Chapter 361 (1/2)

Silence fell upon the entire mountain range. The previous thunderous region that was covered by storms was now devoid of it. The sunlight started to rise on the horizon and gave birth to a new day bringing an end to the slaughter.

Zhang Dong was hovering above a large crowd of people. His body was radiating an oppressive aura which was causing both sides to remain quiet.​​

After the three Supreme Saints were vanquished by him in a very flashy matter the fighting had stopped. The evil sect members were down on the ground cowering in fear.

When the top elders fell in battle the juniors knew that there was no way of surviving. Zhang Dong was also already on a level where he could single-handedly dispose of the rest of them. The only way of survival would be to scatter and hope that he would not be able to kill them all too fast.

'Hm… some parts of the system seem to be back in working order but the most important one…'

Zhang Dong's eyebrows furrowed as he went through his system window. The part involving his sect was the most important one and he was now looking at it. He hoped to see the information about his family there. They were part of his faction so the information should be there.

'It's all grayed out… Bob, do you know something?'

'The system update was successful, some functions have a distance limit.'

'I'm too far away from the sect?'

'Affirmative.'

'Could you update my map to show me how close I have to get?'

Soon Zhang Dong was looking at a holographic image of the world. He was on the other side of this empire and it would take quite some time to get back. His hopes of at least seeing the passage of time was also denied.

His faction-building part of the system showed him the ages of his followers. If he was able to see their age he would know if more than a year had passed as his memory of them was still strong.

'Damn, I have to get all the way to the border… useless shitty system.'

Zhang Dong cursed out which caused a thunderous noise to escape from the heavens. The people below were looking cowered in fear and started to bow.

”Please senior, show mercy. We could not go against the wishes of the patriarch!”

”How dare you speak!”

Tengfei the sect Patriarch shouted out soon after. His trident was stained with the blood of his enemies, his bloodl.u.s.t still not satiated. With the three strongest cultivators being busy with Zhang Dong he had killed most of the other Supreme Saints that were below the late stage all by himself. The man that was pleading for his life was the only one left alive now.

”Ah right, I forgot about you guys…”

Zhang Dong gave out a sigh, the most important functions of his system were not working. The teleportation option was also something that was activated when he was at the nascent soul level. Even if he got it now, he felt that it would also be out of range.

When he was in the Azure Dragon empire he did not find any limitations but that was only because he could not travel beyond it in the first place. His disciple window was also not working; everything had a range limit.

”Didn't have a choice? There is always a choice.”

Zhang Dong finally started speaking, his body started shining as he descended from the heavens.

He was not a naive person, he knew very well that these people had blood on their hands. Even with that some of them were probably victims of their circ.u.mstances.

These demonic cults and evil sects had a way that they operated. Most of the time they would go pillaging through the villages stealing the young men and women away. They would sometimes use them for their strange experiments and the ones that proved themselves would be taken in as disciples.

Even with that, it was probably too late to save them. Their characters have been tempered by bloody battles and carnage. Taking such a person and trying to bring them back into the light would be quite the hard task, one that Zhang Dong didn't feel like he would be able to go through with.

”Your lives may be spared…”

The pleading man's eyes lit up at the motion of spearing their lives but soon they went wide after Zhang Dong continued.

”You all will give up your lives as cultivators and become mortals, you can continue living as servants.”

The cult members cried out in shock at this proposition. For a lot of people in this world losing one's cultivation was something worse than death. Living with no power in a world ruled by power was a sentence most cruel.

”But senior I implore you to reconsider, we could form a soul contract you may still have use for our cults powers!”

”A soul contract?”

There was that, it would force people to do your biddings. They would still have their cultivation but would be not able to go against the person hanging on to part of their soul. They would be nothing more than slaves but they would still be able to cultivate.