Chapter 727 - 365: Alarm; Siege

Chapter 727: Chapter 365: Alarm; Siege

But that didn’t matter to Ji Lingxian. All that mattered was that the Array had been revealed!

"Everyone, a full-power strike! Charge up!!" Ji Lingxian ordered!

The moment the mountain was moved, everyone in the Ji Family with a Cultivation at the Qi Cultivation level or higher had already surrounded the area.

At Ji Lingxian’s word, all the Ji Family members at Qi Cultivation and above sprang into action.

The next moment, countless multicolored lights flared, bright enough to illuminate all three of the Ji Family’s mountain peaks.

’Do they have to be so dramatic?’ Cold sweat beaded on the forehead of Cheng Zongyang, who was deep underground.

Because of the Array, the people outside couldn’t probe the situation beneath the soil, but Cheng Zongyang could sense what was happening above.

’Can it hold?’ Cheng Zongyang swallowed nervously. He had still underestimated the foundation and audacity of a Six-Star Family!

He had already deployed his Puppet and was standing on the Teleportation Array himself.

If the Array was truly broken, his only choice was to immediately take the Earth Treasure Gourd and teleport away. At the same time, he would have the Puppet self-destruct, destroying the Teleportation Array and the Array Hub of the Tier Six Array. This would prevent the Ji Family from getting their hands on the two arrays to study them.

"Strike!!" Ji Lingxian bellowed.

Instantly, everyone in mid-air unleashed their fully charged attacks, blasting them toward the Grand Array underground!

For a moment, all sorts of Magical Treasures, Magical Artifacts, and the shimmering lights of Magic Techniques flashed. A tide of Spiritual Power surged forth, causing continuous, violent tremors.

Countless lights erupted. Magical Treasures and Magical Artifacts were flung back, and many people were knocked backward by a powerful Rebound force, some even coughing up blood.

But as the light faded, the Mountain Protection Array remained as sturdy as ever, completely unbreakable!

’Good, good, good! It held!’ Sensing the state of the Grand Array, Cheng Zongyang breathed a sigh of relief. ’The Array’s energy is drawn from the Earth Vein Power. For an Array of this Grade, even Top Grade Spirit Stones wouldn’t last long.’

"How is that possible!"

Above ground, Ji Lingxian, Ji Changfeng, Ji Lingyun, and Ji Xiaotian stared at the unharmed Grand Array, utterly dumbfounded.

The four of them had also just unleashed a full-power strike.

Although only Ji Lingxian was at the Nascent Soul Great Perfection Realm among them, with the other three at the Nascent Soul Middle to Late Stage, their combined power was immense. When the four of them joined forces with the several thousand Cultivators of the family at Qi Cultivation and above for a single, all-out strike, not even the Mountain Protection Array of one of the Five Great Immortal Sects could have withstood it.

"Is... is that an Array from the Infinite Daoist Sect?" Ji Changfeng frowned.

At present, only the Infinite Daoist Sect possessed such a terrifyingly powerful Protective Array.

"And the only thing that could appear in our Ji Family’s lands without any warning would be one of those Tokens from the Daoist Sect, right?" Ji Xiaotian added in a low voice.

Seeing that everyone’s attacks were fruitless, Ji Lingxian grew extremely anxious. She knew she couldn’t let the intruder continue to steal the Spirit Vein, or the Ji Family would suffer a devastating blow.

So, she turned to her three nephews, her tone heavy. "You and the others continue trying to break the Array. I’m going to the ancestral grounds!"

At this, the three men fell silent.

There was only one thing enshrined in the ancestral grounds. But with the very foundation of the Ji Family’s future at stake, they had no choice but to bring out that Treasure.

Ji Lingxian returned to the back mountain. After the ferocious aura around her quickly subsided and she became calm, she opened a separate Forbidden Array and respectfully walked into the ancestral grounds.

"The Ji Family faces a crisis that threatens its very foundation. Your unworthy descendant, Ji Lingxian, has come to retrieve the Ancestral Bone! May our ancestors grant us their blessing!"

After pressing her palms together and paying her respects, Ji Lingxian walked to the altar, opened an ancient box, and took out a Finger Bone.

This Finger Bone had been passed down for over a thousand years, a relic left by the Ji Family’s founding ancestor.

All this time, its power had only ever been borrowed slightly when cultivating special Spirit Beasts. It had the effect of gradually enhancing and altering a Spirit Beast’s bloodline abilities. Therefore, only when they encountered a special Spirit Beast or Spirit Insect would its offspring be placed here in its youth, or even before hatching, to be enhanced and altered.

This was also why the Spirit-eating Insects possessed such an ability.

When used for combat, it also possessed a powerful ability—it could break through all kinds of spatial restrictions, like Sealing Arrays.

But in all this time, it had never been moved, let alone taken from the ancestral grounds.

