Chapter 284: The Invitation

Chapter 284: The Invitation

He may have not been placed on the frontline before but he has certainly been in war. His late father, wishing to exile him for his weak talent that did not befit the potential of an heir wished him to fail in this war. And he did.

Failed.

Failure.

As much as he had taken to read new things to cover up for his martial weakness, he failed constantly, and finally, in one war that nobody would even care for at this point, he lost it all. To a single man that still wasn't present. That night was still etched in his mind. The fortress was burning and when he finally escaped, HE waited there. But meeting HIM was also a fortuitous encounter that will never be credited.

Yu Xiaogang looked in front of him. He wore thick clothes to keep the chill at bay. His fur-lined boots stepped upon the ice drenched with blood and now crimson while a tiny blue dragon with lightning dancing around its mane and body coiled around his neck. It was none other than his Lightning Tyrant Dragon Martial Soul that had awakened that fateful day. The dragon could only shift his size now, once he reached the ranks of spirit sage but this was also the end of his sudden growth spurt...

That inheritance site controlled by his master was certainly his greatest fortune. But he could only gain so much. He still didn't know what the inheritance site really passed on but at this point, with this strength, he didn't care. He would have his answers sooner or later. Like his master, the Golden Crocodile said, he just had to cultivate, cultivate, and cultivate.

He no longer spent his time in books, reading through the tiniest detail. No, instead, he trained. His martial soul had finally allowed him to participate in battles, too. After all, this was a strange type of martial soul that was a beast but acted like a tool spirit. Someone else had this type, too... and she belonged in that person's team. His fiancee. But she was too weak. Yu Xiaogang never had any eye for weakness and he would overcome those stronger than him soon enough.

*Roar*

With a gust of cold air, a giant snowy white wolf with red eyes took the chance to ambush him using the snow as a camouflage.

*Bzzt*

A lance of lightning formed and cut through the wolf at... well, lightning speed. Something the wolf could not have dodged. Its body fell on the ice and snow with a soft crushing sound and the next moment, its body was cleanly split in half.

Yu Xiaogang exhaled softly. The extreme environment made everyone use their spirit energy to stave off the chill and thus, expend more of their strength. He was feeling weak but his results were admirable in the eyes of the spirit masters of the Alliance.

Alliance acted as the glue for the three superpowers The Two Empires and the Spirit Hall. Situated within the two Empires, the remaining clans and sects were pulled along, too. Of course, the Alliance did not deploy everyone. On the contrary, this expedition was a slow one and the members are not supposed to kill everyone. They are supposed to capture regions and solidify control. Divide the area and make sure that the spirit beasts in one region cannot contact another. In essence, instead of thinking of the Extreme North as one giant whole, it was being treated as a collection of small ecosystems that can be appropriately divided.

This did slow down the process. Apparently, the 'super' team of the Spirit Hall didn't take more than a week to conquer Sunset Forest and make it their own.

But the Extreme North is different, the environment makes it the absolute hunting ground for the snow and ice attributed spirit beasts while only a small portion of spirit masters can overcome these difficulties.

Yu Xiaogang soon left the region with his team. He was part of the clearing team and the perimeter team would soon appear after getting their report.

Even if the Alliance had served to bring different factions together... the offensive team was anything but that. The army was extremely divided. And seeing this, the three major factions decided that it's better for everyone to form a seven-man team, register themselves in the base camp, and then earn contributions to exchange for various benefits from the base camp. The list... included five spirit bones!

It was enticing, very much so. And the quicker one got to the top of the contribution list, the better.

Of course, the contribution of the offensive team is considered based on their kills so one of his teammates took the body parts of the beasts that would get them the points and they returned to one of the outposts in the Extreme North.

Alongside a tower manned by the personnel of the perimeter team, there was an isolated tent of the commander of the outpost. These commanders were largely spirit sage and higher in cultivation. In fact, Yu Xiaogang had been asked to take this post given his background but... something deep within him wanted to fight. To get his body bloodied. To have his martial soul dig its claws and teeth into barbaric spirit beasts!

'Contributions... and then a spirit bone... I'll get even stronger...'

He lay on his bunk bed with an exhausted sigh.

It hadn't been long since Xiaogang closed his eyes when he was called by the commander of the outpost. There was a reason why he settled here. After all, their outpost Number 12, was slightly into the deeper section of the north where they may encounter a 10000-year-old beast alpha of a species, and given the disadvantages that the humans faced, many would most certainly die.

"Xiaogang, come, take a seat." A middle-aged blonde man greeted Xiaogang with a smile.

This man was none other than Yu Luomian, Yu... no, Liu Erlong's father. After the strange disappearance of the clan leader as Yu Shantian took over the clan and the second elder of the clan helped control the damage. The man had aged much further. The Lightning Tyrant Dragon Clan had powerful enemies and when their patriarch died, it gave many individuals the reason to hurt them. The Clan hadn't recovered even now!

"Uncle Luomian," Xiaogang greeted the man and sat. Truly, Xiaogang felt... annoyed by the man. His daughter ran rampant but he still had the face to consider himself important... she had spat on the fact of her ancestry and here he was, reminiscing the past as if he hadn't been cruel to Xiaogang back then when he was weak. Xiaogang laughed coldly in his heart. Men like these won't have any place once he surpasses everyone.

His fortune had changed wildly. He will surpass everyone, that's for sure... eventually.

Yu Luomian had survived the avalanche but Erlong had killed him still. She had been wanting to for some time... no, from the moment she left her clan but now she felt satisfied with her life... there were still some things that she wanted to do though. Like defeating one particular bastard and having him under her foot... although, some events seemed to suggest that he would like such treatment instead.

"I wouldn't have done that... it's no fun to party without him," Erlong muttered.

"You do understand that he's me and Yin's lover. Not to mention your dear Yuehua's fiance. If you keep longing for him like that then it would make us look bad." Bibi Dong smirked and returned to whatever paperwork had made its way to her desk.

"Bite me," Erlong scoffed.

"Give it some time. Biting is one of my favorite manners to spread the poison," the Pontiff smirked without looking up.

"Still... any news on him?" Liu Erlong questioned after hesitating for a second.

"Well, he's either in the center of the Extreme North, the Star Dou Great Forest or he is enjoying a tropical vacation in one of the islands in the ocean. I do miss him and want to return but... if he's here, I would have been too distracted to make things work this efficiently. Although, I still wonder what mess he's upto... heh, he wouldn't have missed a war for the world."

Bibi Dong shook her head with a slightly fond expression. His absence was making a greater impression at this point, after all.

There was another thing in Bibi Dong's and Erlong's minds that they didn't express How strong had he gotten?

Because Ah Yin's improvement had startled everyone including her own master...

Would his achievements be even greater?

A part of them wanted it to be like this. After all, that was his role to be their goal no matter their strength. He had actually become one of their pillars of motivation.

The knocks on the door brought Bibi Dong and Erlong out of their thoughts as she called out, "Yes?"

"It's me," Ah Yin's voice appeared from the other side, "And as strange as it sounds, I have a spirit beast in my room saying that she has a letter of invitation for the famed Supreme Pontiff and her trusted people by the Beast God... and saying that Ka-ul is a captive there."

"Couldn't you have said all that after coming insi wait..." Erlong stopped in her tracks, "What?!"

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