"I can't say that we're sponsoring. After all, we're also tight on funds right now. We have a few hundred thousand people we need to look after, and we don't have enough equipment to provide for them. If you're willing, we can work together."
"When you say work together, do you mean…?" Teacher stared at Dream Clouds hesitantly.
Dream Clouds watched the man who had been drinking quietly all this while. "Allow me to introduce to you this man. He is Drifting Sword, the sect master of White Robe Sect, and he appeared in Yangzhou just the day before yesterday. I remember the possibility that there might be very few people in the game in the future who can fight against Mu Clan, and it fills me with worry. To prevent Mu Clan from monopolizing the entire game, we're prepared to set up an alliance."
"An alliance?" Teacher was puzzled. "But we're from America—"
"It's fine, all our friends from America can join our Chinese sects. As long as you agree to send hundreds of elites into the Chinese server and join Class One Hall, I will take charge and give a city's worth of resources to provide you with the best environment to increase your strength."
Right when she finished speaking, Teacher's eyebrows twitched, and he was tempted!
"Hundreds?"
"That's right. We need elites with your skills." Dream Clouds was full of smiles.
Even though these people could not win against Drifting Sword in a one on one fight, and they could not even win against Evil Wolf, once they switched all their equipment to masterpieces at the fourth echelon, their strength will increase by leaps and bounds, and the situation will be different.
With this group of amazing soldiers in hand, given time, she was confident that she could destroy Mu Clan!
Chapter 774 - Calm
The entire game now paid attention to the distribution of Towering Palace's former territory.
The southern cities in the coastal area were mainly occupied by Chivalry Sect and Wind and Rain Alliance. They controlled the territory and resource points after Towering Palace retreated from the picture. The eastern cities in the coastal area were controlled by Mu Clan and Wind Assault Tower. They worked together with some of the large local sects to control the resources over there.
Just like this, one week passed.
*****
Wind Chimes carried her casket with a feeble grip while she followed behind Silver Wolf in Mu Clan's branch inside Yangzhou City. She arrived outside an ancient tomb outside Yangzhou City.
"Is this the place?"
Wind Chimes might have taken Illusion Life and Death Pill, but all the martial arts she learned were gone, and now, even a normal Mystical Realm noob was better than she was.
Silver Wolf turned his head around and nodded. "You'll be training here. I've already had someone lock down the area nearby, and no one will come and bother you."
For this, he had even taken the initiative to run errands for her and lure the Stone Giants as well as Dirt Puppets nearby and create the safest and fastest environment for Wind Chimes to train.
"Okay." Wind Chimes brought out her repaired demonic zither in a familiar motion and placed her hands gently on the zither strings before she began to play in an orderly fashion.
The large group of Stone Giants looked as if they had been blown by a sharp breeze under the attacks of the sound waves. Faint powder fell down from their bodies continuously.
Layers of powder was continuously blown away in the air!
This was the initial damage in the demonic sounds. The damage was incredibly weak, and it was the same as scratching these Stone Giants. They absolutely did not have the former spirit and power that allowed her to command the wind and clouds as well as kill everything in every direction.
After playing for a while, Wind Chimes was already exhausted. She stared at the Stone Giants who were unaffected and were continuously attacking Silver Wolf, who was among them. There was a resigned look on her face. "It's so slow…"
"We'll do it slowly. After all, we have time." Silver Wolf opened his eyes and comforted her gently, "I'll just use this time to practice my qi cultivation technique and body fortification."
"I don't have any strength any more…"
"Alright. If you're tired, you can rest for a while," Silver Wolf answered in an incredibly doting tone.
Wind Chimes seemed to be unable to get used to this strange atmosphere between them. Her face turned red. "Big Brother Silver Wolf, where did Happy go? Is he still busy with Towering Palace?"
"Towering Palace?"
When Silver Wolf heard this name, he remembered that night, and a cold glare shone in his eyes, but he soon became calm once more. "He's not busy with them anymore. Towering Palace has now been forced to only a few northern east cities in the coastal area by Wind Assault Tower and other large sects. Their members have decreased to fewer than thirty thousand, and even Vast Heaven and Grim Green, both of whom are top-ranking Dragon Rank players, have left Towering Palace. The Music sisters can only rely on Class One Hall's might in the north to survive. They won't pose as any threat to Mu Clan, and Happy doesn't intend to kill them off immediately." He might have said this, but Silver Wolf knew that this was actually a compromise.
Class One Hall was intimidated by Mu Clan, and they did not dare take the initiative to attack Mu Clan.
But Mu Clan had also sacrificed a lot of people this time. They lost one-third of their elites, and these elites were no longer suited to fight against Class One Hall. If they tried to devour Towering Palace fully until not a single bit of them was left, the clash between two top-class sects will be inevitable.
But there was something different between Class One Hall and Towering Palace!
Class One Hall had a very strong core!
If they were truly engaged in war, Mu Clan will win, and the losses they suffered will be very great.
In this sort of situation, if Happy did not want the foreign organizations to be involved in the Chinese world of martial artists, maintaining the current balance was necessary.
