Chapter 547: Huang Shiwo, Facing Death Unflinchingly

Chapter 547 -516: Huang Shiwo, Facing Death Unflinchingly

In a siege using the “surround three, leave one open” tactic, the city is considered completely fallen the moment the enemy breaches the final, open district. Many cultivators had planned for this, choosing this exact moment to escape. But none could have imagined the situation that awaited them.

BANG! BANG! BANG—

Figure after figure shot out, like moths drawn to a flame, only to slam into the barrier.

“What is this?”

Chen Che, who had also risen to his feet, stopped abruptly. He looked up to see the entirety of Primordial City enveloped by a crimson canopy.

This scene before him.

It couldn’t help but remind Chen Che of that day years ago, when Ye Jingzhou sealed Jinyun Valley and used everyone inside for a blood sacrifice.

“Are the people of the Primordial Sect blind? Someone was setting up an array right under their noses—and a Grand Array at that—and they didn’t even notice… With this level of competence, no wonder their sect is being wiped out! No wonder the enemy is right on their doorstep…”

Just as escape seemed within reach, they were suddenly blocked. Zhao Shifeng couldn’t help but curse out loud.

He knew.

A Grand Array capable of sealing the entire Primordial City would take hundreds of people ten days to half a month to erect. For the Primordial Sect to have missed such a large-scale gathering and anomaly, it was no wonder their defeat was as total as a landslide.

The target of the tirade, Tang Linli, swallowed a pill, a bitter taste in his mouth. He didn’t dare to talk back.

‘The Golden Core cultivators didn’t even know. How was a Foundation Establishment cultivator like me supposed to know?’

“This is the Water Sealing Array,” Ping Miaohan said, her expression grim. “It’s a unique Sealing Grand Array from the Mist Rain Tower. It uses a body of water to form the Array… It doesn’t need to be set up in advance, as long as there’s a large enough body of water.”

“Water?”

Chen Che was stunned. Where in Primordial City was there a body of water large enough to power this Array?

But then he glanced at the rivers of blood snaking through the city’s streets and alleyways and had a sudden realization—it didn’t matter if there wasn’t enough water; blood could be used as a substitute. Moreover, the energy contained within a river of blood was many times greater than that of an ordinary river.

And with tens of thousands of cultivators having died within the city, the power contained in their blood was anything but ordinary.

“So that’s how it is!”

Chen Xi murmured to himself.

So.

The cultivators who had infiltrated the city weren’t just there to coordinate with the forces outside to bring down the Grand Array. They were also there to set up this array to completely seal off Primordial City.

“Haha, since we decided to annihilate the Primordial Sect, why would we ever give you a chance to stage a comeback?”

Seeing that the Water Sealing Array—now a Blood Sealing Array—was complete, Jiang Shaotian ceased his attack and vanished in a flicker. Atop a hundred-zhang-tall tower, more than thirty Golden Core cultivators from the Star-Picking Sect stood in staggered formation along the edges of the flying eaves. Their presence was grim and imposing, framed by the churning fires of war and black smoke coiling like dragons.

Behind him were several hundred hovering Foundation Establishment cultivators. Countless Qi Refining Cultivators, all disciples of the Star-Picking Sect, stood along the tower’s flying eaves.

Jiang Shaotian, their leader, fixed his gaze on them. With a decisive flick of his long sleeve, he declared:

“From this day forward, the Primordial Sect will be nothing but history. As for you…”

“We must eradicate them, root and stem.”

A raspy voice spoke up at almost the same time.

Everyone turned toward the voice and saw a massive figure in a cloak, holding a Bone Staff adorned with skulls. He was leading several Golden Core cultivators, walking slowly toward them along a path formed from the city’s rivers of blood.

As he spoke, the cultivators who had previously infiltrated the city spontaneously gathered from all directions, flowing like rivers to assemble behind this person:

“Letting even one of the Golden Core cultivators here escape would lead to a monumental disaster.”

The Celestial Spirit Palace! Palace Master, Qu Ming!

“Qu Ming, where is your Vice Palace Master?”

The words had barely left his lips when a woman in palace attire, dressed somewhat similarly to Ping Miaohan, who had been leading the assault on West City, mercilessly berated him:

“Didn’t you say that after the war began, the Celestial Spirit Palace would work from the inside to help me break the situation in West City? So why didn’t I see him? At least four hundred of my Mist Rain Tower’s Great Cultivators—all Foundation Establishment Seventh Layer or above—died outside the city walls because of your Celestial Spirit Palace’s incompetence!”

“And among those Foundation Establishment cultivators, at least fifteen of them could have reached Core Formation within thirty years!”

This was Zhang Miaqing, the Second Tower Master of the Mist Rain Tower.

The three Golden Core cultivators who had spoken were the leaders of the three great powers: the Star-Picking Sect, the Celestial Spirit Palace, and the Mist Rain Tower. Now that Primordial City was completely sealed, it was only natural for these three leaders to pass judgment on the preceding battle.

As for the Golden Core cultivators and everyone else left in the city…

Who cared?

Once the Blood Sealing Array was formed, it meant they had completely taken Primordial City. All that remained was to pull the weeds and dig up the roots: to extinguish every last ember of the Primordial Sect and prevent them from ever rising from the ashes.

The greater the power, the less merciful they are, and the more they understand that a single spark can start a prairie fire.

“He died at the hands of Valley Master Chen!”

Jiang Shaotian chuckled, his tone laced with gloating and a clear intent to stir up trouble. “The man was just sitting in West City, didn’t even turn his head, and he shattered Ruan Yan and those seven Golden Core cultivators. I was busy teaching Duobao a lesson, but I saw it all quite clearly…”

SWOOSH!

In that instant, the gazes of over ninety-nine percent of the city’s Golden Core cultivators, the thousands of Foundation Establishment cultivators, and hundreds of thousands of others all fell upon Chen Che.

‘Adding frost to snow… and the frost is arsenic,’ Chen Che thought.

‘This is really bad. In that battle, I accidentally killed a key figure from the Celestial Spirit Palace and also wiped out a batch of the Mist Rain Tower’s future Golden Core cultivators. What’s really annoying is that the Primordial Sect’s Interim Sect Leader and the Chiefs of several major Halls are all here.’

‘I’m just a Tributor, not some big shot, yet I’ve been targeted by all three factions.’

In this situation, Chen Che had no idea what to do. Faced with hundreds of Golden Core and thousands of Foundation Establishment cultivators, there was no gate to heaven and no road into the earth.