Bringing The Farm To Live In Another World - Chapter 16145

Chapter 16143. Discovery

Sects and nations are different. Sects have a religious feel, and also a bit of a gang feel, because there are teacher-student relationships within sects. Joining a sect makes you a disciple, and if you’re strong enough, you can even take a sect elder as your master. This relationship is much closer than a simple superior-subordinate one. Therefore, trying to bribe someone within a sect is very risky.

However, within a nation’s bureaucratic system, bribing people is much easier. This is because many nations don’t share a common faith. If a nation had a shared faith, it would be better, but most nations don’t.

Without a unified faith, a nation’s bureaucratic system is easily corrupted by various forces. And what does the Blood Slaughter Sect lack least? The Blood Slaughter Sect possessed virtually inexhaustible resources. In the Divine Kingdom, any official of sufficient status who gained the sect’s support could obtain endless supplies. In this bureaucratic system devoid of faith, how high one could climb was truly unpredictable. However, to

rise in rank, one needed a certain status. Supporting a lowly soldier meant that soldier might not gain much power, and a particularly greedy person could easily suppress him. Moreover, climbing from a lowly soldier was far too slow; they needed to support someone of high standing.

Chang Jun’s chosen candidate was the city lord of Beast Town, a kingdom-level expert commanding five thousand elite troops. His status was undeniably high. With the Blood Slaughter Sect’s support, his rise would be incredibly easy.

In the following days, members of various sects continued training, primarily focusing on dealing with the villagers. Meanwhile, Chang Jun also dispatched men to scout the villages inhabited by civilians.

The Blood Slaughter Sect’s fighting style has always resembled that of assassins. They observe and understand their enemies before making their move, and once they strike, they deliver a swift and decisive blow.

Therefore, the Blood Slaughter Sect always spends a significant amount of time on reconnaissance before any operation. No matter how weak their enemy may be, they prepare in advance and deploy ten times their strength to defeat them in one fell swoop. This is why the Blood Slaughter Sect’s operations are generally very successful—they are always fully prepared beforehand.

Imagine an enemy you don’t know, but who has been secretly observing you. They know when you eat, when you sleep, what clothes you wear, what you eat, your strength, and your speed. After completely understanding you, they find allies, devise a specific attack plan, and launch a direct assault. How could you possibly win in that situation?

Why did the Blood Slaughter Sect’s reconnaissance seem to be completed so quickly? Can they really understand the enemy that quickly? Of course they can. The Blood Slaughter Sect has two methods of reconnaissance. One is sending people to gather intelligence. Like when dealing with other sects, they send rogue cultivators into the sect’s sphere of influence to gather intelligence.

The second method is to transform members of the sect into undead to learn about the sect from within. While these methods seem simple, they are very effective at understanding the sect, at least giving them a general idea of its strength.

Reconnaissance alone wasn’t enough; before attacking, they would also make preparations. For example, they would send the sect disciple who had become an undead to return to their sect with the magic arrays and set them up. Before the Blood Slaughter Sect even attacked, their sect would already be sealed by the magic arrays. Their people wouldn’t be able to leave the sect, and they wouldn’t even be able to contact the outside world. Coupled with ten times their strength, how could this sect possibly fight back? They had already lost before the battle even started.

The biggest difference between the Blood Slaughter Sect and ordinary sects is that, through the years of effort by Zhao Hai and the rest of the sect, the Blood Slaughter Sect’s strength is now on a completely different level. Individually, the Blood Slaughter Sect’s strength is overwhelming against any other sect. The only truly formidable opponents the Blood Slaughter Sect can now fear are powerful organizations like the Divine Kingdom. The Divine Kingdom is the nominal supreme ruler of the entire continent, and if it were to wage war against the Blood Slaughter Sect, it could command all its forces to attack in its name. Only such a force would make the Blood Slaughter Sect wary.

