sbdcsierra Chapter 186 Transport Team
Chapter 186 Transport Team
When the giant winged demon eagle landed at the Five Mountains Society's base, it also caused a commotion, but when the members of the Five Mountains Society saw Cen Chong and the other two step off the giant winged demon eagle, they were all stunned.
"Do the members of the Aoki Society always travel in giant winged demon eagles of this size?"
"Chief Cen is back!" someone exclaimed excitedly upon seeing Cen Chong.
"Don't talk nonsense. That's the Mountain Heavy Fist of the Aoki Society, not Leader Cen," someone immediately reminded them.
"Quickly inform Chairman Xue that the Aoki Society is coming to help us!"
Xue Ling, the leader of the Five Mountains Society, was a young man with a similar build to Cen Chong, but he did not seem as capable as Cen Chong and instead appeared somewhat timid.
Although Cen Chong was no longer the leader, Xue Ling still respected him. However, Shen Xu found it strange that Cen Chong did not remove his mask even when he arrived at the Five Mountains Alliance.
"Chief Xue, I wonder how much of the Kun Yuan Qi that I asked you to prepare before I left last time?" Cen Chong asked in a deep voice.
"We have wiped out all the monsters in our territory, and most of the independent alliances that were attached to us have also been eliminated. What remains are some powerful individual swordsmen, and we can't easily capture them."
"It's fair to say that we've reached our limit with the Kun Yuan Qi we possess. If we want to obtain more Kun Yuan Qi, we'll have to rob other alliances." Xue Ling recounted the events that occurred after Cen Chong left in a calm tone.
"Let's leave it at that for now! Have you selected the hundred people to enter the Kunyuan Hall?"
"We are fully prepared and ready to go."
"Have them head to Golden Summit immediately. You take all the Kun Yuan Qi and come with me to Golden Summit!" Cen Chong said calmly.
Xue Ling looked up at Cen Chong instantly, but only saw a towering figure and a majestic primitive stone mask.
"I'll arrange it right away!" Xue Ling's voice trembled, unable to hide the excitement in her words.
After Xue Ling left, Shen Xu couldn't help but tease, "I didn't expect that Brother Cen, though not the leader of the Five Mountains Association, is more like the leader than anyone else!"
“Xue Ling was originally promoted by me, and because of his poor decisions, the Five Mountains Society suffered heavy losses. But I came up with a way to save the Five Mountains Society, which is also to save him. Of course, he has to obey me!” Cen Chong said coldly.
On the back of the giant winged demon eagle, Xue Ling looked at the approaching Golden Peak Mountain and couldn't help but take a deep breath.
"Chief Xue, there's no need to be nervous. As far as I know, none of the Rock-Breaking Beasts on Golden Peak Mountain seem to have grown wings!" Shen Xu joked to ease the tension.
"I was just thinking about those swordsmen who were eliminated because of me; many of them were qualified to ascend to the Kunyuan Hall!"
"Perhaps I am not suitable to be the head of this association, but sitting in this position means I have to be responsible for others." Xue Ling couldn't help but smile wryly.
Xiao Ruohuang comforted her, "It's all in the past now, let's look forward! We're almost there."
The people on the eagle's back immediately looked ahead and saw that the sunlight shining on the mountaintop seemed to cover it with a layer of gold leaf, and even the palace on the mountaintop was tinged with gold.
"No wonder you call this mountain Golden Summit Mountain, it really does have a golden summit!" Xiao Ruohuang exclaimed.
“We’ve come at the perfect time. The Golden Summit isn’t something you can see every day; it depends on the weather. Even I haven’t seen it many times.” Xue Ling gazed intently at the Golden Summit ahead, his eyes gleaming with golden light.
The giant-winged demon eagle hovered in mid-air near the palace, and after the group jumped down, it couldn't wait to leave the mountaintop, seemingly not wanting to stay there for even a moment longer.
Looking down the mountain, Shen Xu saw rock-crushing beasts, shrunken into large and small stone balls, blocking all sides of Golden Peak Mountain. If one wanted to climb up from the bottom of the mountain to enter Kunyuan Palace, one would have to pass over their bodies.
