Ringing the Bell for a Hundred Years, I Became the Sect’s Ancestor – Chapter 168

Chapter 168: The Demonic Calamity Reappears

After spending his father Li Donglin’s 100th birthday with him, Li Qian didn’t stay long and returned to Time Bell Pavilion.

His three disciples were all cultivating. Little Snowball was sitting on a small stool, resting her chin in her hands and watching obediently.

After nearly twelve years of cultivation, the three disciples had gone from mastering Sword-Piercing Fist to reaching the peak of the Postnatal realm. Now they had been cultivating the Immaculate Sword Body for several years. Due to their Root Bone aptitude, their speed was much faster than Chai Shao’s.

Especially the youngest, Yang Fan, who possessed High-Grade Treasure Light Level Root Bone aptitude, cultivated faster than the other two disciples, Su Xinlan and Xu Long.

Due to the three disciples’ special experiences, their minds matured early, and they were all very hardworking and able to endure hardships.

Among them, the third disciple, Su Xinlan, was very sensible and had the demeanor of an elder sister. She would take the initiative to do anything without Li Qian having to tell her.

The fourth disciple, Xu Long, had an honest personality and was a bit wise in a foolish way.

And the fifth disciple, Yang Fan, was introverted and arrogant, with a ruthless streak.

Li Qian was quite relieved about Su Xinlan and Xu Long, but he was a bit worried about Yang Fan. He wondered if he would go astray in the future?

“Grand Martial Uncle.”

As soon as Little Snowball saw Li Qian return, she quickly ran over with her little legs.

Li Qian held Little Snowball’s hand and took out a bag of pastries he bought in White Jade City. “Here, Little Snowball, Grand Martial Uncle bought you something delicious.”

Little Snowball quickly took a pastry and stuffed it into her mouth.

“Delicious.”

She ate with relish.

At this time, Chai Shao also came up from the mountain.

He was now a Grandmaster. Usually, if there were any high-level meetings at Divine Sword Sect, he would attend as a representative of Heartless Peak.

“Daddy.”

Little Snowball immediately ran over and stuffed a pastry into Chai Shao’s hand. “Grand Martial Uncle bought this. It’s so delicious.”

“Good girl, Little Snowball.”

Chai Shao picked up Little Snowball and ate the pastry his daughter gave him. “Mmm, delicious.”

Little Snowball’s eyes narrowed in happiness.

“Master, I just attended a meeting at Divine Sword Hall. They said there’s a Demonic Calamity happening in Haiwu Circuit.”

Chai Shao said immediately when he saw his Master had returned.

As early as ten years ago, apart from a few scattered Demonic Traces, there were almost no Demonic Calamities. Even the various Circuit Lord’s Residences had sent messages to the forces within their circuits, saying that the Demonic Calamities had basically been cleared out.

Therefore, in recent years, the Demonic Calamity quarantine zone around Divine Sword Sect’s Returning Dragon Mountain had been lifted, and many displaced people had returned to their homes.

“A Demonic Calamity?”

Li Qian was very surprised.

Were these Demon Races thick-headed?

After being cleaned up by him once, they were rushing to deliver themselves again?

Under normal circumstances, the Demon Race forces would give up their plans to infiltrate the Mortal Realm after learning that a Martial Saint had been born.

After all, they would lose a portion of their Myriad Images Demonic Consciousness for every one they sent. Why bother?

Unless the Demon Race had found a way to counter it?

He definitely wouldn’t step forward unless it was necessary.

After all, there were so many Celestial Image Level Celestial Beings in the Mortal Realm. Together, they were an extremely terrifying force.

Even if there were three or five Demonic Calamities in the Mortal Realm, they wouldn’t be able to cause any trouble.

Haiwu Circuit.

This circuit was located by the sea and was also the only area of the Great Chang empire that bordered the ocean.

However, the ocean was vast and boundless, extremely dangerous, with towering waves that could overturn even the largest ships.

Apart from opening up shipping routes in the coastal areas and having trade relations with the two countries of Great Lu and Great Song along the coast, no one knew what was in the deep sea.

There was a powerful martial arts force in Haiwu Circuit called Shanhai Palace.

One of the former Three Sects of Great Chang.

Now, the Circuit Lord of Haiwu Circuit was a Celestial Image Level Celestial Being from Shanhai Palace.

Haizhou, Linhai County.

This county bordered the sea, and its most famous feature was the Hengqin Archipelago, which occupied more than half of the county’s area. The archipelago had over a thousand islands of various sizes.

Qinxin Island was the largest island in the Hengqin Archipelago, facing the mainland across the sea, with only a few miles of strait in between.

Due to Qinxin Island’s special location, the second most important city in Linhai County, besides the county city, was located on this island.

It was Qinxin City.

However, at this moment, Qinxin City was shrouded in mist.

A Demonic Calamity was happening here.

At this time, the Celestial Image Level Circuit Lords from several surrounding circuits had gathered here.

With the Demonic Calamities almost quelled, the role of the Circuit Lord’s Residences had become very small.

After so many years of development, the Circuit Lord’s Residence forces had basically become localized.

“It’s been twelve years since that mysterious Martial Saint cleared out the Demon Race forces in the Mortal Realm. There hasn’t been a Demonic Calamity since then.”

A Celestial Image Level Circuit Lord from Yangwu Circuit said with emotion. “Now there’s another Demonic Calamity. What do you think the Demon Race is thinking?”

“Amitabha, don’t you find this Demonic Calamity very strange? Since it started, apart from Qinxin City being shrouded in a formation, there hasn’t been any trace of demonic creatures.”

The Celestial Image Level Celestial Being from Damo Temple said in a deep voice.

