1541 The Descendant of the Great Ye Clan; A Weird Thing (1/2)
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The legendary contest was well finished. Ye Xiao held a feast to celebrate it for those who successfully took the legendary positions. It was the first grand get-together of the Monarch's Hall.
Everybody in the Monarch's Hall joined the feast that was full of food and drinks.
The old men stood in front of a window in silence.
”The Monarch's Hall is still weak, but it has taken shape now.”
”He has his own force that was under his direct control now.”
”After all these fights, he must have marked down those who weren't good at cooperating and those who were cold-blooded…”
”As long as this group of people keeps growing stronger, the Monarch's Hall will rise sooner or later.”
”What to do?”
”Exactly. What should we do now?”
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The Monarch's Hall had been making noises in the martial world since day one, but it was like a joke to the powerful forces in the world. Even though it had destroyed the Gray Parasol Sword Sect, still nobody truly cared about it.
The name of the Monarch's Hall had appeared in some reports of the other forces, but it was never an important matter to them. There were dozens of new forces in the world, and the Monarch's Hall was only one of them.
In fact, the Hall of Life and Death seemed to be more often heard than the Monarch's Hall.
”Do something about those new forces. Oppress them, beat them, tame them. Those who do not obey should be defeated, destroyed, or swallowed.” It was an order from the leadership of the Hall of Returning Nature.
”Those that do not seem to be threats to us should be allowed to grow. However, always keep watching them. If they dare to disobey us, punish them.”
That was the order of the Brotherhood Alliance.
”Do not waste time on them before they can truly threaten us.” It was the House of Chaotic Storms.
Even Master Bai, Bai Chen, who was known to be a wise man with profound views, did not notice the threat from the Monarch's Hall.
He did not see a great force was growing right before his eyes.
His intelligence system was obviously not as good as he thought.
If the man who was in charge of the intelligence system told Master Bai that the leader of the Monarch's Hall was Ye Xiao, who was called the Xiao Monarch, Master Bai definitely knew who he was, and the House of Chaotic Storms would pay enough attention to this new organization. In that case, the Monarch's Hall might be destroyed soon.
However, nobody paid enough attention to the Monarch's Hall at the moment. Nobody in the House of Chaotic Storms cared about the Hall of Life and Death. Nobody cared about a young man who was named Ye Xiao.
They just neglected this guy.
The great forces in the world didn't pay attention to the Monarch's Hall. Those who were weaker than these forces were living difficulty under the oppression of those great forces. These medium and small forces would love to seize other forces' territory to relieve themselves from the oppression…
Monarch's Hall seemed to be an easy target, so it became more and more noticeable for the medium-scale forces.
A new organization was like delicious food on the plate for those forces.
That was exactly how things develop in a chaotic city!
The City of Chaos was in chaos. The forces kept fighting each other. The Hall of Life and Death kept saving people from the battles and recruiting new members from the city. The medium-scale forces started to watch the Monarch's Hall with greed and hostility. The prime master of the Gray Parasol Sword Sect had led his people to come for revenge from where their sect took root…
One person had entered the City of Chaos with only four followers at the time of chaos.
Someday, in the City of Chaos.
A young man in white clothes, who looked handsome and elegant, was watching the couplets on the gate of the City of Chaos.
His eyes were full of complicated feelings.
After a while, the young man smiled.
”One hundred thousand years have passed. I wonder who still remembers that the City of Chaos belongs to us, the Ye Clan?
”Do they still keep their vows, the Seven Golden Lotuses? Do they remember their vows?
”It has been one hundred thousand years. It is time for the Ye Clan to return. I happen to be the one who can represent the Ye Clan when the days of glory starts. This is the biggest opportunity of my life.”
”The glory days of the Ye Clan will come along me!”
”I am here now! I am Ye Changqing!”
The white-clothed young man showed a profound gaze in his eyes. He blandly smiled. He was confident and arrogant. He blandly said, ”Let's go!”
”We will go through this gate and claim what belongs to us!”
”Our honor!”
”Our everything!”
Blood was splashing.
It was a battlefield, where there were killings and blood.
Ye Xiao kept both hands behind his back, standing right up in the air. He gazed down at the battle. In his eyes, there was only indifference.
The Dark Evil Spirit and Bai Long were standing on both sides with him.
It was the third battle of the Monarch's Hall in three days.
The Monarch's Hall was expanding fast, and it aroused some other forces' attention. On the first day of the three days, the Monarch's Hall encountered the attacks of the Green Wolf Sect. The Green Wolf Sect had underestimated the Monarch's Hall, so it failed to cause damage to the Monarch's Hall. Instead, they got slaughtered by the Monarch's Hall. When the Monarch's Hall was celebrating the first victory in the battle, another sect started the second battle! It was the Scorpio Sect!
The battle was started with the Scorpio Sect's sneak attacks. The Monarch's Hall was in a feast celebrating the victory from the last fight, but Ye Xiao seemed to see the next fight coming. He had arranged some men to guard the Monarch's Hall, and the Scorpio Sect was ambushed when they thought they were winning!
Ye Xiao was living a second life. He was not only stronger than before but also wiser. He had learned a lot from Ye Nantian about war. Although he was not a greater general than Ye Nantian, he was good enough to win most of the battles. Besides, Zuo Wuji had taught him many schemes. That was how Ye Xiao could foresee the fights to come!
