Challenger (Final)

Qi Meng proceeded to go inside the palace.

After a while, he had reached the hall where he saw all the peak stage Dao Monarchs enjoying their delicacies.

"Kid, who are you? why have come here? You have come at the wrong place! Please go back whence you came from. We are awaiting for the sect who have challenged us over our territory. In a while, there will be an intense battle occurring here!" One of them spoke calmly to Qi Meng like an elder would speak to a little kid.

Qi Meng then replied casually.

"All of your disciples outside have already been defeated and were lying on the ground bleeding and unconscious. Some of them are even almost dying. Please act now if you cherish your clansmen's lives."

"What non-sense are you talking about! We have only sensed six juniors entered our territory and after that nothing of the unusual happened except for the six of them standing there still waiting at the gates." Another old man asked angrily.

Qi Meng then waved his hand and a series of illusion arrays and barriers covering the entire palace were deactivated.

Upon entering the clan's territory, Qi Meng had quickly checked with his spirit sense where all of these old ancestors are hiding. He then isolated the Fang Clan's palace with barriers from the battle grounds outside. Included in the isolation barriers were a series of illusion arrays portraying him and the other five juniors still waiting at the entrance gates while the Fang Clan's disciples are steadily and patiently waiting.

It was just about 2 to 3 hours that had passed since Qi Meng and his group started to raid the Fang Clan. Thus, these group of old ancestors thought that the challenging sect had realized their impulsiveness and had backed out.

Qi Meng does not want any disturbance from these powerful Dao Monarchs as he wanted the five juniors to experience numerous deadly battles and combat experience and be baptized in battling with experts at the Dao Monarchs with lower realms than these old ancestors.

Even though their strength were suppressed to the peak stage Dao King realm, the aura of those now unconscious Dao Monarchs release is not comparable to that of a peak stage Dao King. By doing this, the five juniors were exposed to such suppressing auras and had helped them progress by leaps and bounds in their cultivation.

Not anyone has the privilege to ask for a fight with a Dao Monarch expert so casually and the five juniors have done it with all of them. Apart from that, they are able to tell their tales of today's triumphant victory. It can be considered a great honor for them.

These has also became the best training experience for the five juniors especially for their mastery of the core essence cultivation. In the future, this deadly battle experience will be of great help to them in achieving new heights in their cultivation.

If Qi Meng had planned to do the easy way in the first place, then he could just activate his soul suppression ability over the entire Fang Clan's territory without any hurdle.

But this act would only jeopardize the purpose of their challenge.

Even though Qi Meng just told the juniors that he wanted a place to live in permanently while being in the capital, in fact, he was preparing them to actually accumulate battle experience. This way, it will also help them to elevate their combat skills and core essence abilities mastery.

By doing the easy way, it would also cause a great commotion within the capital as news would spread out immediately just after their challenge of the Fang Clan has been completed.

Qi Meng does not want that.

He would like to instill the impression to other clans or sects that they have defeated the Fang Clan completely by their own strength without the aid of any kind of special or immortal treasures.

Aside to that, he has planned to threaten the the peak stage Dao Monarch ancestors of the Fang Clan in order for the others not to disturb them until the tournament has finished. Using a quite formidable clan's name within the region is a wise move for this purpose.

And besides, who would not want a place of their own in the capital? They thought that it is more convenient for them to have one in order for them to focus completely in their cultivation.

Upon discerning the dreadful scene outside the palace, all of the old Fang Clan ancestors have the urge to attack Qi Meng as they saw all of their clansman, no matter what their cultivation level is, were all lying on the ground bleeding and knocked out..

However, before they can even initiate an attack, a surge of murderous intent was already released from Qi Meng's soul form.

Soul Suppression!

Bang!

All of the old ancestors fell down to the ground on their butt while trembling in fear. They were overwhelmed by the intense murderous spirit that was accompanied by an unceasing wave of suppression to their innermost soul.

"Who.. who... might be the esteemed senior be? How can our humble clan be of aid to the esteemed senior?"

The Clan's forefather voluntarily stepped forward as he tried to stand up under the surging waves of murderous intent.

He stuttered with fright as he speak and then bowed a gesture like a junior would do in front of a senior.

Being the eldest among these group of peak stage Dao Monarchs, he has the strongest soul compared to the rest as he had lived for about a thousand years. Due to his well-seasoned soul, he was still able to stand up with difficulty and do the talking.

Qi Meng had secretly commended this old ancestor's resiliency over his murderous spirit.

"It is not important who I am and where we came from! Hand over to me the emblem and leave this territory immediately with haste."

"One more thing, not a word of what happened here shall be revealed outside of this territory otherwise..."

Qi Meng paused for a moment as he locked his sight fiercely to the old ancestor in front of him and then continued.

