Enraged Emperor, Calm Sect Master
In a Majestic Palace, there sat a man on a golden dragon seat.
The man was emitting an emperor's aura, he looked down on people beneath him and opened his voice that terrified everyone in the room.
"You are telling me that 121 Golden Core cultivators and 1 Nascent Soul Realm Cultivator... Just disappeared?!." said the man on the seat in an angry voice.
"Ye...s... Your Majesty." Answered a minister of the empire with his head low.
Noone dared to discuss anything, everyone kept their heads down and waited.
"Do you know where they went?" asked the Emperor.
"W..We Kno.." A minister was attempting to answer.
"SPEAK WITH WORDS! ARE YOU THIS USELESS!" Shouted the Emperor enrage.
"3 of the families were extremely loyal, even my son is married to the daughter of the Luo Family." Said the Emperor in rage.
"Yes sir, we know they headed towards Mount Screaming Smith." answered another minister, he was an intelligence minister.
Everyone was once again quiet.
Not a Sound.
Then, the Emperor spoke once again.
"What a shitty name, explain never heard of the place." said the emperor.
"Your Majesty, this mountain was given the name over 150 years ago... It is a mountain near our border to the unclaimed land." Said the Minister of Intelligence.
Once again, the Emperor was silent.
"Minster Zuo, Send two Peak Infant Stage and 10 Soul egg Cultivators to investigate, anything found, you must not engage but report back." The Emperor gave an order.
"Yes your majesty, Your command will be done." said Minister Zuo after this he walked backward, never turning his back on the emperor while bowing, and exited the building from a side door.
After a few minutes of wait, the Emperor got back into the meeting and it did not end for 2 days.
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A Thousand Miles away inside the Gale Sword Sect, the sect master was holding a meeting as well.
"Sect Master, I am sorry for your loss." Said a middle-aged woman, she was the 4th elder of Gale Sword Sect.
The Sect master did not respond, he looked up and said "The World of cultivation is dangerous, I felt that his fate was soon ending but did not expect it to be the following day."
"Sect Master, do you know what killed Elder Feng?" asked another elder.
"No, but we are about to see, I infused a part of my soul into him. We can only see this once." said the Sect Master in a serious manner.
A holographic display suddenly appeared middle of the hall, there were 11 elders and sect master watching the screen.
They saw Feng Luo knock on the door, and the door opened showing a majestic scene.
The next moment an Iron man appeared on the door with a book in his hand, the formation master saw the little context of the book and was amazed but kept quiet.
They saw Feng Luo showing respect and the Iron man responding.
"What do you seek?"
they heard Feng Luo's response asking for a chance of increasing cultivation but they agreed such response sounded greedy.
The next moment they heard the Iron man say "Greed, I See. and the next moment the screen turned blank.
Everyone recollected what they saw.
"Sect Master, we need revenge, they acted out of line." Said a middle-aged man, he was the youngest elder at the peak-infant stage.
"Elder Xing, it was unreasonable to kill, but it seems they wanted to know one know of their place..." responded the Sect Master.
"Sect Master, the book the Iron man held, it held amazing context of arrays." said sect formation master.
"it's not that, that wasn't a life form it was a golem at the late-child stage." said another man he was the smith of the sect.
"The door itself was the most amazing, it definitely was 6th grade." said another elder.
"It was 7th grade." Replied the Sect Master in a calm manner.
Every person in the hall looked at the sect master shocked.
"7th grade? are you sure Sect Master?" asked an elder.
"Yes, I cannot break that door." Replied the sect master once again.
"Sect Master, You a Soul Transformation Cultivator, can't do it?" asked the 4th elder in doubt.
"You are young, when this sect was at the peak stage, I was just an inner court student a Nascent Soul Realm, But the Battle of demons reduced our sect and I survived."
after a brief few seconds, the sect master continued.
"seeing seventh-grade artifacts were common, it may be common to see outside but in these barren lands after the general demon was sealed, we lost too much Qi and it seems a senior may live in that building."
"Remember, we do not know the power of this senior and we have time, there is no rush for revenge, let other sects shame us for not taking quick action, if we did, we would just look like young immature impatient juniors."
After the sect master had finished his little advice, everyone left the hall and the sect master was alone.
"Haa... another disciple of mine is gone, It seems that I won't take another. I do not want to outlive them again." the old man was being melancholic, he had lost all his disciples either by age or the disciple's foolish choices.
....
Twelve men suddenly entered a cave and saw hundreds of bodies cut in half, they had rotten away but not eaten and they knew it was because of the aura of the cave, they felt fear within the cave.
The twelve men left the bodies not wanting to disturb the danger within the cave and they headed back towards the capital.
Inside the capital, a man entered a room, this room was an office that looked like a scholar's room with a desk and chair with a book cabinet behind him.
"Minister Zuo, we found the location of the families... they are all dead, quick action one strike." the man speaking was the intelligence agent, he had a mask on but his body was slim, it looked like he could fit in any sized box if he felt like.
"Thank you, you may go." Minister Zuo kept a cold face instructing the agent to leave.
The agent left the room and Minister Zuo slammed his desk, breaking it in half.
"Fuck... now I got to deal with this shit!" Minister Zuo was furious, he already had a lot in his hands but now there were more problems.
A few hours later Minster Zuo had requested an audience with his majesty to report to him and the rest of the minister of the situation.
Once again inside the palace sat the emperor, he was looking at the kneeling minister.
"Minister Zuo... Speak." The emperor spoke slowly but emitting a strong aura behind each word.
"Your Majesty, the agents reported all of the bodies missing were dead, killed by a single strike. It has been deducted the person responsible must at least have a high-grade earth weapon or at least middle-child stage cultivation stage." Minister Zuo then continued once again.
"The agents also reported, they found a door at the end of the tunnel the families entered and they believed it to be a middle to high-grade Great Earth artifact." After saying his words, Minister Zuo kept his head down waiting for a response.
Suddenly an aura of Soul Formation stage was released and the minister within the hall either collapsed or spat a mouthful of blood.
"A MARE NASCENT SOUL CULTIVATOR DARES TO KILL MY PEOPLE! MY PEOPLE!" Shouted the Emperor, he was enraged.
"Minister of war! Send the 5th Unit to the cave and ask for an explanation also hire formation masters to crack that door! GO!" Commanded the Emperor.
"Yes, your majesty." The man left the hall while bleeding and everyone else in the hall left one by one.