Beginning Of Multiverse Saga

Chapter 244: Hidden Strength Of Zhang Clan

However, the young man did not reply and only silently looked at him.

In the next moment, as the demonic cultivator watched on, the young man raised his head and slowly stretched out his hand.

"You..."

Just as the demonic cultivator was about to speak, he froze.

A massive bloody hole appeared in his chest without him realizing it.

Blood began to flow down and drip onto the ground.

The Foundation Building demonic cultivator’s eyes widened and looked ahead, unable to believe his eyes; he could not believe that he was going to die here.

In the next moment, he powerlessly fell down.

Everyone was sent into an uproar.

Beside Zhang Chong, the Nine Peaks City Lord stared for a moment before turning and looking at Zhang Chong, "If I remember correctly... this seems to be someone from elder Zhang’s clan, right?

"You hid it so well..." he said softly.

Everyone else silently turned and also looked at Zhang Chong with deep looks.

To be able to easily kill a Foundation Building demonic cultivator, this kind of cultivation required at least the peak of Foundation Building.

The Zhang clan’s clan leader actually had someone with peak Foundation Building strength.

Despite having this strength, the Zhang clan did not reveal it and instead hid it deeply.

Looking at Zhang Chong, everyone had strange gazes, not knowing what to say.

Meeting everyone’s gaze, Zhang Chong’s expression was also quite perplexed.

He could swear that he was just like them and had no idea.

However, he knew that even if he said this now, no one would believe him.

As such, he sat there with a bitter smile and did not say anything.

"It’s just an ordinary Foundation Building cultivator?"

After killing that demonic cultivator, Sharky was quite surprised.

Demonic cultivators’ battle strength was quite great, and he had thought that he would go through a massive battle.

He had never thought that it would be over with just a single attack.

He was much weaker than expected.

At that moment, the demonic cultivator’s corpse started to shine with a bit of golden light, and formless energy spread out into the surroundings.

Sensing this energy, everyone’s expression changed.

"This is bad!"

Everyone, including Zhang Chong and the Nine Peaks City Lord, recognized what this was, and their expressions fell.

A soul tool!

Soul tools’ effects were very simple: They could allow one to split off part of their soul and send it into the tool.

This tool could temporarily activate the cultivator’s soul within it and unleash the magic energy that it contained.

That demonic cultivator’s cultivation was at Foundation Building—how powerful would his soul tool be?

Everyone thought the same thing.

Zhang Chong’s expression changed as he opened his mouth, wanting to tell Sharky to hurry and leave.

However, it was too late.

A golden light shined out as pure magic energy blasted out.

It was like a divine weapon had been unleashed, and the destructive power was incredibly intense; it far surpassed the strength that the Foundation Building demonic cultivator had previously unleashed.

A blood-red saber descended, looking like a weapon that a god had thrown down.

It was just that in the next moment, a white arm was lowered. It was just an ordinary action, but it instantly calmed down the surroundings.

In front of Sharky, the blood-red saber slowly shattered and the terrifying energy it contained slowly rippled out.

This powerful attack had been blocked by Sharky just like that.

This process was simply too easy, and in the distance, Zhang Chong and the others could not understand just what had happened.

Sharky stood there by himself in the distance, looking quite calm as if nothing had happened.

It seemed like that apocalyptic attack was nothing to him.

"This..." the Nine Peaks City Lord looked at Sharky before looking at Zhang Chong, a serious look in his eyes, "Elder Zhang, this member of your Zhang clan... just what cultivation does he have?"

Hearing his words, everyone else turned and looked at Zhang Chong.

However, different from before, they all had fear and shock in their eyes, as if it was the first time they had seen Zhang Chong.

Evidently, they had all misunderstood.

"I..." Looking at everyone’s gazes, Zhang Chong opened his mouth but could only bitterly smile.

What could he say now?

Say that he did not know about this at all?

Putting aside the fact that no one would believe him, he was too embarrassed to say such a thing.

How could the Zhang clan’s clan leader not know about his clan having such a powerful cultivator? Even Zhang Chong himself would not believe such a thing.

However, that was indeed the case.

Zhang Chong did not know anything about Sharky. After all, a cultivator’s cultivation was something personal.

After Sharky had returned from the Wind Thunder Sect, Zhang Chong had not asked about his cultivation, and he thought that it had been the same as before.

He had never thought that things would be like this.

Looking at Sharky, Zhang Chong felt both complicated and delighted.

At the end of the day, Sharky was part of the Zhang clan. Given that he had such great strength, this meant that the Zhang family would also be powerful.

