Chapter 2459: Chapter 90: The Storm Calms After Ninety Thousand Miles (Part 2)

Fresh and vivid as if coming from a normal "person."

This vividness made him frown slightly, sword brows in a furrow.

The thatched sword at his waist hummed without cause.

Facing this hand.

Even he couldn’t suppress his Sword Intent!

Then, as Yan Dao experts like him watched, this hand casually pushed upward.

Boom!

The Taiyi Mountain, stretching for thousands of miles, was directly shattered on the spot!

Whether rocks, soil, or giant trees and high cliffs, all were shattered instantly, transforming into tens of millions, hundreds of millions of tons of fine black sand, cascading from the sky!

This Taiyi Mountain was a famous mountain relocated from the Summer Country. Back when Peng Chongjian leveraged the resurgence of Liang Country, he uprooted the mountain, nurtured it in his palm, transforming it into a black hairpin that he kept with him for several decades.

Over these decades, it was nurtured daily, continually refined.

With his cultivation as a True Man of the Age, using the divine skill of moving mountains, he meticulously managed and sculpted it over time.

It was taller, more majestic, and solid than the original Taiyi Mountain, and naturally more powerful in battle. Much stronger, indeed!

Through Peng Chongjian’s refining, every grass, tree, stone, and soil in this mountain possesses immense power.

In short, this Taiyi Mountain hairpin is rare in this world, capable of playing a role in battles at the True Person Level. Although it doesn’t compare to the treasure of Cave Heaven, it could be considered the ultimate limit of manpower.

Especially now, when Peng Chongjian is fully activating it, it is infinitely approaching the power of Yan Dao. It could perhaps attempt to challenge a True Monarch like Xiang Fengzhi once did.

But such a Taiyi Mountain.

Was completely shattered by a gentle push of this hand!

Henceforth, no more Taiyi is heard of in this world.

Not a trace of the power of a mountain-moving True Man remains.

The immense black sand plunged into the water, instantly making the area previously cleansed by several Yan Dao True Monarchs turn turbid. The broken sand of Taiyi Mountain became the carrier of Evil Thoughts, once again causing massive pollution to the purified water.

Meanwhile, Peng Chongjian himself fell backward, his breath rapidly declining, his Insight of Truth’s body showing several cracks, like porcelain about to break.

Strong as Peng Chongjian, a True Man of the Age, he turned to such a state after just an indirect confrontation!

True Monarch Xuehe Huo Shiji, at this moment, gave him a push. Shrouded in a hazy blood light, forcibly sealed his body’s cracks, pushing him together with the blood boat beneath him directly to the Door of Mortal World.

Huo Shiji himself, however, turned around abruptly, facing away from the blood boat and directly facing the boundless black sand and the fresh hand within the sand.

Si Yu’an raised a finger, a sword light encircling the swiftly flying blood boat, without saying anything more.

"Sect Master Huo! No need for this!" Chen Pu, already stationed in the Door of Mortal World, shouted urgently: "This matter can still be salvaged!"

Huo Shiji faced the tumultuous Evil Sea alone, facing the terrifying existence that had already reached out a hand, leaving only a back draped in a blood-colored Daoist robe to those within the Door of Mortal World.

"Fellow Daoists!"

His voice echoed throughout the Evil Sea: "This matter might still be salvaged, this responsibility cannot be evaded. I, Huo Shiji... have deceived you!"

What does he mean by this?

Jiang Wang was surprised in his heart, raising his eyes to look at Si Yu’an. This Sword Pavilion Master showed no expression, seemingly having anticipated something long ago.

Huo Shiji’s voice continued: "Today’s matters are, in fact, due to our Blood River Sect’s oversight."

"At this moment, I must confess to all of you. It was a True Man of our sect, spying on the path of Yan Dao, recklessly acting within Saint Water, only greedy for ambition but failed in control, which then stimulated the Bodhi Evil Ancestor!"

"I believed I could rely on my own power to quell it, therefore I concealed it, until the Yan Dao Level Evil Observation emerged, leaving nowhere to hide."

"Yet, I still harbored a fluke in my heart."

"I invited all of you, hoping to borrow your power to quell the disaster. Meanwhile, I intended to erase related traces, attributing the incident to spontaneous changes of Saint Water, thus preserving the reputation of our Blood River Sect."

Everyone inside the Door of Mortal World remained silent, listening to him recount the sequence of events leading to today’s situation. Many previously unclear points were now confirmed.

Why did Saint Water suddenly change without any prior warning?

Why did the Blood River Sect, having guarded Saint Water for so many years, allow the situation to deteriorate to this extent? And, why did they seek aid only when it reached such a state?

All questions now had answers.

Although there were still some details not clarified.

But Huo Shiji deliberately chose not to clarify them, presumably to protect the True Man within his sect.

Wu Bingyi remained expressionless, not saying a word.

Chen Pu, usually warm and kind, showed anger in his eyes, but behind that anger was also sorrow.

Huo Shiji continued: "My dishonesty prevented you all from successfully tracing the source, ultimately leading to the deterioration of the situation!"

"I still harbored hopes, thinking of retreating into the Door of Mortal World, abandoning the boundary of Blood River, using the remainder of my life to rebuild millennia of glory... but Peng the protector’s desperate fight awakened me."

"The boundary of Blood River was forged through fifty-four thousand years of struggle by countless disciples of our Blood River Sect. In these fifty-four thousand years, countless benevolent people sacrificed here, creating this crimson of Blood River! What kind of man am I, Huo Shiji, to abandon it? What significance does my life and death, my honor and disgrace hold compared to the billions of souls who died for the purification of Saint Water?"

"Things have come to this, hard to retrieve. All this is my sole responsibility, I am willing to bear it! Let today’s events end here, I ask all of you not to blame my sect’s disciples."