Volume 16 Chapter 25: Rolling Thunder Destruction
The long mountain stone stairs seemed endless, reaching into the floating mountain mist.
Gao Yanan, Jiang Xiaoyi, Bian Linghan and Leng Qiuyu were currently standing in the plaza behind the mist shrouded gates. In front of them, apart from Xu Shengmo who always had an unhappy expression on his face, there was also the Madman Qin they already hadn't seen for a long time, as well as several academy black robed professors and lecturers.
Thunder Academy was established precisely by Yunqin Emperor to suppress Green Luan Academy. As such, including the exterior, Thunder Academy naturally wouldn't look any inferior to Green Luan Academy.
This plaza Gao Yanan and the others were in right now was made of golden bricks. In this plaza's surroundings towered golden palaces, surrounding this plaza like a valley.
Meanwhile, at the limits of this plaza was another gate. This gate was like the opening to a pathway into heaven. Once one passed this heavenly gate naturally formed by mountains, they would reach the peak of Thunder Rolling Mountain.
Also standing from the plaza's limits to the peak of Thunder Rolling Mountain were all types of buildings. This place was like a great city that transcended the world, or perhaps an Imperial City built alongside mountains.
Dazzling splendor, imposing and grand, these were Thunder Academy's main themes.
If the ground wasn't littered with broken soul weapons and bloody carcasses, those who gazed at the drifting clouds in front of this plaza under the mountain breeze, looking at the layers of beautiful palaces, might feel that they were walking through a temple of heaven that transcended the world of mortals.
Just like when Ni Henian and some cultivators on the emperor's side wanted to take over Immortal Academy, even though Thunder Academy lost quite a few experts during the Autumn Sacrifice, Green Luan Academy's strength possessed an absolute advantage. When there is oppression, there will naturally be resistance.
A great battle already erupted in this plaza. In Gao Yanan, Xu Shengmo, Madman Qin and these other Green Luan Academy people's surroundings were several dozen Thunder Academy corpses whose blood was currently starting to dry.
Over a hundred Thunder Academy cultivators were gathered in a corner of this plaza.
Their light golden robed selves and Green Luan Academy's black robed individuals formed a stark contrast.
These people, because they weren't expecting this, didn't dare, or had other more complex reasons, so they didn't choose to use fighting to stop Green Luan Academy from entering to take over Thunder Academy. However, most of them felt deep humiliation inside.
Among these people, Xu Shengmo saw a Thunder Academy expert who previously had some conflict with him because of matters between the academies. While looking at this Thunder Academy expert's eyes that were filled with humiliation, he couldn't help but say with a cold snort towards this person, "Vice Principal Xia endured for so many years, your Thunder Academy has suppressed our Green Luan Academy for so many years as well. Our Green Luan Academy shouldn't have been oppressed by you all to begin with. Now that we are pressuring you, what is there to feel unreconciled over?"
What Xu Shengmo said was the truth. Only, what these Thunder Academy people were considering was another issue. This was different from some of the past competitions and academy disputes. After Green Luan Academy took over Thunder Academy, would Thunder Academy still exist in the future?
Even though they still hadn't reached the peak, nor have they entered some of the secret locations at the summit of Thunder Academy, the will of Thunder Academy loyal to Yunqin Emperor already collapsed. Today, Green Luan Academy's goal in entering Thunder Academy was already complete.
What Gao Yanan, Bian Linghan and the others were worried about was only Central Continent City's situation.
They still didn't know that Yunqin Emperor actually displayed that type of soul merging in the end, already died under the rioting of Central Continent City's common people.
Xu Shengmo's voice gradually faded from the plaza.
An individual dressed in ordinary Yunqin soldier black armor, on his face a metal mask, instead suddenly walked out from the stone steps behind that mountain gate.
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Yunqin Emperor had always carried the greatest expectations for Thunder Academy. Being able to single-handedly bring up such a powerful academy was also enough to prove his strength. Perhaps when Thunder Academy's strength reached a certain degree, it might even allow him to prove that Yunqin already doesn't need Green Luan Academy. That was why when he was picking Thunder Academy's location in the past, he chose the most majestic mountain peak within seven hundred li around Central Continent City, Thunder Rolling Mountain.
Thunder Rolling Mountain's main peak was extremely tall, extremely grand. Meanwhile,there wasn't even a single peak that reached even half of Thunder Rolling Mountain. These smaller mountains were all subjects, kneeling on the ground.
When Green Luan Academy's people officially entered Thunder Academy, after several battles erupted, over a thousand figures dressed in Yunqin standard black armor silently appeared from a forest to the east of the main peak.
These Yunqin standard armored individuals who looked just like an ordinary Yunqin army instead all had their faces covered by black metal masks.
The two in the lead silently looked at the majestic Thunder Rolling Mountain. Then, a certain moment they had been waiting for seemed to have arrived. The two of them decided to remove their masks at the same time by chance.
All Yunqin officials should recognize these two.
