NOVEL WEB Chapter 28: Attack
Yu Nianzhen jumped down and held out his arms to catch Jiang Yue, who was about to jump.
He knew that it wasn't necessary, but he still did it.
Jiang Yue also didn't avoid it, and he allowed himself to be helped down.
"Go change, I will start a fire."
Jiang Yue nodded and went towards a cluster of bushes to change.
He had only taken a few steps when a loud shout reverberated in the valley.
"Gather round."
It was elder Chen, and she had a solemn look on her face.
No one dared to hesitate, and everyone rushed to stand behind the elder.
After everyone gathered, she directed her flying cauldron to lap a circle around the recruits. When the circle was complete, a ring of fire appeared around the group.
"What's going on?" Someone asked, but before an answer could come, hundreds of arrows fell from the sky.
The arrows whistled in the air, but luckily, they dissipated as soon as they touched elder Chen's ring of fire.
"We are under attack." A young boy cried.
The group of new disciples trembled in fear as another wave of arrows came toward them.
Everyone had heard about the mysterious organisation that killed talents, but that sort of thing was just hearsay.
No one really believed that they would be targeted, and now that it was happening, they couldn't help but fear.
"What do they want, I only have a grade two aptitude."
"They are here for the young city lord, he has a grade four aptitude."
"If it weren't for the city lord's residence announcing the young city lord's aptitude, would we encounter this disaster?"
When faced with a sudden disaster, human attitude is very predictable.
The new disciples wanted someone to blame, and Wang Hui was the most convenient.
They didn't believe that the mysterious organisation would randomly target the Fengying city group.
This was surely because of the proud announcements of the city lord's residence!
The new disciples became dissatisfied with Wang Hui, but the concerned party didn't care.
Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue also didn't care. All their attention was on the fight that was happening outside the ring of fire.
"This…" Jiang Yue exclaimed, and Yu Nianzhen frowned.
He knew what had surprised Jiang Yue, and he also felt the same.
There were about three dozen attackers, and all of them wore black cloaks and black face masks.
However, these were not the surprising things.
The surprising thing was that each black cloak was dotted with pink flowers.
Yu Nianzhen and Jiang Yue were very familiar with the pink flowers because they were the oleander flower that old man Cang had drawn with his blood.
"Things are getting more and more complicated."
They had already known that old man Cang's last request wouldn't be easy to fulfil, but the difficulty kept increasing.
It now looked that the 'Siwang' woman who had killed old man Cang was involved with the mysterious organisation that was assassinating talents all over the Cangxing world.
However, this organisation was something that the ruler sects couldn't deal with; yet, old man Cang had gotten them involved.
Yu Nianzhen was bitter when he thought about it, but all he could do was focus on the fight.
Although the other side had the numbers advantage, only five cultivators were in the qi transformation realm while the others were in the origin forging realm.
In normal cases, such a force was enough to crash a convoy of new recruits, but they had not accounted for elder Chen's presence.
Elder Chen was a nascent soul cultivator, and just the release of her full aura was enough to crush the other side.
She instantly killed the origin forging realm cultivators and captured the five qi transformation realm cultivators.
After everything was settled, the ring of fire disappeared from around the new disciples and everyone looked at the scene in amazement.
"Get ready to leave." Elder Chen shouted.
Although they hadn't gotten a chance to rest, no one dared to contradict the order.
Everyone understood that they were in a dangerous situation, and it was better to leave and rest later.
Soon after, three class three demonic beasts and a flying pot rose in the air.
In the following days, the convoy only took a one-hour rest before they continued their journey.
The sect elders and older disciples like Bai Zheng also took turns to stay on guard and patrol the air.
Luckily, another attack did not occur and three days before arriving at the Sea Cloud sect, their group encountered four other convoys.
The convoys were returning from other mid-rank cities, and the number of new recruits per convoy was roughly the same as that of Fengying city.
"We have seen elder Chen." The elders leading the convoys spoke and bowed to Elder Chen.
Elder Chen nodded and ran her eyes over the groups.
"Have you encountered any troubles?"
"Our group hasn't encountered any troubles." One elder answered.
"Our group encountered a high-rank class three beast, but we managed to escape." Another spoke.
A class three demonic beast was equivalent to an origin tempering realm cultivator. However, even an origin tempering realm cultivator would find it difficult to kill a high-rank class three demonic beast.
The class three demonic beasts that were used by the sect had all been tamed, and luckily, they were all speed beasts that could outfly most class three demonic beasts.
Otherwise, the group that had encountered the beast would have been annihilated since the convoys weren't guarded by any origin tempering realm cultivators.
The two other convoys also reported that they hadn't encountered any troubles, and elder Chen sighed in relief.
"Merge, and let's rush to the sect." She said, and the other group immediately followed her orders.
Although they were very close to the sect, Elder Chen wasn't at ease.
She was a nascent soul cultivator, but her forte wasn't in fighting. If they got attacked by another nascent soul, she could not guarantee that she could keep everyone safe.
In her group, there was her granddaughter who had a level six aptitude. The girl had a flame origin and was sure to become one of the leading alchemists in the future.
Other than her granddaughter, there were also those two.
She could tell that one had an illusion origin since it resonated with her own origin while the other seemed to have a sword origin.
Chen Qing couldn't be sure, but she felt a vague sword-like presence emanating from the boy.
It was because of this that she had tried to test the boy since cultivators didn't acquire an origin presence till they broke through to the origin forging realm.
However, the boy's presence was like a sheathed sword.
She could tell that it was there, but for some reason, it remained hidden and unwilling to show itself.
It was a very interesting discovery and Chen Qing felt that her Sea Cloud sect would soon birth a swordsman that would rival those geniuses in the sword sect.
Although she couldn't tell their aptitude with a simple glance, she was confident that they wouldn't be worse than her granddaughter.
With these three talents in her group, Chen Qing was under great pressure.
It was unlikely that the mysterious organisation would attack so close to the sect, but she didn't want to take any chances.
Over the next few days, the group flew without any rest.
The new arrivals had also heard about what happened, so they cooperated in the rushed travel.
On the third morning, Jiang Yue woke up from meditation and saw a group of mountains on the horizon.
The mountains towered into the heavens and all sorts of birds could be seen circling the peaks or diving into clear lakes that dotted the land.
"Is this the Sea Cloud Sect?" He asked with an amazed expression on his face.
He wasn't the only one that was amazed.
Yu Nianzhen was also pleasantly surprised as he looked at the scenery in front of him.
The Sea Cloud sect was the kind of fantasy land that was written in books and poorly depicted in dramas.
The sky was a clear blue, plants covered the land, and fantastical creatures roamed the land.
As they got closer, the heaven and earth qi began to change.
It felt purer and more concentrated, which made Yu Nianzhen wonder what would happen if he experienced a blue star anomaly in such a place.
He looked at Jiang Yue, and the other chuckled in amusement.
In their previous life, Yu Nianzhen wasn't passionate about a lot of things. However, he had become very passionate about cultivation since they arrived in the Cangxing world.
Even without saying a word, Jiang Yue could tell what the other was thinking.
'I want to experience a blue star anomaly in a blessed land like the Sea Cloud Sect. Quickly advance to the origin forging realm so that you can trigger it.'