Unfathomable Senior

Chapter 595

Chapter 595

“Our new ally has been working hard, I knew he was strong but I wasn’t expecting him to be so proficient in battle tactics and warfare. Was this the last one?”

“Yes Patriarch, all of the invading armies have been forced to retreat and we managed to capture a large number of enemy combatants, they are being tight-lipped but with time we expect to reveal their true origin and what they are planning.”

“Mmm... good, what about our ‘friend’ the Golden Dragon?”

“After he defended the cities from the initial invasions he was seen going past our defensive land, it seems that he was either trying to scout out the areas that were claimed by the Phoenix Empire or...”

“Is he trying to single-handedly win this war? Perhaps his youthful appearance wasn’t just a trick... he might be inexperienced, how many elders can we spare to aid him?”

“Not that many, our people are having trouble mending the defensive formations that had been damaged during the enemy offensive, it will take us several weeks to mend them. Only then we can start assembling a punitive force to strike back!”

“But Patriarch, would that be wise? Our elders and juniors are tired. We wouldn’t have been able to defend ourselves without the Golden Dragon’s help, what if we suffer a defeat instead? Wouldn’t all the work go to waste?”

“Leader Zhong you bastard, even at this point you would curl up your tail and shiver in fear?”

“Leader Shen, this has nothing to do with fear, I am being logical, how could we offer our people on a platter to that Emerald Phoenix Empire? This is not the time to move yet, we need to interrogate the prisoners, find out about their strategic formations and what they want.”

“Leader Zhong isn’t wrong... we don’t have enough information, we should send in the spies first before making our move.”

“You...”

Sun Shen the Moon Lily faction leader along with the rest were in a meeting. All of them were discussing the situation at their borders and how Zhang Dong was affecting them. Ever since his first appearance, most of the enemy forces had been driven back. They had managed to capture some of their masters and weapons. These were in the process of being analyzed which complicated things.

‘They must have buried all the cultivators that lived here and then covered it up with soil...’

The job was sloppy and after some rain parts of the soil uncovered partially decomposing bodies. Some beasts that lived outside were already scavenging the remains and eating up whatever they could. The only good news here was that they didn’t outright murder the entire population. The non-combatants were spared and in the city, anyone that was weak was given some type of chance to survive.

There was nothing he could do about the situation here anymore. The people here had died a while back and there was no way of bringing them back. Now he had to focus on the problem at hand and the people that were still alive. They were left alone in the city with a few hundred cultivators from the Emerald Phoenix Empire. There weren’t that many but they were at least at the Martial Master level which was more than enough to handle these untrained Qi condensation commoners.

‘They killed anyone that could resist them and enslaved the population, they don’t see these people as human...’

Secret grounds and different pocket dimensions existed in this world. Many times they were rumored to be created by long-dead immortals and acted as trial grounds for the worthy. After capturing some of the people from the opposition at least this fact he did confirm.

‘Perhaps they think that this whole Azure Empire is just an elaborate test made by some powerful immortal millions of years ago, a special place to gain power every thousand of years ago.’

Immortals were like gods in the cultivation world. It wouldn’t be strange for the people living here to assume that they were capable of creating life or something very similar. Perhaps to them, this was nothing more than a facade, a battleground created for their people to gain power and show that they were worthy of claiming some kind of old relic.

‘If that is what they think then it will be hard to reason with them, they might take it as some kind of trial... do they believe that we are some automatons or something?’

Zhang Dong looked at the dead bodies in the badly covered grave but couldn’t see anything out of the ordinary. At least the people that were here weren’t tempered with and their bodies had regular injuries. Demonic cultivators liked using people’s bodies as resources but these cultivators were more aligned with orthodox sects like his. They would probably not budge on the moral side either which left overwhelming them with superior might.

“Well then, I should probably make my move...”

If it was the old him he would probably charge into the city and rescue everyone. It wouldn’t be that hard, the strongest person here was only a Martial Saint. All the other powerful masters had retreated to evaluate the situation that he had caused at the border. There was a problem, even if he killed every cultivator there the people wouldn’t really have anything to go to. He would need to somehow transport them out of here or create something that could do it instead of him.

“You’ll have to wait a bit, but don’t worry, I’ll set you all free and you’ll be able to bury your people in peace.”

While the people were captured they were in no immediate danger. The enemies probably needed some slaves to keep the city running and to use it as some type of outpost. Instead of giving away that he was roaming these lands, he had a better idea.

‘If the people from the Heavenly Crane Sect won’t help me and if my own people are busy fighting with those fish people... I just need to make another force, I can’t be everywhere but if I have some backup...’

Further inside at the outskirts of the city there was one location that he was after. It was where a large mine that contained various spirit metals was located. There were many things that he could make with those materials and instead of creating weapons or armor for his troops he had another idea.

“If I don’t have soldiers, I’ll just make them...”