Chapter 474 Immortal Might Descends, Shuiyu Valley is Destroyed (5)
This pressure covered the sky and earth. Centered on Shuiyu Valley, all living beings within a fifty-li radius, whether flying beasts, crawling creatures, or flowers, birds, fish, and insects, were suppressed. They could only move with great difficulty, as if deeply trapped in a quagmire, with every step requiring their utmost strength.
Of course, this only referred to the area outside Shuiyu Valley. As for how strong the pressure was inside the valley, nobody knew. After all, most people had already escaped, but that was all.
“Save me! I don’t want to die!”
“Oh heavens! What have we done to deserve such punishment?”
“Heaven, please, save my child. She’s only five years old!”
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Those who were slower to escape had not gone far from the valley, so they were subjected to the strongest pressure. They cried out for help in despair. However, looking around, they saw only people as desperate and wailing as themselves. In that moment, the fear in their hearts caused their emotions to break down. The only thing they could do was instinctively reach out to protect those beside them – men protecting women, and women protecting the elderly and children.
The cultivators of Shuiyu Valley were slightly better off. They felt something was wrong and, disregarding the ordinary people, fled desperately. After all, they had done their best.
Of course, there were also many kind disciples among them who were unwilling to abandon the ordinary people and chose to stay.
However, this process did not last long because the pressure in the heavens and earth never stopped increasing. After another quarter of an hour, the elderly and children were the first to collapse, unable to hold on. Then came the women, followed by the men, and finally the cultivators. The entire mountain forest was filled with people lying in disarray. They couldn’t even shout, let alone move a finger. The only thing they could move was their expressions. Those despairing faces contorted under their tears, their eyes filled with unwillingness. They didn’t know what they had done wrong to encounter such a baseless disaster.
At this moment, Wen Yunmei and her daughter had approached the edge of the Immortal Might and soon encountered people fleeing.
“Elder Zhao, what’s the situation now?” Wen Yunmei quickly stopped Elder Zhao to inquire.
This Elder Zhao was Zhao Li herself, the one who had brought Mu Ruoyi to Yuxiao Sect to search for the Nine Nether Demonic Cat. Because she had been transporting ordinary people back and forth, her Spiritual Sense was greatly depleted, leaving her pale and bloodless.
“Valley Master, please don’t go any further. The Immortal Might has already been activated!” Zhao Li said with red eyes, trying to persuade her.
Mu Ruoyi stood frozen. She had been struggling with whether or not to erase Cheng Hong Ling’s name, but the Lü Family had not given her a choice.
“What about the disciples in the valley? And those ordinary people!” Wen Yunmei asked anxiously.
“I don’t know. Everyone is fleeing in all directions. However, judging by the time, most disciples should be able to escape. But those ordinary people… I’m sorry, I’ve done my best,” Zhao Li choked up at this point. After all, ordinary people’s leg strength was not as good as cultivators’, and it was impossible to travel fifty to sixty li in half an hour, unless they were riding horses.
“This is all my fault! It’s all my fault!” Mu Ruoyi’s tears immediately began to stream down like a broken string. Shuiyu Valley had hundreds of thousands of ordinary people living there.
“You and Elder Zhao go first!” Wen Yunmei instructed her daughter and then, without another word, flew towards Shuiyu Valley.
Mu Ruoyi did not hesitate and immediately followed her mother.
“Valley Master, the Immortal Might has been activated, don’t go!” Elder Zhou shouted. Seeing that the Valley Master and her daughter were not listening, she could only grit her teeth and follow.
The three flew towards Shuiyu Valley. The Immortal Might became more and more apparent. Finally, Mu Ruoyi was the first to not be able to hold on and fell. Wen Yunmei and Zhao Li, however, fearlessly continued forward. Seeing an ordinary person or disciple who could not move, they immediately put them into their Storage Rings. However, as the Immortal Might intensified, they could no longer maintain flight and could only stagger forward on the ground.
At this time, the Immortal Might became even stronger. The surrounding plants and trees were the first to fail, their branches snapping one after another. The snakes, insects, rats, and ants on the ground exploded and died. Humans and large animals, due to the immense pressure, had their bones emit crisp cracking sounds.
“Valley Master, we can’t go any further! We still have so many people in our Storage Rings!” Zhao Li, seeing that things were not good, tried to persuade her.
Wen Yunmei showed hesitation on her face, and her steps slowed. But when she tried to speed up again, she found it impossible because the rate at which the Immortal Might was increasing was too fast. At this point, even she, at the late stage of the Huashen realm, felt as if Mount Tai was pressing down on her.
