147 Something Good After a Slaughter
"Master..." the others was still worried about Zhang Wu Ji and his sudden return. Because Zhang Wu Ji can be said to be the core of the Seven Star Master Hall, his return without notice only means one fact.
He's been expelled from the Seven Heaven Sect!
But none dares to voice this issue out openly. Tang Yuan directed his master back to his Hall Master Accommodation, while the others returned to their duties or took their recording book and went to the Hall Master's Meeting Hall.
Very quickly, thirty members including his own attendants and masters are inside the Meeting Hall. Once again, everyone greets Zhang Wu Ji with proper ceremonial practice.
"Tang Yuan (and other attendants), Elders, Department Heads, pay respect to Hall Master Zhang." everyone bowed.
"Rise and have a seat." Zhang Wu Ji replied. At the same time, his strength is exposed to those a tier or two above him.
"Congratulation to Hall Master's improvement in cultivation. It will be very motivational to the younger generations when they look at how fast is Hall Master's speed in cultivation." one of the Department Head brushes Zhang Wu Ji's shoes to obtain a better favor.
"Put the pointless talk aside. Report to me, what happened recently? Why were the Crystalline River County and Jie's County attacking the Seven Star County?" Zhang Wu Ji roughly knows the reason for the attack, but he still asks for better clarification.
"Reporting to the Hall Master. The Upper South Merchant Corporation and Jie's Clan said that the existence of 2nd-Grade Mineral Ores and products are not something Seven Star Master Hall can exploits alone."
"Plus, the delegates from Herb Valley County come and test the quality of our soils, and said that we should consider allowing them to rears some Medicinal Plants here. As the payment, they offered 10% from their total profit after excluding the cost and taxes."
"This battle lasted for 29 days, and after tonight, it's exactly a month. Hopefully Hall Master can help in solving this matter." altogether, three Department Heads come forward to report.
"Further reports?" Zhang Wu Ji asked.
"Hall Master, we identify a few weapons from those still intact and discover that Willow Timber County is the one supplying them with weapons. Subordinate will not go further on accusing them to be involved in this matter, but suspicion is there."
"Hall Master, other than this few reports, I have something else to add." after the last Department Head reported, another Department Head comes forward.
"Go ahead." Zhang Wu Ji approved his request to speak.
"Subordinate suspect that Snow Maiden County is involved in this fight." the Department Head reported.
"Impossible!" Beiping Ruolan said. As the Hall Master's Master Mother, she does have a right to involve herself in their discussion.
"Master Mother, do you have anything to add?" Zhang Wu Ji moved his palm to Beiping Ruolan's direction with his palm facing upwards. This is a gesture of asking the opposite side to speaks.
"Li Ling Fei, Feng Bai Wan. I know both of them. They're the Patriarch and Assistant Patriarch of the Snow Mountain Maiden Sect. Although they despise male, they aren't the kind of people to take part in a fight."
"There must be something wrong here, maybe the enemies are trying to disturb the peace between Seven Star Master Hall and Snow Mountain Maiden Sect." Beiping Ruolan said.
The moment she's finished with her words, the Department Head took a Jade Token out with words engraved.
[Snow Executive Ordering Token
Issued by: Li Ling Fei
Patriarch of Snow Mountain Maiden Sect]
"Impossible! This will not happen!" Beiping Ruolan's heart shatters the moment she saw that Jade Token.
"This is not the truth. Child... You mustn't place the Snow Mountain Maiden Sect as an enemy. Inspect this, please... On behalf of your Master Mother..." tears came off from Beiping Ruolan's saddened eyes.
"Master Mother, Wu Ji will not spoil the relationship between Seven Star County and Snow Maiden County. Leave this matter to Wu Ji." Zhang Wu Ji calms his Master Mother and turns his attention back to his subordinates.
"The matter with Snow Maiden County will be put aside. Never harm any of them so we can inspect the cause of this misunderstanding. As for the Upper South Merchant Corporation and Jie's Clan, I will handle them myself." Zhang Wu Ji said.
"Hall Master, you can leave the fighting to us! We can..." the Department Heads tried to stop him from going into battle, but Zhang Wu Ji turned to them fiercely in an intense demeanor.
"Are all of you underestimating me?" Zhang Wu Ji asked.
"No! Hall Master! Subordinates don't dare!" all of them kneeled with their forehead touching the floor.
Zhang Wu Ji did not bother to continue his words, but with a wave of both hands, Zhang Wu Ji summoned over two hundred Silver Carapace Bees, the Obsidian Serpent Warriors, the Scarlet Berserker Crows, and the Jadehorn Fire Bulls.
"Open the way for me," he said.
With such order, the tamed beast under his command rushes out to join the fight, while Zhang Wu Ji withdraws a Qiyue Flying Sword for his own departure.
Under the gaze of all Department Heads, Zhang Wu Ji went out and headed to the right side instead of left, where all of the Tamed Beast went. His action stunned everyone else except his seven attendants.
"Big Brother Tang Yuan, go bring master back." Li Jing whispered. Only the seven of them understands the ugly truth about their master's action.
He did not go to the right with a motive in his mind. Zhang Wu Ji is simply lost his direction the moment he left the Meeting Hall.
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About five hours later, a group of Wild Beasts and four Strong Beasts joins their battle. As there's no restriction between Beast and Human's fight, they're given the absolute freedom to fought to their heart content.
