Chapter 405

Tong Bo's face darkened as he looked at the three and explained,

"Although the Tong clan is the strongest within Water Moon Grotto-Heaven, we actually don't know where the core is…"

"How could that be?"

Zhang Daoling raised an eyebrow,

"Could it be that the core is not under your control?"

"Yes…"

Tong Bo sighed and slowly explained.

It turned out the core of Water Moon Grotto-Heaven was nothing else but a Broken-level treasure — the Spirit Mirror.

But five hundred years ago, General Long Teng, in order to defeat Yin Zhong, had used the Spirit Mirror.

This caused the Spirit Mirror to petrify, and its whereabouts were now unknown.

"So that's how it is…"

Zhang Daoling and the other two exchanged glances — this mission was indeed not easy to complete!

"Damnable…"

Just as Tong Bo finished speaking, a violent, furious roar suddenly rang out.

A patch of dark clouds drifted across the sky, and the next moment a black dragon descended from the heavens.

"Yin Zhong…"

The moment Senior Dugu Qiubai and the other two saw this black dragon, they immediately understood who had come.

A person who could transform into a black dragon — leaving everything else aside, the three were already curious.

Moreover, such an extraordinary technique — if they could obtain it,

and bring it back to present to the Great Dragon Head, it would surely be a very fine merit.

The three, as if by unspoken agreement, each unleashed their ultimate move.

Sword Twenty-Three!

Five Thunder Heaven Heart Art!

All Things May Be Swords!

Yin Zhong had been wounded for five hundred years, constantly tormented by the injuries inflicted by the Spirit Mirror.

He had been hiding in Sword-Riding Shanzhuang, and what he wanted most was to find the Spirit Mirror and heal his injuries.

He never expected that today, from Tong Bo's mouth, he would learn that the Spirit Mirror had long been missing!

How could this not enrage him — and so he ceased to hide any longer.

He only wanted to kill the people of the Tong clan to vent his fury.

At this moment, as Senior Dugu Qiubai and the other two attacked, he was utterly unafraid, and directly unleashed the full power of his entire being.

"This is… late-stage Mythical Realm?"

Once his aura spread out, Senior Dugu Qiubai and the other two immediately perceived Yin Zhong's true strength.

Although compared to Ximen Wudi, he was far inferior.

Yet such strength, throughout all the Nine Provinces, was probably possessed by very few!

"Since you block my path, then die together with these two Tong-clan brats!"

In his fury, Yin Zhong disregarded his injuries and directly mobilized his full power.

To counter the three's ultimate moves, he also directly called upon the Tong clan's divine techniques!

243 — Mythical-level battle!

The Tong clan's inheritance could, in fact, be traced back to the most ancient of times.

Members of this clan were born with extraordinary innate gifts; even newborn infants could, like terrestrial immortals, commune with the primordial forces of heaven and earth.

Growing slightly older and learning the Tong clan's secretly transmitted spells, they could, beginning from the Innate level, manipulate the primordial forces of heaven and earth for their own use.

Yin Zhong — his original name was Tong Yinzhong!

Reading the Tong clan's records, he learned that in the past, a member of the Tong clan had reached above Broken and attained the Divine Dao!

The method was to combine the Tong clan's secret divine techniques with the Dragon God clan's Dragon God Art!

Therefore, he did not hesitate to violate clan rules and cultivated the Dragon God Art.

The combination of the two indeed caused Tong Yinzhong's strength to advance by leaps and bounds.

Before the age of forty, he had already reached the cultivation of the Mythical Realm, and his combat power rivaled countless powerful experts of the age.

Later, he was gravely wounded by Long Teng of the Dragon God clan using the Spirit Mirror; though his cultivation remained, most of it was used to suppress his injuries.

This was also why, upon first meeting Senior Dugu Qiubai and the other two, Yin Zhong chose to transform into a dragon and depart.

He could tell that Senior Dugu Qiubai and the other two were immensely powerful, and without employing a certain level of strength, they could not be taken down.

But now, he was absolutely furious!

His injuries could only be healed by the Spirit Mirror.

Yet Tong Bo said that after gravely wounding him, the Spirit Mirror had already been lost.

Then how was he to recover?

And how was he to take revenge on the Tong clan?

Five hundred years of bitter scheming, five hundred years of lying in wait — hatred had long since devoured Yin Zhong.

Since recovery was hopeless, then he would spare nothing and let the Tong clan perish!

Tong Bo and Tong Zhan must die!

Unleashing his spells and divine techniques with full power, countless streams of the primordial forces of heaven and earth were drawn over through his profound arcane formulae.

The black dragon tapped lightly, and countless black clouds, like ponderous mountain peaks, crashed straight down.

Wherever he passed, it actually caused the void of this realm to show signs of shattering...

This place was, after all, a blessed grotto-heaven, not the continent-sized world outside.

Yin Zhong, unleashing his full power, had already faintly surpassed the limit this realm could bear.

Truly, how terrifying!

"Good! Five Thunders... rise!"

Zhang Daoling was surprised yet delighted, ever since he joined the Qinglong Society and followed Ximen Wudi.

Under the guidance of the Great Dragon Head, his strength had advanced by leaps and bounds, and now he was already an expert on the Heavenly Dao Golden List.

But as his strength grew, those who could be his opponents and make him fight at full power had become fewer and fewer.

Now Yin Zhong, so terrifying, was the perfect opponent.

No longer holding back, his true essence surged out continuously.

From the four directions of heaven and earth, he drew upon countless forces of thunder and lightning.

Then, under the guidance of his Five Thunders Heavenly Heart Art, they transformed into a torrent of Lei Ting, charging toward the massive Dark Cloud Mountain.

"I'll join in too!"

Senior Dugu Jian refused to be left behind; since mastering Sword Twenty-Three, he had never yet fought at full strength.

Now Yin Zhong's might was nearly that of heaven-and-earth destruction.

Though Zhang Daoling's Lei Ting attack was not weak, Senior Dugu Jian did not know if he could block it.

He directly activated Sword Twenty-Three, freezing the space-time within a radius of ten li.

Condensing the Sword Dao true meaning of Sword Twenty-Three, he followed right behind the Lei Ting, launching an attack at Yin Zhong.

"Such a grand occasion — how could it be complete without me!"

Senior Dugu Qiubai had sought defeat all his life, and only suffered it at the hands of Ximen Wudi.

Now, at this moment, he was already vastly different from before.

His realm of the Sword Dao had long since advanced from the early Sword Dao Fivefold Realm to the comprehension that all things can be swords!

At this moment, with a casual wave of his hand, Sword Dao true meaning burst forth unceasingly.

In an instant, the passing wind, the flying birds, the grass on the ground, the clouds in the sky...

Wherever his Sword Dao true meaning passed, even the primordial force of heaven and earth was wholly bound.

Transformed into Senior Dugu Qiubai's "sword," they attacked Dark Cloud Mountain with an unstoppable momentum.

"Die!"

Yin Zhong was furious within, but his discernment was not poor either.

Seeing the three unleash their moves, he too was extremely shocked.