The territories Towering Palace occupied served as a buffering zone for them.
Towering Palace did not dare enter Wind Assault Tower's territory recklessly, and Wind Assault Tower also exercised a lot of restraint because Class One Hall's main camp was right behind supporting Towering Palace.
Hence, the coastal area finally regained peace slowly.
"What has Happy been busy with over the past few days? Is he prepared to attack Class One Hall?" Wind Chimes stared at Silver Wolf in great curiosity.
Silver Wolf shook his head. "Recently, Wind Assault Tower sent news saying that the people from Dragon Sect seem to have been mingling with Class One Hall. White Robe Sect's elite, Drifting Sword also seems to be among them. We've lost quite a number of elites this time, and even if we fight, we won't be able to, because the losses will be too great."
"Okay." Wind Chimes nodded quietly.
"Besides, we'll be missing Demonic Sound Duchess in the battlefield, and that means Mu Clan will have one less trump card. No matter what, we'll have to wait until you get better." Silver Wolf laughed.
"Tsk." Wind Chimes rolled her eyes and turned her head around. There was no way she could not tell that Silver Wolf was trying to comfort her.
Silver Wolf also did not mention where Happy was, because even he did not know what Happy had been up to recently.
Ever since the matter in Towering Palace came to an end, Happy secretly headed north, but no one knew just where he went, and no one revealed any news of seeing him either.
"Are you done resting?"
"Yup." Wind Chimes earnestly placed her zither on her knees, and she began playing rhythmically. Her notes gradually became louder, and she quickly began leaving fine gashes on the large group of Stone Giants.
The damage within her demonic sounds increased slightly!
*****
At that moment, something strange happened at Sky Demon Branch, which was thousands of miles away from where Silver Wolf was.
A number of Mu Clan members in Sky Demon Branch noticed that ever since Happy left, Branch Master Rampaging Dragon, who had been keeping watch over Sky Demon Branch, had not appeared outside Sky Demon Branch for a few days. It was as if he had disappeared.
However, Vice Branch Master Eleventh Crane, Knife, and the others received the task to take over Rampaging Dragon's job. At the same time they managed Sky Demon Branch, they were also in charge of the missions inside Sky Demon Secret Cave.
Knife, Bar, and Thunder's equipment and strength secured the top three spots in Sky Demon Branch, and they had even surpassed Rampaging Dragon. They were already the main force for the missions in Sky Demon Secret Cave, and they were known as the Sky Demon Trio.
But there was currently one person in the underground clan prison within Sky Demon Branch. He was drenched in sweat, and he fought against an Inaction Realm elite with a saber in hand and a resolute gaze in his eyes. If any outside came over, they will definitely be shocked to find that the Inaction Realm martial artists trapped in this place were all evil cult elders from Sky Demon Secret Cave.
Ever since that day, Rampaging Dragon never went out. He would fight against the evil cult great elder day and night in shifts to practice a martial art Happy gave him before he left—Great Saber Breaker Art!
This was an ultimate technique taken from the mighty northern clan's Jinjiu and Yinshi.
Rampaging Dragon knew very clearly that once he mastered this martial art, he might have the chance to surpass Knife, Bar, and Thunder, which was why he did not spend a lot of time resting every day, but instead spent all his time in training this martial art and leveling Great Saber Breaker Art.
There were two Great Saber Breaker Arts, and Happy gave them all away. In the distant West Region was Phoenix Dances, who was also tirelessly leveling Great Saber Breaker Art and heading to her goal as a top-class fighter in World of Martial Arts.
Chapter 775 - Sword of Heavenly Lake Faction
World of Martial Arts was filled with endless fortuitous encounters and variables!
Happy knew this very well. An incredibly powerful fighter might pop out at any moment, and they might even be a very powerful enemy, but they could also move past the area like shooting stars and not leave behind too much heat.
Take, for example, Barren Murderer.
In Happy's previous life, he was just a normal but great player with the title of a king. He only relied on his Undying King of Abyss Art to become one of the top, and in this life, he shone with an even more brilliant light.
He had with his Undying King of Abyss Art and Heaven and Earth Great Shift!
With two ultimate techniques, his strength increased by several fold.
The Twin Female and Male Demons' Undying Seals and Great Sky Demon Art might soon push them to stand among the top of the Chinese world of martial artists as well.
All this caused Happy to not easily relax and become full of himself.
Even though nearly half of the Chinese world of martial artists was in Mu Clan's hands, Happy only sensed that the burden on his shoulders had become heavier.
In the beginning, he only entered the game purely for the sake of revenge, and he continued to use Happy as his in-game name to concoct his plan to take revenge on Class One Hall based on how events progressed in his previous life. As time passed, taking revenge was no longer as important as it was in the past.
His heart, which could no longer accept Xu Yao, stirred a little, like a butterfly flapping its wings slightly, but this world was filled with the unknown, and it made him feel lost.
The successor for Six Pulses Divine Sword appeared ahead of time, and there was still no sign of the successor for Northern Obscure Divine Skill. There were also a lot of top-class elites who should have already shown themselves, but they did not pop up like mushrooms after a shower, which they had done in Happy's previous life.
