Chapter 414 (1/2)

”What did I just watch… Did that guy really include quotes from old movies in that speech?”

A man covered head to toe by a stylish dark robe was looking up into the heavens. There in the clouds was a grand projection of a face that he knew. While listening to the long-winded tale he placed his hand to his cheek where he still remembered getting hit by the person that just finished talking.

Wang Long was his name which he chose as a joke. Now after being the reason for his own sect's downfall he was taking it easy in one of the largest cities that the empire had to offer. The projection came as a surprise as he had never seen anyone else use these sorts of treasures in this world. At most, they had theater plays or musicals that were not recorded for later use.

”Are we going to have two emperors now?”

”How can that happen?”

”So is this Golden Dragon just a part of the Long Clan or something?”

”It doesn't matter who he is you fool, he is clearly someone important so keep your mouth quiet if you see someone from the capital!”

Wang Long was sitting at an empty table at a certain costly inn. After his plan of eradication was fruitful he was at a loss. To him, this was a game but one that was not that easy to play. There were no map markers pointing him to his next destination. In his mind, he needed to find the right NPC to show him to the next stage of this 'game'.

While he was deliberating on his next move the speech happened. For the time being, he was hiding his face behind a certain skill that he bought from the system store. It was a demonic technique that made people perceive it to be different even when directly looking at it.

This technique performed the same act as the one Zhang Dong was using but it was fundamentally different. The other one actually altered the person's body structure at the molecular level. Which had its advantages and disadvantages.

The only reason Wang Long went with this type of technique over the other was that he was quite vane. He did not want to change the perfectly crafted face that he possessed. If he did he felt like his new persona could crumble and that would remember his previous appearance before coming to this world.

'Look at those idiots talking... '

While sipping some expensive wine he continued to listen as after the speech was over, he was part of the news.

”But that Wang Long is clearly a no good maniac.”

”You're right, how could someone kill everyone from their own sect? Does he have no remorse for his own family?”

”It was also the Soaring Dragon sect… how do they expect us to deal with someone that could do that?”

'I did switch my alignment though… where do demonic cultivators even go?'

Wang Long was not someone that planned out things too well. This was the first time that he was truly alone even the place that he was in now wasn't that far away from the Soaring Dragon Sect grounds.

With the money that he took from there, he could actually live a life of leisure which made him regress to his old ways. In the city that he was in he could live in a good hotel while they delivered women to him. There wasn't that much of a difference, with some spirit stones he could make almost everyone do his bidding.

His main goal was to shut down his true opponent that was Zhang Dong. For now, he feared attacking his faction base even with his current improvement. He had no allies and no particular place that he could call his home.

Zhang Dong had clearly gone for the faction building option that he had previously ignored. Now after his first loss he took some time to examine this part of his system tab. But without actually having a faction of his own, he could not test anything out.

'Do I need to create my own faction now? As a demonic cultivator it would probably be best to take over an evil sect… but is there one that can go against that bastard?'

While he mostly ignored the political and geographical lessons that his old sect tried to force upon him, he did know who the Azure Emperor was. If Zhang Dong had managed to trigger the emperor's favor he would need to somehow counter it.

At first, he thought that his only option would be to just drain people for spirit points and increase his battling capabilities. But luck was on his side as one of the NPC's that he was eavesdropping on gave him some critical information.

”Where do you think that murderous Wang Long vanished to? You don't think he could be staying in our Fragrant Jade City?”

”How would that make any sense? Who would be stupid enough to flee to the closest large city they can find?”

The man telling this burst out in laughter while Wang Long's face contorted into anger. It seemed that even this nobody knew that it would be unreasonable for a demonic cultivator to flee to the closest big city next to the crime scene.

”We would have known if he passed through here, those demonic cultivators are cruel bastards!”

”That's true, we would have probably all been dead if he passed through here, or taken prisoner for some grotesque experiments!”

The two old men shivered a bit as they knew that the evil cultivators liked making pills out of humans. The larger the cultivation of those humans the better the pill came out.

”If I was him… I'd probably head to the Eternal Dark?”

”Oh, right there is still that place…It would make sense if he went there...”