Chapter 591: Chapter 539: When the Snipe and the Clam Fight
The three factions were balanced, none daring to act recklessly. Only Jiang Yuebai’s Puppet Avatar unconsciously searched for food behind the stone pillar.
Only after finding nothing did she remember she was the Puppet Avatar, not the main body.
"Why is Ancestor Miedu here?" the Female Sword Cultivator transmitted her voice to the Male Sword Cultivator beside her.
The Male Sword Cultivator took a step forward, looked at the purple-robed elder standing on the Taixuan Stele, and shouted: "Old Miedu, everything in the Taixuan Mountain Range originally belongs to our Xuandao Sect, including the Taixuan Stele left by our founding ancestor, Daoist Taixuan."
The Male Sword Cultivator paused and glanced at the scar-faced man and the bearded man opposite.
"If you don’t want to be hunted down by our entire Xuandao Sect, you’d better leave early. Don’t wait until our sect’s ancestors arrive, then you’ll be unable to leave even if you want to!"
The scar-faced man and the bearded man exchanged a look. They were Loose Cultivators, and had accidentally heard an old miner from the Taixuan Mountain Mine drunkenly talking about this secret path and the abnormal Fire Elemental Power below.
Afterwards, they killed that old miner, Soul Searched and searched his body... After many twists and turns, they finally found this place.
The legendary Taixuan Stele was right in front of them. How could they willingly leave now?
The scar-faced man and the bearded man hesitated, while the purple-robed elder sneered, not putting the two Sword Cultivators in his eyes at all.
"Where are your Xuandao Sect’s ancestors? Perhaps they’ve all been beaten by the Demon Clan to the point of being unable to rise? I’ve roamed the Demon Dao for hundreds of years, even killed Divinity Transformation Cultivators. What are the ancestors of a declining sect worth?"
Ancestor Miedu exuded dominance, making the male and female Sword Cultivators anxious, indecisive, yet their eyes were fixed on the Taixuan Stele under Ancestor Miedu’s feet.
At this time, none could determine its authenticity, but even a slight chance that it was real was enough to drive people mad.
Before the Ziwei Star Alliance was established in the Heavenly Spear Realm, it was initially called the Taixuan Realm, discovered first by Daoist Taixuan, the founding ancestor of the Xuandao Sect.
This Taixuan Mountain Range originally was where Daoist Taixuan cultivated.
Daoist Taixuan entered the Dao through arrays; at that time, he was also a hero and a prominent figure in Array Dao.
The Great Array blocking the Demon Abyss in the Taiwei Star Alliance territory was laid by him during the Mahayana Realm, resisting the Demon Clan for more than fifty thousand years before being breached.
Daoist Taixuan achieved perfect merit and smoothly ascended to the Immortal Realm. It is said he left his strongest three Array Maps in a stele, for the Xuandao Sect descendants to comprehend.
Interestingly, after Daoist Taixuan ascended, the Xuandao Sect did not find the Taixuan Stele; they turned the entire Taixuan Mountain Range upside down without discovering any of Daoist Taixuan’s legacy.
The Xuandao Sect gradually declined after Daoist Taixuan’s departure, with no prominent successors appearing. As a result, the Taixuan Mountain Range experienced several earthquakes and fire eruptions, nurturing Taixuan Gold, which they couldn’t keep, turning it into public property by the Ziwei Star Alliance, leaving them only a small mineral vein.
No one present knew how the others learned about the place, and coincidentally gathered here.
There are instances in the Cultivation Realm where legacies of Great Powers appear only at opportune moments, not existing continuously.
The exact timing is elusive.
Thus, the sudden appearance of the Taixuan Stele made little room for thought, with everyone focused on how to take the Taixuan Stele and obtain the Array Maps within.
Jiang Yuebai didn’t know what they were thinking or about Daoist Taixuan. Just witnessing the scene felt strange, wondering whether to report to the Demon Clan and uproot this group.
While Jiang Yuebai was calculating how to benefit most, the purple-robed elder on the magma river suddenly looked sharply, and flicked out two strange Array Plates.
Pervasive and powerful Demonic Qi surged from the two Array Plates, greatly exceeding the might of ordinary Peak Nascent Soul experts, turning into rolling black smoke, overwhelming the people onsides.
