect was just one of those.

  They were skilled in the forging of treasure ships, especially transportation ships. Almost seven-tenths of transportation ships in Tian Huan came from Thousand Sail Sect. For Tian Huan who made their living on forging and mercantilism, the amount of materials transported was astounding and the demand for transportation ships was high. Transportation ships were not hard to forge, but took time, and the profits were not high. Naturally, Tian Huan was not willing to invest manpower and energy into this.

  They were happy that Thousand Sail Sect was willing to take over. Thousand Sail Sect jumped to become one of the relatively strong sects among Tian Huan's outer sects.

  Their transportation ships sold well based on their connection to Tian Huan.

  In Gongsun Cha's intelligence analyses, the importance of this sect was high. If it was destroyed, it would have a great effect on Tian Huan's transportation abilities.

  Transportation ships did not need high level materials or high level methods to be forged, but needed time.

  If Thousand Sail Sect was destroyed, Tian Huan would have a difficult time making up their transportation ships in the short-term. Other sects could forge them, but no one could compare to Thousand Sail Sect in scale. There were confirmed reports. An enormous order had come to Thousand Sail Sect, and Tian Huan was currently facing the problem of lacking sufficient transportation ability.

  Gongsun Cha's plan targeted the enemy's weakness. He had to admit that Gongsun Cha was someone skilled at grabbing a person's weakness.

  What made Thousand Sail Sect a tempting target was that, despite their importance, Thousand Sail Sect did not have the corresponding level of defenses. Thousand Sail Sect was in the core lands of Tian Huan and it was not easy for them to be attacked. Adding on that Tian Huan was supporting them, their competitors did not dare to scheme against them.

  The situation formed gradually over time to become like this.

  However, Tian Huan did have some measures. They still stationed a battalion near Thousand Sail Sect to guarantee their safety.

  Yet a defense of this degree for a super expert like Shuang Yu was like there was nothing.

  Especially right now when Tian Huan's attention was attracted by Zhong De and Zuo Mo. Almost all of the top experts had been moved. This was undoubtedly the time that Tian Huan was weakest in defense. They would not encounter any experts of the same level. For Shuang Yu, this mission was so easy it was like taking a sightseeing trip.

  Gongshun Cha's move was really vicious!

  Behind Shuang Yu were a few dozen elites that carried large amounts of explosive talismans.

  They only had one mission, flatten Thousand Sail Sect to the ground!

  Shuang Yu took a deep breath, his expression becoming cold. "Begin!"

  Translator Ramblings: Attack on two fronts. Guuurgh, holidays are robbing my energy.

  Chapter 830: Counterattack (2)

  The old man's mission was the Yao Forging Tower

  The Yao Forging Tower had been the place that Pu Yao and wei had been imprisoned in. It was a restricted land that the forebearers of Tian Huan had created using their great power. There were eighteen levels in the Yao Forging Tower. Pu Yao and Wei had been imprisoned in the bottom level. Every level was filled with jinzhi. Unless one attacked from the outside, it was extremely difficult to escape. Pu Yao and Wei's escape had been the result of Pu Yao spending thousands of years and put his all to think of a solution.

  In reality, only Pu Yao and Wei had been left on the eighteenth level. The other yaomo had passed away a long time ago. Pu Yao had seen countless powerful yoamo that could not hold against the wear of time, lose their minds, and then turn into dust. This was what had caused him to resolve himself and escape the Yao Forging Tower.

  The Yao Forging Tower did not just imprison yaomo, but a large number of powerful people that could be a threat to Tian Huan's rule. They were not killed due to many various reasons and were imprisoned in the Yao Forging Tower.

  The Yao Forging Tower was heavily guarded.

  However, in this era of drastic change, for something as gigantic as Tian Huan, they had countless problems they needed to face, and too many places they could not attend to.

  The Yao forging Tower was one of those.

  Tian Huan need to face Kun Lun's expansion, needed to face the threatening Mo Cloud Sea, the exchange of power between generations inside the sect, the change from the ling power to shen power system and so on. There were too many problems they urgently needed to resolve. In a situation like this, the defense of the Yao Forging Tower was not a priority.

  Just like the transportation formations of Mo Cloud Sea that were attacked, Tian Huan's shen glyphs and jinzhi were being developed with full support, but there was still a gr
eat distance until they were developed enough for widespread use.

