Mei Lin didn't try to force her way, though. Instead, she instinctively used a crystal knife because she had no other way to push away the log. As she slashed the wooden lock in half, a sudden, explosion occurred. The log and the wooden door, which were reinforcing, flew outside of the tunnel. The explosion sent Mei Lin down from the ladder like a meteor, and her legs broke all the wooden steps on which she was climbing.
As she was falling down Mei Lin finally saw the light of the day shining through newly broken doors. Other than that light, Mei Lin also saw that the strange log, which was preventing her from leaving the place broke into a large amount of smaller pieces, which flew forward her like they had minds on their own and wanted to take revenge.
Mei Lin tried to block her face with her hand and just when she placed it along with the knife before her face, she hit the floor, and wood impaled her body. A few pieces of the wood pierced through Mei Lin's hand and the rest of the pieces went through her body.
Mei Lin didn't know if she wanted to curse or laugh. 'Why would someone place wood just like that? It was obvious, that this was also a trap.'
After less than burning an incent stick, Mei Lin managed to pull out bigger pieces of wood from her body and hand, but in the meantime, she found out the real purpose of the strange wood. Goldeen marking on the wood had another use which was to fuse with the flesh and Mei Lin ripped them out, causing herself more damage than the wood itself.
Along the way, even more, bloody tears flew down her face as she pulled out of the chunks of wood. She didn't have any other choice but to use her teeth and spirit energy to rip out the pieces from her hand. As she pulled out more and more, her flash was ripped apart and blood flew out fatly. After nearly half an hour, she pulled out most of the wood and managed to stop the bleeding.
Finally, after that, she started to pull out machetes for storage bags and tenders and pierced them into the wall, where was the ladder, so she would have something to use to go up. This idea wasn't very good, because she couldn't stack them more than two meters high.
After placing them as high as possible, she climbed on a ton of the last one and used her natural energy to move with a crystal knife and used it as a flying sword.
With her natural energy reserves, she managed to fly a few meters up before she depleted everything from her cultivation sea.
Fortunately, it was enough to fly out of into the garden, where was the door. As she flew out of the pit, she didn't manage to land very skillfully, and as she used her flying ability, which could use only cultivator of QI Condensation realm or higher thanks to the control of natural energy in their body for the first time, her natural energy was depleted before landing and she fell on the ground.
Just as she was out Mei Lin started laughing like mad. As she saw the building that was shielding the garden from the outside, she saw that they were destroyed and still burning with different kinds of light thanks to attacks from the cultivators.
Everything was covered in thick black smoke from fire all around the city. Instead, the clean sky was only visible thick black smoke and not very frequent flashes of colors from cultivation spells and other weapons reasoning all around.
Mei Lin didn't hear any of these noises and slowly fell asleep. She didn't sleep for more than five days and the only thing she was doing was escaping death.
Fluffy green grass and thing fragment of herbs from the garden calming down Mei Lin as she fell asleep.
*****
Peng sect.
The old cultivator walked leisurely to the top of the tallest peak. His steps seemed slow, but if someone saw him, with one stop he moved a hundred feet like he was warping through the air. He was moved to the top, where there was a giant golden bell hanging in a very simple temple.
This bell is a supreme treasure, which was founded by the Peng sect as his soul treasure and later was only used as a celebration bell for announcing important things to the sect.
The old cultivator used a special cultivation technique and made the bell ring six times. After that, every cultivator in the sect rushed before the main pavilion, where were elders of the sect waiting for everyone.
It did not take long, and more than a thousand beams of light entered the square. All of them were cultivators of the Peng sect. As the bell rang six times, everyone knew what was happening, that there was an emergency, and everyone would be dispatched on missions.
This command was not common only when Peng city was under attack and it was not able to defend itself only with cultivators who were a guard in the city. These cultivators were outer sect disciples and had nearly no way to enter the inner sect.
After everyone arrived six main families each with one supreme elder and two external supreme elders. These two external elders who didn't belong to any of these families could either they were invited to be supreme elders or were born in Peng City and rise into their position by themselves.
Under those two elders were outer sect disciplines and inner sect disciplines with no main family connections. Only regular inner sect disciplines. All disciplines were patiently waiting, until an old-looking hatchman appeared out of nowhere and everyone was silent.
"I am giving you a mission. Every one of you will be dispatched into the city and kill every bandit who invaded the city."
"You will record your deeds and after the bandits in the city are eradicated your mission is over and according to your merit, you will get access to the 'Goldsmithing House.'"
A special token appeared in front of everyone and in no time beams of light flew forward to the rampaging city as fast as possible.
As soon as every one of the disciplines left old and the rest of the supreme elders left until only Li Xin and a few elite QI Condensation realm elders from the Li family were at the square.