Chapter 355: The ancestors came out in full force (1)
Hellfire City, three hundred thousand miles to the south.
Among the vast mountains, there is an extremely "fat" peak.
The so-called 'fat' refers to the extremely full base of this mountain, with a diameter of three thousand miles.
The so-called 'thick' refers to the fact that the mountain is shaped like a round table, three thousand feet above the ground, and looks extremely solid and stable.
On the top of this mountain, someone used his magical powers to open up a piece of flat land and built palaces and pavilions. There were gurgling streams, a clear lake like a mirror, and countless exotic flowers and plants. There were countless beautiful palace maids coming and going. It was truly a fairyland.
But the real essence here is still under the mountain.
From a hall on the top of the mountain, a corridor leads directly underground. Following the vertical descent, the corridor goes more than ten thousand feet underground and there is a huge circular cave.
In the middle of the cave, there is a magma lake with a diameter of one hundred miles. In the round lake, the magma rolls "quietly" and "gracefully", as pure and clear as glass, emitting a gentle red light, illuminating the entire cave.
The earth and fire energy here is extremely abundant, and is even several times thicker than the spiritual charm of heaven and earth that Lu Yi forcibly condensed by using the Five Elements Feng Shui Array to seal off the Hellfire City, which increased the spiritual charm by a hundred times.
At the edge of the magma lake, there is a large area of fine red crystal soil. In the high-temperature crystal soil, countless fire-attributed spiritual medicines are planted. There are many kinds of them, and most of them are rare treasures that ordinary people have never seen.
The spiritual medicines in these crystal soils are nothing special. Even if Lu Yi was dragged here, he basically wouldn't recognize these spiritual medicines.
But in this magma lake, there is a cluster of fire lotus.
In the crater of the Red Lotus Temple, due to the protection of the mountain gate formation, a few thousand-year-old fire lotuses managed to survive. Even so, these thousand-year-old fire lotuses were already the most important treasures of the Red Lotus Temple.
The fire lotus in the magma lake has a lotus leaf that is hundreds of feet in size. Dozens of red lotus flowers, each as big as an acre, float quietly on the magma, with a refreshing and warm fragrance. Each petal looks like it is carved from crystal, and the lotus seeds in the lotus pedestal are shining brightly, emitting a majestic and compelling vitality.
This cluster of fire lotus has been blooming here since the founding of Yan Dynasty. It is unknown how many tens of millions of years it has existed. Every lotus seed is an extremely rare treasure. Every lotus seed is a treasured treasure of Yan Dynasty.
In the rock walls around the cave, caves that look like honeycombs have been carved.
Each cave is only a few dozen feet in radius, and the furnishings inside are extremely simple, with stone tables, stone chairs, stone cushions and other items.
In some caves, there are men and women practicing, some with red skin and some young and some old. Their ages cannot be determined from their appearance, but their eyes are compelling and full of vicissitudes of life.
These men and women are the emperors who retired from the Yan Dynasty, as well as members of the royal family and their families.
Whenever they broke through the Golden Lotus realm, they would follow the rules of their ancestors and come to the caves in the mountains to practice in seclusion, and then disappear from sight, never to appear in front of the world again, and "willingly" become the backup and foundation of the Yan Dynasty.
Beside the quietly rolling lava lake, an old man with white beard hanging down to his belly was smiling broadly, accompanying a young, handsome youth in a green water cloud robe, as they looked at the dozens of fire lotuses blooming on the lava.
The young man put his hands behind his back and nodded with a smile: "You Yanchao still have some assets, so you are not poor..."
The white-bearded old man Huo Shuo, the oldest and most senior elder in the Yan Dynasty clan, and a master at the peak of the Golden Lotus Realm, smiled respectfully at the young man: "Your Highness, please forgive me for making fun of you. My Yan Dynasty is just..."
Messy footsteps sounded, and a middle-aged man with red hair and beard fell from the corridor and ran over here in a hurry: "Ancestor, something happened, something happened... Those useless guys are simply..."
"Why are you so flustered?" Huo Shuo rolled his eyes, looked at the middle-aged man and scolded him, "You disturbed His Highness, watch out for your skin."
Yun Zai Tian, the third prince of Yunluo Ancient Country, smiled slightly, glanced at the fire lotuses, turned around, and shook his head gently: "I'm not a three-year-old child, how could I be disturbed so easily? What happened?"
Without waiting for the middle-aged man to speak, Yun Zaitian made his own judgment: "Yan Dynasty has no other rivals around here except Xuan Dynasty, let alone other opponents... Could it be that Xuan Dynasty is attacking us? Haha, this is interesting."
Huo Shuo's old face turned a little red.
Huo Yu had previously invited three ancestors who had reached the Golden Lotus realm to go to the Hellfire City. Huo Shuo knew about this.
He originally thought that with three clansmen who had reached the Golden Lotus realm taking action, no matter what trouble the Hellfire City encountered, it would be suppressed.
But, it seems...something is wrong?
With a gloomy face, Huo Shuo said in a cold voice: "What happened? Did the Hyun Dynasty really attack us? Hmm? Even if they did, is it necessary to be so flustered? It's really embarrassing in front of His Highness."
The middle-aged man took a deep breath, saluted solemnly to Yun Zai Tian, and then smiled bitterly at Huo Shuo: "Old Ancestor, those idiots just sent me news that seven days ago, a demon monk broke into the Hellfire City and set up a large formation to seal off the entire Hellfire City."
