There are no ancestors at all; I made them all up.

Chapter 70 This Mountain Still Stands

Mo Huaiyong and Xing Liuzi's expressions changed simultaneously upon hearing Yu Qian Daoren's words!
Mo Huaiyong stepped forward hastily and said, "Senior, please allow me to report! I have a long-standing relationship with Headmaster Chen and we have many dealings with each other! The Chess Academy also..."

"Ha." Daoist Yuqing sneered, interrupting, "How could I not know the ways of the Xuanji Chess Academy? They wait for the right price, observe the situation, and once a talented person shows their abilities, they use small favors to coerce them, swallowing them whole and squeezing out every last drop of value! How is this any different from raising spirit beasts? I have come here to invite the Hidden Star Gate to join my Star Luo Alliance, to provide mutual support and jointly explore the Great Dao! How could I be like you, treating people as mere objects to be plundered!"

Upon hearing this, Mo Huaiyong knew he was in trouble!

The Star Luo Alliance may seem loose, consisting of small and medium-sized sects banding together for mutual support, but it is actually deeply entrenched and has a profound foundation, especially its core sects, which all possess astonishing lineages! If Chen Qing truly joins the alliance, the Chess Academy will have no chance of getting involved!

He said urgently, "Senior! The Star Luo Alliance is indeed powerful, but the Hidden Star Sect's foundation is still shallow! Joining the alliance rashly may be..."

"What are you afraid of?" Jade Dragon Daoist asked with a half-smile. "I ask you, when the Xuanji Chess Academy recruits talent, has it allowed them to preserve their lineage? Has it treated them with the courtesy due to fellow Daoists?"

Mo Huaiyong was speechless!
"Alright!" Xingliuzi abruptly interrupted, a calculating glint in his eyes. He hastily cupped his hands to Yuqing Daoist and said, "Since you insist on protecting me, Senior, Xuanji Chess Academy will give you face today! Farewell!" Without another word, he turned and left!

A burst of starlight swept up Mo Huaiyong, transforming into a streak of light that shot into the sky.

"Senior brother! You!" Amidst the streaks of light, Mo Huaiyong was filled with shock and anger.

"Do you want to fight with Old Daoist Yuqie? Do you want to taste the flavor of his Iron Tomb and Mysterious Coffin?" Xingliuzi's voice transmission appeared angry on the surface, but there was a hint of pleasure in his heart.

He was unwilling to have any more offspring in Mo Huaiyong's lineage, and using the Star Luo Alliance to ruin it was exactly what he wanted!

Mo Huaiyong knew exactly what he meant and sighed, "Senior brother, won't you regret it later?"

Xingliuzi smiled dismissively. What's there to regret?
On Mingxia Mountain.

Yu Qing Daoist watched the two disappear in their escape light, his sharp expression completely gone. He said to the two behind him, "The sea eye is about to explode. I need to go and oversee it, so I came ahead of time to make a good connection. It just so happens that I arrived at the right time. If I had been even half a step later, Fellow Daoist Chen would probably have been swallowed up by the Chess Academy."

Upon reaching the mountain gate, Daoist Yuqing stopped, his gaze sweeping over the protective aura surrounding the gate, and announced in a loud voice: "Yuqing of the Star Luo Alliance, along with fellow Daoists Huichi and Xuanzhao, pays respects to Sect Leader Chen of the Hidden Star Alliance."

"Squeak-"

A moment later, the mountain gate opened, and Fang Da'ao's tall figure appeared. He glanced at the three men with profound demeanor, clasped his hands, and said, "Please forgive me, seniors. Our sect leader is away and has not returned. If you have any important matters to discuss, please leave a message, and I will convey it to you truthfully."

"Not here?" Yu Qian was slightly taken aback, then smiled and said, "It's alright, I'll visit again another day." He turned to leave, but seemed to sense something, and his gaze suddenly fixed on Fang Da'ao and Qu Xiaoyao under the eaves!

"what?"

A glint of light flashed in Yuqiang Daoist's eyes. He noticed that the two people seemed to have ordinary physiques at first glance, but upon closer inspection, they had a kind of "lingering charm" about them, like the afterglow of a heavenly bell.

"The lingering echoes of the Dao, the power of refinement?"

The Jade-Clad Daoist looked surprised and doubtful, then praised the two of them a couple of times before turning to leave, but in his heart, he became more and more certain...

