Chapter 532 - 260: Trap and Beat the Dog! I’ve Waited a Long Time

Chapter 532: Chapter 260: Trap and Beat the Dog! I’ve Waited a Long Time

"Lord Chen, it looks like Sect Leader Duan is here for you."

Chen Sheng gave a faint smile and took a step forward. His figure soared into the air, passing just beyond the array’s light barrier to face Duan He from afar.

He calmly scrutinized the bald man before him, who was radiating Evil Qi, and spoke in a measured tone:

"Duan He, you’ve gathered a band of ruffians, spouted arrogant nonsense, and threatened an inspector from the court...

"Do you have a death wish, or do you believe the laws of Daqian can’t take that bald head of yours?"

"Hahaha!"

As if he had just heard the world’s greatest joke, Duan He threw his head back and roared with laughter, his voice thundering across the land:

"Chen Sheng, Chen Sheng, you’re at death’s door and still putting on your official airs. Back in Ning’an, you used your home-turf advantage to repeatedly ruin the great plans of my Blood River Sect. I’ve long wanted to rip out your soul and refine it just to quell the hatred in my heart!

"Today, here in Nanzhao, time and terrain are on my side. Let’s see what tricks you have left up your sleeve!"

Then, the blood-red markings on Duan He’s face suddenly lit up as he roared:

"Elder Song, what are you waiting for?!"

That roar was a signal.

Among the ranks of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, the eyes of Great Elder Song Zhe, who had been watching in silence, suddenly flashed with a sharp light.

Without a moment’s hesitation, he whipped a token out of his sleeve. It was similar in shape to the one in Lan Yufei’s hand, but its color was dark and dull. Channeling his True Essence, he crushed it fiercely.

KRAK—BOOM!

The token exploded into pieces.

A strange ripple instantly shot into the earth veins below, resonating with the massive blue canopy in the sky.

The next moment.

The light of the Earth-Fire Scorpio Array, which enveloped the entire sect and radiated immense power, began to flicker violently before letting out a mournful hum.

The array’s connection to the earth veins at its core seemed to have been severed by an invisible blade. Countless runic patterns flickered erratically before rapidly dimming and shattering.

The giant scorpion phantasm in the sky let out a silent shriek. Its form rapidly blurred and turned transparent, until, with a soft POP, it dissipated almost entirely, like a bursting bubble.

The once-impenetrable light barrier of the array was now thin and dim. The flow of Primordial Qi was sluggish and choked, its power reduced to less than a tenth of its original strength!

The allied army of the four sects fell silent for a moment, then erupted into earth-shaking, ecstatic cheers.

It’s broken!

The greatest defense of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect had been broken from within!

Who could have imagined that the high-ranking and powerful Great Elder, Song Zhe, would turn traitor!

The members of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, on the other hand, fell into a deathly silence, which was immediately shattered by a clamorous uproar.

Countless gazes—horrified, furious, and filled with disbelief—shot toward Song Zhe, who remained hovering in the air, his face impassive.

"Great Elder, you... How dare you betray the sect?!"

"Song Zhe, you old bastard, may you die a dog’s death!"

Roars and curses erupted instantly.

Even two elders of other surnames, who were normally on good terms with him, were now staring wide-eyed, their faces filled with shock and fury.

"Betray the sect?"

Facing a thousand accusing fingers, Song Zhe threw his head back and roared with laughter, a sound filled with years of pent-up resentment and vicious glee:

"Lan Yufei, who is the real one betraying the sect? The Ten Thousand Poisons Sect has only achieved its current standing after years under the protection of the Profound Yin Valley!

"But you? For your own selfish desires, you secretly colluded with the Nie Family of Yunzhou, letting the wolf into our den, intending to hand over our ancestors’ legacy to outsiders.

"You are the greatest traitor to the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect! The Ouyang Clan usurped power and marginalized those of other surnames. You should have abdicated in favor of the worthy long ago!

"Today, I am righting a wrong and restoring our sect to its proper path!"

Then, his gaze turned downward:

"Fellow disciples, don’t be deceived by the Ouyang Family and this woman! Follow me in setting things right, eradicate the Ouyang Lineage, and we can establish a new sect, share in the Great Dao, and be free from factional divides!"

However, he was met with only more furious glares and curses.