When the Green Wolf Sect attacked, Ye Xiao started to think. The Green Wolf Sect was a small sect, which was weaker than the Monarch's Hall, and even weaker than the Dark Wind Mountain. The leader of the Green Wolf Sect must be tricked to start the fight.
Whoever persuaded the Green Wolf Sect must be waiting for an opportunity to make an attack somewhere. The perfect moment to start a sneak attack must be the time when the Monarch's Hall was having a celebration!
Therefore, Ye Xiao arranged some people to wait for the enemies, and eventually defeated the Scorpio Sect!
After the fight against the Scorpio Sect, Ye Xiao noticed another strange thing. The Scorpio Sect was stronger than the Green Wolf Sect, but not powerful enough to defeat the Monarch's Hall. If the Scorpio Sect had done some research about it, they wouldn't easily start the sneak attack. In fact, even if the Scorpio Sect successfully hit the Monarch's Hall by the sneak attack, it was still going to lose the fight!
Since the Scorpio Sect knew how to use the Green Wolf Sect as a bait, it should be smart enough to investigate about the Monarch's Hall. In that case, there must be another force behind the Scorpio Sect, who had helped the Scorpio Sect but waited for the Scorpio Sect's failure. What it wanted was to use the Scorpio Sect to weaken the Monarch's Hall in the end!
Ye Xiao was right. After the fight against the Scorpio Sect in the night, on the third day, the third force appeared in the battle. The Monarch's Hall encountered the most difficult fight since the beginning.
The enemy was a sect who ranked fourth in the Second-Class Sects Ranking List in the Limitless Ocean, the Black Water Sect. It was a second-class sect, just like the Scorpio Sect and the Dark Wind Mountain, but it had been ruling in the second-class sects for years. The Dark Wind Mountain and the Scorpio Sect were much weaker than it. It was just a little weaker than the first-class sects, which had a long history.
Compared to the Black Water Sect, the Monarch's Hall did not have a chance to win this battle.
Ye Xiao wasn't surprised. If the Black Water Sect wasn't so powerful, the Scorpio Sect wouldn't believe it.
The expected battle was still tough for the Monarch's Hall.
A long broad saber light shined up the sky. Qiu Luo became a long rainbow in the sky with his saber. He put down three enemies within seconds and saved one man on the Monarch's Hall's side from the enemies' attacks. Qiu Luo saved a man, but he didn't stop. With his saber in hand, he rushed into a group of five enemies afterward.
With a series of cracking sounds, Qiu Luo made a big shout and jumped up to the sky. His saber attack shined with coldness, and there was blood dripping down off his blade.
With one saber attack, he won the fight. Two of the five enemies staggered backward, while one of them slowly fell down to the floor with one hand covering the bloody hole in the chest.
”Brother!” The four others were crazy when they saw one man dying. Their eyes were red, and they rushed toward Qiu Luo immediately. They were apparently giving the last strikes.
Qiu Luo's first saber attack had killed three men, and he saved one of his guys at the same time. With the fierce saber attack, he rushed into a group of five. It seemed he won the second fight, because he had killed one of the five men, but he knew that he had underestimated the five. He didn't win yet. The four survivors of the five started to fight back. Qiu Luo had just made a big move, and he needed to rest for one second now. He was going to be defeated!
While Qiu Luo was in danger, the Great Thunder, Lei Dongtian arrived with a shout. Over thirty men in the Tiger Unit showed up under his leadership. They stopped the four enemies immediately. On the other side, some sneaky sword attacks were approaching the enemies. They were like snakes crawling to the enemies.
Yin Changqing, the leader of the Snake Unit had come to help.
The men of the Snake Unit were selected by Yin Changqing. These people were so sneaky and cold-blooded that the other units felt annoyed about them often.
They were all vicious and dangerous people, which included their leader, Yin Changqing.
They were all powerful cultivators, but they never stood for a frontal fight. They always made sneaky moves to hurt the opponents in some unexpected ways. They were cold-blooded, vicious, sneaky, and deadly. They kept hiding themselves and always took leave after an attack, leaving no chance for the enemy to fight back.
People who knew them would always sigh about it. 'Things of one kind come together. Men as well. Yin Changqing, what a bright and right-minded name, yet he is such a sneaky man who is just like a poisonous snake. His people are also some poisonous snakes.'
The Snake Unit was a unique force on the battlefield. These people did not fight as toughly as the other units but were more deadly than the other units.
The Snake Unit could be compared to the most powerful unit among the twelve, the Tiger Unit!
Bu Xiangfeng, Meng Youjiang and his wife, Gui Lingxiao, and Ren Zhixi, who were the five Saint Origin Stage cultivators of the Monarch's Hall, hadn't appeared for the battle yet.
The five of them were watching the enemies who were also waiting outside the battlefield.
The strongest enemies hadn't joined the fight yet, but with the special sensation of the Saint Origin Stage cultivators, Bu Xiangfeng knew that there were six enemies who were in the Saint Origin Stage.
When the Saint Origin Stage enemies attacked, somebody must rush ahead to resist it. The Monarch's Hall couldn't allow their own men to be killed by the Saint Origin Stage enemies!
”We don't need a reason. We don't need to know why. We don't need to hesitate… It is just a fight!” Ye Xiao coldly watched the enemies who hadn't joined the battle. Those were the main power of the Black Water Sect.
”They started this, for a big fight, for plundering, for encroaching…”
”This is the Limitless Ocean!”
”This is the Human Realm Upon Heavens!”