Chapter 1463: Chapter 655: Origin of the Pillar
An Mansion.
"Sky-reaching Pillar! Sky-reaching Pillar! Hahahahaha!!"
Xu Tianyin gently stroked the object in front of him.
The thing he had dreamed of, thought about day and night, the thing he had woken from countless nightmares reaching for yet never obtaining, was now right within his reach!
"How dare you! The Soothing Spirit Pillar our An Family obtained is not something you Rebel Army ants can touch!"
"Xu Tianyin, take your filthy hands off!! When the master returns, all of you will die!!"
Furious roars burst out from the An Family Elders behind him, the voices coming from far to near. In the blink of an eye, several Elders had already rushed over, raising their hands to kill Xu Tianyin on the spot.
And behind those Elders, that even more terrifying pressure, that even more horrifying existence, was already charging over from afar. It probably wouldn’t be long before they arrived!
If that guy got here, then among everyone present, there would not be a single person with the ability to face him.
So... time waited for no one!
Yet, to truly turn the Sky-reaching Pillar into his own, he still needed a bit more time!
"Hold off those old bastards for me!!"
Xu Tianyin bellowed hoarsely, slapping both palms onto the Soothing Spirit Pillar at the same time.
Buzz!!
In the next instant, his palms touching the Soothing Spirit Pillar erupted with a shocking scarlet light.
As if passing some detection mechanism, this scarlet glow that should have been rejected was actually, because of the patterns lighting up on the pillar, slowly injected into the Soothing Spirit Pillar, racing along the newest completed pattern on the pillar!
"Impossible!?"
The An Family Elders’ eyes bulged on the spot when they saw this scene.
"This is bad! This old bastard has been plotting for a long time! He’s studied our An Family’s Soothing Spirit Pillar!"
"How can this be! This pillar should only respond to the master! Could it be that during the repairs, they did something to it!?"
"Stop Xu Tianyin at once! If the Soothing Spirit Pillar falls into his hands, the consequences will be unimaginable!!"
Snapping back to their senses, all the An Family Elders panicked.
One after another, they charged toward Xu Tianyin like they didn’t care about their lives.
But Xu Tianyin ignored them completely!
Right now he had to devote all his focus to the Soothing Spirit Pillar! At this moment, the only ones he could rely on were the Rebel Army subordinates, the people of the Foolish Underworld who had completely defected and boarded the same boat!
They didn’t need to win, they didn’t even need to hold them off for long... just for a moment! Just one more moment!!
Xu Tianyin roared in urgency, while the crowd below had already leapt up together, intercepting several An Family Elders in midair!
"I’ll guard my old man’s back!!!"
Xu Qingqi let out a thunderous shout, her body demonizing once more. Though her head felt like it was splitting open and her consciousness was starting to blur, she still roared madly and charged a certain Elder.
Yet after only a few exchanges, she was struck down to the ground. Fortunately, that Elder was also blocked and forced down.
Ignoring her injuries, Xu Qingqi scrambled up and roared as she charged again, not seeking victory, only to entangle!
The others were in more or less the same state.
Things had reached the most critical moment; everyone knew that victory or defeat would be decided here!
If they didn’t fight with their lives now, once that old freak An returned, none of them would escape!!
Though each of them was gravely injured and in terrible condition, they all, just like when dealing with Fang Yu, pulled out their last-resort trump cards and threw themselves at the Elders.
Fortunately they still had a numerical advantage here. After two people were slapped to death by the An Family Elders, more fighters fearlessly surged up again!
"I’ll hold these guys back, you go and rip Xu Tianyin off the Soothing Spirit Pillar!!"
One Great Elder suddenly roared. With a bang, his body sprouted great swaths of fur and his frame swelled a size larger, clearly entering a near eighty to ninety percent extreme demonization state, teetering on the edge of losing control.
They had already been no match for these An Family Elders, and now that he exploded with such power, a single claw strike suppressed a swath of people on the spot.
Qiu Xiaoping spat blood as she was sent flying, crashing down and almost blacking out, nearly passing out right there.
Nian Jiachen, who landed not far from her, already had no breath left.
You Shouliang, who had already been unconscious, seemed to have been killed by the shockwave of the first wave of attacks.
Of the five Ministers of the Rebel Army, one defected and two died. Adding in her and the heavily injured Xu Qingqi, the high ranks of the Rebel Army had suffered catastrophic casualties!
Even on the Foolish Underworld’s side, one Minister had died. The remaining three were barely clinging to life under the pursuit of the demonized An Family Elders.
"Third, well done!"
"Mongrel strays and house dogs dare bite their master back!!"
The two Elders in midair shouted as their palms descended together toward Xu Tianyin’s back.
The scarlet light coursing along the Soothing Spirit Pillar’s surface was about to complete a full circuit, lacking only the final tiny section.
Yet that tiny bit seemed to be the line between success and failure!
Because the threat that was Old Freak An was drawing closer and closer, ever closer; there was no time left for him to waste!!
Could it be... could it be that he was going to fall short right here!!!
Xu Tianyin roared in unwilling rage inside.
And just then...
"Dad!!!"
"Xu Tianyin!!!"
Two Demonized Bodies charged in almost simultaneously.
One to each Elder, they crashed into the two of them and sent them flying.
Xu Qingqi was almost no longer human. As she rammed into the Elder and they plummeted to the ground together, her eyes had already rolled back white, losing the consciousness a Human should have. She opened her mouth and bit toward the Elder’s neck.
However...
Smack!!
With a crisp slap that rang out in midair, a palm containing power far beyond her own struck her demonized fox head, spinning it a hundred and eighty degrees. By the time she hit the ground with the An Family Elder, she was already a corpse.
On the other side, Wang Zhijun could still struggle a couple of times, but he had also been pinned under another An Family Elder’s foot, his face already covered once more in Demon Scale. He was on the verge of collapse.
