Unfathomable Senior Chapter 60

Chapter 60

The next day the news was spreading through the city, making the citizens quite unruly. This was understandable because if this expedition ended badly like last ti, there would probably be a new attempt on the city. No one thought that there would be anyone rescuing them again if that happened. So people were thinking about abandoning the clan and city in general, but then they also heard that other clans in the area were in similar situations. No one was really safe from the sect overlords and it was hard to abandon an established life to start anew.

Matt was in his cultivation chamber, trying to raise his power level. But his gains had slowed down the further he progressed. The storm clouds were coming down less, the spiritual energy in the area was thining out. He was thinking about his plan, would it even work? He left and went over to Zhang Jin, he wanted to know if he knew anything about the last expedition.

After the two greeted each other then his grandpa explained everything in detail. The old Patriarch left with two other core formation elders, this happened about three months ago. They didn’t have many details on what happened inside as the communication jades didn’t work. The spirit tablets started breaking after about a month, so the people inside that dungeon didn’t just get wiped out. They remained for quite so ti, fighting for their lives. It took another month for everyone’s tablets to break, maybe it was so kind of prolonged attack or so kind of maze?

The thing Zhang Dong was sure of was that he needed to get as many points as he could, but he wasn’t about to go on a killing spree. That’s why he told Kuo to get him that fugitive list. He wanted to hunt so monsters and get spirit stones as rewards to boot, he needed a lot of resources. Did everyone have the best available weapon for their disposition? Could he upgrade their cultivation thod? This was a team event, so he needed to arm his n and won to the teeth and he knew that the previous expedition drained the clan’s coffers dry.

“I have brought you what you asked for, Patriarch.”

Matt nodded and took the jade slip, it had information about various baddies and monsters around the whole empire. He scanned it for core formation enemies, would be nice if he could grab a nascent soul beast, but a monster like that would probably one-shot him.

RavagerDemonic cultivator, last seen near the five dread peaks by the city of Frostriver. Cultivation base in the later core formation stage. He has killed hundreds, maybe thousands of people in pursuit of power. Reward 10,000 low grade Spirit Stones.Lesser Calamity DragonEvil Beast residing in the volcanic areas of the inferno mountain range, regularly seen raiding nearby cities and villages causing havoc on the populace. Cultivation base in the late core formation stage Reward 12,000 low grade Spirit StonesBlood Demon Cult An evil group of renegade cultivators, they act in the shadows and are hard to track. People have reported children getting abducted in the night. Reward 8,000 spirit stones, cultivation base unknown, possibly in core formation, not confird.

He mostly looked for opponents in the late stage of core formation, after fighting the fire lord and upgrading his skill he thought that he could take those on. He noted down the cult as well, as the city that they were doing their evil deeds was between the other two places he was going to go. He could head there after taking care of one of the assignnts. After he finished up with those, he would decide if he could do more before returning to the clan.

He thought that maybe he could stay here and relax for longer, but now his life was at stake. There was always an option to leave and hide, but he was the Zhang Clan Patriarch. Everyone probably knew him by now, he would probably be a wanted one like that Ravager guy on the run. But there was also an option of a disguising skill, though if he did that the people from this clan would be dead at. He didn’t want to have that on his conscience.

*I really need so sword skills, I can’t actually do any fancy attacks with this sword of mine besides swinging it around.*

Matt knew that there were many flashy sword styles, that if mastered let the user unleash powerful attacks. He would like to get a technique with a lot of potential best if he could use it from the get-go and be able to raise its prowess later. He had an eye on one particular sword art, that ca under the umbrella of lightning elents so he got a discount. It wasn’t an upgradable skill or anything, it was divided into tos though if he bought the Earth grade one, he would get the previous ones for the lower ones.

The manuals were called Thunder God Sword Scripture and had various sword attacks and stances that went well with his empowered lightning Qi cultivation thod. He wanted to grab the lower-level ones, but if he bought them one by one he would just lose points. For now, he decided to spend the rest of his points on Qi recovery pills and healing pills, as well as so detoxification pills against poison attacks. He knew well how those evil cultivators liked to poison everyone, though his golden body had quite the high resistance to poison attacks.

