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The entire city of Zhongdu was shaking violently. Buildings collapsed in huge swathes, dust rose everywhere, and the scene looked like the arrival of the apocalypse.
Even those who hadn't been clear on the situation realized that this place was no longer safe.
The experts from the Eight Great Families and Yang Kai's Manor all erupted with one hundred and twenty percent of their strength, launching fierce attacks against Yang Bai, attempting to disrupt his movements. Unfortunately, the six Evil Kings were tightly guarding him. Without breaking through the six Evil Kings' defense, there was no way to inflict any real damage on Yang Bai.
Among the six Evil Kings, aside from Shan Qingluo, the remaining five were all at the second layer of the Transcendent Realm. Shadow King and Strength King had already reached the absolute limit of the second layer. Disregarding their own safety, they were fighting to the death to protect Yang Bai, their defense as solid as an iron fortress.
Shan Qingluo's beautiful eyes flashed with an unusual light. Suddenly, the mysterious-grade Artifact, the Qingluo Fan, appeared in her delicate hand. True Yuan surged into it, and specks of fluorescent light scattered outward.
The lifelike portraits of beautiful women painted on the Qingluo Fan seemed to come alive, flying off the surface of the fan one by one. Each embodied the most wanton instincts—flirting and posing seductively, clothing half-removed, revealing large swaths of tempting skin.
Waves of whispered murmurs echoed between heaven and earth, seemingly capable of awakening the deepest desires within everyone's heart, turning them into beasts in heat.
This mysterious-grade Artifact had been passed down through generations of the Enchantress Queen lineage. Combined with the boundless charm techniques of the Enchantress Queen, few could withstand it.
Even Transcendent Realm experts would momentarily lose their wits and be drawn into a tender paradise from which they couldn't extricate themselves.
And the power Shan Qingluo was now unleashing with the Qingluo Fan was aimed at the five Evil Kings and Yang Bai.
The most simple-minded of them all, Strength King, saw his eyes instantly redden, his breathing turned heavy and ragged, and the lower part of his body swelled prominently upward, like a tent pitched beneath his robes.
The other four Evil Kings frowned deeply, clearly somewhat affected as well.
"Slut!" Strength King suddenly snapped back to awareness. Because his mind was so simple, he fell under the spell quickly but also broke free of Shan Qingluo's charm just as fast. With a furious roar, he threw a devastating punch at Shan Qingluo.
The Enchantress Queen's beautiful face went pale with alarm. Not daring to block, she hastily retreated, but half of her slender body was still grazed by the explosive force of Strength King's punch. She let out a shrill cry and plummeted toward the ground.
Yang Bai stared at Shan Qingluo with an expressionless face, shaking his head. "Qingluo, you've disappointed me. So this is your choice?"
Shan Qingluo's expression remained calm as she allowed her body to continue falling. She said softly, "I told you—I'm already his woman! Naturally, I won't help you fight against him!"
"You'll regret this." Yang Bai sighed lightly. "The pinnacle of the martial path—it truly is lonely at the top."
Even as he spoke, his hands never stopped moving.
Several experts from the Eight Great Families tried to pursue Shan Qingluo and take her life directly, but Tang Yuxian reached her first.
The Blood Servants all knew of the subtle relationship between Yang Kai and Shan Qingluo, so naturally they wouldn't make things difficult for her. Tang Yuxian's pursuit was simply an attempt to rescue Shan Qingluo.
Seeing Tang Yuxian catch the Enchantress Queen, Yang Kai finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh……
Enormous streams of energy suddenly burst upward from underground. These energy flows were far more massive than anyone had imagined—each one so dense it was visible to the naked eye, like pillars of light erupting from the earth, covering the entire city of Zhongdu.
Seen from above, the now chaotic and fragmented city of Zhongdu was illuminated by pillar after pillar of light reaching straight into the sky. From these pillars radiated energy so terrifying it made one's blood run cold.
Yang Bai let out a hearty laugh, his figure flickering as he casually chose one of the light pillars and dove straight down into it. In moments he had vanished without a trace, leaving only the five Evil Kings still fighting desperately in place.
"There really is a ley line!" Yang Yinghao exclaimed in shock.
Seeing this scene unfold before them, the old patriarchs of the Eight Great Families immediately understood that the records in their family archives were not mere fabrication. Beneath the city of Zhongdu, there truly was a massive ley line.
And now, this ley line had been located by Yang Bai using his own methods.
"No matter what he intends to do with the ley line, we cannot let him have his way!" Yang Yinghao's expression turned grim. After speaking, he and the other seven patriarchs followed after Yang Bai, choosing the nearest light pillar and rushing into the depths of the earth along its source.
Yang Kai frowned slightly. "Let's go take a look too."
The Earth Demon hurriedly followed.
Yang Kai's Manor.
Meng Wuya, who had been stationed at Yang Kai's Manor maintaining the Celestial Journey Palace and protecting Yang Kai's rear base all along, suddenly looked delighted and excited. His figure flickered as he rose into the air, gazing at the scene of the devastated yet energy-abundant city of Zhongdu. Joy burst forth from between his brows as he cried out in astonishment, "A ley line!"
He froze for a moment, then suddenly burst into hearty laughter. "What a case of searching a thousand miles in vain, only to find it right under our noses without any effort! Ningshang, come with your master—it's time for me to undo the first seal!"
Xia Ningshang's spirit lifted upon hearing this, and she nodded eagerly.
Since childhood, she had been taken in and raised by Meng Wuya, who had devoted tremendous effort to her cultivation for the sole purpose of one day finding the opportunity to break the shackles and seals on his body.
Xia Ningshang also knew that to undo Meng Wuya's first seal, a massive, continuous, and inexhaustible supply of energy was required. Regardless of the source, as long as the quantity was sufficient, she could use her special physique, taking Meng Wuya's body as a furnace and those energies as the source material, to refine away the first seal.
Using a person as a furnace for alchemical refinement—this was something only someone with the Medicine Spirit Sacred Physique could accomplish.
Master and disciple likewise chose a nearby light pillar, and under Meng Wuya's protection, descended into the underground.
Above, in the city of Zhongdu, the experts of the Eight Great Families and Yang Kai's Manor were still hunting down the martial artists of the Azure Cloud Evil Land. The invaders had suffered countless casualties, with only about a hundred remaining, along with a few demon beasts clinging to their last breaths.
Though the five Evil Kings still had the strength to fight, surrounded by dozens of Transcendent Realm experts, they had no path to the sky and no door to the earth. All that remained was to wait for them to exhaust their strength, and then they could be killed.