Chapter 1820: Chapter 1814: Let Me Take a Nap First

"Just how hated is this Divine Profound Hall? Why does everyone want to slam them into the ground and rub them back and forth?" Cang Meng’s explanation actually made Zhang Menglong a bit curious.

This sentence also made Cang Meng show a helpless smile. "It’s not just our Sunset Sect. In basically any of the other sixteen superpowers, you’ll hear the exact same thing."

"Are they really that excessive?" 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

"Excessive? They’re straight-up tyrannical!" Cang Meng said. "Among the eighteen super sects, the Divine Profound Hall’s inherited legacies are relatively the most numerous, the highest quality, and the most complete."

"That’s a matter of heritage. For our other sects, the number of founders is at most two or three people, but their Divine Profound Hall had five founders in total. So yeah, it’s hard for other superpowers to compare to them."

"I heard they often fight with other superpowers over resources?"

"If it were just fighting over resources, that’d be one thing," Cang Meng let out a cold laugh. "Everyone squares up, real blades, real spears, we’re not actually afraid of that. But their disciples are all insidious and cunning—there’s nothing they won’t do, their methods are downright vile."

"You should’ve heard the story about that senior brother, right?"

"Yeah, I heard Elder Qi mention it." Zhang Menglong nodded. "I heard the cause of that incident was also a conflict over resources between the Divine Profound Hall and our Sunset Sect."

"Under normal circumstances, those senior brothers and sisters could’ve held out for a few hours; waiting for reinforcements from our Sunset Sect wouldn’t have been a problem," Cang Meng said. "But those people from the Divine Profound Hall used extremely despicable means. They released a kind of deadly poison into the air. This poison throws a person’s Energy into chaos, and once you start fighting, there’s a high chance you’ll first be heavily injured by your own Energy backlash."

"That’s shameless." Zhang Menglong had originally thought they were just arrogant bullies, and hadn’t expected such underhanded tactics on top of that.

"You should know what happened afterward. Senior Brother Lei Poguan went alone to slaughter his way up into the Divine Profound Hall and beat them till their vitality was gravely damaged." Speaking of this, a proud expression appeared on Cang Meng’s face. "From then on, the Divine Profound Hall was like a frightened bird for twenty whole years."

"And now they’ve puffed themselves up again?"

"After a long period of development, they used all the resources they’d plundered before through various means to train a huge number of disciples. Little by little, they recovered to their former scale. Over all these years, they’ve gotten arrogant and overbearing again."

As he spoke, Cang Meng suddenly pulled open his robes. On his chest was a huge scar, as if his chest had once been pierced straight through by some blunt weapon.

"Last time, in one of our mining areas, we discovered a batch of heaven-and-earth spiritual items. By rights, that mine belongs to us, so anything found there should belong to us." As he said this, Cang Meng was gritting his teeth.

"But people from the Divine Profound Hall got wind of it. They insisted that heaven-and-earth treasures go to whoever has fate with them, then barged directly into our mining area to snatch those spiritual items."

"Their higher-ups don’t care when stuff like this happens? They just let their disciples run wild?"

"When the top beam is crooked, the lower beams are bound to be slanted. With the lower beams this warped, you think there’s no shadow of the top beam behind it?" Cang Meng shook his head. "Many of their Elders were promoted from that batch of disciples who survived after Senior Brother Lei finished killing their previous Elders. They already had all sorts of resentment toward our Sunset Sect to begin with."

"So a lot of this is actually done under those Elders’ orders?"

"If those Elders hadn’t given the word, I don’t think they’d dare. That kind of thing borders on deliberately stirring up friction between sects." Cang Meng finished putting his clothes back on. "We lost seven people in that battle. I almost became the eighth!"

"And in the end?"

"In the end, Elder Qi made his move—and killed seventy of them!"

"Serves them right!" In that instant, Zhang Menglong felt like he was reading some爽文—You kill one of mine, I kill ten of yours.

"Things blew up pretty big afterward, but the Divine Profound Hall was in the wrong to begin with, so they didn’t keep pushing it. Still, the relationship between our two powers worsened even further. Almost every time there’s friction now, at best people are gravely injured, at worst people die."

"Sounds like we still didn’t kill enough of them." Zhang Menglong shook his head. "If I run into this kind of thing in the future, for every one they kill, I’ll kill a hundred and one! If there aren’t enough to kill on the spot, I’ll charge straight into the Divine Profound Hall to kill them."

"Hahaha, I really look forward to that day. Remember to call me along when it comes."

"This Sunset Sect isn’t half bad." Zhang Menglong watched Cang Meng’s departing back. Whether or not it was his strength that had won Cang Meng over, at the very least he didn’t find the guy annoying. Overall, the whole Sunset Sect felt pretty harmonious.

"Come on, brothers, time for some welfare!" Zhang Menglong turned around and waved at all the intern disciples.

"Long live the Clan Leader!"

...

Cang Meng had left Zhang Menglong a total of one million contribution points. That was probably all the income he’d had during his term as student President. After distributing a hundred points per person, Zhang Menglong still had 180,000 left, which counted as quite a hefty fortune.

"Little ones, gather up. I’m taking you to the Sunset River!"

No one knew when Qi Congyun had arrived at the intern disciples’ living area, but under his lead everyone headed toward the core region of the Sunset Sect.

"Stick close to me along the way. If you get separated halfway, you bear the consequences. For the students in charge of order, if an intern disciple moves around within the outer court without a guide, that’s basically walking contribution points."

Qi Congyun’s words made everyone a lot more well-behaved.

They seemed to be deliberately avoiding the areas where students were most active. Most of the places they passed through were gardens and similar areas within the Sunset Sect, and there even seemed to be Warcraft roaming in those gardens; from time to time, a few roars would echo out.

From outside the island, the entire Sunset Sect didn’t look that big. But after flying for half an hour, they even transferred to a flying ship, and another two hours passed before they finally reached the region where the Sunset River was located.

"This... this thing counts as a river?" Zhang Menglong looked at the boundless "river" before him and voiced the same sentiment as many others. Its surface area was probably larger than all the oceans on Earth added together.

"From now on, each of you will have one chance to enter the Sunset River," Qi Congyun said. "This time, there’s no time limit. As long as you can handle it, you can soak here for three days and three nights if you want. What I need to tell you is that in the future, a thousand contribution points will only buy you one hour in the Sunset River."

"That expensive?"

"Then I’d better soak longer today."

"I’ve already downloaded my dramas. I’ll soak and watch at the same time."

Hearing this, everyone was already mentally prepared to fight a long battle here.

But hearing their chatter, Qi Congyun only showed a meaningful smile. "You’re thinking beautifully, but soaking here for over an hour is extremely difficult."

"No way, right?"

"Isn’t it just taking a bath?"

"Hahaha, let me tell you, to this day, the longest record for an intern disciple soaking in the Sunset River is seventy-two minutes, and the average time is only twenty-two minutes."

"Huh?"

"That short?"

"What kind of Magic Power does this river water have?"

"I’ve only heard that this river water can help cleanse the Energy in our bodies, and that it’s connected to the Sunset Sect’s Supreme Secret Technique, the Nine Nether Sunset Art."

"Elder, what’s the all-time record in the entire Sunset Sect?"

"Lei Poguan. He stayed in the Sunset River for a full thirty-one days at his longest!"

"Make way, make way!" Just as everyone was still marveling at that record, Zhang Menglong walked over with a swim ring, and he even had an eye mask strapped to his forehead.

With a plop, he jumped straight into the Sunset River, then casually pulled the eye mask down over his eyes. "If I could trouble everyone to quiet down a bit, I’m gonna take a nap first."