Yi Yun read through the ‘Tai Ah Sacred Technique’ and subconsciously became engrossed in it. He knew that the cultivation technique was only temporarily lent to him for studying. So if he did not take this opportunity to memorize more of it, he did not know when he would have the chance to read it again.
So even though he could not completely understand the contents in the last few volumes of the ‘Tai Ah Sacred Technique’, he still managed to store all of their contents in his mind.
Month after month, time silently passed. Yi Yun did not know for how long he had been in this chamber.
This day, he suddenly heard “Dang! Dang! Dang!”, the sound of metallic percussions. They were resounding like thunder across the Tai Ah Divine City.
Yi Yun’s chamber was soundproof, and would be nearly completely isolated with the chamber door closed.
Under normal circumstances, there would be absolute silence inside the chamber. However, there was one sound in the Tai Ah Divine City that could transmit directly into the chamber.
That was the sound from the Divine Wilderness Bell!
This Divine Wilderness Bell was a magical treasure. It could only be rung by a person with a peak-human lord cultivation level. Its sound could be delivered thousands of miles away and even sound isolating arrays could not ward it off.
“The Divine Wilderness Bell has rung!?”
Yi Yun was alarmed. The main purpose of the Divine Wilderness Bell in the Tai Ah Divine City was to warn. It was only rung when an enemy was invading, when the safety of the Tai Ah Divine City was being threatened.
And the things that could threaten the Tai Ah Divine City was few and far between. A typical small-sized beast horde would not even be able to come within 100,000 feet of the Tai Ah Divine City, so there was no need to ring the Divine Wilderness Bell.
In fact, it was said that the Divine Wilderness Bell had not been rung in the past millennium.
Could it be…?
A dark cloud shrouded Yi Yun’s heart. He rushed out of his own residence and immediately met Luo Huo’er who also came running out of her residence.
“Miss, what has happened?” Dong’er was plugging her tiny ears as she nervously asked.
Outside of the residences, the chimes of the Divine Wilderness Bell were even more ear-shattering. If one’s cultivation level was lacking, it would cause one’s organs to resonate with the bell chimes, making it quite unpleasant.
“This should be the Divine Wilderness Bell…” Luo Huo’er, in contrast, was not worried. She found it novel to hear the bell for the first time.
“Yi Yun! Come to the city gates!”
At this moment, a solemn voice rang in Yi Yun’s ear. This voice belonged to the City Lord!
Yi Yun glanced at Luo Huo’er, from her expression he could tell that she had received a similar message.
“Let’s go!”
Yi Yun pushed open the central divine tower’s outer door and followed the tower’s sloping emergency passage staircase, running down the tower.
…
When Yi Yun came out of the central divine tower, he realized that in the past months of his reclusive training, the Tai Ah Divine City had changed and was no longer the same.
The Divine City’s four walls were shimmering with several defense arrays. Piles of bone relics were stored in large metal boxes, as the source of energy for the arrays.
These were the strategic reserves of the Tai Ah Divine Kingdom. They were all taken out in times of need.
There were several catapults installed all along the city’s four corners. Amongst these catapults was the legendary Primal Divine Crossbow.
The Primal Divine Crossbow was driven by a huge array. More than 10 human lords had to combine their forces in order to control one Primal Divine Crossbow. The crossbow used the Primal Arrows Yi Yun saw the first time he entered the Tai Ah Divine City.
They were four meters long and every arrow was made out of a special metal. The cost of their construction was high and they weighed a million jin.
Back then, Yi Yun and the other recruits had all failed to pierce into the purple tungsten wall using the Primal Arrows. Even Yi Yun failed the first time he tried. Although he could lift the Primal Arrow, he was still not able to steadily pierce it. Releasing his hand made the arrow fall to the ground.