“Very well!” The sect leader nodded in satisfaction and waved his arm. “Now, follow me!”
He flicked his sleeves and led the way.
His disciples followed him and marched out of the mountain.
At that moment, several black dots could be seen in the night sky. They were small drones patrolling the sky above the mountain range, monitoring the area.
As soon as those people came out, they were caught on camera.
“Unusual activity reported at Shu Mountain!”
The news quickly spread.
In the wee hours of the morning, many people were alarmed.
General Bai was woken up by the phone in his sleep. After hearing the report, he could not help but curse, “Those bastards, why can’t they give me a break? We’re in the middle of the night.”
He took the car and rushed to the command center. It was already a busy scene inside.
“F*ck! This isn’t good! The entire sect is mobilized!”
General Bai’s expression changed drastically when he saw the live feed from the drone on the big screen in front of him.
“The entire sect is mobilized? That can’t be good!”
“It’s not good at all! Shu Mountain is said to be the most powerful hidden sect!”
The generals discussed with serious expressions.
“We don’t know what they want for now, and we shouldn’t act rashly. We’ll monitor them for now, and at the same time, inform the western military region to be ready for battle.”
“The Agency should also be ready to assemble.”
Orders were passed down one by one.
The drones followed the group of Shu Mountain cultivators. They stopped walking outside of the mountain range, and several people broke off. They went to ask for directions.
Soon, the group of people headed east.
Instead of taking the road, they walked in the mountains at high speeds.
After they went away, soldiers arrived at the scene and found the drivers who gave the group directions. From questioning them, they learned the destination of the Shu Mountain cultivators.
“What the hell? Westridge? Why are they going to Westridge?” General Bai was stunned when he received the news.
He figured out what was going on and quickly picked up his phone to call Tang Hao.
“Bad news, Comrade Tang Hao. Those bastards are coming for you. You dishonored them, and now they want to take revenge.
“How many of them? There’s a sea of people! This is really bad!”
General Bai’s tone was serious.
On the other end of the phone, Tang Hao was stunned.
He had expected that Shu Mountain would come back to settle the score with him but did not expect so many people would come. Did they plan to fight him to the death?
Tang Hao frowned, and his expression became serious.
Shu Mountain was the strongest hidden sect. Most sects had about a dozen Perfected Persons, but Shu Mountain should have a lot more. It would be a difficult battle.
“Only Shu Mountain is coming?” After pondering for a long time, Tang Hao asked.
“Yes! We don’t have any news of the other sects. They’re probably still cowering!” General Bai said.
“Good! Since they’re here, then we’ll fight them to the end. If it’s only Shu Mountain, we can still fight them!” Tang Hao’s tone of voice turned cold.
“Yes! I think so too. Let’s kill them!” General Bai said viciously.
Then, he said, “Where should we fight? We can’t fight in Westridge, right?”
“Well…” Tang Hao thought for a while and said, “Why don’t we fight in Dragon Tiger Mountain? We can send them a battle invitation!”
“Dragon Tiger Mountain?”
General Bai’s expression suddenly became very strange. “Will they be willing?”
“They don’t have a choice! Mao Mountain has a medicinal herb plantation, so we can’t fight there. The only option is Dragon Tiger Mountain!” Tang Hao said.
“Then… you can go and inform them!”
General Bai said hurriedly.
“OK!”
After the discussion, Tang Hao hung up the phone and called Dragon Tiger Mountain.
“What? Shu Mountain is coming? Are we going to fight Shu Mountain?”
The old heavenly master who answered the phone almost fainted.
‘What? Shu Mountain? They used to be the best in the past, and they’re still equally as good now!’
“What? You want to have the battle at Dragon Tiger Mountain?”
The old heavenly master’s eyes widened, and he almost cursed out loud.
‘F*ck! Do you intend to wipe out Dragon Tiger Mountain?’
The entire mountain was razed when they fought Yin Mountain. The battle against Shu Mountain would definitely be more intense. The entire Dragon Tiger Mountain might be leveled.
Their Taoist abbeys cost a lot of money to build. There were antiques everywhere, and some were even plated with pure gold. They were all very valuable.
“Can we… say no?” The old heavenly master said weakly.
“They’re already on their way. Can you say no?” Tang Hao rolled his eyes. “If we fight on Dragon Tiger Mountain, you don’t need to dispatch that many people. How about that?”
“Well… let me ask them first!” The old heavenly master hesitated for a while and said.
Then, he put down the phone and rushed out of the door.
Soon, agonized wails echoed throughout the entire Dragon Tiger Mountain.
“Oh! My first uncle’s brother’s distant relative is getting married in a few days. I’m going to attend the wedding banquet, so I’ll leave first. It’s going to be a long drive.”
A heavenly master swiftly packed his bags and rushed down the mountain as fast as the wind. Soon, he disappeared from view.
“Oh! I just remembered that a tycoon from Southport wanted me to go over and inspect the fengshui of his house. I’ll be leaving now!”
