"Let's not mention the matters of the past."
Ke Zheng shook his head, and then he said, "Since everyone is here, then it's time for us to leave."
"Elder Ke, why don't all of you have lunch before leaving?"
Shen Dong urged Ke Zheng to stay.
"There's no need … Genearch Shen, thank you for your hospitality these past few days."
Ke Zheng nodded to Shen Dong, and then he called out to Duan Lingtian and the others before walking out.
"Genearch Shen, farewell."
Duan Lingtian brought along Ye Xuan and bid farewell to Shen Dong before following Ke Zheng.
Chen Wei hurriedly followed as well.
The group of four soared up into the sky from the Shen Clan Estate and headed west.
On the way, Duan Lingtian couldn't help but ask curiously. "Elder Ke, are we returning to the Five Element Sect or going somewhere else?"
"I'll send all of you to Settlement City first. Our Wood Peak has a base there … The two people we recruited not long ago are there as well."
Ke Zheng said.
"Yes."
Duan Lingtian nodded.
"Elder Ke, tell me about the situation in the Five Element Sect?"
Duan Lingtian asked.
Ke Zheng nodded, and then he introduced. "Our Five Element Sect is divided into the metal, wood, water, fire, and earth peaks. Besides the metal peak being the main peak of the Sect Master's line, the other four peaks are of equal status and are controlled by the four Peak Masters."
"The four peaks have always been in a state of competition, and in the last 20 years, it's our Wood Peak that has fallen into a disadvantageous position."
When he spoke up to here, Ke Zheng sighed heavily.
In next to no time, Duan Lingtian obtained a certain level of understanding of the Five Element Sect's Wood Peak from Ke Zheng and Chen Wei, and he knew that it was once the most brilliant peak beneath the metal peak.
However, 20 plus years ago, the Wood Peak's Master was heavily injured outside and returned to enter closed door cultivation, causing the Wood Peak to start going downhill.
First, the outstanding disciples of the Wood Peak were poached away by the other three peaks, and then the other three peaks intentionally joined forces to suppress the Wood Peak, causing the Wood Peak to be reduced to the lowest ranked peak for a time.
Even though the experts of the older generation of the Wood Peak were still present, the younger generation seemed to be lacking when compared to the other three peaks.
"A force, even if it is a small force that was separated from the same sect, once the younger generation is unable to carry on, it means that it will decline."
Ke Zheng sighed.
"Why don't you just recruit some more genius disciples? As long as we spend more time, we can still find talented disciples. "
Duan Lingtian said.
"We're naturally aware of this, and we've indeed done this … But those genius disciples hadn't even warmed up a seat in our Wood Peak when they were poached away by the other three peaks."
Ke Zheng smiled bitterly.
"What about Jin Feng, who is from the Sect Master's faction, who doesn't care?"
Duan Lingtian asked with a frown.
"This is something you don't know … In our Five Element Sect, there's a tradition that has always been passed down: the five peaks exist together and compete with each other. Besides the disciples of the various peaks being prohibited from casually killing and crippling each other, and the seniors being prohibited from making a move against the juniors, there aren't many other restrictions. "
"Since the beginning, Jin Feng has always been the deserving number one peak in our Five Element Sect, and its status is impossible to shake … The other four peaks have always been competing openly and covertly. 20 years ago, our Wood Peak became the target of the joint suppression of the other three peaks, and this suppression caused us to be unable to catch our breath for 20 plus years. "
When he spoke up to here, Ke Zheng sighed.
Duan Lingtian came to a sudden understanding, and he was able to understand the Wood Peak's situation for a time.
As expected of a power of the Foreign Lands. It's only a third-rate power, yet the competition is so intense … Perhaps, it's precisely because of this that the Five Element Sect was able to develop until today.
Duan Lingtian thought to himself.
If it was a sect that was too peaceful and peaceful, then perhaps it could be domineering for a while, yet it was bound to fall after a few tens of years or over a hundred years.
It was for no other reason than the disciples of the younger generation of the sect didn't have passion and motivation.
No wonder Elder Ke looked at me like a hunter that had seen its prey … So it turns out that he wants to make the Wood Peak rise once more through me.
Duan Lingtian laughed bitterly. Even though thinking like this was slightly arrogant, Ke Zheng obviously had such thoughts.
The competition between the various peaks of the Five Element Sect was mainly between the younger generation.
The experts of the older generation rarely made a move, and it wasn't convenient for them to make a move.
Perhaps the current strength of the younger generation was far inferior to the experts of the older generation, but they were the future pillars of the sect, and they were the foundation that allowed the sect to continue flourishing.
Once I arrive at the Five Element Sect's Wood Peak, my days will probably not be peaceful.
Duan Lingtian thought to himself.
Of course, he wasn't afraid, and he was slightly anticipating it instead.
In next to no time, an entire morning had passed, and Duan Lingtian's group of four had left Driftcloud Town to arrive in the sky above a continuous mountain range with a complicated terrain.
"Hmm?"
Suddenly, Duan Lingtian who was traveling side by side with Ke Zheng and Chen Wei couldn't help but frown, and he seemed to have noticed something.
"Watch out!"
Ke Zheng shouted out in a low voice as he warned.
Instantly, Chen Wei seemed as if he was facing a great enemy, and a 7m long spear appeared out of thin air in his hand. Flowing lights revolved around the tip of the spear, and the weapon he used was exactly the same as his father.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
…
Numerous swift figures appeared in the surroundings of Duan Lingtian's group of four in the blink of an eye, and they surrounded them tightly.
This was a group of middle aged men in plain clothes with cold and indifferent expressions, and the gazes they shot at Duan Lingtian's group of four seemed as if they were looking at the four of them.
