Xiao Chen was almost incinerated by the ladies at the outskirts of the wasteland. Meanwhile, the members of the Revival Nation were attacked by the Black Magic Pavilion in the Dark North Kingdom.
The tens of thousands of members of the Revival Nation were basically in the Dark North Kingdom and belonged to dozens of branches. Each branch was led by a Celestial Realm powerhouse or a Dragon Elephant Realm powerhouse. The Celestial Realm powerhouses and Dragon Elephant Realm powerhouses were all Hall Masters who reported directly to Xiao Haoran, the Branch Master.
The branches of the Revival Nation were not public but hidden. Apart from the members of the Revival Nation, outsiders did not know the specific location of the branch. Of course, if the members of the Revival Nation sold the base of the branch to outsiders, it would be a different story.
Ever since Xiao Chen and the rest left Shangri-La, the Revival Nation's branches were discovered by the powerhouses of the Black Magic Pavilion one after another. The powerhouses of the Black Magic Pavilion surrounded the Revival Nation's branches by several times and began to kill them. Naturally, the members of the Revival Nation would not sit still and wait for death. Hence, they fought back and broke out of the encirclement in a frenzy.
However, with the absolute advantage of the powerhouses of the Black Magic Pavilion, the counterattack of the Revival Nation's members was futile. It was even more impossible for them to break out of the encirclement. In the end, all the members of the Revival Nation who were surrounded by the powerhouses of the Black Magic Pavilion were killed, and the Black Magic Pavilion only paid a small price.
More than half a month ago, Xiao Haoran, Xue Wuhen, and Fiery Sky killed four people. After parting ways with Xiao Chen, the four of them entered the Barren City on foot and immediately felt that something was wrong. This was because they heard the people of the Barren City discussing that something big had happened to the palace.
The expressions of Xiao Haoran and the rest changed drastically. The Dark North Kingdom's palace was now a secret branch of the Revival Nation. Something happened to the palace, it meant that the Revival Nation was in trouble. The four of them did not bother to ask the passersby what exactly had happened to the palace and rushed to the palace at full speed.
When the four of them arrived at the palace, what appeared before them was a horrifying scene of a hellish slaughterhouse. The huge palace was filled with corpses. Some of these corpses were dressed like palace guards, some were dressed like cultivators, and some were dressed in black robes. However, the number of black-robed cultivator corpses was very small.
At a glance, Xiao Haoran recognized that the black-robed martial artist was an expert from the Black Magic Pavilion. He immediately understood that the Black Magic Pavilion had launched a surprise attack on the palace. When he discovered that there were no survivors in the palace, he was furious. The Black Magic Pavilion had actually taken advantage of his absence to wipe out the members of the Restoration Nation in the palace.
The Black Magic Pavilion was very cold-blooded and cruel. Once it made a move against any force, it would basically go all out and kill everything. The Dark North Kingdom's royal palace was completely slaughtered by the Black Magic Pavilion. Even the puppet Huangfu family was not spared.
A total of three thousand people in the palace were killed, while the corpses of the Black Magic Pavilion's experts were only a few dozen. It was conceivable that the Black Magic Pavilion had either sent out several times the number of troops or sent out many high-level martial artists to achieve such a fruitful result.
Xiao Haoran and the other three were heartbroken at the loss of the royal palace. However, when they learned that the other dozens of branches had also suffered a heavy blow, they went berserk!
The four of them ran around for a few days and went to more than forty branches. Finally, after calculating the losses of the Restoration Nation, they discovered that out of more than forty Hall Masters, five Celestial Realm experts, and three Dragon Elephant Realm experts had survived. There were less than twenty percent of the middle and low-level members left. In other words, the Restoration Nation had less than four thousand members left from the twenty thousand members.
Moreover, the eight Hall Masters and four thousand members who came were lucky and didn't stay in the branches. If they had stayed in the branches, the Restoration Nation might have been completely wiped out.
After Xiao Haoran and the other three Hall Masters recovered from their rage, doubts arose in their hearts. The Restoration Nation's branches were all secret bases. Apart from the Restoration Nation's members, no one else knew the location of their branches. They didn't even know the existence of the Restoration Nation. This was something Xiao Haoran had strictly forbidden to make public.
In addition, apart from the Hall Masters, Elders, and Branch Masters, the other middle and low-level members only knew the branch they were in. They didn't know the location of the other branches at all. This way, they could prevent the other branches from being unaffected if one branch was exposed.
Now, a suspicious point had appeared. According to the information Xiao Haoran and the other three Hall Masters had gathered, all forty-three branches of the Restoration Nation had been ambushed or directly attacked by the Black Magic Pavilion's experts within three days. There were more than ten branches that had been attacked at the same time.
This result could only mean one thing. The Black Magic Pavilion had grasped the location of all the Restoration Nation's branches in advance.
This matter was a little shocking!
According to the Black Magic Pavilion's modus operandi, every time they discovered a branch, they would immediately dispatch experts to destroy it. There was no reason for them to wait until they had grasped all forty-three branches before launching an all-out attack. Moreover, finding all forty-three branches was easier said than done.
The Restoration Nation's branches weren't all in the cities. More than half of them were in mountain villages or villas outside the cities. Even in the cities, they existed under the guise of merchants, martial arts centers, small family clans, or commoners. This was a method of self-protection and strengthening.
Reality had proven that the Restoration Nation's concealment method was very successful. Originally, the Restoration Nation only had a few hundred members. After ten years of expansion, it had grown to over twenty thousand members. These members weren't necessarily martial artists, but they were definitely loyal to the former Divine King's dynasty.
How could the Black Magic Pavilion so easily discover all the branches of such a secretive organization? There could only be one reason, and that was that a traitor had appeared in the Restoration Nation. Furthermore, the traitor had appeared in the upper echelons of the Restoration Nation.
Currently, the Restoration Nation only had eight Hall Masters, three Elders, and one Branch Leader. The Branch Leader was Xiao Haoran, and the identity of the traitor was directly revealed. The three Elders were Xue Wuhen, Heaven Killer, and Heaven Fiery. These three were all well-known experts on the continent that Xiao Haoran had invited. There was no reason for them to become the Black Magic Pavilion's lackeys.
This meant that the traitor had appeared in one of the eight surviving Hall Masters. However, the problem was that Xiao Haoran discovered that the eight surviving Hall Masters were all his old subordinates. In other words, they were all experts of the Xiao Family. It didn't seem possible for a traitor to appear in the Xiao Family, right?
Who the traitor was? This was a mystery!
Of course, the traitor could also be another Hall Master. This was because Xiao Haoran hadn't discovered the corpses of all the Hall Masters. Perhaps the traitor was one of the missing Hall Masters. If he could find all the missing Hall Masters, it would be easier to investigate the traitor who had caused the deaths of over ten thousand members of the Restoration Nation.
If there wasn't a traitor in the Restoration Nation, then it had to be said that the Black Magic Pavilion had remarkable abilities. They had actually investigated all the branches of the Restoration Nation and kept the Restoration Nation in the dark.
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