Rise from a Poor Family: My Martial Arts Counterattack

Chapter 544 Who is helping my Canglan Sect?

Wanshan City.

Lin Chen and his fellow disciples were in the city lord's mansion. Lin Chen listened quietly as his senior brothers recounted the events that had occurred on the battlefields of the two sects over the past two years.

In the past two and a half years, the number of innate martial artists killed or injured in the entire Canglan Domain has exceeded two thousand, and the number of advanced martial artists is countless.

Nearly 20% of the innate martial artists in the entire Canglan Domain perished, which is an extremely terrifying number.

Of course, the losses in the Eight Desolate Domains were about the same, or even slightly higher.

Originally, the Canglan Sect had a slight advantage, but this situation was reversed after the appearance of the thousands of innate martial artists. Now, the Bahuang Sect has the upper hand.

"Junior Brother, now that you're back, go back to the sect and see Master and Sect Leader first," Senior Brother Tu Ruoxing said slowly.

"Yes, junior brother, you should go back to the sect first. The sect leader and master will be happy to know your current level."

Liang Hanyang followed suit and spoke up. Chai Daoqi glanced at his two senior brothers and immediately understood their intentions.

The sect issued a decree ordering all disciples to return to the sect. Disciples in the outer regions who returned to the Canglan Domain did not need to return to the sect. Instead, they were arranged to be placed nearby by the sect stewards or elders in charge of the area.

Wanshan City, along with the surrounding hundred cities, all fall under Elder Qu's jurisdiction.

The three brothers were responsible for ten surrounding cities.

With the addition of junior disciples, the pressure on their side will drop sharply, but the martial artists from the Eight Desolate Domains will also report the situation and will inevitably send corresponding innate experts, while the sect can no longer send any experts.

Their master was not in the sect, but on another battlefield.

Lin Chen pondered. Although he didn't know the inside story, he could guess why his three senior brothers wanted him to return to the sect.

The situation is unfavorable for the Canglan Sect, so how could Master possibly stay in the sect? The eldest brother's request for him to return to the sect to see Master is simply an attempt to get him away from the front lines.

"Alright, I'll head back to the sect first."

In the end, Lin Chen accepted the kindness of his senior brothers. It wasn't that he wanted to escape the battlefield, but that returning to the sect would allow him to understand the sect war better and make better countermeasures.

"The sooner the better, junior brother, you should leave now."

Senior Brother Tu Ruoxing looked at Lin Chen. Although the warriors of the Eight Desolate Domain had been completely wiped out this time, he could not guarantee that there were no spies from the Eight Desolate Domain in the city. With Junior Brother Lin's talent, if the Eight Desolate Sect knew that Junior Brother Lin was here, they might send a powerful expert at the fifth level of the Innate Realm to deal with Junior Brother Lin.

"Alright, then take care, fellow senior brothers."

Lin Chen nodded emphatically; he wasn't the kind of person who was indecisive.

After a short while, Lin Chen left the city and headed towards the Canglan Sect. However, after traveling a hundred miles, he changed direction and headed towards the edge of the battlefield.

In the city lord's mansion where the eldest brother was located, there was a map hanging on the wall, showing the latest battlefield distribution. With Lin Chen's memory, he memorized the map after only a few glances.

At this moment, Lin Chen has changed his physique and returned to looking like he is in his forties.

Azure Wave City!
The city gates were tightly closed. This was a small city, and the Canglan Sect had only assigned one innate martial artist to oversee it.

"My lord, all the warriors from the Eight Desolate Domains at Bibo Pool are dead!"

A first-rank martial artist rushed in, his voice extremely excited.

"They're all dead. Are you sure you're not mistaken?"

"There is no mistake, there are also the corpses of two innate martial artists."

Zhang Qi pondered, if this was a conspiracy by the warriors of the Eight Desolate Domain to trick him into leaving the city, the price of this conspiracy was too high, using the lives of two innate warriors as bait.

Their Azure Wave City has no value whatsoever.

The only possibility is that these corpses are all warriors from the Eight Desolate Domain who died in battle elsewhere, including those two innate warriors. The warriors from the Eight Desolate Domain outside the city used the corpses of the dead warriors to create the layout.

