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Chapter 94: Chapter 94: Thunderfire Hidden Bamboo Cauldron, Peril at Hand

Buzz!

The Array Core Hall suddenly lit up with a rapid buzzing sound.

Chen Diling’s heart skipped a beat. He quickly focused his eyes on the array model, only to see that Zhang Huanzhi, who had just gone out, had returned:

”So, it’s Clan Leader Zhang.”

Chen Diling couldn’t help but sigh in relief.

Earlier, he had already contacted the Lady, and she must have persuaded Zhang Huanzhi to call off the action. Watching Zhang Huanzhi stride towards the Array Hall, Chen Diling was already mentally prepared to be scolded.

Ruined his plan.

At this time, Zhang Huanzhi was surely burning with anger.

Chen Diling immediately opened the grand hall’s array, personally went out to greet him, and from afar saluted:

”Clan Leader Zhang, keeping secrets and leaking information to the Lady was my... ”

Before he finished speaking.

He sensed something was wrong, only to see Zhang Huanzhi’s eyes were red and vacant, like a puppet, evidently his mind had been captured:

”Enemy attack!”

Chen Diling immediately sent a burst of True Qi from his dantian soaring into the sky, resounding over the entire Lake Heart Island.

Simultaneously.

Swiftly dodged to the side.

He saw the ground where he originally stood had been stained blood-red at some point, a Little Cyan Snake shot up from the ground. Had he not dodged in time, he likely would have died.

Along with Chen Diling’s angry shout.

Within Lake Heart Island.

Beams of Sword Light soared into the sky.

Nineteen other Qi Cultivation clan members from the Zhang Family immediately charged towards the Central Hall.

Chen Diling, moving at great speed, ran towards the Array Core. As long as he held the array, even a Foundation Establishment cultivator couldn’t take Niushou Mountain.

However.

Everything was already too late.

Before him, a black figure had already flashed in, only to see a massive black puppet of more than ten feet guarding the Array Hall’s door, accompanied by two whooshing sounds slicing through the air.

Two Profound Ropes, like Spiritual Snakes.

Rapidly entwining towards his legs.

While running, Chen Diling forcefully halted, waving his sleeve, a Thunderfire Hidden Bamboo Cauldron clinked, blocking the Profound Ropes outside.

At the same time.

As he injected techniques into the Thunderfire Hidden Bamboo Cauldron.

The cauldron roared.

Ferocious flames shot out, gathering in the air into a ten-foot-diameter Fireball, which seemed to have eyes and shot towards his left, colliding mid-air with the three-legged Golden Crow transformed by Fu Changsheng, accompanied by his cold snort:

”Explode!”

Boom!

The Fireball exploded.

A different kind of flame.

The Fireball contained traces of the power of thunder, and the three-legged Golden Crow was immediately shattered into starlike lights by this terrifying force.

Fu Changsheng squinted his eyes slightly.

Indeed.

To reach the Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer, every cultivator possesses a treasure for self-defense, he immediately turned to Molan and his fourth sister Changli, who were guarding the Array Hall, and said:

”Molan, you and the puppet guard the Array Hall. Fourth sister, you command the Bee King and Silver-Spotted Poison Snake to stop the Zhang Family cultivators from approaching.”

If the Array Hall is lost.

Today’s action would not only end in failure, but the three of them would also die.

Seeing Fu Changsheng’s appearance, noticing that he was only at the Qi Cultivation Eighth Layer, inferior to his own cultivation, Chen Diling relaxed slightly, but his eyes on the Blood Moon Divine Staff in Fu Changsheng’s hand became wary, and he immediately pointed the Thunderfire Hidden Bamboo Cauldron, with rolling thunderfire surging out and hovering over his head:

”So it’s you, Fu Clan Leader, face-to-face. There’s no life-death grudge between me and the Fu Family, my duty is merely to guard this Spirit Mountain. How about you release Clan Leader Zhang, and we call it a day?”

