Chapter 1294: Chapter 1265: Kunlun Crisis
Main World, Kunlun Mountains.
After the Martial Arts Conference, the Kunlun Mountains returned to their former tranquility.
However, within this tranquility, there was one group that was not very happy.
The Kunlun Sword Sect is a very famous sect in the Huaxia Ancient Martial Arts World, and is also always one of the behind-the-scenes members of every Martial Arts Conference.
But after the Martial Arts Conference, while the Martial Artists have finished their work and tidied up, it was the Kunlun Sword Sect that ended up handling the aftermath.
They have their reasons for being unhappy.
After all, seeing your own mountain head look like it got hammered by a meteor shower, full of craters, wouldn’t make anyone happy.
Therefore, after the Martial Arts Conference, from the sect leader and elders down to the ordinary disciples of the Kunlun Sword Sect, everyone wore a sullen face.
"Has the pit on the east been filled?"
"Filled, what about the west?"
"Not finished yet, almost there."
"What about the south?"
"Don’t know."
This was basically the daily conversation among the disciples of the Kunlun Sword Sect recently.
The Martial Arts Conference is not held at a fixed location, but because the Kunlun Mountains are relatively remote, far from where ordinary people live, and mostly covered by glaciers, seldom visited by people, it has mostly been held at the Kunlun Mountains since its inception.
If you were to ask which Martial Artists have the worst relationships with others, aside from some past Demonic Sects, the Kunlun Sword Sect would probably be at least in the top three.
After all, can you keep smiling when you know people come to your home to cause trouble from time to time?
So, the unsmiling Kunlun Sword Sect disciples once again began their arduous pit-filling efforts that occur every few decades.
However, what no one knew was that deep within the Kunlun Mountains, a stone abruptly fractured.
"Crack!"
"Crack crack!"
This stone, in the whole Kunlun Mountains, was so small that it was almost impossible to detect. After all, even if it wasn’t in the deepest part of the Kunlun Mountains, it would still be hard to find.
This was a perfectly flat ground, entirely made of stone.
But the peculiar thing was that on this flat stone ground, there were some very special patterns, and the perennial ice cold made the ground barren, with those lines very clear.
Yet on this stone ground, one stone abruptly bulged up and then shattered. In the end, this stone seemed to melt rapidly like ice meeting a flame.
As this stone fractured, a part of the entire pattern was missing, and more and more cracks appeared where the stone collapsed.
The surrounding stones also started to slowly disintegrate.
But in the place where the stones crumbled, no soil was seen, but rather... darkness.
When ten stones crumbled to a certain extent, a pitch-black claw suddenly reached out from the darkness beneath the stone.
"Snap!"
The claw slapped heavily onto the stone, making an unpleasant sound.
Soon, another claw slapped onto the stone ground, and an ugly creature slowly crawled out from the darkness with difficulty.
It had pitch-black eyes, a body covered in green skin, and claws that were as sharp as blades.
As soon as it crawled out, standing on the ground, it couldn’t help but let out an excited roar.
Immediately, it jumped and disappeared from the spot.
This place was a cave, hidden in the deepest part of the Kunlun Mountains, a very concealed cave.
...
"Kill this monster!"
"Quick! Form the Three Talents Sword Formation!"
"Roar!!"
After a while, three battered and exhausted Kunlun Sword Sect disciples sat down on the ground, panting.
"What on earth is this thing?"
"I don’t know, it doesn’t look like a Demon Beast. Demon Beasts don’t have this kind of intelligence! Moreover, even if there are Demon Beasts, they should be within the sect’s Enchanted World, how could there be such a Demon Beast outside the mountain?"
"Let’s take its body to the elders and let them identify it."
Soon, the three disciples brought the green-skinned monster to the sect’s elder.
"This thing..." The elder with full white hair and a long beard stroked his beard, his eyes filled with confusion: "I don’t think I’ve seen it either. Where did you catch it?"
"Just in the east side, we encountered it while filling pits. We don’t know where it came from, it suddenly appeared, and attacked us as soon as it saw us," said one of the less injured Kunlun Sword Sect disciples.
"Mm." Elder White-Bearded nodded, "What power did this thing possess when it was alive?"
"About Upper Yellow Rank, it took a lot of effort for the three of us to kill it with the Three Talents Sword Formation." Another disciple grinned, clearly in pain as he spoke.
"Mm, you’ve done well. Even though it was three against one, for three Middle Yellow Rank members to take down an Upper Yellow Rank opponent is quite impressive. I’ll reward you personally later." The elder nodded, "First, focus on healing your wounds. I’ll take this thing to the Sect to have others identify it."
"Yes, Elder."
And so, Elder White-Bearded, with the green creature in tow, ran swiftly toward the Enchanted World of the Kunlun Sword Sect.
