Chapter 6: Breaking the Manor
Gathering in one place, the heroes were quite enthusiastic. They were all cultivating in the land of Jingxiang. Although they didn't see each other often, they were all independent cultivators, naturally feeling close. They exchanged recent news and talked about what they had heard, which was very lively.
Liu Xiaolou had very few acquaintances, and he was young, so he didn't talk nonsense, just listened silently. Meeting the Heroic Assembly for the first time really opened his eyes, and he heard quite a few cultivation anecdotes.
After talking for a long time, the heroes began to count the various evil deeds of the Zhang family on Jinping Mountain.
Rogue cultivators were bullied too hard by righteous sects, and many had suffered great losses from the Zhang family. Either the spirit stones won by luck were confiscated by them, or the spirit materials extorted by setting up traps with cleverness were forcibly recovered by them, or the spirit elixirs snatched by cultivation were snatched back by them. They truly didn't give rogue cultivators any way to live. For a time, everyone was filled with righteous indignation.
Liu Xiaolou felt the same way listening, feeling indignant.
By dawn, everyone turned their eyes to the Zhang family manor in the mountain hollow, waiting for Wang Laoda's order.
The lights in other parts of the manor had dimmed slightly, but the central courtyard was still bright. That was the mourning hall of Zhang Xianbai, who had once been famous in Xiangnan. Everything was as usual, showing that the Zhang family was still completely unprepared.
After waiting for a while, a book invitation with double tails suddenly rose in the mountain valley, bursting into flames in the night sky, instantly illuminating the mountains.
Heroic Invitation!
Dai Shenggao rose to his full height and shouted loudly: "Gentlemen, follow me to charge the manor!" His figure leaped, jumping down from the cliff.
The heroes rushed out behind him. Everyone used their own methods, either climbing vines or stepping on mountain rocks, quickly falling to the bottom of the cliff. Liu Xiaolou also jumped down with the vine he had prepared earlier. A cliff more than ten feet high, he reached the bottom before long. At this moment, his mind was free of distracting thoughts, only the Zhang family manor ahead!
How much he could take depended entirely on himself!
From the mountain forests in all four directions, hundreds of figures rushed out simultaneously, shooting toward the Zhang family manor on the central mountain terrace. Some were robust and agile, some were as fast as thunder, some were as graceful as startled geese, and some were like tigers descending the mountain!
One Heroic Invitation gathered most of the heroes of Xiangnan and Western Hunan.
While running, Liu Xiaolou took out a black cloth from his bosom, put on his bamboo hat, covered his face, exerted force under his feet, and became even more agile. But no matter how fast he was, he was just a young man who had just left the sect, not as fast as the heroes of Wulong Mountain. These seniors were also masked in black, or wearing bamboo hats, or wearing soft caps, even covering their hair buns tightly, rushing toward the manor like crazy.
Having been famished in the mountains for so long, if they didn't fight for it now, when would they?
Such a commotion naturally alarmed the Zhang family members in the manor. Although Zhang Xianbai was dead, there were still many cultivation experts in the clan. If it weren't for Wang Laoda summoning heroes from all sides to gather here with the Heroic Invitation, there really wouldn't be many people who would dare to touch the Zhang family's tiger whiskers.
The manor immediately sounded a golden gong, and someone shouted: "Where do these petty thieves come from? Are you looking for death?"
In the mud surrounding the manor, countless green vines suddenly sprouted, dense green vines intertwined with each other, growing rapidly upward, forming a vine wall that grew higher and higher, one foot, three feet, five feet...
At the same time, a few vines had already bloomed and borne fruit, the fruits exploded, shooting out scattered arrows, arrows like shooting stars!
Attacked at night, the manor activated the guardian array, which consumed a lot but also had the ultimate protective effect!
The array formation must be prevented from taking shape, otherwise, the difficulty of wanting to rush in would be many times greater.
Dai Shenggao, who was rushing in front, took the lead, and rays of light flew toward the growing vine wall, igniting flames on the vine wall. Unfortunately, the effect was poor, better than nothing.