  The jinzhi of the Yao Forging Tower were the products of the era of ling power.

  For experts that were in the era of shen power, they were lacking power.

  For safety, especially the safety of the old man, Xie Shan, Nan Yue, and the others were all sent with the old man's group. None of the group who qualified to go into the Yao Forging Tower was harmless. Even so the old man alone was enough to intimidate the entire group.

  If they only released those imprisoned and caused a small degree of damage to Tian Huan, this was an embarrassing waste in the eyes of Gongsun Cha.

  For Lil' Miss, these vicious brutes that had suffered under Tian Huan were great helpers!

  At usual times, other than the battalions stationed at the Yao Forging Tower, there were also experts. However, Li Xian Er had been captured, and almost all of the experts were sent to Xi Xuan to negotiate and rescue Li Xian Er. This was the time that the tower was most empty.

  The old man was very satisfied at being put in charge of such an important mission.

  "Which of you two will go first?" The old man glanced at the orange-haired yao and A Wen out of the corner of his eye.

  The orange-haired yao had an expression of smug pride as he patted his chest. "We need to discuss this? Of course it is the most handsome and genius youth first! Good brothers are loyal, seeing how pitiful you are, I will condescend to help!"

  The old man's face turned green "Who is brothers with you?"

  The smug orange-haired yao suddenly recalled the old man was A Gui's grandfather and immediately froze. He reacted and hurriedly smoothed over, "Haha! A Wen! I'm speaking about A Wen!"

  The orange-haired yao thought that the old man could not be offended. If Big Sister A Gui learned of this, and then attacked him, he would not be able to withstand it!

  A Wen snorted coldly. "Idiot!"

  Before he finished speaking, he shot out.

  "Hey hey hey! You bastard! You rule-breaker! Unfair! You shameless being, I had a wrong opinion of you, you are a person without a bottom line, you embarrass the name of Mo Cloud Sea … …"

  The orange-haired yao wailed loudly as he turned into a fiery red shadow and charged in.

  The old man turned his face. "Are the two of them usually like this?"

  Everyone nodded in unison.

  Nan Yue and the others were respectful of the old man. The old man's power was enough that they had to look up in reverence. Also, the old man's unique status was such that even Gongsun Cha had a high opinion of him, much less juniors like them.

  With everyone surrounding him, the old man felt unprecedentedly well, and full of spirit. These juniors were mature, obedient and had sweet tongues. They had smoothed his feathers. With a good mood, he did not skimp on teaching them. Soon, he found to his shock that these juniors were not just exceptionally talented, they were all very hardworking. Even the orange-haired yao that seemed unreliable was focused when he cultivated.

  Such good children!

  The old man sighed. He decided that he was going to attend more events in the future, and show off the glory of an elder.

  He pretentiously pointed at the Yao Forging Tower and said with a serious expression. "The person who gets into the entrance first will be taught a secret technique by this old man!"

  Woosh!

  Everyone's eyes turned green.

  On the trip here, the old man's unfathomable power and masterful shen techniques caused reverence in all of the juniors. Such a promise immediately ignited the fighting spirit of all of the juniors.

  Nan Yue and the others unhesitatingly charged to the Yao Forging Tower. Behind them, the old man strolled slowly with the presence of a master.

  The sharp wails of alarms could be heard in the distance as the light of the jinzhi lit up in twos and threes.

  ———

  It had been too long since Tian Huan itself had been attacked. The guards stationed at the Yao Forging Tower to be dazed for a moment when they heard the alarms.

  The enemy came so quickly they hadn't even entered the jinzhi before the enemy reached them.

  The attack lights of the perimeter jinzhi rained down on the enemy but were unable to stop their advance.

  Rong Zhi looked in terror at the eerie and dangerous figures, cold rising from his heart.

  Ever since that time many years ago when yao had escaped from the Yao Forging Tower, the guards at the Yao Forging Tower and the jinzhi had been improved greatly. However, as war had occurred, the situation became more tense, and almost all of the experts at the Yao Forging Tower had been called away. As the situation calmed, the higher ups seemed to forget about the Yao Forging Tower.

  Those left behind to guard the Yao Forging Tower would be transferred immediately when they had a breakthrough in cultivating shen glyphs. Rong Zhi had not improved much in cultivating shen glyphs so he had never left here.