This was the first time in her tenure as the family’s overseer!

The ancestors had not specified its exact origin, only that it was the Finger Bone of some kind of beast.

Holding the Finger Bone, Ji Lingxian returned to the front of the Mountain Protection Array.

"What’s the situation?" Ji Lingxian asked her three nephews.

Ji Lingyun stared at the Array below, put away his folding fan, and frowned. "I’ve figured some of it out. This Grand Array is like a tortoise shell—it’s too strong. Not only does it have Defense, Divine Sense Shielding, and Rebound abilities, it can also dissipate force. On top of that, it can draw upon the Earth Vein Power from below to supply itself."

"Our attacks are basically in a race against the speed at which it consumes and resupplies its energy from the Earth Vein. And that’s not even mentioning that the Grand Array is enveloping an entire Sixth Grade Spirit Vein! Unless we can exceed the Grand Array’s energy supply in a single instant, we won’t be able to break it."

"Aunt, did you bring it?" Ji Changfeng asked.

Ji Lingxian nodded slightly and took out the box.

With a motion of her hand, the pale-gold, thumb-sized Finger Bone floated into the air.

At the same time, Ji Lingxian’s Spiritual Power surged into it.

As she poured her Spiritual Power into the Finger Bone, strange golden patterns appeared on its surface, and it began to emit a powerful radiance.

Under Ji Lingxian’s control, the Finger Bone released a terrifying pressure.

"So powerful!!" Ji Changfeng stared at the tiny Finger Bone in shock. This was the first time any of them had ever seen it possess such pressure!

Drained of Spiritual Power, her face ashen, Ji Lingxian slowly lowered her hands and stopped the infusion. She stared at the Finger Bone before her, which now blazed like a miniature sun.

’I never imagined that activating this Finger Bone would consume such a terrifying amount of Spiritual Power! If I weren’t at the Nascent Soul Great Perfection Realm, I wouldn’t have been able to sustain such an astonishing drain.’

"Go!!" Looking down at the Grand Array below, she let out a sharp cry.

In an instant, a ball of golden light shot toward the Grand Array below.

Underground, Cheng Zongyang also felt that immense pressure! He had felt that same astonishing pressure before!

It had appeared when he removed the Soul Crystal from between the eyebrows of the Divine Statue!

’What in the world did the Ji Family bring out!?’ Cheng Zongyang’s expression suddenly turned grave—even more so than when thousands of people had been bombarding the Grand Array!

Without the slightest hesitation, Cheng Zongyang immediately opened the channel for the Grand Array to absorb the Spirit Vein’s Spiritual Qi, reinforcing its defensive capabilities!

The very moment Cheng Zongyang increased the Grand Array’s energy absorption, a streak of golden light descended from the sky and slammed into it!

A deafening DONG, like the beat of a celestial drum, instantly struck everyone’s hearts. The terrifying shockwave of power sent the surrounding Ji Family members flying.

In that instant, the Grand Array trembled violently. Its screen of light flickered erratically as cracks began to appear!

Even though the Array’s power had just been reinforced, it remained resilient under the terrifying impact. Although it had been attacked to the point of near collapse, in the end, it was not broken. The screen of light stabilized.

’It held!’ But instead of feeling relieved, Cheng Zongyang’s expression grew even more solemn.

’A single strike nearly shattered the Grand Array! If that happens again, it won’t hold!’

As Cheng Zongyang had the Grand Array rapidly absorb the Spirit Vein’s Spiritual Qi and the Earth Vein Power, he contemplated his next move, extremely curious about what that object was.

In contrast to Cheng Zongyang’s relief, Ji Lingxian was simply shocked!

’It was so close!’

Seeing that the strike hadn’t completely shattered the Array, Ji Lingxian had no time to think. Instead of infusing the Finger Bone with new Spiritual Power, she controlled it to strike the Grand Array again.

The Grand Array, which had yet to recover, began to flicker erratically once more under the Finger Bone’s successive attacks, looking as if it were about to break.

But Cheng Zongyang fully unleashed the energy infusion from the Spirit Vein. Slowly, as the Finger Bone’s power gradually diminished, the two sides became locked in a stalemate.

Ji Lingxian continuously controlled the Finger Bone to attack the Array, while the Array desperately resisted, consuming vast amounts of energy.

"Damn it! This is definitely consuming the Spirit Vein’s Spiritual Qi!!" Ji Lingxian gritted her teeth and halted the attack.

But her Spiritual Power had not yet recovered, so she immediately looked toward her three nephews.

"You three, come here!"

Immediately, Ji Changfeng and the other two came before the recalled Finger Bone. At Ji Lingxian’s signal, the three of them began to pour their Spiritual Power into it.

Cheng Zongyang, who had moved to a higher position within the Array, was now watching the scene above through an opening.