Chapter 82: Breaking the Mountain

All that happened in the county, the Incense Burning Tower in the fully closed mountain was completely unaware.

Zhang Shaoyou had stated that fully closing the mountain was an act of cowards and not a good choice; blindly acting in this way was absolutely not a good thing. But in the short term, closing the mountain for self-defense might prevent others from making a move, serving as an emergency measure.

In general situations, as long as the mountain is closed, even if the enemy's strength is greater than yours, they rarely choose to attack forcefully, as large casualties are likely. The combat power of everyone's subordinates doesn't come easily, and no one is willing to send them out randomly. Last night, Incense Burning Tower suddenly attacked Tianxing Sword Sect because they thought the other side was unprepared.

Since closing the mountain, Yiyang Zhenren felt much more settled at heart, constantly feeling that there would definitely be no problems in the coming days, and that they just needed to hold out until Yang Dechang returned with reinforcements from Jinwang.

He would never have imagined that Yang Dechang had not gone to Jinwang, and was even now still fighting in the county.

Even less would he have imagined that on the very first night the mountain was closed, Tianxing Sword Sect and the Dongjiang Gang had already joined forces and rushed straight to the mountain gate. Among them, except for the four people including the dog man and woman from Tianxing Sword Sect, the main force were all Incense Burning Tower's own former disciples who had defected.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" The disciple guarding the mountain gate shouted with all his might, his voice spreading throughout the mountain. Yiyang Zhenren, who was refining pills, suddenly stood up, almost kicking over the pill furnace.

He quickly went out and looked from a high place in the distance. He saw a dense crowd blocking the mountain protection array, and a cripple sitting in a wheelchair was taking out array flags, inserting them left and right, seemingly trying to break the array.

Yiyang Zhenren almost spat blood.

In general situations, outsiders might not even be clear about the range of the mountain protection array, and would be attacked if they rashly entered. Whoever led the charge would easily suffer casualties. This was why Chang Qing had previously let Zhang Shaoyou and others go first.

As a result, this time there was a large group of their own people. Even if they didn't understand how to crack this array, they were crystal clear about the array's range, precisely leading people to stand just outside the range, watching the dead cripple draw everywhere with his wheelchair, trying to break the array from the outside.

What was there left to play?

Yiyang Zhenren no longer cared to observe, and sternly said: "All personnel come out of seclusion to listen to orders! Concentrate all long-range forces and attack that cripple!"

Someone beside him actually asked: "Wh-which cripple? There are two."

Yiyang Zhenren slapped him on the forehead: "The one breaking the array, the male one!"

"Swish swish swish!" Countless Incense Burning Tower people who had been in seclusion and refining pills all came out, sacrificed their strongest magic treasures, and various powers descended like flying locusts, all bombing towards Lu Xingzhou.

Lu Xingzhou did not dodge or evade. He looked up at the brilliant attacks in the sky, which were like fireworks, and laughed softly: "Let a pill master preside over the war... Incense Burning Tower still hasn't realized where they went wrong."

Others looked sideways, thinking, 'You say that as if you aren't a pill master...'

"Boom boom boom!" Extremely violent various powers exploded in front of Lu Xingzhou. Lu Xingzhou didn't even move his eyes, as if there were circles of iron chains surrounding him. All powers within one foot of him could not advance an inch.

He wasn't cracking the array earlier, but setting up an array.

He used the Dongjiang Gang's famous defensive magic treasure, "Iron Chains Across the River," as the core of the defensive array, augmented by the absorbing and rebounding effects of the fused array.

Various powers were gathered into a single group and suddenly rebounded outwards, directly shattering a pavilion on a distant mountain.

Yiyang Zhenren's heart was greatly shocked, and he shouted crazily: "Stop him!"

But how could it be in time?

With a "boom," the pavilion was bombed to pieces, even digging out a large pit of dozens of zhang in the underground earth veins.

The mountain protection array suddenly disappeared.

"Your array eye is inside. What array can I break by inserting flags from the outside, ah?" Lu Xingzhou looked up at the stunned Incense Burning Tower people on the mountain, and casually waved: "Attack!"

Shi Tielong of the Dongjiang Gang retrieved the Iron Chains Across the River, looked at Lu Xingzhou with a complex expression, and then he and Shen Tang tacitly divided into two routes, rushing towards the continuous buildings on the mountaintop from the left and right.

