The Purgatory Calamity
Chapter 219 - 204 Climbing_1

Chapter 219: Chapter 204 Climbing_1

Second Peak.

Mid-mountain.

The various alien tribes and ferocious beasts that once lingered in the mountain’s passes and upon its summit had long since vanished.

Huang Qi resumed his true form with the visage of a rat, squatting atop a protruding rock, smoking a cigarette noisily.

Suddenly, a somewhat abrupt, strange figure appeared in his field of vision.

When some weak human race cultivators, overwhelmed by the bloody brutality of the battlefield at the summit, began to flee down the mountain...

There was one person, holding an umbrella, who actually began the ascent.

——He naturally attracted Huang Qi’s attention.

"Star River Alliance, Liang Ying?"

Huang Qi narrowed his eyes for a closer look.

The next moment, he exclaimed in astonishment, "Pang Jian!"

He had never expected that it would be Pang Jian holding the Star-shattering Umbrella that belonged to Liang Ying, starting the climb from the foot of the First Peak!

Rubbing his eyes, Huang Qi concentrated once more, confirming he had not seen wrong.

The one holding the umbrella was indeed Pang Jian!

"Has this kid gone mad?"

Thick gray smoke billowed from Huang Qi’s nostrils, ears, and the corners of his mouth.

Yet he was completely unaware, still wearing an expression of disbelief.

Forsaking those individual cultivators and elders from prominent families, he had been paying close attention to the movements at the summit of the First Peak, having early on witnessed the disappearance of the "Heavenly Killing Spirit Array."

It was due to the inexplicable disappearance of the "Heavenly Killing Spirit Array" that the remaining aliens and ferocious beasts with spare strength launched a desperate counterattack, and he saw it all very clearly.

He knew that those who dared to remain at the summit of the First Peak were either great cultivators of the Spirit Condensation Realm or level six alien tribes and peer ferocious beasts.

The only exception was the genius Yang Rui, wielding the Nine Suns Tripod.

Besides him, the multitude of Hollow Profound and Innate Realm cultivators who had gathered at the summit, fearing to fall victim to a bloodthirsty slaughter by the alien tribes, all wisely slid down from the summit.

In such chaos, at the time when the war at the summit was most bloody and brutal, Pang Jian actually chose to climb the mountain.

Cao Mang and Madam Hua, who loathed him to the bone, were still waiting, waiting for an excellent opportunity to emerge.

But Pang Jian, ahead of him and everyone else, started climbing first!

"You kid... I really don’t know what to say about you!"

Huang Qi took a fierce drag of his cigarette, coughing repeatedly from the harsh smoke.

With a heavy stomp of his foot, Huang Qi, previously concealed on the mid-mountain of the Second Peak, headed toward the summit of the Second Peak.

After all the alien tribes had left, the summit, which previously harbored the Raging Sun Sect’s Fire Cloud Ship, was devoid of any figures.

Individual cultivator Huang Qi stood at the summit of the Second Peak, looking in the direction of the First Peak.

"I just hope, kid, that you’re not really planning to enter the summit but are instead... retrieving something you left behind in your cave dwelling number fifty-six," Huang Qi somberly remarked.

...

"Who is that kid with the umbrella?"

"He, he’s climbing the mountain?!"

"Is he out of his mind?"

"..."

The many scions from the Third Realm’s prominent families who had slid down from the summit, along with the less experienced individual cultivators, were all shocked into silence upon unexpectedly witnessing someone going against the flow and ascending.

"Kid, the summit has turned into a bloody battlefield akin to hell; don’t go up there to die!"

A scion who did not recognize Pang Jian kindly warned.

Pang Jian turned a deaf ear.

"Whoosh!"

With the continuous infusion of various alien powers into the Star-shattering Umbrella he held, it began to expand bit by bit.

In the midst of his ascent, while pondering the wondrous Star-shattering Umbrella, he discovered that the beast skin which formed the umbrella canopy possessed extreme elasticity and toughness.