"This Hidden Star Sect is definitely not as simple as it seems!"

The flying boat cut through the air, accompanied by a fierce wind.

Chen Qing stood at the bow of the boat, overlooking the mountains and rivers.

Bai Shaoyou maneuvered the flying boat in an arc, avoiding several places where spiritual energy fluctuated, all of which were places where the pressure emanated from the camps of major sects.

"hold head high--"

Suddenly, a horn-like roar resounded across the sea and sky!
Ahead on the sea, a hundred-foot-long warship, entirely crimson and shaped like a dragon, came into view!

A massive cannon pierced the bow, its deep muzzle subtly locking onto the flying boat!
"The Great Yan Zhenhai Division is stationed here! Entry is prohibited!"

A chilling sound echoed across the sea!
Bai Shaoyou held up the command token: "Bai Shaoyou of the Five Qi Pavilion, here to guide the cargo ship on the orders of my elders! The token is here; please grant me this favor, General!"

On the deck of the Crimson Dragon Warship, a general clad in crimson scale armor with a stern face descended on clouds. His gaze swept over the command token, then glanced at the flying boat, and said, "Inspected! Proceed to the outer perimeter, but not to approach within three hundred li of the gorge!"

"Thank you, General!" Bai Shaoyou cupped his hands in thanks. The flying boat accelerated again, passing by the side of the warship, and the strong wind it generated caused the runes on the ship's hull to flicker slightly.

After flying over the warship, Bai Shaoyou whispered to Chen Qing, "The checks are getting stricter and stricter! If it weren't for the fact that my family's merchant alliance has trade relations with various parties and has some influence, we probably wouldn't be able to move an inch!"

Chen Qing nodded slightly. If it weren't for this boy's company, he would have inevitably encountered a lot of trouble coming alone.

He was about to speak, but his gaze suddenly sharpened as he looked into the distance!
Where the sea meets the sky, the silhouette of a magnificent mountain, whose grandeur defies description, slowly emerges from the rolling clouds!

The mountain is formed by the interweaving of solidified starlight and broken spatial folds, with dilapidated buildings, broken rainbow bridges, and crumbling giant pillars appearing and disappearing in the distance!
Xuyuan Fuli!

The flying boat hovered above a relatively calm sea, still three hundred miles away from the massive mountain shadow.

"This is the best we can do." Bai Shaoyou sighed. "If we go any further, we will be surrounded and attacked. The chaotic power emanating from the mountain can also tear the flying boat apart."

Chen Qing nodded, his gaze piercing through the mist and landing on the vast ruins. The magnificent scene of radiant light and natural Daoist charm from his dream was still vivid in his mind, but now only broken walls and rubble remained.

A strange realization flowed through his mind, and the spiritual light of the Dao seed in his Niwan Palace flickered.

“The world changes in the blink of an eye.” He sighed. “In the past, this place was filled with the sounds of lanterns and flowing wine cups, celestial music, great masters discussing the Dao on the cloud platform, and mythical beasts offering fruit before the seats. Now, the lanterns have faded and the celestial music has turned to dust.”

With a soft sigh, Chen Qing raised his hand and formed a hand seal, revealing a point of starlight.

Star Forbidden Technique!

The faint power of the stars transformed into invisible ripples, spanning three hundred miles, reaching straight to the mountain's shadow!

"Om-"

The next instant, a faint yet distinct aura of shared origin pierced through the dust of time and suddenly responded! "It really is here!"

Millennia have passed, and the world has changed, yet this thing has truly not been erased!
This confirms many of Chen Qing's guesses and further proves the terrifying power of "The Record of the Great Void Dao" in turning the illusory into the real and transforming the false into the true!
However, the aura was too faint, and it was three hundred miles away...

His mind raced, the starlight of his destiny talisman surged, and his will transformed into an invisible fishing line, wrapping around that wisp of aura, attempting to forcibly seize it!
"boom!"

The dormant cloud miasma of Mount Xuyuan suddenly boiled over, and a violent force originating from the depths of the mountain surged back!

Chen Qing groaned, his face paling slightly, and the flying boat trembled violently.

"Whoohoo-"

On that distant mountain, clouds and mist surged!
"Where did Master Su place those things? It seems to have stirred up the remaining power of the entire sacred mountain?"