Perhaps it was because the halo on his person was too bright in this life, and the burden he had to bear was too great, which was why he no longer had time to pay attention to the matters he thought were very important in his previous life.
But Happy could understand that even if they did not rise to fame, it did not mean that they did not experience the events they did in Happy's previous life. Perhaps they simply thought that the strength they acc.u.mulated right now was still not enough.
Even Happy himself thought that the strength he had as of current was not strong enough.
As of right now, the clashes between the righteous path and evil cult in the world of martial artists was increasing day by day, and soon, a major war might blow up. Happy did not expect himself to have too dazzling of a performance during the war, but he also did not want to become someone who will turn around and run when he ran into the two leaders of the evil cult, Shi Zhixuan and Zhu Yuyuan.
There was something in his hands that could threaten them to a certain degree.
And that was Heaven Crystal!
Whoosh!
A cold wind howled by his ear.
Happy was dressed in clothes that were as white as the snow in the mountains, and his clothes fluttered loudly in the cold wind. His hero's bandana danced wildly, but none of this could stop Happy's determined footsteps.
He did not activate Nine Yang Divine Skill, and the cold wind that blew past his body was like knives, and his face stung from the cold.
Crunch! Crunch!
Happy also did not activate his lightness skill.
Since he never took this path in his previous life and since this was the first time he came to Heaven Mountain and to Sword Lake, Happy found himself surrounded by incredibly beautiful and grand sights, and he really did not want to only cast a passing glance at such a beautiful scenery.
Heaven Mountain was where a large faction known as Sword of Heavenly Lake Faction was located, but to the Chinese world of martial artists, rarely did anyone travel to this place, and there were even fewer players who were willing to train this place. Normal players will only stay for a while before they chose to delete their characters and make a new character, or they will head to other cities to learn from other masters! Hence, up until now, Sword of Heavenly Lake Faction was not famous. In fact, they did not have a lot of disciples.
Happy did not run into anyone on his way here.
It was a very remote and desolate place.
And Happy felt as if he was the only person in the world.
This feeling was very intriguing to Happy, and he also managed to experience just how it felt to be alone.
He had already walked for a long time on this road.
While he stared at the summit that was not too far away from him, a flash of passion shone in Happy's eyes!
'I'm here! I'm finally here!'
Once he reached the summit, he will be able to see the legendary Sword Lake.
At that moment, a cold breeze blew past.
A cold was accompanied by the sound of robes fluttering and cold shouts.
"Stay where you are!"
"This is an important land for Sword of Heavenly Lake Faction. Who are you, and what is your purpose for being here?!"
Happy saw the view in front of him turn blurry. Then, four women with pretty faces appeared on the road ahead of him. They were all dressed in snowwhite gowns, and they had white cloaks made of pelts. They stood in front of Happy with swords in their hands, and they stared at him with chilly gazes.
"My friends from Sword of Heavenly Lake Faction, I am Happy, disciple of the Murong Clan, and I have come here to meet your faction leader."
"The Murong Clan?"
"Happy? You're Gusu's Blue-robed Hero, who just recently rose to fame…"
"You don't seem like much, just a tidy pretty boy."
"The martial arts from those famous sects in the Chinese world of martial artists are all just for show; they just look pretty and are completely useless. I say that this boy has a reputation he cannot live up to."
These four female disciples
from Sword of Heavenly Lake Faction sized up Happy without treating him like an outsider. They did not hold back with their words either. They just kept talking, and Happy felt incredibly awkward.
However, Happy came over here to suppress the brutal sword qi in Heavenly Crystal that will injure others sadistically. He wanted to nourish the divine weapon so that he could keep it by his side in the future as a killing weapon. He could only pretend that he did not hear the rude words from the four female disciples from Sword of Heavenly Lake Faction.
"Did you actually think that you can meet our faction leader just because you want to?"
"That's right."
"You're just a normal disciple. Go back."
"Unless you have an authenticating token, don't come here." The four girls chattered on one after another.
Happy was stunned.
'Authenticating token?'
"Does this count?"
He brought out the plate the master of Purple Bamboo Forest once gave him and showed it to the four girls, and Happy saw a hint of surprise that quickly rose in the four girls' eyes.
'There's indeed a connection between the plate and the faction.
'Looks like the master of Purple Bamboo Forest is indeed from Sword of Heavenly Lake Faction, and she should be among the higher-ups. I should have no problems in meeting their faction leader now.'
"Where did you get that Sword of Heavenly Lake Order?!"
"When I was outside Gusu City, I coincidentally met someone in Purple Bamboo Forest."
Happy mentioned how he obtained Sword of Heavenly Lake Plate, and the four girls quickly exchanged a glance, but not only did they not bring him into the faction as he expected, instead, their expressions changed, and they swung their longswords at the same time.
"He has the plate stolen from our faction leader from two years ago!"
"Sisters, attack him together!"
"Capture him! Don't let him escape!"
'Excuse me?!'
When he heard the four girls' words and saw the cold light coming at him, Happy opened his mouth, and he was tongue-tied.
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