Rong Zongsheng and Leng Zhennan. Right now, Lin Xi and Green Luan Academy were already searching for these two, but they were no longer in Central Continent City, but rather gazing towards Thunder Rolling Mountain here.
Rong Zongsheng, the expression of this true controller of Rong Family was extremely refined. He looked at the Thunder Rolling Mountain in front of him, at some of the glorious buildings that were vaguely visible. When he thought about how this Thunder Rolling Mountain and Thunder Academy were actually going to forever disappear from Yunqin, he couldn't help but feel a bit moved and shaken inside.
Leng Zhennan didn't feel as deeply moved as Rong Zongsheng, He knew that Leng Qiuyu was currently in Thunder Rolling Mountain, so he was currently thinking to himself with an ice-cold voice, realizing that this might make him and his daughter enemies. Compared to watching his own daughter be killed, perhaps letting himself be killed by his daughter was much better.
"We should begin."
Rong Zongsheng took a deep breath and then slowly exhaled, saying this.
Following this exhale, there was a type of strange trembling that was suddenly produced in the calm mountain forest.
The air in this world seemed to have slightly expanded.
This slight expansion immediately transformed into an unimaginable hammer.
None of the individuals dressed in standard Yunqin black armor, including Rong Zongsheng and Leng Zhennan, could stand still.
Endless waves of white colored pillars rose from Thunder Rolling Mountain, surging like countless white mushrooms that scattered into the sky.
Under unimaginably great rumbling noises, the entire Thunder Rolling Mountain split open like a melon and collapsed.
Countless chunks of heavy mountain rock tumbled down, countless glorious and majestic palaces instantly collapsed.
The dust formed from the collapse covered the entire sky above Thunder Rolling Mountain. A massive ring of dust formed at the waist of the mountain, climbing taller and taller, becoming a continuously widening ring.
The crazy winds blew Leng Zhennan until even his face became a bit warped.
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After an unknown amount of time had passed, only then did the great rumbling noises and sounds of collapse begin to stop, only then did the quaking earth begin returning to normal.
Rong Zongsheng and Leng Zhennan's expressions couldn't help but become extremely pale, their hands shaking slightly.
All of the people behind them sat down, their eyes filled with shock and fear.
The entire Thunder Rolling Mountain was still wrapped within smoke and flames. However, everyone could well imagine what kind of state Thunder Rolling Mountain was in now.
These black-armored individuals coughed continuously. Some of them, because their emotions fluctuated too intensely, began to feel their stomachs rolling, starting to vomit.
They saw that layers of dust already accumulated on their bodies and beneath their feet. They couldn't even see a trace of greenery in this mountain forest.
They also saw boulders the size of houses that actually tumbled down to the foot of the small mountain they were in.
No one in Thunder Rolling Mountain could have possibly survived.
Even if it was a powerful Sacred Expert, under this type of mountain peak collapse, even they might not have any chances of survival.
They knew that there were previously many Green Luan Academy experts inThunder Academy. However, for the sake of killing these Green Luan Academy experts, they actually used the entire Thunder Rolling Mountain, the entire Thunder Academy to bury them?
Who was it that used this type of decisive and malicious method?
Just who was it that could make even this type of mountain collapse?
Rong Zongsheng and Leng Zhennan knew what kind of methods were used to turn Thunder Rolling Mountain and Thunder Academy into the destruction of those Green Luan Academy young experts and Sacred Experts. It was also precisely because they knew ahead of time that they could still barely maintain their composure before this scene, barely remain standing.
"Search the entire mountain! Do not let a single suspicious trace go!"
Leng Zhennan's somewhat distorted voice began to sound in this forest.
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On Central Continent City's walls, Lin Xi suddenly opened his eyes. The instant he opened his eyes, Nangong Weiyang was already looking in Thunder Rolling Mountain's direction.
All of Central Continent City suddenly began to tremble.
The accumulated snow on all of the city walls began to fall.
Everyone in the city could hear the tiles and household goods in their homes releasing all types of sounds.
Then, everyone heard an indistinct but immense noise from the distance.
Everyone in Central Continent City was shaken once more, not knowing what happened.
Lin Xi's hand trembled slightly.
Even Nangong Weiyang's face began to become a bit pale.
Thunder Rolling Mountain was too far from Central Continent City. Even though they already tried to contact Thunder Rolling Mountain with the greatest speed possible, their messages from Central Continent City might still not reach Thunder Rolling Mountain in time. They had no chance of knowing what was currently happening in Thunder Rolling Mountain either, but even from this type of distance, for them to still sense this type of shaking, hear this type of sound... Even if they didn't think about it, they knew that something extremely terrifying definitely happened in Thunder Rolling Mountain.
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Countless streaks of dazzling radiance appeared in the skies.
Lin Xi raised his head, looking at these beautiful colors.
These colors came from Qin Xiyue and the Fiend Race cultivators. This meant that something abnormal happened in the southern outskirts army.
Only, the more it was like this, the more it made that suspicion become even more true and cruel, making things develop further in the direction he didn't wish to see, that direction he couldn't control.