Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1569: Chapter 971: The Great Melee

The sky grew ever darker, an indistinguishable blend of night and day.

“It’s coming!”

Yang Zhenshan raised his eyebrows and spoke.

In the next moment, the pitch-black sky first split open with a pale purple and white arc of light, with five kinds of halos spreading like ink stains upon it, like a piece of crumpled colorful satin descending from the Void. As the arc descended closer to the ground, the outlines of layered mountains emerged from the clouds, and glowing bands flickered between peaks and valleys, as if the Giant Spirit God were sketching a map with stars.​

Earth, water, wind, and fire rotated within the rift; countless streams of light burst forth like arrows leaving the strings, shooting in all directions, distorting heaven and earth. Bands of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet danced everywhere, as though the world was once again mixing elemental paints.​

That was the Spiritual Energy from the Sun Cave Heaven pouring into the main world through the Void Rift.

A tangible and immeasurable Spiritual Energy.

As the first rift opened, countless arcs of light appeared on the gloomy sky, the Grotto Heaven fell, and the outer layer of void of the main world’s barrier was compressed, creating a multitude of cracks.

Watching the cracks appear, the cultivators hidden among the mountains tore through the air, soaring into the sky.

The mixed light bands were shattered by hundreds and thousands of figures, with rainbow lights and magical treasures colliding, and cries of anger and curses intertwined.

Yang Zhenshan already saw someone entering the rift, and it was more than one.

His eyes narrowed slightly, as he casually gathered up the Array Plate and surrounding Array Flags.

“Go!”

With that, he paid no other heed and rushed directly toward the nearest rift.

Before they even reached the rift, a streak of rainbow light shot towards them.

Yang Zhenshan squinted slightly, murmuring softly, “Yun Xiao!”

Yun Xiao immediately understood, and a cloud-white Flying Sword shot out, shattering the incoming rainbow light directly.

Yang Zhenshan looked at the three figures ahead; the rainbow light just now was released by them, with the obvious intent of delaying their entry into the Grotto Heaven.

He attempted to connect with the Spirit Source Land, sensing and being able to enter it, yet just as he tried to use it for teleportation, he abruptly felt a pulling force.

This was the spatial pulling force brought by the Void Rift.

Yang Zhenshan quickly abandoned the idea of teleportation.

“Sure enough, it can’t be used! If used, there’s a good chance of being sent into the Void!”

He pondered silently, dismissing the thought of retaliating against the three in front.

Being sent into the Void is no laughing matter; the Void is an endless domain where entering could likely lead to getting lost.

A Golden Core Cultivator can walk in the void and enter the Void for a short time, but for a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, entering the Void leads only to death.

Yang Zhenshan should not die because he can return to the Spirit Source Land from the Void, but returning here from the Spirit Source Land again may be tricky.

At this moment, Yang Zhenshan had no time to spare and led the three towards the Void Rift. In the blink of an eye, they arrived in front of the Void Rift, and without any hesitation, the four plunged straight in.

The world suddenly faded into a black-and-white silent film: a surging sea of flames reduced to blocks of light and dark, flying Crystal Stones stretched into silver lines, as if everything had been pressed into slow motion, with limbs contorting into bizarre geometric shapes.​

Yang Zhenshan felt his thoughts dull, and everything in sight began to stretch, distort, and finally collapse into black-and-white streaming light, converging towards a distant gleam.

The gleam grew brighter, faintly revealing mountains and vast earth—not descending but the entire Grotto Heaven forcibly overlaying the current world, remolding earth, water, fire, and wind to its own rules.

The ground beneath suddenly went empty, and a sense of weightlessness gushed in like a tide. When he looked up, the once-collapsed black-and-white streaming light had gathered above into a boundless starry sky.

Not an ordinary indigo night, but the entire dome seemed to be flowing with gold and red stardust, every star trailing a comet-like glow, as if a spilled molten gold furnace rained down sparks on the world.​

The Cloud Sea rolled beneath, yet not the familiar milky white mist. The layers of cloud waves shimmered with a crimson radiance.

Yang Zhenshan quickly steadied his stance, as he swept his sleeves, mobilizing mana to grab the falling Hong Fuxiu and Kou Ta.

“Pill Master Yang!” The two seemed slightly bewildered.

“Are you okay?” Yang Zhenshan asked.

Kou Ta shook his head, “I’m fine!”

Hong Fuxiu also steadied her posture, controlling her mana to maintain levitation, “We are actually in the sky!”

At this moment, Yun Xiao also flew over.

The four gazed through the crimson Cloud Sea below, the land before them a fiery red forest, and in the distant southeast, a fiery red mountain sea.

Indeed, it was a fiery red color, as if it were Flame Mountain.

“The Fire Attribute Spiritual Energy here is exceptionally dense!” Yun Xiao said.

Yang Zhenshan extended his Spiritual Sense, glancing at the nearby forest, remarking, “This place is not suitable for a long stay! Let’s go over there!”

This was the point of connection to the Void Rift, where anyone entering would appear nearby.

The more people, the more disputes, which could erupt into meaningless battles at any time.

Everyone just got here and had not gained anything yet; fighting with others now has no point.

The four plunged into the forest below, and in the blink of an eye, their figures vanished without a trace, even their aura became nearly undetectable.

And just as they disappeared, waves of mana fluctuations erupted around, with many cultivators falling into chaos.

In fact, most understood the rationale behind not fighting now, but since everyone entered through the same Void Rift, they were almost all in the same position.