“Valley Master! Hurry!” Zhao Li pulled Wen Yunmei, and the two began to move outwards with difficulty, quickly reuniting with Mu Ruoyi.
“Crackle! Crackle!”
Under the terrifying pressure, the bare tree trunks around them also cracked open. The bodies of ordinary people and animals shattered like watermelons. The ground was covered in dazzling red. Blood flowed with the gale, forming red mist that permeated the air.
This was not the end. The Immortal Might continued to strengthen, and the soil and stones on the ground also began to fail, disintegrating.
Wen Yunmei and her daughter, along with Zhao Li, could no longer advance. Their bones emitted painful groans due to the pressure. Not an inch of flesh on their bodies was not in pain. Blood also began to ooze from their facial features.
Wen Yunmei, with a flash of inspiration, gathered all her Spiritual Sense and managed to put herself and the two people beside her into the Storage Ring in her hand.
The Storage Ring also fell to the ground without support. However, due to its obstruction, the people inside bore much less pressure.
But Wen Yunmei did not stop. She took out another Storage Ring and put everyone inside into it, forming a double layer of protection.
At this time, the Immortal Might outside had reached an extremely terrifying level. The space between heaven and earth was distorted due to the immense pressure. These “distorted” lines were indestructible, and wherever they went, they caused destruction, tearing apart any object.
“Crackle!”
The outer Storage Ring, where Wen Yunmei and her daughter were, was struck and immediately shattered, revealing the inner Storage Ring.
This situation continued for a quarter of an hour before it ended. The inner Storage Ring, although not struck by the distorted space, could no longer bear the load and shattered, causing everyone to fall out.
“Ugh!” Zhao Li immediately vomited a large mouthful of blood, which was internal injury sustained before entering the Storage Ring.
Mu Ruoyi had already fainted. She was only at the first stage of the Huashen realm, so her resistance was naturally the weakest.
The only fortunate thing was that the disciples and ordinary people inside the Storage Ring were not affected.
Wen Yunmei’s face was pale. She looked up and saw the scorching sun shining down without any obstruction, as all the obstacles had disappeared. As far as the eye could see was bare land. The once lush and verdant land had turned into a boundless desert. Forget bodies and blood, not even a stone larger than a thumb could be seen. Moreover, all the mountain ranges had been flattened by the suppression.
“Is… is this the Immortal Might?” Zhao Li stammered.
Wen Yunmei’s legs weakened, and she knelt on the ground. She knew that after such a terrifying area-wide strike, the survivors of Shuiyu Valley would likely not exceed thirty percent, and the legacy of thousands of years would be destroyed.
“I’m sorry to you all!” Wen Yunmei closed her eyes in pain, tears streaming down like rain.
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Far away in Yongning Prefecture, Qi Huang knew nothing. She could only desperately try to contact Mu Ruoyi using the Thousand Li Sound Transmission Device, but it wasn’t until evening that she received a response.
“Our Shuiyu Valley is gone!” Mu Ruoyi said with a sob.
“What exactly happened?” Qi Huang instinctively felt that something was wrong and anxiously pressed for details.
“Sob… Shui… Shuiyu Valley within a radius of fifty… fifty li has turned to ashes… Half of the high-level figures and disciples in the valley died… died or were injured… Eighty percent of the ordinary people did not escape…” Mu Ruoyi said, unable to stop crying.
“Wh… What?” Qi Huang immediately felt a surge of blood, her vision darkened, and the Thousand Li Sound Transmission Device fell to the ground.
“Sister Qi Huang, are you still listening?” Mu Ruoyi shouted anxiously from the Thousand Li Sound Transmission Device.
“This… this is all because of me… this is all because of me…” Qi Huang came back to her senses and immediately felt a strong sense of self-reproach. She knew that she had indirectly caused the deaths of those people, and tears couldn’t help but fall.
“No, no, no, this should be blamed on me. If we hadn’t insisted on carving Sister Hong Ling’s name on my grandmother’s tombstone, this wouldn’t have happened,” Mu Ruoyi, however, blamed herself very rationally. In fact, it was she and her mother who had forced Cheng Hong Ling and Qi Huang to agree to the marriage alliance.
“How are you all doing now?” Qi Huang asked, sniffing, her eyes red as if bleeding, for after all, those were the names of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
“We are homeless and can only find a small town to stay in for now,” Mu Ruoyi said mournfully.
“If you don’t mind, come to our HongHua Sect first! Don’t worry, blood debt will be repaid with blood. I will make the Lü Family pay for their actions,” Qi Huang said word by word through clenched teeth.
