??80: Chapter 76: Changing the Landscape is Easy, Calming the Heart is Hard_1
80: Chapter 76: Changing the Landscape is Easy, Calming the Heart is Hard_1
When Dou Yuei’s hands pressed to the ground, the entire roaring and raging tide of fierce beasts stopped abruptly as if waves were crashing back from a cliff face.
All the beasts flying in the sky, including a group of Yin and Yang two-headed eagles shrieking, were like headless flies crashing around or simply fleeing in panic.
All the beasts that could not fly cowered on the ground, trembling non-stop.
It was the fear that stemd from the most basic instinct of life, that even beasts devoid of any sentience could not resist.
Because… the earth shook and the mountains trembled!
Jade Balance Peak towered into the clouds.
Though not the most majestic mountain under the heavens, it was massive enough.
And at that mont, from halfway up the mountain, more precisely, from the point where Dou Yuei’s hands touched the mountain… it began to shake!
Rocks tumbled, and fierce beasts wailed.
“Ah…
Argh!”
Dou Yuei’s eyebrows shot up, and her Path Origin burst forth with imnse power.
Crack, crack!
Booming!
She slowly rose from her crouching position, lifting Jade Balance Peak from its midpoint, tearing it into two halves!
Compared to Jade Balance Peak, she was tinier than an ant.
Yet a frail woman, pulling up a mighty mountain, was like a deity.
Such a heart-stirring sight would surely beco eternal in the hearts of many!
…
“Sigh.”
Suddenly, an elderly sigh resounded, as if it seeped into everyone’s hearts with just a light breath.
“Let’s stop here,”
the voice said.
Boom!
Dou Yuei’s hands snapped back, the ground shook violently, and the mountain rged together!
She looked towards the peak of Jade Balance Peak with a face full of shock; that was where the voice had co from.
Soone was at the top of Jade Balance Peak, high in the clouds where fierce beasts lurked—an imasurable and terrifyingly powerful presence!
“I didn’t expect you could achieve this much on your own,”
the voice repeated, “But let’s leave it at that.”
This was undoubtedly a fearso person, who had not even appeared yet had prevented Dou Yuei from uprooting the mountain, showcasing his invincibility.
But.
“What the hell are you talking about!” Dou Yuei regained her composure from the initial shock, her fists clenched, as the Divine Power Seed in her fifth Inner Mansion spun wildly: “Who the hell do you think you are?
Telling us to go, and we go; telling us to stop, and we stop?”
Sun Xiaoman, carrying the Shock Mountain hamr, ca to stand behind Dou Yuei.
Li Jianqiu, holding a peach branch upside down, ca to stand behind Dou Yuei.
Zhao Tiehe limped to her rear.
Yang Xingyong, Shen Nanqi, Huang Azhan, cultivators of the Zhuang Ting City Guard Army, cultivators of the Zhuang Ting Dao Institute, even those cultivators attracted rely by the reward…
All those alive, all those still capable of fighting, silently gathered behind Dou Yuei.
Despite the individual at the peak of Jade Balance Peak appearing so strong, so unbeatable.
This was a silent… stance!
“Sigh!”
The elderly voice sighed again: “So spend their whole lives without even touching the fringe of Divine Skills.”
He lanted, “You’ve only swum halfway across your body’s sea, yet you already had a premonition of your Divine Power Seed.
You have more potential than Sun Heng.
It’s a pity…”
His words implied that though there were many cultivators on Jade Balance Peak, the only one worth noting to him was Dou Yuei alone.
Without seeing the person or knowing what he did, the whirling Divine Power Seed within Dou Yuei’s fifth Inner Mansion suddenly, and without a sound, stilled.
Dou Yuei exerted all her strength to struggle against that invisible pressure: “You hide on the mountain top, collude with fierce beasts, watch them wreak havoc, and even shelter them.
What do you know?
You don’t understand his power at all!
Even if you are stronger, I will still consider you weak.