Next, Ancestor Miedu’s Demonic Qi boiled over, his eyes bulging, hair and beard dancing wildly, the surrounding black Demonic Qi transformed into a venomous black snake, quickly coiling around the Taixuan Stele and exerting force to pull it up.
Boom!
The ground shook, the entire magma river cracked with the Taixuan Stele as the center, sinister fissures spreading to the surrounding mountain walls, a large number of rocks and stalactites falling from above.
From the cracked mountain walls, more magma surged out, emitting scorching heat.
Clang!
The sound of swords resonated, the male and female Sword Cultivators united their swords, forcibly cleaving the black mist array, seeing Ancestor Miedu already starting to take the stele, causing their minds to be in chaos.
The two joined their fingers, casting a sword technique, raising tens of thousands of Green Light Small Swords, merging into a giant sword with a strange whistling sound, and slashing down above Ancestor Miedu’s head.
Ancestor Miedu remained unmoved standing on the stele, raising his hand and the Demonic Qi surging, transforming into a black giant palm, directly crushing the green giant sword in the air.
Powerful sword Qi shot through the void, creating several fissures in the magma around Ancestor Miedu, the sword pressure causing the magma to remain divided for a long time.
Bang!
On the other side, the black mist exploded, the scar-faced man and the bearded man furiously saw the male and female Sword Cultivators fiercely battling Ancestor Miedu, with sword Qi and Demonic Qi frantically clashing, their hearts turned decisive, each unleashing Magic Treasures, attacking Ancestor Miedu.
Bang bang bang!
The terrifying visible ripples swept across the air above the magma river as the few clashed continually, fire illuminating the sky, and the momentum was terrifying.
Under the four-person combined pressure, Ancestor Miedu’s strain greatly increased, temporarily abandoning taking the stele, fully resisting the four attackers.
The battle was fierce, even Jiang Yuebai’s Puppet Avatar had to retreat, avoiding the battle’s aftermath.
Finding a safe spot again, Jiang Yuebai hid behind a black stone pillar, her gaze flickered, and her peripheral vision swept an eye toward a shadowy corner behind, silently.
That handsome male cultivator was hiding in a hard-to-notice corner, watching the battle’s center while glancing at where her Puppet Avatar was hiding.
Even if he didn’t see through her invisibility, he must have discovered something.
The male cultivator pinched his brow, contemplating something with a frown.
Jiang Yuebai using her Puppet Avatar’s mechanical brain could guess what he was scheming, similar to her thoughts.
Unfortunately, he considers himself the fisherman watching the sandpiper and the clam fight, not knowing he’s merely the mantis stalking the cicada.
At this moment, Jiang Yuebai’s main body was with Bai Jiuyou, hiding behind the handsome male cultivator, setting up an Concealing Array, secretly observing his every move.
Jixiang squatted on Jiang Yuebai’s shoulder, holding the Crystal Demon Core she gave him, crunching it noisily.
Jiang Yuebai took out a Fire Jade Ginseng she dug from beside the Taixuan Golden Liquid Pond, nibbling it like a carrot, eating in the same manner as Jixiang.
The battle above the magma river grew more intense and gradually entered a white-hot state. With four people combined, Ancestor Miedu was evidently struggling, being beaten into retreat, and slowly moving away from the Taixuan Stele.
The male and female Sword Cultivators pursued fiercely, while the scar-faced man and the bearded man harbored ulterior motives, turning to take the Taixuan Stele.
With two fewer suppressing, Ancestor Miedu immediately reversed the defeat, Demonic Qi transformed into a ghost claw, tearing open the male Sword Cultivator’s body with one swipe, blood splattering, falling into the magma-filled abyss.
"Junior Brother!"
The female Sword Cultivator turned to save him, while Ancestor Miedu rushed to the Taixuan Stele, entangled with the other two again.
Ah~~~
Bai Jiuyou yawned, Jiang Yuebai began nibbling her tenth ’carrot’, Jixiang watched eagerly, also longing to eat.
Roar!!!
A sudden beast roar triggered waves of sound, magma below boiled and erupted, shooting skyward, its momentum soaring to the heavens.
It seemed a colossal creature awoke from the depths!
Jiang Yuebai was startled, dropping the ’carrot’, while Jixiang’s eyes lit up, he flew over, grabbed the ’carrot’, and stuffed it into his cheek.
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