Chapter 523

He directly froze Brother Chamu in place with a single point, then charged out.

The combined force of the Liudazhang Sect, along with Shangguan Yun, who had made it onto the Heavenly Dao Golden List.

Though Cha Mulong's Wu Gong surpassed Shangguan Yun's, in the end the virulent poison flared faster and faster, and he was beaten to the ground.

With Cha Mulong taken down, the Cha Mu clan also lost all ability to resist.

Disciples of the Liudamen Sect immediately stormed the Cha Mu clan's stronghold and began a frenzy of burning, killing, and looting.

Anyone who dared resist was killed on the spot, then they took jars and pots and drained the blood from their bodies dry.

The Cha Mu clan, who had dwelt beneath Mount Qilian for a thousand years, was now utterly exterminated.

That night, the Cha Mu clan's stronghold was a sea of raging fire, with countless women and children wailing to the heavens.

Yet not a single person could come to their rescue.

Early the next morning, Shangguan Yun had gathered enough blood, yet still feared it would not be enough,

so he ordered men to bring along every member of the Cha Mu clan, including Cha Mulong's family of three.

Then they set out toward Mount Qilian.

Few martial artists in the western regions of Yunzhou knew where the Long Yin Cave lay.

The Liudamen Sect, as it happened, had long cherished this legend and passed it down through the ages.

Therefore, long before making their move, Shangguan Yun and the others had already located the Long Yin Cave.

They drove the Cha Mu clan up Mount Qilian like livestock.

After roughly three days of walking, they arrived at a gorge situated high upon a mountain.

The place was ringed on all sides by Mount Qilian, with only a single narrow path leading in and out of the gorge.

In the center of the gorge lay a pit of scattered rocks.

Shangguan Yun ordered men to clear it away, revealing a massive carving of a soaring dragon.

This soaring-dragon carving was incised into the stone.

"Men, pour the Cha Mu clan's fresh blood into this soaring-dragon carving."

The Liudamen Sect disciples naturally carried out the order at once, pouring in the blood they had collected beforehand,

channeling it along the incised grooves into the soaring-dragon carving.

The moment the thick plasma entered the carving, it flowed ceaselessly along the patterns.

The blood of a hundred people had been poured in, yet there was still a small gap before the carving would be filled.

"Kill a few more, keep pouring!"

Shangguan Yun cared only for opening the Long Yin Cave; the lives and deaths of the innocent Cha Mu clan meant nothing to him.

Lei Zhenzi immediately took up the blade himself, dragged over a Cha Mu clansman, and brought him near that gap.

His hand rose, the blade fell, and the man's head was hacked clean off.

A gush of hot blood flew out and plunged straight into the soaring-dragon carving.

"Boom!"

As this man's blood poured in, the gap in the soaring-dragon carving shrank once more.

Then they saw, on the other side of the gorge, a section of the cliff wall shudder violently.

That single tremor set the entire gorge quaking without cease.

The weaker Liudamen Sect disciples were even knocked flat to the ground by the shaking.

"What is that?"

The Liudamen Sect disciples stared over there, shaken and uncertain.

Shangguan Yun, however, was overjoyed, and pointed at that section of cliff,

"Ha! No need for alarm, everyone! That is where the Long Yin Cave lies."

"This soaring-dragon carving is about to be filled, and the Long Yin Cave is about to open."

"The legendary Long Zhu is about to see the light of day!"

"Your chance of fortune is about to arrive."

So this was the Long Yin Cave!

The disciples and the Wudazhang Sect were overjoyed to hear it, and Lei Zhenzi immediately prepared to drag over another Cha Mu clansman for the blood sacrifice.

"Shangguan Yun, don't you know what truly lies within this Long Yin Cave?"

Though Cha Mulong now bore the virulent poison within him, his cultivation sealed, and was utterly weak,

seeing the Liudamen Sect people so delighted, he could not help but let out a cold laugh and speak.

"Oh? Isn't it just the Long Zhu?"

Xuanwu Shangren did not grasp his meaning, yet still replied.

"Ha! Long Yin Cave, Long Yin Cave! Gu Mingsiyi — this cave is under the protection of a divine dragon!"

Cha Mulong's eyes now blazed with fury as he gazed toward the Long Yin Cave,

"Do you truly believe that once the Long Yin Cave is opened, you can obtain the Long Zhu?"

"Dream on!"

"The Long Zhu is the divine dragon's treasure!"

"The moment the Long Yin Cave opens, every one of you — Shangguan Yun included —"

"will all be buried beneath the divine dragon's blazing flames…"

"What? There's a divine dragon inside the Long Yin Cave?"

Everyone, except Shangguan Yun, was utterly shocked.

In truth, none of those present had ever laid eyes on a divine dragon.

But not long ago, on the outskirts of Jingcheng in the Great Ming.

The Qinglong Society's Fourth Dragon Head, Senior Xiaoyaozi, released a black dragon from within the War God Hall.

The Great Ming's nine-border army of one hundred thousand, upon seeing the black dragon, did not dare resist in the slightest and directly rebelled once more.

This legend had long since spread to every corner of the nine provinces along with that battle.

Although the western region of Yunzhou was remote, it too received this news.

A hundred thousand troops facing a single black dragon did not dare resist—what chance did our Liudamen Sect have with its meager numbers?

If there really is a divine dragon inside, wouldn't we be utterly annihilated?

"Everyone, stay calm!"

Shangguan Yun, looking thoroughly prepared, suddenly produced the "Thunder Fire Bomb"!

"Look, the Heavenly Dao is still the Heavenly Dao!"

"In the mysterious workings of fate, the heavens knew I was about to open the Long Yin Grotto to seize the Long Zhu."

"Therefore they bestowed this 'Thunder Fire Bomb,' feared even by the Shattered Realm."

"With this divine weapon in hand, the sinful dragon of the Long Yin Grotto had better not show itself."

"The moment it appears, I'll use this 'Thunder Fire Bomb' to teach it how to be a dragon!"

The Wudazhang Sect leaders, hearing this, also felt their hearts ease.

Just as Shangguan Yun had said, the heavens in their mysterious workings truly seemed to have arranged everything.

With this "Thunder Fire Bomb" in hand, what dog-shit divine dragon is there left to fear?

"Ah? So that's how it is! Isn't this the heavens destroying my clan and the divine dragon?"

Cha Mulong was utterly shaken within—he too had seen the Heavenly Dao Golden List reward this "Thunder Fire Bomb" to Shangguan Yun.

But he never imagined that this "Thunder Fire Bomb" was actually meant to deal with the divine dragon?

Doesn't this mean the heavens, the Heavenly Dao in its mysterious workings, have abandoned the Cha Mu clan and the divine dragon?

Lei Zhenzi was now overjoyed—the Long Zhu that could grant one's wish was right before his eyes.

At once he seized another Cha Mu clansman and once again slashed off his head with a single strike.

Hot blood spurted forth, flowing straight into the Soaring Dragon Map.

Finally, with the infusion of this man's fresh blood, the Soaring Dragon Map was at last filled.

Then the Soaring Dragon Map trembled, and after that the entire valley began to shake violently.

"Boom!"

With a tremendous roar, the valley wall over there was directly shattered apart; amid the swirling dust,

a pair of eyes, as large as lanterns, glared over with vicious fury.