You…
old fool!”
The mountain wind whistled, scattering the echoes in the distance.
That voice fell silent for a mont before it rose again.
“There are so things you do not understand, and I do not bla you for it.
Leave now, lingering serves no purpose.”
“I don’t want to linger!” Dou Yuei shouted angrily, “But the countless cultivators who died in battle in Sanshan City, the countless citizens who were devoured…
they do not agree!”
“This matter is a secret, and you are not yet qualified to know.”
“I’m not qualified?” Dou Yuei said with an angry laugh, “I am the lord of the Sanshan City region!
The King himself has written my command in jade, the orders were cast by Zhuang Ting himself, I am the master of this land and rivers, the guardian of all the citizens of the Sanshan City region!
And now you’re telling
there are secrets within this Sanshan City region that I’m not qualified to know about?”
“Zhuang Country has three major counties, and Qinghe County has thirteen cities.
You are just the…
temporary housekeeper of one of these thirteen cities, not the guardian, much less the master!
Across the three thousand li of Zhuang Country, there is only one master, and that is the Monarch himself!
No need for further words, you are to take the order and that’s it!”
This statent revealed far too much information.
The most pressing point was that the existence of fierce beasts on Jade Balance Peak was permitted by the King of Zhuang Country.
Or perhaps it was more than re permission.
“Hahaha!”
Dou Yuei burst out laughing, she laughed so hard that tears stread down her face.
“My husband died here, my brother died here.
My disciples, my friends, the ones I loved, and those who loved , all died here.
My daughter was only fifteen years old, and my son only thirteen, and they all went to the battlefield to fight for Sanshan City!
And now you’re telling
that Sanshan City doesn’t belong to , but to that damned King who doesn’t care about life or death here, who hides in his palace unseen, who sits aloof without knowing what he’s doing…
that damned King?”
“How dare you!” The owner of the ancient voice seed truly angered, and a terrifying pressure descended from the mountain peak, imdiately killing dozens of fierce beasts as their bodies bled.
He restrained himself, though, and the pressure stopped just before reaching Dou Yuei.
But with that angry shout, Jade Balance Peak fell into an extre quietude.
In this heart-fluttering silence, only Dou Yuei’s especially desolate voice could be heard: “From the day my man died, I lost the right to be a coward.”
Once upon a ti, she too was a timid and frail woman.
She would be scared when facing powerful enemies, she would back away when encountering hardships, and sotis, at the sight of a mouse, she would scream and hide in her husband’s embrace.
But after that man died in battle, she could no longer afford to do so.
She had to raise her children and bear the entire weight of Sanshan City on her shoulders.
Did she willingly raise her fists on the front line, did she willingly let her voice grow hoarse and her waist thicken?
Who the hell wouldn’t want peaceful years, to plant flowers and tend the grass?
But could she?
Dou Yuei clenched her fists tightly, gritted her teeth, and kept charging at the powers that shackled her.
She did not stop for a mont.
This ti, the ancient voice remained silent for a long ti before finally saying, “Co up here.”
Under the gaze of the surviving cultivators, Dou Yuei walked alone towards the mountain summit.
The beasts were silently forced apart by so power, making way for her as she proceeded forward.
Out of nowhere, the heavy clouds at the edge of the sky were torn open, revealing a crescent moon, but soon, it was once again concealed.
The night was always dark.
In the wait, ti seed especially long.
When Dou Yuei’s figure appeared in view, all eyes fell on her.
People awaited, hoped, and also feared and felt uneasy.
It was only when she reached halfway up the mountain, to the spot where she had defied the heavens earlier, that Dou Yuei seed to notice the crowd awaiting an answer.
She looked up at everyone before striding down the mountain.
“Disperse.” She said.
Sun Xiaoman suddenly felt an urge to cry, because she suddenly realized that her beautiful and fierce mother, who seed like she would never grow old, had, this ti, truly aged.
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