Volume 1: Life is like a first meeting

  Volume 2: The wind rises and the sky is cold

  Chapter 174: Back Mountain Tortoise Xuan

  Yan Chi Department mountain peak, Han Fei Zi stood in her residence, her eyes had a bright light, she looked at Yan Shan, vaguely seemed to see the figure that was silently ringing the ancient bell there. This figure, although shrouded in mist, she had already faintly guessed that this person might be the Mo Su she had been searching for a long time.

  "Is it you......" Han Fei Zi murmured.

  Antou, with a calm and serene expression, sat cross-legged at the top of the mountain, his face as still as an ancient well. It was unknown what he was thinking about. Beside him sat the war chief, Antou Zuolang, and also the tribal elder, Fang Shen.

  The three of them were silent, with the lingering sound of the bell still echoing in their ears.

  "Is it the Mo Su family?" An Dong Man slowly opened his mouth, his voice slightly hoarse.

  "Uncertain, someone has been sent to check." Anton's clan leader replied in a deep voice.

  "Barbarian Duke, do you want to give this person a token of command?" The war chief hesitated for a moment, looking at Andong Mangu, the old man with a face full of wrinkles. He closed his eyes, neither refusing nor agreeing.

  On the summit of Mount Puqian, shrouded in dark mist, several vague figures stood there at this moment, gazing towards the direction of Handan City. There was no conversation between them, and they all looked coldly into the distance.

  Unlike the tranquility of the three departments, when the huge virtual shadow of the dragon beast appeared in the sky above Handan City, which was densely covered with clouds and birds, Handan City had already been thoroughly shaken. Countless people in Handan City were now braving the rain to gaze at the dragon's head in the sky, their hearts trembling, with the lingering sound of the bell still echoing in their ears.

  "Twelve resonances, the bell of Mount Huan rings twelve times, this person...this person has a strong cultivation!"

  "He has already qualified for the Huashan Chain, now he just needs to wait for the three departments to send their tokens, and then he can hold the token to climb to the top of Mount Hua and conquer the Huashan Chain!"

  "I didn't expect that the bell ringing, which I thought was just a coincidence and would only ring once, actually rang more than nine times, all the way to twelve!"

  "Who is this person? Judging from his appearance, it seems he won't stop here. How many more times will the bell toll for him?"

  Figures flashed across the fourth layer of Mount Hua, rushing straight to the entrance of the third layer. At this moment, Fang Lin and others at the entrance of the third layer were already shaken by the twelve bell rings, especially Fang Lin, whose mouth was dry and tongue was tied, his heart beating rapidly with a strong feeling that the person who rang the ancient bell twelve times might be... the familiar figure he had just seen!

  One after another, figures emerged and whizzed past Fang Lin's side, rushing straight to the stone gate and disappearing one by one inside. The sole purpose of these qualified individuals who entered the third level at dawn was to take a look and see who it was that rang the ancient bell!

  In the third layer of Handan City, those shop owners were the first batch to see Su Ming standing under the ancient clock, wearing a conical hat and a raincoat. As soon as this unfamiliar figure fell into their eyes, these people stopped one by one at a hundred feet away.

  The second layer of the sky, along with Xuan Lun, Ke Jiuxi and others, are now standing at the exit of the second floor. They know that the person who rang the ancient bell twelve times is behind this stone gate, but they don't go over.

  "Twelve tolls... I've heard that in the history of Handan City, among those who successfully traversed the Handan Mountains, there were three people who struck more than twelve tolls and summoned the sealed beast of Handan!" Nan Tian's gaze fell on the illusory dragon-beast shell in the sky, opening his mouth slowly.

  "Nan Ge forgot someone." Suddenly spoke Ke Jiu Si who was standing beside Nan Tian.

  As soon as he said this sentence, Nan Tian's expression changed immediately and he stopped talking. Xuan Lun, who was not far away, also heard this sentence and seemed to have thought of something, his face turned pale.

  There were four people in total, and next to them was a middle-aged man wearing a green robe. This person's attire was strange, the weather in Handan City was hot and humid, even during the rainy season it was still so, but this person's clothing was extremely thick, as if he felt cold even in this sweltering heat.

  "Is the person Brother Ke mentioned...?" "As the man in green robe spoke, a wisp of white air emerged from his mouth. This was clearly different from others. If an outsider saw this, they would immediately recognize that this person was Cold Print, one of the top ten strongmen in Yunshan City, with the same status as Nan Tian and others."

  "Is it Sima Xin?" Cold Print slowly spoke up.

  "Leng Xiong and Yun Xiong are both newcomers to Handan City, so they may not know much about this person." Ke Jiuxi glanced at Leng Yin and nodded.

  Hanshan City's five opened the dust, and there was another person named Yunzang, also known as Yun Xiong in Ke Jiushi's mouth. This person went out to close his door a month ago to make final preparations for entering the Tian Han Zong.

  "Simachen Xinda followed Tian Han to Handan City that year and rang the ancient bell... Outsiders generally don't know the details, only the leaders of the three departments and the three of us know." The speaker was a pale-faced Xuanyun.

