Unfathomable Senior

Chapter 620

“Is this really wise? What if they return with a new force? Shouldn’t we snuff out the flame while it is still small then face a blazing inferno later?”

“I’m of the same mind but... how about you tell that to him...”

“...”

The Patriarch from the Heavenly Crane Sect looked along with a few other faction leaders from his sect towards the sky. There a lone man with snow-white hair was gently floating, his hair even though long was not affected by the winds. It was as if he was standing in a vacuum with no air around, with feet planted in something robust.

At the moment the armies from the Heavenly Crane Sect were looking at a handful of ships leaving towards the bridge between worlds. A massive wall of chaotic elements was blocking the pathway from all sides with only a thin passageway going to the other side. On all of those ships, there were soldiers from the enemy side and this would have been the best moment to just blast them to kingdom come.

They were on their way out of this empire and this place would be soon turned into a fortress. Even though these were the Heavenly Crane Sect’s lands it didn’t seem that they had a say in this. To each side of the bridge to another land, two towers were being assembled by the strange flying automation that originated from the United Element’s Sect.

The whole spectacle was quite strange, out of nowhere a group of strange cultivators appeared. They were dressed in white coats with black gloves that looked as if they were made from rubber. Their leader’s hair was all over the place and he was wearing dark goggles to cover his eyes. After shouting out some things the man took control of the flying automatons and together with a few other men started ordering them to build structures. Even though the Emerald Phoenix Empire forces were still in the process of gathering they were already working on setting up the barricade.

“It would be better if we cut our losses here, maybe in the future an opportunity will present itself but for now, we must wait.”

“The Patriarch speaks the truth, we should let the Golden Dragon settle things with the Emperor first before we make a decision.”

“I concur, we still don’t know if they are working together or not... another war might start soon and it will be wise to not get involved with it.”

The Lily faction leaders started nodding at each other. Surprisingly all of them were in agreement, they did not want to get mixed up in the battle for the throne. At first they all were thinking of teaming up with Zhang Dong to force the Azure Dragon to relinquish some resources. They had made a mistake as they had considered their sect to be at least on the same level as the United Element’s Sect.

Now after seeing their leader in action, they knew that they were not in the same league anymore. It wouldn’t be strange if Zhang Dong was able to kick the Azure Emperor off the throne if he wanted. Some were already making up schemes and possible scenarios in their head. Perhaps Zhang Dong was actually the real Azure Emperor and the one sitting on the throne was just a trick to let him go through the lands easily.

“We shall wait and be watchful...”

The old masters nodded at each other while exchanging hidden messages. They would have not dared to utter words out loud out of fear. The way Zhang Dong defeated the monster that was the Emerald Phoenix Emperor was still fresh in their minds. The battle was incomprehensible to them, even though all of them assumed to be great circle nascent soul masters they could not place themselves on equal footing with Zhang Dong.

“Hm? Oh, Lucius.”

As he was looking at the large palace being attached to ten flying ships they collected from the enemy fleet, Lucius and Argus appeared before him. Now that the battle was over, they had come to claim the prize which was the holy shield. With it in their possession, they might have nothing left to do here and this would be the end of their relationship.

Perhaps others would have decided to hold on to a weapon that they don’t really understand but he was looking at the bigger picture. It was unwise to allow another emperor-level threat to arrive at his doorstep. The Cerulean Empress was the only one that remained but the side Lucius came from wasn’t fully revealed to him. As his people had proven themselves to be capable no further reinforcements were needed.

“Haha, you should stop grimacing so much or your eyebrows will get stuck like that.”

Lucius frowned while Argus that was flying behind him started chuckling. It was quite funny to see him flinch the moment the duke looked back. Zhang Dong pulled out the relic from his replica of the dimensional regalia and threw it toward his allies. The man in golden armor looked quite panicked as he tried catching the item in question.

“C-careful...Argus... is this really it?”

“Hm... yes, it does resonate, it is the sacred shield! With this, it’s almost complete!”

“Huh? Almost complete, is there really more?”

Zhang Dong butted in as for some reason he expected the second relic not to be the last one. After the second one become apparent it wouldn’t be strange that there wouldn’t be more he just never really asked to confirm this claim.

“Ah, yes, if we just need to find the sacred plate and it will be complete.”

“Secret plate? Is it a suit of armor?”

“Yes, do you perhaps know its whereabouts?”

“No... but I’ll be sure to tell you when I find it...”

If a suit of armor was the only thing left this brought some trouble with it. What if it was scattered in multiple places? Perhaps the helmet was at one location but the gauntlets at another instead of it being at one location. However, this also meant that his new friends would be staying and now with the freedom to move around almost the whole empire, they could find it themselves.