Colluding with outside enemies and destroying the Sect Protection Array—such acts had crossed a line for most of the disciples, something a few rabble-rousing words could not fix.

’Stubborn fools!’

Seeing this, the last trace of hesitation in Song Zhe’s eyes vanished, replaced by icy killing intent. He whipped his head around and roared to Duan He and the allied forces:

"Fellow Daoists, the time is now! The Ouyang Clan and its lackeys are right before you! Kill!"

"KILL—!!!"

With bloodshot eyes, Duan He waved his hand and gave the order, laughing maniacally.

The long-restrained allied army of the four sects surged forward like a torrent of ferocious beasts released from a cage, letting out a heaven-shaking roar.

Over a hundred Innate cultivators and thirteen Profound Mastery experts, holding nothing back, transformed into streaks of multicolored light. They charged fearlessly toward the now-defenseless gap in the array and stormed through the gates of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect.

The Blood Fiends of the Blood River Sect, the ghostly winds of Black Wind Valley, the Cyan Light Bamboo Swords of the Thousand Bamboo Sect, the savage birds and beasts of Beast Taming Mountain...

In an instant, they tore through the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s flimsy front lines.

Screams, the clash of weapons, and thunderous explosions erupted all at once.

The many disciples of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, shocked and enraged, scrambled to fight back, their formations instantly thrown into chaos.

Lan Yufei’s face went deathly pale, and her delicate body trembled slightly, as if she could not accept the sudden collapse of the situation.

Duan He led the charge, breaking through scattered resistance and heading straight for the center. His eyes were locked on Chen Sheng, who seemed somewhat flustered by the array’s collapse. Duan He’s face was a mask of cruel amusement, like a cat toying with a mouse.

However, just as the majority of the allied forces had stormed through the sect gates—their faces filled with bloodthirsty excitement and greed, believing victory was assured—

Abruptly, everything changed!

Lan Yufei, who had appeared deathly pale and on the verge of collapse, suddenly had a flash of bone-chilling light in the depths of her eyes.

With a flip of her slender hand, a token appeared silently in her palm. It was pitch-black, ancient in design, and looked as if it had been carved from the bone of some strange beast.

With no earth-shaking display, Lady Lan simply infused a wisp of pure True Essence into it.

BUZZ...!

A low, distant hum, as if from the very depths of the Nine Nether, suddenly echoed up from the deepest part of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect’s earth veins.

This tremor was far deeper and more immense than the one that had accompanied the activation of the Earth-Fire Scorpio Array.

RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE!

The ground shook violently, and the mountains swayed.

Countless pitch-black runic patterns, far more complex and concealed than before, surged madly from the vital points of the Ten Thousand Poisons Sect—even from beneath seemingly ordinary rocks, trees, and plants.

They intertwined and linked together at astonishing speed.

In the blink of an eye, beneath the shattered blue canopy, a new one was formed—a pitch-black sky, thicker, more solid, and radiating a boundless, cold, and lethally toxic Evil Qi.

Above the canopy.

A phantasmal giant serpent rapidly condensed. It was a deep, shadowy black, with a single horn on its head and crimson eyes. Coiled like a mountain, its cold, vertical pupils gazed down at the prey that had trespassed below. A poisonous mist spread as its forked tongue flickered in and out.

The Ouyang Clan’s ultimate secret, a final gambit passed down through the generations and known only to the Sect Leader, had been unleashed. The Tier Four Grand Array, the Profound Nether Viper Array, was now active.

In the blink of an eye,

it had completely sealed off the entire Ten Thousand Poisons Sect, trapping the bulk of the four sects’ allied army inside.

Inside and outside the array, light and darkness were starkly divided, creating two separate worlds.

The savage grin on the face of Duan He, who was leading the charge, froze instantly. His ecstasy morphed into shock, which then twisted into horrified disbelief.

The aura around Lan Yufei changed completely. Gone was any trace of her previous weakness and panic.

Her palace robes billowed though there was no wind, and her eyes, now like cold stars, stared icily at the enemies trapped and in temporary chaos within the array.

And Chen Sheng, who had been standing calmly to her side, now finally strode forward to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Lan Yufei.

Gazing at Duan He, whose expression had contorted in horror inside the array, a slow smile spread across Chen Sheng’s face.

His voice was not loud, yet it carried for hundreds of yards:

"Fellow Daoist Blood River, I have been here... waiting for you for quite some time."

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