Xiao Sect Melts Away
Chu Yuechan frowned as she sensed that the Imperial Princess just broke through to [Third of True Profound].
This means that the Princess got the 'starting up' set.
The very set that she saw Xiao Long prepare a few days ago.
It's a thing he decided to give to women who join him.
This made her annoyed that she didn't get one. Chu Yueli got it, Mu Lingxue got it, and The Feng Twins got it. Those Phoenix maids got it.
But not her!
'Is he truly this petty!?'
Fairy of Frozen Beauty bit her lower lip from frustration. This was annoying… How much torment does she need to endure!?
It didn't help that Chu Yueli is constantly at his side and they often indulge in each other's bodies which is going to make her little sister surpass her cultivation soon as she is practising that Dual Cultivation art!
The older Chu knows that stages in [Emperor Profound] are wide between each other.
It doesn't help that only a few days ago she learned about the Frozen End Divine arts!
Xiao Long knows the fabled and mystical art of the Founder!
The longer this continues, the worse it's getting for her.
'I need to make a move otherwise, they are all going to leave me in the dust!!!'
~~~
While Chu Yuechan was brooding and regretting her previous behaviour, Xiao Long got his Array art to evolve to the next stage.
He was itching to start with the Ten Thousand Beast Array and make his clan into a proper martial arts clan but before that, he had a meeting to attend.
"Long'er I have done the maths behind your idea and it's simply impossible."
His grandpa's words confused him for a bit.
"Hmm? Which part specifically?"
"The Xiao Sect issue. You want them to be cleaners and a labour force to take care of trash, but it is simply infeasible."
He said with a sigh. Which made the Young Master frown even more.
"Xiao Sect is huge. Each Xiao Clan member would have 10 Xiao Sect members to clean up. It's a waste of resources and they would spend the majority of time cultivating instead of working as there is no work for them."
His explanation finally made Xiao Long give up on his idea to make them trash men of his clan…
Well, whatever… he will find other ways…
'I just take the 10 most beautiful Xiao girls and make them my maids… give that middle finger to other Xiao Sect members who were chasing after them.
Wait…isn't their fourth Young Master just a useless rapist?
…hoh…I know… I will make him work his ass off to support his wives and kids…there will be no more daddy support for you shithead…'
"Fine… I can reroute my anger issues about that Sect via different means…"
"Long'er you still care about them?" His grandfather asked with a baffled look.
"I almost forgot about them but then they came back and tried to infiltrate our Clan. This means the wound which was nearly healed has now fully reopened." The Young Master explained with a frown.
"I see…then how do you want to deal with this?"
"Since they can't be cleaners and people who take care of our garbage, then I have other means to use them. All of their Sky Profound experts will be working to help Black Moon Merchant Guild with deliveries, their medical hall experts will be absorbed by our Medicine Hall.
I will take their top 10 beauties as my maids, followed by other members screening… they will be spread out through the Halls after seeing their talents in general."
The elders slowly nodded before starting to talk about other things which are the Profound Arts.
"Xiao Sect has advanced arts towards Wind, they have a complete set of Profound Arts including Profound Domain which one can access at [Emperor Profound]. Something we don't have." Second Elder said with a small frown.
'He is right… and soon I will get Thunderfire arts as well… with this, we will have an array of Fire, Lightning and Wind en masse for the whole clan.'
As well as Bombs and Explosive orbs.
Possibility of making cannons at the edge of the floating island…
This would make the floating island a proper fortress.
"It's good. They will bring these arts as they arrive to live here. The Enforcers whom I sent to the Thunderfire Sect will bring back their wealth and knowledge. We will have a wide selection of tools which will help us to start dominating the continent."
"Indeed Grandpa. I will be making Profound Scrolls for Arrays, Artefacts, Profound Energy Control, and Alchemy including fire and water-style pill creation."
With a nod, the meeting was over. It appears Xiao Long has to reel back his dissatisfaction towards Xiao Sect. They have a better use than just being cleaners.
'Well, I will get my part of amusement in dealing with that filthy Xiao Sect Young Master…'
~~~~~~Few Days Later~~~~~~
With no other option, Xiao Juetian and his whole Xiao Sect agreed to merge with Xiao Clan.
It's the biggest humiliation to his family. However, this is much better than just simple destruction and death.
They will still keep their family name and will be cultivating in a Profound Energy-rich place.
Regardless, they are quite smug about the simple fact that they are more talented so it's only a matter of time until his family takes over the Xiao Clan and becomes the reborn Xiao Sect.
Maybe not his generation or next, but by the end of the day talent prevails!
As soon as the whole clan arrived at the Floating Cloud City they were baffled to see the amount of people waiting to enter the Clan!
"..."
"..."
"Are we going to wait in line?" Xiao Wuyi, one of the Two Thrones of Xiao Sect, asked with a frown on his face.
"There is no need."
A young voice said from the sky.
Their gaze went up. They saw a youngster who was radiating Throne power!
'Heavens!'
'What a monster! Already Throne!?'
The Elders of Xiao Sect have freaked out seeing Xiao Long slowly descend from the sky.