Sensing several sword lights flying up to investigate around the mountain, he suppressed his surging blood and weighed the pros and cons.

"Forcibly taking it might cause a great disturbance. If it alerts the Crimson Dragon Warship and cultivators from all sides, even if it succeeds, I will be exposed, which is tantamount to courting death!"

With a quick change of heart, Chen Qing made his decision.

"Courage and determination, and a do-or-die spirit, are certainly admirable! But being able to suppress greed and delusion, understand gains and losses, and know how to choose and give up is also a great courage! Since the Star-Stabilizing Pearl is still here, we can deal with it slowly in the future!"

With this thought in mind, he clenched his five fingers, and the starlight dissipated.

"Go back."

"Yes!" Although Bai Shaoyou didn't understand why, he turned the flying boat around, broke through the clouds, and sped towards Mingxia Mountain!

Soon, two sword lights flew in, turned in mid-air, and then left.

The speedboat sped along, and an hour later, it was less than a hundred miles from the South Bank coast.

suddenly!

"boom--"

A dull, deafening roar erupted from the deep sea in the south!

The entire sea surface was as if struck by an invisible giant fist, suddenly arching upwards for dozens of feet, transforming into a dark wall of water that blotted out the sky and the sun, carrying a destructive force, and crashing towards the coast like a tidal wave!
The fishing village houses along the coast appear as small as ants in the face of this awe-inspiring power!

"A natural disaster!?" Bai Shaoyou's face turned ashen as he struggled to control the flying boat, which was violently tossed about in the raging air currents.

"town!"

A cold, sharp shout rang out like a thunderclap!

On the distant sea, the runes on the Crimson Dragon Warship suddenly blazed brightly! The giant cannon at the bow rose, and deep within its muzzle, blazing white light condensed wildly, like the sun collapsing!
"boom!!!"

A crimson beam of light, thicker than a palace pillar, tore through the heavens and earth, piercing fiercely into the core of the water wall!
"laugh--"

The seawater instantly vaporized!

White mist billowed up like clouds!

The violent shockwave swept across the sea, splitting and flattening the subsequent surging waves!
The terrifying wall of water that could destroy cities and towns was mostly blasted apart by a single cannon shot! The remaining waves crashed against the shore, still destroying houses near the bank, but they had lost their overwhelming power!

The light from the runes flowing on the hull of the Crimson Dragon Warship had dimmed.

"That was close!" Bai Shaoyou exclaimed, still shaken. He looked up again and exclaimed, "The Crimson Dragon Cannon was so badly damaged after its full-force attack! This tsunami was definitely not a natural disaster!"

"Turbulent waves surged into the sky, and foul air billowed." Chen Qing gazed into the distance. "It seems something on the seabed has been forcibly detonated! There's a foul, malevolent aura mixed in with it!"

After the battle at Tianyantai, he became very sensitive to baleful energy.

The words have not yet been spoken!

"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

Several blinding crimson streaks of light shot into the sky from the Crimson Dragon Warship, heading towards Nanbin City and the surrounding areas!

One of the trails points directly to Mingxia Mountain!
"Keep up!" Chen Qing's gaze sharpened.

Bai Shaoyou immediately spurred his flying boat to chase after the crimson light that shot toward the mountain gate!
When the flying boat arrived at Mingxia Mountain, the crimson light was hanging above the mountain gate. It was a palm-sized crimson talisman, its body seemingly cast from red copper.

"Om-"

As Chen Qing stepped off the flying boat, the talisman's crimson light surged, then exploded with a deafening roar: "A sudden 'whirlpool' has appeared off the coast of Nanbin, and influenced by the magnetic field of Mount Xuyuan, the seabed is spewing forth filthy energy from the Netherworld, and demonic creatures are spawning, endangering the shipping lanes, spiritual veins, and the inhabitants along the coast! This is a catastrophe!"

"By the Great Yan Law! All sects and families registered within the territory of Nanbin, regardless of size, shall immediately dispatch their elite forces, bearing this warrant, to assemble at Black Reef Island within two hours! To await orders and jointly defend against the calamity!"

"Those who defy orders will be considered traitors! They will be punished afterward, and their property will be confiscated!"

After the sound transmission ended, the patterns on the talisman slightly writhed, revealing road signs.

　The second update is coming soon...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)