Chapter 362 (1/2)

”Where did you hide your treasure?”

”I'll never tell a righteous sect sc.u.m… ARGBLARGh…”​​

A dark cultivator in a robe was seen being electrocuted, his body lit up like a dark sky during a firework show. Soon he dropped down to the ground while slightly twitching, his cultivation clearly ruined.

”Damn, word spreads fast here…”

Zhang Dong glanced over to some other cowering evil cultivators. He had arrived at the third and last sect that had attacked the Thunderball Hall. His plan was to go through the sects one by one and take away all of their most precious treasures but he had miscalculated.

When he arrived at the first sect, there was still a lot of treasures around but already a large chunk of the sect members had scattered. At the second one there were even fewer people around while on the third one, there were only some old farts left behind that probably didn't have any worth to their sects.

It was clear that the information of his arrival spread fast and they evacuated. What was left behind were only items for beginner disciples that no one cared about. The items like high-grade spirit stones that he wanted were all gone.

If he decided to give chase he could probably gain some of those riches back. The biggest problem was that there were just too many variables. It was easy to stash everything in the spatial rings among many people. With this world being this big he could spend a month looking for everyone and still not get it all.

”Slaves…”

Zhang Dong took a glance at one of the cowering cultivators. It was clear to him that they were all compelled to stay here by some kind of occult contract. While they stalled him the true masters would run away and hide.

'I don't have time to play hide and seek but it would be better to gain more strength.'

While thinking he started glancing at the people here. He was in the middle of a large hall that was the main chamber for the big wigs in this evil sect. There he found a small group of people that had the stench of death on them.

”You there, come here.”

He did a grasping motion towards one of the old men that was here. This one had the largest cultivation realm from them all and seemed to have been the leader. After grasping him by the neck he started scanning.

”Hm… I wonder… this might hurt…”

”W-what?”

The man asked before a strange shadowy aura descended onto him. Zhang Dong used his soul core to poke and prod at the curse that was keeping this man as a slave. All of these contracts were based on soul arts so in theory, he could be able to overpower it.

These contracts were easily produced as they only required the person affected to accept them. This could be done in many ways but most of the time it was done by a simple death threat. The evil cultivators were famous for doing this mostly out of fear of betrayal.

The man landed on the ground while grasping his c.h.e.s.t. He convulsed for a moment before settling, the other cultivators were aghast by the presentation of torture. They thought they would be next in line but surprisingly their fellow sect member opened his eyes and stood up soon after.

”The soulbond is broken… how could this be… who are you?”

Zhang Dong just smirked a bit before crossing his arms over one another and puffing out his c.h.e.s.t.

”It doesn't matter who I am, now tell me, where did your strongest elder escape to. I already slew your Patriarch, the one next in line is the one I am looking for.”

”Next in line? That would probably be Elder Yuan, he was the Patriarch's younger brother…”

”That will do, tell me where he went, you are not bound to him anymore.”

Zhang Dong proclaimed while exuding a menacing aura. The man was clearly confused, living a life as a slave did change one's outlook on life. It was hard to get rid of old habits of following orders out of fear.

”I… I will tell you senior, just swear to me that the bastard will suffer a painful death!”

Surprisingly the man did a fast 180-degree turn and turned his hate to the people that enslaved him here. Years of rage bottled up due to being stripped of their freedom. The man was unable to hold it in anymore as he started shouting as if finally he could voice his opinion.

”He will be dealt with, that I can promise you, now tell me where he went.”

After the man calmed himself down Zhang Dong received the coordinates. Apparently, they headed in the direction of something called the shadowlands. It was a place filled with shadow beasts that were hard to deal with.

”Good, this will do.”