“Hiss!”
As Lin Xiao had anticipated, this Prosperity Wall, like the Prosperity Stone on the Prosperity Token, caused his hand sea to frantically devour, as if a whale swallowing an ox. A vast and unparalleled high-grade stone aura surged into his hand sea.
In the span of one or two breaths, the corner of the stone wall, about the size of half a palm in Lin Xiao’s grasp, vanished entirely, completely devoured and refined. A small notch had now appeared in the corner of the city wall.
In that instant, the petrifying power within Lin Xiao’s hand sea surged tumultuously. His hand sea cultivation began to skyrocket, breaking through from the equivalent of a seventh-tier Martial Venerable to an eighth-tier Martial Venerable, then to a ninth-tier Martial Venerable, and finally reaching the peak of the ninth tier.
However, at that very moment, an anomaly abruptly occurred.
Woo, woo, woo…
A desolate, ancient horn suddenly resounded, its rolling sound like an ancient war song, akin to the mournful chanting of monks or the wail of an impending apocalypse. It was filled with desolation, mystery, and sorrow, yet carried the resolve of a fight to the death.
The complex and unpredictable sound instantly echoed through the heavens and earth, spreading across the entire Prosperity City and even reaching thousands of miles beyond, perhaps farther still.
To Lin Xiao’s left, in the distant void above the main gate, he distinctly saw a surge of black aura erupting from the beacon tower above the gate, coalescing into a massive black horn.
The mysterious, ancient wailing sound emanated from that black horn.
At the same time, beams of light shot out from various beacon towers around the walls of Prosperity City, piercing the sky.
The dazzling light, like divine radiance, illuminated all directions. The entire Prosperity City, and even the vast expanse beyond its walls, was bathed in light, as if night had suddenly turned to day.
An inexplicable sense of oppression enveloped the entire region.
The whole of Prosperity City faintly trembled.
“What!” Lin Xiao’s forehead vein twitched. He immediately forced the operation of his Heaven-Sealing Stone Hand to stop, then propelled himself at maximum speed, rushing toward the interior of Prosperity City.
“This is getting out of hand!” Lin Xiao muttered to himself as he sped along, his body drenched in sweat.
He could never have imagined that merely refining a corner of the wall would cause such a massive commotion.
This disturbance, akin to the end of the world, was something the Southeast Domain likely hadn’t experienced in countless ages.
This uproar was enough to shake the entire Southeast Domain!
Even the powerhouses of the Southeast Domain might believe that Prosperity City was under a tremendous attack, with the human race facing a crisis!
The ancient horn and the mysterious beacon light had consequences too vast to fathom. The entire Southeast Domain would likely be plunged into turmoil…
At the same time, within the Sheng family, the moment the commotion was heard and the sky-piercing firelight was seen, Sheng Qianyu’s expression changed drastically. “Trouble! Prosperity City is in crisis. The entire clan, mobilise!”
Sheng Qianyu’s booming voice echoed throughout the Sheng residence.
As he spoke, his entire body shot forward, the first to race toward the city walls.
“The horn of the ancient era of turmoil?” In a tavern, Li Renchou’s brows furrowed instantly. “Could it be that the era of turmoil is about to begin again?”
Without hesitation, Li Renchou burst through the window, shattering the tavern’s window frame, sending splinters of wood flying in all directions.
“What?” The Martial Emperor elder of the Lingjian Sect’s expression changed drastically. Without regard for anything else, he immediately shot out from the tavern.
Jian Wuqu and Yang Xiu followed close behind.
The Martial Emperor elders of the other seven super sects, along with the Martial Emperor powerhouses from various forces, all rushed out in an instant.
In no time, Lin Xiao saw dozens of Martial Emperor figures appearing in the void from all directions.
From various taverns and rooms, countless figures surged out. From the Sheng family’s direction, a dense mass of uniformly dressed figures rushed into the sky, truly a city-wide mobilisation.
Lin Xiao was drenched in sweat. This had truly spiralled out of control!
Fortunately, everyone was now rushing toward the city walls, not paying much attention to anything else. Otherwise, even in his current invisible state, he would surely have been noticed.
With no time to reach the Tianjiao Tavern, Lin Xiao darted into a corner of the streets, entering a room someone had just vacated. He dispelled the effect of the concealment pill, revealing himself, then sped toward the city walls.
Now, with countless figures everywhere, no one would suspect that he was the one who refined the Prosperity City wall.
Nor would anyone notice that he had emerged from this corner.
While Prosperity City trembled, tens of thousands of miles away in the Lingjian Sect.
In a secluded area, an elder’s storage ring suddenly shattered. A black token vibrated before him, emitting a wail-like sound.
The elder’s eyes widened sharply, two piercing beams of light bursting from his gaze. “Something has happened in Prosperity City!”
With that, he shot into the sky from the secluded area, like a peerless giant sword soaring from a mountain peak. The overwhelming pressure of a Martial Emperor enveloped countless peaks, his booming shout exploding in the air. “Prosperity City is in turmoil! Lingjian Sect, stand ready. If orders come, the entire sect will head to Prosperity City!”
As his voice fell, a beam of light cut through the void, disappearing into the horizon.
The next moment, the bell of the Lingjian Sect rang out.
“What?”
Countless elders and disciples of the Lingjian Sect were shocked, all rushing toward the main peak in the sky.
Hundreds of thousands, even millions of miles away from Prosperity City, in the Qianglong Sect.
A storage ring similarly shattered, and an ancient Prosperity Token flew out, trembling.
“Something has happened in Prosperity City!” The Qianglong Sect’s leader immediately shot into the sky, shouting, “Prosperity City is in trouble! Great Elder, gather the sect. If orders come, head to Prosperity City for support!”
With that, the Qianglong Sect leader boarded a void ship and sped toward the horizon.
Inside Prosperity City, Lin Xiao had already reached Zi Huang and Ling Xiao’s vicinity. Zi Ling, Ling Hu, and others had also gathered, all eyeing their surroundings.
The entire area was filled with countless figures.
Outside Prosperity City, more figures were arriving one after another. The ancient horn’s sound had ceased, and the horn’s phantom had dissipated.
Yet the beacon towers of Prosperity City still blazed with dazzling light, leaving everyone in utter shock as they witnessed it all.
“What happened?”
At that moment, Sheng Qianyu asked an elder at the ninth-tier Martial Lord level standing at the city wall’s gate.
“Patriarch… we don’t know what’s going on. We didn’t see anyone attacking the city walls,” the elder replied in confusion, his face also covered in sweat.
As a high-ranking member of the Sheng family, he knew some of Prosperity City’s secrets.
But what baffled them was that they hadn’t seen anyone attack the city walls, yet the crisis horn had suddenly sounded.
Such an anomaly would only occur if the Prosperity City walls were under massive attack or faced a tremendous threat. They had only read about it in records, never witnessing it themselves.
Even in historical records, this hadn’t happened for hundreds or thousands of years.
If someone had truly attacked the Prosperity City walls to the point of threatening them, not only would they know, but the entire city’s populace would as well.
After all, the Prosperity City walls were impervious even to Martial Emperors.
