928 The Chaotic Cangwu Union (1/2)

On the top floor of the Tower of Martial Keeping, Hong Changtian stared at the mess that lay before him with a flat expression; however, his whole being shaking uncontrollably.

”Who is it? Who did this?”

Everyone stood in silence, the color draining off of their faces. Each one of them felt chills running through their bodies.

The school's elites were all here, yet they had been aggressively invaded by the enemy and the tower was completely ransacked. Their martial art literature that was collected over thousands of years was thoroughly raided, not one book left!

Still, this was not the main point. What was worse was that they had so many people, yet no one had seen what their enemy looked like since the beginning nor did they know which force or sect their enemy had come from!

The devastation was all-consuming.

”The attack*was intangible. There isn't a trail to trace at all…” The sect's senior uncle who guarded the Tower of Martial Keeping's top floor was noticeably more upset. He had fought his entire life only to stumble upon such an obstacle in his old age.

He was the only one in the Cangwu Union who had confronted the intruder, but he had gained nothing from it. It was allowing the enemy to escape unscathed after plundering their arcane treasure from right under his nose!

The old man was so close to giving in to his impulse of committing suicide as redemption for his failure.

”Intangible? No trail to trace?” Hong Changtian frowned and murmured, ”Could it actually be… the Raiders of All But God?”

The Swallow's Hill that the Raiders of All But God ravaged was right within Cangwu Union's territory. As the leader of Cangwu Union, he knew certain things that others did not. For example, the Raiders of All But God would sometimes execute an incredibly bizarre vanishing technique that was immune to all forms of attack.

”However, it doesn't look like it… The Raiders of All didn't vanish completely like what happened today…”

”Leader, what should we do? There must be a countermeasure put in place!”

The others were in distress. The matter at hand now was to chase after their enemy and regain their arcane possession to salvage their loss – but why was their leader in a trance instead?

”Of course we must get to the bottom of this, but give chase? It's impossible!” Hong Changtian sighed and said, ”To be able to stay hidden under senior uncle's series of attacks and sweep our Tower of Martial Keeping clean, it would mean that this person is not an easy one to tackle at all.”

”Just the fact that he could still insist on taking away all our arcane valuables while being under the pressure of senior uncle's Heaven and Earth Cage speaks of this person's confidence. It'd be as hard as ascending to the heavens to want to capture him now. Pursuing him will only be a waste of our energy…”

Hong Changtian continued saying, ”Let's not make a fuss out of this first… Deploy all our disciples to check out the surroundings. Many of the cultivation methods robbed are strikingly characterized… Pay attention to this and don't miss out any clues.”

”As for the four who went after the Yao cat today…” A flash of grim anger washed over Hong Changtian's eyes as he said, ”Their mistake of falling so easily into the enemy's trick is unforgivable! Each of them is to take a hundred beatings of the Venomous Dragon Whip!”

A hundred Venomous Dragon Whip beatings!

All of those who heard him could not help sucking in a cold breath.

The Venomous Dragon Whip was a whip made from the tendons of mystical beasts specifically to punish disciples who had broken the sect's rules. It would have been fine if it were only a whip, but the entire length of the Venomous Dragon Whip was barbed. A whip would tear off a big piece of skin and flesh altogether – it was not a punishment one could take lightly!

In addition, the victim had to seal his cultivation base during the process, suffering the pain only with his physical form.

Even if they did not die from a hundred Venomous Dragon Whip beatings, they would already be half dead after that!

In spite of this, the leader was unwavering. The incident was indeed an unforgivable mistake as well. The group dared not simply plead for mercy despite having the intention to do so as the mistake caused them the sect's cementing foundation!

Everyone was silent throughout the Cangwu Union.

”Right, remember to watch the recently established sects. They have enough motives to do this too.”

Hong Changtian looked icy and desolated, sighing softly, ”It's been two thousand and seven hundred years since the ancestors built Cangwu Union for us to finally acquire the Celestial Luck Banner… Three thousand years have passed now but not only did our sect not move forward an inch, but we've also lost our sect's very core. When I have passed on to the Nine Springs then, how am I supposed to face our ancestors and masters?”

Those who were around shared the same disheartened look.