People quickly spread out to make some space for him.
The moment he landed he looked at the gathered people who were not part of the Xiao Sect group.
"I haven't addressed this so I will address this properly so that everyone will understand.
"My Clan only accepts new people every Monday. On other days the Clan is closed off.
"So…as a first and last warning, don't stay around my clan when it's not the invitation day…
"Otherwise, I will feed you all to my [Emperor Profound] Fire Dragon."
As Xiao Long's words settled down everyone quickly scrambled to leave.
They didn't think that he would take such drastic action!
The Young Master waited for a bit for the peanut gallery to leave, leaving only him and the large group of ex-Xiao Sect members.
"My apologies. I haven't had the time to address the leechers who didn't want to leave my clan's grounds."
"Understandable, Young Master Xiao." The ex-Xiao Sect Leader Xiao Juetian said with a respectful tone. This was unexpected. He didn't think Xiao Long had already reached the realms of Throne.
Such speed in cultivation is simply insane…
"Good. I assume this is the entire Xiao Sect?"
"...Yes…"
"I see. You know the only reason why you are here is that you all have my blood.
"Heavenly Spear Thunderfire Fortress was not as lucky as you all, I left them without anything."
Xiao Juetian and the rest for a second felt that they had dodged a death blow without even knowing!
"...W-What happened to Thunderfire Fortress?"
"I sent the Supreme Ocean Palace Enforcers to their location."
*Gulp*
"Three Overlords should be enough to bring everything they had of value."
"...B-But why?"
"Please uncle, don't play dumb with me. You know very well WHY they lost their wealth."
The ex-Xiao Sect Leader stiffly nodded, feeling slightly lightheaded.
"I am pleased to see that you can be reasoned with. Now, follow me. I will take you inside the Clan Grounds."
As he said the motioned for them to enter inside as the gates finally opened.
~~~
The first part was to sort the Xiao Sect out.
Xiao Juetian wanted to have HIS faction inside the Xiao Clan so that he or his descendants would take over at a later time.
But to his horror, the Xiao Clan had means to sort them out by talent! Little by little, his whole Xiao Sect was getting sorted out.
Though he didn't lose hope or should have… a few days later almost all of his previous followers stopped responding to his calls.
He quickly learned why and it was mind blowing!
The ex-Sect Master saw items available for exchange, the pills were utterly cheap… Xiao Clan was ripping them off by the millions when they were buying in the auction houses!
He thought this stuff took ages to make, yet he can exchange it in bulk with materials collected from gardens! This is absurd!
Yet, this was not all!!!
They have pills which open Profound entrances permanently!!!
'No wonder… No wonder… they all abandoned us!'
The ex-Sect Master realised that he was played with by the Xiao Clan Young Master.
Played so badly that Xiao Long destroyed his plans without even trying to mess with his plans…
It was maddening!
Xiao Juetian, with the majority of his family, were sent to be part of the main fighting force since their talent lies in the Profound arts.
While, the bulk of the Sect was spread through Medical Hall, Artefact Hall, and Blacksmithing Hall. Few were able to do Alchemy, but the number was insignificant compared to the rest.
The Ex-Sect Leader was without any support after this. The dissolution of the Proud Xiao Sect was so natural that it terrified Xiao Juetian.
All he could do was just watch how everything dissolved around him.
And then… HIS problems started to pile up!
His good-for-nothing fourth son and his army of wives and concubines with children have fallen on his lap to take care of!
Before he could figure out something a message was brought to him signed by Young Master Xiao. Its content is simple.
Xiao Kuangyun, his good-for-nothing son, has to take care of himself and support his harem on his own. Any interference or forceful removal of his harem by Xiao Kuangyun will be punished! Xiao Juetian and his family included!
In other words, when Xiao Juetian was spoiling his son, now he has to pay back for ignoring all those incidents…
"But father…" Xiao Kuangyun was terrified… very terrified… how will he take care of his 30+ (he forgot the number) harem!
"Kuangyun! Don't anger me more! I have no means to help you! Do you want to be crippled or worse, exiled?!"
Sadly for Xiao Juetian… he didn't realise how bad his son was…
The next day he was no longer in the clan. The Ex-Young Master had run away…
~~~~~~Xiao Long~~~~~~
"Young Master Xiao, Xiao Kuangyun has run away." One of the ex-Xiao Sect elders told me with a respectful tone.
Pity, that Xiao Juetian doesn't realise that I bought over the majority of his Sect In just a few days.
Everyone loves my pills. While I don't see much value in them, the rest do. So I will just use that to my advantage.
"That's a pity. I assume that the imprint is still on him?"
"Yes. Ex-Sect Master Juetian has an imprint on all his sons."
"Good. Then I shall use this to track him." As I said that I motioned him to hand it over.
The elder gave me a talisman.
While it's not a tracking device, it still has a connection to the imprint on Xiao Kuangyun.
So I just made a small array with the barrier walls surrounding the talisman, and a few paragraphs of runes appeared on these small walls.
Seconds later, the talisman started to point towards a single direction.
