Who let him join the Sword Sect!

Chapter 418 When the Sky Collapses, Old Deng Reaches the Top

Although Zhang Ze had never ridden a rocket, he had seen it on TV before and had also tried riding in the new all-terrain Thunder 3000 tractor from Qianji Pavilion.

When he felt that thumping sensation, he knew that it was probably time to take off.

But the problem is that Zhang Ze doesn't want to fly yet. He doesn't want to be an astronaut, and he certainly doesn't want to eat Xizhilang (a type of spicy liquor).

He thought Sizhou was a great place, with flowers, grass, and forests, and he hadn't had enough of it yet.

We need to find a way to stop this takeoff.

However, because the matter was sudden, he didn't have any good ideas for the time being, and the others were in similar situations.

The cabbage was so anxious it was dizzy, spinning around in circles. The monkey was bewildered, fear in his eyes, gripping his precious iron rod tightly, his teeth chattering from the vibrations.

Ah Li, on the other hand, uses her extraordinary wisdom and prepares to directly use extraordinary power to launch a fierce attack and make a direct breakthrough on the core pyramid.

Lily once said that the best way to stop a spaceship is to directly destroy its core power array.

The defensive barrier that the green giant couldn't tear open, the God of Glass came to tear it.

I must say, that's a really good idea.

When there's no other way, it's always okay to go all out. Whether you can succeed by going all out is something to consider later, if there is a future.

Just as Ah Li was about to manifest its true form, which even Zhang Ze had never seen before, and reveal its true power, the tremor suddenly stopped.

As if someone had pressed the pause button, the vibrations stopped, the blood moon hanging over the ruined city disappeared, and the constantly flickering light and the cheerful laughter of the fireflies all came to an abrupt end.

"Hey?"

Ah Li, whose head had become pointy, was pulled back from the windowsill by Zhang Ze by her tail.

"Don't reveal your identity yet."

One by one, pale green to white fireflies flew out from the core pyramid, flitting about like headless flies, uttering all sorts of incomprehensible gasps.

"The engine has blown! The engine has blown!"

"Has anyone seen my instruction manual?"

"Citizens! Friends! Does anyone know how to fix the limiter?"

Although the exact cause is unknown, the result is obvious: the little ones' journey home has likely encountered a problem.

The captain's takeoff attempt failed.

Zhang Ze held down Ah Li, who was about to unleash her power, with one hand, and waved to Monkey King and Big Cabbage.

"I have a plan. We'll split into two groups. Monkey King, you and Ah Li..."

But before Zhang Ze could finish speaking, another firefly suddenly jumped in through the window.

Judging by the color, it's a home away from home style.

"Has anyone seen my limiter?" Yingling asked casually, oblivious to anything amiss.

But the answer wasn't "I don't know," but rather a series of quick moves.

Monkey King swept his staff across the head, striking the firefly and gaining control of the situation.

Once control ended, more vines attacked, binding it tightly and imprisoning it in place to prevent it from relinquishing its movement.

Then, Ah Li opened her mouth wide and unleashed a magical artifact with a name so long that even she sometimes couldn't remember it.

It directly captured the firefly spirit.

Zhang Ze, "..."

“Alright, let’s continue. Monkey, you and Ah Li…” Zhang Ze lifted a metal plate to block the window and continued the previous topic.

————The dividing line for the impending storm————

Generally speaking, the most dangerous place is the safest place, such as during a typhoon.

Peace and tranquility prevailed in the eye of the typhoon; as for what happened outside, that was a different story.
After all, logging in once is not easy for anyone.

We were all scraping hard.

I thought it was just a small mound.

Go ahead and talk to me about the 500 km/h wind speed.

Although the strange phenomenon at Luoyu Mountain wasn't a typhoon, it was actually quite similar. Compared to Zhang Ze and his group's comfortable situation, things were rather dire outside.

Outside of Luoyu Mountain.

Thunder rumbled across the sky, and the strange phenomenon of a blood moon obscured the heavens. A six-legged crocodile, which had come from the South China Sea and traveled against the current, fled through the rain, its fine scales humming and trembling.

Moments later, amidst the mournful cry of the six-legged crocodile, immense gravity tore its body apart, and the shattered scales, reflecting the light of the blood moon, fell towards the sky along with the reverse-flowing rain.

Centered on Luoyu Mountain, a massive vortex tore and devoured everything around it, turning the verdant forest into chaotic scorched earth.

Under this natural disaster, the surviving creatures here put aside their differences and had no time to worry about whether they were natural enemies. They used all their strength to escape the increasingly violent rain behind them.

But as the saying goes, the bigger the storm, the more valuable the fish; there are always those who are fearless and can spot opportunities at a glance.

Instead of running away, Miaomiao Erlang and his friends stood on the hillside outside the rain curtain, earning extra money.

Each of the three held a second-hand beast-taming ring, and they captured the fleeing spirit beasts with ease.

"Meow meow meow~, come into the bowl quickly."

