Unfathomable Senior

Chapter 579

Chapter 579

‘That was somewhat refreshing for some reason...’

Zhang Dong thought back to the young master he had disabled and sneaked away. Just giving him a nightmare wasn’t enough though. Inserting cultivation demons into a person of a lower realm was possible. This illusion that he fed to Jia Yang would fester and eat away at the man’s mental state.

It was a little thing he learned from the demonic faction, he would never be able to achieve the nascent soul level like this and regress. In a world ruled by power and prestige, he would be quickly overtaken by others that desired his possession and his grandfather wouldn’t be able to do anything about it.

‘Still leave a bit of a bad aftertaste in my mouth, he should be thrown to jail but this should be the closest thing here.’

In reality, Zhang Dong would have rather dealt with something like this according to his old-world morals. Here on the other hand he couldn’t if he wanted to maintain good relations with the Heavenly Crane Sect. If he crippled him in an open fashion then the faction this cultivator was a part of would hold malice against him. In a time when both sides were needed to take care of a threat, this was not an option.

‘Never thought I would be making deals like this, I guess that’s war for you, never know what you might have to do to survive...’

For the time being, he could only bury this case in the back of his mind. Perhaps when all of this was over he could go after all the war criminals he encountered. Winning the exchange between empires was for now more important than the dealings of juniors. As someone at the top, his time would be better spent creating a system to not allow things like this to happen anymore. Handling everything on a case-by-case basis by himself was not feasible, he needed to create a task force and get many other people involved instead.

“Sun Ling, do you know where this person lives we need to drop her of in a safe location.”

“Yes, Senior, it’s not that far from here.”

“Well then, I’ll be right behind you, and don’t worry, no one will be able to see you.”

“Junior greets senior.”

‘I guess I’ll have to make a decision soon, time for the next part.’

Finally, after a few hours in the city, Sun Shi arrived once more. Together with him were various other old men that were wearing the Moon Lily faction emblems on their robes. These were far more intricate than the one’s Zhang Dong and the guards were wearing.

The Lily Factions were the ones in power and they split off into quite a lot. The Sun, Moon, and Sage were only three out of ten camps. Each one had a head elder leading them to have ten feuding factions only looking out for themselves. There were exactly ten of them which made it problematic whenever any decisions needed to be made.

Each Lily could cast a vote and most of the time it was five against five with nothing being decided. There was one above them, his name was Tao Guan and he was the current sect leader. Even though he was at the top spot he couldn’t discount any of the other factions and from what he heard was also unwilling to veto a vote when it was five against five.

“Are you the Moon Lily Grand Elder?”

“That is true, Golden Dragon, I am called Sun Shen.”

He already knew that they were somehow related but Sun Shi and Sun Ling were part of the Moon Lily Clan. This whole thing was very similar to the situation back at his own sect, there they had three main factions with the Zhang, Huo, and Feng Clans that were part of the founding clans. The biggest difference was that Zhang Dong as the Patriarch carried a lot more weight there and his orders could not be denied by any of the factions.

Here, on the other hand, their leader needed to consult everyone before making any kind of decision. If he tried imposing a rule that a lot of people were against, something like an internal war could break out. It wasn’t anything new, many times did clans or sects produce people that craved to be the leader.

It was the same here, he was sure that some people in the background were already trying to come out on top of this war. Sending their competition to the front lines would be the most sensible move but could also backfire if the people sent there actually came out victorious and ended up increasing their fame.

“Your granddaughter had explained a few things to me but she couldn’t delve too much into it, so can you answer this, what do you wish me to do?”

“Of course but this isn’t the place to discuss such issues, why don’t you join me in my private abode? The other elders would be honored to meet the honorable Golden Dragon, the hero of the western front.”

“Ah, I see that I have gained some interesting titles but sure, let us depart but first let me change into something more fitting.”

After a few pleasantries he discarded his guard persona, there was no use hiding it anymore as the Moon Lily Grand Elder was there. The man looked like a gentle person and gave off pleasant vibes but he also drew in all the eyes. The smaller tea house they were sitting outside of was filled with lesser sect members. All of them lowered their heads and dared not to look at this group.

It was quite a strenuous task as strange radiant energy took over the whole place. Some of them backed off and even raised their heads to see Zhang Dong shedding his disguise. Where previously an average-looking guard was now stood a rather handsome man with long white hair. People could feel instantly that it was a powerful master and quickly bowed before him in a show of respect.