Welcome to Ability Store-Chapter 126 - 125: Counter Invasion

"Immortal Master Lord, everyone has arrived." Jiu moved silently to her side, "Did that person enter this room?"

Liu Shuyue nodded, "Do you all remember how to use the Invisibility Talisman?"

"Remember." The disciples replied softly.

"Very good, aside from me, Fu Jiaolu, Jiu, and Hua, the rest of you stay on the rooftop, use the Invisibility Talisman to conceal yourselves, and be mindful of the intestines falling from the sky. If I don’t summon you, absolutely do not approach the courtyard, do you understand?"

"Yes!" Everyone agreed.

Liu Shuyue deliberately looked at Xu Xuanling, "Among those remaining, your strength is the strongest, you must protect everyone well, and if you sense anything wrong, immediately withdraw with everyone."

"I-I’ll try my best." Xu Xuanling was no longer her usual confident self; she really disliked these disgusting creations made of piles of flesh and blood.

"Very well, let’s move." The two groups immediately split up. After Liu Shuyue made herself invisible, she crossed two streets in succession, lightly landing on the brick wall of the courtyard. The other three followed suit. For those who had undergone the relevant training, even when using the Invisibility Talisman, they could sense each other’s positions through the Purifying Heart Technique.

After confirming safety, Liu Shuyue was the first to leap into the courtyard, using her Heart Method to sense movements within. This old residence had two buildings with an open space in the middle, clearly a former dwelling of some affluent family. Perhaps due to the expansion of Chang’an, this place had been sealed off, and although uninhabited, ordinary residents dared not intrude. She sensed six light points, all concentrated in the rear building.

Four against six, Liu Shuyue was fully confident in taking down the opponent.

After briefly describing the situation inside, she led the three through the front building and courtyard to the large house at the very back.

And by that time, the sky turned even redder.

The lowered clouds seemed almost within reach, and even the air carried a trace of blood. The resounding screams did not disappear but instead grew more frequent.

Even if she was not of this world, seeing such indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people, she couldn’t help but feel heartache.

Just how many have been killed?

Two thousand? Ten thousand?

She remembered Chen Xuan saying that Chang’an City was the largest city in this world, with a permanent population of over a million, and now, just before the grand sect competition, a large number of people had flocked from outside, making it the peak of the year in terms of total population.

Could all this have been premeditated?

And where was Chen Xuan now?

If Chen Xuan discovered something major amiss in Chang’an City, would he summon her back to the shop?

Liu Shuyue shook her head slightly, temporarily suppressing these random thoughts.

The window paper on the windows had long since fallen off, leaving only the decayed wooden lattice. The four quietly approached the wall and peeked inside.

"Master Ji!"

Jiu couldn’t help but let out a low cry. He almost shouted out loud with all his might to hold himself back.

Liu Shuyue saw a man standing with his hands raised high, bound to a skeleton, his lower body swallowed by writhing muscle tissue, completely immobilized. The room’s four corners each had a candlestick, casting a blood-red light. Furthermore, the floor and walls were covered with incomprehensible symbols, converging in a web-like manner at the center of the room, directly beneath the man in the mass of flesh.

The cultivator Jiu had discovered earlier was in the room—with him were three other cultivators, surrounding Jiu’s master, kneeling on the ground, chanting continuously. From this distance, she could clearly see the jade plaques hanging from the cultivators’ waists, seemingly engraved with the words ’Qingge Sect.’

Qingge Sect...

It’s the same sect Chen Xuan went to investigate!

So they are not only the perpetrators of the Wei Family massacre but also the initiators of this horrifying catastrophe?

The reason they captured Ji Yanshu and kept him alive until now was not hard to guess—Ji Yanshu was actually the key Wanderer, and they were using him to create corruption!

So this courtyard most likely was where the invasion initially began!

However, with four cultivators and Ji Yanshu, that’s only five people. The sixth light spot disappeared as it approached... Was I wrong? Liu Shuyue pondered.

But this was not the time for hesitation. These people clearly hadn’t realized they were exposed, and the sooner they eliminated them, the more likely they could save tens of thousands of residents.

