Chapter 1 World Half Sacrificed, Inviting Gods Back to the Altar

These two things had already made the four clan heads uneasy and enraged. Amidst their anger, they were rapidly contemplating what measures to take to prevent the Hu family's young master from continuing his madness, but at this moment, they once again felt a sense of unease.

The loss of control seemed to come wave after wave, and the invisible rumbling caused their expressions to change abruptly.

"The evil spirit ascends the bridge?"

"No, it's seizing the bridge!"

"..."

Such a thing had never happened since the bridge existed. The urgency of the situation even caught them off guard with a sense of shock.

The bridge is a path to avoid misfortune, and also a hope for transcendence.

Climbing the steps is術 (shu – art), entering the mansion is 法 (fa – law), and ascending the bridge can already be called a 路 (lu – path).

More than two hundred years ago, the Grand Duke of Jupiter descended into the world, allowing the world's extraordinary people to figure out this method of ascending the bridge. The Ten Clans were among the first to come into contact with it, and also among the first to have people ascend the bridge.

Because they ascended the bridge early, and because their power grew, over time, the Ten Clans increasingly regarded the bridge as their own. When all later generations ascended the bridge, they had to kowtow and pay respects to the Ten Clans, willingly biding their time.

Especially in the past twenty years, with the extinction of reincarnated evil spirits, the Ten Clans had become even more powerful on the bridge, making the bridge even more private to the Ten Clans. Everyone in the world of Dao could only accept this fact.

The transcendence of the Ten Clans lies in this.

If the Ten Clans in this world can only be considered wealthy families, with the possibility of shuffling the cards, then this bridge has distanced the Ten Clans from everyone else in the world, even making it impossible for latecomers to escape the Ten Clans' control.

But now, it was suddenly disrupted?

"It's impossible for so many people to ascend the bridge, and it's impossible for everything to happen so coincidentally, unless..."

"...Evil spirits!"

When the Chen family head shouted, his voice was even trembling, as if he had thought of another possibility: "Those evil spirits who once fought with us on the bridge are back!"

"Twenty years ago, they were only scattered on various bridges. Although they fought with us many times, they ultimately failed to seize this bridge."

"This time, they actually...they actually changed their strategy!"

"This time, as soon as they started, they went straight to the Meng family's bridge, not even giving us time to react!"

"..."

"The most crucial thing is the Hu family..."

Someone said halfway, but stopped.

If those evil spirits had such intentions, they must have been planning for a long time, but how could it be such a coincidence that the Hu family was fighting the Meng family to the point of bloodshed, diverting everyone's attention, and the evil spirits suddenly went to seize the Meng family's bridge?

"Now that things have come to this, are we going to protect the Meng family's bridge?"

Amidst this chaos, someone finally said it, but suddenly attracted countless gazes from the side.

"How to protect?"

Someone next to him said angrily, "This isn't some village or territory where we can just say 'fight' and go over there. When those evil spirits get to the bridge, we won't have the strength to use it. We still need to find them in the human world..."

"But with the world in such chaos, where can we find them?"

"..."

"Let's watch the Meng family first. Now that no one from the Meng family is on the bridge, this road has been seized, and the Meng family has lost its last bit of protection. This trouble is huge..."

They were originally heads of various families, extremely decisive in seeing things. Even when discussing things, they were usually calm and elegant, and the plan was set between light breezes and gentle clouds. Now, this was the first time they had panicked and argued.

But although there was fire on their faces and anger in their hearts, they now realized the most crucial thing.

Having just left the Meng family and not gone far, they turned their heads to look and suddenly saw dark clouds hanging low over Yanzhou. This was because, since inviting the disaster, something had been watching the Meng family, and now, that thing had already begun to move.

The rolling dark clouds, which had been hanging low in the sky, were now rapidly falling into the Meng family's mansion.

Even the Meng family's threshold seemed to be blown by the wind, silently and slowly falling towards the inside of the house.

This was because the Meng family's mansion had lost its last pillar. The eleven paths of disaster directly entered the mansion gate without any obstruction.

"First, protect the lives of the Meng family's bloodline!"

Seeing this scene, the head of the Undying Wang family was finally unwilling. With a deep shout, he took out a porcelain bottle from his sleeve.

After pulling out the stopper, a chubby, fingertip-sized white doll jumped out.

This was the Wang family's concocted medicinal pill, which had already developed spirituality, like a living thing. He quickly pointed it towards the Meng family's ancestral home, letting the medicinal pill doll rush over to save people, while he quickly turned to the other three: "Find the Sun family, quickly eliminate the disaster!"

"Then, we should invite the people from the Ten Clans who can still speak to come out and sit down."

"..."

Looking at the Meng family, whose mansion was filled with black clouds, the others knew there was no other way.

Now, it could be determined that the eleven paths of disaster had no chance to enter Old Yin Mountain at all.

Inviting disaster and sending disaster is like this. Once invited, you begin to pay the price. There is also a price to pay on the road to sending disaster.

