Chapter 257 (2/2)

”No, remember what the Patriarch said about the people. We are to carry them over here to our healers. The one that carries over the most will win. Our doctors were tasked to write down the number of infected, they will do the counting for us.”

The younger brother smirked as if he was the smartest person around. To Huo Kong this would fix the issue of cheating, the doctors would be marking down who carried who over for future reference so that no people get lost.

There was one small problem with this, Kong didn't feel like it was very ethical to make a wager where people's lives are involved. Someone might die if any of the youths were too overzealous in their rescuing.

It didn't sit too well with him to use these people's lives during a bet. Before he could decline this offer he heard a high-pitched voice from the side. He recognized who it belonged to almost instantly due to how childlike it sounded.

”What are you idiots doing? If the Senior Sister hears about this you will be punished!”

The group of brothers turned to the side. The voice sounded cute and sweet yet annoyed, it clearly belonged to someone of the female gender. What they saw was quite the small looking girl with an overdeveloped chest and light pink hair. The skin tone and all-around style was similar to their sect's Matriarch but her demeanor was quite different.

”Nuana?”

Huo Kong called out while the rage inside of him started to subside. This girl was Zhang Liena's younger sister and where she was Zhang Liu was probably not far away. It didn't take him long to notice the white-haired man standing a bit behind her, looking at him with an awkward expression.

”Stay out of this sister Nuana, this is between us brothers!”

Kueng was quick to stop the girl from talking. All of these youths here were from the same generation so they didn't consider the Matriarch's young sister above them. They were the sons of the number 2 person in the whole sect. In their eyes they might be even above them, they would be close in prestige to Zhang Dong's own children.

Even though Zhang Dong wanted to be done with the bloodline system. The people of this world weren't willing to abandon it just yet. Even Zhang Xue and Liu, who were Zhang Dong's disciples, weren't that closely related by blood. He was only a distant uncle while these youths were direct descendants of a grand elder.

But in the end, it also depended on how close the given person was to the elder in power. Zhang Dong wasn't that great in asserting the pecking order. He evaded the struggles of the inner members of the sect along with the politics involved. He mostly kept to himself and let others take care of things like inner disputes. Even now he was long gone and not here, the junior members would have to clear things out amongst themselves.

”Between you? This isn't a picnic you fools, I'm going to tell my elder brother about this! You all will be sorry!”

Nuana was part of the family now, she referred to Zhang Dong as 'elder brother'. This was quite different from calling him 'senior brother'. It was more intimate and showed a closer relationship between the two involved parties.

The group for red-haired youths instantly shrunk back in fear when they heard that. The small girl was angrily pointing her finger at them while shouting. If she brought this up with the sect leader it could bring them trouble. There also was a chance that he wouldn't care but would they be willing to anger that man?

”Hah.”

Zhang Liu that was to the side finally decided to come over after hearing the commotion. He gave out a sigh while pushing Nuana to the side with his hand.

”Stop with your nonsense all of you, can't you see that Elder Qiang is already leaving the barrier? The other elders are also working, we from the junior generation can't fall behind!”

Huo Qiang and his younger brother turned to the side and could see their father powering up. His aura spiked while his soul beast was summoned, the path forward was now open and he was starting to attack.

The older members from the sect that was also at the core formation level sprung to action as well. Almost all of them formed battle formations that took on the forms of various serpents and dragons. They looked similar to the old Zhang Clan formations but their quality and strength was far greater.

”Now stop playing around all of you!”

Zhang Liu's expression shifted into one of contempt as his aura exploded forward. He was the top fighter of his generation and everyone knew that. He didn't intend to fight these people, instead, he quickly jumped onto his flying sword and propelled himself towards the opening.

Huo Qiang's sons looked slightly dejected. Getting shouted at by Zhang Dong's disciple was quite the hit to their face. He was also the brother of Zhang Xue that they all were aiming for which could cause some problems in the future if they tried courting her.

”W-wait Senior Brother Liu, I'll aid you!”

”M-me too!”

The brothers pulled out their own flying swords and gave chase. Huo Kong and his brother glared at each other before also taking off. Find authorized novels in , faster updates, better experience, Please click for visiting.

”We will resolve this later.”

”Yes, we will…”

Everyone from the United Element Sect that was strong enough to face these monsters was now outside the barrier. Everyone here was greeted by millions of strange creatures, they all looked horrifying. They were also burning up due to the high amounts of plasma Huo Qiang's Ifrit soul beast was now discharging towards them.

”Leave the big ones to me, you all just save the people!”

Huo Qiang gave his order while punching forward, his fiery fists causing widespread destruction and turning the monsters to ashes in just fractions of a second.