Chapter 349: Old One (1/2)

Arman is feeling extremely ecstatic, but he doesn't know that just because he was chosen to be the temporary in-charge, doesn't mean he would have any real authority.

The main reason being, the network is pretty much self-sustaining and there wouldn't be any problems in the short term even if there are no leaders present.

They are just letting him in that position for the namesake.

In fact, he wasn't appointed or anything, all they did was tell him to look over things, that's it, nothing more and nothing less.

Meanwhile, in the meeting place on the Central Continent, the formation got ready and everyone was ready to do the testing.

Not all of them are present though, the people kept on coming.

The first one to go through the Inspection is the people from the Empires. To be precise, it is Arc's people and Ye Ting's people, they are the weakest group and the group with the weakest connections that are present, that is why it was easy to clear them.

After dealing with them, the next set of people are the people from the Minor powers and the Minor Professional associations.

Although the tests are going on, not all people are present. The six heads noticed that some people who are supposed to be here and some who even came yesterday in order to help with the preparations are not present right now.

They are silently noting down the names and remembering them. But for now, they didn't do or say anything.

As the Minor powers are going through the interrogation or the inspection, their Islands are left bare for the church to attack.

On an island belonging to a minor power, at the beach, there is a small glow coming out of the waters on the shore and soon a bunch of people in white robes surfaced from the water and they started swimming towards shore.

Soon, the whole island's beach was filled with numerous white-robed people, led by two people who are wearing white masks.

Since the minor powers took most of their Pre-transcendent stage cultivators and the Transcendent cultivators to the meeting, this is the perfect chance to deal with them.

The two Pre-transcendent stage Priests stayed at the beach without moving, but the remaining white-robed people already started running towards the center of the island frantically.

Although it is called an Island, it is as big as a small nation and there are many cities divided within by the minor power.

A minor power will have multiple transcendent stage cultivators and there are many Pre-transcendent stage cultivators, both will be of a greater number than any empire.

Even though all of them have to be inspected, they are not going to take them away all at once. That would be leaving the minor powers to die in the hands of the church.

So, the six heads gave leeway to the minor powers to leave some people stationed and they will exchange positions when the first batch of the candidates are inspected.

But what they don't know is the invasion already begins. Similar scenes are people appearing at the beaches of all ten minor powers are happening and everyone beach is led by two Pre-transcendent stage cultivators followed by around one-hundred thousand people who are normal followers.

The minor powers are all being surrounded and the cities are being attacked by the followers.

There are already warnings given and the soldiers are stationed, so they didn't panic entirely, but they are still anxious.

They locked all their space gates, except for the one that leads to the Central continent's meeting spot.

They even searched all the corners of the island for the signs of any possible gates being constructed or for any of the already constructed space gates in secret.

But they didn't find any and the space gate is where they least expected it to be present.

In the shallow waters.

The news of the start of the war came to the central continent, through the representatives of the minor powers.

The heads of the minor powers are in tenterhooks.

Almost all of the current candidates of the minor powers for inspection are already done and only a few of them are left.

When the heads of the ten minor powers consulted the Six heads for a solution, there is only a basic reply.

Drag the war out.

They wanted them to have a long-lasting battle, but they are not going to let them off from the inspection.

Some of them even asked.

”We are clearly not their allies, that is why they are attacking us, if we don't defend them all the way, what would happen to our territory?”

But the reply is even more straightforward.

”What if it is a ploy for us to make believe that the minor powers are not the moles, but in fact they turned out to be the true moles, we cannot risk it.”

After some persuasion, the ten minor powers are given some leeway.

The heads and the major decision-makers and other core members can go back along with the people who have completed their inspections.

But they still have to send the remaining people and there needs to be one decision-maker present to handle the situation.