The heroes also danced their shields, iron hammers, and axes to block the arrows shooting in, but the arrows shot by the manor's guardian array had great power and would often explode into shooting star flames. The various protective spells of the Wulong Mountain heroes collapsed at a touch, and it was difficult to achieve good results.
Liu Xiaolou's cultivation was low, and he fell to the back, also drawing his sect's Three Mystical Sword, dancing sword flowers above his head. These sword flowers were just psychological comfort. Fortunately, the arrows were sparse, and there were heroes in front to cover him, so none were shot at him. If he were truly shot by such a high-power arrow array, he absolutely couldn't block it.
At the same time, heroes from Mengdong River, the Raft Sect, the Yunshan Gang, and even local magnates of Xiangnan arrived from all directions, various colored flames bloomed on the vine wall, various magic artifacts circled and intersected in the night sky, and countless shouts rose one after another:
"Brothers, charge!"
"Rush into the manor and take what you need!"
"The Jinping Shanzhuang is the wealthiest in Xiangnan, with hundreds of spirit stones piled in the treasury..."
"And the Foundation Establishment Pills of the Dongyang Sect!"
"Really or fake?"
"Whoever grabs it first belongs to them, Wang Laoda doesn't take a cut!"
"Damn array..."
"Oh no, shot by an arrow, who will pull a brother?"
"Damn it, you hit me..."
"I am a hero of the Raft Sect..."
"Stupid bird, don't shout blindly!"
The Raft Sect had many people and many experts, even led by two great experts at Qi Refinement Stage 10. They were the first to rush to the vine wall from the east, but were blocked by the vine wall that had grown to a height of a foot. When they jumped up, they were shot down by arrows that were becoming increasingly dense. For a time, wailing was endless.
Suddenly, light shone brightly, and the mountains were as bright as day. Liu Xiaolou was dazzled and subconsciously closed his eyes, and his pace slowed down.
After a few breaths, the rumbling sound reached his ears, shaking him dizzy and almost causing him to fall.
After a while, everything returned to normal, and when he opened his eyes, it was pitch black again, feeling even darker than just now, unable to see his fingers.
But in his ears came even crazier shouts:
"The array is broken! The array is broken!"
"Wang Laoda has good methods!"
"Kill! The Zhang family occupies Jinping Mountain, not giving brothers a way to cultivate, today grab his mother!"
"Rush to the mourning hall! Open the coffin and take the funeral objects..."
"Is the coffin so easy to open? Stupid bird! Find the treasury!"
"Shut up, you are the stupid bird!"
"Where is the treasury? Who knows where the treasury is?"
"Don't shout blindly, follow me!"
"The point is tricky, brothers come here..."
"Help! Come quickly for help!"
Rushing to the front certainly had greater risks, but the harvest was more. Falling to the back was safe, but it was easy to run for nothing. This choice between the two depended on one's own choice.
Liu Xiaolou's cultivation was too low, and he was stunned by the means of breaking the manor just now. It was not easy to return to normal, and he couldn't talk about any choice, having already fallen to the back, so he hurriedly followed the sound to charge the manor.
Fires had already started in the manor. Under the guidance of the fire, Liu Xiaolou found the place where the array was broken: a large opening more than two feet wide, the broken vine walls on both sides were still wriggling and growing, trying to heal the opening, but were blocked by a layer of purple-white phosphorus light attached to it, growing as much as it was burned.
Such means were not something Liu Xiaolou could speculate. Only Wang Laoda could toss out such a commotion, which was also his reliance for issuing the Heroic Invitation widely.
Fires were everywhere in the manor, and there were figures rushing around everywhere. The sound of magic artifacts colliding, the sound of spells being cast, and the sound of houses collapsing rose one after another, making people dizzy.
Fires broke out all over the manor, and everywhere there were figures darting back and forth. The sounds of magic treasures clashing, spells being cast, and houses collapsing rose one after another, leaving one dizzy and overwhelmed.
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