Chapter 519

Chapter 519: Elder Brother, We Can Talk This Out
After the Patriarch of the Huo Clan finished speaking, he noticed that everyone else was looking at him.

He looked puzzled and asked: “What are you all looking at me for?”

The Shui patriarch chuckled softly and said: “Nothing. I just think your guess makes sense. If that is true, then all our efforts were like putting on a show for a blind man.”

Patriarch Tu slammed the table hard, his face gloomy: “Since they refuse to behave, there is no need to be polite with them anymore!”

He shot to his feet and shouted to the people waiting outside the hall: “Pass down my order. Gather all clansmen. I am going to drag out every rat hiding in Four Seas City!”

“We should have acted a long time ago!” The Patriarch of the Huo Clan grinned excitedly, then said to Huo Shao Yan behind him: “Have the Huo Clan get ready.”

“Jiusi…”

“Jin Yuan…”

The people of the several great clans all moved out at once, closing in on Four Seas City from different directions.

By the time Huang Zhong and the others noticed, Four Seas City was already tightly surrounded.

Through the light barrier, they could clearly see the dense crowd surging toward them like a tidal wave.

“This is bad. They are ready to make a move!”

The faces of the people in the courtyard grew more and more grim. Even Tie Gu, usually the most hot tempered, was pacing back and forth in worry, nearly wearing a hole in the ground.

Qian Si’s gaze kept sweeping across the crowd, hoping to see the person she wanted to see.

Huang Zhong raised his hand and pressed down: “Steady. The light barrier of Four Seas City is formed from the hard work of all the cultivators from the Cultivation World. It will not be broken that easily.”

Even so, everyone did not feel much more at ease.

The courtyard’s defensive array did combine the strengths of everyone and was crafted with great care. But no matter how strong a defensive array was, it could not withstand so many cultivators. At most, it could only let them hold on for a little longer.

At that moment, a few figures stepped out from the cultivators surrounding Four Seas City.

They had extraordinary auras and stood in the most eye catching spot.

The one in the lead was Patriarch Tu, Tu Zhen Yue. His expression was icy cold as he shouted loudly toward the inside: “Listen up, people inside. If you know what is good for you, come out here at once. Otherwise, do not blame us for being rude!”

After he shouted, there was no reply from inside for a long time. Outside was also silent. Everyone’s eyes stayed on him, and the atmosphere became a bit awkward.

Tu Zhen Yue grew angry out of shame.

“Bring those people up here!”

Feng Jiusi, Jin Yuan, and a few others at once pushed several cultivators forward.

Among them were both men and women, but they all wore the same numb expression, as if the ones brought up as hostages were not them.

Tu Zhen Yue sneered and said: “Open your dog eyes and see clearly who they are!”

“Yan Yi!”

“Chi Lian!”

“Drunkard!”

The people inside the defensive array were filled with rage.

Their people really had been captured by these people.

After he saw that they had recognized the hostages, Tu Zhen Yue spat out a threat: “If you still refuse to show yourselves, I will kill them one by one right in front of you!”

The pupils of Yan Yi and the others, who had been numb before, trembled.

Then Yan Yi’s face sank: “If you want to kill, then…” “Ah!”

Before he could finish, Chi Lian, who stood beside him, stomped hard on his foot.

Chi Lian was a dazzling young woman. Curling her red lips, she smiled charmingly and said: “Elder Brother~ we can talk this out~ there is no need to get angry~”

Tu Zhen Yue gave her a scornful look and said: “If you want to live, then hurry up and call out your companions. Do not use these low tricks. They do not work on me.”

“Elder Brother~” Chi Lian did not pull back at all and smiled even more sweetly: “Even if you want Little Sister to die, you should at least let Little Sister die knowing what is going on. You…”

“Shut up! Why do you talk so much!” Tu Zhen Yue had no patience to listen to her. “Since you talk the most, you will be the first to die.”

As soon as he finished speaking, he grabbed Chi Lian by the neck and dragged her to the very front.

“I will count to three breaths. If you still do not come out, she dies first!”

“Chi Lian!”

Yan Yi and the others tried to rush forward to pull Chi Lian back. But before they could move, the transparent ropes on their bodies suddenly tightened, and sharp pain spread from their flesh to their souls in an instant.

Their vision went black, and they nearly fainted on the spot.

Chi Lian also dropped her act. She glared fiercely at Tu Zhen Yue, her thin lips opening and closing as she cursed all eighteen generations of his ancestors.

Enraged, Tu Zhen Yue bent his fingers and drew a spirit talisman, then sent it into her body.

Chi Lian’s whole body went rigid at once. Her tongue and mouth went numb, and she could not say a single word. Her very soul throbbed with stabbing pain.

“Three!”

Tu Zhen Yue’s voice rang through half the Qi Lan Realm.

Tie Gu, Qian Si, and the others looked anxiously toward Huang Zhong.

Huang Zhong’s face was as still and dark as deep water, his eyes full of struggle.

“Two!”

Chi Lian’s face was deathly pale. Blood was already seeping out from her seven orifices.

Her lotus like face now looked especially terrifying.

Tie Gu’s fists were clenched so hard that his knuckles creaked.

The blood vessels in Qian Si’s eyes bulged, and she almost bit through her lower lip.

“One…”

“Stop!”

Suddenly, a voice rang out.

The step Huang Zhong had just taken forward stopped at once. He turned to look in the direction the voice had come from.

Everyone else also turned to look.

They saw several figures flying toward them from far away, appearing in front of Tu Zhen Yue and his group in the blink of an eye.

When Tie Gu saw them, he blurted out: “It is President Chang Deng!”

As the Ascension realm for dozens of Lesser Thousand Worlds, the greatest power in the Qi Lan Realm was not any single sect. It was an alliance made up of ascenders from many different Small Worlds, called the Seven Mists League.

Chang Deng was the President of the Seven Mists League.

The cultivators standing beside Chang Deng and Huang Zhong were all elders of the Seven Mists League.

When this trouble first broke out, Huang Zhong had also thought of asking the Seven Mists League for help.

But after he realized that the power targeting them was many times stronger than he had imagined, he gave up this idea.

Even if he gathered the strength of the entire Seven Mists League, it would not change anything. Why drag innocent people into this?

He had not expected that, even though they knew they were no match, the people of the Seven Mists League were still willing to come forward and try to mediate. He was deeply moved.

Tie Gu and the others were also very excited, their faces full of hope.

“Who are you?”

Tu Zhen Yue looked these people up and down, his face full of scorn and anger.

He had thought that Sui Bian had finally lost patience and shown himself, but it turned out to be a group of busybodies.

“Patriarch Tu.” President Chang Deng cupped his hands in salute and said: “I am Chang Deng, President of the Seven Mists League. I can barely be considered someone whose words still count for something in the Qi Lan Realm. May I ask what kind of misunderstanding has arisen between you and the cultivators of Four Seas City, that things have come to this point?

“If possible, why not sit down and talk? Maybe we can find a solution that both sides can accept.”

Tu Zhen Yue snorted coldly and said: “Chang Deng, is it? This has nothing to do with your Seven Mists League. I advise you not to meddle.”

President Chang Deng’s expression did not change. His tone stayed gentle.

“Patriarch Tu, the Qi Lan Realm gathers ascenders from many Lesser Thousand Worlds. It is also a place where all powers coexist in balance.

“If your conflict with Four Seas City escalates, it will probably disturb the peace of the whole Qi Lan Realm. At that time, not only the cultivators of Four Seas City, but also ascenders from other Small Worlds will be affected.

“Patriarch Tu, why not think twice before you act?”