Another heavenly master went back to his abode, packed his luggage, and ran away.
One by one, they carried their bulging suitcases and rushed down the mountain as if they were fleeing for their lives.
Rules of the Union? That was no longer important.
They were afraid that they would die in battle. The battle at Nanyang was a one-sided fight from the start, but how were they able to stand up to Shu Mountain, the number one sect in the past?
What would happen if they die?
They wanted to live and enjoy their lives!
Let those Mao Mountain idiots fight!
The old heavenly masters were stunned when they saw the scene.
“Come back, you bastards, come back quickly!” They were hopping mad.
They wanted to run too, but if they were slower than others, they would definitely be caught!
“Whatever! We’ll just fight here! I don’t care if everything blows up!”
The old heavenly masters were dejected and depressed.
Chapter 788 - Super Prodigy
“Shu Mountain is here?”
Mao Mountain was in an uproar when they received the news.
“The number one sect? They’re just a bunch of old geezers. They’re so behind the times, yet they think that they’re bigshots!”
“F*ck ’em to hell!”
The Taoist masters were indignant. They walked out of their abodes and gathered in the main hall.
“Hurry up and pack your things. We’ll set off at dawn and head to Dragon Tiger Mountain!” Taoist Master Qian Ji came out with a group of white-haired Taoist masters.
“Dragon Tiger Mountain?” The other Taoist masters were all stunned.
“The location of the decisive battle will be Dragon Tiger Mountain,” Taoist Master Qian Ji said.
The Taoist masters were stunned for a few seconds before they burst into laughter.
“Haha! Those idiots are going to be in so much trouble!”
They were gloating over Dragon Tiger Mountain’s misfortune and were getting more and more excited. They had always been rivals with Dragon Tiger Mountain and were happy to see Dragon Tiger Mountain suffer a loss.
The Taoist masters went to pack their bags. Each of them carried several yellow cloth sacks filled with jade talismans, and they replaced the peach wood swords on their back with metal ones.
Those swords were all refined from Kunlun steel and were much more powerful than peach wood swords.
In the warehouse, sacks upon sacks of jade talismans were dragged, transported down the mountain, and loaded into trucks.
Along with the jade talismans were crates of Liquid of Spiritual Condensation.
The demi-world of Hua Mountain was also boiling with excitement.
“Should we fight?”
Many people hesitated. After all, their opponent was Shu Mountain!
“Fight! We must fight!”
The old Perfected Persons shouted impatiently.
The last time they completed a mission, the Clan Leader had rewarded them with several pills each. If they did a good job this time, they would be getting more pills.
Besides, if only Shu Mountain came, they still had a chance to win.
In that period, they had experienced the power of modern technology.
“Alright! We’ll fight them! Gather all the latter period disciples, and we’ll set off immediately.” The Hierarch made his decision immediately.
All over Huaxia, the cultivation families had also received the news and set off.
After notifying the cultivation families, Tang Hao put down his phone, pondered for a moment, and continued to make pills.
It had been more than half a month since the day the hidden sects returned. He had gone back to Provincial City and started his classes.
During the day, he went to class, and at night, he concentrated on making pills and researching the Pill of Spiritual Condensation.
After making pills every night for the past few nights, he had accumulated quite a stash.
In the morning, a car came to pick him up, and it rushed to Dragon Tiger Mountain.
After meeting up with everyone, he distributed the pills.
At the same time, soldiers and equipment were gathered at the nearest army and air force bases from Dragon Tiger Mountain.
An unmanned drone dropped the battle invitation in front of the Shu Mountain cultivators.
“A battle invitation?”
The people from Shu Mountain were shocked after they opened and read it.
“How did they know where we are?” Many people asked doubtfully.
“It must be that thing!”
Someone pointed at the black dot hovering in the sky in the distance.
“So what if they know?” The Shu Mountain sect leader said disdainfully. He opened the letter, read it, and snorted angrily. “The guy is inviting us to a decisive battle at Dragon Tiger Mountain!”
“There must be a trap behind this, Sect Leader!”
“That’s right! That bastard is cunning and shameless. There must be a trap waiting for us there,” the elders said.
“So what about it?”
At that moment, a man stood out and shouted loudly.
That person looked to be in his thirties. He stood straight and was extremely handsome. His white clothes made him seem ethereal and otherworldly.
Unlike the others whose clothes were more or less stained with dirt, there was not a single speck of dust on his white clothes.
He put his hands behind his back and lifted his chin. “We are Shu Mountain, the number one sect in the world. Why would we be afraid of a mere insect?” He said arrogantly.
“So what if there are traps? Why should we be afraid of a mere trap? Our strength is enough to crush those natives into dust.”
As he spoke, his chin lifted higher and higher, until his nose was almost pointing straight at the sky.
“Well said, Elder Duan!”
The disciples applauded and said excitedly.
They looked at that person with a hint of admiration in their eyes.
The gazes of the female disciples were filled with adoration and infatuation.
“Ah! Elder Duan is so handsome as usual!”
