Hidden Moth-Chapter 504 - 285: Flowers on the Mountain Winds, Four Seasons Gathered (Part 3)

This strike doesn’t harm, but it surely affects the mind; Master Dan Qiu and his disciples are finally falling apart, the young man exclaimed in alarm, "Li Xiuyuan, you aren’t..."

Master Dan Qiu, however, wasted no time and shouted, "Rise!"

He threw the Yin Yang Wind and Fire Fan to his disciple, while a golden light burst forth from his chest.

Guo Qianhuai’s face changed color, "The Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace!" Although his voice was full of shock, there was a trace of ecstasy as well.

The power of the golden light was immense, instantly shattering the Eight Wind Staff and slamming toward the direction of the Ancestral Hall. Master Dan Qiu’s figure merged into the golden light, and his disciple, holding the two fans, followed closely behind.

Master Dan Qiu finally revealed his other trump card, summoning the Sect’s Sacred Artifact, the Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace, which was left behind by the Alchemy Sect a thousand years ago. His strategy to break the situation was still to seize the Array Core, first to force Gu Chun to retreat.

Gu Chun’s Eight Wind Staff was sent flying into the clouds, uncertain where it fell, but the area above the entrance to the Ancestral Hall was instantly shrouded in dense fog.

The golden light collided with the mist, which then contracted and turned into a giant cloud, enveloping the master and disciple within. It was the Divine Artifact A Cloud summoned by Gu Chun.

The massive cloud trembled unceasingly in mid-air, with a muffled thunderous rumbling and flashes of lightning-like golden light radiating from it. Master Dan Qiu’s voice shouted again, "A Piece of Cloud, isn’t used like that!"

This was an artifact taken from the Huiming Shi Family Vault, originally called A Piece of Cloud, but Gu Chun liked to call it A Cloud.

Because when he was floating in the sky, he didn’t like to have A Piece of Cloud spread under his feet to show off, but rather to have it gather into a cloud for him to hide within.

Strictly speaking, A Cloud wasn’t an artifact for Magical Combat.

Gu Chun replied, "As long as it works!"

At that moment, suddenly, the golden light exploded, and A Cloud was shattered, turning back into mist. However, Gu Chun didn’t recast it to gather again, instead letting it drift above the Ancestral Hall.

Looking again at the front yard of the Ancestral Hall, the courtyard wall had already collapsed in several places, and farther away, the central hall’s roof had also shattered halfway. The residual waves from the magic earlier were so strong that even Gu Chun couldn’t protect these structures.

But Master Dan Qiu and his disciples still couldn’t rush into the Ancestral Hall. As the smoke and clouds dispersed, they were still blocked in front of the Ancestral Hall. The disciple waved the twin fans while Master Dan Qiu raised a hand to the sky, where a purple-golden alchemy furnace rotated slowly.

That earlier strike had taken a considerable toll on them, with blood at the corner of the disciple’s mouth and Master Dan Qiu’s face pale. The magical combat was far from over, and as the alchemy furnace rotated, wind and fire swirled at the entrance to the Ancestral Hall, its power threatening to burn this realm to ashes.

Having summoned the Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace, he activated its inherent Miao Yong Eight Gates Wind and Fire Array, while the disciple fanned the flames to increase the array’s might.

Screens appeared on all four sides, the Four Seasons Flower Screen recently summoned by Guo Qianhuai, now set by four experts.

Spring Screen stood in front of the Ancestral Hall, with Gu Chun controlling the array artifact remotely.

Summer Screen stood on the left, under Guo Qianhuai’s command.

Winter Screen stood on the right, under Jiang Daozhen’s control.

Autumn Screen stood at the rear, managed by Li Xiuyuan.

This method of magical combat could maximize the advantage of cultivation, as they only needed to trap Master Dan Qiu and his disciples within the array.

No matter how wondrous the Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace was, nor how powerful the Eight Gates Wind and Fire Array, as long as Master Dan Qiu and his disciples couldn’t break the array with sheer force, they would be worn down.

Master Dan Qiu angrily shouted, "Li Xiuyuan, you used deception to wrap the heavens, having someone fake being yourself meanwhile hiding here, quite a calculated move... but since you’re all here, doesn’t Mei Guyu’s life matter?"

Li Xiuyuan replied, "You needn’t worry about that."

Guo Qianhuai also said, "The Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace isn’t used like that!" Returning Master Dan Qiu’s earlier criticism of Gu Chun.

The Ancestral Hall evidently understood the principle of using full strength like a lion hunting a rabbit, dispatching four elder-level experts: Guo Qianhuai, Jiang Daozhen, Gu Chun, and Li Xiuyuan to deal with Master Dan Qiu and his disciples.

Because beforehand nobody knew how many Xiao Alliance people would infiltrate, nor the caliber of experts that would come, they aimed to be prepared for contingencies. The more crucial arrangement was for Gu Chun to seize the Grotto Heaven Array Core at the most opportune moment.

For such an operation, Xiao Alliance couldn’t send too many people into the Immortal Pot Grotto Heaven. Only two people came in the end: a Tier Six Alchemist and a Tier Five Peak Realm Medicine Gatherer.

They brought not only the Yin Yang Wind and Fire Fan but also the Eight Trigrams Purple Gold Furnace. It was a trouble but also a great surprise.

Despite having enough strength to crush their opponents, the four experts chose to play it safe, using a set of Four Seasons Flower Screen to form an array, trapping the opponents inside, clearly in no hurry for a prolonged battle of attrition.

The magical combat inside the Grotto Heaven was earth-shattering, yet outside in the nearby Immortal Bottle Village remained tranquil and serene, as if nothing occurred.

The people within the Grotto Heaven couldn’t communicate with the outside world. Master Dan Qiu had just mentioned Mei Guyu’s safety, but someone would need to open the doorway to get news about Mei Guyu.

Originally, the infiltration into the Grotto Heaven was intended to do so stealthily; Xiao Alliance sent Master Dan Qiu and his disciples due to their cultivation in Alchemy Cauldron Skill, while to take down Li Xiuyuan and Mei Guyu, the power arrangement from the Xiao Alliance had to be equally strong.

So, how is Mei Guyu now?

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