Damo Temple originated from the Buddha Sect outside the Mortal Realm. There was a reason why it appeared in the Ram’s Horn Region controlled by Dao Sect.

In fact, within the Ram’s Horn Region, it wasn’t just Dao Sect forces. Other forces of the Martial Alliance also had traces of their presence.

It was a common practice for the Martial Alliance to insert their forces into other regions, mainly to play a role in mutual supervision.

Shanhai Palace, for example, wasn’t a Dao Sect force, but originated from the Artifact Sect.

Originally, among the Three Sects of Great Chang, only Zhenwu Temple was a pure Dao Sect lineage.

“Indeed. Normally, after a Demonic Calamity occurs, there would be Demonic Traces appearing everywhere in the surrounding areas, but this time there’s no movement at all.”

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The Celestial Image Level Celestial Being from Shanhai Palace said in a deep voice, “Moreover, it’s also strange that this Demonic Calamity occurred on an island outside the mainland.”

Among the Demonic Calamities that had occurred in the Mortal Realm before, none had ever happened on an island. They all appeared on the mainland.

Islands had the natural isolation of the sea, which had a great impact on the expansion of Demonic Calamities.

But this time it happened on an island.

“Everyone, why don’t we join forces and try to break through this demonic formation?”

The Celestial Image Level Celestial Being from Shanhai Palace said.

“This demonic formation isn’t strong. With our strength, if we join forces, we should have a chance to break it.”

Another Celestial Image Level Circuit Lord from Xuanwu Circuit nodded and said.

These Celestial Image Level Celestial Beings didn’t want to waste too much time here.

Without other Demonic Calamities to distract them, they could fully focus on dealing with this one.

It was best to try and nip it in the bud as much as possible. Otherwise, who knew what changes might occur if it dragged on?

The other Celestial Image Level Circuit Lords also agreed.

So, they joined forces and flew towards the mist, using their powerful Celestial Image Level strength to clear a path, tearing apart layers of mist. Under the influence of several Celestial Image Level Martial Intents, a rather spectacular phenomenon formed in the sky.

Suddenly, a terrifying shriek came from the depths of the mist.

The four Celestial Image Level Celestial Beings felt a jolt in their minds, and cracks appeared on the jade tallies hanging around their necks.

“This is bad! How can there be such a strong Demonic Consciousness?”

The four Celestial Image Level Celestial Beings looked horrified. “Retreat quickly!”

But as the second shriek rang out, the Celestial Image Level Celestial Beings were struck as if by lightning, falling from the sky one by one, motionless.

Not long after, the bodies of the four Celestial Image Level Celestial Beings twitched, and then they climbed up from the ground.

But their eyes were empty, and the same eerie smile appeared on their faces.

“Lion Camel Ridge, you imprisoned me for so many years. I won’t let you off!”

They all screamed in unison.

Their voices were filled with resentment.

In a certain underground palace beneath Qinxin City.

A Demon Saint sat in its demonic body.

“Sigh, I don’t know if releasing this devil was the right thing to do.”

It let out a faint sigh.

But it had to obey the orders of the Ridge Master.

The next moment, it suddenly lowered its head, and its formless Myriad Images Demonic Consciousness dissipated.

Lion Camel Demon City.

For the past ten years or so, Li Qian had been coming here every night to study the grand formation.

He found one formation foundation after another, and cracked one small formation after another. His formation progress had improved a lot.

“Phew! I’ve basically cracked most of the grand formation here.”

Li Qian let out a long breath.

The main reason was that the grand formation in Lion Camel Demon City was incomplete. If it were complete, it would be impossible for him to completely crack it with his current formation skills.

Even now, he couldn’t restore the entire Great Chain Nine Foundation Grand Formation.

The entire grand formation involved over seven hundred formation stakes and was incredibly complex.

Even though he knew the location of all the formation foundations and even the structure of the formation patterns on each stake, he still couldn’t design and set up the entire complete formation.

The operation of the formation was too complicated.

However, studying formations in Lion Camel Demon City had been very, very rewarding.

He now had a general idea and planned to set up a brand new formation at Divine Sword Sect.

Of course, for now, he could only set up a Small Chain Six Foundation Grand Formation.

In his vision, the entire Small Chain Six Foundation Grand Formation would involve a total of thirty-six formation stakes and six main formation disks.

It wouldn’t be a small project to create all these formation stakes and main formation disks.

However, he had plenty of time to make them.

Moreover, creating the formation stakes and main formation disks would also greatly help improve his formation skills.

The formation patterns he designed for the formation stakes were very different from the Lion Camel Ridge Formation Manual and the Mount Tai Formation Records.

He adopted the circuit chip design ideas from his previous life on Earth.

In this way, although the core was still based on the two major formation systems, after his deep processing, it became unique, forming a brand new formation system.

He named this formation system the Qiantian Formation Canon.

He believed that as he delved deeper into the study of formations, this Qiantian Formation Canon would surely be gradually perfected, eventually becoming no less impressive than the Lion Camel Ridge Ten Directions Formation Manual and the Mount Tai Formation Records, and even surpassing them in the future.

“It’s time to leave.”

Li Qian thought to himself.

He had basically extracted all the value from the formations in Lion Camel Demon City.

Suddenly, his heart stirred, and he checked the formation section on the system interface. It had changed to Formation （Major Completion 93/100）.

So, he flew out of Lion Camel Demon City. With a series of rumbles, all the formation stakes and disks hidden in Lion Camel Demon City were torn apart and destroyed by surges of True Qi.

Finally, the entire Lion Camel Ridge Grand Formation ceased to exist, and the rolling mist that had filled the area gradually dissipated, revealing the true appearance of the Returning Dragon Mountain Range.

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