Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

"Run for your lives!"

As the two Foundation Establishment members of the family were defeated, someone in the crowd shouted, and everyone couldn't care less and desperately fled towards the mountain exit.

The man in the red robe saw that the situation was bad and hurriedly flew back to the Cloud Boat, trying to land several times, but each time he was sent flying back by a stone resembling a cannonball.

After several attempts, the Cloud Boat gave up on landing at Lush Peach Mountain and had to flee into the distance, attempting to rendezvous with the remaining family members.

The group of White Apes had truly unleashed their fury; they would not allow the enemy an easy escape. The White Ape King led the charge chasing the red-robed elder on the Yu Hu, while other White Apes grouped together to pursue the rest.

Faced with the mutant White Apes, swift as the wind, the cultivators who were unfamiliar with the surroundings were in a dire situation.

In just a few minutes, most of the cultivators were surrounded and either killed or torn into pieces by the White Apes.

Of course, before dying, these people also managed to kill quite a number of White Apes.

The great battle between humans and demonic creatures ended with the White Apes victorious, although they also suffered significant casualties.

A little earlier in time,

When Zhao Sheng and the others saw the cultivators fleeing one after another, they felt very surprised.

Even though the current situation was unfavorable for the Human Clan, even an ordinary person would know that running away in such circumstances is the most foolish choice.

But this group chose the worst possible action.

The trio couldn't comprehend it.

Just then, the ground nearby suddenly emitted a yellow light, and Zhao Xuanjing appeared from underground holding a spirit worm.

Seeing the trio frowning, Zhao Xuanjing was startled and asked quickly, "Fourth Ancestor, Uncle Seven, what's wrong? Has something happened again?"

Zhao Sheng, seeing him return, smiled and said, "Nothing. We're just puzzled by these cultivators' poor performance. It seems like they've enjoyed the mortal world for too long and have become incredibly foolish."

Zhao Xuanjing nodded in agreement, "Yes! They are too foolish. I just shouted 'run for your lives' casually. I can't believe they actually ran."

"What? A shout from you made them run away? Haha!" Zhao Sheng was greatly surprised by this revelation and ultimately burst into laughter.

Next to him, Zhao Ke Ru tried to hold back his laughter and asked Jing'er, "When did you become so clever?"

Zhao Xuanjing scratched the back of his head and asked with a peculiar expression, "Am I very foolish?"

"Haha!" Hearing this, the three of them let out a loud laughter.

A moment later, when the laughter subsided, Zhao Xuanjing quickly changed the subject, "When do we make our move?"

Zhao Sheng looked towards Lush Peach Mountain ten miles away, eyeing the White Ape King as he dragged the dead body of the red-robed elder step by step back to his base, and said with a smile, "No rush, the darkest hour is just before the dawn."

Night passed, and in the blink of an eye, it was less than half an hour till dawn.

At this time, it was pitch-dark outside, but the Zhao Family's cave was brightly lit.

Zhao Sheng stood on the stone platform, gazing at the fully armed Zhao Clan members below, and said solemnly, "Are you ready?"

"Ready!" The crowd shouted back with high morale.

Zhao Sheng nodded and gave one final instruction, "When we strike, be fierce and quick, and don't forget to cooperate with each other. Now, let's move out!"

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The Zhao Clan members responded in unison and then split into two groups, streaming out of the cave.

Under the leadership of Zhao Chongwei and Zhao Keqing, both at the Qi Refinement Late Stage, the two teams swiftly advanced toward the Lush Peach Mountain.

Momentarily, atop Lush Peach Mountain, Zhao Xuanjing sneakily emerged halfway from underground, watching the White Apes sleeping soundly, and cracked a secret smile. He then pulled out a pile of earth-colored talismans from his Storage Bag and began to lay them around the White Apes.

These earth-colored talismans were First-Order Talismans named Stone Prison Talisman.

Before the departure, Zhao Sheng had specially made a batch, though he hadn't expected them to be of any use.

Who knew a naive youth would rush to take a tribulation for the Zhao family.

These White Apes could never have anticipated that after repelling a group of people, there were still others plotting against them from behind.

Thus, caught off guard, they inadvertently fell for some old schemer's trap.

To prevent the White Ape King from noticing, Zhao Xuanjing didn't dare to venture too deep into the stone cave; he simply laid Earth Stabbing Talismans, Earth Splitting Talismans, and other Earth Element Talismans near the entrance and slightly inside the cave.

About an hour later, the eastern sky began to lighten to a fish belly white.

At that moment, the Zhao Family members reached the foothills of Lush Peach Mountain.

This time was when the peach blossom miasma inside Lush Peach Mountain was at its thinnest, providing the clearest visibility; one could still make out figures from thirty or forty paces away.

Unlike thick fog, the peach blossom miasma, nourished by rotten and spoiled fruits, becomes denser with stronger sunshine and higher temperatures, lingering immensely without dispersing.

As Zhao Xuanjing, who had been waiting at the base of the mountain, immediately came forward and whispered something to Zhao Sheng upon their arrival.

Zhao Sheng nodded his head and turned back to wave at the clan members.

Seeing this, the Zhao Clan members quickly swallowed their Breaking Miasma Pills, dividing into two groups, one left and one right, and slowly approached the soundly sleeping group of White Apes.

Moments later, as everyone was closing in on a run of thirty meters, indeed a White Ape with a keen sense of smell was startled awake.

Squeak!

Strike!

Two shouts rose almost simultaneously.

It was at that moment, Zhao Xuanjing grinned, his Spiritual Power burst forth wildly. A vast yellow light swept across the ground around him instantaneously.

The next moment, numerous huge stone pillars suddenly shot up from the ground surrounding the group of White Apes.

These stone pillars, crisscrossing and winding, formed a massive stone prison in an instant, trapping the newly awakened White Apes in place.

No sooner had the stone prison taken shape than the next wave of attacks followed.

The first was a barrage of arrows; twenty-one Innate Grandmasters of the Zhao family each held a Magic Device Crossbow and fired wildly at the group of White Apes.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The White Apes were trapped in place, unable to escape and were immediately struck by fine steel Armor-Piercing Arrows.

The lucky ones were not hit in vital areas, while the unlucky ones had their foreheads, eyes, and hearts pierced through.

However, that was not the end; after the arrows, a mix of Blazing Fireballs, Ice Blades, Golden Light Needles, Stone Cone Magic, mixed with flying swords, Demon-breaking Sabers, and Triangular Spears and other magic weapons, bombarded the unfortunate group of White Apes.

They had just undergone a major battle the day before and their physical and demonic power had not fully recovered. Now, they faced a group of unscrupulous Zhao Family members.

It was truly a case of bad luck inviting more bad luck—misfortune had reached their doorstep!

However, though the Zhao family had killed many White Apes, that was all they could achieve.

The stone prison only held for a few breaths before being shattered by the group of astonishingly powerful Mutant White Apes.

Thus, a life-and-death battle officially began.

One side, although suffering heavy casualties, retained its ferocity and was agile as the wind.

The other side had high morale and coordinated well but had less real combat experience. Not even the Innate Martial Artists could match a single White Ape and had no choice but to serve as human shields.

Zhao Shuo wielded his Wandering Dragon Sword, frantically chopping and slashing; myriad sword lights flew about, almost forming a continuous curtain of light.

Yet even so, he was still profoundly shaken, feeling as if there were claw shadows everywhere before him,

It was only when he directly clashed with the White Apes that he shockingly discovered their incredible speed, which made it difficult for him to discern which were real and which were false. He could only passively defend.