The calm ground and the forest were caressed by the wind. After a moment, thick white fog blew, and the ground began to shake violently. Then it bulged high, and the forest rose to both sides, tilted and fell with a piece of mud.
Boom—
In the thick white fog, hundreds of huge long shadows were tumbling underground, sometimes rising up and breaking out of the ground, and then quickly drilling back into the soil. Under the gradually emerging silver light of the stars and the moon, the winding and undulating long shadows showed countless corpses twisting on them, with their mouths open and a buzzing wail of death.
"Lu~Liang~sheng~"
"Lu~Yuan~"
The overlapping sounds echoed through the fog and turned into thunder that spread to all corners of the world. The surrounding hillsides were shaking slightly at the sound. The fleeing beasts ran in panic. Those who were slower or too late left long scratches on the ground with their claws, howling and screaming as they were dragged into the fog invisibly and merged with the huge black shadows.
In a distant mountain village, people gathered at the entrance of the village, looking at the white fog floating across a hilltop and the outline of a floating mountain that appeared and disappeared from time to time, and they couldn't help but shiver.
"Is this... a mountain?" "It must be a monster from the mountain..."
"Oh my god, go back to the house, the monster is coming!"
At the crowded village entrance, young and old were huddled together. Someone shouted, and they turned around and squeezed back into the village, scaring the others to run around. However, at this moment, a man with a thick beard and tiger eyes, carrying a wooden box on his back, stepped over the shoulders of the crowd, moved to the front, and stopped them with open arms.
"Don't go back, leave now!"
He slapped the wooden box with his hand, and sword lights flew out, scaring people and forcing the villagers to retreat. At this time, another person holding a long knife appeared on the side, swinging the blade in the opposite direction of the white fog.
"Go this way. My companions and I will escort all the villagers away!"
Just as the villagers followed the two men down the mountain with doubt, thick white fog spread to the edge of the mountain village. In the distant night sky, two rays of light, one yellow and one purple, rose into the darkness, turned into streams of light, tore through the white fog and crashed into it. There was a loud bang, causing Yan Chixia, Zuo Zhengyang, and the villagers to look back. The next moment, a majestic wave of air shot over, blowing away the grass, trees, and ground one by one. The two men each used their magic power to block the crowd, and their entire bodies were pushed backwards, leaving a gully.
A few miles away in the night sky, the outline of the mountain that was slowly floating forward suddenly stopped. In front of it, two relatively tiny yellow and purple lights pressed against it. The cut mist extended over, and two figures, one on the left and one on the right, pressed one hand against the cliff of the mountain. Dense cracks spread from the palm of the hand, peeling off and splashing inch by inch. However, dense corpses were revealed inside, wriggling, and they all opened their eyes, lighting up red light. The next moment, Toad Taoist and Gongsun Liao used the force to bounce away and dodge. Countless tiny red light beams shot out, interweaving into a large net in the night sky.
"Except that it's a little bigger, nothing special..."
"Gongsun, don't be distracted!!"
Taoist Zixing let go of the intertwined red light, his beard swaying slightly in the wind, and glanced sideways at the Wolf King. In his peripheral vision, white mist suddenly surged, and a long shadow rushed out of the mist, sweeping towards him with a whistling sound in the wind.
Bang!
The wide sleeves were swung horizontally, and the fat white arm blocked it. The Taoist Zixing pressed a dead face in the tentacles with his backhand. There was a loud "bang" in his palm, and the purple air exploded. Under the inertia of the huge tentacles, it bent and broke in the middle. The densely packed corpses inside were scattered like raindrops into the mist below. The broken part was still waving with red light, which flashed in the toad's eyes and shrank back into the "mountain".
"You want to act arrogantly in front of me? Before you came, I was invincible for more than a hundred years, but you know how powerful I am!"
"Purple Star Demon Dao!"
Thick fog rolled, and the outline of the "mountain" was revealed. The sound overlapped, and the majesty was like a huge bell echoing between heaven and earth. The next moment, a huge wind roared, and the entire mountain flew over. The Toad Taoist, who had rolled up his sleeves and his hands behind his back, and his belly was sticking out, raised his head and spoke. Looking at the rolling fog, the mountain was like a wall that was pushed in front of him in an instant. He sighed twice, "... You are a scoundrel. You didn't wait for me to finish..."
