Chapter 397 (1/2)
”Master, we will be arriving at the location in thirty minutes.”
Zhang Liu delivered the message to his master as he was glancing outside the window. After a moment of silence, Zhang Dong began to speak.
”Liu, if for some reason I don't make it back, I'll leave my family in your care.”
Liu was taken aback by his master's words and he instantly started panicking.
”What do you mean master, of course, you will return and you will lead our sect to victory as you always do!”
The young man raised his fist and Zhang Dong could see that unreasonable amount of faith that Zhang Liu was putting into him. He would probably not get to him if he wanted to explain his system and that it was mostly just pure luck that he was alive at this moment of time.
It all started that fateful day in the secret ground. If he didn't succumb to his own pride and inflated ego after gaining some strength that he didn't work for they wouldn't be here. His system went bonkers as he bȧrėly survived that encounter which in turn brought Wang Long over here.
If he managed to finish that test then he would have been able to live his life peacefully. Though he would be still quite ignorant to the real ways of this world. The cubes would have not been discovered and other disasters could have been triggered.
'I can't really wait and see, god knows how many people would die before this character decided to show up.'
There was also the possibility of a world reset. The demon lord from the world his summoner friend was in almost went through it. If Wang Long caused a world upheaval the person watching this world could come to the decision of restarting it.
What that really meant was not something Zhang Dong knew but he was sure that the lives of his loved ones would be at stake. That was not something that he could allow, the problem was getting to a level above what this world was limited to. He saw it in that other world and he was lucky enough to come from one that had a higher ceiling.
Now with a new kind of cultivation, he was hoping to bust through that ceiling. When he did that he would probably not need to fear any of those overseers.
He had a little theory of why he was able to achieve this new breakthrough in power. One of the reasons was that he was able to increase the size of his soul which allowed him to fuel some of it. The other reason was his little expedition into the other worlds.
When tumbling through that connection through worlds he came in contact with some strange energies. These energies were purer than what he could see in this world or in the other. During his travels, he might have absorbed some of this energy which was now being focused in that white seed.
His body had been transformed through the years of cultivation as well as was his soul. It craved energy to grow stronger and even without him focusing on cultivation it would try to absorb ambient Qi from the area it was in. Some of that could have made it into his body and it had altered the cultivation he now had.
Now he only needed to foster and cultivate that seedling till it could sprout. What was inside this little seed was a mystery but it would certainly be something that put him above the nascent soul level, a new undiscovered cultivation realm.
”Don't misunderstand me, Liu. I don't intend to just lie down and die but you are the only person I can trust with this… I'd mention it to Qiang but he would never retreat from a fight.”
Zhang Liu wasn't the strongest cultivator but he could trust him to follow his orders. Huo Qiang would probably go down faster in a fight than try to flee himself. His wife was already strong but she would also prioritize the children over fighting. That left a few other people that he wished to join them if push came to shove.
”Just follow the escape route that I prepared for you, at the safe house you'll be able to survive for hundreds of years.”
The place that he prepared for his closest family was buried underground. After some testing, he was able to gather some samples from the wall that was blocking off the cube that he found under his sect.
He was then able to produce some small samples that would even block out his system. It wasn't perfect but as long as the system user didn't get too close, he would be unable to see anything.
The possibility of Wang Long flying around to look for things deep underground wasn't that high. There they would be able to remain without the need to go outside for a very long time. Still, if the world was reset then his idea would only give his family some time before the unavoidable end.
For this reason, he had to go see the Azure Emperor. He needed some help, it was impossible for him to go around this giant empire to search for one man. Wang Long probably already had some kind of disguise that would make him hard to find.
The only thing he could look for would be the disappearance of young women. His counterpart would probably not be able to get over his sėxuȧŀ addiction so where there were beauties he would probably go there. This was also something that he wanted to bring up with the Emperor.
”But master…”
”No buts, I hope that you will follow your master's wishes.”
Zhang Dong smiled at Zhang Liu who could only cup his fists together and bow. Luckily the master-disciple relationship was paramount here and he could trust Liu to honor his wishes. The young man was quite strong for his age, with time he would also be one of the most powerful cultivators in this whole empire. That is if he had enough time to spread his wings.