"Next year!"
Dong Ling clenched her fists slightly, her gaze resolute.
This ti, she got the chance to advance, and she’s just waiting for the sa day next year. When she enters the City of the Living Bodhisattva again, she hopes to use this stepping stone to jump onto the Four-hill Mountain and see Supre Master Mu Ling once more.
"Let’s go."
The two headed west, soaring through the sky, but not towards the inter-region teleportation portal, instead they were heading to the Sacred Mountain.
The Sacred Mountain, also known as Watching Life Mountain, is located to the west of the City of the Living Bodhisattva, so high it reaches the clouds, serving as the best vantage point.
Here, overlooking from a high place, as long as one’s sword observation thod is good enough, one can capture the entirety of the vast City of the Living Bodhisattva, which spans a half-boundary land.
Every Spiritual Cultivator entering the City of the Living Bodhisattva would co to the Sacred Mountain to take a look after coming out, leaving poems or paintings, or experiencing so form of Dao enlightennt.
It’s true that soone here, seeing a single grain of sand, managed to overshadow Sky City, picking a leaf of green to view life, and subsequently broke through to sanctification, leaving behind the legend of "Watching the Sacred."
"Magnificent."
Dong Ling stood in an uninhabited spot on Sacred Mountain.
It wasn’t her first ti seeing this, yet each ti she was stunned by it.
Floating clouds swirled around, immortal mists were ethereal, the City of the Living Bodhisattva certainly a place of spiritual beauty, worthy of being one of the paradisiacal places of the five regions.
Shi Ti stood on a rock, looking back, equally moved by the landscape from decades ago.
Yet comparatively, having experienced the vicissitudes of life and the fickleness of ti, he sobered up quickly, pondering the disasters brought by the Ancestral Gods that had spread across the five regions, leaving only lancholy:
"The prosperities of the world, is but a fleeting glimpse. May the City of the Living Bodhisattva be spared from calamity..."
Buzz!
The Sacred Mountain quivered, as if the world itself had too.
"Did the mountain shake?"
"I don’t think so?"
"It seems like it did..."
"An illusion?"
The two exchanged a glance, their brows furrowing. They looked back at the City of the Living Bodhisattva, their pupils suddenly dilating.
Outside the giant city, suddenly black light shot up from beneath the earth, surging skyward, encompassing the vast endless City of the Living Bodhisattva.
With a thunderous sound, the City Guarding Array lit up instantly, the powers of demi-saint and Holy Emperor flickered sequentially, and within a mont it was elevated to the highest level.
Yet after just a blink, the skyward black light transford into a gigantic Taotie beast with skin and flesh tinged in blood, its head resembling that of a fierce dog, terrifying and nacing.
The blood-red mouth opened wide, its Fangs clicked shut, and the City Guarding Array shattered instantly, the saints within the city rose in unison, using all their strength, yet it was like ancient ants shaking a tree, the Magic Dog unmoved in the slightest.
"Boom!"
With one bite, it swallowed it down.
The blood-colored Magic Dog descended back into the abyss.
It ca swiftly, and left swiftly, as if completing a trivial task, yet...
"Gulp!"
Shi Ti’s Adam’s apple bobbed, he drew a cold breath lightly.
He shook his head, wanting to curl the corners of his mouth to say sothing. When his lips opened, only trembling remained, a mad trembling.
He closed his mouth, blinked hard, and upon reopening his eyes, there was nothing but a pale pallor across his face.
He rubbed his eyes again, scraping his eye sockets continuously, disbelieving as he checked a third ti, causing him to tremble violently, cold sweat soaking his back directly.
"The City of the Living Bodhisattva, is gone..."
Dong Ling’s eyeballs nearly jumped out of their sockets, her entire body trembling in terror.
One breath before, the city was grand and eternal.
One breath after, the city vanished, a fleeting illusion.
Looking again, from Sacred Mountain below, the Dao was indeed severed, never mind the city, not even a brick or tile was left, only a vast "blackness" and "void" remained.
"Just like that, it’s gone?!"
Shi Ti’s scalp exploded, holding his head in disbelief.
This was a hundred tis more severe... a ten thousand tis? A billion tis more severe than the Pill Pagoda being blown up?
No!
This couldn’t even compare!
World slipping into chaos, how could it affect the City of the Living Bodhisattva, what has happened?
It could only be the Ancestral God waging battle again!
Nights ago, the battle of the Ancestral God felt unrelated to the base-level Spiritual Cultivators.
Unexpectedly it’s intimately related, if they walked half a step slower today, or stayed in the city for another night as Elder Zhao said...
Shi Ti’s teeth ached from fright, his legs and feet losing their energy.
How, how is this...
This can’t even be described in words, is this truth, or illusion?
"Is this a dream?" Shi Ti froze, pinching his thigh’s flesh.
"Stop pinching, run!" Dong Ling grabbed Shi Ti, fleeing wildly into the distance, spitting out blood essence, not daring to look back.
"Don’t panic, don’t panic, President Dong Ling, I can’t breathe, give a mont..."
"Stop talking, old man!"
"President Dong Ling, where... are we going?"
"Four-hill Mountain! We can only go to Four-hill Mountain! The inter-region array is no longer safe!"
"Don’t rush, don’t rush, President Dong Ling, take your ti..."
Shi Ti had seen big scenes, and he still had Sang Qiye’s note warding off evil and keeping peace on him.
He firmly believed "bad luck doesn’t kill, surely there’s future fortune".
It was then, from behind ca a heart-wrenching roar:
"Curse! Yin!!!"
Wow...
Shi Ti’s pupils shrank, taking a deep breath, shrieking shrilly:
"President Dong Ling, can you please go a bit faster!"
"Shut up, you old fool, this is the fastest, don’t interfere with my performance!" Dong Ling had already used the Blood Escape.
Yet...
How can anyone be as fast as an Ancestral God?
Above the black hole behind them, a huge opening suddenly split, instantly spreading across the sky, catching up above Dong Ling.
Like a spider breaking an egg, countless roots sprouted from within, creeping in all directions of the sky, and then took root.
"The world..."
"What?"
"President Dong Ling, the extradinsional space world, have you ever seen it..."
"Shut up!"
Shi Ti, having lived a lifeti, had never dared getting close to extradinsional space, nor seen such a thing co to life.
It’s said it usually cos with ghost beasts, starting at the Sovereign Dao Realm, needing the Red Coat to suppress.
Yet this ti, he didn’t see ghost beasts, but his eyes shone brightly, as if seeing the object he desired most in his life.
"President Dong Ling!"
"What?"
"The Ashvattha divine tree! Heavenly fla!"
"Ah?"
"Heavenly fla, lots of heavenly flas, one, two, three... So beautiful! Wait, wait, they’re all coming down!"
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