In the Biyuan Realm, one of the Three Great Sects, the gate of the Black Mountain Divine Sect.
The island where it is located is not so much an island, but a huge and vast black mountain.
This mountain was also once the highest peak in the Biyuan Realm.
The belief in the Black Mountain God was one of the oldest and most primitive beliefs in the Biyuan Realm.
After the emergence of the Biyuan Palace began to deliberately support the Incense Fire Divine Path.
The first sect leader of the Black Mountain Divine Sect saw the potential in the primeval belief of the Black Mountain God.
Using the methods of the Incense Fire Divine Path, he even managed to create a Guardian God with cultivation at the Divinity Transformation Realm in the Biyuan Realm.
It must be said that those Incense Fire Cultivators of the Black Mountain Divine Sect had a much deeper research into the Incense Fire Path than the Blood God Sect.
This gave Su Ping a certain respect for them.
Fortunately, the thought that all these accumulated benefits would soon become his own pleased him greatly.
Upon seeing the outline of the black mountain between heaven and earth, his flying speed quickened considerably.
The Third Elder of the Black Mountain Divine Sect, who was left in charge, was in meditation, but was suddenly interrupted by some inexplicable annoyance.
As a great cultivator of the sect with a Nascent Soul Realm cultivation, he wouldn’t lightly overlook any anomaly.
Feeling that something bad was definitely happening, he left the sect’s cave mansion for the first time, and then sounded the alarm bell to summon the remaining disciples for assembly.
Several direct disciples who were in seclusion in the cave mansion were also urged to interrupt their meditation.
They had no choice but to leave their closed-off state with disgruntled expressions to participate in the assembly.
"It doesn’t look like there was a mishap within our gates."
"Could it be something to do with the Sect Leader?"
The Third Elder thoroughly inquired about the situation and found nothing amiss, yet his expression grew even more somber.
He took out a black token, hoping to contact the Sect Leader through the air for some peace of mind.
But to his dismay, the black token flickered twice and then went silent.
This caused the Third Elder to inwardly take a cold breath.
This wasn’t the Sect Leader being too busy to answer... it was a clear sign that he couldn’t reach the main token carried by the Sect Leader!
The Third Elder swept his gaze over the deacons, managers and various disciples around him...
He deliberately acted nonchalant, only grumbling that the Sect Leader was again too busy with external affairs to respond to the token.
Inwardly, however, he was contemplating whether he should take his direct lineage and direct disciples to leave the sect and avoid the looming trouble.
He was caught in a dilemma, wondering if taking too many people would arouse suspicion among the others.
An extremely arrogant and domineering Divine Sense descended from the high skies.
Demanding that the Black Mountain Divine Sect surrender immediately!
It even claimed that their Sect Leader had already become its prisoner!
Many deacons and direct disciples in the sect were initially startled.
But when they realized that the newcomers, a man and a dragon, though extraordinary, had only Nascent Soul Realm cultivation,
they gradually grew bolder.
The Third Elder also rallied the spirits of those present, being the first to stand up and disbelieve the opponent’s words.
In his heart, however, he thought about quickly repelling this unknown powerful enemy,
then grabbing his valuables and escaping the imminent danger.
In the gate of the Black Mountain Divine Sect, following the command of the Third Elder,
dozens of the highest-cultivation disciples left in charge simultaneously summoned their own Guardian Gods.
Then, cooperating with these mainly humanoid Guardian Gods, they rushed into the skies.
Su Ping stood on the head of the Black Dragon Ao Li, sizing up the cultivators of the Black Mountain Divine Sect below.
The more he looked, the more satisfied he became.
They did not merely summon their Guardian Gods to act as meat shields or cannon fodder.
They achieved unity between themselves and their Guardian Gods, enabling them to host the Guardian Gods in their magic artifacts or parts of their bodies, causing a qualitative change in their power.
They brought forth an effect where the whole was greater than the sum of its parts!
As these cultivators approached,
Su Ping did not hesitate, he merely breathed out softly,
opened his eyes, and a sweep of three-color Divine Light!
Dozens of cultivators and their Guardian Gods had their protective spirit lights shattered and cried out as they fell from the skies.
The Third Elder, who was about to take action, widened his eyes.
"Quickly activate the Mountain Protection Array!"
In an instant, the entire Big Black Mountain began to shake and rumble.
Under the droning sound,
a ring of black light emerged from deep within the mountain.
Inside the mountain, a Mountain God identical in size to the Big Black Mountain opened his eyes and looked towards Su Ping.
This Mountain God was the main god worshiped and cultivated by the Black Mountain Divine Sect over thousands of years.
Like the Blood God to the Blood God Sect,
except that the Black Mountain Divine Sect used it more efficiently and safely,
merely extracting its Divine Power to cultivate Guardian Gods,
without the trend seen in the Blood God Sect, where they risked being counter-devoured by the Blood God and collectively going insane.
Su Ping sensed the threat.
This ancient Mountain God had a cultivation at the Nascent Soul Perfection Realm,
not because it could only reach Nascent Soul Perfection, but because it was intentionally suppressed.
Though it was also at Nascent Soul Perfection, its foundation was unfathomably deep.
Pure Incense Fire Divine Power allowed it to perform countless Big Moves.
A giant black hand emerged from within the mountain.
This black hand was over a kilometer in diameter,
looking from afar as though a sturdy arm had grown out of the black high mountain.
The giant black hand reached for Su Ping,
and just as it was about to make contact, the sky suddenly turned blood red.
And from that bloody sky, a blood-colored hand stretched out as well.
The black hand and the blood-colored hand clenched into fists and collided with each other.
Instantly, there was a huge explosion in the sky,
and the shockwave swept around, raising a great wind and waves, drawing the attention of countless cultivators.
"Divinity Transformation! That’s a Divine Sect God at the Divinity Transformation Realm!"
"How dare they? Aren’t they afraid of being backlashed?"
The Third Elder, seeing the blood-colored hand, his face changed drastically,
aside from contacting the Sect Leader, he also reached out to the other Three Sects as well as the Biyuan Palace.