31 The troubles that brew (1/2)

Bai Yun left the weed valley after his meeting with Bai Qing. His entire body was in a state of severe damage due to the river. The worst of it was his qi spiral, which was quite impure. It would take him a lot of trouble to fix it. Thankfully he had the supreme weed fruit, and thus could fix as much as possible.

He had stayed in the garden for a nearly two weeks. The clan gathering was only six months away. He had to increase his strength as much as possible by then.

Bai Yun left the beast garden and took a bus direct to his house. Due to his status, he was able to quickly catch a clan bus and reach his home in a manner of hours, where as walking the entire way would have taken him days.

The moment Bai Yun stepped inside his house, he felt a wave of energy roll over him. He was immediately immobilized by the aura and stood there rooted, sweating. He was forced to one knee to withstand the pressure.

A second later the huge pressure was lifted. ”There you are Yun.” His father said with a smile.

Bai Yun realized that the wave of energy he felt earlier was not intentionally directed at him. It was simply the energy that spilled over from his father unintentionally. But even the unintentional pressure given of by a third step cultivator was not something that he was capable of withstanding right now.

Bai Yun slowly stood up. His father was standing over a table in the middle of the room. On the table he could see a large map of the continent spread out, with some special spots marked on it.

”What is going on?” Bai Yun asked. For his father to be so concentrated that he did not even notice him approach, the situation must have been quite serious.

”Its nothing, since I haven't done anything for so long, those old bastards at the council are asking me to do some troublesome work. Its nothing to worry about.”

Bai Yun walked up to the table. On the map, there were some places marked in multiple colors. There were also some numbers and dates marked on the map. The funny thing was that the oldest of the dates went back as far as over a hundred years ago.

Bai Yun looked at his father and raised his eyebrows. Based on the fact that the entire thing was laid out on the front door step, he was sure that the affair wasn't classified.

”Don't tell anyone what I am to tell you. Those old bastards will be after my ass if I caused a panic in the clan. Well its not as if it could be kept as a secret for long anyway.” His father said with a sigh.

”The places that are marked are places a particular incident took place. The places marked red are where the caravans of our clans were attacked, while the different colors represent different major forces of the continent. The white ones are where small villages or forces where attacked.”

Bai Yun looked at the map. Even though there were many dots on the map, they were spread over a large area. It was also over a long time, and attacking many different forces.

”Due to the nature of the attacks, and the fact that no one wants to let others know that they were attacked, most of the information was kept secret by each force. We did not know of the scope of these until very recently.”

As Bai Yun looked at the map once again, he realized that the attacked initially were even farther apart by a few years, but they were getting more frequent inthe later years. There were over a dozen attacks in the last year alone.

”It was only when the frequency of the attacks increased that we noticed the pattern a few years ago. Even then we only started to exchange information on the attacks in the last month or so. As a result of all this, not a lot of people outside the dao step cultivators of the top forces know of this.”

”What happened?” Bai Yun asked with a frown.

”It is truly horrific.” Bai Mu said with a sigh. ”Small groups, a hundred or so in size were attacked and all of them were killed. Then their blood was drained. When the corpses was found, all of their blood was gone without exception. Even the blood of mortals was taken in some cases.”

”Was it the work of blood cultivators?” Bai Yun asked with a frown.

Blood cultivators where a special type of cultivators. They followed a different system from the three main systems. At the same cultivation a blood cultivator was superior to a person in any single system of the three main systems. But the blood cultivators fought using blood, and also used the blood of their enemies to cultivate, thus they were looked down on and even hunted down in some cases. There were many cases of blood cultivators going wild and killing people to increase cultivation.

Bai Mu shook his head. ”No. The traces found does not support blood cultivators. Not only that even other races like vampires or ghouls could not have anything to do with them. We couldn't find out anything on who could have done this.”

Bai Yun frowned as he thought about this. Suddenly his body shook as a memory emerged in his mind. 'It can't be' he thought.

”Since we had no idea what it was, we ignored it for a while. But then someone from the city of scholars send the details of the incident to the Immortal Plane. And then they responded. Apparently it is something that came from the previous epoch, the fourth epoch.”