Chapter 449

Chapter 449: You Are Still Young, You Wouldn’t Understand
“Kh, kh.”

Ancestor Sui Bian lowered his head and stuffed the last Transmission Talisman back into his robe. He cleared his throat twice, then spoke to Yu Zhao in a serious tone: “These are all Ancestor’s confidantes…”

Yu Zhao’s eyes were full of doubt.

Ancestor Sui Bian mumbled a little, then said: “You are still young. You wouldn’t understand. What we have is very pure friendship.”

Yu Zhao fell silent.

[Really? I don’t believe that.]

“All right, this is your Lord’s private business. Don’t butt in,” Ancestor Sui Bian said, brushing her off with a few words.

Then he started looking around. The heavy tension in his heart seemed to have faded after sending those few messages.

Boom.

A sudden dull sound echoed in everyone’s ears.

People looked left and right, trying to find where the sound came from.

But they did not see anything strange.

It was as if that dull sound had only been their imagination.

They could only stay on guard.

No one knew if it was because they had already flown high into the sky, or because the ferocious beasts had finished hunting.

No cultivator was attacked again.

Another hour passed.

The dull sound rang out again.

This time, people seemed to sense something. Their gazes swept around, then finally all stopped on the red-and-white Bone Mountain.

The sound seemed to be coming from inside Bone Mountain.

Everyone was curious about Bone Mountain, but no one dared to fly over and check.

After a heavy silence, the third dull sound boomed.

“I think I must have seen it wrong. It looked like that mountain shook,” a trembling voice said.

No one answered.

Or rather, no one dared to answer.

The eerie Bone Mountain, the blood-like liquid, and the sound that was like a beating heart.

A certain answer was already forming in everyone’s minds.

“Look under your feet! The blood is gone!”

Everyone followed that sharp voice and looked down.

Sure enough, the ground that had been covered in blood had returned to its original look. Only the corpses lying there with their eyes open in death proved that everything just now had truly happened and was not their imagination.

The blood had been absorbed by the land.

Everyone looked back at Bone Mountain and gasped.

“That fortune beast is crap! It’s not a blessing, it’s a curse! I’ll slice it apart!”

A big, burly man with a face full of scars glared, his eyes red with rage. He roared, raised his broadsword, and charged at the fortune beast.

Puff.

The sound was like fine silk being cleanly cut by a sharp blade.

The man’s chest was split open in an instant by the sharp horn. His tiny nascent soul only had time to let out one terrified scream before it was pierced through.

The huge body fell from the sky.

The fortune beast carried its prize and swaggered back to its herd.

Everyone was horrified.

In that short time, the heartbeat-like sound rang out again.

This time, everyone felt their own heart being squeezed hard by some unseen force. A strong pulling pain spread through their entire body.

Someone cried out. Someone screamed. Someone began to sob from the pain.

Yu Zhao did not say a word. Only her pale face showed how much she was suffering.

Her eyes were locked on Bone Mountain. When she finally spoke, her voice was hoarse but firm: “Ancestor, we can’t let it keep beating.”

If it beat a few more times, everyone would die.

As an Integration Stage Cultivator, Ancestor Sui Bian’s instincts were even sharper than Yu Zhao’s.

He touched the Transmission Talismans in his robe, then looked at Yu Zhao’s pale face. A sharp light flashed in his slightly cloudy eyes.

He raised his voice and shouted: “Everyone listen! This is not a blessed land. It is a sacrificial ground! Once Bone Mountain fully revives, none of us will even have a corpse left! If you don’t want to die, come with me and kill it!”

Ancestor Sui Bian’s strong, ringing voice echoed over everyone’s heads and did not fade for a long time.

Yet for quite a while, no one answered.

Ancestor Sui Bian was furious and began to curse: “You idiots! You’re about to die and you’re still scared and hiding! Did you leave your courage in your mother’s womb when you were born? A bunch of cowards, and not one of you has more guts than an old man like me!”

Huo Shao Yan looked at Ancestor Sui Bian, who was already old enough to have a long white beard that shook as he shouted. He could not help whispering: “You might be tired of living, but I’m not.”

His voice was actually very soft.

But by chance, no one else was talking at that moment, so his words stood out clearly.

Ancestor Sui Bian had already disliked this group from the start. Hearing Huo Shao Yan’s words now, he snapped. He pointed at Huo Shao Yan, spit flying everywhere, and roared: “So young and already so afraid of death! You’ll never amount to anything! Your mouth is annoying too! You look like a useless coward!”

“Hey, you fat old man…” Huo Shao Yan was angry. He opened his mouth, ready to shout back.

But a proud female voice cut him off: “I’ll go.”

Nan Gong Jie and the others all turned their heads at the same time.

They saw Nan Gong Yin flick her red hair back with one hand. She spoke in a lazy, casual tone: “The Nan Gong Clan will go.”

“It’s someone from the Nan Gong Clan.”

“That’s the Nan Gong Clan’s eldest miss, Nan Gong Yin!”

“If the Nan Gong Clan’s eldest miss is going, count me in!”

“Me too!”

With Nan Gong Yin taking the lead, voices of agreement rose one after another.

Almost half of the cultivators chose to join them, while the other half still kept silent. Some even had a look of expectation in their eyes, as if they were waiting to watch a good show.

Ancestor Sui Bian did not want to look at their ugly faces. He snorted and turned away. He was just about to tell Yu Zhao to stay far back when he saw her instead.

Yu Zhao was holding the Mirror of Fleeting Lives in one hand and the Heart-Guard Mirror in the other. Her brows and eyes were full of firm resolve.

The words Ancestor Sui Bian had planned to say stuck in his throat and would not come out.

He sighed in his heart, then stopped looking at Yu Zhao. Instead, he raised his arm and shouted: “Charge!”

As soon as the word left his mouth, his round body shot forward at a speed that did not match his plump, Body Integration Stage look at all.

Yu Zhao and the others who had answered his call immediately rushed after him.

Dong Fang Yue’s small face was bloodless. Her fingers twisted together nervously as she whispered: “Should we go too…”

Before Bei Ming Yan could answer, Nan Gong Jie beside them flew out without a word.

His eyes were fixed only on the figure at the very front. In his heart, he thought: [Nan Gong Yin, this time you can forget about hogging all the glory. I, Nan Gong Jie, will not lose to you again!]

Bei Ming Yan laughed softly and said: “Xiao Yue, the choice is in your hands. But my choice is to go.”

Dong Fang Yue nodded hard. “If you go, I’ll go too!”

The two of them vanished from where they had been standing.

“Feng Jiu Si! Shui Qiu Bai! Jin Yuan! Why are you all going too?!” Tu Xiao shouted.

He watched as his companions charged forward one after another and panicked so much that he did not know what to do with his hands and feet.

His protective treasure was gone.

Now he only had his life left.

If he ran into danger again, he would be completely finished!

He grabbed Huo Shao Yan, who was a step slower: “Huo Shao Yan, let’s just stay here!”

Huo Shao Yan shook his hand off and snapped: “Are you kidding? They all went. And that fat old man just called me a coward. I’m going to prove to them that I, Huo Shao Yan, am not a weakling!”

With that, he flew out as well, full of momentum, like a red shooting star streaking across the sky.

The people around them all looked at Tu Xiao with strange expressions.

He gritted his teeth and also rushed forward.