Chapter 587: The Advent of a Powerful Enemy
“Your Majesty, are you saying to get rid of this group?” The elder inquired.
A hum escaped from the king’s mouth, “I wouldn’t say get rid of. The fact that another strong individual has appeared within the Blue Wind Kingdom is a boon to us as a whole. But I fear if he is an outsider and has co into our kingdom to expand his influence before taking those n and leaving the kingdom. Should that happen, the damages to our kingdom would be huge. We have only just finished a war with the Gesun Kingdom, our weakened kingdom definitely cannot sustain another crippling.”
“Then what does your Majesty believe needs to be done?”
“Master Ke Yun, I’ll be troubling you this ti. I hope that you will be able investigate the Fla rcenaries yourself and see what their goals are. If they wish to stay within the kingdom as they try to grow, then I will of course welco them. But if they wish to steal away people or anything else that could affect our kingdom negatively, then we must strike them down at once without rcy.” The king spoke.
“Understood, I know what needs to be done.” The elder nodded before turning around to leave.
“One mont, master Ke Yun.” The king called out to the elder. “Master Ke Yun, your king is worried that there will be a Heaven Saint Master within the rcenary group. So before you leave for the Cloud Capital, take so people with you.”
“Thank you for your concern, your Majesty!” A brief smile and bow was given to the king before Ke Yun continued on his way out from the study with his held high.
As soon as the king saw Ke Yun leave the room, a wave of concern washed over him. “Why do I feel so much unease, is it because of this Fla rcenaries? Will it be this newly made rcenary group that will be a scourge onto my Blue Wind Kingdom?”
He had remained seated where he was with a grim expression, “After the battle of the Gesun Kingdom, the kingdom has lost four of eight Heaven Saint Masters; and even the remaining four are all heavily injured. I hope that this feeling of unease is just a feeling.”
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Within the Cloud Capital, discussion had run rampant throughout the next two days. Whether it was the main streets, hidden alleyways, or the restaurants and inns, everyone could be heard talking about the Fla rcenaries.
The Fla rcenaries had appeared in the Cloud Capital as if out of thin air. Then with unbelievable speed, they had combined the powers of the first-rate factions into an even bigger entity. News like this would definitely cause a major buzz within the city.
Consequently, this had caused the second and third-rate factions to feel slightly nervous. For the entire day, they had been extrely nervous to the point of having so clans electing to temporarily leaving the city and hide away until the crisis was gone. They were afraid that the hands of the Fla rcenaries would stretch towards even them. Many--if not all--of the factions did not want to lose the power they had worked for to beco a lackey for another.
Of course, not every of these factions had been like that. So of them had even took the initiative to look for the Fla rcenaries in hopes of joining it.
When the dozen major clans that had initially joined were given the command from Jian Chen, they began to accept all of the newcors into the rcenary group without declining a single one.
Right now, the Fla rcenaries needed new blood to join the Fla rcenaries. When it ca to managent, Jian Chen wasn’t concerned. The dozen clans had enough power to lay down the law on their own and could easily manage their own rcenaries too.
From the other side, the lord of the city had not been as happy to see more and more people join the Fla rcenaries. The more people that joined in fact, the more nervous he beca. Nothing could be done on his part to ebb this chaotic maelstrom that was happening within his city aside from standing in silence on the sidelines and hope that soone from the kingdom would co in to interfere.
“It is fortunate that the Feral rcenaries are all out on a mission, otherwise they might have been annexed into this ss too.” The lord muttered.
In the blink of an eye, the maelstrom had only gotten bigger. Four days had passed now, and the Fla rcenaries had continued to swallow up even more factions into their folds. News of what had transpired in the city had even made its way across the entire Blue Wind Kingdom. No matter if it was a big or small city, each and every one of them had heard about it.
Whether people believed it or not, the news that they received had sparked a paradigm shift in the Blue Wind Kingdom--the rise of a new powerful faction had co.
A long ways away from the Cloud Capital was the First Class Tianlong City. Within the biggest mansion in the city stood a middle-aged man. Cloaked in white robes, this man stared out at the pond in front of him with both hands behind his back.
This! This was the lord of Tianlong City!
Almost absentmindedly, the lord began to mutter to himself, “Ah, how unexpected! A truly unexpected event it is. The originally weak and piddling rcenary group back in Wake City has suddenly transford to be strong enough to subjugate the entire Cloud Capital in several days. A change like that is utterly inconceivable.”
