106 Chapter 106 (1/2)

These past two years had been more or less peaceful, but Matt knew that it wouldn't take much to break this illusion of peace. He didn't know what happened to the Dark Palm sect members back in the secret ground, they had some spies in the nearby cities to scout things out. But they weren't giving them any good reports, the area was still on lockdown. No way to know if those guys found that immortal technique back there that they were hoping for or not.

He had to stay vigilant, there was a small run-in with their force not long after they escaped that secret ground. But they were mostly just interested in the things that happened transpired at the secret ground. He wasn't sure what the other clan's said to them, but Matt thought that the Zhang Clan wasn't strong enough to go against that sect just yet. But that could change soon after he obtained those ten million points.

There was contradicting intel about how many nascent soul cultivators that sect had, but it shouldn't be that many. It wasn't one of the giant sects that had their headquarters in the most spiritual energy-rich locations on the continent but it wasn't the weakest either. One thing was clear, the only way he could hope to resist them was to reach the next level of power.

He was somewhat confident in fighting a nascent soul expert at the early stage. If he compared that monster to the elder that greeted him before they went into the secret ground, then the monster was stronger. The Sin of Pride was also a dual cultivator, those regenerative and defensive capabilities were only beaten thanks to his new holy attribute being the bane of demons and devils.

He had gotten a lot stronger since then, the condensation skills and his avatar form were all trained up to the expert levels which let him last in that empowered state for a lot longer now. But that wasn't the answer, at most he could hope to take out one nascent soul expert in a fair bout. But if there were two, or if they knew his weak point and stalled for time he would probably lose.

'Ah, if I didn't train my Tranquil Mind up to the Master level I'd probably be a shaking mess by now.'

The life of the glorious Patriarch wasn't that easy, he was constantly reminded that thousands, no millions of people's lives depended on him. Sure he could be like the other rich and powerful cultivators and not care about the general populace. But that just wasn't him, he couldn't just abandon everyone and flee when things got tough.

'Well, I guess I should check up on the others and see how they are doing with the next stage of the plan.'

He strode to one of the larger rooms of the old Cheng Clan compound, they had started setting up their base of operations here. His retainers were already waiting for him, ready to give their report.

”So, how are things proceeding Kuo?”

The man was holding a communication jade in his hand and then looked to the Patriarch, he was already reporting while preforming his perfect graded bow.

”Reporting to the Patriarch! Captain Zhi has apprehended the Cheng Clan Patriarch and is heading back here, we also managed to capture the rest of their clan members but a couple of them fled into the surrounding forest and are hiding.”

Matt rubbed his chin while listening to the report.

”Oh? Weren't they fleeing in a flying ship, shouldn't it be easy to just capture them all on it?”

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Zhang Kuo fixed his glasses slightly while a tiny bit of sweat formed on his forehead.

”Captain Zhi destroyed the ship and sliced it two halves before the rest of the pursuing team could give him support...”

Matt blinked and scratched his cheek slightly, thinking back to what he said to the man before he charged off to battle.

'Hm... guess I shouldn't have told him to bring them back at any cost... or the part with whacking them good if they resisted...'

Zhang Zhi was a powerful cultivator, already in the core formation stage and at a fairly young age. His only bad trait was, that he would take everything literally. He would follow up on any order with the utmost care, from Matt's point of view the man had kind of a Patriarch complex. The way he bowed and how his eyes shined whenever he ordered him to do something, was slowly giving him the creeps.

'I bet if I ordered him to wear a pink tutu, he would think its some powerful spiritual treasure that I'm gifting him to further his cultivation. Though it was surprising to hear that he was getting married that time, he even has a kid already.'

Matt wasn't in the tower defense section for too long, but a certain power couple was born from it. It was Zhang Zhi and Feng Daiyu, the woman was truly massive the word Amazon perfectly describing her, those chiseled abs were quite astonishing. Supposedly the two hit it off back in the training ground, he didn't know anything specific but whenever he asked about how Zhang Zhi met his wife he looked depressed.

Later on, it would be revealed that the woman sneaked into his bed chambers after one of the more hard-fought battles. She didn't take no for an answer and devoured the poor Zhang Zhi's chastity the man was still pure and innocent even at forty, his only purpose in life being cultivation. The child was born out of wedlock and they only found out after the woman's belly was already large. Zhi was quite an honorable man, so he decided to get engaged to the amazonian woman that became Zhang Daiyu and was back with their daughter in Spirit Spring City.

”That's troublesome, but he made this mess so he should clean it up. Tell him to form a search party and bring the other Cheng Clan members back, we need to show the people how we treat criminals like them.”

Normally what happened in this kind of world would be a clan cleansing, every member of this clan would be captured and killed. Matt wanted to change that, he wanted to gather evidence and then put people up on a trial. The death sentence wouldn't be the only thing they could do, sentencing to hard labor was also an option. Making someone a criminal slave wasn't out of the question either, they would work with a slave collar slowly paying back their debt to society.

'Luckily we have spiritual treasures that can tell if you are telling the truth, this makes the whole thing a lot easier.'

Thanks to treasures like these he didn't really need to create occupations like lawyers. The process would be nice and smooth, but others could still temper with those treasures so they still had to watch out for swindlers. Thanks to his new gained crafting potential he could come up with various new treasures that could emulate things that he knew back from Earth.