After checking out his map and marking down the first three waypoints, he could see that the closest area was the volcanic one. Also, this one actually pointed out the whereabouts of his target, the other ones were kind of vague. Maybe after he got the points from the dragon he could find so kind of tracking skill. He wasn’t sure if he would be such a good detective and find that cult or that evil cultivator. Those guys seed like the types that were good at hiding.

The plan was simple, go out, slay so baddies, get points, upgrade the cultivation thods of the clan mbers after they are done with their small tournant arc. Who knew, maybe so kind of protagonist type would appear during the tournant that he could focus his resources on. There probably had to be a reason why that secret ground required lower-level cultivators, so probably everyone was important and he couldn’t just power through it with his own strength.

*Guess I’ll be off to saving so damsels in distress, maybe that dragon will be hiding a cute princess sowhere.*

Matt thought to himself jokingly while making sure that he had everything he needed in his spatial ring. He took the excessive pills that he got from the previous battles with him, you never know, low grade pills could co in handy as well, he could always sell them later for more spirit stones.

While he was heading out, his grandpa Zhang Jin was waiting. He looked at him with concern in his gaze, fidgeting slightly before speaking out.

“Don… Patriarch, are you sure you want to leave the clan at this mont, what if sothing happens to you?”

He was inford about what Zhang Dong was doing, he wasn’t sure what hunting so criminal and evil beasts would accomplish in the spawn of 3 months. The clan sure could use more spirit stones for weapons and gear, that was true. He was slightly concerned that the new Patriarch could die during his travels, they had no dao protectors to accompany him as he was the strongest mber in the clan, they would only slow him down.

“Don’t worry gramps, I’ll be back. This is kind of how I get stronger… I might even have a breakthrough in these three months. I already said it to Ya and Kuo, but try to gather so crafting resources I might be able to forge so weapons for the winning clan mbers afterwards.”

He replied in a calm voice, that tranquil mind technique working out quite nicely as previously he would have probably been stuttering all over the place.

Zhang Jin raised his hand as if he wanted to say sothing, but then instead nodded and gave his grandson a pat on the back and so words of reassurance before sending him off.

“Don’t worry, I’ll protect the clan while you are away.”

Zhang Dong smiled slightly while just nodding back, then he jumped onto his flying sword that started glowing as he inserted his spiritual essence into it. With a thunderous sound, he vanished from the spot and you could hear a resounding sonic boom. So other clan elders and mbers were also there. They had a myriad of feelings about the whole situation, so thought that this young cultivator would probably abandon them. So were hopeful that their new Patriarch would deliver another miracle and get them out of this situation. So were just confused, others were mad or fearful. Everyone dispersed after Zhang Jin told them to move their asses in motion and get to work while squinting.

The Patriarch had a communication jade slip with him this ti around, the defensive formation was repaired so he would be able to co back if sothing went wrong. They had to follow orders, so they got busy with the tournant plans. Zhang Dong didn’t ntion how exactly the tournant was supposed to function, but he did say that he didn’t want people to just get eliminated if they lost a fight. Everyone was supposed to have multiple chances to get their rank up, one fight wasn’t enough to decide a good or bad fighter. Also, the fighter’s stamina was important, so the combatants had to fight people in succession. Weapons were allowed, but they had to be of the sa grade as the opponents.

The clan had a designated sparring area just for that, with build-in formations that kept people from getting killed or fatally injured. The people got to work while Zhang Dong flew through the air, the increase in cultivation making him fly twice as fast as before. If soone went into his patriarch chamber they would notice that the grand bed was missing, Matt sure as hell didn’t want to sleep on that straw mattress that he got from that Tribe. The new bed barely fit into the upgraded crafting abode, he really needed to get sothing he could comfortable spend his ti in…