Chapter 236: Chapter 232: Aftermath (2)
"Oh? What kind of request? Let’s hear it."
Hu Qi raised an eyebrow.
He wasn’t a bloodthirsty person by nature. If it wasn’t necessary, he much preferred achieving his goals through gentler ans.
"Inheritance Secret Martial Arts are, after all, the unshared secrets of our Schools. We hope that after you obtain them, you can guarantee they will not be leaked!"
Wang Jing looked Hu Qi straight in the eye.
"Also, if you manage to deduce the subsequent path of cultivation, I hope to have the opportunity to study it as well!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lei Bao and ng Ke both nodded, indicating that Wang Jing had spoken for them as well.
"I can agree to the first request. As for the second..."
Hu Qi smiled.
"That will depend on your performance."
"Furthermore, the existence of Secret Martial Artists and the Black Blood Species can be made public, allowing every School to openly recruit Disciples..."
"Make the existence of Secret Martial Artists and the Black Blood Species public?"
The faces of the three paled slightly.
ng Ke was the first to speak up.
"We can’t do that! It will cause widespread panic. Moreover, if so people commit cris after becoming Secret Martial Artists, it could easily lead to a breakdown of order and social unrest..."
"Breakdown? Unrest? Such misplaced compassion!"
Hu Qi’s eyes were calm, but the corner of his mouth curled into a cold sneer.
"A catastrophe will soon be upon us, and the threat of the Black Blood Species still lurks in the shadows.
Rather than let things continue as they are, it’s better to just make it public and give ordinary people a chance. Flowers in a greenhouse are beautiful, but they are also more easily broken.
Besides, are the Disciples of your Secret Martial Arts Schools just freeloaders? If anyone dares to cause trouble, just kill them. That’s it. The matter is decided!"
Hearing this, the three of them had conflicted expressions, but they had no choice but to agree.
...
A few days passed in the blink of an eye.
Inside a certain room in the Holy Rain Sect, six figures sat facing each other.
There were n and won among them, and without exception, their eyes glead brightly and their auras were powerful.
All who were qualified to sit here were Direct Disciples of the Holy Rain Sect, as well as Qi Dao Grandmasters who had broken through the Qi Vein Divine Treasure.
"Second Senior Sister, is there any news of Master?"
From the side, Liang Si asked, his gaze fixed on a slender figure seated at the head of the room.
The gazes of the other four Direct Disciples also turned toward her.
The woman had an ordinary face and looked to be in her twenties. She was the Holy Rain Sect’s Second Senior Sister, Li Baiyi.
Her strength was not considered the greatest among this group of Qi Dao Grandmaster-level Direct Disciples.
However, it was rumored that she was a distant blood relative of Sect Leader Li Xianyu. It was only because of this connection that she was recomnded as the acting Sect Leader after Senior Brother Wu Yu’s death and their Master’s disappearance.
Noticing everyone’s gazes, Li Baiyi slowly shook her head, her expression extrely grim.
"I’ve used every thod I can think of to contact Master, but I’ve found nothing. Perhaps Master... she really has already..."
She didn’t finish her sentence, but everyone understood what she ant.
A few days ago, the Life Token that held a trace of Li Xianyu’s aura had shattered. The implication of this was self-evident.
The mont she learned this, Li Baiyi had sealed off the news.
Whether it was true or not, if the news were to leak, it would be extrely detrintal to the Holy Rain Sect.
After all, a School that had lost its guarding Refining God Venerable would no longer be qualified to be an Upper-tier School.
"Perhaps Master was just trapped in the Inner Earth World and is being isolated by so kind of power. There’s no need for everyone to be so pessimistic."
Liang Si’s eyes flickered as he spoke.
"You must rember that Master is a Refining God Venerable who broke through the Divine Barrier. How could she be killed so easily?"
Hearing this, the others’ expressions eased slightly.
Li Baiyi’s brow also relaxed. Seeing this, she was just about to say sothing when...
Suddenly, the sound of urgent footsteps ca from outside the door.
Imdiately after, a Disciple wearing the uniform of the Holy Rain Sect ran in.
Seeing the group, his face was full of anxiety as he dropped to his knees.
"Senior Brothers, Senior Sister, this is bad!"