Moreover, the several huge stone spheres near them seemed to have sensed their intrusion and opened their murky eyes, which prompted the group to immediately speed up their movement to the area covered by the Kunyuan Palace.
"Is this the complete view of the Kunyuan Palace?" Looking at the palace before him, Xue Ling couldn't help but sigh.
This was Xue Ling's first time seeing the Kunyuan Palace, but it was Shen Xu's third time, so he found it nothing new. While the others were still observing the layout of the Kunyuan Palace, he had already begun searching for any rare and precious materials that might be found nearby.
Soon after, Xiao Ruohuang joined him, and the four of them ended up wandering around the small area on the mountaintop.
But in the end, Shen Xu seized the initiative and stored a stone with red, yellow, and black colors into his storage ring. The remaining three also witnessed this, and thus began searching even more diligently.
After a while, the three of them looked at Shen Xu with some hostility, because apart from that stone, there seemed to be nothing of value outside the Kunyuan Palace. Even Shen Xu, who was the first to search, only found that stone.
"I'll learn from this experience! Next time, I'll definitely be the one to find the good stuff first!" Xiao Ruohuang said with great determination.
Shen Xu said with a smile, "It might not be a good thing; it might just be a pretty stone."
“First come, first served. If you found it first, it means it was originally yours. Let’s try to see if these Kun Yuan Breaths can open the Kun Yuan Palace! Maybe the Five Mountains Alliance will be the first alliance to open the Kun Yuan Palace,” Cen Chong said magnanimously.
"I have already allocated one-fifth of the Kun Yuan Qi to the Qingmu Society. This jade tablet contains all the Kun Yuan Qi of the Five Mountains Society now." Xue Ling took out his own jade tablet and slowly walked to the stone gate of the palace.
As Xue Ling activated the jade tablet, strands of Kun Yuan Qi, large and small, of various colors, continuously merged into the stone gate. Gradually, the stone gate underwent the same change as the stone gate in Qinghu Lake, beginning to emit a faint yellow light, and a blurry pattern of a rock-crushing beast appeared on the stone gate.
However, Xue Ling did not stop inputting Kun Yuan Qi. As Kun Yuan Qi was continuously injected into the stone gate, the blurry pattern of the rock-crushing beast gradually became clearer.
Meanwhile, Shen Xu and his two companions, standing outside the stone gate, were closely watching the changes taking place on it. They saw that after the pattern of the Rock Shattering Beast became incredibly clear, a yellow light gradually seeped into the lines depicting the beast, as if injecting yellow blood into it, slowly transforming all the lines into a Rock Shattering Beast that shone with yellow light.
But at that moment, the entire stone gate suddenly shone brightly, and a yellow light shot into the sky and then disappeared instantly. This change startled all four of them, and Xue Ling couldn't help but stop inputting the Kun Yuan Qi into his hands.
After the four of them came to their senses, they immediately looked toward the stone gate. They saw that the lines of the Rockbreaker Beast that had been flashing yellow light on the stone gate had disappeared, and in its place, a lifelike full-color pattern of the Rockbreaker Beast was engraved on the stone gate.
This discovery left everyone somewhat bewildered, so they all stepped forward to observe. Xiao Ruohuang even pushed the door, only to find that the stone door remained completely still.
Xue Ling tried to continue channeling the Kun Yuan Qi into the stone gate, but the stone gate seemed to have had its fill and showed no interest in the Kun Yuan Qi. Helpless, Xue Ling had no choice but to withdraw the Kun Yuan Qi again.
"What's going on?" Xiao Ruohuang asked, puzzled.
"If I'm not mistaken, opening the Kunyuan Palace might require filling all five Kunyuan Palaces with Kunyuan energy!" Shen Xu said thoughtfully.
Cen Chong frowned and said, "That's very likely!"
"What do we do now?" Xue Ling was a little unsure of what to do.
"The only thing we can do now is wait, but the question is, where do you plan to wait?" Shen Xu asked.
"We are already extremely grateful that you came to help us, the Five Mountains Alliance. How could we trouble you again? Besides, the people below are already eager to come up and see the scenery on the Golden Summit," Xue Ling said with a smile.