"Everyone from the… Sect gather around me!"
The strongest core disciple of each sect summoned his fellow disciples to assemble to get the prizes and the free BP.
"It's quite a sad sight, Elroy."
The core disciple from the Infinite Wisdom Sect mocked the core disciple from the Four Seasons Sect; other than Elroy's two partners, only 3 black wearing disciples came and stood behind him. The other sects had groups of 20-40 fighters each.
Elroy fumed, he forgot that his sect didn't send many fourth-stage disciples to the secret realm because of the great losses they suffered. He was caught up in the heat of the moment when the other sects assembled their troops.
"Whatever. I bet half of the people around you are evil cultivators disguised as your fellow disciples anyway."
But instead of getting angry at the remark, everyone looked at him with amused smiles, confusing him further until his friend, a female core disciple, whispered in his ear.
"Elroy, our sect didn't send any inner disciples here."
"Fuck! Who the hell are you guys?"
Elroy snapped when he realized his oversight and turned to the three "inner disciples" behind him.
"Ah, we didn't have any other robes. But we are sincere about cooperating."
Elroy looked around him at the large groups surrounding them and shrugged.
"Sure."
Ken didn't mind letting them rally up. It was clear now that nobody planned on letting his group go, so he turned to Alaric and spoke.
"Alaric, what's your judgement?"
"Haha, I like that. I sentence them… to death!"
Alaric's eyes shone brightly in excitement when he heard the word 'judgement'. He didn't think about it before, but he liked the idea of being a judge. At that moment, he developed a complex that would accompany him for a long time.
"Huh?"
The disciples raised an eyebrow when they heard the dying people speaking nonsense, but suddenly, a strong pressure pressed them, and they were weakened by 75% instantly.
To suppress a fourth-stage disciple you only needed a single fourth-rank formation, but now they were under a threefold fifth-rank formation, and it wasn't something they could resist.
"Now!"
Ken shouted and started using his technique 'Slash'. He ran around the room while slashing around him, 81 in 27. It meant that each slash was as strong as three slashes from him, and his power was nothing to scoff at.
The weakened disciples couldn't react on time. Their movements turned sluggish, their attacks turned weak, and everything happened in surprise. Although weakened by 75%, the effect was much more severe because of their inexperience with such situations.
'Frozen Flock'.
Tiara also stood, catching her enemies in surprise. With a swing of her saber, she sent a flock of beautiful little sparrows with scarily sharpened beaks, killing a dozen of people instantly.
'Sonic Wave.'
Alaric thumped the floor with the butt of his spear, producing a clinking sound against the stone. The sound overwhelmed the enemies, disorienting them and making them confused and paralyzed.
They couldn't resist it in their weakened state, and their assembly worked against them as the sound caught a group of 38 disciples from the Divine Sword Sect. He was angry at them for also attacking, and he aimed at them first.
'One Step.'
'Slash.'
Ken stepped into the middle of the disoriented group and used the same attack. It was his best technique for killing many easy targets at once.
The three slaughtered 70 of the weakened enemies in a heartbeat, but there were still 50 of them who were adapting to the new situation.
"They fooled us! We must cooperate to survive, forget about sects!"
The fifty started working together to fend off the three enemies, but then the Illusion Formation kicked in again. This formation's full name was "Illusion of the Past", and it could make the people inside it see a former state of the room.
The more movement there is, the blurrier the formation becomes, but it'd still make a huge difference against weakened cultivators of a stage lower than the formation's rank.
That moment, the surviving fifty saw everyone goes back to their former posts before the first rally up of the five sects.
"Don't leave! Where are you going, we should stick together!"
"I'm not leaving, you are leaving!"
"Wait, something is weird, I can see blurred silhouettes!"
Chaos controlled the room as Ken and his two friends used it to restart the slaughter against the confused enemies.
Alaric's spear left trails of lightning cracking in the air behind it as it pierced and electrocuted the cultivators with Lightning Qi. Tiara's sword drew arcs of Ice Qi behind it with every swing, and Ken kept dashing between enemies while slicing them up.
Unable to resist the onslaught, the cultivators fell one after another, failing to coordinate with each other. Ken and the other two finished killing all their enemies in under 3 minutes, and blood flowed on the floor, creating a large puddle.
"All right, you can start absorbing the tokens and looting the corpses. I will start removing the formations."
Ken instructed the other two and worked on his task.
'It takes only a few minutes to destroy expensive formations that I worked 2 hours on creating,' Ken thought to himself as he meticulously cleared the room, making sure to remove any trace of the formation's presence.
"Haha, Team Leader, we struck it rich!"
Alaric laughed loudly as he filled storage rings one after another in treasures and Qi Stones. As for the dubious things that most likely belonged to the evil cultivators, he left them behind on the floor.
Tiara did the same, and even the normally apathetic lady couldn't hold back a small smile from forming in the corners of her lips when she heard Alaric's enthusiasm. She also enjoyed all the looting that took place. Sharing the belongings of 120 rich disciples between 3 people allowed them to get a lot.
Unluckily, the sects expected many of the disciples to die, so they asked them to leave behind the property they didn't expect to use in the next three months to cut the losses.
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