The Zhang Family’s Third Elder guarding the Soul Hall heard this and panicked:

”Elder Chen, don’t! That wretch Fu Changsheng’s Blood Moon Divine Staff is our Zhang Family’s Clan Treasure, our ancestor in the Ten Thousand Ghosts Abyss must have been harmed by this person. Please, Elder Chen, swiftly kill this one to comfort the ancestor’s spirit in heaven. Your desires for rewards will be generously fulfilled by our Zhang Family afterward!”

Centering on the Third Elder.

The ten Mid-Stage Qi Cultivators of the Zhang Family formed a Battle Array.

Their side now matched the strength of a Late-Stage Qi Cultivator.

As long as they fiercely charged into the Array Hall, with Chen Diling restraining Fu Changsheng, they’d have hope of taking the Array Hall. Once they seized the Array Hall, the tide would turn.

Therefore.

Chen Diling’s stance was crucial.

Fu Changsheng’s Divine Sense swept over the Thunderfire Hidden Bamboo Cauldron floating before Chen Diling, and saw the mysterious runes inside gradually lighting up, clearly stalling for time with rhetoric.

He immediately let out a cold laugh.

Holding the Celestial Thunder Sword, he slashed down towards Zhang Huanzhi, who was just about to regain consciousness.

”No!”

Accompanied by a scream.

Zhang Huanzhi was immediately split in two by the Celestial Thunder Sword:

”Clan Leader!”

The Zhang Family cultivators watched helplessly as their clan leader died right before them, all filled with grief and fury, they began recklessly charging towards the Array Hall under the Third Elder’s lead.

The Tier One Peak Puppet twirled its two Profound Ropes, creating nothing but afterimages.

Forming a Profound Rope wall in front of the Array Hall.

As soon as Zhang Family cultivators came close.

They’d be immediately smashed into pulp.

Inside the Array Hall.

Molan sat cross-legged.

The Dingying Divine Zither placed horizontally before her, her ten fingers continuously plucking.

The sound of the zither arose, like the clash of gold and iron, like waves crashing — each note turned into a Wind Blade, slashing towards the approaching Zhang Family cultivators.

For a moment.

The battle for the Array Hall became evenly matched.

On the other side.

Nine Early-Stage Qi Cultivators from the Zhang Family also formed the Three Talents Array, trapping Fu Changli within.

Fu Changli, confronting the enemy alone for the first time and being surrounded, felt tense at first, but quickly grasped the rhythm.

Using the Cyan Wolf Demon as her mount, she began guerrilla warfare.

Given the Cyan Wolf Demon’s tremendous speed, the Zhang Family cultivators forming the array couldn’t keep up, and as soon as they sped up, their formation immediately showed openings.

Fu Changli seized the moment, directing the Bee King to attack, the two Zhang Family cultivators in the Celestial Qian Position screamed and fell dead instantly, causing the array to loosen.

Fu Changli’s eyes lit up, and she quickly summoned dozens of Silver-Spotted Poison Snakes hidden underground, charging at the Zhang Family cultivators attempting to regroup.

The remaining seven Early-Stage Qi Cultivators from the Zhang Family engaged in battle with the Silver-Spotted Poison Snakes using techniques and Magical Artifacts, but the Three Talents Array had no chance to reform.

Fu Changli drove the Bee King to break them one by one, securing absolute superiority.

Chen Diling glanced over both battlefields.

His heart flashed with a trace of panic.

Never expected.

The three Fu Family cultivators hid so many tricks, any one sufficient to deal with a Qi Cultivation Ninth Layer high-tier cultivator, knowing that if he didn’t fight hard today, he’d surely die.

At this point, he held nothing back.

Striking his chest with one palm, blood sprayed out, landing in the Thunderfire Hidden Bamboo Cauldron.

The cauldron let out a gentle hum.

Then.

Dark Patterned Flying Bamboos flew into the air, seventy-six in total, spinning and condensing into a Seven Kill Array upon his entry of a technique.

Instantly entrapping Fu Changsheng within.