Chapter 360: Pinning Suspicions (2/2)
In fact, if he really disappeared for a few months, I would bother about what he was planning all this while.
Just give what he wants and take what you need.”
Moriya exerted a long sigh.
Even he felt that this whole farce is stupid. His orders are simple and that is to pin some suspicions on Sam.
And why would they do that? To avoid the price they have to pay for what Sam would bring to the war. But that is just plain greed and blatant underestimation of Sam's intelligence.
When he was talking to those higherups there is one thing he noticed from them and that is they are clearly underestimating Sam due to his age and cultivation. Even the loss of the beast faction was simply attributed to the carelessness and stupidity of the Beast faction themselves, Sam's role was downplayed.
And there is one reason for that happening and that is one of the basic qualities of the people, they tend to judge people by their own standards, all the higher-ups have only one thing in mind.
'Will they be able to do that when they were at Sam's age?' when their answer is no, they would think that what happened is a load of bullshit and there is no way to convince their plain stupidity and selective ignorance.
Meanwhile, within the central continent. A group of people is running around and the one in the lead is none other than the former head of the Beast faction, Sanjay's father.
He is leading a group of six transcendent stage cultivators as he explored the central continent bit by bit.
He has been doing this since the day Old one was confirmed to be the leader of the church.
There are four more teams just like this that are sent to the central continent. They are here because they wanted to find the place where the old one and the rest of his team are staying.
The human explored area within the central continent is not vast and the places they had to explore also not enormous.
Apart from that the Fortune tower, which specializes in fortune telling is also trying to see where the future crux of the war lies and where it all starts, but since Old one is too strong, even the tower head of the fortune tower is having a hard time showing an exact location, but he did give an area of manageable space for them to explore.
As for the help of the Seer tower, it was completely out of their hands, more than half of the Seer tower's higher-ups are missing from the Judgement tests. Half of the experts of the Seer tower are in Old one's hands.
Apart from that there more than half of the higher ups of the Space gate association and had too much access to the rest of the world, they knew that it is hard to fight with Old one in this way and they are trying to find his hideout.
There are not many places that are unexplored in the world and except for the central continent, there is no better place for hiding.
As Sanjay's father is searching for the place for a few days, he almost covered the entire region and there is only a small area left for them to search.
After more than an hour, they finally reached a seashore and the scene at the shore shocked him.
There are a lot of followers who are gathered around some platforms on which various people are sitting with their faces covered with golden masks.
There are more than thirty Transcendent stage high priests who are absorbing the strength of the followers one by one.
The followers who are absorbed are turning into undead and all the undead are being sent to various space gates that are near them.
Sanjay's father who is looking at the whole scene from far away is having a hard time digesting the matter.
From what he understood, all these transcendent cultivators are trying to become consummate realm cultivators.
He wanted to make a move and end some of them while, they are still unprepared, but to his dismay, he saw something even more horrible.
There are four people who are wearing the golden masks who came out of the tents and their aura shocked him.
They are all already turned into Consummate realm cultivators.
All this while, they thought that there was only one Consummate realm cultivator and that is why Old one is dragging the battle.
But from the looks of it, he understood that Old one is not looking for an endurance battle. He is just looking for the new followers so that he could successfully ascend the rest of his high priests to become Consummate realm cultivators.
As he was thinking about what sort of consequences they have to face, if this happened, one of the consummate realm cultivators, sensed his presence and looked towards him.
Sanjay's father immediately turned around and started running as he signaled the transcendent realm cultivators who are at the rear to run as well.