A cultivator from the Shen clan was enjoying his time in the new city. He was surrounded by a few naked beauties and enjoying the pleasures of flesh. He had reached the city a few days ago, and heard about the arrival to his senior disciples. With nothing better to do he had decided to do, he enjoyed his time fully. He ordered wine and delicacies, enjoyed many women and was completely relaxed with his guard down. Today, he had ordered another few women to come to him, hoping to enjoy his time to the maximum. Little did he realize, he had already been poisoned by the assassin from the golden arrow. The poison was called flaming touch. This poison was unique to the golden arrow. It forcefully converted any Ki that was at the skin in to fire and burned the cultivator. It could only be stopped by another Core cultivator or the antidote. The cultivator enjoyed the new women and as his pleasure reached the climax, he burst into flames. Due to the heat of the flames, the cultivator died instantly along with all the women accompanying him. Although, he was a depraved scoundrel, he had never touched any women without her consent, he didn't deserve this.
Almost all the Shen clan member who were enjoying the worldly pleasures met the same fate as the first guy, while the serious cultivators were attacked and killed with absolute prejudice. The assassin had the time and the skill to plan out the details to a perfect level. The entire plan was executed within a matter of minutes and by half an hour mark, the residence of all the Shen clan members were filled with nothing but dead bodies. Many sorts of evidences were planted to incriminate Fire school and as the day broke, the new city was now devoid of any Shen clan members. Within a single night, over 500 cultivators were killed and the assassin escaped. Despite the kill count, no bodies were discovered as the servant were not allowed in to cultivator's quarter without permission.
On a faraway hill, the remaining members had already heard the news about their members disappearing. The disciples and the elders had decided to rest for a day and try to gather some information about the beast mountains. This matter was already reported to the supreme elders and they had not deemed it important enough to for their presence, hence, a team of disciples and elders were sent to the location for a long-term investigation. The of the disciples was not an uncommon scenario, many hot locations would harbor many bandits and beasts. The elders didn't pay the information any mind and resumed after they had fully rested.
The Dong clan and the Fan clan, due to their will to outdo each other, were far ahead of the Shen clan and almost a week away from the mountains. They had already decided to camp closer to each other and compete to find the best herbs and beasts in the mountains along with the cause of the recent disturbances. Also, they hadn't ordered to build a city and were willing to set up temporary camps. These two clans heavily focused on the cultivation and not the luxuries of life. The Jing clan on the other hand were already settled into the area around the Green village due their close proximity from the beast mountains.
Lan Long and the group had finally reached the Green village and headed straight to a local restaurant. They had to wait for a few minutes before a place was finally emptied and they had a chance to sit. The population of the Green village was greatly increased due to the Jing clan members setting camp in the surroundings. The waitress finally arrived and took the order from Huang Ren before leaving with a slight bow.
"What do you mean, there are no room? Throw someone out and immediately seat us. I will pay for anyone you kick out." A voice boomed throughout the restaurant.
"Sir, please wait. I will get the owner." The timid voice of the waitress echoed through the hall. With a quick turn, the waitress fled from the dining area and arrived at the owner's room. The middle-aged man was browsing through some papers and jotting down some notes.
"Sir, some customers from a big clan are asking to vacate a dining room for them immediately." The waitress said in a hurry. With a sigh, the owner rose from his seat and walked towards the source of the commotion. He arrived at the welcome area and quickly assessed the situation. The cultivators were from Shen Clan and were all at least early Ki sea realm. He then spread out his soul sense and quickly found a room with no food and the cultivators looked like they were from local clans.
"Quick, go to that room and ask them to vacate it. The order will be free if they choose to wait or they will get the same amount as their order. Go now." The owner was a decisive man and didn't waste a minute to dish out the order and this pleased the Shen Core disciples.
"Brother Gan, it's really tiring to stand out here." A woman from the Shen clan complained to the Leader of the group while leaning closely on his shoulder.
"Hurry up." The man shouted energetically. With that, the waitress had reached and entered the dining room. She was about to open her mouth but stopped after seeing Jiang Long's cold glare.
"Get that idiot here and let him ask." Lan Long said as he pushed away the waitress with his Ki.
"Sir, the cultivators are asking for you to ask them." The waitress said with a deep bow.
"Is this the way you treat your customers? Fine." Gan Shen said as he stepped into the room. His gaze immediately landed on Su Ming. Although, his fellow disciple was exquisite, she did not have Su Ming calm and innocent aura. "Hmm, leave now. Leave the girl behind. I will be sure to take. . ." He didn't get to finish his sentence as there were now two saber and a heavy sword pointed at his head. Lan Long had also moved and grabbed his neck. He began to sweat, he was now completely under someone else's grab. If they chose to, they could end his life instantly.