But for the Upper South Merchant Corporation and Jie's Clan alliance, this is a piece of bad news. The backup from the beast stops them from focusing their attack at any of the opposing weak points.
Plus, their equipment is not focused on Beast Targets but Human Targets. This sudden change of flow means they have to abandon their current mission and took the defensive measure.
Still, it was a battle of speed.
The backup from Seven Star Master Hall has taken the aggressive stance to build their momentum and catch their opponent's delays in preparation, while the Alliance decides on Defensive Stance.
Unfortunately, the preparation time for a group of human, especially when they're forced to shift from Offence to Defence, take too much time. The higher command needs at least seven breaths to receives his message, and the same for his reply.
Such a weakness becomes the reason for their fall when the Flying Silver Carapace Bees took the first attack. Alliance Members that react slowly was forced to swallow their own blood that tries to gushes out from their throat.
When the Silver Carapace Bees attacked, it wraps the six legs tight to the body to reduce the air resistance. This way, the Silver Carapace Bee turned into a flying dart, although their size is about a poultry duck.
"Defence Measure, Defence Measure!" the members of the attacking forces shouts, but like the others, the flying darts formed by the Silver Carapace Bees struck the members and took their time to land themselves a kill count.
When the Alliance Members finally get on track and prepared to counterattack, two Obsidian Serpent Warriors appeared to provide protection. The two black crystal-like serpents stand up like a King Cobra, only three meters longer, stares at the human before them.
"MOOO!" two Jadehorn Fire Bulls charged into their opponents, causing disturbance to the Alliance Members. When they got distracted, the two serpents made their move and attacked.
It was a slaughter. Cries came from three different directions, with the Commanding Officer chosen by the Alliance standing just behind the three battalions.
"Captain, we'll have to retreat now! The scouts caught sight of two red birds, I'm afraid that..." a soldier came to report, but before he finishes, two cries come from above them.
"Ah! Ah!" the two Scarlet Berserker Crows hovers just above their Command Tent but not taking any action.
"Fire the arrows and kill them!" the Captain ordered. But the moment the took action, the Scarlet Berserker Crows followed suit. The flapping of their wings caused red liquid drops to fall.
Nobody feels the changes at the beginning. But when it took effect, the eyes of the Alliance Members turned blood red. They started to grit their teeth, and the sword was swung without hesitation.
Soon, the Command Camp turned into a bloodbath. All the Alliance Member infected by the red liquid turned ferocious and acted worst than an animal. They bloodthirsty, savage, and worst of all, turned into a cannibal that enjoy eating fellows that weren't infected.
In half a day, the Seven Star County turned their difficult situation into a victory, with 80% of their opponents either dead or going to die soon. Those remaining members from the Alliance that successfully run away is either the supply members or new recruits.
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"Where the hell is the Battlefield? How come I went to Wen Qing City instead of Wen Yang City?" Zhang Wu Ji stares at the Name Plaque hang on top of the Southern Entrance.
"Master!" Tang Yuan finally catch up with him, after chasing the former for about half a day worth of journey.
"Why are you here?" Zhang Wu Ji asked.
"I'm here to bring master to the battlefield... You're lost, right?" Tang Yuan explained the reason he's here. And his guess was correct. Zhang Wu Ji did follow the wrong direction and end up outside of Wen Qing City instead of Wen Yang City.
"I'm lucky to have you, Tang Yuan." Zhang Wu Ji said. He put aside his own Qiyue Flying Sword and steps onto the one belonged to Tang Yuan and depart from the Wen Qing City.
"Eh? I thought the guards say somebody look like Milord is outside of the Southern Gate?" the City Lord came out about six to seven minutes later, failed to grasp the chances to meet the person in charge of the Seven Star County.
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"Master Hall! Master Hall!"
"VICTORY!"
The members of their Seven Star Master Hall shouts to announce their victory against the alliance of Crystalline River County and Jie's County.
Of course, this doesn't mean that the Tamed Beast under Zhang Wu Ji will naturally follow the order of the members of the Hall. With Obsidian Serpent Warriors acting as the storage case of the treasures, the Tamed Beast collected those items worthy of their eyes before leaving the battlefield.
When Zhang Wu Ji finally reaches the battlefield, he was told that the group of the beast under his control left somewhat earlier before his arrival. Since they're his Tamed Beast, Zhang Wu Ji wasn't worried about them causing any trouble.
After taking a short rest, he followed the path and returned to the Seven Star Master Hall. With all of his beast already back to Master Hall waiting for his return, Zhang Wu Ji can feel relaxed.
Keeping all of them back to his System Realm, Zhang Wu Ji attends a Victory Banquet later, before he returned to his own Accommodation and rest. Before that, he received a piece of news from Li Jiang City.
"Father will arrive at the Master Hall tomorrow afternoon. We have to talk." the letter said.
"I guess its time for me to see my so-called father. I wonder what he has to say to me?" Zhang Wu Ji smiled and entered his System Realm, where this time, he was greeted with not only treasures from the recent war, the few seeds that were given by the Liu Family has finally matured!
Although not all of them carries a fruit at this moment, it was different for a tree known as Ling Wood Tree! This plant can grow fast as long he provided the plant with the required soil. The best part is because Zhan Yu is not a living male but a pile of cold metals put together, he contains no Yang Energy at all!