Chapter 395 (1/2)

”Is this information correct?”

”Yes Patriarch, our spies have been on the site of the incident and this information is slowly spreading through the Soaring Dragon Sect's lands…”

”Is that so… you can leave.”

”As you command, Patriarch!”

Zhang Dong looked at an information jade with the intelligence report of what transpired at the Soaring Dragon Sect. It had been already two weeks since the incident with Wang Long and to this day he did not return.

The preparations that his sect was performing for another battle seemingly went to waste as one of the big three was no more. It was all in this report, the place where the sect used to stand was nothing more than a ghost town.

It was apparently covered in some dark demonic energy that was hard to pass. The scouts from his sect had fake identities as members of some local clans or merchants. They couldn't get too close due to their lack of cultivation but the word was spreading fast..

It was clear to Zhang Dong that this had been something orchestrated by his fellow earthling, Wang Long.

'That bastard must have switched to demonic arts to quickly increase his cultivation…'

While he had ignored that certain demonic art section, Wang Long certainly didn't. Those arts allowed a person to suck away their opponent's vitality while making part of it their own.

These arts were clearly designed to level up faster if a person didn't have any moral qualm in killing everything around themselves. These abilities incentivized wanton slaughter but also became weaker if the user didn't perform enough heinous acts.

Being a person that likes to sleep at night he ignored that section of the system shop. He went in the opposite direction with the holy arts and his current divine cultivation method.

'Previously that idiot had a similar cultivation method as I did before, he just went with the more offensive lightning variant…How many spirit points did he have to spend to totally redo his own cultivation?'

This was probably another reason why Wang Long went with the demonic cultivator variant. As he stood before he wouldn't be able to harm Zhang Dong with any lightning-based attacks. On the other hand, Zhang Dong didn't have any way to absorb evil dark energy which Wang Long was probably using.

Holy arts and Dark arts were opposite to each other. While he could purify demonic beings and was resistant to the corrosive nature of those energies, it was the same for Dark practitioners.

Wang Long would be able to counter his holy Qi with his newly gained dark Qi. In the end, the stronger one would win as both of these energies countered each other. That is if he ever got to fight him as it stood now there was no sign of the murderous young master that had caused the demise of his own sect.

”They are starting to call him the demonic dragon.”

While Zhang Dong was thinking Zhang Jin commented from the side. His wife and his red-haired friend Huo Qiang were also there as well as a certain granny that used to look like a baked potato. Ever since she stepped through into the nascent soul level her looks got revitalized.

A nascent soul master could live up to a thousand years. Sometimes longer if they used life-improving techniques. Whenever one that was old made it through this cultivation wall they regained some of their previous looks. It wasn't that much but the old woman now looked

more as if she was in her late fifties than the late seventies as she did before.

”Do we need to be worried about this renegade? The whole empire will be after him, he will have to escape to the fringes of the empire unless he wants to be chased till the end of his life.”

Zhang Jin continued as he saw this as an absolute win. From his perspective, the sect was the true enemy that they needed to face. With it gone, the single demonic cultivator didn't pose much of a threat.

”That would be nice but I don't think our little demonic friend will be that easy to find…”

In Zhang Dong's mind, it was safer when Wang Long acted in a larger group as his location was known. Now on the other hand he would be impossible to find as he also had access to a myriad of disguising techniques that the system store could give him.

”Does he possess a similar technique to the one that you taught me?”

Zhang Dong nodded at Zhang Jin's question which made the old man rethink his old stance.

”But even if he can hide, not like he can get through into our sect while you are here, isn't that right Dong'er?”