Meow Meow grinned from ear to ear, calculating her earnings for the day and fantasizing about living a life of luxury and ease after this big score, playing with cat scratching posts one after another.

However, their lives were marked by the inevitable reversal of joy and sorrow. The three who had just been laughing and joking suddenly fell silent, their faces fell, and they joined the fleeing group in terror, like headless flies.

As the blood moon grew brighter in the sky, the vortex and rain began to spread outwards.

And the speed was frighteningly fast.

At the center of the vortex, the tides of the Earth Sea rippled, and Rain Mountain shrank and shrank constantly, occasionally revealing its true form: a tattered, raindrop-shaped starship.

The vortex continued to expand, drawing upon the power of Changzhou and converging at the foot of Luoyu Mountain, like a taut giant bow, ready to launch Luoyu Mountain at any moment.

But just as the three of them were about to be captured by the vortex and torn to pieces by gravity, another strange group suddenly emerged from behind the hill next to them.

Two large, hairy hands grabbed the three of them, one on each side, and pulled them into their arms.

It's those two red apes who are obsessed with figurines.

They were carrying all their belongings, sitting on the back of the red-footed frog that worked as a taxi driver, avoiding disaster. Saving the three people was just a side effect.

"Why did you save us?" Erlang, who had survived the ordeal, asked, wiping the water from his face.

Brother Erchiyuan gave him a thumbs up and said in a muffled voice, "There are no bad people who like anime girl figurines."

"Be careful, it might shake a bit, oh crap!" Frog almost bit his tongue as a boulder grazed his handsome face and crashed to the ground.

As the area affected by the strange phenomenon expanded, the nearby floating mountains were also stirred, like pillars of heaven thrusting back and forth into the earth in nine shallow and one deep positions.

The escape route suddenly became dangerous; in addition to shaking off the gravity behind them, they also had to watch out for falling rocks overhead.

Their speed was getting slower and slower, while the rain and whirlpool behind them were getting closer and closer.

Just when things were about to fall apart, Erlang's beast-taming ring, which he had bought cheaply from the King of Pirates, also malfunctioned.

Whether it was due to reaching the end of its lifespan or poor quality, it couldn't withstand the extreme weather, and after a series of crackling sounds, all the restrictions on it were destroyed.

But surprisingly, only one spirit beast jumped out, while the rest of the spirit beasts obediently hid in the beast-taming ring.

They felt that this place was safer than natural disasters.

Ironically, despite their bad intentions, these guys ended up saving the spirit beasts. And the spirit beast that jumped out was none other than Monkey King's curved-necked pigeon, which had pretended to be a fluffy pebble to escape when Monkey King and Ah Li were arrested.

I was planning to stay put and wait for my good brother to escape and return, but I never expected this to happen.

While running away, it was accidentally swept into Erlang's beast-taming ring.

As soon as the little pigeon came out, it began to sing the little tune it and Ah Li had learned, to warn the frog of the impending danger above its head.

He said, "In the midst of wind and rain, what's a little pain? Wipe away your tears, don't be afraid, at least we still have dreams."

A party cannot be without a bard.

Amidst the cooing of pigeons, the curved-necked pigeon and the red-footed frog merged, transforming into a deep-voiced hopping machine. Falling rocks and floating hills were no longer a danger, but rather became an aid, and the strange fleeing group regained its speed.

However, Meow Meow was still worried. It carefully moved its body and looked back over the shoulder of the two red ape sisters, and found that the vortex was still expanding.

Judging from their appearance, they seemed to be preparing to devour the entire Changzhou.

"If the vortex keeps expanding, where can we escape to, meow?" Meow asked.

The question was rather pointed, and even the little pigeon's singing dropped three points after it was uttered.

At this point, no one in this strange group could answer the question, because they didn't know where to escape to.

Fortunately, Sizhou is different from other places. It has one advantage: if the sky falls, there's always someone to hold it up.

Just as the atmosphere in the group became increasingly silent because of Meow Meow's question, a gentle breeze suddenly blew in, making it hard for them to open their eyes. When they opened their eyes again, they found that the surroundings had suddenly become quiet.

There was no torrential rain flowing against the current, no blood moon soaring in the sky; everything was peaceful and serene, as if everything that had just happened was merely a dream.

The cat licked its paw; it was wet. Everything that had just happened was real.

It looked back and saw that the rain curtain and whirlpools flowing against the current were still there, but they were stopped by some force.

In the chaotic rain, the shadow of a dragon appeared and disappeared intermittently.

"How lucky you were to escape?"

Meow suddenly looked up and saw a middle-aged man with slightly dark skin who had appeared out of nowhere and was looking down at her.

After watching for a while, Qin Lang, the Valley Master of Medicine King Valley, pointed his finger, and the baleful aura on the group affected by the blood moon instantly vanished.

“Let’s go to the beach and look for blue mushrooms; it’s safer there,” Qin Lang said.

"Caw caw caw! My brother and those two new friends are still inside." Just as Qin Lang was about to leave, Little Pigeon suddenly cried out.

