"What happened? Where is grandfather and the elders?" Mu Hanyan asked anxiously.
"Come in first and talk." Mu Ruian waved away the group of little playboys and led Mu Hanyan to the backyard.
"You came from Fangjia Town, right?" Mu Ruian asked after Mu Hanyan sat down.
"Yeah." Mu Hanyan nodded.
"You should have heard about the strange beasts besieging the capital." Mu Ruian said.
"I heard a little bit." Mu Hanyan said. Even if she hadn't heard it, she could guess a little bit by looking at the desolate and sad scene after the battle outside the city.
"This time the monster attack on the city was even more brutal than you know. There were tens of thousands of monsters participating in the attack, including countless powerful monsters equivalent to the level of sword masters. Even top monsters like the Violent Stone Demon Beast and the Angry Dragon Beast numbered in the thousands, and many of them had awakened bloodlines, and their strength was comparable to that of a sword master." Mu Ruian said in a deep voice.
"What?" Mu Hanyan was slightly startled. Although she had already felt the cruelty of the war, she had not expected that the strange beasts besieging the capital would be so powerful.
"This is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that some unheard-of and unseen strange beasts are also mixed in. Their strength is even above those sword master-level beasts. If I'm not mistaken, it is the Nine Netherworld Beast!" Mu Ruian continued.
This time, Mu Hanyan was so shocked she was speechless. Although she had guessed during her journey to Shangyue that the monster riot in the Longyan Mountains was related to the Nine Netherworld Prison, she had never imagined that they would actually join in.
Mu Hanyan shuddered at the thought of the powerful Nether Beast Lords she had seen in the Longyan illusion.
"In order to repel the strange beasts and defend the capital, most of the city guards and the imperial guards died in the battle, and most of the survivors were seriously injured. In the end, it was the combined efforts of the major families and the four major academies that finally repelled the strange beasts.
"In this battle, the major families, led by the Eight Great Families, suffered heavy casualties. Hundreds of elders and priests were killed or wounded, and thousands of disciples from various families were killed or wounded. Over a hundred instructors from the four major academies were killed, along with over three thousand disciples, and countless others were injured," Mu Ruian said with a heavy face.
"What about our Mu family? Where's Grandfather?" Mu Hanyan asked anxiously. She hadn't seen any of the elders when she came in. Could they have all been killed? If the others had been killed, she'd be sad, but she could accept it. But Grandfather was nowhere to be seen either. Could he have been in an accident as well?
"The first elder and the fifth elder of the Mu family were seriously injured, the supreme elder was slightly injured, and your grandfather and several other elders were not in any accident. Many other priests and elders from each branch suffered casualties, and there were also hundreds of casualties among the younger generation." Mu Ruian replied.
After hearing her father's words, Mu Hanyan felt relieved. War was cruel, and there would always be casualties. As long as Grandfather was safe, it was a blessing.
"What about grandfather?" Mu Hanyan asked.
"Your grandfather, the Supreme Elder, the Third Elder, the Fourth Elder, and other elders who were not seriously injured have all gone to the Longyan Mountains, so you didn't see any of them just now." Mu Ruian replied.
"What are we going to do in Longyan Mountains?" Mu Hanyan asked puzzledly.
"After defeating the strange beasts, we pursued them all the way and discovered a spatial rift in the Nine Netherworld Hell deep in the Longyan Mountains. Tens of thousands of underworld beasts were guarding the rift, seemingly performing some kind of ritual to completely open the Hell. If they were to open the Hell, the continent would be devastated, and we humans might even be wiped out.
Therefore, after consultation, the major families, major colleges, and the royal family decided to send experts to fight hard and reseal the Nine Netherworld Prison. They are now on their way."
"So that's how it is. I understand now," Mu Hanyan muttered to herself, suddenly enlightened. She had always wondered why those underworld beasts would forcibly erase the spiritual imprints of the alien beasts, ordering them to recklessly incite war. Only after hearing her father's words did she finally understand.
Presumably, the Nether Beasts knew that the human cultivators, as the masters of the continent, would never allow them to open the Netherworld and would do their utmost to stop them. Therefore, they erased the alien beasts' spiritual imprints, forcing them to frantically attack human cities at all costs to buy time. As Nether Beasts more powerful than the alien beasts, their intelligence was no less than that of either alien beasts or humans.
"During the time when you returned to Anyun, other countries were also in chaos with strange beasts running rampant, and even traces of underworld beasts appeared. It's just that our capital Anyun is closest to the Longyan Mountains and the cracks in the Underworld, so the attacks were not as fierce. But after receiving the news from Anyun, masters from various countries also went to the depths of the Longyan Mountains, intending to gather the strength of all countries to seal the Underworld again." Mu Ruian continued.
"What about the Holy Court?" Mu Hanyan suddenly asked. With such a big thing happening, the Holy Court couldn't just stand by and watch. You have to know that they are the real rulers of the Holy Court Continent.
"I heard that there was a problem with the space barrier between the Holy Court Continent and the God Continent. The Holy Court is trying its best to repair it and can't spare too many manpower. However, it has also sent some people. Some of them will go to the depths of the Longyan Mountains to meet with masters from various countries, and some will go to various countries to help quell the monster riots in various places." Mu Ruian replied.
Mu Hanyan finally understood why Tan Taixuan had reappeared in Anyun Territory. This was the reason. She had previously felt that the strength of Tan Taixuan's brothers and sisters was somewhat strange. Their true combat power was disproportionate to their cultivation level, even inferior to some of the equally talented children of aristocratic families. They were completely unworthy of being members of the Holy Court. Now she had the answer. The Holy Court must have been having a hard time, forcing them to forcibly enhance their strength to cope with the current difficulties. It was just that this group of people had misused their strength from the beginning, using it to target her.
After all, hundreds of millions of people are the foundation of the Holy Court Continent. We can't just focus on dealing with the problems of the Nine Netherworld Prison and ignore the lives of the people.
"Father, what should I do?" Mu Hanyan asked. By now, she had guessed that her father's hasty return was probably related to what he had said earlier.
"You must lead the three generations of disciples of the Mu family to Luo'an City in Dongyang County immediately. Don't defend this city to the death." Mu Ruian said.
"Why defend Luoan City to the death?" Mu Hanyan asked in confusion.
She was not unfamiliar with Luoan City. It was only a few hundred miles away from the northeast entrance of Longyan Mountains. When she went to Longyan Mountains for training in her previous life, she passed by Luoan City more than once. However, Luoan City was still thousands of miles away from the capital, and she didn't know what it had to do with what her father had said before.
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