"There he is…"
At that moment the tattoo on my hand glowed and my Fire Dragon manifested.
The beast was no longer 100 metres long, it was barely around 70 metres now. However, its Cultivation was much more compressed, making it stronger than it was before.
"You summoned me?"
"Yes. There is something I need you to do." I spoke as I floated over and landed on the dragon's back.
"Let's fly, there is someone we need to terrify to death."
"Hmm, very well."
The Fire Dragon spread its wings and took off.
~~~
Xiao Kuangyun was running through the forest towards the direction of Cyan Forest Town.
His destination is the closest Xiao Sect Branch to his location. Which should be in New Moon City.
There is no way in hell he will take care of all those women! He is Xiao Sect Young Master, not some commoner!
Worst of all, his father doesn't do anything! Did he stop loving him!?
Regardless, he got enough of this, so he was running away where someone can take care of him!
*Roar*
Hearing that roar, the ex-Young Master felt that his soul left his body!
His gaze went up as he saw a Scarlet Dragon flying over him! It was massive and the Cultivation it was radiating was terrifying!
With a loud thud, the trees were destroyed and the beast landed in front of him.
The thing was huge and the temperature in the area Instantly went up. The beast's orange eyes looked at him as if he was trash.
It slowly leaned lower to his eye level.
The pair of bull-like horns were pointed at him though it was not charging at him, instead the person who was riding the dragon finally spoke.
The ex-Xiao Sect Young Master only now noticed that this dragon was not wild… it was a contracted beast.
"It's sad, truly. I had plans to torture you when your Sect finally came over.
"I was even excited with opportunities to test things on you."
"...Y-You…are the…"
"Xiao Long, your Young Master."
"...W-What is it you want!?" Xiao Kuangyun exclaimed with terror as the Dragon showed its razor-sharp teeth extremely hot air slammed into the ex-Young Master. It was strong enough for the poor guy to drop on his ass.
"For you to follow your betters. You didn't follow what your father said. Instead, you ran away. How could you be such an unfilial son?
"You bring shame to the family name Xiao. Such a worthless piece of trash. How are you going to face your ancestors in the afterlife?
"Truly worthless."
"I-I-I no-no-no…"
The guy shook his head before his eyes turned hollow. He then just spaced out, and collapsed on his back.
"..."
"..."
"His breathing stopped…"
The Fire Dragon said to me with disbelief.
"...You saying… I killed him with words?"
"...You humans are so fragile…"
"Right…"
Xiao Long said with an eye roll as he floated down from the dragon and walked over to see if it was truly dead.
"His heart stopped…"
The Young Master said with a frown as he did a scan.
"He might look like twenty years old but his organs were in his forties, maybe even older… just how big of a waste was he?"
"Pathetic…"
"You don't say…"
Crimson flames erupted from Xiao Long's hand as the roaring fire consumed the waste.
In just a few seconds there was nothing left.
"Let's go. It appears my entertainment was cut short. I can come up with something else in the meantime."
As the Young Master said that he went back on his dragon which the next second flew off.
~~~
Xiao Long's mood was not the best. In his eyes, the Xiao Sect wasn't punished enough. Yet, there is not that much he can do. The only one who is responsible for his ancestor's exile is Throne Xiao Wuqing and for the infiltration attempts the responsibility falls to Xiao Juetian.
So he can think of ways to deal with them. In the meantime, he has other things to do.
The Overlords have returned with goodies.
It took some time, as they needed to make sure they took everything of value from the Fortress.
The thing was that he didn't command them to destroy the Sect.
Not at all. They can still do business with him when they get some of the wealth back.
"Young Master. Here it is." The leading Overlord handed over a small bag of Storage Rings.
"Wonderful, you three can take some pills, it will be on the house."
They instantly smiled before walking over and taking some purifying pills.
Like always… Those pills are like Hot Cakes…
After the Overlords left with happy expressions, Xiao Long proceeded to check out the loot.
He took out the purple rings one after another. They were full of things like Profound Coins, all sorts of pills, crystals, and Profound Cores which ranged mostly between [Spirit Profound] and [Earth Profound].
Followed by the Thunderfire items. Which are just bombs…
Then spears, ranging from [True Profound] to [Sky Profound]. There were three Sky Profound weapons in total.
Wealth wise the Fortress was just a stage lower than Xiao Sect used before.
After all that, Xiao Long checked the wealth he acquired from Xiao Sect.
'There it is… let's see what this Thunderfire is.'
He pulled out the manuals for the arts. And started reading.
A small frown appeared on his face when he read this.
'The hell! They don't even have proper arts! This is just bomb-making!!!
'I thought they had some sort of Profound energy type which generates a mix of Thunder and Fire!'
Regardless he started to skim through the manuals, maybe he would find something.
One after another the books flew over his shoulder which was caught by his maids.
After a few minutes, he clicked his tongue and proceeded to read the Heavenly Spear manuals.
Maybe he can learn something from the spear arts?
All in all, he was disappointed… it appears it's not his day… his entertainment is useless as it died, then Heavenly Spear Thunderfire Fortress was a bust!
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