"I go left, Jiu right, Fu Jiaolu left front, Hua right front, get ready to act." Liu Shuyue instructed.

"Three, two, one... Go!"

All four acted simultaneously. Except for Fu Jiaolu who used a gun, the other three wielded the Thousand Thoughts Sword.

The enemy was caught completely off guard by the sudden attack, all being hit instantly!

But none of them were fatally wounded; not only couldn’t the bullets pierce through their skin, but even the Qi Sword could only slash a shallow blood mark!

"Kalan Shanda!"

The other party let out a roar, the words coming out were not in the language of the Central Plains!

Liu Shuyue instantly realized that these people were no longer sect cultivators; they had been possessed by some power, though still maintaining human form for now. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

That’s why their aura was full and scattered!

They were closer to a Demon Fiend than to a human!

If they were Demon Fiends, it made things easier, as the disciples of the Lotus Cloud Sect were never short of Dharma Methods for dealing with Demon Fiends. Liu Shuyue directly hurled four Thunder Talismans, "Thunder Technique: Annihilate Evil!"

Purple lightning erupted from the talisman paper. Before the Demon Fiends could react, they were fixed in place by the dazzling lightning, smoke rising from their bodies.

"Once more!" Liu Shuyue shouted.

"Yes!" the disciples responded in unison, the Thousand Thoughts Sword shot out, and the gun kept firing—this time, their outer skin was no longer as hard as steel. In the blink of an eye, their vital points like their heads, hearts, abdomens, and thighs were all destroyed by the three!

Seeing the enemy fall, Jiu still couldn’t quite believe it.

"... Did we win?"

Just two months ago, he didn’t even dare to breathe loudly when facing the cultivators of the Tu Family; the first thing he did after crawling out of the well was flee with his sister overnight, fearing the Tu Family would come back to kill. But now, he’d just decapitated one of them with a single sword strike, even if it was with the assistance of the Immortal Master.

He believed that even if the Immortal Master wasn’t present, if he went all out, he could use the Demon-Slaying True Sword to eliminate these four.

He truly... had become stronger.

Far stronger than he ever imagined.

"Master!" Hua turned over the window, rushing to Ji Yanshu, yet hesitated to get too close due to the squirming mass of flesh.

As if hearing the call of someone familiar, the man bound to the skeleton slowly opened his eyes.

He looked at Jiu and Hua, a tremendously surprised expression appearing on his face, weakly asking, "How... how are the two of you... here..."

"Don’t ask now, how can we rescue you?" Hua interrupted.

"It’s too late... already too late..."

"It’s not too late, we have met an exceptionally strong Immortal Master!"

"Listen... listen to me... I’m sorry to you both..." Ji Yanshu said haltingly, "I shouldn’t have stayed in the Wei Family, nor should I have concealed the message about the Grotto Heaven from you... I was guarding against my fellow sect members, never... never expecting to be found by those from the other world..."

"Can you come down and say that?" Jiu urged anxiously, "I’ll cut down the whole thing with you, will that work?"

"I’m sorry to you... sorry to your parents, it’s me... who harmed them..." Ji Yanshu seemed to be using his last strength to speak, "Go quickly, leave me... as far as you can, it has descended already, and no one... can stop it..."

"Who is it?" Liu Shuyue couldn’t help but ask.

Jiu raised the Qi Sword, planning to cut the mass of flesh while keeping the person intact, then figure out a way to remove the excess.

But just as the Thousand Thoughts Sword pierced the mass of flesh, it suddenly started to tremble.

In an instant, the ground beneath them also shook violently, the tiles from the buildings crashing down.

"Not good!" Fu Jiaolu exclaimed in shock, "This place is about to collapse, get out now!"

Almost as soon as the words were out, the earth caved in.

Not just the spot where they stood, but also the buildings outside, the courtyard walls, and the surrounding streets, all collapsed as well. Houses toppled row by row, the streets heaved and sank, resembling crushed tofu. The people on the streets had no way to escape and were swallowed by the debris in an instant, vanishing without a trace beneath their feet as if standing on a giant pit.

Accompanied by a deafening rumble, the entire district split to pieces, collapsing into the earth with a roar!