I Can See Your Combat Power-Chapter 986 - 280 Skulls Gathered

Chapter 986: Chapter 280: Skulls Gathered

Chapter 986 -280: Skulls Gathered

“I… I never thought about betraying the Wuyi Sect!” Tong Lu stubbornly said, “I just don’t want to go back so soon. We three brothers are among the earliest believers of the Wuyi Sect from Beimang, but now what? I’ve heard that some believers who joined Hui Ling Mountain just half a year ago have already risen to the rank of Sixth Grade Valor Cavalry Instructors or even Fifth Grade Infantry Commanders. If we go back now, what are we? I can’t stand the days of being bossed around by others!”

“You just can’t let go of the little power you hold in your hands!” Tong Hu coldly pierced through his younger brother’s innermost secrets and angrily said, “If we don’t return to Hui Ling Mountain, our spiritual teachings and attire can only reach up to the eighth grade Serpent Seruants. If it weren’t for our eldest brother’s exceptional talent, who found a way to charge it, maybe now we wouldn’t even have the single piece of seventh grade Bear Armor that we do! Even if we return to the sect and the Grand Master decides to disperse the wolf soldiers of Fanged Mountain, that is not necessarily a bad thing. After all, when our eldest brother becomes a Sixth Grade Valor Cavalry Instructor and we become Seventh Grade Commanders, in at most half a year we could rebuild a force even stronger than the current one. How can you not understand this simple logic?”

Tong Lu, his secret exposed, sulkingly twisted his head away and refused to look at his elder brother as he said stiffly, “Anyway, I think our days are pretty good now. If you want to go back, you go back; I will stay on Fanged Mountain. Some time ago, my subordinates discovered a hidden valley deep in the mountains with a beautiful landscape, and there might even be Spiritual Food and springs. Just as life is getting better, you want to go back and be someone’s pawn, what’s the reason for that!”

The more he spoke, the angrier Tong Lu became. He raised his head and addressed Tong Dali, “Big Brother, think about it. The person who came today is just a Fourth Grade Blood Lion from the sect. According to our scriptures, the Blood Lion’s cultivation is just at the midterm of the Fierce Realm. With just him alone, could he really ensure Hui Ling Mountain remains unscathed? If next time other powers target our sect, will we brothers still be lucky enough to break out as we did today? If the Emperor had sent a Second Grade Phoenix Great General or even a Third Grade Qilin General from Zhongzhou, I, Tong Lu, wouldn’t utter another word and would immediately return to the sect. Yet the Emperor only sent a Fourth Grade Blood Lion General. It’s clear that he does not value the Wuyi Sect’s foundation in Beimang!”

“Enough!” Tong Dali waved his hand, then lifted his head to Tong Hu and said, “The three of us brothers, it was not easy to crawl out from the corpses on Hui Ling Mountain and snatch back our lives. From that moment on, I vowed never to take my life for granted. To achieve this, relying only on ourselves is not enough. We have neither a master’s guidance nor any backing. To the three of us brothers, the Wuyi Sect is like our reborn parents. There’s an ancient saying, ‘One cannot but obey one’s parents’ commands.'”

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“However, Tong Lu also has a point. After all, Fanged Mountain is our base that we’ve worked hard to build up over the years. It doesn’t make sense to just give it up. How about we split our forces? Leave two-thirds of the wolf soldiers and sergeants behind, and the rest of us will go to Hui Ling Mountain. This way, even if there is another incident at Hui Ling Mountain, we’ll still have a place to fall back on. As for the cultivation through the spiritual teachings and attire, we can always find opportunities to come down from the mountain and then teach them to Tong Lu!”

After hearing Tong Dali’s analysis, Tong Hu nodded and said, “Let’s do as our big brother says!”

And seeing the stubborn Tong Hu agree, Tong Lu showed a gleeful grin. The reasons he had given were merely excuses, for he simply didn’t want to go back to Hui Ling Mountain and be subordinate to others.

