Chapter 375 (1/2)

'I need more time…'

There he was, sitting on the ground and hastily absorbing holy energies from some previously created pills. All of the spirit stones that he had stashed away were now gone.

The weapons that could boost his body refinement up to the great circle of core formation were now gone. All of the treasures possessing electrical energies had also been consumed in a hasty fashion that was causing him pain.

He knew that one ŀȧpse of judgment could cause him to suffer but he didn't care. With the help of Bob and his system, he would be able to work through failures in his cultivation process.

Soon his body started exuding a new power yet he was unable to push his regular cultivation through the next step. His new tetra core cultivation method was very demanding, even more, when he tried to push it towards the great circle level.

The materials that he had stored away in this small man cave he made was also very limited. There was just not enough energy to go around. Just like before it was not equal, he needed to absorb a bit more but for this, he needed more time.

”Ten minutes is up…”

He could hear the sound coming from the other room. Most of the cameras were focused on the Soaring Dragon Sect's flagship while the others were peeking at the room that his children were in.

From what he could tell this room was one of the safety bunkers that was deep underground. It was a specially made escape pod that could be activated and would send the people inside of it into a distant part of the forest. It was lined with special aura blocking materials so no one would be able to tell that someone was escaping.

There were a few other pods like these and he fashioned them for a limited number of people. It was supposed to carry his disciples, family, and closest friends to safety. When he returned though one person that had been there previously was missing for some reason.

He must have missed it while he was making his preparations but his disciple Zhang Liu was sprawled down on the ground. It was clear that he was still alive and just sleeping but Feng Nuana was the person that was not there anymore.

Zhang Xue on the other hand was holding both of his kids by the hands while looking at her passed-out brother. He concluded that somehow Nuana had to have put Liu to sleep for some reason while also leaving the escape pod behind.

Soon the reason became obvious as he could see her running outside. He wasn't sure but he had a suspicion of why she was doing this.

The escape pod that they were in had similar monitors that could show the outside to them. It was clear that they had heard that sėxuȧŀ deviant pronounce his intentions towards his wife. While his disciples were there to keep his children, Nuana was probably more emotional towards her own sister.

'She must have taken Liu out and made a run towards Liena…'

He wanted to smack the little sister on the head as he knew that she could not do anything worthwhile. She was only an early core formation practitioner with no way of helping out. Zhang Dong even feared that if that pervert noticed her that he would decide to take her with him as well.

Suddenly something happened that he didn't expect. The monitors started turning red and he could feel that the large protective barrier that should have been able to last for multiple days had just turned off.

'What the hell…?'

This barrier was made with utmost diligence and with the best materials that he could get his hands on. It should be able to resist anything that this world had to offer and the off switch was deep inside the middle of the sect. Unless someone turned it off from the inside it should not be possible.

'The use of spirit points has been detected.'

The system gave him the answer itself. It was the young man with his own system, with its help he was able to make months of designing and years of work just vanish with a snap of the finger.

Zhang Dong now realized how people felt whenever he used his system against them. Years of hard work and planning went down the drain and the other person didn't even need much to do it.

With even less time on his hands and more people to save he reached out with his hand towards the monitors. With a jolt from his cultivation aura, the alarms were turned off as he activated another function that was embedded into this chamber.

Through a previously set up short teleportation array, he was teleported up into his home. The gaudy castle that he was forced to live on was somewhat an eyesore. It was huge and there was far too much space in it for a small family like him to live there.

The place he appeared was right in the inner courtyard. There was a large fountain in the center that had somewhat changed in appearance. Previously it showcased a random angel with wings but now he could see that someone changed it into a statue with his appearance.

'I guess they wanted to honor their late missing Patriarch…'

While he was a bit sorry for destroying this piece of art, he needed to get to the room that was right under this statute. With the previous one removed, it didn't seem like the opening mechanism was in place either.

It was a blunder on his part as he did not explain the full function of this system-run fortress. It was impossible to untangle some of the functions that it had from his own system. It was connected to his faction system and not one would really be able to make sense of the construction without its help.

With the fountain being thrown to the side a strange wall of metal appeared. It had various runic symbols on it that soon lit up brightly as he stood on top of it. The structure activated as a circle of about two meters in diameter around him appeared.