With a low sound, a black light landed on the square. Everyone turned their attention to the newcomer.
He was an elder in an elegant black robe. He had a mysterious aura. No one present could see through his real cultivation base. Austin speculated that the elder was as strong as Elder Brendan.
"This is Elder Damian. Elder Damian and I will be in charge of this mission.
We'll wait outside the Wild Herb Valley.
After a month, we'll bring you back," Steward Nolan explained as he introduced the elder who just arrived.
"Elder Damian," over fifty disciples greeted.
Most of them bowed their heads a little to show respect to the elder.
There were three elders in the base of the FlHoly Land: Elder Brendan, Elder Leder, and Elder Damian.
"You're all brave kids. When the mission is over, we'll give you bountiful rewards.
But before we set out, I need to tell you something first.
You'll enter the Wild Herb Valley as the disciple of another sect, not the FlHoly Land.
That sect is called the Shiny Sect.
So don't tell others you're from the FlHoly Land. If people ask you, you tell them you're disciples of the Shiny Sect.
I guess you know why we've made such a decision. Many top sects in the East Mainland hate to see us rebuild our FlHoly Land, the three holy lands in particular.
Once those disciples from those sects know you're from our sect, they might work together to attack you in the valley.
At least several thousand disciples of other sects will enter the Herb Valley this time, I guess.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇtIf they find out about your identity, you'll be in grave trouble," Elder Damian said.
His voice lingered with a warning.
Upon hearing this, all the disciples including Austin got angry.
'These top sect leaders have gone too far! We are the disciples of the FlHoly Land, but we can't even tell others who we are when we go outside. What's more, we will have to pretend to be disciples from another sect.
Damn it!' the disciples thought furiously.
"Our sect is still expanding.
When our sect becomes stronger, you can tell others that you're from our sect proudly.
All right, that's it.
Let's go," Elder Damian tried to comfort the disciples.
With a wave of his hand, a beast's skeleton appeared out of nowhere. Its form was curved with mysterious symbols. The skeleton grew bigger until it was more than twenty meters long and a dozen meters wide. It then floated in the mid-air.
Elder Damian led everybody towards the skeleton.
"Swoosh!" With the swift movement in the air, the beast's skeleton flew forward.
After a while, a beam of light cout from the huge tree located in the east of the village.
It was no other than the beast's skeleton.
The skeleton soared into the sky and left the area in an instant. It flew high above the small village.
Austin stood near the edge of the skeleton. He looked down at the small village which had faded away. 'No one would expect that a sect's base is in such a small village,' he thought.
The beast's skeleton headed west. On the way, Austin could see the puffy clouds and distant mountains.
Since the skeleton was moving at an incredibly fast speed and there was nothing but endless mountains below him, Austin had no idea where they were going.
He even had no idea how many days had already passed.
One day, they felt the beast's skeleton slow down.
After a while, it landed on a spacious platform. It occupied a vast area with the ground made of indigo-colored stone.
Austin looked around and saw thousands of cultivators gathering on that platform.
Judging by the clothes they were wearing and the jade pendants strapped around their waist, they were from different sects. Those who were of the ssect formed a group and stayed together.
As soon as they had landed on the platform, Elder Damian put aside the beast's skeleton. He then took his crew somewhere to rest.
"Attention. Remember now you are disciples from the Shiny Sect of the Dawning Kingdom. Keep that in mind." Elder Damian's voice resounded in he Soul Sea of the disciples of the FlHoly Land. He needed to emind them that they should not let >thers find out who they were. All the disciples nodded their head in compliance.
"Let's all wait here. You can't get inside until the entrance to the valley appears," Elder Damian said as they halted their steps.
When he finished speaking, he sat down on his feet.
Following what he did, Steward Nolan and the rest sat down cross-legged as well.
Austin scanned the area. He was in full focus as he looked ahead.
He saw nothing but mist. The huge entrance of the valley stood there among the mist.
That was their entrance to the Wild Herb Valley.
People were gathered and sat around the entrance.
Austin calculated that there were at least seven thousand cultivators waiting there. Meanwhile, more and more disciples from other sects cand joined the crowd.
As far as Austin observed, most of the cultivators present were at the Holy Realm or above. About thirty to forty percent of them were Emperor Realm masters.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmIt meant that three to four out of ten were at the Emperor Realm, and the rest were at the Semi-emperor Realm or Holy Realm.
At this point, all the disciples from other sects were sitting and resting. All of them knew that they would go through fierce fights in the valley.
All of a sudden, a loud voice cfrom the sky. It sounded as if thousands of men and horses were marching forward.
Austin looked up and saw clouds rolling in the distance. His brows furrowed in curiosity.
The sky shook violently as if something was making the skies and clouds shake from the impact.
After a while, a huge warship showed up in the sky. It was several hundred meters long.
The ship looked like a dragon, and its body was designed with mysterious patterns.
"They are from the Arcane Holy Land," someone close to Austin whispered.
Austin looked closely at the warship.
The warship was floating above the platform.
Many cultivators on the platform raised their head and scanned the huge figure. There, they saw many young men standing on the ship confidently.
The cultivators who stood on the ship looked down at the cultivators on the ground with contempt and arrogance spewing out of their eyes.
It was evident that they despised those people on the platform below.
The three holy lands played an important role in the East Mainland.
Most disciples from the three holy lands believed that they were superior, to those disciples from е other sects. They acted arrogantly because they thought lowly of these people from other sects. S Moments later, another voice cut through the air. "Con!" A dozen ancient chariots made of copper appeared from the sky. People stared at the sky again.
"People of the Rudimentary Holy Land are coming!" one on the platform said in a low voice.
Like the warship, the chariots stayed levitating above the platform. The cultivators in the chariots also showed disdain towards the people on the platform.
Obviously, they were sick of degrading themselves by staying with them.
Soon after, monstrous beasts growling could be heard.
More than ten monstrous beasts ran towards the area where Austin rested. Each magnificent coach was pulled by two monstrous beasts. In a blink of an eye, those beasts halted above the platform "People of the Vasteras Holy Land are here!" Austin narrowed his eyes at those fearsmonstrous beasts. He scanned the platform and stared at the three groups who had just arrived.
'The disciples of the three holy lands are all here.'