Clan Rise: Starting as a Grandfather

Chapter 1568: Chapter 970: Enforcing Heaven’s Mandate, Upholding Divine Law to Rectify Human Relations (Part 2)

Yang Zhenshan did not entangle with them, allowing them to leave.

It was not the time for conflict. Forcing the intruders to retreat would be sufficient.

Moreover, Feng Guiyue was not the first to approach him. Many had tested him during this period, all driven away by Yang Zhenshan.

Yang Zhenshan did not take this matter to heart. After confirming Feng Guiyue and others had left, he continued to meditate with his eyes closed.

Time slowly passed, with disturbances around him growing increasingly frequent, occasionally exploding with intense mana fluctuations.

The location where Yang Zhenshan and his companions resided was not ideal. Though people came to test him, none dared to seize it.

Thus, days went by until this fateful morning.

Lead-gray clouds stacked into heavy ramparts at the horizon, shredding the dawn’s dim light into the depths of the cloudscape.

Where the pale morning should have bloomed in the east, floated only a stain of dark orange, revealing faint dying strands of light through the thick clouds.

Occasionally, a faint pale blue light leaked from the clouds, but was swiftly swallowed by heavier shade before touching the ground, sinking the world into perpetual dusk—laden air stifled the chest, heavy with oppression.

Yang Zhenshan felt the oppressive suffocation, his eyes focused on the gloomy sky.

“Is it coming?” Yun Xiao asked.

Kou Ta and Hong Fuxiu also wore expressions of tension.

Yang Zhenshan nodded slightly, “It’s coming!”

By now, he was already sensing the aura from the Sun Cave Heaven.

Having practiced the Cave Heaven Refining Scripture, his perception of the grotto heaven and void surpassed other Foundation Establishment Cultivators.

Others might not see through what lay beyond the clouds, but he could see it clearly.

Those weren’t real clouds, but a scene induced by space compression.

The descent of the Sun Cave Heaven blocked the sunlight meant to spill onto the earth, causing the world to distort.

He sensed not only the aura of the Sun Cave Heaven but also the void’s breath, infiltrating through the void rift.

The Spirit Source Land is a grotto heaven, originally within the void.

The Void Refining Scripture contains some principles about the void.

Each time Yang Zhenshan used the Spirit Source Land for teleportation, he had to touch the void—accurately, the void outside the main world’s barrier.

Though the contact lasted but a moment, it made him familiar with the void and the great void.

The time was not yet right; the void rift had not fully formed, but Yang Zhenshan could still feel the faint trace of the void’s aura.

He looked southward, approximately ten miles away in their direction, where a void rift would appear, allowing entry to the Sun Cave Heaven.

Yun Xiao, seeing him gaze south, followed suit, asking, “What’s up?”

“There’s a space rift over there!” Yang Zhenshan said.

Yun Xiao’s eyes brightened, “What are we waiting for, let’s head over!”

“Wait, don’t rush!” Yang Zhenshan quickly stopped him.

“Can we afford not to be anxious?” Yun Xiao was barely able to contain his inner excitement.

Yang Zhenshan shook his head at him, saying, “Who knows what lies inside; let others probe the way first. Besides, do you realize how many immortal cultivators are watching us? Do you know if there are any Golden Core Cultivators around?”

The early bird gets shot.

Perhaps those who move first may gain more but face greater hazards too.

Though now anxious, Yang Zhenshan wasn’t intent on being the early bird.

“Um!” Yun Xiao paused, while Hong Fuxiu and Kou Ta also restrained their urgency.

“Don’t rush; as long as we enter, the order matters little,” Yang Zhenshan said.

All three agreed with his viewpoint.

Thus, the four continued to wait quietly.

The sky grew increasingly murky, eventually turning pitch black as if a dark curtain covered the heavens.

And above the highest heavens, more than ten imposing figures overlooked the scene below.

Looking down from the sky, it was a similarly twisted black territory, the earth replaced by peculiar fluctuations.

“Hehe, everyone, let’s agree that before the Sun Cave Heaven fully descends, none of us shall act!”

A young Taoist in a yin-yang robe, holding a horsetail whisk, chuckled.

“Huagai old Taoist, who doesn’t know your Heavenly Mechanism Pavilion’s expertise in scheming, don’t try to plot against us again!” A man resembling a towering monument said in a rumbling voice.