Chapter 343: Chapter 136: The Moon Worship Sect’s Reinforcements Arrive, but Become the Key to Breaking the Formation in a Life-or-Death Crisis

’Just one more batch of nodes, and this Grand Array is sure to fall!’

Without hesitation, Chu Fan shot out like a cheetah, silently tailing the nearest man in white.

The man in white weaved quickly through the complex alleys and ruins, seemingly intimately familiar with the terrain. He soon disappeared among a stretch of crumbling walls.

Suddenly—

"You bastards of the Moon Worship Sect! I’ll fight you to the death!"

The roar, filled with fury and grief and empowered by a surge of Primordial Qi, boomed like a thunderclap across the entire city.

Chu Fan started. He knew that voice.

It was the master of the Mountain Opening Boxing Hall, Wang Kaishan!

Wang Kaishan’s death-defying roar was like lighting a fuse, instantly igniting the long-suppressed rage and fighting spirit of the city’s people!

Previously, faced with the incomprehensible and invincible Resentful Spirit and the Grand Array blanketing the city, the people had been left with nothing but numb despair.

Whether they were Martial Artists who hadn’t passed the five stages of Foundation Establishment or those who had achieved Mortal Transformation, facing that terrifying Resentful Spirit, even from a distance, filled their hearts with nothing but despair.

The moment they sensed the Resentful Spirit’s terrifying aura, they knew there was nothing they could do...

Except wait to die!

But now, things were different!

The enemy was no longer some ethereal, intangible monster, but real, flesh-and-blood members of the Moon Worship Sect!

Never mind that many of them had achieved Mortal Transformation, or were in the late Spirit Awakening Realm...

These bastards who wanted to harvest their lives were right before their very eyes!

"Kill! Fight these scumbags to the death!"

"We’re dead either way! Let’s take some of them down with us!"

"Protect Cyan Yang Ancient City! Kill them!"

"Slaughter those bastards!"

Throughout North City, the surviving Martial Artists from various powers, and even some of the more ferocious commoners, gathered spontaneously, their eyes bloodshot with rage.

They grabbed anything that could serve as a weapon and charged at the white-robed men fanning out across the city!

It was as if Wang Kaishan’s roar had awakened them all.

And it wasn’t just the people trapped in North City...

Outside North City, the forces of the great families and gangs, finally realizing that no one would be safe if the city fell, abandoned their wait-and-see attitude and began to converge frantically on North City!

When the Blood Saber Sect was annihilated by the Moon Worship Sect, they had stood by and watched, even carving up the Blood Saber Sect’s territory afterward.

When the Seven Stars Gang was forced to disband, they’d felt a twinge of sympathy, knowing they could be next, but had been powerless to do anything.

But now...

No one could afford to remain on the sidelines!

If the array laid by the three from the Demon Suppression Bureau was broken and the Resentful Spirit was fully restored, no one in the entire city would escape!

The entirety of Cyan Yang Ancient City had finally boiled over!

Within North City, Wang Kaishan led the charge, a group of blood-soaked disciples from the Mountain Opening Boxing Hall at his back. They relentlessly pursued two of the men in white.

Seething with a rage that made his hair stand on end, fists whistling through the air, he was about to charge forward and beat them to death, regardless of the cost.

Suddenly, a sharp arrow split the air. With a THWACK, it landed precisely in the ground before him, blocking his path.

"Who goes there!"

Wang Kaishan whirled around in anger, only to be stunned to see that the archer was none other than Zhao Tianxing!

"Master Wang! Hold on!"

Zhao Tianxing rushed over, speaking rapidly. "These people came to Cyan Yang City to reinforce the array."

"Killing one or two of them now is pointless. Following them to find the nodes is what’s crucial! Chu Fan already destroyed more than a dozen nodes, which is why the Grand Array’s power has weakened so much!"

"My martial brothers from the Moon Arrow Martial Arts Hall are already tracking the other men in white under Master Chen’s lead. Every node we find increases our odds of victory!"

"I see!" It dawned on Wang Kaishan, and his face filled with ecstatic joy. "Good! What a good kid! The person I, Wang Kaishan, have admired most in my life is the Ghost-faced Man, and my biggest regret was losing the chance to take Chu Fan as my disciple. I never imagined the Ghost-faced Man and Chu Fan were one and the same!"

"I’ll take my men and hunt down those depraved bastards right now!"

He immediately suppressed his killing intent and signaled his disciples to fan out and track the men in white.

He himself took two disciples and went after the pair of white-robed men they had been pursuing.

Just as they’d hoped, one of the two men quickly slipped into a hidden underground chamber in an abandoned residence.

Wang Kaishan ordered his two disciples to stand guard outside while he charged straight in.

VMMMM!

The moment Wang Kaishan burst in, the white-robed man inside was already sitting cross-legged.

A small array instantly activated, enveloping him in a protective barrier.

"Bastard!"

Enraged, Wang Kaishan strode forward and unleashed the strongest move of his Mountain Opening Fist Technique!

His fist, surging with immense Primordial Qi, smashed heavily against the array’s barrier.

Wang Kaishan grunted, was sent flying backward, and smashed right through a wall, which collapsed around him!

"Master!"

The two disciples guarding outside were horrified and rushed to help him up.

’Damn it... Even a full-power strike from a Fifth Heaven Spirit Awakening Realm expert can’t break it... Not without a Spirit Soldier!’

Wang Kaishan wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and, ignoring the churning turmoil in his body, said in a grim voice, "Zhao Cheng, go find Chu Fan! Tell him this location!"

"Yes, sir!"

The disciple, Zhao Cheng, immediately dashed off.

Zhao Cheng rushed out into the street, only to panic.

’Find Chu Fan?’

’Where am I supposed to find him?’

’Chu Fan appeared in the central district earlier, but there’s no trace of him now!’

With a powerful push of his legs, Zhao Cheng leaped onto the roof of a stone house and yelled, "Chu Fan!"

It was a crude method.

But it was also remarkably effective.

Before Chu Fan could answer, a disciple from the Iron Armor Sect rushed over from nearby. "Chu Fan’s over at West Street Willow Lane! Why are you looking for him?"

"We’ve found one of the Grand Array’s nodes!" Zhao Cheng said quickly. "But my master can’t break through its defensive barrier!"

"The reinforcements from the Moon Worship Sect are meant to enter the array nodes—"

Before he could finish—

VMMMM!

The very air seemed to tremble.

The next moment, the same feeling that had washed over them when the Grand Array first activated returned!