Chapter 78: Chapter 78: Surging undercurrents
At this time, it was already close to midnight and after the events that happened during the day before, the sensation didn't stop, it was like someone was going out of his or her way to spread rumors of what happened in the Alliance gathering.
In an instant, the entire Iron crow city was boiling with gossip!
Gu Lin Fang and Nangong Jiang became the two most popular people in the entire Iron crow city within a few hours!
At this time, Iron crow city!
At this time, the cultivators in the major restaurants drank wildly.
Everyone scrambled to say that they knew about the battle of falling cloud slope.
"Have you heard? In the battle in falling cloud slope, the young lady of the Gu family had a showdown!"
"Nonsense! Who hasn't heard in the entire Iron crow city?"
"It turns out that the young lady, who is now known as one of the top young beauties in the city was actually so powerful!".
"I heard she's actually a foundation building cultivator!".
"That's right!".
"Maybe, who do think is more powerful, miss Gu or miss Nangong?"
"Tsk tsk tsk! I heard that the battle in falling cloud slope was tragic. Not to mention the death of more than a dozen Qi gathering cultivators, there was even a battle between 4 Nascent soul cultivators"
"Wah?!!Nascent soul cultivators?!".
"Fuck! How did I hear that it was 8 people, and some or the bamboo forest was razed to the ground!".
"I heard that there are twelve Nascent soul cultivators. If it wasn't for the mercy of lord Gu, I'm afraid the entire alliance would have lost a lot of it's combat power!".
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Iron crow city, Cui family Great Hall!
The atmosphere was solemn to the extreme!
The expressions on the faces of the key figures of the 'righteous' faction were very unpleasant.
And a tall middle-aged man stood above the Great Hall with one of his hands behind his back, while he squeezed a white feathered fan with the other.
Although he didn't speak, the terrible aura made everyone in the Great Hall feel tight in their chests.
"Nothing"!
"Absolutely nothing!"
"Nothing went as planned, besides the death Sun clan's genius... the Gu family didn't even lose a little bit of hair!!"
"Four high quality intelligence staff were even lost, as well as a lot of our chess pieces!"
"That bastard definitely has a handle on Nangong Jiang, I want to know what it is...we can't let that Gu Lin Fang have so much advantage!"
"Now the whole city is watching the joke of me protecting our reputation!"
"You all, how do you think we should respond?"
His cold voice resounded through the Great Hall.
He is the current Leader of the 'righteous'faction and contemporary leader of the Cui family, Cui Shu Lan!.
"Leader, what do you mean?"
In the Great Hall, an elderly man asked with a trembling voice.
Ha ha!
When Cui Shu Lan heard this, he looked at the Elder coldly with a cold face and asked.
"Elder Li, what do you think?
Hearing this.
Elder Li trembled, and then said
" Leader, our family's intelligence network found out that of Sun Wu Tang's Dharma protector went to Yanjing immediately after Falling cloud slope!"
"So now the situation is unclear!"
"I think we can only use the opportunity to make more trouble for the Gu patriarch, maybe even send first hand news to the leader Sun clan's main branch".
Hearing this words, another middle aged man added, "And the intelligence network shows that Bai family has started to move... they're spreading rumors and seem to be trying to push the Gu family to the forefront!"
"It shouldn't take much effort for us to take down the news!"
"No!...On the contrary, I think we should let them be...in fact, maybe even fan the flames and drive a wedge between the two".
When Cui Shu Lan heard this discussion, he nodded, his brain began to spin until he said with a cold face.
"Now, do as you have said..."
"Yes"
'very good!
"Let's see how he goes about it this time" Hearing his icy voice, the bodies of everyone present were shocked.
At this time, someone said with a worried voice.
"Leader!"
"It is rumored that long family people went to the Gu manor sometime ago"
"Are we going to investigate this matter and make plans again?"
Cui Shu Lan sneered,"Ma Xiong, no need to bother with that... Brother Fu is on this matter!"
"No problem!"Ma Xiong nodded and felt relieved.
After all, 'Brother Fu' was the best person for the Job.
End of the meeting!
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that night.
They all went to perform their respective duties, in a hidden place in the Northern desert.
Here where mountains stood tall, A huge Manor was built, surrounded by a small town.
The surrounding mountains had a natural charm around it.
Moreover, the concentration of Spiritual Qi here was several times more than that of regular places in the North.
Such places were called Sacred Sites and are majorly locations scattered across the world that provide environmental bonuses to the cultivators Internal Cultivation and Practice.
There are five types of Sacred Sites: Cave, Forest, Mountain, Snow, and Water. The different types of Sacred Sites are easy to locate using different methods. But Snow-type Sacred Sites are mostly scarce.
Some of this places even grants certain bonus for divination!.
Now this Manor was built in one of such places and serves as the foundation of the Sun clan.
In the quaint Great Hall of the Sun Sacred Mountain.
A young man was playing chess with an old man.
The man in white had snow white skin, with a handsome appearance, and a pair of star eyes radiating a thrilling light.
Sitting on the futon, he looked tall and straight as a sharp sword!
"Ming er!"
"yes father!?"
"So many years and you finally decide to come home...at this rate, that idiotic genius from our branch family would soon climb up my head, like I don't have a kid too"
The young man smiled lightly, his handsome face held a helpless express, he had an uncanny resemblance with the old man in front of him,"Father, it was Ming er's fault, I was supposed to breakthrough to the foundation building stage before I'm allowed outside the sect but I decided it was better I got to the peak of foundation building before coming down. Forgive my selfishness"
"Old slave congratulates young master!" An old man bowed slightly to the young man by his side.
Seeing this, the patriarch Sun smiled lightly and then said.
"I heard you were now one of the..."
"Lord patriarch, Big news!"
"Hmph! didn't I say no one should disturb me? This news better be as you say or you will be given a hundred today!!" As patriarch Sun spoke, he picked up his tea and took a big gulp while glaring.
"Understood!"
When the servant heard the words, he got up consciously and said solemnly,
"Sun Wu Tang is dead, one of our eyeliners just sent a messager pigeon!"
The butler's body trembled before signalling the servant to leave, when he left, he turned around and disappeared from the Great Hall.
Wait until the old butler left, the father and son never said a word.
"Hahahaha!!!, Heaven has eyes!! Hahahaha"
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Meanwhile, back at the Gu manor
Gu Lin Fang was once again in his study, studying something he just found recently from the Xu family's collection.
Now he was cross referencing with the information stored in the user interface.
[Arrays]
[Every Array has its corresponding Array Moves, which are learned by studying Array Move Scripts and implementing them in battle or other activities.
They can be used only by Array participants, some can only be used by the person who setup the Array.
if this person leaves the Array range, he/she will lose the ability to use them.
The cool down period of Array Moves does not interfere with that of other array moves so it is convenient to use them together for
different Effects.
The effect of some arrays will be weakened or strengthened substantially when facing an opponent with opposing arrays. For example a Restraining Array has the effect of weakening or completely restraining most arrays.
There are several Arrays to acquire and learn, from all over the world.
The required number of members needed to set up or to use an Array differs, depending on what type and the strength of those within.
The Array range will be displayed to only those involved in said array, it can be spotted on ground as a circle centered on the person who set the Array which is referred to as the array eye.
Every array has an "Array Eye" and its location depends on the array.
If the person who is set as an Array Eye is killed or leaves the Array circumference for too long, the whole array will fail.]
Boom boom boom
The sound of knocking immediately pulled Gu Lin Fang from his reading as he solemnly closed the user interface and rubbed his temples lightly.
"Is everything ready?"
"Yes my Lord!" A voice quickly came from the other side of the door.
"Good...."
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