With a bang, the Toad Taoist lay sprawled on the ground, being pushed forward. The flying mountain brought up a strong wind, which carried Gongsun Liao, who was entangled by several tentacles, towards Chang'an. The stirred up strong wind tore through the forests and fields on the mountainside below. Pieces of trees and empty villages were broken in an instant and razed to the ground, plowing out a white land a hundred feet wide that stretched forward.
The majestic demonic aura and corpse aura shook the entire world. The huge mountains floating in the air and the diffused demonic fog could be vaguely seen thousands of miles away, as if the demon star had fallen to the earth that year.
The villages and towns that were not in the direction of the evil star's passing were also blown down by the wind and waves. The thick fog in the distance occupied their sight, occupying the bright stars and the moon in the night sky, as well as the Taoist who had just arrived at Chengyun Mountain in the distant northern mountains, standing on the peak and looking back.
"Yunji!! Old man!!!"
Sun Yingxian took a look, opened his voice, turned around and ran into the mountain gate, roaring loudly. Hearing the noise, or sensing the majestic demonic energy, the Chengyun Sect members came out one after another, some standing in the yin-yang figure on the square, and some gathering at the caves around the big "road" on the mountain wall.
In the nearest attic, Taoist Yunji came out with a sword in his hand. He ignored Sun Yingxian who ran towards him and looked at the mist rising faintly in the night sky outside the mountain with cloudy eyes. When the Taoist finished speaking, Yunji pushed him away and strode towards the mountain gate with unspeakable anger in his beard.
"Chengyun Sect members, listen up, demons are showing up, and we cultivators cannot stand by and watch..."
With a clang, Yun Ji drew out the magic sword in his hand, threw the sword into the air, jumped up, grasped the hilt, and stirred up wind and thunder.
"Everyone follow me to exorcise the demon—"
The decisive words spread majestically and turned into a stream of light and flew into the sky. Before people could even catch their breath, they ran below, waving and shouting.
“Wait for me!!”
In an instant, the mountain wall behind him with the word "Tao" engraved on it, as well as the yin-yang pattern on the square, became brighter and brighter. The figure holding the magic sword rose into the sky like a meteor, turned into a galaxy that spread into the night and flew towards the southwest.
In the pitch-black night, the demonic aura that spread in all directions alarmed many people who were practicing in seclusion. Some of them saw the magical lights flying in the sky, and they all looked in the direction where the demonic aura was spreading and chased after it overnight.
The bright stars and the full moon gradually disappeared from sight, replaced by thick fog, in which were dragged the mountain by huge tentacles that were waving and drilling into the ground.
Boom—
The sound that was not thunder became louder, and the mountain floating in the sky and the evil fog was approaching the distant city wall at a very fast speed. The terrifying mountain and its tentacles waving in the fog were exposed to the sight of everyone on the city wall and the streets in the city.
Upon receiving the news, Yang Guang took his soldiers and stood on the wall of the imperial city. Looking at the mountains that seemed to connect heaven and earth, he clenched his teeth and tried hard not to tremble.
"The gods in heaven want to destroy our Great Sui Dynasty, and even these demons dislike our Great Sui Dynasty... How can I let you do what you want!!"
He drew the sword from his waist and slashed the wall with the tip of the sword.
"Pass on my order and gather the troops to prepare for any eventuality! If necessary..." He looked in the direction of the Hibiscus Pond and uttered his last words.
"I coexist with the country!"
Behind him, Li Yuan, Li Shimin, Yang Lin, Ding Yanping, Yu Juluo, Shi Wansui, Yuwen Chengdu... one by one held weapons, bowed, and shouted in unison.
"yes!"
The sound was carried far away by the night wind.
The city was brightly lit, and the long street was filled with a noisy and bustling voice. On the bank of the Hibiscus Pond in Quchifang in the southeast, Lu Liangsheng stood on the Fengshen Platform, his jet-black Qilin cloak fluttering in the wind. His lips were parted between his fluttering hair and beard, and his fingers formed a spell.
"The dragon returns to the water prison! The moon returns to the mountain prison! The heroic spirit enters the Seven Kills!"
"—Form a formation!"
Three rays of light shot towards the sky above the city, one flew to the Jing River and the Wei River, two flew to Mount Li, and the last one fell on the Fengshen Terrace. The three formations were connected, and spiritual energy surged.