Chapter 318 - Doom of the Vampiric Empire (1/2)

The recruitment drive went on for 10 days at the Heavenly Palace.

Whatever the Heavenly Palace did for that 10 days was closely observed by just about everyone.

The eyes of the entire Huaxia, even the entire world, were on the Heavenly Palace.

Many were startled at just how shockingly many talented people there were in Huaxia, where elites actually existed in hundreds of thousands all over the nation.

It was only a feat made possible given that Huaxia had a massive population numbering well over a billion.

None of the other countries dared to even consider something like that happening within their own borders.

Other than the 2000 that eventually made it past the tests and joined the Heavenly Palace, all the others were quickly taken in by all the other forces out to scout talents.

While it was true that those people were all rejects of the Heavenly Palace, they were still nonetheless all very rare talents that were hard to come by.

There were even many who were of far greater talents compared to the 2000 picked up by the Heavenly Palace. Their only inadequacies being character and will, which many forces out there could not have cared less about.

None of them set standards as high as the Heavenly Palace after all.

The place went immediately into isolation mode right after recruiting their new disciples, beginning to focus all their resources into teaching those 2000 people.

Thanks to Lu Xuan’s experiences and structure developed from having nurtured people en masse before, it was not difficult at all for them to handle even a sudden influx of people of such a number.

In the southernmost part of the Earth—the Antarctica.

Lu Xuan settled down. While the winds were indeed bone-chilling in the south pole, he remained totally unperturbed.

A faint layer of Spiritual Qi was seen on the surface of his body, which was responsible for repelling the cold.

But then again, even without that layer of Spiritual Qi, his physical resilience had nonetheless reached such a degree, that temperatures of tens of degrees Celsius below zero was far from being able to freeze him to death.

His life force had gotten so unbelievably formidable that every single level he made a breakthrough into was a complete transformation of his state of life at the most fundamental levels.

He was dressed so casually that he looked completely out of place in the south pole.

His will was spread all over the place.

“I’ll see for myself where else could you hide, Cain!”

The person that he was looking for at the moment was none other than Cain, the founding ancestor of the vampires.

Cain was the true ancestor of the vampires. All the others, including Lilith and Count Dracula, were all bloodkin that was developed from his lineage.

However, the other two elders managed to wriggle themselves free of his control during later ages, developing powers that enabled them to become his equal.

Lu Xuan had been searching for Cain’s whereabouts the whole time, deeming that he would never be able to rest easy, as long as the founding ancestor of the vampires—one of his greatest threats—remain at large.

His effort paid off eventually and he finally located Cain’s whereabouts two days prior. To put it accurately however, that was a result of him mobilizing resources of Huaxia.

Given how much he had done for his country and government throughout the whole time, the officials deemed such a request from him to be well within what he deserved.

But then again, there was nonetheless something off with that piece of news.

Someone had delivered the news of Cain hiding in the south pole to him personally.

“Who else would be behind this indeed?” Lu Xuan had no idea who was it who delivered the news to him, but he was certain of one thing—the news of Cain being in the south pole was still a reliable one, regardless of who was behind it.

Not only was he given news of Cain’s whereabouts, he was also given very comprehensive and detailed information about the news, which included photos of Cain boarding a ship in South America, as well as satellite images and some others.

It became obvious that someone had been monitoring Cain’s movements all the time, and there were few in the world having both such level of powers and motives.