However, because the Pond God of Old Yin Mountain had emerged and blocked the disaster, the Meng family would have to repay the entire price.

As for the Hu family, the Hu family was indeed the target the Meng family intended to send the disaster to, but facing the "disaster," whether dodging or blocking, as long as the disaster didn't get close, then this matter would have almost nothing to do with the Hu family.

On the surface, this matter made the Meng family look like the biggest joke in the world.

Inviting and sending, burying such a large clan's fortune and bloodline, but in the end, the Hu family didn't even see the shadow of the disaster.

And at this time, they, as outsiders, even had to pinch their noses to clean up the mess for the Meng family.

Soon the news was delivered. Outside Old Yin Mountain, the eleven people who were sending the disaster all had dull expressions and stopped blankly. At this moment, the disaster objects they were holding in their arms suddenly raised their heads and cried out at the same time, their voices seemed to make the world tremble.

The disaster objects were tired and wanted to go back!

But after coming out this time, not only did they not enjoy any offerings, but they didn't know how many whips they had suffered. The resentment in their hearts had increased many times over.

And all of this would have to be repaid by the Meng family.

When the disaster senders were dazed and began to turn around and walk towards the cave, in the Meng family's ancestral home, the rolling dark clouds were slowly drifting out of the house.

However, although it was clearly dark clouds, it could be seen that within the dark clouds, there were vaguely visible figures, wearing gold and silver, brocade robes and jade crowns. Each one looked so respectable, but now they were locked in chains, pitiful, crying and weeping, and being dragged away.

The Meng family's mansion, at this time, had become empty. Only a few servants who had not been in the Meng family for long were walking around the house in a daze. When they met, they would just stare at each other and say:

"Another...another one died..."

"..."

"The things in the cave have come to the Meng family to collect debts..."

Looking at this scene from afar, even the four clan heads did not dare to approach. Although they had walked far on the bridge and could avoid birth, old age, sickness, and death, they did not yet have the ability to avoid the three disasters. At this time, they naturally did not dare to be contaminated in the slightest.

With their abilities, they originally thought that no matter how much the Hu and Meng families fought, they could always stop it at any time, at most paying some price.

But now, other than sending a medicinal pill into the Meng mansion, they didn't even dare to go in and take a look to see if the Meng family's young master was still alive.

In the ancestral hall in the northern capital, the old man guarding the hall watched helplessly as the Meng family's ancestral hall, from being full of lights, actually disappeared one by one. He could vaguely hear that the ancestral hall was full of crying, as if they were reluctant to leave this place.

He also moved his lips slightly, looked at the Hu family's ancestral hall, which had only one lamp lit, and said softly, "Sister Bai, is this...is this also something you could have thought of?"

In the Hu family's ancestral hall, the old woman's voice finally rang out after a long time, sounding as if it was full of sadness: "What difference is there between the Meng family now and the Hu family twenty years ago?"

"The Meng family only wanted to harm people, but didn't they ever think that there would be someone in my Hu family who would live up to expectations and avenge this?"

"..."

The hall guard was speechless: "But after all, it's for the Stone Pavilion..."

"When you were discussing the matter of the Stone Pavilion, you should have thought of telling the Meng family not to bully my Hu family too much."

The old woman's voice in the Hu family's ancestral hall seemed more determined than ever: "When I came back, I told my grandson to live, to learn skills, to take revenge, but..."

"...I didn't tell him anything about the so-called Stone Pavilion!"

"..."

"..."

"Let's go, we're also going to Old Yin Mountain!"

Seeing the Yin disaster entering the house, no matter how powerful the four clan heads were, their hearts felt as if they had been immersed in cold well water. In anger, they were about to go to Old Yin Mountain. This time, they had to find the Hu family and ask them for an explanation.

But just as they were about to set off, they suddenly heard someone beside them laughing: "Several honored gentlemen, why are you so anxious when there are so many lotus flowers to look at? I wonder what it's all about?"

The four clan heads turned around strangely and saw that the person speaking was someone carrying a divination flag by the roadside.

He looked disheveled, his cloth robe was dirty and messy, like a fortune teller wandering the streets.

However, when this kind of Jianghu person saw the imposing four clan heads, he just smiled and didn't seem restrained at all.

The four clan heads, upon seeing him, first frowned slightly, then turned their gazes to behind him. The person carrying the divination flag was carrying a wooden frame on his back, and on top of the frame was a piece of red cloth.

From a corner of the red cloth, a wooden statue could be vaguely seen.

The faces of the four clan heads changed immediately. The anxious look was quickly put away, and they slowly raised their hands and gave a salute to this person, or rather, to the wooden statue behind him.

They said in a low voice, "Could it be that the matter is too big, and the National Preceptor is finally willing to show himself?"

The fortune teller smiled, without a trace of surprise on his face, and said, "The willing take the bait, so how can we speak of it being big or small?"