From the mountaintop came Yiyang Zhenren's angry roar: "Shi Tielong, arbitrarily starting a war, aren't you afraid of the court blaming you!"

Shi Tielong almost laughed: "Then let Hao Junshu come and punish Shi's crime. Attack!"

Countless escape lights rushed towards the mountain head, and the visual effects of various spells conflicting were like blooming fireworks.

Lu Xingzhou, however, did not participate in the frontal battle. He was never responsible for attacking.

A Nuo slipped away like smoke, pushing Lu Xingzhou's wheelchair towards the back mountain, directly towards the treasure secret vault.

The things there were the most valuable, maybe even some second-grade good goods... Taking advantage of the Dongjiang Gang not knowing where the secret vault was, and having traitors on hand and information from Yang Dechang, wasn't this the time to seize the opportunity while everyone was fighting in the front to go first and take it? What were they waiting for?

Could they really be waiting to split the spoils fifty-fifty with the Dongjiang Gang?

The secret vault was usually heavily guarded, but in this crisis moment of being attacked by two forces, the combat forces obviously all went out to the big battle. There wouldn't be strong ones staying in the secret vault guarding; only some small figures were left.

Seeing A Nuo pushing Lu Xingzhou over, they all shouted and actually ran away from the back mountain, not even bothering to put up a resistance posture.

From this, it can be seen that with the mountain protection array broken and a large group of their own protectors defecting and counterattacking, the Incense Burning Tower people had no will to fight. Seeing the people from the two opposing gangs swarming up, the pressure was enormous. Probably at this moment, who knows how many strong ones had sneaked away, far from reaching united resistance.

This battle might be simpler than expected... But it also meant that Incense Burning Tower's own people would soon run to the secret vault to plunder and escape, so they needed to hurry.

A Nuo shot over, grabbed a seemingly small leader, and pulled him back: "Don't run, help open the door."

The small leader shivered and said with a mournful face: "Little Aunt Grandma, I don't have the key, ah... If I had, I would have opened it myself and taken the things to run away!"

"No need for a key," Lu Xingzhou said. "Just tell me if this mechanism has a self-destruction setting or not."

"It absolutely doesn't. These are all Incense Burning Tower's heavy treasures. Who would bear to self-destruct them?"

"Then it's fine." Lu Xingzhou's soul banner unfolded, and black flame quietly and soundlessly burned the door lock position. After a short while, there was a "click" sound as the inner lock burned through, and the thick stone door was pushed open.

The leader looked dumbfounded.

"You go, ba." Lu Xingzhou shook the soul banner in his hand. "If you hadn't provoked me a year ago, your Incense Burning Tower could also be considered lucky."

The leader scrambled away, rolling and crawling.

The master and disciple duo entered the door and were suddenly startled.

The wheelchair uncontrollably trembled randomly, and A Nuo actually couldn't grasp the pushing direction. Even the ring in his hand was shaking, and the iron pie well cover in the ring was also flying randomly in the ring space uncontrollably.

That leader appeared at the door again, laughing heartily: "Although there is no self-destruction setting here, there is Yuan magnetic interference. Metal objects entering will immediately lose control, and even magic treasures will be invalidated. This is precisely to prevent invasion by external enemies. I didn't expect it to be exactly a wheelchair sitter. Can you even move now? I didn't think I couldn't open the door, but others would help me open it. Hahaha..."

The master and disciple duo both turned their heads to look at him with strange expressions.

The leader's smile stiffened a bit. He turned to try to press the indoor mechanism: "Still looking even when you're about to die!"

Lu Xingzhou sighed and stood up.

The leader: "?"

"I can't control the wheelchair... Then is it okay to control it like this?" Lu Xingzhou lifted the wheelchair.

The leader: "???"

With a "bang," Lu Xingzhou swung the wheelchair and heavily smashed it on his head. Blood splattered.

"I wanted to play like this earlier. It's really refreshing," Lu Xingzhou said comfortably, putting down the wheelchair. "Other strong ones cooperating with this Yuan magnetic interference might indeed cause not insignificant trouble to people. You, this mere small leader, also dare to pretend."

A Nuo looked around, quickly found a mechanism, and pressed it down.

The Yuan magnetic interference instantly disappeared.

