Rapidnovel #597 - Burn it
#597 - Burn it
What kind of terrifying existence could compel the gods to risk heavenly punishment and descend, scattering their souls, just to dismantle the Six Paths of Reincarnation?
Zhang Chen dared not imagine it!
The gods falling, their true nature lost, transforming into various treasures—what a terrifying calamity!
"It's a pity that even dismantling the Six Paths of Reincarnation couldn't save that existence from the tribulation. If they had overcome it, the Human Path of Reincarnation wouldn't have appeared here," Zhang Chen murmured, storing away the Yin-Yang Millstone with a soft sigh.
A sense of bewilderment suddenly arose within him. Under the great calamity, all things returned to nothingness. Even the legendary ancient gods had fallen. What about him? What should he do in the future?
Had the great changes in the world ended?
Would the situation in the world become even worse in the future?
Looking at the fragments of Yin souls in the world, and then at the Heavenly Laws, which seemed sluggish and stuck, a trace of worry appeared in Zhang Chen's eyes.
In his deductions, future great changes in the world were almost certain to happen.
The great changes in the world had definitely not ended.
The Yin-Yang Millstone transformed into a stream of light, drilling into Zhang Chen's primordial spirit, circling within his sea of consciousness. An inexplicable power flowed, suppressing the strength of his sea of consciousness.
Zhang Chen scanned the ground but found no experience points dropping, a thoughtful look in his eyes. "Perhaps it's because the Human Path of Reincarnation is too unique. It doesn't exist as a treasure or a god, but as a form of law and order… But that's not right, then why would there be skill drops?"
Zhang Chen couldn't understand why the Six Paths of Reincarnation had skill drops but no experience points.
But now wasn't the time to think so much. Seeing that he had gained an advantage, Zhang Chen turned around, came behind Zhang Gaoqiu, tore off the obstacle from Zhang Gaoqiu's eyes, and immediately used a遁术 to slip away.
Just then, a Shen family deity floated in the void, a hundred-foot-long water dragon dancing around them, constantly suppressing the overwhelming fire.
The flames ignited by the sun's embers were, after all, not true Sun Truefire. Facing the water drawn by the Shen family, the fire was gradually suppressed.
The Shen family's ninth-order deity's urgent voice spread throughout the mansion: "Everyone be careful! This flame is by no means ordinary fire. Its power has at least reached the ninth order. Once entangled by the flame, even ninth-order deities will suffer burns. All deities, join me to temporarily suppress this strange fire and wait for the ancestor to return and extinguish the flame. Our strength is not enough, we can only temporarily curb the spread of the fire. If we want to destroy the fire, the ancestor must personally take action."
Following the Shen family's ninth-order deity's order, rays of divine light rose from the Shen family's mansion, controlling streams of water to suppress the fire.
"Five ninth-order deities, seven eighth-order deities. The Shen family is worthy of being a great power that controls 70% of the world's water transport. This foundation is terrifying," Zhang Chen said, watching the rising auras and carefully counting the Shen family's experts.
"You're wrong! Terribly wrong! This is just a part of the Shen family's foundation. The Shen family controls 70% of the world's water transport. Their foundation is beyond your imagination. What you see is definitely not all of the Shen family's strength. Think about it, can a force that monopolizes 70% of the world's water transport be a simple force? Even those rats of the Taiping Dao can cultivate so many experts. The Shen family may not be worse than the Yellow Heaven Dao. Even if they're not as good, they definitely won't be too far off," Cheng Yu retorted, an astonishing wisdom flashing in his eyes.
"The Shen family actually has this kind of strength?" Zhang Chen was a little disbelieving.
But thinking about the Shen family controlling 70% of the world's water transport, it was like in the 21st century, if a company could monopolize 70% of a certain industry in a certain country, what a terrifying behemoth that would be? What kind of terrifying influence would they have?
So, after hearing Cheng Yu's words, Zhang Chen felt that what he said made some sense. At this time, he fell silent, a trace of caution in his eyes: "I should still continue to lay low. The water in this world is too deep, especially since the Great Dao of Gods was passed down…"
"By the way, have you guys noticed that the fire looks a bit familiar?" At this time, Zhang Fei, who was on the side, looked at the golden flames burning in the dark night and felt like he had seen them somewhere.
"Brother, isn't that flame a bit similar to the flame in your small stove?" Zhang Fei seemed to remember something and turned to ask.
Zhang Chen's eyelids twitched, and he made up his mind that he would never use the solar charcoal fire in front of the Shen family in the future. Even this kid Zhang Fei could see some clues. If the Shen family's cultivators saw it, wouldn't that be a big trouble?
No one is a fool.
