Chapter 422 (2/2)

After going through here he was not feeling any other life energy. He was more than convinced that there weren't any other survivors. The holy core that he had was very receptive to life signals and along with his system minimap, he was able to perform a thorough scan of the entire area. From the millions of people that lived here, the only survivors didn't amount to a hundred.

”Elder Guanting, I will have to refuse your generous offer, we only wish to search for our sect members, there could be more survivors.”

”Elder Zixin… I'm afraid I will have to implore you to leave this to my sect brothers, we will perform the search instead then we will be glad to escort you out of this horrible area, our Heavenly Crane Sect will accept you with open arms…”

”...That won't be needed, we will be fine there are some branch sects that we will stay at instead you don't need to…”

The old man that was talking to the old woman seemed somewhat angered that he was getting talked back to. Before the old lady could finish talking he raised his aura which made her back off for the time being.

”I don't think you understand the gravity of your situation… there is no Soaring Dragon Sect anymore, those branch families you speak off have no foot to stand on as they won't be able to stand up against even the middle-sized sects, you will come with us!”

It didn't seem that the old man from the Heavenly Crane Sect would take a no for an answer. He wasn't sure what their intention was but this group of survivors was composed mostly of women and children. They might hold them hostage or have the urge to integrate them into their own forces.

They were all strong cultivators for their age, after signing a soul-binding contract they could become part of the Heavenly Crane Sect. They could also be sold off to their members as potential brides. It was quite the catch for that sect as they were getting free cultivators without having to invest any resources into them.

'It doesn't look good for them but should I really get involved…'

He had already wasted enough time here, the red trail of energy that he could follow now was there. But, he knew that if he left things like this it would bother him for the entire trip. Thus he decided to clear things up between these two parties as quickly as he could.

”Excuse me, is there a problem here?”

”Huh? What… where did you…”

The people only realized that Zhang Dong was here when he chose to. With some skills, it was possible to blend into the surrounding without radiating any spiritual energy. Now everyone was looking up at him while he was radiating a gentle light from above.

”Ah, the renowned Golden Dragon, my brothers have informed me about you fellow Daoist but whatever do you mean? I don't see a problem anywhere.”

The leader replied while the core formation masters scattered to the sides while riding their flying swords. Only the nascent soul elders that were with him dared to stay, it was five against one but not as he cared.

”Oh really? Elder Zixin was it?”

”Ah yes.”

The old lady was a bit perplexed that Zhang Dong returned and appeared out of the blue. It was clear from how the Heavenly Crane Sect elders were acting, that he was not someone they could easily offend. In reality. he wasn't that sure as his fame was quite recent so some of these cultivation nuts would probably still try to check him.

”Do you wish to return with these fine gentlemen to their sect, or would you rather just leave the city instead? I have taken care of the dark miasma so you shouldn't have a problem getting out and about this protective formation… I don't think it's really needed anymore…”

He proclaimed while pointing his finger into the sky. There the dome-shaped barrier was still surrounding everything from all sides. This thing required a lot of spiritual energy and resources to create but it would be quite easy to turn off.

”W-what is he doing… take cover!”

The nascent soul elders were quick to back away as they could feel an unreasonable amount of energy behind this finger attack. Even more, after a beam of bright light escaped from it and collided with part of the protective formation. As if it collided with glass this bright beam attack caused the barrier to break into many tiny pieces of spiritual filament that crumbled into dust soon after.

The resounding explosion caused a massive shockwave to hit the spot everyone was in. But while they had to brace themselves for it, the one performing the finger technique just floated there without a worry in his mind.

”There the way is clear, well then did you make a decision?”

He asked while smiling at the scared cultivators below him, the question was posed but the people here didn't know if he would take no for an answer.