Chapter 225 - Emerging from Isolation, and the Invasion of the Vampiric Empire (2/2)

The change was far more pronounced when it came to the world of cultivators.

The huge shadow that loomed over the United States all along—the Vampiric Empire—bared its fangs.

The empire’s existence was considered a secret from common folks. Governments of nations all over the world had been reluctant to acknowledge the existence of those paranormal beings and phenomena before spirit qi was restored to the world for fear of throwing their citizens into mass panic.

However, the existence of such beings was not a secret to cultivators.

The backing of the Vampiric Empire had a lot to do with the United States’ streak of victories throughout the wars they fought all over the world for the past several decades.

The American government never got along well with the Vampiric Empire, and massive wars had even broken out between the two parties.

But then again, the development of affairs throughout the years had cemented the symbiosis between the Vampiric Empire and the American government, effectively making them into a single entity.

It had been the vampires that took out any paranormal factors, specifically the cultivators who possessed mystical abilities, when the United States went to expand its influence throughout the world.

The way the American government went about waging wars throughout the world in earlier times earned the ire of cultivators worldwide.

It was especially so after World War II.

The vampires had been able to maintain their powers from declining rapidly through deriving sustenance from human blood. That was precisely why the Vampiric Empire was able to keep expanding its influence throughout the years, while many cultivators had fallen into decline. A good number of ancient cultivation heritages struggled to keep themselves afloat.

The Huaxian cultivators were no strangers to the Vampiric Empire, especially after the North Korean War back in the 1950s, where a massive head-on conflict broke out between the Huaxian cultivators and the Vampiric Empire.

That battle was indeed an earth-shaking one, and the Huaxian cultivators, which had been in severe decline, suffered a crippling blow.

But they still managed to repel the forces of the Vampiric Empire.

Both parties suffered great losses.

Since then, the Vampiric Empire never dared to set foot on Huaxian soil any longer.

The vampires bared their fangs out in the open yet again after spending nearly 100 years recuperating, and it was the Huaxian cultivators that they were after.

The leading vampire was also someone that even the Huaxian cultivators were very familiar with, for he was none other than Count Dracula, the one who led the Vampiric Empire’s forces and cultivators from many other nations, to attack Huaxia back in the day.

About 100 hundred years had passed since then, and that king of vampires had completely recovered apparently. He pulled something that shocked the entire world of cultivators of Huaxia, on the very day he stepped foot onto Huaxian soil.

Several days ago, on the brightly lit base of the WuTang Clan in the WuTang Mountains.

As one of the topmost heritages among all found in Huaxian soil, the WuTang Clan was deemed the Shaolin Temple’s equal.

It was said that the south revered the WuTang while the north, the Shaolin.

That saying alone was more than enough to demonstrate the prestige of the WuTang Clan.

It was especially so after spirit qi was restored to the planet. The clan, which had been struggling to survive for ages, brought the age-old heritage to the fore, nurturing a great many renowned fighters in a very short period of time, shaking the cultivators of the south. Its influence became so great that it seemed as if the WuTang Clan had become one of the leaders among the cultivators of the south.

The clan’s prestige and status were recovering at a frightening rate, approaching what they had been several hundred years ago.

A faint barrier enveloped the entire clan’s estate, on top of its majestic temples, which served as a measure to fend off both invaders, as well as pesky tourists.

A group of figures clad in black was moving at a frightening speed to the top of the clan in the dark of night.

One could vaguely tell those beings to be of blonde hair and blue eyes. They were of very pale complexion and wore black robes. What stood out most, however, were the webbed wings that grew out of their backs. They were huge and powerful enough to give them sustained flight.

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