From the strength that Sharky had displayed, he had at least Foundation Building cultivation.

Zhang Chong turned and looked at the Nine Peaks City Lord.

After so many years, it was time for the position of the Nine Peaks City Lord to change.

As he thought this, he could not help but give a slight smile.

"That feeling from before..." Standing in front of the demonic cultivator’s corpse, Sharky thought back to that feeling and sank into his thoughts.

The feeling from that strike still lingered in his body.

Different from what Zhang Chong and the others thought, that power just then was not just the peak of Foundation Building but even surpassed it.

Since, he has grown stronger, and became Foundation Building Level 5, this blow was nothing for him.

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In the distance, in front of an altar, a young man was sitting there. He was dressed in black robes and seemed quite mysterious and gloomy.

He sat there cross-legged with demonic qi swirling around his body.

When the soul tool was destroyed by Sharky, he reacted and his eyes slightly twitched before he slowly opened them.

"What is it?" an attendant came up and asked respectfully.

"It’s nothing," the man shook his head and looked in a direction, a look of surprise on his face, "The Dao Mark that I left behind was destroyed by someone."

"What?" the attendant looked quite confused, "With master’s strength, who could do such a thing..."

"I don’t know," the man shook his head, "The Yue Kingdom’s five sects have been routed, and the Yue Kingdom should not have any more powerful cultivators. I never thought that there would be fish that escaped from the net."

"Send out my orders, tell the disciples to be careful and not to go to Nine Peaks City," he said after thinking for a moment.

"To be able to destroy my mark, they at least have Foundation Building cultivation. There will be no point even if ordinary disciples go there."

"Yes," the attendant nodded before respectfully leaving, leaving behind the young man.

Following this, the young man did not do anything else and closed his eyes again.

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Time gradually passed.

Soon, it had been two months.

During those two months, Nine Peaks City had gone through great changes.

The most obvious one was that there was a new Nine Peaks City Lord.

Sharky had taken over the position, and he had become the new Nine Peaks City Lord.

Because of the demonic cultivators, some people in Nine Peaks City had been killed.

During this time, the Zhang clan quickly devoured other families’ resources and became stronger.

The enemies of the Zhang clan had also directly been slaughtered by Zhang Chong.

In the end, the Zhang clan had a hegemony over the Nine Peaks City.

Of course, this was not a big deal.

Even though Nine Peaks City was not small, it was quite remote and was not that big of a deal to many people.

No matter how things changed in here, it would not affect the rest of the world.

However, after that day, the demonic cultivators all retreated from Nine Peaks City.

It seemed that the person behind the demonic cultivators knew that this place should not be taken lightly, so no more demonic cultivators came.

Sharky was not surprised and just had people clean up the place, and he did not do much else.

Time gradually passed, and the situation in the surroundings was still changing.

The demonic cultivators’ invasion of the Yue Kingdom was not a long-term one.

The reason that they attacked the Yue Kingdom was not because they wanted to take over the Yue Kingdom but because they wanted to do some pillaging.

As such, after a deadlock, the number of demonic cultivators in the Yue Kingdom began to be quickly reduced.

Apart from being suppressed at the start, as time went on, the five sects began to retaliate and slowly drive out the remaining demonic cultivators.

By now, the Demon Sect had already accomplished its goal.

They had plundered many resources and slaughtered countless people, gaining much blood food.

During this process, the number of people who had been injured or killed numbered in the millions.

This would be enough to sustain the Demon Sect for a while.

Of course, the Demon Sect had also chosen to leave because of external pressures.

The Demon Sect was not without rivals, and there were other factions that could threaten it.

The Jade Sect was one of them, and the two sects had been fighting for many years.

It was because they kept each other in check that they were unable to expand too much.

There was some internal disorder in the Jade Sect that allowed the Demon Sect to have this opportunity to quickly pillage the surroundings and strengthen itself.

Despite this, the Jade Sect had quickly reacted and stopped the Demon Sect from going further.

This was why the demonic cultivators had all left.

Otherwise, they would not have minded to take over the entire Yue Kingdom.

The remaining demonic cultivators were quickly dealt with by the five sects’ remaining forces.

Even though the chaos from the demonic cultivators had been suppressed, there were some things that could not be changed.

After this upheaval, the Yue Kingdom’s five sects’ forces had been greatly decreased, and some clans had perished.

There were many empty cities, and some were left with very few residents.

It seemed that after this catastrophe, the entire Yue Kingdom had been dealt a heavy blow, whether it was in terms of cultivators or mortals.

It would take them at least a few decades to recover.

This was an unprecedented disaster.