Armipotent

Chapter 2161: Choosing The Right Technique

Zhong Tian Yun saw the gigantic golden swords destroy several buildings and facilities of the Murim Alliance. That angered her, not because the building was in ruins or his facilities were destroyed, but because of the people. Tang Shaoyang killed his people even after they agreed to cooperate. That was what angered him.

His figure blurred, crashing down into the meeting room. His internal energy flared up as he radiated killing intent with a sword in his right hand. He could no longer tolerate Tang Shaoyang’s behavior, even if Tang Shaoyang was needed for them to win the Heaven Founder.

He still had not figured out how to explain the death of the four family heads to the other major factions. Tang Shaoyang now made a bigger mess. He would lose the favor of his subordinate if he let this be.

”You’d better have a good explanation, or this would not end until one of us dies!”

”It’s necessary to make the rumor even more convincing. How are they going to believe the rumor if the Murim Alliance is still intact?”

”You killed my people just to make the rumor more convincing!?”

Tang Shaoyang raised his hand, shaking his head, ”You do truly love to make assumptions, Alliance Leader Zhong. I don’t kill a single person.”

He was not lying that he didn’t kill anyone with his sword. He avoided killing a single person with his Chaos Eyes. The sword landed in the empty area and destroyed the building. The Heaven Founder would not believe the rumor if the Murim Alliance was still intact.

Zhong Tian Yun furrowed his brow, ”Old Zhou!”

The old man appeared behind the Alliance Leader, bowing his head, waiting for the order.

”Check the casualties!”

”I have sent the Warden to check out the situation. They should return shortly.”

Old Zhou had sent the Warden to check what happened right after the sword landed on the Murim Alliance. He thought it was the Heaven Founder who attacked them. He didn’t expect Tang Shaoyang to be the one behind that attack.

Five people in black appeared behind Old Zhou and whispered something to his ear. Old Zhou waved his hand at them, dismissing them.

”There’s no casualty, My Lord. No one is harmed, but the attack causes heavy damage to our training and alchemy facility.”

Old Zhou attempted to seek compensation for the damage that had been done. He didn’t say it outright, but his tone implied Tang Shaoyang must take responsibility for it.

Tang Shaoyang stood up from the chair, ”Have your people spread the rumors and what comes after is a waiting game.”

He thought it was about time to go back as he had achieved his goal. Although he did truly want to test himself against Alliance Leader Zhong. He wanted to have a sword fight against Zhong Tian Yun, but the Alliance Leader agreed to cooperate. There was no reason to fight anymore, and he didn’t want to initiate the attack for Yan Xueyi’s sake.

”Where are you going!? You promised me the Heaven Founder’s information!”

Zhong Tian Yun would not forget about the promise. Tang Shaoyang told him earlier to share some information about the Heaven Founder if he agreed to cooperate.

”Ah, right... I have two important pieces of information about them... or maybe three...”

Tang Shaoyang turned toward Alliance Leader Zhong, ”First information, the Heaven Founder sends their force to Xiyun. They want to attack the Bai Family, the Sikong Family, and the Duanmu Family. They are currently setting up their plan to attack them. They might be ready in a week or maybe less.”

The people from the Murim Alliance changed their expression when they heard the information. The Bai Family, the Duanmu Family, and the Sikong Family were the three candidates that were supposed to replace the Ouyang Family.

If not for Ximen, Situ, Jaegal, and Murong’s interference, the Bai Family or the Duanmu Family would have become one of the great eight families. Meanwhile, the Sikong Family was on the rise recently, rivaling the Bai Family and the Duanmu Family.

Those three families are based in the same province, Xiyun Province.

”Second information, another force is moving to Taiyuan Province. They are talking about attacking the Fist Stone Clan and Thunder Spear Clan. I am not sure if they already attacked those two clans or they were still in preparation. That’s for you to find out.”

”Third information... I am not sure if this is really important or not. It’s about the Supreme Being... The Heaven Founder’s leader. He visited a place called the Demonic Realm with that outsider. I don’t know what it means, but maybe you know something about that place more than I.”

Zhong Tian Yun’s eyes widened when the Demonic Realm was mentioned. The Demonic Realm was a continent to the south of the Sacred Realm. It was the most vile place in this world, where the demonic faction was based.

The demonic factions several times attempted to take the Sacred Realm, causing a big war between the Murim Alliance and the demonic faction each time. The war that killed hundreds of thousands, if not millions.

However, the demonic faction had been silent for more than three hundred years. That was the last time they had a war against the demonic faction. Back then, he managed to stop it before it became too big a war. He drove them back to the demonic realm.