"I am Gan Shen. Core disciple of the Shen clan, you can't possibly be thinking of harming me." Gan Shen smiled as he tried to remove Lan Long's hand. He believed that if anyone heard his origins, they would immediately be deterred. Unfortunately for him, this time he had kicked an iron board. None of the cultivators here, were afraid of him in the slightest. Huang Ren was far superior to him status and he had offended him the most.
"So, let's consider this treason. You offended the future bride of the Ren clan." Lan Long said as he threw Gan Shen at an angle.
BOOM. . .
Gan Shen crashed through the wall and several buildings before landing outside the village. He didn't even have the chance to react before he found himself in a similar situation. Lan Long had grabbed him by the neck and the rest were by his side. It got a few breaths of time before his female companion showed up.
"Wait, please. Leave him alone, else you would have made enemies with the Shen Clan." She said with a fake worry in her voice. At the same time, she tried to beguile all the men on the scene.
"Tell me. Where are the rest of you?" Jiang Long asked as he looked at the lady.
"We are going to arrive at the new city in that direction." She as she pointed towards the city. Lan Long immediately spread his soul sense in that direction only to find the city littered with many dead bodies within the housing. He sent his soul sense even further to discover about 500 disciples of the Shen clan resting on a plain. He then chucked Gan Shen towards this group at high speed and with a sonic boom Gan Shen was sent flying and disappeared completely from the view in a matter of moments.
"You. Leave. If you and that filth ever show your face again. I will not be this lenient." Lan Long said as he disappeared from the sight and reappeared again in the restaurant closely followed by Jiang Long and Huang Ren.
"Don't tell me you killed a Shen clan member inside the village." Su Ming said as she looked at Huang Ren.
"No. But he won't be able to walk or speak for a month or two." Lan Long said with a smile as he placed the order again.
"Where did you throw him?" Huang Ren asked as he calmed down. Up to this point he was filled with hatred and killing intent. He had his lady disrespected in such a way, I was a pretty normal reaction.
"Towards a group of Shen clan disciples." Lan Long said as he began to eat. Soon, the incident was forgotten as the group began to eat but the entire village was talking about it. This was the second-time Lan Long was actually angry. Soon, the group had finished their meal and headed to an inn.
After arriving at the inn, Lan Long began to theorize why his tribulation was not arriving. Usually, the tribulation would descend within days after reaching the full cultivation of the peak of the Ki sea realm. Lan Long's had his dantian filled to the brim with Ki but wasn't able to sense the tribulation.
"Why? Is there something wrong with my cultivation technique?" Lan Long mumbled as he gathered a wisp of in his palm. The meager amount barely withstood the changes in the atmosphere before disappearing. "Maybe, the heavens don't want me to succeed. What is wrong?" Lan Long mumbled as he gathered another wisp on his palm and stabilized it with his soul. Lan Long opened his eyes and began to observe this particular wisp in great detail. Soon, the concept of time was lost to him.
The Shen Camp. . .
"Humph, that sleaze ball left in a hurry despite the elder orders."
"Yes, he also took the best cutest girl in the cam with him."
"That girl is a slut. Did you see how she was ready to open her legs for him."
"Yeah, Senior Yi is much better and respectable."
"Too bad. She is too serious about cultivation. Else, he-he."
"Look. What is that?"
"Quick, call for an elder." The disciple said as he strained his eyes to try to identify the object that was flying straight at the camp with terrifying speed. He knew that it was already too late to inform anyone about the matter, the object's speed was too fast. Before the other disciple had moved a few steps from his previous position, the object had already crashed in the middle of the camp.
Boom. . .
Soon, after the explosion, the disciples and the elders gathered at the crater that was formed where the object had crashed. The crater itself was only about 5 meters wide but was splattered with blood throughout. The scene resembled closely to that of a squashed tomato when thrown against a wall, except the tomato was a dead body.
"Hey look, that uniform is the same as ours."
"Who dare to this?"
"Find them."
"Look at that head band. It resembles that of Brother Gan."
"Yes, is this Brother Gan?"
"Wasn't he at the green village with that new disciple."
"SILENCE." An elder yelled as he withdrew the storage ring from the mangled corpse and took out the identification plate. The words 'Gan Shen' were engraved on it. "Sha, take 20 Core disciples and investigate. Take care of the culprit. Make it brutal." The lead elder said to another elder named Sha before disappearing into this air.
(Sorry for the delay guys. Hopefully, the next few chapters will be up on time. Thanks for the support.)