The moment Dou Yue’mei pressed her hands on the ground, the entire horde of rampaging, roaring beasts stopped as if a tidal wave had retreated before a cliff.

All the beasts flying in the air, including the shrieking Yin-Yang two-headed eagles, crashed around like headless flies or fled in panic.

All the beasts that could not fly prostrated themselves on the ground, trembling.

It was a fear rooted in the most basic instincts of life, impossible to resist even for the beasts, who lacked any semblance of intellect.

Because… the earth was shaking!

Mount Yuheng was a towering peak that pierced the clouds. Although not the most imposing mountain in the world, it was vast enough.

And at this moment, that mountain, from its halfway point, or more precisely, from the point where Dou Yue’mei’s hands touched the mountain, began to shake!

Rocks tumbled, and beasts wailed.

“Ya… ah!”

Dou Yue’mei’s eyebrows shot up as her powerful Dao Yuan exploded.

Crack, crack! Rumble!

She slowly rose from her semi-squatting position, lifting Mount Yuheng from its halfway point, splitting it in two!

Compared to Mount Yuheng, she was smaller than an ant.

But a delicate woman, lifting a majestic mountain, was like a celestial being.

This awe-inspiring scene would become an eternal image in the hearts of many!

…

“Alas.”

Suddenly, an old sigh echoed, as if it were sighed into the hearts of everyone.

“Let it end here.”

That was what the voice said.

Boom!

Dou Yue’mei’s hands flew open, the ground shook violently, and the mountain rejoined!

She looked in astonishment at the peak of Mount Yuheng, the direction from which the voice came.

At the top of Mount Yuheng, towering into the clouds and teeming with beasts, there was someone!

And a powerful figure so unfathomable, so terrifying!

“I didn’t expect you to be able to achieve this on your own.”

The voice repeated, “However, let it end here.”

This was undoubtedly a terrifyingly powerful figure, having prevented Dou Yue’mei from lifting the mountain without even showing himself, further emphasizing his invincibility.

However.

“What the hell are you talking about!” Dou Yue’mei snapped out of her initial shock, clenching her fists, the seed of supernatural power within her Fifth Palace spinning wildly. “Who the hell do you think you are? Telling us to leave when you want, telling us to stop when you want?”

Sun Xiaoman, carrying the Tremor Hammer, walked behind Dou Yue’mei.

Li Jianqiu, holding the peach branch upside down, walked behind Dou Yue’mei.

Zhao Tiehe, limping, walked behind Dou Yue’mei.

Yang Xingyong, Shen Nanqi, Huang Azhan, the cultivators from the Three Mountains City Dao Academy, the Three Mountains City Guards, and even cultivators attracted only by the bounty…

Those who were still alive, those who still had the strength to fight, silently gathered behind Dou Yue’mei.

Despite the fact that the mysterious figure on the peak of Mount Yuheng seemed so powerful, so invincible.

This was a silent… attitude!

“Alas!”

The old voice sighed again, “Some people exhaust their entire lives without even touching the surface of supernatural powers.”

He lamented, “You have only swam halfway in your torso sea, yet you have a premonition of your supernatural power seed. You have more potential than Sun Heng. What a pity…”

Among the many cultivators on Mount Yuheng, the only one who caught his eye was Dou Yue’mei.

He couldn’t be seen, and no one knew what he was doing. But the spinning seed of supernatural power in Dou Yue’mei’s Fifth Palace simply, quietly stilled.

Dou Yue’mei mustered all her strength to resist the invisible pressure. “What do you know, hiding on the mountaintop, associating with beasts, watching them wreak havoc, even sheltering them?

You don’t understand his strength at all!

Even if you are strong, I only see you as weak. You… old fool!”

The mountain wind howled, carrying the echoes far away.

The voice was silent for a moment before speaking again.

“There are some things you don’t understand; this old man doesn’t blame you. Retreat now; there’s no point in persisting.”

“I don’t want to persist!” Dou Yue’mei shouted angrily. “But the countless fallen cultivators of my Three Mountains City, the countless devoured people… they won’t allow it!”

“It concerns secrets that you are not yet qualified to know.”

“I’m not qualified?” Dou Yue’mei laughed in anger. “I am the Lord of Three Mountains Territory! The jade decree personally endorsed by the King, the imperial seal made by Zhuang Ting, the master of the mountains and rivers here, the guardian of all the people of Three Mountains Territory!

And now you’re telling me that in this Three Mountains Territory, there are secrets I’m not qualified to know?”

“The Zhuang Kingdom has three commanderies, and Qinghe Commandery has thirteen cities. You are only a… temporary caretaker of one of these thirteen cities, not a guardian, much less a master! The three thousand miles of mountains and rivers of the Zhuang Kingdom have only one master, and that is His Majesty the King! No need to say more, just obey the order!”

These words revealed too much information. The most important point was that the existence of the beasts on Mount Yuheng was condoned by the King of Zhuang.

Or perhaps it was more than just condoned.

“Hahahaha!”

Dou Yue’mei laughed, laughing so hard that tears streamed down her face.

“My husband died here, and my brother died here.

My disciples, my friends, the people I love, the people who love me, all died here.

My daughter is only fifteen, and my son is only thirteen. They have all gone to the battlefield to fight for Three Mountains City!

And now you’re telling me that Three Mountains City doesn’t belong to me, but to that dogshit King who doesn’t care about the life or death here, hiding in the deep palace, unseen, and doing who knows what?”

“You’re audacious!” The owner of the old voice seemed to be truly enraged, and an extremely terrifying pressure descended from the mountaintop, instantly causing dozens of beasts to bleed to death.

He maintained restraint, and the pressure stopped before Dou Yue’mei.

But the entire Mount Yuheng also fell into extreme silence with this angry rebuke.

In this unsettling silence, only Dou Yue’mei’s particularly desolate voice could be heard: “From the day my husband died, I no longer have the right to be timid.”

Once, she was also a timid and weak woman.

She would also be afraid when encountering strong enemies, retreat when facing difficulties, and even scream and hide in her husband’s arms when seeing a mouse.

But after that man died in battle, she could no longer afford to.

She had to raise her children and carry the burden of the entire Three Mountains City.

Did she want to swing her fists and stand on the front lines? Did she want her voice to become hoarse and her waist to thicken?

Who the hell doesn’t want a peaceful life, tending to flowers and plants?

But could she?

Dou Yue’mei clenched her fists, gritted her teeth, and continuously attacked the power that was imprisoning her. Without stopping for a moment.

This time, the old voice was silent for a long time before saying, “Come up.”

Watched by the surviving cultivators, Dou Yue’mei walked alone towards the mountaintop.

The beast horde silently parted a path under the suppression of some power, and she walked forward.

The heavy clouds in the sky were parted at some point, revealing a corner of the crescent moon. But soon, it was covered again.

The night is always dark.

In waiting, time seemed particularly long.

When Dou Yue’mei’s figure appeared in sight, all eyes were on her.

People were expectant, hopeful, but also fearful, uneasy.

Walking all the way to the halfway point, to the place where she had previously lifted the mountain, Dou Yue’mei seemed to finally notice the people waiting for an answer.

She glanced at everyone and then walked down the mountain on her own.

“Disperse,” she said.

Sun Xiaoman suddenly felt like crying, because she suddenly realized that her beautiful, fiery, seemingly never-aging mother had this time seemed to have really aged.