Five days had passed since the Cult of Destiny was annihilated.
During this time, the cult storm in Tiannan Province gradually subsided. But there were still a lot of follow-up matters caused by the cult.
In the two villages of the cult's headquarters, the various shelters followed the clues and used some backtracking and tracking abilities to find out the identity of some human awakened who had secretly joined the Ghost Hand Clan.
Some were even the shelter's higher-ups, and some even stayed in the legion to annihilate the cult.
An extremely small number of them had already escaped before their identities were discovered. Most of the traitors who were discovered were captured and imprisoned.
The major shelters also launched a power shuffle. The traitors were all powerful people, either the shelter's middle and upper echelons, or large mercenary regiments' leaders, deputy leaders, top hunters, and so on.
According to the information from the interrogation, these people were suddenly found by the Ghost Hand Clan at different times.
They were asked to capture a sufficient number of children with high qualifications. In exchange, the Ghost Hand Clan could give them stronger power.
Power, indeed.
Those traitors possessed a way to easily become stronger in a short period of time, and they were even more eager to taste it.
They couldn't stop, so they worked harder.
"Are there any side effects to this kind of forced increase in power?"
Tang Yu asked.
In the territory's newly built prison, there were nearly ten traitors. One of them was a Fourth Era powerhouse with a full Twelfth Awakening combat power. If he hadn't run into the Tree Shade Regiment rushing to the village when he escaped, he wouldn't have been caught.
Most of the Fourth Era powerhouses and Ghost Hand Clan members of this level, except for those who were killed by him underground, had already escaped without a trace.
The other shelter legions couldn't stop them at all.
Roger was also the Warden.
He frowned, "There's a strange power in those people. It's this power that constantly transforms their bodies and gives them combat power far beyond the same level.
For the time being, I can't see the side effects of this power. It's neither overdraft potential nor corrode vitality. But their bodies have been transformed and have a tendency to gradually deviate from human characteristics. "
Back in Luoxia, the Skeleton Clan also used power as bait to make a group of ordinary people stronger and sell their lives for them.
But the side effects of becoming stronger are extremely strong. If an ordinary person is forcibly promoted to the Triple Awakening Stage, their lifespan is only about one year. If they are forcibly promoted to the Fourth Awakening Stage, their lifespan is only about eight months, and the Fifth Awakening Stage is less than three months.
It was a forceful upgrade at the cost of one's vitality.
Although the Ghost-Hand Clan's power granted to the traitor was much slower, it was still relatively faster. Compared to cultivation, it was dozens of times faster. This kind of buy-like improvement actually had no side effects?
Tang Yu didn't believe it.
His current strength was obtained step by step through diligent cultivation. His valiant combat ability was also painstakingly improved after experiencing many battles.
There was no shortcut to becoming stronger!
"Did you dig out any other information?"
"The humans who defected to the Ghost-Hand Clan know very little information, including those from the Fourth Era. But a few Ghost-Hand Clan elites that were captured know a lot."
Roger paused, "There are a total of more than 600 people in the Ghost Hand Clan. There are indeed four Transcendents. The strongest one is an Elder in the Ghost Hand Clan. As for their Patriarch, he's in the second stage of Transcendence, but he's not necessarily the strongest in the clan. However, it's now confirmed that the passage has a capacity limit. The stronger the person who passes through, the more unstable the passage will be."
"As for the blood sacrifice, it's said that the younger one is, the lower the strength, and the higher the aptitude, the more the world favors them. That's why the Ghost Hand Clan chose children. But the blood sacrifice is not to improve their strength. The specific purpose of the blood sacrifice should be out of the reach of the Ghost Hand Clan. No matter how they interrogate them, there's no result."
Tang Yu let out a sigh.
There's too little information to guess.
If only he could catch the Ghost Hand Clan's Transcendents.
After Roger left, Tang Yu focused his attention elsewhere.
This time, all the major shelters suffered heavy losses. It was estimated that at least 30% of their high-end combat power was lost. Some of them even lost more than half. Later, some spies were found in the shelters, making their high-end combat power even weaker.
Every shelter was silently licking their wounds.
They regretted the encirclement and suppression of the Cult of Destiny. Not only that, but they also had to thank the Tree Shade for their help. Otherwise, the shelter's coalition army would've been annihilated.
The Tree Shade Shelter's name was truly resounding in the Tiannan area. It even spread to the neighboring Xilin Province.
Four Transcendents!
In the era when other shelters didn't even have the 12th and 13th Layers, the Tree Shade Shelter had four Transcendents who were more terrifying than strategic weapons!
They couldn't afford to offend them.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Tang Yu began to lay out his plans in the Tiannan Province. He established branches of the Extreme Martial Arts School and the Adventurer's Guild in each shelter.
There were martial arts schools, cultivation clubs, combat training halls, and other similar halls in each shelter. Although the Extreme Martial Arts School's presence would damage some people's interests, it was only a small number of people.
As for the Adventurer's Guild, the impact was relatively large. It was completely competing with the shelter's official Mercenary Association for business. The Mercenary Association had the authority to manage and control idle hunters. Under normal circumstances, the Adventurer's Guild would definitely be boycotted by the local forces. But Tang Yu had chosen a good time.
The shelter's main legion was saved by the Tree Shade Shelter. Now they wouldn't even agree to open a small guild branch hall there. Are you guys too arrogant, or are we Transcendents too weak to fight?
Ping Liang and other shelters had no choice but to agree.
Tang Yu had secretly decided to grab business from Ping Liang and other shelters. As for Lindong and other shelters, their cooperation was quite good, and the distance was close. It didn't matter if they built a branch hall or not.
In addition to establishing the martial arts school and the Adventurer's Guild, Tang Yu also asked the intelligence department to cooperate with the municipal department officials to recruit survivors in the major shelters. This time, there was no need to be sneaky. It was completely blatant.
"It's still a transportation problem. With the current reputation of the Tree Shade, if it weren't for the danger in the wilderness, those survivors and hunters would definitely come to the Tree Shade by themselves."
Fortunately, there was an airship that was able to transport survivors from hundreds of kilometers away to the Tree Shade. If they used ordinary vehicles to transport survivors, they don't know how many escorts would be needed along the way. And the speed was slow. A round trip would take more than a week. Unlike the airship, which could travel several times a day.
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