"Bandits?"
Duan Lingtian's brows raised, and he'd guessed the identities of these people at the first possible moment.
Before he left the Foreign Lands, he'd found out from the memories of the Emperor Wu of Samsara that bandits frequently appeared in some remote places in the Foreign Lands.
These bandits only had a single objective, and it was to use formidable martial strength to kill martial artists that passed by and seize the wealth of those martial artists.
Simply speaking, this was a group of desperadoes that specialized in 'profitless business'. They licked the blood from their blades and hung their heads on their waists to earn a huge amount of wealth.
Duan Lingtian had always stayed in Driftcloud Town and didn't leave by himself, as he was worried that he'd encounter these 'bandits'.
If the bandits were weaker than him, then so be it, he'd just directly kill them.
If the bandits were stronger than him, then he could only become a lamb waiting to be slaughtered, without the slightest chance of survival.
"Elder Brother Duan."
Seeing so many people surrounding them, Ye Xuan's face turned pale. She was the daughter of the Yeh family that grew up with a silver spoon in her mouth, when had she ever seen such a scene?
"Xiao Xuan, come onto Elder Brother Duan's back."
At the first possible moment, Duan Lingtian noticed that Ye Xuan was terrified to the point her body started to tremble slightly, and he instantly called out to Ye Xuan to get onto his back.
Ye Xuan leaned on Duan Lingtian's back and wrapped her arms around Duan Lingtian's neck before her mood calmed down slightly.
Duan Lingtian took a deep breath and stretched out his Spiritual Force to clearly investigate all the bandits that surrounded them at the first possible moment.
There was a total of nine people.
One at the seventh level of the Void Interpretation Stage.
Three at the sixth level of the Void Interpretation Stage.
The remaining were all at the fourth and fifth level of the Void Interpretation Stage.
"What a formidable group of bandits!"
Duan Lingtian gasped in his heart as he never imagined that the first wave of bandits he encountered in the Foreign Lands would possess such a terrifying strength.
Duan Lingtian didn't know.
This wasn't the first wave of bandits he encountered since arriving in the Foreign Lands.
After he was devilified by the Devilseal Tablet earlier and left Feng Wu Dao and completely lost consciousness, he'd encountered many waves of bandits with strengths that weren't inferior to this group of bandits on the way to Driftcloud Town.
It was even to the extent that there were a few existences at the Void Transformation Stage.
However, without exception, those bandits were all killed by him as soon as they appeared after he demonized them.
"Kill!"
The seventh level Void Interpretation Stage bandit in the lead didn't waste his breath and directly gave the order.
Instantly, the other eight bandits pounced towards Duan Lingtian's group of four.
In the sky, vast ancient horned dragon silhouettes appeared and swept towards them, and it even blocked out more than half of the sunlight in the horizon.
"Those three are at the fourth level of the Void Interpretation Stage."
He didn't have the slightest intention of making a move, and he instead pointed towards three of the bandits that charged over and spoke to Chen Wei.
Subsequently, he looked at Duan Lingtian and asked. "Besides the one in the lead, the strongest amongst the other five is only at the sixth level of the Void Interpretation Stage … How many can you deal with?"
Obviously, the old man wanted to test Duan Lingtian's strength.
Up until now, the old man hadn't seen Duan Lingtian make a move, and he only knew that Duan Lingtian had once defeated the Shen Clan's Patriarch and the Shen Clan's Supreme Elder.
The Shen Clan's Supreme Elder was a sixth level Void Interpretation Stage martial artist.
"Senior, besides the one in the lead … Leave the others to me."
Duan Lingtian smiled confidently, and as soon as he finished speaking, his eyes started to flicker with a dim light, and vast Spiritual Force pierced into the soul brand in the depths of his mind.
Thousand Illusions!
An illusory space was constructed out of thin air by Duan Lingtian, and it enveloped an area of a few tens of meters.
The nine bandits clearly appeared within the range of Duan Lingtian's Spiritual Force.
Besides the seventh level Void Interpretation Stage bandit in the lead, he was able to affect the other bandits with his soul skill and cause them to fall into an illusory space.
When Duan Lingtian executed his soul skill, Thousand Illusions, Ke Zheng and Chen Wei were both shocked by Duan Lingtian's words.
Ke Zheng couldn't help but frown, and he felt that Duan Lingtian was too arrogant.
"Alas … I misjudged in the end?"
Ke Zheng sighed in his heart, and the Origin Energy in his body started to roil as he was prepared to make a move against the group of bandits that charged over at any moment.
Obviously, he didn't believe Duan Lingtian's boasting.
But in next to no time, he was stunned.
Chen Wei was stunned as well.
Ye Xuan, who tightly embraced Duan Lingtian's neck and lay on Duan Lingtian's back, was originally terrified by the group of bandits to the point she couldn't help but close her eyes.
But when she curiously opened her eyes to look outside, she instead saw a scene that she would never be able to forget in her lifetime.
Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!
…
The eight bandits that charged over abruptly stopped in midair, and their eyes revealed bewilderment, as if they'd suddenly lost their target.
Subsequently, they went berserk successively and attacked their former companions, and the surging strength that was on the verge of erupting completely poured out.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
…
A terrifying strength tore through the sky and gave rise to a wave of ear piercing explosions, and it was the three sixth level Void Interpretation Stage bandits that had joined forces to kill their five companions.
"What're all of you doing?!"
The bandit leader that wasn't affected by Duan Lingtian's soul skill was stunned for a moment when he saw this scene, and then his face went grim as he roared with a grim voice.
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