Chapter 229 - The Count Rampaging throughout the Huaxian World of Cultivators (1/2)

“The Vampiric Empire made a move, eh?” Lu Xuan frowned as soon as he got the news.

He was familiar with the Vampiric Empire, as it had been a monster of an organization that was notorious throughout the world at later stages.

He was also familiar with the Count, although he assumed that the Count as he was now was probably not as powerful as he knew the Count to be back in his past life.

According to what Lu Xuan knew back in his past life, the Vampiric Empire did indeed clash with the WuTang Clan multiple times over.

But then again, it was not a one-sided beating. The WuTang Clan’s formidable heritage was being made use of to the fullest as spirit qi was restored to the world.

As spirit qi of the world was further restored later, there had even been several extremely powerful people of Celestial Realm emerging from their ranks.

The Huaxian world of cultivators was able to handle itself well, even when taking on the Vampiric Empire, whose roots ran even deeper.

Things were different at present, as the WuTang Clan was almost wiped out of existence. All of the clan’s disciples of lower levels of training were all killed by the Count, dealing a crushing blow to the clan.

While it looked like the clash was due to an age-old feud between both parties being brought to the fore, it actually had a lot to do with Lu Xuan.

The clash was a direct result of him killing Adam from the Association of Lore Seekers, which then alerted the vampires that backed the association.

It was due precisely to this that the Count emerged out of his healing sleep prematurely and went to cause trouble in Huaxia.

The Association of Lore Seekers was directly affiliated with the Vampiric Empire. Almost all of the higher-ups of the association were single-handedly taken care of by Lu Xuan back on Penglai Island, and there was no way the Vampiric Empire would have just kept sitting on their hands after that.

But then again, the Count saw what he was doing to be an act of saving his underlings, and that was hardly worth mentioning.

Things felt different on the side of the WuTang Clan, however, as that battle was definitely one fought with their lives on the line.

The Count would have just let it slide for the time being if he were to just remain asleep. However, given how he had emerged, he simply saw it fit to get rid of the WuTang Clan, which had yet to be restored to their former level of power.

That was why the Count hit the WuTang Clan first.

Lu Xuan was able to tell that it could be said that both parties had faced a loss in their latest clash.

The clan had just been restored somewhat not long ago, and all of the future geniuses that the clan had painstakingly gathered perished in that one battle.

The Count had also lost over a dozen loyal, capable members of his inner circle, all of whom were Invincible Vajra Level fighters.

However, if one were to look at the sum of things, it became obvious that the losses the WuTang Clan incurred were greater. Those geniuses training under the Clan’s wing were not people that could be easily found everywhere, and locating them had taken quite an effort after all.

Those geniuses were people that the clan went out of their way to gather for the past several decades. Furthermore, they were lucky enough to exist at a time where spirit qi was being restored to the world, and the shackles of the planet were loosening, making it the best era for cultivation.

Due to what just happened, however, the WuTang Clan was, ultimately, greatly inferior when compared to Shaolin.

A generation gap was already formed.

Even if the Clan were to gather more geniuses at the moment, there was still no way for them to be able to catch up within a short period of time. In the case of the Count, losing those underlings was not that much of a big deal.

Replenishing the void left by those vampires was but a matter of time.

So long as he—one of the ancestors—of the vampires was able to get on with siring others, getting people of Invincible Vajra Level powers to fill the void would not have been a problem.

That ability to amass a frightening army of vampires within a short period of time was precisely what made the Vampiric Empire so terrifying.

All in all, it was apt to say that the WuTang Clan was severely crippled due to Lu Xuan.

Yang Chengsi then reported what happened to the Vampiric Empire afterward.

The invasion of the Vampiric Empire had caused quite a commotion.

The battle that the Huaxian cultivators fought against the Vampiric Empire nearly a century ago had been of a magnitude capable of shaking the earth, after all.

All cultivation forces found throughout the country had senior members who died by the hands of the vampires before. Thus, it could be said that the vengeance was shared by all throughout the country.

With the vampires making it so clear of their intention to attack the Huaxian cultivators, one could imagine just how extreme the reactions from the clans and sects were.