They shrieked in extreme excitement, and their eyes almost turned into heart symbols.
“Well said, Shaolong!” Even the sect leader nodded as he looked at the young man with admiration.
If prodigies existed in the world, Duan Shaolong of Shu Mountain would be one!
Elder Duan was the youngest elder in the history of Shu Mountain. He started cultivating when he was twelve years old, attaining the middle period in half a year, the latter period in two years, and the peak in five years.
Most people would spend half their lives cultivating from the peak of the State of Qi Channeling to a Perfected Person, but Duan Shaolong only took seven years.
A twenty-six-year-old Perfected Person!
He was the only one of his kind in Shu Mountain.
Not only was he a fast cultivator, but his comprehension ability was also shocking. Learning new sorcery was as easy as drinking water and eating food for him.
He was a super prodigy and the pride and future of Shu Mountain!
He was also the idol of Shu Mountain’s younger generation.
He lifted his chin even higher after hearing the praises, and his head was almost parallel to the ground.
“Shaolong is right. They are just a bunch of natives. What’s there to be afraid of? Crush them! Flatten them! Only then can we show the might of Shu Mountain!”
“Yes, yes, yes!”
The other elders who hesitated earlier changed their opinions and revealed excited expressions.
“Then it’s settled! Advance at full speed!”
The sect leader shouted loudly. That gave them a boost of morale, and they rushed toward Dragon Tiger Mountain according to the map drawn on the back of the letter.
On Dragon Tiger Mountain, everyone was already prepared.
Finally, Shu Mountain arrived.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The figures sliced the air and landed at the plaza in front of the mountain gate.
The almost nine hundred people who were all dressed in white was quite a spectacular sight.
Furthermore, all of them had a high cultivation base. All the twenty-odd people standing in front were Perfected Persons.
Behind them were about thirty half-steps, and the people in the peak period numbered even more.
On the other side, the people from the Union were dressed up differently, and their cultivation bases were a lot worse. There were only nineteen Perfected Persons, including those from Hua Mountain.
The number of half-steps and peak period cultivators was also far lesser than those from Shu Mountain.
After the two sides faced off for a while, the people of Shu Mountain revealed looks of disdain. Many of them even laughed mockingly.
“What a motley crew!”
“Haha! So this is Hua Mountain? You’re embarrassing your ancestors for submitting to the natives!”
“If you know what’s good for you, hurry up and surrender! If you submit to Shu Mountain, we might even spare your lives!”
Many people started to shout arrogantly.
Following that, they focused their attention on Tang Hao.
Chapter 789 - How Pretentious
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
“Are you that despicable, treacherous, and cunning person?”
The Shu Mountain cultivators looked at Tang Hao and questioned him coldly.
Tang Hao was surprised and confused.
‘Despicable, treacherous, and cunning? Are they talking about me?’
Before he could reply, the three people from before said hatefully, “That’s right, it’s that bastard!”
“Hmph!”
The Shu Mountain sect leader grunted and said, “Very w
ell! How dare you deceive the disciples of Shu Mountain? You sure have guts!”
When Tang Hao heard that, he instantly became angry.
“I really do have guts!” He said coldly.
“Hmph! Very well!” The Shu Mountain sect leader rebuked angrily. “What’s so great about using formations to pull a fast one on Shu Mountain?
“I’d like to see whatever tricks you might have!”
“Sure!” Tang Hao said coldly.
“Sect Leader, that person must have a low cultivation base and isn’t worth your time. Leave him to me!”
At that moment, Duan Shaolong walked out and volunteered.
“Well…”
The sect leader hesitated for a moment but eventually nodded.
Duan Shaolong might be young, but he had a high cultivation base and was experienced in fights. He should be able to handle the villain in battle, but even if he was tricked, there was still the sect leader and the others!
It was also a good opportunity for those natives and Hua Mountain to be impressed by the power of the Shu Mountain prodigy!
Only Shu Mountain would produce such a prodigy!
When the sect leader thought of that, he could not help but feel smug. “This person is the youngest elder in the history of Shu Mountain. He started cultivating at the age of twelve and became a Perfected Person at the age of twenty-six. It only took him fourteen years!
“Such a fast cultivation speed is extremely rare even in ancient times when the cultivation world was in its golden age. He is a top-notch prodigy in cultivation and the pride of Shu Mountain.”
“Wow! Only fourteen years?”
The people of Hua Mountain were shocked.
It was very difficult to break through to the State of Foundation Establishment. Many of them spent decades trying to break through, but the kid from Shu Mountain only spent fourteen years. How impressive!
“That guy is a freak!”
They discussed in low voices. They were both shocked and envious.
“Sigh, why doesn’t Hua Mountain have such a prodigy?” Hierarch Baiyun was depressed.
The people of Shu Mountain became even prouder when they heard those voices. Duan Shaolong’s nose was pointing at the sky again.
He rested his hands behind his back, and his clothes fluttered in the wind. He was extremely handsome.
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