Chapter 389 - 386: Clan Elder

Chapter 389: Chapter 386: Clan Elder

Inside Barbaric City.

A massive curtain of light enveloped the sky above, sealing all entrances in the area.

Meanwhile,

the entire city had been placed under lockdown.

Law Enforcement Teams, composed of Cultivators in the Qi Introduction Realm Late Stage, patrolled the streets on high alert.

Occasionally,

streaks of light would flash across the sky.

Those were experts of the Soul Emergence Realm.

At that moment,

the Third Elder of the Shen Family, who had been in secluded cultivation in his cave residence at the family’s garrison, was startled awake.

He went outside

and floated in the air above the garrison.

"Hey, Fellow Daoist Zheng, wait! What’s going on? Don’t tell me the enemy is attacking?"

The Shen Family’s Third Elder spotted a familiar figure flying by

and hurriedly gave chase, calling out to him.

A city-wide alert of this scale

was a rare sight, even in all the years since Barbaric City’s founding!

Every time such a massive mobilization occurred, it meant something major had happened!

’Could we have been defeated on the Broken Soul Mountain battlefield?’

The Shen Family’s Third Elder worried to himself.

"Something huge has happened!"

"Someone infiltrated Barbaric City and tried to assassinate that person’s disciple! They almost succeeded!"

"Someone spotted the culprit, and now they’re in pursuit!"

Fellow Daoist Zheng said, his voice rushed.

He looked at the Shen Family’s Third Elder,

then suddenly paused, asking in surprise,

"Um, Fellow Daoist Shen, you really don’t know about this?"

"The one who exposed the spy was that monstrous talent of your Shen Family!"

"Well... er, as you know, Fellow Daoist Zheng, I’ve been in seclusion recently. I’m not aware of what’s been happening outside."

The Shen Family’s Third Elder opened his mouth, his words faltering for a moment.

But fortunately,

he managed to deliver the excuse he had prepared long ago.

’There’s nothing I can do,’

’Should I tell him’

’that I’m only in seclusion because I wanted to avoid him? That I hid in my cave residence the moment I heard he was coming?’

’That’s why in all the days since that little brat arrived, the Shen Family hasn’t even contacted him.’

"So what exactly happened?"

The Shen Family’s Third Elder had no intention of dwelling on the topic and quickly changed the subject.

But just thinking of that monstrously talented junior

made his expression turn a little unnatural.

It was for no other reason

than his deep involvement with the Grand Dame...

"Oh, this is basically what happened..."

Fellow Daoist Zheng didn’t press the issue and simply recounted everything he knew.

Not long after Shen Changchuan had left in pursuit of the enemy,

the tremendous commotion from his attack had already attracted the attention of the City Lord’s Mansion.

Barbaric City was jointly built by several major powers of the Tian Nan Domain, all of which possessed Divine Travel Realm experts.

Therefore, the position of City Lord was decided by these powers and rotated among them.

The current City Lord

was none other than the Grand Elder of the Ancient Sword Sect.

He was the same Soul Emergence Eighth Layer Realm expert that Wu Tianhao had mentioned earlier—the one who had examined him after his body started having problems.

Seeing trouble arise in the direction of Wu Tianhao’s courtyard,

the Grand Elder of the Ancient Sword Sect, shouldering the heavy responsibility of City Lord, rushed over immediately.

He then learned the whole story from Wu Tianhao.

And that was how he discovered

that a spy had actually infiltrated Barbaric City and was even secretly plotting to harm the disciple of Master Wandering Dragon, the number one expert of the Tian Nan Domain!

Without much hesitation,

he immediately ordered a city-wide alert and a strict lockdown, vowing to catch the enemy spy!

By now,

most of the Soul Emergence Realm Cultivators in the city had learned of the matter.

"Something like this really happened? Those people from the Demon Dao are far too audacious!"

The Shen Family’s Third Elder was dumbfounded.

Daring to sneak into the enemy’s main base to carry out an assassination... wasn’t that Demon Dao spy afraid of death?

"Who knows? This whole thing..."

Just as Fellow Daoist Zheng was about to say more,

suddenly,

BOOM!!!

Outside Barbaric City,

a massive tremor suddenly erupted.

Accompanied by a colossal roar, the ground itself began to shake slightly!

"Hm? What’s that?"

Fellow Daoist Zheng and the Shen Family’s Third Elder exchanged a look. He froze for a second.

’They made it outside the city?’

’Whatever, it doesn’t matter.’

’There’s no harm in going to get a piece of the credit!’

Without further hesitation, Fellow Daoist Zheng turned into a streak of light and shot off toward the source of the commotion outside the city.

At that moment,

the Shen Family’s Third Elder stood frozen in place.

In the sky all around him, more streaks of light were igniting and flying toward the source of the disturbance outside the city.

’Might as well...’

’I should go take a look, too.’

’Everyone else is going. If I’m the only one who doesn’t, it’ll be too conspicuous. Better to follow along and avoid trouble.’

For Soul Emergence Realm Cultivators, a distance of several miles was but a moment’s travel.

When he arrived at the location,

others were already there.

The Shen Family’s Third Elder stared at the scene before him, his pupils contracting.

In the distance,

the original lakes and rivers had completely vanished,

replaced by a massive crater nearly a thousand meters wide that had been gouged out of the earth!

And there, the monstrously talented junior from the Shen Family he so dreaded seeing,

was currently holding a scrawny figure in his hand

like a dead dog.

He rose slowly from the crater into the sky, speaking with the fellow Soul Emergence Realm experts who had arrived before him.

’How did he get so strong so fast?!’

’How can he be this powerful?!’

Hiding behind the crowd, the Shen Family’s Third Elder gasped, his pupils trembling in shock.

Judging from the residual aura at the scene,

the scrawny figure held in Shen Changchuan’s hand was a genuine Soul Emergence Sixth Layer expert!

In contrast,

Shen Changchuan was merely at the Soul Emergence Fourth Layer!

And from the moment the city-wide alert began

to now,

how much time had actually passed?

And in that time, a Soul Emergence Sixth Layer expert had been taken down by a mere Soul Emergence Fourth Layer cultivator?!

In just a few short years,

the young man had already grown to such a terrifying extent!!!

"This is trouble..."

The Shen Family’s Third Elder sighed in his heart, discreetly retreating behind the crowd,

making himself as inconspicuous as possible.

He was starting to feel regret.

Back then,

because the Grand Dame had promised him,

that his son could go to the Central State to study, and that she would use her connections to look after him a little,

he had thought about how prosperous the Central State Immortal Cultivation World was, and how his son could learn more there,

and with the prospect of a much brighter future, he had thrown his lot in with the Grand Dame’s faction.

But who could have known

that things would end up developing to this point?!

First it was Shen Chong, and now Shen Changchuan.

It seemed that any Shen Family junior who became the Grand Dame’s mortal enemy was destined to become a peerless, monstrous talent...

The Shen Family’s Third Elder was speechless.

It was hard.

It was just too damn hard!

The Shen Family’s Third Elder still remembered the battle from a few years ago when Shen Chong had wreaked havoc in Tian Nan City.

He had lent a hand back then, too.

But at the time, he had been able to sense that Shen Chong’s power wasn’t his own, but the result of some external interference.

But this Shen Changchuan before him,

his realm and strength were one hundred percent his own, achieved through his own cultivation!

In less than ten short years,

he had gone from the lowly Qi Introduction Realm to this stage.

It was too terrifying!

’In the future,

what should I do?’

For a time,

the Third Elder of the Shen Family, a man normally held in high esteem by outsiders, found his heart sinking into a pit of despair.