undercurrent

While Li Tian was within the city, safe and sound and on his way home, a terrifying battle had erupted in the wilderness. It had been going on for hours now.

It all started when Li Tian sensed the auras clashing while he was still in the yellow zone.

Because of the many people he killed, the scent of the blood had attracted the attention of many demonic beasts who were then killed on sight by the core cultivators.

Li Hao and Zhang Tuo in their anger originally intended to kill just a few beasts to relieve their frustration. However, things quickly took a turn when a rank 4 demonc beast was attracted.

The intelligence of such beasts were already comparable to humans and could even speak the human Language. The two men surrounded this beast and killed it but it was not easy. This beast was very powerful, and the battle dragged on for a long time. Gradually powerful demonic beasts appeared and more rank 4 beasts were also attracted.

All the remaining members of the two clans had already died except for Li Hao and Zhang Tuo but during the process of their escape they had killed a lot of demonic beast resulting in a great battle which extended all the way to the green zone.

Unspeakable destruction had had been done to the forests, demonic beasts and even some unfortunate, less powerful humans had died in the crossfire.

Divine abilities were wreaking havoc right up to now as the two were now besieged by demonic beasts of equally strength.

No end to the battle was in sight, very intelligent of these two they had gradually been escaping during the fight.

Soon a terrifying beast roar came from the forest. This roar terrified the two battling humans but it only gave more courage and morale to the beasts.

The weather in this part of the forest had changed as fire, wind and water ravaged the surroundings.

From the air to the ground no place was save. Yet when they heard the roar, the two humans made their retreat without delay.

They ran for their lives. From the roar they could tell that it was at least a rank 5 beast but what would such a beast be doing in the yellow zone.

They didn't know what attracted it from the red zone and were not interested in knowing. They had to escape.

With all their energy focused on fleeing, they soon disappeared into the distance.

The rank 4 beasts looked at their disappearing figures coldly before returning into the forest-- heading deeper.

...

Li Tian at this moment had no idea about the battle that had taken place after he left.

He was just now reaching his villa and was welcomed enthusiastically by Shi Ruo.

The relationship between the two had developed well and she was no longer a stranger to him.

The first thing he did was clean up and go to bed.

He still couldn't get rid of the image in his head of the expression Shi Ruo made when she saw the changes that had taken place on him.

He got up the next day well rested, took out his pagoda and played with it for sometime before heading out.

He looked into the system storage and his wealth amazed him.

"I am rich enough to become a bank" he thought.

Looking at the items stored withing the system storage space, his eyes soon landed on a few items and a thought came to him

I should go and install my new pool and maybe give some of these stuff to Shi Ruo.

Time passed and it was already two hours later. Right now he was swimming in his pool comfortably. He had already handed over the Purifying Lotus to Shi Ruo along with the scales. However, given their fiery nature, she didn't like it so they decided to sell them. He handed such matters to her.

He was determined to simply do his duty in guarding the wall and cultivating.

He knew his cultivation was still to shallow. He could not help but wonder what would have happened if those core cultivators would have caught up to him.

"For the foreseeable future I'll stay within the city. I have offended Powerful people who want to see me dead. If not for the fact that the army has the greatest might who knows what would have happened to me already?"

He was making his plans not knowing of the news that was currently spreading through the city.

News of the battle involving core realm experts had already spread throughout the whole city. However, only those of considerable influence knew deeper details and the underground currents that were now running. News of this event had even reached hq.

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Within the Zhang and Li clans, Li Hao and Zhang Tuo had given their reports. They were at first shocked and then sad before anger overwhelmed them.

When had they ever suffered such a loss?

They had completely lost face. It was not difficult to investigate and find out the involvement of their clan in those events.

Many cultivators had witnessed the battle and heard the roar.

We must get revenge. Whatever it takes we must kill that brat.

This was the general decision of all members of both clans.

Zhang Wei at this moment was standing behind his father in the meeting hall and was completely left in shock.

He was still in the high Qi manifestation stage. How had that kid become so strong so quickly?

"It doesn't matter, now that the two clans are completely invested In killing him he his dead for sure" he thought

In another area Li Mei was thinking the same thing, standing behind her father too.

The meeting room was full and all who had the ability to seat were core realm cultivators. This was a meeting attended by members of both clans. They knew that when the evens in the wilderness were investigated, their involvement will be revealed and this will raise the ire of the army. So they decided to jointly resist the pressure from the military.

However, they still wanted Li Tian dead and they were not afraid of being suspected as long as there was no proof.

They had already made attempts to get friends from within the military to ease the repercussions of killing Li Tian but after the information of his breakthrough was filed it only made it more difficult for them.

If any of them individually Kills Li Tian, they might be made example of and the consequences will likely cause great harm to the foundation of the clan but jointly they could bear it.

Concluding the details of their meeting they separated and the meeting came to an end.

.....

Meanwhile, in the same city the news was being reported to a general. The information was so detailed it would shock the clan members . Everything was reported here as though they were being observed from the start.

Looking at the information the general touched his beard

"The silverbag titanoape huh?"