Heavenly Destiny Untamed Fate

Chapter 58

Author's POV cont.

It takes nearly two and a half months of fighting and clearing out the horde from the villages and towns until they reach Yiling. The trio now had most of the sects with them, as they traveled, more and more of the sects and rogue cultivators joined them. 

The momentum took on a life of its own and now it all comes down to this, standing at the eerily quiet entrance to the Burial Mounds. Lan Zhan, Lan Ying, Wen Ning, Hua Cheng and the leaders of the four most powerful sects. Standing shoulder to shoulder ready to finish this and bring an end to the terror the horde has spread.

With a silent agreement from each of the leaders, they slowly start up the mountain vigilant of their surroundings. Everything remains quiet and as they ascend, there is a slow rolling fog that swirls around them becoming thicker as they go. Decaying trees and the bleached white bones of the dead litter the ground on all sides. 

The ground they are walking on becomes dusty with the brittle bones being crushed under so many feet. Their vision is partially obscured by the combination of fog and dust, the higher they climb the more nervous the lower-powered and younger cultivators become. No one speaks as they move, listening for any changes in their surroundings, without warning shouts from behind the leaders indicate that the initial battle has begun.

Lan Ying plays Chenqing and Lan Zhan looks in all directions ready to defend him. Wen Ning disappears from their sight and moves to where the screams and shouts are coming from. There are close to a hundred horde fighting halfway down their line of cultivators. 

Wen Ning wades in and begins to fight the puppets and fierce corpses along with the cultivators around him. His movements are swift and deadly, he maneuvers his body to help protect the cultivators around him and dispatch the horde forces as quickly as possible. He fights with ferocity but there are still cultivators that do not survive the onslaught of the horde forces before they can be brought down.

Lan Ying and Lan Zhan have made their way down to the fighting so that Lan Ying can play and control the devastation that Wen Ning doles out. As the horde is destroyed, he plays a softer melody to calm the Ghost General and bring him back to their side. After assessing their losses, they agree to take a rest before continuing their trek up the mountainside.

While resting another wave of horde forces attacks and while the fighting is going on they decide to keep moving up the mountain fighting as they go otherwise, they could be pinned down, they tighten their formation as much as possible and start moving up the mountain. 

The fighting is intense and many cultivators are injured or dead, there are more fierce corpses than they anticipated and even though Hua Cheng has been able to turn a few, Lan Zhan has been able to turn a few using the broch and Lan Ying turning a few with Chenqing it's not enough to keep their number from slowly dwindling.

The summit comes into view and the horde forces seem to back away from them for the time being allowing them to reach their destination. Standing there with a cocky smile on his face and a black sword in his hand is Wen Xu.

He smirks "Welcome everyone, it took you way longer than I thought for you to get here, with gods among you it shouldn't have taken so long."

The cultivators look around murmuring in irritation and annoyance. Lan Ying steps forward "Now you know that gods have limited capabilities when it comes to interfering with the mortal realm nephew. We can be cast from the heavenly realm for interfering in the web of fate, we cannot change the course of the lives of mortals without consequences and you know this."

He laughs haughtily shouting "You see how pompous and arrogant the gods are? You all have been following two gods that have done nothing to save the lives of your fallen brothers and sisters, not even on the march to this place to fight another god."