"Otherwise, I will come and find all of you personally to annihilate each and everyone within your Fang Clan."

Qi Meng had no choice but to threaten them otherwise the repercussions would be disastrous for his clan. His clansmen cannot forever stay under his protection. What would happen if one day, when he leaves for another world, then these Fang Clan takes the opportunity to take their revenge to his poor clansmen.

In this brutal world, the strong survive and the weak perish. Qi Meng had always thought of this principle and is forever instilled in his heart. Otherwise, there would be no Qi Meng of today.

Qi Meng is not so hell-bent in massacring the innocent especially the young and elderly. He detested this kind of act the most as he had seen this kind of scenarios in his previous life a lot.

Of course, if worse comes to worst, he will still leave out the young and the elderly like what he did to the Zhao Clan recently. This is an unspoken rule among all of the experts.

As Qi Meng firmly said his objective, he intentionally released more of his murderous spirit intent which made the Fang Clan's forefather shivered uncontrollably in fear.

The ancestor almost passed out.

"Yes... yes.. e... es... esteemed senior please wait for a mo... mo... moment."

The Fang Clan forefather named Fang Mu replied respectfully while stammering as he bowed again. He then waved his hand signalling the others to leave their former territory this instant.

The rest of the old ancestors knew what to do even if the forefather does not give them his signal. They felt lost just thinking that they have to leave their most cherished land.

In a while, Forefather Fang Mu came back immediately with haste. In his hands is a small black box ornamented with a bronze crest of the Sovereign on top of it. He then handed it over to Qi Meng respectfully with care.

Qi Meng opened the small black box casually and saw the bronze emblem within. It is the same as Sovereign's crest but is engraved with golden runes.

"Alright, please take your leave. Here, take these low level elixirs to heal your clansmen. We don't have any enmity or any kind of clan feud prior to this meeting so I am compensating for the damage we had done to your Fang Clan. All of you can leave my territory after you have fed your clansmen with these. It will just take about a few minutes for them to regain consciousness and a bit of their strength."

Qi Meng casually threw a simple treasure chest containing a thousand bottles of Level 3 healing elixirs.

Forefather Fang Mu caught the treasure box nervously with both hands. He then opened it and was astounded to see a thousand bottles of Level 3 top tier healing elixirs. These elixirs are so precious that even peak stage Dao Monarchs like him would find it hard to possess. His clan have a lot of Level 2 elixirs and pills at most and only have a few of these better quality elixirs.

"We thank the esteemed senior's generosity and thoughtfulness. We are honored to get acquainted with the esteemed senior." Forefather Fang Mu bowed again, this time in a more genuine and sincere manner.

"Farewell esteemed senior, I will be taking my leave as well."

Forefather Fang Mu respectfully bid his farewell. He did not show his even the tiniest bit of his reluctance to leave.

One has to know that the Fang Clan have occupied this territory since time immemorial.

It was recorded in their clan's history book that their progenitor had some good ties and relationship with the Sovereign of that time and was conferred with this territory within the capital.

They have experienced many battles in order to defend the territory. Sometimes they would be defeated and come back again to issue a challenge to the one who won over their territory and aimed to win it over back again to their possession.

It has been ten years since the last challenge to their clan was issued by a weaker clan as nobody from the weaker clans dared to challenge them.

Forefather Fang Mu has not thought of issuing a challenge back to this esteemed senior, instead, he quickly planned in his mind to challenge a weaker clan than them of whom had planned against them ten years ago.

The five juniors currently concealed within the azure clouds above the sky saw that the 20 peak stage Dao Monarch ancestors has left the palace in just about within a quarter of an hour after the time Qi Meng has went in.

They had felt the familiar murderous spirit intent again just a while ago coming from the inside of the palace so they already have a guessed and had a general idea of what happened inside.

The 20 peak stage Dao Monarch ancestors hurriedly fed the precious level 3 elixirs to their unconscious injured clansmen.

After an hour, all of the clansmen regained their consciousness.

Their forefather then told them that they were completely defeated and has to leave immediately.

With no other choice, all of them left their beloved territory reluctantly. They were so down that the younger clansmen cannot hide how depressed they were.

As they went out of the gates, they looked one last time then walked in the direction of the nearby village beside the capital. There, they would temporarily erect their camp and plan their next action.

The bystanders were astounded upon seeing the Fang Clan leave their territory. They also witnessed how two Fang Clan disciples dismantle with haste their Clan's name sign from the entrance gates.

They were now curious as who are the six experts of whom successfully chased away the little behemoth known as Fang Clan out of their territory.

Upon seeing that the entirety of Fang Clan members has left, the five juniors then descended and went inside the palace. They then rejoiced at their hard earned victory.