As spiritual power and various alien powers were infused, the large umbrella continued to enlarge, gradually expanding several times over.

The spiritual power within the umbrella fabric, along with the starlight, moon energy, and extreme cold alien power, also became increasingly tumultuous.

After a while, Pang Jian’s mind slightly shook.

He was very clearly aware that the starlight and the moon energy released by the many shining stars and the bright full moon in the heavens were being absorbed by the Star-shattering Umbrella!

At this moment, the night was deep, and the stars and moon were embedded in the night sky.

The profound and glittering starry sky, all the radiant wonders, were enhancing the might of the Star-shattering Umbrella.

"The Star River Alliance and the Raging Sun Sect can enhance their battle power under the stars and the sun. Even the artifacts they hold can also strengthen in power due to the changes in the heavens," Pang Jian realized, becoming increasingly calm and confident.

At this very moment, the dire battle taking place at the summit that concerned the overall situation, every detail was being observed by his "demigod" viewpoint high in the sky.

——He knew the condition above.

He was still secretly communicating with the Mysterious Turtle, unlocking more profound powers of the Unity World practitioners, contemplating the details of the battle in his mind.

He was well-prepared for this trip and brimming with confidence.

"Pang Jian is climbing the mountain..."

Xie Xiwen, due to the distance, was unable to see the figure of Pang Jian beneath the umbrella but saw the ever-expanding Star-shattering Umbrella.

The brilliantly dazzling Star-shattering Umbrella, on a different trajectory from everyone, was slowly making its way toward the summit of the First Peak.

"Fang lad, have Liang Ying rush to the mountain summit for support immediately!"

"Aside from Liang Ying, notify all those Spirit Condensation Realm cultivators who left the First Peak earlier to ascend the mountain!"

"The Alien Tribes and Ferocious Beasts are almost at their limit, just a few more Spirit Condensation Realm cultivators and their deaths are certain!"

Jiuyuan’s agitated and anxious voice continuously emanated from the Blood Talisman in Fang Boxuan’s hand.

Clutching the Blood Talisman, Fang Boxuan guessed from Jiuyuan’s roar that the battlefield at the First Peak’s summit must be incredibly fierce; otherwise, Jiuyuan wouldn’t be so urgent.

"Liang Ying..."

Fang Boxuan lifted his head, watching the slowly ascending Star-shattering Umbrella with an exceedingly complicated expression.

"Has Liang Ying already ascended? One person isn’t enough! Command the clan elders from several families and all the living Spirit Condensation Realm Great Cultivators to mount the summit and annihilate the Alien Tribes!"

Jiuyuan’s piercing screeches kept reverberating.

Anxiety-ridden, Fang Boxuan had already put away the Blood Talisman.

He glanced at the Star River Alliance disciples, including Xie Xiwen, all of whom were in a daze, and attempted to speak lightly, "Have you all noticed that, with Pang Jian, the Star-shattering Umbrella seems to exhibit even more miraculous properties? His ascent may be even more significant than Elder Liang’s."

No one responded to his remark.

The members of the Star River Alliance were all fixated on the moving Star-shattering Umbrella, watching the advanced Spiritual Artifact belonging to Liang Ying fill with the divine radiance of stars and moon, continuously expanding.

"Reached... the summit."

A female Innate Realm disciple muttered.

Xie Xiwen’s fragile frame trembled silently, biting her lower lip as she looked at the Star-shattering Umbrella drifting to the mountain’s peak, her heart in turmoil.

She didn’t know what Pang Jian planned to do, but while everyone else was desperately fleeing, the Star-shattering Umbrella resolutely moved upward, step by step!

— That action alone set her heart racing.

Such incredible courage that must take!

"Someone is climbing the mountain!"

"That person... has reached the summit!"

"Holding the Star-shattering Umbrella, it must be the Star River Alliance’s Liang Ying!"

"It’s just like Elder Liang, daring to ascend the mountain although she knows the summit is the most dangerous and terrible place controlled by Yuanmang!"

"..."