"Friend, okay, I understand. Leave it to me."

After saying that, Qin Lang ignored the others and took a step forward in the air.

He summoned the Shennong Cauldron and threw it into the air.

An almost endless stream of life force poured out of the cauldron, soothing and repairing the earth damaged by the out-of-control gravity and the reverse rain.

But it was no use; the scorched earth, ravaged by the whirlpools and the backwash, seemed to have lost all life.

Qin Lang took another step, and a branch of the three-thousand-year-old Jianmu tree appeared in his hand. He closed his eyes slightly, and the divine tree flower bloomed in his palm. Under the guidance of the life force of the Shennong Cauldron, the divine tree was reborn, spreading outwards from Qin Lang as the center, like a crown or a wreath.

A massive, verdant tree ring appeared above Rainfall Mountain, tearing apart the blood moon's anomaly and imprisoning the mountain's reversed rain and vortex within it.

At the same time, Xiaoxue stood on a hill with her eyes closed. She took a deep breath, opened her arms, and with the power of the Shennong Cauldron, took root in the land of Changzhou.

While attempting to communicate with the Mother Tree, golden vines burst forth from the earth, forcefully pulling down all the floating mountains that had been flying up and down.

It's always true that great efforts can lead to miracles.

In areas beyond Xiaoxue's control, Zhuluo, manifesting as a dragon, traversed the heavens and earth, freezing and imprisoning those floating mountains on the ground, and working with Qin Lang and the Shennong Cauldron to suppress the chaos in the area.

As for the most crucial part, Luoyu Mountain.

Master Li is there.

He shook the ground with one hand, while firmly grasping Luo Yushan, who was ready to escape at any moment, with the other.

He single-handedly challenged the entire city of Changzhou.

With the combined efforts of several powerful figures, the Fireflies sacrificed themselves to Changzhou during the crisis, temporarily halting their crazy plan to take off and return home.

"How much longer can you hold on?" Qin Lang's illusory image appeared beside Li Wenzhou and asked.

"A hundred years without worries," Elder Li replied.

Qin Lang: "Oh, okay. You stay here then. We're leaving."

Elder Li, "?"

Before Li Wenzhou could get angry, Qin Lang's illusory image opened an oil-paper umbrella, shielding him from the temporarily normalized rain.

"Don't rush, I was just teasing you, but you do need to hold on for a while, the situation is a bit complicated right now," Qin Lang said.

"What do you mean? What else is going on? At worst, we can just smash this mountain." Elder Li frowned and said.

When he captured Luoyu Mountain, he discovered its unusual features; the root of the chaos lay in this raindrop-shaped Luoyu Mountain.

"That won't do. The Sword Sect's precious treasure, Sect Master Lu's stone-faced disciple, several disciples from the Six Sects, and no less than thirty or forty minor sect disciples and rogue cultivators are all in this Rainfall Mountain." Qin Lang sighed.

After bringing the situation under control, Qin Lang and Zhu Luo surveyed the area around Luoyu Mountain.

The situation was relayed back to the Six Sects, who then made contact and confirmed that most of the disciples who had come to Changzhou to explore were missing.

However, the two of them did not find any bodies or other survivors near Rainfall Mountain.

Xiaoxue's communication with the Mother Tree in Changzhou has made some progress. Although the Mother Tree has not yet formed a concrete consciousness, it has still responded to her inquiries.

Besides discovering that all the Fireflies had entered Rainfall Mountain, Xiaoxue also found some blurry images in Mother Tree's memories.

She saw the Fireflies kidnapping passersby with black stones, and combined with the eyewitness report from Little Pigeon, although they didn't know the Fireflies were about to take off, the general situation became clear.

Qin Lang estimated that the missing people probably did not die in the storm just now, but were captured by the Firefly Spirits and brought to this Rainfall Mountain.

"The method of sealing this mountain is very strange; even I have no way to open it without damaging the space inside."

"We don't know what those fireflies are up to right now. The only thing we can do is to separate Luoyu Mountain from Changzhou and relieve the siege of Changzhou before making any further plans."

"It might be extremely dangerous inside now. Until we break the restrictions on Luoyu Mountain, we can only rely on that child himself."

Qin Lang sighed softly.

Inside Luoyu Mountain, amidst the silvery ruins of the city.

The chaos came and went quickly; the Fireflies restored order and began preparing for their next takeoff.

Unaware of what was happening outside, Zhang Ze and Da Tou Cai, who were in 'danger', were strolling casually down the street.

He acted as if he were back home.

The cabbage was still trembling slightly, but Zhang Ze remained calm.

"Will this work?" the turnip asked through its tuft of hair.

"Trust me, I'm a professional infiltration agent. While I'm up to something, you'll still be drinking milk," Zhang Ze said confidently.

Cabbage, "But I don't drink milk..."

Zhang Ze: "What would you like to drink?"

Turnip, "Apacha".

Zhang Ze, "?"

(End of this chapter)