The years of commanding had given him a taste for it; on Fanged Mountain, his word was law as the third in command, but on Hui Ling Mountain, with his cultivation level, what was he? Nothing!

It’s better to be a big fish in a small pond than a small fish in a big pond; he would rather be the commander on this small patch of Fanged Mountain than trade it for the position of an elder in the Holy Land!

Tong Dali looked at Tong Lu’s self-satisfied and joyous expression and chided with a laugh, “I’m not leaving you to watch the house so you can slack off. Remember not to fall behind in your cultivation. Didn’t you say that you discovered a secret valley deep in Fanged Mountain? Hurry up and have everyone relocate there. Don’t let us come back to find that our years of accumulated possessions have been looted by others!”

“Big brother, don’t you trust my abilities?” Tong Lu protested, “I may not be as good as my two brothers when it comes to killing, but when it comes to accruing wealth and running the land, even those noble families’ stewards can’t compare. Just you watch!”

Tong Dali and Tong Hu both laughed heartily at Tong Lu’s bold claims, but no one noticed the ground beneath the tent slightly bulging with a mound of earth.

After the Corpse Refiner had been tempered by the forces of the extreme Yin for forty-nine days, Yan Luo Yu discovered that through the runes on the back of his hand, he could establish a mysterious connection with the Corpse Refiner.

This included sharing the Corpse Refiner’s vision and hearing, so after he feigned joining the Wuyi Sect, several Serpent Squad Centurions put his Corpse Refiner into a coffin and buried it underground.

But unexpectedly, while Yan Luoyu studied the Wuyi Sect’s scriptures, he controlled the Corpse Refiner to infiltrate the military camps to gather intelligence, and after hearing the three brothers’ plan, Thirteenth Master of Lian Pass was genuinely baffled.

He had always thought that this so-called Wuyi Sect was nothing but a farce conjured up by a few brothers, and it never crossed his mind that such a sect really existed.

What he hadn’t expected either was that, looking at the burly and imposing Tong Dali, he turned out to be a warrior of unity of spirit and intent. Yet such a warrior, reaching the limits of his knowledge in strength, was seemingly no more than cannon fodder on Hui Ling Mountain.

What exactly was the Wuyi Sect? Weren’t warriors from the Fierce Realm strong enough to establish clans and build cities? How come, in the mouths of the three Tong brothers, they were merely generals of the fourth or fifth rank?

And what about the young man he encountered at the inn last time? What kind of strength did he actually possess?

Yan Luoyu’s mind was in turmoil; he had never thought that the world of martial arts could be so complex, nor had he ever contemplated that he would join such a dreadful sect as soon as he arrived in Beimang.

He had thought that as long as he had the Corpse Refiner, he could leave whenever he wanted, but after listening to the conversation between the three Tong brothers, he suddenly felt lost. Could it be that joining the Wuyi Sect was a better choice after all?

The dazed Yan Luoyu didn’t notice the runes on the back of his hand suddenly light up with a faint glow.

After fulfilling his wish to obtain the “Five-Claws Golden Dragon Diagram” by breaching the Li Family estate at Lian Pass, just as Gu Han was getting ready to return to Zhongzhou, he ran into the Bone Taoist Feng You.

Holding up the Golden Dragon Visualizing Diagram with pride, Gu Han said smugly, “The Tower Master truly has a divine foresight. This Visualizing Diagram was indeed in the hands of the Li Family. By the way, I heard you were wounded in the Wilderness and should be recuperating in the tower; what brings you to Longzhou?”

Looking at the lively and successful Gu Han, the Bone Taoist shook his head with a wry smile, “I heard that the Dutian Heavenly King was planning to besiege the master in Beimang, so the Tower Master sent me to offer support. Now that I see the master is unharmed, that’s a relief!”

“Just because of a few greenhorns from the holy lands?” Gu Han dismissively waved his hand, “Maybe they don’t even realize the master has left Beimang!”