Unfathomable Senior

Chapter 676

“I still can’t believe we are doing this... can they really not see us?”

“Would they let us be here if they did?”

“Hey, shut up you two, and get a move on, it’s no time for chatter! We need to complete the mission, place the devices in the correct locations just like the elders told us!”

“Forgive us, senior sister!”

A small group of hooded figures were sneaking around the ground. Above them, the loud explosions of spirit cannons were successfully masking their speech as they maneuvered around the raging battlefield. Sparks of leftover spiritual energy rained down on them like drizzle but they were well protected by their clothing and special hiding technique.

They were all shrouded in some sort of darkness, as long as they kept to it, there was no way of them being discovered. The man responsible for this was hidden away somewhere in the middle and concentrating. Thanks to his technique many core formation warriors were able to move around this place freely and were about to finish their mission.

‘They won’t know what hit them.’

Zhang Dong thought to himself while looking up. There right above him was the colossal fortress in which the Long Clan was hiding. After realizing that the shield they assembled wouldn’t last the continued blasting, he came up with a solution. Instead of pushing in with the sect's limited forces, he decided to create a funnel of energy below the armada. His teleportation feature allowed him to create a smaller temporary teleportation gate on the other side of the shielding formation. Through it he moved in some of his troops that were now setting up their counter.

‘I don’t feel the presence of the Azure Emperor nor that of his wife... though she was previously able to hide her true form from me, so I have to take that into consideration.’

When he was in the Azure Palace, his older brother showed some mild care for his children. While he was allowed to teach them a lesson, their relations weren’t that bad. If he managed to capture them alive, then they could probably act as a bargaining chip to hasten their surrender. Yet, he couldn’t see those old elders give up their position in the Empire. Playing second fiddle to a sect of upstarts was not something they would do. Long Qing was still part of the Long Clan and probably carried the same sentiments.

‘He acted very relaxed and confident back then, but that could have been before he identified me as a threat to his position. I don’t think he will step down without putting up a fight but perhaps if I have his children, he’ll back away.’

His current intention was not necessarily to win this conflict, at least not at this very moment. His life would be long and he had not aged a day since arriving in this world. He had a good five hundred years in him until his body would start showing signs of aging. His brother on the other hand didn’t have that much time as long as a non-involvement agreement could be established, it would be fine.

For him who could see his faction population on the system window, it was maddening. He had to sit there without being able to do much while his people were being killed or injured. Before the massive fortress in the air was breached he couldn’t really move. Huo Qiang, Zhang Liena, and Zhang Zhi were battling it out on their own fronts and needed to contend with their own powers.

He had to somewhat stay true to his promise of not getting involved in the border dispute. If he just activated his full power the Long Clan would more than likely target his position. Having a clear shot at the enemy leader was not something they could ignore. Perhaps they would even use this massive fortress of theirs as a battering ram, however, as it looked his involvement wasn’t needed.

‘It seems that they really weren’t expecting this turn of events, just a bit more and we can blast through their defenses.’

While the huge formation that was around the borders was being boosted by various treasures and even somewhat by a spirit vein, the other army wasn’t. They only had flying ships with engines that were not built to get bombarded by countless spirit blasts from cannons. Now that they were forced in range of them, they were getting blasted to smithereens and soon some of them started to crash down to the ground.

“That’s it, they are faltering don’t let up, focus fire on the main stronghold, pull the Long Clan bastards out of there!”

Even now the enemy clan was using the branch families as cannon fodders. A regiment of their ships was creating an axillary defensive formation. They were taking the brunt of the attacks while the people from the Long Clan tried to pull away from the gravitational attack. All their cannons were aimed directly at the ground but it wasn’t that easy to get rid of the magical lines. Zhang Dong was keeping his shadowy techniques alive which made it quite difficult to pinpoint the true location of the weak points.

‘Are they going to use their large cannon?’

As a last-ditch effort to get out of there, the large castle-like structure transformed some of its towers into a massive cannon. The sound of it powering up produced a lot of static noise and was hard to miss. It was pointed directly down and at his immediate location. Clearly, his enemies had pinpointed the man responsible for it all and were dead set on killing him.

‘Oh?’

‘Protect the Elder, don’t let them destroy the gravity trap!’

Before he could do something about it, a large group of flying ships gathered around him. There were various models that he remembered drawing up in his spare time as well as some that he had never seen before. These probably belonged to some of their allies from other sects that decided to join them in this defensive battle.

They were all there ready to take the massive cannon blow by themselves. They all knew that if the elder controlling this grand magic fell, then their plan would go up in smoke. The other side on the other hand didn’t look that united. Some of them were trying to escape to the sides while others continued with the battle. There was a stark difference between the leadership of these two sides and soon it would be made obvious which had the advantage.