  "Huh? Why did the ancient bell toll, but outsiders mostly don't know the details? When this bell tolls once, the people of Hanyang all know it's just right, especially someone like Sima Xin with that identity, enough to make people remember." Leng Yin furrowed his brow and looked at Xuan Lun.

  The wheel was silent for a moment, just about to speak, but at this time, the bell rang again. Dong...

  Su Ming stood beside the ancient bell, his expression remaining calm, but the eyes hidden under his fighting cap were shining with an even brighter light. The reverberations emanating from within the ancient bell collided against his body as he gazed out at the crowd a hundred meters away and saw even more people rushing towards them in the distance.

  Gaze after gaze pierced through the rainwater, converging on myself.

  "The twelve bell tolls only shook the city of Handan... but the three departments still didn't have much change..."

  Su Ming raised his head and looked at the dragon beast's shell that appeared in the clouds and mist in the sky. The virtual shadow of this beast, except for a roar when it first appeared, was like a dead object, floating motionless in mid-air, but from its body, there was a hidden pressure.

  "This doesn't go according to my plan, it seems that the twelve strikes of the bell are still not enough to create the shock I want, so...". Su Ming's right hand lifted up, this time not a slap, but a fierce punch slammed onto the giant ancient bell.

  At the moment his fist fell, the thirteenth bell tolled majestically and transformed into an invisible ripple that surged outward in all directions. The ripple was originally invisible, but now, under the rain curtain, it could be seen that the rainwater gathered together to form a massive ring shape that rapidly expanded outward. This ring shape expanded as if it contained a fierce wind within, driving the wind and rain to transform into a whistling sound hidden beneath the bell toll. Anyone touched by this ripple had their clothes blown open and their hair dancing wildly.

  At the same time, in the instant when the thirteenth bell's residual sound still lingered, Su Ming's fist rose again and fell once more. This time he threw out four punches in a row!

  "It's still not enough, then it's enough for once!" Su Ming's raincoat was torn with a loud rip, splitting into four or five pieces on his body, revealing the black robe underneath. However, the bamboo hat on his head didn't change in the slightest, still covering his face.

  The sound of dong, dong, dong, dong, shocked the heavens and moved the earth. The four consecutive bell tolls formed four ring-shaped ripples that spread outwards to the outermost ripple, making the sky and earth where Su Ming was located seem like a water surface, and he was the center of the rippling water surface!

  Mount Huan shook violently, countless rocks fell off, and the ground seemed to be shaking. As the ripples spread out, the crowds of people hundreds of feet away retreated one after another with drastically changed expressions.

  At this moment, a low and muffled roar suddenly came from the sky. The dragon beast's shell seemed to have come alive, its eyes sparkling with life. Its massive body began to move, circling around the city of Handan several times, causing the clouds in the sky to disperse. The roar that emanated from its mouth shook the earth, making people almost deaf.

  Su Ming's eyes flashed with a fierce light as he punched out again.

  At the moment this punch touched the ancient bell, the eighteenth chime of the bell burst forth, thundering into being. In the instant that the chime appeared, the dragon-beast's roar in the sky also reached its climax. Its body shook violently, and to everyone's surprise, it vanished into thin air. But at the same moment it disappeared, a sharp, mournful howl suddenly came from the void of the sky.

  As the sound appeared, a majestic and indescribable mountain of the sky emerged. The grandeur of this mountain surpassed that of Mount Heng, surpassing all the peaks in Su Ming's memory.

  This mountain, covering the sky and earth, appeared in mid-air, with its peak invisible, only to see that under the mountain base as vast as the sky, there is a huge tortoise beast holding up this mountain with its back.

  This turtle beast is extremely ferocious in appearance, with a distorted face and a ghostly face pattern!

  Tortoise, same as ghost!

  Handan Ancient Bell, Handan's Second Sealed Beast!

  Handan City, everyone who saw this scene was already breathing rapidly. The events of this morning left them stunned and shaken. It can even be said that the scene this morning was one they had hardly ever seen before.

  Crossing the Huashan Mountain chain, one must ring the ancient bell, but this ringing is already the first threshold for many people. Being able to ring it nine times is already the limit. But now, they have personally heard eighteen peals of the bell and personally seen the legendary Huashan sealed beast appear in the sky!

  "Backed by the mountain and relying on the tortoise!"

  "Legend has it that the ancient bell of Mount Huan is not an object from the time of the Huan Mountain clan... When this bell tolls, strange visions will appear!"

  "I've been in Handan City for many years, and I once heard people mention the ancient bell of Handan Mountain. The bell has three ferocious beasts carved on its surface, but only two are clear, while the third is blurry... Few people know what that third beast is."

  "This person is quite unfamiliar, but his cultivation must be extraordinary, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to ring the eighteen bronze bells!"

  "Eighteen voices... looking at him, he's clearly a guest... look, three people have arrived, it's Yan Chi's group!" The crowd was in an uproar, discussing the news in shock, when someone suddenly exclaimed, and saw a figure rushing down from the mountain peak of Yan Chi's group. This newcomer was an old man, who stepped forward with a calm expression, but the surprise in his eyes was hard to conceal.

  "Who are you, the one who rang the bell on Mount Huan? Do you know the consequences of ringing this bell?" The old man stood in mid-air, his voice thundering out.