"That's not right either. If they use the corpses of their comrades to set up the plan, the news will definitely shake the morale of the warriors in the Eight Desolate Domain. The Eight Desolate Sect has no need to do that." Zhang Qi shook his head, denying the guess. If the Eight Desolate Domain was at a disadvantage, it would be understandable to disregard everything else in order to turn the tide. But now that the Eight Desolate Domain is at an advantage, there is no need to do something that would cause the warriors of their domain to become disloyal.

When war breaks out between two regions, it's not uncommon for warriors to die on the battlefield, but their bodies are always sent back to their homeland. Both the Canglan Sect and the Bahuang Sect do this.

"Let's go, let's go out of the city and take a look!"

Half an hour later, Zhang Qi looked at the blood-stained pool and the corpses, his face filled with shock.

Although none of the thousands of corpses were at the Innate Realm, even for an Innate Realm martial artist, killing so many martial artists in one go would not be an easy task.

"My lord, these are the corpses of those two innate martial artists. I checked them, but I couldn't find the storage boxes."

His subordinates carried over two corpses. Zhang Qi's gaze fell on the bodies of the two innate martial artists, and his eyes showed a look of doubt. He did not see any injuries on the two innate martial artists.

"Check if there's any blood in their ears and nostrils!"

After a while, Zhang Qi made a guess, and his subordinates, following his instructions, began to examine the facial features of the two corpses: "Sir, there are black blood streaks in the ear holes and nostrils of these two people."

Upon hearing his subordinate's reply, Zhang Qi knew how these two innate martial artists from the Eight Desolate Domain had died—from injuries to their souls.

This means that the soul was directly destroyed.

Who is the one who can make the move?
It can directly destroy the mid-stage of the second level of the Innate Realm with one's soul, leaving the opponent no time to escape. This is something that ordinary third-level Innate Realm practitioners cannot do, unless they are fourth-level Innate Realm practitioners.

However, the battlefield area where he was located was occupied by several Innate Fourth Realm warriors who had their own areas to guard and were unable to come over due to their limited resources. Could it be that the sect had sent Innate Fourth Realm warriors again?
But if it was sent by the sect, why didn't I receive a notification?
Zhang Qi couldn't understand it, but he still reported the news to his superiors immediately.

Azure Sky Imperial City.

This place was originally the capital of the Canglan Domain's Cangqiong Dynasty, but now it has become a command city for the Canglan Sect's battlefield.

Qu Guanfu looked at the message sent by the sect disciple with a strange look in his old eyes.

Several disciples responsible for guarding the city reported the same news in their letters: the warriors from the Eight Desolate Domains outside the city had been killed by a mysterious powerful figure.

So far, according to the information he has gathered, the number of Innate Realm warriors killed in the Eight Desolate Regions has exceeded fifty: two Innate Realm Fourth Realm warriors, seven Innate Realm Third Realm warriors, sixteen Innate Realm Second Realm warriors, and twenty-five Innate Realm First Realm warriors.

"This person must be at the fifth level of the Innate Realm. Could he be one of my senior or junior brothers?"

Qu Guanfu pondered for a moment, but quickly dismissed the idea. As an elder of the sect, he knew far more about this sect war than the disciples. The sect no longer had any extra experts at the fifth level of the Innate Realm to draw upon, so where did this mysterious expert come from?
"Elder, according to this trajectory... I'm afraid this person's next stop should be the Purple Cloud Mountains, where there are five Innate Fourth Realm martial arts experts from the Eight Desolate Domains."

A middle-aged man standing below Qu Guanfu spoke up. As a sect steward, he was responsible for relaying orders to Elder Qu and providing support to various cities.

"not good!"

Qu Guanfu's old eyes widened. Even Gong Heng could predict that the mysterious expert's next stop would be the Ziyun Mountains. Xi Zeliang, that old fellow from the Eight Desolations Sect, could also judge that he would definitely go to the Ziyun Mountains in person and even lay a trap.

Regardless of the identity of this mysterious expert, the Canglan Sect owes him a favor for killing warriors from the Eight Desolate Regions, and he cannot stand by and watch him fall into an encirclement.

"Gong Heng, you will stay in Cangqiong City, and I will personally go to the Ziyun Mountains."

……

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Ziyun Mountain Range.

Stretching for thousands of miles, the mountain range gets its name from the many exposed purple rocks within it, which reflect the purple hue of the clouds above.

A figure transformed into a rainbow of light and appeared in the mountains.

"I've been waiting for you for a long time!"

At the same time, an aged voice roared out, its sound shaking the entire mountain range.

(End of this chapter)