Inside another room in the sa mansion sat Katata and Katafei. Seated at a table, the two of them were discussing with one another over a bottle of wine.
Having rained his cup, Katata spoke to the other, “Katafei, you ought to know what happened back in the Cloud Capital too. Do you think that the Fla rcenaries there are the very sa ones from Wake City?”
“I do!” Katafei spoke. As the stoic one of the two, he cherished his words as if they were gold and did not dispense them easily.
“How are you so sure?” Katata pressed on.
“Jian Chen’s strength is an unknown to us, but to have a Sixth Cycle Earth Saint Master at his beck and call? It is him.” Katafei spoke. There had been suspicion and confusion to be in his mind, but his face betrayed none of those emotions.
Draining the rest of his cup in one single gulp, Katata sighed. “It really is hard to believe that Jian Chen has accomplished so much in just two years. Two years ago he was said to have joined the Gathering of the rcenaries, did he receive so sort of boon while he was there? It’s a trendous pity that rcenary City is nearly worlds apart from our kingdom, only the most important news would make it way here.”
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Jian Chen was at this mont sitting on top of his bed within the inn of the Cloud Capital. As he was trying to cultivate, Xiao Bai continued to roll around on the covers of the bed for amusent. It had been fortunate that the cover was a very simple and inexpensive one, for it had already been torn to shreds by the claws of the tiger cub.
Jian Chen had not left the inn for several days and spent his ti cultivating in his room to wait for everyone else to fully recover and finish what was left before embarking on their trip out from the Cloud Capital.
“Captain of the Fla rcenaries, make your way to see us at once.” Suddenly, a voice like thunder had bood through the skies. The speaker’s voice had been so strong that it seed to shake the world itself. The streets shooked and the buildings quivered--even the clouds had been blown away to reveal the sun behind it--everyone had heard the voice to what very well might belong to a god.
For a mont, the entire Cloud Capital was quiet before suddenly erupting into a cacophony of sound. Everyone had turned their heads to the skies as if trying to find the origins of the voice.
“I see them, look! Over there! Two n in the skies! Those are Heaven Saint Masters!” Suddenly, an excited middle-aged man pointed erratically at a point in the sky with a loud cry.
The heads of everyone in the city turned to look where the man was pointed at--and indeed--there were what appeared to be two tiny ant-like dots up in the sky. While small in figure, the might that exuded from them made them look more like gods descending upon the mortal world.
“Those are two Heaven Saint Masters! They have to be here to fight the Fla rcenaries, it’s all over for them now.”
“What a calamity for the Fla rcenaries. With two Heaven Saint Masters here, they’re ruined for sure.”
Everyone had been furiously discussing this topic with so hidden glee. But those who had joined the Fla rcenaries already had gone pale in the face.
The lord of the city ca scrambling out from his mansion to stare out into the skies at the two Heaven Saint Masters. “Two Heaven Saint Masters? His Majesty has sent two over them over? Great! This is fantastic! The Fla rcenaries are definitely ruined now!”
From every part of the Cloud Capital, several dozen factions that had aligned with the Fla rcenaries ca filing out. When they saw the two Heaven Saint Masters floating high in the sky, their faces had gone pale. Those who had been forced into joining had a happy look on their faces, but those who had willingly joined had felt a fearful look spread on their faces.
A single Heaven Saint Master was already enough to worry them. But two Heaven Saint Masters was a trendous amount of pressure on them.
From within his own room, Jian Chen slowly opened his eyes to look up.
At the sa ti, the doors to his room opened to reveal Ming Dong and the others.
“Jian Chen, two Heaven Saint Masters are here--how rambunctious they are to strut here and there on the skies--do they think no one knows who they are? Hah, if they’re willing to try it, I’ll beat them black and blue until they run away.” Ming Dong laughed. In his eyes, a Heaven Saint Master wasn’t so sort of unreachable entity he could not chase up to.
“Captain of the Fla rcenaries, co on out at once.” Don’t think that hiding away in the city like a tortoise will help you.” This ti, another voice had exploded out from the skies with a reverberating echo.
The loud voice had angered Ming Dong, “Who the fuck is that to be so aggressive-sounding?”
A cold smile appeared on Jian Chen’s own face. “Stay here, I’ll go out to greet them myself!” As soon as he spoke, a single hole had suddenly appeared on the top of the roof, revealing the bright azure skies beyond it. Not even a second later, Jian Chen had already disappeared from his bed into the skies.
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