Chapter 1438 - 679: New Recruit Ceremony (Part 2)

Chapter 1438: Chapter 679: New Recruit Ceremony (Part 2)

"What are you afraid of? I am here to protect you, and besides, aren’t you the Tang Clan’s Grand Elder, a Divinity Transformation Grandmother? Even the Divine Sect has to give some respect to your local influence, right?"

"What kind of Grandmother... These days even the frogs in the mountains can transform into gods, so what’s the big deal? They don’t provoke my Tang Clan merely because they fear my Poison Technique, which is hard to remove. It’s not really worth it for them to lose many masters just to deal with me. But now that I’ve wandered onto their territory, how can they sit back and do nothing... Look, here they come."

Tang Xian’er’s colorful, chirping disguise naturally couldn’t hide her figure. She had barely stopped at the edge of the sky when she saw three Divine Lights soar up from the city, coming together to meet her, revealing a Taoist, a Mage, and a Warrior who paid their respects to her,

"Ah, it’s the esteemed presence of Grandma Tang. May I ask what brings you here?"

These three were all cultivators of the Divinity Transformation Realm, with different skin tones and attire, and each practiced distinctly different Dao Qi Techniques. The Warrior was clearly using the Astral Fist, the Taoist seemed to be a Mystic Sect Qi Refiner, and the Mage appeared to be a Mixed Cultivator from Kunlun Mountain. But Tie Dan, accustomed to seeing through such appearances, quickly realized that this was not actually three individuals, but rather one person’s three avatars.

Indeed, they were all Blood Puppets refined using the Blood God’s Son.

It’s no wonder Tang Xian’er was reluctant to approach this place; no matter how hard you work, crossing tribulations and refining countless transformations and divine powers, if you can’t withstand a pounce from the Blood God’s Son, you’ll be turned into a puppet of the Divine Sect’s Divine Split, used as a wedding dress for others.

Tang Xian’er had already skillfully switched to a familiar disguise for roaming the Jianghu, putting on a toad-skin mask, using the Bone Locking Skill to hide the Long-legged Snake Demon, disguising herself as a hunched old hag with a face full of pus, cackling and spewing poisonous smoke,

"Cackle, cackle, this old woman was actually going to Kunlun to gather herbs, but if I could trade directly, it would save some trouble. I just came by on a whim, and it seems I’ve disturbed the esteemed altar master!"

The leading Taoist swung his horsetail whisk, a blood glow flashed in his eyes, and he stroked his beard with a smile,

"Hahaha, is that so? Our Divine Sect naturally welcomes Grandma’s esteemed presence!

Come, come, please have a seat at my Qingjing Temple. You may choose anything from our Daoist Collection!"

Tang Xian’er stared at him, smiling outwardly but not inwardly,

"The altar master is too polite. This old woman will just stroll around the market; I wouldn’t dare covet the treasures of your noble sect."

The altar master shook his head and said,

"Grandma, there’s no need to decline. The Tang Clan is one of the few major sects in Ba County. Who in Chuanzhong doesn’t know of your abilities, Grandma Tang?

Your esteemed presence here is a rare occasion, and if I don’t fulfill the host’s duty, wouldn’t it be neglecting the way of hospitality?

Since there’s an opportunity today, how about I host a banquet to honor you?"

Tie Dan transmitted his thoughts,

"You keep talking to him, and I’ll sneak away when no one’s watching."

So Tang Xian’er cackled,

"Alright, since the altar master is so kind, it would be ungrateful of this old woman to refuse."

"Haha, don’t mention it. As neighbors, we should frequently visit each other and watch over one another."

Being escorted by these three from the Divine Sect, and with Tang Clan disciples making a living under their jurisdiction, naturally, Tang Xian’er couldn’t refuse and followed them to the temple for a feast.

Meanwhile, Tie Dan took the opportunity, letting his Primordial Spirit drift around, surveying the scene in this city, and examining the Divine Sect’s territory.

Now is the era of the Divine Sect’s great rise. The Divine Sect had long coveted Kunzhou, and after five hundred years of development, Kunzhou is basically under the Divine Sect’s control. The officials in Kun Country’s main halls have long become puppets devoid of substance, and towns like this one, serving as a strategic pass to Kunlun, are managed as directly governed territories of the Divine Sect.

At a glance, the whole town’s style is entirely different from the Immortal Palace, lacking structures like city walls, fortresses, and palaces. Instead, it is an open-type town, mostly divided by the layout of Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind, but it’s also evident that the streets are clearly laid out and well-planned, depicting a Great Array Diagram from a high view.

Clearly, each Divine Sect city serves as a foundational altar for the Ten Extremes Formation, its core housing the Divine Sect’s sub-altar and main hall. It’s not just for paying tribute to the Divine Lord but also accumulates a large number of Heavenly and Earthly Treasures, like a man-made treasure vault. If ever invaded by external enemies, the sub-altar can always become the Array Eye suppressing the Ten Extremes Formation. With a city’s layout activating the formation, defending it only requires one altar master in residence. Surrounded by the array, without hundreds of experts attacking, it would be nearly impossible to capture, making city defenses and garrisoned troops unnecessary.

Moreover, crucial hubs like the Kunlun Mountain Road don’t just have passing merchants, loose cultivators, and travelers, but the entire city consists of Divine Sect members and their family members. At a glance, there are tens of thousands of them, including many Divine Sect cultivators with Golden Core and Nascent Souls.

The well-known Protective Divine Army of the Divine Sect also garrisons here, with no less than three thousand elite warriors in armor. Though only at the Nascent Soul Realm, they all possess the Martial God Dominating Body, having been tempered a hundred times on the battlefield, each one fierce and intimidating. Furthermore, those armors they wear are all-terrain assault-type heavy exoskeleton mechas. Even if Tie Dan himself came, it might take quite a while to deal with so many cans...

Actually, Tie Dan is not very familiar with the details of the Divine Sect. Though he did learn the Blood Talisman Scripture thoroughly, mastering its three great moves and the Ten Extremes Formation, he studied the version annotated by Lingxu, which only included cultivation techniques and enemy-breaking methods. The sect’s doctrine, rules, organizational patterns, and daily operations remain quite unclear to him.