
Chapter 139: 139
A wind blew through John's hair as he stared at the vast sect courtyard below. Elder Ragur once again summoned his drake, and currently took the two of them to the forest that Elder had mentioned.
“Olders, how big is the Heavenly Lightning Sect?” John asked, trying to gather more information regarding the sect.
“In terms of quantity, or land?” Elder Ragur asked.
“Both.”
“Hmm, in terms of numbers, we have several thousand Elders, and about thirty thousand disciples. There were twenty thousand outer disciples, nine thousand inner disciples, several hundred core disciples, and several dozen direct disciples. With workers, merchants, and other professions as well, there are about a hundred thousand members of our sect.”
John was prepared to hear a large number, but the number still shocked him. He remembered what Elder Ragur said earlier about the disciple, and wanted to confirm his thoughts.
“Wait a moment, you said that only the Elders of the Heaven Tribulation Realm can have direct disciples.so that means the sect has dozens of Heaven Tribulation Elders?” John asked, fascinated by such a number.
Elder Ragur chuckled at John's question. “Not every Heaven Tribulation Elder takes a disciple, so there is more to it.”
John was stunned silent with his answer.
‘Only one Heaven Tribulation Realm cultivator will be enough to dominate my homeland, but this sect alone has so many of them!’
“So how close are you to breaking through to the Heaven Tribulation Realm?” John asked the Elder.
Elder Ragur smiled and looked up at the sky as he spoke.
“I'm close enough, in the next year or so I should be able to try breaking through. Although, breaking through to the Heaven Tribulation Realm is extremely dangerous, and can easily result in the death of a cultivator, so I should only try to do so when I am confident of success.”
John began to understand why everyone called this place the Holy Land for cultivation. It could allow so many strong cultivators to rise.
Elder Ragur went on to answer the second part of John's question. “In terms of land, the official land that this sect occupied was roughly several tens of thousands of square miles of land, but it was only official. As I said before, there are four big sects surrounding the Qi whirlpool, which is located in the center of the continent. Each sect oversaw the land from the whirlpool to the shore in a sort of arbitration, so any dispute that could not be dealt with by the forces themselves on this land was subject to the judgment of one of the Four Great Sects. Our sect unofficially oversees about a quarter of this continent in such a way.”
John listened to the Elders explanation, and began to get a better picture of the Holy Land.
“You continue to call the Four Great Sects, and the Heavenly Lightning Sect is one of them. Who are the other three sects?” ask Johan curiously.
Elder Ragur laughed once more at John's question.
“I forgot, you are not from this country, so you will not know these things. The names of the Four Great Sects were known throughout the Holy Land, and they were the Heavenly Lightning Sect, the heavenly Soul Sect, the Bloodfiend Sect, and the Supreme Battle Sect.”
‘Sects Highest Battle!’
John was really surprised to hear the name mentioned, and that they were one of the Four Great Sects.
‘How can father get battle arts from such a powerful sect?’
He knew his powerful battle arts were from the Holy Land, but never expected it to be from any of the Four Great Sects. If the Heavenly Lightning Sect was something to proceed with, they were quite secretive about their sect, and would not share their battle arts with anyone who was not from the sect.
However, the news that it came from the Supreme Battle Sect was also troublesome.
‘The page I have details the first stage of the battle art, which is suitable for the Fog Creation and Qi Condensation Realm. After that, his strength will start to decrease and I will have to get to the next stage or find other body fighting arts.this will be troublesome.’.
John was convinced that he was not allowed to join the two sects, so it was impossible. However, the Supreme Battle Art was too powerful not to try to obtain the next stage.
‘I'll try to think of a solution later, because I can't do anything now.’
The two continued to travel behind the drake for quite some time. John suddenly thought of another question to ask the Elder, as he seemed to be very knowledgeable about the Holy Land.
“Older, do you know of any sect that uses domain techniques that target the blood and mind of a cultivator? I met a junior in my homeland who used such a domain, and he said he was from the Holy Land.”
John needs to figure out which forces are supporting the Crimson Valley Sect. The more information he had, the greater the chance he had of helping his Clan out of this situation.
Elder Ragur was surprised that John suddenly asked such a question, and was also surprised that he seemed to meet a junior from this land. He wondered if they were there to follow up on the same information as the Heavenly Lightning Sect.
“Hmm, there are many powers that have domains that do such a thing. Most of them were in the land of the Bloodfiend Sect, as many there practiced blood-related taboo arts.”
“Taboo blood art? Isn't taboo blood art forbidden, and all who use it hunted?” John asked confusedly.
“Unfortunately, the Bloodfiend Sect and the forces below them practiced such an art. The situation is complicated enough to deter anyone from trying to eliminate them. Thus, the only condition that exists is that they are forbidden to practice.their art is anywhere outside their own land,” elder Ragur replied in a cold tone, saying, clearly disgusted by such practices.
Elder Ragur shook his head to dispel such thoughts, before turning to John once more.
“Do you know the domain name used? Maybe I can recognize what power it is from the name of the technique.”
“The domain name is Crimson Hell Domain,” replied John quickly. His memories of the profound domain, used by Dylan and Jason, were still fresh in his memory.
A slightly surprised expression appeared on Elder Ragur's face before quickly returning to normal.
“I'm surprised you met someone who uses a specific domain. That domain was one of the signature domain arts of the Bloodfiend.” Sect
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