Of course, Zhao Hai wouldn’t consider the Divine Kingdom a threat, but don’t forget the Creation God Cult within the Divine Kingdom. This cult is the state religion of the Divine Kingdom, with numerous followers. If a deity exists behind the Creation God Cult, that deity would never easily abandon a place like the Divine Kingdom.

The divine kingdom is so vast, with such a large population. Such a large place and so many people could provide that god with an immense amount of faith. How could that god possibly abandon the divine kingdom? Moreover, because the faith is abundant and powerful, the avatars descended by that god would also be incredibly strong. This is what Zhao Hai fears most. Therefore, Zhao Hai doesn’t want to start a war with the divine kingdom now. He wants to weaken its power as much as possible first. Once its power is weakened to a certain extent, then they can attack the divine kingdom, thus taking it over with minimal losses.

Of course, it’s also possible that the Divine Kingdom discovered their existence and attacked them directly. In that case, even if the Blood Slaughter Sect didn’t want to fight, they wouldn’t be able to. Therefore, before that day arrives, the Blood Slaughter Sect must secretly develop, strengthen itself as much as possible, and weaken its enemies.

Precisely because of this, the Blood Slaughter Sect conducts extensive reconnaissance before any action. Even when targeting civilians in villages, they would first scout the village. However, since those villages are entirely populated by civilians, and the Divine Kingdom has regulations prohibiting ordinary cultivators from contacting civilians, sending people to scout those villages is not an option for the Blood Slaughter Sect. Of course, turning the villagers into undead and then using them to learn about the villages is possible, but it’s unnecessary. After all, these villages are all populated by civilians; the Blood Slaughter Sect only needs to use radar to scout them.

The Blood Slaughter Sect’s radar is now incredibly powerful. It can not only determine the strength of the people in a village, but also detect the presence of any magical arrays within it. Even if an array isn’t used, it will still emit faint energy fluctuations, which the radar can detect.

Don’t think the Blood Slaughter Sect is being overly cautious; they have their reasons. Their actions have indeed proven effective. They discovered anomalies in several villages. They found that some villagers were significantly stronger than others, and they also discovered teleportation arrays within those villages. Most importantly, the villagers seemed completely unaware of these arrays. This means they were secretly built and never used. This suggests that these villages might be a contingency plan left behind by the Divine Kingdom.

If the Blood Slaughter Sect hadn’t conducted prior reconnaissance and attacked those villages directly, they risked being exposed. Now that they know about the anomalies in those villages, they are naturally making preparations in advance.

Chang Jun was quite surprised after seeing the intelligence about those villages. He immediately summoned the sect leaders and elders of all the various sects to the Yu Yang Sect. He set up a large conference room there, and once the representatives from each sect arrived, Chang Jun said, “I have sent you the information about each village. You can see the intelligence about each village now. Think about how to attack those villages.” Chang Jun didn’t stand on ceremony and directly sent them the intelligence about each village.

Everyone looked at it and discovered that the intelligence Chang Jun sent them wasn’t just about the villages; it also indicated which sect was attacking which village. The people from each sect only needed to pay attention to the intelligence about the villages they were going to attack.

After reading the intelligence, they were all stunned. They really hadn’t expected that there would be teleportation arrays in those villages inhabited by civilians. If they hadn’t gathered intelligence beforehand, their plan to attack those villages might have been discovered by the Divine Kingdom.

Once the Divine Kingdom learns of this, even if they are unaware of the Blood Slaughter Sect’s existence, they will absolutely not let it go. The sect that attacked those villages will have its power weakened within the Divine Kingdom, which is not a good thing for them.

This is why the representatives of those sects looked so grim when they saw the intelligence on those villages, and they were also very relieved that they hadn’t attacked those villages directly; otherwise, it would have been truly troublesome.

After everyone had read the intelligence, Chang Jun said, “Well? You’ve all read the intelligence, what are your thoughts? Let’s all speak.”

Everyone exchanged glances, and then the sect leader of a small sect spoke up, “Elder Chang, are there any more experts in those villages? If another expert suddenly appears, it will be even more troublesome.”