Faced with Zhang Fei's question, Zhang Chen directly refused three times: "I don't know! You saw it wrong! It doesn't look like it at all!"
Zhang Shi also slapped Zhang Fei on the back: "What nonsense are you talking about, kid? You can't talk nonsense. If you cause any trouble, we'll all suffer with you."
The whole family was neatly watching the fireworks in the courtyard. As the Shen family's tenth-order deity returned, a stream of black water fell from the void, extinguishing the raging flames.
However, more than half of the Shen family had been reduced to ruins, and wisps of smoke rose, enveloping the entire Shen family in smoke.
"Everyone gather here and count the casualties!"
"Quickly summon the clansmen to investigate the population loss," Wang Xifeng stood up at this time and ordered the maids and servants to start checking the population.
Following Wang Xifeng's order, Zhang Chen also walked out of the Lychee Garden with his family.
At this time, Zhang Chen saw Zhang Gaoqiu and Shen Ling hugging each other in the flickering firelight, their eyes filled with the fear of parting after life and death. Shen Ling stroked Zhang Gaoqiu's face with concern: "Brother, are you okay?"
"I'm okay. Are you okay?" Zhang Gaoqiu stroked Shen Ling's clothes up and down, confirming whether Shen Ling had any burns.
From afar, Zhang Chen coldly glanced at the two of them and didn't pay much attention. After he took back the Immobilization Talisman, Zhang Gaoqiu also rushed out of the ancestral hall.
However, as the last person to rush out of the ancestral hall, Zhang Gaoqiu shouldn't think of easily getting rid of this shit pot.
Not long after, the chief steward Lai Changrong reported: "Reporting to Madam, no one was burned to death, and not even anyone was burned. It's just that the fire was too fierce. Many antique porcelain and calligraphy paintings were all burned to ashes. Even the gold and silver were burned into water and seeped into the soil, and they need to be dug out and remelted. This loss is too great. The antiques and calligraphy paintings alone are worth hundreds of millions of taels of silver."
Wang Xifeng's face turned pale when she heard this, and she gasped: "The Shen family's foundation is probably 60% or 70% burned."
The gold and silver hoarded by wealthy families only accounted for a small part. Most of what they hoarded were antiques, and antiques were the most vulnerable to burning.
Antiques become more and more valuable with the passage of time and years, and even more valuable than gold.
Especially in the Shen family's lair, accumulated by the Shen family's ancestors for thousands of years, the various antiques collected, this fire simply burned the Shen family's main artery.
At this time, the Shen family was noisy, and everyone was busy with the aftermath, and some people were discussing the cause of the fire.
And Zhang Chen stood at the door of the courtyard, listening to the discussions outside, and a trace of unbearable feeling suddenly arose in his heart: "Could it be that I went too far?"
He really didn't expect that a fire would burn 60% or 70% of the Shen family's foundation.
At this time, Wang Xifeng directed the Shen family's servants to deal with the aftermath: "Come, quickly clear the ruins, dig out the melted gold and silver for me, and then send someone to remelt it. See if there are any calligraphy and paintings that haven't been ignited, and quickly sort them out."
"Also, does anyone know the cause of the fire?" Wang Xifeng asked, standing in the crowd.
Hearing Wang Xifeng's words, a servant stepped forward and said: "Reporting to the Grand Madam, before, this humble servant saw a spark rising into the sky in the courtyard, and then the spark suddenly exploded, spraying in all directions in the air. The sprayed sparks turned into raging flames directly on the ground, and the grass and trees were ignited directly when they met the sparks."
Following the servant's opening, a large number of servants spoke up to corroborate it.
"Spark?" At this time, the Shen family's Old Madam was supported by a maid and stood up, a trace of baleful aura in her eyes: "How could a spark suddenly rise into the sky? Does anyone know where the spark came from?"
"It seems to have flown from the direction of the ancestral hall…" A servant said.
Hearing this, the tenth-order ancestor and the ninth-order ancestor both moved in their hearts, and an ominous premonition rose in their minds: 'Could it be that we fell for a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain?'
Otherwise, why would it be such a coincidence that someone lured away their own tenth-order ancestor at a critical moment? And after the ancestor left, this spark suddenly rose?
A group of people rushed into the ancestral hall, and sure enough, they saw an empty void in the ancestral hall, and the trace of the Six Paths of Reincarnation was gone.
"Damn it, it really came for my Shen family's secret treasure! This thief really deserves to die!" The Shen family's tenth-order deity said with an angry face: "Who was the last one to leave the ancestral hall?"
As his words fell, everyone's eyes turned, you looked at me and I looked at you, and finally fell on Zhang Gaoqiu.