Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 559 The New Traitor

"Fellow Daoist—"

The Soul Fiend Sect's flying boat came to a swaying stop not far from the players' flying boats. Although no one could see anyone, they could hear a very faint sound—

"Fellow Daoist, please wait—"

[Soup Dumpling] was so startled that she instinctively took several steps back, but still stubbornly insisted, "I knew there must be a hidden prerequisite quest! This dumpling is a hidden prerequisite quest!"

Nietzsche, who had already learned from the project team that "Ten Continents Chronicle" was set in a real world, panicked upon hearing this commotion. However, he still mustered his courage and loudly asked the Soul Fiend Sect's flying boat, "Your Excellency... are you a disciple of the Soul Fiend Sect?"

The voice continued, "Fellow Daoist, you flatter us. We are disciples of the Soul Fiend Sect who came out to undergo tribulation. Unfortunately, this tribulation is terrifyingly powerful. Of the more than one hundred disciples, less than one in ten survived. Even those who barely made it through the tribulation had their physical bodies completely destroyed, leaving only their souls..."

Hearing the explanation from the voice, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and as usual, the team channel was filled with complaints.

Do cultivators still have souls?

"I don't know!"

"Who's going to remember all those settings anyway?!"

"Since it's called the 'Soul Fiend Sect,' it must be something like soul cultivation!"

"Soul cultivation? There's such a thing?"

"Yes, there are! I remember a relative of mine recently took on a female ghost as his disciple, and she's on the path of soul cultivation!"

"To be honest, the name 'Soul Fiend Sect' sounds pretty villainous. Shall we have a fight first and see?"

"Wow, do you have to be so dog-like?!"

……

Before Nietzsche could answer, the Soul Fiend Sect disciple asked in a familiar tone, "Judging from the style of your flying boat, it seems to belong to the Fortune, Prosperity and Longevity Merchant Guild. May I ask which manager is in charge? Do you have any Soul Nourishing Grass among the goods you're carrying this time?"

[Nietzsche] hesitated for a moment, then looked at [Emperor Bamboo] with a questioning look in his eyes.

Seeing [Emperor Bamboo Grass] nod vigorously in perfect unison, [Nietzsche] then spoke: "Fellow Daoist, you misunderstand. Although we did buy this flying boat from the Fortune, Prosperity and Longevity Merchant Guild, it does not belong to the guild. We are disciples of the Taiyin Sect, and we just happened to be passing by. However, if you urgently need Soul Nourishing Grass, we have some that may be of use in an emergency."

Unexpectedly, after Nietzsche finished speaking, the disciples of the Soul Fiend Sect did not respond for a long time.

Isn't that a bit rude?

With doubts in his heart, Nietzsche couldn't help but urge, "Fellow Daoist?"

Just when the players thought the other party had left, the voice rang out again, this time filled with helplessness and pessimism: "You... sigh... is it finally our Soul Fiend Sect's turn?"

"what?"

Nietzsche looked completely bewildered.

The players were also completely bewildered.

[Nietzsche] asked, "What do you mean by that, fellow Daoist?" "Who doesn't know what your Taiyin Sect has been doing these past few months? Leaving aside the Taiyi Ziwei Sect and the Piaomiao Immortal Sect, we just heard yesterday that even the Penglai Sect and the Taiyi Qiankun Sect have been..."

At this point, his voice even trembled slightly, and he couldn't hide the fear in his tone: "Now that you've come to my Soul Fiend Sect's territory, I'm afraid you're here to destroy my Soul Fiend Sect, aren't you?"

"Ah this..."

Before Nietzsche could even utter a word of refusal, the team's incompetent teammates had already laid bare their true colors—

"Wow! You guessed right!"

Is this NPC really that pessimistic?

"Weren't we supposed to be the positive ones? How come it sounds like I've become the villain?"

"To be honest, doesn't the name 'Soul Fiend Sect' sound more like a cult?"

"To be fair, the 'Taiyin Sect' isn't much better!"

……

The worst part is that these teammates didn't even turn on their team microphones; they just spoke out loud right there on the airship!
[Nietzsche] was speechless and didn't know what to say, then [Soup Dumpling]'s confident voice rang out: "Hey! Since you've guessed our purpose, why don't you abandon the darkness and become our traitor?"

[Guan Tang Bao] was merely making a tentative attempt to persuade them to surrender, but the Soul Fiend Sect disciple sighed upon hearing this and said with feigned seriousness, "To be honest, fellow Daoists, we have all lost our physical bodies. Even if we return to the sect, we will eventually become fish on the Soul Banner. The reason we wanted to intercept the goods from the Fortune, Prosperity and Longevity Merchant Guild was to collect a batch of Soul Nourishing Grass to escape the Soul Fiend Sect... However, there are only twelve of us now, and most of us have lost all our cultivation. I'm afraid we can't be of any help..."

[Guan Tang Bao]'s eyes lit up, and he waved his hand, shouting, "Hey, it's alright, it's alright! It's just soul cultivation! Our Taiyin Sect has that too! We have all kinds of demon cultivators and soul cultivators! We don't discriminate!"

After saying that, she turned back to [Nietzsche] and winked, saying, "Hey, boss, these are laborers! High-level laborers! Soul cultivators are cultivators too! They're NPCs! High-level NPCs are being snatched up everywhere right now! Let's seize this opportunity and get these NPCs into our own community first!"

[Nietzsche] was still struggling with whether or not to accept a monk from a sect with a certain dark history, but then he remembered the things that were always mentioned in the project team meetings, such as "make more friends" and "make fewer enemies", and he became a little tempted.

and……

These dozen or so cultivators are not important; what is important is the population and labor force that can be generated in advance before the full-scale war begins!

Nietzsche suggested, “How about this, you can register your household in our Martial King City, and all your past transgressions will be forgiven. You can also receive a corresponding plot of land to build your own house. Martial King City has sound laws, so even ordinary people who are powerless can live well. You cultivators, even those who are injured, will have even less of a problem... But there is one condition.”

"Fellow Taoist, please speak."

"I need you to bring as many people as possible within four hours... cough, two hours... whether they are ordinary people from Soul Fiend Holy City or disciples of Soul Fiend Sect, especially those with a clean past who have done too many evil deeds, otherwise it will not look good for everyone when it comes to identifying evidence in the future."

"Of course, the conditions are the same. To make things easier, you can also spread the word that our Taiyin Sect will be coming to our door soon, which might be helpful."

Nietzsche's request was not difficult, in fact, it was very simple. The Soul Fiend Sect disciple opposite him finally realized what was going on and asked in confusion, "It sounds like you prefer ordinary people? Why? To be honest, the people under the Soul Fiend Sect's rule probably have some damage to their innate souls, making it difficult for them to cultivate. Even if they were to become slaves or servants, they wouldn't be very useful."

“After you’ve lived in Wuwang City for a while, you’ll understand why,” Nietzsche said, too lazy to explain, only adding, “Also, slave contracts are forbidden under the rule of the Taiyin Sect. Demons, humans, ghosts, whatever they may be, are all forbidden. You’d better remember that.”

"Been taught a lesson……"

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