"What is this thing?"
"What, you haven’t seen it either?"
"Forget it." After asking several elders and still not getting an answer, Elder White-Bearded decided to take it to the Sect Master.
Then, the green creature was brought before the Sect Master.
The Sect Master of Kunlun Sword Sect was named Dai Ren, an elder who looked somewhat dim-sighted, and indeed, he was dim-sighted.
Because at that moment, the old man was wearing a pair of reading glasses, enthusiastically clicking away at a computer screen.
"Second Elder’s chess skills have improved again lately." As he clicked the mouse, the old Sect Master couldn’t help but mutter to himself.
"Sect Master! Sect Master!"
Elder White-Bearded called out several times before Dai Ren snapped back to reality, "Ah, it’s the Seventh Elder, is there something you need? I’m in the middle of a chess game with the Second Elder and didn’t hear you earlier, apologies."
Elder White-Bearded’s mind was suddenly filled with exasperation lines; he knew that this Sect Master was indeed exceedingly powerful, so much so that even those renowned in the entire Huaxia Ancient Martial Arts World might not be as strong as his Sect Master, who rarely leaves the mountain.
But he also knew that his Sect Master was not very reliable on a daily basis.
This was evident from the fact that the old man was playing chess over a local network with the Second Elder.
In his own words, "We are Martial Artists, not primitive people, we need to keep up with the times!"
"Sect Master, our disciples filling in the pits outside happened upon this by chance."
The Seventh Elder pointed to the green creature thrown at his feet, and said.
"Oh? Have you found another treasure? I remember when we closed the mountain, some foreign races secretly built a tomb on our Kunlun Mountain, and we made quite a fortune afterward." Dai Ren said with a laugh.
However, as soon as his slightly clouded eyes landed on the thing on the ground, they became sharp instantly.
Removing his somewhat comical reading glasses, the old man stepped out and carefully examined the green creature’s corpse, restoring the demeanor expected of someone from the Kunlun Sword Sect.
With a stoic expression.
"Where was this thing found?"
The Seventh Elder knew, even though the Sect Master was unreliable most of the time, he was bold and decisive when handling matters seriously, one of the reasons why the Martial Arts Conference has been held in Kunlun Sword Sect for so many years, yet no one dared to ridicule them!
"Just outside the mountain, the disciples said it was found on the eastern side." The Seventh Elder replied.
"Call all the elders, emergency meeting! Everyone must attend, and if anyone dares mention a video meeting, I’ll personally break their legs!" Dai Ren said, his expression somewhat dark.
"Yes." The Seventh Elder could see that the Sect Master seemed to be getting serious, responded, and hurried out without further hesitation.
"This thing..." As the Sect Master of Kunlun Sword Sect, although Dai Ren hadn’t lived as long as the old Daoist Wenxing of Mystic Star Sect, he was a contemporary of his time.
And for such elders who have lived longer than others, naturally, they were more knowledgeable.
In times without the internet, this Kunlun Sword Sect Master’s favorite pastime was reading books.
Nowadays, he had read almost half of all the books in the Enchanted World of the Kunlun Mountains.
And before becoming the Sect Master, Dai Ren had guarded the library for fifty years! Even after, he didn’t change this habit.
Hence, he is arguably the most learned person in the entire Kunlun Sword Sect.
And at this moment, this erudite elder of Kunlun Sword Sect was staring at the green creature on the ground with a grim expression.
"Green skin, solid black pupils, claws, horn. This... is not a creature from the Main World!"
...
After an emergency meeting in the main hall of Kunlun Sword Sect, a group of elders from Kunlun Sword Sect rushed out of the Enchanted World toward the outer world’s Kunlun Mountain as if their butts were on fire.
A group of them rushed at once to the base of the eastern mountain.
After a long while, Dai Ren emerged from a cave, his face as dark as if it would drip water.
"The Mountain Guardian Beast has been killed! The Heart of Kunlun has also been stolen, the seal... is broken!"
"The Heart of Kunlun has been stolen?!"
Hearing Dai Ren’s words, the faces of the elders of Kunlun Sword Sect changed dramatically.
"Although the Mountain Guardian Beast is not of the Human Race, it’s often called a Yeti or something similar, but in terms of strength, it’s equivalent to the Human Race’s Roaring to Great Roaring level. The assailant was swift and efficient, at least a Burning Heat level expert." Dai Ren said with a stoic expression.
"Sect Master, what should we..." The Seventh Elder’s expression was extremely unpleasant as he spoke.
"Do everything in your power to repair the seal, even if we can’t do it perfectly, at least buy us some time." Dai Ren said urgently, "The Seal of Kunlun is the gateway connecting the Main World and other worlds. If that door truly opens, our world will be... in danger!"