"Now that the inside and outside of Hellfire City are cut off from any news, we don't know whether Huo Yu and the others are dead or alive."
"But in the northern border, the army of the Xuan Dynasty is pouring in continuously. They are constantly building teleportation arrays, encroaching on an average of 3,000 miles of our northern border every day. As the teleportation arrays are continuously deployed and the army continues to pour in, the encroachment speed is still accelerating."
"You... have to make a decision." The middle-aged man smiled bitterly, bowed, and said no more.
Huo Shuo's face turned red.
He looked at Yun Zai Tian and said dryly, "Your Highness, please excuse my embarrassment."
Yun Zai Tian shook his head and waved his hand gently: "Forget it, what's so funny about this... Let's go to Hellfire City and see what kind of 'evil monk' is able to seal off the entire Hellfire City."
With a light smile, Yun Zaitian said leisurely: "Let's not talk about the principle of beating a dog and looking at its owner. Your Yan Dynasty is a vassal of my Yunluo Ancient Kingdom, and we will not allow anyone to bully us... Let's just say that my father asked me to be the 'Inspector and Collector' to urge the countries to pay the tribute in advance!"
Yun Zai Tian narrowed his eyes and smiled: "If the tribute of your Yan Dynasty is delayed, you will be punished, and it will be embarrassing for me. I have several brothers who are the most mean-spirited and will inevitably ridicule me. I cannot tolerate such things."
Huo Shuo bowed to Yun Zai Tian.
Then, he raised his head and clapped his hands vigorously: "Activate the holy land's mountain protection formation, seal the holy land, and summon all the clansmen who are cultivating in the holy land. Let's... go to Hellfire City!"
Huo Shuo smiled at Yun Zai Tian and said, "It won't happen that His Highness will lose face because of us."
Yun Zai Tian laughed "hehe" and rolled up his sleeves. Dozens of fire lotuses on the lava lake, sparkling fire lotus seeds flew up and fell into his sleeves.
There were a total of seventy-two fire lotuses and more than eight hundred lotus seeds. Yun Zai Tian directly took away six hundred and sixty-six of them, which was a very auspicious number.
Huo Shuo, the middle-aged man who brought the news, and the other members of the Huo clan who had just walked out of the caves, were so heartbroken when they saw Yun Zaitian act so ruthlessly.
But no matter how heartbroken they were, they quickly put on smiles.
He is the third prince of the suzerain Yunluo Ancient Kingdom, who holds real power. He has a noble status, powerful strength, and a bad temper. Taking away some fire lotus seeds shows that he thinks highly of their Yan Dynasty!
On the thick mountain, fire-colored runes several feet wide lit up, like huge chains, wrapping the entire mountain inside. A thick layer of fire emerged, and with the roar of the flames, the entire mountain dimmed a little bit in the air, and finally disappeared completely.
There was only a fist-sized flame left, swaying gently in the breeze.
The entire mountain, including the corridor leading to the cave, was sealed by the formation and submerged in the void. Ordinary people who were not familiar with the formation could not find the entrance at all.
If someone were to break in with violence, this fist-sized flame, although seemingly weak, would connect to the underground fire veins within a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles. Once touched, the explosive power would be enough to burn everything, and the void within a radius of thousands of miles would turn into a sea of hellfire.
As the mountain sank into the void, Huo Shuo and the others had already passed through the teleportation array set up in the cave and arrived directly at the royal forest garden outside the Hellfire City.
Hellfire City was sealed off by Lu Fei, and even the teleportation array was completely blocked.
However, the royal forest garden outside the city covers a large area and has various exquisite arrangements, and the void teleportation array is naturally a common item.
Flames filled the sky as more than a dozen giant warships shaped like fire crows rose into the air and roared towards Hellfire City.
About thirty miles away from Hellfire City, runes lit up on the giant battleship, and huge fire thunders with a diameter of hundreds of feet condensed out of thin air, falling heavily on the five-colored light shield accompanied by the dull sound of wind and thunder.
Huo Shuo and others took action, but they were too lazy to care about the lives of officials and soldiers outside the city, or the people in the villages and towns.
These fire bombs exploded one by one, and the power of each one swept across an area of more than twenty miles. Circles of fire set off hurricanes, smoke and dust, and rolled around with terrible high temperatures.
The officials and troops outside the city were caught off guard and were swept in by the flames and high temperature. Countless people were blown away with screams, and some were killed or injured, with their bodies turned to ashes by the high temperature flames.
Huo Shuo and other clan ancestors stood at the bow of the giant ship, overlooking the chaos below, each of them showing a satisfied smile.
"They are all incompetent trash. The imperial court feeds them, but they are just a waste of food and salaries, and what else is there for them?"
Huo Shuo smiled at Yun Zai Tian and said, "Your Highness, is this the truth?"
Yun Zai Tian smiled slightly and changed the subject: "Well, where is that evil monk?"
Huo Shuo nodded and raised his voice: "I am Huo Shuo, evil monk, please come out to see me immediately... If you release the formation now and kneel down to beg for mercy, you still have a chance to survive... If you continue to act recklessly, I will make it difficult for you to die!"
Before Huo Shuo finished his words, a pillar of fire shot up from the ground into the sky and hit the huge ship he was on with a loud bang.
Along with the pillar of fire, there came a sharp greeting: "Hey, the gray grandson is here, the gray grandson is here... Gray grandson, your grandfather is here, hurry up and call him something nice!"