The First Peak, the Second Peak, the Third Peak.

In many ravines and along the mountainsides, those who had converged from all over Yuanmang upon receiving the news were closely watching the situation at the First Peak; many saw the Star-shattering Umbrella continually rising.

They also saw that the Star-shattering Umbrella had moved all the way from the base of the First Peak to the summit.

Those who couldn’t see Pang Jian assumed that it was Liang Ying holding the Star-shattering Umbrella to climb to the summit, intending to provide support to Cao Mang, Jiuyuan, and the others.

At the summit.

"Star-shattering Umbrella!"

"Liang Ying!"

Cao Mang, Madam Hua, Jiuyuan, Lou Yunming, and other Human Race powerhouses like Yang Rui and the Individual Cultivator Lian Feng all saw the familiar large umbrella, shining with bright light rising from below, and immediately shouted with excitement.

Battling fiercely with the Alien Tribes and Ferocious Beasts, they had not the time to spare a glance at the middle and base of the mountain and naturally did not know that the one holding the umbrella was someone else.

The moment they saw the Star-shattering Umbrella, they all automatically assumed it was Liang Ying who had arrived and immediately felt that reinforcements had come.

Liang Ying would certainly not climb the mountain alone; Great Cultivators from the Spirit Condensation Realm like Lin Yuanfeng must be with her!

Jiuyuan and the others were excited, Yang Rui and Lian Feng’s fighting spirit soared, all believing that with the arrival of these formidable reinforcements, the tense battle would soon come to an end.

The invading Alien Tribes and Ferocious Beasts would ultimately be obliterated on the mountain summit, and their fame would spread throughout the Third Realm.

That was until they saw Pang Jian appear behind the Star-shattering Umbrella, stepping up the stone staircase to the summit.

"Pang Jian!"

As if snuffing out the flame of their hope, those yearning for Liang Ying’s appearance shouted out in frustration, their eyes fiercely glaring at Pang Jian.

"Kid, where’s Liang Ying? If the Star-shattering Umbrella is here, where is she?"

Madam Hua, who was wielding her sleeves to shatter the intertwining dead branches, had multiple bleeding wounds on her delicate skin, looking rather disheveled as she escaped from a Wood Tribe powerhouse.

Several monstrous trees floated in the air, countless dead branches, like tentacled swords, continued to pursue Madam Hua.

She stood on a colorful carpet, holding a bright short sword in one hand and swinging her sword and sleeve, not forgetting to question Pang Jian.

"Dead,"

Pang Jian replied indifferently.

"Dead?"

Wei Wenhan, dressed as an old scholar from the Raging Sun Sect, looked stunned for a moment, swinging the Flame Dragon Ruler with his lone remaining arm.

As the ruler swung, a fire-scaled divine dragon emerged, advancing towards a Devil Scale Tribe warrior whose scale armor had completely shattered.

"How did she die?"

Wei Wenhan’s mind went blank, and just as a splatter of demonic blood from the Devil Scale Tribe warrior hit him, he let out a painful scream.

"Pang Jian, you..."

The Individual Cultivator Lian Feng, with several bloody holes through his body, remembering Pang Jian’s fair deal on purchasing the whole body’s Spiritual Materials of the Double-headed Ghost Spider, shouted with urgency, "Hurry down the mountain, this isn’t a place for you! You can’t stay here a moment longer; it’s death if you’re late!"

Jiuyuan bared his teeth.

His scarlet cloak turned into a sea of blood, he gripped a blood-stained Long Blade within that sea, battling a level six Armored Demon Beast.

Jiuyuan, who occasionally coughed blood, saw that it wasn’t Liang Ying but Pang Jian, who had mentioned killing him through Fang Boxuan’s Blood Talisman, and couldn’t help but sneer.

Amidst his laughter, the Armored Demon Beast, covered in demonic armor and resembling a rhinoceros, charged into the sea of blood where he was battling.

Jiuyuan grunted and couldn’t even manage a few arrogant and ruthless words.

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