  Rong Zhi wanted to leave since a long time ago. Guarding the Yao Forging Tower was thought of as exile, a place with no future. There were no benefits here, and the days were hard. It was also difficult to accomplish something that would attract the attention of the higher-ups. But if they were not careful, it was easy for problems to occur. Naturally, no one was willing to come here. Only those that offended the higher ups would be sent here.

  Occasionally in the past, there would be some experts with terrible personalities but were strong that were transferred over. In the recent years, there wasn't even one such expert. The higher ups had developed a higher tolerance of those with strength than in the past.

  Rong Zhi was often too lazy to think about these matters. Guarding the Yao Forging Tower was a hard job, but the benefit was that no one managed them, and they were free. They could occasionally go to the nearby battalion to act as a teacher, and guide the soldiers from the battalion.

  The scene of the lights raining down caused Song Zhi to lose focus for a while.

  Elite!

  It was definitely elite! From what he saw, every figure was multiple times stronger than himself.

  Song Zhi immediately knew the enemy's intentions. The enemy was targeting the prisoners of the Yao Forging Tower!

  Suddenly, he was filled with grief. He knew that he would pay the price for the inattentiveness of the higher ups.

  ———

  Seeing the juniors were unstoppable, the old man was slightly shocked. The defenses of the Yao Forging Tower were so weak!

  He couldn't help but shake his head inwardly. Theoretically, a place like this was a restricted land for each sect and should be heavily protected. It was time for Tian Huan to taste its own medicine for missing this.

  The battle progressed quickly. The guards were cleared out in a short period of time.

  The nearby battalion was disturbed by the noise and were rushing over. They had quickly assembled and were hurrying over at their fastest speed.

  "How's the situation?" the old man asked the black smoke yao. In his view, this person shrouded in black smoke was the smartest of the group.

  "The jinzhi here are complete and suitable for facing battalions. If our intelligence reports on this battalion are accurate, we can hold the tower for at least twelve hours. However, you have to be fast," the black smoke yao said without hesitation.

  "Good, I will leave this to you." The old man was very satisfied. He watched as the black smoke yao directed people into the jinzhi to prepare to stop the battalion outside. The fighting spirit inside his chest started to burn.

  "I hope the people inside the Yao Forging Tower, do not disappoint me!"

  The old man unhesitatingly flew into the Yao Forging Tower.

  ———

  Lan lightly spun the ice umbrella in her hand and the wind and snow seemed to be disturbed by an invisible hand. The sharp snow and wind were docile and vented in a storm.

  Ding ding ding.

  Countless blooms of blood appeared at the same time. The enemy that lost the pr
otection of the light shields were fragile. The death of large numbers of their members caused many jinzhi to stop functioning and the light in the sky weakened.

  At this time, Lan suddenly raised her face.

  In the sky, an enormous seal script ring of light was coming towards her at astounding speed. The sky full of wind and snow seemed to suddenly stop.

  Lan's eyes suddenly lit up with an eerie light.

  A reminiscing smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

  After sleeping for tens of thousands of years her battle skill had not decreased. As a totem warrior, fighting was a instinct that was engraved deep into her bones!

  Ten thousand years ago, the greatest value of any totem warrior was fighting!

  She seemed to return to the time ten thousand years ago, in that chaotic and primitive land. Where the ice umbrella passed, it left ice and snow!

  She had never lost a fight in the ice and snow!

  The ice umbrella in her hand spun rapidly. The tassels that flew up were pleasing to hear with their chimes.

  Under the ice umbrella, she lowered her head, her expression was devout and grave.

  In the name of Lan, dance!

  The wind and snow seemed to hear the summons and spun to gather at the ice umbrella above her head.

  With Lan as the center, a whirlwind of ice formed.

  The snow that had had built up for tens of thousands of years on the ground crumbled. They flew into the sky and were sucked into the whirlpool of wind and snow above Lan's head.

  Boom-om-om!

  The ice and snow gathered like a twister and formed an enormous pillar of icy wind. From far away, it looked like a terrifying dragon of ice twisting and rearing into the air.

  There was no longer was any sharp wailing of the wind. What filled the ears were the roars of tens of thousands of horses stampeding towards them at once.

  The ground seemed to tremble.

  Zuo Fan and the others looked with ashen expressions at the enormous ice dragon in the air that stretched for dozens of li.

  The [Sky Lock] could not strike and was stuck in the air. There seemed to be an invisible hand that securely held it.