Lu Xingzhou took out the Ten Thousand Souls Banner: "Originally, I didn't want to kill too heavily now and said I would give you a way out. I didn't expect some people themselves want to enter the Human Emperor Banner."

The leader didn't even have time to scream, a wisp of black mist had already been absorbed into the banner, and he was thoroughly dead.

A Nuo didn't even bother to glance at him, quickly heading towards the ring to collect things. If they were late, others would want to come...

Lu Xingzhou also glanced around. Roughly, there were some medicine bottles and several seemingly interesting medicinal herbs and fruits. He first collected the medicinal herbs and fruits, then flipped through the shelves for a moment, opened several medicine bottles to sniff them, and collected two of them.

Just as he did this, the sound of air breaking came from outside. Yiyang Zhenren, bathed in blood, staggered and fell at the door, his eyes wide with anger: "Lu Xingzhou!"

Lu Xingzhou glided out and laughed in disbelief: "It seems Zhenren himself is not a hero who perishes with the sect. In the middle of the fight, you ran to the secret vault to take things and leave, huh?"

Yiyang Zhenren's face alternated between blue and white. This was nonsense, ah... He was besieged by several third-grade masters outside and was already seriously injured after just a while. Seeing that it was impossible to defend, when else would he run?

It was just that others hadn't reacted. If they had, probably all of them would come to snatch things and run.

Yiyang Zhenren, on the contrary, discovered that there were actually no strong ones here with Lu Xingzhou, only him and a child. The hatred and malice in his eyes instantly overflowed: "Lu Xingzhou, there is no door to hell, but you insisted on breaking in. I will take your head first to claim interest from Shen Tang!"

Lu Xingzhou sighed: "You won't really think it's because your own strength is super outstanding that you can break out from the siege of so many people, ba? Someone followed you here. Shen Tang knows he won't let you live, he just wants to give him an opportunity to defect..."

Before his words were finished, sword light suddenly rose behind Yiyang Zhenren.

The already quite heavily injured Yiyang Zhenren didn't even have time to react and was already pierced through the chest by sword qi.

Yiyang Zhenren turned his head in astonishment, instantly his eyes were wide with anger: "Yang Dechang... You will die a terrible death..."

Yang Dechang was more speechless than him: "I already don't want to openly participate in the battle against your people, afraid of being seen... You alone ran in front of me to jump. Are you still blaming me, ge?"

"Bang!" Yiyang Zhenren fell to the ground, dying with his eyes wide open.

Until his death, he couldn't figure out why Yang Dechang would say that killing him was so justifiable, as if not killing him was a disservice to the organization.

Lu Xingzhou threw one bottle of the just-taken pill medicine to Yang Dechang: "Second-grade breakthrough pill. It should be effective for you."

Yang Dechang threw the pill medicine in his hand, his eyes meaningful: "Aren't you afraid I'll kill you and rob the treasures here? I don't even need you to divide them with me."

"Shen Tang used my token and connected to Wancheng. You're still thinking about these things, ah? Then I'm not overestimating you too much..." Lu Xingzhou sighed, pointing to the things in the secret vault: "In short, the characteristics of Incense Burning Tower are here. This isn't some spirit mountain treasure land either. What's mainly collected are pill medicines and talismans. Although the grade isn't bad, there's really nothing that makes people's eyes light up. I'm a bit disappointed... It's not worth it, Old Yang."

Yang Dechang smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Lu Xingzhou suddenly asked: "Old Yang... Are there any news of which young master of the Ho family went out?"

Yang Dechang's heart was startled: "What do you want to do?"

Lu Xingzhou acted as if nothing happened: "The imperial family's direct descendants' struggle is a matter of you die, I live. Is it difficult to understand that I want the lives of several brothers? If they don't die, when will it be Ho Shang's turn to take the position?"

"You shouldn't say this to me," Yang Dechang was very speechless. Can this kind of matter still be said openly? Are you and I very close, ma?

"But I feel I should just say this to you," Lu Xingzhou said faintly. "Go back and think clearly. If you have any news, send me a message... Just send it to Tianxing Sword Sect."

Yang Dechang pursed his lips tightly and didn't speak.

Lu Xingzhou said: "Do it or not, the decision is yours. I may not force you."

Yang Dechang put away the pill medicine, cupped his hand, and disappeared without a word.