There could only be one thing if the Heaven Founder’s leader visited that place. It was to use the demonic faction to fight against the Murim Alliance. This was truly the worst time to war against the demonic faction.

”Old Zhou! Send Sky Hall and Heavenly Fortress to Taiyuan!”

Out of the three pieces of information, the last one was the most dangerous. If the demonic faction and the Heaven Founder worked together. This would become much harder than he thought even if they had Tang Shaoyang to get rid of that outsider.

But that was something he needed to think about later; there was nothing he could do about it. He just needed to do something he could, saving the Fist Stone Clan and the Thunder Spear Clan as well as the three families in Xiyun.

”You can’t trust him, My Lord. What if he gives us false information so he kills you here? We can’t send our main force away while he is here!”

Old Zhou thought differently from the Alliance Leader. That was just natural for him to react this way after witnessing how the four families were killed before his eyes.

Tang Shaoyang let out a chuckle, but said nothing to the accused, not denying it, which made it worse.

”We can send a team to check out the situation in Taiyuan before we send the reinforcement!”

Zhong Tian Yun shook his head, ”No! We must send them before it’s too late. We can’t really afford to lose more people, especially when those fools were involved the demonic faction!”

”Then we will head to Xiyun with the Warden. We can regroup with the three families if you are so concerned about him.”

Old Zhou firmly believed that Tang Shaoyang could not be trusted, but he relented when he met with the Alliance Leader’s gaze. He bowed his head and left the room.

Tang Shaoyang pointed at his face before tearing off his skin mask. Since his identity had been found, he no longer needed the mask. ”You need to wear this skin mask if you plan to take action. Remember! The Alliance Leader is suffering a heavy injury right now!”

Zhong Tian Yun stared at Tang Shaoyang in surprise. He forgot that the man in front of him was the most wanted man in the Sacred Realm right now. He recalled the sketch that was spread out; it looked the same. Especially those eyes, the black left eye, and the crimson pupils.

”What’s wrong with your eye? Do you really use demonic cultivation?”

Tang Shaoyang waved his hand dismissively at Alliance Leader, ”I don’t think we are close enough for such a conversation.”

”I will leave you since you are going to be busy for some time. Let’s go.”

”Aren’t you going to follow me to Xiyun? How are you going to fight them if you are not around?” Zhong Tian Yun thought Tang Shaoyang would follow him to Xiyun since he became the bait.

”You don’t need to worry about it. I have my way. Just make sure to be a proper bait.”

Tang Shaoyang left the Murim Alliance afterward. Of course, he didn’t walk out openly from the Murim Alliance’s front door. He left secretly without anyone noticing them.

Once he returned to the Moon Pavilion, he headed straight to the Yang Clan estate. He asked for a training room because he wanted to focus on his cultivation.

After having a conversation with Bing Ruohan and Bing Lianxin, he got a better understanding of how the people in the Sacred Realm cultivate. This was an open secret, a shortcut to reach higher-realm quickly.

It was to receive an external help, an internal energy from a pill. It was something they created after the integration with the system, and it was called Boundless Pill. They called it a pill while in fact it was a condensed internal energy, and they turned it into a pill.

They used the Boundless Pill to accelerate their younger generation’s growth. The moment they found their younger generation had a solid foundation, they would give the younger generation the Boundless Pill to advance. Those extra, stronger, and purer internal energies helped the younger generation to open up their meridian.

Of course, cultivation techniques were also important. They needed a better, profound, and higher-grade technique to use that shortcut. If one didn’t have the stronger technique, they could forget advancing to a higher realm.

Tang Shaoyang didn’t have a Boundless Pill, but he had a massive amount of energy that he could use as a Boundless Pill. Next was the foundation.

The foundation that Bing Lianxin talked about was about the body. If the body was not strong enough to contain the internal energy after the advancement, they might suffer internal energy deviation.

The dantian might explode, meaning they would be crippled and could no longer cultivate for the rest of their life. The worst part was that the body would explode along with the dantian, killing them.

There was no need to question his foundation. His body was beyond strong with his ridiculous stats for the Foundation Establishment Realm. He had the internal energy and the foundation; what he needed next was the cultivation technique.

Tang Shaoyang sat in the middle of the training ground. Gianni and Mathias were standing not far from Tang Shaoyang. The two were curious about cultivation, wanting to watch Tang Shaoyang. They were considering dipping into cultivation, but still hesitated.

Avyn and Zara were also around, just to make sure nothing went wrong.

Tang Shaoyang was not worried about the technique since he had the Grandmaster Codex. The issue was that he didn’t know what kind of technique he should pick. He had too many choices, which made it harder to decide.