novelraw Chapter 1000: The Bottom Line Is Touched, Ancestors Appear!
Chapter 1000: The Bottom Line Is Touched, Ancestors Appear!
Yet before anyone could rejoice, something stranger happened. The nearby elders had already rushed over and several moved to suppress the remaining Jiangshi. Then the patrolling Jiangshi around them suddenly moved too.
One elder had just reached out to restrain a Nascent Soul level Jiangshi when the corpse turned around and attacked him.
"What?"
The elder barely blocked.
Another Jiangshi lunged at a steward.
More began moving.
All around Heart Peak, Jiangshi changed targets.
The elders froze.
Because these were not Han Yu’s Jiangshi.
These were sect Jiangshi.
Guard Jiangshi.
Patrol Jiangshi.
Han Yu had not made them and they were older Jiangshi the sect had been using. Of couse he had done maintainance on them and had long since brought them under his control.
Even the Jiangshi belonging to other elders suddenly attacked their own masters.
The entire area descended into utter chaos.
"WHAT IS HAPPENING?"
"THE JIANGSHI HAVE GONE MAD!"
"SUPPRESS THEM!"
"No, wait!"
The shouts spread everywhere.
An elder struck down one Jiangshi only for two more to attack him.
Another elder stared in disbelief as his own personal Jiangshi suddenly tried to tear his throat out.
The confusion only lasted moments.
Then the Peak Heads sensed the disturbance.
Several terrifying auras shot toward the area.
The Patriarch moved too.
Heart Peak trembled beneath their arrival.
Han Yu watched everything through his soul form.
His eyes narrowed.
Time.
Now.
The order spread.
Every Jiangshi moved simultaneously.
Their hands reached into storage compartments.
Talismans appeared.
Explosive talismans.
Dozens.
Hundreds.
The nearby elders saw them.
Their expressions changed instantly.
"NO!"
"STOP THEM!"
Too late.
The talismans activated.
At the same moment, every Jiangshi body began swelling.
Self destruction.
The corpses themselves exploded.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
The world disappeared beneath light.
The explosion swallowed Bai Langya’s residence entirely.
Buildings vanished.
Stone vaporized.
The ground collapsed.
The shockwave spread outward and tore through nearby halls.
Several elders were caught directly within it.
One lost an arm.
Another disappeared completely.
A third was blasted through half a mountain wall.
The entirety of Heart Peak shook violently.
The Patriarch arrived just as the explosion reached its peak.
His eyes widened.
Through his enhanced senses he saw it.
Bai Langya.
The White Behemoth.
Legacy Disciple.
The man barely had time to scream.
The weakened bloodline within him collapsed.
His body shattered.
His Nascent Soul emerged instinctively.
Then it too disintegrated beneath the blast.
Nothing remained.
"NO!" the Patriarch shouted.
Peak Heads roared.
Several elders charged into the flames.
Yet everything was already over.
The act had been completed.
Silence lasted only a moment.
Then the Patriarch finally raised his head.
The sky darkened.
"WHO DARES!"
His voice exploded across the entire sect.
Mountains shook.
Blood clouds churned.
The roar reached every peak.
Disciples collapsed.
Windows shattered.
Even distant arrays trembled.
And then...
Three more voices appeared.
BOOM!
BOOM!
BOOM!
The entire sect froze.
A pressure descended.
Ancient.
Old.
Terrifying.
The skies above Heart Peak twisted as three figures appeared.
Han Yu, still in soul form, froze where he stood.
His eyes widened.
He had never seen them before.
Two old men floated silently in the sky.
Both appeared frail enough that a strong wind might knock them over. Their skin had withered, their bodies had grown thin, and age covered every inch of them.
The third figure was an old woman.
Bent back.
White hair.
A cane in hand.
She looked like an ordinary grandmother.
Yet their presence...
Their presence made the Patriarch seem small.
Spirit sense spread outward.
Han Yu felt it immediately.
The three old monsters searched everything.
The mountain.
The ruins.
The peaks.
The sect.
Their senses swept through Heart Peak.
Then reached him.
For a brief instant, Han Yu felt genuine nervousness. His soul immediately retreated and he moved away. Yet the senses still passed over him.
One moment.
Two moments.
Then...
Nothing.
No reaction.
No detection.
Han Yu silently let out a breath.
Below, the Patriarch had already cupped his fists.
The Peak Heads bowed too.
Their voices carried reverence.
"Sanguine Ancestor."
"Death Bell Ancestor."
"Perishing Lute Ancestor."
The first old man nodded slightly.
He was Sanguine Ancestor.
The second thin elder remained expressionless.
Death Bell Ancestor.
The old woman stood silently with her cane.
Perishing Lute Ancestor.
Han Yu observed them carefully.
His soul senses allowed him to perceive more than ordinary cultivators. And what he sensed shocked him.
All three stood at the edge of death.
Their vitality had nearly ended and special methods preserved them. Their life forces moved slowly and were artificially extended.
He immediately understood.
These people remained alive only through seclusion.
Only by sleeping.
Only by preserving every fragment of vitality.
The time they could stay active...
Was limited.
And now they had awakened.
Because Bai Langya had died.
A Legacy Disciple and that too on Heart Peak itself.
The bottom line had finally broken!
Sanguine Ancestor slowly looked at the ruins.
His ancient eyes remained calm.
Too calm.
That calmness frightened everyone more than rage.
His voice spread across Heart Peak.
"Whoever has done this..."
The old man raised his head.
"...has crossed our bottom line."
Death Bell Ancestor spoke next.
The old man’s voice sounded dry.
"Acting within Heart Peak."
"Killing a Legacy Disciple."
His gaze swept the gathered people.
"This has never happened."
Perishing Lute Ancestor tapped her cane once.
The sound spread strangely.
Every cultivator felt their hearts tremble.
The old woman finally spoke.
"Find them."
Her voice remained soft.
Yet killing intent spread through the sky.
"Dig out every root."
"Burn every branch."
"Even if the entire sect must be turned upside down."
Below, the Patriarch lowered his head.
"We understand."
Around him the Peak Heads remained silent.
No one dared speak.
Far away, hidden in soul form, Han Yu watched everything.
The three ancestors.
The devastated Heart Peak.
The death of Bai Langya.
The panic.
The rage.
And for the first time... Even he realized the scale of what he had done.
He had awakened monsters that had slept for thousands of years.
Yet despite that realization... The Eight Emotions Lotus within his soul space danced happily.
The fear spreading through the sect had become immense.
And Han Yu absorbed every bit of it.