Hearing this, Li Baiyi’s heart sank.
"What happened? Speak slowly, don’t rush!"
"It’s... It’s an internal announcent from Zhu Xi! It says the Sect Leader is dead! And that the Sect Leaders of the Sword Pavilion and the Earth God Hall have all fallen as well."
"What?!"
The expressions of the six people present changed drastically.
Li Baiyi’s figure, as if using Shrinking Inches, appeared directly in front of the Disciple, her eyes fixed on him.
"Is what you’re saying true?"
The aura of a Qi Dao Grandmaster surged from her body, causing the surrounding Heaven and Earth Primordial Energy to fluctuate violently.
GULP!
The Disciple swallowed hard.
He was trembling all over.
"To... to Second Senior Sister, it’s all true. If you don’t... don’t believe , you can check for yourself."
Hearing this, the others snapped out of their shock and, without a mont’s hesitation, took out their phones to log into the Zhu Xi website.
Li Baiyi did the sa.
To put it bluntly, Zhu Xi was an organization created by the Xia Federation to connect the otherwise independent Schools and facilitate information sharing.
As soon as they logged in, they saw that the Zhu Xi website’s normally conspicuous red hopage had now turned a bleak gray.
At the sa ti, a line of text was displayed on it.
[Grave! Sorrowful! The Sect Leaders of the Sword Pavilion, Earth God Hall, and Holy Rain Sect have tragically fallen...]
"Master... is really dead?"
Seeing this news, the color instantly drained from Li Baiyi’s face.
Although she had suspected it before, there had been no proof, so she had clung to a sliver of hope. But now that Zhu Xi had made it public, it was clearly not fake.
Zhu Xi itself was supervised by the Speakers of the Xia Federation, so its authority went without saying.
...
The Holy Rain Sect wasn’t the only one to learn of this news.
The Disciples of the Sword Pavilion and the Earth God Hall were also in a state of panic.
The news was public on Zhu Xi.
Nearly every Secret Martial Artist could see it, and it imdiately sent an earthquake through their circles.
The Sect Leaders of the Sword Pavilion, Earth God Hall, and Holy Rain Sect—three great Upper-tier Schools—and three Venerables whose power had broken through to Refining God, had all fallen.
This news left countless Secret Martial Artists utterly horrified.
They all suspected that the Zhu Xi website had been hacked, or that there had been so kind of mistake.
One had to understand, these were Refining God Venerables. In the entire Xia Federation—no, on all of Earth Star, including the one who had just advanced in the Shexin Sect—there were only eight in total.
How could three of them have died at once?
However, after verification from multiple sources, they had no choice but to believe it.
As for the reason, the explanation given was that the three Refining God Venerables had been besieged by Food Masters while traveling to the Inner Earth World.
However, no explanation was given as to why they had gone to the Inner Earth World in the first place.
As ti went on, the fall of the three Refining God experts caused these three great Upper-tier Schools to decline.
After all, only a School with a Refining God Venerable guarding it could be called an Upper-tier School.
Fortunately, the Sword Pavilion and the Holy Rain Sect had the deep foundations of an Upper-tier School.
Even in decline, they still had several Qi Dao Grandmasters in their ranks, and their strength was considered top-tier among the Middle-tier Schools.
After a period of struggle within the Holy Rain Sect, Liang Si defeated Li Baiyi and beca the new Sect Leader of the Holy Rain Sect.
The sa happened at the Sword Pavilion; a new leader was quickly chosen, temporarily stabilizing the situation within the School without causing too great of a disruption.
The Earth God Hall, by contrast, was in a much more miserable state.
Because of Thick Spider, the developnt of the Earth God Hall had not been a priority.
Its number of mbers and overall size were only on par with an ordinary Middle-tier School.
When Thick Spider died, his Puppets—the Elders and Direct Disciples—naturally followed suit and died on the spot.
This sudden turn of events nearly scared the remaining Disciples of the Earth God Hall to death.
After coming to their senses, they discovered that their highest combat power was rely a single Martial Artist at the Qi Blood Soul Level.
Coupled with the loss of their Inheritance Secret Martial Arts, this caused them to plumt directly from an Upper-tier School to a Lower-tier School, becoming even worse off than an ordinary Lower-tier School.
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